# articles

feed_id: feaf8b21aa1e1387b30c1defb6cb2a88
title: US State Department partly inoperative
uri: US-State-Department-partly-inoperative
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28US_State_Department_partly_inoperative%29

content:
<p>
The US State Department is partly inoperative, since the troll 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/16/rex-tillerson-state-department-sidelined-by-white-house">makes
all decisions without consulting or even informing anyone there</a>.


feed_id: 144d2617083704cfcf75c57602805908
title: Troll bad at hiring people
uri: Troll-bad-at-hiring-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Troll_bad_at_hiring_people%29
content:
<p>
The troll pretends to be good at hiring people, but we see now that he
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/16/donald-trump-businessman-bad-hiring-firing-flynn-puzder">can't
do that well</a>.


feed_id: a5d7882cb479b69b6aaf791fcb94d0a3
title: Troll's dealings with Russia
uri: Troll-s-dealings-with-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Trolls_dealings_with_Russia%29
content:
<p>
Senate Democrats demand information about the troll's dealings with
Russia and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/16/michael-flynn-transcripts-russia-democrats-investigation">call
on Sessions to recuse himself</a> from the issue.


feed_id: b215b6146c9bd3033c44c1e6f9c15e8d
title: Gag on scientists
uri: Gag-on-scientists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Gag_on_scientists%29
content:
<p>
'Draconian' Trump Gag on Scientists 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/16/science-advisers-climate-change-trump-gag-rule-john-holdren">Could
Affect Legislation</a>, Experts Warn.


feed_id: cbf870a37bbfce1e8c2750d0f60c4502
title: Urgent: Impeach the troll
uri: Urgent-Impeach-the-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Impeach_the_troll%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call for impeaching the troll
<a href="http://www.impeachdonaldtrumpnow.org">now</a>.


feed_id: f8998ba5e2e69f912ed49852c25da1a7
title: Urgent: Meet with your congresscritter
uri: Urgent-Meet-with-your-congresscritter
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Meet_with_your_congresscritter%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://www.resistancerecess.com/event/resist-recess/search/">sign
up for meetings</a> this week with your congresscritter and staff.


feed_id: 8ea01524fb94144de469d755c08730e4
title: Great Barrier Reef
uri: 2017-02-22-Great-Barrier-Reef
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Great_Barrier_Reef%29
content:
<p>
Extreme heat is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/20/images-of-new-bleaching-on-great-barrier-reef-heighten-fears-of-coral-death">bleaching
coral again</a> in the Great Barrier Reef.
<p>
This despite the fact that El Niño is not happening this year.
<p>
The only way to save coral is to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#10_July_2012_(Ocean_acidification_due_to_CO2)">cap
CO<sub>2</sub> in the atmosphere</a>.


feed_id: 642fa66fbfdc00c747fb4bf1500c18e1
title: Right-wingers' PC rules for speech
uri: Right-wingers-PC-rules-for-speech
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Right-wingers_PC_rules_for_speech%29

content:
<p>
Right-wingers are the ultimate sensitive snowflakes,raging against
anyone who violates their
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/19/populist-correctness-new-pc-culture-trump-america-brexit-britain">PC
(populist correctness) rules for speech</a>.


feed_id: c59daa5cf6f8a1fd3f56ab4ef6fa1e14
title: Urgent: Bannon's removal
uri: Urgent-Bannon-s-removal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Bannons_removal%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://www.signherenow.org/petition/stop-bannon-nsc/courage/">call
on Congress</a> to legislate Bannon's removal from the National
Security Council.


feed_id: 45574a9e102c23ae32e55d384e16eede
title: Urgent: Oppose using troll's golf course
uri: Urgent-Oppose-using-troll-s-golf-course
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_using_trolls_golf_course%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/tell-lpga-dump-trump/">call
on the Ladies Professional Golf Association</a> not to hold its
tournament in the troll's golf course.


feed_id: 647e86f920b871e0830a808a7d3b3ec8
title: Antisemitism in UK universities
uri: Antisemitism-in-UK-universities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Antisemitism_in_UK_universities%29

content:
<p>
UK universities are being
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/feb/18/uk-universities-urged-tackle-rising-tide-antisemitism-campus">flooded
by antisemitism</a>.


feed_id: c99cb88a5c96f503c89bcd5e0f5bce1d
title: Opportunity for the UK
uri: Opportunity-for-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Opportunity_for_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
Exit from the EU creates the opportunity for the UK to raise money
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2017/feb/18/post-brexit-uk-economy-demands-a-new-type-of-robin-hood-tax">discouraging
speculation and encouraging investment</a>.


feed_id: 49118caa68e1ec4700f7783f805bd4c6
title: Republican congresscritters hiding
uri: Republican-congresscritters-hiding
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Republican_congresscritters_hiding%29

content:
<p>
Most Republican congresscritters are
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/2/17/1634844/-Over-200-Republicans-decided-hide-from-constituents-next-week-instead-of-hosting-town-halls">hiding
from their constituents</a> during their week home from Washington.


feed_id: d08a03e8aaf75b3482156afb490c4387
title: Immigration thugs
uri: 2017-02-22-Immigration-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Immigration_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Ramirez, in immigration prison, says that the immigration thugs
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/2/17/1634918/-Lawyers-say-ICE-agents-falsified-documents-to-justify-detaining-a-Dreamer-and-DACA-recipient">altered
his statement</a> to make it appear to be a confession of gang
involvement.


feed_id: ea8b8309a548db20f72b0e9cee8ab794
title: Meaning of the word "terrorism"
uri: Meaning-of-the-word-terrorism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Meaning_of_the_word_terrorism%29

content:
<p>
Should North Korea be on listed as a supporter of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/19/us-lawmakers-want-north-korea-put-back-on-terrorism-blacklist">terrorism</a>?
<p>
The assassination of Kim Jong-nam was a brazen crime, but equating
murder with terrorism would undermine the meaning of the word
"terrorism".  And even if it were terrorism, one instance of it is not
"repeated".


feed_id: 400521d1fbf382d26261cd5ae8fa89ac
title: Australia wants "clean energy" funds
uri: Australia-wants-clean-energy-funds
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Australia_wants_clean_energy_funds%29

content:
<p>
Now that coal plants are uneconomical to run, the planet-roaster
government of Australia
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/19/coalition-says-it-may-change-clean-energy-finance-corporation-rules-to-fund-coal-plants">wants
to change rules</a> to give them "clean energy" funds.
<p>
Meanwhile, deadly heat continues to blanket parts of Australia.
<p>
None so blind as he who will not see.


feed_id: 4eb065875e13588610415a50f4e78eca
title: Iraqi Shi'ites post bloodthirsty videos
uri: Iraqi-Shi-ites-post-bloodthirsty-videos
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Iraqi_Shiites_post_bloodthirsty_videos%29

content:
<p>
Iraqi Shi'ites post
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/19/violent-videos-threaten-iraqi-campaign-mosul">bloodthirsty
videos of killing PISSI prisoners</a>.


feed_id: f5a50d49243d30ada9bb72ed5e67840e
title: Assassination of activists in Colombia
uri: Assassination-of-activists-in-Colombia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Assassination_of_activists_in_Colombia%29

content:
<p>
As the FARC and the Colombian state make peace, assassination of
activists is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/19/colombia-farc-activist-killings">increasing</a>.
<p>
The paramilitares are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/19/colombia-lopez-activist-killings">involved
in this</a>.  They were the worst terrorist group in Colombia, even
when the FARC was at war.  For instance, they
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-jan-apr.html#24_March_2012_(Cola_Wars)">collaborated
with the Coca Cola Company bottler to murder union organizers</a>.


feed_id: f29b175165d30d8da149b4b9bf934b15
title: US employers tracking employees
uri: US-employers-tracking-employees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28US_employers_tracking_employees%29

content:
<p>
US employers
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-14/new-office-sensors-know-when-you-leave-your-desk">increasingly
track everything that employees do while at work</a>.  Even how often
they speak to someone.
<p>
I think we need to limit this, by law if we can't find another way.


feed_id: 27b02a45817ffe81f6c10f38fc8d905e
title: False alarms from health apps and devices
uri: False-alarms-from-health-apps-and-devices
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28False_alarms_from_health_apps_and_devices%29

content:
<p>
Apps and devices to monitor medical indicators can
<a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/how-mobile-health-apps-and-wearables-could-actually-make-people-sicker">make
people's health worse</a>.  They can lead to false alarms and
pointless anxiety.


feed_id: b2d2af498a73d502f17ad4ca221dc588
title: Saboteurs change DOE web site
uri: Saboteurs-change-DOE-web-site
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Saboteurs_change_DOE_web_site%29

content:
<p>
The saboteurs have changed the Department of Energy web site
that
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/childs-play-team-trump-rewrites-a-department-of-energy-website-for-kids">used
to teach kids about the environment</a>.


feed_id: 713c175dc5abe84e166a6c51a2491fe1
title: Republicans complaining about surveillance
uri: Republicans-complaining-about-surveillance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Republicans_complaining_about_surveillance%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/02/republicans_who_pushed_for_invasive_surveillance_are_now_complaining_about.html">Same
Republicans Who Pushed for Invasive Surveillance</a> Are Complaining
About It Now.


feed_id: dd48a22baf2fcccd4b485805b6532d91
title: Requiring people to be useds of Facebook
uri: Requiring-people-to-be-useds-of-Facebook
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Requiring_people_to_be_useds_of_Facebook%29

content:
<p>
Zuckerberg 
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/staff/2017/02/op-ed-mark-zuckerbergs-manifesto-is-a-political-trainwreck/">wants
to make Facebook a platform for world-wide democratic
decisionmaking</a>.  In other words, to require people to be useds of
Facebook if we want a say in political decisions.
<p>
That might be ok if that part of Facebook is pulled out and converted
into a public utility.  I say "might" because there are likely to be
other pitfalls that would have to be avoided.


feed_id: bc739d27e6cce2d0889e9c4548e06623
title: CETA
uri: 2017-02-22-CETA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28CETA%29
content:
<p>
CETA 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/13/signing-ceta-justin-trudeau-eu-isnt-undermining-donald-trump-theyre-helping-him">would
allow 40,000 US companies to demand changes in European laws</a>,
through their Canadian subsidiaries.


feed_id: 1d099a59c76da5bfd8f7e6a0239e0ec0
title: Doll with built-in microphone
uri: Doll-with-built-in-microphone
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Doll_with_built-in_microphone%29

content:
<p>
Germany has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/17/german-parents-told-to-destroy-my-friend-cayla-doll-spy-on-children">classified
a doll with a built-in microphone as an illegal spy device</a>.
People who own them are required to disable the microphone.
<p>
Does this seem like an overreaction to you?  I think action is
required so as to teach people how dangerous these listening devices
are.  I disagree with punishing people who have bought them, but they
ought to fix the devices.
<p>
The device is nasty in other ways too, It is full of proprietary
software, and it communicates with other devices.  To use it at all is
a mistake.  But the microphone allows it to snoop on people that don't
use it.


feed_id: 18e3dac50b7b27dd172afbdbd54c4963
title: Focus on the troll's actions
uri: Focus-on-the-troll-s-actions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Focus_on_the_trolls_actions%29
content:
<p>
"Ignore his insults and focus on his lies" is a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/17/donald-trump-media-troll-president-supporters-journalists-lies">step
in the right direction</a>.  But you have to go further because his
lies are mostly trolling too.
<p>
I'd say, ignore his insults, and ignore his lies except when attacking
them is funny.  Focus on the troll's actions and how they are unjust
or damaging.


feed_id: b4db626cd52bffef84cd6d807ebd8320
title: Confirmation of saboteur Pruitt
uri: Confirmation-of-saboteur-Pruitt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Confirmation_of_saboteur_Pruitt%29

content:
<p>
SCROTUS 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/17/scott-pruitt-confirmed-epa-emails-senate">rushed
to confirm saboteur Pruitt as head of the EPA</a> before he obeyed the
court order to release emails he exchanged with fossil fuel companies.
I guess SCROTUS feared that the email would give them some reason they
had to reject him.
<p>
Senator Manchin is officially a Democrat, but in deeds he is a
Republican.


feed_id: be85f6044658cfa39d17ef6da596bc1d
title: Obama's head of SEC
uri: Obama-s-head-of-SEC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Obamas_head_of_SEC%29
content:
<p>
Obama's head of the Securities and Exchange Commission was 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/17/a-corporate-defender-at-heart-former-sec-chair-mary-jo-white-returns-to-her-happy-place/">working
the whole time for the companies she was supposed to regulate</a>.
Now she has returned to working for them more directly.
<p>
The troll's appointee will probably act even worse because person
won't be obligated to pretend to be doing the job right.


feed_id: 11f5f6e3f6b42a1a88d76f80b0fe4cac
title: Suffering caused to indigenous children in Canada
uri: Suffering-caused-to-indigenous-children-in-Canada
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_%28Suffering_caused_to_indigenous_children_in_Canada%29

content:
<p>
A Canadian court 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/14/canada-sixities-scoop-ruling-first-nations-children">held
the government legally responsible</a> for the suffering and life
impairments caused to indigenous children cause by forcibly taking
them from their parents and putting them into assimilationist boarding
schools.
<p>
It is amazing that this continued as late as 1984.
<p>
The US had a similar policy of coercing indigenous children to attend
assimilationist boarding schools, and this was only finally 
<a href="http://www.nativepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=airc_hist_boardingschools">eliminated
in 1978</a>.
<p>
Another technique for forced assimilation was taking indigenous
children away from their families and 
<a href="http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/33/12/2256.full">giving
them to non-indigenous foster families</a>.


feed_id: 582a9f78e1daf7761953098b488f8e83
title: Didn't recycle
uri: Didn-t-recycle
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Didn%27t_recycle%29
content:
<p>
Old CRTs need to be recycled, but the materials are not valuable so
the recycling companies are paid to take them. Closed Loop was paid
to accept millions of them, <a href="
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/americas-television-graveyards">then didn't recycle them</a>, and went bust.


feed_id: 049bb05d9890f1a0df4ebfdab38b867a
title: UK human rights
uri: UK-human-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28UK_human_rights%29
content:
<p>
If the UK exits the European Union, it will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/feb/21/top-lawyers-warn-of-human-rights-crisis-after-brexit">cease to have laws to
protect human rights</a>.


feed_id: bb2f6be9fa9bdf7378bc485f60e454ec
title: Cold-blooded murder
uri: 2017-02-23-Cold-blooded-murder
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Cold-blooded_murder%29
content:
<p>
An Israeli soldier who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/21/elor-azaria-israeli-soldier-jailed-18-months-killing-palestinian">murdered an incapacitated Palestinian prisoner</a>
has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
<p>
I think that is too little for cold-blooded murder.


feed_id: 25a07a85bbc1d9b052de67dccdba2643
title: Rosa Ortega
uri: Rosa-Ortega
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Rosa_Ortega%29
content:
<p>
Rosa Ortega, who has lived in the US since infancy, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/21/rosa-ortega-voter-fraud-texas-mexico-trump">will be deported
to Mexico</a> because she voted in Texas without authorization. The normal
penalty is probation.
<p>
She didn't try to hide her identity, she just didn't know that she
wasn't allowed to vote, and the state didn't tell her.
<p>
Adults who have lived in the US since infancy should be entitled to
citizenship even if they commit little crimes like this. (That
doesn't mean they shouldn't be punished.)


feed_id: d1db3333b10f1e085a1dad3667d68c69
title: Urgent: oppose union-weakening "right to work" laws
uri: Urgent-oppose-union-weakening-right-to-work-laws
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_oppose_union-weakening_right_to_work_laws%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: oppose union-weakening "<a href="
http://petitions.signforgood.com/right-to-work">right to work</a>" laws at state and federal level.


feed_id: 6d911586ecae31faf39276e79c38d000
title: Urgent: Investigate admin ties to Russia
uri: Urgent-Investigate-admin-ties-to-Russia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_admin_ties_to_Russia%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Sessions to appoint a special prosecutor to
<a href="http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-jeff-sessions-appoint?mailing_id=36900&source=s.icn.em.cr&r_by=623500">investigate</a> the administration's ties to Russia.


feed_id: 7d13438d51612482d58e663731b7849b
title: Eliminate the Legal Services Corporation
uri: Eliminate-the-Legal-Services-Corporation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Eliminate_the_Legal_Services_Corporation%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/21/trump-draft-budget-legal-aid-low-income">troll plans to eliminate</a> the Legal Services Corporation,
so that poor people harmed by illegal acts of people, agencies
and companies would be unable to get justice.


feed_id: dd09d2c298757ecc62af526475c20941
title: isis suicide bomber was freed briton
uri: isis-suicide-bomber-was-freed-briton
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28isis_suicide_bomber_was_freed_briton%29

content:
<p>
One <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/22/isis-suicide-bomber-was-briton-freed-from-guantanamo">former prisoner</a> in Guantanamo joined PISSI and became a suicide bomber.
<p>
The enemies of human rights will use this to argue for imprisoning every
suspect forever -- an instance of their general strategy of exaggerating
small dangers as distractions.
<p>
We have no way of counting the number of people that PISSI was able to
recruit because of resentment of the Guantanamo prison, but it must have
been in the hundreds at least.


feed_id: e5df98d72aa795bffc3790d1fb7e0dd4
title: Enslavement
uri: Enslavement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Enslavement%29
content:
<p>
English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of <a href="https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/02/enslavement">indigenous
Americans</a>, many of whom were sent to other English colonies far away.


feed_id: 32fec77f7016c90fba45d788f9e46893
title: Troll's anti-science politics
uri: Troll-s-anti-science-politics
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Troll%27s_anti-science_politics%29

content:
<p>
How can scientists effectively fight the troll's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2017/feb/22/after-aprils-march-for-science-what-should-come-next-for-anti-trump-scientists">anti-science</a> politics.


feed_id: a04f34bf174dfa1a1d9717e1d7c570d4
title: The Watergate burglary
uri: The-Watergate-burglary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28The_Watergate_burglary%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/woodward-and-bernstein-40-years-after-watergate-nixon-was-far-worse-than-we-thought/2012/06/08/gJQAlsi0NV_story.html">Watergate burglary</a> was a small part of Nixon's broad attack on the US political system.
<p>
This offers a lesson about what the troll might do.


feed_id: 70835ea9ccfa9a74987a7fbbb73b7195
title: UK scandalously trains Ethiopian officials
uri: UK-scandalously-trains-Ethiopian-officials
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28UK_scandalously_trains_Ethiopian_officials%29

content:
<p>
The UK <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/02/20/uk-trains-ethiopian-security-forces-mps-call-action-death-row-dad">scandalously trains</a> Ethiopian officials involved in "security"
(i.e., repression).


feed_id: ba15b938adac0570c59c4dcd1d0f03b4
title: Women to strike
uri: Women-to-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Women_to_strike%29
content:
<p>
Women in Ireland will 
<a href="http://www.themarysue.com/feminism-around-the-world-ireland-strike-against-abortion-ban/">strike
on March 8</a> demanding a referendum on changing the constitution to
permit abortion.


feed_id: 7439f37c8da8bb1f80f1024dbb9d73df
title: Urgent: International Women's Strike
uri: Urgent-International-Women-s-Strike
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_International_Womens_Strike%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: support the 
<a href="https://womenstrikeus.org/">International Women's Strike</a>.
<p>
With so many items in their program, naturally I don't agree with
100%.  I disagree in principle with a right to unlimited reproduction,
and with the goal of eliminating all limits on migration between
countries.
<p>
I agree with the rest of their program, which means around 95% of it,
so I support the action.


feed_id: 4277f153a33af6bbf843210bc026600f
title: Urgent: Oppose John Bolton
uri: Urgent-Oppose-John-Bolton
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_John_Bolton%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/oppose-iraq-war-architect">oppose
Iraq war architect John Bolton</a> as National Security Adviser.


feed_id: a6100acf13ceef50eee8d9082279d0be
title: UK: seizing property
uri: UK-seizing-property
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28UK%3A_seizing_property%29
content:
<p>
The UK is adopting <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/feb/21/commons-pass-bill-allowing-police-seize-uk-assets-human-rights-abusers">a law to allow seizing property</a> of people who
violate human rights in other countries.


feed_id: 84867745226c56052ea3cd63b7876fdd
title: Abused Mexican fears deportation
uri: Abused-Mexican-fears-deportation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Abused_Mexican_fears_deportation%29

content:
<p>
A Mexican woman has lived in the US since age 2, but is not a citizen.
She is <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/21/in-trumps-america-mother-of-four-fears-being-deported-and-leaving-children-with-abusive-husband/">terrified to have any contact with thugs</a>, even when her husband
attacks her, lest they deport her.


feed_id: 148d92ac8842c85deb9b666b1d0be213
title: Anesthetizing fetuses
uri: Anesthetizing-fetuses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Anesthetizing_fetuses%29
content:
<p>
A bizarre Utah law requires giving anesthetic to a fetus before an
abortion after 20 weeks, <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/home/4963390-155/i-guess-im-breaking-the-law">but doctors don't know of any way to do that</a>.
<p>
The law's purpose is to create an irrational way for anti-abortion
activists to convince people that those fetuses can feel pain.
First make smoke, then claim it proves there must be a fire.


feed_id: aefb7cc63b0eb0a874e6fdc03b1a52e6
title: Immigrant deportation
uri: Immigrant-deportation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Immigrant_deportation%29
content:
<p>
The troll wants to give priority for deportation of immigrants that are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/21/donald-trump-immigration-deportation-guidelines-homeland-security">merely <em>suspected</em> of a crime</a>.


feed_id: 2eccab59707677965c23ea9b7c7c880c
title: Troll's campaign rallies
uri: 2017-02-23-Troll-s-campaign-rallies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Troll%27s_campaign_rallies%29
content:
<p>
A subtle analysis of how the troll's campaign rallies <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trump-rsquo-s-appeal-what-psychology-tells-us/">functioned to build up stubborn support</a>, wilfully blind to his mistakes and crimes.
<p>
The article errs in treating the loser's victory as legitimate. He did not win the election—it was <a href="http://us4.campaign-archive1.com/?u=33e4ec877eed6a43863a4a92e&id=3a5e219073&e=8283eff9b8">stolen by Republican voter-suppression</a>, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#26_January_2017_(Republican_Party_the_disloyal_party)">just as in 2000</a>.


feed_id: 7e1484bebcd2e68378c0adbdd985f191
title: Mandatory GPS tracker installation
uri: Mandatory-GPS-tracker-installation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Mandatory_GPS_tracker_installation%29

content:
<p>
China has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/21/china-orders-gps-tracking-of-every-car-in-troubled-region">ordered
installation of GPS trackers</a> in every car in a certain part of
Xinjiang.
<p>
When we see China do this, we recognize it as a repressive act.
The universal 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-nov-feb.html#09_February_2013_(UKs_car-tracking_system)">tracking
of cars by camera in the UK</a> is equally repressive, and so is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#20_October_2012_(US_setting_up_system_to_track_car_travel)">similar
tracking that is spreading (though unevenly) around the US</a>.
<p>
Let's demand an end to tracking of cars and people on our streets!


feed_id: 6f435e78c058f9144217b7aabb8fb4ec
title: Excuse for more voter-suppression
uri: Excuse-for-more-voter-suppression
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Excuse_for_more_voter-suppression%29

content:
<p>
Republicans in 21 states are using the troll's complaints about
nonexistent voter fraud as an 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/states-voter-fraud-bc6dc0dd598d">excuse
for more voter-suppression</a>.


feed_id: 949d9197005a0312c5329ba595b83001
title: Snooping devices and medical insurance
uri: Snooping-devices-and-medical-insurance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Snooping_devices_and_medical_insurance%29

content:
<p>
Data collected via snooping devices such as the Fitbit could be 
<a href="https://theconversation.com/could-your-fitbit-data-be-used-to-deny-you-health-insurance-72565">used
to deny you medical insurance or make you pay more</a>.
<p>
"We charge less if you let a Fitbit track you" is just a nice way of
saying, "We charge more if you don't let a Fitbit track you."
If you're bit, you'll have a fit.


feed_id: be025204fde0cefad2d75eb63080a87a
title: Workers' rights
uri: Workers-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Workers_rights%29
content:
<p>
We Can't Let Silicon Valley Companies And Their Spin 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/15/silicon-valley-spin-undermine-workers-rights-gig-economy-employment">Undermine
Workersâ Rights</a>.


feed_id: 21847d35b7f8ef8faeb0b468c7b93cf6
title: Investigation of Flynn
uri: Investigation-of-Flynn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Investigation_of_Flynn%29
content:
<p>
The question for investigation: 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/15/flynn-scandal-donald-trump-russia-investigation">who
told Flynn to phone the Russian ambassador</a>?
<p>
Another question to think about: did someone choose a hothead with no
diplomatic experience to do an unofficial diplomatic job?


feed_id: 8392491e493833518caba5038aeef8e4
title: Perverted Islam spreading in Pakistan
uri: Perverted-Islam-spreading-in-Pakistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Perverted_Islam_spreading_in_Pakistan%29

content:
<p>
Salafi Arabia's perverted Islam is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/20/islamic-state-foothold-pakistan-government-sehwan-bombing-saudi-fundamentalism">spreading
in Pakistan</a>.  Supporters of PISSI are killing the more traditional
Sufis and attacking their festivals.


feed_id: f66c635501ee33facdc2e6918bfa5f59
title: Road to wealth
uri: Road-to-wealth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Road_to_wealth%29
content:
<p>
Starting a successful business is a road to wealth, for perhaps a few
percent of people; but 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2017/feb/20/rags-riches-privileged-entrepreneurs-business-resilience-michelle-mone">those
who start out poor can't get on that road</a>.


feed_id: 22175b9a5488410cfaeacc44ee65a40f
title: Military intel accused of political assassinations
uri: Military-intel-accused-of-political-assassinations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Military_intel_accused_of_political_assassinations%29

content:
<p>
Sri Lanka has arrested officers in military intelligence and accused
them of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/20/police-sri-lanka-arrest-intelligence-officers-journalist-lasantha-wickrematunge-assassination">political
assassinations</a>.


feed_id: 98b42605b597ed6c387c62361bbf9d05
title: A "violent sex offender"
uri: A-violent-sex-offender
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28A_violent_sex_offender%29
content:
<p>
The teenager who will have to register as a 
<a href="http://www.freerangekids.com/teen-girl-sends-teen-boy-5-sexts-his-choice-350-years-in-prison-or-lifetime-registered-as-violent-sex-offender/">"violent
sex offender"</a> had a sexual meeting with a younger teenager.
<p>
Why do people think there is something wrong with a sexual
relationship between people of ages 13 and 18?  The principal activity
of human adolescents is sex.


feed_id: 04d5f57b66685892109c9cb631d32740
title: "Smart" cars
uri: Smart-cars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Smart_cars%29
content:
<p>
Buying a used "smart" car, house, TV, refrigerator, etc?
Usually the <a href="http://boingboing.net/2017/02/20/the-previous-owners-of-used.html">previous owners can still remotely control it</a>.


feed_id: bd64c458f9abec5dbe15dfaeaa7a8384
title: Internment
uri: Internment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Internment%29
content:
<p>
75 years ago, the US <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/20/75th-anniversary-eo-9066-solemn-reminder-fight-back-against-trump-administrations">imprisoned all citizens and residents of Japanese
descent</a>.
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2017/02/20/we-are-all-here-together">Hardly anyone opposed this</a>. The ACLU tried to fight it in court.
<p>
The troll's plan to trample the rights of people because they are
Muslim is facing a lot more resistance. We have learned something
from history.


feed_id: 6c651716531a73dd855dc7fe2bde7ceb
title: Meet congress
uri: Meet-congress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Meet_congress%29
content:
<p>
Americans are <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/20/what-democracy-looks-packed-town-halls-and-demands-be-heard">pushing to meet with congresscritters</a> on recess, even the
ones that "can't make it".


feed_id: 0c4e69d4254510e03b42ff199208d5e3
title: Progressive politics
uri: Progressive-politics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Progressive_politics%29
content:
<p>
To be progressive, <a href="
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/20/dont-be-fooled-politics-smart">politics must not adulate</a> our focus on the successful
entrepreneurs who present themselves as "smart".
<p>
To do so is to serve some of the rich.


feed_id: e355406b88488202eca897f1ccf53b65
title: Senator Schumer
uri: Senator-Schumer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Senator_Schumer%29
content:
<p>
New Yorkers must <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58aace54e4b026a89a7a2dd6">replace Senator Schumer</a> with a real progressive champion.


feed_id: 500dabfbbc4a7444894f79cd1567fbde
title: Reduced oxygen levels in the ocean
uri: Reduced-oxygen-levels-in-the-ocean
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Reduced_oxygen_levels_in_the_ocean%29

content:
<p>
Global heating is reducing the level of oxygen in the ocean, and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/20/fish-under-threat-oxygen-depletion-oceans-study">some
kinds of fish already have trouble getting enough</a>.
<p>
There are 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_April_2015_(Ocean_Dead_Zones)">local
"dead zones" with very little oxygen</a>, but this is a different
issue.  This is a decrease in the amount of oxygen in surface waters
where no local phenomenon operates to reduce it.


feed_id: 532c37f9b99cc51eafe028b3421271f1
title: Legalization of same-sex marriage
uri: Legalization-of-same-sex-marriage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Legalization_of_same-sex_marriage%29

content:
<p>
When some US states legalized same-sex marriage, the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/20/drop-in-teenage-suicide-attempts-linked-to-legalisation-of-same-sex-marriage">suicide
rate for high school students dropped 14%</a> in those states.


feed_id: 366cb4fea998e24ac01df93214e52748
title: Cryin'air
uri: 2017-02-23-Cryin-air
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Cryinair%29
content:
<p>
Cryin'air 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/20/ryanair-flight-takes-off-without-passenger-in-wheelchair-dublin">shows
its non-respect for people that need wheelchairs</a> by saying,
"Please walk up this stairway, or we will leave you behind."


feed_id: fa4ea5f4ab124387314ad20828f9a2e1
title: California's wettest recorded rainy season
uri: California-s-wettest-recorded-rainy-season
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Californias_wettest_recorded_rainy_season%29

content:
<p>
California's rainy season is the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/feb/20/expect-to-see-more-emergencies-like-oroville-dam-in-a-hotter-world">wettest
ever recorded</a>, and while in some ways that will help make up for
the drought, it was the occasion for the Oroville dam to start to
break.
<p>
Paradoxically, global heating makes for bigger rains and for deeper
droughts — just not at the same time and place.


feed_id: db3da819ae1476d11a29a9c6a1cf86c3
title: Service sweatshop platforms
uri: Service-sweatshop-platforms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Service_sweatshop_platforms%29
content:
<p>
The precarious service sweatshop platforms are platforms for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/20/airbnb-uber-sharing-apps-digital-equality">racial
discrimination</a>.
<p>
This results from making users give their names, then allowing lots of
people (most of them racist, at least unconsciously) to accept or
reject each user.
<p>
Please don't use the word "sharing" to describe what these platforms
do.  What they do is a kind of business, and "sharing" means
cooperation that isn't a sale.
<p>
"Gig economy" is not incorrect, but "precarious service sweatshop"
explicitly states their principal wrong.


feed_id: 6adc3c6c121b883bfedc6f4e65e2359d
title: Foretaste of global heating disaster
uri: Foretaste-of-global-heating-disaster
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Foretaste_of_global_heating_disaster%29

content:
<p>
Supermarkets offer fresh fruit and vegetables all the time by
importing them from other countries, even other continents.  The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/20/supermarket-food-gamble-brexit-climate-migrant">extreme
weather events that interrupt this</a> are a foretaste of global
heating disaster.


feed_id: a684519f0923981f4ea916f03dd87cae
title: Scientists protest in Boston
uri: Scientists-protest-in-Boston
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Scientists_protest_in_Boston%29
content:
<p>
Scientists protested in Boston: 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/19/stepping-away-microscopes-thousands-protest-war-science">Stand
up for Science</a>.


feed_id: 24a71da1c31c5ceb6804564186c1a735
title: What's wrong with Bannon
uri: What-s-wrong-with-Bannon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Whats_wrong_with_Bannon%29
content:
<p>
Here's 
<a href="http://globalprogressivehub.org/trumps-pick-top-white-house-aide-criticized-ties-white-nationalism/">what's
wrong with Bannon</a>.


feed_id: 6f7f076d66651aa806aee070f22ff3fb
title: Better treatment of workers
uri: Better-treatment-of-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Better_treatment_of_workers%29
content:
<p>
In specialized high-tech manufacturing, foreign companies 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/19/why-trumponomics-fails">often
out-compete US rivals</a> by treating their workers better.
<p>
Those companies succeed even though they pay higher taxes than in the
US, which enables everyone in those countries to live a better life.
<p>
This is interesting, but it doesn't make globalization ok overall.
Specialized high-tech manufacturing employs only a small fraction of
workers.  It is the exception and will remain so.  Most factory
employees are in the race-to-the-bottom economy where globalization
provides a force to knock down unions and workers' rights.  For them,
as for farm workers, globalization is a disaster.


feed_id: fca051c9188e7cd99e018cc4060f3cd3
title: Troll's lying
uri: Troll-s-lying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Trolls_lying%29
content:
<p>
"Trumpâs Lying Reveals That He Is 
<a href='http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/Messerly20170219'>Empty
Inside</a>."


feed_id: e63dd6f3fced77b402f49c28b049cd32
title: Getting fired as troll's servitor
uri: Getting-fired-as-troll-s-servitor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Getting_fired_as_trolls_servitor%29

content:
<p>
It appears that the only way lying can get you fired as the troll's
servitor is 
<a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/15/progressives-pile-on-flynns-ouster/">if
spy agencies catch you and dislike you enough</a> to use the evidence.


feed_id: 2f2008eabe0ad8768611d12cb15525c5
title: Russian-sponsored coup d'etat
uri: Russian-sponsored-coup-d-etat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#22_February_2017_%28Russian-sponsored_coup_detat%29
content:
<p>
Montenegro 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/20/russian-state-bodies-attempted-a-coup-in-montenegro-says-prosecutor">claims
it defeated a Russian-sponsored coup d'etat</a> in October.


feed_id: e9781452fcf58be41f6d1f0f95ac6d75
title: US government's excessive surveillance power
uri: US-government-s-excessive-surveillance-power
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28US_governments_excessive_surveillance_power%29

content:
<p>
Now that the US government's excessive surveillance power is in the
hands of the troll,
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/21/sen-wyden-calls-for-warrants-for-tech-se">Democrats
are starting to want to limit it</a>.
<p>
If Republicans still want to limit it, maybe it can be done.


feed_id: 2446284755597a41cfcd503041a00440
title: Deregulating small-scale food production
uri: Deregulating-small-scale-food-production
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Deregulating_small-scale_food_production%29

content:
<p>
Some states are deregulating food produced and sold on a small scale
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2017/02/18/deregulation-of-local-foods-is-a-winning">direct
from producers to consumers</a>.


feed_id: c8cdcdbb91c90ad6f4fb11f95729f78a
title: Bill to impose political requirement for hiring professors
uri: Bill-to-impose-political-requirement-for-hiring-professors
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Bill_to_impose_political_requirement_for_hiring_professors%29

content:
<p>
Republicans in Iowa proposed a law to impose an 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/21/iowa-bill-would-force-universities-hire-right-wing-profs">explicit
political requirement</a> for hiring professors.


feed_id: 52218edf283c5e206534ca02447ba3e6
title: Dubya's broad authorization for war
uri: Dubya-s-broad-authorization-for-war
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Dubyas_broad_authorization_for_war%29

content:
<p>
Several congresscritters have asked the troll to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/21/lawmakers-call-trump-end-blank-check-war">replace
Dubya's broad authorization for war against al Qa'ida</a>, everywhere
in the world, with a narrow one directed at PISSI.


feed_id: a6807562538d633183f1459a72472813
title: Federal Election Commission
uri: Federal-Election-Commission
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Federal_Election_Commission%29
content:
<p>
One of the commissioners on the Federal Election Commission has
resigned as a protest against how the 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/20/opinion/dysfunction-and-deadlock-at-the-federal-election-commission.html">Republicans
have stopped it from doing its job</a>.


feed_id: 2d2a8c72e73ab538f5a1f1f308c62cfe
title: Central American refugees
uri: 2017-02-24-Central-American-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Central_American_refugees%29
content:
<p>
If the US sends all 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/22/trump-deportation-policy-refugee-camps-us-border">Central
American refugees</a> into Mexico, Mexico will be overwhelmed.
<p>
In principle, Mexico does not have to accept them.  But it may have no
mechanism at the US border to keep them out.
<p>
I crossed the border from San Diego to Tijuana by car a few years ago.
As far as I could see there was no border control.  At some point I
was surprised to see that the signs on the street were all in Spanish.
"Could we be in Mexico," I asked myself.  Indeed, we were.  We arrived
at our destination in Tijuana without being stopped anywhere.
<p>
Later, when I boarded a flight from Tijuana to Mexico City, I had to go
through Mexican immigration formalities.  That surprised me again,
since I was already in Mexico.  The agent explained to me that the
area near the border has some sort of special status; leaving that
area for the rest of Mexico is when immigration control occurs.
<p>
If Mexico doesn't check people at the border, it will have no way to
stop the US from dumping Salvadoreans, Hondurans and Guatemalans
across it.


feed_id: 29283fd436ae224e74a336e41019360b
title: Thugs preparing to attack protesters
uri: Thugs-preparing-to-attack-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Thugs_preparing_to_attack_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Thugs are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/22/dakota-access-pipeline-standing-rock-evacuation-police">preparing
to attack the remaining pipeline protesters</a> at Standing Rock.
<p>
They have a silly pretense that it is for the protesters' own safety.
If that were their concern, there would be no need for threats or
demands; "We are here if you need us" would suffice.


feed_id: b24fd554bdf1770d774ef3770215eae9
title: Imprisonment without charge
uri: Imprisonment-without-charge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Imprisonment_without_charge%29
content:
<p>
It was right to release Jamal al-Harith from Guantanamo, because he
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/22/jamal-al-harith-release-2004-guantanamo-david-blunkett">was
charged with no crime</a>.  The fact that he subsequently joined PISSI
can't change that.
<p>
17 Britons were prisoners in Guantanamo and released.  Here's 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/22/what-became-of-the-guantanamo-britons-jamal-al-harith">what
happened to them</a>.
<p>
One of them joined PISSI.  But if he hadn't been imprisoned, maybe he
wouldn't have done that.
<p>
One of them simply lived peacefully, but the way prison had maimed him
provoked his nephew to join al-Qa'ida.  We can be pretty sure that, if
the US hadn't imprisoned people without charges and tortured them, he
would not have become an enemy of the US.
<p>
There are surely hundreds more, if not thousands, who were inspired to
fight the US by their disgust for Guantanamo.


feed_id: c8b6e5b776764f2ba64d3a89f4efa9bc
title: US Export-Import Bank
uri: 2017-02-24-US-Export-Import-Bank
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28US_Export-Import_Bank%29
content:
<p>
The US Export-Import Bank financed mines in Africa which run on 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/22/us-export-import-bank-africa-mines-financing-slave-labor">slave
labor and environmental destruction</a>.
<p>
It also finances fossil fuel use, so there was a campaign to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_December_2016_(Export-Import_Bank)">get
rid of it</a>.


feed_id: e70343a806e821a922685ed990d06d40
title: Floods driving homeless people out of tents
uri: Floods-driving-homeless-people-out-of-tents
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Floods_driving_homeless_people_out_of_tents%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/22/california-storms-rain-flooding-san-jose-homeless">Floods
in California</a> are driving homeless people out of their tents.


feed_id: 187fab5cc1ed4965c5008eb434532e34
title: Urgent: Investigate admin ties to Russia
uri: 2017-02-24-Urgent-Investigate-admin-ties-to-Russia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_admin_ties_to_Russia%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Sessions to appoint a special prosecutor to
<a href="http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-jeff-sessions-appoint">investigate</a> the administration's ties to Russia.


feed_id: 927487a0103ce4193ee063f30be393fe
title: PISSI suicide bomber was freed briton
uri: PISSI-suicide-bomber-was-freed-briton
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28PISSI_suicide_bomber_was_freed_briton%29

content:
<p>
One 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/22/isis-suicide-bomber-was-briton-freed-from-guantanamo">former
prisoner</a> in Guantanamo joined PISSI and became a suicide bomber.
<p>
The enemies of human rights will use this to argue for imprisoning
every suspect forever — an instance of their general strategy of
exaggerating small dangers as distractions.
<p>
We have no way of counting the number of people that PISSI was able to
recruit because of resentment of the Guantanamo prison, but it must have
been in the hundreds at least.


feed_id: f9950477e29f35547b8aab7c6c905900
title: Enslavement
uri: 2017-02-24-Enslavement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#23_February_2017_%28Enslavement%29
content:
<p>
English colonists in New England enslaved thousands of
<a href="https://news.brown.edu/articles/2017/02/enslavement">indigenous
Americans</a>, many of whom were sent to other English colonies far
away.


feed_id: d93bd7dd7870a5a73b4f92e2f4dd9057
title: Very urgent: Medical care rally today!
uri: Very-urgent-Medical-care-rally-today
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Medical_care_rally_today%21%29

content:
<p>
In the US:
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/go/24836">join a rally
near you</a> to preserve the US government's support for medical care,
now threatened by Republicans.


feed_id: 6f0d5481503df40501e1e6cd9a6724aa
title: Urgent: March for Science
uri: Urgent-March-for-Science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_March_for_Science%29
content:
<p>
On April 22, participate in the 
<a href="https://www.marchforscience.com/">March for Science</a>.


feed_id: e553b9043c48215a0e4bfec5f8787d1d
title: BBC journalist stuck in Thailand
uri: BBC-journalist-stuck-in-Thailand
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28BBC_journalist_stuck_in_Thailand%29

content:
<p>
A BBC journalist is stuck in Thailand for two years as he 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/23/bbc-journalist-faces-defamation-charge-in-thailand">faces
prosecution for reporting on a swindler</a>.


feed_id: bd718700b6658a3cda9e8f34ce327995
title: Power shortage in Australia
uri: Power-shortage-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Power_shortage_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
A power shortage in Australia was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/23/gas-fired-power-plants-failed-during-nsw-heatwave-report-reveals">due
mainly to problems in fossil fuel power plants</a>.  The
planet-roaster Australian government 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#16_February_2017_(Blackout)">tried
to blame it on renewable energy</a> and use that as an excuse to
promote fossil fuel use.


feed_id: c9712e8efa56608ba30f879f5efaccc4
title: UK to increase pollution limits
uri: UK-to-increase-pollution-limits
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28UK_to_increase_pollution_limits%29

content:
<p>
The UK government is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/23/heathrow-third-runway-mps-say-government-watering-down-pollution-limits">planning
to increase pollution limits</a> so that extending Heathrow airport
will fit them.


feed_id: 08caaa3a16d0a21bd14b18cd41aefe10
title: FBI entrapment
uri: 2017-02-26-FBI-entrapment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28FBI_entrapment%29
content:
<p>
The FBI has lured another weak-willed, feckless man into participating
in a 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/trumps-first-terror-arrest-a-broke-stoner-the-fbi-threatened-at-knifepoint/">fantasy
terrorist plot</a>.  He will spend much of his life in prison, and the
FBI will present this as an example of "protecting us".
<p>
The FBI will claim that it sets these traps to catch capable and
dangerous terrorists in the US, if there were any, and it just happens
that confused fantasy terrorists keep falling into them.  However,
anybody mentally competent enough to be a real danger as a terrorist
would be competent enough not to be caught.


feed_id: 6fd0b7e8440937d55facd8868c62e6c5
title: Tax on sugar-sweetened drinks
uri: Tax-on-sugar-sweetened-drinks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Tax_on_sugar-sweetened_drinks%29

content:
<p>
After two years, Mexico's tax on sugar-sweetened drinks has led to a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/22/mexico-sugar-tax-lower-consumption-second-year-running">15%
drop in consumption of them</a>.
<p>
It will take years to measure the effect on health.
<p>
Meanwhile, the higher tax in Berkeley, California, has decreased
sugar-sweetened drink consumption by over 20%.


feed_id: e6b5579f089c90b5514ee6d8bfcddd46
title: Women leading British union organizing
uri: Women-leading-British-union-organizing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Women_leading_British_union_organizing%29

content:
<p>
Women are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/22/women-trade-unions-gender-pay-gap-discrimination">taking
the lead</a> in British union organizing.
<p>
In the absence of government by a real Labor party, one that will
stand for the non-rich against the rich, unions are what workers need.


feed_id: b612b67d4b6a24e2755f25994ae2ea1f
title: Harassment from global heating denialists
uri: Harassment-from-global-heating-denialists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Harassment_from_global_heating_denialists%29

content:
<p>
Climate scientists in the US fear harassment from 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/22/climate-change-science-attacks-threats-trump">lunatic
Republican denialists</a>.


feed_id: a3269fa23a8798f47799b47b2e8487bb
title: Fossil fuel companies and Pruitt
uri: Fossil-fuel-companies-and-Pruitt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Fossil_fuel_companies_and_Pruitt%29

content:
<p>
Pruitt, the saboteur head of the EPA, worked in close concert with
fossil fuel companies to attack the EPA 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/22/scott-pruitt-emails-oklahoma-fossil-fuels-koch-brothers">when
he was attorney general of Oklahoma</a>.  He even repeated what they
told him to say.
<p>
The troll knew this, of course, but he concealed this illegally from
the public long enough to get confirmed by the senate.  Here's 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/emails-reveal-epa-chief-scott-pruitts-dirty-dealings-with-oil-and-gas-industry/">more
information about that</a>.


feed_id: 2eafac9c8ed4a221149adfa3044c4323
title: Immigrants
uri: Immigrants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Immigrants%29
content:
<p>
US cities with many immigrants had 
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/40-years-of-data-show-immigration-decreases-or-stabilizes-crime-rates/">bigger
declines in crime rates</a> than other cities.


feed_id: 9b4910ca1f9e82141965d55da744b4d0
title: British teacher blocked from flight to US
uri: British-teacher-blocked-from-flight-to-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28British_teacher_blocked_from_flight_to_US%29

content:
<p>
A British teacher, leading a class trip to the US, was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/21/british-muslim-teacher-taken-off-us-bound-flight-i-was-treated-like-a-criminal">blocked
from a flight to the US by US officials operating in ReykjavÃ­k
airport</a>.  He can see no possible reason except that he is a Muslim
and one of his names is "Mohamed".
<p>
Why does Iceland permit US officials to exercise such powers in
ReykjavÃ­k?


feed_id: 71842741103a58773f44f2cb1524dd77
title: Disenfranchized
uri: Disenfranchized
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Disenfranchized%29
content:
<p>
Outside Coastal Bubbles, to <a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/21/outside-coastal-bubbles-to-say-america-is-already-great-rings-hollow">Say "America is Already Great" Rings Hollow</a>.
<p>
The author does not realize that the blacks that didn't vote in
Mahoning County may have been disenfranchized by Republican
voter-suppression.
<p>
People who hope that manufacturing jobs will return to the US don't
realize that robots already mean manufacturing provides few jobs.
The cause of their poverty, and of the lack of hope in their cities,
is dooH niboR.


feed_id: 0b27a9e9b6bda748fa316091c377c4d9
title: Disabled rights
uri: Disabled-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Disabled_rights%29
content:
<p>
Gorsuch's <a href="
https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/supreme-court-nominee-neil-gorsuch-has-troubling-history-when-ruling-disability">rulings on rights of the disabled</a> show a streak of cruelty.


feed_id: ac11ac8aa90d213eb85f251c080af24a
title: Closing Galleries
uri: Closing-Galleries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Closing_Galleries%29
content:
<p>
<a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2017/feb/22/art-galleries-free-speech-ld50-dalston">No One Should Demand the Closure of Galleries</a> -â Even for Far-Right Artworks.


feed_id: 116ec38d02f4206a61a844dba3d49b83
title: Mocking meeting
uri: Mocking-meeting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Mocking_meeting%29
content:
<p>
When a congresscritter won't meet with constituents, constituents
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/21/voters-shame-cowardly-reps-town-halls-hosted-cardboard-cut-outs">hold a "town hall meeting" with a cardboard mockup</a> of the congresscritter.


feed_id: f2f0d2b893ff74d32f62737cca902305
title: Troll alter definition
uri: Troll-alter-definition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Troll_alter_definition%29
content:
<p>
The troll wants to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/21/trump-administration-toying-alternative-economic-facts">distort economic statistics by altering the
definition of "exports"</a>.
<p>


feed_id: 473f58e2bd1bf5b94cc94256788cb597
title: Troll railroads
uri: Troll-railroads
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Troll_railroads%29
content:
<p>
The troll killed <a href="
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/20/1635876/-Trump-administration-halts-California-s-plans-for-high-speed-rail-and-infrastructure-improvements">funds for electrification of California railroads</a>.


feed_id: 10aca4984013ecbb241a36503b15f303
title: Harass Palestinians
uri: Harass-Palestinians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Harass_Palestinians%29
content:
<p>
The Israeli soldiers that run the checkpoint for <a href="https://palsolidarity.org/2017/02/total-impunity-to-mess-with-lives/">Palestinians going
into parts of Hebron harass them</a> arbitrarily to make them move away.


feed_id: a41d30839728b8dd93ddbc13e1eece7d
title: Ethnic cleansing
uri: Ethnic-cleansing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Ethnic_cleansing%29
content:
<p>
Ethnic cleansing in the Jordan valley: <A href="http://www.kibush.co.il/show_file.asp?num=75038">Israel demolishes Palestinians'
houses</a>, steals their tractors, and declares their land a military
firing zone.
<p>
Israel seized even the tents they were given as emergency aid.
<p>
The people of Bil'in have <a href="
https://972mag.com/12-years-strong-hundreds-march-against-israels-wall-in-bilin/125284/">protested every week for 12 years</a> against
the Israeli wall that was built through their lands.
<p>
The only place Israel has the right to build a wall is on the border
between Israel and Palestine -- the Green Line.


feed_id: 3085c7b0663f467ca8d56381ccc60689
title: Restricting courts
uri: Restricting-courts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Restricting_courts%29
content:
<p>
Restricting <a href="
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/21/restricting-peoples-use-their-courts">people's use of their courts</a> is, in effect, rationing
justice.
<p>
At the same time, if the rich have an advantage in court because they
can pay lawyers to make outrageous maneuvers (as the troll does).
that's slanting justice.


feed_id: fef083c57923c43a3d58f566a3f2d4bd
title: Misuse of power
uri: Misuse-of-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#25_February_2017_%28Misuse_of_power%29
content:
<p>
How We Got Here: The <a href="
">Misuse of American Military Power</a> and The Middle East in
Chaos.


feed_id: ada0238566b56d85b058ac73b4c96e9f
title: Urgent: Quit troll's business council
uri: Urgent-Quit-troll-s-business-council
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Quit_trolls_business_council%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/trump_tesla/">call on Elon
Musk</a> to quit the troll's business council.


feed_id: b6c5f195a87428bd3faf9fb7b3a99d10
title: Urgent: FOIA requests by email
uri: Urgent-FOIA-requests-by-email
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_FOIA_requests_by_email%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/journ_foia_request/">tell the
FBI</a> to keep accepting FOIA requests by email.


feed_id: 5deba5b527ea77a07272916989a20c33
title: US thugs drag refugee away from hospital
uri: US-thugs-drag-refugee-away-from-hospital
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28US_thugs_drag_refugee_away_from_hospital%29

content:
<p>
US immigration thugs dragged refugee Sara Beltrán
Hernández away from the hospital, tied to a wheelchair, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2017/02/23/heartbreaking-inhumane-and-illegal-ice-targets-woman-brain-tumor">as
she was waiting for an operation to remove a brain tumor</a>.
<p>
Since then, she has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/sara-beltran-hernandez-texas-detention-brain-tumor">received
no medical attention</a> although the thugs pretend she does.
<p>
This may be because she is kept in a privatized prison.  They tend to
skimp on their duties towards prisoners, 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#14_February_2014_(Privatized_prison_covered_up_understaffing)">figuring
that they can get away with lying about it</a>.


feed_id: 719b50d21bb56a1093736aefb0723c0e
title: Urgent: Indict LA thug who shot boy
uri: Urgent-Indict-LA-thug-who-shot-boy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Indict_LA_thug_who_shot_boy%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/indict-lapd-cop/">Tell the
prosecutors</a> to indict the Los Angeles thug who shot at a
13-year-old boy.


feed_id: a885675bfec2ea3c51fb32932235405d
title: Prosecution for blasphemy in Denmark
uri: Prosecution-for-blasphemy-in-Denmark
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Prosecution_for_blasphemy_in_Denmark%29

content:
<p>
A man who publicly burned a copy of the Qur'an, in Denmark, is 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/23/denmark-to-prosecute-koran-burner">being
prosecuted for blasphemy</a>.
<p>
This prosecution is an injustice.  In addition, it will lend support
to the Islamists that are pressuring for a global ban on criticism of
their religion.  That is not merely wrong in principle, it is a big
threat to our freedom.  Denmark should repeal this law.
<p>
Freedom of speech includes the freedom to criticize, condemn, insult,
or mock any person, group, thing, institution, belief, or practice.
Censorship is an attack on human rights, and we must fight against
campaigns for censorship.


feed_id: 87821c4a41c02b95fcf92ff2936b39cb
title: Resolution for documents about the Troll
uri: Resolution-for-documents-about-the-Troll
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Resolution_for_documents_about_the_Troll%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/23/gop-looking-quietly-kill-resolution-demanding-transparency-trump">expected
to kill a Democratic resolution</a> demanding that Sessions hand over
documents about the Troll.


feed_id: b5a977dc1562f482290bd35764359f9e
title: Republicans want to define protest as "crime"
uri: Republicans-want-to-define-protest-as-crime
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Republicans_want_to_define_protest_as_crime%29

content:
<p>
Arizona, under Republican rule, wants to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/23/new-law-would-let-arizona-treat-organized-dissent-organized-crime">define
organized protest as "organized crime"</a> by
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/23/arizona-bill-to-crack-down-on-rioters-co">defining
it as "rioting" if any participant engages in violence</a>.
<p>
It is very important for protest organizers to avoid violence.  As
long as we have enough democracy for a nonviolent protest to be
effective, violence only weakens the effect.
<p>
But organizers can't guarantee that there is no violence in the
vicinity of a protest.  If the protesters are disciplined and refuse
to engage in violence, anyone in the vicinity of the protest who
commits an act of violence could provide an excuse for this
prosecution.  Even a 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2005-jul-oct.html#19%20October%202005%20(Police%20who%20viciously%20attacked%20sleeping%20protestors)">thug
dressed up as a protester</a>.


feed_id: a9d3a75342bf9261735a86fac719950c
title: Urgent: Kick Manchin out
uri: Urgent-Kick-Manchin-out
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Kick_Manchin_out%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Manchin_Schumer">call on
Senator Schumer</a> to kick right-wing Democrat Manchin from his
leadership team.
<p>
Manchin has repeatedly voted for the troll's saboteur cabinet
nominees.


feed_id: 81138637d2fe718ffc9ed83ffab28e56
title: Democrats
uri: 2017-02-27-Democrats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Democrats%29
content:
<p>
Democrats are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/23/earth-democrats-anybody-home">not
well organized for fighting Republican sabotage</a>.


feed_id: fbcfb112621a4a444754ea5f77495c6b
title: White House asks FBI to deny reports
uri: White-House-asks-FBI-to-deny-reports
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28White_House_asks_FBI_to_deny_reports%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/white-house-asked-fbi-to-deny-reports-linking-russia-and-trump-advisers">White
House Asked FBI to Deny Reports</a> Linking Russia and Trump Advisers.
<p>
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-fbi-idUSKBN1631GC">More
information</a>.
<p>
I think the same rule requires that the FBI should not have publicly
stated that it had found more emails exchanged with Clinton —
emails which, a few days later, it admitted 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#8_November_2016_(FBI_directors_dirty_trick)">contained
nothing important</a>.


feed_id: 5c73b9be5260249429816d42c7b49953
title: Israel's policy against Human Rights Watch
uri: Israel-s-policy-against-Human-Rights-Watch
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Israels_policy_against_Human_Rights_Watch%29

content:
<p>
Israel has stated a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/24/israel-denies-visa-to-hostile-human-rights-watch-and-warns-it-is-assessing-other-groups">formal
policy</a> of not giving visas to staff of Human Rights Watch.
<p>
That is to support the policy of trampling Arabs' human rights.


feed_id: ebb9cdfa996999016e4e821c3f19af97
title: Urgent: Distance Sessions from Operation Rescue
uri: Urgent-Distance-Sessions-from-Operation-Rescue
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Distance_Sessions_from_Operation_Rescue%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/sign/170221_SessionsOR/">Call
on Sessions</a> to disassociate himself from Operation Rescue.


feed_id: 6277d4ae8ef4cbc912a2565a94d19546
title: Troll's deportation policy
uri: Troll-s-deportation-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Trolls_deportation_policy%29
content:
<p>
The troll's men want to deport Herbert Carino to the Philippines,
where President Do-Dirty's men are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/hawaii-father-deportation-philippines-war-on-drugs-rodrigo-duterte">likely
to murder him</a>.


feed_id: db3af7c70646512d8b1145a08012f551
title: Syrian rebels capture al-Bab
uri: Syrian-rebels-capture-al-Bab
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Syrian_rebels_capture_al-Bab%29
content:
<p>
Turkish-supported Syrian rebels have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/24/car-bomb-kills-dozens-after-isis-driven-out-of-syrian-town-al-bab">captured
al-Bab</a>.
<p>
Next maybe they will fight PISSI elsewhere — but they would have
to fight the Syrian Kurds first.


feed_id: 1de9f2e15f22202fdcc1d99297a23e7e
title: Assassination of Kim Jong-nam
uri: Assassination-of-Kim-Jong-nam
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam%29

content:
<p>
North Korea 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/24/kim-jong-nam-north-korean-deadly-vx-shocking">used
the assassination of Kim Jong-nam</a> as an opportunity to declare its
chemical weapons capabilities.


feed_id: 0c73f8f32909e6ca22005538c445acc9
title: Thugs arrest protesters blocking DAPL
uri: Thugs-arrest-protesters-blocking-DAPL
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Thugs_arrest_protesters_blocking_DAPL%29

content:
<p>
Thugs 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/23/dakota-access-pipeline-camp-cleared-standing-rock">arrested
the last protesters blocking the Dakota Access Pipeline</a>.
<p>
All of humanity will suffer the effects of burning the oil that
pipeline will enable extraction of.


feed_id: c7f0e6f2053290563be537757c1290f0
title: Troll wants to deport without hearings
uri: Troll-wants-to-deport-without-hearings
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Troll_wants_to_deport_without_hearings%29

content:
<p>
The troll 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/23/donald-trump-plans-to-bypass-the-courts-to-deport-as-many-people-as-possible/">wants
to eliminate deportation hearings</a> and ship people out of the US
without time for second thoughts.


feed_id: 3352e7fcdc62b8916b0831b4d86bb42a
title: Ecology of sea bottom
uri: Ecology-of-sea-bottom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Ecology_of_sea_bottom%29
content:
<p>
Human activity is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/23/deep-ocean-life-dark-future-warming-food-shortages-study">messing
up the ecology of the sea bottom</a>, even deep down.


feed_id: 5307a07e0d886dd423330389e30f4caf
title: Debt imposed on people of Gambia
uri: Debt-imposed-on-people-of-Gambia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Debt_imposed_on_people_of_Gambia%29

content:
<p>
The defeated tyrannical ruler of Gambia has imposed a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/23/the-gambia-debt-theft-mismanagement-jammeh-allegations">billion-dollar
debt</a> on the people.
<p>

Currently, when tyrannical or corrupt government imposes debts on the
country, the people have to pay them even after that government has
been kicked out.  This is an injustice, and creates a moral hazard: it
encourages banks to lend to dictators, knowing they can squeeze the
money out of the people afterward.
<p>
For the sake of justice, we must enable countries to repudiate the
debts of a corrupt or tyrannical regime.  That would teach banks to
think twice before lending to such a regime, and that would make it
harder for such a regime to stay in power.


feed_id: 0e5c5fca765d5f084ff559186ca0cf20
title: Poor people unable to have healthy diet
uri: Poor-people-unable-to-have-healthy-diet
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Poor_people_unable_to_have_healthy_diet%29

content:
<p>
Poor people 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/23/austerity-britain-10-portions-fruit-and-veg">can't
afford</a> the fresh fruits and vegetables that make for a healthy
diet.


feed_id: ac0a9acb338f55895d8a2585075c5ac5
title: Protest against thugs that raped student
uri: Protest-against-thugs-that-raped-student
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Protest_against_thugs_that_raped_student%29

content:
<p>
Teenagers have blockaded high schools in Paris in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/23/teenagers-blockade-paris-schools-protest-alleged-police-rape">protest
against the thugs that raped a student and said it was an
"accident"</a>.
<p>
It is wrong for protesters to destroy cars — they belong to
people who have nothing to do with that crime.
<p>
I am glad that thugs face charges for the rape.


feed_id: eacc8ccc188af02565651f6dd064a95d
title: Troll's divisive rhetoric
uri: Troll-s-divisive-rhetoric
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Trolls_divisive_rhetoric%29
content:
<p>
Amnesty International: The divisive rhetoric of the troll, and other
right-wing politicians around the world, add up to a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/22/trumps-poisonous-rhetoric-made-world-darker-unstable-amnesty">current
of eliminating human rights</a> world-wide.


feed_id: e70480a2107b1cfd5a08c9b80dbba75f
title: Hiding from constituents
uri: Hiding-from-constituents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Hiding_from_constituents%29
content:
<p>
Rep. Ryan is hiding from constituents and has 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/22/ryan-dodges-constituents-horseback-voters-demand-be-heard">deactivated
his fax line</a>.
<p>
Senator Daines of Nevada 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/21/1636350/-Sen-Steve-Daines-abruptly-cancels-address-to-Montana-legislature-due-to-constituent-crowd-outside">cancelled
a talk at the state capitol to avoid protesters</a>.


feed_id: 90bc6f8f8f342576b95c0c47ec0de4fe
title: Troll discriminated against blacks
uri: Troll-discriminated-against-blacks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Troll_discriminated_against_blacks%29

content:
<p>
The troll discriminated against blacks in renting housing.  He 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/21/1634573/-FBI-files-former-Trump-property-doorman-ordered-to-lie-to-Black-people-to-block-them-from-renting">told
a doorman to overstate the rent when blacks inquired</a>.


feed_id: 7bec7ad1a91873c07eec39b1a21c0fbb
title: Obama's medical insurance program
uri: 2017-02-27-Obama-s-medical-insurance-program
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#26_February_2017_%28Obamas_medical_insurance_program%29

content:
<p>
SCROTUS are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/22/republican-bid-kill-aca-trojan-horse">aiming
to eliminate much more than Obama's medical insurance program</a>.
They want to replace medicaid with schemes of little help to any but
wealthy Americas, and tell the rest, "You're on your own."


feed_id: a107a1c329615205d9311b7f358150b2
title: Signs of incipient tyranny from troll
uri: Signs-of-incipient-tyranny-from-troll
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#26_February_2017_%28Signs_of_incipient_tyranny_from_troll%29

content:
<p>
The loser displays
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/22/7-signs-tyranny">several
typical signs</a> of incipient tyranny.


feed_id: 59f5457c79467b0c5c1e356888681b11
title: Interviews with troll supporters
uri: Interviews-with-troll-supporters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#26_February_2017_%28Interviews_with_troll_supporters%29

content:
<p>
A journalist interviewed 100 supporters of the troll
and reports on
<a href="http://blog.samaltman.com/what-i-heard-from-trump-supporters">what
reasons they give for supporting him</a>.
<p>
Also what they disapprove of.


feed_id: 3675e68e9d66f5a229c893bb0a120dd9
title: Demanding visitors' passwords
uri: Demanding-visitors-passwords
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#26_February_2017_%28Demanding_visitors_passwords%29
content:
<p>
If the US starts demanding visitors give passwords to their internet
accounts, this could
<a href="https://cdt.org/insight/no-to-dhs-social-media-password-requirement/">crush
the freedom of all international travelers</a>.


feed_id: 63eb50731709f83ee4a72363ba8e5539
title: Flynn, Russian ambassador, and troll
uri: Flynn-Russian-ambassador-and-troll
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#26_February_2017_%28Flynn%2C_Russian_ambassador%2C_and_troll%29

content:
<p>
The spooks won't tell us why, but they seem to think that what Flynn
said to the Russian ambassador, together with what the troll said,
<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/why-flynn-russia-affair-troubling-trump-559132">suggests
a serious wrong</a>.
<p>
We can't assume they are telling the truth, because they
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-14/the-political-assassination-of-michael-flynn">had
reasons to try to screw the troll and his men</a>.
<p>
Still, it calls for an investigation.
<p>
I've read elsewhere that the NSA's supposed rules for not snooping on
Americans are bullshit — because they can
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#24_May_2014_(Circumventing_the_law_wholesale)">get
other countries to collect the conversations and give the recordings
to the NSA</a>, and then it can do whatever it likes.  So don't
believe that part.


feed_id: b5de158fcee28a1911cc7471d6afde2e
title: British teacher blocked from entering US
uri: British-teacher-blocked-from-entering-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#26_February_2017_%28British_teacher_blocked_from_entering_US%29

content:
<p>
A US agent displayed irrational discrimination to British children on
a school trip, by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/23/juhel-miah-barred-entry-us-trump-travel-ban">blocking
their teacher from entering the US with them</a>.
<p>
The school's principal says the students have learned the right
lesson, to condemn bigotry, rather than the trumpish lesson of
imitating bigotry.


feed_id: e8b2a1bf14dcbe2188362358c9de3e75
title: The Raqqa Diaries
uri: The-Raqqa-Diaries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#26_February_2017_%28The_Raqqa_Diaries%29
content:
<p>
The Raqqa Diaries were smuggled out of Raqqa to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/23/the-raqqa-diaries-escape-from-islamic-state-samer">report
on PISSI's violence and oppression</a>.  The author condemns PISSI for
perverting Islam.
<p>
The more Muslims learn about what PISSI really means, the more PISSI
will be weakened.


feed_id: 4dfbaec1dbac9effae24cbd698f21df0
title: Forests cut down for charcoal
uri: Forests-cut-down-for-charcoal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#26_February_2017_%28Forests_cut_down_for_charcoal%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/feb/23/illegal-logging-in-malawi-can-clean-cooking-stoves-save-its-forests">Malawi's
forests</a> are being cut down — for charcoal.
<p>
Unlike Brazil and Indonesia, where business interests are behind
deforestation, the pressure in Malawi comes from ordinary people.
They are not particularly greedy.  The problem is only that they are
living unsustainably.  (Just as in the United States.)
<p>
I hope that the efficient stoves solve this problem.  Solar-heated
stoves might be even better.  But ultimately we need to reduce human
population growth before we destroy all forests in a final frenzy.


feed_id: 6504c875a2c00dfbd5553473021d1756
title: Right-wing bigots encouraged by troll
uri: Right-wing-bigots-encouraged-by-troll
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#26_February_2017_%28Right-wing_bigots_encouraged_by_troll%29

content:
<p>
A right-wing bigot in North Carolina
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/23/north-carolina-islamophobia-muslims-threats">talks
openly about exterminating Muslims</a>.
<p>
The troll is substantially responsible for this, since he encouraged
it.


feed_id: d2dd108b3660330d7b1b126c40bc46e4
title: Urgent: Network neutrality
uri: 2017-02-28-Urgent-Network-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Network_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.openmedia.org/defendtheinternet/">stand for
network neutrality</a>.


feed_id: d373e09c6efa81aaa78f36deb3b0df3a
title: Urgent: Dodd-Frank whistleblower protections
uri: Urgent-Dodd-Frank-whistleblower-protections
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Dodd-Frank_whistleblower_protections%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://action.whistleblowers.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=20061">call
on Congress</a> to preserve the Dodd-Frank whistleblower protections,
which apply to people that report crimes of their employers.


feed_id: 13ccabd99cbb1ed3bef9c65a2156465b
title: Urgent: Support HR 975
uri: Urgent-Support-HR-975
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Support_HR_975%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/end-federal-war-marijuana-2017">call
on your congresscritter</a> to support HR 975 to end the federal war
on marijuana.


feed_id: e2e3e0784483f7af27a57e83ff31582b
title: Urgent: Preserve the Johnson amendment
uri: Urgent-Preserve-the-Johnson-amendment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Preserve_the_Johnson_amendment%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tell-congress-dont-gut-johnson-amendment/">call
on Congress</a> to preserve the Johnson amendment, which prohibits
churches and tax-exempt charities (such as the FSF) from campaigning
for or against political candidates.
<p>
To weaken this amendment would give rich people a way to donate any
amount of money to political campaigns, and get a tax deduction for
doing so.


feed_id: c7c91ac3e7d3622e26159ffcc99a83fb
title: Troll's aide an avowed racist
uri: Troll-s-aide-an-avowed-racist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Trolls_aide_an_avowed_racist%29
content:
<p>
The troll's aide, Stephen Miller, is an avowed racist.  He
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/21/1636419/-Yes-Trump-s-Aide-Really-Did-Throw-White-Power-Sign">made
a "white power" hand gesture in a White House event</a>.


feed_id: d8dff0213628fcc5ad6386e13f2f5ec9
title: Anaheim thug attacks teenagers
uri: Anaheim-thug-attacks-teenagers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Anaheim_thug_attacks_teenagers%29

content:
<p>
An Anaheim thug
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/23/los-angeles-police-officer-teen-gun-video-protests">attacked
a teenage girl for walking on his lawn</a>, and ended up shooting at a
group of teenagers.  Fortunately he did not hit them, but protesters
demand his arrest.


feed_id: 95c6a4e51576ed50b1cdef4e72e7228f
title: Marijuana
uri: 2017-02-28-Marijuana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Marijuana%29
content:
<p>
White House Defers to "States' Rights" on Transgender Protections
— But
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/23/white-house-defers-to-states-rights-on-transgender-protections-but-not-on-legalizing-marijuana/">Not
on Legalizing Marijuana</a>.


feed_id: 754bf5c2c4f24391d9a3955ef0ba62b0
title: Federal use of private prisons
uri: Federal-use-of-private-prisons
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Federal_use_of_private_prisons%29

content:
<p>
Sessions has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/23/trump-revives-private-prison-program-doj-obama-administration-end">cancelled
the plan to phase out federal use of private prisons</a>, which are
harsher than government-run prisons.
<p>
The troll was paid to do this job by the private prison companies.


feed_id: c3465f2cac5e3193eaa96c5872245aa3
title: Advances in face recognition
uri: Advances-in-face-recognition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Advances_in_face_recognition%29
content:
<p>
Advances in face recognition threaten to track everyone around on the
street,
<a href="http://www.salon.com/2017/02/23/creepy-but-impressive-facial-recognition-software-is-going-to-the-next-level/">even
using low-quality images</a>.
<p>
Can we determine what victims can do to make this not work?


feed_id: eb3a5187cd6b19041e81f7d82409f98b
title: VX nerve agent used by Kim Jong-un
uri: VX-nerve-agent-used-by-Kim-Jong-un
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28VX_nerve_agent_used_by_Kim_Jong-un%29

content:
<p>
Kim Jong-un used a chemical weapon,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/24/north-korea-use-of-chemical-weapons-kim-jong-nam-a-deliberate-signal-to-its-foes">VX
nerve agent</a>, to assassinate his brother.
<p>
It seems that two different people put two different chemicals on his
face, where they came in contact and generated VX.


feed_id: cfb2c2cb4df9eaaef5dfe1b366285776
title: Technology designed to herd and control
uri: Technology-designed-to-herd-and-control
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Technology_designed_to_herd_and_control%29

content:
<p>
Technology designed to herd and control is
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/02/the-singularity-in-the-toilet-stall/517551/">increasingly
frustrating to use</a>.  Even in the bathroom.
<p>
I find most sensor-operated faucets very difficult to activate.  The
fact that I can't see where the sensor is actually located limits me
to trial and error.  I have to hunt for a long time to put my hands
where they will be detected by the sensor, and I can never do it
reliably.


feed_id: 74750da4d0ea831c69de4d3aab9d48c5
title: President Do-Dirty prosecuting opposition
uri: President-Do-Dirty-prosecuting-opposition
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28President_Do-Dirty_prosecuting_opposition%29

content:
<p>
President Do-Dirty of the Philippines is prosecuting opposition
leader, Senator De Lima, using
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/24/philippines-senator-leila-de-lima-president-duterte-serial-killer-faces-arrest">absurd
charges</a>.
<p>
She called him a "serial killer", an accusation which
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_December_2016_(Duterte_sought_suspected_criminals_to_kill)">he
has admitted</a>.


feed_id: f2c9bb637a102039ab27fb925588d162
title: Troll provoking new nuclear arms race
uri: Troll-provoking-new-nuclear-arms-race
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Troll_provoking_new_nuclear_arms_race%29

content:
<p>
The troll has
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/23/donald-trumps-remarks-signal-he-could-start-a-new-nuclear-arms-race/">started
to provoke a new nuclear arms race</a>.
<p>
Obama had already arranged to spend
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#7_May_2016_(SCROTUS_support_for_nuclear_weapons_plan)">a
trillion dollars on new nuclear weapons</a>, though without increasing
the total number of missiles (limited by treaty).


feed_id: 96bef018960fa3041f1dc221c6849f4f
title: US immigration harassment
uri: US-immigration-harassment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28US_immigration_harassment%29
content:
<p>
There is a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/26/muhammad-ali-jr-trump-travel-ban-muslims-border-agents">systematic
pattern</a> of US immigration harassing US citizens that have Muslim
names.


feed_id: 3f7344f07bcf83370ff9e401f731b7a4
title: History of deportation scare tactics
uri: History-of-deportation-scare-tactics
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28History_of_deportation_scare_tactics%29

content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/26/the-long-history-of-deportation-scare-tactics-at-the-u-s-mexico-border/">Long
History</a> of Deportation Scare Tactics at the U.S.-Mexico Border.


feed_id: 6a9b18eb5391f05feb41f6fc08784812
title: Central American asylum seekers
uri: Central-American-asylum-seekers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Central_American_asylum_seekers%29

content:
<p>
There is pressure to stop the tiny "flood" of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/26/asylum-seekers-canada-trump-trudeau">Central
American asylum seekers from the US to Canada</a>.
<p>
I am suspicious of exaggerated citation of tiny "dangers".  For
instance, one MP says "it is not safe" for the refugees who trek
across the border, but they are not in much danger and they think
staying in the US is more dangerous.  She also says it is "not safe"
for the community, but what danger is there?  All these refugees wish
to do is find Canadian authorities to surrender to, away from the
border.  They are not going to hurt anyone.
<p>
But it would be a good thing for Canada to suspend the agreement with
the US to return refugees to the US when they go through border
crossings.  Then they could seek asylum that way.


feed_id: 3113b4c1dbc991215080f272e6c19501
title: The Heatland Institute
uri: 2017-02-28-The-Heatland-Institute
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28The_Heatland_Institute%29
content:
<p>
Leaked documents show how the Heatland Institute operates to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/feb/15/leak-exposes-heartland-institute-climate">promote
denial of global heating</a>, and that this is one of its priority
missions.
<p>
The organization calls itself the "Heartland" Institute, but
"Heatland" describes it more accurately.  The organization describes
itself as "libertarian", but I won't call it that.  Global heating
denialism has nothing to do with liberty, and little to do with the
views of the people that call themselves "libertarians", since most of
them are not denialists.
<p>
However, I have decided not to refer to them as "libertarians", since
I reject their claim to support liberty more than I do.  Their basic
philosophy is that 
<a href="/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">the state</a> should not
actively help people have better lives.
<p>
Since they call all state programs to help people "socialist", I am
thinking of calling them "antisocialists".


feed_id: e3ae11135fe9f47059f14237391ff4e3
title: More of the Raqqa diaries
uri: More-of-the-Raqqa-diaries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28More_of_the_Raqqa_diaries%29
content:
<p>
More of the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/26/the-raqqa-diaries-life-under-isis-rule-samer-mike-thomson-syria">Raqqa
diaries</a>.
<p>
The author says that PISSI and the Assad regime practice similar
cruelties.  That may be true in terms of what they do to those they
consider enemies.  However, my understanding is that the regime
defines people as enemies only for opposing it, not for religion.


feed_id: 43ae93609e612a3680fb3df4cec7079c
title: Democratic Party chair
uri: Democratic-Party-chair
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Democratic_Party_chair%29
content:
<p>
The Democratic Party 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/25/tom-perez-democratic-chair-keith-ellison-atlanta-ballot">elected
the establishment candidate</a>, Tom Perez, as chair.
<p>
I fear he will rig the 2020 primaries against Sanders or whoever is
the progressive candidate.


feed_id: e7e23489a8a15e6ad2e2ac04185a916f
title: Our potential to destroy species
uri: Our-potential-to-destroy-species
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Our_potential_to_destroy_species%29

content:
<p>
Scientists remind us that we 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/25/half-all-species-extinct-end-century-vatican-conference">could
destroy half of all living species by 2100</a>.


feed_id: e458004d4537e8e779f7d9bc377aa28a
title: SCROTUS wiping out retirement laws
uri: SCROTUS-wiping-out-retirement-laws
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28SCROTUS_wiping_out_retirement_laws%29

content:
<p>
SCROTUS are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/24/paul-ryans-next-attack-workers-retirement-win-wall-street">wiping
out state retirement laws</a> that facilitate keeping a retirement
account moving from one employer to another.


feed_id: 0ddab36d436091800a4666127b9fc7e2
title: Voter suppression
uri: 2017-02-28-Voter-suppression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Voter_suppression%29
content:
<p>
Montana Democrats Accuse Republicans of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/montana-ryan-zinke-election-reforms-democrats-republicans">Voter
Suppression Ahead of Special Election</a>.


feed_id: a36568bd7525c05742fa15204423bc25
title: Harassment by US border thugs
uri: Harassment-by-US-border-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Harassment_by_US_border_thugs%29

content:
<p>
US border thugs 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/25/muhammad-ali-son-detained-questioned-us-border-control">harassed
Muhammad Ali Jr for hours</a> as he was returning to the US.  Their
first questions were, "Where did you get your name from? Are you a
Muslim?"
<p>
I am puzzled by the idea that he needed to prove that he was the son
of the famous boxer.  They had seen by his passport that he is a US
citizen and has an unconditional right to reenter the US.


feed_id: 1ffd1e37a333401394d9271e6f1d0593
title: Gradual replacement of American democracy
uri: Gradual-replacement-of-American-democracy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Gradual_replacement_of_American_democracy%29

content:
<p>
How the plutocrats gradually replaced American democracy with 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/jimmy-carter-is-correct-t_b_7922788.html">their
own rule</a>.


feed_id: fa7466a72e9bab5fa7f0c49e89a7d007
title: Troll sabotages US treasury
uri: Troll-sabotages-US-treasury
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Troll_sabotages_US_treasury%29
content:
<p>
The troll sabotaged the US treasury by 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/02/24/trump-ends-rule-blocking-corporate-polluters-paying-themselves">cancelling
a recently adopted rule that stopped fossil fuel companies from
cheating</a> when paying for taking fossil fuels out of public lands.


feed_id: cd94f7a00deab959932910ec56d1caa9
title: Political influence of thugs' unions
uri: Political-influence-of-thugs-unions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Political_influence_of_thugs_unions%29

content:
<p>
Thugs' unions have great political influence, and use it to 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2017/02/24/pot-shop-cop-reinstatement-gives-police">protect
them from punishment for tyrannizing people</a>.
<p>
It should be a crime for a thug to turn off any cameras in a place
where the thug has an interaction with the public, or to interfere
with filming by bystanders.  This should be punished by years in
prison.


feed_id: 6ea7c26c39cff7b76a4977dd264ff45a
title: Fighting increases in military spending
uri: Fighting-increases-in-military-spending
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Fighting_increases_in_military_spending%29

content:
<p>
Starting the fight against budget cuts in important social programs
involves
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/24/we-can-fight-trumps-cuts-essential-government-programs">fighting
against increases in military spending</a>.


feed_id: 59a467b194f394854ef60bc6afa04288
title: Australian author interrogated by US thugs
uri: Australian-author-interrogated-by-US-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Australian_author_interrogated_by_US_thugs%29

content:
<p>
A famous Australian author was interrogated for hours by US border
thugs, evidently 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/25/australian-childrens-author-mem-fox-detained-by-us-border-control-i-sobbed-like-a-baby">for
no reason</a>.
<p>
She had visited the US 116 times before, but says she will never do so
again.
<p>
US border thugs were 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-sep-dec.html#15%20December%202009%20%28How%20the%20law%20really%20works%29">even 
nastier to Canadian writer Peter Watts</a>.


feed_id: 5bcba5b603ad3f48b7462501571314a4
title: South Korea bows to pressure from Japan
uri: South-Korea-bows-to-pressure-from-Japan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28South_Korea_bows_to_pressure_from_Japan%29

content:
<p>
South Korea's government is bowing to Japanese pressure, and
<a href="http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2017/02/23/71/0200000000AEN20170223006700315F.html">pressuring
local governments to remove statues</a> that commemorate the Korean
(and other) women that were forced into prostitution during Japanese
occupation.


feed_id: a2aa49ebfce219c0edf4cf8e0848f38c
title: Wolf numbers in rural areas of Finland
uri: Wolf-numbers-in-rural-areas-of-Finland
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#27_February_2017_%28Wolf_numbers_in_rural_areas_of_Finland%29

content:
<p>
Wolves in Finland are so numerous that they endanger the dogs that
rural people use to hunt moose.  Finland is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/25/europe-wolf-population-finland-culling-protection">looking
for a way to maintain a wolf stable population level</a> that can
coexist with the sparse human population of rural areas.


feed_id: 445f4a5c242d88b2e36740e9996553a5
title: Military spending
uri: 2017-02-28-Military-spending
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Military_spending%29
content:
<p>
The troll wants to <a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/27/trumps-budget-54-billion-increase-defense-spending">increase military spending by 54 billion dollars</a> a year,
at the expense of things that benefit Americans and the US.


feed_id: 73aa48f9ad4381c7b8f0b789bad2f715
title: Unrelated scientists
uri: Unrelated-scientists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Unrelated_scientists%29
content:
<p>
It wasn't easy to find the names of the "300 scientists" that signed a
letter urging hte troll to increase use of fossil fuels. Perhaps
that's because <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/feb/27/just-who-are-these-300-scientists-telling-trump-to-burn-the-climate">they have no pertinent expertise</a> -- they are in other fields.


feed_id: 2ef560a4e945f74681781a133b0af1fb
title: Legal marijuana
uri: Legal-marijuana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Legal_marijuana%29
content:
<p>
Legalized marijuana has created a economic boom in Colorado with a
consequent rise in population and a housing shortage. This has led to
more homeless people. So some right-wingers are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/27/marijuana-legal-homeless-denver-colorado">trying to blame
marijuana use for the increase in numbers of homeless</a>.
<p>
As other states legalize marijuana, the boom will spread itself around
and Colorado won't draw as many people from other states.


feed_id: 58aad7eac7c5c63ff358c5f5086e6b75
title: Anania Sorri
uri: Anania-Sorri
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Anania_Sorri%29
content:
<p>
Ethiopian journalist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/27/ethiopian-journalist-wife-uk-us-release-bezawit-hailegiorgis-anania-sorri">Anania Sorri has been imprisoned</a> without trial.


feed_id: 1c66fe257abb6a4620252542cc2ea921
title: Troll buddies
uri: Troll-buddies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Troll_buddies%29
content:
<p>
Here's how the troll <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/20/1635849/-Leaked-tapes-reveal-Trump-s-offer-to-his-real-group">treats his real buddies</a>, defined as those who paid
at least 200 thousand dollars.


feed_id: 409665ccfa2523dead7fd86661687df1
title: EPA sabotage
uri: EPA-sabotage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28EPA_sabotage%29
content:
<p>
Pruitt announced his <a href="
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/26/scott-pruitt-vows-rapid-aggressive-attack-epa-regulations">intention to sabotage the EPA</a> in big ways quickly.


feed_id: 35ec5277fa31fa8f53b6367a751dee8d
title: Journalist exile
uri: Journalist-exile
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Journalist_exile%29
content:
<p>
Vietnamese journalist Dang Xuan Dieu was <a href="https://cpj.org/blog/2017/02/i-wanted-to-stay-and-fight-for-my-beliefs-says-jai.php">sent into exile</a> after five years
in prison in cruel conditions.


feed_id: d824ec6077cbae4afc71bc6d9963d089
title: Fingerprint unlock
uri: Fingerprint-unlock
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Fingerprint_unlock%29
content:
<p>
US courts are starting to question whether thugs have the right to <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/judge-no-feds-cant-nab-all-apple-devices-and-try-everyones-fingerprints/">make
people use fingerprints to unlock devices</a>.


feed_id: 795381ef35fa22c1bd1530b655109e8d
title: Bigshot bigot
uri: Bigshot-bigot
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Bigshot_bigot%29
content:
<p>
A bigot <a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/25/kansas-shooting-injured-man-suspect-visas">shot two Indian men</a> in Kansas after demanding to know
their visa status.
<p>
Right-wing hatred directed at foreigners stirs up acts like this. The
killer seems to have been susceptible, but such a susceptibility does
not always develop into actual violence. That depends on what ideas
are being trump-eted in the social environment.


feed_id: 8016b79d8dc581649161d6b89b8e4b9e
title: Hand-picking Media
uri: Hand-picking-Media
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Hand-picking_Media%29
content:
<p>
The troll has started <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/media-blocked-white-house-briefing-sean-spicer">hand-picking which media organizations</a> are allowed
into press-manipulation sessions.
<p>
This looks like a <a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/24/white-house-radical-attack-first-amendment-cnn-new-york-times">campaign to repress</a> and destroy journalism.
<p>
What the troll and Spicer say is unimportant. The press should ignore
these press-manipulation sessions and focus on what the troll actually
does, and on the leaks that show his plans.
<p>
But that doesn't mean the campaign to repress and destroy journalism
is harmless.


feed_id: 297cd231b7dfe501291ca8a3af9c54ff
title: Broadcast companies
uri: Broadcast-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Broadcast_companies%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/24/cbs-fcc-trump/">Republicans are winning the favor of companies that own broadcasting</a>,
with a plan to permit increased concentration of radio and TV
stations.


feed_id: 2401d6713ffce5a60fb01a9a89049baa
title: Neoliberal freedom
uri: Neoliberal-freedom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Neoliberal_freedom%29
content:
<p>
Paul Ryan <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/24/americas-greatest-political-rhetoric-rewritten-using-paul-ryans-definition-of-freedom/">defines freedom as "the ability to buy what you want"</a>.
<p>
With that definition, wealthy people have and deserve more freedom
than the rest of us. This reductio ad absurdam shows that that is the
wrong definition of freedom.
<p>
Ryan is not alone in proposing this neoliberal definitoin of freedom.
Many people I meet say that your freedom is defined as how many
options you have. That definition is basically the same as Ryan's,
and it has the same basic flaw.
<p>
My definition of freedom is "having control of your own life."


feed_id: f644a2ff7acf2aca4a07616b59950ff3
title: Illegal fishing
uri: 2017-02-28-Illegal-fishing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Illegal_fishing%29
content:
<p>
Sea Shepherd <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/07/captain-deliberately-sank-illegal-fishing-vessel-claim-sea-shepherd-rescuers">pursued an illegal fishing boat for four months</a>; when the
fishing crew gave up hope of escaping pursuit, they scuttled the
fishing boat in deep water.
<p>
They knew that if they brought their illegal catch into port, they
would be prosecuted based on the evidence Sea Shepherd would provide.
<p>
The catch was illegal because the boat was taking protected fish,
fish in danger of being wiped out by fishing.
<p>
They may still be prosecuted, based on the evidence of fish that Sea
Shepherd sailors collected from the fishing boat as it sank. But even
if they are not prosecuted, the loss of their boat and their catch
is a substantial punishment.
<p>
If Sea Shepherd can do this to many such fishing boats, or if navies
help, it could do a lot to discourage illegal fishing.


feed_id: 0359bb90667e06bc7349431c91c8e248
title: Shunning voters
uri: Shunning-voters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Shunning_voters%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS, visiting their home districts, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/24/town-hall-meeting/">meet with wealthy donors
while shunning the voters</a>.


feed_id: b0f6a9f364c8bf58e9c8fe300be0284e
title: Central Americans
uri: Central-Americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#28_February_2017_%28Central_Americans%29
content:
<p>
Mexico says it will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/24/mexico-refuses-us-immigrant-deportations-third-countries">not not let the US deport Central Americans to
Mexico</a>.


feed_id: abd945026b81f683d3d82b029725711a
title: Closing Galleries
uri: 2017-03-01-Closing-Galleries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#25_February_2017_%28Closing_Galleries%29
content:
<p>
<a href="
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2017/feb/22/art-galleries-free-speech-ld50-dalston">No One Should Demand the Closure of Galleries</a> — Even for Far-Right Artworks.


feed_id: 692f23aa6ff67705954d95827eada31b
title: Cambodian Press
uri: Cambodian-Press
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#1_March_2017_%28Cambodian_Press%29
content:
<p>
The troll's attack on freedom of the press has inspired a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/feb/27/donald-trump-media-ban-inspires-cambodian-attack-on-press-freedom">Cambodian attack on freedom of the press</a>.


feed_id: d3c01aa916672c2ea8e64ad061c00d35
title: Bomb threats
uri: Bomb-threats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#1_March_2017_%28Bomb_threats%29
content:
<p>
<cite><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/27/jewish-centers-schools-bomb-threats-philadelphia-cemetery">Jewish Centers and Schools Cope with Another Wave of Bomb Threats</a></cite>.


feed_id: 669ade619b6ac1a4463d1c5c04659899
title: Relations with Russia
uri: Relations-with-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#1_March_2017_%28Relations_with_Russia%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS blocked efforts to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/27/house-intelligence-committee-devin-nunes-trump-russia-links">investigate the troll</a>'s relations with Russia and his tax returns.


feed_id: a10c8d668e5dbb1a07e755c03d6eb0df
title: Paul Ryan
uri: 2017-03-01-Paul-Ryan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#1_March_2017_%28Paul_Ryan%29
content:
<p>
Paul Ryan has pretended for years to be moderate and reasonable, but actually </a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/27/paul-ryan-donald-trump-enabler">he is a radical crush-the-weak Republican</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#27_July_2014_(Paul_Ryan%27s_poverty_plan)">This was true years ago</a>.


feed_id: 65ad9a82faab6d9db3c4076a6996a7cc
title: Global heating
uri: 2017-03-01-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#1_March_2017_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>
The IPCC is now nearly certain that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2013/sep/27/global-warming-ipcc-report-humans">humans have caused <em>all</em> the global heating</a> in the past 60 years.


feed_id: 71558cf4ceca1f664728e3f31cef658b
title: Media concentration
uri: Media-concentration
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#1_March_2017_%28Media_concentration%29
content:
<p>
The troll calls the press an enemy. As the news publishers become dependent on tech companies, and in many cases are bought by tech companies, the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/27/trump-free-speech-media-bans-tweets-internet-deregulation">troll gains the power to attack them through the FCC</a>.
<p>
Media concentration also <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2017/feb/27/post-truth-era-perilous-for-media-sunday-times-editor-harold-evans">threatens honest, independent journalism</a>. So the Republican plan to allow increased media concentration also threatens the free press. 


feed_id: 562740a708f777dbbb458d4926208734
title: Homeless shelter
uri: Homeless-shelter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#1_March_2017_%28Homeless_shelter%29
content:
<p>
US border thugs grabbed a group of homeless hispanics <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/27/after-ice-stakes-out-a-church-homeless-shelter-charities-worry-immigrants-will-fear-getting-help/">as they left a church</a> which offered them shelter for the night. Thugs handcuffed them and then questioned them.


feed_id: 4f2a8ea1fd809b34b85036ecaff7ad24
title: Student events prohibited
uri: Student-events-prohibited
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#1_March_2017_%28Student_events_prohibited%29
content:
<p>
UK universities have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/27/universities-free-speech-row-halting-pro-palestinian-events">prohibited student events</a> to protest Israel's occupation of Palestine.


feed_id: 75e167e9674f40abf00bc15604245b02
title: Indian film
uri: Indian-film
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#1_March_2017_%28Indian_film%29
content:
<p>
The maker of a feminist Indian film is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/27/lipstick-under-my-burkha-india-film-censorship">campaigning</a> against the state's decision to ban it.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-jan-apr.html#24%20February%202009%20(Nina%20Paley%20releases%20film%20with%20freedom)">Sita Sings the Blues</a> was also banned in India.


feed_id: eb887a46069fdde571d0544283daca6f
title: UK immigration policy
uri: UK-immigration-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#1_March_2017_%28UK_immigration_policy%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/26/grandmother-deported-from-uk-despite-being-married-to-briton-for-27-years">UK deported Irene Clennell</a> to Singapore, far away from her British husband of 27 years and her family, on the grounds that she spent too long visiting Singapore to care for her parents while they died.
<p>
The reply from the immigration authorities amounts to, "Our job is to be rigid no matter what the harm." <a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg" title="Anuran Bevan cartoon">They are run by Tories, after all</a>. But no interpretation of their job can justify deporting anyone on short notice, or on a Sunday. What was the rush? What was the need for surprise? That must indicate a policy to fudge the legal rights of deportees.


feed_id: bcd488ea1cea9ec879239be60d95eaeb
title: Protesting
uri: Protesting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#1_March_2017_%28Protesting%29
content:
<p>
An executive of the NRA says <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/nra-wayne-lapierre-judges-travel-ban-ruling-constitution">all progressive protestors are planning "criminal violence"</a>. 
<p>
Meanwhile, Republicans around the country are <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#27_February_2017_(Republicans_want_to_define_protest_as_crime)">planning to reclassify nonviolent acts</a> (such as lying down on a street) as "violence". For Republicans, no truth is sacred.


feed_id: da5b5f1103d5df2a186de4b64b88cbfa
title: Consumers' privacy
uri: Consumers-privacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#2_March_2017_%28Consumers_privacy%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/congress-contemplating-making-it-illegal-protect-consumer-privacy-online">wants
to eliminate federal protection</a> of consumers' privacy.
<p>
That protection is so weak that it is laughable, but a step in the
wrong direction would make things even worse.


feed_id: a179fc677a9c74f806a0a85d433404d7
title: UK to increase taxes on bookstores
uri: UK-to-increase-taxes-on-bookstores
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#2_March_2017_%28UK_to_increase_taxes_on_bookstores%29

content:
<p>
The UK plans to increase taxes on bookstores, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/feb/25/business-rates-hike-final-chapter-high-street-bookshops-amazon-tax">after
cutting Amazon's tax rate</a>.
<p>
The Tories seem to be puppets of companies like Amazon.


feed_id: 49bb08ad57829ee6545b4780ec6c8e35
title: FOIA requests
uri: 2017-03-03-FOIA-requests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#2_March_2017_%28FOIA_requests%29
content:
<p>
In 2014, Congress was almost finished passing a law to increase
transparency in responding to FOIA requests.  Obama's Justice
Department 
<a href="https://freedom.press/news-advocacy/new-documents-show-the-obama-admin-aggressively-lobbied-to-kill-transparency-reform-in-congress/">killed
the bill</a>.


feed_id: b56558627f9597ce71f09e480d61a303
title: Health tracking devices
uri: Health-tracking-devices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#2_March_2017_%28Health_tracking_devices%29
content:
<p>
That Health Tracker 
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-23/that-free-health-tracker-could-cost-you">Could
Cost You</a>.  Any devices to track your activities can help companies
establish policies of discrimination.


feed_id: 0953a4b02c209bc5251617a3bb8e406a
title: Monopolies
uri: 2017-03-03-Monopolies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#2_March_2017_%28Monopolies%29
content:
<p>
Democrats abandoned the fight against monopolies (more generally,
industry concentration) around 1980.  The result was 
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/02/antimonopoly-big-business/514358/">great
concentration</a>, encouraged by Bill Clinton and Obama as well as
Reagan and the Bushes.


feed_id: 0780590a352d29becaceeb54df256ae5
title: Thugs allowed to arrest everyone near protest
uri: Thugs-allowed-to-arrest-everyone-near-protest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#2_March_2017_%28Thugs_allowed_to_arrest_everyone_near_protest%29

content:
<p>
Arizona's senate has voted for a law that allows thugs to arrest
everyone at or near a protest if they think violence might start.  And
to 
<a href="http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2017/02/22/arizona-senate-crackdown-on-protests/">imprison
whoever planned the protest</a>, if anyone starts violence in or near
it.


feed_id: cc9791df53fc7ae5810d8892aee3e8ad
title: NAACP calls for boycott of North Carolina
uri: NAACP-calls-for-boycott-of-North-Carolina
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#2_March_2017_%28NAACP_calls_for_boycott_of_North_Carolina%29

content:
<p>
The NAACP has called for a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/25/harnessing-power-purse-demonstrate-power-democracy-naacp-calls-nc-boycott">boycott
of North Carolina</a>.


feed_id: e68e2da50cbd8772cc7d04855af0aa71
title: All US parents declared unfit
uri: All-US-parents-declared-unfit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#2_March_2017_%28All_US_parents_declared_unfit%29
content:
<p>
All US parents were declared unfit, and 
<a href="http://www.theonion.com/article/child-protective-services-take-80-million-children-55374">all
US minors made wards of the state</a>, according to The Onion.


feed_id: b8c161df91dbee38b7a247532937c32a
title: Immigration agency data
uri: Immigration-agency-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#3_March_2017_%28Immigration_agency_data%29
content:
<p>
We need a law requiring the immigration agency to publish all its data
about a particular person's interrogation or exclusion, if that person
publicly asks.  We must not allow the agency to hide its refusal to
explain itself to the victim behind a facade of concern for the
victim's own privacy.


feed_id: 3229f84360b96baaeadcd613eadbf391
title: Kill NAFTA
uri: Kill-NAFTA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#5_March_2017_%28Kill_NAFTA%29
content:
<p>
Don't tweak NAFTA — 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/25/its-time-scrap-nafta-not-tweak-it">kill
it</a>!


feed_id: 49d8ce779adff494aa68056193787779
title: Sources in China face harassment and jail
uri: Sources-in-China-face-harassment-and-jail
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Sources_in_China_face_harassment_and_jail%29

content:
<p>
CPJ: In China, Sources Face Harassment, Jail 
<a href="https://www.cpj.org/blog/2017/02/in-china-sources-face-harassment-jail-for-speaking.php">for
Speaking to Foreign Media</a>.


feed_id: 0dca190f5dede10b4771bcce2f1b7ff5
title: Troll wants to scrap Dodd-Frank rules
uri: Troll-wants-to-scrap-Dodd-Frank-rules
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Troll_wants_to_scrap_Dodd-Frank_rules%29

content:
<p>
The troll 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/25/wall-street-hopes-youve-forgotten-crash-already">wants
to scrap the rules of the Dodd-Frank law</a> that were designed to
hold banks back from causing another financial crisis.
<p>
Those rules are not strong enough, 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_February_2017_(Troll_wants_to_override_Dodd-Frank_law)">not
as strong as what was repealed under Bill Clinton</a>.  We need to
bring back the laws that avoided a crisis for 60 years.


feed_id: 39d41e7715b6f8db6f1230b8ab7e164e
title: Contempt
uri: Contempt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Contempt%29
content:
<p>
Mem Fox reports on the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/28/in-that-moment-i-loathed-america-i-loathed-the-entire-country">cruel and idiotic contempt of US immigration
thugs</a>, as vented on her and others around her.


feed_id: 0ff83b470edba65989614b052341f9a5
title: Urgent: Immigrants
uri: Urgent-Immigrants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Immigrants%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/governors_immigrants?t=1001&akid=21931.1183552.qh6gEd">call on your state governor to protect immigrants</a>.


feed_id: 083409e4021ad5c06bdd1fb26497bc0d
title: Urgent: Right to Work
uri: Urgent-Right-to-Work
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Right_to_Work%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/trump_right_to_work?t=1003&akid=21861.1183552.7OyHIj">reject union-crushing</a> "right to work"
laws.
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
  and 888-355-3588.</p>


feed_id: ab62463446f9d844b1607fcb496a39f1
title: Commercial colleges
uri: Commercial-colleges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Commercial_colleges%29
content:
<p>
A former
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/02/tressie-mcmillan-cottom-rise-profit-college-lower-ed">marketer for commercial colleges explains</a> how they lured
students, and why students default on their loans.
<p>
DeVos is likely to try to help these companies.


feed_id: ec40537cb9f3a28c30215b14aff916bb
title: Treatment for homeless
uri: Treatment-for-homeless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Treatment_for_homeless%29
content:
<p>
A bill in Hawaii proposes to allow MDs to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/28/hawaii-homeless-housing-bill-healthcare-costs">prescribe housing as a
medical treatment for homeless people</a> with mental or drug problems.


feed_id: 83a2a065e003859051e3a948640c8e94
title: Phone records
uri: Phone-records
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Phone_records%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/feb/28/asio-spy-agency-access-to-journalists-phone-web-records-metadata">Australia has allowed investigating</a> some journalists' phone records
without even a court order.


feed_id: 1c762f3259bc00a61755669db5cf1741
title: Kenyan rebels
uri: Kenyan-rebels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Kenyan_rebels%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/28/court-hears-of-policy-to-discredit-abuse-claims-during-mau-mau-uprising">UK is facing lawsuits</a> about torturing Kenyan rebels to death in
the 1950s.


feed_id: c29bf3a4a3c4ff9a09363b5aa509ad77
title: Absurd accusation
uri: Absurd-accusation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Absurd_accusation%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/28/donald-trump-accuses-barack-obama-orchestrating-protests-leaks">The loser's latest absurd accusation</a> is that Obama is organizing
the nationwide protests against the troll.
<p>
The accusation is absurd, since Obama would have every right to
organize protests against the troll.  But it's also nothing like
Obama.  If Obama had had such a vigorous commitment to the progressive
cause, we would have a progressive president now.


feed_id: 81027146cd9f997e4159f47ef69ef931
title: Shell Oil
uri: Shell-Oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Shell_Oil%29
content:
<p>
Shell Oil
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/28/shell-film-warning-climate-change-rate-faster-than-end-ice-age">published a film in 1991 warning about climate mayhem</a>.
<p>
However, Shell continued doing the things that have brought
climate mayhem on us.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/27/shell-lobbied-to-undermine-eu-renewables-targets-documents-reveal">More recently</a>, Shell lobbied successfully to keep disaster on track
by weakening Europe's greenhouse gas reduction targets.
<p>
Each time the planet roasters succeeded in one country or region, that
had
the effect of discouraging climate protectors elsewhere around the
world.


feed_id: 164e5dbf1d7c6c5c61fc11642591fd38
title: More children
uri: More-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28More_children%29
content:
<p>
China is looking at an insane measure:
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/28/china-considers-paying-couples-to-have-a-second-child">paying people to have more
children</a>.
<p>
Yes, this would assuage a temporary economic problem — but it would
make all the long-term environmental problems worse.  There are other
ways to take care of the old people.  Those that are healthy could
continue working.  Meanwhile, automation could leave many working-age
people without jobs; jobs taking care of the old and infirm would be
welcome.  The state could give money to people that take care of their
aged parents.


feed_id: 90bef100534c164a867d611b3b9a7e36
title: Sanctuary
uri: Sanctuary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Sanctuary%29
content:
<p>
A few
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/28/catholic-churches-hiding-targets-of-dutertes-drug-war">Catholic churches in the Philippines are giving sanctuary</a> to
people that Do-Dirty's killers might want to kill.


feed_id: 8cfc3642a455676d14c6f015ec3a742f
title: Shadow Cabinet
uri: Shadow-Cabinet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Shadow_Cabinet%29
content:
<p>
A progressive "shadow cabinet"
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/27/progressive-justice-league-serve-alt-cabinet-fact-challenged-trump">will respond to the Republican saboteur
cabinet</a>.


feed_id: 75ffd3e77587dcad06d6f2ae2d1134a4
title: Racket
uri: Racket
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Racket%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://techrights.org/2017/02/27/microsoft-novell-v2-via-azure/">Microsoft is running a patent protection racket</a>, threatening to sue
users of free software.
<p>
Why does the Linux Foundation accept money from them?


feed_id: a6512c868cd966cb42cf3fae3dd31104
title: Vouchers
uri: Vouchers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Vouchers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58b4072ee4b02f3f81e449d3">Studies have found</a> that vouchers for private schools don't help
students do better than in public schools.  The loser and DeVos
want to ignore this.
<p>
Education is not their goal — enriching private business is.


feed_id: 45039c2a231cd595b5efe52bb3609375
title: Arrested reporter
uri: Arrested-reporter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Arrested_reporter%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/27/journalist-for-german-newspaper-arrested-in-turkey">Turkey has arrested a reporter</a>, supposedly for supporting terrorism,
but really for publishing leaked emails of a relative of Erdo&gbreve;an.
<p>
Europe must not depend on Turkey for anything.


feed_id: d78fb74372594578e09cfbacfd3c1084
title: Military Spending
uri: Military-Spending
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Military_Spending%29
content:
<p>
The amount the troll wants to add to US military spending would be
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/27/trumps-proposed-increase-in-u-s-defense-spending-would-be-80-percent-of-russias-entire-military-budget/">almost
as much as Russia spends</a>.  The US already spends more than Russia and
China
and
several other military powers combined.
<p>
If the US didn't have such a big army, and had as a consequence not
conquered and destroyed Iraq, the US would be a lot more secure today
than it is.


feed_id: dc2052e78b1f4704c8396d0b209d71b2
title: Troll's "jobs czar"
uri: Troll-s-jobs-czar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Trolls_jobs_czar%29
content:
<p>
The troll's "jobs czar" just finished 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/union-strike-momentive-stephen-schwarzman-blackstone">imposing
pension cuts on the unionized workers of a factory, and defeating the
strike that followed</a>.
<p>
Never trust a Republican to do anything good for workers.


feed_id: 6b57642047218e4e12c10fc1ff3f427c
title: Homeless in San Francisco
uri: Homeless-in-San-Francisco
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Homeless_in_San_Francisco%29
content:
<p>
Some homeless people in San Francisco frequent the library.  
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/libraries-homelessness-deter-landscape-designs-san-francisco">Residents
want the library to chase them away</a>.
<p>
The solution is to set up another decent place where they are welcome.


feed_id: d82cf7b8b421d1d8882c25adafcbd61e
title: French historian held prisoner at US border
uri: French-historian-held-prisoner-at-US-border
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28French_historian_held_prisoner_at_US_border%29

content:
<p>
A prestigious French historian was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/26/henry-rousso-french-academic-deportation-houston-airport">held
prisoner at the US border for 10 hours</a> as he was trying to go to a
symposium.
<p>
It appears that the agents were on a power trip and didn't understand
the law they were carrying out.  The troll has unleashed all their
worst instincts.
<p>
The US was already a bad place to hold international meetings.
<p>
More information about 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/26/u-s-detains-and-nearly-deports-french-jewish-historian/">Henry
Rousso and his background</a>.


feed_id: 34e8e86ed9a4534df877b77d1e85f2ab
title: Ethics complaint against Kellyann Conway
uri: Ethics-complaint-against-Kellyann-Conway
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Ethics_complaint_against_Kellyann_Conway%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/2/23/1637092/-Law-professors-file-misconduct-complaint-against-Conway">Law
professors have filed an ethics complaint</a> against Kellyann Conway
as a member of the bar.


feed_id: 033f0d8bbd8cfec65e5223293f310998
title: Big drop in tourism to the US
uri: Big-drop-in-tourism-to-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Big_drop_in_tourism_to_the_US%29
content:
<p>
The infant has caused a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/feb/28/us-tourism-experiences-a-trump-slump">big drop in tourism to the US</a>. People decide
that visiting the US is not worth even a small chance of being harassed
at the border.


feed_id: 9346c2c61a3f8f9a11c623167fd886bd
title: UK Digital identity scheme
uri: UK-Digital-identity-scheme
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28UK_Digital_identity_scheme%29
content:
<p>
The UK is implementing a national identity card equivalent through
a digital identity verification scheme that <a href="
https://vanillaflavorweb.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/blog-post-title/">can't be trusted</a>.


feed_id: 95002e48669c81254c0986dbddfd7e10
title: Antiesemitic Attacks
uri: Antiesemitic-Attacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Antiesemitic_Attacks%29
content:
<p>
One of the troll's cronies says that antiesemitic attacks are the <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/28/trump-surrogate-suggests-democrats-could-be-behind-bomb-threats-against-jews/">work of Democrats</a>.
<p>
It is absurd but typical. Republicans arbitrarily blame all bad
things on Democrats.


feed_id: 9a534e591655da8f96bce3727b8b0992
title: Women's soccer visas
uri: Women-s-soccer-visas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#8_March_2017_%28Women%27s_soccer_visas%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/28/tibet-womens-soccer-visas-denied">
Tibetan Women's Soccer Players Denied US Visas for Texas Tournament.
</a>
<p>
Maybe the troll thinks that Tibet is a Muslim country.  Or maybe he
was trying to hurt China by being harsh to Tibetans.  Either one is
dumb enough for him.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/28/trumps-america-holidays-tourism-down">
"Trump's America is great for holidays â- if you enjoy vigorous frisking by men in uniform."
</a>


feed_id: b40b4898d9957698a224ee91a4790370
title: Toys with microphones
uri: Toys-with-microphones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#8_March_2017_%28Toys_with_microphones%29
content:
<p>
"CloudPets" toys with microphones leak childrens' conversations to the
manufacturer.  Guess what?
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/28/cloudpets-data-breach-leaks-details-of-500000-children-and-adults">
Crackers found a way to access the data collected by the manufacturer's snooping.
</a>
<p>
That the manufacturer and the FBI could listen to these conversations
was unacceptable by itself.


feed_id: f6709b5ddddd3ebd55f12d2890461272
title: Murderers of environmentalist
uri: Murderers-of-environmentalist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#8_March_2017_%28Murderers_of_environmentalist%29
content:
<p>
Papers
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/28/berta-caceres-honduras-military-intelligence-us-trained-special-forces">
link the murderers of Berta CÃ¡ceres to "special forces"
</a>
trained
by the US.
<p>
The US continues to "train" them.  Apparently it doesn't train them
in respect for human rights.


feed_id: 1cc5cb9c63aa72177db806b1f806d965
title: Immigration thugs
uri: 2017-03-09-Immigration-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#8_March_2017_%28Immigration_thugs%29
content:
<p>
US immigration thugs have a long history of trampling laws in order to
persecute someone.
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/27/what-happens-when-bad-hombres-are-ice-agents-finer-points-immigration-law-get">
Even US citizens are not safe.
</a>
The loser has given
them encouragement to do this even more.
<p>
I refer to Trump as "the loser" sometimes, because he lost the election;
the only reason he could pretend to win in the electoral college is
that Republicans
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-sep-dec.html#12_November_2016_(The_election_was_stolen)">

rigged the election.
</a>


feed_id: a40e52a2b5e6e9b7aa6d9af78850b7c4
title: Voter ID laws
uri: 2017-03-09-Voter-ID-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#8_March_2017_%28Voter_ID_laws%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/27/texas-voter-id-law-trump-administration-no-challenge">
Sessions ends US opposition to state voter ID laws.
</a>
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-sep-dec.html#10_November_2016_(Vote-rigging)">
These are voter suppression schemes,
</a>
  typically carried out by Republicans, so Republicans are
in cahoots to support them.  It is the only way they stay                                   in power.


feed_id: cf81f65b393cfc081bc1cce0e0e37f87
title: Troll's "jobs czar"
uri: 2017-03-09-Troll-s-jobs-czar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Trolls_jobs_czar%29
content:
<p>
The troll's "jobs czar" just finished
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/union-strike-momentive-stephen-schwarzman-blackstone">imposing
pension cuts on the unionized workers of a factory, and defeating the
strike that followed</a>.
<p>
Never trust a Republican to do anything good for workers.


feed_id: e7fb932072dae17566294bb4af0577f3
title: Homeless in San Francisco
uri: 2017-03-09-Homeless-in-San-Francisco
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Homeless_in_San_Francisco%29
content:
<p>
Some homeless people in San Francisco frequent the library.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/24/libraries-homelessness-deter-landscape-designs-san-francisco">Residents
want the library to chase them away</a>.
<p>
The solution is to set up another decent place where they are welcome.


feed_id: 8b6b57f905257f3ec1fa61af3ee92186
title: French historian held prisoner at US border
uri: 2017-03-09-French-historian-held-prisoner-at-US-border
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28French_historian_held_prisoner_at_US_border%29

content:
<p>
A prestigious French historian was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/26/henry-rousso-french-academic-deportation-houston-airport">held
prisoner at the US border for 10 hours</a> as he was trying to go to a
symposium.
<p>
It appears that the agents were on a power trip and didn't understand
the law they were carrying out.  The troll has unleashed all their
worst instincts.
<p>
The US was already a bad place to hold international meetings.
<p>
More information about
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/02/26/u-s-detains-and-nearly-deports-french-jewish-historian/">Henry
Rousso and his background</a>.


feed_id: 9df90de526fda46356a9039d20d9da22
title: Sources in China face harassment and jail
uri: 2017-03-09-Sources-in-China-face-harassment-and-jail
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Sources_in_China_face_harassment_and_jail%29

content:
<p>
CPJ: In China, Sources Face Harassment, Jail
<a href="https://www.cpj.org/blog/2017/02/in-china-sources-face-harassment-jail-for-speaking.php">for
Speaking to Foreign Media</a>.


feed_id: 6fe9da3e4c5e6b77fb479be49311dd8c
title: Troll wants to scrap Dodd-Frank rules
uri: 2017-03-09-Troll-wants-to-scrap-Dodd-Frank-rules
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_March_2017_%28Troll_wants_to_scrap_Dodd-Frank_rules%29

content:
<p>
The troll
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/25/wall-street-hopes-youve-forgotten-crash-already">wants
to scrap the rules of the Dodd-Frank law</a> that were designed to
hold banks back from causing another financial crisis.
<p>
Those rules are not strong enough,
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#7_February_2017_(Troll_wants_to_override_Dodd-Frank_law)">not
as strong as what was repealed under Bill Clinton</a>.  We need to
bring back the laws that avoided a crisis for 60 years.


feed_id: 1d7048343a769ee728c806b24f88a151
title: Kill NAFTA
uri: 2017-03-09-Kill-NAFTA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#5_March_2017_%28Kill_NAFTA%29
content:
<p>
Don't tweak NAFTA —
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/25/its-time-scrap-nafta-not-tweak-it">kill
it</a>!


feed_id: 3937d5a88eec2f9d013597b5e47a17bb
title: The US and Russia
uri: The-US-and-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28The_US_and_Russia%29
content:
<p>
Watch out for those who want to use suspicion about the troll and his
staff to push for a <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/28/the-new-yorkers-big-cover-story-reveals-five-uncomfortable-truths-about-u-s-and-russia/
">cold war with Russia</a>, or even a hot war.
<p>
I think it would be good to relax tensions with Russia, and that the
US should stop trying to constrict Russia by extending NATO. That
doesn't mean we should tolerate a president who makes corrupt deals
with Putin. We do need an investigation of this.


feed_id: f9c670259542dac690ec1cdc10d8ef1a
title: PayPal lawsuit
uri: PayPal-lawsuit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28PayPal_lawsuit%29
content:
<p>
A lawsuit accuses PayPal of raising money in the name of many charities
but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/28/paypal-charity-donations-giving-fund-lawsuit">not giving them the money</a>.


feed_id: b7530771163838dd7750d1fd93bae853
title: Arrest of Deniz YÃ¼cel
uri: Arrest-of-Deniz-YÃ¼cel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Arrest_of_Deniz_Y%C3%83%C2%BCcel%29
content:
<p>
The arrest of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/28/formal-arrest-of-die-welt-journalist-deniz-yucel-in-turkey-condemned-german">Deniz YÃ¼cel</a>, a Turkish-German reporter for Die Welt, is getting lots of criticism in Turkey.


feed_id: f35ce7426103a90772703bfaaee98532
title: Sexual Harassment Silicon Valley
uri: Sexual-Harassment-Silicon-Valley
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Sexual_Harassment_Silicon_Valley%29
content:
<p>
Women report pervasive <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/01/silicon-valley-sexual-harassment-startups">sexual harassment</a> in tech companies in Silicon Valley.  Often it is worse in startups.
<p>
Being pressured to drink alcohol is mistreatment of anyone and
everyone, even aside from the possible sexual pressure it might
unleash.


feed_id: 2dde19f87c201ae3835b9bca3d2a50da
title: Lower carbon pollution
uri: Lower-carbon-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Lower_carbon_pollution%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS held a hearing to give witnesses from fossil fuel companies
a chance to argue that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/mar/01/republican-hearing-calls-for-a-lower-carbon-pollution-price-it-should-be-much-higher">carbon emissions</a> are less of a problem than
currently acknowledged.
<p>
Actually it is much worse.


feed_id: 46a153bc772e4dc76490f96f6694ab08
title: Homeless Cruise Ship
uri: Homeless-Cruise-Ship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Homeless_Cruise_Ship%29
content:
<p>
An entrepreneur who insulted the homeless of San Francisco has had a
change of heart and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/01/homeless-cruise-ship-greg-gopman-san-francisco">proposes a plan</a> to house 500 homeless people on a berthed cruise ship.
<p>
The ship would also rent rooms to tourists.
<p>
I think that his change of heart is sincere, and we should not hold
his past callousness against his subsequent caring. However, the
solution he proposes could not possibly work on a significant scale
for adding either housing or shelter space in San Francisco. It might
perhaps be worth doing with one ship, if there is a spare cruise ship
available cheap.


feed_id: 7cee6d352e28cc3193ab660dc4a9d9b0
title: Inheritance Tax
uri: Inheritance-Tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Inheritance_Tax%29
content:
<p>
In the UK, as in the US, plutocratist politicians aim to keep
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/28/inheritance-tax-north-south-divide">reducing inheritance taxes</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, they keep increasing the sales taxes that are most burdensome
for people of low income.
<p>
These taxes fall only on the wealthy. They should be increased, and
the paths to avoid them should be closed off.


feed_id: f3cd5df39999b86264c4c48633cb7b07
title: Water Scarcity
uri: Water-Scarcity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Water_Scarcity%29
content:
<p>
People in several countries in Latin America are squeezed between
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/mar/01/water-scarcity-latin-america-political-instability">water scarcity</a> and privatization.


feed_id: 10f6d3a979d1eab864fd47a07bdf943d
title: Ethnic Cleansing
uri: Ethnic-Cleansing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Ethnic_Cleansing%29
content:
<p>
Israel designated some land in Palestine (specifically, in the West
Bank) a "military fire zone" as an <a href="https://972mag.com/settlers-building-race-track-inside-idf-live-fire-training-zone/125476/">excuse to expel Palestinians</a>. Now
Israeli colonists are building a race track in that zone.
<p>
Apparently the designation was a simple pretext for ethnic cleansing.


feed_id: 1cca33d14493fccb065bd3a66486ea72
title: Bigotry against Arabs in Israel
uri: Bigotry-against-Arabs-in-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Bigotry_against_Arabs_in_Israel%29
content:
<p>
Bigotry against Arabs in Israel leads repeatedly to hasty and <a href="
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Reality-Check-Enemies-of-the-state-482661">false
accusations</a> against them. Israeli thugs, their chief, and the minister
in charge are all guilty.


feed_id: 13b9ba6c9e653438f5dead474b010a3c
title: Bernie Sanders
uri: 2017-03-09-Bernie-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Bernie_Sanders%29
content:
<p>
 <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/28/anti-semitism-israel-and-palestinians">Bernie Sanders</a>: On Anti-Semitism, Israel, and the Palestinians.


feed_id: 1fdea53cbf051fbf7e3c3449793693cc
title: Troll's drone bombardment of Yemen
uri: Troll-s-drone-bombardment-of-Yemen
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#10_March_2017_%28Trolls_drone_bombardment_of_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
The troll has taken drone bombardment of Yemen to a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/03/unprecedented-number-us-drone-and-air-strikes-hit-yemen">new
level</a>.


feed_id: b4d026c917660f7b96b0dc50d3a192d0
title: Lithium mine poisoning rivers
uri: Lithium-mine-poisoning-rivers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#10_March_2017_%28Lithium_mine_poisoning_rivers%29
content:
<p>
A Chinese lithium mine in Tibet is 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/tibetans-in-anguish-as-chinese-mines-pollute-their-sacred-grasslands/2016/12/25/bb6aad06-63bc-11e6-b4d8-33e931b5a26d_story.html">poisoning
the rivers</a>.


feed_id: 1f5cef403eaba5de641669ca8f443051
title: Pruitt lied about talk with lobbyists
uri: Pruitt-lied-about-talk-with-lobbyists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#10_March_2017_%28Pruitt_lied_about_talk_with_lobbyists%29

content:
<p>
Pruitt used a private email address to talk with lobbyists, and 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/03/epa-chief-and-polluters-tool-pruitt-lied-senate-about-private-email-use">lied
to the Senate</a> about this in his confirmation hearing.
<p>
SCROTUS will stand firm in Pruitt's defense, on the grounds that this
sort of thing is wrong only when Democrats do it.


feed_id: 848d4d6eed4c51f16827c2a917263d2e
title: "Family values" conservatives
uri: Family-values-conservatives
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#10_March_2017_%28Family_values_conservatives%29
content:
<p>
How "Family Values" Conservatives Are 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/03/how-family-values-conservatives-are-hurting-families">Hurting
Families</a>.
<p>
Texas Republicans 
<a href="http://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2017/02/27/texas-lawmakers-advance-bill-that-would-allow-doctors-to-lie-to-pregnant-women">want
to permit doctors to conceal from a pregnant women the fact that the
fetus has an abnormality</a>, so that she won't get an abortion.
<p>
The same Republicans wish to cut state support for mothers that are
not affluent, including any that are tricked in the future into giving
birth to a seriously disabled child.
<p>
I figure that "family values" means 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_(Trumps_success_in_terms_of_framing)">"spread
adversity in the name of the 'strong father'"</a>, and it is really
just an excuse to be mean.


feed_id: fadfcb7dba23e408cc85ab7ab1829977
title: Low oil prices
uri: Low-oil-prices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#10_March_2017_%28Low_oil_prices%29
content:
<p>
Low oil prices are leading the main oil companies to 
<a href="http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Have-The-Majors-Given-Up-On-Canadas-Oil-Sands.html">lose
interest in opening new strip mines for tar sands</a> in Alberta.
<p>
It is beneficial that the low price discourages investment, but in
order to lower consumption we need a high price.


feed_id: 7c1eae161527717d507d5ebf8d07e17c
title: Troll's plan to help prosperous Americans
uri: Troll-s-plan-to-help-prosperous-Americans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#10_March_2017_%28Trolls_plan_to_help_prosperous_Americans%29

content:
<p>
The troll has proposed a plan to 
<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/28/news/economy/donald-trump-child-care/index.html">make
child care cheaper for prosperous Americans</a>.


feed_id: 5c70af8947c121db1c1327ce0a7c3a47
title: Wells Fargo bank
uri: Wells-Fargo-bank
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#10_March_2017_%28Wells_Fargo_bank%29
content:
<p>
Wells Fargo bank offers 
<a href="https://consumerist.com/2017/03/01/wells-fargo-tries-fails-to-explain-why-customers-shouldnt-be-allowed-to-sue-over-fake-accounts/">peculiar
excuses</a> for why customers that it cheated should not be allowed to
sue.


feed_id: 5aebb95dd661c2f98583ff00adc7bc63
title: Papers without complete published data
uri: Papers-without-complete-published-data
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#10_March_2017_%28Papers_without_complete_published_data%29

content:
<p>
Some scientists are 
<a href="http://www.nature.com/news/peer-review-activists-push-psychology-journals-towards-open-data-1.21549">refusing
to review papers that don't come with complete published data</a>.


feed_id: 446a50bc849d6dd381304641b811b8ef
title: Norwegian news site test
uri: Norwegian-news-site-test
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#10_March_2017_%28Norwegian_news_site_test%29
content:
<p>
A Norwegian news site is now requiring people to pass a test about the
article's contents 
<a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/this-site-is-taking-the-edge-off-rant-mode-by-making-readers-pass-a-quiz-before-commenting/">before
posting a comment</a>.


feed_id: 247b1efdce79f6a5203b567065cd2aaa
title: Antisemitism among American teenagers
uri: Antisemitism-among-American-teenagers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#10_March_2017_%28Antisemitism_among_American_teenagers%29

content:
<p>
Antisemitism is 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2017/03/02/sieg-nope.html">becoming
widespread among American teenagers</a>.  They seem to think hating
someone is fun.


feed_id: e60b06a83f28433d489ba252842f50bd
title: Decline of the US started before troll
uri: Decline-of-the-US-started-before-troll
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#10_March_2017_%28Decline_of_the_US_started_before_troll%29

content:
<p>
The troll may accelerate the decline of the US, but it 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/02/making-america-mediocre-again">started
before him</a>.
<p>
I think it is due to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_(Replacement_of_democracy_with_plutocracy)">plutocracy</a>.


feed_id: c8e55ee1004ee3d0cb3ef6de265a8d08
title: Guber programs special treatment
uri: Guber-programs-special-treatment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#10_March_2017_%28Guber_programs_special_treatment%29

content:
<p>
Guber programmed its system for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/03/uber-secret-program-greyball-resignation-ed-baker">special
treatment of people that might be investigating accusations of
violating municipal regulations</a>.  The special treatment was that
the system would say a car was coming, but no car would ever arrive.
<p>
Uber has the ability to do this because it forces all its clients to
identify themselves — which is fundamentally unjust.


feed_id: 8673a282150ad0b161198606194d1604
title: Troll regime cares little about human rights
uri: Troll-regime-cares-little-about-human-rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#10_March_2017_%28Troll_regime_cares_little_about_human_rights%29

content:
<p>
The troll regime has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/03/rex-tillerson-human-rights-report-trump-state-department">made
a clear statement</a> of how little it cares about human rights.


feed_id: 3263ed337750219b2493d333c67c3aba
title: Troll's cruelty squad
uri: Troll-s-cruelty-squad
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#10_March_2017_%28Trolls_cruelty_squad%29
content:
<p>
The troll's cruelty squad is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/03/us-immigration-proposal-women-children-separation-border">entertaining
plans to imprison children separately from their mothers</a>, when
they cross the border illegally.


feed_id: a16c4e696b67a1e3c184a7a33a916da8
title: UK cutting rent subsidies for age 18 to 21
uri: UK-cutting-rent-subsidies-for-age-18-to-21
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#10_March_2017_%28UK_cutting_rent_subsidies_for_age_18_to_21%29

content:
<p>
The UK is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/03/charities-dismayed-as-housing-benefit-cut-goes-ahead">cutting
rent subsidies for poor people age 18 to 21</a>, apparently assuming
that at that age it is ok to live on the street.


feed_id: 9468e45392e48c774d6a51907e2cf1fa
title: Brazil torturing imprisoned minors
uri: Brazil-torturing-imprisoned-minors
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#10_March_2017_%28Brazil_torturing_imprisoned_minors%29

content:
<p>
Brazil has been hit with a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/mar/03/brazil-crime-rates-brutal-treatment-young-offenders">get-tough-on-crime
frenzy</a> that includes torturing imprisoned minors.


feed_id: 654a30d63b818b9d2f8e8d92b35f2c88
title: Urgent: Stop trashing "ugly" produce
uri: Urgent-Stop-trashing-ugly-produce
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_trashing_ugly_produce%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://org.salsalabs.com/o/676/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=21207">call
on Target stores</a> to sell "ugly" but usable produce, or give it
away — but stop trashing it.


feed_id: 60388ef43a28c28c604ea886fae330f4
title: Do-dirty's death squads
uri: Do-dirty-s-death-squads
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Do-dirtys_death_squads%29
content:
<p>
Human Rights Watch says that Do-dirty's death squads 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/02/philippines-police-plant-evidence-to-justify-killings-in-drug-war-says-report">plant
evidence to frame the people they have killed</a>.


feed_id: 17b2e4bd97f3a3c7b63cdeb17e10554f
title: TSA-style suspicion in US schools
uri: TSA-style-suspicion-in-US-schools
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28TSA-style_suspicion_in_US_schools%29

content:
<p>
US schools are 
<a href="http://www.freerangekids.com/schools-advised-to-install-man-traps/">moving
towards the TSA-style suspicion</a>, which would teach young people to
live in a tyrannical system of control.


feed_id: 7a3728ab5ae50dc38291390df31df6e1
title: Taxing automated factories
uri: Taxing-automated-factories
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Taxing_automated_factories%29
content:
<p>
Unlimited automation could split the world into the rich owners of
robot factories and the starving "superfluous" ex-workers.  It could
end up as the Hunger Games or even with extermination of the latter.
<p>
To avoid this requires taxing the automated factories, or their
products, to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/02/robot-tax-job-elimination-livable-wage">support
everyone else</a>.  The article calls this "taxing robots", but it is
not clear what that would mean.  It would be meaningful if robots were
units of comparable cost and productivity to each other, but they are
not.


feed_id: 9fb510a5f4b0ce2c7e386c6c2dffcbe2
title: Colombia's paramilitares
uri: Colombia-s-paramilitares
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Colombias_paramilitares%29
content:
<p>
One of the leaders of Colombia's paramilitares, the army-sponsored
right wing terrorists, is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/02/colombia-paramilitaries-victims-us-court">on
trial in the US for drug trafficking</a>.  His band of terrorists
killed 270 people.
<p>
Paramilitares also killed rural people to 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#18_July_2013_(Mass_protests_to_keep_land)">terrify
their relatives into selling land cheap to the paramilitares</a>.  And
they 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#12%20April%202011%20(Chiquita%20Banana)">accepted
pay to help multinational corporations break unions</a>.  Overall,
they were Colombia's biggest and worst terrorist group, more harmful
than the FARC.  And they still are.  
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#7_December_2016_(FARC_peace_deal)">Now
that the FARC has made peace</a>, that is even more true.


feed_id: 0ea7b29057b6f04e97dcbdbdfb900d8a
title: Mexico City
uri: Mexico-City
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Mexico_City%29
content:
<p>
How Mexico City 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/02/mexico-city-deportation-work-program-undocumented-immigrants">tries
to help Mexicans deported from the US</a>.


feed_id: 9cf63022d15f99c98376180e51b7598b
title: Police racism in France
uri: Police-racism-in-France
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Police_racism_in_France%29
content:
<p>
When Will France Admit that Police Racism is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/02/france-police-racism-hashtag-activism">Systemic</a>?


feed_id: ce0408314f2338edda6eaed1ba26ee63
title: Sessions confirmation hearing
uri: Sessions-confirmation-hearing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Sessions_confirmation_hearing%29
content:
<p>
Sessions had conversations with the Russian ambassador, while a
senator, then
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/02/jeff-sessions-and-the-russia-connection-what-happened-and-why-does-it-matter">denied
them in his confirmation hearing</a>.


feed_id: b01437b5d083faed0a36d5030bd33867
title: Boycott of sugary sodas
uri: Boycott-of-sugary-sodas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Boycott_of_sugary_sodas%29
content:
<p>
There is a broad boycott of international-brand sodas 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/01/indian-traders-boycott-coca-cola-for-straining-water-resources">in
part of India</a>.
<p>
The article presents this campaign in a way that seems incoherent.
Some of the criticism is aimed at the sugar in most sodas, the growing
of which uses up a lot of water.  But if that is the point, why not
boycott drinks with added sugar, regardless of who makes it?  Why
would a local brand be any less bad than a world brand?  The think to
do would be to boycott sugary drinks, which could have the byproduct
of reducing obesity.
<p>
This is a separate issue from the worldwide boycott of Coca Cola
Company, which includes all products of that company including fruit
juice and water.  (Coca Cola's bottled water in India is called
Kinley.)  This boycott is about the use of paramilitares (right-wing
terrorists connected with the army) to murder union organizers in
Colombia.  They do 
<a href="#9_March_2017_(Colombias_paramilitares)">lots of other bad
things</a> too.


feed_id: d6ec601988492d3559f64678b04bf744
title: Early Spring
uri: Early-Spring
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Early_Spring%29
content:
<p>
Spring came 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/01/northern-hemisphere-sees-in-early-spring-due-global-warming">several
weeks early around the northern hemisphere</a>.  This will invite many
species to invade and destroy our ecosystems.


feed_id: ea545ab0ce5a2d5fa0d4e36579f23b4f
title: Americans with HIV fear troll
uri: Americans-with-HIV-fear-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Americans_with_HIV_fear_troll%29
content:
<p>
Americans with HIV infections fear that the troll will kill them by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/01/trump-hiv-aids-treatment-obamacare-repeal">stopping
government support for their medicines</a>.


feed_id: 0b34fd58b980188c28f97328b7084f9a
title: Soy plantations burning down Amazon forest
uri: Soy-plantations-burning-down-Amazon-forest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Soy_plantations_burning_down_Amazon_forest%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/01/burger-king-animal-feed-sourced-from-deforested-lands-in-brazil-and-bolivia">Soy
plantations for Burger King</a> are burning down Amazon forest.


feed_id: c9f906438d43eff708cdaa584a8ceef1
title: Troll's tax returns
uri: Troll-s-tax-returns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Trolls_tax_returns%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/28/despicable-house-republicans-torpedo-effort-force-release-trumps-tax-returns">defeated
a bill to require the cheater to release his tax returns</a>.
<p>
High officials, who are supposed to serve us, are not entitled to the
same privacy rights as everyone else.


feed_id: e2ab1024ae4f15f4b8479a830b8c9f49
title: Thugs
uri: 2017-03-10-Thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Thugs%29
content:
<p>
The Onion: 
<a href="http://www.theonion.com/article/insecure-frustrated-bully-with-something-to-prove--33427">Insecure,
Frustrated Bully</a> With Something To Prove Considering Career In Law
Enforcement.


feed_id: 25f9c1133910dc50a57bdd8e8e88033d
title: Troll's nominee to run Medicaid and Medicare
uri: Troll-s-nominee-to-run-Medicaid-and-Medicare
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Trolls_nominee_to_run_Medicaid_and_Medicare%29

content:
<p>
The troll's nominee to run Medicaid and Medicare is another 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/28/groups-raise-alarm-about-under-radar-extremist-healthcare-nominee">saboteur</a>.


feed_id: e695db846491534096dc51961ac537ea
title: Troll nearly started war
uri: Troll-nearly-started-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Troll_nearly_started_war%29
content:
<p>
The infant 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/01/trumps-moderate-defense-secretary-has-already-brought-us-to-the-brink-of-war/">almost
started a war with Iran</a> a few weeks ago.


feed_id: 2ab8f0af2b76d9041a238368f013f7a1
title: Canadian doctor interrogated at US border
uri: Canadian-doctor-interrogated-at-US-border
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Canadian_doctor_interrogated_at_US_border%29

content:
<p>
A Canadian doctor of Afghan origin who formerly lived in the US was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/01/canada-doctor-sardar-ahmad-us-border-detained">interrogated
for five hours when trying to enter the US</a>.  Eventually he was not
allowed in.  He had to beg for permission to call his clinic to cancel
patients' appointments.
<p>
The US always had the nastiest immigration thugs.  Now it is much
worse.  It is wise to stay away from the US.


feed_id: 6b447c849e5f756cb871b684d16fe0d8
title: Deliberate bombing of aid convoy
uri: Deliberate-bombing-of-aid-convoy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Deliberate_bombing_of_aid_convoy%29
content:
<p>
A UN inquiry found that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/01/syrian-regime-aleppo-airstrike-aid-convoy-united-nations-report">Assad's
men deliberately bombed an aid convoy</a> that the regime had
authorized.


feed_id: 5d763bc84c63aca6330815871717bc48
title: Threat of prison for protesters
uri: Threat-of-prison-for-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Threat_of_prison_for_protesters%29
content:
<p>
Facing years in prison for protesting is the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/28/court-protesting-new-normal">new
normal in the US</a>.
<p>
The troll may have been inspired by Putin, who threatened Greenpeace
protesters with many years in prison.  But Putin didn't carry out the
threat.  The troll would do it.
<p>
The author meant to write "free rein".  The metaphor is of letting a
horse go however it chooses.


feed_id: a09e525181e350ed84bee2c4d7c58d31
title: Troll proposes cutting EPA staff
uri: Troll-proposes-cutting-EPA-staff
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Troll_proposes_cutting_EPA_staff%29
content:
<p>
The troll proposes cutting EPA staff by one-fifth, 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/03/01/white-house-proposes-cutting-epa-staff-by-one-fifth-eliminating-key-programs/">eliminating
key programs</a>.
<p>
The troll's plans to cut EPA rules would allow industrial pollution to
kill 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/28/trump-rip-rules-will-cost-billions-pollution-cause-120000-premature-deaths">tens
of thousands of Americans</a>.


feed_id: f000e4d54f66b0efece1fdd519c6f540
title: Taliban slowly gaining in Afghanistan
uri: Taliban-slowly-gaining-in-Afghanistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Taliban_slowly_gaining_in_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
The Taliban are slowly gaining in Afghanistan, fighting against
government soldiers that have 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/28/afghanistan-americas-biggest-foe-self-deception">no
strong motivation to fight for the corrupt government</a>.  The US
generals ask for more US troops, but the most those could achieve is
to weaken the Taliban somewhat and stabilize the unending war.
<p>
The Taliban offered the US a peace deal in 2001.  Repressive as they
are, peace under the Taliban would have been better, both for Afghans
and for Americans, than perpetual war.
<p>
Now PISSI is trying to recruit people there.  It would be better if
the Taliban had full control and could keep PISSI out.


feed_id: c39ff73ddbdbe4ec7c5579026a310419
title: Water pollution
uri: Water-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Water_pollution%29
content:
<p>
The troll 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/02/28/trump-dismantle-clean-water-protections">plans
to try to cut back on protection from water pollution</a>.
<p>
This would potentially threaten safe drinking water for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/02/28/earthjustice-trump-threatens-drinking-water-one-three-people">1/3
of Americans</a>.
<p>
Wetlands could be destroyed, and endangered species pushed towards
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/02/28/trump-guts-protections-wetlands-endangered-species">extinction</a>.


feed_id: eeaad8c771ca4eac90ca2d7a5e376812
title: The US military
uri: 2017-03-10-The-US-military
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28The_US_military%29
content:
<p>
The US military is 
<a href="https://reason.com/blog/2017/02/28/is-the-military-really-depleted-after-ye">exhausted
from using troops too much and too long</a>, but it doesn't need more
money.


feed_id: 6f311aa66fa75c2652e90e69feff40c8
title: Urgent: End US intervention in Yemen
uri: Urgent-End-US-intervention-in-Yemen
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_End_US_intervention_in_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/tell-realdonaldtrump">call
for ending</a> the US intervention in Yemen.


feed_id: a4643a4cd142c405763dd304866b9688
title: US privacy law
uri: US-privacy-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28US_privacy_law%29
content:
<p>
The troll has 
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2017/02/28/president-doxxer.html">tried
to exclude non-citizens from US privacy law</a>, apparently to make
various agencies' data about them available for deportation.  The ACLU
is suing to defeat this.


feed_id: 39933b61c36088af29a73d00148c2701
title: Pollution in Bangalore lakes
uri: Pollution-in-Bangalore-lakes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Pollution_in_Bangalore_lakes%29
content:
<p>
Pollution dumped in the lakes is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/01/burning-lakes-experts-fear-bangalore-uninhabitable-2025">making
Bangalore uninhabitable</a>.  The lakes catch fire and the canals spew
toxic foam that can crack car windshields.
<p>
The level of corruption has made it impossible to control the
pollution.
<p>
Perhaps Ulsoor Lake will have to be renamed Ulcer Lake.


feed_id: 49ce8db47c6abc22d91e533ac364eb22
title: Wikileaks exposes Turkish minister's lie
uri: Wikileaks-exposes-Turkish-minister-s-lie
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Wikileaks_exposes_Turkish_ministers_lie%29

content:
<p>
Leaked emails, published by Wikileaks, 
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/wikileaks-turkey-isis-oil-minister-email-cache-leaks-claims-a7460736.html">tie
a Turkish minister to an oil company accused of buying oil from
PISSI</a>.
<p>
The minister is Erdo&gbreve;an's son-in-law, and possibly his intended
successor.
<p>
There is no proof that the company bought oil from PISSI, but the fact
that the minister lied about whether he had contacts with that company
proves he is dishonest.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a> means the
Pseudo-Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.


feed_id: 46d8bb176ce2d18a7edf0bce29c4ee37
title: Use of encryption apps at the White House
uri: Use-of-encryption-apps-at-the-White-House
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Use_of_encryption_apps_at_the_White_House%29

content:
<p>
As the infant checks White House staff's phones for encryption apps
they might have used to send leaks, we should be reminded that
officials 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/27/the-double-edged-sword-of-encrypted-whit">can
also use encryption apps to hide communications from public records
laws</a>.
<p>
However, there are many other ways they can do that
which won't go through their phones at all.


feed_id: 87271d67049da4ff1dbf8b14f76d632b
title: Punished for "rape" based on suspicion
uri: Punished-for-rape-based-on-suspicion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Punished_for_rape_based_on_suspicion%29

content:
<p>
Student Grant Neal was punished by Colorado State University for
"raping" his girlfriend, 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/02/27/interview-student-expelled-for-rape-even">based
on a suspicion</a> that her roommate had, while his girlfriend
insisted no such thing had happened.


feed_id: 6ed31728e536ebe02f62b50b84f5ea3c
title: EU CO2 emissions trading plan
uri: EU-CO2-emissions-trading-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28EU_CO2_emissions_trading_plan%29
content:
<p>
The EU has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/28/reform-of-eu-carbon-trading-scheme-agreed">approved
a reform to tighten up its CO<sub>2</sub> emissions trading plan</a>
in the hope of making it actually reduce emissions.
<p>
I recommend a carbon tax — it is not as easy to game that.


feed_id: 17183fb657d29fbcc3939cdd159d777d
title: UK fails to respect freedom of speech
uri: UK-fails-to-respect-freedom-of-speech
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28UK_fails_to_respect_freedom_of_speech%29

content:
<p>
A UK local government elected official 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/28/labour-councillor-jonny-morris-suspended-over-nazi-salute">faces
prosecution for making a Nazi salute in order to accuse Tories of
acting like Nazis</a>.
<p>
In effect, saying "You are acting like a Nazi" may be a crime in the
UK.  The UK does not respect freedom of speech, neither in 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#22_September_2015_(Threats_to_freedom_of_speech_in_the_UK)">politics</a>
nor in regard to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#09_September_2015_(Possession_of_extreme_pornography)">sex</a>.
<p>
I don't think the Tory policies are as bad as those of the Nazis, but
they are 
<a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg">very bad</a>.


feed_id: 8c981fa861fd234878146dcaa45cb29d
title: Urgent: Don't Cooperate
uri: Urgent-Don-t-Cooperate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Don%27t_Cooperate%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://aclum.org/our-work/aclum-issues/immigrants-rights/residents-greater-boston-area-tell-police-chief-not-support-president-trumps-deportation-machine/">phone your local thug department and say</a>, don't cooperate
with deportations.
<p>
The page has phone numbers for the Boston area, but you can look up
the
number
for your town wherever you are.


feed_id: 0677726a40dd062c4ca5f3669513bcbb
title: Urgent: Honduras
uri: Urgent-Honduras
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Honduras%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/remember-berta-caceres?r_by=1135580">call for ending military aid</a> to Honduras.


feed_id: 02749c5f0a4aa70aed852917e88040bc
title: Bipartisan
uri: Bipartisan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Bipartisan%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/01/trump-may-have-found-way-stack-commissions-sympathetic-nominees">The troll may be planning to stack "bipartisan" independent 6-person
commissions</a> with 3 Republicans plus 3 official non-Republicans that
act like Republicans.


feed_id: 6adde78aedc1fac2562d066dd0d10abd
title: Public Loss
uri: Public-Loss
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Public_Loss%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/02/stop-trumps-privatization-agenda">Privatization = Public Loss For All</a>, Private Gain For A Few.


feed_id: 3562107abeca72f3f9613baa52615d8e
title: Walled-Off Hotel
uri: Walled-Off-Hotel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Walled-Off_Hotel%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/03/banksy-opens-bethlehem-barrier-wall-hotel">The Walled-Off Hotel</a> — built right against Israel's annexation wall
that runs through Palestine.


feed_id: b5441b1ffa0c4c451fd6bb0ef4dfc08a
title: Terms of Service
uri: Terms-of-Service
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Terms_of_Service%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/03/terms-of-service-online-contracts-fine-print">Hardly anyone reads a web site's "terms of service"</a> before agreeing to
them.
<p>
I do read them, because I am prepared to refuse to use the site if I
see anything in the terms I consider unacceptable.  Most people don't
see a point in reading them, because they are not prepared to do that.
<p>
This points to the basic injustice: most users feel helplessly
compelled to accept web disservices with their nasty terms.  Even
when there is a choice of disservices to use, they only rarely
differ in the nasty terms.
<p>
I think the solution is that the state should set these terms,
democratically.  Rather than letting companies impose terms on
the public, the public should organize to impose terms on
companies.
<p>
That's what democracy means: that the many join together to stop
the rich from dominating them.


feed_id: 002c52cf34367ad3aed0ac599221b81f
title: Immediate deportation
uri: Immediate-deportation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Immediate_deportation%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/03/daniela-vargas-deport-daca-dreamer">Daniela Vargas faces immediate deportation</a> after immigration thugs
grabbed her after a rally where she spoke to condemn such practice.
<p>
She was brought to the US as a child, and was previously given
protection fro deportation.  She was in the process of applying for
renewal of this when the thugs grabbed her.  Clearly their goal is to
show that there is no such thing in the US any more as due process of
law.  Clearly this is meant to terrify immigrants.
<p>
If there were a hell, I'd suggest deporting all immigration thugs
there, with no court hearing, along with other kinds of terrorists.


feed_id: 4489893e1c514ba18aa314c148d9ebd2
title: Absent Corporation
uri: Absent-Corporation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Absent_Corporation%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/03/customer-services-amazon-microsoft-youtube">The Absent Corporation</a> — companies that intentionally give no way
to complain or ask for help.
<p>
Being mistreated or cheated by one of these companies is a cost of
doing business with them, but they hope you won't factor that into
your decision of whether to do it.


feed_id: 4e006443c27c55222436e921e9677d9f
title: System of immigration
uri: System-of-immigration
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28System_of_immigration%29
content:
<p>
Canada is
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/01/trump-trots-out-canadas-obsolete-immigra">moving towards a province-by-province system</a> of authorizing
immigration.


feed_id: eaf264bd7443b461f7ca5a98d61f1e5a
title: Permafrost
uri: Permafrost
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Permafrost%29
content:
<p>
A
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/01/rapid-decline-permafrost-throughout-arctic-release-massive-carbon-stores">large area of permafrost in Canada is melting</a>, which leads to
release
of lots of CO2.


feed_id: 875a70bf655c70136be20ceefd3b82d0
title: Urgent: Climate March
uri: Urgent-Climate-March
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Climate_March%29
content:
<p>
In the US:
<a href="https://peoplesclimate.org/?source=350">join the People's Climate March</a> on April 29.


feed_id: ae5220c4fc97722f2807f4232bd79a1f
title: Urgent: Sessions
uri: Urgent-Sessions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Sessions%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/sessions_resign?t=1005&akid=21966.1183552.VRVHsA">call on Sessions to resign</a>.


feed_id: 3bbd921cb01e285889dc8d50302a5c47
title: Interior Department
uri: Interior-Department
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Interior_Department%29
content:
<p>
The new saboteur head of the Interior Department
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/02/first-day-office-zinke-axes-rule-protecting-wildlife-lead-poisoning">has cancelled a
regulation</a>
that forbade use of lead ammunition when hunting on federal lands.
<p>
Once the lead gets into the environment, it can remain there for
millenia, poisoning animals (and occasionally humans) over and over.


feed_id: 4d71866fcb37fd0076d28c0499cdd794
title: Right-wing bots
uri: Right-wing-bots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Right-wing_bots%29
content:
<p>
Right-wing twitterbots are
<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/trump-speech-twitter-235590">inflating the retweets</a> of the loser's
tweets.


feed_id: df62e4856a013bbffefc95c3adfa6140
title: Resign
uri: Resign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Resign%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/02/jeff-sessions-resign-perjury-russia-donald-trump">By His Own Standards</a>, Attorney General Jeff Sessions Should Resign.
<p>
I don't think it is wrong for a senator to talk with the Russian
ambassador.  That alone would not even be suspicious.  But it is a
matter of public significance.  This combined with other such matters
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/03/jeff-sessions-investigation-russia-truth">add up to grounds for an investigation</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, for the attorney general nominee to lie about a matter of
public significance in a confirmation hearing is inexcusable.
Remember how Republicans impeached Bill Clinton for lying about
whether he had sex with Monica Lewinsky)?  That was a matter of no
public significance whatsoever.


feed_id: c6c1b203e3675850c29f2ecdc472b6c0
title: Avoiding constituents
uri: Avoiding-constituents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Avoiding_constituents%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/02/wisconsin-republican-senator-sends-cease-and-desist-letter-to-constituent-for-calling-too-much/">Republican Senator Johnson of Wisconsin is avoiding his constituents</a>,
and had a lawyer get an order telling Earl Good not to call his office
or try to meet with staff.
<p>
Activists have announced a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/03/cards-against-humanity-ron-johnson-max-temkin">campaign of mailing him potatoes</a>.


feed_id: e9feeb104cef6873cf8ce41109236deb
title: Attacked in China
uri: Attacked-in-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Attacked_in_China%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/03/bbc-crew-attacked-in-china-says-reporter">BBC TV Crew Attacked in China</a> And Forced to Sign Confession.


feed_id: 1463f6f1f6f791491ec361edeffdc37b
title: Pipeline protesters
uri: 2017-03-10-Pipeline-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Pipeline_protesters%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/02/standing-rock-military-veteran-arson-police-north-dakota">Thugs want to prosecute pipeline protesters</a> for setting their tents on
fire.  Rather than taking any care to find out who committed this
"crime", they choose in a slapdash fashion.


feed_id: 092bb12bef6a33ef08b3e07f6ce14e4c
title: Private email
uri: Private-email
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Private_email%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/02/mike-pence-personal-email-hacked-aol-governor">Mike Pence used private email</a> for security issues as governor of
Indiana, and his account was cracked.
<p>
Rather than running a private server, he used a commercial email
service, just begging to be compromised.
<p>
But that's no big deal.  It's only wrong when Democrats do it.


feed_id: d5e8954f53542d27603e0c7bda3ee04b
title: Emirates airlines
uri: Emirates-airlines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Emirates_airlines%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2016/jan/27/authors-and-illustrators-think-twice-emirates-airline-festival-of-literature-dubai">Reasons not to fly</a> Emirates airlines.


feed_id: 0015fe03d0fd3c5f58e0523966166540
title: Literary festivals
uri: Literary-festivals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Literary_festivals%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/02/should-writers-boycott-book-festivals-in-countries-where-rights-are-under-threat">More-or-less repressive states use literary festivals</a> to paint
themselves
as respecting freedom of the press.
<p>
It seems that an invited author that wants to use one of them to
advance
human rights by making contacts with people can perhaps succeed, but
only
by private activities.  The more famous authors do more good by
refusing
to attend.


feed_id: b2012315d11cd67376e596f12a64a732
title: The Whole Truth
uri: The-Whole-Truth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28The_Whole_Truth%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/02/jeff-sessions-russia-comments-investigation-congress">Jeff Sessions Must Now Tell America</a> the Whole Truth.


feed_id: 72a4fb13748cf8de35259d47723fd178
title: Standard Republican
uri: Standard-Republican
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Standard_Republican%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/01/trump-offers-nation-miracles-your-move-democrats">loser's recent speech shows</a> that he has adopted much of the
standard
Republican dooH niboR platform.


feed_id: 19c68c401878545267be66acd0aeeb66
title: Turkish constitution
uri: Turkish-constitution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Turkish_constitution%29
content:
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an's referendum on changing the Turkish constitution to give him
great power is being held with no organized opposition —
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/02/debating-in-whispers-opposition-fearful-ahead-of-turkish-referendum">because the
opposition is gagged or in jail</a>.
<p>
The vote will not be free or fair.  It will be illegitimate.


feed_id: ac1c0ee972d1d73bdc8d875d442e7c57
title: Surveillance technology
uri: 2017-03-10-Surveillance-technology
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Surveillance_technology%29
content:
<p>
The New York City Council is considering a law to
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/01/new-bill-would-force-nypd-to-disclose-its-surveillance-tech-playbook/">require the thug
department to publish its rules</a> for using surveillance technology.


feed_id: 26107d654b77efa8ec3ea50488157280
title: Trump Wants
uri: Trump-Wants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Trump_Wants%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/01/trump-wants-you-to-think-all-the-immigrants-hell-deport-are-criminals-theyre-not/">Trump Wants You to Think</a> All the Immigrants He'll Deport Are
Criminals.  They're Not.


feed_id: 733bf4f02a9efd47a878d9c491f25b18
title: Snooping devices
uri: Snooping-devices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Snooping_devices%29
content:
<p>
"Smart" meters are snooping devices.  I've said that for years.
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/illinois-court-just-didnt-get-it-we-are-entitled-expect-privacy-our-smart">Now others are starting to be concerned</a> about the matter.
<p>
The article doesn't say what specific issue the court decided, but in
general legal "protection of privacy" in the US operates by putting
conditions on access to data that has been collected.  That's
fundamentally inadequate.
<p>
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">Real privacy</a> means stopping your "smart" meter from reporting on you
at all.
<p>
If something is called "smart", be very suspicious of allowing
it into your home.


feed_id: 09cbef60c93ce3a16631369d01510201
title: Santorum
uri: Santorum
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Santorum%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/27/1638203/-Rick-Santorum-calls-millions-of-Americans-with-pre-existing-conditions-crooks-and-grifters">Senator Santorum called Americans wanting medical coverage</a> despite
preexisting conditions "crooks" and "grifters".
<p>
What he means is that he and the rich people he serves want to wash
their hands of all responsibility to the rest of society.


feed_id: 293df124d3afab261af5eb7ad71e96bb
title: Ancient ruins
uri: Ancient-ruins
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Ancient_ruins%29
content:
<p>
Russia and Syria
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/02/syrian-regime-recaptures-palmyra-from-islamic-state">recaptured Palmyra from PISSI</a>, but PISSI planted lots
of
mines
in the ancient ruins.


feed_id: 9a5acea7bb73a7db516c593ca7a20111
title: Homeland Suppression
uri: Homeland-Suppression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Homeland_Suppression%29
content:
<p>
The Department of Homeland Suppression
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/02/homeland-security-sees-anger-at-trump-as-a-driver-of-domestic-terrorist-violence/">has decided to regard protests
against the troll as terrorist in spirit</a>.  No terrorist acts have been
associated with them, but those thugs are sure some will be.


feed_id: 3ba04f421a745337e940f74828ef7687
title: Refused to meet
uri: Refused-to-meet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Refused_to_meet%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/02/climate-change-trump-administration-un-paris-agreement">US State Department refused to meet with a leader</a> of the UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change.


feed_id: 870b9eecbabd8e7e53a760e32788ba2b
title: Myths
uri: Myths
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Myths%29
content:
<p>
Here is a list of myths that
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/28/can-democrats-break-through-these-7-debilitating-myths">right-wing Democrats cite to excuse</a>
supporting continued plutocracy.
<p>
Right-wing plutocratist Democrats would not make anything better than
it was under Obama.


feed_id: ae23e166dabd5b1d761cefb0d6f8c5a8
title: Mussolini and Hitler
uri: Mussolini-and-Hitler
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Mussolini_and_Hitler%29
content:
<p>
Mussolini and Hitler gained power
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/28/beware-another-reichstag-fire">at first through democratic
structures</a>, then seized dictatorial power.  (They were not the first:
Julius Caesar and Napoleon III followed similar paths.)  The loser's
actions show quite a resemblance.


feed_id: 554e5c47af546bd7e80c18af655455fc
title: Mayor of Calais
uri: Mayor-of-Calais
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Mayor_of_Calais%29
content:
<p>
The mayor of Calais has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/02/calais-mayor-bans-distribution-of-food-to-migrants">banned giving food to the homeless refugees</a>
there.


feed_id: 94c8d28a9e8269d68a57b1d844ed9c04
title: Urgent Concealed carry
uri: Urgent-Concealed-carry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Urgent_Concealed_carry%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.everytown.org/call/dont-gut-our-gun-laws/">phone your senators</a> to oppose "concealed carry
reciprocity".
<p>
This is a tricky and disguised legal scheme to make every
state allow lots of unvetted people to carry guns.
<p>
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
  and 888-355-3588.</p>


feed_id: 2e02a533e3f63573535d6b84ed383085
title: Fund family planning
uri: Fund-family-planning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Fund_family_planning%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/mar/02/uk-donors-unite-us-global-gag-rule-shortfall-trump-she-decides-conference-brussels">Various countries have put together 200 million dollars</a> to fund family
planning aid, including abortion counseling and abortion, to fill the
gap
that the US is leaving.
<p>
They hope to raise additional funds in the next few months.


feed_id: 701f886c7bf239d0ac34cb0a31d57187
title: Lead
uri: Lead
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Lead%29
content:
<p>
Although lead levels in Flint are down,
it is
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/us/flint-michigan-water.html">still not safe to drink</a>.


feed_id: 3fa347465c448fa930e25e5de77e3fc7
title: Antisemitic insults
uri: Antisemitic-insults
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Antisemitic_insults%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/01/revisiting-donald-trump-s-anti-semitic-attacks-against-jon-stewart.html">The troll's antisemitic insults</a> against John Stewart show that
this form of bigotry is embedded in his heart along with other
forms.


feed_id: 4cb368c341942950737eb023a56657ac
title: Work visa
uri: Work-visa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Work_visa%29
content:
<p>
When Celestine Omin tried to enter the US on a work visa, he was
<a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/28/software-engineer-detained-given-test-to-prove-hes-engineer.html">grilled by an immigration agent with vague technical questions</a>,
supposedly
to prove he was really a software engineer.
<p>
The agent didn't understand his answers, and threatened to exclude
him.  Fortunately, other agents called his employer, who verified he
is an engineer.
<p>
Regardless of details, it is absurd to ask a professional to prove
his qualifications to someone who knows nothing about per field
as a condition for immigration.
<p>
It is pointless anyway.  What exactly is the wrong that agent was
trying to prevent?  That a company would arrange a work visa for the
CEO's lover?  That might be fraud, but there is no need to investigate
such a suspicion at passport control.


feed_id: 6b572d2b580215436dae7c74fede75bb
title: Pruitt
uri: 2017-03-10-Pruitt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Pruitt%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/01/epas-scott-pruitt-great-disruptor">Diane Wilson explains</a> why she protested in Pruitt's confirmation
hearing.


feed_id: d41db0b938d2b4e1b5a62fd7f8f302b6
title: Gerrymandering
uri: Gerrymandering
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Gerrymandering%29
content:
<p>
The
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/01/battles-multiple-states-fight-end-gerrymandering-heats">Supreme Court made a decision that will help the battle</a> against
Republican gerrymandering.
<p>
This decision was almost unanimous — even Gorsuch could not have altered
it.


feed_id: 69ddb0afc390b648da77d5d93c29796f
title: Activist restaurant workers
uri: Activist-restaurant-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Activist_restaurant_workers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/03/01/fast-food-workers-file-federal-civil-rights-suit-against-city-memphis-over">Activist restaurant workers are suing Memphis thugs</a> for snooping on
them
and sabotaging them.


feed_id: 9403d9d428527be17e202a585337e034
title: Toys with microphones
uri: 2017-03-10-Toys-with-microphones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Toys_with_microphones%29
content:
<p>
"CloudPets" toys with microphones leak childrens' conversations to the
manufacturer.  Guess what?
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/28/cloudpets-data-breach-leaks-details-of-500000-children-and-adults">Crackers
found a way to access the data collected by the manufacturer's
snooping</a>.
<p>
That the manufacturer and the FBI could listen to these conversations
was unacceptable by itself.
<p>
<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/internet-of-things-teddy-bear-leaked-2-million-parent-and-kids-message-recordings">More
information</a>.


feed_id: f8ebf07e3145246b68913edcbf632cfb
title: Political discussions with trolls
uri: Political-discussions-with-trolls
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Political_discussions_with_trolls%29

content:
<p>
When trolls enter a political discussion, here's 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/2/19/1634327/-How-to-turn-trolls-into-your-best-friends">how
to win the audience to your side</a>.


feed_id: 5e60edd81eb5e7941e3d087273f0bf52
title: Antisemitism in Philadelphia
uri: Antisemitism-in-Philadelphia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Antisemitism_in_Philadelphia%29
content:
<p>
Up to 100 Gravestones 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/26/jewish-cemetery-vandalized-philadelphia">Vandalized
at Jewish Cemetery in Philadelphia</a>.
<p>
Under Bannon's editorship, "Jewish" in Breitbart comments came to be
<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/02/21/breitbart-under-bannon-breitbarts-comment-section-reflects-alt-right-anti-semitic-language">used
as a term of condemnation</a> rather than as the name of an ethnic
group.
<p>
When the troll finally stated disapproval of antisemitism, it was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/22/donald-trump-comments-anti-semitism-hate-crimes-jewish-targets">so
weak</a> that one can hardly believe he meant it.


feed_id: 995bd8afe59fafdd8997370dffde37ad
title: Shot while running to catch a taxi
uri: Shot-while-running-to-catch-a-taxi
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Shot_while_running_to_catch_a_taxi%29

content:
<p>
An Israeli soldier shot Muhammad Amer Jallad in the stomach as he was
running across a street to get a taxi 
<a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/palestinian-was-way-chemotherapy-when-shot-soldiers">to
get to his chemotherapy appointment on time</a>.  It took him months
to die, and Israeli soldiers kept his family away.  His mother was
allowed to see him just once and was not even informed when he died.


feed_id: 063cbe78fa657d2d4fd0293a57b612d0
title: Reducing US medical care costs
uri: Reducing-US-medical-care-costs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Reducing_US_medical_care_costs%29
content:
<p>
The only way to reduce US medical care costs as the troll says he will
do is with a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/02/21/single-payer-reform-only-way-fulfill-presidents-pledge-health-care-annals">national
health service</a>.


feed_id: cbb5918a8d7e58f9a46e8a83a3567295
title: Arrest of Deniz Yücel
uri: Arrest-of-Deniz-Yücel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Arrest_of_Deniz_Yucel%29
content:
<p>
The arrest of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/28/formal-arrest-of-die-welt-journalist-deniz-yucel-in-turkey-condemned-german">Deniz
Yücel</a>, a Turkish-German reporter for Die Welt, is getting
lots of criticism in Turkey.


feed_id: a6b588651fb93ca83ad0506ac5fa3e47
title: Antisemitic Attacks
uri: Antisemitic-Attacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_%28Antisemitic_Attacks%29
content:
<p>
One of the troll's cronies says that antisemitic attacks are the <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/02/28/trump-surrogate-suggests-democrats-could-be-behind-bomb-threats-against-jews/">work of Democrats</a>.
<p>
It is absurd but typical. Republicans arbitrarily blame all bad
things on Democrats.


feed_id: 4158831cb7360be66dfead606694b7f0
title: Women's soccer visas
uri: 2017-03-10-Women-s-soccer-visas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#8_March_2017_%28Women%27s_soccer_visas%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/28/tibet-womens-soccer-visas-denied">
Tibetan Women's Soccer Players Denied US Visas for Texas Tournament.
</a>
<p>
Maybe the troll thinks that Tibet is a Muslim country.  Or maybe he
was trying to hurt China by being harsh to Tibetans.  Either one is
dumb enough for him.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/28/trumps-america-holidays-tourism-down">"Trump's
America is great for holidays — if you enjoy vigorous frisking
by men in uniform."</a>


feed_id: 3e05bac043b426112e4830d3c44c3efb
title: Murderers of environmentalist
uri: 2017-03-10-Murderers-of-environmentalist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#8_March_2017_%28Murderers_of_environmentalist%29
content:
<p>
Papers
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/28/berta-caceres-honduras-military-intelligence-us-trained-special-forces">
link the murderers of Berta Cáceres to "special forces"
</a>
trained
by the US.
<p>
The US continues to "train" them.  Apparently it doesn't train them
in respect for human rights.


feed_id: 0e8c9a6ba8d437255b5710d23df66677
title: If Sessions had nothing to hide
uri: If-Sessions-had-nothing-to-hide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28If_Sessions_had_nothing_to_hide%29
content:
<p>
If Sessions Had Nothing to Hide, 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/04/if-sessions-had-nothing-hide-why-did-he-try-hide-it">Why
Did He Try to Hide it</a>?
<p>
There is a pattern of involvement between the troll's men and Russia,
which adds up to a reason to suspect something scandalous or even
treasonous.
<p>
Now we are informed that Flynn and Jared Kushner 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/2/1639544/-The-drip-continues-White-House-didn-t-disclose-meetings-between-Flynn-Kushner-and-Russian-envoy">met
with the Russian ambassador in December</a>, and other members of the
team were involved too, and they 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/3/1639775/-Campaign-advisor-changes-story-and-now-contradicts-Trump-says-Donald-ordered-Ukraine-change-at-RNC">intervened
to change the Republican Party platform as a result</a>.


feed_id: 2d6ee4efdeaf4ebb21f502ea1ef80c1a
title: Sleep disorders caused by computers
uri: Sleep-disorders-caused-by-computers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28Sleep_disorders_caused_by_computers%29

content:
<p>
Many children and teenagers have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/mar/04/go-school-two-half-hours-sleep-british-children-arent-sleeping">sleep
disorders caused by computers</a>.


feed_id: e94e369331a423d0b2660c60179ee80a
title: Sessions as prosecutor
uri: Sessions-as-prosecutor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28Sessions_as_prosecutor%29
content:
<p>
Sessions, as prosecutor, made a practice of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/04/jeff-sessions-legal-past-democrats-trump-administration">prosecuting
his political opponents using strained charges</a>.  Sometimes for
money.


feed_id: 7d4edf5b9a7417a63e8dc4e72b2ad1e9
title: Love education
uri: Love-education
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28Love_education%29
content:
<p>
Sex education should be accompanied by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/05/sex-education-secondary-schools-pornography-holistic-approach-life-skills">love
education</a>.


feed_id: 216a9955a904bbea9722153730029d04
title: Troll spending taxpayers' money on travel
uri: Troll-spending-taxpayers-money-on-travel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28Troll_spending_taxpayers_money_on_travel%29

content:
<p>
The troll is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/04/donald-trump-travel-costs-mar-a-lago-taxpayers">spending
taxpayers' money on travel at a fantastic rate</a>.


feed_id: b00685c895b07debc95b0fffbfb2655a
title: Tree plantations and forest fires
uri: Tree-plantations-and-forest-fires
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28Tree_plantations_and_forest_fires%29

content:
<p>
State-subsidized tree plantations 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/03/chile-wildfires-forestry-industry-plantations">contributed
to the great size of Chile's forest fires in January</a>.


feed_id: e913f2bfe9ce0aa5739ad883ddf3ef11
title: Urgent: Endangered Species Act
uri: 2017-03-12-Urgent-Endangered-Species-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Endangered_Species_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4196&s_src=act_nrdcnewsletter&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=mainlink&utm_campaign=email&pw_id=4421&NONCE_TOKEN=DE9C7354BED9C8A5F9610BFD5C590C29">Support the Endangered Species Act</a>.


feed_id: 63af04f22b5347c1a2a1457f6a6b1e95
title: Urgent: Canadian Drugs
uri: Urgent-Canadian-Drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Canadian_Drugs%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/trump_sanders_big_pharma?t=1003&akid=21989.1183552.tUlznG">support legalization of importing drugs from Canada</a>.


feed_id: ad67595ed6a3d32703306fb022194f4d
title: Urgent: Nissan advertising in Breitbart
uri: Urgent-Nissan-advertising-in-Breitbart
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Nissan_advertising_in_Breitbart%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: Call on Nissan to <a href="https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/tell-nissan-its-time-to-decide?akid=7087.1242918.hM8T6m&bucket=COC&rd=1&source=mailing&t=1002">stop advertising in Breitbart</a>.


feed_id: cd5048e0c07523c233f38e3308d6ae98
title: Podesta's leaked emails
uri: Podesta-s-leaked-emails
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28Podesta%27s_leaked_emails%29
content:
<p>
A crony of the troll says he was in indirect <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roger-stone-donald-trump-julian-assange_us_58bc24cae4b0d2821b4ec16c?section=politics">communication with Assange
about release of Podesta's leaked emails</a>.
<p>
It was legitimate for Wikileaks to release information demonstrating
the corruption in the Democratic National Committee.  However,
I will be disappointed in Assange if he cooperated with the troll.


feed_id: 7fe530818e6e873c987c8cb894b0619c
title: Arizona Protest Bill
uri: Arizona-Protest-Bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28Arizona_Protest_Bill%29
content:
<p>
Across the US, local Republican legislators are trying new ways to
hamper protests or punish protesters.  However, the Arizona bill to
hold protest organizers responsible for any and all violence (even by
provocateurs) <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/28/outcry-kills-anti-protest-law-arizona-troubling-trend-continues-nationwide">was defeated</a>.


feed_id: f366d2f28f10e2efecbd47d7fc424c73
title: Deportations
uri: Deportations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28Deportations%29
content:
<p>
Even thug department chiefs say that involving them in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/01/police-chiefs-letter-trump-deportation-immigrants">deportations
would undermine public safety</a>.
<p>
Communities with lots of immigrants tend to be particularly safe,
because immigrants commit few violent crimes and support catching and
stopping violent crimes.  If they become afraid to report crimes,
criminals will feel empowered.


feed_id: e3eebe5df2ac6adddfe23807bac7053d
title: US military, Middle East
uri: US-military-Middle-East
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28US_military%2C_Middle_East%29
content:
<p>
For 40 years, <a href="https://warisboring.com/america-has-misused-its-military-power-in-the-middle-east-29a2541022b4#.gs9jqho7m">confused use of US military force in the Middle East</a> has
made things worse, for the inhabitants of the region and for the US.


feed_id: 381389eec04b12a23cd31d4f188e949d
title: For-profit colleges
uri: 2017-03-12-For-profit-colleges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28For-profit_colleges%29
content:
<p>
The troll wants to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58b7fc29e4b0e9d19b926573">facilitate for-profit colleges</a> to enlarge their
businesses, which involve loans that most of their students have
trouble paying back.


feed_id: 89c2fb82def7fb912d20835b0e3bc5bd
title: Australia Banks Fossil Fuel
uri: Australia-Banks-Fossil-Fuel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28Australia_Banks_Fossil_Fuel%29
content:
<p>
The largest <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/mar/06/big-australian-banks-invest-7bn-more-in-fossil-fuels-than-renewables-says-report">banks in Australia put 10 billion dollars into fossil fuel</a> projects, and only 3 billion into renewable energy.


feed_id: b5bd8523baae7d1392792ae93e225d7e
title: Urgent: Return children
uri: Urgent-Return-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Return_children%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: call for
<a href="https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/free-the-children-of-kiarre-harris?akid=7095.1242918.ym-czQ&bucket=COC&rd=1&source=mailing&t=1005">returning Kiarre Harris's homeschooled children</a> to
her.


feed_id: 33a8bce53b9c04e4edb82386e9918467
title: Urgent: Funding
uri: Urgent-Funding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Funding%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.signforgood.com/protectplannedparenthood2017?code=kos&redirect=https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/dkresistance">call for continued funding</a> of Planned Parenthood.


feed_id: b1265f2ab69b0981b50997bfabed5e4a
title: Urgent: "Right to work" Laws
uri: Urgent-Right-to-work-Laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Right_to_work_Laws%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://petitions.signforgood.com/right-to-work?code=KOS&redirect=https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/dkresistance?refcode=20170217rdRTWswap&link_id=11&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-trump-rages-over-the-comparison-of-his-weak-performance-and-the-accomplishments-of-president-obama&email_referrer=trump-rages-over-the-comparison-of-his-weak-performance-and-the-accomplishments-of-president-obama&email_subject=trump-rages-over-the-comparison-of-his-weak-performance-and-the-accomplishments-of-president-obama">oppose union-crushing "right to work" laws</a>.


feed_id: e8526523bd339772441744a282fb8697
title: Urgent: Dakota Access Pipeline
uri: 2017-03-12-Urgent-Dakota-Access-Pipeline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Dakota_Access_Pipeline%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: tell Wells Fargo, Citibank, US Bank and SunTrust Banks to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/lcv/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3771&s_src=Dems&s_subsrc=divestdapl">stop funding the Dakota Access Pipeline</a>.


feed_id: 31edda3cd1ccf00c80e7a32fd25eb069
title: Urgent: Sessions and Russia
uri: Urgent-Sessions-and-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Sessions_and_Russia%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call for a special prosecutor to <a href="https://action.aclu.org/secure/special-prosecutor?emsrc=Nat_Appeal_AutologinEnabled&emissue=nationalsecurity&emtype=petition&ms=eml_170303_nationalsecurity_specialprosecutor&__af=query_string_encrypted">address the relationship between Sessions and Russia</a>, and related matters.


feed_id: 1b8b8ba85b27cbe69c31f206642d0bd3
title: Urgent: Sanders's progressive agenda
uri: Urgent-Sanders-s-progressive-agenda
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Sanders%27s_progressive_agenda%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://go.ourrevolution.com/page/s/endorse-our-progressive-agenda?source=em170301-pt">endorse Sanders's progressive agenda</a>.


feed_id: ab11669f290a1633d1f6518852fc7177
title: Plutocrats taking away wealth
uri: Plutocrats-taking-away-wealth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Plutocrats_taking_away_wealth%29
content:
<p>
A few plutocrats are rapidly taking the wealth away from nearly all Americans: <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/06/how-90-american-households-lost-average-17000-wealth-plutocrats-2016">in 2016, they took over $17k per household from the non-rich 90%</a>.


feed_id: 667e92050ad8c421e84b1a63eb21548a
title: State of the Environment
uri: State-of-the-Environment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28State_of_the_Environment%29
content:
<p>
A periodic "State of the Environment" report says that global heating's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/07/climate-change-impact-australia-may-be-irreversible-report">damage to Australia may already be irreversible</a>.


feed_id: c7fd38056351982cfb4a125ca3e6fffc
title: Chicken processing plant injuries
uri: Chicken-processing-plant-injuries
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Chicken_processing_plant_injuries%29

content:
<p>
The Senate passed a bill to allow chicken processing plants to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/06/labor-protection-laws-repeal-poultry-industry-workers">conceal how many injuries</a> their workers get.


feed_id: 1d78cd33e3ff8ab5290db1e1938f0fd6
title: Ben Carson: slaves
uri: Ben-Carson-slaves
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Ben_Carson%3A_slaves%29
content:
<p>
Ben Carson, now a cabinet secretary, calls the slaves being brought to the US <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/06/ben-carson-african-slaves-immigrants-housing-speech">"immigrants" who "had a dream"</a> for their posterity in the US.


feed_id: 25c41bda8e196ef8144a07ecc0b07457
title: Denialism and Oil
uri: Denialism-and-Oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Denialism_and_Oil%29
content:
<p>
Denialism at work: a fossil fuel organization, the International Energy Agency <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/06/oil-price-investment-fields-iea-india-china">warns of an "oil shortage"</a> in a few years. This conclusion might be valid, in the fantasy world where global
heating did not exist.
<p>
I imagine a ship's cook reporting a scarcity of water as the ship sinks.


feed_id: b334a48774c57574c9c733d3cf3f5d91
title: UK carbon emissions
uri: UK-carbon-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28UK_carbon_emissions%29
content:
<p>
The UK's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/06/uk-carbon-emissions-drop-to-lowest-level-since-19th-century-study-finds">carbon emissions have fallen by 1/3</a> since 1990.
<p>
Previous governments made some efforts to reduce carbon emissions, but the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#20_January_2017_(UK_investment_in_renewable_energy)">Tory government has mostly eliminated these</a>.
<ul>
<li><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#11_May_2016_(Tories_quashed_renewable_energy_investment)">Tories quashed renewable energy investment</a></li>
<li><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#18_February_2015_(Tory_fabrication_against_solar_power)">Tory fabrication against solar power</a></li>
</ul>


feed_id: e1dc3f5455c448039ba3aa9b41de58c9
title: Troll attacks clean air and water
uri: Troll-attacks-clean-air-and-water
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Troll_attacks_clean_air_and_water%29

content:
<p>
The troll's <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/06/dirty-hot-deadly-real-trump-scandal-what-hes-done-environment">attack on clean air and water</a> is running very fast.


feed_id: 5a8ba1ef07c24fa85db63bdc884f84a9
title: Israel freedom of speech
uri: Israel-freedom-of-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Israel_freedom_of_speech%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/06/israel-law-barring-entry-supporters-jewish-state-boycott">Israel has rejected freedom of speech</a>, passing a law that denies visas or residency certificates to those that advocate a commercial boycott of Israel. 


feed_id: 6b12d72c877cbf36c0165e541f74403e
title: Troll travel ban (version 2)
uri: Troll-travel-ban-(version-2)
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Troll_travel_ban_%28version_2%29%29

content:
<p>
The troll's travel ban, version 2, avoids the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/06/new-us-travel-ban-order-differences-trump-immigration">arbitrary cruelties of version 1</a>.
<p>
It does no good for the US, since visitors from the 6 target countries were and are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/06/who-does-trump-think-hes-helping-travel-ban">no significant threat</a> to Americans. The policy is gratuitous harm.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/06/travel-ban-questions-changes-donald-trump-immigration">It may be illegal, too</a>.


feed_id: 218c5062753f394dad1dd4de11ea3ae3
title: Bahrain human rights
uri: Bahrain-human-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Bahrain_human_rights%29
content:
<p>
Bahrain now dares to openly reject human rights by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/06/bahrain-moves-ban-opposition-party-army-courts-try-civilians">subjecting dissenters to military trials</a>.


feed_id: 921ffeab3698d10988c59924f037f4a1
title: High-calorie foods
uri: High-calorie-foods
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28High-calorie_foods%29
content:
<p>
Proposal to sell <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/06/obesity-sell-high-calorie-foods-in-plain-packaging-says-2017-brain-prize-winner-wolfram-schultz-peter-dayan-ray-dolan">high-calorie foods in plain packaging</a> so that people won't be drawn to buy them.


feed_id: f4b5eb9c8632ca503dd65ac89fbf2961
title: UK out of EU
uri: UK-out-of-EU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28UK_out_of_EU%29
content:
<p>
Taking the UK out of the EU gives the Tories an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/05/brexit-theresa-may-falklands-war-nhs-cuts">opportunity to appear patriotic nationalists</a> while trashing their country. 
<p>
However, it is more than just a distraction. It will also <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_January_2017_(UK_sovereignty)">serve as an excuse</a> for trade treaties that destroy the real sovereignty of Britain. 


feed_id: 40119b5e037c00feb73f49f25a914fa8
title: Vacant
uri: Vacant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Vacant%29
content:
<p>
A state in Australia will start
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/mar/06/victoria-to-tax-investors-who-leave-properties-vacant-for-more-than-six-months">taxing those that own apartments and
leave them vacant</a>.
<p>
I think it is a mistake to make an exception for holiday homes,
because it will be easy for investors to pretend they spend holidays
in the apartment in order to avoid the tax.


feed_id: 83b0469bfae4581319bc98aefc5c0505
title: Food not Bombs
uri: Food-not-Bombs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Food_not_Bombs%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/28/a-crackdown-on-the-poor-and-hungry/">Food not Bombs activists stubbornly keep feeding homeless people</a>, even
though
they are arrested and jailed.
<p>
They report about thugs that throw away the food so that nobody can
eat it, and cruelty activists that steal homeless peoples' shoes or
hit them with baseball bats.
<p>
It would be good to publish lists of the businesses that demand
repression of the homeless.


feed_id: b955511e294b5f50e6cc2452e2d36f58
title: Palestinian residents
uri: Palestinian-residents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Palestinian_residents%29
content:
<p>
The Palestinian residents of Hebron held a protest march against the
Israeli
occupiers that exclude them from part of their city.  They were
<a href="http://alternativenews.org/index.php/features-02/361-if-we-resist-more-sanctions-if-the-settlers-kill-us-more-sanctions">attacked
crushingly</a>.


feed_id: 5ecd692019dca83eeabb5e638e16e79f
title: Loud condemnation
uri: Loud-condemnation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Loud_condemnation%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://jonathanstray.com/networked-propaganda-and-counter-propaganda">Right-wing trolls (including Trump)</a> seek to provoke loud condemnation
because it publicizes them to those who might support them.  How to
respond to that tactic?


feed_id: af347348bd2e19a0fab12b486abbeaa1
title: Asylum
uri: Asylum
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Asylum%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/05/refused-asylum-seekers-suicide-rules-uk">People denied asylum by the UK</a>, who can't get permission to go
anywhere else, are forced to live in total penury, sleeping on the
street and begging for food.  Sometimes this goes on for many years.
<p>
The example of Enaya's husband illustrates how the UK interprets the
criteria for asylum so strictly that it sends people back to face real
danger.


feed_id: 5000df92fbf6ca2a12dcebe324b6532d
title: Urgent: Protect federal regulation
uri: Urgent-Protect-federal-regulation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_federal_regulation%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://petitions.signforgood.com/CorporatePowerGrab">sign</a>
call to protect federal regulation from SCROTUS.


feed_id: eee8cae94c70ebfc49188ddc4d6979c4
title: Urgent: Lawyers for anyone held at US border
uri: Urgent-Lawyers-for-anyone-held-at-US-border
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Lawyers_for_anyone_held_at_US_border%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://pac.petitions.moveon.org/sign/congress-guarantee-access">support</a>
providing lawyers to anyone held while entering the US.


feed_id: 37a4e8c7a32f9cd7376ecd48f3c1168a
title: Republicans help paymasters evade taxes
uri: Republicans-help-paymasters-evade-taxes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Republicans_help_paymasters_evade_taxes%29

content:
<p>
Republicans have been 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/03/heres-what-rich-get-when-they-buy-themselves-congress">using
their control of Congress to reduce IRS audits and enforcement</a>.
That helps their rich paymasters evade more taxes.


feed_id: c41c2f3e5046dda4b0c805aec248d674
title: Court battles against global heating
uri: Court-battles-against-global-heating
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Court_battles_against_global_heating%29

content:
<p>
Local and national battles against global heating are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/08/how-climate-change-battles-are-increasingly-being-fought-and-won-in-court">sometimes
being won in court</a>.


feed_id: a3a320b40e518797b4b4757a92c4c510
title: What Should We Do If the President Is a Liar?
uri: What-Should-We-Do-If-the-President-Is-a-Liar
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28What_Should_We_Do_If_the_President_Is_a_Liar%29

content:
<p>
Bernie Sanders 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/07/what-should-we-do-if-president-liar">responds
to a squeamish journalist</a> who thinks it is wrong to use the word
"lie" when the liar is president of the United States.


feed_id: 6d95bfca2758296d622e5c454b303d10
title: Last male northern white rhinoceros
uri: Last-male-northern-white-rhinoceros
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Last_male_northern_white_rhinoceros%29

content:
<p>
One 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/apr/27/ol-pejeta-kenya-sudan-worlds-last-male-northern-white-rhinoceros">last
male northern white rhinoceros</a> is protected very intensely in the
hope it will father some offspring and preserve the species.


feed_id: eb470af07521146b026d71b34b8c8e2e
title: White House a mouthpiece for Exxon
uri: White-House-a-mouthpiece-for-Exxon
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28White_House_a_mouthpiece_for_Exxon%29

content:
<p>
The White House is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/03/07/plagiarized-praise-trump-white-house-becomes-mouthpiece-exxonmobil">now
a mouthpiece</a> for 
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#exxon">Exxon</a>.


feed_id: 82572cc187b61c16ff8a40b8a3b1eb6a
title: Chinese feminist activists
uri: Chinese-feminist-activists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Chinese_feminist_activists%29
content:
<p>
Chinese feminist activists 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/08/feminist-stickers-china-backash-women-activists">continue
to advance their cause</a> despite repression for any visible
activism.


feed_id: 6d65ac715fa09ea6446e4905b0dfa369
title: Sexual harassment hazards in universities
uri: Sexual-harassment-hazards-in-universities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Sexual_harassment_hazards_in_universities%29

content:
<p>
Women working in universities guide each other to navigate a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/07/when-will-universities-wake-up-to-sexual-harassment">complex
landscape of sexual harassment hazards</a>.


feed_id: ee2ada263c95be9e4c04c4cf5fa7c8f3
title: UK homeless charities report to immigration thugs
uri: UK-homeless-charities-report-to-immigration-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28UK_homeless_charities_report_to_immigration_thugs%29

content:
<p>
UK charities that say they help and serve homeless people 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/07/charities-giving-home-office-details-of-rough-sleepers-says-report">also
report them to immigration thugs</a>.


feed_id: f3420736d3af8f460828fac1d5224781
title: Children killed by pollution
uri: Children-killed-by-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Children_killed_by_pollution%29
content:
<p>
A 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/06/pollution-quarter-of-deaths-of-young-children-who">quarter
of the deaths of children under 5 years old</a> are caused by
pollution — mostly water pollution.


feed_id: dcbdb346405e1cfa37258513fc63e703
title: False conviction of blacks
uri: False-conviction-of-blacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28False_conviction_of_blacks%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/03/black-people-more-likely-wrongfully-convicted">Almost
half</a> of all the convicted criminals that were exonerated in the US
from 1989 through 2016 were black.
<p>
This suggests that blacks have a bigger chance of being falsely
convicted than whites do.


feed_id: 9b8cb850018543871b10ceb66c32475c
title: SCROTUS healthcare bill
uri: SCROTUS-healthcare-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28SCROTUS_healthcare_bill%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS has a bill to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/07/trump-replacement-healthcare-plan-cost-older-poor">cut
Medicaid and increase insurance costs for old people</a>.  As well as
repeal Obama's medical insurance system.
<p>
Anyone who loses insurance coverage for a couple of months would face
a heavy penalty.


feed_id: d71d57b1aa42d49f3d1d91b0b78224bc
title: Workers' rights
uri: 2017-03-13-Workers-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Workers_rights%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS want to help US contractors 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/06/gop-deregulating-frenzy-takes-aim-fair-pay-and-safety-rules-workers">violate
workers' rights more easily</a>.  Always on the side of the wealthier
against the poorer.


feed_id: de5b1afbe23866c9d16553bbb23836c1
title: Harmful dress codes for women
uri: Harmful-dress-codes-for-women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Harmful_dress_codes_for_women%29
content:
<p>
Annoying or harmful dress codes for women, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/mar/06/mps-debate-sexist-workplace-dress-codes">requiring
high heels or even dying hair</a>, are common in the UK.


feed_id: 08d18fec29489db8fc23c2e34b3979c3
title: Dangerous mass surveillance
uri: Dangerous-mass-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Dangerous_mass_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
The troll made absurd accusations about "wiretapping" him, but this is
only a distraction from his unwillingness to protect you and me from
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/06/trump-wiretapping-circus-turns-real-surv">dangerous
government surveillance</a>.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">why
it is dangerous</a>.


feed_id: 4a4292cb1a6e8d77cffd92a92c8153db
title: Cal to block access to educational videos
uri: Cal-to-block-access-to-educational-videos
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Cal_to_block_access_to_educational_videos%29

content:
<p>
UC Berkeley will have to block public access to 20,000 educational
videos because it
<a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/06/u-california-berkeley-delete-publicly-available-educational-content">can't
afford to make them usable by people with visual problems</a>.
<p>
I agree with the goal of serving people with limited vision, but it is
better to publish something most people can use than nothing at all.
<p>
I hope people save copies of these videos and distribute them
elsewhere.  Maybe you can save some yourself.
<p>
The article doesn't raise the question of whether these videos carry a
free license.  Perhaps they do.  But they may carry a nonfree license
such as the Creative Commons Noncommercial Sharealike license, which
<a href="/articles/online-education.html">would be bad</a>.


feed_id: d3456bb15285d85e953833e384074d72
title: Version 2 of partial ban on Muslims
uri: Version-2-of-partial-ban-on-Muslims
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Version_2_of_partial_ban_on_Muslims%29

content:
<p>
Version 2 of the partial ban on Muslims is still a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/07/dont-be-fooled-travel-ban-bad-must-be-fought">gratuitous
act of bigotry</a> and still should be overturned.
<p>
I think it is an exaggeration to say it is "as bad as" version 1.  It
is not quite as bad, but it is nonetheless bad.


feed_id: e74b7c68e0f7bdae1edc555db9bb28ec
title: Blocked from traveling outside the US
uri: Blocked-from-traveling-outside-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Blocked_from_traveling_outside_the_US%29

content:
<p>
Khizr Khan, who rebuked the infant in the name of the US Constitution,
finds himself 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/06/gold-star-father-khizr-khans-travel-privileges-reportedly-under-review">blocked
from traveling outside the US</a> and has not been told why.


feed_id: 93b7947909a47ec677172a9cac709a46
title: Mannequin used to catch would-be killer
uri: Mannequin-used-to-catch-would-be-killer
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Mannequin_used_to_catch_would-be_killer%29

content:
<p>
A 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/07/homeless-murders-las-vegas-police-arrest-mannequin-plot">mannequin
presented to imitate a sleeping homeless person</a> was used to catch
someone who tried to kill the "person".
<p>
Using camera traps it should be possible to to catch people that steal
homeless people's property.  I have a hunch they will turn out to be
people like this would-be killer, people that hate the homeless,
rather than desperate people that want those goods.


feed_id: cacf16a0788845b3c6751961c25894fa
title: Making arid land retain rain
uri: Making-arid-land-retain-rain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Making_arid_land_retain_rain%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/mar/07/tamera-portugal-permaculture-water">Simple
digging</a> can make arid land retain rain when it falls.


feed_id: 244a013b453e279bb5266fb7f80e94e4
title: Tories to give billions to the rich
uri: Tories-to-give-billions-to-the-rich
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Tories_to_give_billions_to_the_rich%29

content:
<p>
The Tories 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/07/philip-hammond-budget">plan
to give the rich billions</a>, while saying there is no money for
important things such as the NHS, libraries, schools, etc.


feed_id: 6433d2cf8cb38c2c6cd62bf23f1ac0ed
title: Urgent: Oppose inspection of computers at border
uri: Urgent-Oppose-inspection-of-computers-at-border
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_inspection_of_computers_at_border%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.openmedia.org/DefendUSBorderPrivacy">Oppose</a>
plans to inspect travelers' computers at the US border.


feed_id: 6822d24e80fd6c6fb99c036685125fda
title: Urgent: No trains from polluter
uri: Urgent-No-trains-from-polluter
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_No_trains_from_polluter%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://www.freetibet.org/petitions/4035">Urge Paris</a> not
to buy trains from a Chinese company that pollutes a lake in Tibet
with a lithium mine that Tibetans never had any choice about.


feed_id: 167385b206d05d0f5d00b8a3e8ca30e8
title: Pesticide companies
uri: Pesticide-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Pesticide_companies%29
content:
<p>
UN Experts 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/07/un-experts-denounce-myth-pesticides-are-necessary-to-feed-the-world">Denounce
'Myth' Pesticides Are Necessary to Feed the World</a>.  They have
accused pesticide companies of using various kinds of injustices to
increase sales.
<p>
This is another case of plutocracy at work, and shows one of the
reasons we need to break up large companies into many small pieces.


feed_id: 8bdb5ceb5e88c98ea872c62090e8fdb4
title: North Korea holding Malaysians hostage
uri: North-Korea-holding-Malaysians-hostage
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28North_Korea_holding_Malaysians_hostage%29

content:
<p>
North Korea is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/07/north-korea-bans-malaysians-leaving-country-kim-jong-nam-crisis">holding
all Malaysian visitors hostage</a>.
<p>
Americans, and everyone else: don't visit North Korea unless it is
absolutely necessary.  To do so is to offer the tyrant of North Korea
a hostage to use against your country.


feed_id: 2746cd3fa1c33e4f6d1d7c8e7840a1ed
title: Britain's surrender to big business
uri: Britain-s-surrender-to-big-business
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Britains_surrender_to_big_business%29

content:
<p>
If Britain can't get a good (for business) trade deal with the UK, it
will "fight back" — 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/05/philip-hammond-vows-uk-will-fight-back-if-it-gets-bad-brexit-deal-article-50">by
surrendering even more</a> to big business in other countries.


feed_id: 2324636cdf6d862cae1fbb9b1e2bfa06
title: US racists
uri: US-racists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28US_racists%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/05/left-wing-media-far-right-normalize-hate-trump">US
racists</a> say that tying them to right-wing politicians is making
their views acceptable.
<p>
They are sneaking dishonestly into the events of the antisocialists,
and 
<a href="https://notesonliberty.com/2017/02/21/why-did-the-pseudo-libertarians-bring-a-white-nationalist-to-isflc-in-the-first-place/">pretending
to have support from them</a>.


feed_id: 0f642adb9d6a2669ed45232048c5cc62
title: Troll's secret plan to eliminate PISSI
uri: Troll-s-secret-plan-to-eliminate-PISSI
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Trolls_secret_plan_to_eliminate_PISSI%29

content:
<p>
The troll said he had a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2017/mar/05/trump-promised-to-wipe-out-isis-perhaps-he-already-has-">secret
plan to eliminate PISSI within 30 days after he was elected</a>.
<p>
It's more than 40 days now, and we still haven't heard the plan, but
it seems PISSI 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/05/iraqi-troops-in-heaviest-clashes-yet-with-isis-since-mosul-push-began">has
not been eliminated yet</a>.


feed_id: 142277763034be5182c53e7605b5fafe
title: Money spent to stir up bigotry
uri: Money-spent-to-stir-up-bigotry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Money_spent_to_stir_up_bigotry%29
content:
<p>
A few foundations 
<a href="media/ceb66d44.islamophobia.pdf" data-original-source="https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/issues/2011/08/pdf/islamophobia.pdf">spent
over 40 million dollars in the 2000s to stir up bigotry against
Muslims in the US</a>.  We must suppose they have spent millions more
since then.
<p>
While the bigots' description of Shari'a law is a caricature, we
should not consider it innocent or harmless.  It is true that Shari'a
law endorses giving charity to the poor; that is one of the basic
rules of Islam.  It is also true that Shari'a law has principles and
punishments repugnant to human rights — including the death
penalty, applied for "crimes" such as 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#18_May_2015_(Respect_for_the_right_to_have_other_views)">blasphemy,
and ceasing to be a Muslim</a>.


feed_id: 9c83e617bf42cd36e9c605bff660bee5
title: Lies during confirmation hearings
uri: Lies-during-confirmation-hearings
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Lies_during_confirmation_hearings%29

content:
<p>
Several members of the saboteur cabinet 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/3/1639763/-Sessions-is-far-from-the-only-Trump-cabinet-member-who-lied-during-confirmation-hearings">lied
in their confirmation hearings</a>.


feed_id: 716a83770c2027a70280ffb276ef3803
title: Trump's distracting behavior
uri: Trump-s-distracting-behavior
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Trumps_distracting_behavior%29
content:
<p>
Trumps out-of-control public behavior is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/04/trumps-spectacle-misdirects-us-our-governments-destruction">very
effective distraction</a>.
<p>
It doesn't hurt him with his core supporters either, though they don't
even come close to a majority.


feed_id: 5b95179f921240a8e70eac28f8765726
title: Urgent: Return children
uri: 2017-03-13-Urgent-Return-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Return_children%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: call for
<a href="https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/free-the-children-of-kiarre-harris">returning Kiarre Harris's homeschooled children</a> to
her.


feed_id: 020df0c27f15fbada4836e27372ad779
title: Urgent: Funding
uri: 2017-03-13-Urgent-Funding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Funding%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.signforgood.com/protectplannedparenthood2017">call for continued funding</a> of Planned Parenthood.


feed_id: b6e6f112d122326f5d41ed078e943a67
title: Urgent: "Right to work" Laws
uri: 2017-03-13-Urgent-Right-to-work-Laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Right_to_work_Laws%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://petitions.signforgood.com/right-to-work">oppose union-crushing "right to work" laws</a>.


feed_id: ca60561bfa0640736cb5a1da123dca4c
title: Urgent: Dakota Access Pipeline
uri: 2017-03-13-Urgent-Dakota-Access-Pipeline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Dakota_Access_Pipeline%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: tell Wells Fargo, Citibank, US Bank and SunTrust Banks to <a href="https://secure3.convio.net/lcv/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3771">stop funding the Dakota Access Pipeline</a>.


feed_id: 99f69857dbddd4b61cd7e5217f09b6f3
title: Urgent: Sessions and Russia
uri: 2017-03-13-Urgent-Sessions-and-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Sessions_and_Russia%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call for a special prosecutor to <a href="https://action.aclu.org/secure/special-prosecutor">address the relationship between Sessions and Russia</a>, and related matters.


feed_id: 54a603e78603506cb990cdf502e8524c
title: Urgent: Sanders's progressive agenda
uri: 2017-03-13-Urgent-Sanders-s-progressive-agenda
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Sanders%27s_progressive_agenda%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://go.ourrevolution.com/page/s/endorse-our-progressive-agenda">endorse Sanders's progressive agenda</a>.


feed_id: b2fbbb37dcd62d910eedba00ae2e44e4
title: Urgent: Endangered Species Act
uri: 2017-03-13-Urgent-Endangered-Species-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Endangered_Species_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4196">Support the Endangered Species Act</a>.


feed_id: dcc6d34eeaf00d9753028326664bbc3d
title: Urgent: Canadian Drugs
uri: 2017-03-13-Urgent-Canadian-Drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Canadian_Drugs%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/trump_sanders_big_pharma">support legalization of importing drugs from Canada</a>.


feed_id: 786255992b8a8934715d9ede60612021
title: Urgent: Nissan advertising in Breitbart
uri: 2017-03-13-Urgent-Nissan-advertising-in-Breitbart
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Nissan_advertising_in_Breitbart%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: Call on Nissan to <a href="https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/tell-nissan-its-time-to-decide">stop advertising in Breitbart</a>.


feed_id: c0e776efd97289847bec807442a82359
title: Podesta's leaked emails
uri: 2017-03-13-Podesta-s-leaked-emails
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_March_2017_%28Podesta%27s_leaked_emails%29
content:
<p>
A crony of the troll 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roger-stone-donald-trump-julian-assange_us_58bc24cae4b0d2821b4ec16c?section=politics">says
he was in indirect communication with Assange about release of
Podesta's leaked emails</a>.
<p>
It was legitimate for Wikileaks to release information demonstrating
the corruption in the Democratic National Committee.  However,
I will be disappointed in Assange if he cooperated with the troll.


feed_id: a21b2542943f58d53a99c15fc27395ac
title: Britain's surrender to big business
uri: 2017-03-13-Britain-s-surrender-to-big-business
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#12_March_2017_%28Britains_surrender_to_big_business%29

content:
<p>
If Britain can't get a good (for business) trade deal with the EU, it
will "fight back" — 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/05/philip-hammond-vows-uk-will-fight-back-if-it-gets-bad-brexit-deal-article-50">by
surrendering even more</a> to big business in other countries.


feed_id: 9cdfcb214a26514b0eb126104ced8b77
title: Supposed cleanup of Fukushima melt-downs
uri: Supposed-cleanup-of-Fukushima-melt-downs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Supposed_cleanup_of_Fukushima_melt-downs%29

content:
<p>
The supposed cleanup of the Fukushima melt-downs is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/09/fukushima-nuclear-cleanup-falters-six-years-after-tsunami">making
no progress at all</a>.  They have not been able to build a robot that
can explore the insides of the ruined reactors.


feed_id: 084aa3832ca289a988c435e231692bf4
title: Illegal forced labor
uri: Illegal-forced-labor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Illegal_forced_labor%29
content:
<p>
A lawsuit alleges that requiring people imprisoned awaiting
deportation to work for a low wage is 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/6/1640644/-For-the-first-time-in-history-private-prisons-face-class-action-for-violating-anti-slavery-laws">illegal
forced labor</a>.


feed_id: 27338a25b1a6b52e4f715cebfd489fa3
title: Refusing to recite Pledge of Allegiance
uri: Refusing-to-recite-Pledge-of-Allegiance
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Refusing_to_recite_Pledge_of_Allegiance%29

content:
<p>
An aboriginal American student was 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/4/1639949/-Native-American-student-removed-from-class-for-refusing-to-pledge-allegiance-to-flag">pulled
out of class for refusing</a> to recite the Pledge of Allegiance.
<p>
The constitution defends a citizen's right not to recite that pledge.
<p>
The proper response to "My father fought in Vietnam and my husband
fought in Afghanistan" is, "I am sure they wanted to serve their
country.  I deeply regret that politicians misused their loyalty."


feed_id: dfadbee01c790060db98c0e21745df8b
title: Attack on civilians in West Bank village
uri: Attack-on-civilians-in-West-Bank-village
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Attack_on_civilians_in_West_Bank_village%29

content:
<p>
Israeli Soldiers 
<a href="https://972mag.com/israeli-soldiers-stand-by-as-settlers-attack-civilians-in-west-bank/125617/">Stand
By</a> As Settlers Attack Civilians in West Bank Village.


feed_id: bde8ba68ec9f5176076ac85e264bb578
title: Right-wing extremists invent false history
uri: Right-wing-extremists-invent-false-history
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Right-wing_extremists_invent_false_history%29

content:
<p>
Right-wing extremists (including supporters of the loser) now 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/08/forget-alternative-facts-the-trump-administration-is-giving-us-alternative-history">invent
false history on the spot</a> to suit their purposes.


feed_id: 39741e82f12f9641a574eb5e28ae3f47
title: CIA studies and uses cracking techniques
uri: CIA-studies-and-uses-cracking-techniques
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28CIA_studies_and_uses_cracking_techniques%29

content:
<p>
The CIA has a group which studies and then uses the 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/08/wikileaks-files-show-the-cia-repurposing-foreign-hacking-code-to-save-time-not-to-frame-russia/">cracking
techniques of other countries' crackers</a>.
<p>
Perhaps it also arranges to make some other country appear to be the
culprit.


feed_id: e51df85f4aa76a056ded7f49f5e30a39
title: Tax on sugary drinks
uri: 2017-03-14-Tax-on-sugary-drinks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Tax_on_sugary_drinks%29
content:
<p>
The UK's tax on sugary drinks has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/08/sugar-tax-will-raise-less-money-than-expected">pressured
manufacturers to reduce the sugar levels of their drinks</a>.


feed_id: 226a74545c75ad02abc5b3cfa071d495
title: LA sales tax to support housing for homeless
uri: LA-sales-tax-to-support-housing-for-homeless
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28LA_sales_tax_to_support_housing_for_homeless%29

content:
<p>
Los Angeles voters 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/08/los-angeles-homelessness-sales-tax-approved">approved
an additional sales tax</a> to support housing for the homeless.
<p>
I honor their decision to pay more tax for this, but it ought to be a
(progressive) income tax rather than a (regressive in effect) sales
tax.


feed_id: 5d4ef04b7989547aef9d01fb7f5ef75f
title: Medical insurance
uri: Medical-insurance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Medical_insurance%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/07/gops-obamacare-repeal-plan-out-and-its-even-worse-anyone-expected">Republicans'
plan to "replace" Obama's medical insurance plan</a> will result in a
collapse of the insurance market.  Millions of Americans will be
unable to get any medical coverage.
<p>
It also bans using federal funds for Planned Parenthood's medical
services including prenatal care and contraception.


feed_id: 99ec1f125de3ad232d4c03c98c3a7766
title: Secret court orders and electronic searches
uri: Secret-court-orders-and-electronic-searches
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Secret_court_orders_and_electronic_searches%29

content:
<p>
EFF: Secret Court Orders Aren't Blank Checks for General 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/gartenlaub">Electronic
Searches</a>.  Or at least, they shouldn't be interpreted that way.


feed_id: 85609e93e158fd6a61d087d61107fd3f
title: The British Raj
uri: The-British-Raj
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28The_British_Raj%29
content:
<p>
The British Raj looted India for two centuries and was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/08/india-britain-empire-railways-myths-gifts">designed
to make India less advanced</a>.  And it mostly succeeded.


feed_id: 48e13b76f688411159d96fb112484a5d
title: Hungary imprisons refugee
uri: Hungary-imprisons-refugee
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#13_March_2017_%28Hungary_imprisons_refugee%29
content:
<p>
A refugee arriving in Hungary was imprisoned automatically, paid the
state around $2000 for permission to move to a tent city, and now
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/08/refugees-asylum-seekers-hungary-hardline-eu-viktor-orban">faces
being put automatically back in prison</a>.
<p>
The government of Hungary has 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#31_October_2014_(Hungarys_distorted_election_system)">warped
democratic structures</a> to the point where it has total permanent
control.


feed_id: 3c0303f2af3aa6ed98e230b8fe18e8bc
title: Urgent: Defend funding of the EPA
uri: Urgent-Defend-funding-of-the-EPA
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Defend_funding_of_the_EPA%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: US citizens: <a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2929">defend funding of the EPA</a>.


feed_id: d90a0d2151b39127770ca986fbf8130e
title: Troll appoints saboteurs
uri: Troll-appoints-saboteurs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Troll_appoints_saboteurs%29
content:
<p>
The troll has <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/09/meet-hundreds-officials-trump-has-quietly-installed-across-government">secretly appointed hundreds of second-rank officials</a>
that are essentially saboteurs.


feed_id: a0ace4b0ef4ae60257bc18503245321b
title: EPA saboteur-in-chief Pruitt
uri: EPA-saboteur-in-chief-Pruitt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28EPA_saboteur-in-chief_Pruitt%29
content:
<p>
EPA saboteur-in-chief Pruitt <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/09/call-it-what-it-climate-cover-not-climate-denial">explicitly denied the basic facts about
global heating</a>.


feed_id: 5021ba02316643998d8320b0ea4f8398
title: Software security holes
uri: Software-security-holes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Software_security_holes%29
content:
<p>
Wikileaks has secret CIA files describing details of security holes,
but rather than publishing these files, it will <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/09/assange-wikileaks-will-give-tech-firms-leaked-docs-fight-cia-cyberweapons">provide them to the
software developers so they can fix the bugs</a>.
<p>
I've seen people that hate Wikileaks say that developers should not
trust this information if it comes from Wikileaks.  This is irrational
and absurd.  A detailed report of a reproducible bug does not require
you to trust everyone involved in forwarding it to you.  You can
verify it yourself.


feed_id: d194e332784946b061a29c25c59f0566
title: Right-to-repair laws
uri: Right-to-repair-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Right-to-repair_laws%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/apple.html">Apple</a> is <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/source-apple-will-fight-right-to-repair-legislation">campaigning against right-to-repair laws</a> that weaken
the unjust effect of the DMCA.


feed_id: baaae90a296266637bc17d8b0b9965ba
title: Michael Flynn foreign agent
uri: Michael-Flynn-foreign-agent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Michael_Flynn_foreign_agent%29
content:
<p>
Last year, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/09/michael-flynn-foreign-agent-sean-spicer">Michael Flynn was a foreign agent</a>, lobbying for Erdogan's
demands.


feed_id: 2b5c6a51f7361a3d8e9940dc9b947b68
title: UK thugs attack miners
uri: UK-thugs-attack-miners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28UK_thugs_attack_miners%29
content:
<p>
UK thugs were given a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/09/miners-strike-files-battle-of-orgreave-hints-political-direction-police-uk">political mission to attack striking miners</a>.


feed_id: 1490ae707d185ac3d717b376392a3856
title: Turkey, Syrian rebels
uri: Turkey-Syrian-rebels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Turkey%2C_Syrian_rebels%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/09/us-troops-arrival-syria-intensifies-struggle-for-influence">Turkey is no longer arming Syrian rebels</a>, as it has made friends with Russia.


feed_id: 3002a2ac15ba84cd653827dcfb521ee5
title: Russia persecuting Jehovah's Witnesses
uri: Russia-persecuting-Jehovah-s-Witnesses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Russia_persecuting_Jehovah%27s_Witnesses%29

content:
<p>
Russia is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2017/mar/09/in-russia-the-persecution-of-jehovahs-witnesses-begins-all-over-again">persecuting Jehovah's Witnesses for their pacifism</a>.


feed_id: 6e6cf927a6d3bbef729ac08c366a3290
title: Infrastructure of the US
uri: Infrastructure-of-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Infrastructure_of_the_US%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/09/america-infrastructure-rating-problems-engineers-report">The infrastructure of the US is in terrible shape</a> after decades of
insufficient investment.
<p>
The troll's plan to invest in infrastructure would be good except that
he wants to give the money to companies so they can charge tolls.


feed_id: 48c61738730449cb90d3fe2cdb57509b
title: Raid on Yemen
uri: Raid-on-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Raid_on_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
The troll's glorious raid on Yemen turns out to have been <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/09/women-and-children-in-yemeni-village-recall-horror-of-trumps-highly-successful-seal-raid/">a massacre
across the whole village</a>.


feed_id: a94010bf2345927c9f549948b7c2cee6
title: CIA Deputy Director Haspel
uri: CIA-Deputy-Director-Haspel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28CIA_Deputy_Director_Haspel%29
content:
<p>
CIA Deputy Director Haspel, who was closely involved with CIA torture
under Dubya, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/03/08/cia-torture-architects-ordered-testify-over-cover-involving-trump-appointee">will have to testify</a> about the CIA's destruction of evidence
about the torture.


feed_id: 06bb353385524fd83b1f9433b32cb674
title: Privatization of public education
uri: 2017-03-14-Privatization-of-public-education
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Privatization_of_public_education%29

content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/08/betsy-devoss-education-agenda-can-be-overturned-city-shows-how">Philadelphia provides an example to follow</a> for resistance to
imposed privatization of public education.  We will need it
to rest Saboteur of Education DeVos.


feed_id: d5986d978588ff5b040042cbe88c7fba
title: Attack on Raqqa
uri: Attack-on-Raqqa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Attack_on_Raqqa%29
content:
<p>
US ground artillery is helping in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/09/us-sends-hundreds-of-marines-to-syria-to-support-fight-against-isis">attack on Raqqa</a>.
<p>
I don't see a great deal of danger in this, because it avoids the two
situations where US troops tend to cause problems: acting as
occupation troops over a civilian population they can't talk with
and don't like, and fighting away from a battle zone.


feed_id: 1ba392fd1bd6f31a927730b53708478a
title: Urgent: Reject Republican "healthcare" plan
uri: Urgent-Reject-Republican-healthcare-plan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_Republican_healthcare_plan%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-assault-on-obamacare-the-gops-first-big-tax-break-for-the-wealthy">Demand</a>
that Congress reject the Republican "healthcare" plan.
<p>
Please 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-the-gop-war-on-seniors">sign
this one</a>, too.


feed_id: 95dae75c24a5a48160f21598fe353feb
title: US-backed torture and killing in Kenya
uri: US-backed-torture-and-killing-in-Kenya
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28US-backed_torture_and_killing_in_Kenya%29

content:
<p>
US-backed anti-terror campaign in Kenya is based on
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/09/you-were-supposed-to-die-tonight-us-anti-terror-strategy-linked-to-torture-in-africa">torturing
and killing</a> those who are suspected.


feed_id: 3e5ec0ca0433b85041df514ac1d0c0a3
title: Deportation of refugees to Afghanistan
uri: Deportation-of-refugees-to-Afghanistan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Deportation_of_refugees_to_Afghanistan%29

content:
<p>
As the war in Afghanistan slowly heats up, refugees are being 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/mar/09/forced-repatriation-to-afghanistan-we-didnt-think-it-would-happen-to-us">forcibly
deported there</a>.  They include children born in exile.
<p>
Many of them can't return "home" — they can only become refugees
elsewhere in Afghanistan.
<p>
These refugees should not have had many children, but perhaps it was
our fault not to provide them with reliable birth control.


feed_id: cc13b5a7644c9f8b040c33f1fee44634
title: Troll's new visa denial policy
uri: Troll-s-new-visa-denial-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Trolls_new_visa_denial_policy%29
content:
<p>
The troll's new visa denial policy, aimed at all Iranians, will 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/09/trump-travel-ban-iranian-students-critics">mostly
hurt Iranians that criticize the Islamist regime there</a>.


feed_id: a431b603065473b69e6a3c62b002e9bf
title: Urgent: Conflict of interest rule
uri: Urgent-Conflict-of-interest-rule
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Conflict_of_interest_rule%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/test-dont-delay-the-conflict-of-interest-rule">defend
the rule</a> that retirement investment advisers must be loyal to
their customers.


feed_id: f50d4794a53abae4276d8750dbb6e5f5
title: Troll's chief saboteur at the EPA
uri: Troll-s-chief-saboteur-at-the-EPA
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Trolls_chief_saboteur_at_the_EPA%29

content:
<p>
Pruitt, the troll's chief saboteur at the EPA, is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/08/under-pruitt-climate-deniers-flourish-epa">appointing
global heating denialists</a> to many posts there.


feed_id: 268e32e8278e5b762fc2f3346fc21453
title: The World Bank
uri: The-World-Bank
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28The_World_Bank%29
content:
<p>
The World Bank funded the expansion of a palm oil company in Honduras
that is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/08/honduran-farmers-sue-world-bank-lending-arm-profiting-murder">accused
of attacking and killing local farmers</a> that object to prior theft
of their land.


feed_id: 8fa777349bc5e732b028a0e5e651ea3b
title: Massive use of pesticides
uri: Massive-use-of-pesticides
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Massive_use_of_pesticides%29
content:
<p>
Massive use of pesticides is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/03/08/report-un-pesticides-causing-catastrophic-harms-people-environment">causing
massive harm</a> — to humans and to ecosystems.


feed_id: 923b6d992da0a671902fd5074bca10f2
title: Puerto Rico's debt crisis
uri: Puerto-Rico-s-debt-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Puerto_Ricos_debt_crisis%29
content:
<p>
Puerto Rico's debt crisis is 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/03/08/puerto-rico-oversight-board-warns-island-cant-pay-vital-services">heading
towards collapse</a>.
<p>
Sad to say, the US government's "solution" will surely prioritize the
banks over the people.


feed_id: 58c42f7256c1b5b1946bc7b9152231d5
title: Convicted sex offenders
uri: Convicted-sex-offenders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Convicted_sex_offenders%29
content:
<p>
Most convicted sex offenders 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/08/justice-kennedys-trumpesque-claim-about">do
not commit another sex crime</a>.  Of those not judged "high risk",
only 5% were found to reoffend within 15 years.
<p>
So let's not make harsh laws that assume they are all driven
"predators".


feed_id: f530a379dccd5ef4950d0232dc4597ae
title: Price of water in the US
uri: Price-of-water-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Price_of_water_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
The price of water for families is 
<a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/03/americas-hidden-water-affordability-crisis.html">increasing
steadily</a> in the US.  In a few years, a substantial fraction of
Americans won't be able to afford water.
<p>
Meanwhile, companies continue to be able to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#14_April_2015_(California_water_conservation_rules)">extract
tremendous quantities and pay next to nothing</a>.
<p>
If the US keeps washing away people's access to water, in a couple of
decades it could resemble the corporate water grab 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/mar/09/ethiopia-boomtown-water-firms-locals-thirsty-sululta-oromia">happening
now in Ethiopia</a>.


feed_id: c889ee1f2b2bbe6afbda8cd300b966d7
title: Employees of Uber
uri: Employees-of-Uber
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Employees_of_Uber%29
content:
<p>
Employees of Uber 
<a href="http://jalopnik.com/companies-are-making-ex-uber-employees-prove-theyre-not-1793047267">can't
get other jobs</a> — people assume they had to be assholes to
get along at Uber.


feed_id: d0abb29ed4c7e4b5dc523ce06a9c8281
title: Urgent: Make hard work pay again
uri: Urgent-Make-hard-work-pay-again
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Make_hard_work_pay_again%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/make-hard-work-pay-off-again">support bill to make hard work pay once again</a>.
<p>
Signing this petition with Javascript disabled does work, so disregard the statement that it won't work.


feed_id: 22df6ccd824f6123b936d46b4e0ee2c6
title: Urgent: Planned Parenthood
uri: 2017-03-15-Urgent-Planned-Parenthood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Planned_Parenthood%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Senate <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/protect_pp">not to defund Planned Parenthood</a>.


feed_id: 5a98573b392590dd4a638e727836288d
title: Urgent: Copyright restrictions
uri: Urgent-Copyright-restrictions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Copyright_restrictions%29

content:
<p>
EU citizens: use <a href="https://savethememe.net/" title="Save the meme">savethememe.net</a> to phone your MEP to oppose plans for stricter copyright restrictions on material posted on a web site by users.


feed_id: 7b75341cb2274a128525910ea3fdd93d
title: Republicans despise non-rich
uri: Republicans-despise-non-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Republicans_despise_non-rich%29
content:
<p>
Republicans keep showing that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/09/republicans-healthcare-poor-voters-representation-jason-chaffetz">they despise the non-rich and seek
to push them down</a>. Some of the non-rich are so bamboozled that they prefer not
recognize this fact.
<p>
It is possible to live without a portable phone; I do.  For the sake
of democracy and your freedom, you should do it too.  But that won't
save you enough money to afford medical coverage.


feed_id: b61b5972da82b4f4d4cf8b9d58567df9
title: Partial ban on Muslism, version 2
uri: Partial-ban-on-Muslism-version-2
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Partial_ban_on_Muslism%2C_version_2%29

content:
<p>
The partial ban on Muslims, version 2, is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/09/trump-administration-an-aura-of-lawlessness">still wrong, very harmful,
and unjustified</a>.  It eliminates many of the details that were clearly
unconstitutional.  Whether courts will accept it is hard to guess.


feed_id: 423647a42913f7f195bd5263756ac40e
title: Troll deportations
uri: Troll-deportations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Troll_deportations%29
content:
<p>
The troll's ferocious deportation scheme will be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/mar/10/trump-immigration-policy-gift-human-traffickers-modern-slavery-human-rights-abuses-verisk-maplecroft">a gift to those who
seek to enslave people</a>, just as drug prohibition boosts smuggling.


feed_id: ae2c448f3b6306a64db211933062858d
title: Raising Rent
uri: Raising-Rent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Raising_Rent%29
content:
<p>
The cheater wants to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/09/trumps-budget-draft-takes-axe-low-income-housing-funds">raise the rents of all poor people in the US</a>. Hundreds of thousands of <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/03/09/special-statement-national-low-income-housing-coalition-president-and-ceo-diane">Americans will lack either housing or food</a>.


feed_id: 1fb09634ef907bdf53f3e5226aa98ee2
title: Nebraska's right-to-repair law
uri: Nebraska-s-right-to-repair-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Nebraska%27s_right-to-repair_law%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/apple.html">Apple</a> and other companies have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/11/nebraska-farmers-right-to-repair-bill-stalls-apple">blocked, for now, Nebraska's right-to-repair law</a>.
<p>
Here we see, in tangible form, the harm done by the term "intellectual
property".  They are talking about keeping trade secrets, a practice
recognized as antisocial by the drafters of the US Constitution (they
decided to permit patents as a way to discourage trade secrecy).  By
dressing it up as "intellectual property," they dress this harmful
practice up as a principle that entitles them to screw their
customers.
<p>
Can anyone put me in touch with the campaigners in Nebraska, or in
Massachusetts?


feed_id: dab15969f5b355e127079b628ea42c0c
title: Bureau of Land Management
uri: Bureau-of-Land-Management
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Bureau_of_Land_Management%29
content:
<p>
The Bureau of Land Management is responsible for much of the
environmental protection in the US, and <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/11/rogue-twitter-accounts-fight-to-preserve-the-voice-of-government-science/">the troll's saboteurs
are at work there</a>.


feed_id: e11bdae8b14d1b1925e80aa7f26372b5
title: Greek protesters
uri: Greek-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Greek_protesters%29
content:
<p>
Greek protesters have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/11/greek-activists-target-sales-of-homes-seized-over-bad-debts">blocked 20,000 auctions of seized houses</a>
in recent months.


feed_id: c9c213270a5d8d9d65ac259884b0fd58
title: Global heating
uri: 2017-03-15-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/10/volkswagen-vw-pleads-guilty-criminal-charges-emissions-cheating">Global heating of oceans is going faster than previously estimated</a>,
and the estimates for the past 50 years were underestimates too.


feed_id: 311ef332ea5eb79c5ade9ed3ed7ce14f
title: Marine advisers
uri: Marine-advisers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Marine_advisers%29
content:
<p>
The US government is trying to pretend that <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/10/marines-tasked-with-firing-howitzers-in-syria-are-just-advisers-says-sean-spicer/">deploying troops to fire
artillery in Syria is not combat</a>.
<p>
There is a difference between acting as advisors and fighting.
Precisely because the distinction is meaningful, misrepresenting it
is a lie.


feed_id: c0f86e6b045b967cc4354f52b8f18cbf
title: Health Privacy
uri: Health-Privacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Health_Privacy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/republicans-are-dismantling-the-law-that-protects-your-dna-from-your-boss"><cite>Republicans Are Dismantling the Law That Protects Your DNA From Your 
Boss</cite></a>.
<p>
"Wellness programs" tend to be surveillance programs, which means
people who oppose them are protecting society as a whole as well
as their own freedom.


feed_id: 432ce5e04439fb2986ddef65898b9329
title: Tar sands pipelines
uri: 2017-03-15-Tar-sands-pipelines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Tar_sands_pipelines%29
content:
<p>
American protesters are <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/10/their-trials-begins-climate-protecting-valve-turners-say-shut-it-down-necessity">facing years in prison for turning valves to shut off
tar sands pipelines</a>.  They aim to present the "necessity defense".
<p>
What they did is just a part of what it will take to prevent the biggest
mass murder in human history.


feed_id: 3b03b39101baa385c9db3cc276cfb7a0
title: ACLU suing Sessions
uri: ACLU-suing-Sessions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28ACLU_suing_Sessions%29
content:
<p>
The ACLU is suing to <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/03/10/aclu-files-ethics-complaint-against-attorney-general-sessions-false-statements">have Sessions disbarred for lying in his
confirmation hearing</a>.


feed_id: f021bcc41f0a1a54f163e72e19195ed1
title: Rivalry with Russia and China
uri: Rivalry-with-Russia-and-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Rivalry_with_Russia_and_China%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/10/bush-era-foreign-policy-delusions-are-alive-and-well-2017">Bush-era neocons are still pushing their vision</a> of power rivalry with
Russia and China, although it is not the same as the troll's idea of rivalry.


feed_id: 288dcc2593011f6648024e31b654c67c
title: Altered news articles
uri: Altered-news-articles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Altered_news_articles%29
content:
<p>
The head Republican in the North Carolina senate shared news articles
on Facebook—<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/9/1641967/-Busted-NC-Senate-leader-s-staff-changed-real-news-headlines-with-fake-ones-on-his-Facebook-page">altering their headlines</a>.
<p>
This is typical of Republicans today.  The Republican Party has become
the Anti-Integrity Party; its unofficial motto is "grab power and
wealth by any possible means".


feed_id: ab2be9d6b8246cfb461533cacbaeead0
title: Troll's conflicts of interest
uri: 2017-03-15-Troll-s-conflicts-of-interest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Troll%27s_conflicts_of_interest%29
content:
<p>
The troll's conflicts of interest continue unabated, including an
apparent bribe from China in the form of rapid approval for trademarks
for his business there.  The Office of Government Ethics stated that,
despite the troll's absurd claims, <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/10/ethics-office-tells-trump-co-sorry-youre-not-above-rules">ethical rules for government
employees do apply to his staff</a>.
<p>
The article makes the <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">mistake of using the term "intellectual property"</a>
as if that term had a coherent meaning.  Many people believe that,
and the confusion encourages bad laws.


feed_id: 6e3687fa40d7f0c539cb736bbcbcd707
title: Pruitt misled Congress
uri: Pruitt-misled-Congress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Pruitt_misled_Congress%29
content:
<p>
When Pruitt admitted he denies the facts about CO2 and global heating,
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/10/scott-pruitt-has-misled-congress-climate-multiple-times">he also admitted lying to Congress previously</a> about the point.


feed_id: 36684c9062a65ca3017d6ad19d8e7f24
title: Israeli who murdered Palestinian
uri: Israeli-who-murdered-Palestinian
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Israeli_who_murdered_Palestinian%29

content:
<p>
The Israeli soldier who murdered a Palestinian <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2017/03/10/theater-absurd-israels-so-called-purity-arms">got a sentence "fit for
a bicycle thief"</a>, less than Palestinian children get for throwing
rocks at cars.  But murderous right-wing Israelis say that is too
much.
<p>
"Wake up and smell the apartheid", said Assaf Harel.


feed_id: 43d4377e003f6a2027b4351728d8666a
title: Cities of Resistance
uri: Cities-of-Resistance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Cities_of_Resistance%29
content:
<p>
The ACLU has launched a <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/10/aclus-people-power-project-launch-cities-resistance-effort">"cities of resistance" program</a>, calling on
municipal governments to refuse to cooperate with some of the troll's
cruelest policies.


feed_id: 1f78036264754fe1746105091443d5b6
title: Cancer, Health Insurance
uri: Cancer-Health-Insurance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Cancer%2C_Health_Insurance%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/as-a-29-year-old-cancer-patient-paul-ryans-argument-against-health-insurance-is-appalling"><cite>As a 29-Year-Old Cancer Patient, I Find Paul Ryanâs Argument Against Health Insurance Appalling</cite></a>.


feed_id: 40d69e2f6c7bd6ce6aa6fc70ed7441da
title: Pipeline protest
uri: 2017-03-15-Pipeline-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Pipeline_protest%29
content:
<p>
Indigenous Americans brought their <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/10/native-nations-march-washington-dakota-access-pipeline">pipeline protest to Washington</a>.
<p>
Bravo—but alas this protest doesn't block construction or operation
of the pipeline.


feed_id: 4215b2b282bb996472f0b59b6fc40e4f
title: Scholarship websites
uri: Scholarship-websites
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Scholarship_websites%29
content:
<p>
How scholarship websites <a href="http://hechingerreport.org/scholarship-websites-sell-students-information-colleges-publishers/">sell studentsâ information</a> to colleges and publishers.


feed_id: c10e673128fcc9429bba88431bcab435
title: Black Lives Matter
uri: 2017-03-15-Black-Lives-Matter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Black_Lives_Matter%29
content:
<p>
The Department of Homeland Subjugation <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/10/why-dhs-labeling-protesters-domestic-terrorists">labels Black Lives Matter protesters as "terrorist suspects."</a> <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39779-new-anti-protesting-legislation-a-deeper-look"><cite>New Anti-Protesting Legislation: A Deeper Look</cite></a>.
<p>
Shall we describe the Republicans' campaign to abolish effective protests
a form of "judicial terrorism"?


feed_id: f431b06fd7e78898a91ee55d4cd80378
title: TSA harassment
uri: 2017-03-15-TSA-harassment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28TSA_harassment%29
content:
<p>
The Theater of Security Agency (TSA) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/10/muhammad-ali-jr-detained-airport-congress-hearing">harassed Muhammad Ali Jr over his
religion</a> <em>again</em>.


feed_id: 148adbc3545cb232009a0b42016b4280
title: World's Famine
uri: World-s-Famine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28World%27s_Famine%29
content:
<p>
The world's current <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/11/world-faces-worst-humanitarian-crisis-since-1945-says-un-official">famine is the biggest since 1945</a>.


feed_id: 2c07c7cc85dd70e4e67e03c89a68ca6b
title: Medical Insurance
uri: Medical-Insurance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Medical_Insurance%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/09/american-health-care-act-wealth-grab-not-health-plan">Republican scheme for medical insurance</a> would keep dooH niboR very
healthy.


feed_id: 89ef9bfbf2d079e8731132629d0b48f8
title: Corporate Tax Dodging
uri: Corporate-Tax-Dodging
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Corporate_Tax_Dodging%29
content:
<p>
Sanders and other senators have proposed a bill that would <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/03/09/sanders-schatz-schakowsky-introduce-bill-prevent-corporate-tax-dodging">make sure
profitable companies pay</a> their something closer to fair share of tax.


feed_id: 0138b5fe93e8fc30c87d78bab48a401f
title: Women in Jamaica
uri: Women-in-Jamaica
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#14_March_2017_%28Women_in_Jamaica%29
content:
<p>
Women in Jamaica have launched a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/10/jamaica-caribbean-tambourine-army-sexual-violence">public campaign against sexual
violence</a>.


feed_id: b648f144e13b6bf51078d370c68c54b3
title: Urgent: Safe Communities Act
uri: Urgent-Safe-Communities-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Safe_Communities_Act%29
content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/support-the-safe-communities?akid=179430.2794606.k2riD1&rd=1&source=mo&t=1002">Support the Safe Communities Act</a>, which
would block state funds from being used to help deportation (or a
possible "Muslim registry").


feed_id: 0091805e45b1af492c13368912476ecb
title: Urgent: Internet service for old people
uri: Urgent-Internet-service-for-old-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Internet_service_for_old_people%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Ajit Pai <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_lifeline_pai/?t=1004&akid=6172.9489429.TPFDd">not to cut off old people from internet service</a>.


feed_id: 13e2fd57afd14b6c4fe373b71cedb64c
title: Urgent: Regulation of guns
uri: Urgent-Regulation-of-guns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Regulation_of_guns%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.everytown.org/sign/postcards-dont-gut-ou">call on
your congresscritter</a> to reject the NRA's plan to neutralize all
states' regulation of guns.


feed_id: 316c225554e13e0e742822725c34e81f
title: Troll attacks information
uri: Troll-attacks-information
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Troll_attacks_information%29
content:
<p>
The troll <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/12/trumps-war-truth-tellers">systematically attacks</a> the credibility of all sources
of information other than him.
<p>
He anticipated that the Congressional Budget Office would honestly
report on <a href="http://www.kfdi.com/news/national/24-million-would-lose-insurance-under-gop-health-care-plan-cbo-says">the harm that the Republicans' medical insurance sabotage
bill would do</a>, so he attacked it preemptively.


feed_id: 0dea278e67c617ca8283a07bb1c8e545
title: The Dance of Death
uri: The-Dance-of-Death
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28The_Dance_of_Death%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/13/dance-death"><cite>The Dance of Death</cite></a>: seeing present-day global society as an empire
in decay, searching to recover its former "greatness".


feed_id: ead22745c0e129e0e925a66c418f8c2e
title: Immigration prisons
uri: Immigration-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Immigration_prisons%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/10/14873244/ice-immigrant-detention-solitary-trump-corecivic-geo">Privatized US immigration prisons are so dangerous</a> that often
prisoners ask to be put in solitary for their own safety.  Others are
put in solitary for "crimes" such as giving haircuts to other
prisoners for a price.


feed_id: c6467c7bba957c97da724956031947e5
title: Troll's Mexican wall
uri: Troll-s-Mexican-wall
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Troll%27s_Mexican_wall%29
content:
<p>
The troll's Mexican wall would cause <a href="http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2988666/trumps_beautiful_wall_threatens_111_endangered_species.html">grave harm to ecosystems around
the border</a>, as well as emitting lots of CO2 from the concrete.


feed_id: d95fdf0191a9f4640d83597c47bd5fb9
title: Erdogan, Turkish officials
uri: Erdogan-Turkish-officials
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Erdogan%2C_Turkish_officials%29
content:
<p>
Some European countries banned Turkish officials from visiting to
campaign for Erdogan's new authoritarian constitution.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/12/netherlands-will-pay-the-price-for-blocking-turkish-visit-erdogan">Erdogan's
party responded to this with insulting trumpery and confrontation</a>.
<p>
I think the insults and confrontationalism is another campaign
activity.  The idea is to manipulate Turks into regarding those
European countries as their enemy and supporting Erdogan against them.
<p>
This is, I believe, meant to distract them from the principal enemy of
freedom and democracy in Turkey: Erdogan himself.


feed_id: e23e139635ed75f6f5a6fb9b41897463
title: Guantanamo
uri: 2017-03-15-Guantanamo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Guantanamo%29
content:
<p>
The troll wants to whitewash the Guantanamo prison by <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/12/whitewashing-guantanamo">pretending that it was perfect</a> while Dubya was in charge.


feed_id: a2540f573efaf26e1bf44950f39c6283
title: Paris climate agreement
uri: Paris-climate-agreement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Paris_climate_agreement%29
content:
<p>
State and local action can achieve <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/12/pathway-paris">60% of the US commitments under the Paris climate agreement</a>. The Paris climate agreement is considerably less than what the US
needs to do if it is to do its share of avoiding global heating disaster. But at least <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#7_September_2016_(Paris_climate_agreement)">this is a start at a start</a>.
<p>
The Clean Power Plan would also avoid 6000 deaths per year,
but the Republicans don't consider the lives of non-rich
to be important.


feed_id: d4e527cc1145df59553e3980e1dec3a6
title: Legal rights of consumers and patients
uri: Legal-rights-of-consumers-and-patients
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Legal_rights_of_consumers_and_patients%29

content:
<p>
Corporate Interests 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/03/10/corporate-interests-give-tens-millions-dismantle-legal-rights-consumers-and">Give
Tens of Millions to Dismantle Legal Rights</a> of Consumers and
Patients.


feed_id: 0e8fc55636d5103aaaeba2e2fa0f4157
title: FCC's privacy rules
uri: FCC-s-privacy-rules
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28FCCs_privacy_rules%29
content:
<p>
Republicans 
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/gop-senators-new-bill-would-let-isps-sell-your-web-browsing-data/">propose
to nullify the FCC's privacy rules</a>, demonstrating once again that
they are always for business against the people.
<p>
The FCC's privacy rules are grossly inadequate because they regulate
only how the ISPs can use the data they have collected.  ISPs 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">should
not be allowed to keep any records of users' internet connections</a>
except under a specific court order.


feed_id: 37d706b53f7ff53e86ff1d3c2ca4bc99
title: Urgent: Stop Amazon ads in Breitbart
uri: Urgent-Stop-Amazon-ads-in-Breitbart
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_Amazon_ads_in_Breitbart%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/amazon-stop-supporting">tell
Amazon</a> to stop advertising in Breitbart.


feed_id: 890e4d460f5d8f2a6842a62340ed0189
title: Denials by troll's team
uri: Denials-by-troll-s-team
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Denials_by_trolls_team%29
content:
<p>
The troll's team were informed that Flynn was a foreign agent.  They
handled this the same way they handled the troll's foreign conflicts
of interest — by 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/03/10/1642228/-Unaware-Trump-and-Pence-were-aware-of-Flynn-s-foreign-lobbying-They-simply-lied-about-it">denying
it</a>.


feed_id: 1c927b02e236bf128ee5a3b5a083cbcc
title: Israel and Palestine
uri: 2017-03-15-Israel-and-Palestine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Israel_and_Palestine%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: a single state comprising the territory of Israel and
Palestine would inevitably be an apartheid state, and some day an Arab
state.  Jews, like Arabs, should insist on a 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/archive/1488644318/">separate
state of Palestine</a>.
<p>
Avnery mentions the tendency for Israelis to move to the US or
Germany.  Part of the reason for some Israelis to move is that they
don't like living under the bigoted antiliberal regime that tears up
the principles of law, constitution and liberty, one by one, as they
become inconvenient for the goal of apartheid.


feed_id: 83f568923dfaba060090fd5d0d2ffcbb
title: Urgent: Preserve clean air standards
uri: Urgent-Preserve-clean-air-standards
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Preserve_clean_air_standards%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4201">call
on the EPA</a> to preserve clean air standards.


feed_id: 8f087c9f850eb81d01cdbd3f90cde063
title: Frackwells
uri: Frackwells
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%28Frackwells%29
content:
<p>
A farmer who permitted a frackwell on his land says, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jul/17/dont-allow-fracking-farmer-allowed-coal-methane-borehole">"Don't
do it!"</a>


feed_id: 1320efe796d1249fe35fba3642d60629
title: Urgent: Ban trade in shark fin
uri: Urgent-Ban-trade-in-shark-fin
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Ban_trade_in_shark_fin%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.e-activist.com/ea-action/broadcast.record.message.click.do?ea.url.id=873307">tell
Congress</a> to ban trade in shark fin.


feed_id: 8a3240fb2a8ace73796d6aa48d4fe90d
title: Urgent: No military recruiters in high school
uri: Urgent-No-military-recruiters-in-high-school
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_No_military_recruiters_in_high_school%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12759">call
on all states</a> to help parents keep military recruiters away from
their children in high school.
<p>
It works to sign with Javascript disabled if you use the Salsalabs
<a href="/salsalabs-method.html">method</a>.


feed_id: 2e2b7bd4df4ef3e375d898cbe63b3cc6
title: Obsession with troll's ties with Russia
uri: Obsession-with-troll-s-ties-with-Russia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Obsession_with_trolls_ties_with_Russia%29

content:
<p>
Obsession about the troll's ties with Russia — which may or may
not add up to substantial wrongdoing —
<a href="http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/03/06/trump-russia-conspiracy-trap/">could
act as a smokescreen</a> for the many real wrongs he and SCROTUS are
carrying out.


feed_id: 6ef0511d4dafc77e3c6f6b8297998e23
title: Heathrow Airport expansion plan
uri: Heathrow-Airport-expansion-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Heathrow_Airport_expansion_plan%29
content:
<p>
The plan to extend Heathrow Airport is accompanied by a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/28/heathrow-aims-make-third-runway-carbon-neutral">supposed
plan to "offset" the CO
<sub>2</sub> emissions</a>.
<p>
Supposing the offsets actually work — which is hardly certain
— this would be adequate if present-day emissions were at an
acceptable level.  But they are already far too high, and this won't
reduce them.


feed_id: eee51d6ae7cd9ae5291485ccc9b44c63
title: Troll's new choice for Saboteur of Labor
uri: Troll-s-new-choice-for-Saboteur-of-Labor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Trolls_new_choice_for_Saboteur_of_Labor%29

content:
<p>
The troll's new choice for Saboteur of Labor is 
<a href="http://rocunited.org/2017/03/oppose-acosta/">almost as bad as
Pudzer</a>.


feed_id: 92406360711ea263f1dd2ca800298a56
title: Troll's nominee for SEC
uri: Troll-s-nominee-for-SEC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Trolls_nominee_for_SEC%29
content:
<p>
The troll's nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission
is another 
<a href="http://resistthehostiletakeover.org/?source=ourrev-em170307-pt">banksters'
agent</a> — much as turned out to be the case for 
<a href="">Obama's
nominee</a>.


feed_id: 2738cf8f5ed3c3e1faec7aaeeb00b550
title: US tax rates for corporations
uri: US-tax-rates-for-corporations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28US_tax_rates_for_corporations%29
content:
<p>
Republicans claim, once again, that 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/09/corporate-tax-dodgers-exposed-debunking-trump-myth-rates-are-too-high">US
tax rates for corporations</a> are too high.
<p>
"Corporation tax too high", according to Republicans, means "more than
zero".


feed_id: 9280a0d64bd0e561ae28d7e25080ca21
title: Plutocratist Democrats
uri: Plutocratist-Democrats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Plutocratist_Democrats%29
content:
<p>
Watch out for plutocratist Democrats that would like to lead the
"resistance" against the troll but
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/09/dont-let-establishment-opportunists-ruin-resistance-movement">ignore
the rights of working people</a>.


feed_id: 2b30511e956d72e8eaacd846398d17f6
title: Canada's law against breaking DRM
uri: Canada-s-law-against-breaking-DRM
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Canadas_law_against_breaking_DRM%29

content:
<p>
Canada's law against breaking DRM, imposed by US pressure, has been
<a href="http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/03/canadian-dmca-in-action-court-issues-massive-damage-award-in-first-major-anti-circumvention-copyright-ruling/">interpreted
in the nastiest possible way</a>.
<p>
Canada needs to get rid of this unjust law.  Breaking DRM should be
lawful; implementing DRM should be a crime.
<p>
The term "digital locks" is not a good way to refer to the malicious
functionality of DRM (Digital Restrictions Management).  Please join
me in calling them 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">"digital
handcuffs"</a> rather than "digital locks".


feed_id: 4084548c985dbab493b4a6e34da59b10
title: Urgent: Safe Communities Act
uri: 2017-03-17-Urgent-Safe-Communities-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Safe_Communities_Act%29
content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: <a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/support-the-safe-communities">Support the Safe Communities Act</a>, which
would block state funds from being used to help deportation (or a
possible "Muslim registry").


feed_id: c6c3a97bdf6f60df817176dfa31aad21
title: Urgent: Internet service for old people
uri: 2017-03-17-Urgent-Internet-service-for-old-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Internet_service_for_old_people%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on Ajit Pai <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_lifeline_pai/">not to cut off old people from internet service</a>.


feed_id: 6e24de45c6b84bcaf79fb479f39af438
title: Berkeley repressing homeless people
uri: Berkeley-repressing-homeless-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#17_March_2017_%28Berkeley_repressing_homeless_people%29

content:
<p>
Berkeley, California, is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/15/berkeley-california-homeless-identity-crisis">repressing
homeless people</a>, as it fills up with wealthy people instead of the
progressives that used to live there.
<p>
Living on the street is already in effect a punishment.  It can't be
just for the "solution" for this problem to include further punishment
of the homeless.
<p>
Anatole France: "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich
as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and
to steal bread."


feed_id: 894e55a8c7b0f398b87a34a31bdfb615
title: The Chicago Thug Department
uri: The-Chicago-Thug-Department
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#17_March_2017_%28The_Chicago_Thug_Department%29
content:
<p>
Zachard Fardon, fired by the troll as US attorney for Chicago, said
that the Chicago Thug Department's habits of unjustified violence
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/15/chicago-police-reform-trump-us-attorney-zachary-fardon">require
outside intervention</a>.


feed_id: aeb188b6efebdd0c0979a8beb9f81920
title: Prime minister of Japan
uri: Prime-minister-of-Japan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#17_March_2017_%28Prime_minister_of_Japan%29
content:
<p>
The prime minister of Japan is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/15/ultra-nationalist-school-moritomo-gakuen-linked-to-japanese-pm-shinzo-abe-accused-of-hate-speech">tied
to a school accused of racism and cruelty</a>.


feed_id: 6ead6650fa5848deb56be9ca03de7edd
title: Lack of hope for success in life
uri: Lack-of-hope-for-success-in-life
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#17_March_2017_%28Lack_of_hope_for_success_in_life%29

content:
<p>
The lack of hope for success in life is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/15/young-men-gambling-jobs-housing-savings-millennials">driving
many young men in the UK to gambling</a>.
<p>
I suppose others use drugs for the same reason.
<p>
If you see little to aim for in the way of personal "success",
dedicate yourself to a cause worth fighting for — truth or
justice.  You can do some good that way.  Campaign for free software,
or to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, or for racial equality, or to
promote abortion and contraception rights and access.  Or another good
cause.  This will give you a deeper satisfaction than gambling.


feed_id: 662d30f76a53c7c244bb6bc45090eb0d
title: Disabled people trapped in homes by Tories
uri: Disabled-people-trapped-in-homes-by-Tories
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#17_March_2017_%28Disabled_people_trapped_in_homes_by_Tories%29

content:
<p>
The Tories have squeezed almost 2 million disabled people into housing
that's not accessible for them.  They are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/15/disabled-people-suffer-inaccessible-social-housing">trapped
in their homes</a>.


feed_id: 8e982357d4972a7295e654c8802095e4
title: Financial benefits of the EPA
uri: Financial-benefits-of-the-EPA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#17_March_2017_%28Financial_benefits_of_the_EPA%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/mar/15/epa-data-trump-benefits">Financial
Benefits of the EPA</a> Data Trump Doesn't Want You to Know About.


feed_id: ad5fafe296f95779b597e7c3910243e1
title: Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
uri: Intermediate-Range-Nuclear-Forces-Treaty
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#17_March_2017_%28Intermediate-Range_Nuclear_Forces_Treaty%29

content:
<p>
It appears that Russia is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/15/russias-violation-of-a-nuclear-treaty-is-a-direct-threat-to-europes-security">violating
the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty</a> with a new cruise
missile.  What should the US do?
<p>
It is pertinent that the US has extended NATO, bringing in countries
at Russia's border, and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#18_July_2016_(NATO)">proposed
to include Ukraine and Georgia</a>.  That's not an excuse for breaking
the treaty, but it is a foolish and threatening practice, and implies
that the US too should take steps to back off from confrontation with
Russia.


feed_id: 84ad22dfb65334a49af8cc6ef5d5592f
title: If troll is offended by NSA snooping
uri: If-troll-is-offended-by-NSA-snooping
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#17_March_2017_%28If_troll_is_offended_by_NSA_snooping%29

content:
<p>
Snowden: if the troll is offended that NSA agents can snoop on any
American, including him,
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/14/edward-snowden-has-some-advice-for-donald-trump-about-surveillance/">he
should change that</a>.


feed_id: bd8769dfae5e3b60fe3ec0d0d99bf68d
title: Attacks on medical facilities in Syria
uri: 2017-03-18-Attacks-on-medical-facilities-in-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#17_March_2017_%28Attacks_on_medical_facilities_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
In Syria, attacking medical facilities 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/15/syria-conflict-study-condemns-weaponisation-of-healthcare">became
a standard tactic of war</a>.


feed_id: e9d432a6ef425f925bf4a40012ddc04b
title: Freedom of speech
uri: 2017-03-18-Freedom-of-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#17_March_2017_%28Freedom_of_speech%29
content:
<p>
European countries 
<a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexspence/google-says-a-youtube-video-claiming-jews-admit-white-genoci">want
to make Google delete racist postings</a> even when they are not
threatening.
<p>
What David Duke said is false, and his racist attitude is despicable.
However, freedom of speech means he has the right to say it.
(European countries do not adequately recognize freedom of speech.)
<p>
I am more scared of companies that delete what they deem to be
false, or despicable, than of David Duke's saying such things.


feed_id: cdd14cc827d248a9070eb6af14ebdc3d
title: Paul Ryan's astroturf group
uri: Paul-Ryan-s-astroturf-group
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#17_March_2017_%28Paul_Ryans_astroturf_group%29
content:
<p>
An astroturf group set up by Paul Ryan, with hardly any members except
some rich donors, is 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/14/one-nation-health/">getting
lots of publicity campaigning for Ryan's medical care denial bill</a>.


feed_id: c8ece8e89650215e8fefde3e061d5809
title: Life in prison for stealing 14 dollars
uri: Life-in-prison-for-stealing-14-dollars
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#17_March_2017_%28Life_in_prison_for_stealing_14_dollars%29

content:
<p>
Shannon Hurd was sentenced to life in prison for stealing 14 dollars,
then 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/14/shannon-hurd-got-a-life-sentence-for-stealing-14-then-he-died-in-prison-from-untreated-cancer/">killed
in prison by officials that refused to believe he had cancer</a>.
This is not unusual in US prisons.


feed_id: caa2978d597fdbe8554243faed356256
title: Culpability of today's adults
uri: Culpability-of-today-s-adults
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#17_March_2017_%28Culpability_of_todays_adults%29
content:
<p>
Jeremy Hance wrote a letter to his daughter, for her to understand
when she is older, about the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2017/mar/14/trump-and-climate-chaos-a-letter-to-my-daughter">culpability
of today's adults</a> for the global disaster she will encounter in a
few decades.
<p>
The letter is so moving, and so full of truth, that people are likely
to take every littlest detail for correct.  Thus, I have to point out
that Hance erred when describing the troll as "our next
commander-in-chief."  
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#23_October_2016_(Commander_in_Chief)">American
civilians have no commander-in-chief</a>, and we must never have one.
<p>
It's just a minor detail, but we may as well not spread an error
that favors the troll.
<p>
More importantly, I think the letter doesn't follow the argument to
its conclusion: we should not bring more humans into a world in which
we would owe them such an apology.  Even more so, seeing as each
additional human augments the disaster we will have to apologize for.
<p>
I would like to see a letter "To the child I might have had: How
relieved I am not to have had you.  That means I don't owe you an
apology for bringing you into a developing disaster, and I don't owe
everyone else an apology for making all the environmental strains one
human being larger."
<p>
We can still work to reduce the disaster.  We can do this by putting
our time into activism rather than into raising children.
<p>
The root cause of our failure to curb global heating is plutocracy:
the political power of the rich.  That is what sort of political
system empowers fossil fuel magnates to veto adequate measures to
reduce emissions.
<p>
Plutocracy gets its strength from power over many fields of life, and
computing is one of them.  Nonfree software is one of those forms of
power.  The free software movement, though I did recognize this at
first, is one aspect of the fight against plutocracy.
<p>
It's a good idea for us in the software field to fight against
plutocracy in our own field, since that is where we can achieve the
most against it.


feed_id: 12e8861661bb66f59afeab8587d1d7d3
title: Visible symbols of personal beliefs at work
uri: Visible-symbols-of-personal-beliefs-at-work
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#17_March_2017_%28Visible_symbols_of_personal_beliefs_at_work%29

content:
<p>
A European appeals court ruled that companies 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/mar/14/employers-can-ban-staff-from-wearing-headscarves-european-court-rules">can
order employees not to wear any visible symbols of personal
beliefs</a> (religious or otherwise).  However, if the company is
selective about which symbols to allow, this can be considered
discrimination.
<p>
The decision seems correct to me.


feed_id: 53a18d29dece1e2f0cf92513665c90b0
title: Urgent: Legal defense of Russian activist
uri: Urgent-Legal-defense-of-Russian-activist
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Legal_defense_of_Russian_activist%29

content:
<p>
Anyone: 
<a href="http://save-alina.z86.ru/">donate bitcoin</a> to the legal
defense of a Russian activist.
<p>
Here is 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/20/androgyne-russian-groom-dmitry-kozhukhov-bride-identical-white-wedding-dresses_n_5694791.html">background
information</a>: in 
<a href="https://life.ru/t/%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8/935749/androghin_alina_devis_poprosila_sud_schitat_transghiendiernost_boliezniu">Russian</a>
describes the predicament.  I can't read it, but a friend read it for
me and says it this is on the level.
<p>
They are asking for bitcoin donations at
1MCTLYKSAmBSjk8Tg32YcaUF9bKifHVA6N.


feed_id: 0ae93a7c0e2514e095350fdd8bae5ca4
title: Urgent: Endangered Species Act
uri: 2017-03-18-Urgent-Endangered-Species-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Endangered_Species_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://action.earthjustice.org/site/R?i=gk6zUJO1lre0LjfauerLTw">call
on Congress</a> to save the Endangered Species Act.


feed_id: 335d75cd9b066d4fa0edad730389b04c
title: Seattle thugs
uri: Seattle-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%28Seattle_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Campaigners against extra funds for Seattle thugs say, first 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39808-defunding-police-how-antiracist-organizers-got-seattle-to-listen">make
them stop being racist</a>.


feed_id: 1cfd3162de3cac18ba2f3197050b649a
title: Tasmania's extractivist government
uri: Tasmania-s-extractivist-government
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%28Tasmanias_extractivist_government%29

content:
<p>
Tasmania's extractivist government 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/14/tasmanian-bill-to-extend-wilderness-logging-sparks-federal-intervention-call">wants
to cut down areas of rain forest which are home to endangered
species</a>.
<p>
The swift parrot is designated as critically endangered, with only
2000 adults living, and could have been headed for extinction by 2030,
partly due to habitat loss.
<p>
I guess that this appears to an extractivist as an opportunity to
eliminate the issue by wiping them out.


feed_id: c5c7b4d624f237de92565f61f8999a7d
title: Ebook sales declining in UK
uri: Ebook-sales-declining-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%28Ebook_sales_declining_in_UK%29
content:
<p>
In the UK, printed book sales are increasing and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/14/ebook-sales-continue-to-fall-nielsen-survey-uk-book-sales">ebook
sales are declining</a>.
<p>
Can someone find sales figures for the US to compare with this?
<p>
The reason I reject commercial ebooks is that they 
<a href="media/3f1e898d.ebooks.pdf" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/ebooks.pdf">attack our freedom in several ways</a>.


feed_id: 8fe8d8ddcea2dff573d1a6b1b49303c7
title: Surveillance by "smart" vibrator
uri: Surveillance-by-smart-vibrator
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%28Surveillance_by_smart_vibrator%29
content:
<p>
We-Vibe has been ordered by a Canadian court to pay customers up to
$10,000 each for selling them a "smart" vibrator with an app that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/14/we-vibe-vibrator-tracking-users-sexual-habits">told
the company how people were using it</a>.
<p>
If an object or product is called "smart", you shouldn't trust it.
<p>
It appears the company lost the case because it had not asked buyers
to consent to the surveillance.  The next such manufacturer will put
something vague about this in the "terms of service" so it can say it
got "consent".
<p>
We need laws that limit the collection of data by businesses or
services and which take the position that "consent is not an excuse".


feed_id: e06521de66de9a94a068cfe47131d2a1
title: Republican party platform in regard to Ukraine
uri: Republican-party-platform-in-regard-to-Ukraine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%28Republican_party_platform_in_regard_to_Ukraine%29

content:
<p>
The troll's supporters who intervened to change the Republican Party
platform in regard to Ukraine 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/12/1641811/-What-did-Russia-get-in-exchange-for-hacking-our-electorate">act
guilty about it</a>.
<p>
The argument is speculation, not proved true, but something like it
could be true.
<p>
The change the troll made in the Republican platform was for the
better, in my opinion.  I think it would have been very foolish for
the US to escalate the Ukraine proxy war.  However, I find the
relationship between the troll and Putin to be alarming enough to
justify an investigation to determine how far it goes.


feed_id: 9deea9c5f370a14e3fa61cbc2207488b
title: Gun nuts
uri: Gun-nuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%28Gun_nuts%29
content:
<p>
Some gun nuts have a 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/12/1640118/-Why-Hasn-t-Anyone-Asked-Donald-Trump-This-One-Question">conspiracy
theory</a> that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax, that the
people killed there didn't exist.  Naturally, they support the troll.
<p>
Following the troll's example, they insist on this with a lunatic
rejection of all inconvenient facts, and harass and threaten the
parents of children that were killed.


feed_id: c200907d5a6c5a2ffb63288b9ff2eabd
title: Thugs raid abortion rights workshop
uri: Thugs-raid-abortion-rights-workshop
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%28Thugs_raid_abortion_rights_workshop%29

content:
<p>
Northern Ireland thugs 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/13/northern-ireland-police-raided-premises-searching-for-abortion-pills">raided
a workshop held by an abortion rights campaigner</a>, looking for
forbidden abortion pills.
<p>
I simply cannot understand why she, and so many people, feel
"humiliated" when selected as a target by a repressive system.  To me
it seems like a badge of honor, and an opportunity for immediate
action.


feed_id: d8aef691095e72c1053df153cceeb5c5
title: Girl Guides of Canada cancels US travel
uri: Girl-Guides-of-Canada-cancels-US-travel
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%28Girl_Guides_of_Canada_cancels_US_travel%29

content:
<p>
The Girl Guides of Canada have canceled group travel to the US from
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/13/canada-girl-guides-cancel-us-travel">fear
that some of the girls will be refused due to being Muslim or having
Muslim-style names</a>.


feed_id: f46598f5373f5466c610160067d11c63
title: America's healthcare system
uri: America-s-healthcare-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%28Americas_healthcare_system%29
content:
<p>
Remember the People Americaâs Healthcare System Has Already 
<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/remember-the-people-americas-healthcare-system-has-already-killed">Killed</a>.


feed_id: ec762a85c7106ef7acd6253134a276aa
title: Exploitive politicians
uri: Exploitive-politicians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%28Exploitive_politicians%29
content:
<p>
Dutch right-wing politician Wilders is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/14/geert-wilders-seeks-expulsion-of-turkeys-ambassador">exploiting
the diplomatic row between the Netherlands and Turkey</a>, just as
Erdo&gbreve;an is.
<p>
This reminds me of the way both Dubya and Osama bin Laden 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-mar-jun.html#03_May_2011_(Osama_bin_Laden_killed)">exploited
their public enmity to recruit support</a>.  Each one was all the
other could have wished for.


feed_id: 554a44594c98308f624a9dc7694fe238
title: US military wants to "declare" war
uri: US-military-wants-to-declare-war
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%28US_military_wants_to_declare_war%29

content:
<p>
The US military 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/13/pentagon-military-commanders-temporary-battlefields-white-house">wants
to be allowed to declare war anywhere</a>, "temporarily".


feed_id: 2c0d760b171c77adc1a09c4238a2aa99
title: 16 million meals per year
uri: 16-million-meals-per-year
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%2816_million_meals_per_year%29
content:
<p>
Quebec will systematically collect food for the hungry, food that
supermarkets were going to throw away, and expects to reuse 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/13/quebec-supermarkets-food-banks-donation-waste">8
million kg of food per year</a> this way.
<p>
I'd estimate that is around 16 million meals per year.


feed_id: 158182f45ee2d05c6253514b9972f964
title: Troll's budget
uri: Troll-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#16_March_2017_%28Trolls_budget%29
content:
<p>
"The president's budget won't balance federal spending one bit, but
it'll 
<a href='http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/12/white-house-budget-proposal-doesnt-add'>move
a lot of money up to the rich</a>."
<p>
A balanced budget is not always a good idea.  
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-nov-feb.html#11%20February%202010%20(Global%20policing%20may%20bankrupt%20the%20USA)">Deficit
spending</a> is the way to cure a recession</a>.  However, when
business income is booming it would be wise to tax businesses more so
as to reduce the national debt.
<p>
Republicans are not interested in the national debt except as an
excuse to spend less on the non-rich.


feed_id: 0c1819f2c3b2f66e46b7bd4500bb7d8e
title: Troll's nominee for SEC
uri: 2017-03-18-Troll-s-nominee-for-SEC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#15_March_2017_%28Trolls_nominee_for_SEC%29
content:
<p>
The troll's nominee to head the Securities and Exchange Commission
is another 
<a href="http://resistthehostiletakeover.org/?source=ourrev-em170307-pt">banksters'
agent</a> — much as turned out to be the case for 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_February_2017_(Obamas_head_of_SEC)">Obama's
nominee</a>.


feed_id: fa386cab6dd62c8a5d210c141df9aac8
title: The term "people of color"
uri: The-term-people-of-color
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#19_March_2017_%28The_term_people_of_color%29
content:
<p>
The term "people of color" endorses a racist outlook towards humanity
by treating "color" as as a matter of essence, of the substance a
person is made of, rather than as a superficial detail.
<p>
The distinctions we call "racial" are grab-bags of various details,
each of which correlates more or less with certain ancestral groups.
They are real differences, but not particularly important unless
people make them so.  So let's avoid using essentialist language to
refer to them.


feed_id: c10e11e9d6d2f119a50a1c88fd51a99f
title: Americans protests medical care crash
uri: Americans-protests-medical-care-crash
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#19_March_2017_%28Americans_protests_medical_care_crash%29

content:
<p>
Americans are
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/15/trumpcare-resistance-heats-stakeouts-republican-lawmakers-offices">protesting
with slings and crutches</a> at their representatives offices, and
convincing some Republicans to block the Ryan-Trump medical care
crash.


feed_id: 8677a62eccca0df28f0290920b03b913
title: Dehumanization of civilians by British troops
uri: Dehumanization-of-civilians-by-British-troops
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#19_March_2017_%28Dehumanization_of_civilians_by_British_troops%29

content:
<p>
A British colonel says that a company fighting in Afghanistan
regularly dehumanized Afghan civilians and subjected them to violence
for no reason, and said this was the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/15/alexander-blackmans-company-was-out-of-control-claims-former-comrade">fault
of the commanders of the larger unit</a>.


feed_id: 6ab43075448c8f70b6b512e56fa41407
title: Israel's thugs and soldiers
uri: Israel-s-thugs-and-soldiers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#19_March_2017_%28Israels_thugs_and_soldiers%29
content:
<p>
Israel's thugs and soldiers
<a href="http://www.btselem.org/publications/summaries/201703_getting_off_scot_free">regularly
damage Palestinians' bodies and property</a>, and never compensate
them for the damage.


feed_id: 40c36d6373d91740904b88af14a027e0
title: FBI's persecution of prostitutes
uri: FBI-s-persecution-of-prostitutes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#19_March_2017_%28FBIs_persecution_of_prostitutes%29
content:
<p>
The FBI's persecution of prostitutes includes a good measure of
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2017/03/14/american-sex-police">dishonesty</a>
to label prostitutes, customers, or their friends as "traffickers".


feed_id: f2c842526fb6dac61afdd5b6c697d0e1
title: Policies that raise sale value of housing
uri: Policies-that-raise-sale-value-of-housing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#19_March_2017_%28Policies_that_raise_sale_value_of_housing%29

content:
<p>
Policies that raise the sale value of housing have
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/39806-adequate-housing-global-financial-institutions-hold-the-world-to-ransom">left
poor people unable to find decent housing</a>.


feed_id: 92ff0aaf1ee715b03ece145bd1555a76
title: Research corrupted by Monsanto
uri: Research-corrupted-by-Monsanto
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#19_March_2017_%28Research_corrupted_by_Monsanto%29
content:
<p>
Monsanto corrupted the research into safety of Roundup in order to
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/business/monsanto-roundup-safety-lawsuit.html">influence
the approval of that pesticide</a>.


feed_id: 916387da2a682eee95dc202862943441
title: Troll nominates another Goldman Sachs employee
uri: Troll-nominates-another-Goldman-Sachs-employee
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#19_March_2017_%28Troll_nominates_another_Goldman_Sachs_employee%29

content:
<p>
The troll has nominated
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/15/donald-trump-isnt-even-pretending-to-oppose-goldman-sachs-anymore/">another
Goldman Sachs employee</a>.
<p>
The Obama regime was subservient to Goldman Sachs.
The Trump regime is directly run by Goldman Sachs.


feed_id: f65c8a6f7e51485c6abc1e29065e7d19
title: Great Barrier Reef
uri: 2017-03-19-Great-Barrier-Reef
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#19_March_2017_%28Great_Barrier_Reef%29
content:
<p>
The only way to save the Great Barrier Reef is by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/15/stopping-global-warming-is-only-way-to-save-great-barrier-reef-scientists-warn">curbing
global heating</a>.


feed_id: 14a0e0fcb9ad692f8a54e26e9cb9fe70
title: Killed by Israeli thugs after arrest
uri: Killed-by-Israeli-thugs-after-arrest
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#19_March_2017_%28Killed_by_Israeli_thugs_after_arrest%29

content:
<p>
Israeli thugs killed Matar after arresting him.  Palestinian witnesses
said they
<a href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=775927">killed him in
cold blood</a>.  Then, as usual, they arrested his whole family and
ransacked their house.
<p>
Suspiciously, the Israeli thugs have not released video showing the
killing.


feed_id: 25af6a0924789291f4a28f1e763687d3
title: Dalits in India
uri: Dalits-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#19_March_2017_%28Dalits_in_India%29
content:
<p>
Dalits in India are
<a href="https://www.thequint.com/india/2017/03/08/bengaluru-workers-protest-after-3-manual-scavengers-die">pressured
into working as sewer cleaners</a>, and because they are Dalits, the
city doesn't bother to give them safety gear.


feed_id: 20f8f01f482df359a6148840492473e6
title: Troll's travel ban
uri: Troll-s-travel-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#19_March_2017_%28Trolls_travel_ban%29
content:
<p>
Yemeni Couple on Verge of Reuniting in US May Be
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/15/trump-travel-ban-yemen-civil-war-new-york-couple-visas">Derailed
by New Travel Ban</a>.


feed_id: 8be0283dd873ceccd03a28a62c848124
title: How NSA can snoop on any American
uri: How-NSA-can-snoop-on-any-American
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#20_March_2017_%28How_NSA_can_snoop_on_any_American%29

content:
<p>
Snowden explains how NSA officials can look at any American's communications
by
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/14/snowden-at-sxsw-dont-believe-their-word">saying
the target is whoever person is talking with</a>.  It's supposedly
illegal, but it happens all the time.
<p>
We need a system for spying whose manner of operation actually
prevents this.


feed_id: 5a3e24e8ea277489be0e0217ae2d0a4d
title: Censorship
uri: 2017-03-21-Censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#20_March_2017_%28Censorship%29
content:
<p>
Where Free Speech Ends, Ignorance Begins.  Universities
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/14/where-free-speech-ends-ignorance-begins">must
not censor the views that are presented</a>.


feed_id: 36bd096d860b26bd00a4ae5c02c68e8b
title: US naval officers bribed
uri: US-naval-officers-bribed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#20_March_2017_%28US_naval_officers_bribed%29
content:
<p>
Several US naval officers took bribes to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/15/fat-leonard-us-admiral-arrested-in-sex-for-secrets-scandal">help
contractors cheat the navy</a>.


feed_id: 755f2f3d9be402306c1bd07bc63619ab
title: Loss of Sumatran elephants' habitat
uri: Loss-of-Sumatran-elephants-habitat
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#20_March_2017_%28Loss_of_Sumatran_elephants_habitat%29

content:
<p>
Sumatran elephants have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/16/paichit-the-baby-elephant-saved-from-a-palm-oil-plantation-in-indonesia">lost
70% of their habitat in a couple of decades</a>, mainly due to palm
oil plantations.
<p>
Many other species have also lost 70% of their habitat.  Some species,
limited to smaller ranges, may have already been wiped out.


feed_id: 6fe07454d5c0388e57b5ed9dfd03a1b3
title: Bald eagles in danger
uri: Bald-eagles-in-danger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#20_March_2017_%28Bald_eagles_in_danger%29
content:
<p>
Bald eagles are in danger due to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/16/us-bald-eagles-lead-poisoning-ammunition">lead
in bullets</a> (used to shoot animals that are then eaten by eagles).
<p>
The troll's Saboteur of the Interior
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#9_March_2017_(Interior_Department)">revoked
a rule that attempted to reduce this poisoning</a>.


feed_id: bdce22fadbff39347827b2dc6674c876
title: Destruction of soil
uri: Destruction-of-soil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#20_March_2017_%28Destruction_of_soil%29
content:
<p>
Intensive industrial agriculture is destroying soil rapidly.
It
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/15/beyond-wetiko-agriculture-saving-ourselves-soil">cannot
continue to the end of this century</a>.


feed_id: 63b3a986abc524a7a3aea8790493444e
title: Urgent: Phone senators to oppose Gorsuch
uri: Urgent-Phone-senators-to-oppose-Gorsuch
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Phone_senators_to_oppose_Gorsuch%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone each of your senators to oppose Gorsuch.</p>
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.</p>
<p>
cpdaction.org emailed me this:
<blockquote>
Judge Gorsuch has repeatedly ruled in favor of wealthy corporations and against the interests of everyday people. In cases where workers alleged sex, race, age, and other discrimination, Gorsuch sided with the employer in eight of the twelve cases.

Judge Gorsuch thinks the rights of billionaire donors to make political contributions deserves more constitutional protections than the right to vote. If given a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court, he'd make it harder for everyday people to have a voice in our democracy.

Judge Gorsuch has a troubling history of giving corporate bad actors unchecked power while ruling against protections for people of color, immigrants, women, and their families. He is also a staunch opponent of marriage equality, placing him far outside of the mainstream and on the wrong side of history.
We need a Supreme Court that will protect everyone, not side with the wealthy and well-connected. Call 1-888-877-2040 now and urge both of your senators to oppose Gorsuch. 
</blockquote></p>
<p>
He would 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/16/everything-you-need-know-about-supreme-court-nominee-neil-gorsuch-if-you-care-about">endanger
access to abortion and even birth control</a>


feed_id: 631c56b5e9a0eade28a1833bc1966ec5
title: Tory MPs
uri: Tory-MPs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_March_2017_%28Tory_MPs%29
content:
<p>
20 Tory MPs are accused of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/16/are-our-elections-being-stolen-police-forces-claims-mps">campaign
finance violations</a>.


feed_id: b16d8bcbac99ac0ff9e8120f2301a5ac
title: Troll's partial ban on Muslims blocked
uri: Troll-s-partial-ban-on-Muslims-blocked
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_March_2017_%28Trolls_partial_ban_on_Muslims_blocked%29

content:
<p>
Judges have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/16/trump-new-travel-ban-blocked-explainer-what-next">blocked
the troll's partial ban on Muslims, version 2, from taking effect</a>.
This is pending the final decision to be made later.


feed_id: 16319b43453bdf6e98bae66991bda711
title: Taxes
uri: 2017-03-22-Taxes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_March_2017_%28Taxes%29
content:
<p>
The troll, and most of the large companies based in the US, don't pay
their fair share of taxes.  They 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58ca65b0e4b0e0d348b34096">want
to change the law so they will pay even less</a>.


feed_id: c9264017d275515ff45d6dadd5d248f3
title: CIA has free reign to use drones to kill
uri: CIA-has-free-reign-to-use-drones-to-kill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_March_2017_%28CIA_has_free_reign_to_use_drones_to_kill%29

content:
<p>
The troll 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/16/trump-considering-expanding-killing-powers-abroad-consequences-civilians-will-be">has
given the CIA free rein</a> to use drones to kill people, world-wide.


feed_id: f7dc23c00abe4510eab5f4638fc41fdb
title: Urgent: Oppose Gorsuch
uri: 2017-03-22-Urgent-Oppose-Gorsuch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Gorsuch%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Block_Trumps_Court">call on
senators</a> (specifically Democrats) to oppose Gorsuch.
<p>
Then phone your own senators (one after the other) via 1-888-877-2040
to tell them the same thing.
<p>
People for the American Way mailed me this:

<blockquote>
With his history of favoring corporate interests above everyday
people, it should be no surprise that the New York Times just reported
that Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has ties
to reclusive Colorado billionaire Philip F. Anschutz. Formerly a
lawyer representing Anschutz's companies in court, Gorsuch now
owns property in Colorado with some of Anschutz's closest
associates. Anschutz is reported to have provided funding to both the
Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society, the two far-right
organizations to which Trump outsourced the job of creating his list
of Supreme Court nominees, from which Gorsuch was chosen.

Between his close relationship with an ultra-conservative billionaire
and his decisions that have favored corporations and harmed workers
and consumers, it's clear that the majority of Americans who
want to save our democracy from the influence of big money have a lot
to worry about when it comes to this nominee.
<blockquote>


feed_id: 506a35d6b701ec403c208034f604e050
title: Cheater's proposed budget
uri: Cheater-s-proposed-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_March_2017_%28Cheaters_proposed_budget%29
content:
<p>
The cheater's proposed budget 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/16/legal-aid-services-cut-trump-budget-proposal">would
help businesses cheat poor people, and would protect men that abuse
their wives or lovers</a>.
<p>
Naturally.


feed_id: e73abda03fc73573d45e3e75b5b1d818
title: Children living in poverty in the UK
uri: Children-living-in-poverty-in-the-UK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_March_2017_%28Children_living_in_poverty_in_the_UK%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/16/child-poverty-in-uk-at-highest-level-since-2010-official-figures-show">30%
of the children in the UK live in poverty</a>.  20% live in poverty
while their parents work.
<p>
This is the result of plutocracy.  New Labour mainly served the rich
but helped the poor somewhat.  The Tories have pushed hard to drive
the poor down.


feed_id: 6b7f7ef0bb5e3a963976dde716f40f20
title: Violation of US ethics guidelines
uri: Violation-of-US-ethics-guidelines
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_March_2017_%28Violation_of_US_ethics_guidelines%29

content:
<p>
Another advisor of the troll violated US ethics guidelines with a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/14/top-trump-aide-accused-breaking-criminal-conflict-interest-law">personal
conflict of interest</a>.


feed_id: 961f72cedc8db42f340b51b50fdd6014
title: Urgent: Call for Sessions's resignation
uri: Urgent-Call-for-Sessions-s-resignation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Call_for_Sessionss_resignation%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/call/sessions_resign_calls">phone
Sessions's office</a> and call for him to resign.


feed_id: f45c0ee34631fb711c18643bee65c167
title: Urgent: Protect Planned Parenthood funding
uri: Urgent-Protect-Planned-Parenthood-funding
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_Planned_Parenthood_funding%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.ppaction.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=21437">call
on Congress</a> to protect funding for Planned Parenthood.


feed_id: 61ad2aa8f90264ee336ebc0419364969
title: Urgent: Oppose heating-denialist nominees
uri: Urgent-Oppose-heating-denialist-nominees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_heating-denialist_nominees%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/">phone your
senators</a> to oppose two more of the troll's heating-denialist
nominees: Dan Coats for Director of National Intelligence, and Sonny
Perdue for Saboteur of Agriculture.
<p>
Climate Hawks Vote suggested saying this:
<blockquote>
Hi, my name is ____, and I am your constituent calling from _____. I
am calling to demand that Senator ____ vote to oppose the confirmations
of climate denier Dan Coats for Director of National Intelligence and
Sonny Perdue for Secretary of Agriculture. Can I get a commitment to
vote against these nominees?
</blockquote></p>
<p>
Dan Coats, 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110719041656/http://www.courierpress.com/news/2010/apr/18/tea-party-weakness-shown-by-times-poll/?print=1">Climate
Denier</a>
<p>
Sonny Perdue, 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/sonny-perdue-trump-agriculture-secretary-d14e86936c24">Climate
Denier</a>
<p>
Five Democratic senators voted for Coats in the intelligence committee.


feed_id: daf9d8433d1b4b49e24e136f3c5539cf
title: Urgent: Block Gorsuch
uri: 2017-03-22-Urgent-Block-Gorsuch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Block_Gorsuch%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.democracyforamerica.com/sign/filibuster_gorsuch/">call
on Senate Democrats</a> to block Gorsuch with a filibuster.


feed_id: ade876dbe56422268830c4f974d581fb
title: Urgent: No death penalty
uri: Urgent-No-death-penalty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_No_death_penalty%29
content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/gov-rick-scott-aramis-ayala/">tell
Florida's governor</a> to stop blocking State's Attorney Aramis Ayala,
who wishes not to seek the death penalty.


feed_id: 5b110788b7fd4e87e6daee22c74a8c67
title: Urgent: Funds for civilian programs
uri: Urgent-Funds-for-civilian-programs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Funds_for_civilian_programs%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/trump_war_profiteers">tell
Congress</a> not to shift funds from civilian programs to the
military.


feed_id: 4404a97ef252a63e46d4df75c8eece8e
title: Urgent: Reject moving funds to military
uri: Urgent-Reject-moving-funds-to-military
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_moving_funds_to_military%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/dont-kill-big-bird-to">call
on Congress</a> to reject moving funds from civilian programs to the
military.


feed_id: ec6a673e9ed75ab446d5013723bbb670
title: Urgent: Oppose nomination of Jay Clayton
uri: Urgent-Oppose-nomination-of-Jay-Clayton
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_nomination_of_Jay_Clayton%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators to oppose the nomination of Jay
Clayton to run the Securities and Exchange Commission.
<p>
During and after the financial crisis, he helped banks get big
bailouts and avoid responsibility.  He should not be in charge of
regulating them.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: e103477115a16ff8e40b209cdc13a77c
title: Urgent: Reporting on famine in Yemen
uri: Urgent-Reporting-on-famine-in-Yemen
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Reporting_on_famine_in_Yemen%29

content:
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/npr-ejensennyc-report">call
on US media</a> to report fully on the famine in Yemen.


feed_id: e353048c12bdc3b514fecd98e369036b
title: Defeating terrorism
uri: Defeating-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Defeating_terrorism%29
content:
<p>
"To defeat terrorists" (I'd say, rather, terrorism), "we have to
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/17/defeat-terrorists-terrorism'>get
inside their minds</a>."


feed_id: 2a47d952a3ae8270b8728287dbbea875
title: Democratic Party subservient to plutocrats
uri: Democratic-Party-subservient-to-plutocrats
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Democratic_Party_subservient_to_plutocrats%29

content:
<p>
Everyone Loves Bernie Sanders.  Except, It Seems, the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/17/everyone-loves-bernie-sanders-except-democratic-party">Democratic
Party</a>.
<p>
In other words, establishment Democrats are still subservient to the
plutocrats and the banksters.


feed_id: 7ebedb87f79be1bc2922bfed459bee78
title: Pakistan asks sites to identify "blasphemers"
uri: Pakistan-asks-sites-to-identify-blasphemers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Pakistan_asks_sites_to_identify_blasphemers%29

content:
<p>
Pakistan asked Facebook and Twitter to identify suspects to be
prosecuted for "blasphemy",
<a href="http://www.theolympian.com/news/business/article138855683.html">in
order for Pakistan to execute them</a>.
<p>
For this and various other reasons,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#23_April_2016_(Islamic_law)">Islamic
law is the enemy of human rights</a>, and deserves to be condemned
rather than respected.


feed_id: 0eda7931b3870af7c2ff4530a43d41d5
title: Movement against Belarus's president
uri: Movement-against-Belarus-s-president
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Movement_against_Belaruss_president%29

content:
<p>
A
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/17/we-are-not-slaves-europe-most-repressive-state-reawakening-belarus">mass
protest movement</a> is developing against Belarus's repressive
president.


feed_id: 855d7217d0f36ed5e66f910b09b4bec1
title: Whistleblower protection
uri: Whistleblower-protection
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Whistleblower_protection%29
content:
<p>
A proposed law in Spain would create a special agency to investigate
whistleblowers, which
<a href="https://xnet-x.net/en/draft-whistleblower-protection-law-stasi-is-back/">would
be allowed to disregard the usual protections</a> for citizens' rights.


feed_id: 5ab9f0a1df7163f033927370587b0147
title: Urgent: Defend right to boycott
uri: Urgent-Defend-right-to-boycott
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Defend_right_to_boycott%29

content:
<p>
Citizens of Massachusetts: take action to
<a href="http://jvp-boston.org/10-reasons-anti-bds/">stop the state
law</a> that would punish organizations that support a boycott of
Israeli businesses.
<p>
Phone Senator Walter Timilty, Senate Chair of the committee (Phone:
617-722-1643) and Representative Peter Kocot, House Chair of the committee
(617-722-2140), asking them to oppose this legislation.
<p>
Also, if your representative or senator is in the Joint Committee on
State Administration and Regulatory Oversight, phone that person.
<a href="https://malegislature.gov/Committees/Detail/J25">Here</a> is
the list of its members.


feed_id: 6c18b66065d155a2bb49bcd0f495f095
title: Urgent: Reject troll's budget
uri: Urgent-Reject-troll-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_trolls_budget%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/dont-betray-voters-social-security-medicare/">call
on Congress</a> to reject the troll's budget.


feed_id: 569cdf336c9d032cb1f3a36fb0a8ec08
title: Urgent: No fighter planes for Bahrain
uri: Urgent-No-fighter-planes-for-Bahrain
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_No_fighter_planes_for_Bahrain%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://diy.rootsaction.org/petitions/tell-trump-no-to-the-release-of-fighter-jets-to-bahrain-with-no-human-rights-conditions">Tell
Congress</a> not to permit sale of fighter planes to repressive
Bahrain.


feed_id: 22a8e7c7ac3c5b0ef094c9b1ce9a931e
title: Urgent: Keep It in the Ground Act
uri: Urgent-Keep-It-in-the-Ground-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Keep_It_in_the_Ground_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2936">call
on senators</a> to support the Keep It in the Ground Act.


feed_id: 1055ca91fe4634b1c3c2556e36ded258
title: Urgent: Oppose troll's partial ban on Muslims
uri: Urgent-Oppose-troll-s-partial-ban-on-Muslims
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_trolls_partial_ban_on_Muslims%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/muslim_ban_two">call on
Congress</a> to oppose the troll's partial ban on Muslims entering the
US.


feed_id: 5c666d56c36ae4b0a400ca1af3f1f169
title: Yemen
uri: 2017-03-22-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Yemen%29
content:
<p>
Yemen At 'Point of No Return' as Conflict Leaves
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/mar/16/yemen-conflict-7-million-close-to-famine">Almost
7 Million Close to Famine</a>.
<p>
Salafi Arabia's bombing campaign is responsible for this, and it is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#4_November_2016_(Salafi/US_bombing)">backed
by the US</a>.


feed_id: d1df971f7e8a202683e51f6ca0947f2e
title: Troll's budget
uri: 2017-03-22-Troll-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Trolls_budget%29
content:
<p>
The troll's budget
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/16/trump-budget-cuts-climate-change-clean-up-programs-epa">would
cut the EPA by 1/3</a>, a boon for companies that are based on
pollution.
<p>
Murderous
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trumps-budget-would-slash-scientific-and-medical-research/2017/03/15/d3261f98-0998-11e7-a15f-a58d4a988474_story.html">cuts
in scientific and medical research</a>.
<p>
The Dream of a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/16/trumps-budget-dream-paranoid-strongman-vicious-scrooge">Paranoid
Strongman and a Vicious Scrooge</a>.


feed_id: 32765c34edd3ba892c961b858a0bb77f
title: Troll depends on billionaires
uri: Troll-depends-on-billionaires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Troll_depends_on_billionaires%29
content:
<p>
If Trump Were a Clever Populist,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/16/if-trump-were-a-clever-populist-hed-demand-universal-healthcare-for-america">He'd
Demand Universal Healthcare for America</a>.
<p>
The troll depends on billionaires that see all money as "theirs"
and want as little as possible to go to anyone else.


feed_id: 76058df2bc375fa02dae81bdfbdaea89
title: Yelp accused of bias in support of troll
uri: Yelp-accused-of-bias-in-support-of-troll
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Yelp_accused_of_bias_in_support_of_troll%29

content:
<p>
Yelp is accused of
<a href="http://shareblue.com/yelp-protects-trump-from-bad-reviews-lets-trolls-swarm-small-business-suing-him/">bias
in support of the troll</a>, and against a company suing the troll for
unfair competition.


feed_id: 47d4623304c8f8076b7ac6b4d9b6cf39
title: Sessions on state-legalized marijuana
uri: Sessions-on-state-legalized-marijuana
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Sessions_on_state-legalized_marijuana%29

content:
<p>
Don't be misled: Sessions has not made peace with state-legalized
marijuana,
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/03/16/sessions-praise-for-the-cole-memo-is-not">not
even close</a>.


feed_id: 7856a9ed70f6554e0b48aaf8aa4f7024
title: Extreme air pollution in China
uri: Extreme-air-pollution-in-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_March_2017_%28Extreme_air_pollution_in_China%29
content:
<p>
Extreme air pollution in China is caused partly by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/15/airpocalypse-smog-events-linked-to-global-warming-research-reveals">polar
effects of global heating</a>.
<p>
That exacerbates the effects of the combustion that itself contributes
to global heating.


feed_id: 58ef8e0ff1690f95fa4b7f19aeb5eaef
title: Reversing policies of screwing the poor
uri: Reversing-policies-of-screwing-the-poor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_March_2017_%28Reversing_policies_of_screwing_the_poor%29

content:
<p>
Reversing policies of screwing the poor
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/16/tax-public-services-philip-hammond">requires
the non-poor to pay more taxes</a>.
<p>
Especially billionaires must pay more tax.


feed_id: c719b045ee5a0ba90a35e2ffade9ba11
title: Urgent: Block
uri: Urgent-Block
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Block%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://nogorsuch.org/?source=chv">call on the Senate</a> to block Gorsuch.
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
  and 888-355-3588.</p>


feed_id: a2b9147ece869e46b26cf0987c1cf47d
title: Urgent: Judge Gorsuch
uri: Urgent-Judge-Gorsuch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Judge_Gorsuch%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators (each of the two) at 1-844-373-7977
and tell them to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/20/neil-gorsuch-does-not-belong-supreme-court">block Judge Gorsuch</a>, with a filibuster if necessary.


feed_id: db8df9cfa8f9f1f8deb61faadcdd544d
title: Urgent: Longlines
uri: Urgent-Longlines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Longlines%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.oceana.org/page/7202/petition/1">oppose use of pelagic longlines on the Pacific
coast</a>; they kill marine mammals, sharks, sea turtles, even birds.


feed_id: 56efa1988c2da5850358733ed4e77148
title: Urgent: Clayton
uri: Urgent-Clayton
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Clayton%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Senate to
<a href="http://resistthehostiletakeover.org/?source=pfaw">reject Jay Clayton</a>.
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
  and 888-355-3588.</p>


feed_id: a3c6f9da6da3ab51f96e478b15eed9d6
title: Volunteer
uri: 2017-03-23-Volunteer
url: https://stallman.org/index.html#volunteerListAnc
content:
<p>I am looking for people to (in India) make and sell buttons that say, "DON'T BE
	 TRACKED  PAY CASH", in English and/or a local
	 language, to resist the campaign against
	 cash.  Talk with a local company that makes buttons, buy a
	 batch of 50 to 500 buttons for a quantity price, then sell
	 them for 2 or 3 times that price.</p>


feed_id: 18061824cbd2d67a5e2ef5e0ae10e5ec
title: Very urgent: Phone you congresscritter today
uri: Very-urgent-Phone-you-congresscritter-today
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Phone_you_congresscritter_today%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter <em>today</em> to
<a href="http://act.couragecampaign.org/call/trumpcarecalls/">oppose
the SCROTUS plan to slash US funds for medical care</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: ac93bbd4aca46f5ffd86b55595f8c51d
title: Urgent: Preserve the EPA
uri: Urgent-Preserve-the-EPA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Preserve_the_EPA%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/dont_destroy_epa">call on
your congresscritter</a> to preserve the Environmental Protection
Agency.


feed_id: 51a871fde58b4373522a14b3ad52cb57
title: Urgent: Oppose Keystone XL pipeline
uri: Urgent-Oppose-Keystone-XL-pipeline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Keystone_XL_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4192">tell
the State Department</a> you oppose the Keystone XL pipeline.


feed_id: 1b84235c3ccd63a2a12eadfdb656e333
title: Thugs that killed Tamir Rice unpunished
uri: Thugs-that-killed-Tamir-Rice-unpunished
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Thugs_that_killed_Tamir_Rice_unpunished%29

content:
<p>
Cleveland has given the thugs that killed Tamir Rice
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2017/03/15/clevelands-proper-protocol-boy-police-thought-needed-shooting">no
punishment</a>, and only a dispatcher got a minor reprimand.
<p>
The dispatcher made a dangerous mistake, but thugs should not be so
quick to shoot anyone.


feed_id: 5f7fe2e4f9179ea31a8f4c5d8d543020
title: Enslavement of foreign workers in Qatar
uri: Enslavement-of-foreign-workers-in-Qatar
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Enslavement_of_foreign_workers_in_Qatar%29

content:
<p>
Qatar
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/19/qatar-world-cup-slavery-migrant-workers">refuses
to correct the laws</a> that effectively enslave foreign workers.
Instead of correcting the system, it covers up.


feed_id: 5c89bc98ba95248c6ff500e9afd010d5
title: Ultra-orthodox Jews
uri: Ultra-orthodox-Jews
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Ultra-orthodox_Jews%29
content:
<p>
The real threat to the safety and freedom of Israelis does not come
from Palestinians.  It comes from the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/19/israeli-women-fight-hardliners-for-right-to-appear-in-public">ultra-orthodox
Jews</a>.
<p>
Their version of Judaism is as unjust towards women as the Salafi
version of Islam.  Both of them are enemies of human rights.
<p>
The ultra-orthodox are trying to take over Israel by overbreeding.
There is no reason to permit any group to do that.


feed_id: 39ed10ffc909686db44c0186b807de62
title: Concept of war crimes
uri: Concept-of-war-crimes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Concept_of_war_crimes%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery explains why the concept of war crimes, and punishment for
them, is essential to
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/archive/1488644318/">stop
wars from turning into unlimited massacres</a>.
<p>
Syria shows an example of what happens
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#27_August_2012_(Another_massacre_of_civilians_in_Syria)">when
the laws of war are discarded by various sides in a war</a>.  Israel
is fundamentally similar, except that the Palestinians, in a weak
position, can only commit small war crimes.  Therefore,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#10_July_2014_(Israels_bombardment_of_Gaza)">all
the big ones are committed by Israel</a>.


feed_id: b98e24776327baea8a749226a585434b
title: Israeli apartheid recognized
uri: Israeli-apartheid-recognized
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Israeli_apartheid_recognized%29
content:
<p>
A UN agency
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/18/trump-administration-ousts-un-official-to-protect-israel-from-criticism/">published
a report recognizing Israeli apartheid</a>; the troll pressured the UN
Secretary General to demand that the author retract it.
<p>
The author refused to retract it, and resigned instead.


feed_id: 8f7f4b076f75534e59ef3f88ebf556d9
title: US ISPs presenting legal confusions
uri: US-ISPs-presenting-legal-confusions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28US_ISPs_presenting_legal_confusions%29

content:
<p>
US ISPs are presenting legal confusions when
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/three-myths-telecom-industry-using-convince-congress-repeal-fccs-privacy-rules">arguing
to abolish FCC privacy rules</a>.


feed_id: eda4e2dbfd2072187e15029b4240912b
title: Troll's policies
uri: Troll-s-policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Trolls_policies%29
content:
<p>
What the troll's policies have in common is
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/17/orgy-unnecessary-cruelty">cruelty</a>.
(Except to the rich.)


feed_id: f90a619c07ae31b1f47cb7c2d8c6a0c1
title: Cause of the famine in Ireland
uri: Cause-of-the-famine-in-Ireland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Cause_of_the_famine_in_Ireland%29
content:
<p>
US schools don't teach that the famine that made so many Irish people
emigrate to the US was
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/17/real-irish-american-story-not-taught-schools">caused
by landlords that exported food</a>.


feed_id: 2a0d4e9fa8c95684315ba0931bf8e55a
title: Mistakes in war
uri: Mistakes-in-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Mistakes_in_war%29
content:
<p>
US officials: what we bombed was not the mosque.  Look, the mosque is
still there.</br> Local people: what's still there is
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/17/pentagon-denies-bombing-syrian-mosque-but-its-own-photo-may-prove-that-it-did/">only
part of the mosque</a>.
<p>
This has the air of an honest mistake.  Mistakes are not unusual in
war; they may be especially in war.  That's why the decision to fight
a war includes the decision to make lots of honest but fatal mistakes.


feed_id: 7d2d6f9460d8e210d9fc3b1e04ae1438
title: Troll's budget
uri: 2017-03-23-Troll-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Trolls_budget%29
content:
<p>
The troll's budget would
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/17/meals-on-wheels-fatality-trumps-budget">make
old people go hungry</a> in order to feed the military-industrial
complex.


feed_id: 8900d8dc71c630c48ca2fe6304bee166
title: Alternative minimum tax
uri: Alternative-minimum-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Alternative_minimum_tax%29
content:
<p>
The cheater
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/14/donald-trump-tax-return-leaked-alternative-minimum">wants
to eliminate the alternative minimum tax</a> so that he won't have to
pay tax any more.


feed_id: 51a2f9d591e28b82b744a453e8024299
title: Gorsuch
uri: Gorsuch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Gorsuch%29
content:
<p>
Gorsuch believes that corporations are entitled to the same rights as
real persons, and is
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/03/14/120-groups-ask-will-gorsuch-defend-rights-everyday-people-be-heard-over-big">likely
to completely eliminate all limits on campaign spending by rich
people</a>.


feed_id: 41cf070ef57dba6122f49f1581245885
title: What's Wrong with Feminism Today
uri: What-s-Wrong-with-Feminism-Today
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Whats_Wrong_with_Feminism_Today%29
content:
<p>
The 'Fearless Girl' Statue Sums Up 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/14/fearless-girl-statue-whats-wrong-feminism-today">What's
Wrong with Feminism Today</a>.


feed_id: 590273fa1922d4ed5ff0222c7157ebd5
title: UK wages keep falling
uri: UK-wages-keep-falling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28UK_wages_keep_falling%29
content:
<p>
The UK now has low unemployment, but 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/mar/15/uk-unemployment-wages-pay-growth">real
wages keep falling</a> instead of rising.
<p>
While non-governmental causes play a role, ultimately it is the Tory
government that decides to push wages down.
<p>
The Tories are lower than vermin — 
<a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg">Aneurin
Bevan</a>.


feed_id: dbbdf9417d0420453939b46598144c01
title: Drug tests for unemployment benefits
uri: Drug-tests-for-unemployment-benefits
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Drug_tests_for_unemployment_benefits%29

content:
<p>
Congress has recommenced the old practice of 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/39868-congress-approves-of-drug-test-measure-that-vilifies-unemployed-workers">imposing
drug tests on people collecting unemployment benefits</a>.
<p>
This serves no legitimate purpose, but it is handy for manufacturing
an excuse to despise the poor.  Rich people use drugs too, but they
don't need unemployment benefits.


feed_id: 3366639561fc7ea5b005c2a241df2c18
title: Mistreatment of pregnant women
uri: Mistreatment-of-pregnant-women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Mistreatment_of_pregnant_women%29
content:
<p>
American Law 
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/human-rights/criminalization-pregnant-women">Mistreats
Mothers and Pregnant Women</a> in the Name of Protecting Children (or
rather, fetuses).
<p>
Anyone who is pregnant has a duty to insure that the future human
being to result from the pregnancy is healthy — but only to the
extent that person is capable of doing.  It is cruel to demand a human
function to a superhuman standard.
<p>
It is extremely dangerous for medical personnel to report pregnant
women for prosecution.  If they keep this up, women will stay away
from prenatal care.


feed_id: 488e17781408dceafb7cfb4f36f5730e
title: US envoy meets with Israeli "settlers"
uri: US-envoy-meets-with-Israeli-settlers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28US_envoy_meets_with_Israeli_settlers%29

content:
<p>
A US envoy 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/16/us-envoy-meeting-israeli-settlers-two-state-solution">met
with leaders of the Israeli "settlers" that colonize Palestinian
land</a>, thus creating the biggest obstacle to peace.
<p>
Under Obama, the US was an ineffective and useless force for peace.
It appears that the troll will make the US a force for apartheid.


feed_id: d2c651541c625260dea2a76c0c91ef49
title: Subsidies for low-income housing
uri: Subsidies-for-low-income-housing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Subsidies_for_low-income_housing%29

content:
<p>
The troll 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/16/trump-budget-cut-eliminate-homelessness-agency">wants
to eliminate</a> the agency that subsidizes low-income housing.  This
could make hundreds of thousands of Americans homeless.


feed_id: f3d36d9c252005c9f757250d518d311e
title: DeVos's idea of "public schools"
uri: DeVos-s-idea-of-public-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28DeVoss_idea_of_public_schools%29
content:
<p>
DeVos says she now loves public schools — but only
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/16/what-betsy-devos-means-when-she-says-public-schools">privatized,
unaccountable</a> "public schools".


feed_id: 578c5b0e66e2f97f9187de9a1d8820b7
title: Troll promoting for-profit colleges
uri: Troll-promoting-for-profit-colleges
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Troll_promoting_for-profit_colleges%29

content:
<p>
Since the cheater used to run a for-profit college that cheated
students, it is no surprise that he is 
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/for-profit-colleges-gain-beachhead-in-trump-administration">now
acting to promote that kind of business</a>.


feed_id: 06b7da0bbbcfb15847d12cca132347c8
title: Republicans want to militarize thugs more
uri: Republicans-want-to-militarize-thugs-more
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Republicans_want_to_militarize_thugs_more%29

content:
<p>
Republicans 
<a href="http://inthesetimes.com/article/19976/trump-GOP-police-militarization">want
US thugs to have more military gear</a>.
<p>
This would mean more Americans killed through haste, negligence, or
heart attacks.
<p>
Americans, contact your city government to push for a local law
requiring the thugs to get city council approval for all acquisitions
of arms or military equipment, regardless of where it comes from.  Even
if it is a "gift", the thug department should have to get city council
permission to accept it.


feed_id: 2238d50ef486756745c92ace3cee36d2
title: Medicaid
uri: 2017-03-23-Medicaid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Medicaid%29
content:
<p>
The troll's saboteur in charge of Medicaid 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/15/trumps-new-medicaid-head-wastes-no-time-urging-states-make-system-more-cruel">wants
to kick most of the children off, and make the program so expensive
for patients that they will go bankrupt</a>.


feed_id: 8cd5dc09b99a9e2248d19d9f6bab236d
title: WIC
uri: WIC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28WIC%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS and the troll want to cut the WIC budget which 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/16/trump-budget-wic-women-infants-children-nutrition">provides
food for babies and pregnant or nursing women</a>.  The budget is
already insufficient, so that some of the eligible people are left
out.


feed_id: 2d0dd471b261e10f9c203eeaa9ab0ade
title: Entertainers blocked from entering the US
uri: Entertainers-blocked-from-entering-the-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Entertainers_blocked_from_entering_the_US%29

content:
<p>
7 groups were 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/mar/16/sxsw-united-vibrations-us-border-racial-profiling-travel-ban">blocked
from entering the US to perform at SXSW</a>.
<p>
It seems that immigration thugs suddenly reinterpreted the rules so
that "internationally recognized" entertainers must get a work visa
even to perform unpaid — and didn't inform people.  Even if it
isn't racist, it is the act of a jerk.


feed_id: 9f82e51282e5030e19b1341cbf3ac2a0
title: Urgent: Protect Medicare and Medicaid
uri: Urgent-Protect-Medicare-and-Medicaid
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#24_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_Medicare_and_Medicaid%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/save_safety_net">call on
Congress</a> to protect Medicare and Medicaid.


feed_id: 84cd8d974b9d6fcf069ef348bfb38084
title: Urgent: Protect our rights from businesses
uri: Urgent-Protect-our-rights-from-businesses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#24_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_our_rights_from_businesses%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://petitions.signforgood.com/CorporatePowerGrab">call on
the Senate</a> to reject the bills to abolish many regulations that
protect our health and rights from businesses.


feed_id: b06090653308a7d6505223a998f7ddec
title: Troll's son was patent troll
uri: Troll-s-son-was-patent-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Trolls_son_was_patent_troll%29
content:
<p>
The troll's son, Donald Trump, Jr., 
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/macrosolve-donald-trump-jr-s-favorite-patent-enforcer/">was
a patent troll</a>.


feed_id: 7f33f3e197011be4b238826db038d365
title: US-Salafi Arabia joint G20 statement
uri: US-Salafi-Arabia-joint-G20-statement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28US-Salafi_Arabia_joint_G20_statement%29

content:
<p>
The US joined with Salafi Arabia to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/19/us-pressures-g20-dropping-climate-reference-joint-statement">make
this year's G20 statement about global heating weaker than
previously</a>.


feed_id: 5e4b15a15c60371f7af8ed5aba1c5e6b
title: Repression increasing
uri: Repression-increasing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Repression_increasing%29
content:
<p>
The fanatical colonists of Ariel, in Palestine, 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/events/1464389870">tried
to launch a prosecution of Gush Shalom for informing international
scholars that Ariel is not in Israel</a>.  But no prosecution occurred
because, it seems, Israel has no law against informing people of this
fact.
<p>
As repression increases around the world, I accumulate a list of
countries I choose not to visit.  In some cases, it is just a matter
of comfort — they tend to be hotter than I like, and since I
have no particular reason to go there, staying away is the cheap and
easy method to avoid the heat.
<p>
In some countries, I fear repression.  Pakistan might persecute me for
blasphemy; Turkey might persecute me for condemning would-be tyrant
Erdo&gbreve;an; Thailand might persecute me for recounting an episode
in the life of the former king.  Egypt's repression forces might
imprison anyone, based on a whim or a confusion;
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#10_January_2017_(Journalist_arrested_for_provoking_sedition)">they
don't need a rational reason</a>.  I recommend everyone stay away from
Egypt.
<p>
Then there are the countries that I would be happy to visit if I could
do so without having my 
<a href="/bad-border-policy-countries.html">fingerprints taken</a>.
<p>
But the only country I have reason to expect would refuse to let me in
is Israel.  I support the boycott of products made in Israel's
colonies in Palestinian territory, the boycott that Gush Shalom led
until Israeli law was changed to reduce to penury anyone advocating
that boycott.  I would not be allowed entry.
<p>
I have visited Israel three times, but now I know there will not be a
fourth visit unless Israeli policies change.
<p>
I hope that Israel will agree to end the occupation/siege of
Palestine, and cease to maintain colonies on its territory.  Then the
reason for the boycott would no longer exist, so I would no longer
support it.  Perhaps then I could visit Israel again.


feed_id: d41ee814e277a5922e02074f8486961f
title: Satire about troll's budget
uri: Satire-about-troll-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Satire_about_trolls_budget%29
content:
<p>
This satire about the troll's budget 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/03/16/trumps-budget-makes-perfect-sense-and-will-fix-america-and-i-will-tell-you-why/">was
recommended seriously by the White House</a>.


feed_id: af8506f68371b01fb9975160b05dfe37
title: Killer prison thugs unpunished
uri: Killer-prison-thugs-unpunished
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Killer_prison_thugs_unpunished%29
content:
<p>
The Miami prison thugs who 
<a href="http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/florida-wont-charge-prison-guards-who-boiled-schizophrenic-black-man-darren-rainey-to-death-9213190">cooked
Darren Rainey to death across two hours in a shower</a> will not be
punished.  The prosecutor decided not to charge them.
<p>
Most prosecutors systematically let thugs get away with murder.  Shame
on the thugs and the prosecutors!


feed_id: 20db03207fba08a9bb20bca726871803
title: Inconsistent US laws
uri: Inconsistent-US-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Inconsistent_US_laws%29
content:
<p>
US laws about sex with minors, and sexual images of minors,
are 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2017/03/15/sex-and-kids">inconsistent
and make no sense</a>.  The purported justifications for them are
absurd exaggerations.


feed_id: ddab188978e9b74541ad00f3f51188e1
title: Influence of the rich in elections
uri: Influence-of-the-rich-in-elections
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Influence_of_the_rich_in_elections%29

content:
<p>
Supreme Court rulings allowed rich people to exert 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/14/how-scotus-campaign-finance-rulings-distorted-us-democracy">tremendous
influence in congressional elections</a>.
<p>
Gorsuch is likely to push this even further.


feed_id: f73a04f42326f21b3040b8800b2ba18e
title: Regime of total surveillance in UK
uri: Regime-of-total-surveillance-in-UK
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Regime_of_total_surveillance_in_UK%29

content:
<p>
The UK government's surveillance camera commissioner warns that a
regime of total surveillance and tracking is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/14/public-faces-mass-invasion-of-privacy-as-big-data-and-surveillance-merge">developing</a>.
<p>
To avoid that result will require 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">far
more than insisting on the weak limits of current law</a>.


feed_id: 53d28fb2f71fc6172d2bf7eb6fef013a
title: Democrats
uri: 2017-03-24-Democrats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Democrats%29
content:
<p>
To win back the support of the working class, Democrats have to do more
than criticize Republican sabotage.  They 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/14/how-democrats-can-win-back-working-class">must
support programs to restore democracy and redistribute wealth</a>, as
Sanders does.


feed_id: 1760eaf41e285071af3ebf2909d160c6
title: Saboteur of Homeland Security
uri: Saboteur-of-Homeland-Security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Saboteur_of_Homeland_Security%29
content:
<p>
The Saboteur of Homeland Security demonstrated his 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/17/belligerent-rude-damn-frustrating-dems-slam-meeting-dhs-chief">total
contempt for Democratic legislators</a>, meeting with them only to
refuse to answer any of their questions.


feed_id: 65cf7bbf75e2446832ecb1304f8c3007
title: Troll's education budget
uri: Troll-s-education-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Trolls_education_budget%29
content:
<p>
The troll's education budget offers 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/17/trumps-budget-slashes-funding-disadvantaged-students-while-giving-14-billion">lots
of funds for privatizing public schools</a>.
<p>
Officials refuse to recognize that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/17/school-lunch-program-cuts-student-performance-link">providing
breakfast in school helps children learn</a>.  Being hungry all day is
quite a distraction from studying.
<p>
If we had a proper social support system, it would give children food
at home.


feed_id: 62871df6ff9e5a2c7efa52f2f506182d
title: China cutting greenhouse gas emissions
uri: China-cutting-greenhouse-gas-emissions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28China_cutting_greenhouse_gas_emissions%29

content:
<p>
Just when the US has been taken over by planet roasters, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/mar/19/why-i-think-theres-still-hope-for-the-climate-in-2017">China
is becoming the world leader</a> in cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
<p>
In the US, the big corporations control the state.  In China, the
state controls the big corporations.  It seems this makes an important
difference.


feed_id: 019a10881363d8bf02c413a1d0bb9c73
title: "Emergency" attacks against civil liberties
uri: Emergency-attacks-against-civil-liberties
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Emergency_attacks_against_civil_liberties%29

content:
<p>
The troll and his agents are already preparing "emergency" attacks
against civil liberties, to 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/19/for-donald-trump-a-terror-attack-will-be-an-opportunity-not-a-curse/">take
advantage of the next opportunity provided by a terrorist attack</a>
whose perpetrator isn't a right-wing bigot.


feed_id: cc72d42ad535411e768a2de254bd9f3b
title: Party of political Hinduism
uri: Party-of-political-Hinduism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Party_of_political_Hinduism%29
content:
<p>
The party of political Hinduism won the election in India's largest
state (Uttar Pradesh), and its state leader 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/19/uttar-pradesh-yogi-adityanath-hindu-priest-chief-minister">calls
for repression of Muslims</a>.
<p>
That party, the BJP, was associated with a 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-jan-apr.html#19%20April%202004%20(Indian%20retrial)">massacre
of Muslims in the state of Gujarat</a>.  Indeed, Prime Minister Modi
was directly associated with that.  I fear we will see repression and
massacre in Uttar Pradesh.


feed_id: de41b5203b51179b4d6ff33f463d0694
title: The Republican Party
uri: 2017-03-24-The-Republican-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28The_Republican_Party%29
content:
<p>
The Republican Party is the 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/18/jonathan-swifts-america">party
of Scrooge</a>: the poor deserve whatever harm the rich do to them,
because it's their own fault for being left standing in the endless
game of musical chairs.


feed_id: e87611b3efb374d5d78357c22789c7b7
title: Twitter censorship
uri: Twitter-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Twitter_censorship%29
content:
<p>
Roy Schestowitz reports being 
<a href="http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2017/03/18/censored-by-twitter-for-mentioning-being-censored-by-twitter/">censored
("shadowbanned") by Twitter</a> for posting about Twitter censorship.
<p>
This kind of censorship is not obvious to the one being censored.


feed_id: 24a5be6d49a9598a135a520cd2bd2832
title: Obstacle to elimination of fossil fuels
uri: Obstacle-to-elimination-of-fossil-fuels
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Obstacle_to_elimination_of_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
Technology and business are ready to eliminate fossil fuels, more or
less.  The main obstacle is the power of the 
<a href="https://thenearlynow.com/the-smokestacks-come-tumbling-down-c03ba1294522">carbon
lobby</a>, which operates through 
<a href="#23_March_2017_(Tobacco_industry)">manufacture of doubt</a>
based on the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#15_March_2015_(Deregulated_capitalism_and_global_heating)">power
of plutocracy</a>.
<p>
We must destroy the falsehood-industrial complex before it destroys
civilization and most species on Earth.
<p>
When the carbon bubble bursts, it will cause a financial crash.  But
the longer that waits, the bigger the crash will be.  Putting this off
is much worse than postponing the visit to the dentist, which is only
likely to make you lose a tooth or two.  It's like postponing the
checkup for cancer.


feed_id: e9d90858bc10dda06bf8e8d2dd8a1557
title: Minnesota's progressive governor
uri: Minnesota-s-progressive-governor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Minnesotas_progressive_governor%29
content:
<p>
A rather unfriendly article is forced to admit that Minnesota's
progressive governor has
<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-minnesota-mark-dayton-kansas-brownback-liberal-perspe-0506-jm-20150505-column.html">made
things a lot better there</a>.


feed_id: cef7f3d3083235e31045cfb0c0e20b36
title: Tobacco industry
uri: Tobacco-industry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Tobacco_industry%29
content:
<p>
The tobacco industry developed a strategy to overcome damning facts: a
<a href="http://timharford.com/2017/03/the-problem-with-facts/">system
for provoking doubt about firmly established conclusions</a>.  It
worked so well that many other businesses adopted it, and last year it
enabled brash liars to take over the US government.


feed_id: 274229905cb64f4cbcb3146201382cd2
title: Troll's corruption agents
uri: Troll-s-corruption-agents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Trolls_corruption_agents%29
content:
<p>
The troll continues 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/17/drain-what-swamp-trump-sends-coal-lobbyist-epa-and-boeing-exec-dod">packing
federal agencies with corruption agents</a>.  He's turning all
Washington into a swamp.


feed_id: 9b399fa5045a7b7bb72a87dbbd6bf25a
title: Delay of retirement savings fiduciary rule
uri: Delay-of-retirement-savings-fiduciary-rule
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Delay_of_retirement_savings_fiduciary_rule%29

content:
<p>
Each week that the troll delays the retirement savings fiduciary rule
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/03/17/trump-delay-fiduciary-rule-will-cost-retirement-savers-37-billion">enables
banksters to take roughly half a billion dollars from American
savers</a>.
<p>
This is an estimate, not an exact figure.  Perhaps the real amount is
only a quarter of a billion.  Or perhaps it is three quarters.


feed_id: 78192d018ce72273155bc82137eff6a4
title: Republican budget cuts
uri: 2017-03-24-Republican-budget-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Republican_budget_cuts%29
content:
<p>
Millions of old or disabled Americans can remain in their homes
because of the government's meal delivery service, Meals on Wheels.
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/17/1644450/-Gutting-the-Meals-on-Wheels-program-would-devastate-millions-including-500-000-vets-who-rely-on-it">The
troll would like to eliminate this</a> because the military-industrial
complex needs more profits.
<p>
Simply eliminating the requirement for insurance to cover IUDs
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/18/why-birth-control-essential-americans-health">will
put some women's lives in danger</a>, while driving many more women
and children into poverty.  It is foolish for any state to fail to
subsidize birth control for the poor.
<p>
Put together, Republicans budget cuts 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/further/2017/03/16/let-em-die">would
kill thousands of Americans</a>.  They would be be almost a 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/16/1644226/-Trump-Ryan-budgets-will-kill-more-Americans-per-year-than-all-Muslim-extremist-attacks-combined">hundred
times as deadly to Americans as Islamist terrorist attacks</a>.
<p>
In the longer term, the troll's most deadly act will probably be the
continuation of global heating, which is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/cgi-bin/2012-jul-oct.html#04_October_2012_(Effect_of_global_heating_on_people)">likely
to kill billions of people</a> starting a few decades from now.


feed_id: 7f7e86f7a885b02af783773761b52f75
title: Saboteur of Health and Human Services
uri: Saboteur-of-Health-and-Human-Services
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Saboteur_of_Health_and_Human_Services%29

content:
<p>
Saboteur of Health and Human Services 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/03/16/1644240/-Another-Trumpian-monster-Tom-Price-blows-off-a-cancer-patient-s-concern-about-losing-Medicaid">Tom
Price</a> was confronted by a man whose life depends on Medicaid,
which Price aims to rearrange gradually down to nothing.
<p>
According to a leak, fired prosecutor Bharara's office was
investigating Price for 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/17/fired-us-attorney-preet-bharara-said-have-been-investigating-hhs-secretary-tom-price">illegal
insider stock trading while he was a congresscritter</a>.


feed_id: ae92865410df3da6443f8600d451a7ba
title: Troll's main "counter-terrorism advisor"
uri: Troll-s-main-counter-terrorism-advisor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Trolls_main_counter-terrorism_advisor%29

content:
<p>
The troll's main "counter-terrorism advisor" Sebastian Gorka is
accused of joining a 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/16/1644095/-Report-Senior-Trump-adviser-took-a-lifelong-loyalty-oath-to-Hungarian-Nazi-organization">Hungarian
antisemitic fascist group</a> before moving to the US.


feed_id: 859e1004c1eb4a5db6efc8c499a984a2
title: Fraudulent business offers on Facebook and Google
uri: Fraudulent-business-offers-on-Facebook-and-Google
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Fraudulent_business_offers_on_Facebook_and_Google%29

content:
<p>
The EU demands Facebook and Google 
<a href="https://www.engadget.com/2017/03/17/eu-orders-facebook-and-google-to-prevent-consumer-scams/">block
fraudulent business offers and those that violate EU consumer
protection law</a>.


feed_id: 7919dcc1dd6580bc22d5c39604d776c2
title: US needs single-payer medical system
uri: US-needs-single-payer-medical-system
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28US_needs_single-payer_medical_system%29

content:
<p>
The US needs a 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/17/if-ryancare-dead-arrival-can-we-please-now-try-single-payer">single-payer
medical system</a>.  With people unhappy with Obama's half-way system,
yet dependent on it for their survival, we must go forward rather than
back.


feed_id: 2011b021ae0985d592968e89bbb04414
title: The "Citizens United" decision
uri: The-Citizens-United-decision
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28The_Citizens_United_decision%29
content:
<p>
The Supreme Court's "Citizens United" decision 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/03/17/us-supreme-courts-assumption-outside-groups-are-independent-proven-false-state">assumed
that outside political campaign groups were independent</a>, but in
fact they often coordinate with the candidate's campaign.


feed_id: 735cf6dc5543a0fd15bdb4140c851a0d
title: The CFPB
uri: The-CFPB
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28The_CFPB%29
content:
<p>
The CFPB 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/03/17/weakening-cfpb-would-allow-credit-bureaus-run-amok-again">makes
credit bureaus fix their mistakes</a>, and they make a lot of
mistakes.


feed_id: 2e4b35084551756d61a61ce191375f30
title: Small-scale farming
uri: Small-scale-farming
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Small-scale_farming%29
content:
<p>
Small-scale farming, with more people working the land, could 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/16/small-scale-farming-could-restore-americas-rural-towns">restore
rural towns as well as the carbon in the soil</a>.


feed_id: c4fb6156511d38f3e7d1e97445e33214
title: lapps
uri: lapps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#24_March_2017_%28lapps%29
content:
<p>
The Sami ("lapps") in Norway have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/17/sami-dakota-access-pipeline-norway-pension-fund-divest">persuaded a large pension fund</a> to
divest from the companies building the Dakota Access pipeline.


feed_id: e7271038a14b1e7544635587599a78e8
title: Attacked a protest
uri: Attacked-a-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#24_March_2017_%28Attacked_a_protest%29
content:
<p>
The Washington DC thugs violently attacked a protest, and threaten
protesters and reporters with ten years' imprisonment.
<p>
The state is now
<a href="http://www.alternet.org/activism/law-enforcement-using-facebook-and-apple-data-mine-accounts-trump-protest-arrestees-0">collecting protesters' data from Apple and Facebook</a>.
  (<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">To cloud your mind</a>, those companies like to say that your data is
"in the cloud".  In fact, it is in their servers.)
<p>
It seems that thugs have already looked through the accounts of some
of the protesters, through their own phones.
<p>
In Russia,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/24/unpatriotic-post-facebook-finally-flee-russia">people who criticize the state</a> are threatened with
exile, seizure of all their property, as well as false charges.
<p>
The US isn't as bad as Russia yet, but it is heading in that
direction.


feed_id: 9f68c606860a293f5feb75592dda2fd4
title: Afford to refuse
uri: Afford-to-refuse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#24_March_2017_%28Afford_to_refuse%29
content:
<p>
Giving workers the right to refuse some imposition is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/19/right-to-disconnect-digital-gig-economy-evgeny-morozov">of little
benefit to desperate workers who can't afford to refuse anything</a>.
And increasingly that's what workers' life is like.
<p>
What we need, therefore, are employment rules that put all workers in
the position where they can afford to refuse impositions, or where
they must at least be paid for their impositions.
<p>
If Guber had to pay drivers for all the time they are on call, for
instance, they would have the means to be on call less of the time.


feed_id: a83db934f5e4527b6443923f9ecf4de0
title: Carbon tax
uri: 2017-03-25-Carbon-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#24_March_2017_%28Carbon_tax%29
content:
<p>
Some Republicans now propose an
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/feb/08/republican-national-carbon-tax-climate-change">increasing carbon tax to replace
specific federal regulations</a> to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
<p>
I'm in favor of this — but in order to achieve the goal, the tax will
have to be big enough to affect most spending decisions.  15 years
ago, mostly painless measures could have saved the ecosphere.  Now we
need to act quickly.


feed_id: fc9f85d9a5b6575b3dd0c79f3ad9d038
title: Greece's suffering
uri: Greece-s-suffering
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#24_March_2017_%28Greece%27s_suffering%29
content:
<p>
The troll's proposed ambassador to the EU
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/08/trump-envoy-declares-odds-on-greece-will-break-from-euro">dares to recogize
that the Euro is responsible</a> for Greece's suffering.
<p>
This is one of the troll's few good sides: refusing to abide by the
established neoliberal globalization consensus.


feed_id: b6b0cebaabf9e5175dbc554b52d8e999
title: Protest
uri: 2017-03-25-Protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#24_March_2017_%28Protest%29
content:
<p>
A large protest, mostly peaceful but with some violence, shut down
a
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/02/responding-protest-against-white-nationalist-trump-threatens-defund-university">talk by Yiannopoulos</a> at UC Berkeley.  The troll responded with a
vague
threat to cut off federal funding for the university.
<p>
I am in favor of protesting that extremist, but against using violence
to stop a speech.
<p>
The most significant point here is that the troll has stated support
for Yiannopoulos personally.  He and his associates can no longer deny
their ties to his extremism.


feed_id: 4192260d0fb67c651108a07deefd6cda
title: Urgent: Oppose Gorsuch
uri: 2017-03-25-Urgent-Oppose-Gorsuch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_March_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Gorsuch%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Block_Trumps_Court">call on
senators</a> (specifically Democrats) to oppose Gorsuch.
<p>
Then phone your own senators (one after the other) via 1-888-877-2040
to tell them the same thing.
<p>
People for the American Way mailed me this:

<blockquote>
With his history of favoring corporate interests above everyday
people, it should be no surprise that the New York Times just reported
that Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch has ties
to reclusive Colorado billionaire Philip F. Anschutz. Formerly a
lawyer representing Anschutz's companies in court, Gorsuch now
owns property in Colorado with some of Anschutz's closest
associates. Anschutz is reported to have provided funding to both the
Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society, the two far-right
organizations to which Trump outsourced the job of creating his list
of Supreme Court nominees, from which Gorsuch was chosen.

Between his close relationship with an ultra-conservative billionaire
and his decisions that have favored corporations and harmed workers
and consumers, it's clear that the majority of Americans who
want to save our democracy from the influence of big money have a lot
to worry about when it comes to this nominee.
</blockquote>


feed_id: 4f043887bd9f680c3b7c852b29ba7926
title: Afford to refuse
uri: 2017-03-25-Afford-to-refuse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#24_March_2017_%28Afford_to_refuse%29
content:
<p>
Giving workers the right to refuse some imposition is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/19/right-to-disconnect-digital-gig-economy-evgeny-morozov">of little
benefit to desperate workers who can't afford to refuse anything</a>.
And increasingly that's what workers' life is like.
<p>
What we need, therefore, are employment rules that put all workers in
the position where they can afford to refuse impositions, or where
they must at least be paid for their impositions.
<p>
If <a href="/glossary.html#guber">Guber</a> had to pay drivers for all the time they are on call, for
instance, they would have the means to be on call less of the time.


feed_id: 1de19020fa58223016e7157f40e89f66
title: Greece's suffering
uri: 2017-03-25-Greece-s-suffering
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#24_March_2017_%28Greece%27s_suffering%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s proposed ambassador to the EU
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/08/trump-envoy-declares-odds-on-greece-will-break-from-euro">dares to recogize
that the Euro is responsible</a> for Greece's suffering.
<p>
This is one of the troll's few good sides: refusing to abide by the
established neoliberal globalization consensus.


feed_id: ecf77d495cbea89bbebaaa2724211b34
title: Troll's son was patent troll
uri: 2017-03-25-Troll-s-son-was-patent-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Trolls_son_was_patent_troll%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s son, Donald Trump, Jr., 
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/03/macrosolve-donald-trump-jr-s-favorite-patent-enforcer/">was
a patent troll</a>.


feed_id: 8d910adaf966223c030c49544528351c
title: US-Salafi Arabia joint G20 statement
uri: 2017-03-25-US-Salafi-Arabia-joint-G20-statement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28US-Salafi_Arabia_joint_G20_statement%29

content:
<p>
The US joined with <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> to 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/19/us-pressures-g20-dropping-climate-reference-joint-statement">make
this year's G20 statement about global heating weaker than
previously</a>.


feed_id: 663b70026857826cb171215d0743b6ba
title: Troll's education budget
uri: 2017-03-25-Troll-s-education-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Trolls_education_budget%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s education budget offers 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/17/trumps-budget-slashes-funding-disadvantaged-students-while-giving-14-billion">lots
of funds for privatizing public schools</a>.
<p>
Officials refuse to recognize that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/17/school-lunch-program-cuts-student-performance-link">providing
breakfast in school helps children learn</a>.  Being hungry all day is
quite a distraction from studying.
<p>
If we had a proper social support system, it would give children food
at home.


feed_id: b7902630479b72d78dd4d02147b91027
title: "Emergency" attacks against civil liberties
uri: 2017-03-25-Emergency-attacks-against-civil-liberties
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Emergency_attacks_against_civil_liberties%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> and his agents are already preparing "emergency" attacks
against civil liberties, to 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/03/19/for-donald-trump-a-terror-attack-will-be-an-opportunity-not-a-curse/">take
advantage of the next opportunity provided by a terrorist attack</a>
whose perpetrator isn't a right-wing bigot.


feed_id: ac8a2ba3536292e6cd93faa9e26856e0
title: Troll's corruption agents
uri: 2017-03-25-Troll-s-corruption-agents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Trolls_corruption_agents%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> continues 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/17/drain-what-swamp-trump-sends-coal-lobbyist-epa-and-boeing-exec-dod">packing
federal agencies with corruption agents</a>.  He's turning all
Washington into a swamp.


feed_id: 55c72d71f0879f1c53531dbb5b16b10d
title: Troll's main "counter-terrorism advisor"
uri: 2017-03-25-Troll-s-main-counter-terrorism-advisor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Trolls_main_counter-terrorism_advisor%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s main "counter-terrorism advisor" Sebastian Gorka is
accused of joining a 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/3/16/1644095/-Report-Senior-Trump-adviser-took-a-lifelong-loyalty-oath-to-Hungarian-Nazi-organization">Hungarian
antisemitic fascist group</a> before moving to the US.


feed_id: 28f22087bd173047054c369d6b110dfd
title: Troll's budget
uri: 2017-03-25-Troll-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Trolls_budget%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s budget would
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/17/meals-on-wheels-fatality-trumps-budget">make
old people go hungry</a> in order to feed the military-industrial
complex.


feed_id: fa76ed411d1d7fda2ce69d3d734b3c62
title: Subsidies for low-income housing
uri: 2017-03-25-Subsidies-for-low-income-housing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Subsidies_for_low-income_housing%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/16/trump-budget-cut-eliminate-homelessness-agency">wants
to eliminate</a> the agency that subsidizes low-income housing.  This
could make hundreds of thousands of Americans homeless.


feed_id: 6f31915e25ce1411027a3f16411b7603
title: Medicaid
uri: 2017-03-25-Medicaid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28Medicaid%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s saboteur in charge of Medicaid 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/03/15/trumps-new-medicaid-head-wastes-no-time-urging-states-make-system-more-cruel">wants
to kick most of the children off, and make the program so expensive
for patients that they will go bankrupt</a>.


feed_id: 8d8810771964777cc73bbd5c1da9cb90
title: WIC
uri: 2017-03-25-WIC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_%28WIC%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> and the troll want to cut the WIC budget which 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/16/trump-budget-wic-women-infants-children-nutrition">provides
food for babies and pregnant or nursing women</a>.  The budget is
already insufficient, so that some of the eligible people are left
out.


feed_id: 3ee027906719147f0af37b6e6ac82031
title: Yemen
uri: 2017-03-25-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Yemen%29
content:
<p>
Yemen At 'Point of No Return' as Conflict Leaves
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/mar/16/yemen-conflict-7-million-close-to-famine">Almost
7 Million Close to Famine</a>.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>'s bombing campaign is responsible for this, and it is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#4_November_2016_(Salafi/US_bombing)">backed
by the US</a>.


feed_id: 6b0d9ef6a69cb5630c0c29e3ebda1417
title: Troll's budget
uri: 2017-03-25-Troll-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Trolls_budget%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s budget
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/16/trump-budget-cuts-climate-change-clean-up-programs-epa">would
cut the EPA by 1/3</a>, a boon for companies that are based on
pollution.
<p>
Murderous
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/trumps-budget-would-slash-scientific-and-medical-research/2017/03/15/d3261f98-0998-11e7-a15f-a58d4a988474_story.html">cuts
in scientific and medical research</a>.
<p>
The Dream of a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/16/trumps-budget-dream-paranoid-strongman-vicious-scrooge">Paranoid
Strongman and a Vicious Scrooge</a>.


feed_id: 4b74d40207778b56638b03c5d1cac5f1
title: Troll depends on billionaires
uri: 2017-03-25-Troll-depends-on-billionaires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_%28Troll_depends_on_billionaires%29
content:
<p>
If Trump Were a Clever Populist,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/16/if-trump-were-a-clever-populist-hed-demand-universal-healthcare-for-america">He'd
Demand Universal Healthcare for America</a>.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> depends on billionaires that see all money as "theirs"
and want as little as possible to go to anyone else.


feed_id: 4c1f855b34ae840cac552b084494db53
title: Taxes
uri: 2017-03-25-Taxes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_March_2017_%28Taxes%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>, and most of the large companies based in the US, don't pay
their fair share of taxes.  They 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58ca65b0e4b0e0d348b34096">want
to change the law so they will pay even less</a>.


feed_id: c735b9787e7de3c7ae4d6c3feda63834
title: CIA has free reign to use drones to kill
uri: 2017-03-25-CIA-has-free-reign-to-use-drones-to-kill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#21_March_2017_%28CIA_has_free_reign_to_use_drones_to_kill%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> 
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/16/trump-considering-expanding-killing-powers-abroad-consequences-civilians-will-be">has
given the CIA free rein</a> to use drones to kill people, world-wide.


feed_id: ed105cf67cd83bf228f2de78922733ad
title: Resisting the troll
uri: 2017-03-26-Resisting-the-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#24_March_2017_%28Resisting_the_troll%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/20/last-chance-resistance">Don't
wait</a> to start resisting the troll's measures for consolidating
permanent power.


