# articles

feed_id: 4457748ae392b54f548fd007ad2f0928
title: Tories borrow voter suppression techniques
uri: Tories-borrow-voter-suppression-techniques
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Tories_borrow_voter_suppression_techniques%29

content:
<p>
The Tories are systematically borrowing Republican techniques to
suppress voting by the poor.  Next step: 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/19/no-photo-no-vote-cynical-tory-plan-suffocate-democracy">voter
ID</a>.
<p>
The Tories are also imitating the troll's 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/19/foreign-reporter-frozen-out-theresa-may-behaving-trump">contempt
for reporters that are not subservient</a>.
<p>
Plutocratist parties operate governments of occupation on behalf of
the conquering global rich.  They may use democracy while it exists,
but they aim to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_April_2014_(The_views_of_non-rich_people)">deny
the people to any real control over their destiny</a>.  In the process
of doing so, they become
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_(Replacement_of_democracy_with_plutocracy)">ever
less legitimate as governments</a>.  They deserve their power no more
than any other government of occupation.


feed_id: a8fe3dc8a8063ea836204cd4e695867d
title: Charges against Julian Assange dropped
uri: Charges-against-Julian-Assange-dropped
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Charges_against_Julian_Assange_dropped%29

content:
<p>
Sweden has dropped charges against Julian Assange, rejecting the
option of bringing him to Sweden with a commitment not to send him to
the US.
<p>
However, Assange still can't leave the Ecuadorian embassy, as the UK
has found a minor crime to arrest him for, and the troll regime says
it 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/19/sweden-withdraws-arrest-warrant-for-julian-assange-but-he-still-faces-serious-legal-jeopardy/">plans
to prosecute him somehow</a>.
<p>
It appears they intend to make him spend the rest of his life in
the Ecuadorian embassy.
<p>
I conjecture that Sweden dropped the charges because the US no longer
had any need for them.


feed_id: 0f413cd2c69562b856f4749ea4eb9486
title: Do-dirty bans smoking tobacco in public
uri: Do-dirty-bans-smoking-tobacco-in-public
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Do-dirty_bans_smoking_tobacco_in_public%29

content:
<p>
Do-dirty has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/19/philippines-president-bans-smoking-in-public-with-offenders-facing-jail">decreed
a ban on smoking tobacco in public</a> in the Philippines.
<p>
I wouldn't expect that a president has the legal power to do that
alone.


feed_id: 45ede8b8fce8f273b910821b1bbdc940
title: Troll's companies
uri: Troll-s-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Trolls_companies%29
content:
<p>
Democratic Senators demand information from the troll's companies, now
operated by his sons at thumb's length from him, to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/18/dems-ask-trumps-company-prove-its-not-just-funneling-him-money">see
whether they are passing through foreign money to him</a>.


feed_id: 040da6adf69e9e2fd016244d20c3901d
title: Data about passengers used by Goober
uri: Data-about-passengers-used-by-Goober
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Data_about_passengers_used_by_Goober%29

content:
<p>
Uber collects data about passengers, then uses the data to 
<a href="http://gizmodo.com/uber-doesn-t-want-you-to-see-this-document-about-its-va-1795151637">profile
them in various ways</a>.


feed_id: 5fd3a7b946151504881cfd674e55b2db
title: Atheists in the US
uri: Atheists-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Atheists_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
A careful survey suggests that 
<a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/way-more-americans-may-be-atheists-than-we-thought/">1/4
of the US population may be atheist</a>, but many of them fear to let
this be known.


feed_id: 1701005fbe1fc1681c5111762b5b66aa
title: Air pollution from ships
uri: Air-pollution-from-ships
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Air_pollution_from_ships%29
content:
<p>
Ships emit so much air pollution that they 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/18/dirty-diesel-ships-worst-offenders-pollutionwatch">may
cause 60,000 deaths per year</a>.


feed_id: e49107ce83483acb8101a0f86d3710fa
title: Progressive candidate has chance in Montana
uri: Progressive-candidate-has-chance-in-Montana
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Progressive_candidate_has_chance_in_Montana%29

content:
<p>
Progressive candidate Rob Quist has a chance to get elected to
Congress from Montana, but the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/18/even-no-love-dnc-sanders-backed-montana-longshot-surges">national
Democratic Party has given him almost no support</a>.
<p>
The DNC works for the Wall Street Democrats, like Clinton, against
progressives such as Sanders.


feed_id: efbfd9f17835ea4f9b709b56882b48a7
title: Clinton and the Wall Street Democrats
uri: Clinton-and-the-Wall-Street-Democrats
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Clinton_and_the_Wall_Street_Democrats%29

content:
<p>
Clinton and the Wall Street Democrats want to bring opposition to
plutocratic Republicans under 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/18/we-dont-need-clinton-to-go-onward-together-fight-trump-in-other-ways">their
Plutocratic aegis</a>.
<p>
In July 2016, I posted a petition on MoveOn 
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/hillary-clinton-stand-1">calling
on Clinton to stand aside so Sanders could defeat the troll</a>.  Too
bad she didn't do it.
<p>
Wall Street Democrats want to go on and on, along the same path of
<a href="/glossary.html#doohnibor">dooH niboR</a>.  If we want to go in the right direction, we must not
reject their attempts to lead us astray.


feed_id: d253b5a229cc25bcf990158ef277ce85
title: Wrongdoing by the troll needs investigation
uri: Wrongdoing-by-the-troll-needs-investigation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Wrongdoing_by_the_troll_needs_investigation%29

content:
<p>
In addition to the special criminal investigator, we 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/18/hold-your-applause-warnings-over-pitfalls-special-counsel-investigation">need
an independent commission</a> to investigate wrongdoing by the troll
that isn't a crime.


feed_id: b79063dd1f4138b365abaabf0b84acb7
title: The troll and DeVos
uri: The-troll-and-DeVos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28The_troll_and_DeVos%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> and DeVos want to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/18/trumps-education-budget-feeds-school-privatization-expense-students">gut
federal support for public schools and college student loans, and move
most of the money to private and religious schools</a>.
<p>
DeVos wants to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/19/billionaire-betsy-devos-scrap-student-debt-forgiveness">eliminate
the program that forgives student loans for some students</a>.
<p>
If you were rich enough to matter, in her judgment, you
wouldn't have needed any student loans.


feed_id: 2eebe3018e6780f3f0821cf62b4e626f
title: Troll wants to cut renewable energy support
uri: Troll-wants-to-cut-renewable-energy-support
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Troll_wants_to_cut_renewable_energy_support%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/17/trump-wants-cut-energy-depts-renewables-budget-big-time">wants
to cut 70% from support for renewable energy in the Department of
Energy</a>.


feed_id: 4a84330cd17f06d1f3f7ee444b8d0a9a
title: Workers without maternity leave
uri: Workers-without-maternity-leave
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Workers_without_maternity_leave%29
content:
<p>
Some US companies offer maternity leave to full time corporate
employees, but most of their workers are part-time or employed by
contractors or franchises, and 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/17/how-corporate-family-leave-policies-are-fueling-inequality">don't
get those benefits</a>.
<p>
If there is any doubt about how you can afford to raise a child,
you shouldn't expose it to the risk of being born in that situation.


feed_id: 718c0a887ac85f4d402247dc8937b169
title: Series of lucky breaks exposed Nixon
uri: Series-of-lucky-breaks-exposed-Nixon
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Series_of_lucky_breaks_exposed_Nixon%29

content:
<p>
It took a series of lucky breaks to expose Nixon's conspiracy and
remove him from office.  We 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/17/dont-count-precedent-watergate-help-depose-trump-we-got-lucky">can't
count on that to happen again</a>.
<p>
However, with the special investigator we have at least traveled a
step further down the path.


feed_id: 204ccd2d2e19393b6bf73da640a234dc
title: Storing and transporting renewable energy
uri: Storing-and-transporting-renewable-energy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Storing_and_transporting_renewable_energy%29

content:
<p>
There are plans to store and transport renewable energy in the form of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/may/19/how-australia-can-use-hydrogen-to-export-its-solar-power-around-the-world">liquid
hydrogen or ammonia</a>.
<p>
Iceland could export energy from the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/may/19/british-energy-iceland-volcano-geothermal-power">heat
of underground molten magma</a>.
<p>
These could help avoid global disaster, but only if they are ramped up
soon.


feed_id: 6c976087cf8040ff36c93b24775566b4
title: Handling intelligence information
uri: Handling-intelligence-information
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Handling_intelligence_information%29
content:
<p>
Careless treatment of intelligence information is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/18/establishment-remains-hostage-rules-espionage">not
as important as unjustified war</a>.
<p>
So You Want to Share Intelligence with Russia ... There Are 
<a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/41144/share-intelligence-russia-risky-ways/">Less
Risky Ways to Do It</a>.
<p>
I wonder: would Russians have been able to deduce that the information
came from a spy working for Israel, from the information they got?
Or did they get that info from the US media?


feed_id: 0e15018b71086af2e2e7962da2c06d36
title: Robot nanny that spies on child
uri: Robot-nanny-that-spies-on-child
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Robot_nanny_that_spies_on_child%29
content:
<p>
Meet Aristotle, the Robot Nanny That Can 
<a href="https://www.treehugger.com/family/now-robot-nanny-can-spy-your-child.html">Raise
(And Spy on) Your Child</a>.
<p>
I am glad people are starting to recognize that these products are
fundamentally bad.


feed_id: 42688a432dc617fecdaa885dc404f933
title: Sabotaging the 2020 US census
uri: Sabotaging-the-2020-US-census
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Sabotaging_the_2020_US_census%29
content:
<p>
Sabotaging the 2020 US census would 
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-18/unreliable-data-can-threaten-democracy">help
Republicans get away with gerrymandering</a>.


feed_id: 830c83a945f305008975628ec7dcd0cb
title: "Public-private partnerships"
uri: Public-private-partnerships
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Public-private_partnerships%29
content:
<p>
Republicans want to build US infrastructure through "public-private
partnerships", which means the public 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/20/why-public-control-infrastructure-matters">pays
more and gets less control</a>.


feed_id: fb676ffcbae61022bd8192ac97237fef
title: Islamist extremism from Salafi Arabia
uri: Islamist-extremism-from-Salafi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Islamist_extremism_from_Salafi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
In <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>, the troll 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/21/trump-vows-historys-great-test-conquering-extremism-saudi-speech">talks
about the need to defeat Islamist extremism</a>.
<p>
As if it weren't <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> that spends millions per year to 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_January_2016_(Palestinian_poets_death_sentence)">spread
Islamist extremism</a>.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> also strained to equate Iran's repressive state with
terrorism.  However, Iran's repression happens overtly, in Iran.


feed_id: a871933e1698870f4c2f037bf97792c5
title: Supervised facilities for opioid addicts
uri: Supervised-facilities-for-opioid-addicts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Supervised_facilities_for_opioid_addicts%29

content:
<p>
Canada has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/21/canada-opioid-crisis-supervised-drug-injection-sites">removed
most of the requirements for supervised facilities</a> for addicts to
take opioids.


feed_id: ca7ac1f0b56ecd1b05d17a9d4d0bc24b
title: Texas border thug law
uri: Texas-border-thug-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Texas_border_thug_law%29
content:
<p>
El Cenizo, Texas, is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/21/us-immigration-texas-sb4-sanctuary-cities">suing
to overturn</a> the Texas law that forces all local thugs to obey
orders from US border thugs.


feed_id: f6c9ccdd54ef9d0ebdcaffd8af58152a
title: Katahdin Woods and Waters national monument
uri: Katahdin-Woods-and-Waters-national-monument
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Katahdin_Woods_and_Waters_national_monument%29

content:
<p>
The Republican governor of Maine has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/21/katahdin-woods-waters-obama-monument-signs-banned">prohibited
posting signs to lead people to the Katahdin Woods and Waters national
monument</a>, which he wants to eliminate.
<p>
He hopes to keep visitors away so he can claim people don't want to go
there.
<p>
This reminds me of how New Jersey officials (surely directed by the
Governor Christy) 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_November_2016_(Governor_Christies_aides_convicted)">punished
a Democratic mayor by closing lanes on the George Washington
Bridge</a>.  (The governor says he didn't tell his aides to do this.
If you believe that, maybe he will offer to sell you that bridge.)
<p>
This shows the scheming and dishonest attitude of today's Republican
Party.  They will degrade any institutions they get their hands on,
and use it to spread lies, merely to deny their rivals a chance to
point at any sort of success.


feed_id: 6261b50fb05f58ac02819e0ec5190e60
title: Imprisonment of journalists
uri: 2017-05-27-Imprisonment-of-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Imprisonment_of_journalists%29
content:
<p>
US journalists 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/21/trump-threat-reporters-press-freedom">denounce
the practice</a> of imprisoning journalists, which was expanded under
<a href="/glossary.html#dubya">Dubya</a> and Obama and is getting worse under the troll.


feed_id: 5341e61b294e02bac8f72591c052d8a3
title: Flynn's employment by Turkey
uri: Flynn-s-employment-by-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Flynns_employment_by_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
In January, Flynn 
<a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article151149647.html">convinced
Obama's national security advisor to put off a plan to arm the Syrian
Kurds to capture Raqqa</a>.  Flynn had taken pay from Turkey during
2016.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has since reinstated the plan.
<p>
Democratic congresscritters 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/19/1664009/-Check-this-out-House-Democrats-told-VP-Mike-Pence-about-Flynn-and-they-kept-the-receipts-to-prove-it">wrote
to Pence in November to warn him about Flynn's employment by
Turkey</a>.
<p>
Pence claimed he didn't know about this.


feed_id: 4e148cb03d48159343ec357e84bbff9d
title: The thug that shot Terrence Crutcher
uri: The-thug-that-shot-Terrence-Crutcher
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28The_thug_that_shot_Terrence_Crutcher%29

content:
<p>
The thug that shot Terrence Crutcher
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2017/05/19/american-justice-betty-shelby-and-malcolm-x">lied
about many aspects of the killing</a>, and then was acquitted of
charges.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/18/1663654/-Oklahoma-officer-who-killed-unarmed-black-motorist-is-found-not-guilty-But-who-s-surprised">assumed
Crutcher was dangerous before they approached him</a>.  They didn't
bother to notice that he was unarmed and had his hands up.
Unconscious racism may have played a role, and surely the assumption
did too.  That is no excuse for what they did.
<p>
Here's an idea: put up posters showing that thug, in uniform, with the
caption "Armed, Dangerous Liar."  Each word can be proved.


feed_id: 59be3da7da25065cba419fc0d6bde833
title: US persecution of sex workers
uri: US-persecution-of-sex-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28US_persecution_of_sex_workers%29
content:
<p>
The US government 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/19/fbi-sting-arrested-nearly-twice-as-many">organizes
the arrest of hundreds of sex workers every year</a>, under the guise
of releasing enslaved minors — except that it finds hardly any
minors and none are enslaved.


feed_id: 1b6592cd6958b1cfac94be3864740f98
title: Clarke wants imprisonment without trial
uri: Clarke-wants-imprisonment-without-trial
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Clarke_wants_imprisonment_without_trial%29

content:
<p>
Sheriff Clarke wants to put thousands of Americans — perhaps as
much as a million — 
<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/sheriff-david-clarke-is-determined-to-suspend-habeus-corpus-and-shred-the-bill-of-rights/">in
prison without trial</a> based on suspicions he appears to exaggerate.


feed_id: ed28d7d67a107760634ee3f812290928
title: Facebook WhatsApp
uri: Facebook-WhatsApp
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Facebook_WhatsApp%29
content:
<p>
What Facebook gained from buying WhatsApp was to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/20/eu-right-to-take-on-facebook-fines-dont-protect-us-from-tech-giants">associate
nearly every used of Facebook with a phone number</a>.  Facebook lied
about this when it bought WhatsApp.


feed_id: 1e0afd86260623d8a1dce202c72dda68
title: Audio recording of Brazilian president
uri: Audio-recording-of-Brazilian-president
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Audio_recording_of_Brazilian_president%29

content:
<p>
Brazilian president Temer 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/20/audio-at-heart-of-bribery-scandal-was-doctored-claims-brazil-president">says
the audio recording which had him discussing hush money for Eduardo
Cunha was faked</a>.


feed_id: bfea5082f3932716e137b0b5e7cdc4af
title: Coal mining plans defeated in court
uri: Coal-mining-plans-defeated-in-court
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Coal_mining_plans_defeated_in_court%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government is disappointed that environmentalists have
defeated coal mining plans in court, because they would harm
endangered species.  Instead of making mines respect wildlife, the
government has decided to block environmentalists from taking such
issues to court.
<p>
Future mining projects will get away with destroying endangered
species, because the extractionist state doesn't care, and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/18/coalition-to-remove-green-groups-right-to-challenge-after-carmichael-setback">everyone
else in Australia will be powerless</a>.


feed_id: d32c2911f363eb4a28bdef2a640bd14d
title: Plan to measure car emissions blocked
uri: Plan-to-measure-car-emissions-blocked
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Plan_to_measure_car_emissions_blocked%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s saboteurs have 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/carbon-measurement-rule-delayed-indefinitely-3324b189dc56">blocked
a plan to measure greenhouse emissions from cars and trucks</a>.


feed_id: 14ef194f18b5843331f0abf4362f6dd3
title: Stingrays
uri: 2017-05-27-Stingrays
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Stingrays%29
content:
<p>
EFF: since stingrays always snoop on everyone in a neighborhood, the
usual criteria for a search warrant are not enough for using a
stingray.  They 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/no-hunting-undocumented-immigrants-stingrays">should
be used only in cases of major crimes</a>.


feed_id: a19deb14311bf0e3133882011754a97f
title: Impeaching the troll
uri: 2017-05-27-Impeaching-the-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Impeaching_the_troll%29
content:
<p>
Pence is a Christian theocrat and plutocratist, but that is no reason
to hold back from 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/19/movement-impeachment-must-be-grounded-opposition-trumpism-and-gop">impeaching
the troll</a>.


feed_id: 6cbf8f9b457cd8b7d4be5f4b9d170d75
title: Trustworthy investigation important
uri: Trustworthy-investigation-important
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Trustworthy_investigation_important%29

content:
<p>
Some US agency 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/18/1663835/-US-surveillance-recorded-Russian-agents-vowing-to-get-Hillary-Clinton">reports
listening to a Russian agent boast of plans to interfere with the US
election of 2016</a>, to punish Clinton.
<p>
If true (those agencies do sometimes lie), it is not proof that the
troll's staff colluded with Russia about the matter.  But it confirms
the importance of a full and trustworthy investigation.


feed_id: ac7a9cb85a16cc91f3a1fec8b8477c39
title: Arctic declaration
uri: Arctic-declaration
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Arctic_declaration%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> tried to erase concern for global heating from the nearly
finalized 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/19/trump-administration-lobbied-ditch-climate-language-arctic-declaration">Arctic
declaration</a>.


feed_id: 6a18569b0cf52d8d4a432235b49c3329
title: North Carolina's voter suppression law
uri: North-Carolina-s-voter-suppression-law
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28North_Carolinas_voter_suppression_law%29

content:
<p>
After the final defeat of North Carolina's voter suppression law,
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/16/1662784/-On-the-heels-of-their-Supreme-Court-loss-NC-GOP-vows-to-try-harder-to-suppress-black-voters">Republicans
there vow to try again</a> to stop Democrats from voting.


feed_id: ddbfd1e96514cd9ba611b541b44c5c59
title: Prudish ignorantism
uri: Prudish-ignorantism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Prudish_ignorantism%29
content:
<p>
A British woman is on trial for going to a park and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/19/ex-bbc-presenters-tony-julie-wadsworth-deny-indecently-assaulting-boys-warwickshire">inviting
teenage boys to have sex with her</a> there.  Her husband acted as a
lookout in case someone else passed by.  One teenager allegedly
visited her at her house repeatedly to have sex with her.
<p>
None of these acts would be wrong in any sense, provided they took
precautions against spreading infections.  The idea that adolescents
(of whatever sex) need to be "protected" from sexual experience they
wish to have is prudish ignorantism, and making that experience a
crime is perverse.


feed_id: 08cf0ac95fa484ae55fa559cd509f9db
title: Tories plan state-controlled censorship
uri: Tories-plan-state-controlled-censorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Tories_plan_state-controlled_censorship%29

content:
<p>
The Tories plan total 
<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/theresa-may-internet-conservatives-government-a7744176.html">state-controlled
censorship of the internet</a> in the UK.


feed_id: c86e953fd71e5a09c4172ad97c16d416
title: FCC's thugs physically throw reporter out
uri: FCC-s-thugs-physically-throw-reporter-out
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28FCCs_thugs_physically_throw_reporter_out%29

content:
<p>
The FCC's nonuniformed thugs 
<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/trumps-fcc-apologizes-after-reporter-is-manhandled-by-security-guards">grabbed
a reporter</a> in a meeting where the press was invited, and
physically threw him out.
<p>
Other reporters, who knew him, were shocked.


feed_id: 5b0d515281f1f025fe4a1ba496220d38
title: Republicans
uri: 2017-05-27-Republicans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Republicans%29
content:
<p>
Most Republicans don't care what nasty, criminal or treasonous things
the troll does; they will 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/17/1663087/-Truth-Russian-Scandal-Out-of-control-White-House-The-Republican-base-is-largely-unmoved">construct
excuses to support him regardless</a>.
<p>
This may explain why Republicans tell blatant absurd lies all the
time.  The falsehood is easy to expose, but they know their supporters
have chosen to disconnect from reality and will treat the lies as
truth.


feed_id: 8919ed066ee7306ad3c31f5870d42733
title: Default surveillance
uri: Default-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Default_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
  Twitter has implemented new non-privacy settings;
  <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/how-opt-out-twitters-new-privacy-settings">the default
    is substantial surveillance</a>, if users don't turn it off.
</p>


feed_id: 4dfb77c9d4b9991a59c760e1f165058a
title: Urgent: Oppose troll's budget
uri: Urgent-Oppose-troll-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_trolls_budget%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-oppose-trumps-budget?nowrapper=true">call
on Congress</a> to oppose the troll budget.


feed_id: 0bf4f21536817dcc1146b1c6afa61f4a
title: Urgent: Block troll's budget
uri: Urgent-Block-troll-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Block_trolls_budget%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/stop_trump_budget">call on
Congress</a> to block the troll's cruel budget.


feed_id: f28863803303e9ebae3b1aa3460c20a5
title: Turkey's standard repression
uri: Turkey-s-standard-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Turkeys_standard_repression%29
content:
<p>
When Erdo&gbreve;an's bodyguards attacked protesters in Washington DC,
the world got a glimpse of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2017/may/22/erdogan-turkey-protests-washington-dc">Turkey's
standard repression</a>.


feed_id: ed7c4b71410797acea390b84a36edbe8
title: Absence of protests in Salafi Arabia
uri: Absence-of-protests-in-Salafi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Absence_of_protests_in_Salafi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
One of the troll's cabinet saboteurs 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/22/human-rights-activists-criticize-us-praise-lack-of-saudi-arabia-protests">stated
his admiration for the absence</a> in Salafi Arabia of any protests
against the troll's visit.


feed_id: c211575f83ec9c4ff990c5cb1fbe947a
title: Business surveillance of employees
uri: Business-surveillance-of-employees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Business_surveillance_of_employees%29

content:
<p>
A report on business surveillance of employees, and 
<a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2827479_code2264126.pdf?abstractid=2746211">avenues
to limit such surveillance</a>.
<p>
In general, we should not allow <em>any</em> businesses to excuse
surveillance of the public based on nominal "consent".  To protect
privacy and democracy we 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">need
to get rid of most of the existing massive surveillance</a>.
<p>
Business surveillance of employees can be oppressive even when they
are on the job.  For instance, if they are not allowed moments to rest
between calls, or if they are impeded from going to the toilet.


feed_id: 28c9bb230137495ae2749222e141fba7
title: Coal mines
uri: Coal-mines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Coal_mines%29
content:
<p>
Oxfam finds that opening new coal mines will only worsen [global heating]
and 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/oxfam-coal-poverty-report-4f780f845425">drive
poor nations deeper into poverty</a>.


feed_id: 53a12944ed9446295a6f806d07a43482
title: Self-checkout harmful
uri: Self-checkout-harmful
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Self-checkout_harmful%29
content:
<p>
US retailers may replace
<a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/40422560/work-in-retail-thereand8217s-a-robot-getting-ready-to-take-your-job">7.5
million sales clerk jobs</a> with automation in the next 10 years.
<p>
I refuse to use self-checkout machines in stores, but I do more than
just avoid them.  When I pass those machines, I shout, "If you use
those machines, you are putting Americans out of work!"  Then I go to
the human sales clerk.
<p>
If I have to wait for the sales clerk, that's ok.  I always have a
book to read.  (I don't go out without a book and a computer.)
<p>
Please join me in doing these things.  It's not too early to push back
against socially harmful automation.
<p>
Of course, buying on line is even worse, and it records in a data base
who you are and what you bought.  You can join me in rejecting that
too.


feed_id: febb9988e373309a2abfa708ed60c0d7
title: Turkish teachers arrested for hunger strike
uri: Turkish-teachers-arrested-for-hunger-strike
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Turkish_teachers_arrested_for_hunger_strike%29

content:
<p>
Two Turkish teachers went on hunger strike 10 weeks ago after being
fired for political reasons.  Now they have been
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/22/two-turkish-educators-on-hunger-strike-detained-by-police">arrested
for not eating</a>.
<p>
Over 100,000 people in Turkey have been fired and blacklisted for
political reasons.  Some (all?) of them have had their pensions and
passports taken away so that they cannot get asylum.
<p>
The claim that 100,000 people were involved in the coup attempt is
absurd.  Coup plotters know better than to tell so many people their
plans.


feed_id: 1669ce2e9f2937443da7a5fc9c24230f
title: Ending proxy wars
uri: Ending-proxy-wars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Ending_proxy_wars%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/21/whatever-happened-peace-arms-oil-and-war-proxy">How
the peace activists can try</a> to end proxy wars.


feed_id: 382d0a894093d9d8baea49acf94f2882
title: Two-step falsification
uri: Two-step-falsification
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Two-step_falsification%29
content:
<p>
The FCC received lots of 
<a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/05/21/1855201/fcc-wont-release-ddos-logs-and-will-probably-honor-fake-comments">comments
opposed to network neutrality generated by bots</a>, not submitted by
human beings.  <a href="/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> Ajit Pai suggests he will treat them as valid.
<p>
This sort of two-step falsification is the essence of astroturf.  One
party creates a lot of smoke.  Another sees the smoke and claims
there's a fire.  In effect, they combine to promulgate a lie, but
neither of them can be held responsible for lying.


feed_id: 5f36754ad6174778a7e7530b240d1bfe
title: Notre Dame students walk out on Pence
uri: Notre-Dame-students-walk-out-on-Pence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Notre_Dame_students_walk_out_on_Pence%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/21/notre-dame-students-stage-walkout-during-vp-pences-commencement-address">100
students walked out</a> on Pence as he addressed the graduation at
Notre Dame.


feed_id: 3a2640d6c66eddc26a548dd024eaab4a
title: Iranians vote for better relations with US
uri: Iranians-vote-for-better-relations-with-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Iranians_vote_for_better_relations_with_US%29

content:
<p>
Iranians just 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/20/rouhanis-election-win-iran-chance-trump-chose-diplomacy-over-war">voted
for better relations with the US</a>.  Too bad 
<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/20/trumps-saudi-arms-deal-helps-leading-exporter-of-islamic-extremism/">the
troll wants to support the warlike Sunni murder-states instead</a>.


feed_id: 7e81757d763ad55f8fd1364b14620bf6
title: UK Green Party
uri: UK-Green-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28UK_Green_Party%29
content:
<p>
The UK Green Party calls for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/22/green-party-plan-caring-britain-manifesto-launch">strong
measures to help the non-rich</a>, including a universal basic income.


feed_id: 3f7168c10d3d72b7ed5bd4e2e78731fc
title: War and famine in South Sudan
uri: War-and-famine-in-South-Sudan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28War_and_famine_in_South_Sudan%29
content:
<p>
The war and famine in South Sudan continue, stirred up by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/22/donald-trump-50-percent-south-sudan-population">rivalry
between several meddling US client states</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#09_August_2015_(US_is_giving_fighter_jets_to_Egypt)">Egypt</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_April_2015_(Ethiopian_tyranny)">Ethiopia</a>
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_January_2017_(Obama_removed_sanction_against_Sudan)">Sudan</a>
are ruled by tyrannical regimes that are willing to kill large numbers
of people.  Uganda does not have free and fair elections, but I don't
think it is as repressive as those other three.
<p>
Ethiopia intervened in Somalia to get rid of an Islamist but not
aggressive government that had unified the country, and it has been
wracked by civil war ever since; this intervention had to have 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#19_July_2011_(The_Shabab_Militia)">US
support</a>.


feed_id: 27c47bbc08b06351daff6aeba159a1a6
title: Corbyn makes Labour Party relevant again
uri: Corbyn-makes-Labour-Party-relevant-again
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Corbyn_makes_Labour_Party_relevant_again%29

content:
<p>
Corbyn has made the Labour Party relevant again by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/22/jeremy-corbyn-labour-anti-austerity-manifesto">making
it stand for something that can inspire people</a>.


feed_id: ba4712dd582f37a3ccb96ea72e9068eb
title: Islamist bigotry
uri: Islamist-bigotry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Islamist_bigotry%29
content:
<p>
Islamist bigotry in Jakarta: 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/22/indonesian-police-arrest-more-than-140-men-at-alleged-gay-sauna-party">140
men arrested at a sauna party</a>.
<p>
I'm afraid it is only a matter of years before the Muslim majority of
Indonesia starts a civil war by trying to impose its rules on other
ethnic groups.  This is all the fault of <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>, which has
funded the inculcation in Indonesia of repressive forms of Islam in
place of the tolerant forms that were widespread in Indonesia before.


feed_id: f27e240e3c4c1ea37efcf0a38b9946c7
title: Salafi Arabia's many evils
uri: Salafi-Arabia-s-many-evils
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Salafi_Arabias_many_evils%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>'s many evils, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/17/10-reasons-trump-should-not-strengthen-us-saudi-ties">collected</a>.


feed_id: 08b96c79d5da78a0071a25ed419345a8
title: Chelsea Manning's heroism
uri: Chelsea-Manning-s-heroism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Chelsea_Mannings_heroism%29
content:
<p>
Chelsea Manning 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/17/chelsea-manning-is-a-free-woman-her-heroism-has-expanded-beyond-her-initial-whistle-blowing/">shows
the heroism required to be a whistleblower</a> in a country that
doesn't respect whistleblowers — and why we need whistleblowers
tremendously.


feed_id: e21e29f6853197298615e08cda5c7198
title: New European copyright proposal
uri: New-European-copyright-proposal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28New_European_copyright_proposal%29
content:
<p>
Secret New European Copyright Proposal Spells 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/secret-new-european-copyright-proposal-spells-disaster-free-culture">Disaster
for Free Culture</a>.


feed_id: 073ab91c0d2e773fe6095a2d91d847d7
title: Prosecuting torturers in Assad regime
uri: Prosecuting-torturers-in-Assad-regime
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Prosecuting_torturers_in_Assad_regime%29

content:
<p>
When the international situation permits it, it will be 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/16/the-guardian-view-on-assads-crematorium-he-cannot-hide-his-tracks">possible
to prosecute</a> those in the Assad regime who are responsible for the
torture and murder of thousands of prisoners.


feed_id: 0dfd45b02deb72c2dacdeed7280a2928
title: Abortion pills online
uri: Abortion-pills-online
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Abortion_pills_online%29
content:
<p>
Getting abortion pills and advice in using them online proves to be
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/17/seeking-medical-abortions-online-is-safe-and-effective-study-finds">quite
safe</a>.


feed_id: 41595fb521b0eb72e68f29a9495f1fb8
title: Troll's praise for unelected despots
uri: Troll-s-praise-for-unelected-despots
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Trolls_praise_for_unelected_despots%29

content:
<p>
Iran, <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>, democracy, and the 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/21/landslide-win-irans-reformists-doesnt-fit-trumps-script-ignores/">troll</a>.


feed_id: 3159e4b0bef6edb4ed3237b28cd00e33
title: Trump budget disregards science
uri: Trump-budget-disregards-science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Trump_budget_disregards_science%29
content:
<p>
The Union of Concerned Scientists: Trump Budget Disregards Science,
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/23/trump-budget-disregards-science-puts-public-health-innovation-risk-science-group">Puts
Public Health, Innovation at Risk</a>.


feed_id: e22f0fc303cd1ffd06920471938b4689
title: Plutocratist wing of Democratic Party
uri: Plutocratist-wing-of-Democratic-Party
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Plutocratist_wing_of_Democratic_Party%29

content:
<p>
The plutocratist wing of the Democratic Party seems to want to fight
just hard enough to get back in power, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/23/theyre-talking-better-game-will-democrats-fight">not
to really win for the non-rich</a>.


feed_id: d97a2ffff86925553187177d7e0659b1
title: Ancestry.com claims ownership of DNA scans
uri: Ancestry-com-claims-ownership-of-DNA-scans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Ancestry.com_claims_ownership_of_DNA_scans%29

content:
<p>
Watch out for Ancestry.com and its 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/ancestry-com-takes-dna-ownership-rights-from-customers-and-their-relatives-dbafeed02b9e">rules
for who owns scans of people's DNA</a>.


feed_id: 894a665f4465d1be7463399925f1135b
title: Comcast trademark lawsuit
uri: Comcast-trademark-lawsuit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Comcast_trademark_lawsuit%29
content:
<p>
Comcast is using a frivolous but dangerous trademark lawsuit to 
<a href="https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2017-05-23-comcast-tries-to-censor-pro-net-neutrality-website/">try
to shut down a web site that criticizes it</a>.


feed_id: 580f52ff869cf14de804989945792fd5
title: Cuts for the EPA and endangered species
uri: Cuts-for-the-EPA-and-endangered-species
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Cuts_for_the_EPA_and_endangered_species%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s proposed budget includes the already announced 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/23/trump-slashes-funds-endangered-species-environmental-protection">cuts
for the EPA and endangered species</a>.
<p>
If this goes through, it will cause an irreparable loss.


feed_id: 9aa523e6c92cb886c2f9df49705159df
title: Security at concerts
uri: Security-at-concerts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Security_at_concerts%29
content:
<p>
The UK will have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/23/police-bolster-venue-security-nationwide-manchester-arena-attack">stricter
security at concerts</a>.
<p>
That could be useful, and I don't criticize it.  It isn't wrong to
search people entering concerts for bombs or weapons, as long as the
thugs don't take note of anything but bombs and weapons.


feed_id: 89d9f36d2c47a0cc0b61929b171d2ea5
title: Oakland prostitution scandal
uri: Oakland-prostitution-scandal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Oakland_prostitution_scandal%29
content:
<p>
The Oakland prostitution scandal has led to many thugs' resigning or
pleading guilty.  One is actually 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/23/oakland-cop-on-trial-for-sex-conspiracy">on
trial</a>.
<p>
My ethical analysis of all this:
<p>
It wasn't wrong for Celeste Guap to do sex work,
and it wasn't wrong to be her customer.
<p>
If a thug compelled her to have sex by threatening to arrest her if
she didn't, that was a form of rape.
<p>
If a thug convinced her to have sex by offering her information about
operations, that was in effect taking a bribe from her, paid in the
form of sex.  It was wrong for the thug to take that bribe, and wrong
for her to pay it; but those wrongs are overshadowed by the bigger
wrong of arresting people for prostitution.


feed_id: 16422d1b8c77ea2b0c0fdd66e1a07f41
title: Troll's proposed budget
uri: Troll-s-proposed-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Trolls_proposed_budget%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s proposed budget would 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/23/trump-budget-medicaid-food-stamps-obamacare">cut
hundreds of billions from support for poor people</a>.
<p>
A paid family leave plan would give back a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/23/ivanka-trumps-family-leave-budget-fig-leaf">tiny
fraction of that</a>.  "Ivanka Trump's family leave plan is a fig leaf
for her father's worst policies."
<p>
As for the tax cuts, we know that hardly anything will "trickle down"
to the non-rich.


feed_id: 9ae6b0a710318d3d303056aa3300d08a
title: Warning from UK intelligence in 2003
uri: Warning-from-UK-intelligence-in-2003
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Warning_from_UK_intelligence_in_2003%29

content:
<p>
Before Tony B'liar helped <a href="/glossary.html#dubya">Dubya</a> attack Iraq, UK intelligence 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/23/british-intelligence-warned-tony-blair-of-manchester-like-terrorism-if-the-west-invaded-iraq/">warned
it would provoke terrorist bombings in the UK</a>.
<p>
In the long run, we can best reduce the danger from Islamist
terrorists by (1) ceasing to attack other countries (particularly
Muslim countries), and (2) making <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> reduce its efforts to
spread a cruel form of Islam.


feed_id: d7726f859a2fa0a8301dcc3bcb23d249
title: Goober drivers repeatedly underpaid
uri: Goober-drivers-repeatedly-underpaid
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Goober_drivers_repeatedly_underpaid%29

content:
<p>
Uber has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/23/uber-underpaid-drivers-new-york-city">repeatedly
underpaid</a> its drivers.


feed_id: 6e05773e5f6bbff85f278f6ec1c304a5
title: Rising sea level
uri: 2017-05-29-Rising-sea-level
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Rising_sea_level%29
content:
<p>
Vietnam is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/23/climate-change-government-court-cases-study">recognizing
the harm</a> that rising sea level will do.


feed_id: 80f20fb4a5e7163ad0fb2edd6129a00b
title: Goggle-tracked credit card purchases
uri: Goggle-tracked-credit-card-purchases
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Goggle-tracked_credit_card_purchases%29

content:
<p>
Google has 
<a href="https://consumerist.com/2017/05/23/google-following-your-offline-credit-card-spending-to-tell-advertisers-if-their-ads-work/">found
a way to track most credit card purchases in the US</a>, even those
not done through a phone, and correlate that with people's online
actions.
<p>
Google can't do either side to me, since I pay cash and don't carry a
mobile phone, and it doesn't know what web sites I look at.


feed_id: 7466572f52d7ed4c19c2429ccdec1f5a
title: Information about web site users
uri: Information-about-web-site-users
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Information_about_web_site_users%29
content:
<p>
Illinois is considering bills 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/illinois-advances-right-know-digital-privacy-bills">requiring
web sites to tell users what information they hold about them and what
companies they have distributed it to</a>.
<p>
I'm in favor of this, but I don't think it will do much to protect us
from surveillance by web sites.  And that's not to count the
surveillance of bank cards, pharmacies, toll booths, phone companies,
license plate cameras and face recognition cameras.


feed_id: 35c21894ce84502f7c22e6735d0e3958
title: Last old forest in Europe
uri: Last-old-forest-in-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Last_old_forest_in_Europe%29
content:
<p>
The last old forest in Europe is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/23/worst-nightmare-europes-last-primeval-forest-brink-collapse-logging">being
destroyed</a> by illegal logging and legal logging.


feed_id: a6731ec8d7f0eea5c2a9b6cfe79ecbb0
title: Surveilling people on the toilet
uri: Surveilling-people-on-the-toilet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Surveilling_people_on_the_toilet%29
content:
<p>
A public toilet in Beijing 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/20/face-scanners-public-toilet-tackle-loo-roll-theft-china-beijing">requires
using a face recognition system to get toilet paper</a>.
<p>
Some governments will spend lots of money to surveil people in the name
of stinginess.
<p>
If there's anyone in Beijing that can't afford toilet paper,
the city government should give out toilet paper for them.
Why not put a box of rolls next to the toilet?
<p>
I have a hunch that that toilet does something else even worse:
that it is a pay toilet.  The idea of charging people to use a toilet
offends me so much that I absolutely refuse to use a pay toilet.
Please join this campaign, and spread the word.


feed_id: b1459f8662756473cbecc185eeaa1b6a
title: British reaction to terrorist bombings
uri: British-reaction-to-terrorist-bombings
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28British_reaction_to_terrorist_bombings%29

content:
<p>
Britons, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/23/national-trauma-manchester-attacks-common-good">don't
react to terrorist bombings with fear and vindictiveness</a>!
<p>
The biggest danger to the UK comes not from the terrorists, but from
tearing up their own freedom in the vain pursuit of absolute security.
<p>
George Monbiot: "Don't let psychopathic murderers suppress our 
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/23/psychopathic-murderers-manchester-attack-terrorists'>common
humanity</a>."


feed_id: 0a3558cbb11d2530a291a0eaafe67379
title: US freedom of political discussion
uri: US-freedom-of-political-discussion
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28US_freedom_of_political_discussion%29

content:
<p>
A Chinese student praised US freedom of political discussion as she
addressed other students in graduation from a US university.  She was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/23/china-yang-shuping-free-speech-university-of-maryland-us-student">subjected
to orchestrated smears in China</a>.
<p>
It is a shame that she undercut her defense of freedom by apologizing
for it.


feed_id: fcda9aac7fb2c85e8bef35414b57f1fe
title: Alternatives to neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: Alternatives-to-neonicotinoid-pesticides
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Alternatives_to_neonicotinoid_pesticides%29

content:
<p>
Banning neonicotinoid pesticides will be facilitated by a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/22/landmark-report-shows-bee-killing-seed-coatings-arent-worth-harm">report
showing that other solutions do as good a job</a>.


feed_id: 2fcaafeef65680474ed0983801639fd1
title: Supreme Court rejects racist gerrymandering
uri: Supreme-Court-rejects-racist-gerrymandering
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Supreme_Court_rejects_racist_gerrymandering%29

content:
<p>
The Supreme Court 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/22/lawyers-committee-civil-rights-under-law-applauds-scotus-finding-racial">rejected
racist gerrymandering in North Carolina</a>.
<p>
Republicans aimed, in their usual way, to create a handicap against
Democrats.


feed_id: 3ca5da018f2d4fbe70fc30a5e30c84ea
title: HTTPS
uri: HTTPS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28HTTPS%29
content:
<p>
The EFF reports that 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/online-censorship-and-user-notification-lessons-thailand">HTTPS
is making it difficult for states to impose selective censorship via
filtering</a>, which leads states to turn to demanding that companies
such as Facebook carry out the censorship for them.
<p>
Unfortunately, it ends with an inadequate recommendation for companies
to be "transparent" about their censorship.  That's hardly enough
to qualify as trying to resist.
<p>
The article also uses the term 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content">"content"</a>
to refer to publications, which ought to be avoided since it
deprecates them all.


feed_id: 8af1d02f9fecb45d8ff13d8ddb449ce0
title: UK children suffering due to Toryism
uri: UK-children-suffering-due-to-Toryism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28UK_children_suffering_due_to_Toryism%29

content:
<p>
UK doctors say many of the children they treat suffer from 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/11/poverty-blighting-health-of-many-uk-children-paediatricians-warn">bad
health caused by Toryism and the poverty it campaigns for</a>.  This
harms children's health by way of bad housing, bad food, and stress
about financial insecurity.


feed_id: 03c1d5449008074aec44cbbeac0374df
title: Unconstitutional California law
uri: Unconstitutional-California-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Unconstitutional_California_law%29
content:
<p>
The excessive demonization of Russia has interfered with removal of an
unconstitutional California law 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/22/anti-communist-laws-california-trump-russia">barring
Communists from state jobs</a>.
<p>
Communism sounds nice in the abstract, but when implemented it turned
out to be just another system of dictatorship by an elite.  China and
Vietnam today, and to some extent Cuba as well, show that this outcome
was not limited to the Soviet Union.


feed_id: c54e2d6e126608717305c826fadcb844
title: Iran more free than Salafi Arabia
uri: Iran-more-free-than-Salafi-Arabia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Iran_more_free_than_Salafi_Arabia%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://theduran.com/10-ways-iran-democratic-modern-saudi-arabia/">9
ways</a> Iran is more free than Salafi Arabia.
<p>
Regarding item 4, electing from a list of candidates handed down from
on high is a parody of democracy, and that's where Iran falls short of
democracy.
<p>
Item 10 is irrelevant to the question of freedom in Iran.  However, I
don't think Iran's support for Assad is any worse than US support for
a variety of comparably vicious regimes.


feed_id: c18162db3999e830903710352a1238ed
title: PISSI in Libya
uri: PISSI-in-Libya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28PISSI_in_Libya%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a> offshoot in Libya has mostly lost its military power but
can still
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/25/libya-global-terror-threat-manchester-attack-gaddafi">
organize terrorism abroad.
</a>
<p>
We must remember that the harm it can do is small compared with the loss
of our freedom.


feed_id: 569ccba49fa7d9b7de8b971065d65e28
title: Abolishing monuments
uri: Abolishing-monuments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Abolishing_monuments%29
content:
<p>
Just as the <a href="/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> of the Interior begins considering whether to
abolish some national monuments,
he has
<a href="http://grist.org/politics/trumps-bid-for-public-input-on-monuments-is-a-sham-federal-advisors-say/">
shut down public lands local
advisory councils around the US.
</a>
<p>
Of course, the troll's saboteurs get their orders from a powerful few.
Naturally they don't care what everyone else thinks; but it's surprising
when they expose that so clearly.


feed_id: 6c820b04b51949bdc6c4fa713ee8c770
title: Poverty from mindset
uri: Poverty-from-mindset
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Poverty_from_mindset%29
content:
<p>
Carson, <a href="/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> of Housing and Urban Development, said that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/25/ben-carson-poverty-state-of-mind">
poverty results
from having the wrong mindset.
</a>
<p>
Mindset does play a role, but getting out of the gutter without help
takes exceptional ability and a lot of luck.
<p>
The point of government welfare programs is so that the rest of the
poor people can have a decent life.
<p>
It should also be noted that growing up in poverty teaches most people
a bad mindset.


feed_id: 1771cad080dd79b0d0568470fd253cea
title: Global heating poll
uri: Global-heating-poll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Global_heating_poll%29
content:
<p>
A poll of 8 important greenhouse-emitting countries found
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/25/8-10-people-worldwide-fear-catastrophic-climate-change-poll">
most people
are willing to change the way they live to avoid global heating
disaster.
</a>
<p>
These countries are the US, China, India, Britain, Australia, Brazil,
South Africa, and Germany.


feed_id: 7ab486f7e0a723070958a8a8ea9e3c9d
title: Loss of medical coverage
uri: Loss-of-medical-coverage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Loss_of_medical_coverage%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="/glossary.html#care">Dontcare</a> bill would result in
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/24/trump-republican-healthcare-plan-cbo">
loss of medical coverage for 23
million Americans.
</a>
<p>
That's one million less than the version they rejected.                                               A small step forward, on top of a big step back.
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/24/cbo-trumpcare-would-strip-coverage-23-million-make-it-worse-rest">
Millions of other Americans would lose out also,
</a>
just not quite as much.


feed_id: e1fdfdf230e27b285fd964a5a84d618e
title: Cannabidiol for epilepsy
uri: Cannabidiol-for-epilepsy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Cannabidiol_against_epilepsy%29
content:
<p>
Cannabidiol made from marijuana is an
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/24/cannabis-drug-cuts-seizures-in-children-with-severe-epilepsy-in-trial">
effective treatment for epilepsy
</a>
in some children.
<p>
The US needs to change the legal status of marijuana to make it possible
to sell drugs made from that plant.


feed_id: 8b54f3d17ee4654e6937a1c38a04ea9b
title: Suicide bombers in Jakarta
uri: Suicide-bombers-in-Jakarta
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Suicide_bombers_in_Jakarta%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/24/jakarta-suicide-bombers-kill-three-police-officers-in-bus-station-attack">
Suicide bombers attacked thugs in Jakarta.
</a>
<p>
They were surely Islamist, since there is no other plausible candidate.
<p>
This is the result of
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_(Islamist_extremism_from_Salafi_Arabia)">
Salafist indoctrination funded by <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>,
</a>
  and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_May_2017_(Blasphemy_Law)">
encouraged by the blasphemy law.
</a>


feed_id: 110539ab0e5e045d6c0c79c0443df9a3
title: Responding to terrorism
uri: Responding-to-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Responding_to_terrorism%29
content:
<p>
A truly tough response to terrorism would be to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/24/manchester-theresa-may-outrage-tough-response-terror">
deny the terrorists
the reaction they seek.
</a>


feed_id: 4c9c5730e1342f382835d3f23eabd6d9
title: Plundering Africa
uri: Plundering-Africa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Plundering_Africa%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/may/24/world-is-plundering-africa-wealth-billions-of-dollars-a-year">
The damage to Africa
</a>
from global heating effects and from stripping
and hiding wealth abroad far exceeds all the aid Africa receives.


feed_id: 14d6f588ccf4557578260db53c5bc1f1
title: Pesticide companies
uri: 2017-05-29-Pesticide-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Pesticide_companies%29
content:
<p>
A turncoat in the EPA, linked to pesticide companies, seems to have
persuaded the European Food Safety Authority to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/24/eu-declared-monsanto-weedkiller-safe-after-intervention-from-controversial-us-official">
ignore evidence that
glyphosate is dangerous.
</a>


feed_id: c9401af7c0eae3d7fb7b6438b1f8955f
title: Cars more deadly than bombs
uri: Cars-more-deadly-than-bombs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Cars_more_deadly_than_bombs%29
content:
<p>
Britons, don't go off the deep end when there is a bombing.
<a href="media/5993b65e.ras30017.ods" data-original-source="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/556093/ras30017.ods">
Cars are far more deadly.
</a>
In the UK, over 100 people are killed each month by
car collisions.  (112 per month, for 2015.)
<p>
Each of those deaths was a loss to the world, and left relatives and                                  friends bereft.  But you don't ruin your free society over those
deaths.  Don't do it over these!
<p>
Don't let it make you regard Muslims as enemies.
<p>
A former prisoner of <a href="/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a> says that his captors were delighted every
time westerners responded to a terrorist attack by proclaiming general
hostility to Muslims.
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/24/reactions-to-manchester-bombing-show-how-anti-muslim-bigots-are-useful-idiots-for-isis/">
That supports their recruiting strategy.
</a>


feed_id: 17f4d9457e7d9651d04aa13672ae4363
title: Plutocratist wing of Democratic Party
uri: 2017-05-29-Plutocratist-wing-of-Democratic-Party
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Plutocratist_wing_of_Democratic_Party%29

content:
<p>
The plutocratist wing of the Democratic Party seems to want to fight
just hard enough to get back in power,
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/23/theyre-talking-better-game-will-democrats-fight">not
to really win for the non-rich</a>.


feed_id: 014f6cc4af82cb90a9f49092b23566be
title: Ancestry.com claims ownership of DNA scans
uri: 2017-05-29-Ancestry-com-claims-ownership-of-DNA-scans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Ancestry.com_claims_ownership_of_DNA_scans%29

content:
<p>
Watch out for Ancestry.com and its
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/ancestry-com-takes-dna-ownership-rights-from-customers-and-their-relatives-dbafeed02b9e">rules
for who owns scans of people's DNA</a>.


feed_id: 0e8b56e3b6e05baa3487c66e80ca2d50
title: Comcast trademark lawsuit
uri: 2017-05-29-Comcast-trademark-lawsuit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Comcast_trademark_lawsuit%29
content:
<p>
Comcast is using a frivolous but dangerous trademark lawsuit to
<a href="https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2017-05-23-comcast-tries-to-censor-pro-net-neutrality-website/">try
to shut down a web site that criticizes it</a>.


feed_id: a2b1f6cc3a9740ddc24690de0b8a7443
title: Cuts for the EPA and endangered species
uri: 2017-05-29-Cuts-for-the-EPA-and-endangered-species
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Cuts_for_the_EPA_and_endangered_species%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s proposed budget includes the already announced
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/23/trump-slashes-funds-endangered-species-environmental-protection">cuts
for the EPA and endangered species</a>.
<p>
If this goes through, it will cause an irreparable loss.


feed_id: 634a4ae7624e453cfdecf7cacda51c8a
title: Security at concerts
uri: 2017-05-29-Security-at-concerts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Security_at_concerts%29
content:
<p>
The UK will have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/23/police-bolster-venue-security-nationwide-manchester-arena-attack">stricter
security at concerts</a>.
<p>
That could be useful, and I don't criticize it.  It isn't wrong to
search people entering concerts for bombs or weapons, as long as the
thugs don't take note of anything but bombs and weapons.


feed_id: 5309f2411f4d14259bf6eb6c6ad78ad9
title: Oakland prostitution scandal
uri: 2017-05-29-Oakland-prostitution-scandal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Oakland_prostitution_scandal%29
content:
<p>
The Oakland prostitution scandal has led to many thugs' resigning or
pleading guilty.  One is actually
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/23/oakland-cop-on-trial-for-sex-conspiracy">on
trial</a>.
<p>
My ethical analysis of all this:
<p>
It wasn't wrong for Celeste Guap to do sex work,
and it wasn't wrong to be her customer.
<p>
If a thug compelled her to have sex by threatening to arrest her if
she didn't, that was a form of rape.
<p>
If a thug convinced her to have sex by offering her information about
operations, that was in effect taking a bribe from her, paid in the
form of sex.  It was wrong for the thug to take that bribe, and wrong
for her to pay it; but those wrongs are overshadowed by the bigger
wrong of arresting people for prostitution.


feed_id: 3d3d5767f9968aea7924599478db0e12
title: Troll's proposed budget
uri: 2017-05-29-Troll-s-proposed-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Trolls_proposed_budget%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s proposed budget would
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/23/trump-budget-medicaid-food-stamps-obamacare">cut
hundreds of billions from support for poor people</a>.
<p>
A paid family leave plan would give back a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/23/ivanka-trumps-family-leave-budget-fig-leaf">tiny
fraction of that</a>.  "Ivanka Trump's family leave plan is a fig leaf
for her father's worst policies."
<p>
As for the tax cuts, we know that hardly anything will "trickle down"
to the non-rich.


feed_id: 80398713adae027be31a7845a5a4b3ba
title: Warning from UK intelligence in 2003
uri: 2017-05-29-Warning-from-UK-intelligence-in-2003
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Warning_from_UK_intelligence_in_2003%29

content:
<p>
Before Tony B'liar helped <a href="/glossary.html#dubya">Dubya</a> attack Iraq, UK intelligence
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/23/british-intelligence-warned-tony-blair-of-manchester-like-terrorism-if-the-west-invaded-iraq/">warned
it would provoke terrorist bombings in the UK</a>.
<p>
In the long run, we can best reduce the danger from Islamist
terrorists by (1) ceasing to attack other countries (particularly
Muslim countries), and (2) making <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> reduce its efforts to
spread a cruel form of Islam.


feed_id: bc6776271d659235b48855447bd02613
title: Goober drivers repeatedly underpaid
uri: 2017-05-29-Goober-drivers-repeatedly-underpaid
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Goober_drivers_repeatedly_underpaid%29

content:
<p>
Uber has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/23/uber-underpaid-drivers-new-york-city">repeatedly
underpaid</a> its drivers.


feed_id: 5956619f8c330eb53838fd3532d41817
title: Rising sea level
uri: 2017-05-29-Rising-sea-level
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Rising_sea_level%29
content:
<p>
Vietnam is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/23/climate-change-government-court-cases-study">recognizing
the harm</a> that rising sea level will do.


feed_id: 849f9850a69df531ca4b1dc8ec39aece
title: Google-tracked credit card purchases
uri: Google-tracked-credit-card-purchases
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Google-tracked_credit_card_purchases%29

content:
<p>
Google has
<a href="https://consumerist.com/2017/05/23/google-following-your-offline-credit-card-spending-to-tell-advertisers-if-their-ads-work/">found
a way to track most credit card purchases in the US</a>, even those
not done through a phone, and correlate that with people's online
actions.
<p>
Google can't do either side to me, since I pay cash and don't carry a
mobile phone, and it doesn't know what web sites I look at.


feed_id: 2895b5d9b7638f4b4d9efa97540f8f1f
title: Information about web site users
uri: 2017-05-29-Information-about-web-site-users
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Information_about_web_site_users%29
content:
<p>
Illinois is considering bills
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/illinois-advances-right-know-digital-privacy-bills">requiring
web sites to tell users what information they hold about them and what
companies they have distributed it to</a>.
<p>
I'm in favor of this, but I don't think it will do much to protect us
from surveillance by web sites.  And that's not to count the
surveillance of bank cards, pharmacies, toll booths, phone companies,
license plate cameras and face recognition cameras.


feed_id: 608a1041cdc802a4067948b15cfee57e
title: Last old forest in Europe
uri: 2017-05-29-Last-old-forest-in-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Last_old_forest_in_Europe%29
content:
<p>
The last old forest in Europe is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/23/worst-nightmare-europes-last-primeval-forest-brink-collapse-logging">being
destroyed</a> by illegal logging and legal logging.


feed_id: 58427fa8c11e2b48b1535f2c234b0eaf
title: Surveilling people on the toilet
uri: 2017-05-29-Surveilling-people-on-the-toilet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Surveilling_people_on_the_toilet%29
content:
<p>
A public toilet in Beijing
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/20/face-scanners-public-toilet-tackle-loo-roll-theft-china-beijing">requires
using a face recognition system to get toilet paper</a>.
<p>
Some governments will spend lots of money to surveil people in the name
of stinginess.
<p>
If there's anyone in Beijing that can't afford toilet paper,
the city government should give out toilet paper for them.
Why not put a box of rolls next to the toilet?
<p>
I have a hunch that that toilet does something else even worse:
that it is a pay toilet.  The idea of charging people to use a toilet
offends me so much that I absolutely refuse to use a pay toilet.
Please join this campaign, and spread the word.


feed_id: 5349d1bcc9194e846daccac03caa2344
title: British reaction to terrorist bombings
uri: 2017-05-29-British-reaction-to-terrorist-bombings
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28British_reaction_to_terrorist_bombings%29

content:
<p>
Britons,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/23/national-trauma-manchester-attacks-common-good">don't
react to terrorist bombings with fear and vindictiveness</a>!
<p>
The biggest danger to the UK comes not from the terrorists, but from
tearing up their own freedom in the vain pursuit of absolute security.
<p>
George Monbiot: "Don't let psychopathic murderers suppress our
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/23/psychopathic-murderers-manchester-attack-terrorists'>common
humanity</a>."


feed_id: afe25e862c8dfb9b0f18884c015959a4
title: Alternatives to neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: 2017-05-29-Alternatives-to-neonicotinoid-pesticides
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Alternatives_to_neonicotinoid_pesticides%29

content:
<p>
Banning neonicotinoid pesticides will be facilitated by a
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/22/landmark-report-shows-bee-killing-seed-coatings-arent-worth-harm">report
showing that other solutions do as good a job</a>.


feed_id: b6baabfb0fc59e8bfb907d3d9d93076f
title: Supreme Court rejects racist gerrymandering
uri: 2017-05-29-Supreme-Court-rejects-racist-gerrymandering
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Supreme_Court_rejects_racist_gerrymandering%29

content:
<p>
The Supreme Court
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/22/lawyers-committee-civil-rights-under-law-applauds-scotus-finding-racial">rejected
racist gerrymandering in North Carolina</a>.
<p>
Republicans aimed, in their usual way, to create a handicap against
Democrats.


feed_id: aa50602146dc7b8b8664463b31387066
title: HTTPS
uri: 2017-05-29-HTTPS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28HTTPS%29
content:
<p>
The EFF reports that
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/online-censorship-and-user-notification-lessons-thailand">HTTPS
is making it difficult for states to impose selective censorship via
filtering</a>, which leads states to turn to demanding that companies
such as Facebook carry out the censorship for them.
<p>
Unfortunately, it ends with an inadequate recommendation for companies
to be "transparent" about their censorship.  That's hardly enough
to qualify as trying to resist.
<p>
The article also uses the term
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content">"content"</a>
to refer to publications, which ought to be avoided since it
deprecates them all.


feed_id: 09a04e611094d1c56c820051a57e1d4c
title: UK children suffering due to Toryism
uri: 2017-05-29-UK-children-suffering-due-to-Toryism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28UK_children_suffering_due_to_Toryism%29

content:
<p>
UK doctors say many of the children they treat suffer from
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/11/poverty-blighting-health-of-many-uk-children-paediatricians-warn">bad
health caused by Toryism and the poverty it campaigns for</a>.  This
harms children's health by way of bad housing, bad food, and stress
about financial insecurity.


feed_id: 265c45cf5e5f3c92e7bae3fd0a6f0e4d
title: Unconstitutional California law
uri: 2017-05-29-Unconstitutional-California-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#28_May_2017_%28Unconstitutional_California_law%29
content:
<p>
The excessive demonization of Russia has interfered with removal of an
unconstitutional California law
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/22/anti-communist-laws-california-trump-russia">barring
Communists from state jobs</a>.
<p>
Communism sounds nice in the abstract, but when implemented it turned
out to be just another system of dictatorship by an elite.  China and
Vietnam today, and to some extent Cuba as well, show that this outcome
was not limited to the Soviet Union.


feed_id: ef0fe589d635570f577b9e0fb049012a
title: Urgent: Oppose troll's budget
uri: 2017-05-29-Urgent-Oppose-troll-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_trolls_budget%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-oppose-trumps-budget?nowrapper=true">call
on Congress</a> to oppose the troll budget.


feed_id: 214bad19f443b4506654a889f476632c
title: Urgent: Block troll's budget
uri: 2017-05-29-Urgent-Block-troll-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Block_trolls_budget%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/stop_trump_budget">call on
Congress</a> to block the troll's cruel budget.


feed_id: b5fa57630977c9a29ee827cd670d0704
title: Turkey's standard repression
uri: 2017-05-29-Turkey-s-standard-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Turkeys_standard_repression%29
content:
<p>
When Erdo&gbreve;an's bodyguards attacked protesters in Washington DC,
the world got a glimpse of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2017/may/22/erdogan-turkey-protests-washington-dc">Turkey's
standard repression</a>.


feed_id: 1d42f59b7e76c191aa6ff4b746a8861d
title: Absence of protests in Salafi Arabia
uri: 2017-05-29-Absence-of-protests-in-Salafi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Absence_of_protests_in_Salafi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
One of the troll's cabinet saboteurs
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/22/human-rights-activists-criticize-us-praise-lack-of-saudi-arabia-protests">stated
his admiration for the absence</a> in Salafi Arabia of any protests
against the troll's visit.


feed_id: 6775deb1567466a26fafeecc0bec4da3
title: Business surveillance of employees
uri: 2017-05-29-Business-surveillance-of-employees
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Business_surveillance_of_employees%29

content:
<p>
A report on business surveillance of employees, and
<a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID2827479_code2264126.pdf?abstractid=2746211">avenues
to limit such surveillance</a>.
<p>
In general, we should not allow <em>any</em> businesses to excuse
surveillance of the public based on nominal "consent".  To protect
privacy and democracy we
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">need
to get rid of most of the existing massive surveillance</a>.
<p>
Business surveillance of employees can be oppressive even when they
are on the job.  For instance, if they are not allowed moments to rest
between calls, or if they are impeded from going to the toilet.


feed_id: 8cfbb611e4be43f1644b9823a277d004
title: Coal mines
uri: 2017-05-29-Coal-mines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Coal_mines%29
content:
<p>
Oxfam finds that opening new coal mines will only worsen [global heating]
and
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/oxfam-coal-poverty-report-4f780f845425">drive
poor nations deeper into poverty</a>.


feed_id: a729f3a1aeda561282fd40e7cbaf79ce
title: Two-step falsification
uri: 2017-05-29-Two-step-falsification
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Two-step_falsification%29
content:
<p>
The FCC received lots of
<a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/05/21/1855201/fcc-wont-release-ddos-logs-and-will-probably-honor-fake-comments">comments
opposed to network neutrality generated by bots</a>, not submitted by
human beings.  <a href="/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> Ajit Pai suggests he will treat them as valid.
<p>
This sort of two-step falsification is the essence of astroturf.  One
party creates a lot of smoke.  Another sees the smoke and claims
there's a fire.  In effect, they combine to promulgate a lie, but
neither of them can be held responsible for lying.


feed_id: 60f5ccc83be56f73186529adfeb4023c
title: Iranians vote for better relations with US
uri: 2017-05-29-Iranians-vote-for-better-relations-with-US
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Iranians_vote_for_better_relations_with_US%29

content:
<p>
Iranians just
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/20/rouhanis-election-win-iran-chance-trump-chose-diplomacy-over-war">voted
for better relations with the US</a>.  Too bad
<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/20/trumps-saudi-arms-deal-helps-leading-exporter-of-islamic-extremism/">the
troll wants to support the warlike Sunni murder-states instead</a>.


feed_id: 10830c1d506424a28467af71e266f796
title: UK Green Party
uri: 2017-05-29-UK-Green-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28UK_Green_Party%29
content:
<p>
The UK Green Party calls for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/22/green-party-plan-caring-britain-manifesto-launch">strong
measures to help the non-rich</a>, including a universal basic income.


feed_id: 6a2f06561501f4a41241d3ff9b619c4e
title: War and famine in South Sudan
uri: 2017-05-29-War-and-famine-in-South-Sudan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28War_and_famine_in_South_Sudan%29
content:
<p>
The war and famine in South Sudan continue, stirred up by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/22/donald-trump-50-percent-south-sudan-population">rivalry
between several meddling US client states</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#09_August_2015_(US_is_giving_fighter_jets_to_Egypt)">Egypt</a>,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#28_April_2015_(Ethiopian_tyranny)">Ethiopia</a>
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_January_2017_(Obama_removed_sanction_against_Sudan)">Sudan</a>
are ruled by tyrannical regimes that are willing to kill large numbers
of people.  Uganda does not have free and fair elections, but I don't
think it is as repressive as those other three.
<p>
Ethiopia intervened in Somalia to get rid of an Islamist but not
aggressive government that had unified the country, and it has been
wracked by civil war ever since; this intervention had to have
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jul-oct.html#19_July_2011_(The_Shabab_Militia)">US
support</a>.


feed_id: 5b082071343dfe91cd2cf7d638a04e6c
title: Corbyn makes Labour Party relevant again
uri: 2017-05-29-Corbyn-makes-Labour-Party-relevant-again
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Corbyn_makes_Labour_Party_relevant_again%29

content:
<p>
Corbyn has made the Labour Party relevant again by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/22/jeremy-corbyn-labour-anti-austerity-manifesto">making
it stand for something that can inspire people</a>.


feed_id: 9286987f4d148d934f827ab9cc115fda
title: Islamist bigotry
uri: 2017-05-29-Islamist-bigotry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Islamist_bigotry%29
content:
<p>
Islamist bigotry in Jakarta:
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/22/indonesian-police-arrest-more-than-140-men-at-alleged-gay-sauna-party">140
men arrested at a sauna party</a>.
<p>
I'm afraid it is only a matter of years before the Muslim majority of
Indonesia starts a civil war by trying to impose its rules on other
ethnic groups.  This is all the fault of <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>, which has
funded the inculcation in Indonesia of repressive forms of Islam in
place of the tolerant forms that were widespread in Indonesia before.


feed_id: eea9b13a29b50a1e47d39ca9bb5ba316
title: Salafi Arabia's many evils
uri: 2017-05-29-Salafi-Arabia-s-many-evils
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Salafi_Arabias_many_evils%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>'s many evils,
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/17/10-reasons-trump-should-not-strengthen-us-saudi-ties">collected</a>.


feed_id: e8eddc201ffacdcb5210c7dade7ddcca
title: Chelsea Manning's heroism
uri: 2017-05-29-Chelsea-Manning-s-heroism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Chelsea_Mannings_heroism%29
content:
<p>
Chelsea Manning
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/17/chelsea-manning-is-a-free-woman-her-heroism-has-expanded-beyond-her-initial-whistle-blowing/">shows
the heroism required to be a whistleblower</a> in a country that
doesn't respect whistleblowers — and why we need whistleblowers
tremendously.


feed_id: b4637ed9908f2da4aced153e24654e74
title: New European copyright proposal
uri: 2017-05-29-New-European-copyright-proposal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28New_European_copyright_proposal%29
content:
<p>
Secret New European Copyright Proposal Spells
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/secret-new-european-copyright-proposal-spells-disaster-free-culture">Disaster
for Free Culture</a>.


feed_id: f135d76ac4c8905998c802082e809dff
title: Prosecuting torturers in Assad regime
uri: 2017-05-29-Prosecuting-torturers-in-Assad-regime
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Prosecuting_torturers_in_Assad_regime%29

content:
<p>
When the international situation permits it, it will be
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/16/the-guardian-view-on-assads-crematorium-he-cannot-hide-his-tracks">possible
to prosecute</a> those in the Assad regime who are responsible for the
torture and murder of thousands of prisoners.


feed_id: 2cc0d04d60fe3c8ac163cb6ae8db8324
title: Troll's praise for unelected despots
uri: 2017-05-29-Troll-s-praise-for-unelected-despots
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Trolls_praise_for_unelected_despots%29

content:
<p>
Iran, <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>, democracy, and the
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/21/landslide-win-irans-reformists-doesnt-fit-trumps-script-ignores/">troll</a>.


feed_id: 87491e0442d0113808694fa5d61c50ed
title: Sabotaging the 2020 US census
uri: 2017-05-29-Sabotaging-the-2020-US-census
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Sabotaging_the_2020_US_census%29
content:
<p>
Sabotaging the 2020 US census would
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-18/unreliable-data-can-threaten-democracy">help
Republicans get away with gerrymandering</a>.


feed_id: 6918eed3443b46a367fac6b878146f97
title: "Public-private partnerships"
uri: 2017-05-29-Public-private-partnerships
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Public-private_partnerships%29
content:
<p>
Republicans want to build US infrastructure through "public-private
partnerships", which means the public
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/20/why-public-control-infrastructure-matters">pays
more and gets less control</a>.


feed_id: 10115aa8feec591ad71f499b1f1eb3b8
title: Islamist extremism from Salafi Arabia
uri: 2017-05-29-Islamist-extremism-from-Salafi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Islamist_extremism_from_Salafi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
In <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>, the troll
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/21/trump-vows-historys-great-test-conquering-extremism-saudi-speech">talks
about the need to defeat Islamist extremism</a>.
<p>
As if it weren't <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> that spends millions per year to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#16_January_2016_(Palestinian_poets_death_sentence)">spread
Islamist extremism</a>.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> also strained to equate Iran's repressive state with
terrorism.  However, Iran's repression happens overtly, in Iran.


feed_id: 2f1f6eb424820df23a22ca8e73d261df
title: Supervised facilities for opioid addicts
uri: 2017-05-29-Supervised-facilities-for-opioid-addicts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Supervised_facilities_for_opioid_addicts%29

content:
<p>
Canada has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/21/canada-opioid-crisis-supervised-drug-injection-sites">removed
most of the requirements for supervised facilities</a> for addicts to
take opioids.


feed_id: f041f87184b4b2c031b67e343f4ad3c2
title: Texas border thug law
uri: 2017-05-29-Texas-border-thug-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Texas_border_thug_law%29
content:
<p>
El Cenizo, Texas, is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/21/us-immigration-texas-sb4-sanctuary-cities">suing
to overturn</a> the Texas law that forces all local thugs to obey
orders from US border thugs.


feed_id: 2f3dda244b167f75d0ba5346763a2ee3
title: Katahdin Woods and Waters national monument
uri: 2017-05-29-Katahdin-Woods-and-Waters-national-monument
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Katahdin_Woods_and_Waters_national_monument%29

content:
<p>
The Republican governor of Maine has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/21/katahdin-woods-waters-obama-monument-signs-banned">prohibited
posting signs to lead people to the Katahdin Woods and Waters national
monument</a>, which he wants to eliminate.
<p>
He hopes to keep visitors away so he can claim people don't want to go
there.
<p>
This reminds me of how New Jersey officials (surely directed by the
Governor Christy)
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#6_November_2016_(Governor_Christies_aides_convicted)">punished
a Democratic mayor by closing lanes on the George Washington
Bridge</a>.  (The governor says he didn't tell his aides to do this.
If you believe that, maybe he will offer to sell you that bridge.)
<p>
This shows the scheming and dishonest attitude of today's Republican
Party.  They will degrade any institutions they get their hands on,
and use it to spread lies, merely to deny their rivals a chance to
point at any sort of success.


feed_id: 522e62c2e5ed6cf093ee74d11cc00c4b
title: Imprisonment of journalists
uri: 2017-05-29-Imprisonment-of-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Imprisonment_of_journalists%29
content:
<p>
US journalists
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/21/trump-threat-reporters-press-freedom">denounce
the practice</a> of imprisoning journalists, which was expanded under
<a href="/glossary.html#dubya">Dubya</a> and Obama and is getting worse under the troll.


feed_id: e6e129f5ea6f6411a3212b08dad3e1f5
title: Flynn's employment by Turkey
uri: 2017-05-29-Flynn-s-employment-by-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28Flynns_employment_by_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
In January, Flynn
<a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article151149647.html">convinced
Obama's national security advisor to put off a plan to arm the Syrian
Kurds to capture Raqqa</a>.  Flynn had taken pay from Turkey during
2016.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has since reinstated the plan.
<p>
Democratic congresscritters
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/19/1664009/-Check-this-out-House-Democrats-told-VP-Mike-Pence-about-Flynn-and-they-kept-the-receipts-to-prove-it">wrote
to Pence in November to warn him about Flynn's employment by
Turkey</a>.
<p>
Pence claimed he didn't know about this.


feed_id: 5a481d47a4670dcbadec7cd651c3f932
title: The thug that shot Terrence Crutcher
uri: 2017-05-29-The-thug-that-shot-Terrence-Crutcher
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28The_thug_that_shot_Terrence_Crutcher%29

content:
<p>
The thug that shot Terrence Crutcher
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2017/05/19/american-justice-betty-shelby-and-malcolm-x">lied
about many aspects of the killing</a>, and then was acquitted of
charges.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a>
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/18/1663654/-Oklahoma-officer-who-killed-unarmed-black-motorist-is-found-not-guilty-But-who-s-surprised">assumed
Crutcher was dangerous before they approached him</a>.  They didn't
bother to notice that he was unarmed and had his hands up.
Unconscious racism may have played a role, and surely the assumption
did too.  That is no excuse for what they did.
<p>
Here's an idea: put up posters showing that thug, in uniform, with the
caption "Armed, Dangerous Liar."  Each word can be proved.


feed_id: fd33bc8ad2f1723168ae3099c62b6fba
title: US persecution of sex workers
uri: 2017-05-29-US-persecution-of-sex-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_%28US_persecution_of_sex_workers%29
content:
<p>
The US government
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/19/fbi-sting-arrested-nearly-twice-as-many">organizes
the arrest of hundreds of sex workers every year</a>, under the guise
of releasing enslaved minors — except that it finds hardly any
minors and none are enslaved.


feed_id: e6183bc6192338ee9ec3257f592d9e13
title: Clarke wants imprisonment without trial
uri: 2017-05-29-Clarke-wants-imprisonment-without-trial
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Clarke_wants_imprisonment_without_trial%29

content:
<p>
Sheriff Clarke wants to put thousands of Americans — perhaps as
much as a million —
<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/sheriff-david-clarke-is-determined-to-suspend-habeus-corpus-and-shred-the-bill-of-rights/">in
prison without trial</a> based on suspicions he appears to exaggerate.


feed_id: 9ce368fc91314d38cb0b018e3e17a99c
title: Facebook WhatsApp
uri: 2017-05-29-Facebook-WhatsApp
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Facebook_WhatsApp%29
content:
<p>
What Facebook gained from buying WhatsApp was to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/20/eu-right-to-take-on-facebook-fines-dont-protect-us-from-tech-giants">associate
nearly every used of Facebook with a phone number</a>.  Facebook lied
about this when it bought WhatsApp.


feed_id: 1c42a3e17593495540e390a456824862
title: Audio recording of Brazilian president
uri: 2017-05-29-Audio-recording-of-Brazilian-president
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Audio_recording_of_Brazilian_president%29

content:
<p>
Brazilian president Temer
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/20/audio-at-heart-of-bribery-scandal-was-doctored-claims-brazil-president">says
the audio recording which had him discussing hush money for Eduardo
Cunha was faked</a>.


feed_id: fa161bd71d7ebbe810a135a506ed84ee
title: Coal mining plans defeated in court
uri: 2017-05-29-Coal-mining-plans-defeated-in-court
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Coal_mining_plans_defeated_in_court%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government is disappointed that environmentalists have
defeated coal mining plans in court, because they would harm
endangered species.  Instead of making mines respect wildlife, the
government has decided to block environmentalists from taking such
issues to court.
<p>
Future mining projects will get away with destroying endangered
species, because the extractionist state doesn't care, and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/aug/18/coalition-to-remove-green-groups-right-to-challenge-after-carmichael-setback">everyone
else in Australia will be powerless</a>.


feed_id: ad6728ebab4b70d9cd0ea74bf0402a10
title: Plan to measure car emissions blocked
uri: 2017-05-29-Plan-to-measure-car-emissions-blocked
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Plan_to_measure_car_emissions_blocked%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s saboteurs have
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/carbon-measurement-rule-delayed-indefinitely-3324b189dc56">blocked
a plan to measure greenhouse emissions from cars and trucks</a>.


feed_id: 0b611a4ec8434edb3b13630fdd2eb1b2
title: Stingrays
uri: 2017-05-29-Stingrays
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Stingrays%29
content:
<p>
EFF: since stingrays always snoop on everyone in a neighborhood, the
usual criteria for a search warrant are not enough for using a
stingray.  They
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/no-hunting-undocumented-immigrants-stingrays">should
be used only in cases of major crimes</a>.


feed_id: becce6c3a6eaaccbb277b4766d3d1f95
title: Impeaching the troll
uri: 2017-05-29-Impeaching-the-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Impeaching_the_troll%29
content:
<p>
Pence is a Christian theocrat and plutocratist, but that is no reason
to hold back from
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/19/movement-impeachment-must-be-grounded-opposition-trumpism-and-gop">impeaching
the troll</a>.


feed_id: 7c02379df5a1a7c47d9dae50a09d20f5
title: Trustworthy investigation important
uri: 2017-05-29-Trustworthy-investigation-important
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Trustworthy_investigation_important%29

content:
<p>
Some US agency
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/18/1663835/-US-surveillance-recorded-Russian-agents-vowing-to-get-Hillary-Clinton">reports
listening to a Russian agent boast of plans to interfere with the US
election of 2016</a>, to punish Clinton.
<p>
If true (those agencies do sometimes lie), it is not proof that the
troll's staff colluded with Russia about the matter.  But it confirms
the importance of a full and trustworthy investigation.


feed_id: abf0c87d2b0c67ba60aa4b19e5426a50
title: Arctic declaration
uri: 2017-05-29-Arctic-declaration
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Arctic_declaration%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> tried to erase concern for global heating from the nearly
finalized
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/19/trump-administration-lobbied-ditch-climate-language-arctic-declaration">Arctic
declaration</a>.


feed_id: 4aa2b8e280e2f60badb01bc315e43317
title: Prudish ignorantism
uri: 2017-05-29-Prudish-ignorantism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Prudish_ignorantism%29
content:
<p>
A British woman is on trial for going to a park and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/19/ex-bbc-presenters-tony-julie-wadsworth-deny-indecently-assaulting-boys-warwickshire">inviting
teenage boys to have sex with her</a> there.  Her husband acted as a
lookout in case someone else passed by.  One teenager allegedly
visited her at her house repeatedly to have sex with her.
<p>
None of these acts would be wrong in any sense, provided they took
precautions against spreading infections.  The idea that adolescents
(of whatever sex) need to be "protected" from sexual experience they
wish to have is prudish ignorantism, and making that experience a
crime is perverse.


feed_id: d664648d6cf78632432db99fe1729a29
title: Tories plan state-controlled censorship
uri: 2017-05-29-Tories-plan-state-controlled-censorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Tories_plan_state-controlled_censorship%29

content:
<p>
The Tories plan total
<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/theresa-may-internet-conservatives-government-a7744176.html">state-controlled
censorship of the internet</a> in the UK.


feed_id: 63125b3cdec651e80bb8ca5e2a0203a6
title: FCC's thugs physically throw reporter out
uri: 2017-05-29-FCC-s-thugs-physically-throw-reporter-out
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28FCCs_thugs_physically_throw_reporter_out%29

content:
<p>
The FCC's nonuniformed thugs
<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/trumps-fcc-apologizes-after-reporter-is-manhandled-by-security-guards">grabbed
a reporter</a> in a meeting where the press was invited, and
physically threw him out.
<p>
Other reporters, who knew him, were shocked.


feed_id: c2a753533666ccf731a1b0f480703897
title: Republicans
uri: 2017-05-29-Republicans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Republicans%29
content:
<p>
Most Republicans don't care what nasty, criminal or treasonous things
the troll does; they will
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/17/1663087/-Truth-Russian-Scandal-Out-of-control-White-House-The-Republican-base-is-largely-unmoved">construct
excuses to support him regardless</a>.
<p>
This may explain why Republicans tell blatant absurd lies all the
time.  The falsehood is easy to expose, but they know their supporters
have chosen to disconnect from reality and will treat the lies as
truth.


feed_id: 47283481df962ed0a2339213d84df197
title: Urgent: Protect EPA's budget
uri: 2017-05-29-Urgent-Protect-EPA-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_EPAs_budget%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4261">call
on Congress</a> to protect the EPA's budget.


feed_id: b378c8cd2345f966274feb8406ffc95a
title: Removal of memorials to the Confederacy
uri: 2017-05-29-Removal-of-memorials-to-the-Confederacy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Removal_of_memorials_to_the_Confederacy%29

content:
<p>
New Orleans has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/19/new-orleans-robert-e-lee-statue-removed-confederacy">finished
removing</a> its memorials to the Confederacy.


feed_id: 7b33da6603c2ef42316c588a93446c8e
title: Troll appoints hateful sheriff
uri: 2017-05-29-Troll-appoints-hateful-sheriff
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Troll_appoints_hateful_sheriff%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has appointed a sheriff that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/sheriff-david-clarke-trump-administration-dhs">notoriously
hates Black Lives Matter</a> as liaison with local thug departments.


feed_id: 3b8b94c210687c447dfdaeb12c3e0d3f
title: Deputy Saboteur of the Interior Department
uri: 2017-05-29-Deputy-Saboteur-of-the-Interior-Department
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Deputy_Saboteur_of_the_Interior_Department%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s choice for Deputy Saboteur of the Interior Department
is a saboteur indeed: a
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/17/eco-groups-trumps-interior-deputy-pick-walking-conflict-interest">walking
conflict of interest"</a>.


feed_id: 62872a10c2d20a286506971afffddfa0
title: US intelligence about al-Qa'ida imperfect
uri: 2017-05-29-US-intelligence-about-al-Qa-ida-imperfect
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28US_intelligence_about_al-Qaida_imperfect%29

content:
<p>
If US intelligence about al-Qa'ida in Yemen is imperfect, the result is to
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/19/u-s-drone-strike-in-yemen-killed-men-who-had-nothing-to-do-with-al-qaeda-according-to-relatives/">kill
lots of the wrong people</a>.
<p>
If the members of al-Qa'ida are a tiny fraction of the population, it
doesn't take much of an error rate for drone assassinations to kill
more bystanders then enemies.


feed_id: 6917a535e4883589329058f0bde6cd02
title: Tory victims' plans to vote for Tories
uri: 2017-05-29-Tory-victims-plans-to-vote-for-Tories
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Tory_victims_plans_to_vote_for_Tories%29

content:
<p>
Trying to explain
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/19/british-voters-rejecting-santa-embracing-scrooge-labour-popularity">why
do the Tories' victims plan to vote for Tories</a>.
<p>
I think politicians that will try to do good things and might fail are
preferable to politicians that can be relied on to implement policies
that will crush lots of people.


feed_id: 876bcc5c1dab8a00d512fb8231bd0091
title: Tory state contracts with charities
uri: 2017-05-29-Tory-state-contracts-with-charities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Tory_state_contracts_with_charities%29

content:
<p>
The Tory state contracts with charities to implement state
responsibilities to help the poor, but
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/19/two-thirds-charities-subsidising-public-sector-contracts-survive">doesn't
pay for the costs</a>.  The charities need to use other money.
<p>
This can't go on much longer.  In a year or two, the charities will
cease to bid for these contracts.  Then the Tories will say, "Oops,
there's no money to help the poor, we have to stop!"  But there will
be no election scheduled for several years, so Britons will be stuck
with it.
<p>
That's if they are suckers enough to vote for Tories now.
<p>
These charities should cancel <em>now</em> to give voters a sign of
what they'd choose
<a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg">if they vote
Tory</a>.


feed_id: 601ed305f5e7f210a152569b8da2f901
title: Peace between Israel and Hamas
uri: 2017-05-29-Peace-between-Israel-and-Hamas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Peace_between_Israel_and_Hamas%29
content:
<p>
If We Cared about Peace We Would Be
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/19/hamas-peace-gaza-stalemate">Talking
to Hamas</a>.
<p>
Hamas's new charter demonstrates that there's a real possibility for
Israel and Hamas to make peace.  If you would like negotiations to
succeed, it makes no sense to demand more than that as a precondition
for starting negotiations.  When the US demands more than that from
Hamas, and doesn't
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_(Israel_prefers_continued_occupation)">make
similar demands on Israel</a>, it supports Israel's unstated
intentions to continue the occupation and siege; to reject peace.


feed_id: 14bf5678888eb320389833cb1ecddcbd
title: Antibiotics
uri: 2017-05-29-Antibiotics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Antibiotics%29
content:
<p>
Without Action on
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/19/antibiotics-medicine-dark-ages-overprescribing">Antibiotics</a>,
Medicine Will Return to the Dark Ages.


feed_id: e3fc1d20c7e5a67b16e9ba8a95087f0d
title: Seed vault in Svalbard
uri: 2017-05-29-Seed-vault-in-Svalbard
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Seed_vault_in_Svalbard%29
content:
<p>
The seed vault in Svalbard had a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/19/arctic-stronghold-of-worlds-seeds-flooded-after-permafrost-melts">close
scare from global heating effects</a>.
<p>
Svalbard is heating faster than almost anywhere else on Earth.  If we
don't curb global heating soon, it will be above freezing all the time
for several months of the year.


feed_id: 610b4ab30a2cf445b474e6f4de563d35
title: Globalized industry
uri: 2017-05-29-Globalized-industry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Globalized_industry%29
content:
<p>
Globalized industry pressures countries to
<a href="https://theconversation.com/when-some-us-firms-move-production-overseas-they-also-offshore-their-pollution-75371">compete
to allow the highest levels of pollution</a>.
<p>
If we want to change this, "rewarding social responsibility" is a weak
intervention.  We should prohibit import of goods that polluted where
they were made.


feed_id: a4e0fa19c08142b44eafa48e8d191f12
title: Tories borrow voter suppression techniques
uri: 2017-05-29-Tories-borrow-voter-suppression-techniques
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Tories_borrow_voter_suppression_techniques%29

content:
<p>
The Tories are systematically borrowing Republican techniques to
suppress voting by the poor.  Next step:
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/19/no-photo-no-vote-cynical-tory-plan-suffocate-democracy">voter
ID</a>.
<p>
The Tories are also imitating the troll's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/19/foreign-reporter-frozen-out-theresa-may-behaving-trump">contempt
for reporters that are not subservient</a>.
<p>
Plutocratist parties operate governments of occupation on behalf of
the conquering global rich.  They may use democracy while it exists,
but they aim to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-mar-jun.html#10_April_2014_(The_views_of_non-rich_people)">deny
the people to any real control over their destiny</a>.  In the process
of doing so, they become
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#09_April_2015_(Replacement_of_democracy_with_plutocracy)">ever
less legitimate as governments</a>.  They deserve their power no more
than any other government of occupation.


feed_id: 83015bc4b60de2d5f86288ec03e69faf
title: Charges against Julian Assange dropped
uri: 2017-05-29-Charges-against-Julian-Assange-dropped
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Charges_against_Julian_Assange_dropped%29

content:
<p>
Sweden has dropped charges against Julian Assange, rejecting the
option of bringing him to Sweden with a commitment not to send him to
the US.
<p>
However, Assange still can't leave the Ecuadorian embassy, as the UK
has found a minor crime to arrest him for, and the troll regime says
it
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/19/sweden-withdraws-arrest-warrant-for-julian-assange-but-he-still-faces-serious-legal-jeopardy/">plans
to prosecute him somehow</a>.
<p>
It appears they intend to make him spend the rest of his life in
the Ecuadorian embassy.
<p>
I conjecture that Sweden dropped the charges because the US no longer
had any need for them.


feed_id: 6c3db16b323ffd89b195df1426d90b4e
title: Do-dirty bans smoking tobacco in public
uri: 2017-05-29-Do-dirty-bans-smoking-tobacco-in-public
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Do-dirty_bans_smoking_tobacco_in_public%29

content:
<p>
Do-dirty has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/19/philippines-president-bans-smoking-in-public-with-offenders-facing-jail">decreed
a ban on smoking tobacco in public</a> in the Philippines.
<p>
I wouldn't expect that a president has the legal power to do that
alone.


feed_id: 983a8fbf559d37eb50a887df24dc3da8
title: Troll's companies
uri: 2017-05-29-Troll-s-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Trolls_companies%29
content:
<p>
Democratic Senators demand information from the troll's companies, now
operated by his sons at thumb's length from him, to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/18/dems-ask-trumps-company-prove-its-not-just-funneling-him-money">see
whether they are passing through foreign money to him</a>.


feed_id: 4e9b9032fe36dbe3f3232829c16e4517
title: Data about passengers used by Goober
uri: 2017-05-29-Data-about-passengers-used-by-Goober
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Data_about_passengers_used_by_Goober%29

content:
<p>
Uber collects data about passengers, then uses the data to
<a href="http://gizmodo.com/uber-doesn-t-want-you-to-see-this-document-about-its-va-1795151637">profile
them in various ways</a>.


feed_id: cc590cc4d18f47fb2a70fbb2fccce804
title: Atheists in the US
uri: 2017-05-29-Atheists-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Atheists_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
A careful survey suggests that
<a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/way-more-americans-may-be-atheists-than-we-thought/">1/4
of the US population may be atheist</a>, but many of them fear to let
this be known.


feed_id: 1336f2689693504d1de25d844ca9144d
title: Air pollution from ships
uri: 2017-05-29-Air-pollution-from-ships
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Air_pollution_from_ships%29
content:
<p>
Ships emit so much air pollution that they
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/18/dirty-diesel-ships-worst-offenders-pollutionwatch">may
cause 60,000 deaths per year</a>.


feed_id: 9560a955ea56dd57a56cf58e99596949
title: Progressive candidate has chance in Montana
uri: 2017-05-29-Progressive-candidate-has-chance-in-Montana
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Progressive_candidate_has_chance_in_Montana%29

content:
<p>
Progressive candidate Rob Quist has a chance to get elected to
Congress from Montana, but the
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/18/even-no-love-dnc-sanders-backed-montana-longshot-surges">national
Democratic Party has given him almost no support</a>.
<p>
The DNC works for the Wall Street Democrats, like Clinton, against
progressives such as Sanders.


feed_id: 50d122b4ae1fad3a6c827cdc4ca7d241
title: Clinton and the Wall Street Democrats
uri: 2017-05-29-Clinton-and-the-Wall-Street-Democrats
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Clinton_and_the_Wall_Street_Democrats%29

content:
<p>
Clinton and the Wall Street Democrats want to bring opposition to
plutocratic Republicans under
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/18/we-dont-need-clinton-to-go-onward-together-fight-trump-in-other-ways">their
Plutocratic aegis</a>.
<p>
In July 2016, I posted a petition on MoveOn
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/hillary-clinton-stand-1">calling
on Clinton to stand aside so Sanders could defeat the troll</a>.  Too
bad she didn't do it.
<p>
Wall Street Democrats want to go on and on, along the same path of
<a href="/glossary.html#doohnibor">dooH niboR</a>.  If we want to go in the right direction, we must not
reject their attempts to lead us astray.


feed_id: 6d266609adcad358fbc1e50c2052894f
title: Wrongdoing by the troll needs investigation
uri: 2017-05-29-Wrongdoing-by-the-troll-needs-investigation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Wrongdoing_by_the_troll_needs_investigation%29

content:
<p>
In addition to the special criminal investigator, we
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/18/hold-your-applause-warnings-over-pitfalls-special-counsel-investigation">need
an independent commission</a> to investigate wrongdoing by the troll
that isn't a crime.


feed_id: cadc5c410bf073eac79f46d6326c29ca
title: The troll and DeVos
uri: 2017-05-29-The-troll-and-DeVos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28The_troll_and_DeVos%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> and DeVos want to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/18/trumps-education-budget-feeds-school-privatization-expense-students">gut
federal support for public schools and college student loans, and move
most of the money to private and religious schools</a>.
<p>
DeVos wants to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/19/billionaire-betsy-devos-scrap-student-debt-forgiveness">eliminate
the program that forgives student loans for some students</a>.
<p>
If you were rich enough to matter, in her judgment, you
wouldn't have needed any student loans.


feed_id: d9d2eb8f45b1819475ae3a2e7a5ed8d7
title: Troll wants to cut renewable energy support
uri: 2017-05-29-Troll-wants-to-cut-renewable-energy-support
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Troll_wants_to_cut_renewable_energy_support%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/17/trump-wants-cut-energy-depts-renewables-budget-big-time">wants
to cut 70% from support for renewable energy in the Department of
Energy</a>.


feed_id: 94c755ad1c7d4e83e5ef089481e4cff3
title: Workers without maternity leave
uri: 2017-05-29-Workers-without-maternity-leave
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Workers_without_maternity_leave%29
content:
<p>
Some US companies offer maternity leave to full time corporate
employees, but most of their workers are part-time or employed by
contractors or franchises, and
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/17/how-corporate-family-leave-policies-are-fueling-inequality">don't
get those benefits</a>.
<p>
If there is any doubt about how you can afford to raise a child,
you shouldn't expose it to the risk of being born in that situation.


feed_id: fbe5345bd7089d844ffea8c3f37cfa9f
title: Series of lucky breaks exposed Nixon
uri: 2017-05-29-Series-of-lucky-breaks-exposed-Nixon
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Series_of_lucky_breaks_exposed_Nixon%29

content:
<p>
It took a series of lucky breaks to expose Nixon's conspiracy and
remove him from office.  We
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/17/dont-count-precedent-watergate-help-depose-trump-we-got-lucky">can't
count on that to happen again</a>.
<p>
However, with the special investigator we have at least traveled a
step further down the path.


feed_id: d0f8200e117007b773f71b1c0516a685
title: Storing and transporting renewable energy
uri: 2017-05-29-Storing-and-transporting-renewable-energy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Storing_and_transporting_renewable_energy%29

content:
<p>
There are plans to store and transport renewable energy in the form of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/may/19/how-australia-can-use-hydrogen-to-export-its-solar-power-around-the-world">liquid
hydrogen or ammonia</a>.
<p>
Iceland could export energy from the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/may/19/british-energy-iceland-volcano-geothermal-power">heat
of underground molten magma</a>.
<p>
These could help avoid global disaster, but only if they are ramped up
soon.


feed_id: 394c4b86ebba91957bb02a950e2050b6
title: Handling intelligence information
uri: 2017-05-29-Handling-intelligence-information
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Handling_intelligence_information%29
content:
<p>
Careless treatment of intelligence information is
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/18/establishment-remains-hostage-rules-espionage">not
as important as unjustified war</a>.
<p>
So You Want to Share Intelligence with Russia ... There Are
<a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/41144/share-intelligence-russia-risky-ways/">Less
Risky Ways to Do It</a>.
<p>
I wonder: would Russians have been able to deduce that the information
came from a spy working for Israel, from the information they got?
Or did they get that info from the US media?


feed_id: cfc945c0364189102601fb65173cf500
title: Robot nanny that spies on child
uri: 2017-05-29-Robot-nanny-that-spies-on-child
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#26_May_2017_%28Robot_nanny_that_spies_on_child%29
content:
<p>
Meet Aristotle, the Robot Nanny That Can
<a href="https://www.treehugger.com/family/now-robot-nanny-can-spy-your-child.html">Raise
(And Spy on) Your Child</a>.
<p>
I am glad people are starting to recognize that these products are
fundamentally bad.


feed_id: ee85c4d20f229be0117ce6416e4078ba
title: Urgent: Oppose mechanical copyright censorship
uri: 2017-05-29-Urgent-Oppose-mechanical-copyright-censorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_mechanical_copyright_censorship%29

content:
<p>
EU citizens:
<a href="https://act1.openmedia.org/savethelink">object to plans</a>
to require web sites to impose mechanical copyright censorship that
would reject parodies and other commentary.
<p>
The page raises two issues.  I think the copyright censorship
issue is the most important; if I were an EU citizen I would
respond put that one first.
<p>
I would also avoid using the word "content" to refer to works of
authorship in the text I wrote.


feed_id: 050f2af2f2a00b633c00d08c341ae34f
title: Urgent: Oppose snooping robots for children
uri: 2017-05-29-Urgent-Oppose-snooping-robots-for-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_snooping_robots_for_children%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://action.storyofstuff.org/sign/digital-nanny/">state
your opposition</a> to snooping robots for children.
<p>
I think they are just as bad when offered to adults.
The wrong is an outgrowth of the nonfree software in the device.


feed_id: e2e95d661dc18e105082a57d8b215480
title: Troll's ghost-writer on troll's behavior
uri: 2017-05-29-Troll-s-ghost-writer-on-troll-s-behavior
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Trolls_ghost-writer_on_trolls_behavior%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s ghost-writer says his behavior pattern now is the same as
in 1985:
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/05/16/i-wrote-the-art-of-the-deal-with-trump-his-self-sabotage-is-rooted-in-his-past/">no
empathy, no conscience, no shame, and no respect for truth</a>.  Every
other person is a rival he needs to dominate.


feed_id: e82c1c8826747f06e9ac3631c40494dd
title: Urgent: Rescind new prosecution policy
uri: 2017-05-29-Urgent-Rescind-new-prosecution-policy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Rescind_new_prosecution_policy%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/sessions-memo-petition">call
on Sessions</a> to rescind the new prosecution policy of always aiming
for the maximum sentence.


feed_id: 252bb12840d2e7319da0de4a0ff3641a
title: Urgent: Oppose bombardment of Hodeida
uri: 2017-05-29-Urgent-Oppose-bombardment-of-Hodeida
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_bombardment_of_Hodeida%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/uaeembassyus-renounce-2">call
on the UAE</a> to back out of planned bombardment of Hodeida or its
state-owned airline, Emirates, will face a boycott.


feed_id: aa8d5dc5602ff2c066a2e0455b0e81ca
title: Urgent: The discharge petition
uri: 2017-05-29-Urgent-The-discharge-petition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_The_discharge_petition%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/House_Discharge_Petition_dems/">call
on Republican congresscritters</a> to sign the discharge petition for
an independent investigation of the troll's relationship with Russia.


feed_id: 5eebddbab09e8d2ad0ba44a85c32116e
title: US air force bombs Assad's allies
uri: 2017-05-29-US-air-force-bombs-Assad-s-allies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28US_air_force_bombs_Assads_allies%29
content:
<p>
The US air force bombed
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/18/us-iran-jet-attack-syria">some
of Assad's allies in Syria</a>.


feed_id: 91d438da6076b6f9f6965bbc5875f549
title: Saboteur of the Treasury
uri: 2017-05-29-Saboteur-of-the-Treasury
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Saboteur_of_the_Treasury%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> of the Treasury Mnuchin advocates bringing back all of the
Glass-Steagall Act,
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/18/steven-mnuchin-goes-through-the-looking-glass-steagall-in-strange-exchange-with-elizabeth-warren/">except
for the Glass-Steagall Act</a>.


feed_id: e539a42db36641d66eb3cc388d85c1b5
title: Funding to Planned Parenthood cut off
uri: 2017-05-29-Funding-to-Planned-Parenthood-cut-off
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Funding_to_Planned_Parenthood_cut_off%29

content:
<p>
Iowa Republicans
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/18/planned-parenthood-closures-iowa-funding-cut">cut
off funding</a> to Planned Parenthood for contraception and tests for
cancer and diseases.
<p>
Many women on Medicaid will have trouble getting those services from
anywhere else.


feed_id: 2d96b824493fd9a5b175c93e5cfc6896
title: Manus Island refugees
uri: 2017-05-29-Manus-Island-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Manus_Island_refugees%29
content:
<p>
Refugees Australia dumped on Manus Island are subject to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/19/scale-of-surveillance-in-manus-island-detention-centre-laid-bare">constant
intrusive surveillance</a>.  Guards take notes about how they look
each day and about who talks with whom.  When they make phone calls,
the guards listen.
<p>
They are threatened not to talk with journalists, and their supporters
have been arrested and deported without seeing them.  All this is at
the behest of the Australian state.
<p>
Sooner or later, the Australian state will arrange to waterboard them,
or stick burning cigarettes into their testicles.  Or behead them
— videos of that would sure scare any would-be refugees away
from Australia.


feed_id: bf116210a5f12c120b4280a3c846a48b
title: Thugs arrest autistic 7-year-old
uri: 2017-05-29-Thugs-arrest-autistic-7-year-old
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Thugs_arrest_autistic_7-year-old%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> arrested an autistic 7-year-old in school and
<a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/dallas-school-cops-handcuffing-7yo-boy-week/">jailed
him for a week</a>, and his parents could not find him.
<p>
He hadn't committed a crime.  He had only made a nuisance.


feed_id: cfbd9c5e93fd0392dc08c41875d2111b
title: Wall-Street-supporting Senate "Democrat"
uri: 2017-05-29-Wall-Street-supporting-Senate-Democrat
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Wall-Street-supporting_Senate_Democrat%29

content:
<p>
Wall-Street-supporting Senate "Democrat" Manchin challenged
progressives to vote him out.  Paula Swearengin is
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/18/activist-accepts-sen-joe-manchins-challenge-to-find-somebody-who-can-beat-me/">trying
to do that</a>.


feed_id: 3adb0f45ebd361b648fad23f0d058d44
title: Attack on peaceful protesters in DC
uri: 2017-05-29-Attack-on-peaceful-protesters-in-DC
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Attack_on_peaceful_protesters_in_DC%29

content:
<p>
McCain called for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/18/john-mccain-turkey-protest-ambassador">expulsion
of the Turkish ambassador, and prosecution of his bodyguard</a> for
attacking peaceful protesters in Washington DC.
<p>
I agree.


feed_id: b61c21fa563f7a4843964d39b6e81abd
title: Apple lobbying against right to repair
uri: 2017-05-29-Apple-lobbying-against-right-to-repair
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Apple_lobbying_against_right_to_repair%29

content:
<p>
Apple Is
<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/apple-is-lobbying-against-your-right-to-repair-iphones-new-york-state-records-confirm">Lobbying
Against Your Right to Repair iPhones</a>, New York State Records
Confirm.


feed_id: 55397c37daf80163f491089a1f36e901
title: Corrupt president of Brazil
uri: 2017-05-29-Corrupt-president-of-Brazil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Corrupt_president_of_Brazil%29
content:
<p>
Recorded phone calls show the corrupt president of Brazil is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/18/brazil-explosive-recordings-implicate-president-michel-temer-in-bribery">involved
in paying hush money to convicted official Eduardo Cunha</a>.
<p>
An investigation has been
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/18/brazil-president-corruption-invesitgation-supreme-court">launched</a>.
<p>
Everyone already
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/18/after-latest-bombshells-only-michel-temers-removal-and-new-elections-can-save-brazils-democracy/">knew
Tener was corrupt</a>; that was the motive for installing him.


feed_id: 0eb967c34f2fab18bed00eb6159ac4d3
title: Press freedom in Bangladesh
uri: 2017-05-29-Press-freedom-in-Bangladesh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Press_freedom_in_Bangladesh%29
content:
<p>
Press freedom in Bangladesh is being
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/18/it-all-depends-on-how-i-behave-press-freedom-under-threat-in-bangladesh">crushed
by prosecution of unwelcome points of view</a>, and arbitrary
intimidation of advertisers.


feed_id: d4854c195418648a47dbce29baa04145
title: Neighborhood evicted for Rio Olympics
uri: 2017-05-29-Neighborhood-evicted-for-Rio-Olympics
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Neighborhood_evicted_for_Rio_Olympics%29

content:
<p>
A whole neighborhood was evicted for the Rio Olympics, and many of the
inhabitants are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/may/18/smashed-my-face-demolished-my-home-rio-olympic-games-maria-da-penha-macena">left
without a community</a> even though they have more valuable houses.
<p>
I don't think the Olympic games will be held very much in free
countries any more.  The people know what a swindle the games are and
will campaign to keep them away.  The games will be held in tyrannical
countries like China, where the people can't resist.
<p>
This raises the question of whether to hold Olympic games any more.
Typically each sport has an annual championship.  Those are held at
different times of year, and they don't put a burden on the cities
where they are held.  They also don't provide an opportunity for big
profits for a few businesses — and that is good.


feed_id: aded9735a945b7a1226654da0ae32cab
title: Children need to play on their own
uri: 2017-05-29-Children-need-to-play-on-their-own
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Children_need_to_play_on_their_own%29

content:
<p>
Children
<a href="http://www.freerangekids.com/saturday-is-take-our-children-to-the-park-and-leave-them-there-day/">need
to play on their own</a>.  Not playing is bad for their health.


feed_id: 3ecbe691e5283fe50ecae3d58a4c9d3b
title: Delta wants to use face recognition
uri: 2017-05-29-Delta-wants-to-use-face-recognition
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Delta_wants_to_use_face_recognition%29

content:
<p>
Delta wants to use
<a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/05/16/delta_automates_bag_dropoff_facial_recog/">face
recognition for checking luggage</a>.
<p>
I'm afraid that in a couple of years they will force this on everyone.


feed_id: 08a8d28272f1dc36fc164779551d3e4b
title: Tories to hit the middle class
uri: 2017-05-29-Tories-to-hit-the-middle-class
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Tories_to_hit_the_middle_class%29
content:
<p>
Since the Tories can't squeeze much more money out of the poor, they
have announced
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/18/tory-general-election-manifesto-key-points-analysis">plans
to hit the middle class</a>, especially
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/social-care-network/2017/may/18/social-care-is-broken-but-the-tories-have-no-intention-of-fixing-it">old
people and ill people</a> that can't live on their own.
<p>
I suppose they will continue hurting the poor more anyway.


feed_id: cf2dbbe34a45ed2e42e68127e55cee4e
title: Facebook censorship
uri: 2017-05-29-Facebook-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Facebook_censorship%29
content:
<p>
Facebook
<a href="http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20170516/local/pulitzer-prize-winner-blocked-from-facebook-after-series-of-corruption.648160">deleted
posts that presented evidence of individuals' use of shell
companies</a>, evidence coming from the Panama Papers.
<p>
This resembles Amazon, which famously
<a href="https://stallman.org/amazon.html#censorship">shut down
Wikileaks' virtual server</a> because Wikileaks didn't have US
government authorization to publish leaks.


feed_id: 0233451b68deb5583390805b9f724d74
title: Judging whether troll is fit to serve
uri: 2017-05-29-Judging-whether-troll-is-fit-to-serve
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Judging_whether_troll_is_fit_to_serve%29

content:
<p>
Proposing a
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/17/many-americans-believe-donald-trump-unfit-serve-congressman-has-plan-determine">commission
made up of physicians and psychiatrists</a> to judge whether the US
president is incapacitated or unfit to serve.


feed_id: d8a5db516d18962a217a5a59820e7a16
title: Driving with marijuana drugs
uri: 2017-05-29-Driving-with-marijuana-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Driving_with_marijuana_drugs%29
content:
<p>
Some US states
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/16/a-driver-gets-6-months-for-a-fatal-crash">criminalize
driving with even minimal amounts</a> of marijuana drugs that are too
little to impair driving.
<p>
It's not clear that marijuana is a significant factor for whether
people can drive safely.


feed_id: 156ce6f4395460ed29fcadbb29a1a7e0
title: Troll's wall
uri: 2017-05-29-Troll-s-wall
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Trolls_wall%29
content:
<p>
A report says the troll's pet wall would
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/16/study-trumps-border-wall-threatens-93-endangered-species">threaten
93 endangered species</a>.
<p>
Birds can fly across a wall, but building the wall would destroy some
of their habitat.  Habitat destruction is typically an important
factor in pushing species towards extinction.


feed_id: 50ad8035d914d29d0bbee332cdc86f0e
title: UK thugs caught in perjury
uri: 2017-05-29-UK-thugs-caught-in-perjury
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28UK_thugs_caught_in_perjury%29
content:
<p>
UK thugs who accused four British man of plotting an act of terrorism
have been caught in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/16/west-midlands-police-unit-accused-of-perjury-and-falsifying-evidence">perjury
and other crimes</a>.


feed_id: 3f029cde07db84d93fc382d6e11a3990
title: SCROTUS to impose huge budget cuts
uri: 2017-05-29-SCROTUS-to-impose-huge-budget-cuts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28SCROTUS_to_impose_huge_budget_cuts%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> plans to impose huge budget cuts
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/16/gop-prepares-make-case-poor-people-must-sacrifice-so-rich-can-get-tax-cuts">without
saying what spending will be cut</a>.  Of course, the cuts will be
aimed at non-rich Americans, but they will pretend not to know that.


feed_id: 81abe1a5e8970bef31ee050eeb086bf6
title: Judge punished for recommending lynching
uri: 2017-05-29-Judge-punished-for-recommending-lynching
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Judge_punished_for_recommending_lynching%29

content:
<p>
A judge in Texas has been punished for
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/9/1660448/-Texas-judge-punished-after-Facebook-post-recommending-the-lynching-of-a-Black-defendant">urging
the public to lynch someone</a>.
<p>
Lynching was traditionally done mostly to blacks, and racism may have
been part of this judge's motivation for advocating it, but the wrong
of this judge is fundamental and not a matter of who the target is.
It is unacceptable for a judge to support lynching, and this one ought
to be dismissed.


feed_id: d5911a9ff7a3365cb321baee3b1ab4e0
title: Students fend off plan to invite Republican senator
uri: 2017-05-29-Students-fend-off-plan-to-invite-Republican-senator
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Students_fend_off_plan_to_invite_Republican_senator%29

content:
<p>
Students at a Texas college
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/12/1661775/-Students-at-HBCU-in-Texas-fight-having-a-Republican-Senator-at-their-graduation-and-they-won">fended
off a plan to invite</a> a Republican senator as their graduation
speaker.
<p>
I wish MIT students would organize to
<a href="/apple.html">reject the CEO of Apple</a> as a graduation
speaker.  And I wish Harvard students would organize to
<a href="/facebook.html">reject the CEO of Facebook</a> as a
graduation speaker.


feed_id: 03e6697c967ad08a7072fd9faa68e15f
title: Challenging right-wing antiabortionists
uri: 2017-05-29-Challenging-right-wing-antiabortionists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Challenging_right-wing_antiabortionists%29

content:
<p>
A challenge that right-wing antiabortionists can't beat:
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/15/1662327/-How-I-Always-Win-the-Abortion-Argument">provide
benefits to make life easier for women that have babies</a>.
<p>
Alas, in the actual world we must not do that, because it would
encourage population growth, and that threatens to destroy
civilization.  What we can and should do is systematically provide
reliable contraception gratis to every woman that would choose to
abort a pregnancy.


feed_id: e628f6fc04a958e6f7be1220bd2f6a36
title: Special investigator
uri: 2017-05-29-Special-investigator
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Special_investigator%29
content:
<p>
The DOJ has appointed a special investigator to head the investigation
of troll.  This will include his
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/trump-russia-investigation-special-counsel-robert-mueller-fbi">relationship
with Russia</a> and whether he committed
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/18/donald-trump-impeach-special-counsel-robert-mueller-fbi">obstruction
of justice</a>.
<p>
The head of the investigation is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/17/trump-russia-investigation-special-counsel-what-to-know">independent
within certain limits</a>.


feed_id: 57c48e61eee10e4ffa60447c6149b0bd
title: Australia concealing details of oil spill
uri: 2017-05-29-Australia-concealing-details-of-oil-spill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Australia_concealing_details_of_oil_spill%29

content:
<p>
The Australian government is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/18/australian-oil-well-leaked-into-ocean-for-months-but-incident-kept-secret">concealing
the details of an oil spill in the ocean</a>, to protect the company
responsible from criticism and protests.


feed_id: 9765e3c710ec7c5b9c88c56d17294193
title: Looting in part of Venezuela
uri: 2017-05-29-Looting-in-part-of-Venezuela
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Looting_in_part_of_Venezuela%29
content:
<p>
A
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/17/venezuelan-government-troops-looting-violence">riot
of looting</a> occurred in a part of Venezuela where there is a major
crossing to Colombia.
<p>
When I was there, my friends told me that people bought subsidized
goods and took them to Colombia to sell at market prices, and this
resulted in
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#11_July_2016_(Food_shortages_in_Venezuela)">shortages</a>.
The Venezuelan government subsidized those goods without limit, rather
than subsidizing limited amounts per person or family.


feed_id: 80a2dc5e32a47f20b5b366fc332a6323
title: Troll asked Comey to jail journalists
uri: 2017-05-29-Troll-asked-Comey-to-jail-journalists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Troll_asked_Comey_to_jail_journalists%29

content:
<p>
The Trump News You Missed: He
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/17/trump-news-james-comey-jail-journalists">Asked
Comey to Jail Journalists</a>.


feed_id: b6508a1472d3577322d1e819ba653c5e
title: Manus Island refugee camp
uri: 2017-05-29-Manus-Island-refugee-camp
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Manus_Island_refugee_camp%29
content:
<p>
Australia
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/17/revealed-year-long-campaign-to-make-conditions-harsher-for-manus-refugees">schemed
to make the Manus Island refugee camp more painful</a>, to pressure
refugees to leave.
<p>
Apparently that didn't work well enough, so now Australia is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#24_May_2017_(The_boat_people_on_Manus_Island)">closing
the camp</a>.
<p>
The reason refugees don't leave is that the native population won't
tolerate them.


feed_id: 779a19f60c29d918e9d0b4a789a70076
title: What troll told Russian officials
uri: 2017-05-29-What-troll-told-Russian-officials
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28What_troll_told_Russian_officials%29
content:
<p>
Congress should
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/16/whats-transcript-theres-way-find-out-what-trump-told-russia">demand
a copy of the private transcript</a> of what the troll told Russian
officials.


feed_id: ddb73311b43ddda76cf8deedb9d6e853
title: SCROTUS gets bank employee fired
uri: 2017-05-29-SCROTUS-gets-bank-employee-fired
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28SCROTUS_gets_bank_employee_fired%29
content:
<p>
A <a href="/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a>
<a href="https://www.wnyc.org/story/frelinghuysen-targets-activsts-letter-boss/">got
a bank employee fired</a> for actively opposing his campaign.


feed_id: d5b6ad00aa35bfee8a73ec8cba85ea84
title: Troll's release of secrets to Russia
uri: 2017-05-29-Troll-s-release-of-secrets-to-Russia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#25_May_2017_%28Trolls_release_of_secrets_to_Russia%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/trump-russia-classified-information-isis.html">release
of secrets to Russia</a> shows how unfair was his criticism of
Clinton's email server.
<p>
Here's
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/15/1662597/-Remember-Trump-calling-Hillary-extremely-careless-and-Ryan-s-line-in-the-sand-on-classified-info">how
Paul Ryan put it</a>.
<p>
Clinton's email server was a red herring, an molehill blown up by
Republicans into an apparent mountain.  I rejected Clinton because of
her loyalty to Wall Street against America.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s release to Russia could conceivably have been worth while,
but we can't trust someone like the troll to judge that.


feed_id: fdc12ffeb19a187a77527ac6047b65a9
title: Volunteer
uri: 2017-05-30-Volunteer
url: https://stallman.org/index.html#volunteerListAnc
content:
<p>I am looking for people to find replacements for the broken links
       in <a href="https://stallman.org/broken-links.txt">broken-links.txt</a>
       and send them to john at netpurgatory dot com.</p>


feed_id: 748a708ae265853fd77ccf8742f9878e
title: Corbyn on terrorism
uri: Corbyn-on-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Corbyn_on_terrorism%29
content:
<p>

Corbyn: the UK must recognize that its warlike posture has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/26/jeremy-corbyn-the-war-on-terror-is-simply-not-working">
helped provoke terrorism,</a> 
and must change that posture.


feed_id: 0e580c198e7f7ceb55c41c55f1216ece
title: WiFi in the EU
uri: WiFi-in-the-EU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28WiFi_in_the_EU%29
content:
<p>

The EU's 
<a href="https://www.laquadrature.net/en/wifi4eu-diversity-human-rights">
plan to spread WiFi</a> 
access throughout Europe must not promote big business that spies on users.
<p>
If it requires people to log in and identify themselves, it might
eliminate the convenient systems in cafes that don't require this.


feed_id: 99c29c06a9dfcf20788edff9a7539b35
title: Israeli attack on US
uri: Israeli-attack-on-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Israeli_attack_on_US%29
content:
<p>

In 1967, when Israel was at war with several Arab countries, its
planes 
<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-liberty_tuesoct02-story.html">
attacked</a> 
the USS Liberty, a radio listening ship. The survivors and other
witnesses say that the attack was intentional — and some testify to
hearing radio surveillance recordings in which Israeli pilots asking,
"Are we really supposed to attack an ally's ship?"


feed_id: 21aee07fd3f4a118b11d96acfcf6e149
title: Water in Paraguay
uri: Water-in-Paraguay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Water_in_Paraguay%29
content:
<p>

Paraguay has done a great job of giving rural population 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/may/26/rural-water-access-paraguay-success-lessons">
access to clean water.</a>


feed_id: baf6df9515bd47eab665901f51f80c7d
title: Social network tricks
uri: Social-network-tricks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Social_network_tricks%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-secret-ways-social-media-is-built-for-addiction">
Tricks</a> 
that Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat use to make people feel anxious and spend time there.


feed_id: a6a1e71cb9d853fb4279c2e7996f538b
title: GM sued over emissions
uri: GM-sued-over-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28GM_sued_over_emissions%29
content:
<p>

Car owners are 
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/gm-defeat-device-emissions-1.4131104">
suing General Motors</a> 
accusing it of using "defeat devices" to cheat on emissions tests.
<p>
Meanwhile, Diesel cars that were found to spew lots of pollution are still being sold.


feed_id: accd0f14d2bae0867399ed3d447bede4
title: Wiping out seabirds
uri: Wiping-out-seabirds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Wiping_out_seabirds%29
content:
<p>

Humans are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/26/seabirds-numbers-falling-puffins-shearwaters-climate-change">
wiping out seabirds</a> 
through many practices that are deadly for them.


feed_id: 4b5f0a71547c1c3763c7b29eba08137f
title: Greg Gianforte
uri: Greg-Gianforte
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Greg_Gianforte%29
content:
<p>

The job-killing mogul Greg Gianforte won the election in Montana
despite 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/26/greg-gianforte-wins-montana-congress-race-body-slam-reporter">
attacking a reporter.</a>
<p>
Or was it because of attacking a reporter? Republicans assume the
reporter must have done something horrible to deserve being attacked.
<p>
I hope Gianforte starts his congressional term in jail.


feed_id: ca90f296a0a2dfb9fb3e2c7e682d945e
title: Jihadi recruiters
uri: Jihadi-recruiters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Jihadi_recruiters%29
content:
<p>

Libyans in Britain 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/24/libyans-in-uk-warned-about-manchester-radicalisation-for-years">
warned the state</a> 
repeatedly about jihadi recruiters operating among them.
<p>
So don't complain that moderate Muslims don't try to stop terrorism.
They do try.


feed_id: e22f446744ad8c75642f8e5f2bd08aea
title: US and Honduras raid
uri: US-and-Honduras-raid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28US_and_Honduras_raid%29
content:
<p>

The inspector generals report that US agents were 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/24/dea-agents-oversaw-notorious-2012-deadly-force-incident-ahuas-honduras-us">
directly involved</a> 
in the raid in Honduras that killed four Miskitu people.
<p>
The US thugs shot at them, then stopped them from getting medical
aid which might have saved some of their lives. Then the thugs lied about it,
naturally.
<p>
The coup-installed Honduran government is giving them a runaround instead
of justice.


feed_id: 5a37de7ff23933aa71ed1269150fdf89
title: Face recognition
uri: 2017-05-30-Face-recognition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Face_recognition%29
content:
<p>

36 US states do 
<a href="https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/about-face-dmv-lets-cops-search-database-of-drivers-license-photos/Content?oid=5825777">
face recognition </a>
on drivers licenses. In some states, they violate state law by doing so.
<p>
Let's make it illegal everywhere!


feed_id: 18ad00af88ba8857d5d2d94f3b1c8ee1
title: CA single-payer system
uri: CA-single-payer-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28CA_single-payer_system%29
content:
<p>

Is California's 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/24/opponents-single-payer-think-youre-stupid-nothing-dumber-profit-healthcare-system">
single-payer medical system</a> 
too expensive? It's cheaper than the present system, provides better
care, and doesn't leave millions out.


feed_id: 5499421333d4fbab62331aa2e80bcffb
title: Democrats and DeVos
uri: Democrats-and-DeVos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Democrats_and_DeVos%29
content:
<p>

Right-wing Democrats led by Bill Clinton paved the way for
DeVos's 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/24/dont-betsy-devos-blame-democrats">
extreme privatization campaign.</a>
<p>
It's not enough for Democrats to win. We need progressives in Congress,
progressives who won't support privatization.


feed_id: 5fb84ff75b8d6191c10acb7fb1edc3bc
title: Switching
uri: Switching
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Switching%29
content:
<p>

The ease of switching from 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/25/neo-nazi-islamist-terror-narratives-upside-down">
neo-Nazi to Islamist</a> 
shows that for some people the direction of extremism is just a
detail.
<p>
The psychology of jihadi radicalization: to counter it, neighbors and
media must 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/26/jihadis-muslims-radicalisation-manchester">
help young Muslims</a> 
feel they are welcome as part of the society around them.


feed_id: 22458748d75cdd0053a9f9bd7c2b807c
title: Weak encryption
uri: Weak-encryption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Weak_encryption%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://lauren.vortex.com/2017/05/25/fighting-government-crippled-encryption-by-turning-it-off-entirely">
Weak encryption</a> 

is worse than no encryption, so business operating in countries that
don't allow effective encryption should offer no encryption and loudly
say why.


feed_id: bfdd35568acac2de7f5edb1fc3caa910
title: Violence against journalists
uri: Violence-against-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Violence_against_journalists%29
content:
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> is personally responsible for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/25/make-no-mistake-donald-trump-has-fueled-violence-against-journalists">
encouraging violence</a> 
against journalists in the US.


feed_id: 44e5e935a767da201e44dbffd15129e0
title: Mosul bombing
uri: Mosul-bombing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Mosul_bombing%29
content:
<p>

The US 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/25/us-mosul-airstrikes-deadliest-attack-iraq-2003">
finally admitted</a> 
that bombing one house in Mosul killed more than 100 civilians.
<p>
It's impossible to fight a war without mistakes. The US should have
admitted the mistake quickly; trying to deny the facts only adds to the wrong.
<p>
The US should stop using 500-pound bombs to attack a few people
in a roof. And it should stop assuming that a house is empty just because
it doesn't know of anyone inside. Those practices invite causing civilian
casualties.


feed_id: 6cb9d04ffb7c1c669709764e488ed359
title: Thugs in Brazil
uri: 2017-05-30-Thugs-in-Brazil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Thugs_in_Brazil%29
content:
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> in Brazil 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/25/brazil-police-protests-shooting-michel-temer">
shot at protesters</a> 
that demanded the resignation of the corrupt president.


feed_id: 54ba4ed775fca573f6aba9004e7f4422
title: Troll-in-law and tenants
uri: Troll-in-law-and-tenants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Troll-in-law_and_tenants%29
content:
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>-in-law, Jared Kushner, owns a rental housing company that
aggressively
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/23/1665231/-Jared-Kushner-uses-lawfare-to-extort-money-from-poor-tenants-in-Baltimore">
squeezes money</a> 
out of former tenants — even when they don't owe any, his
lawyers pursue them for years.


feed_id: 36535e613b0563d3f72192d38aa4bd06
title: Cutting food stamps
uri: Cutting-food-stamps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Cutting_food_stamps%29
content:
<p>

A Republican congresscritter wants to 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/16/1662915/-North-Carolina-Republican-thinks-it-s-only-fair-to-kick-133-000-people-off-food-stamps">
cut food stamps</a> 
for some Americans to be "fair" to other Americans that don't get
them.
<p>
Following that logic they will eventually give zero welfare benefits
to all non-rich Americans.


feed_id: 51201a3e12d7719b21b2f9e7df307d94
title: Right-wing extremist
uri: 2017-05-30-Right-wing-extremist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Right-wing_extremist%29
content:
<p>

A right-wing extremist 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/22/1664903/-Black-college-student-stabbed-to-death-in-what-investigators-think-may-be-a-possible-hate-crime">
murdered a student</a>
in a Maryland university that he didn't know. The only idea for a
motive is bigotry.


feed_id: 521aea939fa99d4b06473db2a161e109
title: Pipeline oil spills
uri: Pipeline-oil-spills
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Pipeline_oil_spills%29
content:
<p>

Oil spills are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/25/energy-transfer-partners-dakota-access-oil-leaks-ohio">
not a rare occurrence</a> 
where pipelines are concerned.  The companies downplay the spills in
the press, which spreads a mistaken impression that they will
generally be safe and spills will be unlikely.


feed_id: 535567ecb9c69841d505058b11b71bd3
title: Criticizing Egypt
uri: Criticizing-Egypt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Criticizing_Egypt%29
content:
<p>

Egypt has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/25/egypt-blocks-access-news-websites-al-jazeera-mada-masr-press-freedom">
blocked</a> 
more foreign news sites, saying they publish lies.
<p>
"Lies" is Egyptian for "criticizing the state".


feed_id: 27689d9270be992711b6f807b13b88f7
title: Crypto ban
uri: Crypto-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Crypto_ban%29
content:
<p>
Tories Say They'll
<a href="http://boingboing.net/2017/05/24/tories-vs-technology.html">
Exploit Manchester's Dead to Ban Working Crypto
</a>
in the
UK.
<p>
The plan appears not to be a ban on using encryption, but rather to
require companies to put back doors in their products.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#31_March_2017_(Theresa_Snooper_May)">
Theresa "Snooper" May has campaigned for years
</a>
to eliminate all
possibility in the UK for people to have a private conversation.  She
must have been waiting for an opportunity like this one.


feed_id: 29e58b951c1fe063e3e058ca9aea7106
title: End the War on Drugs
uri: End-the-War-on-Drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28End_the_War_on_Drugs%29
content:
<p>
Ralph Nader:
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/25/new-way-challenge-failed-war-drugs">
end the War on Drugs and handle other dangerous addictive drugs
the way we handle alcohol and tobacco.
</a>
The bill S.1127 would do this.


feed_id: 2c975dc3177c1faf047e157fdfba46be
title: Dubious Russian document
uri: Dubious-Russian-document
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Dubious_Russian_document%29
content:
<p>
A "Russian intelligence document", erroneous and possibly fake,
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/how-a-dubious-russian-document-influenced-the-fbis-handling-of-the-clinton-probe/2017/05/24/f375c07c-3a95-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html">
complicated
the investigation of Clinton's private email server.
</a>


feed_id: b382d21b34b450ed7a05b44c2e8eca36
title: War on civilians
uri: War-on-civilians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28War_on_civilians%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/26/intensifying-cycle-violence-us-strikes-kill-scores-more-syrian-children-civilians">
The US and its allies in Syria have agreed to cover up the civilian
casualties they cause.
</a>
These casualties are increasing.
<p>
Keep in mind that PISSI conscripts local men, often as soldiers.  As                                  soldiers, they are legitimate targets in war, but their relatives
should not be.  In any case, making war on civilians is terrorism, and
the US must not engage in terrorism.
<p>
The PISSI-controlled area of Syria, including Raqqa, is a battle zone.                                There is no way assure safety for civilians in a battle zone.  But the
US has an obligation, morally and by treaty, to make strong efforts to
avoid civilian casualties.  Covering them up is reprehensible.
<p>
If Congress were doing its job, it would require honesty and protection
of civilians as a condition for authprizing the war.


feed_id: 0712b6b5d3fe850ae2a29f96f9df5284
title: Deep State
uri: Deep-State
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Deep_State%29
content:
<p>
US right-wingers now understand the danger of the Deep State.
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/26/some-who-called-snowden-a-traitor-now-sh">
Will they recognize that Snowden's fight to diminish it                                               is heroic, and help do so?
</a>


feed_id: 47a5624effcdf584c17bde8b127fe33e
title: Financial literacy
uri: Financial-literacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Financial_literacy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/may/27/financial-illiteracy-young-people-oecd-study">
Most teenagers don't have basic financial literacy,
</a>
and it's worse for those
who have a bank payment card.
<p>
This confirms that paying cash makes people more aware of how much money                              they are spending.  So there are two reasons to pay cash: to resist tracking
and to understand your budget and spending better.


feed_id: a0a56e1b3fc6361743f276a45dd58a8f
title: Sanders most popular
uri: Sanders-most-popular
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Sanders_most_popular%29
content:
<p>
With the troll mostly hated, and
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/26/democrats-lemmings-search-cliff-why-you-shouldnt-bet-ranch-2018">
Sanders the best-liked politician in
the US,
</a>
Democrats have a clear path to victory: follow Sanders.
Strange that few Democratic politicians actually do that.


feed_id: ce3d976aa424a34475bb50495465b69a
title: Partial Muslim ban
uri: 2017-05-30-Partial-Muslim-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Partial_Muslim_ban%29
content:
<p>
The partial ban on Muslims
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/26/trump-travel-ban-status-supreme-court">
is a test for the US Supreme Court.
</a>


feed_id: 5b96b7be63975b97d28d883058f37684
title: Fossil fuel subsidies
uri: 2017-05-30-Fossil-fuel-subsidies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Fossil_fuel_subsidies%29
content:
<p>
The US subsidizes fossil fuel companies an effective
<a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/fossil-fuels-05-24-2017.php">
7 billion dollars a year
</a>
for their use of public lands.


feed_id: 6ac32169a9dd5c973981764a5c1725d8
title: Comcastroturf
uri: Comcastroturf
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Comcastroturf%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://consumerist.com/2017/05/26/comcast-backs-off-on-threat-to-sue-operators-of-comcastroturf/#more-10279294">
Comcast has decided not to sue the site comcastroturf,
</a>
at least not
for the moment.
<p>
That's because the suit would be frivolous and Comcast knows it.
<p>
Comcast's excuse, supposing it is the truth, is really no excuse.
<p>
Many companies hire trademark lawyers that regularly try to intimidate
anyone that uses the company's trademarks in discourse, without asking
themselves crucial questions such as "Is their use fair use" and
"would demanding they stop constitute bullying?"  Such trademark
lawyers are, in effect, acting like robots even though they are human
beings.
<p>
The company that chooses to employ such robot-imitators to bully
people indiscriminately is morally responsible for the mistreatment
involved.


feed_id: e893a821ddb4a10d4f66986df1bd903b
title: Proposed coal mine
uri: Proposed-coal-mine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Proposed_coal_mine%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/27/federal-labor-feels-the-heat-over-adani-and-coalition-is-sweating-too">
The battle to stop a proposed giant coal mine
</a>
has given the environmental movement in Australia
a clear way to focus attention on global heating
and the threat to the Great Barrier Reef.


feed_id: 1043a35848f0eecc7fe375ad4e200e22
title: East Timor press freedom
uri: East-Timor-press-freedom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28East_Timor_press_freedom%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/27/im-not-a-criminal-press-freedom-stands-trial-in-timor-leste">
A journalist in East Timor faces imprisonment for mentioning the wrong company                        in an article.
</a>
The newspaper has already published a correction.
<p>
The injustice starts with the existence of a law making "defamation" a
crime.  Prosecution for "defamation" is a tool for repression.


feed_id: 79eddd809af5c760d414df5fc13012aa
title: Unmonitored Russia communications
uri: Unmonitored-Russia-communications
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Unmonitored_Russia_communications%29
content:
<p>
Leaks about surveillance of the Russian ambassador
say
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/26/jared-kushner-russia-secret-communications-channel">
Kushner the
troll-in-law discussed with him how to set up unmonitored                                             communications with Russia.
</a>


feed_id: 841246531161dfa2e9558747095cebd0
title: Tracking the troll's payments
uri: Tracking-the-troll-s-payments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Tracking_the_troll%27s_payments_%29
content:
<p>
<p>
The troll says it would be too hard to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/25/trump-empire-claims-tracking-payments-too-hard-watchdogs-say-too-bad">
keep track of whether he's
getting money from foreign interests
</a>
through his business.
                                                                                                      This means he must truly divest from his business.


feed_id: 0662340cdae859f10c11bf8e7e96454d
title: Vulnerable reactors
uri: Vulnerable-reactors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Vulnerable_reactors%29
content:
<p>
US reactors of the same type as those at Fukushima have been left
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/26/experts-us-still-needlessly-vulnerable-fukushima-style-disaster">
vulnerable to running out of water in the spent fuel pools.
</a>
It's not
worth fixing, say regulators.  In the event of a Fukushima-style
accident, that could lead to a much bigger disaster.


feed_id: 55029235b7b2844a6e5f28ca13ace1f6
title: Attacking reporters
uri: Attacking-reporters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Attacking_reporters%29
content:
<p>
Republican politicians think
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/greg-abbott-jokes-about-shooting-reporters-gianforte-19d8f0387727?gi=61aca7e47bf5">
the idea of attacking reporters will appeal
to their core supporters.
</a>
<p>
It's the same thing the troll discovered in his campaign rallies:
every time he bullied someone, his supporters loved it.
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#6_April_2017_(Trolls_grab_the_pussy_tape)">
They
get a vicarious feeling of strength by identifying with him.
</a>


feed_id: df611cf5a1914bcf01f815511ac53e90
title: Public lands
uri: Public-lands
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Public_lands%29
content:
<p>
Before Gianforte attacked a reporter,
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/26/preserving-public-lands-montana-and-beyond">
he attacked the citizens of Montana,
</a>
trying to stop them from fishing on public land near his
house.
<p>
That attitude typifies the Republicans' attitude towards the public.


feed_id: cdad1277a2f01000cd1fe88bed00ba17
title: Libyan crises
uri: Libyan-crises
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Libyan_crises%29
content:
<p>
In Libya, the failed state that resulted from the ouster of Qadhafi
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/27/how-libyan-crises-could-fuel-islamic-extremism">
opened up room for PISSI to recruit people angry at the state of their
country.
</a>
<p>
It wasn't exactly the fault of the US/European intervention,
but anger at other US/European interventions gave Islamist extremism
the force to succeed in recruiting some of the disaffected.


feed_id: 52f9b574fb1a17f59aceb5cb112ff6d4
title: Anti-Muslim stabber
uri: Anti-Muslim-stabber
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Anti-Muslim_stabber%29
content:
<p>
A man who harassed Muslim women on a train in Portland, Oregon,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/27/man-shouting-anti-muslim-slurs-fatally-stabs-two-men-in-us">
murdered
two other passengers who tried to protect the women.
</a>


feed_id: cf927ac033aeb6fc76176b43fa6d06c6
title: Do-dirty encouraging rape
uri: Do-dirty-encouraging-rape
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Do-dirty_encouraging_rape%29
content:
<p>
Do-dirty "jokingly"
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/27/rodrigo-duterte-jokes-to-soldiers-that-they-can-women-with-impunity">
encouraged soldiers to rape women
</a>
in Mindanao.


feed_id: 9b25c970c7b27e54717efd0e284dd570
title: Corbyn on terrorism
uri: 2017-05-30-Corbyn-on-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Corbyn_on_terrorism%29
content:
<p>

Corbyn: the UK must recognize that its warlike posture has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/26/jeremy-corbyn-the-war-on-terror-is-simply-not-working">
helped provoke terrorism,</a>
and must change that posture.


feed_id: 49feb6a5595b82936fd649c03b79cb1b
title: WiFi in the EU
uri: 2017-05-30-WiFi-in-the-EU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28WiFi_in_the_EU%29
content:
<p>

The EU's
<a href="https://www.laquadrature.net/en/wifi4eu-diversity-human-rights">
plan to spread WiFi</a>
access throughout Europe must not promote big business that spies on users.
<p>
If it requires people to log in and identify themselves, it might
eliminate the convenient systems in cafes that don't require this.


feed_id: 7be63f652e1b37a8ea85c1c917828ed5
title: Israeli attack on US
uri: 2017-05-30-Israeli-attack-on-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Israeli_attack_on_US%29
content:
<p>

In 1967, when Israel was at war with several Arab countries, its
planes
<a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/chi-liberty_tuesoct02-story.html">
attacked</a>
the USS Liberty, a radio listening ship. The survivors and other
witnesses say that the attack was intentional — and some testify to
hearing radio surveillance recordings in which Israeli pilots asking,
"Are we really supposed to attack an ally's ship?"


feed_id: 6b50dda9feec8339164bbf5562408fcb
title: Water in Paraguay
uri: 2017-05-30-Water-in-Paraguay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Water_in_Paraguay%29
content:
<p>

Paraguay has done a great job of giving rural population
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/may/26/rural-water-access-paraguay-success-lessons">
access to clean water.</a>


feed_id: ea924acd2499c7d164b4fd059e32d5f7
title: Social network tricks
uri: 2017-05-30-Social-network-tricks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Social_network_tricks%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/the-secret-ways-social-media-is-built-for-addiction">
Tricks</a>
that Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat use to make people feel anxious and spend time there.


feed_id: cf6efc4c497cf990dacb0f61b30f97db
title: GM sued over emissions
uri: 2017-05-30-GM-sued-over-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28GM_sued_over_emissions%29
content:
<p>

Car owners are
<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/gm-defeat-device-emissions-1.4131104">
suing General Motors</a>
accusing it of using "defeat devices" to cheat on emissions tests.
<p>
Meanwhile, Diesel cars that were found to spew lots of pollution are still being sold.


feed_id: a9824512f77be6866d85e489b08daaa6
title: Wiping out seabirds
uri: 2017-05-30-Wiping-out-seabirds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Wiping_out_seabirds%29
content:
<p>

Humans are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/26/seabirds-numbers-falling-puffins-shearwaters-climate-change">
wiping out seabirds</a>
through many practices that are deadly for them.


feed_id: 21941ca279da2a252901b22db347509c
title: Greg Gianforte
uri: 2017-05-30-Greg-Gianforte
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Greg_Gianforte%29
content:
<p>

The job-killing mogul Greg Gianforte won the election in Montana
despite
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/26/greg-gianforte-wins-montana-congress-race-body-slam-reporter">
attacking a reporter.</a>
<p>
Or was it because of attacking a reporter? Republicans assume the
reporter must have done something horrible to deserve being attacked.
<p>
I hope Gianforte starts his congressional term in jail.


feed_id: c99e0dd790f8ea9a24b75662a7619d16
title: Jihadi recruiters
uri: 2017-05-30-Jihadi-recruiters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Jihadi_recruiters%29
content:
<p>

Libyans in Britain
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/24/libyans-in-uk-warned-about-manchester-radicalisation-for-years">
warned the state</a>
repeatedly about jihadi recruiters operating among them.
<p>
So don't complain that moderate Muslims don't try to stop terrorism.
They do try.


feed_id: 8237d221abd5637cc039d9ce5dc3d38a
title: US and Honduras raid
uri: 2017-05-30-US-and-Honduras-raid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28US_and_Honduras_raid%29
content:
<p>

The inspector generals report that US agents were
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/24/dea-agents-oversaw-notorious-2012-deadly-force-incident-ahuas-honduras-us">
directly involved</a>
in the raid in Honduras that killed four Miskitu people.
<p>
The US thugs shot at them, then stopped them from getting medical
aid which might have saved some of their lives. Then the thugs lied about it,
naturally.
<p>
The coup-installed Honduran government is giving them a runaround instead
of justice.


feed_id: a6c695371465b40f3a581e2f5cca55f8
title: Face recognition
uri: 2017-05-30-Face-recognition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Face_recognition%29
content:
<p>

36 US states do
<a href="https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/about-face-dmv-lets-cops-search-database-of-drivers-license-photos/Content?oid=5825777">
face recognition </a>
on drivers licenses. In some states, they violate state law by doing so.
<p>
Let's make it illegal everywhere!


feed_id: 9900b4befd59e32b7ff39f3bfbf1d073
title: CA single-payer system
uri: 2017-05-30-CA-single-payer-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28CA_single-payer_system%29
content:
<p>

Is California's
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/24/opponents-single-payer-think-youre-stupid-nothing-dumber-profit-healthcare-system">
single-payer medical system</a>
too expensive? It's cheaper than the present system, provides better
care, and doesn't leave millions out.


feed_id: 3a3a971035a689f48a99529d4a421996
title: Democrats and DeVos
uri: 2017-05-30-Democrats-and-DeVos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Democrats_and_DeVos%29
content:
<p>

Right-wing Democrats led by Bill Clinton paved the way for
DeVos's
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/24/dont-betsy-devos-blame-democrats">
extreme privatization campaign.</a>
<p>
It's not enough for Democrats to win. We need progressives in Congress,
progressives who won't support privatization.


feed_id: 1d5dfcbf8018e99d10128d569ca11271
title: Switching
uri: 2017-05-30-Switching
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Switching%29
content:
<p>

The ease of switching from
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/25/neo-nazi-islamist-terror-narratives-upside-down">
neo-Nazi to Islamist</a>
shows that for some people the direction of extremism is just a
detail.
<p>
The psychology of jihadi radicalization: to counter it, neighbors and
media must
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/26/jihadis-muslims-radicalisation-manchester">
help young Muslims</a>
feel they are welcome as part of the society around them.


feed_id: 591d295284ac4163467d9b8cc67da11a
title: Weak encryption
uri: 2017-05-30-Weak-encryption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Weak_encryption%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://lauren.vortex.com/2017/05/25/fighting-government-crippled-encryption-by-turning-it-off-entirely">
Weak encryption</a>

is worse than no encryption, so business operating in countries that
don't allow effective encryption should offer no encryption and loudly
say why.


feed_id: 28ac059de8e64f7e189966bf2c91d4fd
title: Violence against journalists
uri: 2017-05-30-Violence-against-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Violence_against_journalists%29
content:
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> is personally responsible for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/25/make-no-mistake-donald-trump-has-fueled-violence-against-journalists">
encouraging violence</a>
against journalists in the US.


feed_id: 38223384aec546095abdcba750003a02
title: Mosul bombing
uri: 2017-05-30-Mosul-bombing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Mosul_bombing%29
content:
<p>

The US
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/25/us-mosul-airstrikes-deadliest-attack-iraq-2003">
finally admitted</a>
that bombing one house in Mosul killed more than 100 civilians.
<p>
It's impossible to fight a war without mistakes. The US should have
admitted the mistake quickly; trying to deny the facts only adds to the wrong.
<p>
The US should stop using 500-pound bombs to attack a few people
in a roof. And it should stop assuming that a house is empty just because
it doesn't know of anyone inside. Those practices invite causing civilian
casualties.


feed_id: 09b0f410e8f5d73a9a665ba43048178e
title: Thugs in Brazil
uri: 2017-05-30-Thugs-in-Brazil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Thugs_in_Brazil%29
content:
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> in Brazil
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/25/brazil-police-protests-shooting-michel-temer">
shot at protesters</a>
that demanded the resignation of the corrupt president.


feed_id: 9c1ac4939c9f57ff3d1a4d4d9dab07f3
title: Troll-in-law and tenants
uri: 2017-05-30-Troll-in-law-and-tenants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Troll-in-law_and_tenants%29
content:
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>-in-law, Jared Kushner, owns a rental housing company that
aggressively
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/23/1665231/-Jared-Kushner-uses-lawfare-to-extort-money-from-poor-tenants-in-Baltimore">
squeezes money</a>
out of former tenants — even when they don't owe any, his
lawyers pursue them for years.


feed_id: 8a3294ced5a3d0a772956ad333d2ac24
title: Cutting food stamps
uri: 2017-05-30-Cutting-food-stamps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Cutting_food_stamps%29
content:
<p>

A Republican congresscritter wants to
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/16/1662915/-North-Carolina-Republican-thinks-it-s-only-fair-to-kick-133-000-people-off-food-stamps">
cut food stamps</a>
for some Americans to be "fair" to other Americans that don't get
them.
<p>
Following that logic they will eventually give zero welfare benefits
to all non-rich Americans.


feed_id: 76745aa0c7221d5d38e604c034194366
title: Right-wing extremist
uri: 2017-05-30-Right-wing-extremist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Right-wing_extremist%29
content:
<p>

A right-wing extremist
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/22/1664903/-Black-college-student-stabbed-to-death-in-what-investigators-think-may-be-a-possible-hate-crime">
murdered a student</a>
in a Maryland university that he didn't know. The only idea for a
motive is bigotry.


feed_id: e22acace06e50534953d32cc70732ad5
title: Pipeline oil spills
uri: 2017-05-30-Pipeline-oil-spills
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Pipeline_oil_spills%29
content:
<p>

Oil spills are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/25/energy-transfer-partners-dakota-access-oil-leaks-ohio">
not a rare occurrence</a>
where pipelines are concerned.  The companies downplay the spills in
the press, which spreads a mistaken impression that they will
generally be safe and spills will be unlikely.


feed_id: b8ec8a832ccb216a10d7a5b16d46ca8e
title: Criticizing Egypt
uri: 2017-05-30-Criticizing-Egypt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#29_May_2017_%28Criticizing_Egypt%29
content:
<p>

Egypt has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/25/egypt-blocks-access-news-websites-al-jazeera-mada-masr-press-freedom">
blocked</a>
more foreign news sites, saying they publish lies.
<p>
"Lies" is Egyptian for "criticizing the state".


feed_id: 8ab961430274cf43e9e72a72ced62c99
title: Urgent: Reject troll's budget
uri: 2017-05-31-Urgent-Reject-troll-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Reject_trolls_budget%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=3005">call
on your congresscritter</a> to reject the troll's budget.


feed_id: ab463d540f800a330f5fc246cd1b0d62
title: Urgent: Financial transaction tax
uri: Urgent-Financial-transaction-tax
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Financial_transaction_tax%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.defazioforcongress.org/petition/main-street-first/e/">Support</a>
the financial transaction tax.


feed_id: 44966809e409dd6de697d46a211f90ec
title: US businesses often cheat low-wage workers
uri: US-businesses-often-cheat-low-wage-workers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28US_businesses_often_cheat_low-wage_workers%29

content:
<p>
US businesses 
<a href="http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/20147/new_study_finds_more_sweatshops_than_starbucks_in_chicago">often
cheat low-wage workers</a>, and retaliate with blacklisting, threat of
prosecution or deportation, even violence against workers that
complain.


feed_id: 3ab6056d1febb59962636aa6c4a32669
title: Bigotry camouflaged in irony and humor
uri: Bigotry-camouflaged-in-irony-and-humor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Bigotry_camouflaged_in_irony_and_humor%29

content:
<p>
Right-wing bigots have adopted a camouflage of irony and humor.  It
enables them to make bigotry seem normal while
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/23/alt-right-online-humor-as-a-weapon-facism">recruiting
support in a deniable way</a>.
<p>
The author recommends treating anyone that jokes about support for
bigotry as a serious supporter regardless of denials.
<p>
Another method that some clever people might be able to apply is to
inject other ideas, not bigoted, into the group.  If they won't admit
they are really bigots, they might have trouble explaining disapproval
of this.  To succeed at that would take skill, and I doubt I could
pull it off, but a group of clever progressives might get somewhere.


feed_id: a73d8461b96cf9cd07620b6b507432bd
title: White racism in the US
uri: White-racism-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28White_racism_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
White racism in the US is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/24/lynching-threats-mississippi-racism-richard-collins">ready
for murder once again</a>, with encouragement from the troll and his
saboteurs.


feed_id: dbc24cf50641fbaffb0e5fb6c7b937ad
title: Troll wants to cut food stamps
uri: Troll-wants-to-cut-food-stamps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Troll_wants_to_cut_food_stamps%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-budget-food-stamp-cut-7c612489fe9e">wants
to cut food stamps by 25%</a>, and dump another 20% of the cost on
states.
<p>
When states can't pay that, the result might be no food stamps for
some people in that state.  This could serve a an indirect excuse for
even bigger cuts.
<p>
If that's not bad enough, new fees would be imposed to discourage
small stores from accepting food stamp payments.


feed_id: 039b759f202b140d5bc7a3bb8838b7f9
title: Responding to loss
uri: Responding-to-loss
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Responding_to_loss%29
content:
<p>
Don't respond to loss by avoiding 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/24/survivor-bataclan-manchester-attack">things
you love that remind you of the loss</a>.


feed_id: 5b6567942f7c714714831e4109a4a55c
title: Troll admires death squad campaign
uri: Troll-admires-death-squad-campaign
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Troll_admires_death_squad_campaign%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> stated 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/24/lindsey-graham-on-trump-ally-rodrigo-duterte-this-is-not-a-guy-we-want-to-empower/">admiration
for Do-dirty's death squad campaign</a>.


feed_id: 20b9ae7e8f034cedbd14b89b50f8ce42
title: Cable company lobbyists' script
uri: Cable-company-lobbyists-script
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Cable_company_lobbyists_script%29
content:
<p>
Republicans opposing net neutrality are 
<a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2017/05/13248/cable-industry-lobbyists-write-republican-talking-points-net-neutrality">using
a script written by cable company lobbyists</a>.


feed_id: 3558b9ebb37d49b546a3fcca249b9626
title: Court victory for EFF in NSA snooping case
uri: Court-victory-for-EFF-in-NSA-snooping-case
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Court_victory_for_EFF_in_NSA_snooping_case%29

content:
<p>
A court victory for the EFF: the NSA is 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/judge-orders-government-provide-evidence-about-internet-backbone-upstream">required
to give surveillance plaintiffs all the necessary evidence</a> to
determine whether they personally have been snooped on.


feed_id: f5834852a743c73d8ec93c2e5b3111de
title: Troll wants polluters' advocate in charge
uri: Troll-wants-polluters-advocate-in-charge
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Troll_wants_polluters_advocate_in_charge%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> wants to put a polluters' advocate in charge of
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/24/donald-trumps-pick-for-epa-enforcement-office-was-a-lobbyist-for-superfund-polluters/">administering
the Superfund for cleaning up polluted industrial sites</a>.
<p>
The Superfund problem, like so many others, can be traced to letting
businesses get out of paying taxes.
<p>
Hoosick Falls should have a local newspaper called "Hoosick Today?"


feed_id: 0b89d4c149fed796d65c2bfc8a3236d8
title: Right-wing and Islamist bigotry
uri: Right-wing-and-Islamist-bigotry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Right-wing_and_Islamist_bigotry%29
content:
<p>
A group of nazis in Florida were planning to explode a bomb to spread
radioactive material.  Then one of them converted to Islam and 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/22/1665099/-Nazi-FL-National-Guard-member-arrested-in-bomb-plot">murdered
two others</a>.
<p>
It is interesting to see how close right-wing bigotry is to Islamist
bigotry.


feed_id: d2981ee494f02da2d4184bbb588ba36d
title: Automation
uri: 2017-05-31-Automation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Automation%29
content:
<p>
Automation 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/may/24/are-we-about-to-witness-the-most-unequal-societies-in-history-yuval-noah-harari">threatens
to divide humanity</a> into the enhanced elite and the impoverished
masses.
<p>
The progressive movement fights against the continued advance in that
direction.  Please join in.


feed_id: 83c3ab7ad9d9942130caa41ae97bb5c9
title: Same-sex marriage in Taiwan
uri: Same-sex-marriage-in-Taiwan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Same-sex_marriage_in_Taiwan%29
content:
<p>
Taiwan's highest court has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/24/taiwans-top-court-rules-in-favour-of-same-sex-marriage">ordered
the legalization</a> of same-sex marriage.


feed_id: b35e26c1abca592425c4e4cf727fb698
title: Population growth
uri: 2017-05-31-Population-growth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Population_growth%29
content:
<p>
China has brought its birth rate down, and some say 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/24/india-is-worlds-most-populous-nation-with-132bn-people-academic-claims">India
now holds the shame</a> of being the world's most populous country.
<p>
Unfortunately, those fools claim that population increase is a good
thing and China should produce more babies.


feed_id: 8e732f0be2be4f0d03e31902641f719d
title: Global heating threatens large whales
uri: Global-heating-threatens-large-whales
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Global_heating_threatens_large_whales%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#global heating">Global heating</a> could cause changes in ocean circulation which would
eventually
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/24/whales-large-food-distribution-ocean">wipe
out large whales</a>.


feed_id: 3cba4ac1c7760912059c37f390034e17
title: Thug body camera face recognition
uri: Thug-body-camera-face-recognition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Thug_body_camera_face_recognition%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170512/11400137349/yet-another-bad-idea-dropping-facial-recognition-software-into-police-body-cameras.shtml">Software
is being developed</a> to let thugs use body cameras to identify the
faces of everyone their bodies point at.
<p>
They should not be allowed to have this capability without limits.


feed_id: beb12a9893270cac3b2c5309172ef303
title: Armenian film faces harassment
uri: Armenian-film-faces-harassment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Armenian_film_faces_harassment%29
content:
<p>
A film made by Armenians depicting the genocide of the Armenians faces
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/22/internet-wont-let-armenia-go-away">organized
harassment and business sabotage</a>.


feed_id: 77951ef90a9ff907370d6999cbcf338a
title: Gifts in exchange for votes
uri: Gifts-in-exchange-for-votes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Gifts_in_exchange_for_votes%29
content:
<p>
One 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/22/calling-end-corruption-23-arrested-pennsylvania-state-capitol">Pennsylvania
legislator</a> defends to the bitter end his right to receive gifts in
exchange for votes.


feed_id: 98370b59c67dcea96dfe83f1d1abc259
title: Homeless UK schoolteachers
uri: Homeless-UK-schoolteachers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Homeless_UK_schoolteachers%29
content:
<p>
In the UK even schoolteachers are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/may/23/homeless-teachers-ashamed-housing-crisis-professionals">in
danger of living on the streets</a>.
<p>
This is due to Tory policies that have 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#24_April_2015_(Right_to_Buy)">eliminated
public housing</a> and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#18_May_2017_(Cost_of_rent_in_the_UK)">driven
rents up</a>.  Meanwhile, Tory dooH niboR policies squeeze them from
the other side.


feed_id: c064178bac9dff27e424f7ad0b55233c
title: Troll's budget plan
uri: Troll-s-budget-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Trolls_budget_plan%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s budget plan, for ten years, "sacrifices
public health, environmental protection, reproductive rights,
international aid, social safety nets, farm subsidies, the arts,
student aid, and public education" 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/23/resurrecting-gilded-age-trump-budget-sacrifices-all-military-and-ultra-rich
">for military and the rich</a>.
<p>
It 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/05/22/trump-budget-seeks-huge-cuts-to-disease-prevention-and-medical-research-departments/">cuts
scientific research drastically</a>.


feed_id: 87b0f2bf565bdb0093e5a0ed009132f5
title: War on civilians
uri: 2017-05-31-War-on-civilians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28War_on_civilians%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/26/intensifying-cycle-violence-us-strikes-kill-scores-more-syrian-children-civilians">
The US and its allies in Syria have agreed to cover up the civilian
casualties they cause.
</a>
These casualties are increasing.
<p>
Keep in mind that <a href="/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a> conscripts local men, often as soldiers.  As                                  soldiers, they are legitimate targets in war, but their relatives
should not be.  In any case, making war on civilians is terrorism, and
the US must not engage in terrorism.
<p>
The <a href="/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a>-controlled area of Syria, including Raqqa, is a battle zone.                                There is no way assure safety for civilians in a battle zone.  But the
US has an obligation, morally and by treaty, to make strong efforts to
avoid civilian casualties.  Covering them up is reprehensible.
<p>
If Congress were doing its job, it would require honesty and protection
of civilians as a condition for authorizing the war.


feed_id: 621d18e33c1fc9e89abdb0de046e59fc
title: Tracking the troll's payments
uri: 2017-05-31-Tracking-the-troll-s-payments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Tracking_the_troll%27s_payments_%29
content:
<p>
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> says it would be too hard to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/25/trump-empire-claims-tracking-payments-too-hard-watchdogs-say-too-bad">
keep track of whether he's
getting money from foreign interests
</a>
through his business.
                                                                                                      This means he must truly divest from his business.


feed_id: ec5b35b937950734aa3f87dddbd22a06
title: Libyan crises
uri: 2017-05-31-Libyan-crises
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_%28Libyan_crises%29
content:
<p>
In Libya, the failed state that resulted from the ouster of Qadhafi
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/27/how-libyan-crises-could-fuel-islamic-extremism">
opened up room for <a href="/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a> to recruit people angry at the state of their
country.
</a>
<p>
It wasn't exactly the fault of the US/European intervention,
but anger at other US/European interventions gave Islamist extremism
the force to succeed in recruiting some of the disaffected.


feed_id: 9334ed1231712ecd749203a564e91f65
title: Grad student cleared
uri: Grad-student-cleared
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Grad_student_cleared%29
content:
<p>

A 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170524/16434237449/colombian-grad-student-finally-cleared-criminal-charges-posting-academic-article-online.shtml">Colombian grad student was finally cleared of criminal charges</a>
 for posting an academic article online.
<p>
All scholarly articles 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-vs-community.html">should be free.</a>


feed_id: 8232df845397d87facd3e2c3133fd96f
title: Accepting surveillance
uri: Accepting-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Accepting_surveillance%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://theconversation.com/how-gaming-in-the-classroom-prepares-children-for-life-in-a-surveillance-state-77287">The latest fashion in education</a>
 is total monitoring of children
to teach them to accept total surveillance when they grow up.


feed_id: 372d95594c54ae16bb81599b28fab70f
title: EPA Science Office
uri: EPA-Science-Office
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28EPA_Science_Office%29
content:
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s saboteurs love science, but they want to 
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-anti-science-seeks-to-slash-epa-science-office">gut the EPA Science Office.</a>


feed_id: f1b3dc37a66feae1f156cf8ebe321055
title: Gianforte attack
uri: Gianforte-attack
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Gianforte_attack%29
content:
<p>

Gianforte's attack on a journalist 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/27/greg-gianforte-ben-jacobs-media-donald-trump-journalism-montana">has unleashed the inner Republican spirit:</a>
 violent hatred of whoever gets in their way.  Republican politicians are
encouraging it.
<p>
I can see this leading to a wave of terrorism.


feed_id: d90d14d751d038f7f175a23645212037
title: Hunger strike ended
uri: Hunger-strike-ended
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Hunger_strike_ended%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/27/mass-palestinian-hunger-strike-israel-ends">Palestinian prisoners have ended their hunger strike</a>
 in exchange for an Israeli concession about family visits.
<p>
The article fails to mention that many of these prisoners are not
serving sentences imposed after conviction for a crime.  They were
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2016-may-aug.html#5_August_2016_(Palestinian_prisoners_of_Israel,_on_hunger_strike.)">imprisoned arbitrarily without trial.</a>


feed_id: 74f589ca44a62fb41f50d2e48fb89cd6
title: German censorship law
uri: German-censorship-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#31_May_2017_%28German_censorship_law%29
content:
<p>

A German draft law would 
<a href="https://edri.org/eu-action-needed-german-netzdg-draft-threatens-freedomofexpression/">require social network companies to do censorship,</a>
 deleting many sorts of works that are considered
deplorable.


feed_id: c3e7c54acd01b2a93b53cff4a4884d6f
title: Tax refunds from UK?
uri: Tax-refunds-from-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#31_May_2017_%28Tax_refunds_from_UK%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/26/uk-billion-corporate-tax-refund-uk-european-law">Multinational companies have found a screw in EU treaties</a>
 that would enable them to claim back around $80 billion in taxes that
they paid in the UK many years ago.
<p>
Maybe exiting the EU will enable the UK to refuse to ever pay them.


feed_id: b6020e47e73be9d1db8398173259d0a7
title: Hope in Ecuador
uri: Hope-in-Ecuador
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#31_May_2017_%28Hope_in_Ecuador%29
content:
<p>

There are hopes that Ecuador's new president will reduce Correa's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/29/ecuador-journalists-lenin-moreno-correa-press-freedom">practice of prosecuting</a>
 journalists and leakers.


feed_id: d03e68af97aec5ddbf51e3b22b20ac97
title: Mental Illness
uri: Mental-Illness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#31_May_2017_%28Mental_Illness%29
content:
<p>

What if 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/29/help-mental-illness-easy-as-dentist">getting help for mental illness</a>
 were as easy as going to the dentist?


feed_id: 3b7470855c792bffa89e2e093ab2f6cd
title: Failed war on drugs
uri: Failed-war-on-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#31_May_2017_%28Failed_war_on_drugs%29
content:
<p>

The "war on drugs" is a failure world wide, but even worse, it accustoms the
world to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/29/war-on-drugs-philippines-rodrigo-duterte-extrajudicial-killings">massive murder.</a>


feed_id: 5018c1c1fb583a7ef4a6c40e712bfe64
title: Urgent: Take no fossil fuel money
uri: Urgent-Take-no-fossil-fuel-money
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Take_no_fossil_fuel_money%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://act.climatehawksvote.com/no_dirty_money">call on
candidates</a> to pledge to take no fossil fuel money.


feed_id: 731e89b142b689085e38b7274cf22aff
title: Urgent: Keep Gianforte out
uri: Urgent-Keep-Gianforte-out
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Keep_Gianforte_out%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/gianforte_ryan">call on Paul
Ryan</a> to keep Gianforte out of the House of Representatives.


feed_id: fe23b6246d1c49298aa4ec6028dd1957
title: Urgent: Preserve US national monuments
uri: Urgent-Preserve-US-national-monuments
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Preserve_US_national_monuments%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/national_monuments">call on
the Department</a> of the Interior to preserve all US national
monuments.


feed_id: 7719c3ad9261ba5b0454d59e59f4c77e
title: Urgent: No arms sales to Salafi Arabia
uri: Urgent-No-arms-sales-to-Salafi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_No_arms_sales_to_Salafi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-us-from-selling-more-weapons-to-saudi-arabia">call
on Congress</a> to block arms sales to Salafi Arabia.


feed_id: 8bb7abd1eaecf984ad9abeb8e36ef4e0
title: Urgent: Oppose voter suppression commission
uri: Urgent-Oppose-voter-suppression-commission
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_voter_suppression_commission%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Voter_Suppression_Commission">call
on Democrats</a> to refuse to lend legitimacy to the troll's proposed
voter suppression commission.


feed_id: 84110e22ab3bf49038ebc0c0a92040c9
title: Prohibit pressuring witnesses for sex
uri: Prohibit-pressuring-witnesses-for-sex
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Prohibit_pressuring_witnesses_for_sex%29

content:
<p>
Thug unions in Alaska are 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2017/05/25/cops-fight-for-the-right-to-sexually-exp">lobbying
against a law</a> that would prohibit thugs from pressuring suspects,
crime victims and witnesses to have sex with them.
<p>
This law applies to more than just situations where prostitutes face
arrest for prostitution.  Anyone who is attractive and facing arrest
by a thug is vulnerable to being forced into prostitution by the thug.


feed_id: 0bcdaa0bc9b4c5c79f8800b243332533
title: US infrastructure
uri: US-infrastructure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28US_infrastructure%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> might be planning to 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/27/trumps-america-first-infrastructure-plan-let-saudi-arabia-and-blackstone-take-care-of-it/">privatize
US infrastructure and sell it to Salafi Arabia</a>.


feed_id: a193951b819f4c2fa3b08aed6c8562b9
title: Veterans for Peace
uri: Veterans-for-Peace
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Veterans_for_Peace%29
content:
<p>
Veterans for Peace will rallied on Memorial Day to move 
<a href="http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/on-memorial-day-the-veterans-for-peace-rally-against-war-and-state-violence">beyond
remembering war dead</a>.  Their idea is to reduce the number of
future war dead.


feed_id: 9bcb6aadc6df86d15001fcb97104a689
title: Uruguay legalizes marijuana
uri: Uruguay-legalizes-marijuana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Uruguay_legalizes_marijuana%29
content:
<p>
Uruguay has legalized marijuana, but for those who 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/27/marijuana-legalisation-uruguay-seen-half-measure-users">register
for a license to buy or grow it</a>.
<p>
That adds up to a government registry that could prove dangerous, and
in any case is unjustified surveillance.


feed_id: 753ccb8a2817af5333793fcc3a6ed3b8
title: Making people work until age 70
uri: Making-people-work-until-age-70
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Making_people_work_until_age_70%29
content:
<p>
Making people work until age 70 could be acceptable, but 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/28/work-until-you-drop-or-be-called-an-ageing-skiver">what
about when their pay isn't enough to live on, or they are
disabled</a>?


feed_id: c5ba59fd42ce28cb94b625d586ada9ab
title: Foreign aid
uri: 2017-06-02-Foreign-aid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Foreign_aid%29
content:
<p>
Most of the world's major states give little foreign aid.  The one
permanent doctor in Sudan's Nuba mountains 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/27/doctor-in-sudan-foreign-aid-saves-lives">explains
the situation</a> there.
<p>
Most of the world's major states give little foreign aid.
With so many rich people and companies demanding tax cuts, little is
left for starving people far away.


feed_id: f26f8303d7b9b89b0b6b57bf2c74f13d
title: Food stamps
uri: 2017-06-02-Food-stamps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Food_stamps%29
content:
<p>
Food Stamps: A Lifeline for America's Poor That Trump 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/28/food-stamps-lifeline-trump-america">Wants
to Cut</a>.


feed_id: d5f26ef03e134a840c043fe401ce9471
title: Mainstream media
uri: Mainstream-media
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Mainstream_media%29
content:
<p>
A few right-wing hate spreaders have been kicked off mainstream media
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/28/right-wing-provocateurs-silenced-cry-me-a-river">by
the hand of the increased corporate power they have fought to make
possible</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, progressives remain excluded from the mainstream media.
Tens of millions of Americans want single-payer medical care, and each
one thinks, "I must be the only one.  Am I a an extremist?"


feed_id: e24bffde31dee81e7cffbaf354f9122b
title: Misdirection by troll
uri: Misdirection-by-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Misdirection_by_troll%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s bizarre antics are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/28/donald-trumps-embarrassing-gaffes-potent-political-good-distraction">very
effective distraction</a>.  Keep an eye on the Republicans' other
hands!


feed_id: 5a6796effb52134b9d15987ebcb4c66d
title: Face recognition
uri: 2017-06-02-Face-recognition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Face_recognition%29
content:
<p>
Joy Buolamwini thinks it is an injustice that face recognition 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/28/joy-buolamwini-when-algorithms-are-racist-facial-recognition-bias">works
better on white faces than on black faces</a>.
<p>
I agree; but I am puzzled that she wants to make it recognize black
faces better.  I think that's backwards.  It should recognize white
faces just as badly as black faces.


feed_id: e5b8ba14635ad53bb269ba8359da3184
title: Tories' use of sensitive personal data
uri: Tories-use-of-sensitive-personal-data
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Tories_use_of_sensitive_personal_data%29

content:
<p>
The Tories are refusing to talk about their use of sensitive personal
data, which 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/27/kinnock-calls-investigation-tory-voter-data">appears
possibly to be illegal</a>.


feed_id: ea595e2a521426c7a601b06384bf8241
title: Egypt's response to terrorist attacks
uri: Egypt-s-response-to-terrorist-attacks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Egypts_response_to_terrorist_attacks%29

content:
<p>
Islamist terrorists attacked civilians for being Christians.
Christians say the Egyptian government was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/28/coptic-christians-accuse-egypt-government">not
very interested in investigating</a>.
<p>
It did use the opportunity to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/27/egypt-hits-libyan-terror-camps-again-after-attack-kills-29-copts">bomb
terrorist camps in Libya</a>.  But they belong to a different group.


feed_id: 666321bf0bcabfa8c5ed03879bb33015
title: UK lobbying against energy efficiency measures
uri: UK-lobbying-against-energy-efficiency-measures
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28UK_lobbying_against_energy_efficiency_measures%29

content:
<p>
The UK is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/28/uk-presses-europe-to-dilute-flagship-energy-efficiency-law">lobbying
to undermine EU-wide energy efficiency measures</a> which would take
effect after the UK has left the EU.
<p>
This shows that the motive must be sabotage — of civilization's
hope of surviving global heating disaster.
<p>
The way to deal with possible price increases from electricity
suppliers is to pre-empt them with a carbon tax.  If they get windfall
profits anyway, apply a windfall profits tax.  This money can be used
to solve other social problems.


feed_id: 1afe5ab963ae8ee50a5d5e71804fb752
title: Troll's War on Journalism
uri: Troll-s-War-on-Journalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Trolls_War_on_Journalism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s repeatedly announced War on Journalism 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/28/donald-trumps-war-on-journalism-has-begun-but-journalists-are-not-his-main-target/">targets
journalists, but especially leakers</a>.


feed_id: 7b3c295aaeb6d2683bdf108a7908cd2e
title: Thug harassment of Blacks in small cities
uri: Thug-harassment-of-Blacks-in-small-cities
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Thug_harassment_of_Blacks_in_small_cities%29

content:
<p>
Blacks moving to America's small cities face 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/22/1664984/-Amid-white-racial-anxiety-in-the-suburbs-police-let-blacks-know-that-they-are-not-welcome">systematic
harassment by thugs</a>.  The previous inhabitants, nearly all whites,
suppose (falsely) that crime is going up and they blame it on the
blacks who are moving in.


feed_id: 2fed6f79c9db8e4a20631e83fda1a87c
title: Warren and hearing aids
uri: Warren-and-hearing-aids
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Warren_and_hearing_aids%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/30/gun-rights-group-takes-a-shot-at-elizabeth-warren-over-effort-to-make-hearing-aids-cheaper/">US gun nuts oppose a bill</a>

 to make hearing aids cheaper simply because Senator Warren supports
it.


feed_id: 8af25c755dad1e2531a3e67abe0ed85b
title: Right-wing terrorism
uri: Right-wing-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Right-wing_terrorism%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/30/donald-trump-portland-attack-not-blameless-white-supremacists">The troll conspicuously refuses to denounce right-wing terrorist murderers,</a>
 while other Republicans call for using armed militias for "security".
<p>
Moderate Muslims have a duty to campaign against Islamist terrorism.
Likewise, moderate right-wingers have a duty to campaign against
right-wing terrorism. It's the same situation, and the same duty.


feed_id: 011cfb9781b15dd6ff9e705f55f88f64
title: Corbyn on Labour policy
uri: Corbyn-on-Labour-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Corbyn_on_Labour_policy%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/29/im-no-dictator-jeremy-corbyn-tells-paxman-in-election-interview">Corbyn defended Labour policies well</a>
 in a pseudo-debate, and clearly rejected Tory austerity.
<p>
It is disappointing that Labour does not intend to undo all the Tory
cuts in aid for the poor and disabled, but stating opposition to austerity
is the first step.


feed_id: d253369e741f731b828902ab7dcc51d5
title: Legislator shooting threat
uri: Legislator-shooting-threat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Legislator_shooting_threat%29
content:
<p>

A Texas Republican legislator 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/29/hundreds-pro-sanctuary-cities-protesters-texas-house">threatened to shoot</a>
 a Democratic legislator.
<p>
I am not surprised.


feed_id: 15ebc179868e276903ca4b9e4f6fbf05
title: Trump uniting Europe
uri: Trump-uniting-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Trump_uniting_Europe%29
content:
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> can unite Europe — 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/29/donald-trump-uniting-europe-eu">against his contempt.</a>


feed_id: 1985a12f007ce1a787274a80d9be787b
title: Carbon tax
uri: 2017-06-02-Carbon-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Carbon_tax%29
content:
<p>

To carry out the Paris climate agreement, we need a carbon tax, and it
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/29/sky-high-carbon-tax-needed-to-avoid-catastrophic-global-warming-say-experts">has to be preplanned to become quite high.</a>
<p>
However, the Paris climate agreement is 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_April_2016_(Paris_climate_agreement)">insufficient.</a>
<p>
Therefore, to avoid global heating disaster, the tax must be even
higher.


feed_id: a4d821373d687fd370267ec235cb6667
title: NAFTA revisited
uri: NAFTA-revisited
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28NAFTA_revisited%29
content:
<p>

Renegotiation of NAFTA would be 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/28/new-nafta-must-put-people-and-planet-first">an opportunity to make it somewhat less bad,</a>
 by eliminating the option for companies to sue national governments.
<p>
However, it would still be bad for the US (industry moves to Mexico)
and for Mexico (peasants can't make a living).


feed_id: 79106fda89fc4a6180183eb6abf2233c
title: Targeting youth with ads
uri: Targeting-youth-with-ads
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Targeting_youth_with_ads%29
content:
<p>

<a href="http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/leaked-document-reveals-facebook-conducted-research-to-target-emotionally-vulnerable-and-insecure-youth/news-story/d256f850be6b1c8a21aec6e32dae16fd">Facebook developed algorithms</a>
 to detect teenagers that are in a vulnerable or susceptible state, to
target them with ads.


feed_id: fe9680c5707aeb810e74b49108796feb
title: Bigger wine glasses
uri: Bigger-wine-glasses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Bigger_wine_glasses%29
content:
<p>

Restaurants are using bigger wine glasses, 
which 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/28/bigger-wine-glasses-make-us-drink-too-much-says-researcher">leads many people to drink more wine and get drunk.</a>


feed_id: 576f15b776151024a7c5627ce35f6a15
title: Defending Dontcare
uri: Defending-Dontcare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Defending_Dontcare%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/27/three-strategies-defend-gop-health-bill-euphemisms-false-statements-and-deleted">How SCROTUS defends the Dontcare bill:</a>
 falsehoods, euphemisms, and deleting criticism.


feed_id: cc6f076fce4822fe5c4f07e7c6fa7c8f
title: Urgent: Call the troll
uri: Urgent-Call-the-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Call_the_troll%29
content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://www.nrdconline.org/site/R?i=lnaSLcXIHig5fkaF1P5OzA">call on the troll and other officials to respect the
Paris climate agreement.</a>

It's not enough to prevent disaster, but it may make the disaster
somewhat smaller and buy time to take further action.  To get rid
of it would be an act of reckless mass murder.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard
     numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: 1f9b9805c7a8091228e414116f064ada
title: US government can't escape debt
uri: US-government-can-t-escape-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28US_government_can%27t_escape_debt%29
content:
<p>
Even US government officials 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/01/elizabeth-warren-debt-collection-call-sheila-bair-fcc/">can't escape persistent debt collectors who
harass them</a>
about debts owed by someone else.


feed_id: c1627402b89b4d26f9817607b81b108d
title: UK make refugees leave by starving them
uri: UK-make-refugees-leave-by-starving-them
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28UK_make_refugees_leave_by_starving_them%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2017/may/31/government-starve-refugees-out-of-uk-poverty">The UK is trying to make refugees leave by starving them.</a>


feed_id: 433848ef53ad2bbea3792ee0b9c6433e
title: Right-wing terrorism boost
uri: Right-wing-terrorism-boost
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Right-wing_terrorism_boost%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has given right-wing terrorism a big boost. They use some of the same methods 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/31/portland-train-stabbing-racial-violence-trump-america">that Islamist terrorists use,</a>
 so I expect they will copy the other methods as well.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/31/ice-agents-out-of-control-immigration-arrests">He has likewise lead immigration thugs to seek the outer limits in cruelty,</a>
while also trying to cut off legal aid to those they have arrested.
<p>
The thugs are killing the woman with the brain tumor.  They probably
gloat about that.
<p>
Once the troll has built up high pressure cruelty, it won't be limited
to unauthorized immigrants.  He will direct it at US citizens too.
The first targets may be blacks, but it won't stop there either.


feed_id: 3b2a859958183ba672d8b54af01a682f
title: Kansas Republicans harass women
uri: Kansas-Republicans-harass-women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Kansas_Republicans_harass_women%29
content:
<p>
Kansas Republicans 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/30/restrict-abortion-access-even-further-kansas-says-font-size-matters">require
women to sign a form printed in fairly small print</a> in order to get
an abortion, apparently just to harass them.


feed_id: 61d87afc7f9e2517395df0c5b4c6ba01
title: Oligarchic rule in the US
uri: Oligarchic-rule-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Oligarchic_rule_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Sanders: Americans, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/30/come-together-and-fight-oligarchy-declares-sanders-stirring-commencement">unite
to free our country from oligarchic rule</a>.


feed_id: 9e6e2c6ab39afa9b9de4da138c279e8c
title: Troll threatened by investigation
uri: Troll-threatened-by-investigation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Troll_threatened_by_investigation%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> feels threatened by the investigation of Russian ties, so he
and his staff now 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/31/donald-trump-russia-investigation-sean-spicer-no-questions">refuse
to answer any questions about the issue</a>.
<p>
No country should be saddled with a president that clams up because of
an investigation of possible crimes.  He should resign, and then we
will have no objection when he exercises his right not to incriminate
himself.


feed_id: 96dbce15bb7144b4acdc57222fd42b2d
title: Clearing of land in Australia
uri: Clearing-of-land-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Clearing_of_land_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Australia 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/01/ending-land-clearing-by-2030-equivalent-to-complete-shift-to-renewables-analysis-finds">must
put an end to clearing of land</a> in order to cut greenhouse gas
emissions.
<p>
Since rising temperatures are increasing many natural CO<sub>2</sub>
emissions, we need to cut human emissions enough to get ahead of the
game.


feed_id: 06ae2849c50aec36147e1d9ef0ded883
title: Asylum seeker dies walking into Canada
uri: Asylum-seeker-dies-walking-into-Canada
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Asylum_seeker_dies_walking_into_Canada%29

content:
<p>
A woman died walking into Canada 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/31/canada-asylum-seeker-dead-us-border">before
she could reach Canadian officials to ask for asylum</a>.
<p>
The article is misleading when it says that Canadian thugs "intercept"
these people.  They do not want to live in Canada secretly.  Once
across the border, they 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#11_February_2017_(Canadian_border)">seek
out officials to apply for asylum</a>.


feed_id: a90493bc030c8f1b2c1637dfedccb85c
title: NY City thug faces murder charges
uri: NY-City-thug-faces-murder-charges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28NY_City_thug_faces_murder_charges%29
content:
<p>
A New York City thug faces murder charges for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/31/nypd-police-shooting-hugh-barry-deborah-danner">shooting
a schizophrenic woman in her own home</a>.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> are supposed to know how to subdue people without killing them.


feed_id: cb303196f931394194f821f2e32f0f12
title: Harassment from debt collectors
uri: Harassment-from-debt-collectors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Harassment_from_debt_collectors%29
content:
<p>
Even US government officials can't escape 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/01/elizabeth-warren-debt-collection-call-sheila-bair-fcc/">persistent
debt collectors who harass them</a> about debts owed by someone else.


feed_id: 70f6814f1729533e2651cfa17d091d15
title: UK starves unauthorized immigrants
uri: UK-starves-unauthorized-immigrants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28UK_starves_unauthorized_immigrants%29

content:
<p>
The UK is trying to make unauthorized immigrants leave by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2017/may/31/government-starve-refugees-out-of-uk-poverty">starving
them</a>.


feed_id: 70e6358be47e0ba626834853734e6c3d
title: Big boost to right-wing terrorism
uri: Big-boost-to-right-wing-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Big_boost_to_right-wing_terrorism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has given right-wing terrorism a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/31/portland-train-stabbing-racial-violence-trump-america">big
boost</a>.
<p>
They use some of the same methods that Islamist terrorists use,
so I expect they will copy the other methods as well.
<p>
He has likewise led immigration thugs to seek the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/31/ice-agents-out-of-control-immigration-arrests">outer
limits in cruelty</a>, while also trying to cut off legal aid to those
they have arrested.
<p>
The thugs are killing the woman with the brain tumor.  They probably
gloat about that.
<p>
Once the troll has built up high pressure cruelty, it won't be limited
to unauthorized immigrants.  He will direct it at US citizens too.
The first targets may be blacks, but it won't stop there either.


feed_id: 1791942f4332a57b1c52034e714f4e37
title: Protections for US public lands
uri: Protections-for-US-public-lands
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Protections_for_US_public_lands%29
content:
<p>
With Trump, A 
<a href="http://e360.yale.edu/features/with-trump-a-full-scale-assault-on-protections-for-u-s-public-lands">Full-Scale
Assault on Protections</a> for U.S. Public Lands.


feed_id: d968995db9f61bce764d423cc184094d
title: Patents on ink cartridges
uri: Patents-on-ink-cartridges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Patents_on_ink_cartridges%29
content:
<p>
The US Supreme Court 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170530/10152837476/strike-three-lexmark-cant-use-patents-trademarks-copyright-to-block-third-party-ink-cartridges.shtml">ruled
against trying to use patents on ink cartridges to stop independent
commercial refilling operations</a>.
<p>
The article falls into a common confusion when it describes copyright
law, patent law and trademark law as 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">"intellectual
property"</a>.  Those laws are totally different, and trying to
generalize about even two of them will surely lead you to false
conclusions.


feed_id: 22409827baf8f4f872ebdcd5d0351f81
title: The TSA
uri: 2017-06-03-The-TSA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28The_TSA%29
content:
<p>
The Theater of Security Agency 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170528/12262037470/dhs-tsa-to-make-boarding-plane-even-more-pain-ass.shtml">plans
a lot more harassment</a> regarding carry-on baggage.


feed_id: 2ff0ee8304fe95b53f29e1cf64953efb
title: Destruction of coral
uri: Destruction-of-coral
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Destruction_of_coral%29
content:
<p>
With global heating threatening to destroy coral entirely,
conservation is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/01/survival-of-coral-reefs-requires-radical-rethink-of-what-conservation-means-say-scientists">forced
to consider a big strategic retreat</a>.  To preserve any coral reefs
at all will be hard enough.


feed_id: 615dba916a0743f4d06f50d407ea316c
title: Low-level drug criminals in federal prison
uri: Low-level-drug-criminals-in-federal-prison
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Low-level_drug_criminals_in_federal_prison%29

content:
<p>
US prosecutors 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/30/federal-prosecutors-say-they-never-see-l">claim
that they never prosecuted any low-level drug criminals, and no such
people have been in federal prison</a>.
<p>
However, Obama found almost 2000 of them and pardoned them.


feed_id: 8c7a1a61f4787040e3f09aa2f905ea83
title: Parents on mobile devices
uri: Parents-on-mobile-devices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Parents_on_mobile_devices%29
content:
<p>
When parents use mobile devices often, they can't pay their children
the attention children need.  It's called "absent presence".  The
result is that the children show bad behavior which reflects
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/31/smartphone-addiction-children-research-technoference-child-behaviour">psychological
harm</a>.


feed_id: c169252cab4db21e4bd955b0f879126e
title: Liberals and middle America
uri: Liberals-and-middle-America
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Liberals_and_middle_America%29
content:
<p>
How Liberals 
<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/05/contempt">lost
touch with middle America</a> and thus lost political power.
<p>
The groups have grown apart so much that they don't know how to relate
to each other, and feel contempt for each other.
<p>
I certainly don't know how to relate to people with the usual tastes
and attitudes.  I can talk myself out of thinking that mine make me
better than them, but I still can't see how to find common social
ground with them.


feed_id: e4f6d2673de598dc719028aa05b40bb0
title: Neoliberalism in the UK
uri: Neoliberalism-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Neoliberalism_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
Most of the UK political parties now say they agree on 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/31/economy-neoliberalism-free-market-economics">replacing
neoliberalism with "an economy that works"</a>.
<p>
I don't think the Tories are serious about it, though.


feed_id: 043bd027ff16444cfeaa2a5e94644ee9
title: Republican Lite Black Americans
uri: Republican-Lite-Black-Americans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Republican_Lite_Black_Americans%29
content:
<p>
Black Americans are less interested in voting for Democrats because
they have become 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/31/democrats-black-voters-granted-abandoned-them">Republican
Lite</a>.
<p>
Although tens of thousands of blacks would probably have voted for
Democrats last year if they hadn't been blocked by 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#11_December_2016_(Democrats)">Republican
voter suppression</a>.


feed_id: 56b02d60c600e56a365d89427835d728
title: Asbestos
uri: Asbestos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Asbestos%29
content:
<p>
Even though asbestos is known to be very dangerous, the US has not
banned it, and the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/31/asbestos-trump-america-public-health-epa">death
rate from asbestos-caused disease continues to rise</a>.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> is trying to make it worse, by denying the danger
and encouraging more use of the poison.
<p>
He is trying to make more Americans sick, while leaving them without
medical care.  That is the cruel way to reduce our population.
Wouldn't it be better to pay for birth control for everyone?


feed_id: ab286c413fc664bd9766c77aeaff81cc
title: Housing policies of main UK parties
uri: Housing-policies-of-main-UK-parties
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Housing_policies_of_main_UK_parties%29

content:
<p>
Comparing the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/31/housing-manifestos-conservatives-labour-lib-dems-homes">housing
policies of the three main UK parties</a>.  The Tories say vaguely
they will break from their cruel past, the Labour policy is much
better but not bold, and the Lib Dems offer interesting ideas.


feed_id: 10e622edf0e06f3ad2fde4333a8b3402
title: Supreme Court overrules way to put check on thugs
uri: Supreme-Court-overrules-way-to-put-check-on-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Supreme_Court_overrules_way_to_put_check_on_thugs%29

content:
<p>
The Supreme Court 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/30/supreme-court-rules-8-0-for-police-in-ma">overruled
one of the few ways citizens had to put a check on thugs</a> that do
illegal searches followed by gross violence.


feed_id: b735e1e0b0713c528ce806b40ff9e9cf
title: The need for food banks in the UK
uri: The-need-for-food-banks-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28The_need_for_food_banks_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
A Tory politician understated the need for food banks, saying it was
for "cashflow problems".  In other words, transient problems.
The manager of a foodbank explains how they are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/30/food-bank-dominic-raab-coventry-foodbank">due
to long-term problems created by Tories</a>.


feed_id: 8d04f6ebe82726c74bd679b7d0998a67
title: "Centrist" Democrats
uri: Centrist-Democrats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Centrist_Democrats%29
content:
<p>
Democrats, stop listening to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/25/democrats-stop-listening-rahm-emanuel">Rahm
Emanuel's right-wing advice</a>.
<p>
"Centrist" Democrats (including Obama as well as Emanuel) are in fact
considerably right wing 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#23_April_2017_(Democratic_Party_centrism)">compared
with the views of most Americans</a> when asked about specific issues.


feed_id: aa892a70c63617f1aa2e1d91f51410ab
title: Dubai envisions "smart city" system
uri: Dubai-envisions-smart-city-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Dubai_envisions_smart_city_system%29
content:
<p>
Dubai envisions a "smart city" system that would 
<a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/dubai-smart-cities-interview">track
everything about everyone</a>.
<p>
This complete data base is suppose to make it possible to ensure
everyone is "happy".  Except those for whom happiness involves having
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#10_February_2014_(Imprisoned_in_Dubai_for_posting_a_humorous_video)">human
rights</a>.


feed_id: f1b1dd3e7b79382055cf1663e5472187
title: Urgent: NAFTA renegotiations
uri: Urgent-NAFTA-renegotiations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_NAFTA_renegotiations%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: Demand that NAFTA renegotiations benefit 
<a href="https://petitions.signforgood.com/ReplaceNAFTA/">working
people, not corporate power</a>.


feed_id: 8e0cadbca58b81649f08be010d28bbab
title: Urgent: Scrutinize Pence
uri: Urgent-Scrutinize-Pence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Scrutinize_Pence%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-pence/">call on the
press</a> to start scrutinizing Pence for inconsistencies and denying
facts.


feed_id: 3bf97dc441b5834bc331b35e457d5ea8
title: Urgent: Paris climate agreement
uri: 2017-06-03-Urgent-Paris-climate-agreement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Paris_climate_agreement%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4269">call
on the troll and other officials</a> to respect the Paris climate
agreement.
<p>
It's not enough to prevent disaster, but it may make the disaster
somewhat smaller and buy time to take further action.  To get rid of
it would be an act of reckless mass murder.
<p>
Also phone te White House switchboard at 202-456-1414 and ask for the
comment line.


feed_id: ec718385233f1ed6866000b1fd9c299b
title: Troll wants tax cut for corporations
uri: Troll-wants-tax-cut-for-corporations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Troll_wants_tax_cut_for_corporations%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> wants to cut taxes on corporations.  Here's how they are
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/30/cut-corporate-taxes-how-biggest-companies-cheated-taxes-2016">dodging
taxes and sabotaging the US</a>.


feed_id: ca8e781819e5c51be65e75101aea2e51
title: Planned Tory cuts to kill people
uri: Planned-Tory-cuts-to-kill-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Planned_Tory_cuts_to_kill_people%29
content:
<p>
UK charities know that planned Tory cuts will kill some of the people
the charities help, but 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/29/charities-gag-law-stops-them-speaking-out-tory-social-care-plans">Tory
laws ban them from talking about this</a>.
<p>
They should do it anyway, defying that law, then openly dare the
Tories to fine them since that money too will be taken from the poor.


feed_id: 38054cfd93815f3a34094335ee446dc4
title: Emissions cheating software in cars
uri: Emissions-cheating-software-in-cars
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Emissions_cheating_software_in_cars%29

content:
<p>
The EU is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/29/eu-moves-to-crack-down-on-carmakers-after-vw-emissions-scandal-monitor-testing-fines">struggling
to put an end to emissions cheating software</a> in cars.


feed_id: 887842486fff3044bc039fdc1e98b41a
title: The Democratic Party
uri: 2017-06-03-The-Democratic-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28The_Democratic_Party%29
content:
<p>
The Democratic Party establishment 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/29/democratic-party-win-not-being-trump">wants
to continue with Clinton's useless identity-based politics</a>,
instead of taking up the causes that Americans want.


feed_id: b8365ca327828e1958a5b669a33ae09f
title: Indian army commander defends use of human shields
uri: Indian-army-commander-defends-use-of-human-shields
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Indian_army_commander_defends_use_of_human_shields%29

content:
<p>
The commander of the Indian army 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/29/india-army-chief-kashmir-protests-man-tied-to-vehicle">defended
use of human shields</a> in Kashmir.
<p>
How disgusting.
<p>
When India took over the princely state of Kashmir, it promised the
people of Kashmir a referendum on whether to be part of India.
India should give them that referendum.


feed_id: 1cf83f2c1d2978dab69ff6793efd43be
title: Goldman Sachs buys bonds from PDVSA
uri: Goldman-Sachs-buys-bonds-from-PDVSA
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Goldman_Sachs_buys_bonds_from_PDVSA%29

content:
<p>
Goldman Sachs bought Venezuelan bonds for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/30/goldman-sachs-venezuela-bonds">under
1/3 of face value</a>.  (The bonds were issued by PDVSA, which is the
state-owned oil company.)
<p>
Whichever government is in power in the future, it will suffer from
the consequences of this.


feed_id: f32ee147d5bedeebf1bf16636d6408c7
title: Human rights organizations in Egypt
uri: Human-rights-organizations-in-Egypt
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Human_rights_organizations_in_Egypt%29

content:
<p>
Egypt has adopted a law that 
<a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/05/egypt-ngo-law-threatens-to-annihilate-human-rights-groups/">will
make human rights organizations shut down</a> unless they follow the
state's priorities (become useless).


feed_id: 144830639445732ba6d6fc7488829f2c
title: Sale of cows for slaughter in India
uri: Sale-of-cows-for-slaughter-in-India
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Sale_of_cows_for_slaughter_in_India%29

content:
<p>
India's theocratic ruling party is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/30/india-rocked-by-protests-meat-industry-tighter-laws">making
it very hard to sell cows for slaughter</a>.  Especially cattle that
were used as farm work animals.
<p>
There were protests against this in various parts of India, and in one
of them a protester was 
<a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/iit-madras-scholar-beaten-up-for-eating-beef-during-protest/article18653635.ece?homepage=true">attacked
by religious fanatics and seriously injured</a>.


feed_id: 2f3dc4daee5671167b0cbe21fdca5310
title: Global heating and increased urbanization
uri: Global-heating-and-increased-urbanization
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Global_heating_and_increased_urbanization%29

content:
<p>
With global heating plus increased urbanization, many cities could be
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/30/climate-change-could-make-cities-8c-hotter-scientists">8C
hotter by the end of this century</a>.


feed_id: 6e8abbb4ef5aabaa60a3c2d9a7798048
title: US military covers up civilian casualties
uri: US-military-covers-up-civilian-casualties
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28US_military_covers_up_civilian_casualties%29

content:
<p>
The US military continues to cover up 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/29/witnesses-says-us-military-killed-fleeing-yemeni-child-latest-botched-raid">civilian
casualties from bombing raids</a>.
<p>
It's impossible to fight a war and perfectly avoid civilian
casualties.  It is possible to make a real effort to avoid them
— and it is possible to admit them when they happen.


feed_id: 5cbf491127a58bd8adcad90b1b4c449e
title: Redistribution of wealth to the rich
uri: Redistribution-of-wealth-to-the-rich
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Redistribution_of_wealth_to_the_rich%29

content:
<p>
Republicans are in favor of policies that redistribute wealth, as long
as it's 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/29/republicans-are-only-opposed-redistribution-goes-downward">redistributed
to the rich</a>.  But they disguise this redistributive effect behind
some other motive, so that they can pretend to "oppose
redistribution".
<p>
The article sets a bad example in one point: it uses the 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html">propaganda
word "protection" in reference to copyright, and to patents</a>.  A
deeper error in that same point is that it 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">groups copyright and
patents together as if they were similar issues</a>.


feed_id: 0e1bfad278b3f36dd31b95af4d74d57d
title: Religious fanatics
uri: Religious-fanatics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Religious_fanatics%29
content:
<p>
Some US Christians cheer Gianforte's violence and call for a 
<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/dave-daubenmire-america-needs-a-more-violent-christianity/">"more
violent Christianity"</a>.
<p>
Other religious fanatics call for a more violent Islam, and look at
how much harm they have done.  These could do even more.


feed_id: a0792928966233e62cf8b1c12f9f84a6
title: Students refuse photo with Paul Ryan
uri: Students-refuse-photo-with-Paul-Ryan
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Students_refuse_photo_with_Paul_Ryan%29

content:
<p>
200 students on a school trip were invited to give Paul Ryan a photo
op.  Half of them 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/28/one-hundred-eighth-graders-boycott-paul-ryan-photo-op">refused
to participate</a>.
<p>
Bravo!  They are learning what America means.


feed_id: 3e92962efaf183073f4a5a3a7a3f4ac1
title: Crackdown on media in Kenya
uri: Crackdown-on-media-in-Kenya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Crackdown_on_media_in_Kenya%29
content:
<p>
Interview: 
<a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/05/30/interview-crackdown-media-ahead-kenyas-2017-vote">Crackdown
on Media</a> Ahead of Kenya's 2017 Vote.


feed_id: 0995279f5f7dc998e6882d869306577d
title: Destruction of Hawaii's coral reefs
uri: Destruction-of-Hawaii-s-coral-reefs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Destruction_of_Hawaiis_coral_reefs%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#global heating">Global heating</a> is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/30/us-coral-reefs-global-warming-climate-change">destroying
Hawaii's coral reefs</a> despite efforts to protect them.


feed_id: 08820c5a496dba0cafa7dcc39404cbf8
title: Russia more powerful than PISSI
uri: Russia-more-powerful-than-PISSI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Russia_more_powerful_than_PISSI%29
content:
<p>
Russia is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/30/bigger-threat-russia-isis-john-mccain-putin">far
more powerful than PISSI</a>, but Putin is less hostile: his aim is to
secure his authoritarian rule of Russia.


feed_id: 8487f8ffb6d91ab0c3e714c2643706f9
title: Contempt for customers
uri: Contempt-for-customers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#2_June_2017_%28Contempt_for_customers%29
content:
<p>
In today's capitalism, the customer is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/30/ba-failures-customer-heathrow-gatwick-shareholders">beneath
contempt</a>.  What's more, treating other institutions like
businesses (for instance, schools and hospitals) means they treat the
customer with contempt much as businesses do.


feed_id: d52affbde79cbbbf3d83a1f249d46a89
title: Urgent: Oppose voter suppression commission
uri: 2017-06-03-Urgent-Oppose-voter-suppression-commission
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_voter_suppression_commission%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Voter_Suppression_Commission">call
on Democrats</a> to refuse to lend legitimacy to the troll's proposed
voter suppression commission.


feed_id: 096d17c4f57af8f3b9ca2e6996a7f3bb
title: Prohibit pressuring witnesses for sex
uri: 2017-06-03-Prohibit-pressuring-witnesses-for-sex
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#1_June_2017_%28Prohibit_pressuring_witnesses_for_sex%29

content:
<p>
Thug unions in Alaska are 
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2017/05/25/cops-fight-for-the-right-to-sexually-exp">lobbying
against a law</a> that would prohibit thugs from pressuring suspects,
crime victims and witnesses to have sex with them.
<p>
This law applies to more than just situations where prostitutes face
arrest for prostitution.  Anyone who is attractive and facing arrest
by a thug is vulnerable to being forced into prostitution by the thug.


feed_id: 7bf78cc09df2e21d0350dbf8c402b958
title: Welfare cuts
uri: Welfare-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Welfare_cuts%29
content:
<p>
Disappointingly, Labour would continue with almost 80% of the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/20/labour-manifesto-keep-planned-tory-benefit-cuts-resolution-foundation">further
welfare cuts that the Tories have planned</a>.


feed_id: c603a7fb80051428a1521d06d3a6e9bd
title: Chromebooks
uri: Chromebooks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Chromebooks%29
content:
<p>
EFF: <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/eff-says-google-chromebooks-are-still-spying-on-students-515015.shtml">Chromebooks are still spying on students</a>.
<p>
I don't think Google — or any other company &dmash; should be allowed to
collect data on students on the grounds that it is "necessary" for
something or other.  When schools invite a student to use a certain
computer, that computer should not send any data about the student to
anyone.


feed_id: 93ea04b1923bb9df915f24d467c57831
title: 3,000 dissidents
uri: 3-000-dissidents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%283%2C000_dissidents%29
content:
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/27/turkey-arrests-1000-suspends-9100-police-new-crackdown">decided
  to arrest another 3,000 dissidents</a>, supporters of
Fethullah Gülen.
<p>
It is absurd to accuse 47,000 people of participating in a coup plot.
So many people can't keep a secret, the coup plotters knew that.


feed_id: 25433b50640e01e5c889e2584ed89642
title: Gandapedia
uri: Gandapedia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Gandapedia%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/china-compiles-wikipedia-public-edit-47197810">China
  will develop a state-approved encyclopedia</a>, a propaganda
counterpart of Wikipedia.
In effect, Gandapedia.


feed_id: c2233483bde30de0828b8cff18cb63de
title: Russian constitution
uri: Russian-constitution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Russian_constitution_%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/13/russian-activists-detained-on-moscows-red-square-monitor">Russians protested by reading the Russian constitution aloud
in Red Square.</a>  They were arrested.
<p>
Could there be a clearer admission of tyranny than this?


feed_id: 360887737d26ff824d3ff623f182e62b
title: US and Paris climate agreement
uri: US-and-Paris-climate-agreement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28US_and_Paris_climate_agreement%29
content:
<p>

The US, under Obama's half-hearted support for climate protection,
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/01/will-trumps-slow-mo-walkaway-world-in-flames-behind-him-finally-provoke-consequences-for-planetary-arson/">weakened the Paris climate agreement at every level.</a>
 The world would have been better off kicking the US out at the beginning.
<p>
Now the revulsion of the rest of the world may be enough to lead to
sanctions on the US fossil fuel companies, or even the US.  I hope so.
With pressure from the rest of the world, we Americans may be able to
redirect our government towards protecting civilization.


feed_id: 1ea47bb4b6f7fc908ad6fc976b490af7
title: Tax evasion
uri: 2017-06-04-Tax-evasion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Tax_evasion%29
content:
<p>

On the average, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/01/super-rich-evade-on-average-nearly-third-of-their-due-tax">the richest .01 percent evade 1/3 of their taxes.</a>


feed_id: 58c0c46bb2c5600a3c9c3de5d6edee3f
title: US visa applications
uri: US-visa-applications
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28US_visa_applications%29
content:
<p>

US visa applications will 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/01/the-guardian-view-on-social-media-surveillance-uncle-sam-isnt-planning-to-friend-you">demand so much information</a>
 that hardly anyone could get it right. Thus, everyone could be
deported for the slightest mistake, 
<a href="#3_May_2017_(Application_for_US_citizenship)">unless the Supreme Court rules to
limit that.</a>
<p>
The social media info is 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170601/15535037500/dhs-steps-up-demands-visa-applicants-social-media-account-info.shtml">supposedly voluntary,</a>
 but people will be scared not to provide it.


feed_id: f45c07f110101638717f6e87d60b93d8
title: Welfare is not consumption
uri: Welfare-is-not-consumption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Welfare_is_not_consumption%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/01/myths-money-british-voters-economy-britain-welfare">Welfare is not consumption, and taxation is not a burden.</a>


feed_id: 5518dd5fe3938d26e9e69e3ea128d291
title: Welfare cuts by troll
uri: Welfare-cuts-by-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Welfare_cuts_by_troll%29
content:
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> proposes to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/01/trumps-tanf-cut-would-hurt-poorest-families-and-states-might-make-them-worse">cut a large fraction of welfare for families.</a>
What's worse, each state could make more cuts.
<p>
The reason welfare is now called "temporary assistance" is that
President Clinton's "welfare reform" put a maximum limit on how long
each family could receive assistance.  "If you're still poor after
five years, starve on the street."


feed_id: dfc1906a1f26d878a2be13a118b4779e
title: Democrats undermining progressives
uri: Democrats-undermining-progressives
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Democrats_undermining_progressives%29

content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/01/bernie-sanders-revolution-just-getting-started">Establishment Democrats continue undermining Sanders-backed progressive candidates;</a>
 then plutocratists claim it's their own weakness at fault.


feed_id: 8e92038516b4d5fd0dca234f2f5e5808
title: Laughing at the US
uri: Laughing-at-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Laughing_at_the_US%29
content:
<p>

"Trump asked when the world will start laughing at the US. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/02/trump-world-laughing-at-us-paris-climate-deal">It already is.</a>"


feed_id: c089b64466b24517b139cf9aa22db5bc
title: Parents on the slide
uri: Parents-on-the-slide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Parents_on_the_slide%29
content:
<p>

For kids safety, they should slide down the playground slide alone.
<a href="http://www.freerangekids.com/when-helping-your-kid-on-the-slide-is-the-opposite-of-helpful/">Riding on a parent's lap is dangerous.</a>


feed_id: 7ae04e565064661948ba287dcdc83e39
title: BC vows to block pipeline
uri: BC-vows-to-block-pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28BC_vows_to_block_pipeline%29
content:
<p>

A new Green/Left government in British Columbia 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/02/canada-coalition-block-pipeline-trans-mountain">vows to block a pipeline</a>
 for exporting tar sands oil.


feed_id: 43aed069408ba41f85d004de92810bbc
title: TV linked to child obesity
uri: TV-linked-to-child-obesity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28TV_linked_to_child_obesity%29
content:
<p>

A TV in the bedroom for a young child 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jun/02/tvs-in-the-bedroom-linked-to-childhood-obesity-study-finds">tends to lead to obesity.</a>


feed_id: ae0e400fff14e8569bc75f5a83ee6962
title: CA single-payer insurance
uri: CA-single-payer-insurance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28CA_single-payer_insurance%29
content:
<p>

California's single-payer medical insurance will 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/05/31/new-findings-sb-562-would-cut-state-spending-healthcare-18-and-guarantee-care">increase take-home pay</a>
 for just about everyone in the state, while providing medical care
to those who don't have it.


feed_id: c88e7775de58a96fc548bea525943820
title: De-escalation
uri: De-escalation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28De-escalation%29
content:
<p>

<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/29/1665600/-Salt-Lake-City-police-invested-in-training-and-haven-t-had-an-officer-involved-shooting-in-two-years?detail=emailLL">Thugs in Salt Lake City have become less thuggish</a>
 thanks to de-escalation
training. They have not shot anyone since almost two years ago.


feed_id: 566bb748380f6ab5cf1f99af39db817a
title: Abortion in Texas
uri: 2017-06-04-Abortion-in-Texas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Abortion_in_Texas%29
content:
<p>

Texas Republicans 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/26/1666267/-Texas-Republicans-look-to-pass-bill-that-could-make-driving-a-woman-to-an-abortion-a-crime?detail=emailLL">voted to make it a felony</a>
 to help a woman go to an
abortion clinic to get an abortion that was illegal.
<p>
When asked to reconsider, they voted for it again.


feed_id: 6845442d1f8688955011fe81d02ffd0a
title: Exxon and emissions
uri: Exxon-and-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Exxon_and_emissions%29
content:
<p>

The shareholders of Exxon voted to require the company to state how
necessary future regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 
will 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/31/exxonmobil-climate-change-cost-shareholders">affect the value of its assets.</a>
<p>
This will make Exxon encounter stockholder resistance if it is reckless.


feed_id: 9c1585aaf129f2be44e0d8909b3a311b
title: Windows on submarines
uri: Windows-on-submarines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Windows_on_submarines%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/01/uks-trident-nuclear-submarines-vulnerable-to-catastrophic-hack-cyber-attack">The UK's nuclear missile submarines run Windows.</a>
 Someone could crack the system while the sub is in base, and set it
up to do something later, such as launch missiles.
<p>
Just imagine ransomware in a nuclear missile submarine.


feed_id: 183d7fcd0cd1cfcb75952fbc48be1cf0
title: Attacking contraception
uri: Attacking-contraception
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Attacking_contraception%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/05/31/appalling-draft-rule-trump-threatens-contraceptive-access-millions-women">The troll's latest attack on contraception:</a>
 any employer would be allowed to pretend to a moral objection to
birth control as an excuse not to cover it.


feed_id: 2e179fe20c4834db0c833932da163b10
title: Sexting
uri: 2017-06-04-Sexting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Sexting%29
content:
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> passed a 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/05/31/house-overwhelmingly-supports-bill-subje">bill to put teenagers in prison for 15 years</a>
 (mandatory minimum) for sexting.
<p>
Sexting should not be a crime at all.


feed_id: 30ea78701885b1da4d413818deee748a
title: Ketamine for depression
uri: Ketamine-for-depression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Ketamine_for_depression%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jun/02/ketamine-help-thousands-severe-depression-doctors">Ketamine seems to be an effective treatment for depression,</a>
 even for patients that nothing else helps.


feed_id: a33a3cf860516e1a026b33ecadf50c55
title: China's ivory ban
uri: China-s-ivory-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Chinas_ivory_ban%29
content:
<p>

China's ivory ban has cut the price in half, but this has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/02/chinas-ivory-ban-sparks-dramatic-drop-in-prices-across-asia">failed to reduce the killing of elephants.</a>


feed_id: df7931a6dbea44f9a5d8ebc5a032e37d
title: UK universal basic income
uri: UK-universal-basic-income
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28UK_universal_basic_income%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/02/green-party-universal-basic-income-eliminate-poverty-trap">The UK Greens advocate a universal basic income.</a>
<p>
I like the idea, but the first and crucial battle is to defeat the
plutocracy and tax the rich adequately.  With that done, it would be
possible to adopt policies such as the universal basic income.


feed_id: e0399a197329ef45e99fd3aea1939877
title: Giving up on working
uri: Giving-up-on-working
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Giving_up_on_working%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/may-jobs-report-unemployment-70184a6a5f3">The US economy convinced 600,000 people to give up looking for work</a>
in April and May.


feed_id: d4411514d4f36f1eaf1fa6df5a4f33c2
title: Paris climate agreement
uri: 2017-06-04-Paris-climate-agreement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Paris_climate_agreement%29
content:
<p>
The saboteur-in-chief declared that the US will not follow the Paris
climate agreement, and received 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/01/trump-withdraw-paris-climate-deal-world-leaders-react">world-wide
condemnation</a>.
<p>
The US has never been a real leader in stopping global heating
disaster: 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jun/01/donald-trump-just-cemented-his-legacy-as-americas-worst-ever-president">the
planet-roasters have had too much power</a>.
<p>
To pull out formally requires three years, but he has already
sabotaged the practical US measures needed to carry out the agreement.
<p>
Donald Trump Has Ditched the World 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/01/donald-trump-has-ditched-the-world-in-favor-of-big-oils-titans">in
Favor of Big Oil's Titans</a>.
<p>
Amazingly, the CEO of Goldman Sachs 
<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/01/news/companies/lloyd-blankfein-trump-tweet/index.html">condemned
the troll's decision</a>.  What's amazing is that the troll dared to
disobey Goldman Sachs.
<p>
Vicente Fox (himself unpleasantly right-wing): the troll is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/02/european-leaders-vow-to-keep-fighting-global-warming-despite-us-withdrawal">"declaring
war on the planet itself"</a>.  Too bad it's an 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#04_October_2012_(Effect_of_global_heating_on_people)">understatement</a>.
<p>
The French environment minister said that the troll may face charges
of
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/01/trump-putin-form-axis-mass-destruction-climate-french-minister-fears/">crimes
against humanity</a> for this.
<p>
I think all the paid denialists, and their paymasters, should face
such charges.  Furthermore, their ill-gotten gains should be
confiscated from them or their heirs.  Let them face the result of
their crimes just as everyone else will, without the advantage of
wealth deriving from committing the crimes.


feed_id: 18699e1117361e03577a28e3a7da7a6b
title: Urgent: Investigate possible election meddling
uri: Urgent-Investigate-possible-election-meddling
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_possible_election_meddling%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/FEC_Russia">call on the
Federal Election Commission</a> to investigate possible Russian
meddling in the 2016 election.


feed_id: 459bc211d9fb0bf5ddafad9fbbbeb7dd
title: Urgent: Birth control coverage
uri: Urgent-Birth-control-coverage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Birth_control_coverage%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/trump_birth_control/">call
on large US companies</a> to continue covering birth control in their
health plans.


feed_id: db7773c89ade184d0642be6ed049dd28
title: Electrical stimulation of the brain
uri: Electrical-stimulation-of-the-brain
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Electrical_stimulation_of_the_brain%29

content:
<p>
It is now possible to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/neurophilosophy/2017/jun/01/researchers-develop-non-invasive-deep-brain-stimulation-method">electrically
stimulate internal areas of the brain using equipment outside the
head</a>.
<p>
Am I the only one who sees a danger here?


feed_id: 735ff9c1585b54ebcec22ccb08eab06c
title: Non-emergencies in the ER
uri: Non-emergencies-in-the-ER
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Non-emergencies_in_the_ER%29
content:
<p>
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Georgia is telling its subscribers that they 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/01/blue-cross-blue-shield-wants-people-in-georgia-to-self-diagnose-before-heading-to-the-emergency-room/">won't
be covered if they go to the emergency room and it isn't a real
emergency</a>.
<p>
It would be a good thing to move care for non-emergencies out of the
ER, but surely there is a way to do that which is less harsh.  Can't
the ER triage nurse direct those patients elsewhere?


feed_id: ff015d9f712c2fac00520971c066d3eb
title: Congress pushes nuclear energy
uri: Congress-pushes-nuclear-energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Congress_pushes_nuclear_energy%29
content:
<p>
Congress Pushes Nuclear Energy, but Has 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40770-congress-pushes-nuclear-energy-but-has-no-clear-plan-for-radioactive-waste">No
Clear Plan for Radioactive Waste</a>.


feed_id: 96c549a6a9cbb3e13b3e496ffede376c
title: Nighttime use of mobile devices
uri: Nighttime-use-of-mobile-devices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Nighttime_use_of_mobile_devices%29
content:
<p>
When teenagers use mobile devices at night, they get less sleep, and this
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/30/teenagers-sleep-quality-and-mental-health-at-risk-over-late-night-mobile-phone-use">often
results in depression</a>.


feed_id: 1570fede460edca20900ace9bfd5861f
title: Brazil's corruption investigation
uri: Brazil-s-corruption-investigation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Brazils_corruption_investigation%29
content:
<p>
The history of Brazil's giant corruption investigation, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/01/brazil-operation-car-wash-is-this-the-biggest-corruption-scandal-in-history">Lava
Jato</a>.


feed_id: 2891c95e58e8aa0265bf582d4d866837
title: Tory underfunding of NHS and social care
uri: Tory-underfunding-of-NHS-and-social-care
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Tory_underfunding_of_NHS_and_social_care%29

content:
<p>
A study estimates that Tory underfunding of the NHS and social care
<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/nhs-cuts-excess-deaths-30000-study-research-royal-society-medicine-london-school-hygiene-martin-a7585001.html">killed
30,000 people in the UK during 2015</a>.  That was around 86 people
killed per day.
<p>
As both of those systems have continued to deteriorate since then, I
would guess that the number killed in 2016 was considerably larger,
and that the underfunding is now killing more than 100 a day.
<p>
Here are details about 79 specific people who were 
<a href="http://blacktrianglecampaign.org/2016/05/13/the-increasing-death-toll-due-to-the-loss-of-benefits/">killed
in specific ways by harsh Tory policies</a>.  Clearly the list
includes only a tiny fraction the the victims.
<p>
Don't get distracted by the occasional terrorist when your country is
under attack by truly dangerous Tories all the time.


feed_id: a6ede8ba039d746658f433612a1f9863
title: Nonviable pregnancies forced
uri: Nonviable-pregnancies-forced
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Nonviable_pregnancies_forced%29
content:
<p>
New York [State] 
<a href="https://rewire.news/article/2017/05/23/new-york-forces-women-like-carry-nonviable-pregnancies-term/">Forces
Women Like Me to Carry Nonviable Pregnancies to Term</a>.


feed_id: b81b8c9802ef23eea613c7b5fe8dd9f7
title: Technology making the world more unequal
uri: Technology-making-the-world-more-unequal
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Technology_making_the_world_more_unequal%29

content:
<p>
Cory Doctorow: Technology is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/may/31/technology-is-making-the-world-more-unequal-only-technology-can-fix-this-cory-doctorow">making
the world more unequal</a>. Only technology can fix this.
<p>
I put my hopes on political resistance, not technology per se.


feed_id: fc2d2866742c25b7998d8ac7c6a51953
title: Delivery robots
uri: Delivery-robots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Delivery_robots%29
content:
<p>
San Francisco Mulls Ban on 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/may/31/delivery-robots-drones-san-francisco-public-safety-job-loss-fears-marble">Delivery
Robots</a>.
<p>
I am in favor of it.  America needs jobs more than it needs
efficiency.  Increases in productivity are no use to American workers,
because since 1980 that no longer gets them a raise.


feed_id: ae2ed462d415439f5fc4a500a58073c5
title: Troll's budget
uri: 2017-06-04-Troll-s-budget
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Trolls_budget%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s budget would make America the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/30/trump-budget-makes-america-land-no-opportunity">land
of no opportunity</a>.


feed_id: 7fbcc66b41fd8685fa27c4cc0f8fac38
title: Taking out mortgages to buy houses
uri: Taking-out-mortgages-to-buy-houses
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Taking_out_mortgages_to_buy_houses%29

content:
<p>
Government policies to encourage people to take out mortgages to buy
houses
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/30/why-help-to-buy-your-home-is-no-help-at-all-to-the-economy">often
do overall harm</a> — such as increasing the prices of housing,
without even increasing the fraction of people that own houses.


feed_id: 5993c6d976bb4b942b95fdf79e31f6f2
title: 20-million-dollar gift to Erdo&gbreve;an's family
uri: 20-million-dollar-gift-to-Erdo-gbreve-an-s-family
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%2820-million-dollar_gift_to_Erdogans_family%29

content:
<p>
Erdo&gbreve;an's family got a 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/05/26/malta-files-revelations-25-million-oil-tanker-gifted-to-erdogans-family/">20-million-dollar
gift from a billionaire</a> in 2008.  The deal was covered up by
passing it through Malta.


feed_id: 87f1fe4ea98936a5d84990e44b5400c5
title: UK schools unable to afford paper
uri: UK-schools-unable-to-afford-paper
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28UK_schools_unable_to_afford_paper%29
content:
<p>
Under Tory cuts, UK schools 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/01/britains-schools-on-knees-tory-government-real-terms-cut">cannot
even afford paper</a>, let alone textbooks.
<p>
Even aside from starving the schools themselves, the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/may/30/schools-welfare-housing-laura-mcinerney">expense
of housing and the cuts in welfare for the poor</a> are destroying
children's education.


feed_id: 3c24cfd2d7de770f9d698c99682b038b
title: The Republican Party
uri: 2017-06-04-The-Republican-Party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28The_Republican_Party%29
content:
<p>
The Republican Partyâs 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/31/republican-partys-sickness-soul">Sickness
of the Soul</a>.


feed_id: f73f4718e9a05663f04217ab8dd79488
title: Homeless in LA County
uri: Homeless-in-LA-County
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Homeless_in_LA_County%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/31/homelessness-count-los-angeles-record-level">55,000
people</a> are now homeless in Los Angeles County.


feed_id: 42aa0282fa7ab6090e354708a7ca4009
title: Women journalists in Afghanistan
uri: Women-journalists-in-Afghanistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Women_journalists_in_Afghanistan%29
content:
<p>
Women journalists in Afghanistan 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/may/31/female-journalists-defy-taboos-braving-death-threats-afghanistan">work
to change patriarchal society despite threats to their life</a>.


feed_id: 3bc5f352b5bb624557257ec3e4c21181
title: Labor rights activists in China arrested
uri: Labor-rights-activists-in-China-arrested
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Labor_rights_activists_in_China_arrested%29

content:
<p>
Labor rights activists in China, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/31/activists-investigating-ivanka-trumps-china-shoe-factory-detained-or-missing">investigating
the factory that makes shoes for Ivanka Trump's brand</a>, have been
arrested.
<p>
I wonder what the troll did to get this sort of support from China.


feed_id: 8fe350f9ac7058a6f38cd37ee767dcb8
title: Funding for Islamist terrorism
uri: Funding-for-Islamist-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Funding_for_Islamist_terrorism%29
content:
<p>
The Tories agreed to investigate the source of funding for Islamist
terrorism, but now 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/31/sensitive-uk-terror-funding-inquiry-findings-may-never-be-published-saudi-arabia">doesn't
want to publish the results</a>.  Suspicion is that the report traced
the funds to <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>.


feed_id: b7f695a7062ec73952c30c0e7beca0e1
title: Paris climate agreement
uri: 2017-06-04-Paris-climate-agreement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#3_June_2017_%28Paris_climate_agreement%29
content:
<p>
The saboteur-in-chief declared that the US will not follow the Paris
climate agreement, and received 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/01/trump-withdraw-paris-climate-deal-world-leaders-react">world-wide
condemnation</a>.
<p>
The US has never been a real leader in stopping global heating
disaster: 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jun/01/donald-trump-just-cemented-his-legacy-as-americas-worst-ever-president">the
planet-roasters have had too much power</a>.
<p>
To pull out formally requires three years, but he has already
sabotaged the practical US measures needed to carry out the agreement.
<p>
Donald Trump Has Ditched the World 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/01/donald-trump-has-ditched-the-world-in-favor-of-big-oils-titans">in
Favor of Big Oil's Titans</a>.
<p>
Amazingly, the CEO of Goldman Sachs 
<a href="http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/01/news/companies/lloyd-blankfein-trump-tweet/index.html">condemned
the troll's decision</a>.  What's amazing is that the troll dared to
disobey Goldman Sachs.
<p>
Vicente Fox (himself unpleasantly right-wing): the troll is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/02/european-leaders-vow-to-keep-fighting-global-warming-despite-us-withdrawal">"declaring
war on the planet itself"</a>.  Too bad it's an 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#04_October_2012_(Effect_of_global_heating_on_people)">understatement</a>.
<p>
The French environment minister said that the troll may face charges
of
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/01/trump-putin-form-axis-mass-destruction-climate-french-minister-fears/">crimes
against humanity</a> for this.
<p>
I think all the paid denialists, and their paymasters, should face
such charges.  Furthermore, their ill-gotten gains should be
confiscated from them or their heirs.  Let them face the result of
their crimes just as everyone else will, without the advantage of
wealth deriving from committing the crimes.


feed_id: 8ab5b876872c57e38f1949c4fb7cd322
title: Denmark lifts blasphemy law
uri: Denmark-lifts-blasphemy-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_June_2017_%28Denmark_lifts_blasphemy_law%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/02/denmark-scraps-334-year-old-blasphemy-law">
Denmark has repealed the law against blasphemy.
</a>
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_(Pakistan_asks_sites_to_identify_blasphemers)">
Many other
</a>
countries
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/may/07/stephen-fry-investigated-by-irish-police-for-alleged-blasphemy">
still need
</a>
to do this.


feed_id: 21575912325b085d338125fbdd72a5be
title: The troll's evil plans
uri: The-troll-s-evil-plans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_June_2017_%28The_troll%27s_evil_plans%29
content:
<p>
Disgust for the troll used to be mixed with derision.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/02/comedy-trump-now-horror-show-paris-climate-change-sickening-twist">
Now that he is carrying out his evil plans, it is hard to laugh.
</a>
<p>
The author errs in suggesting that Macron should have acted
submissively. The bully interprets that as a sign of that he can go
further and demand more. He will do this until he confronts people
that won't kowtow to him.
<p>
I suggest that other countries now negotiate a binding agreement
to supersede the nonbinding Paris climate agreement.
It should include the possibility of sanctions on non-signatories
that don't comply.


feed_id: 80c4b4ce65745654878235128c0bae21
title: Kathy Griffin threatened
uri: Kathy-Griffin-threatened
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_June_2017_%28Kathy_Griffin_threatened%29
content:
<p>
Comedian Kathy Griffin is getting death threats, as well as
cancellation of gigs, from fanatical supporters of the troll,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/02/kathy-griffin-trump-severed-head-photo">
because
of a video in which she had an imitation of his severed head.
</a>
<p>
I don't think things have degenerated to the point where civilized
people should reply in kind to the violence and threats of the
supporters of the troll.  Griffin clearly agrees, and didn't intend to
make a threat.
<p>
Making a statement that is misunderstood is not something that calls
for a humble apology: all humans sometimes speak unclearly, and there
is no need to be ashamed of that.  It would have been better for
Griffin to say she regretted the misunderstanding and would take care
to avoid it in the future -- while restating the intended point in
some other way that would not be misunderstood.
<p>
If you are faced with a wave of hatred from people who are offended
for an invalid reason, don't give in to the urge to apologize.  The
apology harms your reputation in a way that others' threats cannot.


feed_id: 729201770f84f76c61a94a413252d2a1
title: Congress's oversight
uri: Congress-s-oversight
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_June_2017_%28Congress%27s_oversight%29
content:
<p>
The troll has told various federal agencies to
<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/02/federal-agencies-oversight-requests-democrats-white-house-239034?cmpid=sf">
reject congressional
Democrats's requests for information.
</a>
<p>
It's Congress's function to oversee federal agencies.  They are not
human beings with a right to privacy.


feed_id: e6d560760ceab48efb381747472dbe85
title: Online shopping
uri: Online-shopping
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_June_2017_%28Online_shopping%29
content:
<p>
When stores can identify customers, and change the price
either systematically
or at random,
<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/05/how-online-shopping-makes-suckers-of-us-all/521448/">
there is no such thing as a price for the item.
</a>
<p>
One virtue of the market as a system for commerce is that it determines
"the right" price.  If there is no longer "the price", there is no longer
a "right" price.
<p>
It is another reason to (1) resist profiling and (2) buy in physical
stores, not on the internet.


feed_id: 575307e04f53890847bfbd11a99e6709
title: Rogue state USA
uri: Rogue-state-USA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_June_2017_%28Rogue_state_USA%29
content:
<p>
Stiglitz calls for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/02/paris-climate-deal-to-trumps-rogue-america">
sanctions on exports from the "rogue state", the USA.
</a>
That's the very least other countries should do.
Others have referred to the US as a rogue state
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_(War_on_civilians)">
because of its wars
</a>
and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#14_May_2017_(Supports_dicrators)">
its support for dictators around the world.
</a>


feed_id: d20fac9c599f0e72b554e9b2d00cd6d1
title: BC NDP-Green agreement
uri: BC-NDP-Green-agreement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_June_2017_%28BC_NDP-Green_agreement%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://www.policynote.ca/bc-ndp-green-agreement-offers-historic-opportunity-for-game-changing-new-policies/">
The new Left-Green government of British Columbia has announced
plans for several good changes,
</a>
and we can expect more.


feed_id: f54b8d65fd48137bbf79a9f09500255e
title: The Paris agreement
uri: 2017-06-04-The-Paris-agreement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_June_2017_%28The_Paris_agreement%29
content:
<p>
Bill McKibben: The Paris climate agreement, inadequate on its face,
had a chance of building momentum that would lead to a real curb on
global heating.
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/01/trumps-stupid-and-reckless-climate-decision">
Now, thanks to the troll and his stubborn idiocy, it
could unite the world in doing enough.
</a>
<p>
He also thinks that it will help defeat every denialist politician.


feed_id: 21fcfaa7ac2d5c3c6bdd4b9a37669fc7
title: Sessions suspected of perjury
uri: Sessions-suspected-of-perjury
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_June_2017_%28Sessions_suspected_of_perjury%29
content:
<p>
Some Democratic senators
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/01/comey-set-testify-ag-sessions-again-under-fire-possible-perjury">
suspect Sessions of perjury,
</a>
for giving false
testimony to the senate during his confirmation hearing.


feed_id: 2ddea1934054f0983ad0662dbd2a93bd
title: When Will Exxon Be Worthless?
uri: When-Will-Exxon-Be-Worthless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_June_2017_%28When_Will_Exxon_Be_Worthless%3F%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/01/when-will-exxon-will-be-worthless-not-if">
When Will Exxon Be Worthless? Not If.
</a>


feed_id: e8826eabb6b678e9f5653c5c83f56e18
title: Urgent: Stop promoting antiabortion group
uri: Urgent-Stop-promoting-antiabortion-group
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Stop_promoting_antiabortion_group%29

content:
<p>
In the US:
call on the Kansas City Royals team to
<a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/KC_Royals_Vitae/?t=1002&">
stop promoting an
antiabortion group.
</a>


feed_id: add31c2add9bc7b5b135d1e42479eafe
title: Senators giving false testimony
uri: Senators-giving-false-testimony
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_June_2017_%28Senators_giving_false_testimony%29
content:
<p>
Some Democratic senators
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/01/comey-set-testify-ag-sessions-again-under-fire-possible-perjury">suspect Sessions of perjury, for giving false testimony to the senate during his confirmation hearing.</a>


feed_id: 64b2d9efcf5c3796806b11b34bce1950
title: US schools forced to compete
uri: US-schools-forced-to-compete
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_June_2017_%28US_schools_forced_to_compete%29
content:
<p>
US public schools, forced by bad laws to compete with other schools,
have done away with periods for free play.
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/06/01/gop-maps-out-new-ways-to-throw-people-in">The result is that children suffer more stress and don't learn as well.</a>


feed_id: e3ad03fdeb4f1b0d060be0d3a39b415f
title: Urgent: Take your hands off my birth control
uri: Urgent-Take-your-hands-off-my-birth-control
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_June_2017_%28Urgent%3ATake_your_hands_off_my_birth_control%29

content:
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="http://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/sign/170601_trump-bc/?t=5&akid=2682.390021.g3GlaE">Tell the troll, "take your hands off my birth control".</a>


feed_id: eb30785ad84cdaecd505c99ff2209cf7
title: Urgent: Birth control
uri: Urgent-Birth-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Birth_control%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="http://actnow.prochoiceamerica.org/sign/170601_trump-bc/">tell
the troll</a>, "take your hands off my birth control".


feed_id: 919e12d35351e07ba03f7f61f469146e
title: Urgent: Oppose hiring right-wing hardhearts
uri: Urgent-Oppose-hiring-right-wing-hardhearts
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_hiring_right-wing_hardhearts%29

content:
<p>
Everyone in the US, or those who can receive the MSNBC channel: tell
the channel that you
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/msnbc_conservatives_dems/">object
to its hiring right-wing hardhearts</a>.


feed_id: 2fc4c589da5316cc497bb7991b02daa4
title: Bias of US politics
uri: Bias-of-US-politics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Bias_of_US_politics%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/02/jared-kushner-still-has-a-job-because-washington-only-fears-republicans/">strange
bias of US politics</a>: by tradition, many officials are "supposed"
to be Republicans, even under Democratic presidents.  As a result,
Republicans regularly have the power to intimidate Democrats, while
thumbing their noses about their own crimes and corruption.


feed_id: fe86d63608c6a3fe8af131bfbd4799a0
title: America's Toxic Prisons
uri: America-s-Toxic-Prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Americas_Toxic_Prisons%29
content:
<p>
America's Toxic Prisons: The 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40756-america-s-toxic-prisons-the-environmental-injustices-of-mass-incarceration">Environmental
Injustices</a> of Mass Incarceration.


feed_id: 87c9e7b0450a4b9381c9758da246b447
title: Unverified suppositions about microexpressions
uri: Unverified-suppositions-about-microexpressions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Unverified_suppositions_about_microexpressions%29

content:
<p>
The idea of recognizing microexpressions to determine what people are feeling
is 
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/security-obsessed-wait-but-can-ai-learn-to-spot-the-face-of-a-liar/">based
on unverified suppositions</a>.


feed_id: 12e0dd1f5cb12b0ab4f430014b49a39d
title: Troll mis-cites MIT climate researchers
uri: Troll-mis-cites-MIT-climate-researchers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Troll_mis-cites_MIT_climate_researchers%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> 
<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/trump-falsely-claims-paris-has-minimal-impact-on-warming-29a00619d407">mis-cited
MIT climate researchers</a>.  They insist that the Paris climate
agreement can do a lot of good, by keeping the opportunity open to do
make the larger effort that might prevent disaster.


feed_id: ff85ed4777c3a4376e80926b43fc6a9a
title: Arrested for praying in the street
uri: Arrested-for-praying-in-the-street
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Arrested_for_praying_in_the_street%29

content:
<p>
Muslims in Burma were 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/02/myanmar-muslims-face-charges-for-holding-ramadan-prayers">arrested
for praying in the street</a>.
<p>
How strange for that to be a crime?


feed_id: d94cc24971702244a8721f2cac19c842
title: Black Lives Matter activists' privacy
uri: Black-Lives-Matter-activists-privacy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Black_Lives_Matter_activists_privacy%29

content:
<p>
Black Lives Matter activists are 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/fearing-surveillance-in-the-age-of-trump-activists-study-up-on-digital-anonymity/2017/05/20/186e8ba0-359d-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_print.html">becoming
concerned about being tracked by their phones</a>.
<p>
Finally this injustice is being noticed.


feed_id: 90fc97f3a2563eb2e4b63eeb916d059f
title: Republicans smearing Elizabeth Warren
uri: Republicans-smearing-Elizabeth-Warren
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Republicans_smearing_Elizabeth_Warren%29

content:
<p>
Republicans are already smearing Elizabeth Warren 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/31/1667579/-Republicans-plan-to-give-Elizabeth-Warren-the-Hillary-Clinton-treatment">to
try to stop her from becoming president</a>.
<p>
They don't hesitate to stretch the truth, or lie outright.


feed_id: 78987c4ed5c232cdc86a41f0c5480f3b
title: Deportation of US military veterans
uri: Deportation-of-US-military-veterans
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Deportation_of_US_military_veterans%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/31/1667633/-Deported-U-S-military-veterans-commemorate-Memorial-Day-in-Mexico">Over
200 noncitizens</a> served in the US military, expecting to receive US
citizenship, and were subsequently deported.


feed_id: 59eb0686007f3f4438b4860f17cfc849
title: SCROTUS to fill prisons with immigrants
uri: SCROTUS-to-fill-prisons-with-immigrants
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28SCROTUS_to_fill_prisons_with_immigrants%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> plan a suite of repressive practices that will fill up federal prisons
with immigrants, most of whom won't have been any danger to anyone, and 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/06/01/gop-maps-out-new-ways-to-throw-people-in">spend
billions to keep them there</a>.


feed_id: 5ec10dbe66d19ba6e924aaf2d379fcb9
title: US schools putting more stress on children
uri: US-schools-putting-more-stress-on-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28US_schools_putting_more_stress_on_children%29

content:
<p>
US public schools, forced by bad laws to compete with other schools,
have
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/01/why-it-matters-poor-kids-dont-have-time-play">done
away with periods for free play</a>.  The result is that children
suffer more stress and don't learn as well.


feed_id: c2776c9d9896b3cc55a269e7392091a8
title: Very urgent: MEPS try to make proposed internet censorship worse
uri: Very-urgent-MEPS-try-to-make-proposed-internet-censorship-worse
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Very_urgent_MEPs_try_to_make_proposed_internet_censorship_worse%29

content:
<p>
EU citizens: <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/eu-piracy-filter-proposals-being-sabotaged-says-mep-julia-reda-170601/">some MEPs are trying to make the proposed internet censorship directive even worse. </a>
<p>
<a href="https://juliareda.eu/2017/05/alternative-compromise/">MEP Julia Reda talks about how to oppose this.</a>


feed_id: 744777fb907c90119132803313f64f87
title: Urgent: Support 100% renewable by 2050
uri: Urgent-Support-100-renewable-by-2050
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Urgent_Support_100%25_renewable_by_2050%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://go.ourrevolution.com/page/s/100by50v2?source=em170531-pt">Support the bill to aim for 100% renewable energy by 2050.</a>


feed_id: 2427dd122979950145eb9b85902f2e4b
title: Parents impose computerized surveillance and censorship
uri: Parents-impose-computerized-surveillance-and-censorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Parents_impose_computerized_surveillance_and_censorship%29

content:
<p>
When panicked <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jun/03/sexting-parents-panic-children-make-own-moral-codes">parents impose computerized surveillance and censorship</a>
on children, they teach those children that computerized surveillance
and censorship are normal.


feed_id: 01aa358abf12a864e9158d5012ca1f11
title: Stop plastic
uri: Stop-plastic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Stop_plastic%29
content:
<p>
We need to stop making and using plastic -- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/03/plastics-poisoning-500th-anniversary-reformation-petrochemical-polymers">at least making it as we do now.</a>


feed_id: 83c67bd22b5fb40740a39be43dc846e6
title: Victim of terrorist attack sues rental company
uri: Victim-of-terrorist-attack-sues-rental-company
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Victim_of_terrorist_attack_sues_rental_company%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/02/francisco-lopes-man-injured-westminster-attack-seeks-compensation">A victim of a drive-into terrorist attack is suing the rental company
from which the vehicle was rented.</a>
<p>
The company cannot be held responsible for what the renter did with
the vehicle.  The victim does deserve help, but the right way to help
such people is through the National Health Service, not through
lawsuits.
<p>
After what the Tories have done to the NHS, I suppose that the needed
help is not available there.  The right way to deal with that is to
make the NHS do its job again.


feed_id: 866ff028981ec61ce1e4af6f4469f1fa
title: Congress's oversight
uri: 2017-06-05-Congress-s-oversight
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#4_June_2017_%28Congress%27s_oversight%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has told various federal agencies to
<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/02/federal-agencies-oversight-requests-democrats-white-house-239034?cmpid=sf">
reject congressional
Democrats's requests for information.
</a>
<p>
It's Congress's function to oversee federal agencies.  They are not
human beings with a right to privacy.


feed_id: a1a76110865c13b51661ba9a3e18e96c
title: Very urgent: Oppose internet censorship
uri: Very-urgent-Oppose-internet-censorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_internet_censorship%29

content:
<p>
EU citizens: some MEPs are trying to make the proposed internet
censorship directive 
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/eu-piracy-filter-proposals-being-sabotaged-says-mep-julia-reda-170601/">even
worse</a>.
<p>
MEP Julia Reda talks about 
<a href="https://juliareda.eu/2017/05/alternative-compromise/">how to
oppose this</a>.


feed_id: 8bc1b7ee09bf32c3b99416769d969b02
title: Very urgent: Statue-tory damages
uri: Very-urgent-Statue-tory-damages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Statue-tory_damages%29
content:
<p>
A sculpture of Theresa May was full of surveillance cameras.
A passerby attacked it with a hammer, and was fined
statue-tory damages.
<p>
Spread the word!


feed_id: 611d811db42ee6b65b850b1c84fbbcfb
title: Urgent: Prescription Drugs
uri: Urgent-Prescription-Drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Prescription_Drugs%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://www.signherenow.org/petition/rx-drugs/o/afv/">Call
on Congress</a> to support the Improving Access to Affordable
Prescription Drugs Act.
<p>
A little 
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/americans-demand-lower-drug-prices-this-senate-bill_us_58dbee85e4b0487a198a5672">more 
information</a> about it.


feed_id: 5636ff912d6d7ad03737ebdd3201e6f4
title: Divest from fossil fuels
uri: 2017-06-06-Divest-from-fossil-fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Divest_from_fossil_fuels%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/03/resist-trump-ditching-paris-divest-fossil-fuels">Resist</a>
the troll by divesting from fossil fuels.


feed_id: 6c16da4aaf6328423da3a655baa35cfd
title: Selling the UK forests
uri: Selling-the-UK-forests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Selling_the_UK_forests%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2010/dec/22/tory-privatisation-all-state-forests">The
Tories plan to sell</a> all state-owned forests in the UK.
<p>
"This includes many royal forests, state-owned ancient woodlands,
sites of special scientific interest, heathland, campsites, farms and
sporting estates."
<p>
"Tories" and "trees" sound similar but are actually opposite.


feed_id: 2f3a2972008b8d2f76b5944d34dba947
title: Macedonia and Russian interference
uri: Macedonia-and-Russian-interference
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Macedonia_and_Russian_interference%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/04/russia-actively-stoking-discord-in-macedonia-since-2008-intel-files-say-leak-kremlin-balkan-nato-west-influence">Leaked documents</a>
 appear to say what Macedonia's intelligence agency
has learned about Russia's efforts to interfere in its politics.
The goal has been to keep Macedonia out of NATO and away from the West.


feed_id: c06c3d31ed9d533de05ede778a6cea96
title: Global heating
uri: 2017-06-06-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>
Companies such as Dow and Corning 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/04/paris-accord-trump-lobby-ceo-withdraw/">try
to have it both ways</a> on global heating.


feed_id: e1e270a6c728104facaf4b38b1c44aeb
title: Ocean bottom mining
uri: Ocean-bottom-mining
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Ocean_bottom_mining%29
content:
<p>
Mining the ocean bottom 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/04/is-deep-sea-mining-vital-for-greener-future-even-if-it-means-destroying-precious-ecosystems">could
destroy ecosystems</a> if we are not careful.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#25_January_2015_(Bottom-trawling)">Trawling
the bottom for seafood already destroys ecosystems,</a> and we have
not made much progress in stopping that practice.


feed_id: da5f0e99acce1ff32e092d4573ba0263
title: Montana law
uri: Montana-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Montana_law%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/montana-protects-communications-privacy-allows-gag-orders">A
new Montana law is a step forward</a> in limiting the state's access
to people's digital messages stored in service providers.
<p>
However, it doesn't apply to metadata, and it won't protect whistleblowers.
This approach is fundamentally inadequate.
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">We need systems to be designed so they don't collect personal data.</a>


feed_id: b855138ccef14bf27b1fdc1df75498f4
title: Urgent: Illegal campaign contributions
uri: Urgent-Illegal-campaign-contributions
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Illegal_campaign_contributions%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: call on the Federal Election Commission to
<a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/no-pay-for-play/">investigate
illegal campaign contributions</a> from a private prison company.


feed_id: d6281c5741c1a97f9be015209e01f439
title: Urgent: 100% renewable energy
uri: Urgent-100-renewable-energy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_100-percent_renewable_energy%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://go.ourrevolution.com/page/s/100by50v2">Support the
bill</a> to aim for 100% renewable energy by 2050.


feed_id: 0b2d52a49a74c000d92c080afb46b0cc
title: Plastic
uri: Plastic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Plastic%29
content:
<p>
We need to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/03/plastics-poisoning-500th-anniversary-reformation-petrochemical-polymers">stop
making and using plastic</a> — at least making it as we do now.


feed_id: a9040e3fbab28d805e3f20b1c32c2da1
title: Tory disability cuts
uri: Tory-disability-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Tory_disability_cuts%29
content:
<p>
"Lying on the floor for hours awaiting help, unable to afford both
incontinence pants and food ... This is the reality of 
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/30/disabled-readers-austerity-disability-cuts'>[Tory]
disability cuts</a>."


feed_id: 56a8b08d3840a84c8ae33a03cc3fd150
title: Moral injury from war
uri: Moral-injury-from-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Moral_injury_from_war%29
content:
<p>
War causes 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/05/18/human-price-trumps-wars">moral
injury</a>, the result of being responsible for something that turned
out to be a terrible wrong.  Often this leads to suicide.


feed_id: 68dff82ef8718140b5edd336c5ce75ff
title: Irish thug phone tapping
uri: Irish-thug-phone-tapping
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Irish_thug_phone_tapping%29
content:
<p>
Irish Police Phone Tapping 
<a href="https://edri.org/irish-police-phone-tapping-undermines-citizens-rights/">Undermines
Citizens' Rights</a>.


feed_id: 8e97a740a860bba7bee509e3501c696b
title: Two-faced political parties
uri: Two-faced-political-parties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Two-faced_political_parties%29
content:
<p>
Political parties now show 
<a href="https://phys.org/news/2017-06-uk-campaigner-facebook-dark-ads.html">different
messages to different people</a>, based on profile.  These parties are
two-faced, or perhaps three-faced or ten-faced or fifty-faced.


feed_id: e36eb5b28b58d63c166a23270ada05c3
title: Pipeline protesters treated like jihadists
uri: Pipeline-protesters-treated-like-jihadists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Pipeline_protesters_treated_like_jihadists%29

content:
<p>
Leaks prove that private thugs explicitly 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/why-did-private-security-contractor-treat-standing-rock-protesters-jihadists">treated
pipeline protesters like jihadists</a>.  That's the word the thugs
used.


feed_id: c30d889b55e9da4d4804d8f6aa08f898
title: Proprietary software
uri: 2017-06-06-Proprietary-software
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Proprietary_software%29
content:
<p>
Idaho started using proprietary software to decide how much support to
give to Medicaid patients.  It turns out that the program used a 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/pitfalls-artificial-intelligence-decisionmaking-highlighted-idaho-aclu-case">bogus
algorithm based on a subset of the historical records, with bogus
results</a>.


feed_id: 77cd163fe17616d4bd9d8034a35ed5c0
title: The troll
uri: 2017-06-06-The-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28The_troll%29
content:
<p>
World leaders should treat the troll as a child, 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/2/1668186/-Donald-Trump-is-a-petulant-whiny-man-child-and-treating-him-like-an-adult-just-cost-the-world">not
as an adult</a>.


feed_id: 147a744b6afdef6be0da9b3753a1f6ae
title: Tory politicians receive gifts from Salafi Arabia
uri: Tory-politicians-receive-gifts-from-Salafi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Tory_politicians_receive_gifts_from_Salafi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
Tory politicians received 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/04/tory-uk-saudi-arabia-gifts-money/
">luxurious gifts from Salafi Arabia</a>.  Perhaps that is the
mysterious reason why they support the Salafi 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#22_March_2017_(Yemen)">war
of aggression in Yemen</a>.


feed_id: e62c339ed574683b0e5f90419f223e37
title: Cáceres wins posthumous victory
uri: Cáceres-wins-posthumous-victory
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Caceres_wins_posthumous_victory%29
content:
<p>
Berta Cáceres has won a posthumous victory: the sponsors of the
dam she tried to stop have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/04/honduras-dam-activist-berta-caceres">withdrawn
funding</a>.


feed_id: f0b9be2048179922b75c63f912e90568
title: Different prices for different customers
uri: Different-prices-for-different-customers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Different_prices_for_different_customers%29

content:
<p>
Even 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/04/surge-pricing-comes-to-the-supermarket-dynamic-personal-data">supermarkets</a>
are starting to demand different prices from different customers, based
on secret algorithms.
<p>
I wonder what they will do to people like me, that don't carry a
portable tracking device.
<p>
I wonder what will happen when customer A sees price P on the price
display on the shelf, because customer B is nearby at that moment,
then gets charged a higher price.


feed_id: 2f9efde29c1d7dbd208f207c008d41bc
title: Defamation
uri: Defamation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Defamation%29
content:
<p>
Raimundos Oki, a journalist in East Timor, has been found not guilty
of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/04/timor-leste-journalists-threatened-with-jail-in-defamation-case-found-not-guilty">defamation</a>.
<p>
It is an injustice to make defamation a crime, because that chills
journalism.  The prosecutors seem to be trying to achieve that very
result.


feed_id: 0722f427b27e3ed9d3ea5e4811b8fe1f
title: Journalist imprisoned for asking question
uri: Journalist-imprisoned-for-asking-question
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Journalist_imprisoned_for_asking_question%29

content:
<p>
Journalist Mohamed Adan Dirir was 
<a href="https://cpj.org/2017/06/somaliland-journalist-held-without-charge-for-aski.php">imprisoned
in Somaliland for asking an inconvenient question</a> in a press
conference.
<p>
Somaliland is a part of what was once Somalia.  It avoids the Islamist
terrorism that plagues most of Somalia, but that doesn't mean human
rights are respected.


feed_id: b6c19931e5868490775e117b5ca00aa7
title: Possession of child porn
uri: Possession-of-child-porn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Possession_of_child_porn%29
content:
<p>
In the US, people convicted for having copies of child pornography
tend to get
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/06/02/child-molesters-face-shorter-sentences-t">longer
prison sentences</a> than those convicted of having sex with children.
<p>
Mere possession of child pornography 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-jul-oct.html#06_August_2014_(Criminalising_possession_of_porn)">should
not be a crime at all</a>.  To prosecute people for possessing
something published, no matter what it may be, is a big threat to
human rights.


feed_id: eeb1fb5e6515e0f77f870f49946028a4
title: US sanctions against Russia
uri: US-sanctions-against-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28US_sanctions_against_Russia%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/2/1668177/-Secret-Trump-plan-to-lift-Russian-sanctions-right-away-was-foiled-by-State-employees">tried
to eliminate US sanctions against Russia</a> as soon as he got into
office.  The effort was blocked by some employees at the State
Department.
<p>
They were joined by <a href="/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a>, which supports the neocons that want too
much hostility with Russia.


feed_id: af75fca4a1c3a1048d416a0838760301
title: Senate report of CIA torture
uri: Senate-report-of-CIA-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Senate_report_of_CIA_torture%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> told some federal agencies to return to the senate their
copies of the secret Senate report on CIA torture.  This is part of a
plan to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/06/02/aclu-statement-trump-administration-effort-bury-cia-torture-report">destroy
it and make sure that its conclusions are forgotten</a>.
<p>
This would be impossible if the report had been published, as it
should have been.

<P>


feed_id: b8cce5a97510994e5bd83a3032114002
title: Exxon and Tillerson
uri: Exxon-and-Tillerson
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Exxon_and_Tillerson%29
content:
<p>
Exxon and Tillerson 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/02/exxon-and-tillerson-accused-frauding-investors-over-climate-risks">Accused
of Defrauding Investors Over Climate Risks</a>.


feed_id: b8c2004c4d0534cc22083010608a273c
title: The NHS
uri: The-NHS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28The_NHS%29
content:
<p>
A victim of a drive-into terrorist attack is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/02/francisco-lopes-man-injured-westminster-attack-seeks-compensation">suing
the rental company from which the vehicle was rented</a>.
<p>
The company cannot be held responsible for what the renter did with
the vehicle.  The victim does deserve help, but the right way to help
such people is through the National Health Service, not through
lawsuits.
<p>
After what the Tories have done to the NHS, I suppose that the needed
help is not available there.  The right way to deal with that is to
make the NHS do its job again.


feed_id: a5850ef584c51d950185dafa7c7d513b
title: Computerized surveillance of children
uri: Computerized-surveillance-of-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Computerized_surveillance_of_children%29

content:
<p>
When panicked parents impose computerized surveillance and censorship
on children, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jun/03/sexting-parents-panic-children-make-own-moral-codes">they
teach those children that computerized surveillance and censorship are
normal</a>.


feed_id: 7bbb5f62fa0cab976c638eab5a890f72
title: White bigots try to silence anti-racists with threats
uri: White-bigots-try-to-silence-anti-racists-with-threats
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_June_2017_%28White_bigots_try_to_silence_anti-racists_with_threats%29

content:
<p>
As white bigots try to silence anti-racists with threats, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/05/free-speech-advocats-black-women-silenced">other white
bigots complain that their freedom of speech is being denied.</a>


feed_id: 58894abfd74539ce7daae78b39a4370c
title: Chinese billionaire donates to rival Australian
uri: Chinese-billionaire-donates-to-rival-Australian
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_June_2017_%28Chinese_billionaire_donates_to_rival_Australian%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jun/05/sam-dastyari-contradicted-south-china-sea-policy-a-day-after-chinese-donors-alleged-threat">A Chinese billionaire donates to at least two rival Australian
political parties.</a> One senator seems to take a friendly stance
towards China in exchange for donations.


feed_id: 0bf558b8a87ccdbdc2c74bbcad97c9bf
title: Americans need NOAA to track hurricanes
uri: Americans-need-NOAA-to-track-hurricanes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_June_2017_%28Americans_need_NOAA_to_track_hurricanes%29

content:
<p>
Americans need NOAA to track hurricanes, and FEMA to help out when
they hit. <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/3/1668402/-Trump-Puts-NO-ONE-In-Charge-of-NOAA-or-FEMA-As-Hurricane-Season-Just-Arrived">The troll has not bothered to nominate a saboteur to run
them, and instead wants to cut their budget.</a>
<p>
The states where hurricanes tend to hit usually vote Republican.  If
he causes a disaster there, he will alienate lots of Republicans.
That would be a good outcome, but it's a shame if the path there
goes through a disaster.


feed_id: 218c000f35ad411ec2d75ee168c77beb
title: Corbyn warned that invading Iraw would provoke terrorism
uri: Corbyn-warned-that-invading-Iraw-would-provoke-terrorism
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_June_2017_%28Corbyn_warned_that_invading_Iraw_would_provoke_terrorism%29

content:
<p>
Corbyn, in 2003, warned that invading Iraq was unjustified and would
provoke terrorism. <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/04/jeremy-corbyn-was-right-2003-and-he-right-again-today">Just recently he pointed out that we had better
stop doing more of the same.</a>


feed_id: 1d0039b151e5a19620ede6050e01ddab
title: US fails to carry out Paris agreement
uri: US-fails-to-carry-out-Paris-agreement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_June_2017_%28US_fails_to_carry_out_Paris_agreement%29

content:
<p>
As the US fails to carry out the Paris agreement, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/04/dropping-out-paris-even-worse-you-think-way-worse">it makes climate action
desperately urgent to avoid incredible heating.</a>


feed_id: 365b333c9546a1ffb242bdbf18ef9228
title: Urgent Everyone: call California's attorney general
uri: Urgent-Everyone-call-California-s-attorney-general
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_June_2017_%28Urgent_Everyone%3A__call_California%27s_attorney_general%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="http://act.climatehawksvote.com/becerra_vs_exxon">call on California's attorney general to join in investigating
Exxon for climate fraud.</a>


feed_id: 99f57baca0c207fa2d56c4ac25067de8
title: US government disregard laws
uri: US-government-disregard-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_June_2017_%28US_government_disregard_laws%29
content:
<p>
Barrett Brown reports <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/40779-we-don-t-have-the-rule-of-law-barrett-brown-on-incarceration-journalism-and-his-next-steps
"></a>


feed_id: 36240244d5506a35a0b8756b2fed1998
title: Very urgent: Oppose internet censorship
uri: 2017-06-06-Very-urgent-Oppose-internet-censorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#5_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_internet_censorship%29

content:
<p>

EU citizens: some MEPs are trying to make the proposed internet
censorship directive 
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/eu-piracy-filter-proposals-being-sabotaged-says-mep-julia-reda-170601/">even
worse</a>.
<p>
MEP Julia Reda talks about 
<a href="https://juliareda.eu/2017/05/alternative-compromise/">how to
oppose this</a>.


feed_id: 0cff2cee3097bdb339e2036f589236d4
title: Arms industry buying votes
uri: Arms-industry-buying-votes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Arms_industry_buying_votes%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/41712/defense-industry-campaign-contributions-threaten-influence-senate-vote-saudi-arms-deal/">
The US arms industry effectively buys the votes of senators
</a>
deciding
whether to approve an arms sale to a repressive theocratic regime
such as Salafi Arabia.
<p>
Should we condemn individual senators for selling their votes,
or the system that pressures them to do this?
<p>
Both!  Of course, both!
<p>
We can forgive people who are in positions of weakness for yielding to
the pressures of the system, except when they do something egregious.
However, someone as powerful as a senator can never plead, "the system
made me do it."


feed_id: abf8f0e0d9b54d8f0172a2c7f0c4b85b
title: Marijuana tax venue
uri: Marijuana-tax-venue
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Marijuana_tax_venue%29
content:
<p>
Colorado is doing lots of good with the
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/5/30/1667363/-Colorado-s-marijuana-profits-are-going-to-schools-and-fighting-opioid-addiction?detail=emaildkre">
100 million dollars of tax
revenue from marijuana.
</a>


feed_id: 9a0c1cedc4646082bd583a5626a7e12d
title: Emotional manipulation
uri: Emotional-manipulation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Emotional_manipulation%29
content:
<p>
Tobin Smith, formerly on the O'Reilly program on Faux News, says
that
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/4/1668913/-Tobin-Smith-Fox-Paid-Contributor-Confirms-What-We-Always-Suspected-About-Fox?detail=emaildkre">
the "debates" were always rigged,
</a>
and that the shows were
calculated for emotional manipulation of the audience.


feed_id: 064e76298cfbd414d752c097ddbd8e95
title: Oil extraction explosions
uri: Oil-extraction-explosions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Oil_extraction_explosions%29
content:
<p>
The troll wants to authorize
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/06/05/trump-officials-push-atlantic-oil-exploration-using-harmful-seismic-blasting">
using explosions in the Atlantic Ocean
(the sound from which will deafen whales at great distances) to find
oil to extract,
</a>
thus helping to wipe out most ocean life and replace
it with plastic.
<p>
That's typical extractivist behavior -- use up the world as fast as possible
and never mind what does or doesn't remain afterwards.


feed_id: 8ff31974b17aaa6ded15cc3ced30001d
title: War against our children
uri: War-against-our-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28War_against_our_children%29
content:
<p>
The troll, and Republicans, are
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trumps-war-on-our-children_us_5930a5fae4b062a6ac0ace59">
waging war against our children.
</a>
Even children can see this.


feed_id: 1a6d63477520ccfe639457bdbd82984e
title: Tackling extremism
uri: Tackling-extremism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Tackling_extremism%29
content:
<p>
Tariq Ramadan:
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/05/we-will-not-tackle-extremism-by-stigmatising-muslims">
We Will Not Tackle Extremism by Stigmatising Muslim Citizens.
</a>


feed_id: 170b8dc11aa7a1154ffd1c269bdcc4d3
title: Middle East studies professorship
uri: Middle-East-studies-professorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Middle_East_studies_professorship%29
content:
<p>
California State University was given an endowed chair of Middle East
studies in the name of Edward Said,
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/fresno-state-cancels-a-middle-east-studies-professorship-after-pressure-from-right-wing-pro-israel-group/">
but decided not to appoint anyone
due to pressure from supporters of Israel.
</a>
<p>
We know this from the dean that had the courage to resign in response.


feed_id: 63314c9a4aef15a3ba7f6fc932e746d8
title: Air traffic control
uri: Air-traffic-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Air_traffic_control%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/05/donald-trump-air-traffic-control-privatization-faa">
The troll wants to privatize US air traffic control.
</a>
  The company will cut corners, such as using less skilled people as
controllers, and the result will be fatal from time to time.


feed_id: 17bb2331207f3adfa76bbc762dac2761
title: Google's ad-blocker
uri: Google-s-ad-blocker
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Google%27s_ad-blocker%29
content:
<p>
Google's ad-blocker creates an opportunity for Google to
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/be-careful-celebrating-googles-new-ad-blocker-heres-whats-really-going-on/">
block any ads
not sold by Google.
</a>


feed_id: b49542db0e5d283dc21f4a3471d764de
title: Coal akin to tobacco
uri: Coal-akin-to-tobacco
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Coal_akin_to_tobacco%29
content:
<p>
Doctors compare
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/06/medical-experts-say-lending-to-adani-is-the-same-as-supporting-big-tobacco">
Australia's possible new giant coal mine
</a>
to tobacco.


feed_id: 152643dfb98474aa9696411bbb30f865
title: TTIP is dead!
uri: TTIP-is-dead
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28TTIP_is_dead%21%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#3_September_2016_(The_Trade_in_Services_Agreement)">
The TTIP
</a>
is reportedly
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/05/hopes-of-eu-us-trade-agreement-put-on-ice-say-brussels-sources">
dead!
</a>
<p>
Hooray!
<p>
But Europe still needs to kill
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#30_January_2017_(Canadian_version_of_the_TTIP)">
the business-supremacy treaty with Canada.
</a>
<p>


feed_id: 1ad97779a8e657b58fd38ef91003baf9
title: The troll's incompetence
uri: The-troll-s-incompetence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28The_troll%27s_incompetence%29
content:
<p>
The troll's incompetence
fits with his leanings toward autocracy.
<p>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/opinion/sunday/trumps-incompetence-wont-save-our-democracy.html">
The incompetence can ruin the US, and its political system,
</a>
but won't
stop him from getting what he wants most.


feed_id: 3a7725c45ed029442eb6ad7d4f61e20c
title: Imaginary legal strategy
uri: Imaginary-legal-strategy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Imaginary_legal_strategy%29
content:
<p>
Barrett Brown reports how
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/40779-we-don-t-have-the-rule-of-law-barrett-brown-on-incarceration-journalism-and-his-next-steps">
US government agencies habitually twist or
disregard the laws they are supposed to follow.
</a>


feed_id: 572c6c7df5e2366fff0e7fee0b082797
title: Paris agreement
uri: Paris-agreement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Paris_agreement%29
content:
<p>
As the US fails to carry out the Paris agreement,
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/04/dropping-out-paris-even-worse-you-think-way-worse">
it makes climate action
desperately urgent
</a>
to avoid incredible heating.


feed_id: 91c4cf8780257ee253a68cc9f35e75d8
title: Corbyn was and is right
uri: Corbyn-was-and-is-right
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Corbyn_was_and_is_right%29
content:
<p>
Corbyn, in 2003, warned that
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/04/jeremy-corbyn-was-right-2003-and-he-right-again-today">
invading Iraq was unjustified and would
provoke terrorism.
</a>
Just recently he pointed out that we had better
stop doing more of the same.


feed_id: 4120a21c266d6bac4217d3a430c11efb
title: Deadly hurricane season
uri: Deadly-hurricane-season
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Deadly_hurricane_season%29
content:
<p>
Americans need NOAA to track hurricanes, and FEMA to help out when
they hit.
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/3/1668402/-Trump-Puts-NO-ONE-In-Charge-of-NOAA-or-FEMA-As-Hurricane-Season-Just-Arrived">
The troll has not bothered to nominate a saboteur to run
them, and instead wants to cut their budget.
</a>
<p>
The states where hurricanes tend to hit usually vote Republican.  If
he causes a disaster there, he will alienate lots of Republicans.
That would be a good outcome, but it's a shame if the path there
goes through a disaster.


feed_id: fab5d1fc2e2becb2287e0d13dc5a81e7
title: Democrat withdraws
uri: Democrat-withdraws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Democrat_withdraws%29
content:
<p>
The Democrat running against Republican Stephen King
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/3/1668678/-Democratic-opponent-to-Steve-King-in-Iowa-withdraws-citing-death-threats?detail=emaildkre">
has withdrawn
due to death threats,
</a>
as well as Republican budget cuts imposed on the
state agency she works for.
<p>
Once Republicans see that this is effective, they will do it over and over,
in effect stealing elections by threats.  Surely there is a way to
find funds for protecting her.


feed_id: 7ae027da1f6712b756d6575a6f1b6ff2
title: Bricked iThings
uri: Bricked-iThings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Bricked_Apple_devices%29
content:
<p>
Apple faces trial in Australia for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/05/apple-error-53-sting-operation-caught-staff-misleading-customers-court-documents-allege">
bricking devices because they had had
an "unauthorized" repair.
</a>


feed_id: cdc7ec33cf0670e82cfd35d82720bc1b
title: Lib Dems condemn surveillance
uri: Lib-Dems-condemn-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Lib_Dems_condemn_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
The leader of UK's Liberal Democrats
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/05/tim-farron-warns-of-win-for-terrorists-if-web-is-made-a-surveillance-tool">
condemned massive surveillance
</a>
as a foolish and dangerous response to occasional terrorism.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/05/theresa-may-enough-is-enough-extremist-threat">
"Theresa May's 'enough is enough' risks making the extremist threat worse."
</a>


feed_id: 15cdfbf937027cf78550dc6d75730792
title: Salafi dispute with Qatar
uri: Salafi-dispute-with-Qatar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Salafi_dispute_with_Qatar%29
content:
<p>
Salafi Arabia and some other Arab countries have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/05/saudi-arabias-power-play-leaves-qatar-with-little-room-for-manouvre">
cut off trade and
relations with Qatar.
</a>
The troll's regime seems to be pushing Salafi
Arabia to do this.
<p>
Reportedly this is because Qatar supports the Muslim Brotherhood which
Salafi Arabia' monarchy hates.  The other countries involved are
obeying Salafi Arabia, except perhaps for Egypt's military rulers that
hate the Muslim Brotherhood for other reasons.
<p>
Maybe it is really about the campaign to demonize Iran.
<p>
Any form of Islamist rule shows contempt for human rights.  All the
regimes involved in this dispute are unjust, though the details vary.
But is there any rational reason for Americans to consider the Muslim
Brotherhood or Iran worse than Salafism?  I don't see one.


feed_id: 58694a1695e370f8e69655483c83b1a8
title: The Six-Day War
uri: The-Six-Day-War
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28The_Six-Day_War%29
content:
<p>
Israeli leaders in 1967 had
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/05/a-50-year-occupation-israels-six-day-war-started-with-a-lie/">
no intention of ever letting go of the
West Bank
</a>
that Israel had just conquered.  The first colony there was
set up just months after the war.
<p>
In regard to launching the war, even though Israel did not know
whether Egypt and Syria would attack, that danger was real.  If Israel
had waited to be attacked, by enemies with much larger armies, it
could have lost.  By attacking first, Israel took the benefit of
surprise away from its enemies.  Under the circumsances, that was
justified.


feed_id: ed3bda874ea24082dd845d3de6f37cc9
title: Donations to rival parties
uri: Donations-to-rival-parties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Donations_to_rival_parties%29
content:
<p>
A Chinese billionaire
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jun/05/sam-dastyari-contradicted-south-china-sea-policy-a-day-after-chinese-donors-alleged-threat">
donates to at least two rival Australian
political parties.
</a>
One senator seems to take a friendly stance
towards China in exchange for donations.


feed_id: 9037b89b906bcfc28e5e87143e307648
title: Freedom of speech
uri: 2017-06-07-Freedom-of-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Freedom_of_speech%29
content:
<p>
As white bigots try to silence anti-racists with threats, other white
bigots complain that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/05/free-speech-advocats-black-women-silenced">
their freedom of speech is being denied.
</a>


feed_id: caf5118f11b80deccc07e553496e6c62
title: Urgent: Investigate Exxon
uri: 2017-06-07-Urgent-Investigate-Exxon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_Exxon%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: call on California's attorney general to
<a href="http://act.climatehawksvote.com/becerra_vs_exxon">
join in investigating
Exxon for climate fraud.
</a>


feed_id: a00e34cb936d4932b05b5427ed36c9a7
title: Don't trust them
uri: Don-t-trust-them
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Dont_trust_them%29
content:
<p>
US insurance companies offer customers gratis "smart" security and
economy devices, 
<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-real-reason-insurance-companies-want-to-give-you-free-smart-home-devices-2016-10-26">but you should not trust them.</a>
<p>
When a product is marketed as "smart", read "treacherous spy."


feed_id: 42c9bef95343d6290b9a2fb376601a30
title: Protecting a librarian
uri: Protecting-a-librarian
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Protecting_a_librarian%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://jessss.com/blog/contempt-for-equity">Evanston's library board wants to fire librarian Lesley Williams</a>
for criticizing the library's discriminatory practices.  The community is
rallying to protect her.


feed_id: 2076a0c05e08e779c9b9d155e492d995
title: The price-gouging Epipen
uri: The-price-gouging-Epipen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28The_price-gouging_Epipen%29
content:
<p>

Mylan, maker of the price-gouging Epipen, cheated the US government by
<a href="https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2016/10/mylan-ripped-off-the-us-government-ironically-by-misclassifying-epipens-as-a-generic-drug/">claiming it was a generic drug.</a>
<p>
If we had a national health service and it negotiated the price with
each company, we wouldn't get gouged on drugs.  Americans, support the
candidates that advocate this change.


feed_id: 9e167fca0885886cb553d53d3797e505
title: Lynching threats
uri: Lynching-threats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Lynching_threats%29
content:
<p>

Right-wing bigots are threatening lynching, by 
<a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/noose-found-national-museum-african-american-history-and-culture-180963519/">leaving nooses as tokens of their hatred.</a>


feed_id: 2561035f9ced841a6d6f968ae07471c4
title: Speculating about corruption
uri: Speculating-about-corruption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Speculating_about_corruption%29
content:
<p>

Speculating about corruption that might have motivated Kushner to pursue
<a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/with-kushner-revelations-the-worst-case-scenario-comes-into-view">a secret channel of communication with Russia.</a>


feed_id: 01c99a903787363161cfb44dc5b77c58
title: Unfriending social networks
uri: Unfriending-social-networks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_June_2017_%28Unfriending_social_networks%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://medium.com/@coreyalex/what-ive-learnt-as-a-17-year-old-who-deleted-all-social-media-d282274d4edd">A teenager who got rid of social networks</a>
 is delighted to have time
for other activities, and glad not to be bothered by "friends" that
didn't really like him.


feed_id: 72c4f1fc62741f2aae469d13320086bd
title: Very urgent: Pacte du Logiciel Libre
uri: Very-urgent-Pacte-du-Logiciel-Libre
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_June_2017_%28Very_urgent%3A_Pacte_du_Logiciel_Libre%29

content:
<p>

Citizens of France: ask your candidates for elected office
to 
<a href="https://candidats.fr">sign the Pacte du Logiciel Libre.</a>


feed_id: 79f2cc4134d87e9ecba71e73f117cfb0
title: Inequality in Indonesia
uri: Inequality-in-Indonesia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_June_2017_%28Inequality_in_Indonesia%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/jun/06/study-shows-life-is-a-lot-more-unequal-than-you-probably-think">A survey in Indonesia</a>
 found that nearly everyone believed that per household
was near the median income.  They gravely underestimate the inequality that
really exists.
<p>
This causes real harm because people don't demand that the state act to
reduce the inequality.
<p>
They also overestimate their chances of getting wealthier than they are.
However, social mobility means that some get wealthier and some get poorer.
Increased social mobility is no excuse for leaving some people in poverty.
What we need is not more reshuffling of people on the income scale,
but to make the lives of the poorest better.


feed_id: f5e27ee7902fc836a063a71567f0fe07
title: Floods in Missouri
uri: Floods-in-Missouri
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_June_2017_%28Floods_in_Missouri%29
content:
<p>

Floods in Missouri 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/jun/06/the-day-after-withdrawing-from-paris-trump-declared-a-flooding-disaster-in-missouri">illustrate the damage</a>
 that global heating is
already doing.


feed_id: c5374031f787ed66322259ea93d8fed1
title: Cancer in Louisiana
uri: Cancer-in-Louisiana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_June_2017_%28Cancer_in_Louisiana%29
content:
<p>

Residents of Louisiana, near chemical plants, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/06/louisiana-cancer-alley-st-james-industry-environment">often get cancer.</a>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> will surely help companies make more generations sick.


feed_id: 14f6326382c724560bd9768e03ebab3d
title: Love for the second amendment
uri: Love-for-the-second-amendment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_June_2017_%28Love_for_the_second_amendment%29
content:
<p>

"Do you love your interpretation of the second amendment
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/06/a-routine-days-killing-children-gun-deaths-in-the-us-gary-younge">more than you love your kids</a>?"


feed_id: a0c84e779fa55807c568b8acbcbad797
title: Circular economy
uri: Circular-economy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_June_2017_%28Circular_economy%29
content:
<p>

The 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2017/jun/06/the-circular-economy-enters-the-world-stage-with-finland-leading-the-way">"circular economy"</a>
 would mean systematically reusing products instead
of turning them into waste.


feed_id: 200baf330ee9c053af759a67ba820911
title: Reproducibility crisis in science
uri: Reproducibility-crisis-in-science
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_June_2017_%28Reproducibility_crisis_in_science%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2017/jun/06/why-we-cant-trust-academic-journals-to-tell-the-scientific-truth">Tackling the reproducibility crisis in science.</a>
<p>
It is of course an oversimplification to say that the state of science
at any particular time gives us "the truth".  What science does is
provide a systematic method to correct errors over time.  As an area
becomes heavily studied, for example global heating and (even more so)
evolution, the remaining errors get to be fewer and smaller.
<p>
I think we need universities to stop judging people by how often they
publish in "high-impact" journals.


feed_id: c030a583f025e60385b120db8e1257b7
title: Sabotaging the EPA
uri: Sabotaging-the-EPA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_June_2017_%28Sabotaging_the_EPA%29
content:
<p>

EPA staff says that the troll's saboteurs have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/06/climate-change-work-trump-epa">effectively wrecked its efforts</a>
 to curb global heating.


feed_id: c6ef76bfe0e55b79935c85fdc9327556
title: Urgent: Campaigns against bigotry
uri: Urgent-Campaigns-against-bigotry
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#6_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Campaigns_against_bigotry%29

content:
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to 
<a href="http://go.commondefensepac.com/page/s/trump-ignores-white-supremacy?source=em20170602">keep funding campaigns</a>
 against bigotry.


feed_id: dff148bd3296d49d8a8ae43699523435
title: Russian crackers plant false news story
uri: Russian-crackers-plant-false-news-story
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Russian_crackers_plant_false_news_story%29

content:
<p>

US agencies say that Russian crackers planted a false news story
which 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/07/qatar-fbi-says-russian-hackers-planted-fake-news-story-that-led-to-crisis-report">led to economic warfare between Salafi Arabia and Qatar.</a>
<p>
It seems that the US agencies want to avoid the economic warfare,
while the troll desired it.


feed_id: c5caeb0adaa9643495dda8bac659ff31
title: Malaysian state disappeared foreigners
uri: Malaysian-state-disappeared-foreigners
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Malaysian_state_disappeared_foreigners%29

content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/07/christian-preachers-disappearance-in-malaysia-stokes-fears-of-crackdown-on-religious-minorities">The Malaysian state has disappeared foreigners</a>
 that were trying to preach second-class religions in Malaysia.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-mar-jun.html#03%20June%202007%20%28Lina%20Joy%29">Malaysia is definitively opposed to religious freedom,</a>
in particular for anyone who was at one time a Muslim,
or for anyone of Malay descent (since the state presumes they
are all Muslims regardless of what they say).


feed_id: 38ffaf67dcb2dd00ffcaff03bec58de6
title: Fast-track deportation
uri: Fast-track-deportation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Fast-track_deportation%29
content:
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s fast-track deportation court, inside an immigration
prison,speeds deportation by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/07/donald-trump-immigration-court-deportation-lasalle">making it difficult for the prisoners to get legal representation or advice.</a>
  Their families can't find them, let alone find them lawyers, and
they don't know whether their relatives are alive or dead.


feed_id: dde63a2cb35ce37b2dc2512069c123f3
title: Fleeing to Mexico
uri: Fleeing-to-Mexico
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Fleeing_to_Mexico%29
content:
<p>

Many women in Central America flee to Mexico 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jun/07/women-refugees-domestic-violence-mexico">to escape husbands</a>
 that want to kill them.  They have no other place to look for safety.


feed_id: 55508b66a07f89585df9d995029df695
title: Turkey arrests lawyers
uri: Turkey-arrests-lawyers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Turkey_arrests_lawyers%29
content:
<p>

Erdo&gbreve;an has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/07/turkey-arrests-amnesty-international-head-and-lawyers-in-gulenist-sweep
">arrested 23 lawyers,</a>

 including the local head of Amnesty International, on the vague
accusation that they have ties with Gülen.
<p>
The claim seems implausible in the case of someone who works for
Amnesty International, but that's a side issue.  Merely having some
sort of relationship with Gülen's system of religious schools would
not be valid grounds to arrest someone.


feed_id: 7003fa8274019b3d5b9e34e36ef97bc4
title: Untreated sewage in the Mediterranean
uri: Untreated-sewage-in-the-Mediterranean
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Untreated_sewage_in_the_Mediterranean%29

content:
<p>

<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4971142,00.html">Israel has blocked electricity for Gaza,</a>
 so its wastewater treatment plants are shut down.  The intense
pollution of the Mediterranean by untreated sewage has spread to
Israel's coast and is making desalination plants shut down, thus
leaving Israel short of water.


feed_id: 120db8ad34c579015ec7c993a4d7ca7a
title: Refusing Muslim terrorist funerals
uri: Refusing-Muslim-terrorist-funerals
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Refusing_Muslim_terrorist_funerals%29

content:
<p>

British Muslim clerics are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/06/more-muslim-leaders-refuse-funeral-prayers-london-attackers">showing their disgust for Muslim terrorists</a>
 by refusing to carry out funerals for them.


feed_id: 4af8ee1cf12914ea89cdf66d09416149
title: US persecuting whistleblowers
uri: US-persecuting-whistleblowers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28US_persecuting_whistleblowers%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/06/donald-trump-leaks-reality-winner-nsa-prosecution">The US government persecutes even legal whistleblowers,</a>

 because the laws against retaliation have gaps and are hard to
 enforce.


feed_id: 9416b2d8bb1506e32528f32ed339cad7
title: NSA investigated Russian election interference
uri: NSA-investigated-Russian-election-interference
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28NSA_investigated_Russian_election_interference%29

content:
<p>

A leaked document shows that 
<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40848-nsa-contractor-charged-for-leak-after-intercept-expose-reveals-russian-cyberattack-of-2016-election
">the NSA investigated apparent Russian attempts</a>
 to take control of some US voting systems before the 2016
election.
<p>
Assuming this document was not intended as a red herring, it means
that the NSA is sincere about suspecting Russian sabotage attempts.
<p>
The person who leaked the document is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/06/reality-winner-profile-nsa-trump-isis">Reality Winner,</a>
 who will probably be imprisoned for 10 years for it.
<p>
If it takes the knowledge and careful planning of a Snowden
to leak documents to the public and not be imprisoned, we won't
have enough whistleblowers, and 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">that turns democracy into an empty shell.</a>
<p>
Snowden: prosecution of an alleged source for journalism on a charge
of "espionage" is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/06/edward-snowden-comes-defense-jailed-nsa-contractor-reality-winner">a threat to the free press.</a>
<p>
Maybe that's why the troll did it.  He is against almost everything
that protects Americans from his own power.
<p>
I think The Intercept showed bad practices in handling the letter it
received.  It should have shredded the envelope before reading what
was inside.


feed_id: 08e43099d2adc6d9d95201e4a7c78c2c
title: UK face recognition
uri: UK-face-recognition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28UK_face_recognition%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2017/06/police-automatic-face-recognition/">UK thugs picked someone out of a crowd</a>
 using automatic face recognition. We are one step closer to an
 irresistible tyranny.


feed_id: 0635a7ede72b9c088dd59e793dfce3b4
title: Urgent: call on Congress to eliminate fossil fuel tax breaks
uri: Urgent-call-on-Congress-to-eliminate-fossil-fuel-tax-breaks
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_call_on_Congress_to_eliminate_fossil_fuel_tax_breaks%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-to-congress-act-now-to-roll-back-tax-breaks-for-the-fossil-fuel-industry?nowrapper=true">call on Congress to eliminate fossil fuel tax breaks.</a>


feed_id: 90226438ff799a2d09b1dff634b18de8
title: Planet-roaster governments spending less on renewable energy
uri: Planet-roaster-governments-spending-less-on-renewable-energy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Planet-roaster_governments_spending_less_on_renewable_energy%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/06/spectacular-drop-in-renewable-energy-costs-leads-to-record-global-boost">Planet-roaster governments are spending less on renewable energy,</a>  but new capacity is increasing fast because the construction costs have dropped.
<p>
We now produce 24% of electricity using renewable methods, but we need
to produce around 100% that way.  That means an increase in capacity
of 300% of the present total.  And since electricity is only a part of
our use of fossil fuels, we need to increase capacity even more to
replace fossil fuels for trapsport.
<p>
That means we have a long way to go, and we don't have a long time
to do it.
<p>
We need to smash the dominion of the fossil fools before they kill us.


feed_id: 2e105a39e4130962a56b48eb2823327b
title: migrant workers put on trial
uri: migrant-workers-put-on-trial
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28migrant_workers_put_on_trial%29
content:
<p>
Thailand has put <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jun/06/workers-claiming-they-had-to-sleep-with-the-chickens-face-thai-court-charges-burmese-migrants
">Burmese migrant workers on trial for complaining about the
horrible working conditions imposed on them.</a>
<p>
By accusing them of theft of a timecard, which they presented as evidence,
the Thai state shows it is a state of repression that has no shame.
<p>
I urge people not to visit Thailand except for important humanitarian
reasons.


feed_id: 4dc4732aae6fc161bffd5ab5aa34b4c6
title: The troll wants to privatize state assets
uri: The-troll-wants-to-privatize-state-assets
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28The_troll_wants_to_privatize_state_assets%29

content:
<p>
The troll wants to privatize state assets, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/06/private-toll-operators-love-trump-infrastructure-plan/">so that companies can put tolls on their use.</a>


feed_id: 4d26114ffa40d6b71183fb5b3bcf816f
title: Republican Party right-wing extremist rally
uri: Republican-Party-right-wing-extremist-rally
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Republican_Party_right-wing_extremist_rally%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/05/portland-alt-right-rally-republican-recruit-james-buchal">The Republican Party did recruiting at a right-wing extremist rally.</a>


feed_id: 883a288169fc389cd82631528e13a923
title: In the UK, 1/3 of workers have insecure working situations
uri: In-the-UK-1-3-of-workers-have-insecure-working-situations
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28In_the_UK%2C_1%252F3_of_workers_have_insecure_working_situations%29

content:
<p>
In the UK, 1/3 of workers have insecure working situations and don't know <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/05/nearly-10-million-britons-are-in-insecure-work-says-union">if they will be able to pay their bills the next week.</a> This is what unethical eployers want.


feed_id: bd72bae935ab5a61e4a6cc0447fc7aac
title: Arms industry buying votes
uri: 2017-06-08-Arms-industry-buying-votes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Arms_industry_buying_votes%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/41712/defense-industry-campaign-contributions-threaten-influence-senate-vote-saudi-arms-deal/">
The US arms industry effectively buys the votes of senators
</a>
deciding
whether to approve an arms sale to a repressive theocratic regime
such as <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>.
<p>
Should we condemn individual senators for selling their votes,
or the system that pressures them to do this?
<p>
Both!  Of course, both!
<p>
We can forgive people who are in positions of weakness for yielding to
the pressures of the system, except when they do something egregious.
However, someone as powerful as a senator can never plead, "the system
made me do it."


feed_id: 1d1ee5b7966353c4ff41f092998dde75
title: Emotional manipulation
uri: 2017-06-08-Emotional-manipulation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Emotional_manipulation%29
content:
<p>
Tobin Smith, formerly on the O'Reilly program on <a href="/glossary.html#faux">Faux News</a>, says
that
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/4/1668913/-Tobin-Smith-Fox-Paid-Contributor-Confirms-What-We-Always-Suspected-About-Fox?detail=emaildkre">
the "debates" were always rigged,
</a>
and that the shows were
calculated for emotional manipulation of the audience.


feed_id: df428f1e4362e5ba5487763ed602da2c
title: Oil extraction explosions
uri: 2017-06-08-Oil-extraction-explosions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Oil_extraction_explosions%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> wants to authorize
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/06/05/trump-officials-push-atlantic-oil-exploration-using-harmful-seismic-blasting">
using explosions in the Atlantic Ocean
(the sound from which will deafen whales at great distances) to find
oil to extract,
</a>
thus helping to wipe out most ocean life and replace
it with plastic.
<p>
That's typical extractivist behavior -- use up the world as fast as possible
and never mind what does or doesn't remain afterwards.


feed_id: d0a2a4d6ca4a63095d99b726ea970d1c
title: War against our children
uri: 2017-06-08-War-against-our-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28War_against_our_children%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>, and Republicans, are
<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trumps-war-on-our-children_us_5930a5fae4b062a6ac0ace59">
waging war against our children.
</a>
Even children can see this.


feed_id: b9f5d94bc0de818a726239ed36d22803
title: Air traffic control
uri: 2017-06-08-Air-traffic-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Air_traffic_control%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/05/donald-trump-air-traffic-control-privatization-faa">
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> wants to privatize US air traffic control.
</a>
  The company will cut corners, such as using less skilled people as
controllers, and the result will be fatal from time to time.


feed_id: 5b33f4201f9e938275fdf90ecf4f9084
title: The troll's incompetence
uri: 2017-06-08-The-troll-s-incompetence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28The_troll%27s_incompetence%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s incompetence
fits with his leanings toward autocracy.
<p>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/02/opinion/sunday/trumps-incompetence-wont-save-our-democracy.html">
The incompetence can ruin the US, and its political system,
</a>
but won't
stop him from getting what he wants most.


feed_id: 9ebe5f943e18c467f1cf5e92fb569002
title: Deadly hurricane season
uri: 2017-06-08-Deadly-hurricane-season
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Deadly_hurricane_season%29
content:
<p>
Americans need NOAA to track hurricanes, and FEMA to help out when
they hit.
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/6/3/1668402/-Trump-Puts-NO-ONE-In-Charge-of-NOAA-or-FEMA-As-Hurricane-Season-Just-Arrived">
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has not bothered to nominate a saboteur to run
them, and instead wants to cut their budget.
</a>
<p>
The states where hurricanes tend to hit usually vote Republican.  If
he causes a disaster there, he will alienate lots of Republicans.
That would be a good outcome, but it's a shame if the path there
goes through a disaster.


feed_id: 8ada1b8028de8b52d6ee5bbf0b05781b
title: Salafi dispute with Qatar
uri: 2017-06-08-Salafi-dispute-with-Qatar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#7_June_2017_%28Salafi_dispute_with_Qatar%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> and some other Arab countries have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/05/saudi-arabias-power-play-leaves-qatar-with-little-room-for-manouvre">
cut off trade and
relations with Qatar.
</a>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s regime seems to be pushing Salafi
Arabia to do this.
<p>
Reportedly this is because Qatar supports the Muslim Brotherhood which
<a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>' monarchy hates.  The other countries involved are
obeying <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>, except perhaps for Egypt's military rulers that
hate the Muslim Brotherhood for other reasons.
<p>
Maybe it is really about the campaign to demonize Iran.
<p>
Any form of Islamist rule shows contempt for human rights.  All the
regimes involved in this dispute are unjust, though the details vary.
But is there any rational reason for Americans to consider the Muslim
Brotherhood or Iran worse than Salafism?  I don't see one.


feed_id: d8162495ba49c14344676e37bf6d9bf7
title: Urgent: Fossil fuel tax
uri: Urgent-Fossil-fuel-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Fossil_fuel_tax%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-to-congress-act-now-to-roll-back-tax-breaks-for-the-fossil-fuel-industry?nowrapper=true">call
on Congress</a> to eliminate fossil fuel tax breaks.


feed_id: 3f94c1bb409365418e7ce34433494208
title: Urgent: Campaign contributions
uri: Urgent-Campaign-contributions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Campaign_contributions%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Kushner_Booker_Dems_Money">call
on plutocratist Democrats</a> to give away the campaign contributions
they received from Kushner and anyone else connected with the troll.


feed_id: 7a883e44cac8b95dde9f17bb1846e6d1
title: Thugs robbing protesters in Venezuela
uri: Thugs-robbing-protesters-in-Venezuela
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Thugs_robbing_protesters_in_Venezuela%29

content:
<p>
Venezuela's opposition says that thugs are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/07/venezuelas-opposition-accuses-security-forces-of-robbing-protesters">robbing
protesters</a>.
<p>
I believe the accusations, but they probably have nothing directly to
do with President Maduro.  <a href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> in Venezuela have been crooked since
long before Chavez.  He was unable to make them stop, but neither
could anyone else.
<p>
While Chavez was president, the head of a state agency I worked with
told me he had been (in effect) held for ransom by thugs, who stopped
him as he was driving and made up charges against him on the spot.
The fact that he was the head of a state agency didn't help him to
escape.


feed_id: c02a2737e49cba4418e50a62143d7013
title: Troll causes trouble for US base in Qatar
uri: Troll-causes-trouble-for-US-base-in-Qatar
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Troll_causes_trouble_for_US_base_in_Qatar%29

content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#infant">The infant</a> caused a lot of trouble by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/06/donald-trump-qatar-tweets-us-diplomatic-damage">insulting
the ruler of Qatar while a major US base is located there</a>.


feed_id: 907a3fcf6d9ce63663abacc69d22e517
title: Civilian casualties from US bombings
uri: Civilian-casualties-from-US-bombings
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Civilian_casualties_from_US_bombings%29

content:
<p>
Civilian casualties from US bombing in Syria and Iraq have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/06/us-syria-iraq-isis-islamic-state-strikes-death-toll">gone
way up due to the troll's changes in policies</a>.
<p>
Indeed, we don't really know how many they are, only a lower bound for
them.


feed_id: 0c8419d1d6c42aa537a735a852adcfeb
title: Food charity faces prosecution
uri: Food-charity-faces-prosecution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Food_charity_faces_prosecution%29
content:
<p>
A charity that feeds people with rejected food 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/06/food-waste-charity-may-be-prosecuted-over-out-of-date-produce">faces
prosecution for using food that has past its sell-by date</a>.
<p>
That's an absurd excuse: food does not become unsafe after that date,
nor even unpalatable.


feed_id: 97c4c061c46318e3d75483fd93313fef
title: NSA made world vulnerable
uri: NSA-made-world-vulnerable
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28NSA_made_world_vulnerable%29
content:
<p>
The NSA made the world vulnerable to WannaCry by 
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/us-government-malware-policy-puts-everyone-risk">saving
up bugs to use for attack rather than getting them fixed</a>.


feed_id: 06f09438c3bb6274df1daba9340cc38c
title: Humans' need for nature
uri: Humans-need-for-nature
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Humans_need_for_nature%29
content:
<p>
Humans need nature 
<a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2017/06/re-connect-with-nature-now-before-it-is-too-late/">both
biologically and psychologically</a>.  But we are wiping it out.


feed_id: 07c933e93b7e5cbe19afb45543b13d09
title: "Conservatism"
uri: Conservatism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Conservatism%29
content:
<p>
Stop Legitimizing 'Conservatism': It's Not an Ideology — It's a
Goddamn
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/05/stop-legitimizing-conservatism-its-not-ideology-its-goddam-death-machine">Death
Machine</a>.
<p>
I have to point out that many of the Western ideas of human rights are
not thousands of years old: they were formulated in the 1700s, or even
later.  However, that doesn't invalidate the point.


feed_id: 26156614da6f139371c851340bbad395
title: Bank fraud in the UK
uri: Bank-fraud-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Bank_fraud_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
A scheme to compensate victims of bank fraud in the UK is so 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/05/noel-edmonds-lawyers-lloyds-bank-payout-scheme-fraud">sloppy</a>
that one of the victims says it is a "sham".


feed_id: dcec78b1294106cba6178f370624596e
title: US knew UN forces brought cholera to Haiti
uri: US-knew-UN-forces-brought-cholera-to-Haiti
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28US_knew_UN_forces_brought_cholera_to_Haiti%29

content:
<p>
The US under Obama 
<a href="http://observer.com/2017/03/emails-reveal-cover-up-hillary-clinton-cholera-haiti/">knew
early on</a> that cholera was introduced to Haiti by the UN
coup-maintaining forces, and covered it up to shield the UN from
criticism.


feed_id: d4d59bfaa0da92a52c80b76ef4a00a6a
title: Photos published by US thug departments
uri: Photos-published-by-US-thug-departments
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28Photos_published_by_US_thug_departments%29

content:
<p>
US thug departments photograph everyone they arrest, and often publish
the photos directly to sites that use them for a sort of 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/03/opinion/sunday/innocent-until-your-mug-shot-is-on-the-internet.html?_r=0">extortion</a>.


feed_id: b075efdb22f3dbcfa55d0b72a51b7e6f
title: The term "intellectual property"
uri: The-term-intellectual-property
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#8_June_2017_%28The_term_intellectual_property%29
content:
<p>
An example of the 
<a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/03/531376014/enormous-rubber-duck-in-canada-is-counterfeit-artist-alleges">total
confusion and nonsense</a> that results if you suppose that the term
"intellectual property" has a concrete meaning.
<p>
Here's why it 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">doesn't have
one</a>.


feed_id: 8ab505d5a277b4ebe44b622fbfe866a0
title: Urgent: Medicaid and Obamacare
uri: Urgent-Medicaid-and-Obamacare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Medicaid_and_Obamacare%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators at 202-224-3121 to oppose the sneaky
Republican attempt to destroy Medicaid and Obama's medical coverage
plan (and give the rich a big tax cut).


feed_id: e886011807772d0eb517602ca9c69198
title: UK and US support for jihadi groups
uri: UK-and-US-support-for-jihadi-groups
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28UK_and_US_support_for_jihadi_groups%29

content:
<p>
The UK and US have supported jihadi groups in Syria and Libya, as well
as states such as <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> and Qatar that have supported jihadis
elsewhere.  The result is
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/07/how-end-islamic-state-terror-and-stop-british-foreign-policy-blowback">terrorism</a>.


feed_id: bfd80982105382c252b73c458da8e1c5
title: Freedoms of speech in Australia
uri: Freedoms-of-speech-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Freedoms_of_speech_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
The head of Australia's human rights commission warns of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jun/08/gillian-triggs-says-australias-politicians-leading-assault-on-democratic-ideals">government
threats to freedoms of speech and advocacy</a>.


feed_id: 9fc93f9ae264e636f36fb753912a9476
title: Israel lied about start of six-day war
uri: Israel-lied-about-start-of-six-day-war
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Israel_lied_about_start_of_six-day_war%29

content:
<p>
Israel lied to the US about the start of the six-day war,
<a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/05/the-six-day-war-and-israeli-lies-what-i-saw-at-the-cia/">claiming
that Egypt had started bombarding Israel</a>, according to someone
that was a CIA analyst at the time.
<p>
Egypt had in fact attacked Israel, by blockading the port of Elath.


feed_id: 07f80dd8def63b5cae8a480d26c26bf6
title: Theresa May
uri: Theresa-May
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Theresa_May%29
content:
<p>
Theresa May wants to impose
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/06/anti-terror-options-tpims-tagging-mass-surveillance">broad
censorship of undesirable political opinion</a>, as well as impose
something approximating incommunicado house arrest without trial.


feed_id: 631e5d464e3567f32f086a15bddaecb5
title: The TSA
uri: 2017-06-10-The-TSA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28The_TSA%29
content:
<p>
The Theater of Security Agency hopes to reduce its failure rate for
identifying weapons and bombs
<a href="http://reason.com/archives/2017/06/06/the-tsa-turns-harassing-travelers-into-a">turning
airport security into a slow and difficult procedure for everyone</a>.
<p>
Will we be required to remove all paper money from our bags?
That would cause lots of theft.


feed_id: e27742a13d64b0c4ffe40f62ab0c2094
title: Troll could impose fascism
uri: Troll-could-impose-fascism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Troll_could_impose_fascism%29
content:
<p>
Trump is very much like Mussolini, and
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/06/seeds-fascism-sprout-anew-trumps-america">could
impose fascist power in the US</a>.


feed_id: c44036cf273bde1c218b5e03e634d971
title: Copper wire phone facilities
uri: Copper-wire-phone-facilities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Copper_wire_phone_facilities%29
content:
<p>
Verizon tries to make customers move to fiber communications by
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/06/verizon-grudgingly-agrees-to-fix-thousands-of-copper-network-problems/">refusing
to fix copper wire facilities</a>.  In Pennsylvania the state forced
Verizon to agree to fix them.
<p>
Fiber allows faster internet connection, but it also means that your
phone will stop working some hours after a power failure.


feed_id: 7d31a6e2f27dece2261151a5d4ba05aa
title: Obstruction of justice
uri: Obstruction-of-justice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Obstruction_of_justice%29
content:
<p>
Lawyers disagree about whether the troll's conduct, as reported
by Comey, goes far enough to amount to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/07/james-comey-statement-trump-russia-analysis">obstruction
of justice</a>.


feed_id: dbeb3aed47a194a4ad9d7daf953e5d12
title: Comey's testimony
uri: Comey-s-testimony
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Comeys_testimony%29
content:
<p>
Comey has testified about how the bully
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/07/james-comey-trump-congress-statement">tried
to pressure him to let Flynn off the hook</a>.
<p>
A summary of the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/07/james-comey-trump-senate-testimony-russia-investigation">important
points</a>.
<p>
The full text of his
<a href="media/becc3b6f.os-jcomey-060817.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/os-jcomey-060817.pdf">testimony</a>.
<p>
Several current high officials
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/07/coats-rogers-nsa-odni-fbi-stonewall-congress-about-their-talks-with-trump-on-russia-and-comey/">refused
to testify to the senate</a>.
<p>
However, one had told other people that the troll had asked him to
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/top-intelligence-official-told-associates-trump-asked-him-if-he-could-intervene-with-comey-to-get-fbi-to-back-off-flynn/2017/06/06/cc879f14-4ace-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html">try
to make Comey pull back on his investigation</a>.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> has nominated a new FBI director with
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/07/christopher-wray-donald-trump-fbi-director-james-comey">ties
to the troll's election campaign</a>.


feed_id: b4dfe17e589d5760fde533449de0c6c5
title: Global heating denialists
uri: 2017-06-10-Global-heating-denialists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Global_heating_denialists%29
content:
<p>
350.org's
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/01/how-energized-peoples-movement-can-counter-trump-and-save-planet">plan
to defeat the global heating denialists</a>.


feed_id: d8c10a6ea9a04192477e2297c19ce98e
title: Tories used deceptive ads
uri: Tories-used-deceptive-ads
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Tories_used_deceptive_ads%29
content:
<p>

The Tories have used dishonest and deceptive ads
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/02/labour-accuses-tories-of-fake-news-over-video-of-corbyn-ira-comments">to falsely criticize Corbyn.</a>


feed_id: 87be7d9f455c4f670079ef24fa333e48
title: Pollution in the Inland Empire of California
uri: Pollution-in-the-Inland-Empire-of-California
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Pollution_in_the_Inland_Empire_of_California%29

content:
<p>

With constantly growing warehouse space, the Inland Empire of California
<a href="http://grist.org/justice/no-ones-breathing-easy-in-the-nations-new-megawarehouse-hub/">is getting more and more polluted</a>
 with increasing truck traffic.
<p>
How about building a railroad to carry cargo to the Los Angeles area?


feed_id: ec5998d26ef3f1b68fc4289702e65942
title: Big bully inspires young bullies
uri: Big-bully-inspires-young-bullies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Big_bully_inspires_young_bullies%29
content:
<p>

The big bully is inspiring students all around the US
<a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsamaha/kids-are-quoting-trump-to-bully-their-classmates?utm_term=.ho8lPPVJy#.ap5jJJNkQ">to bully students from all sorts of minority groups.</a>
<p>
Schools should tell students that Trump is a bully, that it's wrong
to do what he does, and if he were a student he would be told to stop
or else be sent home.


feed_id: 2877727f47231f0318a62341a0ccc4cc
title: Provoking uprisings in England
uri: Provoking-uprisings-in-England
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Provoking_uprisings_in_England%29
content:
<p>

An armed rebellion in England 200 years ago was provoked by an
undercover government agent 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jun/07/englands-forgotten-armed-uprising-pentrich-revolution-celebrated-derbyshire">sent by contemptuous Tories.</a>
<p>
It's amazing how many things are still the same today.


feed_id: 02d7aafb43ef2ad9382c04d18461b480
title: Gianforte apologized for attack
uri: Gianforte-apologized-for-attack
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Gianforte_apologized_for_attack%29
content:
<p>

Gianforte apologized at length 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/07/greg-gianforte-ben-jacobs-assault-case-civil-settlement
">for attacking reporter Ben Jacobs.</a>
<p>
It is chilling to realize that many Republicans today
wouldn't apologize for attacking a reporter or a dissident.


feed_id: c80dd2f290aedfc731ab160eec69058f
title: Attack on Iran
uri: Attack-on-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Attack_on_Iran%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/08/trump-reaction-to-isis-attacks-in-iran-repugnant-says-foreign-minister">Just after Iran suffered an act of Islamist terrorism,</a>
 the US plans
to put more sanctions on it.
<p>
Iran supports terrorism through the fatwa against Salman Rushdie,
but compared to what <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> does, and has done, that's minuscule.


feed_id: e0ec3ab07300a846a3316acf4317b88a
title: Teenage brides in South Sudan
uri: Teenage-brides-in-South-Sudan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Teenage_brides_in_South_Sudan%29
content:
<p>

In South Sudan, teenage girls are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jun/08/south-sudan-battle-for-cattle-is-forcing-schoolgirls-to-become-teenage-brides
">sold by their families as brides in exchange for cows.</a>
  Once married they are subject to violence.
<p>
Nothing will enable all the children to survive in a violent place
where families have seven children.  It's up to rich countries to
provide women in South Sudan with the birth control they need to avoid
that.


feed_id: a36dbd228e08502ebbd82d2a037e8ef3
title: Printer tracking
uri: Printer-tracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Printer_tracking%29
content:
<p>

The tracking dots code that identifies printers 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/printer-tracking-dots-back-news">gives the US government tremendous power</a>
 to identify people for any reason.  Since this power was established
secretly, we have to worry that other kinds of devices have secretly
been redesigned to spy on everyone.


feed_id: f8870358f2c92961d9224481645e374b
title: Snowden and the Espionage Act
uri: Snowden-and-the-Espionage-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Snowden_and_the_Espionage_Act%29
content:
<p>

Snowden explains how the Espionage Act 
<a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170606/18063037535/snowden-explains-how-espionage-act-unfairly-stacks-deck-against-reality-winner.shtml">unfairly stacks the deck against Reality Winner.</a>


feed_id: 49503f9e65a9c3cadbe9a8d19153864c
title: Pleading for Brazil
uri: Pleading-for-Brazil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Pleading_for_Brazil%29
content:
<p>

Brazilian tribal leader tours Europe to plead for help 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/08/brazilian-tribal-leader-tours-europe-to-plead-for-help-to-stop-killings-and-land-grabs">to stop killings and land grabs.</a>


feed_id: 65fce6dfeeb52c08105647f499b8ab5f
title: Blackwhiting
uri: Blackwhiting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#9_June_2017_%28Blackwhiting%29
content:
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s lawyer 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/08/trump-lawyer-james-comey-unauthorized-disclosures-press">demands an investigation of Comey</a>
 for "leaking" with his testimony.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s overall response is a general campaign of blackwhiting.
(See 1984 for the definition of "blackwhiting".)


feed_id: 228aac8cd3d0e978b7dda1a64dc650af
title: Trump or Comey Lying
uri: Trump-or-Comey-Lying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Trump_or_Comey_Lying%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/09/trump-or-comey-lying-guess-who">Either Trump or Comey is lying</a>. The idea that it is Comey is not credible.


feed_id: c0a04c72e9421867ba106fdfd8b91d74
title: So-Called Infrastructure Plan
uri: So-Called-Infrastructure-Plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28So-Called_Infrastructure_Plan%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/07/why-trumps-so-called-infrastructure-plan-good-wall-street-bad-america"><cite>Why Trump's So-Called Infrastructure Plan Is Good for Wall Street But Bad for
America</cite></a>


feed_id: 7d6dc802edf88c88d0e2c216dce63691
title: Maduro Splitting Chavistas
uri: Maduro-Splitting-Chavistas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Maduro_Splitting_Chavistas%29
content:
<p>
President Maduro is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/08/venezuela-chief-prosecutor-reject-maduro-constitution">splitting Chavistas</a> between those that are loyal
to Chavez' legacy and those that are more concerned with keeping power.


feed_id: 99054254d8eaad0ae1ad05b0afe4a379
title: CHOICE Act
uri: CHOICE-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28CHOICE_Act%29
content:
<p>
SCROTUS in the House of Representatives passed the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/08/house-vote-dodd-frank-act-2008-financial-crisis">CHOICE Act</a>, which gives banksters the choice to cheat Americans and cause
another financial disaster.

<p>


feed_id: 43dcec24b6daeeaf7deebcf9e99dce7b
title: Senators Defend Megalomaniac
uri: Senators-Defend-Megalomaniac
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Senators_Defend_Megalomaniac%29
content:
<p>
Republican senators' <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/08/james-comey-testimony-impeachment-machine-trump">highest priority</a>, as Comey testified, was to defend their
megalomaniac point man.


feed_id: 7a3647ac2e03064c7fe858c326c6c5bd
title: Minimum Wage Workers
uri: Minimum-Wage-Workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Minimum_Wage_Workers%29
content:
<p>
US <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/08/minimum-wage-affordable-housing-rentals-study">minimum wage workers can't afford to rent</a> a one-bedroom apartment.
<p>
The minimum-wage increases some cities and states have approved won't
fix the problem.


feed_id: 50897087424a745b0ea926b3b88f0793
title: Gaming Google Search
uri: Gaming-Google-Search
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Gaming_Google_Search%29
content:
<p>
Right-wing liars game Google Search so that their <a href="https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/06/how-the-trump-russia-data-machine-games-google-to.html">false news articles
fill the search results</a>, pushing everything else down out of sight.


feed_id: 8434ac621a4f9ceb251dafc37baac257
title: Kansas Tax Cuts
uri: Kansas-Tax-Cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Kansas_Tax_Cuts%29
content:
<p>
Kansas Republicans voted to undo their right-wing <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/07/kansas-kills-trump-tax-cuts-repudiation-right-wing-orthodoxy">"experiment" in tax
cuts</a> that proved disastrous for the state and its people.


feed_id: 632afa53851c6a60f732c5dc13b320b8
title: Colluding with Monsanto
uri: Colluding-with-Monsanto
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Colluding_with_Monsanto%29
content:
<p>
A former EPA official is under investigation for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/06/07/inspector-general-investigating-potential-collusion-between-monsanto-top-epa">colluding with
Monsanto</a> to pervert the decisions about glyphosate.  The official was
the head of the committee in charge of judging whether glyphosate should
be banned as carcinogenic.


feed_id: e261abce7d7731b18ce1407171681328
title: Dallas Pays Robert Groden
uri: Dallas-Pays-Robert-Groden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Dallas_Pays_Robert_Groden%29
content:
<p>
<a href="http://reason.com/reasontv/2017/06/06/conspiracy-to-silence-jfk-theorist">Dallas has paid compensation to Robert Groden</a>, for trying to harass him
to stop handing out leaflets in Dealey Plaza stating claims about
the assassination of President Kennedy.


feed_id: b287075fc9a75afc7f7f848bdbf42d21
title: Blocking Americans' Health
uri: Blocking-Americans-Health
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Blocking_Americans%27_Health%29
content:
<p>
The troll's nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs has shown an inclination to try to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/06/07/quietly-powerful-job-raos-views-could-put-americans-risk">block regulations to
protect Americans' health</a>.


feed_id: 9d2b0bdde5cef1d5b7f5b0261bd810f4
title: Gun Violence Toward American Women
uri: Gun-Violence-Toward-American-Women
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Gun_Violence_Toward_American_Women%29

content:
<p>
Hundreds of American women are <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/2/1668311/-Gun-violence-at-the-hands-of-an-intimate-partner-a-leading-cause-of-death-for-American-women">shot each year by their husbands/lovers</a>.
<p>
It's a much bigger danger than terrorism.


feed_id: 036c9ee3ea6e547ffe4d52d608663a9f
title: Instagram Virus
uri: Instagram-Virus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Instagram_Virus%29
content:
<p>
Virus-writers are passing commands to a <a href="http://boingboing.net/2017/06/07/watering-holes.html">virus in
comments on photos on Instagram</a>.
<p>
I'm afraid this will lead to shutting off commenting across the net.


feed_id: d99c9844cd6d414a9e6c6242af7e2523
title: Time for Troll to Leave
uri: Time-for-Troll-to-Leave
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Time_for_Troll_to_Leave%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/08/it-time-donald-trump-leave-white-house">"[The troll's] ignorance is matched only by his incompetence, which is matched
only by his obvious instability."</a>


feed_id: a3e7e660d997734ab74e427858f09934
title: Zika
uri: 2017-06-10-Zika
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Zika%29
content:
<p>
Over 7% of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/08/zika-virus-birth-defects-cdc-study-puerto-rico">babies whose mothers catch zika</a> early in pregnancy have
birth defects.
<p>
At present, the only known way to prevent those birth defects is not
to have a baby under such circumstances.


feed_id: 981a17ff8bb92cb1779f72de3b7dc47e
title: Blockade of Qatar
uri: Blockade-of-Qatar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Blockade_of_Qatar%29
content:
<p>
Saudi Arabia's real priority in the blockade of Qatar is to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/08/blockade-qatar-against-arab-spring-close-down-al-jazeera">close al
Jazeera</a>.


feed_id: c8f7efcd5bd5f7f4974e37711ffe2223
title: Theresa May Gets Tough
uri: Theresa-May-Gets-Tough
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Theresa_May_Gets_Tough%29
content:
<p>
UK thugs have been unable to stop terrorist plots, even though they knew
of the participants as vaguely leaning towards extremism.  There was no visible
difference between those few who became real terrorists and thousands of other
who have not done so.
<p>
Moreover, the methods that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/08/tougher-policing-wont-end-terror-attacks-britain">Theresa May proposes to "get tough"</a> would not help.


feed_id: 00b82eba2eecafc80fdef5eb0374d946
title: Banning anonymity
uri: 2017-06-11-Banning-anonymity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Banning_anonymity%29
content:
<p>

Russian Parliament moves ahead with 
<a href="https://globalvoices.org/2017/06/09/russian-parliament-moves-ahead-with-banning-anonymity-on-messenger-apps/">banning anonymity on messenger apps.</a>


feed_id: 8f9ad01847f295a82b3c65cc20481f3f
title: Privatizing America
uri: Privatizing-America
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Privatizing_America%29
content:
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/09/kitchen-logic-dont-let-trumps-gop-privatize-america">plan to privatize highways and everything else</a>
would give companies a free hand to run them into the ground.
<p>
The deals would probably be set up so that there is no way to undo
them without paying the companies 10 times what they put in.  We might need
a constitutional amendment to make it easy to undo them.  Or perhaps
a new form of eminent domain can be established for taking back anything
that was privatized, in which the temporary private owner would get
back the amount that it paid, minus however much it has extracted
from the property since then.


feed_id: d4eb14c9d8d54905b7c23244bd90ab1c
title: Right-wing trust in the state
uri: Right-wing-trust-in-the-state
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Right-wing_trust_in_the_state%29
content:
<p>

Funny how right-wingers say you can't trust the state to do anything right,
except what it comes to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/10/internment-is-so-hot-right-now-but-its-nothing-new-in-australia">imprisoning people based on their ethnicity.</a>


feed_id: ad6d45a54468c386816ef5cb706ce474
title: Taking the offensive
uri: Taking-the-offensive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Taking_the_offensive%29
content:
<p>

Naomi Klein: we must take the offensive 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/10/naomi-klein-now-fight-back-against-politics-fear-shock-doctrine-trump">against the plutocrats' agenda,</a>
which would drive most Americans into poverty and sickness as corporations
tread people underfoot, using every possible shock as an excuse.


feed_id: cef2ceae87f417620a70b43e6ed31b51
title: Privatizing ATC
uri: Privatizing-ATC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Privatizing_ATC%29
content:
<p>

Reporting on 
<a href="https://phys.org/news/2017-06-pros-cons-privatizing-air-traffic.html">the pros and cons of privatizing air traffic control.</a>
<p>
I am sure the main airlines will abuse their increased power.


feed_id: 8ccdee2e40c01c9924fc6a8cb5ccd5fe
title: Surveillance by Miami thugs
uri: Surveillance-by-Miami-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Surveillance_by_Miami_thugs%29
content:
<p>

Miami's thugs tried to pull a fast one by getting approval for some
new surveillance in a very vague way.  Then it was discovered that they
wanted to fly planes over the city to track everyone all the time.
<p>
<a href="https://rightsanddissent.org/news/spy-planes-miami/">Efforts to reverse the vote</a>
 have a chance of success.
<p>
Give those weasels an inch, and they take a mile.


feed_id: d4e7d97336bfe045d861dde98d285161
title: Protecting the oceans
uri: Protecting-the-oceans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Protecting_the_oceans%29
content:
<p>

Large fishing companies have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/09/nine-of-worlds-biggest-fishing-firms-sign-up-to-protect-oceans">agreed to protect fish stocks</a>
and put an end to slave labor on fishing boats.
<p>
Turning this into real change will not be trivial.


feed_id: 18089f83c208febec45ae85341826a1a
title: Wrasse at risk
uri: Wrasse-at-risk
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Wrasse_at_risk%29
content:
<p>

Salmon farmers are trying to use wrasse as cleaners to eliminate the
sea lice that plague farmed salmon.  They are catching so many wrasse
that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jun/10/salmon-farmers-put-wild-wrasse-at-risk--sea-lice-scotland-anglers">they are putting that species in danger.</a>


feed_id: 8e7ae02272c9a725b38d4ea9b970e583
title: Uncrewed cargo ships and accidents
uri: Uncrewed-cargo-ships-and-accidents
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Uncrewed_cargo_ships_and_accidents%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/08/japanese-self-driving-cargo-ships-within-decade">Uncrewed cargo ships may reduce accidents.</a>
<p>
On the other hand, they will pass by sailors in distress without any way
to notice and aid them.


feed_id: 7c72d5c390f954c389b37b02771312c1
title: EU's version of PRISM
uri: EU-s-version-of-PRISM
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28EUs_version_of_PRISM%29
content:
<p>

The EU wants to set up 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/08/european-union-police-direct-access-cloud-data-terror-attacks-threats">its own version of PRISM,</a>
 which is how the FBI gets personal data directly from companies' servers.
<p>
"The cloud" is just a way of saying "Don't ask who, where, or which
agencies have has access."  Don't be a fool — don't trust anything so
cloudy.


feed_id: bbf070a08cd46359e47d89a61f39c63f
title: Urgent: Don't let Sessions off hook
uri: Urgent-Don-t-let-Sessions-off-hook
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Dont_let_Sessions_off_hook%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to say, don't let Sessions off
the hook for plans to fill up private prisons.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641
and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: f2c0c0bc741d994952465f6599835f9e
title: Tienanmen Square massacre
uri: Tienanmen-Square-massacre
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Tienanmen_Square_massacre%29
content:
<p>
On every anniversary of the Tienanmen Square massacre, The Chinese
state
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/jun/09/tiananmen-square-silences-massacre-censored-words">arrests
survivors and their families</a>.  It is hard for people in China to
learn, or even remember, what happened there.


feed_id: 2aa4022281047599d471dcb9faca02ef
title: Tories and religious fanatics
uri: Tories-and-religious-fanatics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Tories_and_religious_fanatics%29
content:
<p>
The Tories will try to rule with the support of a Northern Ireland
party of
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/09/election-setback-theresa-may-clings-power-u-k-thanks-ulster-extremists/">religious
fanatics that consort with terrorists</a>.
<p>
One of the fanatical party's ministers is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/feb/12/northern-ireland-charles-darwin-courts">trying
to bully a museum into promoting denial of evolution</a>.


feed_id: 7de7065b9a573082900a3194fd50937b
title: Troll's "infrastructure plan"
uri: Troll-s-infrastructure-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Trolls_infrastructure_plan%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s "infrastructure plan" means
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/09/trumps-infrastructure-plan-doesnt-really-exist">more
toll roads, more privatized water systems, and more Enrons</a>.  To
the extent it is actually possible.


feed_id: 0048928ba0c0a0d50c132089e8f6550d
title: NSA's domestic spying
uri: NSA-s-domestic-spying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28NSAs_domestic_spying%29
content:
<p>
The head of the NSA
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/nsa-reneges-promise-tell-congress-how-many-innocent-americans-it-spies">refused
to tell Congress how many Americans</a> the NSA spies on.


feed_id: 56b5285d37542df8a49c131f3367aa62
title: Danish ISPs make step forward
uri: Danish-ISPs-make-step-forward
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Danish_ISPs_make_step_forward%29
content:
<p>
Danish ISPs will
<a href="https://falkvinge.net/2017/06/06/danish-isps-stop-providing-copyright-industry-subscriber-identities/">no
longer disclose subscriber identities to copyright trolls</a>.
<p>
It is a step forward, but we need to legalize sharing.


feed_id: 740b8e581fae483c005367d512ce2238
title: Missouri voter ID law
uri: Missouri-voter-ID-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Missouri_voter_ID_law%29
content:
<p>
Missouri's voter ID law says that the state will fund giving all
eligible voters ID so they can vote.  But the state
<a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/state-missouri-deliberately-trying-suppress-vote-elections-loom">didn't
do so</a>.


feed_id: 142678ef55d2716f298556fde726785a
title: Corbyn's "centrist" detractors
uri: Corbyn-s-centrist-detractors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Corbyns_centrist_detractors%29
content:
<p>
Corbyn's "centrist" detractors called him a radical and predicted he would
cause big losses for Labour.  He has
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/06/09/jeremy-corbyns-critics-predicted-he-would-destroy-labour-they-were-radically-wrong/">proved
them totally wrong</a>.
<p>
They may have convinced themselves of their claims, but it was obvious
to me that they were
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#20_July_2016_(Corbyn_must_be_on_labour_leadership_ballot_paper)">straining
the truth, and making foolish assumptions</a>, to discredit Corbyn.
<p>
The right-wing media also
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/09/tabloids-crush-corbyn-power-politics-sun-mail-labour">couldn't
stop him</a>.


feed_id: 8391d4a26cdf60931625b94bcb91c372
title: Corbyn and Sanders
uri: Corbyn-and-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Corbyn_and_Sanders%29
content:
<p>
Corbyn's success shows that it is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/09/bernie-sanders-jeremy-corbyn-lesson-for-america">possible
for Sanders to win</a>.


feed_id: 2141bf6a366815af81f95eaa4e1dccb9
title: Russia considers ban on VPNs and Tor
uri: Russia-considers-ban-on-VPNs-and-Tor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Russia_considers_ban_on_VPNs_and_Tor%29

content:
<p>
Russia is
<a href="https://torrentfreak.com/bill-to-ban-vpns-unmask-operators-submitted-to-russias-parliament-170609/">considering
a bill to ban VPNs and Tor</a>, and make ISPs block access to them.
<p>
This means Russia is trying to make censorship of foreign sites
essentially impossible to violate.


feed_id: 8f575c6bf74b3f0b3c39b8b72d960c57
title: Corbyn's Labour
uri: Corbyn-s-Labour
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Corbyns_Labour%29
content:
<p>
Labour made big gains in the UK election and has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/09/what-is-a-hung-parliament-and-what-happens-now">stopped
the Tories from having a majority of Parliament</a>.
<p>
This advance is due to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/09/jeremy-corbyn-prime-minister-labour">Corbyn
and the anti-austerity Labour manifesto</a>, as well as to the lousy
Tory campaign which revealed its shortcomings.
<p>
Although Corbyn's Labour didn't win a majority, it achieved an
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/09/facts-proving-jeremy-corbyns-election-triumph">almost
record fraction of votes</a>.
<p>
Previous Labour leaders were
"<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/09/jeremy-corbyn-labour-leaders'>convinced
that if the public saw their true political nature theyâd lose that
election</a> that they ended up losing anyway."


feed_id: 60c9517c62aab7982a0726781bc24e2d
title: Blocking Americans' Health
uri: 2017-06-11-Blocking-Americans-Health
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#10_June_2017_%28Blocking_Americans%27_Health%29
content:
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a>'s nominee to head the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs has shown an inclination to try to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/06/07/quietly-powerful-job-raos-views-could-put-americans-risk">block regulations to
protect Americans' health</a>.


feed_id: 365ebaccf2f3269158882507619e6597
title: Troll: deport them anyway
uri: Troll-deport-them-anyway
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_June_2017_%28Troll%3A_deport_them_anyway%29
content:
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> wants to deport 1300 people 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/09/undocumented-immigrants-us-trump-administration">whom courts had already decided not to deport.</a>


feed_id: 6304f257219a32fb3901ae0aa2574b4f
title: Urgent: Comment on Net Neutrality
uri: Urgent-Comment-on-Net-Neutrality
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_Comment_on_Net_Neutrality%29

content:
<p>

US citizens: 
<a href="https://petitions.signforgood.com/ProtectNetNeutrality/?code=OM">file a comment with the FCC for Net Neutrality</a>
if you haven't done so already.


feed_id: d1cbcfc7e88d5e9d848e50db5b0f08d7
title: Trump and Comey Dinner Meeting
uri: Trump-and-Comey-Dinner-Meeting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_June_2017_%28Trump_and_Comey_Dinner_Meeting%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://lauren.vortex.com/2017/06/09/white-house-releases-transcript-of-trump-and-comey-dinner-meeting">White House Releases Transcript of Trump and Comey Dinner Meeting (not).</a>


feed_id: 1d34a454566de040561db6db23d4f7e4
title: The troll acts like a mafioso
uri: The-troll-acts-like-a-mafioso
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_June_2017_%28The_troll_acts_like_a_mafioso%29
content:
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#trump">The troll</a> acts like a mafioso, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/09/comey-got-face-trumps-godfather-fantasy">but not like a competent and successful one.</a>


feed_id: 787d94030afef2c52d17653143af3050
title: Rising up against austerity
uri: Rising-up-against-austerity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_June_2017_%28Rising_up_against_austerity%29
content:
<p>

Sanders: Corbyn surge in UK shows world 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/09/sanders-corbyn-surge-uk-shows-world-rising-against-austerity-inequality">rising up against austerity, inequality.</a>


feed_id: c067c4b81f19d8734f96185c3c474fd0
title: Urgent: FBI director
uri: Urgent-FBI-director
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_June_2017_%28Urgent%3A_FBI_director%29
content:
<p>

US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/no_trump_fbi_director?t=1002&akid=23502.1183552.dyO4jp">tell the Senate</a>
 not to let the troll pick a new FBI director.


feed_id: c3b0481d014d44bf888c4888251fa8c4
title: Sessions and secure encryption
uri: Sessions-and-secure-encryption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_June_2017_%28Sessions_and_secure_encryption%29
content:
<p>

Sessions wants to prohibit secure encryption 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/06/08/dare-to-keep-kids-off-human-trafficking">in the name of ending enslavement of prostitutes,</a>
 but this is a red herring.  When the government looks for enslaved
prostitutes, it finds few of them.  What Sessions wants is to crush
what remains of privacy in the US.


feed_id: 87a93118577b9a67a6d28da689f34a45
title: Evergreen State College anti-racist campaigns
uri: Evergreen-State-College-anti-racist-campaigns
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_June_2017_%28Evergreen_State_College_anti-racist_campaigns%29

content:
<p>

Students at Evergreen State College are competing to take anti-racist
campaigns 
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/06/08/evergreen-state-college-protests-campus">to the most extreme possible degree.</a>


feed_id: 991935013fc5b000e6bcc57dd44662a0
title: Comey: Pence lied
uri: Comey-Pence-lied
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_June_2017_%28Comey%3A_Pence_lied%29
content:
<p>

Comey's testimony says 
<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/6/8/1669982/-Comey-says-Pence-was-aware-of-Flynn-problems-as-early-as-the-transition-which-means-Pence-lied?detail=emaildksc">he believes Pence lied</a>
 when he said he didn't
know about Flynn's meetings with Russia.


feed_id: af7eb861e7629673a46486d0f55739b3
title: Unpaid labor by prisoners
uri: Unpaid-labor-by-prisoners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#11_June_2017_%28Unpaid_labor_by_prisoners%29
content:
<p>

In several states, 
<a href="http://www.newsweek.com/hillary-clinton-prison-labor-african-americans-arkansas-622209">prisoners are forced to work unpaid</a>
 for the
personal convenience of elected officials.
<p>
It is pointless to condemn Clinton personally for accepting in the
1980s a practice which was not controversial at the time.  Instead of
that distraction, it's better to focus on the practice itself.  We
should stop coercing prisoners to work on anything other than running
the prison, and if they do do such work they should get the same wage
as free labor.  They should also be allowed to join the union for such
work.


feed_id: 9004b113a3450c166644f925358fdce2
title: Britons against extremism
uri: Britons-against-extremism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#12_June_2017_%28Britons_against_extremism%29
content:
<p>

As British Muslims pour out anger and rejection at the few terrorists
in their midst, the Britons in general must seize the opportunity to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/10/baroness-warsi-britain-must-hit-reset-muslims-relationship
">solidify an alliance with them against extremism.</a>


feed_id: 103f36dfc070d73c3b408f83a1102a00
title: Turkey blocks Wikipedia
uri: Turkey-blocks-Wikipedia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#12_June_2017_%28Turkey_blocks_Wikipedia%29
content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/world/europe/turkey-wikipedia-ban-recep-tayyip-erdogan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss">Turkey now blocks Wikipedia</a>
 — a sign that tyranny is consolidating its grip.


feed_id: b91706dac490b96aa43be937d7a3089d
title: Violence in Venezuela
uri: Violence-in-Venezuela
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#12_June_2017_%28Violence_in_Venezuela%29
content:
<p>

Venezuela's suppression forces 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/10/anti-government-demonstrations-convulse-venezuela">are now gratuitously violent,</a>
 shooting tear gas containers and metal marbles at protesters' heads
 and killing them.
<p>
They are acting much like the US 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#26_October_2016_(Dakota_pipeline_attacks)">suppression forces</a>
 that were used against pipeline protesters,
<p>
and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2015-jul-oct.html#28_October_2015_(Israel_using_excessive_force)">like Israeli soldiers against Palestinian protesters.</a>
<p>
I think they all reflect the attitude of 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_%28Authoritarian_followers%29">authoritarian followers</a>
 towards anyone who doesn't bow down to the master.
<p>
Sad to say, Maduro is right in saying that the US wants to enable
multinationals to exploit Venezuela's resources. However, Maduro is
also exploiting them.
<p>
Venezuela needs another opposition, a Chavista opposition.


feed_id: f60d557f599fc307a3590ffe4c0187d9
title: Campaigns in UK
uri: Campaigns-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#12_June_2017_%28Campaigns_in_UK%29
content:
<p>

Election campaigns in the UK (as in the US) 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/10/electoral-reform-needed-to-control-money-lies-online-world">are based on lies</a>
 told privately to one potential supporter at a time.
<p>
It isn't always successful, but it is always dishonest.
Political campaigning organizations should be required to publish
anything they send or show to supporters who are not paid staff.


feed_id: 35451b0ea3dae81a6df441eeb67dcc83
title: Tories and Ulster
uri: Tories-and-Ulster
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#12_June_2017_%28Tories_and_Ulster%29
content:
<p>

If the Tories depend on the extremist, theocratic Protestant party of
Ulster, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/10/theresa-may-deal-dup-threatens-20-years-hard-work
">it could re-stimulate Ulster terrorism.</a>


feed_id: d73bab446f1e9e4834358e610ac7a82a
title: Censoring artwork in NJ
uri: Censoring-artwork-in-NJ
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#12_June_2017_%28Censoring_artwork_in_NJ%29
content:
<p>

A high school in New Jersey 
<a href="https://morristowngreen.com/2017/06/08/morristown-high-removes-trump-satires-from-school-art-show">censored student artwork that mocked the troll.</a>
<p>
The student who appreciates the publicity this got him is not mistaken
about its useful consequences, but if he wants to build resistance to
the troll, he's making a mistake about how to go about it.
<p>
What these students should do is publicly denounce the school and its
principal, and demand to confront those who operated behind the scenes
to pressure for their work to be censored.
<p>
It might also be effective to replace their art works with big "This
piece was censored" signs.


feed_id: 6f7d1183bcae09dd5fa904bc6b894add
title: Winning on a progressive platform
uri: Winning-on-a-progressive-platform
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#12_June_2017_%28Winning_on_a_progressive_platform%29

content:
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/10/democrats-corbyn-chicago-peoples-summit
">Corbyn's huge advance</a>
 shows that progressives can win on a progressive
platform. Democrats must stop aiming for "centrist" right-wing
positions.
<p>
Those that do so are not simply choosing the position they think
people will vote for. It's also a question of getting funds from
various businesses and rich people: corruption, in other words.
Even when they see that progressives can win, they may continue
to oppose the progressives for the sake of their paymasters.
We will have to push them out.


