# articles

feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_May_2023_(Voter_entrapment,_FL)
title: Voter entrapment, FL
uri: Voter-entrapment-FL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_May_2023_(Voter_entrapment,_FL)
content:
 
<p>
Florida officials systematically entrap convicts into registering to
vote and then voting.  Then they get prosecuted for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/19/florida-voter-registration-voter-fraud-formerly-incarcerated">"voter fraud"</a>.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_May_2023_(Anti-Putin_movement)
title: Anti-Putin movement
uri: Anti-Putin-movement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_May_2023_(Anti-Putin_movement)
content:
 
<p>
Some Russians claim to have started
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/23/belgorod-residents-told-not-to-return-to-homes-after-drone-strikes">an anti-Putin armed guerrilla movement</a>
operating in Russian territory.
<p>
However, they seem to have entered Russia across the Ukrainian border,
and to have picked up some US-made arms in Ukraine.  So far they have
attacked only government targets.
<p>
In moral terms, I think what they are doing is admirable.  Their
actions could help Ukraine win the war, but I think it will be
difficult to increase them enough to have a significant effect.
<p>
Putin could theoretically cite this as an excuse for attacking Ukraine
in some new ways.  But I don't think that makes any difference.  Putin
never needs a real excuse for any atrocity &mdash; he invents all the bogus excuses
he needs.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_May_2023_(Brics_summit_and_Putin)
title: Brics summit and Putin
uri: Brics-summit-and-Putin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_May_2023_(Brics_summit_and_Putin)
content:
 
<p>
How
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/23/arrest-warrants-petitions-tribunals-pressure-mounting-vladimir-putin">Putin could be prosecuted</a>
for the crime of aggressive war.
<p>
Regime change in Russia would probably be a change for the better,
but it would be foolish to insist on that if it interferes with
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_April_2022_(Fallacious_cease-fire_argument)">reaching a just peace</a>
to end the war.  We should allow Putin to remain
in power in Russia if he agrees to release all of Ukraine's territory.






<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_((satire)_target_removes_towels)
title: (satire) Target Removes All Towels From Stores
uri: (satire)-Target-Removes-All-Towels-From-Stores
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_((satire)_target_removes_towels)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Target Removes All Towels From Stores After 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/target-removes-all-towels-from-stores-after-soaking-wet-1850476070">Soaking-Wet Lunatic Objects To Dryness.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(aderrien_murry_police)
title: US family demands officer be charged for shooting 11-year-old
uri: US-family-demands-officer-be-charged-for-shooting-11-year-old
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(aderrien_murry_police)
content:
 
<p>
*Mississippi family demands officer be 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/26/aderrien-murry-police-shooting-mississippi">charged for shooting 11-year-old.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(jailed_iranian_journalists)
title: Supporters of jailed Iranian journalists call for public trials
uri: Supporters-of-jailed-Iranian-journalists-call-for-public-trials
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(jailed_iranian_journalists)
content:
 
<p>
*Supporters of jailed Iranian journalists call for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/26/supporters-of-jailed-iranian-journalists-call-for-trial-to-be-held-in-public">trials to be held
 in public.*</a>
 <p>
Secret trials are an indication of tyranny.  China's 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/13/trial-of-hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-delayed-after-british-lawyer-denied-visa-extension">political trials
are all secret.</a>
<p>
Australia 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/apr/04/sentencing-details-in-secret-witness-j-trial-may-be-kept-hidden-for-20-years-court-told">sometimes does it too.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(northern_spotted_owl_ghosts)
title: last spotted owl in Canada fights for survival
uri: last-spotted-owl-in-Canada-fights-for-survival
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(northern_spotted_owl_ghosts)
content:
 
<p>
Cutting down old-growth forests has wiped out spotted owls in Canada.
Only one 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/26/northern-spotted-owl-canada-british-columbia-ghosts-aoe">owl is remains in the wild in Canada.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(biden_rollback_irs_funding)
title: GOP on Rollback of IRS Funding
uri: GOP-on-Rollback-of-IRS-Funding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(biden_rollback_irs_funding)
content:
 
<p>
What do Republicans want most?  To make sure 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/patriotic-millionaires-slam-biden-gop-on-rollback-of-irs-funding-in-pending-debt-limit-deal">rich people have a low
tax rate.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(cashless_welfare_bill)
title: cashless welfare bill First Nations people
uri: cashless-welfare-bill-First-Nations-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(cashless_welfare_bill)
content:
 
<p>
Australia is now paying welfare benefits through a bank card that will
track 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/15/labors-cashless-welfare-bill-criticised-as-disproportionately-affecting-first-nations-people">all spending of them.</a>
<p>
A large fraction of those affected by this new system of surveillance
are indigenous, and they are campaigning to put an end of this.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(us_immigration_personal_data)
title: the contentious tool US immigration uses to get your data
uri: the-contentious-tool-US-immigration-uses-to-get-your-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(us_immigration_personal_data)
content:
 
<p>
The US immigration thug agency uses sites such as YouTube as well as Facebook
and Twitter to find all users who seem to be interested in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/25/us-immigration-surveillance-google-twitter-meta-personal-data">matters concerning
immigration.</a>
<p>
It is clear that some of these subpoenas investigate people who are
not by any stretch of the imagination engaged in planning crimes.
These are nothing like the Proud Boys.
<p>
The only way to deal with this problem is not to let those sites collect
personal data on people for watching anything, unless there is a subpoena
to collect data on those who visit a particular channel or page.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(hedge_funds_capitalism)
title: Look at what hedge funds really do
uri: Look-at-what-hedge-funds-really-do
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(hedge_funds_capitalism)
content:
 
<p>
The myth of Capitalism is that investors take risks with their money,
so they deserve a big profit when the risk succeeds.  I can go along with this
to a point: we can't let the investors keep most of the wealth that a business
produces &mdash; most has to go to workers and to the state.
<p>
Nowadays, private equity fund managers and similar "investors" have
obtained plutocratist laws which assure them of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/25/hedge-funds-capitalism-risk-asset-managers-tax">profits even from
failure.</a>
<p>
This problem stems from another foolish general practice: the US has
more or less given up on penalizing companies that do harm.  Instead,
the proposal is always to subsidize businesses that say they won't
do the harm.
<p>
And governments don't even bother to insist that the business do what
it was subsidized for.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(blm_police_brutality)
title: those injured by 2020’s police violence speak out
uri: those-injured-by-2020-s-police-violence-speak-out
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(blm_police_brutality)
content:
 
<p>
Thugs around the US violently attacked protesters and journalists at
the rallies for George Floyd in 2020.  Some of those shot with
"nonlethal" weapons and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/25/blm-police-brutality-victims-speak-out">left with irreparable injuries.</a>
<p>
Have the thugs that refused to give Evans any help getting to the
hospital been punished for that?
<p>
Have the thugs that 

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/mar/22/g20-challenge-police-kettling-court">encircled and besieged protesters</a>
<p>
been punished for that?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(desantis_presidential_campaign)
title: Florida groups warn of danger from ‘dictator’ DeSantis
uri: Florida-groups-warn-of-danger-from-dictator-DeSantis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(desantis_presidential_campaign)
content:
 
<p>
Americans, what DeMentis is doing to Florida shows what he would do to
the whole 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/25/florida-groups-america-white-house-ron-desantis">US if he becomes president.</a>
<p>
He has pioneered new sorts of bullying that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/25/ron-desantis-florida-record-presidential-campaign">go beyond the corrupter.</a>
<p>
DeMentis aims do more than defeat opposition; he seeks to punish those
that dared to oppose him.
<p>
I do not judge laws and government policies mainly based on whether
they induce big companies such as Disney to move work to my state
or my country.  But I see, in DeMentis's efforts to punish Disney,
a plan for the sort of fascism that makes opposition too dangerous.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Call on CNN to fire CEO Christ Licht
uri: Urgent-Call-on-CNN-to-fire-CEO-Christ-Licht
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_CNN_to_fire_CEO_Christ_Licht)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_CNN_to_fire_CEO_Christ_Licht)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on CNN to <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-cnn-fire-ceo-chris-licht">fire CEO Christ Licht</a>.
<p>
The reasons for this include the "town hall" <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_May_2023_(When_CNN_Reliable_Sources_went_off-air)">lying opportunity he
    gave to the bullshitter</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Stop Israeli demolition of Palestinian schools
uri: Urgent-Stop-Israeli-demolition-of-Palestinian-schools
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Stop_Israeli_demolition_of_Palestinian_schools)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Stop_Israeli_demolition_of_Palestinian_schools)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to take action to <a href="https://act.jstreet.org/sign/stop-far-right-school-demolitions-in-west-bank/">stop Israeli demolition of
    Palestinian schools</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Investigate Maximus's labor practices immediately
uri: Urgent-Investigate-Maximus-s-labor-practices-immediately
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Investigate_Maximus's_labor_practices_immediately)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Investigate_Maximus's_labor_practices_immediately)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Secretary Becerra of the Dept of HHS to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/secretary-becerra-investigate-maximus-labor-practices-immediately">Investigate Maximus's labor practices immediately</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Pass the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax
uri: Urgent-Pass-the-Billionaire-Minimum-Income-Tax
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Pass_the_Billionaire_Minimum_Income_Tax)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Pass_the_Billionaire_Minimum_Income_Tax)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-pass-the-billionaire-minimum-income-tax-and-save-our-democracy">pass the Billionaire Minimum Income
    Tax</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>


 


title: Urgent: Support The Greater Chaco Protection Act
uri: Urgent-Support-The-Greater-Chaco-Protection-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Support_The_Greater_Chaco_Protection_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Support_The_Greater_Chaco_Protection_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your senators to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=54314">support The Greater Chaco
    Protection Act</a>.
  It would prohibit oil and gas drilling within 10
miles of Chaco Canyon.
<p>
To see the response to signing, disable CSS in that page.
<p>
I urge you to read about the ancient abandoned towns of Chaco Canyon.

 


title: Urgent: call on Amazon to stop donating to book-banning Republicans
uri: Urgent-call-on-Amazon-to-stop-donating-to-book-banning-Republicans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_call_on_Amazon_to_stop_donating_to_book-banning_Republicans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_call_on_Amazon_to_stop_donating_to_book-banning_Republicans)

content:
 
<p>

  Everyone: call on Amazon to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-amazon-stop-donating-to-book-banning-republicans">stop donating to book-banning Republicans</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Subpoena Justice Roberts to testify before the Senate
uri: Urgent-Subpoena-Justice-Roberts-to-testify-before-the-Senate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Subpoena_Justice_Roberts_to_testify_before_the_Senate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Subpoena_Justice_Roberts_to_testify_before_the_Senate)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Senator Durbin to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/senator-durbin-subpoena-chief-justice-roberts-about-supreme-court-ethics-violations-now-3">subpoena Justice Roberts
    to testify before the Senate</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Remove obsolete dams and protect Chinook salmon
uri: Urgent-Remove-obsolete-dams-and-protect-Chinook-salmon
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Remove_obsolete_dams_and_protect_Chinook_salmon)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Remove_obsolete_dams_and_protect_Chinook_salmon)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=54741">remove obsolete dams and protect Chinook
    salmon</a> and the southern resident orcas that eat them.
<p>
To see the response to signing, delete all CSS in that page.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Amazon to phase out plastic packaging
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Amazon-to-phase-out-plastic-packaging
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Amazon_to_phase_out_plastic_packaging)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Amazon_to_phase_out_plastic_packaging)

content:
 
<p>

  Everyone, call on Amazon to <a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=54596">phase out plastic packaging</a>.
<p>
You may need to wipe out the CSS in the site's reply to see it.

 


title: Urgent: State your support for the campaign for a Green New Deal
uri: Urgent-State-your-support-for-the-campaign-for-a-Green-New-Deal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_State_your_support_for_the_campaign_for_a_Green_New_Deal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_State_your_support_for_the_campaign_for_a_Green_New_Deal)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: state your support for the <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/add-your-name-we-need-a-green-new-deal-2">campaign for a
    Green New Deal</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on George Santos to resign immediately from Congress
uri: Urgent-Call-on-George-Santos-to-resign-immediately-from-Congress
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_George_Santos_to_resign_immediately_from_Congress)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_George_Santos_to_resign_immediately_from_Congress)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on George Santos to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-george-santos-must-resign-immediately">resign immediately from Congress</a>
because of the criminal charges against him.

 


title: Urgent: Adopt the National Popular Vote Compact
uri: Urgent-Adopt-the-National-Popular-Vote-Compact
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Adopt_the_National_Popular_Vote_Compact)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Adopt_the_National_Popular_Vote_Compact)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/elect-the-president-by-national-popular-vote-and-ensure-the-candidate-with-the-most-votes-actually-wins">call on states to adopt</a> the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-mar-jun.html#19_May_2020_(Electoral_college)">National Popular Vote Compact</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Repeal_the_Comstock_Act)
title: Urgent: Repeal the Comstock Act
uri: Urgent-Repeal-the-Comstock-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Repeal_the_Comstock_Act)
content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-congress-must-repeal-the-comstock-act">repeal the Comstock Act</a>.
<p>
That law imposes censorship on writing and art that is mailed, and
also prohibits mailing birth control and abortion drugs.  It had
become a dead letter because every part had been found
unconstitutional, but the part about abortion drugs may have become
dangerous again.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
  If you phone, please spread the word!<p>
    
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Demand_fair_wages_for_nurses)
title: Urgent: Demand fair wages for nurses
uri: Urgent-Demand-fair-wages-for-nurses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Urgent:_Demand_fair_wages_for_nurses)
content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/add-your-name-nurses-deserve-fair-wages">demand fair wages for nurses</a>.
<p>
Giving nurses a raise is the right thing to do, but won't protect them
from being overworked to the point that they can't cope with the
overload.  That requires a different solution: hiring more nurses.

 


title: Fossil fuel companies drop in share value
uri: Fossil-fuel-companies-drop-in-share-value
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Fossil_fuel_companies_drop_in_share_value)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Fossil_fuel_companies_drop_in_share_value)

content:
 
<p>

  *Fossil fuel companies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/22/big-polluters-share-prices-fall-climate-lawsuits-fossil-fuels-study">register drop in [share] value</a> after
   litigation or unfavorable judgments.*

 


title: Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption
uri: Spain-Wants-to-Ban-End-to-End-Encryption
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Spain_Wants_to_Ban_End-to-End_Encryption)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Spain_Wants_to_Ban_End-to-End_Encryption)

content:
 
<p>

  *Leaked Government Document Shows <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/europe-break-encryption-leaked-document-csa-law/">Spain Wants to Ban End-to-End Encryption</a>.*

 


title: Sanctions against Russia fail to pressure Putin
uri: Sanctions-against-Russia-fail-to-pressure-Putin
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Sanctions_against_Russia_fail_to_pressure_Putin)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Sanctions_against_Russia_fail_to_pressure_Putin)

content:
 
<p>

Economic sanctions against Russia have basically <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/21/the-west-tightening-russian-sanctions-a-sign-of-failure">failed to pressure Putin
    effectively</a>.
   Many countries support Putin and help Russia evade the sanctions.
<p>
Alas, it will be necessary to defeat the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> in battle.
<p>
Meanwhile, US sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela are having little effect
<a href="https://jacobin.com/2023/05/sanctions-washington-consensus-cuba-venezuela-biden-administration-squad-letter">except to cause suffering and convince thousands to try to get into the US</a>.
<p>
Basically, economic sanctions rarely achieve foreign policy goals.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Removing_PFAs_from_sewage_sludge)
title: Removing PFAs from sewage sludge
uri: Removing-PFAs-from-sewage-sludge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Removing_PFAs_from_sewage_sludge)
content:
 
<p>

Will it be feasible to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/23/maine-pfas-removal-sewage-sludge">remove all PFAs from sewage sludge and make it safe
    to put on farms as fertilizer</a>?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(DeMentis's_textbook_censorship_system)
title: DeMentis's textbook censorship system
uri: DeMentis-s-textbook-censorship-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(DeMentis's_textbook_censorship_system)
content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis's</a> textbook censorship system is <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/holocaust/">censoring discussion
    of the holocaust</a>.

 


title: Rich graduates in England will pay less for degree
uri: Rich-graduates-in-England-will-pay-less-for-degree
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Rich_graduates_in_England_will_pay_less_for_degree)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Rich_graduates_in_England_will_pay_less_for_degree)

content:
 
<p>

Under new Tory reforms, *richer graduates in England will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/may/13/nurses-teachers-student-loan-reforms-biggest-squeeze">pay less for
    degree than poorer students</a>.*
<p>
That's to be expected, since the Tories are party that works for the rich.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Corporation's_annual_harm_to_climate)
title: Corporation's annual harm to climate
uri: Corporation-s-annual-harm-to-climate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Corporation's_annual_harm_to_climate)
content:
 
<p>

Many well-known retail businesses are fighting against a California bill
to <a href="https://www.levernews.com/why-in-n-out-burger-is-fighting-a-landmark-climate-bill/">require corporations to publish their annual harm to the climate</a>.

 


title: Biden's history of negotiating with Republicans on default
uri: Biden-s-history-of-negotiating-with-Republicans-on-default
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Biden's_history_of_negotiating_with_Republicans_on_default)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Biden's_history_of_negotiating_with_Republicans_on_default)

content:
 
<p>

Biden has a history of <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/05/23/biden-debt-ceiling-harry-reid-mitch-mcconnell/">screwing up when negotiating with Republicans
    threatening to cause default</a>.
  Negotiating with them would have been foolish for any president, but
Biden is likely to screw up again.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(China's_loans_crushing_poor_countries)
title: China's loans crushing poor countries
uri: China-s-loans-crushing-poor-countries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(China's_loans_crushing_poor_countries)
content:
 
<p>

  China's loans are <a href="https://apnews.com/article/china-debt-banking-loans-financial-developing-countries-collapse-8df6f9fac3e1e758d0e6d8d5dfbd3ed6">crushing poor countries</a>.
  China refuses to cooperate with other lenders to reduce poor
countries' debts when those become desperate.  Instead it uses tricks
to pay make them China ahead of the other lenders, and to conceal the
amount of debt.
<p>
  The IMF is famous for <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#19_July_2012_(Political_crisis_in_Romania)">causing terrible damage</a> to the education and medicine
in countries that it "helps".
  But "help" from China is even worse.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Upset_about_Netflix_account_sharing)
title: Upset about Netflix account sharing
uri: Upset-about-Netflix-account-sharing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Upset_about_Netflix_account_sharing)
content:
 
<p>

There is an international upset about Netflix, because it effectively
raised prices by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/23/netflix-crackdown-password-sharing">disabling a feature that allowed many users to use
    friends' and relatives' accounts at no extra charge</a>.
<p>
A higher price on something that is not a necessity of life is not a
disaster.  What's really bad about Netflix are the injustices of how it
treats all users:

<ul>
<li>
Making customers identify themselves, and keeping track of what they watch.
</li>

<li>
Making them accept an evil contract which includes a commitment not to
share copies.
</li>

<li>
  Using unjust technology (<a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm">DRM</a>) designed to restrict them.
</li>

</ul>
<p>
Everyone, flick off Netflix!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Flaw_in_the_Morandi_Bridge_in_Genoa)
title: Flaw in the Morandi Bridge in Genoa
uri: Flaw-in-the-Morandi-Bridge-in-Genoa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Flaw_in_the_Morandi_Bridge_in_Genoa)
content:
 
<p>

The flaw in the Morandi Bridge in Genoa was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/23/ex-chief-at-firm-responsible-for-genoa-morandi-bridge-says-he-knew-about-risk-of-collapse">brought to the attention
    of the company responsible</a> 8 years before it collapsed.
<p>
Autostrade began discussing what to do about the problem years before
2018.  However, such a large maintenance job can't be done with cash
on hand.  The state needs to authorize the funds.  According to
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_Morandi">Wikipedia</a>,
  Autostrade asked for 20 million euros for repairs to this bridge in
2018.  Perhaos that was the right action, but it was too slow.
<p>
Is it reasonable to entrust maintenance of bridges to a company owned
by a fashion retail business?  To me, that seems risky.  The
executives and board of the parent company would not have learned, in
their line of business, the proper values for civil engineering.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Verra_certifies_carbon_offsets)
title: Verra "certifies" carbon offsets
uri: Verra-certifies-carbon-offsets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Verra_certifies_carbon_offsets)
content:
 
<p>

Verra "certifies" supposed carbon offsets, but judges them so feebly
that they are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/23/ceo-of-worlds-biggest-carbon-credit-provider-says-he-is-resigning">effectively a scheme for greenwashing</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Letters_to_insurance_companies)
title: Letters to insurance companies
uri: Letters-to-insurance-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Letters_to_insurance_companies)
content:
 
<p>

500 university students and recent graduates in Britain sent a letter
to many important insurance companies committed to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/24/uk-students-pledge-career-boycott-of-insurers-over-fossil-fuels">refusing to work
    for insurance companies that insure fossil fuel projects</a>.

 


title: (satire) Florida Bans Men From Becoming Nurses
uri: (satire)-Florida-Bans-Men-From-Becoming-Nurses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_((satire)_Florida_Bans_Men_From_Becoming_Nurses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_((satire)_Florida_Bans_Men_From_Becoming_Nurses)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) *<a href="https://www.theonion.com/florida-bans-men-from-becoming-nurses-1850448027">Florida Bans Men From Becoming Nurses</a>.*

 


title: Anti-Putin militias that have raided Russian territory
uri: Anti-Putin-militias-that-have-raided-Russian-territory
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Anti-Putin_militias_that_have_raided_Russian_territory)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(Anti-Putin_militias_that_have_raided_Russian_territory)

content:
 
<p>

  About the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/24/russian-anti-putin-militias-belgorod">anti-Putin militias that have raided Russian territory</a>.

<p>
 


title: Questioning and detecting disinformation
uri: Questioning-and-detecting-disinformation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Questioning_and_detecting_disinformation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Questioning_and_detecting_disinformation)

content:
 
<p>
People for the American Way recommends <a href="https://www.pfaw.org/blog-posts/how-to-spot-the-truth-in-a-sea-of-disinformation/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_campaign=may2023">ways to question and detect
disinformation</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Urgent:_War_on_drugs_and_Mexico)
title: Urgent: War on drugs and Mexico
uri: Urgent-War-on-drugs-and-Mexico
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Urgent:_War_on_drugs_and_Mexico)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens, call on Congress to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/go/34272?c0=petition-fentanyl-cwc.aHeSg_&source=em20230527&t=1006&akid=8949%2E223515%2EX9kWkH">reject the latest right-wing lunacy</a>:
to declare fentanyl a "chemical weapon" and use this as an excuse to
threaten Mexico.
<p>
We need to end the "war on drugs", not extend it into a war with Mexico.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Secret_war_in_Cambodia)
title: Secret war in Cambodia
uri: Secret-war-in-Cambodia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Secret_war_in_Cambodia)
content:
 
<p>
*Survivors of Kissinger’s <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/05/21/henry-kissinger-cambodia-bombing-survivors/">Secret War in Cambodia</a> Reveal Unreported
Mass Killings [carried out by US forces].
<p>
Those are in addition to <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/05/20/kissinger-cambodia-media-journalists/">many attacks that were acknowledged</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Farming)
title: Farming
uri: Farming
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Farming)
content:
 
<p>
George Monbiot <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/26/farming-good-factory-bad-global-food-crisis">refutes the absurd vision of returning to a
preindustrial style of agriculture</a>.
It could not possibly feed the
people who live our cities today, and didn't feed most people
adequately when it was the norm.
<p>
He suggests that we produce food more efficiently using one-celled life.
That might be adequate when we get really good of engineering it to
resemble the diverse foods we eat today -- at which point it will be
another name for culturing meat without growing entire animals.
<p>
<a href="/articles/children.html">Having fewer babies</a>
is a crucial part of <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-sep-dec.html#16_September_2018_(800_million_people_without_enough_to_eat)">addressing the difficulty of feeding the human
population of the 22nd century</a>, supposing we prevent the gruesome
gigadeaths that climate breakdown threatens in this century.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Thugs_restricting_free_speech)
title: Thugs restricting free speech
uri: Thugs-restricting-free-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Thugs_restricting_free_speech)
content:
 
<p>
The ACLU is suing to <a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/the-sneaky-way-the-police-could-abuse-their-power-to-restrict-free-speech">stop Texas thugs for fabricating reasons</a> to
prosecute a city council member for pushing to remove another official.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(India_and_G20)
title: India and G20
uri: India-and-G20
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(India_and_G20)
content:
 
<p>
India has put a pretty mask over the city of Srinagar to shepherd G20
delegates through the city and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/may/26/kashmiris-mock-magnificent-makeover-of-disputed-capital-for-g20-summit">hide the repression</a> of Kashmir from
their eyes.
<p>
The article reports that Twitter is censoring some of the postings
about these events.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(AI_fear)
title: AI fear
uri: AI-fear
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(AI_fear)
content:
 
<p>
Here is an example of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/26/future-ai-chilling-humans-threat-civilisation">someone who became terrified of "Artificial
Intelligence" because he saw some output from ChatGPT</a>.
<p>
It is clear he believes ChatGPT understands some sort of _meaning_ in
its output.  In fact, we know it does not understand anything.  It is
incapable of having knowledge and incapable of having intentions.
<p>
I am not trying to claim that real artificial intelligence will be
safe.  I don't know what it might do.  Perhaps we should take some
precautions -- such as limiting access to facilities for making DNA
sequences to order.  Those facilities might be used for mass murder
even by plain old humans.
<p>
But we can't learn anything about hypothetical future artificial
intelligences by looking at doubletalk-generating systems such as
ChatGPT.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Anti-abortion_propaganda)
title: Anti-abortion propaganda
uri: Anti-abortion-propaganda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Anti-abortion_propaganda)
content:
 
<p>
*The Press is Falling for <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/05/27/abortion-fetal-heartbeat-propaganda-press-coverage/">Anti-Abortion "Fetal Heartbeat" Propaganda</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Light_pollution)
title: Light pollution
uri: 2023-05-30-Light-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Light_pollution)
content:
 
<p>
The rapid increase in outdoor lighting is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/27/light-pollution-threatens-to-make-stars-invisible-within-20-years">spreading light pollution</a>.
<p>
The amount of light pollution is increasing so fast that in 20 years stars
will no longer be seen in large regions.
<p>
This can have biological effects on species that need dark or are
threatened by dark.  This could drive some species to extinction.
<p>
Around 2006, in a taxi from Lake Titicaca to La Paz, I saw amazing
vistas of stars.  I wonder if those still exist.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Research_into_Long_Covid)
title: Research into Long Covid
uri: Research-into-Long-Covid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Research_into_Long_Covid)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/immunologist-akiko-iwasaki-we-are-not-done-with-covid-not-even-close">Research into long Covid is active</a>, but it won't be easy to figure out
what is causing the symptoms.
<p>
The article estimates that 65 million people suffer from long Covid
now.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(California_and_sea_level_rise)
title: California and sea level rise
uri: California-and-sea-level-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(California_and_sea_level_rise)
content:
 
<p>
Up to 70% of California's beaches may be washed away in this century
by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/27/california-beaches-erosion-2100-study">sea-level rise caused by global heating</a>.
<p>
Other things people value, including their houses, are likely to be
destroyed too.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Raman_Pratasevich)
title: Raman Pratasevich
uri: Raman-Pratasevich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Raman_Pratasevich)
content:
 
<p>
The Belarus dictator Lukashenko forced down an airliner and took
exiled opposition activist Raman Pratasevich off of it.  It seems that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/27/belarus-dissident-arrested-collaborator-raman-pratasevich">brainwashing in prison broke Pratasevich completely</a>.  Now he walks
around Belarus giving talks to praise Lukashenko.
<p>
He is not in prison, but I presume he not free, rather an abject slave.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Boebert_and_antisemitism)
title: Boebert and antisemitism
uri: Boebert-and-antisemitism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Boebert_and_antisemitism)
content:
 
<p>
Boebert acknowledges that measures against antisemitism and other
forms of bigotry are <a href="https://boingboing.net/2023/05/26/boebert-defends-anti-semitism-as-a-conservative-value.html">measures against right-wingers</a>.
Boebert, if the antisemitic shoe fits, wear it.
<p>
It is a mistake to refer to those right-wingers as "<a href="/antiglossary.html#conservative">conservatives</a>."

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(NHS_snooping_for_Facebook)
title: NHS snooping for Facebook
uri: NHS-snooping-for-Facebook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(NHS_snooping_for_Facebook)
content:
 
<p>
Some of UK's National Health Service web sites <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/27/nhs-data-breach-trusts-shared-patient-details-with-facebook-meta-without-consent">snoop on patients' browsing
for Facebook</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Keystone_pipeline_flawed)
title: Keystone pipeline flawed
uri: Keystone-pipeline-flawed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Keystone_pipeline_flawed)
content:
 
<p>
Greg Palast reports that The (original) Keystone oil pipeline ruptured
in 2022 (and caused a substantial oil spill) because of improper
construction, which was not detected because <a href="https://www.gregpalast.com/new-keystone-report-reveals-catalog-of-errors-led-to-biggest-spill-in-pipelines-history/">the safety inspection
tool's software had been modified so as to overlook "small" flaws</a> in
pipelines.
<p>
Palast says that such modification is a common practice.  It seems
that pipeline companies they have decided to ignore flaws that,
although "small", can lead eventually to oil spills.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Twitter_against_researchers)
title: Twitter against researchers
uri: Twitter-against-researchers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Twitter_against_researchers)
content:
 
<p>
In the past, researchers could obtain large amounts of randomly chosen
tweets for a small price.  Now Twitter has raised the price to an
amount they can't afford, and <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/twitter-is-making-researchers-delete-data-it-gave-them-unless-they-pay-dollar42000/ar-AA1bGxyd">demands they delete the old data if they
don't sign up for it</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(CO2_in_atmosphere)
title: CO2 in atmosphere
uri: CO2-in-atmosphere
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(CO2_in_atmosphere)
content:
 
<p>
Increased CO2 in the upper atmosphere <a href="https://e360.yale.edu/features/climate-change-upper-atmosphere-cooling">makes it cool and contract</a>.
This enables dangerous space junk to remain longer in low Earth orbit,
and undermines the slowly recovering ozone layer.

<p>
 


title: London thugs won't answer mental crises calls
uri: London-thugs-won-t-answer-mental-crises-calls
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(London_thugs_won't_answer_mental_crises_calls)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(London_thugs_won't_answer_mental_crises_calls)

content:
 
<p>
The London <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> department has announced, all of a sudden, that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/29/met-police-sir-mark-rowley-mental-health-response-support">it won't
answer emergency calls about mental crises</a>.
<p>
This implements, by surprise, half the goal of "Defund the Police": to
stop sending armed <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> to deal with mental crises.  However, it's
only half of the goal of "Defund the Police".
<p>
The other half goal was to send other personnel to respond to those
calls -- personnel trained in de-escalation and calming people down,
rather than in violence.  This surprise announcement makes no
provision for anyone to do this job.  It can't be the ambulance
service: they are underfunded, and often arrive so late that the
patient is ready for burial.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/28/met-police-to-stop-attending-emergency-mental-health-calls">More info</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Almshouses)
title: Almshouses
uri: Almshouses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Almshouses)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/22/affordable-and-stress-free-how-almshouses-are-the-unsung-heroes-of-uk-social-housing">About Britain's almshouses</a>: a form of low-cost cohousing
that has worked well for 1000 years or more.
<p>
The people who live in them <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/22/almshouse-residents-may-live-up-to-two-and-a-half-years-longer-study-finds">live longer, on the average, than others
their age</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: protect students from censorship
uri: Urgent-protect-students-from-censorship
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Urgent:_protect_students_from_censorship)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Urgent:_protect_students_from_censorship)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the U.S. Dept. of Education to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-the-us-dept-of-ed-protect-students-right-to-learn-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-urgent-demand-action-from-the-us-department-of-education-to-protect-students-right-to-learn-2">protect students
from DeMentis's censorship law</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: stop the Colorado River fossil fuel project
uri: Urgent-stop-the-Colorado-River-fossil-fuel-project
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Urgent:_stop_the_Colorado_River_fossil_fuel_project)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Urgent:_stop_the_Colorado_River_fossil_fuel_project)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to stop Big Oil's <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/big-oil-colorado-river/?t=1001&akid=30768%2E96703%2Eep5iIi">next disastrous fossil
fuel project on the Colorado River</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_May_2023_(Sec._of_[oil]_Transportation)">Here</a> for more information.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: tighten proposed energy plant greenhouse gas emission standards
uri: Urgent-tighten-proposed-energy-plant-greenhouse-gas-emission-standard
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Urgent:_tighten_proposed_energy_plant_greenhouse_gas_emission_standards)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Urgent:_tighten_proposed_energy_plant_greenhouse_gas_emission_standards)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> to <a href="https://act.evergreenaction.com/letter/EPA-clean-up-climate-pollution/?source=ema_2023_05_26_111rules_comments&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=100clean&utm_source=email2023_05_26">tighten the proposed standards for power
plants' greenhouse gas emissions</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Erdoğan_reelected)
title: Erdoğan reelected
uri: Erdoğan-reelected
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Erdoğan_reelected)
content:
 
<p>
Erdoğan was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/28/polls-close-in-second-round-of-the-turkish-presidential-election">reelected as president of Turkey</a>.
<p>
This is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/28/west-caught-between-fear-hope-erdogan-extends-20-year-rule-turkey-election">bad for human rights in Turkey, and good for authoritarianism
in general</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Britain_and_Covid)
title: Britain and Covid
uri: Britain-and-Covid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Britain_and_Covid)
content:
 
<p>
*We desperately need a government who will say it: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/29/government-britain-covid-pupils-absence-long-term-sickness-boris-johnson">Britain is still
reeling from Covid</a>.*
<p>
The US is, too -- but not in one uniform, simple way.  The policies
for dealing with Covid-19 were different from state to state.  At the
start, some big cities were hit worst.  Later, for many months,
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(How_Republicans_have_politicized_Covid19)">Republican states were hit worst</a>,
because Republicans seized
on Covid-19 as an opportunity for <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(dark_money_tea_party_funded_patriots)">disinformation and sabotage</a>,
especially after they realized that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_April_2022_(Covid-19_racial_disparities_and_reckless_behavior)">blacks were more likely to die from it</a>.
<p>
One harm that most people don't recognize as one is that many
activities and institutions in our society have imposed the use of
nonfree computing technology.  This includes most schools at all
levels.  Most talks at MIT still <a href="/zoom.html">require using Zoom</a> to listen.
Whether you want to listen at the time of the event, or listen to
recording later, the only way is through Zoom's nonfree surveillance
system.

<p>
 


title: Pro-Russian Ukrainians taking children to Russia
uri: Pro-Russian-Ukrainians-taking-children-to-Russia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Pro-Russian_Ukrainians_taking_children_to_Russia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Pro-Russian_Ukrainians_taking_children_to_Russia)

content:
 
<p>
Some pro-Russian Ukrainians, in occupied territories, have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/29/i-was-so-scared-the-ukrainian-children-taken-to-russia-for-financial-gain">taken their
neighbors' children to Russia in order to get financial benefits</a>,
using lies to convince them.
If they apply for adoption papers, the Russian system will not let their
parents get them back.
<p>
The article calls this "deportation", but I don't think that term fits
the example that it presents.  Neither, I think, does "kidnaping."
Those terms do properly apply to many Ukrainian children, who were
forced to go to Russia by the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(1937_Memorial_Day_Massacre)
title: 1937 Memorial Day Massacre
uri: 1937-Memorial-Day-Massacre
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(1937_Memorial_Day_Massacre)
content:
 
<p>
Researching <a href="https://inthesetimes.com/article/memorial-day-massacre-steel-union-labor-strike-chicago">the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre</a>, in which Chicago <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> murdered
striking steel workers.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Paying_for_aid)
title: Paying for aid
uri: Paying-for-aid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Paying_for_aid)
content:
 
<p>
Disabled Britons now have to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/28/tax-on-disability-rising-uk-social-care-costs-debt">pay for aid in daily life</a>, and it costs
more than most can afford.
<p>
It sounds like the US.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Insects_and_birds)
title: Insects and birds
uri: Insects-and-birds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Insects_and_birds)
content:
 
<p>
England learns: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/28/conserve-insects-or-birds-will-vanish-with-them">wipe out the insects, and next you'll have wiped out
the birds that eat them</a>.

<p>
 


title: Ukraine put up more wind turbines than England
uri: Ukraine-put-up-more-wind-turbines-than-England
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Ukraine_put_up_more_wind_turbines_than_England)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Ukraine_put_up_more_wind_turbines_than_England)

content:
 
<p>
Ukraine has managed to put up 19 wind turbines since being invaded by
the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>.  Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/28/ukraine-built-more-onshore-wind-turbines-last-year-than-england">England has built just two</a> in the same
period of time.
<p>
A few years ago, Tories changed laws to make it almost impossible to
get permission to set up a wind turbine, but <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-may-aug.html#28_May_2016_(Fracksters_coming_to_England)">easy to get permission for
fracking</a>.
I never understood why they wanted to discourage wind power.
Does anyone know?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Abd_al-Rahim_al-Nashiri)
title: Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri
uri: Abd-al-Rahim-al-Nashiri
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Abd_al-Rahim_al-Nashiri)
content:
 
<p>
*Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri (prisoner in Guantanamo) wants to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/28/guantanamo-detainee-accuses-uk-agencies-of-complicity-in-his-torture">bring a
case examining alleged role of [British agencies] MI5, MI6 and GCHQ in his
[torture] by the CIA</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Racial_censorship)
title: Racial censorship
uri: 2023-05-31-Racial-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Racial_censorship)
content:
 
<p>
Racial censorship, first applied to censor white authors, has been
stretched to censors all racial groups -- the bizarre idea that "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/28/rebecca-f-kuang-rejects-idea-authors-should-not-write-about-other-races">You
can only write about people in your own group</a>."
<p>
It's valid to complain about stories told by an author writing about
people in a subculture <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a> does not know, works that are based
mainly on stereotypes.  You can make the claim that a work is of that
sort; sometimes it is true.  If people challenge it, you can defend
it.
<p>
However, erecting a racial system of prohibitions is worse than the
disease, and also won't cure it.
<p>
In a multiracial and multicultural society, that racial censorship
rule would allow no fiction whatsoever.  Unless the characters live in
a ghetto together, no one author could write all of them.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(PayPal_bias_against_Palestinians)
title: PayPal bias against Palestinians
uri: PayPal-bias-against-Palestinians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(PayPal_bias_against_Palestinians)
content:
 
<p>

  PayPal is being <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/24/paypal-palestine-ban-us-congress-">rebuked for bias against Palestinians</a>.  It does business
with Israelis in the occupied Palestinian territory, but refuses to do business
with Palestinians there.
<p>
PayPal refuses to do business with any clients in a way that respects
their freedom: to order, one must run nonfree software.  No thanks, PayPal!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(On_the_situation_of_Moldova)
title: On the situation of Moldova
uri: On-the-situation-of-Moldova
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(On_the_situation_of_Moldova)
content:
 
<p>

  On the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/24/moldova-vladimir-putin-threat-ukraine-europe">situation of Moldova</a>, just to the west of Ukraine.

 


title: Work requirement to safety net programs
uri: Work-requirement-to-safety-net-programs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Work_requirement_to_safety_net_programs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Work_requirement_to_safety_net_programs)

content:
 
<p>

*[Republican] attempt to add work requirements to safety net programs
such as Medicaid and Snap could <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/24/republican-debt-ceiling-proposals-benefits-loss-medicaid-snap">harm families already struggling</a>.*
<p>
In the US today, the minimum wage is so low that many people with jobs
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-jan-apr.html#07_March_2015_(Walmarts_raise_not_enough)">can't get by on their pay</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Labour_proposing_UK_economic_reform)
title: Labour proposing UK economic reform
uri: Labour-proposing-UK-economic-reform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Labour_proposing_UK_economic_reform)
content:
 
<p>

  The Labour Party is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/24/rachel-reeves-economic-thinking-social-democracy">proposing to reform the UK economy</a>.
<p>
I still have to ask: would they tax the rich and use the money to lift
people out of poverty?  "Growth" as such is benefit if the growth goes
mainly to the wealthy.

 


title: People exonerated after death sentence
uri: People-exonerated-after-death-sentence
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(People_exonerated_after_death_sentence)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(People_exonerated_after_death_sentence)

content:
 
<p>

Former governors of Alabama point out that around <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/24/former-alabama-governors-death-penalty-regret">12% of the people
    sentenced to death</a> in that state were subsequently exonerated.
<p>
One of them upheld the death sentence for a man he now believes was innocent.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(On_recent_history_in_Pakistan)
title: On recent history in Pakistan
uri: On-recent-history-in-Pakistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(On_recent_history_in_Pakistan)
content:
 
<p>

  On <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/24/violence-chaos-military-pakistan-imran-khan-protests-army">recent history in Pakistan</a>: democracy and military rule.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Members_of_climate_group_homes_raided)
title: Members of climate group homes raided
uri: Members-of-climate-group-homes-raided
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Members_of_climate_group_homes_raided)
content:
 
<p>

  German <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/24/german-police-stage-nationwide-raids-against-climate-activists">raided the homes of climate campaigners</a> belonging to a
group called "Last Generation", comparable to Extinction Rebellion.
<p>
The group hopes to prevent mass murder.  The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> accused it of being
a "criminal organization."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Election_authority_of_Houston)
title: Election authority of Houston
uri: Election-authority-of-Houston
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Election_authority_of_Houston)
content:
 
<p>

Texas Republicans are creating new legal excuses to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/24/texas-republicans-houston-local-election-authority">take over the
    election authority of Houston</a>, with its 5 million people.
<p>
It is not exactly clear what they want to do to Houston's voters,
but it must be come sort of voter suppression.

 


title: Syrian refugees' fight to reclaim homes
uri: Syrian-refugees-fight-to-reclaim-homes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Syrian_refugees'_fight_to_reclaim_homes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Syrian_refugees'_fight_to_reclaim_homes)

content:
 
<p>

  *   As many as 14 million Syrians face a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/25/millions-of-syrian-refugees-face-fight-to-reclaim-homes-says-human-rights-group">near insurmountable barrier</a> to
   returning to their homes after [Assad's] government passed laws giving the
   state power to seize their land and property.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(UK_study_reveals_mass_grave_sites)
title: UK study reveals mass grave sites
uri: UK-study-reveals-mass-grave-sites
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(UK_study_reveals_mass_grave_sites)
content:
 
<p>

*UK study of 1948 Israeli massacre of Palestinian village <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/25/study-1948-israeli-massacre-tantura-palestinian-village-mass-graves-car-park">reveals mass
    grave sites</a>.*
<p>
  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandroni_Brigade">Wikipedia</a>
  reports that denial of that massacre has gone as far as a libel lawsuit
against an Israeli who wrote about it.

 


title: Western states to take less water from Colorado river
uri: Western-states-to-take-less-water-from-Colorado-river
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Western_states_to_take_less_water_from_Colorado_river)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Western_states_to_take_less_water_from_Colorado_river)

content:
 
<p>

*   California, Arizona and Nevada strike deal with US government to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/22/colorado-river-states-california-arizona-nevada">take
    about 13% less water</a> from drought-stricken [Colorado] river.*
<p>
This will surely slow the drying of the Colorado river.  Will it be
enough to prevent that?  We don't know.  It depends on whether the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Atmospheric_rivers)">atmospheric rivers</a> that now plague California
  bring enough water to the east side of the Sierra Nevada mountains
to keep the Colorado flowing.  If not, the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Drought_in_US_west)">trend of increased aridity</a>
in the region may continue.

 


title: Phones and credit cards to pay for public transport
uri: Phones-and-credit-cards-to-pay-for-public-transport
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Phones_and_credit_cards_to_pay_for_public_transport)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Phones_and_credit_cards_to_pay_for_public_transport)

content:
 
<p>

Victoria (in Australia) wants to lead suckers to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/15/we-will-now-reach-the-21st-century-victoria-to-overhaul-myki-system-with-new-ticket-operator">use phones and credit cards
    to pay for public transport</a>.  If they do this foolish thing, the system
will track all their movements.
<p>
Will this system permit anonymous use, paying cash?  Will it permit
use by someone who has no snoop-phone, snoop-watch, or snoop-card?  If
so, how would that work?  And what is possible with the existing
system?  If you know by experience, please email me.

 


title: Minnesota protection for Amazon workers
uri: Minnesota-protection-for-Amazon-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Minnesota_protection_for_Amazon_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Minnesota_protection_for_Amazon_workers)

content:
 
<p>

  *Minnesota Enacts <a href="https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/atcYNHk4Eh2YdGnwBh-YDHHC0Ua0BhcIDtkW8zPZpTWcQC7COIYpSW4VvrrHX3Qsl_uM4_iZKnyjXAQHmKiW1aAUCxmL6ukZH42aiwBnIc74SkXsICl5neQLZIQKWzIvyYBFX0bl3Hkl1MgkBa5-Cshpx-U-n0bOj6RcCCGzm2w-P2z4UPbqBdzO9f7EuV7zGjNquV9Rl-7NBAgqqRE0vM0GqWDDINtQKQXOsLo6nkBgsUprPadP3jZsyD6lmDbVq91PVjUxR3YeOVo45oOfYj_ukG5Hec7RYpAlpIz4zBFAyDphxK9WsPW-WP9rjowTKIqokB9kHgyoafmuV3_bTy0i9VP_hRMop1khYP_qnQFAVRMBa8eag4OKwG2CSXom/3wg/01NDGRh7QKmE6UEQgLx_Fg/h0/M5ReL18JoZfm7v25bH3-_z5ctgG4zGzjCS59hkmcBZE">Landmark Protections for Amazon Warehouse Workers</a>.*

 


title: Protesters chain themselves to private jet
uri: Protesters-chain-themselves-to-private-jet
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Protesters_chain_themselves_to_private_jet)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Protesters_chain_themselves_to_private_jet)

content:
 
<p>

* Protesters from Greenpeace, Stay Grounded, Extinction Rebellion and
others <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/23/climate-activists-private-jet-fair-greenpeace-stay-grounded-extinction-rebellion">chain themselves to aircraft</a> in [Europe's biggest private
   jet fair].*

 


title: Academics with connections to tobacco and alcohol
uri: Academics-with-connections-to-tobacco-and-alcohol
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Academics_with_connections_to_tobacco_and_alcohol)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Academics_with_connections_to_tobacco_and_alcohol)

content:
 
<p>

Academics with connections to tobacco and alcohol companies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/24/academics-with-tobacco-industry-links-are-not-declaring-potential-conflicts-of-interest-in-research">do not
    always talk about potential conflicts of interest</a> when they publish
papers about the effects of tobacco and alcohol.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Toxins_hidden_in_plastics)
title: Toxins hidden in plastics
uri: Toxins-hidden-in-plastics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_May_2023_(Toxins_hidden_in_plastics)
content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/25/toxins-in-plastics-industrys-dirty-secret-recycling-not-answer">Toxins hidden in plastics are the industry' dirty secret</a> &mdash; recycling is not
the answer.*
  At least, not recycling at our current stage of knowledge.
<p>
But then, most kinds of plastic objects can't be recycled at all.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Upcoming_talk,_June_7)
title: Upcoming talk, June 7
uri: Upcoming-talk-June-7
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Upcoming_talk,_June_7)
content:
 
<p>
  On Wednesday, June 7th, RMS will <a href="/talks.html#2023Jun7">give
  a talk</a>,
  "<a href="https://blue.meet.garr.it/b/mar-5ju-59g-qey">Working for
  the public &mdash; universities, software and freedom</a>" in Pisa
  at Aula multimediale.
<p>
  The talk will include Richard Stallman as the speaker, and Marco
  Calamari (Progetto Winston Smith), Maria Chiara Pievatolo
  (Universit&aacute; di Pisa), and Francesco Potorti (CNR) as
  discussants.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Putin_forces_capture_city_of_Bakmut)
title: Putin forces capture city of Bakhmut
uri: Putin-forces-capture-city-of-Bakhmut
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Putin_forces_capture_city_of_Bakmut)
content:
 
<p>

  The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/22/russia-tightens-grip-on-bakhmut-in-face-of-ukraine-counterattacks">more or less captured the city of Bakhmut</a>.
  They lost tens of thousands of soldiers doing so.
<p>
Meanwhile, Ukraine has 3/4 surrounded the city by capturing high
ground around it.  My partial knowledge of military history suggests
that the safe thing for the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> to do would be to pull out of
the exposed salient which the city has become.  I don't think they
will, though.  I think Putin's ego is bigger than his tactical
understanding.
<p>
Maybe Ukraine should rename the city to Putingrad to make sure they
don't pull out of it.

 


title: Tories demonizing disabled people on benefits
uri: Tories-demonizing-disabled-people-on-benefits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Tories_demonising_disabled_people_on_benefits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Tories_demonising_disabled_people_on_benefits)

content:
 
<p>
*A decade after the Tories demonized disabled people on benefits, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/30/tories-disabled-people-benefits">it's
happening again</a>.*
<p>
If you are a non-rich working Briton, and your tax burden for
supporting worthy causes such as helping the disabled is high, don't
blame them!  Blame the rich bastards who avoid contributing their
proper share -- by supporting Tories.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Oath_Keepers_founder_gets_18_years)
title: Oath Keepers founder gets 18 years
uri: Oath-Keepers-founder-gets-18-years
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Oath_Keepers_founder_gets_18_years)
content:
 
<p>

  *Far-right Oath Keepers founder <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/25/oath-keepers-far-right-stewart-rhodes-sentence">sentenced to 18 years</a> over January 6 attack.*

 


title: DeMentis sued over law banning drag performances
uri: DeMentis-sued-over-law-banning-drag-performances
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(DeMentis_sued_over_law_banning_drag_performances)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(DeMentis_sued_over_law_banning_drag_performances)

content:
 
<p>

*  [Hamburger Mary’s in Orlando, Florida] is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/25/florida-restaurant-sues-ron-desantis-drag-ban-law">suing [governor DeMentis] over
    a law that bans drag performances</a>.*

 


title: 5,000 species discovered in mining hotspot
uri: 5-000-species-discovered-in-mining-hotspot
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(5,000_species_discovered_in_mining_hotspot)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(5,000_species_discovered_in_mining_hotspot)

content:
 
<p>

  *More than <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/25/more-than-5000-new-species-discovered-in-pacific-deep-sea-mining-hotspot">5,000 new species discovered in Pacific deep-sea mining hotspot</a>.*
<p>
Deep-sea mining, done the way companies intend, would devastate broad
areas of bottom, and could wipe out that ecosystem.

 


title: US nuclear power plants vulnerable to physical attack
uri: US-nuclear-power-plants-vulnerable-to-physical-attack
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(US_nuclear_power_plants_vulnerable_to_physical_attack)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(US_nuclear_power_plants_vulnerable_to_physical_attack)

content:
 
<p>

US nuclear power plants, and their stored wastes, are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/as-the-world-worries-about-rising-nuclear-dangers-in-ukraine-ngos-tell-biden-that-us-nuclear-plants-arent-safe-from-attack">vulnerable to
    physical attack</a> and to cracking their computers.
  It would be stupid and dangerous
to build any new ones &mdash; but rich jerks want to do it anyway.

 


title: Southern ocean overturning circulation
uri: Southern-ocean-overturning-circulation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Southern_ocean_overturning_circulation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Southern_ocean_overturning_circulation)

content:
 
<p>

  *The Southern Ocean overturning circulation has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/25/slowing-ocean-current-caused-by-melting-antarctic-ice-could-have-drastic-climate-impact-study-says">ebbed 30% since the 90s</a>,*
  and it is continuing to slow further.  This could lead to big
changes in climate and and sea level.

 


title: Right-wingers dominate Brazil's congress
uri: Right-wingers-dominate-Brazil-s-congress
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Right-wingers_dominate_Brazil's_congress)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Right-wingers_dominate_Brazil's_congress)

content:
 
<p>

Right-wingers dominate Brazil's congress and are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/25/brazil-congress-environment-indigenous-ministry-powers">acting to handicap
    environmental protection</a> by cutting funds to the environment ministry.
<p>
  The Amazon rain forest is close to dying, that is, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-jan-apr.html#11_January_2021_(Amazon_dry_plain)">transforming into savannah</a>,
  and that change could lead to global disaster,
it would make sense for other countries to donate money
to Brazil's environment ministry.

 


title: Heat stress death and injury statistics
uri: Heat-stress-death-and-injury-statistics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Heat_stress_death_and_injury_statistics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Heat_stress_death_and_injury_statistics)

content:
 
<p>

  *Heat stress can <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/without-protections-excessive-workplace-heat-will-injure-and-kill-thousands">kill up to 2,000 workers</a> and cause an additional 170,000 injuries on job sites across the United States annually.*
  A proper heat stress standard for workplaces could prevent that.

 


title: River coming close to Line 5 oil pipeline
uri: River-coming-close-to-Line-5-oil-pipeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(River_coming_close_to_Line_5_oil_pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(River_coming_close_to_Line_5_oil_pipeline)

content:
 
<p>

  Due to erosion, a river has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/indigenous-women-leaders-over-150-groups-urge-the-biden-administration-to-immediately-shut-down-line-5-due-to-imminent-threat-of-rupture">come close to the Line 5 oil pipeline</a>.
Various sorts of accidents and bad weather could pollute the Great Lakes.
  Activists call for shutting down the pipeline as a precaution against
a disaster that would be impossible to repair.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Wetland_protections_in_the_US)
title: Wetland protections in the US
uri: Wetland-protections-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Wetland_protections_in_the_US)
content:
 
<p>

The Supreme Court's right-wing extremists have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/25/supreme-court-decision-idaho-wetlands-clean-water-act">stripped protection from
    half the wetlands in the US</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Texas_AG_Paxton_being_investigated)
title: Texas AG Paxton being investigated
uri: Texas-AG-Paxton-being-investigated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Texas_AG_Paxton_being_investigated)
content:
 
<p>

Texas attorney general Paxton, a right-wing attack agent, is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/25/ken-paxton-allegations-texas-committee-attorney-general">being
    investigated for accusations of corruption</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(On_track_for_2.7°C_of_global_heating)
title: On track for 2.7°C of global heating
uri: On-track-for-2-7-C-of-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(On_track_for_2.7°C_of_global_heating)
content:
 
<p>

  * World is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/22/global-heating-human-climate-niche">on track for 2.7°C [of global heating]</a> and "phenomenal"
   human suffering, scientists warn.*

 


title: Keeping the government running under threat of debt ceiling
uri: Keeping-the-government-running-under-threat-of-debt-ceiling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Keeping_the_government_running_under_threat_of_debt_ceiling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Keeping_the_government_running_under_threat_of_debt_ceiling)

content:
 
<p>

Governments threatened with the debt ceiling should not hesitate to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/22/republicans-debt-ceiling-marjorie-taylor-greene-economy">use questionable maneuvers to keep the government operating</a> &mdash; and
they should not try to go to court to argue for them.  Biden should do
what is needed, then let the Republicans sue if they wish.
<p>
If government lawyers were to argue in the Supreme Court, in advance,
that the maneuver id lawful, the current right-wing politicized court
would have every motive to rule "it is unlawful", and thus strengthen
the Republican hostage-takers.
<p>
However, if Republicans file that case after the maneuver is used,
then a ruling of "it is unlawful" would mean instantaneous default.
Even the right-wing justices would hesitate to do that.  They would
have to find a way to avoid that.

 


title: Texas woman threatened with arrest for seeking abortion
uri: Texas-woman-threatened-with-arrest-for-seeking-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Texas_woman_threatened_with_arrest_for_seeking_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Texas_woman_threatened_with_arrest_for_seeking_abortion)

content:
 
<p>

  *Pregnant Texas woman [who was] <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/texas-abortion-law-2660479340/?t=5okgNlLI1jJUhKUU8o-Ydg&s=09">threatened with arrest</a> if she left
hospital to seek abortion is suing over the endangerment of her life.*
  In all, eight women have joined this lawsuit.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(CNN_told_not_to_boo_the_bullshitter)
title: CNN told not to boo the bullshitter
uri: CNN-told-not-to-boo-the-bullshitter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(CNN_told_not_to_boo_the_bullshitter)
content:
 
<p>

People in the audience of CNN's presentation of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a>
were told in advance to <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/republican-at-trump-town-hall-says-many-in-audience-were-disgusted-or-bewildered-by-ex-president/?utm_source=mediaite_smartnews_redirect">"be respectful" by not booing</a>.
<p>
This was one lie by CNN in addition to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter's</a> own lies,

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Chevron_emissions_offsets)
title: Chevron emissions offsets
uri: Chevron-emissions-offsets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Chevron_emissions_offsets)
content:
 
<p>

*Investigation finds [Chevron's] efforts to offset its
huge emissions <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/24/chevron-carbon-offset-climate-crisis">rely on schemes with little impact</a>.*

 


title: Recycling plastics can release microplastics
uri: Recycling-plastics-can-release-microplastics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Recycling_plastics_can_release_microplastics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Recycling_plastics_can_release_microplastics)

content:
 
<p>

  *Recycling [of plastics] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/23/recycling-can-release-huge-quantities-of-microplastics-study-finds">can release huge quantities of microplastics</a>.*
  After installing an additional filter, the plant released 6% of the plastic
input as microplastics.  (Before that, it was more.)  Even the air
around the plant is full of microplastics.
<p>
  Washing machines also <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/23/worried-about-your-laundry-releasing-microplastics-a-filter-could-be-a-simple-solution">release plenty of microplastics</a>.
  The only way to arrange for most washing machines to have filters is
for the government to do it to people's washing machines, and those in
laundries.  The amount of trouble involved in getting and installing a
filter will dissuade most people who are busy.
<p>
  One of the menaces of plastic waste is that it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/24/plastic-waste-puts-millions-of-worlds-poorest-at-higher-risk-from-floods">blocks drainage systems</a> in
countries too poor to clean them out.

 


title: Pressuring wealthy countries not to fund fossil fuels
uri: Pressuring-wealthy-countries-not-to-fund-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Pressuring_wealthy_countries_not_to_fund_fossil_fuels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Pressuring_wealthy_countries_not_to_fund_fossil_fuels)

content:
 
<p>

Pressuring the wealthiest countries (in the OECD) to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/new-report-ahead-of-oecd-negotiations-report-shows-oecd-export-finance-props-up-fossil-fuels-blocking-energy-transition">stop funding
    international fossil fuel development</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Imprisonment_of_boat_people_in_Nauru)
title: Imprisonment of boat people in Nauru
uri: Imprisonment-of-boat-people-in-Nauru
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Imprisonment_of_boat_people_in_Nauru)
content:
 
<p>

The previous (right-wing) Australian government <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/25/morrison-government-paid-corrupt-businessman-millions-for-offshore-processing-on-nauru">paid a corrupt billionaire
    to arrange imprisonment of boat people in Nauru</a>, and kept on paying him
even after he was convicted of bribing Nauru officials.
<p>
What this says to me is that the previous government was so dishonest that
they didn't bother to notice.

<p>
 


title: Debt ceiling deal will fast-track the Mountain Valley pipeline
uri: Debt-ceiling-deal-will-fast-track-the-Mountain-Valley-pipeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Debt_ceiling_deal_will_fast-track_the_Mountain_Valley_pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Debt_ceiling_deal_will_fast-track_the_Mountain_Valley_pipeline)

content:
 
<p>
*The debt ceiling deal
will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/30/debt-ceiling-deal-environment-climate-crisis">fast-track
the Mountain Valley pipeline</a>, and limit the scope of environmental
reviews for future developments.* That will kill people; the
uncertainty is about the order of magnitude of how many people.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(ChatGPT_legal_filing)
title: ChatGPT legal filing
uri: ChatGPT-legal-filing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(ChatGPT_legal_filing)
content:
 
<p>
*A lawyer used ChatGPT for legal filing. The <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/27/lawyer-chatgpt/">chatbot cited nonexistent
cases it just made up</a>.*
<p>
This goes to show how foolish it is to think of ChatGPT
as "intelligence".  It is not capable of having knowledge,
understanding, desires, or plans.  It has no idea of truth
or falsehood.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Ohio_abortion_referendum)
title: Ohio abortion referendum
uri: Ohio-abortion-referendum
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Ohio_abortion_referendum)
content:
 
<p>
Ohio will vote on a referendum to legalise abortion.  Republicans have
just passed a law to schedule a vote on making such referendums
require a supermajority to pass.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/23/ohio-abortion-rights-republican-ballot-super-majority">They plan to rush this vote</a> so it
will alter the rules for the abortion referendum.
<p>
Why August?  I suspect that some voters will be on vacation in August and might
have difficulty voting no for this change.

<p>
 


title: Italy squeezing antifascists out of public broadcasting
uri: Italy-squeezing-antifascists-out-of-public-broadcasting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Italy_squeezing_antifascists_out_of_public_broadcasting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Italy_squeezing_antifascists_out_of_public_broadcasting)

content:
 
<p>
The right-wing government of Italy is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/23/italy-government-giorgia-meloni-state-broadcaster-rai">squeezing antifascists out of
Italy's public broadcasting</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(So-called_chevron_deference)
title: So-called "chevron deference"
uri: So-called-chevron-deference
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(So-called_chevron_deference)
content:
 
<p>
*The so-called “Chevron deference” doctrine stipulates that the
executive branch — not the federal courts — has the power to interpret
laws passed by Congress in certain circumstances. Conservatives for
years have fought to overturn the doctrine, a move that would empower
legal challenges to federal agency regulations on everything from
climate policy to workplace safety to overtime pay.*
<p>
Justice Thomas <a href="https://www.levernews.com/r/fd8f8a4a?m=a1296444-4385-46f7-b56f-c5acabd34844">changed his position on this question after payments to him</a>,
and reportedly to his wife as well, from people with interests in the outcome.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: call on distribute medication abortion in all states where abortion is legal
uri: Urgent-call-on-distribute-medication-abortion-in-all-states-where-ab
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Urgent:_call_on_distribute_medication_abortion_in_all_states_where__abortion_is_legal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Urgent:_call_on_distribute_medication_abortion_in_all_states_where__abortion_is_legal)

content:
 
<p>
Everyone: call on  AmerisourceBergen to <a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/ASB_mifepristone/">distribute medication
abortion in all states where abortion is legal</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: make larger share of federal spending for workers
uri: Urgent-make-larger-share-of-federal-spending-for-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Urgent:_make_larger_share_of_federal_spending_for_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Urgent:_make_larger_share_of_federal_spending_for_workers)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-president-biden-to-spend-public-money-for-the-public-good?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-public-money-should-be-for-the-public-good-not-wall-street">make sure a bigger share of federal
spending goes to workers</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: no more CNN "town halls" for the bullshitter
uri: Urgent-no-more-CNN-town-halls-for-the-bullshitter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Urgent:_no_more_CNN_town_halls_for_the_bullshitter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Urgent:_no_more_CNN_town_halls_for_the_bullshitter)

content:
 
<p>
Everyone: call on CNN <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-cnn-no-more-trump-town-halls?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-inequality-media-civic-action&source=group-inequality-media-civic-action">not to give the bullshitter any more "town halls"</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Extinction_Rebellion_protest_arrests)
title: Extinction Rebellion protest arrests
uri: Extinction-Rebellion-protest-arrests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Extinction_Rebellion_protest_arrests)
content:
 
<p>
*More than 1,500 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/27/more-than-1500-arrested-at-extinction-rebellion-protest-in-the-hague">arrested at Extinction Rebellion protest</a> in The Hague.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Texas_attorney_general_impeached)
title: Texas attorney general impeached
uri: Texas-attorney-general-impeached
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Texas_attorney_general_impeached)
content:
 
<p>
*Texas attorney general <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/28/texas-attorney-general-impeached-by-republican-led-house-in-historic-vote">impeached by Republican-led House</a> in historic vote.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Fake_it_till_you_make_it)
title: Fake it till you make it
uri: Fake-it-till-you-make-it
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Fake_it_till_you_make_it)
content:
 
<p>
Uber ran for years at enormous losses to create the impression
that it had to succeed and that it was a good investment.  This
general approach has been dubbed "<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/19/fake-it-till-you-make-it/#millennial-lifestyle-subsidy">Venture predation</a>".
<p>
Under a good government, this sort of thing would land executives in
prison.

<p>
 


title: Attempting to predict political collapse
uri: Attempting-to-predict-political-collapse
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Attempting_to_predict_political_collapse)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Attempting_to_predict_political_collapse)

content:
 
<p>
Attempting to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/28/end-times-by-peter-turchin-review-elites-counter-elites-and-path-of-political-disintegration-can-we-identify-cyclical-trends-in-narrative-of-human-hope-and-failure">predict political collapse from big data</a>.
<p>
That <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#doohnibor">dooH niboR</a> and the poverty it causes leads to political collapse
is a truism.  That idea of "overproduction of potential elites" as a
major factor is less obvious, but over the years I've seen reference
to large numbers of unemployed university graduates cited as a factor
in civil unrest.
<p>
Since this theory is based on mathematical modelling, ultimately it
will succeed or fail like any scientific theory.

<p>
 


title: Thugs engage in physical violence against blacks
uri: Thugs-engage-in-physical-violence-against-blacks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Thugs_engage_in_physical_violence_against_blacks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Thugs_engage_in_physical_violence_against_blacks)

content:
 
<p>
Australian <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/29/indigenous-teenager-tells-commission-of-horrific-abuse-by-police-during-anzac-day-counter-terror-raids">engage in physical violence against blacks</a>,
then resist being held responsible, much like American <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.
The blacks in Australia are indigenous rather than of recent African origin,
but they seem to get similar treatment.

<p>
 


title: Cory Doctorow recommended same debt ceiling approach
uri: Cory-Doctorow-recommended-same-debt-ceiling-approach
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#1_June_2023_(Cory_Doctorow_recommended_same_debt_ceiling_approach)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#1_June_2023_(Cory_Doctorow_recommended_same_debt_ceiling_approach)

content:
 
<p>
Cory Doctorow <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/26/mint-the-coin-etc-etc/#blitz-emrecommended the same approach</a> for dealing with
the debt ceiling <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#31_May_2023_(Keeping_the_government_running_under_threat_of_debt_ceiling)">that I recommended</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#1_June_2023_(War_hero_killed_civilian_prisoners)
title: War "hero" killed civilian prisoners
uri: War-hero-killed-civilian-prisoners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#1_June_2023_(War_hero_killed_civilian_prisoners)
content:
 
<p>
An Australian "hero" of the war in Afghanistan was found in court
to have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/01/as-the-ben-roberts-smith-case-proves-its-time-for-australia-to-abandon-our-farcical-myths-of-anzac">intentionally killed civilian prisoners</a>.
<p>
He was not on trial; the trial was over his <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/01/the-man-who-wasnt-there-ben-roberts-smith-misses-his-day-of-reckoning">accusation of libel</a>
  against newspapers which published accusations against him.  The court
found the newspapers not liable because they proved the accusations were true.
<p>
Will he now be accused of murder?  That sounds like the next step.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#1_June_2023_(Buyback_limits)
title: Buyback limits
uri: Buyback-limits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#1_June_2023_(Buyback_limits)
content:
 
<p>
Comparing two proposed laws to limit stock buybacks by corporations.
<p>
The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/413">Stock Buyback Accountability Act of 2023</a>
 would impose a tax on buybacks, as well as certain situations
when this tax would not apply (i.e. if the buyback were part of
an employer-sponsored retirement plan or employee stock
options plan).
<p>
The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/3355">Reward Work Act</a>
would prevent issuers from buying their own securities on a
national exchange:
<p>
I think the two are complementary.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#1_June_2023_(UK_welfare_limit_failure)
title: UK welfare limit failure
uri: UK-welfare-limit-failure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#1_June_2023_(UK_welfare_limit_failure)
content:
 
<p>
The Tories limited welfare benefits to supporting two children per family.
This was supposed to pressure parents to get jobs.  All it did was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/01/two-child-limit-on-uk-welfare-benefits-has-failed-to-push-parents-into-jobs">throw
children into poverty</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#1_June_2023_(Lab_leaks_happen_every_week)
title: Lab leaks happen every week
uri: Lab-leaks-happen-every-week
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#1_June_2023_(Lab_leaks_happen_every_week)
content:
 
<p>
Lab leaks of potentially dangerous pathogens <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/30/lab-leaks-shrouded-secrecy">happen every week</a>.
(This is because there are many such labs around the world.)
Usually the labs cover them up.  Usually no lasting harm is done.
<p>
Backup lines of defense, if any disease should start spreading, are
not very strong.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: protect the Pacific Remote Islands
uri: Urgent-protect-the-Pacific-Remote-Islands
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#1_June_2023_(Urgent:_protect_the_Pacific_Remote_Islands)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#1_June_2023_(Urgent:_protect_the_Pacific_Remote_Islands)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=54885&supporter_KEY=229474">protect the Pacific Remote Islands</a>.
<p>
To see the confirmation message in your browser, delete or disable CSS.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#1_June_2023_(Plastic_waste_responsibility)
title: Plastic waste responsibility
uri: Plastic-waste-responsibility
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#1_June_2023_(Plastic_waste_responsibility)
content:
 
<p>
Kenya has adopted a law making companies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/may/30/kenya-wrestles-with-its-plastic-pollution-problem">responsible for the plastic
waste</a> that they generate.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#3_June_2023_(Torture_of_innocents,_US_and_AU)
title: Torture of innocents, US and AU
uri: Torture-of-innocents-US-and-AU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#3_June_2023_(Torture_of_innocents,_US_and_AU)
content:
 
<p>
Australia will spend AUD 350 million per year
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/23/nauru-offshore-detention-immigration-processing-to-cost-australia-485m-22-asylum-seekers">to maintain
Nauru</a>
as a prison for boat people, inaccessible to the press and off limits to rule of law.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#11_August_2016_(Nauru_refugee_prison)">That prison is Australia's shame</a>, just as 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-sep-dec.html#01_November_2011_(Guantanamo_Prison)">Guantanamo is America's</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#3_June_2023_(Enhanced_Rock_Weathering,_ERW)
title: Enhanced Rock Weathering, ERW
uri: Enhanced-Rock-Weathering-ERW
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#3_June_2023_(Enhanced_Rock_Weathering,_ERW)
content:
 
<p>
Greenland's glaciers grind the rock under them, producing a billion
tons per year of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/30/rock-flour-greenland-capture-significant-co2-study">powdered rock</a>,
which becomes mud.  When spread on farms in warmer zones, it absorbs large amounts of CO2, while acting as fertilizer.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#3_June_2023_(Paid_Wikipedia_editors,_Al_Jaber)
title: Paid Wikipedia editors, COP28
uri: Paid-Wikipedia-editors-COP28
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#3_June_2023_(Paid_Wikipedia_editors,_Al_Jaber)
content:
 
<p>
The UAE oil prince who is the head of this year's corrupt climate conference
is having employees edit Wikipedia pages to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/30/cop28-president-team-accused-of-wikipedia-greenwashing-sultan-al-jaber">greenwash his activities</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#3_June_2023_(No_rights:_Rohingya_in_Bangladesh)
title: No rights: Rohingya in Bangladesh
uri: No-rights-Rohingya-in-Bangladesh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#3_June_2023_(No_rights:_Rohingya_in_Bangladesh)
content:
 
<p>
*Stateless Rohingya could soon be
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/may/30/stateless-rohingya-could-soon-be-the-new-palestinians-top-un-official-warns">the "new Palestinians"</a>,
top UN official warns.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#3_June_2023_(Citizen_journalism,_Iran)
title: Citizen journalism, Iran
uri: Citizen-journalism-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#3_June_2023_(Citizen_journalism,_Iran)
content:
 
<p>
Journalists who covered the killing of protester Mahsa Jina are on trial in Iran and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/may/30/threats-imprisonment-torture-iranian-female-journalists-at-forefront-media-crackdown">facing torture</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#3_June_2023_(Free_speech_in_culture_wars)
title: Free speech hypocrisy, UK ministers
uri: Free-speech-hypocrisy-UK-ministers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#3_June_2023_(Free_speech_in_culture_wars)
content:
 
<p>
*If you defend free speech, you must
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/28/defence-of-free-speech-should-not-depend-whose-side-you-take-in-culture-wars">defend it all</a>
and not silence those you disagree with.*
<p>
In particular, people like Kathleen Stock who advocate certain rights based on biological
sex must not be censored, and people who oppose that must also not be censored.
<p>
Trans activists protested at her talk.  Some of them
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/30/trans-activists-disrupt-kathleen-stock-speech-at-oxford-union">tried to prevent it</a>,
but did not succeed.  As a result, both sides got to present their views.
<p>
One trans activist compared Stock's expression of her opinions to the
construction of fossil fuel projects.  By thinking about that claim we
can see the basic difference between them.
<p>
The feebleness of governments efforts to curb <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> is not a
mere statement of opinion.  It is an action, and a deadly one.  The
beginning of climate breakdown is already killing millions of people,
and will kill hundreds of millions or perhaps billions in a few
decades.  It is legitimate for those likely to be killed by fossil
fuel developments in a few decades to fight to stop them.
<p>
By contrast, Dr. Stock, and likewise the protesters who disagree with
her, do not decide the legal questions they disagree on.  They can
only express their views and hope to influence others.  All of them
have the right to do that.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Rally for Julian Assage, Boston
uri: Urgent-Rally-for-Julian-Assage-Boston
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Urgent:_Rally_for_Julian_Assage,_Boston)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Urgent:_Rally_for_Julian_Assage,_Boston)

content:
 
<p>
This Julian Assange rally is Monday, June 12, at
11am at the Boston Globe, One Exchange Place, Boston (State
subway stop.)  We are calling out the Boston Globe for their
lack of coverage of the most important press freedom case of
our time &mdash; the unjust persecution
of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange">Julian Assange</a> under the
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.phptitle=Espionage_Act_of_1917#21st_century">Espionage act</a>.
At noon,
we will break and write letters together at Falafel Place at
260 Washington St.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Get toxic PFAS out of our drinking water
uri: Urgent-Get-toxic-PFAS-out-of-our-drinking-water
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Urgent:_Get_toxic_PFAS_out_of_our_drinking_water)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Urgent:_Get_toxic_PFAS_out_of_our_drinking_water)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=54284&supporter_KEY=229474">call on the EPA</a>
to take action to get toxic PFAS out of our drinking water.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Sore-losing_Republican_violence,_NM)
title: Sore-losing Republican violence, NM
uri: Sore-losing-Republican-violence-NM
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Sore-losing_Republican_violence,_NM)
content:
 
<p>
*Failed Republican candidate
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/01/solomon-pena-charged-shootings-new-mexico-republican">charged with shootings</a>
at [Democratic] lawmakers’ homes.*
<!-- 2023-jan-apr.html#9_January_2023_(Someone_shooting_at_Democratic_elected_officials)-->

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Debt_deal:_many_climate_battle_losses)
title: Debt deal: many climate-battle losses
uri: Debt-deal-many-climate-battle-losses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Debt_deal:_many_climate_battle_losses)
content:
 
<p>
*Industry donations flowed to key Dem senators just before a major
pipeline approval [for the
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/r/fa5e84b4?m=a1296444-4385-46f7-b56f-c5acabd34844">Mountain Valley Pipeline</a>]
was slipped into the debt ceiling bill.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Political_tactic:_fake_crises)
title: Political tactic: fake crises
uri: Political-tactic-fake-crises
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Political_tactic:_fake_crises)
content:
 
<p>
*Republicans love to make up fake crises [to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/01/republicans-fake-crises-five-biggest">distract from the harm</a>
they do]. Here are five of the biggest.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Pesticide_companies_fool_EU)
title: Pesticide companies fool EU
uri: Pesticide-companies-fool-EU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Pesticide_companies_fool_EU)
content:
 
<p>
*Pesticide firms
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/01/pesticide-firms-withheld-brain-toxicity-studies-from-eu-regulators-study-finds">withheld brain toxicity studies from EU</a>
regulators, study finds.*

Amazon liable for voyeur
A rogue employee of Amazon used
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/31/amazon-ring-doorbell-spying-ftc">Ring "doorbell" videocameras</a>
to watch customers.
<p>
What worries me more is that <a href="/archives/2020-may-aug.html#4_July_2020_(Amazon_deals_with_thug_departments_for_access_to_Ring)">lots of thugs have been watching lots</a>
of people through them.
<p>
Amazon was snooping through <a href="/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#29_May_2018_(Alexa_sending_conversations)">Alexa too</a>. <!-- ++apn -->

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Democracy_vs_tyranny,_ZW)
title: Democracy vs tyranny, ZW
uri: Democracy-vs-tyranny-ZW
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Democracy_vs_tyranny,_ZW)
content:
 
<p>
*Zimbabwe
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/01/zimbabwe-outlaws-criticism-of-government-before-august-elections">outlaws criticism of government</a>
before August elections.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Oceanic_protection,_MX)
title: Marine protection area success, MX
uri: Marine-protection-area-success-MX
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Oceanic_protection,_MX)
content:
 
<p>
Mexico established a marine protected area. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/01/heres-proof-fishing-bans-leave-plenty-to-eat-says-study-of-mexico-marine-park">Fishing companies objected</a>,
saying it would reduce their catch &mdash; but in fact, there was no decrease.



<p>
 


title: Urgent: Rally for Julian Assange, Boston
uri: Urgent-Rally-for-Julian-Assange-Boston
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Urgent:_Rally_for_Julian_Assage,_Boston)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Urgent:_Rally_for_Julian_Assage,_Boston)

content:
 
<p>
This Julian Assange rally is Monday, June 12, at
11am at the Boston Globe, One Exchange Place, Boston (State
subway stop.)  We are calling out the Boston Globe for their
lack of coverage of the most important press freedom case of
our time &mdash; the unjust persecution
of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange">Julian Assange</a> under the
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.phptitle=Espionage_Act_of_1917#21st_century">Espionage act</a>.
At noon,
we will break and write letters together at Falafel Place at
260 Washington St.

<p>
 


title: Tien An Men Square commemorations harassed
uri: Tien-An-Men-Square-commemorations-harassed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Tien_An_Men_Square_commemorations_harassed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Tien_An_Men_Square_commemorations_harassed)

content:
 
<p>
China <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/03/tiananmen-massacre-museum-opens-in-new-york-despite-fear-of-beijing-backlash">sabotages and harasses participants in events to commemorate
the Tien An Men Square massacre</a> in Beijing, even when the events are
held in other countries.

<p>
 


title: YouTube allows trumpery about election fraud
uri: YouTube-allows-trumpery-about-election-fraud
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Youtube_allows_trumpery_about_election_fraud)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Youtube_allows_trumpery_about_election_fraud)

content:
 
<p>
YouTube has decided to <a href="https://www.engadget.com/youtube-changes-misinformation-policy-to-allow-videos-falsely-claiming-fraud-in-the-2020-us-election-184319851.html?src=rss">permit posting trumpery about election fraud</a>.
Systematic liars are planning to make use of this immediately.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(British_Museum_ends_BP_sponsorship)
title: British Museum ends BP sponsorship
uri: British-Museum-ends-BP-sponsorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(British_Museum_ends_BP_sponsorship)
content:
 
<p>
*British Museum <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jun/02/british-museum-ends-bp-sponsorship-deal-after-27-years">ends BP sponsorship deal</a> after 27 years.*
<p>
I hope this will let it begin presenting the dangers of fossil fuels
without pulling its punches.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_((Satire)_Billionaires_descending)
title: (Satire) Billionaires descending
uri: (Satire)-Billionaires-descending
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_((Satire)_Billionaires_descending)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *World Rejoices As <a href="https://www.theonion.com/world-rejoices-as-batch-of-new-billionaires-descends-fr-1850480433">Batch Of New Billionaires Descends From Sky</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Paying_billions_to_settle_PFA_lawsuit)
title: Paying billions to settle PFA lawsuit
uri: Paying-billions-to-settle-PFA-lawsuit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Paying_billions_to_settle_PFA_lawsuit)
content:
 
<p>
US chemical companies are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/02/dupont-pfas-settlement-water-chemical-contamination">paying billions to settle lawsuits about
contaminating water supplies</a> with PFAs.
<p>
3M found out in the 1970s that PFAs were toxic, but sat on the
knowledge for decades while continuing to sell them.  This is one of
many examples of the bad things that happen when companies get very
large and government bends to them.  This is one of the many reasons
to elect progressive officials who will not hesitate to devastate
their profits.

<p>
 


title: Labour Party refusing to allow popular mayor from running
uri: Labour-Party-refusing-to-allow-popular-mayor-from-running
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Labour_Party_refusing_to_allow_popular_mayor_from_running)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Labour_Party_refusing_to_allow_popular_mayor_from_running)

content:
 
<p>
The Labour Party <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/02/labour-block-jamie-driscoll-from-north-east-mayoralty-contest">refused to allow the popular mayor of Newcastle and
surroundings to run again</a>, because he is a supporter of Corbyn.
When the local party chooses its candidate, it won't be allowed
to consider him.
<p>
Maybe the local party leaders should see whether if they can all quit
the Labour Party and join the Green Party and run this candidate, or
start their own local party.

<p>
 


title: (Satire) Followed for being Republican
uri: (Satire)-Followed-for-being-Republican
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_((Satire)_Followed_for_being_Republican)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_((Satire)_Followed_for_being_Republican)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Emotional Tim Scott Tells Supporters About Time He Was
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/emotional-tim-scott-tells-supporters-about-time-he-was-1850496503">Followed Around Walgreens For Being Republican</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Fetal_heartbeat_propaganda)
title: Fetal heartbeat propaganda
uri: Fetal-heartbeat-propaganda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Fetal_heartbeat_propaganda)
content:
 
<p>
The mainstream US press is <a href="http://theintercept.com/2023/05/27/abortion-fetal-heartbeat-propaganda-press-coverage/">repeating right-wing propaganda about
supposed "fetal heartbeat"</a> detected long before the fetus has
developed a heart at all.
<p>
If they can get the public talking about a supposed "fetal heartbeat"
at 6 weeks of pregnancy, they have won a major propaganda battle that
most people do not recognize is being fought.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Sanders_and_debt_ceiling_bill)
title: Sanders and debt ceiling bill
uri: Sanders-and-debt-ceiling-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Sanders_and_debt_ceiling_bill)
content:
 
<p>
Bernie Sanders: *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/02/bernie-sanders-debt-ceiling-bill">I could not, in good conscience, vote for the debt
ceiling bill</a>.*
<p>
Sanders for President in 2024!

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_((Satire)_Collateral_body_parts)
title: (Satire) Collateral body parts
uri: (Satire)-Collateral-body-parts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_((Satire)_Collateral_body_parts)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *More Hospitals Requiring Patients To
Put Body Part Down As <a href="https://www.theonion.com/report-more-hospitals-requiring-patients-to-put-body-p-1850485809">Collateral Before Receiving Services</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_((Satire)_9-year-old_boy)
title: (Satire) 9-year-old boy
uri: (Satire)-9-year-old-boy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_((Satire)_9-year-old_boy)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Police Claim They Thought 9-Year-Old Boy They Shot <a href="https://www.theonion.com/police-claim-they-thought-9-year-old-boy-they-shot-was-1850481110">Was
Actually 10-Year-Old Boy</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Brain_toxicity_studies_withheld)
title: Brain toxicity studies withheld
uri: Brain-toxicity-studies-withheld
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Brain_toxicity_studies_withheld)
content:
 
<p>
*Pesticide Giants <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/research-pesticides-eu">Withheld Brain
Toxicity Studies</a> From EU.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(1.5C)
title: 1.5C
uri: 1-5C
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(1.5C)
content:
 
<p>
*Adam McKay: 1.5C Is Terrifying But <a href="https://www.levernews.com/adam-mckay-1-5c-is-terrifying-but-there-is-something-we-havent-tried/">There Is Something We Haven’t Tried</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(DeMentis_says_he_will_destroy_leftism)
title: DeMentis says he will "destroy leftism"
uri: DeMentis-says-he-will-destroy-leftism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(DeMentis_says_he_will_destroy_leftism)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a> says he will "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/30/ron-desantis-fox-news-interview-destroy-leftism">destroy leftism</a>".
That would entail abolishing democracy and the possibility of organizing
to defeat his power.  In other words, Fascism.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(AI_worries_are_distractions)
title: AI worries are distractions
uri: AI-worries-are-distractions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(AI_worries_are_distractions)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/31/yes-you-should-be-worried-about-ai-but-matrix-analogies-hide-a-more-insidious-threat">Worrying about the danger of hypothetical superintelligent AI today is
a distraction</a>.  AI programs already used by big companies and states,
though far less sophisticated that what those worries fear, have been
doing harm to some people for years.
<p>
They are used within social systems, and we may be able to prevent
some of these harms by changing some other parts of social systems in
a feasible way.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(keir_starmer_nuclear_power)
title: Starmer says nuclear power is ‘critical part’ of UK’s energy mix
uri: Starmer-says-nuclear-power-is-critical-part-of-UK-s-energy-mix
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(keir_starmer_nuclear_power)
content:
 
<p>
*Starmer says nuclear power is 'critical part' 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/04/keir-starmer-says-nuclear-power-is-critical-part-of-uks-energy-mix">of UK's energy mix.*</a>
<p>
That will be true if a reactor goes critical ;-{.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(debt_limit_bill_bipartisan)
title: THE DEBT LIMIT BILL
uri: THE-DEBT-LIMIT-BILL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(debt_limit_bill_bipartisan)
content:
 
<p>
*The Debt Limit Bill: Yet Another 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/06/03/debt-limit-bill-bipartisanship/">Triumph for Bipartisanship.*</a>
<p>
"Bipartisanship" in the US tends to mean "plutocracy".

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(la_school_pride_assembly_protest)
title: Protest over Pride month assembly at LA school turns violent
uri: Protest-over-Pride-month-assembly-at-LA-school-turns-violent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_May_2023_(la_school_pride_assembly_protest)
content:
 
<p>
Los Angeles bigots have harassed a public school and teachers for
holding an assembly to describe people of a range of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/02/los-angeles-school-pride-assembly-protest">different gender
identities and their orientations.</a>
<p>
The bigots demand schools keep children in ignorance about the
existence and lives of those human beings.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(global_plastics_treaty)
title: Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations End in Paris With “Zero Draft”
uri: Global-Plastics-Treaty-Negotiations-End-in-Paris-With-Zero-Draft
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(global_plastics_treaty)
content:
 
<p>
The conference to start drafting a global plastics treaty have not
even 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/global-plastics-treaty-negotiations-end-in-paris-with-zero-draft-still-to-come">produced a draft zero.</a>
<p>
It did the initial steps, but I think that plastic manufacturers and
oil companies will fight hard to prevent anything effective from being
agreed.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(delivery_apps_markup)
title: UK shoppers warned of delivery app markup
uri: UK-shoppers-warned-of-delivery-app-markup
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(delivery_apps_markup)
content:
 
<p>
Internet delivery companies in the UK mark up supermarket products by
as much as 1/3, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/03/delivery-apps-supermarket-goods-markup-which">then charge a delivery fee.</a>
<p>
Does anyone know if they do this in the US too?

 


title: Urgent: Stop trading forests for toilet paper
uri: Urgent-Stop-trading-forests-for-toilet-paper
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Urgent:_Stop_trading_forests_for_toilet_paper)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Urgent:_Stop_trading_forests_for_toilet_paper)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on Amazon to <a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=54594">stop trading our forests for
    toilet paper</a>.
<p>
  There are many <a href="amazon.html">reasons to refuse to buy from Amazon</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Urgent:_Save_our_oldest_forests)
title: Urgent: Save our oldest forests
uri: Urgent-Save-our-oldest-forests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Urgent:_Save_our_oldest_forests)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Biden administration to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=54881">save our oldest
    forests</a>.

 


title: Shifting non-crime requests to other agencies
uri: Shifting-non-crime-requests-to-other-agencies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Shifting_non-crime_requests_to_other_agencies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Shifting_non-crime_requests_to_other_agencies)

content:
 
<p>

One UK <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> department made a success of deciding to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/30/how-humberside-polices-pioneering-policy-on-mental-health-calls-paid-off">shift
    various kinds of non-crime requests</a> to other agencies.
<p>
One effect is that the department is better able to deal with crimes.
I presume that the people suffering psychological crises are safer
now, too, for not having to deal with <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-mar-jun.html#23_June_2020_(What_Defund_the_Police_really_means)">armed thugs who might wound or kill them</a>.
<p>
The article describes the sorts of planning, advance notice, training,
and pressure on other agencies that were necessary to make this a
success.  It also required some other agencies to hire people to do
the visits that the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> no longer do.  It would be worth doing, but
the Tories may not cooperate.  The ambulance service is already
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Ambulance_service_in_the_UK)">overloaded</a> and its underpaid workers have held strikes.
<p>
Nonetheless, this example shows that the policy change is good
provided the government carries out all the necessary parts.

 


title: (satire) First bullets fired during traffic stop
uri: (satire)-First-bullets-fired-during-traffic-stop
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_((satire)_First_bullets_fired_during_traffic_stop)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_((satire)_First_bullets_fired_during_traffic_stop)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/study-finds-first-bullets-fired-by-cop-during-traffic-s-1850487628">*Study Finds First Bullets Fired By Cop During Traffic Stop
    Dictate How Rest Of Interaction Will Go.*</a>

 


title: (satire) Elizabeth Holmes defrauds biggest inmate
uri: (satire)-Elizabeth-Holmes-defrauds-biggest-inmate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_((satire)_Elizabeth_Holmes_defrauds_biggest_inmate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_((satire)_Elizabeth_Holmes_defrauds_biggest_inmate)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/elizabeth-holmes-immediately-defrauds-biggest-inmate-to-1850487519">*Elizabeth Holmes Immediately Defrauds Biggest
    Inmate To Gain Other Prisoners' Respect.*</a>

 


title: Trains blocking patients from hospitals
uri: Trains-blocking-patients-from-hospitals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Trains_blocking_patients_from_hospitals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Trains_blocking_patients_from_hospitals)

content:
 
<p>

Longer and longer trains in the US are <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/long-trains-block-intersections-paramedics/">blocking patients from reaching
    hospitals</a> and blocking ambulances from reaching patients.
  It has been reported 1400 times this year.  Sometimes the results
are fatal.
<p>
In important areas of big cities you can usually find a bridge over
the tracks, though apparently not always.   In less important areas
there are often only level crossings.
<p>
This is part of the general tendency of US railroads to trample
their employees and the public to increase profits.
<p>
Saving fuel is a good thing, but railroads should be required to (1)
make sure never to stop trains where they would block roads except in
an emergency and (2) over the next five years, build bridges or
tunnels or alternative routes so that access is not blocked anywhere.

 


title: Bill regarding surveillance-based advertising
uri: Bill-regarding-surveillance-based-advertising
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Bill_regarding_surveillance-based_advertising)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Bill_regarding_surveillance-based_advertising)

content:
 
<p>

A bill proposes to prevent one of the side problems of Google's and
Facebook's surveillance-based advertising: that those companies get
most of the income from ads and <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-shatter-ad-tech">sites that run ads get almost none</a>.
<p>
Arguably that would be an improvement, but it would do nothing about
the main evil of surveillance capitalism: its massive surveillance.
So it would not make the system any less unjust to the users themselves.
<p>
That is what we must change.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Organizers_of_bail_fund_arrested)
title: Organizers of bail fund arrested
uri: Organizers-of-bail-fund-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Organizers_of_bail_fund_arrested)
content:
 
<p>

  *Atlanta Police <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/05/31/cop-city-bail-fund-protest-raid-atlanta/">Arrest Organizers of Bail Fund</a> for Cop City Protesters.*
<p>
It is unprecedented to charge people with a crime for raising money to
pay legal aid to protesters.  Regardless of the details, it is a form
of fascist harassment.  If it is allowed to stand, it will represent
an escalation of fascism in the US.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Stop_the_dirty_deal)
title: Stop the dirty deal
uri: Stop-the-dirty-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Stop_the_dirty_deal)
content:
 
<p>

*"Stop the dirty deal": activists <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/31/west-virginia-pipeline-debt-ceiling-vote">decry Schumer and Manchin over
    pipeline plan</a>.*

 


title: West Virginia governor's coal empire sued
uri: West-Virginia-governor-s-coal-empire-sued
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(West_Virginia_governor's_coal_empire_sued)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(West_Virginia_governor's_coal_empire_sued)

content:
 
<p>

  *West Virginia governor’s coal empire <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/31/west-virginia-governor-jim-justice-lawsuit-coal-mining">sued by government over unpaid fines</a>.*
<p>
You can expect a Republican to try to cheat the country/

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Earth's_health_failing)
title: Earth's health failing
uri: Earth-s-health-failing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Earth's_health_failing)
content:
 
<p>

  *Earth’s health <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/31/earth-health-failing-in-seven-out-of-eight-key-measures-say-scientists-earth-commission">failing in seven out of eight key measures</a>, say scientists.*
<p>
*Going beyond climate disruption, the new report by the Earth
   Commission group of scientists presents disturbing evidence that our
   planet faces growing crises of water availability, nutrient loading,
   ecosystem maintenance and aerosol pollution.  These pose threats to the
   stability of life-support systems and worsen social equality.*

 


title: Comoro island Mayotte hostility toward immigrants
uri: Comoro-island-Mayotte-hostility-toward-immigrants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Comoro_island_Mayotte_hostility_toward_immigrants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Comoro_island_Mayotte_hostility_toward_immigrants)

content:
 
<p>

When France offered the Comoro islands independence, in 1974, the
inhabitants of one island (Mayotte) voted to remain part of France.
They are now French citizens.  But Mayotte has received many
unauthorized immigrants from the other Comoro islands, and it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/may/31/insulted-humiliated-hunted-plight-of-migrants-as-slums-razed-in-french-territory-of-mayotte">now
    has the same sort of hostility to immigrants</a> that many European
countries' mainlands have.
<p>
What is interesting is that in this case the unwelcome immigrants come
from islands about 50 miles away and are racially, culturally, and
religiously very similar to the authorized residents of Mayotte.  They
speak <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comorian_languages">related languages</a> which have at least 80% of their vocabulary in
common.
  The islands have had close links for centuries.
<p>
This suggests that the reasons that the cause of hatred of immigrants
in other places, such as Europe and America, are consequences of politics.

 


title: Limiting homeowner's insurance in California
uri: Limiting-homeowner-s-insurance-in-California
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Limiting_homeowner's_insurance_in_California)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Limiting_homeowner's_insurance_in_California)

content:
 
<p>

Some insurance companies are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/31/for-some-us-residents-it-is-now-impossible-to-get-home-insurance-and-all-because-of-the-climate-crisis">limiting their sales of homeowner's
    insurance</a> in California.
  If this spreads to more companies, it could impact the whole state.
<p>
It is crucial to stop selling insurance for homes that can't be kept safe,
but instead of leaving their owners to wait to be wiped out by the next
flood or fire, the government must buy them out so the can move to
a safer place.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Golf_course_and_wildlife_preserve)
title: Golf course and wildlife preserve
uri: Golf-course-and-wildlife-preserve
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Golf_course_and_wildlife_preserve)
content:
 
<p>

One golf course is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/31/rare-butterflies-to-get-boost-from-wales-golf-club-grassland-restoration">demonstrating that it can also be a wildlife
    preserve</a>.

 


title: Representative of Western Sahara refused admittance to event
uri: Representative-of-Western-Sahara-refused-admittance-to-event
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Representative_of_Western_Sahara_refused_admittance_to_event)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Representative_of_Western_Sahara_refused_admittance_to_event)

content:
 
<p>

Morocco was in charge of holding an event celebrating "African unity"
in Australia.  South Africa invited a representative of the people
of Western Sahara, which is mostly occupied as a colony of Morocco.
Morocco's agents <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/31/moroccan-officials-accused-of-intimidation-after-fracas-at-african-unity-event-in-canberra">refused to let him into the rented hall</a>.
<p>
It shows that African unity is more a pious wish than a fact, and that
the tendency towards colonial behavior is not limited to whites or
Europeans.

 


title: South Australia imposed harsh penalties on "disruptive" protests
uri: South-Australia-imposed-harsh-penalties-on-disruptive-protests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(South_Australia_imposed_harsh_penalties_on_disruptive_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(South_Australia_imposed_harsh_penalties_on_disruptive_protests)

content:
 
<p>

  South Australia has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/31/south-australia-passes-laws-to-crack-down-on-protest-after-disruption-of-oil-and-gas-conference">imposed harsh penalties on "disruptive" protests</a>
against events that are meant to plan deadly activities with fossil
fuel.
<p>
  We have seen governments including <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_May_2023_(Coronation_arrests_are_just_the_start)">Britain</a> and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#28_April_2023_(Climate_protest_increases,_Germany)">Germany</a>
  surrender to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roaster</a> companies in this way and imposing repression
on their behalf.

 


title: Labour taken firm stand against fossil fuel development
uri: Labour-taken-firm-stand-against-fossil-fuel-development
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Labour_taken_firm_stand_against_fossil_fuel_development)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#5_June_2023_(Labour_taken_firm_stand_against_fossil_fuel_development)

content:
 
<p>

  Labour in the UK has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/31/labours-oil-and-gas-ban-shows-its-ready-to-fight-the-next-election-on-climate-issues">taken a firm stand against fossil fuel development</a>.
  It might be worth voting for.
<p>
The one thing it clearly won't do is end the political power of the
rich in the UK.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Amazon_liable_for_voyeur)
title: Amazon liable for voyeur
uri: Amazon-liable-for-voyeur
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#4_June_2023_(Amazon_liable_for_voyeur)
content:
 
<p>
A rogue employee of Amazon used <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/31/amazon-ring-doorbell-spying-ftc">Ring "doorbell" videocameras</a>
to watch customers.
<p>
What worries me more is that <a href="/archives/2020-may-aug.html#4_July_2020_(Amazon_deals_with_thug_departments_for_access_to_Ring)">lots of thugs have been watching lots</a>
of people through them.
<p>
Amazon was snooping through <a href="/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#29_May_2018_(Alexa_sending_conversations)">Alexa too</a>. <!-- ++apn -->

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#6_June_2023_(State_encroachment,_TN)
title: State encroachment, TN
uri: State-encroachment-TN
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#6_June_2023_(State_encroachment,_TN)
content:
 
<p>
Tennessee has
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2023/05/19/tennessee-bans-community-oversight-of-police.html">prohibited cities from operating review boards</a>
to curb
the violence of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> departments.
<p>
If cities cannot exert control over 
<!---->thugs, they may still be able to cut the funds to make the thug
department smaller, and set up new
non-police departments to handle traffic enforcement and dealing with
people who are going nuts.  That will do a lot of the same good.
<p>
I appreciate Wilhoit's law:
<blockquote>
     "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There
     must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside
     out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
</blockquote>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#6_June_2023_(Tactics_to_sell_paraquat)
title: Tactics to sell paraquat
uri: Tactics-to-sell-paraquat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#6_June_2023_(Tactics_to_sell_paraquat)
content:
 
<p>
* Internal documents from chemical giant Syngenta reveal tactics to
   sponsor sympathetic scientific papers and mislead regulators about
   unfavorable research&hellip; about
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/02/paraquat-parkinsons-disease-research-syngenta-weedkiller">[paraquat]’s link to
   Parkinson's disease</a>.*
<p>
I have a hunch there are other instances of corrupting research about
weedkillers and insecticides.  Does anyone know of articles about
others?
<p>
Meanwhile, we've seen many instances in which
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-may-aug.html#9%20August%202009%20(Corrupt%20pharmaceutical%20industry%20practices)">drug companies corrupt
studies</a> of the safety of drugs.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#6_June_2023_(Worker-progressive_culture_war)
title: Worker-progressive culture war
uri: Worker-progressive-culture-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#6_June_2023_(Worker-progressive_culture_war)
content:
 
<p>
In 1970, Richard Nixon turned white-color workers against antiwar students and civil rights
<a href="https://invidio.us/watch/?v=AF-G9Iov28M">and used them to destroy government support</a>
for workers.
<p>
Today's Republicans are trying to do it again.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#6_June_2023_(Police_officers_as_gang_members,_LA)
title: Peace officers as gang members, LA
uri: Peace-officers-as-gang-members-LA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#6_June_2023_(Police_officers_as_gang_members,_LA)
content:
 
<p>
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is investigating some of its
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> for
<a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-05-17/dozens-of-lasd-deputies-ordered-to-show-suspected-gang-tattoos-reveal-others-who-have-them">suspected membership in racist gangs</a>.

State encroachment, TN
Tennessee has
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2023/05/19/tennessee-bans-community-oversight-of-police.html">prohibited cities from operating review boards</a>
to curb
the violence of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> departments.
<p>
If cities cannot exert control over <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>, they may still be able to
cut the funds to make the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> department smaller, and set up new
non-police departments to handle traffic enforcement and dealing with
people who are going nuts.  That will do a lot of the same good.
<p>
I appreciate Wilhoit's law:
<blockquote>
     "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There
     must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside
     out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
</blockquote>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#6_June_2023_(Bonus_for_extra_thuggery,_FL)
title: Bonus for extra thuggery, FL
uri: Bonus-for-extra-thuggery-FL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#6_June_2023_(Bonus_for_extra_thuggery,_FL)
content:
 
<p>
Governor <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a> has established a bounty for <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> who move to Florida.
<a href="https://www.dailydot.com/debug/florida-police-recruitment-bonus-desantis/">A number of them have been charged</a>
with serious crimes.

<p>
 


title: Black-motorist, traffic stops: a study
uri: Black-motorist-traffic-stops-a-study
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#6_June_2023_(Black-motorist,_traffic_stops:_a_study)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#6_June_2023_(Black-motorist,_traffic_stops:_a_study)

content:
 
<p>
*A [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a>]'s first words to a Black driver
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/05/29/1178279383/for-black-drivers-a-police-officers-first-45-words-are-a-portent-of-whats-to-com">signal how the car
stop will go</a>.
A Black driver is more likely to face being searched,
handcuffed, or arrested when a <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#police">police officer's</a> first words are
commands rather than a greeting or an explanation.*
<p>
The study shows that cruel actions of the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are not a response
to anything that the black driver does.  They flow from prejudice.
<p>
The article linked to above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white".  (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.)  I denounce bigotry, and
normally I will not link to articles that promote it.  But I make
exceptions for some articles give important information about racism.
That article is one of the exceptions.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(birmingham_six)
title: UK thugs falsely convicted 6 man of a bombing in Birmingham
uri: UK-thugs-falsely-convicted-6-man-of-a-bombing-in-Birmingham
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(birmingham_six)
content:
 
<p>
UK thugs falsely convicted 6 man of a bombing in Birmingham,
they fiercely defended that decision against all the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/04/birmingham-six-why-so-hard-for-judiciary-to-admit-theyd-jailed-innocent-man-16-years">evidence showing
it was false.</a>
<p>
*According to Irish cabinet papers from 1989, the British
   Home Office had indicated that its main [104]concerns about the
   potential overturning of convictions were "to avoid giving scandal” and
   “the credibility problems for police evidence in court hearings."*
<p>
Such determination never to admit that verdicts can be 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2016/10/11/donald-trump-ugly-attack-on-central-park-five-reflects-all-too-common-attitude/">wrong occurs
in the US too.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(nypd_lawsuit_courtesy_cards)
title: Traffic cop sues city over ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ cards
uri: Traffic-cop-sues-city-over-get-out-of-jail-free-cards
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(nypd_lawsuit_courtesy_cards)
content:
 
<p>
The New York City thug department operates a corrupt system of traffic
enforcement, where friends and relatives of thugs get "courtesy cards"
and thugs on traffic duty are told not to give tickets to those people 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/04/nypd-lawsuit-courtesy-cards-traffic-tickets
">no matter what they do.</a>
<p>
One cop, who has a sense of integrity and may qualify to be called
a police officer, rejected this system of corruption and gave
tickets to privileged people just as he would to anyone else.
He was punished for this and now s suing to put an end to the system.
<p>
He points out that one of the effects of this corruption is systemic
racism.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(landlords_english_pubs)
title: English pubs forced to close after owners demand full rent
uri: English-pubs-forced-to-close-after-owners-demand-full-rent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(landlords_english_pubs)
content:
 
<p>
Billionaire landlords are forcing English pubs to close by requiring
them to pay 100% of the rent that they were allowed to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/jun/03/the-billionaires-have-won-english-pubs-forced-to-close-after-owners-demand-full-rent-for-lockdown">put off during
the Covid crisis.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(driscoll_blocked)
title: Labour mayors say party undemocratic for blocking Driscoll
uri: Labour-mayors-say-party-undemocratic-for-blocking-Driscoll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(driscoll_blocked)
content:
 
<p>
More about Jamie Driscoll, the Corbyn supporter that Starmer blocked
from running again for mayor of the (newly expanded) 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/04/blocking-jamie-driscoll-as-labours-mayoral-candidate-is-error-says-unite">Newcastle region.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(think_tanks_ukraine)
title: How weapons firms influence the Ukraine debate
uri: How-weapons-firms-influence-the-Ukraine-debate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(think_tanks_ukraine)
content:
 
<p>
Almost all the US "think tanks" that comment on questions involving
actual or possible war receive a lot of funds from 
<a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/06/01/how-weapons-firms-influence-the-ukraine-debate/
">military contractors
including arms manufacturers.</a>
<p>
Their unstated motto seems to be, "Think `tanks'."
<p>
We should not allow arms companies to have so much influence on how we
use arms.  There is an advantage in giving Ukraine plentiful arms; if
they did not cost anything, why not give it a thousand tanks, a
thousand fighter planes and a million missiles?  But they do have a
cost, and we need to consider the trade-offs.
<p>
What the invasion of Ukraine shows Americans is that the US needs to
be prepared to greatly increase production of arms and supplies if the
US is involved in a major war.  The system we have is adequate only for
the kind of war that the government starts quietly, the kind that
makes the news only when things don't go according to plan.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#6_June_2023_(Ethnic_disparity_study,_UK)
title: Ethnic disparity study, UK
uri: Ethnic-disparity-study-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#6_June_2023_(Ethnic_disparity_study,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
Various minority groups in England and Wales got a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/31/black-people-england-wales-more-likely-issued-pandemic-fines-police-study">disproportionate
fractions of the fines</a>
for breaking Covid-19 lockdown rules.
<p>
This study strongly suggests that many <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> acted based on bias, but
it cannot conclusively prove that, because it does not control for
other variables &mdash; such as the actions of people who were fined.
<p>
For instance, the study found that poor people got a high proportion
of the fines.  Was this because they had to travel by walking and been
seen by <!---->thugs, while wealthier people went by car?  That would be
systemic bias rather than individual prejudice.
<p>
Contrast this with the Massachusetts courts' study that <a href="/archives/2020-jul-oct.html#12_September_2020_(Sentencing_in_Massachusetts_is_subject_to_systemic_racism)">showed blacks
tended to get bigger sentences than whites</a>
<em>for comparable crimes in comparable circumstances</em>.
  By controlling for the other things that can vary between groups, it
pretty much proved that bias was at work in the legal system itself.
That showed that the legal system is inescapably to blame for the injustice.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(New_health-risk,_FL_sargassum)
title: Another deadly health-risk found in FL sargassum
uri: Another-deadly-health-risk-found-in-FL-sargassum
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(New_health-risk,_FL_sargassum)
content:
 
<p>
People cleaning Atlantic Florida beaches risk infection with a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/03/sargassum-seaweed-algae-florida-bacteria-vibrio">deadly
strain of Vibrio bacteria</a>.
 It arrives on clumps of dead seaweed, and
people catch it from that, but it colonizes plastic in the ocean and
people catch it from that too.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(Urgent:_emission_standards_for_cars)
title: Urgent: Support proposed emission standards for cars
uri: Urgent-Support-proposed-emission-standards-for-cars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(Urgent:_emission_standards_for_cars)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.evergreenaction.com/letter/EPA-support-strong-clean-car-standards?source=ema_2023_06_01_clean_car_rules&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=100clean&utm_source=email2023_06_01">call on the EPA</a>
to make its new emission standards for cars quite strict.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Ban the sale of assault weapons
uri: Urgent-Ban-the-sale-of-assault-weapons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(Urgent:_Ban_the_sale_of_assault_weapons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(Urgent:_Ban_the_sale_of_assault_weapons)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-state-legislatures-ban-the-sale-of-assault-weapons?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-just-strategy&source=group-just-strategy">call on state legislatures</a>
to ban the sale of assault weapons.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(Community_heals_racist_vandalism)
title: Community heals racist vandalism, UK
uri: Community-heals-racist-vandalism-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(Community_heals_racist_vandalism)
content:
 
<p>
300 volunteers
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jun/03/uk-seaside-community-bexhill-unites-to-restore-vandalised-statue-of-black-woman">joined in repairing a statue</a>
of a black woman at the beach which was vandalized with spray paint.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(Climate_risk_to_tourism,_Med)
title: Climate risk to tourism, Med
uri: Climate-risk-to-tourism-Med
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(Climate_risk_to_tourism,_Med)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">Global heating</a> will ruin the Mediterranean region
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/03/fires-floods-and-disappearing-beaches-can-mediterranean-holidays-survive">as a destination to
visit in the summer</a>,
long before the current shore areas have been
inundated due to sea-level rise.
<p>
Important cities (and archeological sites) will be inundated
along with the beaches.

<p>
 


title: Analysis: leak spurred anti-abortion funding
uri: Analysis-leak-spurred-anti-abortion-funding
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(Analysis:_leak_spurred_anti-abortion_funding)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(Analysis:_leak_spurred_anti-abortion_funding)

content:
 
<p>
*Amazon and Google
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/03/anti-abortion-lawmakers-donation-amazon-google-comcast">fund anti-abortion lawmakers</a>
through complex shell game.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(Unregulated_AI_doomsday_scenarios)
title: Unregulated AI doomsday scenarios
uri: Unregulated-AI-doomsday-scenarios
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#7_June_2023_(Unregulated_AI_doomsday_scenarios)
content:
 
<p>
Recommendation engines that spread disinformation can be thought of as
humanity's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/03/ai-danger-doomsday-chatgpt-robots-fears">first major encounter with AI</a>.
Humanity is losing.
<p>
It is pertinent that these AIs are not autonomous; they do not have
agency.  They do not have emotions or goals of their own.  They work
under the control of very rich groups of people and those groups
decide the goals they work for.
<p>
The plutocrats that mostly rule the US have a simple plan for what to
do with people who can't ever find a job that can keep one alive:
neglect them and let the consequences of poverty do away with most of
them.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#10_June_2023_(Dam_collapse,_UKR)
title: Dam collapse, UKR
uri: Dam-collapse-UKR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#10_June_2023_(Dam_collapse,_UKR)
content:
 
<p>
Russia seems to have destroyed Ukraine's Nova Kakhovka
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/ukraine-accuses-russia-of-blowing-up-nova-kakhovka-dam-near-kherson">hydroelectric dam</a>.
  Substantial areas of land will be flooded; Ukraine is hurrying to
evacuate people.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#10_June_2023_(Dam_collapse_aftermath,_UKR)
title: Dam collapse aftermath, UKR
uri: Dam-collapse-aftermath-UKR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#10_June_2023_(Dam_collapse_aftermath,_UKR)
content:
 
<p>
*Hundreds of thousands of mines and debris are flowing into towns
   downstream, while lack of water upstream will hit food production*,
due to the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/devastation-from-kakhovka-dam-collapse-could-take-decades-to-heal">destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#10_June_2023_(Landmines_dislodged_by_flooding,_UKR)
title: Landmines dislodged by flooding, UKR
uri: Landmines-dislodged-by-flooding-UKR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#10_June_2023_(Landmines_dislodged_by_flooding,_UKR)
content:
 
<p>
The water from the wrecked Nova Kakhovka dam, which is inundating land
near
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/dam-breach-could-be-ukraines-worst-ecological-disaster-since-chornobyl">the Dnieper river, is sweeping away landmines</a>.
 It can leave them anywhere in the inundated land.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#10_June_2023_(Water_supply_cut,_UKR)
title: Water supply cut, UKR
uri: Water-supply-cut-UKR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#10_June_2023_(Water_supply_cut,_UKR)
content:
 
<p>
The destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam seems likely to cut off water
supply
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/08/maps-kakhovka-dam-collapse-threatens-ukraine-bread-basket">to agricultural regions</a>
still held by Ukraine.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#10_June_2023_(Russian_Nova_Kakhovka)
title: Russian Nova Kakhovka
uri: Russian-Nova-Kakhovka
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#10_June_2023_(Russian_Nova_Kakhovka)
content:
 
<p>
Russia is incompetently denying the flooding in Nova Kakhovka, a
Ukrainian town occupied by the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>.  The "mayor" says
everything is fine while the background shows flooding.  People there,
and in places downstream, report they are cut off and in danger from
the flood.
<p>
Ukrainian forces have been infiltrating the south bank of the Dnieper;
perhaps the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> hope they will be drowned.  I expect that the
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> are retreating from the flood and that the Ukrainian
forces will advance behind them.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/07/chaos-on-frontlines-as-ukraine-war-threatens-to-come-home-for-russia">Meanwhile, Russian rebels</a>,
sponsored by Ukraine, seem to have driven
Russian state forces out of the Russian town of Shebekino on the
border by shelling it.  The Russian state seems to claim this fighting
is not really happening.
  This seems very strange to me; I can't come up with a rational
explanation for it.
<p>
Could it be that Prigozhin and Putin are fighting behind the scenes?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#10_June_2023_(Dam_blown_up,_seismic_evidence)
title: Dam blown up, seismic evidence
uri: Dam-blown-up-seismic-evidence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#10_June_2023_(Dam_blown_up,_seismic_evidence)
content:
 
<p>
*Seismic data
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/09/seismic-data-adds-evidence-ukraine-kakhovka-dam-blown-up">adds to evidence</a>
that Ukraine's Kakhovka dam was blown up.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#10_June_2023_(Ex_US_Pres_indicted)
title: Ex US Pres indicted
uri: Ex-US-Pres-indicted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#10_June_2023_(Ex_US_Pres_indicted)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The bullshitter</a>/corrupter/<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#saboteur">saboteur</a> has been indicted for taking secret
documents and trying to conceal that he had them.  I will post the details
when we know them for certain.  Here is an article about
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/09/could-trump-go-to-jail-federal-charges-over-classified-docs-show-momentum-is-building">what that may lead to</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/09/donald-trump-indictment-unsealed-mar-a-lago">Plain-language descriptions</a>
of some of the crimes <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker</a> is
charged with.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: List Monarch butterflies as endangered
uri: Urgent-List-Monarch-butterflies-as-endangered
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Urgent:_List_Monarch_butterflies_as_endangered)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Urgent:_List_Monarch_butterflies_as_endangered)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=54735&supporter_KEY=229474">call on Interior Secretary Haaland</a>
to support listing Monarch butterflies as endangered.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Bogus_Johnson_suspension,_UK)
title: Bogus Johnson suspension, UK
uri: Bogus-Johnson-suspension-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Bogus_Johnson_suspension,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bogus-johnson">Bogus Johnson's</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/09/boris-johnson-resigns-as-mp-with-immediate-effect-over-partygate-report">lies have caught up with him</a>,
and he has resigned from Parliament rather than be suspended.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Treason,_espionage_cases,_RU)
title: Treason, espionage cases, RU
uri: Treason-espionage-cases-RU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Treason,_espionage_cases,_RU)
content:
 
<p>
Russia has arrested
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/04/spymania-grips-russian-security-services-amid-sharp-rise-in-treason-cases">many elderly old scientists</a>
who had successful careers in secret research, accusing them of giving away secrets and
convicting them in secret trials.
  Now many Russian scientists who worked on such projects are
terrified they will be the next chosen victim.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Wildfire_smoke_hazard,_E._US)
title: Wildfire smoke hazard, E. US
uri: Wildfire-smoke-hazard-E-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Wildfire_smoke_hazard,_E._US)
content:
 
<p>
Smoke from wildfires in Canada is blowing in to major Eastern US cities
and
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/northeastern-us-chokes-on-worst-wildfire-smoke-in-20-years">can cause real injury</a>.
 To be safe, wear an N95 mask.
<p>
You can get partial protection outdoors by wearing an N95 mask.  An
honest KN95 works equally well; the problem with KN95 is that China
does not attempt to certify each brand and each model.  As a result,
many kinds of KN95 masks are fake and won't protect at all.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Coast_to_coast_fires,_CAN)
title: Coast to coast fires, CAN
uri: Coast-to-coast-fires-CAN
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Coast_to_coast_fires,_CAN)
content:
 
<p>
Canada is now suffering over 400 wildfires,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/07/canadas-wildfires-new-climate-reality-experts-officials-say">more than ever before</a>.
  Climate scientists say that this is caused by <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> and
will get worse.  Anyone who has been paying attention had to suspect
this, but it is useful that scientists report confirming it.
<p>
Alberta's government must be made to acknowledge that its tar sand oil
exports are part of the cause.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Gerrymander_rejected,_AL)
title: Gerrymander rejected, AL
uri: Gerrymander-rejected-AL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Gerrymander_rejected,_AL)
content:
 
<p>
The US supreme court rejected voting districts gerrymandered by
Alabama Republicans, on the grounds that
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/u-s-supreme-court-rules-alabamas-congressional-map-violates-the-voting-rights-act-by-diluting-black-political-power">they deny black voters</a>
the
possibility of influencing the outcome in proportion to their numbers.
<p>
At least one of the right-wing justices must have voted for this decision. I am surprised.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Global_plastics_treaty)
title: Global plastics treaty
uri: Global-plastics-treaty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Global_plastics_treaty)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/06/first-steps-agreed-on-plastics-treaty-after-breakthrough-at-paris-talks">First steps agreed</a>
on plastics treaty after breakthrough at Paris talks.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Greenwashing_by_Shell,_UK)
title: Greenwashing by Shell, UK
uri: Greenwashing-by-Shell-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Greenwashing_by_Shell,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
*Shell's "green"
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/07/shells-green-ad-campaign-banned-in-uk-for-being-likely-to-mislead">ad campaign banned</a>
in UK for being "likely to mislead".*
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Urgent:_Confirm_FCC_nominees)
title: Urgent: Confirm FCC nominees
uri: Urgent-Confirm-FCC-nominees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Urgent:_Confirm_FCC_nominees)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.freepress.net/go/69310?t=1003&akid=28699%2E9489429%2EHI-yal">call on your senators</a>
to confirm FCC nominees Anna Gomez & Geoffrey Starks.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Labour_bombshell,_UK)
title: Labour bombshell, UK
uri: Labour-bombshell-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Labour_bombshell,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
*How Starmer’s bullies took out Jamie Driscoll &mdash; and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/08/jamie-driscoll-labour-keir-starmer-north-of-tyne-mayor">why it matters</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Schoolbook_ban_backlash,_UT)
title: Schoolbook ban backlash, UT
uri: Schoolbook-ban-backlash-UT
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Schoolbook_ban_backlash,_UT)
content:
 
<p>
Right-wing Christians'
<a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/06/01/bible-is-banned-these-utah/">law for censoring books in Utah schools</a>
has resulted in banning the Bible except in high school.  The Book of Mormon may be next.

<p>
 


title: Imran Khan: US complicit, PAK military victim
uri: Imran-Khan-US-complicit-PAK-military-victim
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Imran_Khan:_US_complicit,_PAK_military_victim)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Imran_Khan:_US_complicit,_PAK_military_victim)

content:
 
<p>
Imran Khan alleges that in March, 2022, Don Lu, who was the
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/06/05/imran-khan-interview/">US
undersecretary of state, demanded</a>
that Pakistan force out
Prime Minister Imran Khan.
<p>
I cannot presume that Imran Khan is entirely honest and credible.
I don't know enough about Pakistan to have views on that.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Highest_profile_whistleblower,_AU)
title: High-profile army-whistleblower, AU
uri: High-profile-army-whistleblower-AU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Highest_profile_whistleblower,_AU)
content:
 
<p>
Australia is still prosecuting the whistleblower who revealed that
Australian
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/07/act-minister-calls-on-commonwealth-to-drop-prosecution-of-defence-whistleblower-david-mcbride">soldiers in Afghanistan had killed unarmed people</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(CNN_conversion's_influencers)
title: CNN conversion's influencers
uri: CNN-conversion-s-influencers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(CNN_conversion's_influencers)
content:
 
<p>
The right-wing billionaire CEO of the Warner Brothers conglomerate is
behind the conversion of CNN into a right-wing tool, a
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-demise-of-cnn">competitor for
Faux News</a>.
<p>
CNN has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/08/cnn-chris-licht-fired-ratings-numbers">fired its CEO</a>,
Licht.
   Unless the billionaire decides to value CNN's profits over his
political goals, I don't think that will change much.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Labour_oil-ban_rift)
title: Labour oil-ban rift
uri: Labour-oil-ban-rift
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Labour_oil-ban_rift)
content:
 
<p>
Labour proposes to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/08/labour-mp-defends-north-sea-drilling-plans-against-union-criticism">end offshore fossil fuel drilling</a>,
but the union
that represents the workers demands to keep it going.
<p>
Generally it is good for society for workers to have strong unions,
but unions can do harm when they resist the elimination of toxic industries
in the name of full employment.  A good government can build up new industries with good jobs.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(High-profile_UFO-whistleblower,_US)
title: High-profile UFO-whistleblower, US
uri: High-profile-UFO-whistleblower-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(High-profile_UFO-whistleblower,_US)
content:
 
<p>
One current official in US intelligence and one former official turned
whistleblower say the US has collected alien vehicles (perhaps spacecraft).
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/08/ufo-house-representatives-hearing-investigation">House of Representatives demands</a>
to be shown.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(CA_verses_FL,_Governors)
title: CA verses FL, Governors
uri: CA-verses-FL-Governors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(CA_verses_FL,_Governors)
content:
 
<p>
California governor Newsom suggests
<a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/california-threatens-gov-desantis-with-kidnapping-charges-after-migrants-flown-to-sacramento/">possible kidnapping charges</a>
against
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a> for collecting asylum seekers on Texas and flying them to California.
It seems they did not want or expect to end up in California.
Apparently they were tricked somehow.
<p>
A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/06/texas-migrants-flight-marthas-vineyard-charges-sheriff">Texas sheriff has filed charges</a>
based on the flights that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a> organized that took a previous group of refugees to Martha's Vineyard.
The article does not make it clear whether these charges are against
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a>, or someone who played a secondary role in setting up those flights.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Dam_break_amid_war,_day_four)
title: Dam break amid war, day four
uri: Dam-break-amid-war-day-four
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Dam_break_amid_war,_day_four)
content:
 
<p>
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam is causing various
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/10/the-disastrous-bursting-of-ukraines-nova-kakhovka-dam-and-the-battle-that-is-to-come">follow-on
disasters</a>,
and additional disasters are possible.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Espionage_case_against_the_saboteur)
title: Espionage case against the saboteur
uri: Espionage-case-against-the-saboteur
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#11_June_2023_(Espionage_case_against_the_saboteur)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/10/donald-trump-classified-documents-three-scenes">Three scenes that sum up</a>
the classified documents case against Donald Trump.*
<p>
 


title: Urgent: Boycott commission to plan cuts to Social Security
uri: Urgent-Boycott-commission-to-plan-cuts-to-Social-Security
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Urgent:_Boycott_commission_to_plan_cuts_to_Social_Security)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Urgent:_Boycott_commission_to_plan_cuts_to_Social_Security)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Democrats in Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congressional-democrats-boycott-mccarthys-social-security-cutting-commission">boycott the Republicans'
    "bipartisan" commission to plan cuts to Social Security</a>.

 


title: Urgent: repeal denial of food stamps to people with drug convictions
uri: Urgent-repeal-denial-of-food-stamps-to-people-with-drug-convictions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Urgent:_repeal_denial_of_food_stamps_to_people_with_drug_convictions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Urgent:_repeal_denial_of_food_stamps_to_people_with_drug_convictions)

content:
 
<p>


  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/repeal-ban-food-stamps-people-drug-convictions-0">repeal the denial of food stamps</a> to
people with drug convictions.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

 


title: Urgent: Remove Rep. Gosar's committee assignments
uri: Urgent-Remove-Rep-Gosar-s-committee-assignments
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Urgent:_Remove_Rep._Gosar's_committee_assignments)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Urgent:_Remove_Rep._Gosar's_committee_assignments)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/petition-remove-gosar">remove Rep. Gosar's committee
    assignments</a>

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

 


title: Urgent: Confirm FCC nominees Anna Gomez and Geoffrey Starks
uri: Urgent-Confirm-FCC-nominees-Anna-Gomez-and-Geoffrey-Starks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Urgent:_Confirm_FCC_nominees_Anna_Gomez_and_Geoffrey_Starks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Urgent:_Confirm_FCC_nominees_Anna_Gomez_and_Geoffrey_Starks)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your senators to <a href="https://act.freepress.net/go/69310">confirm FCC nominees Anna Gomez
    and Geoffrey Starks</a>.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Highway_through_Amazon_rainforest)
title: Highway through Amazon rainforest
uri: Highway-through-Amazon-rainforest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Highway_through_Amazon_rainforest)
content:
 
<p>

Improvement of a highway through the Amazon rainforest <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/05/amazon-road-ruin-highway-threatens-heart-rainforest">threatens to
    speed deforestation and destruction</a> of the whole forest.  
  Right-wing legislators block Lula's efforts to protect the forest.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Chatbot_to_start_date_conversations)
title: Chatbot to start date conversations
uri: Chatbot-to-start-date-conversations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Chatbot_to_start_date_conversations)
content:
 
<p>

The surveillance-dating industry says, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/06/ai-bots-chatting-up-matches-on-dating-apps-this-wont-end-well">"Have your chatbot start
    the conversation that's meant to lead up to a date."</a>
<p>
That way, when you first actually communicate with each other,
it will be just one step beyond a blind date.
<p>
If (as the article says) only 10% of the users of dating systems find
a long-term relationship with them, they are failures already.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(To_late_to_save_Arctic_summer_ice)
title: To late to save Arctic summer ice
uri: To-late-to-save-Arctic-summer-ice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(To_late_to_save_Arctic_summer_ice)
content:
 
<p>

  *[It is] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/06/too-late-now-to-save-arctic-summer-ice-climate-scientists-find">too late now to save Arctic summer ice</a>, climate scientists find.*

 


title: Cancelled talk by trans person in Montana
uri: Cancelled-talk-by-trans-person-in-Montana
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Cancelled_talk_by_trans_person_in_Montana)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Cancelled_talk_by_trans_person_in_Montana)

content:
 
<p>

A talk by a trans person in a library in Montana was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/08/adria-jawort-montana-drag-law-transgender">cancelled on the
    grounds that her dressing as a woman</a> (as she normally does) for the
talk would make it a "drag show".

 


title: When a pregnant woman is exposed to PFAs
uri: When-a-pregnant-woman-is-exposed-to-PFAs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(When_a_pregnant_woman_is_exposed_to_PFAs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(When_a_pregnant_woman_is_exposed_to_PFAs)

content:
 
<p>

When a pregnant woman is exposed to PFAs, it tends to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/forever-chemicals-pfas-low-birth-weight-obesity-research">make the baby
    underweight at birth and overweight later on</a>.

 


title: How Long Covid can degrade a person's quality of life
uri: How-Long-Covid-can-degrade-a-person-s-quality-of-life
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(How_Long_Covid_can_degrade_a_person's_quality_of_life)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(How_Long_Covid_can_degrade_a_person's_quality_of_life)

content:
 
<p>

  Some kinds of Long Covid <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/08/long-covid-impact-quality-of-life-cancer-study">degrade people's quality of life</a> more than
some advanced cases of cancer.

 


title: Intelligence agency on Nord Stream pipeline
uri: Intelligence-agency-on-Nord-Stream-pipeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Intelligence_agency_on_Nord_Stream_pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Intelligence_agency_on_Nord_Stream_pipeline)

content:
 
<p>

Reportedly some European intelligence agency <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/06/biden-knew-of-plan-to-attack-nord-stream-three-months-before-explosion">informed the US that
    Ukraine had made a plan to blow up the Nord Stream pipelines</a>, 
  a few months before the actual bombing.
<p>
The pipelines belonged to Russia, so as I understand it that made
it legitimate for Ukraine, already at war with Russia, to attack them.

 


title: Professional Golfers Association merged with Prince Bone Saw's golf tournament
uri: Professional-Golfers-Association-merged-with-Prince-Bone-Saw-s-golf-to
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Professional_Golfers_Association_merged_with_Prince_Bone_Saw's_golf_tournament)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Professional_Golfers_Association_merged_with_Prince_Bone_Saw's_golf_tournament)

content:
 
<p>

The Professional Golfers Association has <a href="https://www.golfchannel.com/news/911-families-united-pga-tour-leaders-should-be-ashamed-their-hypocrisy">merged with Crown Prince Bone Saw's
    competing golf tournament series</a>.
<p>
Doesn't that violate European competition law?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Empires_that_are_declining)
title: Empires that are declining
uri: Empires-that-are-declining
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Empires_that_are_declining)
content:
 
<p>

  Empires that are declining often <a href="https://tomdispatch.com/clinging-bitterly-to-guns-and-religion/">exalt militarism</a>.
  The US is doing so, at scales ranging from the neighborhood
to the globe.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Moving_CNN_to_the_political_center)
title: Moving CNN to the "political center"
uri: Moving-CNN-to-the-political-center
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Moving_CNN_to_the_political_center)
content:
 
<p>

Robert Reich: Licht's idea of moving CNN to the "political center"
was <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/goodbye-cnns-chris-licht-but-whats">doomed from the start because the US has no such center</a>.
   American is now divided between fascists and democrats.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Robot_taxi_killed_dog)
title: Robot taxi killed dog
uri: Robot-taxi-killed-dog
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Robot_taxi_killed_dog)
content:
 
<p>

  A robot taxi being tested <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/07/waymo-car-kills-dog-self-driving-robotaxi-san-francisco">killed a dog that ran out from behind a parked car</a>.
The company said that the car's computers recognized the dog but could
not stop the car in time.
<p>
So-called "autonomous" cars are not really autonomous, because they
are "connected", and that is an injustice to the passengers and
perhaps also the passersby.  It should be illegal to operate a taxi
unless it (1) can be called by anonymous passengers, (2) accepts
payment in anonymous cash, and (3) keeps no biometric information
about them or about people outside the taxi.

 


title: Stadium-style lamps at US-Mexico border
uri: Stadium-style-lamps-at-US-Mexico-border
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Stadium-style_lamps_at_US-Mexico_border)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Stadium-style_lamps_at_US-Mexico_border)

content:
 
<p>

  The US border <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> have <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/06/07/border-lights-arizona-desert-ecosystems/">installed stadium-style bright lamps</a> along
rural parts of the border with Mexico.  Operating those lamps
  could devastate wildlife.  Many species live in or migrate through
the border; some endangered species live mainly there.
<p>
In some cases, the harm of border lights could extend far away from
the border, as for instance when populations of jaguars in the US and
Mexico can no longer mix and interbreed.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Right-wing_rich_in_Colombia)
title: Right-wing rich in Colombia
uri: Right-wing-rich-in-Colombia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Right-wing_rich_in_Colombia)
content:
 
<p>

Warning: the right-wing rich that used to control Colombia are
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/06/07/colombia-gustavo-petro-letter/">scheming to overthrow the elected leftist government</a>.

 


title: Starmer taking advantage of Tory gerrymandering
uri: Starmer-taking-advantage-of-Tory-gerrymandering
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Starmer_taking_advantage_of_Tory_gerrymandering)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Starmer_taking_advantage_of_Tory_gerrymandering)

content:
 
<p>

  Starmer is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/07/shadow-ministers-to-stand-in-new-seats-as-leftwing-labour-mps-deselected">taking advantage of Tory gerrymandering</a> to assure leftist
Tory MPs are replaced by people we would in the US call "centrists".

 


title: Italian thugs accused of torturing migrants
uri: Italian-thugs-accused-of-torturing-migrants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Italian_thugs_accused_of_torturing_migrants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Italian_thugs_accused_of_torturing_migrants)

content:
 
<p>

  *Five Italian [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>] accused of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/07/five-italian-police-accused-of-torturing-migrants-and-homeless-people">torturing migrants and homeless people</a>.*
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> anywhere might torture people they think are too marginalized to
make a stink, but prosecuting <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> for that is a sign of officials
who care about justice.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(New_rights_for_workers_in_Minnesota)
title: New rights for workers in Minnesota
uri: New-rights-for-workers-in-Minnesota
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(New_rights_for_workers_in_Minnesota)
content:
 
<p>

  Minnesota has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/07/minnesota-pro-worker-paid-leave-union">legislated many important new rights for workers</a>.
  Now the challenge is to extend them to the whole US, and then to the rest
of the world.

 


title: Data on Hong Kong protesters using TikTok
uri: Data-on-Hong-Kong-protesters-using-TikTok
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Data_on_Hong_Kong_protesters_using_TikTok)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Data_on_Hong_Kong_protesters_using_TikTok)

content:
 
<p>

China's Communist Party <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/07/communist-party-accessed-hong-kong-protesters-tiktok-data-former-executive-says">accessed personal data of Hong Kong protesters
    using TikTok</a>.
<p>
That is no surprise to me.  No company will be allowed to operate in
China unless it obeys China's demands to aid repression.

 


title: Home insurance prices up because of global heating
uri: Home-insurance-prices-up-because-of-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Home_insurance_prices_up_because_of_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Home_insurance_prices_up_because_of_global_heating)

content:
 
<p>

The beginnings of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> disaster are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/06/climate-risks-are-making-california-uninsurable-when-will-we-wake-up">driving up home insurance
    prices</a> in regions that are becoming disaster-prone.
  In some regions, such as California, it may be simply impossible to
buy home insurance.

 


title: Legal imposition of flawed IRHA criteria
uri: Legal-imposition-of-flawed-IRHA-criteria
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Legal_imposition_of_flawed_IRHA_criteria)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Legal_imposition_of_flawed_IRHA_criteria)

content:
 
<p>

  The Biden administration took a step closer to <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/06/06/antisemitism-definition-israel-palestine/">endorsing the legal imposition</a> of the flawed IRHA criteria for antisemitism.
  Its flaw is that it facilitates <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#24_October_2020_(Labeled_antisemitic_for_criticizing_Israel">labeling criticism of Israel's occupation
    of Palestine as "antisemitism"</a>.
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feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Snowden_on_the_surveillance_of_today)
title: Snowden on the surveillance of today
uri: Snowden-on-the-surveillance-of-today
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Snowden_on_the_surveillance_of_today)
content:
 
<p>

Snowden says that the surveillance of 10 years ago was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/08/no-regrets-says-edward-snowden-after-10-years-in-exile">"child's play"
    compared to surveillance today</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Pollinator_population_decline_in_UK)
title: Pollinator population decline in UK
uri: Pollinator-population-decline-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Pollinator_population_decline_in_UK)
content:
 
<p>

  Fruit farming in the UK is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/07/insect-decline-a-threat-to-fruit-crops-and-food-security-scientists-warn-mps-aoe">suffering from the decline in pollinator populations</a> brought about by human use of chemicals.

 


title: "AI software" can be used to design bioweapons
uri: AI-software-can-be-used-to-design-bioweapons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(AI_software_can_be_used_to_design_bioweapons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(AI_software_can_be_used_to_design_bioweapons)

content:
 
<p>

Warning that "AI software" can already be used to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/05/ai-could-outwit-humans-in-two-years-says-uk-government-adviser">design bioweapons
    and to break computer security</a>.
<p>
That seems plausible to me.
<p>
However, that doesn't mean terrorist groups will have the ability to
<em>make</em> bioweapons.  And the same "AI software" could be used to fix
holes in security.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Local_food_advertising)
title: "Local food" advertising
uri: Local-food-advertising
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Local_food_advertising)
content:
 
<p>

  "Local food" as advertised in supermarkets is a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/05/local-food-marketing-us-supermarkets">marketing distraction</a>.

 


title: Rules to reduce plastic waste in Australia
uri: Rules-to-reduce-plastic-waste-in-Australia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Rules_to_reduce_plastic_waste_in_Australia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Rules_to_reduce_plastic_waste_in_Australia)

content:
 
<p>

Australia has decided to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/09/australian-governments-impose-mandatory-packaging-rules-on-industry-to-cut-waste">impose mandatory rules for packaging
    and recycling</a> to reduce the amount of waste, especially plastic waste.

 


title: Regulations on bluetooth sharing in China
uri: Regulations-on-bluetooth-sharing-in-China
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Regulations_on_bluetooth_sharing_in_China)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Regulations_on_bluetooth_sharing_in_China)

content:
 
<p>

  China has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/09/china-plans-new-rules-to-regulate-file-sharing-services-like-airdrop-and-bluetooth">imposed strict regulations on bluetooth file sharing</a>
so that it can crush any communication of dissent.

 


title: Trump's strategy to secure autocratic power
uri: Trump-s-strategy-to-secure-autocratic-power
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Trump's_strategy_to_secure_autocratic_power)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Trump's_strategy_to_secure_autocratic_power)

content:
 
<p>

*   Former DoJ prosecutors say Trump will pack government agencies with
sympathizers in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/05/trump-criticis-doj-rule-of-law-second-term">effort to "secure his autocratic power."</a>*
<p>
*   Bromwich noted that Trump’s choices of Barr and Jeff Sessions as
   attorneys general ultimately disappointed him, "because there came a
   point for both of them that they couldn’t go as far as Trump needed."*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Assange_close_to_US_extradition)
title: Assange close to US extradition
uri: Assange-close-to-US-extradition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Assange_close_to_US_extradition)
content:
 
<p>

  *Julian Assange <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jun/09/julian-assange-dangerously-close-to-us-extradition-after-losing-latest-legal-appeal">"dangerously close" to US extradition</a> after losing latest
legal appeal.*
<p>
The UK government has trampled Assange's legal rights many times.
It has <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#21_December_2021_(uk_legal_rulings)">never felt the need for a convincing argument</a> to justify this;
it is satisfied by pulling a thin curtain over the violations.

 


title: Twitter asserts Musk is wrong about government interference
uri: Twitter-asserts-Musk-is-wrong-about-government-interference
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Twitter_asserts_Musk_is_wrong_about_government_interference)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Twitter_asserts_Musk_is_wrong_about_government_interference)

content:
 
<p>

*Twitter Admits in Court Filing: Elon Musk Is <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/05/twitter-admits-in-court-filing-elon-musk-is-simply-wrong-about-government-interference-at-twitter/">Simply Wrong About
    Government Interference At Twitter</a>.*

 


title: UAE state oil firm access to Cop28 emails
uri: UAE-state-oil-firm-access-to-Cop28-emails
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(UAE_state_oil_firm_access_to_Cop28_emails)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(UAE_state_oil_firm_access_to_Cop28_emails)

content:
 
<p>

  *UAE state oil firm <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/07/uae-oil-firm-cop28-climate-summit-emails-sultan-al-jaber-adnoc">able to read Cop28 climate summit emails</a>.*

 


title: Today's Robert F Kennedy is right-wing nut
uri: Today-s-Robert-F-Kennedy-is-right-wing-nut
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Today's_Robert_F_Kennedy_is_right-wing_nut)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Today's_Robert_F_Kennedy_is_right-wing_nut)

content:
 
<p>

  Today's <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/should-we-be-worried-about-the-rfk">Robert F Kennedy is a right-wing nut</a>, like <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>.

 


title: (satire) Homeless population to complete Doomsday device
uri: (satire)-Homeless-population-to-complete-Doomsday-device
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_((satire)_Homeless_population_to_complete_Doomsday_device)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_((satire)_Homeless_population_to_complete_Doomsday_device)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/lapd-warns-homeless-population-closer-than-ever-to-comp-1850519734">*LAPD Warns Homeless Population Closer Than
    Ever To Completing Doomsday Device.*</a>

 


title: (satire) All sports teams move to Las Vegas
uri: (satire)-All-sports-teams-move-to-Las-Vegas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_((satire)_All_sports_teams_move_to_Las_Vegas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_((satire)_All_sports_teams_move_to_Las_Vegas)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/every-professional-sports-team-moves-to-las-vegas-1850520728">*Every Professional Sports Team Moves To Las Vegas.*</a>

 


title: (satire) Insulin that won't work on poor people
uri: (satire)-Insulin-that-won-t-work-on-poor-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_((satire)_Insulin_that_won't_work_on_poor_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_((satire)_Insulin_that_won't_work_on_poor_people)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/eli-lilly-unveils-insulin-that-doesn-t-work-on-poor-peo-1850505901">*Eli Lilly Unveils Insulin That Doesn't Work On
    Poor People.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Pence_less_bad_than_corruptor)
title: Pence less bad than corruptor
uri: Pence-less-bad-than-corruptor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Pence_less_bad_than_corruptor)
content:
 
<p>

  Pence is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/pence-s-record-of-extremism-and-complicity-is-disqualifying">less bad than the corrupter</a>, but don't judge him by that weak
standard.

 


title: Clear path to block three golf championship series
uri: Clear-path-to-block-three-golf-championship-series
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Clear_path_to_block_three_golf_championship_series)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Clear_path_to_block_three_golf_championship_series)

content:
 
<p>

  *Enforcers Have <a href="https://www.economicliberties.us/press-release/enforcers-have-clear-path-to-block-pga-liv-and-dps-brazen-merger-to-monopoly/">Clear Path to Block</a> [three golf championship series]’
Brazen Merger to Monopoly.*

 


title: Contention between Wagner and Putin forces
uri: Contention-between-Wagner-and-Putin-forces
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Contention_between_Wagner_and_Putin_forces)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Contention_between_Wagner_and_Putin_forces)

content:
 
<p>

Contention between Wagner (including Progizhin personally) and the
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> (from the Russian army) has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/09/wagner-group-accused-of-stoking-anarchy-on-russias-frontlines">reached the point of actual
    physical fighting</a>, though mostly not in the form of combat.
<p>
I can't tell what parts of Colonel Venevitin's statements I should
believe, if any.  But it puzzles me that Putin allows anyone in Russia
to say what Prigozhin says.

 


title: Youtube ordering invidious proxies to shut down
uri: Youtube-ordering-invidious-proxies-to-shut-down
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Youtube_ordering_invidious_proxies_to_shut_down)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_June_2023_(Youtube_ordering_invidious_proxies_to_shut_down)

content:
 
<p>

  Youtube has <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-orders-invidious-privacy-software-to-shut-down-in-7-days-230609/">ordered the invidious proxies to shut down</a>.
<p>
If you know of a campaign to pressure youtube not to do this, please
let me know.

 


title: Urgent: Call on YouTube to block election denialism
uri: Urgent-Call-on-YouTube-to-block-election-denialism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_YouTube_to_block_election_denialism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_YouTube_to_block_election_denialism)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-youtube-stop-election-denialism">call on YouTube to block election denialism</a>.

 


title: Urgent: US officials meet with Russian ambassador
uri: Urgent-US-officials-meet-with-Russian-ambassador
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Urgent:_US_officials_meet_with_Russian_ambassador)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Urgent:_US_officials_meet_with_Russian_ambassador)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on US officials to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/meet-and-talk-with-the-russian-ambassador-to-washington-dc">meet and talk with the Russian
    ambassador</a> about smaller disputes that might perhaps be resolved.

 


title: Urgent: Call Maximus to discuss employee demands
uri: Urgent-Call-Maximus-to-discuss-employee-demands
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Urgent:_Call_Maximus_to_discuss_employee_demands)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Urgent:_Call_Maximus_to_discuss_employee_demands)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Maximus to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/maximus-its-time-to-meet-with-your-employees">meet with its employees to discuss
    their demands</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Eliminate tax-exempt status for major sports leagues
uri: Urgent-Eliminate-tax-exempt-status-for-major-sports-leagues
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Urgent:_Eliminate_tax-exempt_status_for_major_sports_leagues)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Urgent:_Eliminate_tax-exempt_status_for_major_sports_leagues)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-your-congress-members-its-time-to-eliminate-tax-exempt-status-for-major-sports-leagues">eliminate tax-exempt status for
    major sports leagues</a>.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

 


title: Methane reduction to avert climate catastrophe
uri: Methane-reduction-to-avert-climate-catastrophe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Methane_reduction_to_avert_climate_catastrophe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Methane_reduction_to_avert_climate_catastrophe)

content:
 
<p>

  *Methane reduction holds <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/09/methane-reduction-climate-emissions-weatherwatch">key to averting climate catastrophe</a> [in the
short term].*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Interviews_with_fighters_in_Burma)
title: Interviews with fighters in Burma
uri: Interviews-with-fighters-in-Burma
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Interviews_with_fighters_in_Burma)
content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/04/in-the-targets-of-the-junta-life-and-war-inside-rebel-held-myanmar">Interviews with civilians and rebel fighters</a> in Burma.
<p>
The US and Europe have little influence to stop the military
repression, because China supports it and Burma shares a frontier with
China.  Chinese neocolonialism is much like Americans neocolonialism
except that China has no worries about criticism from Chinese public
opinion.
<p>
The rebels refer to the military government and its army as "Bamar".
That is the name of the majority ethnic group which translates in
English as "Burmese".  What this says to me is that the rebels think
of this as a war against the majority ethnic group.
<p>
I find that quite sad.  It is much easier to defeat a government
conclusively than to defeat the majority ethnic group conclusively.
The former can have an outcome that is good for just about everyone
except the ruling elite.  It is hard to do that in the latter case.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(PFAs_known,_since_1961,_to_be_toxic)
title: PFAs known, since 1961, to be toxic
uri: PFAs-known-since-1961-to-be-toxic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(PFAs_known,_since_1961,_to_be_toxic)
content:
 
<p>

Since 1961, chemical manufacturers' labs have several times <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/07/pfas-3m-dupont-chemical-industry-health-toxic-study">observed
    experimentally that some kind of PFA was toxic</a>.  The companies covered it
up and claimed PFAs were safe.
<p>
The failure to report this to the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> (once that existed) was illegal.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(True_price_of_war)
title: True price of war
uri: True-price-of-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(True_price_of_war)
content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/we-still-haven-t-learned-the-cost-of-war">*We Still Haven’t Learned the True Price of War.*</a>
<p>
No army at war, no matter how careful and scrupulous, can avoid
killing and injuring people that were not supposed to be targets.
Sometimes soldiers motivated by a brutal spirit <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#1_June_2023_(War_hero_killed_civilian_prisoners)">intentionally kill
    civilians</a>.
Sometimes an excess of zeal plays a role <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-jan-apr.html#4_February_2021_(AI-controlled_weapons)">alongside possible bigotry</a>.
<p>
  But usually the killings that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_March_2018_(Iraq_war_death_toll_estimate)">nobody ever specifically intended</a>
make up most of the civilians killed.
<p>
Since there is no way in war to prevent "collateral damage" to
people's lives, every country <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#08_May_2011_(Cheap_War_High_Cost)">must figure this in when deciding
    whether any given war is justified</a>.

 


title: (satire) Thomas still owes 500 rulings
uri: (satire)-Thomas-still-owes-500-rulings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_((satire)_Thomas_still_owes_500_rulings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_((satire)_Thomas_still_owes_500_rulings)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/gop-megadonor-s-bat-wielding-goons-remind-clarence-thom-1850519866">*GOP Megadonor’s Bat-Wielding Goons Remind
    Clarence Thomas He Still Owes Him 500 Rulings.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Revelations_from_Trump's_indictment)
title: Revelations from Trump's indictment
uri: Revelations-from-Trump-s-indictment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Revelations_from_Trump's_indictment)
content:
 
<p>

  *Nuclear weapon secrets in the bathroom: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/09/five-revelations-trump-unsealed-indictment">five revelations</a> from Trump’s
unsealed indictment.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Buoys_along_Rio_Grande)
title: Buoys along Rio Grande
uri: Buoys-along-Rio-Grande
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Buoys_along_Rio_Grande)
content:
 
<p>

  Governor Abbott of Texas plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/09/texas-abbott-immigration-buoy-border-crossings-rio-grande-mexico">install a chain of buoys</a> along the Rio Grande
to make it impossible to cross it from Mexico to the US.
<p>
The people who try to cross that way are mostly desperate &mdash; they risk
death by staying at home.  When they cross, they look for the safest way,
but staying home is too dangerous.  They will tackle the buoys somehow
even if some of them die trying.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(ChatGPT_developer_sued)
title: ChatGPT developer sued
uri: ChatGPT-developer-sued
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(ChatGPT_developer_sued)
content:
 
<p>

  The developer of ChatGPT is <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/9/23755057/openai-chatgpt-false-information-defamation-lawsuit">being sued for defamation</a> because ChatGPT
generated output that seems to defame the plaintiff.
<p>
In fact, ChatGPT is not really intelligent: it doesn't know anything
and does not understand the text it generates.  This ought to make it
immune to accusations based on the meaning of the text it generates.
But the company is trying to have it both ways, saying that the output
should not be trusted while suggesting that it gives valid information.
Perhaps because of that it should be found liable for defamation.

 


title: (satire) Trump warns classified document
uri: (satire)-Trump-warns-classified-document
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_((satire)_Trump_warns_classified_document)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_((satire)_Trump_warns_classified_document)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/you-better-not-talk-trump-warns-classified-document-1850523837">*"You Better Not Talk," Trump Warns Classified Document.*</a>

 


title: (satire) Florida bill allows guns to start businesses
uri: (satire)-Florida-bill-allows-guns-to-start-businesses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_((satire)_Florida_bill_allows_guns_to_start_businesses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_((satire)_Florida_bill_allows_guns_to_start_businesses)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/new-florida-bill-allows-guns-to-start-businesses-1850523619">*New Florida Bill Allows Guns To Start Businesses.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(UK_agency_to_monitor_cops_behavior)
title: UK agency to monitor cops behavior
uri: UK-agency-to-monitor-cops-behavior
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(UK_agency_to_monitor_cops_behavior)
content:
 
<p>

The UK has an agency to monitor thuggish behavior by cops and recommend
changes in policy.  But mostly they just ignore these recommendations.
The agency head has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/09/police-watchdog-for-england-and-wales-demands-new-powers-amid-trust-crisis">called for the power to require thug departments</a>
to adopt measures to control their violence and injustice.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(China_drilling_in_Tarim_basin)
title: China drilling in Tarim basin
uri: China-drilling-in-Tarim-basin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(China_drilling_in_Tarim_basin)
content:
 
<p>

  China is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/06/china-begins-drilling-one-of-worlds-deepest-holes-in-hunt-for-discoveries-deep-inside-the-earth">drilling a very deep narrow hole in the Tarim basin</a>, apparently
with a view to drilling for oil there.
<p>
One deep hole for geological exploration is an interesting project.
More oil extraction is murder.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Origins_of_idea_of_death_wish)
title: Origins of idea of "death wish"
uri: Origins-of-idea-of-death-wish
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Origins_of_idea_of_death_wish)
content:
 
<p>

Psychoanalyzing Russia: the idea of a "death wish" was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/11/ecocide-russia-ukraine-war-kakhovka-dam-destroyed">adopted by
    Freud from Russian psychoanalyst Sabina Spielrein</a>.
  The author sees this as the root of the atrocities of the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>, which often
have no other conceivable purpose except to cause suffering.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Afghan_refugees_to_be_homeless)
title: Afghan refugees to be homeless
uri: Afghan-refugees-to-be-homeless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Afghan_refugees_to_be_homeless)
content:
 
<p>

  *Thousands of Afghan refugees in UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/11/thousands-afghan-refugees-uk-homeless-crisis-operation-warm-welcome">set to be made homeless</a>.*
<p>
The problem is that Britain does not have space for everyone to live.
Whether the ones left out in this game of musical apartments
are natives or immigrants is a secondary detail.
<p>
What could the government do to make enough living places soon?  One
idea is to seize the thousands of empty luxury apartments and make
them available for groups of homeless to live in.  Maybe they could
give thousands of people places to live.  Then there are the underused
office buildings.  Since being homeless is an emergency, the
government could suspend the usual regulations temporarily.

 


title: Evidence on destruction of Kakhovka dam
uri: Evidence-on-destruction-of-Kakhovka-dam
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Evidence_on_destruction_of_Kakhovka_dam)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Evidence_on_destruction_of_Kakhovka_dam)

content:
 
<p>

Evidence demonstrates that the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/russia-version-ukraine-nova-kakhovka-dam-destruction-1805670">destroyed the Kakhovka dam
    with explosives planted inside it</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Traffic_jams_from_driverless_cars)
title: Traffic jams from driverless cars
uri: Traffic-jams-from-driverless-cars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#13_June_2023_(Traffic_jams_from_driverless_cars)
content:
 
<p>

Driverless cars that are driving around in San Francisco are programmed
to stop if they can't figure out what to do.  This happens frequently
enough that the <a href="https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/san-francisco-waymo-cruise-self-driving-cars-robotaxis.html">resulting traffic jams are a big nuisance</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#14_June_2023_(Nazis_protest_at_Disney_World,_FL)
title: Nazis protest at Disney World, FL
uri: Nazis-protest-at-Disney-World-FL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#14_June_2023_(Nazis_protest_at_Disney_World,_FL)
content:
 
<p>
*People with
<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/11/videos-show-nazi-flags-desantis-sign-disney-world/70310731007/">Nazi flags, signs supporting [DeMentis]</a>
gathered outside Disney World.*
<p>
I think it most likely that they are real Nazis and real supporters of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a>.

<p>
 


title: (Satire) Florida bans mention of anything outside FL
uri: (Satire)-Florida-bans-mention-of-anything-outside-FL
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#14_June_2023_((Satire)_Florida_bans_mention_of_anything_outside_FL)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#14_June_2023_((Satire)_Florida_bans_mention_of_anything_outside_FL)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Florida Board Of Education
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/florida-board-of-education-bans-any-mention-of-outside-1850501398">Bans Any Mention Of Outside
World</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#14_June_2023_(Kanye_West_fallout_at_Adidas)
title: Kanye West fallout at Adidas
uri: Kanye-West-fallout-at-Adidas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#14_June_2023_(Kanye_West_fallout_at_Adidas)
content:
 
<p>
Adidas has resumed selling
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2023/05/31/adidas-starts-selling-kanye-wests-yeezys-after-anti-semitic-fallout.html">the branded shoes</a>
of that great Hitler fan,
Kanye West.
<p>
How Kanye?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#14_June_2023_(Censorship_pushback,_FL)
title: Censorship pushback, FL
uri: Censorship-pushback-FL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#14_June_2023_(Censorship_pushback,_FL)
content:
 
<p>
Floridians, including
<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/florida-teachers-desantis/">teachers, students and parents</a>,
are pushing back against Governor <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis's</a> right-wing censorship of schools and
libraries.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#14_June_2023_(If_homeless,_restrict_WiFi,_SF)
title: If homeless, restrict WiFi, SF
uri: If-homeless-restrict-WiFi-SF
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#14_June_2023_(If_homeless,_restrict_WiFi,_SF)
content:
 
<p>
San Francisco told a public library to
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2023/06/12/san-francisco-library-pushed-into-restricting-public-internet-access-because-unhoused-people-use-it.html">switch off its WiFi system at night</a>
so homeless people could not come there to use it.
<p>
San Francisco seems to hold the championship for making homelessness
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_January_2023_(Homeless_harassment,_San_Francisco)">extra painful</a>.


 


title: Urgent: Investigate governors tricking immigrants
uri: Urgent-Investigate-governors-tricking-immigrants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(Urgent:_Investigate_governors_tricking_immigrants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(Urgent:_Investigate_governors_tricking_immigrants)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-investigate-greg-abbott-ron-desantis-for-human-rights-abuses?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-just-strategy&source=group-just-strategy">call on the Justice Department</a>
to investigate governors Abbott and <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a> for tricking immigrants into being taken to other states where they did not intend to go.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(Study:_Twitter_fails_at_hate_speech)
title: Study: Twitter fails at hate speech
uri: Study-Twitter-fails-at-hate-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(Study:_Twitter_fails_at_hate_speech)
content:
 
<p>
Twitter has a rule against posting statements of hatred, but paid accounts
seem to be unofficially
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2023/06/03/new-research-shows-twitter-ignores-hate-speech-posted-by-twitter-blue-subscribers.html">exempt from the rule</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(A_US_first,_OK:_Religious_school)
title: A US first, OK: Religious school
uri: A-US-first-OK-Religious-school
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(A_US_first,_OK:_Religious_school)
content:
 
<p>
Right-wing religious fanatics
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2023/06/06/oklahoma-school-board-approves-nations-first-taxpayer-funded-religious-school.html">want states to fund Catholic schools</a>.
  Would they fund other religions?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(Prison-time_for_abortion,_UK)
title: Prison-time for abortion, UK
uri: Prison-time-for-abortion-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(Prison-time_for_abortion,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
In Britain, having an abortion
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/13/calls-for-abortion-to-be-decriminalised-amid-row-over-jailing-of-uk-woman">after the 24th week</a>
of pregnancy is a crime.  A woman was recently sentenced to prison for this.
So there is a campaign to repeal the criminalization of late abortion.

<p>
 


title: Global heating: equitable funding, rapid phaseout
uri: Global-heating-equitable-funding-rapid-phaseout
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(Global_heating:_equitable_funding,_rapid_phaseout)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(Global_heating:_equitable_funding,_rapid_phaseout)

content:
 
<p>
*Greta Thunberg: not phasing out fossil fuels is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/13/greta-thunberg-not-phasing-out-fossil-fuels-is-death-sentence-for-worlds-poor">"death sentence" for
world's poor</a>.*
<p>
I think it will include more than just the world's poor.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(Ecosystemic_environmental_DNA_meters)
title: Ecosystem environmental DNA technology
uri: Ecosystem-environmental-DNA-technology
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(Ecosystemic_environmental_DNA_meters)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/12/this-will-finally-lift-the-veil-how-edna-can-see-the-oceans-hidden-life">Surveillance of DNA</a>
in the ocean can report how the thousands of
populations of marine species in any given area are increasing or
decreasing, and whether and how they are shifting position.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(Tory_politics_criminalizing_protest)
title: Tory politics criminalizing protest
uri: Tory-politics-criminalizing-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(Tory_politics_criminalizing_protest)
content:
 
<p>
Tories plan to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/12/police-in-great-britain-could-be-given-near-total-discretion-over-protests">allow local thugs</a>
to ban all but the most polite of protests.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(Another_greenwashing_ad_banned,_UK)
title: Another greenwashing ad banned, UK
uri: Another-greenwashing-ad-banned-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(Another_greenwashing_ad_banned,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
The UK is taking serious
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/13/anglian-water-ad-banned-pollution-record-sewage">action against misleading advertisements</a>
that greenwash companies by disregarding the environmental harm they have done.


<p>
 


title: How journalistic, political cultures beget charlatans
uri: How-journalistic-political-cultures-beget-charlatans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(How_journalistic,_political_cultures_beget_charlatans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#15_June_2023_(How_journalistic,_political_cultures_beget_charlatans)

content:
 
<p>
*[<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bogus-johnson">Bogus Johnson</a>] was a symptom, not the cause, of a political
   culture that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/13/boris-johnson-britain-politics">gorges on spectacle and trivia</a>.*



<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Urgent:_Protect_old-growth_forests)
title: Urgent: Protect old-growth forests
uri: 2023-06-17-Urgent-Protect-old-growth-forests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Urgent:_Protect_old-growth_forests)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=54944&supporter_KEY=229474">call on the US Forest Service</a>
to protect old-growth forests.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Spending_cuts_for_corporate_givaways)
title: Spending cuts for corporate giveaways
uri: Spending-cuts-for-corporate-giveaways
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Spending_cuts_for_corporate_givaways)
content:
 
<p>
Republicans' tax plan would give
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/maga-tax-plan-harms-families-to-benefit-the-wealthy">tax cuts only to the rich</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Planned_climate_equity_fails)
title: Planned climate equity fails
uri: Planned-climate-equity-fails
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Planned_climate_equity_fails)
content:
 
<p>
*Developed countries continue to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/developed-countries-continue-to-shirk-responsibility-at-bonn-climate-talks-say-friends-of-the-earth-international">shirk responsibility at Bonn climate talks</a>,
 say Friends of the Earth International.*
<p>
*World Bank says subsidies costing as much as
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/15/vast-fossil-fuel-and-farming-subsidies-causing-environmental-havoc-world-bank">$23m a minute must be
   repurposed</a>
to fight climate crisis.*

<p>
 


title: Politically disgraced, yet powerfully supported
uri: Politically-disgraced-yet-powerfully-supported
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Politically_disgraced,_yet_powerfully_supported)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Politically_disgraced,_yet_powerfully_supported)

content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bogus-johnson">Bogus Johnson</a> has been formally
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/15/snarls-smears-disgraced-boris-johnson-partygate-civil-war">punished for misleading Parliament</a>.
<p>
If only we could punish <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a> for repeatedly misleading Congress.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Highly_controversial_ammunition:_DU)
title: Highly controversial ammunition: DU
uri: Highly-controversial-ammunition-DU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Highly_controversial_ammunition:_DU)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/depleted-uranium-ukraine-2661317748">Warnings as US and Russia Threaten</a>
to Deploy Depleted Uranium Weapons to Ukraine.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(College_for_All_Act)
title: College for All Act
uri: College-for-All-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(College_for_All_Act)
content:
 
<p>
Sanders and Jayapal have reintroduced a bill to tax stock transactions,
and
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/sanders-jayapal-and-colleagues-introduce-legislation-to-make-college-tuition-and-debt-free-for-working-families">pay the tuition fees</a>
of community college for those who can't
afford it.
<p>
It will also pay tuition fees for students at four-year colleges that
typically serve students from minority groups.  I am in favor of this,
since those groups have faced a lot of prejudice, but really this
ought to be extended to cover people of any racial background.
<p>
Taxing stock transactions has the benefit of damping down speculation
aside from the benefit of raising more funds from people who can spare it.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Report_reveals_partygate)
title: Report reveals Partygate
uri: Report-reveals-Partygate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Report_reveals_partygate)
content:
 
<p>
The list  of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bogus-johnson">Bogus Johnson's</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/15/partygate-report-key-findings-of-commons-privileges-committee-boris-johnson">wrongs against the UK political system</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Russian_cultural_product_banned)
title: Russian cultural product banned
uri: Russian-cultural-product-banned
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Russian_cultural_product_banned)
content:
 
<p>
The campaign of pressure against
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/15/elizabeth-gilbert-the-snow-forest-russia">art that relates to Russia</a>
is fundamentally wrong and harmful.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Plutocratic_power_companies)
title: Plutocratic power companies
uri: Plutocratic-power-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Plutocratic_power_companies)
content:
 
<p>
US electric companies spent $200 million on
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/us-power-companies-political-lobbying-donations-nonprofit">political campaigning</a>
to increase electricity prices and impede adoption of home solar power systems.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Gambling_ads)
title: Gambling ads
uri: Gambling-ads
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Gambling_ads)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/help/insideguardian/2023/jun/15/why-the-guardian-has-decided-to-reject-gambling-advertising">The Guardian</a>
has vowed to reject all ads for gambling.
<p>
The Boston subways are full of ads for gambling dis-services.  What stood about
about them, when I first saw them, is that they did not say what they
were selling, and I could not figure it out.  Nowadays they do say "bet".

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Ocean_heating,_needed_action_missing)
title: Ocean heating, needed action missing
uri: Ocean-heating-needed-action-missing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Ocean_heating,_needed_action_missing)
content:
 
<p>
*From the oceans to ‘net zero’ targets,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/15/from-the-oceans-to-net-zero-targets-were-in-denial-about-the-climate-crisis">we’re in denial about the climate
crisis</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(The_corrupter__as_Fascist)
title: The corrupter as Fascist
uri: The-corrupter-as-Fascist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(The_corrupter__as_Fascist)
content:
 
<p>
"Authoritarian" is inadequate to describe what <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> wants to
do. 
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-five-elements-of-fascism">The correct word is "fascist"</a>.

<p>
 


title: The powerful interests around global heating
uri: The-powerful-interests-around-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(The_powerful_interests_around_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(The_powerful_interests_around_global_heating)

content:
 
<p>
George Monbiot:
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/15/hard-right-climate-catastrophe-extreme-weather-refugees">right-wing extremism feeds on the misery</a>
caused by
climate disaster, while it demonizes the efforts to reduce the disaster.
<p>
This is because right-wing extremism serves egoistic billionaires,
many of whom profit from the businesses that we would have to limit if we are to survive.

<p>
 


title: HK demands censorship of its former anthem
uri: HK-demands-censorship-of-its-former-anthem
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(HK_demands_censorship_of_its_former_anthem)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(HK_demands_censorship_of_its_former_anthem)

content:
 
<p>
US companies such as Apple, Spotify and Facebook are censoring
Hong Kong's song used in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/15/protest-anthem-glory-to-hong-kong-starts-to-vanish-from-online-sites-as-government-seeks-ban">2019 to rally for democracy</a>.

<p>
 


title: Profiting from disinformation: Google
uri: Profiting-from-disinformation-Google
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Profiting_from_disinformation:_Google)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#16_June_2023_(Profiting_from_disinformation:_Google)

content:
 
<p>
Google
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/15/google-misleading-abortion-ads-pregnancy-crisis-centers">sells ads for bogus abortion anticlinics</a>.
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(Austerity_measures_in_debt_deal)
title: Austerity measures in debt deal
uri: Austerity-measures-in-debt-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(Austerity_measures_in_debt_deal)
content:
 
<p>
*The US debt-ceiling ‘deal’ was a giant exercise in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/14/us-debt-ceiling-bipartisan-class-warfare">bipartisan class warfare</a>.*

<p>
 


title: African fishers: EU-commissioned fleet in violation
uri: African-fishers-EU-commissioned-fleet-in-violation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(African_fishers:_EU-commissioned_fleet_in_violation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(African_fishers:_EU-commissioned_fleet_in_violation)

content:
 
<p>
2000 fishing boat crew workers in Africa went on strike, over the
terms of work and to protest
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jun/14/massive-strike-pits-african-fishers-against-superprofitable-eu-firms">illegal overfishing</a>
by their European employers.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(EU_verses_Google_ads)
title: EU verses Google ads
uri: EU-verses-Google-ads
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(EU_verses_Google_ads)
content:
 
<p>
The EU accuses Google of taking unfair advantage of running
advertisement auctions with
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/14/eu-regulator-google-sell-ad-tech-business-competition-commission">favoritism towards Google's own</a>
ad generation.
<p>
 


title: Indictment: congressmen inciting political violence, US
uri: Indictment-congressmen-inciting-political-violence-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(Indictment:_congressmen_inciting_political_violence,_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(Indictment:_congressmen_inciting_political_violence,_US)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/11/trump-indictment-republicans-rhetoric-violence">Some Republican officials are following the wrecker</a>
in labeling law enforcement against <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#wrecker">the wrecker's</a> crimes as military attacks in a civil war.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(Urgent:_Stop_attacking_voting_rights)
title: Urgent: Stop attacking voting rights
uri: Urgent-Stop-attacking-voting-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(Urgent:_Stop_attacking_voting_rights)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-tell-gop-state-legislatures-to-stop-attacks-on-voting-rights?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-americans-for-tax-fairness&source=direct_link">call on GOP State Legislatures</a>
to stop attacking voting rights.

<p>
 


title: Violent protest: 500 migrants' deaths preventable, GR
uri: Violent-protest-500-migrants-deaths-preventable-GR
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(Violent_protest:_500_migrants'_deaths_preventable,_GR)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(Violent_protest:_500_migrants'_deaths_preventable,_GR)

content:
 
<p>
An overloaded boat carrying
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/16/greek-coastguard-denies-claims-prevented-boat-disaster">migrants sank in the Mediterranean</a>
near
Greece.  A Greek coast guard vessel accompanies the boat for hours,
but someone on the boat who had a satellite phone insisted that the
people on it did not want to be rescued, and eventually the coast guard
vessel went away.  
<p>
Did the Greek vessel do something wrong?  If so, what should it have done?
<p>
Some say it should have towed the boat to "safety".  Does this mean
forcibly taking them to Greece?  To Italy, where they wanted to go?
<p>
Would it have been safe to tow the overloaded boat?  Would it have
been <em>possible</em>
to tow it, if the people on the boat tried to prevent
towing?  Maybe they could have cast off the towing cable or cut it.
<p>
I wonder if the boat had an actual crew, and not only passengers.
Sometimes <a href="/archives/2021-jul-oct.html#21_October_2021_(Migrant_boat_drivers)">smugglers conscript one or more passengers</a>
to "run the boat", which (not being sailors) they can do only in easy circumstances.
Sometimes that conscript gets charged as a conspirator
in the crime of "people smuggling" even though <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a> was not given a choice.
<p>
But this was
a bigger boat than usual, and maybe it had a real crew.  If so, maybe
the person with a satellite phone was one of them.  Maybe
the passengers would have been happy to land safely in Greece.

<p>
 


title: DOJ, Minneapolis Police, consent decree
uri: DOJ-Minneapolis-Police-consent-decree
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(DOJ,_Minneapolis_Police,_consent_decree)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(DOJ,_Minneapolis_Police,_consent_decree)

content:
 
<p>
The official investigation into the Minneapolis <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> department found a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/16/us-attorney-minneapolis-police-excessive-george-floyd">pattern of "aggression and discrimination"</a>
against blacks.

<p>
 


title: DoD contractors' vast wealth financing less R&amp;D
uri: DoD-contractors-vast-wealth-financing-less-R-D
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(DoD_contractors'_vast_wealth_financing_less_R%26amp;D)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(DoD_contractors'_vast_wealth_financing_less_R%26amp;D)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://otherwords.org/how-contractor-ceos-get-rich-off-taxpayers/">US arms companies</a>
are sponging more on the US treasury and spending less on research and development.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(Invasive_species_project,_IRL)
title: Invasive species project, IRL
uri: Invasive-species-project-IRL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(Invasive_species_project,_IRL)
content:
 
<p>
Killarney park,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/16/ireland-killarney-national-park-battles-ecological-calamity">Ireland's largest national park</a>,
has suffered ecological disaster from invasive species.
  No new trees can succeed in growing there under present conditions.
To correct this will require persistent effort.
<p>
Perhaps in a few decades it will be possible to develop biological
killers that, when released, would eradicate rhododendron and sika
deer in Ireland while being somehow unable to spread elsewhere.
But that is just speculation.  In the absence of that, the eradication
of rhododendron will have to be done manually without cease.

<p>
 


title: English butterfly enthusiasts' violating conservation laws
uri: English-butterfly-enthusiasts-violating-conservation-laws
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(English_butterfly_enthusiasts'_violating_conservation_wisdom)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(English_butterfly_enthusiasts'_violating_conservation_wisdom)

content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/12/reintroductions-of-rare-butterflies-to-uk-a-risk-to-other-species">Unsupervised reintroductions into Britain</a>
of butterflies that have to be brought from other countries risk
bringing their diseases and pests too.  It is well-meaning but dangerous practice.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(Star_fusion_project_flaws,_setbacks)
title: Star fusion project flaws, setbacks
uri: Star-fusion-project-flaws-setbacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#17_June_2023_(Star_fusion_project_flaws,_setbacks)
content:
 
<p>
ITER, the international fusion experimental reactor, will not be completed
in 2025 as previously announced.  It will be a
<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worlds-largest-fusion-project-is-in-big-trouble-new-documents-reveal/">decade or more late
for its goal</a>
of making some experiments possible.
<p>
This is sad, but it doesn't really change the situation.  If fusion
power ever works, it will be decades too late to help avoid global
heating disaster.  We can keep the research going, but our plan to curb
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> should ignore nuclear fusion.
<p>
It must also ignore nuclear fission.  Although fission reactors do work,
they are so expensive that the main effect of building one is to
waste the money we <a href="/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_January_2023_(Renewable_energy_V._big_tech)">could have used to build more</a>
solar and wind power.
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Callous_gaul_of_Big_Pharma)
title: Callous gall of Big Pharma
uri: Callous-gall-of-Big-Pharma
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Callous_gaul_of_Big_Pharma)
content:
 
<p>
*Why Should Drug Corporations
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/big-pharma-merck-eli-lilly">Like Merck and Eli Lilly</a>
Even Exist?*
<p>
<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/idUK261136661120130204">I don't think companies that big ought to exist.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Subsidies_as_a_key_world_metric)
title: Subsidies as a key world metric
uri: Subsidies-as-a-key-world-metric
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Subsidies_as_a_key_world_metric)
content:
 
<p>
*World Bank says subsidies costing as much as
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/15/vast-fossil-fuel-and-farming-subsidies-causing-environmental-havoc-world-bank">$23m a minute</a>
must be repurposed to fight climate crisis.* Its report says that
these subsidies are harmful.  They measure the power of business to
corrupt governments.
<p>
Will the World Bank take concrete steps to stop this?
I am sure it plays some role in those subsidies.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Covid-death_stats_missing,_CN)
title: Covid-death stats missing, CN
uri: Covid-death-stats-missing-CN
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Covid-death_stats_missing,_CN)
content:
 
<p>
China seems to be concealing the number of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/16/china-withholds-key-indicator-of-covid-death-toll-as-it-fails-to-release-cremation-data">people killed by Covid-19 there</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Tory_history,_a_reckoning)
title: Tory history, a reckoning
uri: Tory-history-a-reckoning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Tory_history,_a_reckoning)
content:
 
<p>
Remaining Tories aim to convince the public that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/16/boris-johnson-party-tories">Bogus Johnson was
a fluke</a>,
rather than the natural culmination of Tory subservience to the callous rich.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Pride_marketing)
title: Pride marketing
uri: Pride-marketing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Pride_marketing)
content:
 
<p>
Organized right-wing bullies making threats have convinced businesses from
trying to demonstrate they are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/13/lgbtq-influencers-pride-brands-boycotts-laws">friendly to queer folk</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Childhood_independence_dwindling)
title: Childhood independence dwindling
uri: Childhood-independence-dwindling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Childhood_independence_dwindling)
content:
 
<p>
Parents let their child walk to a nearby store and gave her all sorts
of protection as precautions.  A busybody called the city <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>, who
<a href="https://www.freerangekids.com/cops-stop-girl-6-from-walking-a-few-blocks-to-store-in-michigan-suburb/">threatened her parents</a>.
 Now they keep her a prisoner at home.
<p>
When I was 6 years old, I walked to nearby stores with just some money
and my house keys.  When I crossed a street, I took advantage of the
traffic lights, which in midtown Manhattan are found at every
intersection.  There was nothing difficult about it.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Save millions of Americans from losing medical coverage
uri: Urgent-Save-millions-of-Americans-from-losing-medical-coverage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Urgent:_Save_millions_of_Americans_from_losing_medical_coverage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Urgent:_Save_millions_of_Americans_from_losing_medical_coverage)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/medicaid-coverage-m4a/?t=1012&akid=30831%2E96703%2EmWI5VG">call on Congress</a>
to save millions of Americans from losing medical coverage &mdash; by passing Medicare for All.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Call on CNN not to give the wrecker any more townhalls
uri: Urgent-Call-on-CNN-not-to-give-the-wrecker-any-more-townhalls
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_CNN_not_to_give_the_wrecker_any_more_townhalls)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_CNN_not_to_give_the_wrecker_any_more_townhalls)

content:
 
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-cnn-no-more-trump-town-halls?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-the-people-united&source=group-the-people-united">call on CNN</a>
not to give <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a> any more "town
halls"

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(US_youths_suing_over_climate_change)
title: US youths suing over climate change
uri: US-youths-suing-over-climate-change
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(US_youths_suing_over_climate_change)
content:
 
<p>
The lawsuit against the State of Montana for allowing businesses to
contribute to ruining the climate for humans in the future
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/17/montana-climate-trial-helena">has reached
the stage of courtroom trial</a>.

<p>
 


title: Vindication for Big Spill cleanup workers
uri: Vindication-for-Big-Spill-cleanup-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Vindication_for_Big_Spill_cleanup_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Vindication_for_Big_Spill_cleanup_workers)

content:
 
<p>
*US government toughens rules on
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/14/epa-chemical-regulation-oil-spill-cleanup-exxon-valdez-bp">chemicals used to break up oil slicks</a>.*
<p>
What <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bp">Billionaire Polluters</a> <a href="/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_April_2023_(The_Big_spill,_23\
_yr_later)">used after the Big Spill in the Gulf</a> of Mexico
seems to have caused harm to humans who touched it.                                            

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Renewable_energy_rules_delayed,_DE)
title: Renewable energy rules delayed, DE
uri: Renewable-energy-rules-delayed-DE
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Renewable_energy_rules_delayed,_DE)
content:
 
<p>
The German government has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/14/germany-coalition-staves-off-implosion-with-11th-hour-heating-law-amendment">backed down on a law</a>
to prohibit
installation of new oil and gas heating systems in buildings.
<p>
I support shifting the payment for protecting the climate from
individuals to cities, but postponement of change needed for survival is most unfortunate.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Journalist_a_political_target,_GT)
title: Journalist a political target, GT
uri: Journalist-a-political-target-GT
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#18_June_2023_(Journalist_a_political_target,_GT)
content:
 
<p>
*Outrage in Guatemala as crusading journalist given
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/14/guatemala-convict-journalist-prison-jose-ruben-zamora">six-year prison term</a>.*
<p>
Many countries nowadays silence opposition activists with charges of
financial or sexual impropriety.  It is hard to see in a glance that
such charges are false, and that makes them serve repression's purpose.
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(FBI_Mfg._terrorist_cases)
title: FBI Mfg. terrorist cases
uri: FBI-Mfg-terrorist-cases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(FBI_Mfg._terrorist_cases)
content:
 
<p>
The FBI is
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/06/15/fbi-undercover-isis-teenager-terrorist/">arresting fantasy terrorists</a>
again, protecting us from biddable young people who can be lured into playing a minor role
in imaginary fund-raising for <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(Employers_profitting_by_wage_theft)
title: Employers profiting by wage theft
uri: Employers-profiting-by-wage-theft
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(Employers_profitting_by_wage_theft)
content:
 
<p>
*Billions stolen in wage
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/wage-theft-us-workers-employees">theft from US workers</a>.*

  *Critics say government is toothless to help.*
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(smart_drugs_complex_tasks)
title: People who use ‘smart drugs’ worse at complex tasks, study finds
uri: People-who-use-smart-drugs-worse-at-complex-tasks-study-finds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(smart_drugs_complex_tasks)
content:
 
<p>
*Research has found those who use medications such as Ritalin without having conditions such as ADHD actually reduce their 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/15/people-who-use-smart-drugs-worse-at-complex-tasks-study-finds">mental performance.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(indian_court_halts_documentary)
title: Indian court halts airing of documentary on Muslim minority
uri: Indian-court-halts-airing-of-documentary-on-Muslim-minority
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(indian_court_halts_documentary)
content:
 
<p>
India has banned several documentaries that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/16/indian-court-halts-airing-of-documentary-on-muslim-minority">presented oppression of Muslims.</a>
<p>
It forced Twitter to censor tweets (before Musk took it over) that accused
India of repressing 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/26/india/india-farmers-protest-one-year-intl-hnk-dst/index.html">protesting farmers.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(met_police_oil_protests)
title: Met says Just Stop Oil protests have cost it more than £4.5m
uri: Met-says-Just-Stop-Oil-protests-have-cost-it-more-than-4-5m
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(met_police_oil_protests)
content:
 
<p>
UK thugs say that repressing Just Stop Oil protests cost them
around 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/12/met-police-just-stop-oil-protests-cost-millions-pounds">6 million dollars.</a>
<p>
By comparison continued global heating will cost billions of dollars, if not
trillions, and hundreds of millions of lives, if not billions.
<p>
Clearly the government should stop repressing Just Stop Oil and start
heeding it.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_((satire)_death_row_inmate)
title: Death Row Inmate Exonerated
uri: Death-Row-Inmate-Exonerated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_((satire)_death_row_inmate)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Wrongly Convicted Death Row Inmate 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/wrongly-convicted-death-row-inmate-exonerated-mere-hour-1850524386">Exonerated Mere Hours
After Execution.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(swta_book_review)
title: slavery and the fight for Black history
uri: slavery-and-the-fight-for-Black-history
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(swta_book_review)
content:
 
<p>
Broadening historical preservation in the US to include homes of people who
were not rich, and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/17/sleeping-with-the-ancestors-book-review-slavery-black-history">perhaps not white either.</a>
<p>
The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white".  (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.)  I denounce bigotry, and
normally I will not link to articles that promote it.  But I make
exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important,
usually because they have something to teach about racism or fighting
racism.  That article is one of the exceptions.
<p>
I disagree with one point mentioned in the article.  I don't believe
anyone living today needs to feel guilty over having had ancestors
that had dealings with slavery or slave-owners.  The test for our
consciences is whether we support freedom today.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(hamtramck_muslim_council_lgbtq)
title: Muslim-led US city bans Pride flags
uri: Muslim-led-US-city-bans-Pride-flags
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(hamtramck_muslim_council_lgbtq)
content:
 
<p>
As the people of Hamtramck elected Muslims to the city council, those who make
"diversity" their cause applauded &hellip; until they discovered that those
Muslims were 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/17/hamtramck-michigan-muslim-council-lgbtq-pride-flags-banned">religious conservatives on social issues.</a>
I advocate equal rights, <Em>not</Em> "diversity."

<p>
 


title: On Ballot: 1st state-level power co., ME
uri: On-Ballot-1st-state-level-power-co-ME
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(On_Ballot:_1st_state-level_pwr_co,_ME)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(On_Ballot:_1st_state-level_pwr_co,_ME)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/18/maine-state-run-utility-power-companies">Power companies spend millions to fight</a>
Maine's proposed non-profit utility.*
<p>
I guess that is why they are called "power" companies.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(Report:_Amazon_an_EU_monopoly)
title: Report: Amazon an EU monopoly
uri: Report-Amazon-an-EU-monopoly
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(Report:_Amazon_an_EU_monopoly)
content:
 
<p>
The EU is investigating
<a href="https://www.somo.nl/amazons-european-chokehold/">Amazon's use of its anticompetitive practices</a>
in advertising.
<p>
Amazon carries out auctions for ad space, and charges web sites for that.
It also represents the bidders for the space, and charges them for that.
Independent sellers are effectively compelled to use Amazon.
So it has to be broken up.
<p>
However, laws that require proof of specific abuses before breaking up
a giant company are too weak.  Simply being so big as to have power over
a market is ipso facto too big.
<p>
See also
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/progressive-tax-on-business-gross-income.html">my proposal for a progressive tax</a>
on a corporation's gross income.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(Occupied_Ukraine_survivor)
title: Occupied Ukraine survivor
uri: Occupied-Ukraine-survivor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(Occupied_Ukraine_survivor)
content:
 
<p>
Olena Yahupova lived in Enerhodar when
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/18/ukraine-woman-recounts-five-month-nightmare-of-torture-and-imprisonment">the Putin forces captured it</a>.
Perhaps because her husband is a Ukrainian officer &mdash; no other
plausible explanation is mentioned &mdash; the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> tortured her
for days, then put her in prison for months.
<p>
Then they forced her to dig ditches and tell lies on camera.  Then an
officer in the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> decided to release her and apparently gave
orders that permitted her to go to Russia and from there to Estonia.
<p>
Some of the events in this story are puzzling &mdash; I can't see explanations
for what some Russians did.  But that doesn't mean they didn't do them.

<p>
 


title: Cisgender and transgender women's true issues
uri: Cisgender-and-transgender-women-s-true-issues
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(Cisgender_and_transgender_women's_true_issues)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(Cisgender_and_transgender_women's_true_issues)

content:
 
<p>
*There is so much more for us [women] to worry about than
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/18/there-is-so-much-more-for-us-to-worry-about-than-men-masquerading-as-women-to-access-single-sex-spaces">men
masquerading as women</a>
to access single-sex spaces.*  (Which hardly ever happens.)

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(Neoliberal_economics_as_criminal)
title: Neoliberal economics as criminal
uri: Neoliberal-economics-as-criminal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(Neoliberal_economics_as_criminal)
content:
 
<p>
Philippine
<a href="https://fpif.org/time-to-seek-justice-not-hand-out-the-nobel-prize-for-economic-crimes/">human rights defender Walden Bello</a>:
*Neoliberal Economists
Should Be Recognized as Criminals, Not Prize-Winners.*
<p>
Global trade, unleashed from national frontiers, has proved extremely
effective for converting the Earth's natural resources, and the work
of the non-rich, into wealth to spread among the affluent few.  That is
what the World Trade Organization locks countries into.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(Artistic_culture_and_nation-states)
title: Artistic culture and nation-states
uri: Artistic-culture-and-nation-states
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_(Artistic_culture_and_nation-states)
content:
 
<p>
*We can revile Putin’s violence in Ukraine, but
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/18/no-work-of-art-is-the-voice-of-a-nation-every-culture-comprises-several-strands">we’re not at war with Russian
culture</a>.*
<p>
*If even the British establishment in the midst of an existential war
with Nazi Germany could see German music as more than simply
"enemy" culture, but as part of a common civilization, surely we
should be able to do the same today?*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_((Satire)_Stabilizing_crypto-coin)
title: (Satire) Stabilizing crypto-coin
uri: (Satire)-Stabilizing-crypto-coin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#19_June_2023_((Satire)_Stabilizing_crypto-coin)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Crypto Leaders Call For
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/crypto-leaders-call-for-infusion-of-20-million-dopes-to-1850544377">Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes</a>
To Stabilize Market.*
<p>
 


title: Urgent: Reject the sponsorship of fossil fuel magnate
uri: Urgent-Reject-the-sponsorship-of-fossil-fuel-magnate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#20_June_2023_(Urgent:_Reject_the_sponsorship__of_fossil_fuel_magnate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#20_June_2023_(Urgent:_Reject_the_sponsorship__of_fossil_fuel_magnate)

content:
 
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/moma-drop-kravis?source=group-afr-advocacy-fund-c4&referrer=group-afr-advocacy-fund-c4&redirect=https://secure.actblue.com/donate/afr_moma&link_id=2&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&email_referrer=email_1956989&email_subject=climate-criminals-deserve-scorn-and-shame-not-plaques-on-buildings&refcodeEmailReferrer=email_1956989p">call on the Museum of Modern Art</a>
to reject the sponsorship  of fossil fuel magnate Henry Kravis

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#20_June_2023_(Urgent:_Enforce_teenager_labor_laws)
title: Urgent: Enforce teenager labor laws
uri: Urgent-Enforce-teenager-labor-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#20_June_2023_(Urgent:_Enforce_teenager_labor_laws)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-biden-administration-protect-child-workers-from-corporate-exploitation?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-progress-america&source=group-progress-america">call on the Dept of Labor</a>
to enforce federal law in states that try to let teenagers work more hours and doing
increasingly dangerous work.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Take bold action on plastic pollution
uri: Urgent-Take-bold-action-on-plastic-pollution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#20_June_2023_(Urgent:_Take_bold_action_on_plastic_pollution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#20_June_2023_(Urgent:_Take_bold_action_on_plastic_pollution)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=55128&supporter_KEY=229474">call on the EPA</a>
to take bold action on plastic pollution
<p>
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way to disable the CSS in the page (as Icecat does), that should make
the text appear.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#20_June_2023_(Urgent:_Protect_the_Thompson_Divide)
title: Urgent: Protect the Thompson Divide
uri: Urgent-Protect-the-Thompson-Divide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#20_June_2023_(Urgent:_Protect_the_Thompson_Divide)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=55123&supporter_KEY=229474">call on the Forest Service</a>
to protect the Thompson Divide.
<p>
If you have disabled the page's JavaScript, you may get a blank
response after signing.  That does not mean anything is wrong; your
signature has probably been sent in properly.  The blank screen has
text that is rendered invisible by CSS; if your browser gives you a
way to disable the CSS in the page (as Icecat does), that should make
the text appear.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#20_June_2023_(Weaponized_church_in_State,_AZ)
title: Weaponized church in State, AZ
uri: Weaponized-church-in-State-AZ
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#20_June_2023_(Weaponized_church_in_State,_AZ)
content:
 
<p>
Arizona's legislators are drifting into unofficial establishment of
Christianity by setting out bibles in their lounge.
<p>
One Arizona state senator expressed her disapproval of this by hiding
some of the bibles within the lounge. 
<a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/06/13/1182022488/arizona-house-censure-expulsion-bible-prank-ethics-investigation">Republicans tried to expel her
from office</a>
for that.
<p>
Perhaps it would be more useful to set out copies in their lounge of
<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Am_Not_a_Christian">Why I Am Not a Christian</em></a>
by Bertrand Russell,
and
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navayana"><em>The Buddha and his Dhamma</em></a>
by Bhimrao Ambedkar.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#20_June_2023_(Greek_coast_guard_stood_down)
title: Greek coast guard stood by
uri: Greek-coast-guard-stood-by
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#20_June_2023_(Greek_coast_guard_stood_down)
content:
 
<p>
When the boat carrying
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/19/greek-coast-boat-sank-tracking-data">hundreds of refugees sank</a>
near Greece, it had not moved for hours.  Greek coast guard vessels remained nearby but
did not rescue anyone.
<p>
This contradicts the Greek claim that the boat was sailing towards Italy.

<p>
 


title: Immigration reforms quietly abandoned, UK
uri: Immigration-reforms-quietly-abandoned-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#20_June_2023_(Immigration_reforms_quietly_abandoned,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#20_June_2023_(Immigration_reforms_quietly_abandoned,_UK)

content:
 
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/19/unit-reforming-home-office-windrush-scandal-being-disbanded">Tories have canceled their plan</a>
to reform unjust treatment of British citizens 
who were brought from Caribbean colonies decades ago as children
and have been
<a href="/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#12_April_2023_(Tories_taking_back_promise)">threatened with deportation</a>.
<p>
This is the usual Tory evasive response when their cruel policies
arouse public outrage: they promise to correct the policies, dawdle
for years getting started, and eventually figure that people have had
time to forgot the outrage &mdash; so they can disregard the issue.



<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#21_June_2023_(coalmines_reduce_methane)
title: We must not ignore coalmines in the fight to reduce methane emissions
uri: We-must-not-ignore-coalmines-in-the-fight-to-reduce-methane-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#21_June_2023_(coalmines_reduce_methane)
content:
 
<p>
We must not ignore coalmines in the fight to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/19/we-must-not-ignore-coalmines-in-the-fight-to-reduce-methane-emissions">reduce methane emissions.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#21_June_2023_(rail_regulator)
title: Rail regulator to investigate station food and drink prices
uri: Rail-regulator-to-investigate-station-food-and-drink-prices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#21_June_2023_(rail_regulator)
content:
 
<p>
A UK agency will investigate whether eateries at 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/16/rail-regulator-to-investigate-station-food-and-drink-prices">train stations are
gouging.</a>
<p>
In the US, it is taken for granted that they will do so.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#21_June_2023_(documentary_taliban_afghan)
title: Story of a trans journalist embedded with the Taliban
uri: Story-of-a-trans-journalist-embedded-with-the-Taliban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#21_June_2023_(documentary_taliban_afghan)
content:
 
<p>
An Australian trans-man paradoxically found it easier to avoid
prejudice (usually) as a foreign journalist in Afghanistan than in
Australia.
<p>
He has published a documentary of his meetings with a group of Taliban that
accepted 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jun/16/tranisition-documentary-taliban-afghanistan">being acquainted with him.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#21_June_2023_(expert_inquiry_covid_nhs)
title: Poor people hit hardest by Covid because of NHS cuts
uri: Poor-people-hit-hardest-by-Covid-because-of-NHS-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#21_June_2023_(expert_inquiry_covid_nhs)
content:
 
<p>
*Poor people hit hardest by Covid because of [years of pre-pandemic] 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/16/poor-people-hit-hardest-covid-nhs-cuts-experts-inquiry">NHS cuts, experts say.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_(uk_strikes_laws_un_agency)
title: UK strikes laws must conform with international rules
uri: UK-strikes-laws-must-conform-with-international-rules
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_(uk_strikes_laws_un_agency)
content:
 
<p>
The International Labour Organization said that the UK's restrictions
on strikes 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/19/uk-strikes-laws-must-conform-with-international-rules-says-un-agency">violate workers' rights.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_(trump_prosecutor)
title: The Special Counsel Who Indicted [the bullshitter] Is No Democrat
uri: The-Special-Counsel-Who-Indicted-the-bullshitter-Is-No-Democrat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_(trump_prosecutor)
content:
 
<p>
*The Special Counsel Who Indicted [the bullshitter] Is 
 <a href="http://theintercept.com/2023/06/14/trump-prosecutor-republicans-special-counsel/">No
 Democrat. They Never Are.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_(women_bathrooms_harassment)
title: anti-transgender hysteria
uri: anti-transgender-hysteria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_(women_bathrooms_harassment)
content:
 
<p>
Harassment of women in toilets by trans women is so rare
that in 
<a href="https://www.vox.com/2016/5/18/11690234/women-bathrooms-harassment">effect it is pure myth.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_((satire)_mausoleum_collapse)
title: (satire) Two Still Dead In Mausoleum Collapse
uri: (satire)-Two-Still-Dead-In-Mausoleum-Collapse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_((satire)_mausoleum_collapse)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Two Still Dead In 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/two-still-dead-in-mausoleum-collapse-1850527428">Mausoleum Collapse.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_(canada_wildfires)
title: Canada’s fires are getting fiercer
uri: Canada-s-fires-are-getting-fiercer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_(canada_wildfires)
content:
 
<p>
In Canada, wildfires are overcoming the capacity to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/19/canada-wildfires-reconstruction-lytton">rebuild the houses
they destroy.</a>
<p>
This is just the beginning of climate disaster.  Each decade will make
things distinctly worse.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_(boris_johnson_partygate)
title: People voted for Boris Johnson knowing he was a liar.
uri: People-voted-for-Boris-Johnson-knowing-he-was-a-liar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_(boris_johnson_partygate)
content:
 
<p>
Britons voted for Bogus Johnson 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/19/boris-johnson-brexit-partygate-tories">knowing he was a liar.</a>
<p>
This awareness was so thoroughly spread that even I knew
that "Bogus" was the correct name for him.  It seems that he has
a superficial charm that motivates many Britons to like him even as
he lies to them.
<p>
The bullshitter, in the US, has a superficially different approach and
tells very different of lies, but I am sure the two careers are
fundamentally similar.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_(reddit_blackout_protest)
title: Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting
uri: Reddit-CEO-praises-Elon-Musk-s-cost-cutting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_(reddit_blackout_protest)
content:
 
<p>
The owner of Reddit has made Elon Musk 
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/reddit-blackout-protest-private-ceo-elon-musk-huffman-rcna89700">his hero and Twitter his example.</a>
<p>
That bodes ill for Reddit.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_((satire)_americans_third_job)
title: (Satire) More Americans Taking On Third Job
uri: (Satire)-More-Americans-Taking-On-Third-Job
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_((satire)_americans_third_job)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Study Finds More Americans Taking On 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/study-finds-more-americans-taking-on-third-job-to-help-1850545411">Third Job To Help Keep
CEOs Afloat.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_(gop_disinformation_study)
title: G.O.P. Targets Researchers Who Study Disinformation Ahead of Election
uri: G-O-P-Targets-Researchers-Who-Study-Disinformation-Ahead-of-Election
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_(gop_disinformation_study)
content:
 
<p>
Republicans in Congress are harassing researchers who study disinformation
practices, with 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/19/business/gop-disinformation-researchers-2024-election.html">investigations of made-up crimes.</a>
<p>
One must suspect that Republicans are aware that their party lives on
disinformation, and consider these researchers a danger to that.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_(braverman_police_stop_and_search)
title: Braverman tells police to ramp up use of stop and search
uri: Braverman-tells-police-to-ramp-up-use-of-stop-and-search
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_June_2023_(braverman_police_stop_and_search)
content:
 
<p>
*[Minister in charge] tells [UK thugs] to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/19/suella-braverman-tells-police-to-ramp-up-use-of-stop-and-search">ramp up use of stop and
 search.*</a>
<p>
Stop-and-frisk, as it's called in the US, is not very effective at
reducing crime
<p>
but is wildly effective at making people of 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/02/11/bloomberg-stop-and-frisk/">targeted demographic groups
feel oppressed.</a>

<p>
 


title: Citizen online safety verses patrons' surveillance, control
uri: Citizen-online-safety-verses-patrons-surveillance-control
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Citizen_online_safety_verses_patrons'_surveillance,_control)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Citizen_online_safety_verses_patrons'_surveillance,_control)

content:
 
<p>
The UK is proceeding with an "online safety" bill that would make it
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/19/online-safety-bill-changes-urged-to-allow-access-to-social-media-data">unsafe for Wikipedia</a>
to operate there.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(FEC_addresses_deepfakes)
title: FEC addresses deepfakes
uri: FEC-addresses-deepfakes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(FEC_addresses_deepfakes)
content:
 
<p>
The Federal Election Commission will consider a
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/fec-to-consider-rulemaking-on-political-deepfakes-in-response-to-public-citizen-petition">petition from Public Citizen</a>
to ban political use of deepfakes.
<p>
I think it is misleading to refer to the systems that make deepfakes
as "AI", because they do not understand the messages they portray.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Chatbot_SEO,_a_spiraling_degradation)
title: Chatbot SEO, a spiraling degradation
uri: Chatbot-SEO-a-spiraling-degradation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Chatbot_SEO,_a_spiraling_degradation)
content:
 
<p>
Business web sites are filling up with text written by
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/23753963/google-seo-shopify-small-business-ai">chatbots
to appeal to Google Search</a>.
 This text is uninteresting for humans
so humans generally don't read it.
<p>
It occurs to me that this could be profitable for Google.  It will
probably charge for the perverse service of writing the SEO text
that will appeal to its search engine.
<p>
And it may be hard for other search engines to make sense of these
pages enough to know when to show them to users.
<p>
Here's an idea: a chatbot-generated page could have a button saying
"FOR HUMANS" that would take you to the version that humans would like
to read.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Invasive_Asian_Hornet,_UK)
title: Invasive Asian Hornet, UK
uri: Invasive-Asian-Hornet-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Invasive_Asian_Hornet,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/19/jersey-hornet-hunters-guarding-against-invasion-uk-aoe">Organized volunteers in Jersey</a>
are trying to eradicate the Asian
hornets that have gained a foothold there.
<p>
In most of Western Europe these hornets are so established that there
is little hope of getting rid of them with today's methods.  Perhaps
some day we will be able to eradicate them with an innovative genetic attack.
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(World_transition,_debt)
title: World transitions: climate, debt
uri: World-transitions-climate-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(World_transition,_debt)
content:
 
<p>
Biden and the presidents and prime ministers of various other countries
have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/21/a-green-transition-that-leaves-no-one-behind-world-leaders-release-open-letter">signed a statement</a>
calling for a green transition for the whole world,
together with debt relief for countries crushed by debt, as ways to reduce poverty.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Urgent:_oppose_new_tax_cuts)
title: Urgent: oppose new tax cuts
uri: Urgent-oppose-new-tax-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Urgent:_oppose_new_tax_cuts)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose the new Republican
bill for tax cuts for the rich: "billions of dollars in tax cuts for
wealthy corporations, private equity firms, the richest 1%, and
investors from other countries."
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: restrict bee-killing pesticides
uri: Urgent-restrict-bee-killing-pesticides
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Urgent:_restrict_bee-killing_pesticides)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Urgent:_restrict_bee-killing_pesticides)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=54943&supporter_KEY=229474/">call on the EPA</a>
to restrict bee-killing pesticides.
<p>
To sign without running nonfree
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">JavaScript code</a>
from the web site, use the <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Support Biden's quiet nuclear diplomacy with Iran
uri: Urgent-Support-Biden-s-quiet-nuclear-diplomacy-with-Iran
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Urgent:_Support_Biden's_quiet_nuclear_diplomacy_with_Iran)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Urgent:_Support_Biden's_quiet_nuclear_diplomacy_with_Iran)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/iran-bidendiplomacy?akid=9012.223515.wlEKl0&c0=iran-bidendiplomacy.Ghds7z&rd=1&source=em20230616&t=1006">State your support</a>
for Biden's quiet nuclear
diplomacy with Iran.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Protect communities from toxic air
uri: Urgent-Protect-communities-from-toxic-air
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Urgent:_Protect_communities_from_toxic_air)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Urgent:_Protect_communities_from_toxic_air)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=54750&supporter_KEY=229474">call on the EPA</a>
to protect our communities from toxic air
pollution from chemical plants.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: dramatic changes in DeJoy's USPS
uri: Urgent-dramatic-changes-in-DeJoy-s-USPS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Urgent:_dramatic_changes_in_DeJoy's_USPS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Urgent:_dramatic_changes_in_DeJoy's_USPS)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/usps-ig-step-in-dejoys-dramatic-changes?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-afr-advocacy-fund-c4&source=group-afr-advocacy-fund-c4">call on the USPS Inspector General and the Postal
Regulatory Commission</a>
to enable public feedback on DeJoy's planned "dramatic changes" in the USPS.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Media_coverage_shameful)
title: Media coverage shameful
uri: Media-coverage-shameful
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Media_coverage_shameful)
content:
 
<p>
*The Media Cares
<a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/173808/media-cares-titanic-sub-drowned-migrants">More About</a>
the Titanic Sub Than Drowned Migrants.*
<p>
When a few people go on a risky adventure and get killed, their deaths
are regrettable &mdash; every death is regrettable, in and of itself &mdash; but
it doesn't raise important issues.

<p>
 


title: Senate hearing: big oil
uri: Senate-hearing-big-oil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Senate_hearing:_big_oil_delays_climate_action)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Senate_hearing:_big_oil_delays_climate_action)

content:
 
<p>
The Senate Budget Committee held a hearing about the effects of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/21/senate-budget-committee-dark-money-climate-action">dark money</a>
in keeping <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> going.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Extreme_weather_normal_now)
title: Extreme weather normal now
uri: Extreme-weather-normal-now
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Extreme_weather_normal_now)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/21/us-extreme-weather-six-weeks-heatwaves-storms">Half of [all] Americans</a>
have faced [an alert about possible]
 "extreme" weather in the last six weeks.*
<p>
Some of the events warned about have a clear connection to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Observing_as_terrorism,_GA)
title: Observing as terrorism, GA
uri: Observing-as-terrorism-GA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Observing_as_terrorism,_GA)
content:
 
<p>
*Atlanta DA Opposed Indicting Cop City
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/06/21/cop-city-georgia-attorney-general-domestic-terrorism/">Legal Observer</a>,
 but Georgia Attorney General Pushed Charges Anyway.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Israelis_went_on_rampage)
title: Israelis went on rampage
uri: Israelis-went-on-rampage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Israelis_went_on_rampage)
content:
 
<p>
Fanatical Israelis, from the camp that generally aims for ethnic
cleansing,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/21/israeli-settlers-attack-palestinian-villages-following-deadly-hamas-strike">held a pogrom in an Arab town</a>
in Palestine and burned 30 houses.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Iceland_and_whaling)
title: Iceland and whaling
uri: Iceland-and-whaling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Iceland_and_whaling)
content:
 
<p>
Iceland has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/21/iceland-suspends-annual-whale-hunt-in-move-that-likely-spells-end-to-controversial-practice">suspended its whale hunt</a>
and may stop the practice permanently.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Justice_Alito's_ethics)
title: Justice Alito's ethics
uri: Justice-Alito-s-ethics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Justice_Alito's_ethics)
content:
 
<p>
Justice Alito accepted a luxury vacation as a gift, along with a
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/alito-took-lavish-fishing-vacation-with-conservative-billionaire-who-later-had-cases-before-the-court">right-wing billionaire who was pushing legal cases</a>
to give additional legal rights to billionaires (and less to the rest of us).
<p>
He did not report it.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Big_oil_sued,_OR)
title: Climate damage: big oil sued
uri: Climate-damage-big-oil-sued
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Big_oil_sued,_OR)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/oregon-county-sues-big-oil-for-climate-damages-caused-by-heat-dome-wildfires">Oregon County [which includes Portland]</a>
Sues Big Oil for Climate Damages Caused by Heat Dome, Wildfires.*
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/science-group-applauds-new-climate-accountability-lawsuit-by-oregon-s-most-populous-county">More information</a>.
<p>
 


title: (Satire) Billionaires team-up as rescuers
uri: (Satire)-Billionaires-team-up-as-rescuers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_((Satire)_Billionaires_team_up_as_rescuers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_((Satire)_Billionaires_team_up_as_rescuers)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Coast Guard Sends
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/coast-guard-sends-another-submersible-full-of-billionai-1850556819">Another Submersible Full</a>
Of Billionaires After The First One.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(LA_ghetto_polluter_charged)
title: LA ghetto polluter charged
uri: LA-ghetto-polluter-charged
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(LA_ghetto_polluter_charged)
content:
 
<p>
In Watts, a ghetto in Los Angeles, there is a high school, and near it
a metal recycling plant which emits a high level of pollution,
including
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/21/metal-recycling-plant-felony-charges-los-angeles">brain-stunting lead</a>.
 That plant has now been charged with felonies for endangering the students.
<p>
As a side issue, I criticize the article for referring to high school
students as "children" &mdash; they'd have to be prodigies to be in high
school that young.  Of course, that has no effect on the issue of emitting dangerous pollution.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Aggressor-pays_system)
title: Aggressor-pays system
uri: Aggressor-pays-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Aggressor-pays_system)
content:
 
<p>
Ukraine calls for setting up a system whereby the assets of a country that launches
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/21/ukraine-vladimir-putin-russia-rebuild-pay">a war of conquest</a>
will be seized and used to fix the damage.
<p>
It is fair to take Russia's assets, and those of Putin's cronies, and
put them into rebuilding Ukraine.  Let's do it.  But we should not
suppose that other dictators who in the future start wars of conquest
will be vulnerable to the same tactic.  Once they have seen this
response to Putin, they will take care not to store their assets in
countries that might not be on their side in a war.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Neediest_Jordainians_algorithm)
title: Neediest-Jordanians algorithm
uri: Neediest-Jordanians-algorithm
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Neediest_Jordainians_algorithm)
content:
 
<p>
An algorithm Used in Jordan's
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/06/13/jordan-world-bank-poverty-algorithm/">distribution of World Bank aid funds</a>
uses incorrect measures to calculate who are the neediest.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Extinction_policies_review)
title: Extinction policies review
uri: Extinction-policies-review
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Extinction_policies_review)
content:
 
<p>
*The Biden administration &hellip; proposed revisions to Trump-era
 regulations that severely weakened protections for our nation's most  imperiled animals and plants,
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/biden-administration-retains-key-trump-era-extinction-policies">keeping in place some of the most
 significant rollbacks</a>
to the Endangered Species Act in the law's 50-year history.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(GOP_lies_help_the_bullshitter)
title: GOP lies help the bullshitter
uri: GOP-lies-help-the-bullshitter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(GOP_lies_help_the_bullshitter)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/21/donald-trump-conservatives-fbi-jail-biden">The [right wing] believes</a>
the FBI is obsessed with jailing Trump. The opposite is true.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Student_debt_load)
title: Student debt load
uri: Student-debt-load
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Student_debt_load)
content:
 
<p>
Millions of Americans have student debt that, barring a miracle, they
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jun/21/us-student-loan-payments-restart">can't possibly ever pay off</a>.
Biden paused loan payments, but his surrender to Republican blackmail includes restarting payments.
Many Americans are too poor ever to pay.
<p>
Republicans want to dump additional debt on them to cancel out the benefit
they received from the pause in payments.
<p>
The miracle of plutocracy's media influence is visible in the fact that
the millions of victims of this don't all vote for progressives.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Economic_V_physical_health)
title: Economic V physical health
uri: Economic-V-physical-health
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Economic_V_physical_health)
content:
 
<p>
Greenpeace says to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/the-climate-crisis-is-a-threat-to-our-lives-and-the-economy">reject the planet roasters'</a>
false choice between "the economy" and our health.
<p>
An additional level of falsehood is that when they say "the economy"
they mean rich people's wealth &mdash; not particularly helpful for us.
For non-rich people to have better lives, we must reject <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Trickle_down_never_delivers)">the
    rich people's trickle-down deals</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Ecosystem_tipping-point_mastery)
title: Ecosystem tipping-point mastery
uri: Ecosystem-tipping-point-mastery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Ecosystem_tipping-point_mastery)
content:
 
<p>
* Amazon rainforest and [1/5 of] other ecosystems
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/22/ecological-tipping-points-could-occur-much-sooner-than-expected-study-finds">could collapse "very soon"</a>,
   researchers warn.*
<p>
Perhaps even in a few decades.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Voter-ID_law_denies_very_many)
title: Voter-ID law denies very many
uri: Voter-ID-law-denies-very-many
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Voter-ID_law_denies_very_many)
content:
 
<p>
In Britain,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/23/at-least-14000-people-denied-vote-due-to-lack-of-voter-id-watchdog-finds">at least 14,000</a>
people were denied the right to vote by the Tories' new voter-ID law.
<p>
They tended to be from demographic groups one might expect not to vote
for Tories.
<p>
The actual number denied the right to vote could be in the hundreds of
thousands, as many who did not vote said it was because of the voter ID.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Fossil_fuel_shutdown_safe_bet)
title: Fossil fuel shutdown safe bet
uri: Fossil-fuel-shutdown-safe-bet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Fossil_fuel_shutdown_safe_bet)
content:
 
<p>
Economic research concludes that the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/22/fossil-fuel-assets-loss-study">loss of income from shutting down
fossil fuel extraction</a>
would fall mainly on the wealthy.  We can do it!

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Poverty_is_deadly)
title: Poverty is deadly
uri: Poverty-is-deadly
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Poverty_is_deadly)
content:
 
<p>
*The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/22/us-leading-cause-death-poverty-crisis">fourth leading cause of death</a>
in the US? Cumulative poverty.*  Cumulative poverty means having spent years of your life being poor.
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Censorship_habit,_PK)
title: Censorship habit, PAK
uri: Censorship-habit-PAK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Censorship_habit,_PK)
content:
 
<p>
*I literally
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/21/imran-khan-pakistan-tv-prime-minister-army">cannot say Imran Khan’s name</a>
on Pakistani TV.*

<p>
 


title: Trump re-lies on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter
uri: Trump-re-lies-on-YouTube-Facebook-Twitter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Trump_re-lies_on_YouTube,_Facebook,_Twitter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Trump_re-lies_on_YouTube,_Facebook,_Twitter)

content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich: *[<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">The corrupter</a>] is
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-warping-of-the-american-mind">basing his candidacy on two Big Lies</a>
&mdash; that President Biden stole the 2020 election from him, and that
Biden is orchestrating a prosecutorial witch hunt against him.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Rule_of_law_in_UKR)
title: Rule of law in UKR
uri: Rule-of-law-in-UKR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Rule_of_law_in_UKR)
content:
 
<p>
*West needs strategy to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/20/west-needs-strategy-to-tie-ukraine-aid-to-corruption-progress-thinktank-says">tie Ukraine aid to corruption progress</a>,
thinktank says.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Journalistic_censorship,_UKR)
title: Journalistic censorship, UKR
uri: Journalistic-censorship-UKR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Journalistic_censorship,_UKR)
content:
 
<p>
Journalists accuse Ukraine of controlling
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/06/22/ukraine-war-journalists-press-credentials/">coverage of the war</a>.
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Malaysia_seeks_the_joker)
title: Malaysia seeks the joker
uri: Malaysia-seeks-the-joker
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Malaysia_seeks_the_joker)
content:
 
<p>
*Malaysia to ask Interpol for help to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/14/malaysia-to-ask-interpol-for-help-to-track-down-comedian-over-mh370-joke">track down comedian</a>
over MH370 joke.*
<p>
Many governments repress political dissidents, usually by falsifying
nonpolitical charges against them.  For instance, <a href="/archives/2019-jan-apr.html#20_March_2019_(Indian_dissidents)">India does this</a>.
<p>
<a href="/archives/2014-nov-feb.html#11_February_2015_(Conviction_against_Malaysian_opposition_leader)">So does Malaysia</a>.
<p>
However, overtly attacking foreign comedians is an extreme form of
censorship.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Ocean_heating_sudden)
title: Ocean heating sudden
uri: Ocean-heating-sudden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Ocean_heating_sudden)
content:
 
<p>
*The sudden
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/23/sudden-warming-britain-seas-wildfire-fragile-ecosystem">warming of Britain’s seas</a>
will tear through ocean life like a wildfire.*
<p>
This is going to happen around the world.  Some marine species will be
able to move &mdash; others will not.  <a href="/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#27_April_2023_(Climate_scientists_emotional)">The result will be chaos</a>.  And then
ocean acidification will wipe out entire classes, even phyla.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Climate_Change_Committee_stark,_UK)
title: Climate Change Committee stark, UK
uri: Climate-Change-Committee-stark-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Climate_Change_Committee_stark,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
*The government should halt all new roads unless there are exceptional
circumstances, the [UK] government's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/23/halt-new-roads-and-developments-adding-to-emissions-advisers-to-tell-uk-government">climate advisers are likely to say</a>
next week.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Putin_forces_infighting)
title: Putin forces infighting
uri: Putin-forces-infighting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Putin_forces_infighting)
content:
 
<p>
Prigozhin seems to claim to be launching some sort of coup or civil war
in Russia,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/23/wagner-chief-accuses-russias-military-of-attack-and-says-evil-leadership-must-be-stopped">but at the same time saying</a>
it is not a coup.
<p>
He says that there was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/23/wagner-chief-accuses-moscow-of-lying-to-public-about-ukraine-yevgeny-prigozhin">no rational reason</a>
for Putin to attack Ukraine.
<p>
Any or all of what he claims about events could be bogus.  He may be
trying to seize power from Putin.  Or it may be a stunt, planned with
Putin.  I can't come up with a rational explanation of it.  But it
seems unlikely to me that there will be room for both of them in Russia after this.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Global_climate_financing)
title: Global climate financing
uri: Global-climate-financing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Global_climate_financing)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/23/paris-climate-finance-summit-fails-to-deliver-debt-forgiveness-plan">Paris climate finance summit</a>
fails to deliver debt forgiveness plan.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Death_Star_bill_passes,_TX)
title: Death Star bill passes, TX
uri: Death-Star-bill-passes-TX
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Death_Star_bill_passes,_TX)
content:
 
<p>
Texas has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/23/greg-abbott-texas-governor-bill-water-breaks-heatwave">passed a law to nullify all local regulations</a>
covering broad
areas including working conditions, farming, and banking.
<p>
In particular, this will eliminate the regulations in some cities
requiring employers to give construction workers occasional breaks to
drink water, to protect them from death from the extreme heat.
<p>
<a href="/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#22_April_2023_(Preempting_local_business_regulations,_TX)">Republicans are determined</a>
to ensure that hard labor is no safer in one Texas town than in another.

 


title: Urgent: Republican plan to cut Social Security and Medicare
uri: Urgent-Republican-plan-to-cut-Social-Security-and-Medicare
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Urgent:_Republican_plan_to_cut_Social_Security_and_Medicare)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Urgent:_Republican_plan_to_cut_Social_Security_and_Medicare)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Democrats in Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-boycott-kevin-mccarthys-commission-to-cut-social-security-2">refuse to lend legitimacy</a>
to the Republican's plan for a commission to cut Social Security and
Medicare.

 


title: Picasso tried to cancel Françoise Gilot's career
uri: Picasso-tried-to-cancel-Françoise-Gilot-s-career
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Picasso_tried_to_cancel_Françoise_Gilot's_career)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Picasso_tried_to_cancel_Françoise_Gilot's_career)

content:
 
<p>

When artist Françoise Gilot broke up with Pablo Picasso, he <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/jun/20/shunned-boycotted-exiled-france-francoise-gilot-picasso">went to
    great lengths to cancel her artistic career</a>.
  In France, her career never escaped the damage that he did.
<p>
Picasso famously made many paintings of his wives and lovers.  I
wonder if that was a way of marking them as his possessions.
<p>
Picasso's arrogant treatment of women does not cancel his artistic
genius; equally, his artistic genius does not cancel his arrogant
treatment of women.  They are two parts of reality, each as real as
the other.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Accused_hijackers_on_cargo_ship)
title: Accused "hijackers" on cargo ship
uri: Accused-hijackers-on-cargo-ship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Accused_hijackers_on_cargo_ship)
content:
 
<p>

Accused "hijackers" on a cargo ship headed for Italy were simply
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/14/italian-prosecutors-say-hijackers-on-cargo-ship-were-actually-asylum-seekers">refugees trying to get to Europe</a>,
  say the prosecutors who were supposed to put them on trial as "pirates".

 


title: China demanded Poland censor art exhibition
uri: China-demanded-Poland-censor-art-exhibition
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(China_demanded_Poland_censor_art_exhibition)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(China_demanded_Poland_censor_art_exhibition)

content:
 
<p>

  China has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/14/china-tries-to-shut-down-australian-artists-show-promoted-by-image-of-cannibalistic-xi">demanded Poland censor an art exhibition</a> which condemns
actions by China and Chairman Xi.
<p>
China carries out many parallel efforts to silence criticism and
critics in other countries.  It uses its economic power to pressure
governments to help.  We cannot take for granted that Poland will
stand up to this pressure.

 


title: Mining company threatened reporters for meeting with indigenous protesters
uri: Mining-company-threatened-reporters-for-meeting-with-indigenous-protes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Mining_company_threatened_reporters_for_meeting_with_indigenous_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Mining_company_threatened_reporters_for_meeting_with_indigenous_protesters)

content:
 
<p>

The mining company Adani <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/22/journalists-received-legal-threats-from-bravus-formerly-adani-carmichael-coal-mine-site-parliament-told">threatened reporters who visited its coal
    mine site with legal action</a> for meeting with indigenous protesters
protesting on the site, and demanded that they not publish any photos
they took there.
<p>
Companies that try to bully reporters should be shut down by the state.
<p>
This particular company is participating in mass murder.
Pollution from coal mines already kills thousands.  <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">Global heating</a> disaster
will kill at least hundreds of millions, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#24_February_2020_(Worst-likely-case_scenario_for_2050)">perhaps billions</a>.
<p>
My main criticism of the Australian government is that it allows new coal mines
to be opened.  How much coal mine profit is your life worth?

 


title: Madison Square Garden using facial recognition
uri: Madison-Square-Garden-using-facial-recognition
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Madison_Square_Garden_using_facial_recognition)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Madison_Square_Garden_using_facial_recognition)

content:
 
<p>

Madison Square Garden is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230531021427/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/nyregion/madison-square-garden-facial-recognition.html">using facial recognition on everyone who
    enters</a>, to keep out the lawyers representing plaintiffs that are suing
it.
<p>
Laws to restrict use of facial recognition on the public should make sure
to prevent this.

 


title: Musicians vow to boycott venues using facial recognition
uri: Musicians-vow-to-boycott-venues-using-facial-recognition
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Musicians_vow_to_boycott_venues_using_facial_recognition)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Musicians_vow_to_boycott_venues_using_facial_recognition)

content:
 
<p>

A number of musicians have <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/tom-morello-zack-de-la-rocha-facial-recognition-concerts-boycott-1234775909/amp/">vowed to boycott concert venues that use
    facial recognition</a> on the public.
<p>
Bravo!

 


title: (satire) Submersible tested with poorer passengers
uri: (satire)-Submersible-tested-with-poorer-passengers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_((satire)_Submersible_tested_with_poorer_passengers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_((satire)_Submersible_tested_with_poorer_passengers)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/critics-say-submersible-should-ve-been-tested-with-poor-1850566314">*Critics Say Submersible Should've Been Tested With Poorer
    Passengers First.*</a>

 


title: Eradicating invasive predators and pests in Australian desert
uri: Eradicating-invasive-predators-and-pests-in-Australian-desert
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Eradicating_invasive_predators_and_pests_in_Australian_desert)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Eradicating_invasive_predators_and_pests_in_Australian_desert)

content:
 
<p>

Establishing fenced enclosures in the Australian desert, and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/24/beyond-the-fence-what-does-it-mean-to-rewild-the-australian-desert">eradicating invasive predators and pests</a>, enables native species
to grow again.
<p>
I support protecting the precolonization ecosystems this way.  I
question, though, whether it is correct to call this "rewilding".  The
indigenous people have been managing these ecosystems for 40,000
years, so "wild" is not an accurate term to describe what they were
during that time.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Scummy_subservience_to_business)
title: Scummy subservience to business
uri: Scummy-subservience-to-business
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Scummy_subservience_to_business)
content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/06/23/kyrsten-sinema-pilot-training-airline-industry/">More scummy subservience to business</a> from Senator Sinema.
  
 


title: Yemen may find peace by splitting into two countries
uri: Yemen-may-find-peace-by-splitting-into-two-countries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Yemen_may_find_peace_by_splitting_into_two_countries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Yemen_may_find_peace_by_splitting_into_two_countries)

content:
 
<p>

  Yemen may find peace by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/23/yemen-peace-talks-must-accept-country-divided-two-southern-leader">splitting once again into two countries</a>, but
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> objects because neither one is under its influence.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Lesson_on_queer_inclusion)
title: Lesson on queer inclusion
uri: Lesson-on-queer-inclusion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Lesson_on_queer_inclusion)
content:
 
<p>

  *L.A. School Board President <a href="https://www.advocate.com/news/school-lgbtq-inclusion-la-board">Gives a Lesson on [Queer] Inclusion</a>.*
  I find it inspiring.

 


title: US government invites Indian repressor Modi to visit
uri: US-government-invites-Indian-repressor-Modi-to-visit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(US_government_invites_Indian_repressor_Modi_to_visit)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(US_government_invites_Indian_repressor_Modi_to_visit)

content:
 
<p>

  The US government is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/21/narenda-modi-washington-dc-biden-white-house-visit-india-china">inviting Indian represser Modi</a> to visit, hoping
to win his support against China.
  I fear this means the US will do as little to oppose <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#5_February_2020_(Repression_of_dissent)">Modi's
    repression</a> in India
  as it does to oppose <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-may-aug.html#15_July_2021_(Model_city_of_the_future)">repression in Salafi Arabia</a>.
      
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Leaded_gas_in_car_racing)
title: Leaded gas in car racing
uri: Leaded-gas-in-car-racing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Leaded_gas_in_car_racing)
content:
 
<p>

  Some car racing in the US <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/21/lead-emissions-racetracks-portland-international-raceway">still uses leaded gas</a>.
  Researchers have found that it does significant harm to children
growing up near those race tracks.

 


title: Measuring effect of government-imposed poverty in UK
uri: Measuring-effect-of-government-imposed-poverty-in-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Measuring_effect_of_government-imposed_poverty_in_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Measuring_effect_of_government-imposed_poverty_in_UK)

content:
 
<p>

The effect of government-imposed poverty in the UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/21/children-raised-under-uk-austerity-shorter-than-european-peers-study">can be measured
    by the average height of five-year-old children</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Snoop_TV)
title: Snoop TV
uri: Snoop-TV
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Snoop_TV)
content:
 
<p>

For "smart", read "snoop".  It is now advertised as a feature
that a "smart TV" watches you.  Sky expects customers to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/22/sky-launches-sky-live-smart-camera-for-joint-viewing-zoom-and-motion-controlled-games-glass-tv">pay extra
    to be able to use the video themselves</a>.
<p>
  If I could pay extra to make sure nobody <em>could</em> <a href="/articles/what-mary-had.html">watch me through it</a>,
  that wouldn't convince me to tolerate that device in my house.
(After all, it runs nonfree software and talks to the internet.)
But it would eliminate one of my objections to it.

 


title: London thug convicted for spraying man with pepper spray
uri: London-thug-convicted-for-spraying-man-with-pepper-spray
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(London_thug_convicted_for_spraying_man_with_pepper_spray)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(London_thug_convicted_for_spraying_man_with_pepper_spray)

content:
 
<p>

  A London <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/22/met-officer-convicted-for-pepper-spraying-man-as-he-climbed-down-high-rise-building">convicted for spraying a kind of pepper spray</a> at
a man who was climbing down a drain pipe on a tall building.
   By doing so the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> endangered the man's life.  Fortunately for him,
he did not actually fall.
<p>
The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> suspected the man of having committed robbery.  It would have
been reasonable for the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> to have arrested him when he got down,
but not to risk killing him.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Political_prisoners_in_India)
title: Political prisoners in India
uri: Political-prisoners-in-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#24_June_2023_(Political_prisoners_in_India)
content:
 
<p>

  *As D.C. Fêtes Narendra Modi, His <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/06/22/modi-visit-us-biden-india-prisoners/">Political Prisoners in India Are Forgotten</a>.*

<p>
 


title: US beekeepers making up for dead colonies
uri: US-beekeepers-making-up-for-dead-colonies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(US_beekeepers_making_up_for_dead_colonies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(US_beekeepers_making_up_for_dead_colonies)

content:
 
<p>

  US beekeepers have to work very hard to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/23/us-honeybees-second-deadliest-season">make new colonies</a>
to make up for the ones that die.

 


title: US corporations hardly ever prosecuted
uri: US-corporations-hardly-ever-prosecuted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(US_corporations_hardly_ever_prosecuted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(US_corporations_hardly_ever_prosecuted)

content:
 
<p>

Ralph Nader: US corporations have <a href="https://mailchi.mp/nader/the-surging-arrogance-of-corporatism-uij2o63qrd?e=555e9be067">good reason to believe they are
    above the law</a>, since crimes by corporations occur constantly
and are hardly ever prosecuted.
  Government lawyers don't want to prosecute businesses because they
hope to work for those businesses later.
<p>
We voters could stop them if we concentrated on the issue.  That is why
they create side issues (refugees, queer people, drag shows, sex education)
to distract people  with.

 


title: Psychological experiments for mental manipulation tricks
uri: Psychological-experiments-for-mental-manipulation-tricks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Psychological_experiments_for_mental_manipulation_tricks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Psychological_experiments_for_mental_manipulation_tricks)

content:
 
<p>

  It is more or less <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/24/do-life-hacks-work-the-truth-is-well-never-know">impossible to do valid psychological experiments</a> on
whether mental manipulation tricks to help a person really do help.
  People tend to be helped by doing anything which they believe will
help them.

 


title: Efforts to crush defenders of abortion rights
uri: Efforts-to-crush-defenders-of-abortion-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Efforts_to_crush_defenders_of_abortion_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Efforts_to_crush_defenders_of_abortion_rights)

content:
 
<p>

Anti-abortionists try to crush defenders of abortion rights through
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/06/24/dobbs-abortion-doctors-humiliation/">phony accusations and proceedings</a> designed to humiliate and impoverish
them.
<p>
Democrats are turning their <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/24/republicans-abortion-electoral-backlash-roe-v-wade">defense of abortion rights into election
    victories</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Amazon_subcontracting_deliveries)
title: Amazon subcontracting deliveries
uri: Amazon-subcontracting-deliveries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Amazon_subcontracting_deliveries)
content:
 
<p>

Amazon has subcontracted a lot of its deliveries to "separate" companies,
to thwart holding it accountable.
<p>
The workers at one of them now demand Amazon negotiate, but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/24/amazon-delivery-service-partner-anti-union-california">Amazon wants
    to shut down that subcompany</a> instead.
<p>
The easiest way to hold Amazon responsible.  Don't buy from there, and
ask your friends not to buy anything for you from there.  Inform web
sites that ask people to buy from Amazon through their pages that you
boycott Amazon and suggest they choose another way to raise funds.
<p>
I go even further than this.  I refuse to identify myself when buying
products, aside from prescription medicines.

 


title: 3M pays $10.3bn to settle water pollution suit
uri: 3M-pays-10-3bn-to-settle-water-pollution-suit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(3M_pays_$10.3bn_to_settle_water_pollution_suit)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(3M_pays_$10.3bn_to_settle_water_pollution_suit)

content:
 
<p>

  *3M <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/22/3m-settlement-municipal-water-systems-pfas-contamination">pays $10.3bn to settle water pollution suit</a> over [PFAS] "forever chemicals".*
<p>
This is a lot of money, but I think it may be too little.  is it
enough to pay for the costs of treating all the people affected?
<p>
What can these cities do to keep PFAS out of their water supply?  They
will have to do it forever, I think, since the environment is already
full of PFAS.

 


title: Dangerous EU plans to allow spying on journalists
uri: Dangerous-EU-plans-to-allow-spying-on-journalists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Dangerous_EU_plans_to_allow_spying_on_journalists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Dangerous_EU_plans_to_allow_spying_on_journalists)

content:
 
<p>

  *Draft EU plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/22/draft-eu-plans-to-allow-spying-on-journalists-are-dangerous-warn-critics">allow spying on journalists are dangerous</a>, warn critics.*

 


title: Wildlife conservation funds in poor countries
uri: Wildlife-conservation-funds-in-poor-countries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Wildlife_conservation_funds_in_poor_countries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Wildlife_conservation_funds_in_poor_countries)

content:
 
<p>

Seeking funds for wildlife conservation in poor, indebted countries
by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/21/are-debt-for-nature-swaps-way-forward-for-conservation-aoe">trading debt for a commitment to spend on conservation</a>.
<p>
I think wealthy countries will have to put money into this,
and get it by taxing the rich.

 


title: Ignore Robert F Kennedy Jr's candidacy at our peril
uri: Ignore-Robert-F-Kennedy-Jr-s-candidacy-at-our-peril
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Ignore_Robert_F_Kennedy_Jr's_candidacy_at_our_peril)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Ignore_Robert_F_Kennedy_Jr's_candidacy_at_our_peril)

content:
 
<p>

  Naomi Klein: *Beware: we ignore Robert F Kennedy Jr's candidacy <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/14/ignoring-robert-f-kennedy-jr-not-an-option">at our peril</a>.*

 


title: Investigating Australian responsibility for war crimes in Afghanistan
uri: Investigating-Australian-responsibility-for-war-crimes-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Investigating_Australian_responsibility_for_war_crimes_in_Afghanistan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Investigating_Australian_responsibility_for_war_crimes_in_Afghanistan)

content:
 
<p>

An Australian senator calls for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/20/jacqui-lambie-asks-international-criminal-court-icc-investigate-australian-military-commanders-for-war-crimes">investigating whether any of
    Australia's "senior generals" bear responsibility</a> for war crimes in
Afghanistan.
<p>
  The <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(The_collateral_murder_video)">Collateral Murder video</a>
  shows that rules of engagement can license murder.  I hope Australia
will investigate that too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Letting_everything_in_UK_go_bad)
title: Letting everything in UK go bad
uri: Letting-everything-in-UK-go-bad
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Letting_everything_in_UK_go_bad)
content:
 
<p>

*Safety checks run down and boom time for criminals.* Tory
incompetence/neglect is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/20/trading-standards-uk-consumer-goods-britain-europe">letting everything in the UK go bad</a>.
  So any business might cheat you.  You could lose mere money, or lose
your life in the case of <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#16_June_2017_(Tory_austerity_and_a_fire)">unsafe construction that might start a fire</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Nature_at_risk_of_breakdown)
title: Nature at risk of breakdown
uri: Nature-at-risk-of-breakdown
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Nature_at_risk_of_breakdown)
content:
 
<p>

  *Nature at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/20/nature-at-risk-of-breakdown-if-cop15-pledges-not-met-world-leaders-warned">risk of breakdown</a> if Cop15 pledges not met, world leaders warned.*

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Expand the Supreme Court and its ethics
uri: Urgent-Expand-the-Supreme-Court-and-its-ethics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(Urgent:_Expand_the_Supreme_Court_and_its_ethics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(Urgent:_Expand_the_Supreme_Court_and_its_ethics)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter at 1-202-224-3121 and advocate
<a href="/archives/2020-jul-oct.html#22_September_2020_(Replacing_Justice_Ginsburg)">expanding the Supreme Court</a>
and <a href=" /archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Justice_Alito's_ethics)">imposing a code of ethics</a>
such as other federal judges have.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Call on P&amp;G to help save the boreal forests of Canada
uri: Urgent-Call-on-P-G-to-help-save-the-boreal-forests-of-Canada
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_P%26amp;G_to_help_save_the_boreal_forests_of_Canada)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_P%26amp;G_to_help_save_the_boreal_forests_of_Canada)

content:
 
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=55189&supporter_KEY=229474">call on Procter & Gamble</a>
to switch to forest-free products
to help save the boreal forest.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Urge Democrats in Congress to Boycott the "bipartisan" commission to cut SS
uri: Urgent-Urge-Democrats-in-Congress-to-Boycott-the-bipartisan-commiss
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(Urgent:_Congress_must_boycot_McCarthy's_commission_to_cut_SS_and_Medicare)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(Urgent:_Congress_must_boycot_McCarthy's_commission_to_cut_SS_and_Medicare)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-boycott-kevin-mccarthys-commission-to-cut-social-security?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-coalition-on-human-needs&source=group-coalition-on-human-needs">call on Congress</a>
to boycott Kevin McCarthy's commission to cut Social Security (and Medicare).
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(Russion_infighting_gone_too_fast)
title: Russian infighting gone too fast
uri: Russian-infighting-gone-too-fast
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(Russion_infighting_gone_too_fast)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/24/rostov-on-don-russia-residents-welcome-prigozhin-wagner-forces">Prigozhin's Wagner soldiers took over</a>
the city of Rostov without a fight,
and some of the locals welcomed them.
<p>
Another Wagner column seems to have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/24/wagner-troops-may-reach-moscow-by-evening-as-kremlin-hurries-to-intercept">rushed towards Moscow</a>,
while Putin
ordered real army units to stop them.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/24/ukrainians-dream-wagner-action-fatal-blow-war-kyiv-mutiny">Ukraine welcomed the opportunity</a>
that an internal conflict in Russia might offer.
However, I expect this won't give Ukraine much of an opportunity.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/24/rostov-on-don-why-russian-city-targeted-wagner-group">Prigozhin was at pains to explain</a>
that 
the army centers he had taken control of were working on the war with Ukraine just as before.
<p>
Then he made a deal with Putin to abort the coup.
<p>
Prigozhin's attack seemed precipitously sudden, 
with too little public preparation to build up much support.
His climb down seems unbelievably fast as well.
I would not expect someone who has launched an armed rebellion and been accused of treason
to call it off so quickly.
<p>
I have to wonder whether this coup was a kind of theater, 
agreed in advance between Prigozhin and Putin.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(Train_wreck_into_Yellowstone)
title: Train wreck into Yellowstone
uri: Train-wreck-into-Yellowstone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(Train_wreck_into_Yellowstone)
content:
 
<p>
A train carrying
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/24/montana-bridge-collapse-train-toxic-materials-yellowstone-river">toxic chemicals fell into the Yellowstone River</a>
because a bridge collapsed.
<p>
I have to wonder whether this collapse was caused by saving money by reducing
regular maintenance.  That would fit the railroad company's general approach,
but I don't know whether it occurred in this bridge.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(Thugs_charged_with__murder,_TX)
title: Thugs charged with murder, TX
uri: Thugs-charged-with-murder-TX
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(Thugs_charged_with__murder,_TX)
content:
 
<p>
Three Texas <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> face murder charges
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/24/texas-three-police-officers-fatally-shoot-woman">for killing Melissa Perez</a>,
who seemed to be freaking out but was not in a position to harm them significantly.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(Referendum_on_Cop_City,_GA)
title: Referendum on Cop City, GA
uri: Referendum-on-Cop-City-GA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(Referendum_on_Cop_City,_GA)
content:
 
<p>
Opponents to Atlanta's cop city project are running a referendum campaign
which seeks
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/24/atlanta-cop-city-referendum">to cancel it entirely</a>.
<p>
The city government, which seems to be motivated by something we can
only guess at, tried several times to sabotage the petition drive.
<p>
Surely the would-be contractors see an opportunity to profit, but I
doubt that the profit would be big enough to motivate such stiff
insistence from the city government.  I have a hunch that something
nastier is at work, something more deeply related to right-wing
politics.
<p>
I doubt that the contractors who would build it have enough money to
gain that they would find it worth while to put a lot of money into
stiffening politicians' support for the project.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(Extreme_US_heat_wave)
title: Unrelenting, intense heat dome US &amp; MX
uri: Unrelenting-intense-heat-dome-US-MX
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(Extreme_US_heat_wave)
content:
 
<p>
Six
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/24/texas-heatwave-high-temperatures-power">southern US states including Texas</a>
are suffering from an extreme heat wave.
<p>
When will Republicans admit that our actions are making this worse?
<p>
I have a hunch that northern Mexico is suffering from a heat wave too.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(State_hegemony_on_civil_society,_HUN)
title: State hegemony on civil society, HUN
uri: State-hegemony-on-civil-society-HUN
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#25_June_2023_(State_hegemony_on_civil_society,_HUN)
content:
 
<p>
A private ally of Orbán has bought Hungary's main
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/23/authors-leave-hungarian-publisher-in-protest-at-sale-to-orban-linked-college">book publisher and
bookstore chain</a>.
<p>
Hungary, like various other countries, is exploring how to create
cryptic fascism, in which the institutions of the state nominally
continue to work, but democracy ceases to be meaningful,  This reminds
me of how Octaviuss Caesar gave himself personal control of Rome while
keeping the Republic's institutions nominally in function.
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Urgent:_Tax_Major_Sports_Leagues)
title: Urgent: Tax Major Sports Leagues
uri: Urgent-Tax-Major-Sports-Leagues
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Urgent:_Tax_Major_Sports_Leagues)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-your-congress-members-its-time-to-eliminate-tax-exempt-status-for-major-sports-leagues?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-patriotic-millionaires&source=group-patriotic-millionairesp">call on Congress</a>
to tax major sports leagues.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Protect minors from corporate exploitation
uri: Urgent-Protect-minors-from-corporate-exploitation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Urgent:_Protect_minors_from_corporate_exploitation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Urgent:_Protect_minors_from_corporate_exploitation)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-biden-administration-protect-child-workers-from-corporate-exploitation?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-patriotic-millionaires&source=group-patriotic-millionaires">call on the Biden Administration</a>
to protect teenage workers from corporate exploitation.
<p>
I will not 
<a href="/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_(Refugee_families)">refer to teenagers of age 14 and 15 as "children"</a>.
<p>
Notwithstanding that point about language, I support the laws that
stop employers from pushing them into excessive or hazardous work.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Confront India's Human Rights Abuses
uri: Urgent-Confront-India-s-Human-Rights-Abuses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Urgent:_Confront_India's_Human_Rights_Abuses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Urgent:_Confront_India's_Human_Rights_Abuses)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/petition-india-humanrights?akid=9030.223515.iIU2Bt&c0=petition-india-humanrights.M1s8uW&rd=1&source=em20230622&t=1006">call on Biden and Blinken</a>
to confront India's human rights abuses.
<p>The White House comments lines are 
<a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.</p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Pass the Supreme Court Ethics Act
uri: 2023-06-27-Urgent-Pass-the-Supreme-Court-Ethics-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Urgent:_Pass_the_Supreme_Court_Ethics_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Urgent:_Pass_the_Supreme_Court_Ethics_Act)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/alito-ethics-act/?t=1001&akid=30872%2E96703%2EajF-uD">Call on Congress</a>
to pass the Supreme Court Ethics Act.
<p>
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#23_June_2023_(Justice_Alito's_ethics)">Samual Alito accepted lavish gifts and then failed to recuse himself</a>
from a very important case in which he ruled for his benefactor.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Pass the Abortion Justice Act
uri: Urgent-Pass-the-Abortion-Justice-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Urgent:_Pass_the_Abortion_Justice_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Urgent:_Pass_the_Abortion_Justice_Act)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/abortion_justice_act/">call on Congress</a>
to pass the Abortion Justice Act.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Call on state pension funds to vote their shares
uri: Urgent-Call-on-state-pension-funds-to-vote-their-shares
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_state_pension_funds_to_vote_their_shares)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_state_pension_funds_to_vote_their_shares)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on state pension funds to
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-demand-that-state-treasurers-and-public-pensions-vote-for-climate-justice-and-indigenous-rights-this-spring?nowrapper=true">vote their shares</a>
for
certain shareholder resolutions.
<p>
The petition text emphasizes indigenous people's rights to the extent
that you might get the idea we non-indigenous hardly matter.  But these
shareholder resolutions would protect everyone, as they should.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Call on Clarence Thomas to Resign
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Clarence-Thomas-to-Resign
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Clarence_Thomas_to_Resign)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Clarence_Thomas_to_Resign)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.couragecampaign.org/sign/clarence-thomas-must-resign/?t=1006&akid=14169%2E183061%2EfKzk23">call on Clarence Thomas to resign</a>
from the Supreme Court.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Urgent:_Stop_Selling_Roundup)
title: Urgent: Stop Selling Roundup
uri: Urgent-Stop-Selling-Roundup
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Urgent:_Stop_Selling_Roundup)
content:
 
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=55160&supporter_KEY=229474">call on Home Depot to stop selling Roundup.</a>
<p>
If you have disabled the page's JavaScript, you may get a blank
response after signing.  That does not mean anything is wrong; your
signsature has probably been sent in properly.  The blank screen has
text that is rendered invisible by CSS; if your browser gives you a
way to disable the CSS in the page (as Icecat does), that should make
the text appear.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Russians_almost_theatrical)
title: Russians almost theatrical
uri: Russians-almost-theatrical
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#26_June_2023_(Russians_almost_theatrical)
content:
 
<p>
Prigozhin agreed to go to exile in Belarus, and Putin
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/06/25/prigozhin-and-putin-dead-men-walking/">agreed to drop</a>
charges against him.  Ostensibly, everyone is friends again.  Despite
the brief incidents of real combat, I can't feel convinced it wasn't
just theater.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/25/prigozhins-march-on-moscow-chronology-of-an-attempted-coup
<p>
The exile ageement is no guarantee of Prigozhin's safety.  If the coup
was real, Putin might have him killed in Belarus.  Even if it was
theater, Putin might have him killed, in reaction to the enthusiastic
reception Prigozhin received from the public &mdash; apparently because
people hate Putin.  I don't think Putin can forgive showing that on TV.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/25/vladimir-putin-and-yevgeny-prigozhin-avert-bloodshed-but-their-feud-is-not-over">More speculation about the reasons</a>
for the events we have seen.


 


title: Myth that people are paid what they're worth
uri: Myth-that-people-are-paid-what-they-re-worth
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Myth_that_people_are_paid_what_they're_worth)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Myth_that_people_are_paid_what_they're_worth)

content:
 
<p>

  Robert Reich <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-paid-what-youre-worth-myth">busts the myth</a> that "people are paid what they're worth."
<p>
He presents this with illustrations in a short video, which (while the
invidious proxies continue to function) can be <a href="https://invidio.us/watch?v=f3NRbF_lJZI">seen here</a>.
(It starts with an annoying <a href="/articles/genderless-pronouns.html">use of singular "they"</a>,
but I recommend it despite that.)
<p>
For me, the statement he criticizes shows an even deeper problem: it
presumes a narrow, purely economic idea of what a person's value
consists of.  I've decided not to use locutions that presume a
person's "worth" is measured by the economic value of per assets.

 


title: Vampire capitalists squeezing poor countries
uri: Vampire-capitalists-squeezing-poor-countries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Vampire_capitalists_squeezing_poor_countries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Vampire_capitalists_squeezing_poor_countries)

content:
 
<p>

How vampire capitalists use debt forgiveness to a poor country as an
<a href="https://www.gregpalast.com/vulture-paul-singer-the-gops-baddie-sugar-daddie/">excuse to squeeze it to death</a>.  (From 2012.)
<p>
Palast uses the term "vulture", but I think that is misleading.
Vultures eat dead animals; as long as animals die, vultures (or
something comparable) are necessary.  These capitalists, by contrast,
drain live countries and their live inhabitants.
<p>
I would like to see more recent news about this.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(High_interest_rates_in_the_UK)
title: High interest rates in the UK
uri: High-interest-rates-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(High_interest_rates_in_the_UK)
content:
 
<p>

High interest rates in the UK have translated into high mortgage interest,
which is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/jun/24/uk-mortgage-rate-crisis-driving-record-rent-squeeze-as-landlords-pass-higher-costs-on-to-tenants">translating into higher rents</a>, which is likely to make hundreds
of thousands of people homeless.
<p>
I have a hunch that the Tories' voter-ID cards will stop many of them
from voting.  My hunch says that those cards have the voter's address,
and that those who were forced out of their homes will need to get new
cards.  If they don't have a stable address, does that mean they can't
vote?

 


title: Ballistic analysis not proved reliable enough
uri: Ballistic-analysis-not-proved-reliable-enough
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Ballistic_analysis_not_proved_reliable_enough)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Ballistic_analysis_not_proved_reliable_enough)

content:
 
<p>

Maryland's supreme court <a href="https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/maryland-supreme-court-ballistics-expert-witness-testimony-PEBRNZ45TJF5NGQ5SK5R5YGTKE/">ruled that ballistic analysis has not been
    proved reliable enough</a> to justify testifying that a specific bullet
was definitely fired by a certain gun.
<p>
  <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-field-of-firearms-forensics-is-flawed/">More information</a>.

 


title: Root cause of homelessness in California
uri: Root-cause-of-homelessness-in-California
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Root_cause_of_homelessness_in_California)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Root_cause_of_homelessness_in_California)

content:
 
<p>

A survey shows conclusively that the root cause of homelessness in
California is simple: <a href="https://boingboing.net/2023/06/20/the-rent-is-too-damn-high-study-confirms-what-we-all-know-causes-californias-homelessness-crisis.html">homes are too expensive</a>.
<p>
The same study established that 90% of California's homeless people
were living in California when they became homeless.

 


title: Training neural nets with neural net systems
uri: Training-neural-nets-with-neural-net-systems
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Training_neural_nets_with_neural_net_systems)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Training_neural_nets_with_neural_net_systems)

content:
 
<p>

The gig workers paid to provide verified data for training neural nets
are <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/22/1075405/the-people-paid-to-train-ai-are-outsourcing-their-work-to-ai/">secretly using neural net systems to get that data</a>.
<p>
This overall system could magnify errors.

 


title: Billionaire disappointment on superyacht ban from Naples port
uri: Billionaire-disappointment-on-superyacht-ban-from-Naples-port
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Billionaire_disappointment_on_superyacht_ban_from_Naples_port)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Billionaire_disappointment_on_superyacht_ban_from_Naples_port)

content:
 
<p>

Rich people's paid flunkies say, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/25/billionaires-disappointed-superyachts-banned-from-naples-mergellina-port-bernard-arnault">"Now can Naples survive without attracting our bosses to visit?"</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Racket_in_Seward_County,_Nebraska)
title: Racket in Seward County, Nebraska
uri: Racket-in-Seward-County-Nebraska
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Racket_in_Seward_County,_Nebraska)
content:
 
<p>

  Seward County, Nebraska, <a href="https://www.klkntv.com/using-loophole-seward-county-seizes-millions-from-motorists-without-convicting-them-of-crimes/">makes a racket</a> of accusing drivers based on
no evidence of being drug traffickers, then threatening to put them in jail,
unless they sign away all their cash.
<p>
"Drug-sniffing" dogs are often trained to follow the human handler's
subtle commands.  When the drug is told "find drugs here", <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#05_November_2012_(Drug-sniffer_dogs_not_impartial)">it does</a>.
<p>
When victims try to contest the seizure, courts are biased heavily
against them.
<p>
To prevent this, we should make sure that it is (1) impossible to
seize money from people for an alleged crime without first convicting
them of it, and (2) when money is seized, absolutely none of it
is available for the use of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> departments or the entities they
are associated with.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Support PRO Act (against union-busting)
uri: Urgent-Support-PRO-Act-(against-union-busting)
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Urgent:_Support_PRO_Act_(against_union-busting))

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Urgent:_Support_PRO_Act_(against_union-busting))

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/oppose-union-busting?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-inequality-media-civic-action&source=group-inequality-media-civic-action">call on Congress</a>
to pass the PRO act and protect the right
to organize from union-busting tactics.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Defend the right to abortion and birth control
uri: Urgent-Defend-the-right-to-abortion-and-birth-control
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Urgent:_Defend_the_right_to_abortion_and_birth_control)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Urgent:_Defend_the_right_to_abortion_and_birth_control)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://action.aclu.org/send-message/defend-reproductive-freedom-now">call on your congresscritter and senators</a>
to defend the right to abortion and birth control.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Pregnancy_dangerous_again,_POL)
title: Pregnancy dangerous again, POL
uri: Pregnancy-dangerous-again-POL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Pregnancy_dangerous_again,_POL)
content:
 
<p>
A pregnant woman in Poland, carrying a fetus that had almost no chance
of resulting in a healthy baby,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jun/14/all-pregnant-women-are-in-danger-protests-in-poland-after-expectant-mother-dies-in-hospital">died in a hospital that never informed
her</a>
that her life was in danger or that an abortion could have saved her.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Heat_dome_stats,_climate)
title: Heat dome stats, climate
uri: Heat-dome-stats-climate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Heat_dome_stats,_climate)
content:
 
<p>
*Current heatwave across US south made
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/27/heatwave-human-caused-climate-crisis-texas-louisiana-mexico">five times more likely</a>
by climate crisis.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(War_humilations,_RU)
title: War humiliations, RU
uri: War-humiliations-RU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(War_humilations,_RU)
content:
 
<p>
Prigozhin's maybe-fake coup suggests that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/27/ukraine-west-vladimir-putin-russia-kyiv-volodymyr-zelenskiy">Putin's regime is not as
secure as he would like us to believe</a>.
 It follows that Ukraine has
the hope of winning the war and kicking Russian troops out of Ukraine.
<p>
The article mentions the debate among historians about whether the
hard terms in the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I,
caused widespread suffering that helped Hitler seize power.  I think
there is a miscommunication in that discussion.  The "humiliation" of
Germany, that helped Hitler seize power, was the requirement for
Germany to pay reparations that it could not possibly pay.  Every
German felt the suffering from this.
<p>
A total military defeat for the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> would not amount to a
humiliation like that.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Tory_FOI_response)
title: Tory FOI response
uri: Tory-FOI-response
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Tory_FOI_response)
content:
 
<p>
The current Tory government has set
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/27/rishi-sunak-accused-of-concealment-culture-after-record-number-of-foi-blocks">a record for blocking</a>
the highest
ever fraction of the freedom-of-information requests received.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Recruiters_exploit_filipinas)
title: Recruiters exploit filipinas
uri: Recruiters-exploit-filipinas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Recruiters_exploit_filipinas)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jun/27/philippine-job-agencies-cheating-women-with-fees-and-crippling-loans">Filipinas seeking jobs abroad are compelled</a>
to borrow money at high interest to pay illegal junk fees.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Climate_COPs_fail_forests)
title: Climate COPs fail forests
uri: Climate-COPs-fail-forests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Climate_COPs_fail_forests)
content:
 
<p>
*Destruction of world's pristine rainforests soared
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/27/destruction-of-worlds-pristine-rainforests-soared-in-2022-despite-cop26-pledge">in 2022 despite
Cop26 pledge</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Island_nation_Tuvalu_and_sea_rise)
title: Island nation Tuvalu and sea rise
uri: Island-nation-Tuvalu-and-sea-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#27_June_2023_(Island_nation_Tuvalu_and_sea_rise)
content:
 
<p>
Sea level rise, caused by human-controlled greenhouse gas emissions
is destroying Tuvalu's land area. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/tuvalu-climate-crisis-rising-sea-levels-pacific-island-nation-country-digital-clone">The country will be gone</a>
well before the end of this century.
<p>
What we don't know is whether other countries, that won't mostly be inundated
by the sea, will survive the other global consequences of our way of life.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Gas_wells_leaking_a_decade,_AU)
title: Gas wells leaking a decade, AU
uri: Gas-wells-leaking-a-decade-AU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Gas_wells_leaking_a_decade,_AU)
content:
 
<p>
Fossil fuel company Santos owns "decommissioned" offshore fossil gas
wells that are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/14/retired-santos-gas-wells-off-western-australia-coast-leaking-for-a-decade-regulator-says">leaking bubbles of methane</a>.
It says that stopping these leaks is "not feasible."
<p>
Is that really true, or is it a bogus excuse not to seal them?
<p>
If it is true, this is all the more reason not to allow any more
fossil gas wells to be made.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Pregnant_Workers'_Fairness_Act,_UK)
title: Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act, UK
uri: Pregnant-Workers-Fairness-Act-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Pregnant_Workers'_Fairness_Act,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
The Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/pregnant-employees-law-worker-fairness-act-morning-sickness">has been enacted</a>.
<p>
*The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act requires that employers with more
than 15 workers provide "reasonable accommodations" to people who are
pregnant, postpartum or have a related medical condition,*

<p>
 


title: High Court did check and balance states
uri: High-Court-did-check-and-balance-states
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(High_Court_did_check_and_balance_states)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(High_Court_did_check_and_balance_states)

content:
 
<p>
*Supreme Court
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/supreme-court-rejects-independent-state-legislature-theory">Rejects Independent State Legislature Theory</a>.*
<p>
The "Independent State Legislature Theory" claimed that state
legislatures could decide how to decide arbitrarily how the state's
electoral votes would be cast in a presidential election, disregarding
the state's constitution and immune to correction by the state's
courts.
<p>
This was obviously absurd, given that the state legislatures are created
by the state's constitution.  However, brazen right-wing legislators
that sought to force a right-wing victory will try anything and see
if they can get away with it.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Prigozhin_exiled_to_army_base)
title: Prigozhin exiled to army base
uri: Prigozhin-exiled-to-army-base
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Prigozhin_exiled_to_army_base)
content:
 
<p>
Prigozhin and some of his troops have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/belarus-exiled-wagner-chief-yevgeny-prigozhin-russia-ukraine">arrived in Belarus</a>.
The rest of the Wagner troops seem to be in Ukraine.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Important_Julian_Assange_update)
title: Important Julian Assange update
uri: Important-Julian-Assange-update
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Important_Julian_Assange_update)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/27/julian-assange-extradition-mps-free-speech">Time is running out</a>
for Julian Assange. If MPs do not act, how can they say they value free speech?*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Doctors'_strike,_England)
title: Doctors' strike, England
uri: Doctors-strike-England
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Doctors'_strike,_England)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/27/senior-doctors-in-england-vote-to-strike-over-pay">Senior doctors in England</a>
vote to strike over pay.*
<p>
"Consultant" in the NHS means a specialist who takes overall responsibility
for treating selected patients.  Nothing like a "consultant" in business.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Nursing_strike_hit_UK_legal_glitch)
title: Nursing strike hit UK legal glitch
uri: Nursing-strike-hit-UK-legal-glitch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Nursing_strike_hit_UK_legal_glitch)
content:
 
<p>
UK
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/27/nurses-fail-to-vote-in-sufficient-numbers-for-fresh-strikes-in-england">union-hampering laws imposed a deadline</a>
on the nurse union's strike
vote so that it did not receive enough ballots for a valid result.
<p>
I have not seen anything which explains just why or how that particular
deadline was imposed, or whether the union could now try again with more time
for members to vote.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Kenyan_slavery,_SAU)
title: Kenyan slaves to SAU kafala system
uri: Kenyan-slaves-to-SAU-kafala-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Kenyan_slavery,_SAU)
content:
 
<p>
Kenyan women who survived domestic slavery in <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> testified
and demand
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jun/27/urgent-action-needed-to-protect-dying-kenyan-domestic-workers-in-gulf-say-rights-groups">Kenyan government action to protect Kenyans</a>
who work there.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Bullshitter_audio_seems_admissible)
title: Bullshitter audio seems admissible
uri: Bullshitter-audio-seems-admissible
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Bullshitter_audio_seems_admissible)
content:
 
<p>
Tape of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/donald-trump-bedminster-tape-iran-document-doubts">gives the lie to his claims</a>
about a secret military document.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Bogus_Johnson_disses_establishment)
title: Bogus Johnson disses establishment
uri: Bogus-Johnson-disses-establishment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#28_June_2023_(Bogus_Johnson_disses_establishment)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bogus-johnson">Bogus Johnson</a> was judged to have violated the ministerial code by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/27/reform-calls-after-johnson-found-to-have-broken-rules-over-daily-mail-job">taking a private job</a>
with only half an hour's notice to the pertinent
parliamentary committee.  But this committee has no power to punish him.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/27/keir-starmer-failed-consult-watchdog-acoba-new-role-after-leaving-cps-labour-dpp">Starmer appears to have broken a similar rule</a>
when he left government service.

<p>
 


title: UN human rights investigator at Guantanamo
uri: UN-human-rights-investigator-at-Guantanamo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#29_June_2023_(UN_human_rights_investigator_at_Guantanamo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#29_June_2023_(UN_human_rights_investigator_at_Guantanamo)

content:
 
<p>

* First UN human rights investigator allowed to visit [Guantanamo
prison] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/guantanamo-bay-detainees-cruel-treatment-un-human-rights-investigator">was set up</a> says men subjected to "inhuman and degrading"
treatment.*
<p>
  *UN says Russian forces have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/un-russian-forces-tortured-executed-civilians-ukraine">tortured and executed civilians in Ukraine</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#29_June_2023_(Trees_being_cut_down_in_Tasmania)
title: Trees being cut down in Tasmania
uri: Trees-being-cut-down-in-Tasmania
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#29_June_2023_(Trees_being_cut_down_in_Tasmania)
content:
 
<p>

Tasmania, under a right-wing government, is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/27/how-dare-they-swift-parrot-slowly-losing-critical-habitat-as-tasmania-logs-native-forest">continuing to cut down the
    trees</a> where the endangered swift parrot lives.

 


title: Turkey and Lebanon deporting Syrian refugees
uri: Turkey-and-Lebanon-deporting-Syrian-refugees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#29_June_2023_(Turkey_and_Lebanon_deporting_Syrian_refugees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#29_June_2023_(Turkey_and_Lebanon_deporting_Syrian_refugees)

content:
 
<p>

  Turkey and Lebanon are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jun/27/we-fear-leaving-the-house-lebanon-and-turkey-step-up-deportations-of-syrian-refugees">deporting Syrian refugees</a> to Syria, and some are being drafted into Assad's army.
<p>
The last resort of fragging your commander with a grenade is always
available when there is actual combat.

 


title: Company Foxconn backed out on is going bankrupt
uri: Company-Foxconn-backed-out-on-is-going-bankrupt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#29_June_2023_(Company_Foxconn_backed_out_on_is_going_bankrupt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#29_June_2023_(Company_Foxconn_backed_out_on_is_going_bankrupt)

content:
 
<p>

Foxconn promised to invest in an Ohio company making electric trucks,
but found an excuse to pull out of it, so <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/lordstown-motors-electric-vehicle-maker-trump-ohio-bankruptcy">the company is going bankrupt</a>.

 


title: How the corrupter will use the justice department
uri: How-the-corrupter-will-use-the-justice-department
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#29_June_2023_(How_the_corrupter_will_use_the_justice_department)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#29_June_2023_(How_the_corrupter_will_use_the_justice_department)

content:
 
<p>

*If [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a>] wins, he’ll <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/27/trump-justice-department-vendetta-machine-robert-reich">turn the justice department into a
    vendetta machine</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#29_June_2023_(EU's_proposed_law_to_regulate_AI)
title: EU's proposed law to regulate AI
uri: EU-s-proposed-law-to-regulate-AI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#29_June_2023_(EU's_proposed_law_to_regulate_AI)
content:
 
<p>

The EU's proposed law to regulate AI and nonintelligent "AI" <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jun/27/techscape-european-union-ai">takes mostly
    the right approach</a>: to regulate by laws the uses of these systems.
<p>
The attempt to control these uses by <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/programs-must-not-limit-freedom-to-run.html">releasing trained neural networks
    under nonfree licenses is misguided</a>: it is nondemocratic, unjust, and
probably ineffective, just as it is for other software.
<p>
For the directive as described here, I am concerned that a fine of 6%
of global gross revenue could be an acceptable business expense for
very large companies.  I think that individuals crucially responsible
for flagrantly illegal decisions should be prosecuted and face
possible prison sentences.
<p>
I am concerned that the proposal may enact a bad assumption about the
breadth of copyright.  When ChatGPT or something like it copies a
small snippet of text that appeared in some unidentified work, or
perhaps in many otherwise different unidentified works, that should
not be copyright infringement on those works.  it would not be
copyright infringement if you did the same thing in your head.
Therefore, the requirement to list the copyright of all the works used
for training is excessive.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#29_June_2023_(First_UN_report_on_Guantanamo)
title: First UN report on Guantanamo prison
uri: First-UN-report-on-Guantanamo-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#29_June_2023_(First_UN_report_on_Guantanamo)
content:
 
<p>
* First UN human rights investigator allowed to visit since [Guantanamo prison] was set up
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/27/guantanamo-bay-detainees-cruel-treatment-un-human-rights-investigato">says
men subjected to "inhuman and degrading" treatment</a>.*

<p>
 


title: UN report on Putin-forces behavior in Ukraine
uri: UN-report-on-Putin-forces-behavior-in-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#29_June_2023_(UN_report_on_Putin-forces_behavior_in_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#29_June_2023_(UN_report_on_Putin-forces_behavior_in_Ukraine)

content:
 
<p>
*UN says Russian forces have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/un-russian-forces-tortured-executed-civilians-ukraine">tortured and executed civilians in Ukraine</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_June_2023_(Climate_protest,_AU)
title: Climate protest, AU
uri: Climate-protest-AU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_June_2023_(Climate_protest,_AU)
content:
 
<p>
Australian climate defenders
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/19/climate-protesters-block-coal-shipments-as-minns-warns-against-dangerous-situations">blocked coal export shipments</a>
in several ports.
<p>
Australian state governments complain about the momentary inconvenience
of the protests, and threaten to use repressive anti-protest laws.
Bravo to the courageous protesters!
<p>
There is no need for Australia to suddenly end all coal export.  What
it needs to do is cut down coal mining faster &mdash; and pressure the rest
of the world hard to cut down faster.  These protesters are calling
attention to that.
<p>
Secondarily, Australia should stop imploring China to buy Australian
coal rather than mine coal in China.  Coal combustion in China will
hurt the world (and especially China) no matter which country it gets
the coal from, but begging China to buy it strengthens China's
influence and weakens resistance to it.

<p>
 


title: Brexit economic consequences predicted
uri: Brexit-economic-consequences-predicted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_June_2023_(Brexit_economic_consequences_predicted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_June_2023_(Brexit_economic_consequences_predicted)

content:
 
<p>
* Mark Carney [recently retired head of the Bank of England] says
Bank’s negative predictions about consequences of leaving EU
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/17/brexit-to-blame-for-rising-inflation-says-former-bank-of-england-governor">"proven
to be the case</a>."*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_June_2023_(Surge_in_renewables,_China)
title: Surge in renewables, China
uri: Surge-in-renewables-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_June_2023_(Surge_in_renewables,_China)
content:
 
<p>
China has built as much
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/china-wind-solar-power-global-renewable-energy-leader">renewable generating capacity</a>
as the rest of the world, and it is rapidly building more.
<p>
This is not a race between countries to see which one will "win."  It
is part of a race against time for the survival of civilization and
the natural world.  Renewable generation is one of the things we need
for that goal.
<p>
The whole world is in this together, and China shows what other
countries do, <a href="/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_June_2023_(Climate_protest,_AU)">if only we overcome</a>
the efforts of the fossil fuel corruption intended to stop us.
<p>
One bad aspect of China's progress is that it is still increasing
its coal combustion.  Until fossil fuel use decreases, we are still
getting further away from survival.
<p>
In general, the one good thing about the Chinese system of government
is that the state is more powerful than businesses, and will not
permit them to get powerful enough to obstruct the state's plans.
<p>
The very bad thing about the Chinese system of government is that the
state is far more powerful than the people, and will not permit the
people to obstruct the state's plans.  But it does consider the
aggregate practical desires of people, despite its contempt for their
views and freedom.
<p>
To oversimplify, a just state cows the powerful few while respecting
the people.  China does the first but rejects the second.
The US does an insufficient job of each.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_June_2023_(Tory_climate_commitments_abandoned_)
title: Tory climate commitments abandoned
uri: Tory-climate-commitments-abandoned
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_June_2023_(Tory_climate_commitments_abandoned_)
content:
 
<p>
The Tory prime minister has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/28/the-guardian-view-on-rishi-sunak-and-net-zero-a-cowardly-retreat">deprioritized the previous commitments</a>
for avoiding <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> disaster.

<p>
 


title: Liberty-and-justice success story, NYC
uri: Liberty-and-justice-success-story-NYC
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_June_2023_(Liberty-and-justice_success_story,_NYC)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_June_2023_(Liberty-and-justice_success_story,_NYC)

content:
 
<p>
Yusef Salaam was one of the five falsely convicted "rapists" in Central
Park in 1989, who were later conclusively exonerated.  He seems to have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/28/yusef-salaam-wins-city-council-primary-central-park-5-harlem-new-york">won the Democratic primary</a>
for a city council seat.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_June_2023_(Samuel_Alito's_involvements)
title: Samuel Alito's involvements
uri: Samuel-Alito-s-involvements
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-mar-jun.html#30_June_2023_(Samuel_Alito's_involvements)
content:
 
<p>
*Samuel Alito’s Wife Leased Land to an Oil and Gas Firm While
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/06/26/samuel-alito-oil-gas-supreme-court-environment/">[Alito] Fought the EPA</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Confirm Biden's judicial nominations
uri: Urgent-Confirm-Biden-s-judicial-nominations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Urgent:_Confirm_Biden's_judicial_nominations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Urgent:_Confirm_Biden's_judicial_nominations)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens:
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/confirm-biden-judges-2023/?t=1001&akid=30839%2E96703%2E5I_EF6">call on Senate Democrats</a>
to confirm Biden's judicial nominations.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Inflation:_greed-_NOT_needs-driven)
title: Inflation: greed- NOT needs-driven
uri: Inflation-greed-NOT-needs-driven
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Inflation:_greed-_NOT_needs-driven)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/28/wage-rises-inflation-rightwing-myth-greed-business">Wage rises are driving inflation?</a>
Don’t swallow this dangerous rightwing myth.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Labour:_rent-control_un-economical)
title: Labour: rent-control un-economical
uri: Labour-rent-control-un-economical
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Labour:_rent-control_un-economical)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/28/labour-leadership-lisa-nandy-accused-u-turn-rent-controls">Labour leadership accused</a>
of U-turn over rent controls.*
<p>
It calls for "getting interest rates under control" instead &mdash; but
without trying to act on their true cause, it is mainly working against labor.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Screen_caste_mirrors_Greene's_imagery)
title: Screen cast mirrors Marjorie Taylor imagery
uri: Screen-cast-mirrors-Marjorie-Taylor-imagery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Screen_caste_mirrors_Greene's_imagery)
content:
 
<p>
Extra!  Extra!  One of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/26/majorie-taylor-greene-implies-tv-spying">Marjorie Taylor Greene's crazy beliefs</a>
&mdash;   that her TV set is watching her &mdash; may actually be correct, depending
on
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/malware-appliances.html#M201901070.">which kind of TV set</a>
she has.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Farming_octopuses)
title: Farming octopuses
uri: Farming-octopuses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Farming_octopuses)
content:
 
<p>
On the ethics, practicality and sustainability of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/25/a-symbol-of-what-humans-shouldnt-be-doing-the-new-world-of-octopus-farming">farming octopuses</a>.
<p>
Octopuses are so remote from us evolutionarily that they give a sample
of how strange alien life could be.  That we can relate to them at all
is amazing.
<p>
Literally alien life is likely to be toxic to us, and we to it.
Octopuses don't think of eating humans because they don't generally
eat anything bigger than their heads.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Digital_inclusion_abandoned,_UK)
title: Digital inclusion abandoned, UK
uri: Digital-inclusion-abandoned-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Digital_inclusion_abandoned,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
A parliamentary committee is concerned that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/29/millions-in-uk-are-being-left-behind-as-world-moves-online-say-peers">millions in the UK
are failing</a>
to move into the internet of proprietary software and surveillance.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Beef_farming,_NL)
title: Beef farming, NL
uri: Beef-farming-NL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Beef_farming,_NL)
content:
 
<p>
The Netherlands has to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/25/farmers-on-frontline-as-dutch-divided-by-war-on-nitrogen-pollution">reduce the amount of beef farming</a>
because
the farms' emissions of nitrogen are damaging ecosystems around them.
<p>
It's true we need farms in order to have food.  But we don't
need as much beef as we produce now &mdash;
<a href="/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#13_September_2019_(Agriculture_and_phosphate)">and for other reasons we must produce less</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Grade_A+_family_shelter,_OR)
title: Grade A+ family shelter, OR
uri: Grade-A-family-shelter-OR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Grade_A+_family_shelter,_OR)
content:
 
<p>
Describing an experimental shelter for homeless families,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/26/us-homeless-shelters-redesign">designed to reduce their trauma</a>
and stress.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Homeless:_LA_at_75K)
title: Homeless: LA at 75K
uri: Homeless-LA-at-75K
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Homeless:_LA_at_75K)
content:
 
<p>
The homeless population of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/29/los-angeles-county-homelessness-unhoused-population">Los Angeles has jumped to 75,000</a>
people.
<p>
The underlying cause is that the <a href="/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#23_December_2015_(Ill_treatment_of_homeless_people)">US handles housing</a>
to serve the
<a href="/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_January_2023_(Housing_as_corporate_investment)">interests of the rich</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Police-caused_riots,_looting,_FR)
title: Police-caused riots, looting, FR
uri: Police-caused-riots-looting-FR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(Police-caused_riots,_looting,_FR)
content:
 
<p>
French <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> shot and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/anger-france-braces-more-rioting-police-shooting">killed a driver of Arab origin</a>
for no sensible reason, then fabricated a fake reason.
  This has sparked protests all around France.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(US_summer_climate)
title: US summer climate
uri: US-summer-climate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#1_July_2023_(US_summer_climate)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">Global heating</a> will make
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/29/extreme-heatwaves-summer-air-quality-wildfires">summer miserable</a>
for much of the US.
<p>
In the south, a heat dome.  In the northeast, smoke from Canadian
forest fires.
<p>
Until we reduce greenhouse gas levels, it will get worse and worse and worse.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Ships'_emmisions_technology)
title: Ships' emissions technology
uri: Ships-emissions-technology
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Ships'_emmisions_technology)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/26/shipping-emissions-could-be-halved-without-damaging-trade-research-finds">Improved technology could</a>
reduce greenhouse gas emissions from ocean shipping by 50%.  
But it would cost money: the challenge is to compel the ship owners to pay it.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Billionaire_grips_national_media,_FR)
title: Billionaire grips national media, FR
uri: Billionaire-grips-national-media-FR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Billionaire_grips_national_media,_FR)
content:
 
<p>
*French newspaper staff strike after
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/french-newspaper-staff-strike-after-far-right-personality-made-editor">"far-right personality" made editor</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Hajj-travel_heat_danger)
title: Hajj heat danger
uri: Hajj-heat-danger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Hajj-travel_heat_danger)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">Global heating</a> has made
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/30/thousands-suffer-heat-stress-on-hajj-pilgrimage-as-temperatures-reach-48c">the Hajj</a>
dangerous.  In a decade or two it may be deadly to quite a few.
<p>
Will the Muslim world take note of the danger of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>,
in which a few Muslim countries play significant roles?

<p>
 


title: Rising awareness of global heating, CN
uri: Rising-awareness-of-global-heating-CN
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Rising_awareness_of_global_heating,_CN)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Rising_awareness_of_global_heating,_CN)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/30/as-beijing-swelters-activists-hope-the-heat-will-prompt-climate-action">Despite record temperatures</a>,
some Chinese people are yet to connect the
extreme heat to the climate crisis, something activists want to change.*
<p>
Once Chinese get used to the term "climate change," they need to get
familiar with "climate collapse" and "climate disaster."  They need to
understand that climate disaster <a href="/archives/2021-jul-oct.html#19_October_2021_(Contradictory_needs)">can destroy China</a>
just as it can destroy most or all other countries.
And they should think of Shanghai inundated.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Global_sea-level_rise)
title: Global sea-level rise
uri: Global-sea-level-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Global_sea-level_rise)
content:
 
<p>
The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> we have already caused will
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/26/its-absolutely-guaranteed-the-best-and-worst-case-scenarios-for-sea-level-rise">inevitably lead to
rising sea level for centuries</a>.
But if we heat the Earth more, there will be even more sea level rise.
<p>
One projection is that 3°C of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> will raise sea level up
to 50 feet by 2300.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(To_regulate_gambling,_AU)
title: To regulate gambling, AU
uri: To-regulate-gambling-AU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(To_regulate_gambling,_AU)
content:
 
<p>
An Australian study recommends
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/29/ban-on-gambling-inducements-would-have-greater-impact-than-ad-restrictions-insiders-say">banning marketing "inducements"</a>
designed to make it hard to for people with gambling problems to
resist gambling.
<p>
"Inducements" are a term for temporary promotions such as "Buy one,
get one 'free'."  (They ought to say, "gratis.")

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Workers'_risk_in_outdoor_heat)
title: Workers' risk in outdoor heat
uri: Workers-risk-in-outdoor-heat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Workers'_risk_in_outdoor_heat)
content:
 
<p>
Bad working conditions for Nepalese workes in Qatar are causing them
permanent kidney problems &mdash;
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jun/26/going-abroad-cost-me-my-health-nepals-migrant-workers-coming-home-with-chronic-kidney-disease">they need dialysis for the rest of their
lives</a>.
<p>
Qatar could correct this problem, but its rich rulers don't want to reduce their income.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Righteous-rightwing_target_community)
title: Rightwing targets community
uri: Rightwing-targets-community
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Righteous-rightwing_target_community)
content:
 
<p>
*After Roe's overturn,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/26/republicans-target-trans-rights-extremist-rhetoric">Republicans target trans rights</a>
using extremist rhetoric.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(State_thugs'_whistleblower,_WV)
title: State thugs' whistleblower, WV
uri: State-thugs-whistleblower-WV
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(State_thugs'_whistleblower,_WV)
content:
 
<p>
West Virginia state <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> have been
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/26/west-virginia-state-police-anonymous-letter-criminal-allegations">caught in crimes</a>
ranging from kidnaping to rape to drugging, and many other crimes, not quite as grave but still nasty.
<p>
The state governor is pushing the investigation.

<p>
 


title: Repatriation and collaboration law, UKR
uri: Repatriation-and-collaboration-law-UKR
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Repatriation_and_collaboration_law,_UKR)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Repatriation_and_collaboration_law,_UKR)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/26/ukraine-russia-collaborators-revenge">What will Ukraine do</a>
with Russian collaborators? Revenge would be a
 mistake.*
<p>
The article suggests distinguishing between those who sought power or advantage
through the Russian puppet governments and those who simply carried on
their legitimate civic jobs under Russian power.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(RR_ticket-office_peril,_UK)
title: RR ticket-office peril, UK
uri: RR-ticket-office-peril-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(RR_ticket-office_peril,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
The UK plans to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/26/closure-most-uk-railway-station-ticket-offices-start-weeks">close most ticket offices</a>
at railroad stations.
<p>
The unions are opposed to this because of possible job losses, but I
see a danger to everyone.  How will it be possible to buy a ticket?
Will people be compelled to do it from a web site that imposes use of
nonfree software and requires them to identify themselves?
<p>
What other options for buying train tickets exist now?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Border_Patrol_kills_innocent,_AZ)
title: Border Patrol kills innocent, AZ
uri: Border-Patrol-kills-innocent-AZ
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Border_Patrol_kills_innocent,_AZ)
content:
 
<p>
*Border Patrol Video of Killing Shows [Indigenous
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/06/26/border-patrol-killing-raymond-mattia/">US Citizen Near
Border] Had No Gun, Complied With Orders</a>.*

<p>
 


title: London water company didn't keep up on maintenance
uri: London-water-company-didn-t-keep-up-on-maintenance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(London_water_company_didn't_keep_up_on_maintenance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(London_water_company_didn't_keep_up_on_maintenance)

content:
 
<p>

The London region water company has not invested in fixing enormous
water leaks, causing shortages and waste, because it was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/29/what-are-the-options-for-thames-water-as-crisis-talks-continue">more profitable
    to neglect its duty</a> and wallow in greed.
  (What else would you expect from a big business under today's
  business attitudes?)
<ol>
I see two valid goals in this situation:

<li> Bring water services back into clean, water-saving and satisfactory
service.
</li>
<li> Punish those who have profited by harming the public &mdash;
take as much as possible of their past gains.
</li>
</ol>

An <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2023/jun/29/ministers-no-bailout-thames-water-backers">article that agrees</a>.
<p>
I suspect that the laws that govern these companies were designed to
facilitate profiteering.  The most important thing is to change them
to demand responsibility and stop the profiteering.

 


title: President of Philippines helping poor very little
uri: President-of-Philippines-helping-poor-very-little
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(President_of_Philippines_helping_poor_very_little)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(President_of_Philippines_helping_poor_very_little)

content:
 
<p>

The new Philippines president Marcos Jr. has made rhetoric smoother,
and shifted international ties towards the US.  Domestically, he has
said a lot to portray himself as helping the poor, but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/30/a-year-of-marcos-jr-how-a-dictators-son-has-changed-the-philippines">not done much to
    knack it up</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Voter_ID_is_assault_on_democracy)
title: Voter ID is assault on democracy
uri: Voter-ID-is-assault-on-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Voter_ID_is_assault_on_democracy)
content:
 
<p>

  *Voter ID is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/29/voter-id-is-just-one-item-in-a-long-list-of-assaults-on-our-democracy">just one item in a long list of assaults</a> on [UK] democracy.
Breaches of standards in public office, clampdowns on protest and
attacks on the judiciary have all featured in the last few years of
Tory rule.*

 


title: Australian prisons keeping prisoners in cells
uri: Australian-prisons-keeping-prisoners-in-cells
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Australian_prisons_keeping_prisoners_in_cells)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Australian_prisons_keeping_prisoners_in_cells)

content:
 
<p>

  Australian prisons are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/29/children-locked-in-cells-for-up-to-23-hours-at-south-australias-youth-detention-centre">keeping minors in cells almost 24 hours a day</a>.
<p>
This article describes one prison in one state, but I've seen others showing
that this practice spans Australia.
<p>
I am sure most of these prisoners are too old to be considered
"children".  However, the laws to protect them are important &mdash; both
to ensure work does not keep them out of school, and to ensure it
doesn't do them physical harm.

 


title: Republican attacks on teacher's unions
uri: Republican-attacks-on-teacher-s-unions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Republican_attacks_on_teacher's_unions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Republican_attacks_on_teacher's_unions)

content:
 
<p>

  Republicans in several states are <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2023/06/29/walmart-heirs-freedom-foundation-behind-latest-attack-on-arkansas-teachers/">attacking teachers' unions</a>, with the support
of millionaires such as the owners of Walmart.
<p>
This is one example of how plutocracy in the US supports <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#doohnibor">dooH niboR</a>,
who takes from the poor and gives to the rich.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Uganda_punishes_for_homosexual_sex)
title: Uganda punishes for homosexual sex
uri: Uganda-punishes-for-homosexual-sex
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Uganda_punishes_for_homosexual_sex)
content:
 
<p>

Uganda now sentences people to 10 years in prison for Homosexual sex.
Advocating the rights of homosexuals is punished with 20 years.
<p>
  Progressive legislators <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/06/29/uganda-lgbtq-law-us-military-aid/">propose to cut military aid</a> to Uganda
in response.

 


title: Australian law to facilitate fossil fuel development
uri: Australian-law-to-facilitate-fossil-fuel-development
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Australian_law_to_facilitate_fossil_fuel_development)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Australian_law_to_facilitate_fossil_fuel_development)

content:
 
<p>

It looks like Australia's government has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/30/australian-sea-dumping-law-changes-condemned-amid-warnings-of-gas-industry-expansion">proposed a law to facilitate new fossil fuel development</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(TV_program_on_how_dolphins_mate)
title: TV program on how dolphins mate
uri: TV-program-on-how-dolphins-mate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(TV_program_on_how_dolphins_mate)
content:
 
<p>

A TV station presented a program that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/29/new-zealand-broadcaster-reprimanded-over-graphic-dolphin-mating-scene">accurately showed how
    dolphins typically mate</a> &mdash; a group of males league together to plan
gang rape.
<p>
It leads humans to pose a question of which standards to judge dolphin
behavior by &mdash; the standards of human morality, or dolphins' own
nonhuman nature.

 


title: Cost of living impacts health of children
uri: Cost-of-living-impacts-health-of-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Cost_of_living_impacts_health_of_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Cost_of_living_impacts_health_of_children)

content:
 
<p>

  *Cost of living <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/28/cost-of-living-worsening-health-children-uk-school-nurses">worsening health of children in UK</a>, say school
 nurses.*
<p>
This is plutocracy at work.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Report_on_undercover_cops_in_1970s)
title: Report on undercover cops in 1970s
uri: Report-on-undercover-cops-in-1970s
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Report_on_undercover_cops_in_1970s)
content:
 
<p>

An inquiry into the undercover UK cops who were sent to infiltrate
peaceful protest groups in the 1970s has published its first partial
report.  It concludes that their investigation was intimate and
had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/29/spy-cops-operations-against-leftwing-groups-unjustified-judge-finds">no justification whatsoever</a>.

 


title: Erroneous diagnosis at phony abortion clinic
uri: Erroneous-diagnosis-at-phony-abortion-clinic
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Erroneous_diagnosis_at_phony_abortion_clinic)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Erroneous_diagnosis_at_phony_abortion_clinic)

content:
 
<p>

A pregnant woman went to a phony abortion clinic, a "crisis center,"
and was given a <a href="https://jezebel.com/woman-sues-anti-abortion-pregnancy-center-after-her-ect-1850576215">gravely erroneous diagnosis of her dangerous unviable
    pregnancy</a>.
<p>
We must wonder if they misrepresented it intentionally to stop her
from getting the abortion that she needed.

 


title: Rejecting plan to make asylum seekers wait in Rwanda
uri: Rejecting-plan-to-make-asylum-seekers-wait-in-Rwanda
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Rejecting_plan_to_make_asylum_seekers_wait_in_Rwanda)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Rejecting_plan_to_make_asylum_seekers_wait_in_Rwanda)

content:
 
<p>

  A UK appeals court gave <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/29/why-was-the-governments-rwanda-plan-for-asylum-seekers-ruled-unlawful">reasons for rejecting the plan</a> to make asylum
seekers wait in Rwanda.
<p>
  Rwanda's government is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/sanders-statement-on-supreme-court-overturning-student-debt-cancellation">generally repressive</a>.
<p>
This decision is not final &mdash; it may be reversed on appeal.

 


title: Scotland's plan to protect waters defeated
uri: Scotland-s-plan-to-protect-waters-defeated
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Scotland's_plan_to_protect_waters_defeated)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Scotland's_plan_to_protect_waters_defeated)

content:
 
<p>

  Short-term local opposition <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/29/scottish-government-ditches-controversial-marine-protection-plan">defeated Scotland's plan</a> to establish
serious protection for 10% of its waters.
<p>
  This is a <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(UK_barely_started_protecting_sea_bottom_from_trawling)">step towards pollution and extinction</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(UK_school_buildings_closed_as_unsafe)
title: UK school buildings closed as unsafe
uri: UK-school-buildings-closed-as-unsafe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(UK_school_buildings_closed_as_unsafe)
content:
 
<p>

  Many UK schools have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jun/29/pupils-in-england-sent-to-churches-and-village-halls-as-crumbling-schools-close">closed because their buildings are unsafe</a>.
<p>
Hundreds were made decades ago with lightweight aerated concrete, which turns
out to crumble eventually, but there are other kinds of problems too.
However, the overall causes is that the government did not spend enough
on inspecting, repairing and replacing schools buildings.
<p>
This is plutocracy at work.  The government needs more money but hasn't
got the courage to tax the rich more.

 


title: (satire) Welfare benefits cut for those experiencing happiness
uri: (satire)-Welfare-benefits-cut-for-those-experiencing-happiness
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_((satire)_Welfare_benefits_cut_for_those_experiencing_happiness)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_((satire)_Welfare_benefits_cut_for_those_experiencing_happiness)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/georgia-cuts-welfare-benefits-for-recipients-caught-exp-1850592155">*Georgia Cuts Welfare Benefits For Recipients Caught
    Experiencing Happiness.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_((satire)_Backup_prayer_system)
title: (satire) Backup prayer system
uri: (satire)-Backup-prayer-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_((satire)_Backup_prayer_system)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/texas-governor-adds-backup-prayer-system-to-state-elect-1850592059">*Texas Governor Adds Backup Prayer System To State
    Electricity Grid.*</a>

 


title: Youtube blocking users using ad-blockers
uri: Youtube-blocking-users-using-ad-blockers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Youtube_blocking_users_using_ad-blockers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Youtube_blocking_users_using_ad-blockers)

content:
 
<p>

  Youtube is <a href="https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-three-strikes-policy-block-ads-3340340/">experimenting with blocking users found to be using ad-blockers</a>.
<p>
Google ads work by tracking users and their activities.  I don't
particularly care whether an ad appears on my graphical virtual
screen, since I don't have to actually <em>watch</em> it &mdash; I could do
something else.
<p>
What matters to me is refusing to be identified, as well as not
running nonfree JS code.  If I can't pull in the video without being
thus maltreated, that will make YouTube inaccessible for me once
again.
<p>
The real determinant will be whether the Invidio.us proxies continue
to work.

 


title: Starmer accused of leading "rightwing illiberal" faction
uri: Starmer-accused-of-leading-rightwing-illiberal-faction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Starmer_accused_of_leading_rightwing_illiberal_faction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-may-aug.html#2_July_2023_(Starmer_accused_of_leading_rightwing_illiberal_faction)

content:
 
<p>

A long-elected Labour MO has accused Starmer of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/01/rightwing-illiberal-labour-mp-jon-cruddas-condemns-keir-starmers-witch-hunt">leading a "rightwing,
    illiberal" faction</a> and trying to exclude all other ideas from the party.
<p>
I expect Starmer to respond to this demand to respect the room for
disagreement in the party with force.  He has already shown that leading over and over.

 


