# articles

title: Urgent: Do not to drill in the Arctic Refuge
uri: Urgent-Do-not-to-drill-in-the-Arctic-Refuge
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Urgent:_Do_not_to_drill_in_the_Arctic_Refuge)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Urgent:_Do_not_to_drill_in_the_Arctic_Refuge)

content:
 
<p>
  Everyone: call on Chevron <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49360&supporter_KEY=229474&uid=80194c17d0fbbc71ce12626b1b44954e&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:104629&utm_campaign=AME4-FCNS:DRILLING:ARCTICDRILL-0322&utm_content=EM9:00C:0HH-DCP">not to drill in the Arctic Refuge</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(dalai_lama_ukraine)
title: Many demand explicit vow against Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine
uri: Many-demand-explicit-vow-against-Nuclear-Weapons-in-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(dalai_lama_ukraine)
content:
 
<p>
*Dalai Lama, Other Nobel Winners Demand Explicit Vow Not to Use Nuclear
Weapons in Ukraine.*  
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/26/dalai-lama-other-nobel-winners-demand-explicit-vow-not-use-nuclear-weapons-ukraine">They demanded this vow from the US and Putin.</a>
<p>
I support this demand.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(uninsured_pcr_covid)
title: Uninsured Americans facing costly PCR test
uri: Uninsured-Americans-facing-costly-PCR-test
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(uninsured_pcr_covid)
content:
 
<p>
*Uninsured Americans Will Now Be Charged $125 for a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/26/utter-travesty-uninsured-americans-will-now-be-charged-125-single-pcr-covid-19-test">Single PCR
Covid-19 Test.</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(social_media_mental_health)
title: Social media may affect mental health
uri: Social-media-may-affect-mental-health
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(social_media_mental_health)
content:
 
<p>
Using antisocial media sites more leads young teenagers to become
unhappy about their lives, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/mar/28/social-media-may-affect-girls-mental-health-earlier-than-boys-study-finds">and vice versa.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(biden_diplomatic_liability)
title: Biden's diplomatic liability
uri: Biden-s-diplomatic-liability
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(biden_diplomatic_liability)
content:
 
<p>
*[Biden]’s playing into Putin’s hands* by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/28/biden-diplomatic-liability-putin-hands">talking about regime change.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(senator_scott_tax)
title: Senator Scott's tax rises plan
uri: Senator-Scott-s-tax-rises-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(senator_scott_tax)
content:
 
<p>
Senator Scott of Florida listened to a description of measures from
his own tax plan, and condemned them. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/28/rick-scott-republican-senator-tax-rises-plan">He said they were "Democratic
talking points."</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(Billionaire_minimum_incom_tax)
title: Billionaire minimum income tax
uri: Billionaire-minimum-income-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(Billionaire_minimum_incom_tax)
content:
 
<p>
  *Biden to announce <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/28/biden-announces-billionaire-minimum-income-tax">"billionaire minimum income tax" in budget plan</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(Covid-19_and_variants)
title: Covid-19 and variants
uri: Covid-19-and-variants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(Covid-19_and_variants)
content:
 
<p>
  All in all, the countries that set out to eliminate Covid-19 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/28/no-covid-approach-bad-press-but-worked">did very
  well, until variants much more contageous supplanted the original
  virus</a>.
<p>
  If all countries had approached the disease this way, the more
  contageous variants might never had evolved.  Of course, that was not
  possible for all countries; many didn't have the money, or didn't have
  the social cohesion and trust, or didn't have the necessary
  leadership, to make the attempt.  But we should learn to do that
  in the future.


 


title: Spending money in infrastructure in districts where the ruling party needs votes from
uri: Spending-money-in-infrastructure-in-districts-where-the-ruling-party-n
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(Spending_money_in_infrastructure_in_districts_where_the_ruling_party_needs_votes_from)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(Spending_money_in_infrastructure_in_districts_where_the_ruling_party_needs_votes_from)

content:
 
<p>
  Australia's right-wing ruling parties aim to win reelection
  by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/29/analysis-reveals-morrison-government-funnelling-billions-into-must-win-marginal-seats">spending a lot of money on infrastructure in precisely the districts
  where they need more votes</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(Coup_in_Russia)
title: Coup in Russia
uri: Coup-in-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(Coup_in_Russia)
content:
 
<p>
  A coup in Russia might get rid of Putin, but if it did, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/28/vladimir-putin-russia-coup">it could lead
  to other bad situations</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(Former_colonies_supporting_Putin)
title: Former colonies supporting Putin
uri: Former-colonies-supporting-Putin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(Former_colonies_supporting_Putin)
content:
 
<p>
  Past imperialism of present-day NATO countries is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/28/cold-war-echoes-african-leaders-resist-criticising-putins-war-ukraine">provoking hostility
  from their former African colonies, which express it in a bizarre way:
  by supporting Putin's imperialism</a>.
<p>
  They have valid grounds for a grievance with former colonizers, but
  it's not fair to take it out on Ukraine, which is in the same position
  today that they were in a century ago.

 


title: Convincing tourists not to eat whale meat
uri: Convincing-tourists-not-to-eat-whale-meat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(Convincing_tourists_not_to_eat_whale_meat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_March_2022_(Convincing_tourists_not_to_eat_whale_meat)

content:
 
<p>
  Campaigners in Iceland have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/28/meet-us-dont-eat-us-how-iceland-is-turning-tourists-from-whale-eaters-to-whale-watchers">working for 15 years convincing
  tourists to stop eating whale meat</a>, with substantial success.

 


title: Scientific institutions going overboard in cutting Russian institutions and scientists
uri: Scientific-institutions-going-overboard-in-cutting-Russian-institution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Scientific_institutions_going_overboard_in_cutting_Russian_institutions_and_scientists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Scientific_institutions_going_overboard_in_cutting_Russian_institutions_and_scientists)

content:
 
<p>
  Scientific institutions are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/28/europe/russian-scientists-collaboration-scn/index.html">going overboard in cutting scientific
  cooperation with Russian institutions and Russian scientists</a>.
<p>
  Scientists should cooperate regardless of wars, as long as their work
  is not related in the short term to military use.

 


title: Server facilities for occupying and bombing Palestine
uri: Server-facilities-for-occupying-and-bombing-Palestine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Server_facilities_for_occupying_and_bombing_Palestine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Server_facilities_for_occupying_and_bombing_Palestine)

content:
 
<p>
  Amazon is <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/amazon-prime-day-israel/">providing server facilities for Israel to use
  for the occupation of one part of Palestine and the bombing
  of the other</a>.
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2022-03-15/google-project-nimbus-ariel-koren">A worker objected to Google’s Israel military contract</a>. Google told her to
  move to Brazil* or be fired, with 17 work days to decide.
<p>
  A different issue also raised by this contract is that <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/government-free-software.html">allowing a
  company to run the state's computer facilities is a threat to the
  national security of that state</a>.
  No country should trust such cloudy computing facilities.
<p>
  There are <a href="https://stallman.org/amazon.html">many other reasons to boycott Amazon</a>.
  I ask people not to use Amazon to buy anything for me.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Covid-19_booster_doses)
title: Covid-19 booster doses
uri: Covid-19-booster-doses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Covid-19_booster_doses)
content:
 
<p>
  Booster doses of the existing vaccines <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/28/uk-cant-rely-on-boosters-new-wave-covid">may not be very effective at maintaining
  immunity towards current and future variants of Covid-19</a>.
<p>
  I am disturbed by the brief report that the US has cut funds for
  vaccine development.  Can anyone send me more info?

 


title: Neither Nato nor Ukraine can de-Putinise Russia
uri: Neither-Nato-nor-Ukraine-can-de-Putinise-Russia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Neither_Nato_nor_Ukraine_can_de-Putinise_Russia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Neither_Nato_nor_Ukraine_can_de-Putinise_Russia)

content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/28/nato-ukraine-vladimir-putin-russia-democratic-national-guilt">Neither Nato nor Ukraine can de-Putinise Russia</a>. We Russians must do it
  ourselves.*
<p>
  The great challenge we face now is to break through Putin's web of
  censorship.  During World War II, airplanes dropped leaflets.  What
  can we do today?
<p>
  It is worth noting that Ukraine was ruled by Stalin, and subsequent
  Communist rulers, for just as long as today's Russia.  Since Ukraine
  has managed to become democratic, maybe Russia can too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Radioactive_waste)
title: Radioactive waste
uri: Radioactive-waste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Radioactive_waste)
content:
 
<p>
  *Push for new UK nuclear plants <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/28/push-for-new-uk-nuclear-plants-lacks-facility-for-toxic-waste-say-experts">lacks facility for [radioactive] waste</a>.*
<p>
  It is hard to be sure that a radioactive waste storage facility will continue
  operating for tens or hundreds of thousands of years, especially if it will
  require continual attention during that time.  Especially since we don't know
  whether technological civilization will still exist 50 or 100 years from now.
<p>
  Besides which, nuclear power plants are so expensive that it would be
  preferable to build renewable generation plus energy storage
  facilities, and avoid the nuclear waste entirely.

 


title: Julian Assange rally on 11 April 2022
uri: Julian-Assange-rally-on-11-April-2022
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Julian_Assange_rally_on_11_April_2022)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Julian_Assange_rally_on_11_April_2022)

content:
 
<p>
  On the third anniversary of Julian Assange's expulsion from the
  Ecuadorian embassy, rally from 11am to 2:45pm in Cambridge,
  Massachusetts, in the park opposite the British Consulate (which is
  245 Main Street).

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Planet-roaster_government)
title: Planet-roaster government
uri: Planet-roaster-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Planet-roaster_government)
content:
 
<p>
  Australia's planet-roaster government <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/29/australia-federal-budget-2022-climate-environment-morrison-government-coalition-great-barrier-reef-angus-taylor">plans to cut "climate spending"
  by a total of 1/3</a>.
<p>
  In Australia, the opposition party (Labor) is usually only a little
  to the left of the right-wing coalition; it can't be relied
  on to defend the climate firmly.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Hidden_carrying_of_guns)
title: Hidden carrying of guns
uri: Hidden-carrying-of-guns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Hidden_carrying_of_guns)
content:
 
<p>
  Republicans are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/29/us-constitutional-permitless-carry-gun-laws">deregulating the hidden carrying of guns</a> in the states
  they control. 

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Biden's_promises)
title: Biden's promises
uri: Biden-s-promises
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Biden's_promises)
content:
 
<p>
  Progressives have warned Biden that victory at the polls in November
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/29/democrats-progressives-biden-execuitve-orders-midterms">will depend on his using executive orders to fulfill promises</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Tax-dodging_haven_countries)
title: Tax-dodging haven countries
uri: Tax-dodging-haven-countries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Tax-dodging_haven_countries)
content:
 
<p>
  Russian billionaires <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/29/vladimir-putin-russia-oligarchs-sanctions-panama-papers">use the same tax-dodging haven countries to evade
  sanctions that other billionaires use to dodge taxes</a>.  By changing the
  laws that were designed to facilitate this, we can crack down on wrongs.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Parthenon_marble_sculpture)
title: Parthenon marble sculpture
uri: Parthenon-marble-sculpture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Parthenon_marble_sculpture)
content:
 
<p>
  The Institute for Digital Archaeology <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/mar/29/british-museum-facing-legal-action-parthenon-marbles-3d-scan-refusal">requested to scan one of the
  Parthenon marble sculptures and use numerically controlled tools to
  cut a perfect imitation out of similar marble</a>.  The British Museum
  refused.
  The Institute says it will sue for permission.
<p>
The project seems like a good one, and should go forward, but the
article doesn't explain on what grounds the institute could win such a
suit.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Russian_interference)
title: Russian interference
uri: Russian-interference
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Russian_interference)
content:
 
<p>
  A preliminary investigation found "credible evidence of attempts by
  Russia to interfere with the UK’s electoral processes," <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/mar/29/european-court-urged-to-challenge-uk-failure-to-investigate-russia-interference">but the UK has
  failed to investigate further to reach a conclusion</a>.  Some UK elected
  officials have asked the European Court of Human Rights to demand that
  the UK do so.
<p>
  Why would the Tories choose not to investigate?  Perhaps because the
  intervention helped the Tories.

 


title: Putin, Trump, Tucker Carlson, and the GOP sound so much alike
uri: Putin-Trump-Tucker-Carlson-and-the-GOP-sound-so-much-alike
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Putin,_Trump,_Tucker_Carlson,_and_the_GOP_sound_so_much_alike)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Putin,_Trump,_Tucker_Carlson,_and_the_GOP_sound_so_much_alike)

content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-do-putin-trump-tucker-carlson">Why do Putin, Trump, Tucker Carlson, and the GOP sound so much alike</a>?
<p>
  It's not just that they're all authoritarians. Their culture wars have
  similar agendas.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Resisting_Covid)
title: Resisting Covid
uri: Resisting-Covid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Resisting_Covid)
content:
 
<p>
  Davis, California, and the University UC Davis, have <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article259127193.html">worked together
  for 1.5 years to resist the spread of Covid, and had great success,
  keeping the case rate to a level far below the rest of California</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Peace_agreement_proposal)
title: Peace agreement proposal
uri: Peace-agreement-proposal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Peace_agreement_proposal)
content:
 
<p>
  A <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/28/blueprint-reasonable-path-peace-ukraine">proposed outline for a peace agreement for Ukraine and Russia</a>.
<p>
  I think this proposal is acceptable in its overall lines, but we must
  be careful about the specifics of certain points.
<p>
  *A security agreement for Ukraine will be worthless if it is
  controlled by the UN Security Council, in which Russia has veto power.
<p>
  I propose instead a one-way alliance between NATO and Ukraine.
  That is, NATO countries would be obliged to defend Ukraine
  if it is attacked, but Ukraine would never have an obligation
  to join in a war involving NATO countries.  This might convince
  Russia there is no danger to Russia in the agreement.
<p>
  Perhaps the nuclear-armed NATO countries would agree to provide funds
  and arms but not fight Russia directly unless it attacks their forces.
<p>
  *Autonomy for any parts of Ukraine should be limited to civil
  matters, and some kinds of national laws must apply.  They must not
  have their own armies.
<p>
  The people of each district -- those who lived in it before 2014 --
  should get to vote on whether that district is included in an
  autonomous region or not,
<p>
  Ukrainians that Putin took to Russia should be returned so they can
  vote freely.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_((Satire)_Wealthy_museum)
title: (Satire) Wealthy museum
uri: (Satire)-Wealthy-museum
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_((Satire)_Wealthy_museum)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Wealthy Couple Founds Art Museum To <a href="https://www.theonion.com/wealthy-couple-founds-art-museum-to-foster-public-appre-1848674043">Foster Public
  Appreciation For How Wealthy They Are</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Higher_interest_rates)
title: Higher interest rates
uri: Higher-interest-rates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(Higher_interest_rates)
content:
 
<p>
  Robert Reich: *Inflation <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/28/inflation-wont-be-remedied-federal-reserve-imposing-higher-interest-rates">Won't Be Remedied by the Federal Reserve
  Imposing Higher Interest Rates</a>.  The result is likely to be a
  recession.*

 


title: Contraception myths and half of the worldwide pregnancies
uri: Contraception-myths-and-half-of-the-worldwide-pregnancies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Contraception_myths_and_half_of_the_worldwide_pregnancies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Contraception_myths_and_half_of_the_worldwide_pregnancies)

content:
 
<p>
  *Contraception myths mean <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/30/contraception-myths-mean-nearly-half-of-pregnancies-worldwide-unintended-report">nearly half of pregnancies worldwide unintended</a>.*

 


title: Thugs kill overall three people per day
uri: Thugs-kill-overall-three-people-per-day
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Thugs_kill_overall_three_people_per_day)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Thugs_kill_overall_three_people_per_day)

content:
 
<p>
  US thugs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/30/us-police-killing-people-high-rates">kill, overall, three people per day, the same rate of killing
  as in the past few years</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Make_people_sick)
title: Make people sick
uri: Make-people-sick
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Make_people_sick)
content:
 
<p>
  The UK policy for people who might have Covid-19 is, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/29/free-covid-tests-to-end-for-most-people-in-england-on-friday">don't get tested
  (unless you're well-off), go to work anyway, don't bother with a mask,
  and make people sick</a>.

 


title: Politicians calling for rejection of the narrow and weak patent waiver
uri: Politicians-calling-for-rejection-of-the-narrow-and-weak-patent-waiver
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Politicians_calling_for_rejection_of_the_narrow_and_weak_patent_waiver)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Politicians_calling_for_rejection_of_the_narrow_and_weak_patent_waiver)

content:
 
<p>
  Some politicians <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/28/global-leaders-urge-nations-eschew-weakened-trips-waiver-proposal">call for rejection of the narrow and weak patent
  waiver proposal, because it would supersedes the adequate deal proposed by
  South Africa and India</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Kidnapping_Ukrainians)
title: Kidnapping Ukrainians
uri: Kidnapping-Ukrainians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Kidnapping_Ukrainians)
content:
 
<p>
  Ukraine accuses the Putin forces of <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/russian-invasion-ukraine-deportations-claims-kidnapping-rcna21542">kidnapping thousands of Ukrainians
  and taking them to Russia</a>.
  Due to obstacles to communication, imposed by the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>, it
  has not been possible to verify the facts.  I can't take for granted
  that the Ukrainian statement is accurate.  However, I trust the
  Ukrainian state more or less.  I wouldn't trust Putin to tell the
  truth about the time of day.

 


title: Putin forces want journalists to become collaborators
uri: Putin-forces-want-journalists-to-become-collaborators
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Putin_forces_want_journalists_to_become_collaborators)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Putin_forces_want_journalists_to_become_collaborators)

content:
 
<p>
  In Putin-occupied cities, the Putin forces <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/29/europe/ukraine-war-russia-occupation-disappearances-detention-cmd-intl/index.html">want journalists to become
collaborators</a>.  Journalists face attempts to corrupt them, followed by
  Soviet-style repression if they refuse, including jail, beatings, and
  threats to their relatives.
<p>
  However, those who demonstrate their firmness are sometimes released.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_((Satire)_$99_Ripoff_Menu)
title: (Satire) $99 Ripoff Menu
uri: (Satire)-99-Ripoff-Menu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_((Satire)_$99_Ripoff_Menu)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *McDonald's <a href="https://www.theonion.com/mcdonald-s-launches-99-ripoff-menu-1848673592">Launches $99 Ripoff Menu</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Oceans_and_CO2)
title: Oceans and CO2
uri: Oceans-and-CO2
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Oceans_and_CO2)
content:
 
<p>
Campaigning to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/29/blue-carbon-sinks-can-ocean-save-planet">make oceans absorb CO2 or else reduce emissions from on land</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Clarence_Thomas)
title: Clarence Thomas
uri: Clarence-Thomas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Clarence_Thomas)
content:
 
<p>
  AOC and some other Democrats say that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/29/tipping-point-justice-thomas-must-resign-aoc-says">Clarence Thomas's collaboration
  to undermine the Constitution by stealing an election is a reason
  why he ought to resign, and a reason to impeach him</a>.
<p>
  I fully agree &mdash; but as a shameless "by hook or by crook" Republican
  with no loyalty to American democracy, he will never resign for trying
  to undermine and destroy it.  Furthermore, the "by hook or by crook"
  Republicans in the Senate will never vote to remove him from office,
  so impeaching him is about as useless as impeaching the wrecker.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Pentagon_and_pay-for_concerns)
title: Pentagon and pay-for concerns
uri: Pentagon-and-pay-for-concerns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Pentagon_and_pay-for_concerns)
content:
 
<p>
*Progressive Caucus Says <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/29/progressive-caucus-says-pay-concerns-evaporate-when-it-comes-pentagon">Pay-For Concerns 'Evaporate' When It Comes to Pentagon</a>.*

 


title: Ukrainian guard shooting Russian prisoners in the leg
uri: Ukrainian-guard-shooting-Russian-prisoners-in-the-leg
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Ukrainian_guard_shooting_Russian_prisoners_in_the_leg)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Ukrainian_guard_shooting_Russian_prisoners_in_the_leg)

content:
 
<p>
  Ukraine's government is investigating a video that appears to
  show <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/29/un-official-concerned-over-videos-showing-apparent-abuse-of-pows-in-ukraine">a Ukrainian guard shooting Russian prisoners in the leg</a>.
<p>
  It could be fake news, but it could also be true.  If it is true, I
  hope the government will punish it strongly to set an example.  Each
  country must set an example of refusing to tolerate such behavior, to
  influence other countries.

 


title: Reject that pointed words can justify violence
uri: Reject-that-pointed-words-can-justify-violence
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Reject_that_pointed_words_can_justify_violence)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Reject_that_pointed_words_can_justify_violence)

content:
 
<p>
  We <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/03/29/oscars-will-smith-duel-honor/">must reject the idea that pointed words can justify violence</a>.
<p>
  A slap is nowhere as bad as a gunshot, but let's not take a step in
  the wrong direction.  Moreover, one side of our politicized society
  loves guns, exults in violence, and believes in winning by hook or by
  crook.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Sabotaging_pandemic_progress)
title: Sabotaging pandemic progress
uri: Sabotaging-pandemic-progress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Sabotaging_pandemic_progress)
content:
 
<p>
  *From "herd immunity" to today, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/29/herd-immunity-covid-minimisers-sabotaging-pandemic-progress">Covid minimisers are still sabotaging our
  pandemic progress</a>.*
<p>
  This proposal specifies a minimum policy of readiness for future
  developments (including new variants).  It does not try to avoid
  leaving millions of people incapacitated.  I have seen no statistics
  on how what fraction of people become incapacitated after an infection
  of Omicron, nor of what fraction remain incapacitated after 3 months.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Coastal_towns_are_going_to_flood)
title: Coastal towns are going to flood
uri: Coastal-towns-are-going-to-flood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Coastal_towns_are_going_to_flood)
content:
 
<p>
  Heavy rains are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/29/northern-nsw-floods-2022-lismore-tumbulgum-mullumbimby-evacuate-new-south-wales-flooding-update">going to flood towns on Australia's east coast</a>,
  whose houses were rendered uninhabitable by floods a few weeks ago.
  Perhaps people had better move those towns.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Ingredients_in_real_food)
title: Ingredients in real food
uri: Ingredients-in-real-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Ingredients_in_real_food)
content:
 
<p>
  Modern life, since a few decades ago, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/mar/29/how-we-lost-our-sensory-connection-with-food-and-how-to-restore-it">disconnects people from the
  ingredients that go into real food, and many children nowadays don't learn
  anything about them</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Tories'_plan_condemned)
title: Tories' plan condemned
uri: Tories-plan-condemned
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Tories'_plan_condemned)
content:
 
<p>
  Amnesty International <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/29/uks-draft-refugee-and-police-laws-are-human-rights-vandalism-says-amnesty">condemns the Tories' plan for tearing up the
  human rights of anyone that is treated badly or unjustly by the state</a>.
  Plus a separate, special attack on refugees.

 


title: Urgent: End corporate tax loopholes that companies like Tesla continue to abuse
uri: Urgent-End-corporate-tax-loopholes-that-companies-like-Tesla-continue
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Urgent:_End_corporate_tax_loopholes_that_companies_like_Tesla_continue_to_abuse)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Urgent:_End_corporate_tax_loopholes_that_companies_like_Tesla_continue_to_abuse)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: Urge Congress to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/corporate-welfare-tesla/?t=1003&akid=28991%2E96703%2EVUKMf0">end corporate tax loopholes that
  companies like Tesla continue to abuse</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Thwart Putin by uniting to reduce fossil fuels
uri: Urgent-Thwart-Putin-by-uniting-to-reduce-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Urgent:_Thwart_Putin_by_uniting_to_reduce_fossil_fuels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#31_March_2022_(Urgent:_Thwart_Putin_by_uniting_to_reduce_fossil_fuels)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Democratic leaders to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-stop-putin-end-our-dependence-on-fossil-fuel?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-just-strategy&source=direct_link">thwart Putin by uniting to reduce
  fossil fuel use, and fast</a>.
<p>
  *Want to Defeat Putin? <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/27/want-defeat-putin-deliver-green-new-deal">Deliver the Green New Deal</a>.*

 


title: The wrecker's phone call log on 6 Jan 2021 has gap from before noon to almost 7pm
uri: The-wrecker-s-phone-call-log-on-6-Jan-2021-has-gap-from-before-noon-to
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(The_wrecker's_phone_call_log_on_6_Jan_2021_has_gap_from_before_noon_to_almost_7pm)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#30_March_2022_(The_wrecker's_phone_call_log_on_6_Jan_2021_has_gap_from_before_noon_to_almost_7pm)

content:
 
<p>
  The wrecker's phone call log on 6 Jan 2021 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/29/trump-phone-logs-capitol-attack-january-6">has a surprising gap from
    before noon to almost 7pm</a>.
  He made calls during that time, so apparently he either prevented them
  from being logged or destroyed part of the log.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(UK_seeing_near-record_Covid_cases)
title: UK seeing near-record Covid cases
uri: UK-seeing-near-record-Covid-cases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(UK_seeing_near-record_Covid_cases)
content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/30/uk-near-record-covid-cases-three-myths-omicron-pandemic">We are currently pushing existing vaccines to their limits with high
  infection levels</a>, but we should instead be supporting them by reducing
  transmission. Returning to normal behaviour does not return us to
  normal life. It returns us to a life with more disruption, more
  sickness and more strain on [the medical system].*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Heat_wave_criterion_adjusted)
title: Heat wave criterion adjusted
uri: Heat-wave-criterion-adjusted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Heat_wave_criterion_adjusted)
content:
 
<p>
  The UK meteorologists <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/30/met-office-fewer-heatwaves-england-optics-action">will adjust their criterion for heat waves
  based on the new, hotter, normal</a>.
<p>
  That's reasonable as far as it goes.  The concept of "heat wave" becomes
  useless if heat inflation results in a heat wave every week.  Just as long
  as people don't get fooled and lulled by it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(More_durable_and_recyclable_clothes)
title: More durable and recyclable clothes
uri: More-durable-and-recyclable-clothes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(More_durable_and_recyclable_clothes)
content:
 
<p>
  *EU wants to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/30/eu-wants-to-force-fashion-firms-to-make-clothes-more-durable-and-recyclable">force fashion firms to make clothes more durable and
  recyclable</a>.*
<p>
  That could be a great step forward, if it is enforced thoroughly.

 


title: Advertising of policies to help Tories win local elections
uri: Advertising-of-policies-to-help-Tories-win-local-elections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Advertising_of_policies_to_help_Tories_win_local_elections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Advertising_of_policies_to_help_Tories_win_local_elections)

content:
 
<p>
  The UK government is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/30/ministers-accused-of-using-public-funds-for-tory-propaganda-ads">running ads promoting one of its notional
  policies, just where it will help Tories win local elections</a>.
<p>
  "Levelling up" might be a good thing if truly implemented, but that would
  take lots of money, which Tories have no intention of spending on this.

 


title: Facial recognition surveillance cameras at schools
uri: Facial-recognition-surveillance-cameras-at-schools
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Facial_recognition_surveillance_cameras_at_schools)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Facial_recognition_surveillance_cameras_at_schools)

content:
 
<p>
  Many US schools have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/30/smart-cameras-us-schools-artificial-intelligence">installed "security cameras" with facial recognition.
  Perhaps most schools</a>.
<p>
  It's legitimate (and useful) to have cameras with computers that
  detect people with guns, or people without masks.  Likewise to send
  the photos of those people to school staff, who could take appropriate
  action -- or sound an alarm.  Those are legitimate precisely because
  they don't track anyone who hasn't done something that requires
  attention.
<p>
  What is not legitimate is to identify students, or make pictures of
  them available to anyone else (at the same time or later), in the absence
  of a specific wrong that they are doing.  They must be true security
  cameras, not <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">>surveillance cameras</a>.

 


title: Pentagon budget increase is not necessary for Ukraine
uri: Pentagon-budget-increase-is-not-necessary-for-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Pentagon_budget_increase_is_not_necessary_for_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Pentagon_budget_increase_is_not_necessary_for_Ukraine)

content:
 
<p>
  The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/29/ukraine-war-cannot-justify-bidens-too-damn-high-pentagon-budget">big increase in the already-bloated Pentagon budget is not
  necessary for supporting Ukraine</a>.

 


title: The wrecker might win the popular vote
uri: The-wrecker-might-win-the-popular-vote
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(The_wrecker_might_win_the_popular_vote)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(The_wrecker_might_win_the_popular_vote)

content:
 
<p>
  If the wrecker runs against Biden again, the wrecker <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/29/trump-beats-both-biden-and-harris-hypothetical-2024-run-poll">might win the
  popular vote, according to a recent poll</a>.
<p>
  Since the wrecker's fraction in this poll exceeds his general
  popularity, this must be due to Biden's unpopularity.  Why is Biden so
  unpopular?  I don't know, but I suspect that people blame him because
  Republicans blocked the mostly-good laws he proposed.  I have seen
  that particular irrationality in the major media (when I see that).
  Instead of "Manchin and Sinema plus the Republicans blocked the
  bill," stories say "Biden failed to get his proposal enacted,"
  as if that were his fault.
<p>
  When and as Biden's proposed laws are inadequate, that's his fault.

 


title: Still no answer for long Covid questions
uri: Still-no-answer-for-long-Covid-questions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Still_no_answer_for_long_Covid_questions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Still_no_answer_for_long_Covid_questions)

content:
 
<p>
  *Why do we <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2022/mar/30/long-covid-coronavirus-covid-pandemic-health">still have no answer for these four long Covid questions</a>?*
<p>
  The "let Covid rip" policy might almost make sense if our vaccines and
  treatments reduced the danger to a very small chance of death.  There
  are two big flaws in that picture: (1) the substantial fraction of the
  population (perhaps 1/4 of the US) who are particularly vulnerable
  (and face a much larger chance of death), and (2) the risk of a fate
  worse than death: lasting disability due to Long Covid.
<p>
  Information about the frequency of Long Covid is limited, and it comes
  mainly from unvaccinated people infected in 2020 by the original
  Covid-19.  With Omicron, it could be so rare that it is no longer a
  major problem.  Or it might be larger than before.  BA.2 might be just
  like Omicron or it might be quite different.
<p>
  In the face of this ignorance, the one thing we can be sure of is that
  the "let Covid rip" approach risks crippling considerable numbers of
  people.
<p>
  Has anyone determined what fraction of the Americans that quit their
  jobs last fall quit because they were disabled?  What fraction can't
  find child care because some of the people who previously provided
  child care had become disabled?  To what extent was it, rather than
  the "great resignation", actually the "great incapacitation"?
<p>
  One thing is clear.  Now that Republicans have eliminated the funds
  for testing (as well as vaccination and treatment), many Americans,
  including those who can't escape being exposed every day, won't ever
  get tested for Covid-19.  If they develop Long Covid symptoms, their
  doctors won't know they had Covid-19 at all.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(self_driving_taxi)
title: Driverless Taxis
uri: Driverless-Taxis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(self_driving_taxi)
content:
 
<p>
Driverless taxis, which could receive orders to take you where you
really really don't want to go, are one step closer to 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220330200942/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/30/waymo-self-driving-ride-hailing-service-san-francisco-alphabet-google">being a real
and practical danger.</a>
<p>
If you were in Russia, would you get in a taxi that knows who you are?
I wouldn't take one in any country.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(abortion_england)
title: MPS vote to continue abortion pills scheme
uri: MPS-vote-to-continue-abortion-pills-scheme
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(abortion_england)
content:
 
<p>The UK Parliament voted to continue a two-year trial of mailing women
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220331051106/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/30/mps-vote-to-continue-abortion-pills-by-post-scheme-in-england">abortion pills to use at home.</a>
<p>
The US needs something similar, to thwart the Republicans who are trying
to make abortion impossible in some states.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Ukraine_forces)
title: The strategic situation in Ukraine
uri: The-strategic-situation-in-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Ukraine_forces)
content:
 
<p>
The strategic situation in 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220331231805/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/30/why-is-russias-military-regrouping-and-can-ukraine-forces-disrupt">Ukraine.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Climate_emergency)
title: We should fight climate, not engage in war
uri: We-should-fight-climate-not-engage-in-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Climate_emergency)
content:
 
<p>
*The planet needs global cooperation to heal from the damage humanity 
has wrought—more war is the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/29/we-should-be-fighting-climate-emergency-not-another-war">opposite of what we need.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(wildfires_texas_colorado)
title: Drought has extended to southern plains
uri: Drought-has-extended-to-southern-plains
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(wildfires_texas_colorado)
content:
 
<p>
Due to global heating, drought has extended to the southern plains of
the US, 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/29/weather/wildfires-texas-colorado-drought-climate/index.html">and with it wildfires.</a>
<p>
Spring has barely started and they have had 500,000 acres burnt.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Another_obstacle_in_IC_manufacturing)
title: Another obstacle in IC manufacturing
uri: Another-obstacle-in-IC-manufacturing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Another_obstacle_in_IC_manufacturing)
content:
 
<p>

IC manufacturing has hit another obstacle: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/business/global-supply-chain/index.html">a shortage of neon</a>.
The main producer is Ukraine.
<p>
It is very important for the industry to develop redundant supplies,
both for raw materials and for manufactured goods, to cope with
breakdowns 30 and 40 years from now when there could be many happening
each year.  If industry learns to plan for redundancy now, and
incorporates this into planning, it may enable technological
civilization to survive.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Trump_asks_Putin_for_dirt_on_Bidens)
title: Trump asks Putin for dirt on Bidens
uri: Trump-asks-Putin-for-dirt-on-Bidens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Trump_asks_Putin_for_dirt_on_Bidens)
content:
 
<p>

*Trump brazenly asks Putin to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/29/politics/trump-putin-hunter-biden/index.html">release dirt</a> about Biden's family.*
The alleged dirt may or may not exist, but the corruptor's coziness
with Putin shows what he stands for.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Assisted_suicide_in_Oregon)
title: Assisted suicide in Oregon
uri: Assisted-suicide-in-Oregon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Assisted_suicide_in_Oregon)
content:
 
<p>

Oregon has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/29/us/oregon-stop-residency-requirement-death-with-dignity-act/index.html">allowed people who live elsewhere to come there for
assisted suicide</a>.
This right is slowly spreading around the US, but it is limited to
people who are expected to die soon anyway.  Those who can look forward
to years of helpless agony are still condemned to a life sentence.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Life_under_Putin's_bombardment)
title: Life under Putin's bombardment
uri: Life-under-Putin-s-bombardment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Life_under_Putin's_bombardment)
content:
 
<p>

Ukrainians who got out of Mariupol describe <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/af7996a9-8c16-4421-a5b3-390315d3c7dc">life under Putin's
bombardment</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Protecting_billionaires_from_taxes)
title: Protecting billionaires from taxes
uri: Protecting-billionaires-from-taxes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Protecting_billionaires_from_taxes)
content:
 
<p>

Manchin said he will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/29/manchin-blasted-opposing-bidens-plan-tax-us-billionaires">protect billionaires from paying more taxes</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Jan_6_White_House_phone_call)
title: Jan 6 White House phone call
uri: Jan-6-White-House-phone-call
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Jan_6_White_House_phone_call)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#cheater">The cheater</a> made a call from a White House phone on Jan 6
and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/30/trump-used-white-house-phone-call-capitol-attack-jan-6-not-official-log">arranged to delete it or omit it</a> from the White House call log.

 


title: India blocked dissident journalist from Europe
uri: India-blocked-dissident-journalist-from-Europe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(India_blocked_dissident_journalist_from_Europe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(India_blocked_dissident_journalist_from_Europe)

content:
 
<p>

India blocked dissident journalist Rana Ayyub from traveling to Europe
by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/30/indian-journalist-prevented-from-flying-to-europe-to-speak-about-intimidation">stopping her from boarding her flight</a>.
This is part of a systematic <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#5_February_2020_(Repression_of_dissent)">pattern of repression</a> against those who
criticize Modi and the bigotry and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-mar-jun.html#2_May_2020_(Violence_in_control)">violence</a>
his regime promotes.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Wood_stoves_cause_harm_to_health)
title: Wood stoves cause harm to health
uri: Wood-stoves-cause-harm-to-health
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Wood_stoves_cause_harm_to_health)
content:
 
<p>

A wood stove cause <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/30/home-wood-burning-in-uk-causes-1bn-of-health-costs-a-year-report-says">substantial harm</a> to the health of people who live
in the house.
About 40 times as much as a gas-fired boiler.  (I presume an
electric heater generates roughly the same amount of indoor pollution
as a fossil-fuel-powered heater.)

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(False_criticisms_of_renewable_energy)
title: False criticisms of renewable energy
uri: False-criticisms-of-renewable-energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(False_criticisms_of_renewable_energy)
content:
 
<p>

Warning: planet-roasters are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/31/a-cut-and-paste-attack-on-electric-vehicle-batteries-and-renewables-is-spanning-the-globe-but-is-it-right">spreading false criticisms</a> of today's
renewable energy generating systems.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(New_Zealand's_glaciers)
title: New Zealand's glaciers
uri: New-Zealand-s-glaciers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(New_Zealand's_glaciers)
content:
 
<p>

*Many of New Zealand’s glaciers could <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/31/many-of-new-zealands-glaciers-could-disappear-in-a-decade-scientists-warn">disappear in a decade</a>,
 scientists warn.* The rest will shrink.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Mining_peat)
title: Mining peat
uri: Mining-peat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Mining_peat)
content:
 
<p>

Mining peat and using it implies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/31/third-of-all-compost-sold-in-uk-is-climate-damaging-peat">releasing its stored carbon</a>.  We must
stop that practice.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Tunisia's_parliament)
title: Tunisia's parliament
uri: Tunisia-s-parliament
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Tunisia's_parliament)
content:
 
<p>

Tunisia's president is trying to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/31/tunisian-crisis-escalates-as-president-dissolves-parliament">crush its parliament</a>.
<p>
He decreed parliament <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-jul-oct.html#1_September_2021_(President_without_parliament)">"suspended"</a> last year;
but Parliament met anyway and canceled that decree.
So he made another decree to "dissolve" parliament,
and now the question is whether he will arrest the members of parliament
and revert explicitly to tyranny.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Carbon_absorption_of_rain_forests)
title: Carbon absorption of rain forests
uri: Carbon-absorption-of-rain-forests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Carbon_absorption_of_rain_forests)
content:
 
<p>

  *   Rain forests looked after by communities <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/31/protect-indigenous-peoples-rights-or-paris-climate-goals-will-fail-says-report">absorb twice as much carbon</a> as other lands, analysis shows.*
  
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Boasting_about_drilling_for_oil)
title: Boasting about drilling for oil
uri: Boasting-about-drilling-for-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Boasting_about_drilling_for_oil)
content:
 
<p>

*Why is Biden boasting about drilling for oil? Our planet demands we
 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/31/why-is-biden-boasting-about-drilling-for-oil-our-planet-demands-we-stop-now">stop now</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Long_Covid_cost_to_society)
title: Long Covid cost to society
uri: Long-Covid-cost-to-society
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Long_Covid_cost_to_society)
content:
 
<p>

Governments are disregarding the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/31/failure-to-consider-long-covid-impact-will-hit-uk-economy-says-expert">future cost to society of long Covid</a>,
both the cost of taking care of those disabled and the harm done by
the loss of people's ability to work.
<p>
When you risk catching Covid, you risk needing someone to take care of
you and losing the ability to work.  You can reduce those risks by
getting fully vaccinated, and minimizing how much you are indoors with
other people without an N95 mask and good ventilation.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Unambiguous_failure)
title: Unambiguous failure
uri: Unambiguous-failure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Unambiguous_failure)
content:
 
<p>

Arguing that Ukraine will only be safe from Putin if his attack ends
in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/31/military-failure-putin-ambitions-ukraine">unambiguous failure</a> that he cannot spin as a kind of victory.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Sanctions_with_sanctions)
title: Sanctions with sanctions
uri: Sanctions-with-sanctions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Sanctions_with_sanctions)
content:
 
<p>

Putin is replying to sanctions with sanctions: European countries that
want to keep buying Russian gas would have to do it by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/31/putin-indicates-he-may-turn-off-gas-supplies-to-europe-overnight-russia-roubles">dealing in
roubles</a>.

 


title: Erdoğan's relations with Crown Prince Bone Saw
uri: Erdoğan-s-relations-with-Crown-Prince-Bone-Saw
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Erdoğan's_relations_with_Crown_Prince_Bone_Saw)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Erdoğan's_relations_with_Crown_Prince_Bone_Saw)

content:
 
<p>

Erdoğan seeks better relations with Crown Prince Bone Saw, so Turkey
plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/31/turkish-prosecutor-asks-to-halt-trial-for-the-of-saudi-critic-jamal-khashoggi">halt the prosecution of the direct murderers of Jamal
Khashoggi</a>, and hand it over to Crown Prince Bone Saw himself.
(Crown Prince Bone Saw commanded the murder, but he is not a target
for prosecution anyway.)
<p>
It is true that the trial is unable to make progress.  The accused are in
<a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>, protected by their master.  But this plan is dishonest.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Housing_for_UK_homeless)
title: Housing for UK homeless
uri: Housing-for-UK-homeless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Housing_for_UK_homeless)
content:
 
<p>

The UK proved in 2020 that it could <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/31/homeless-deaths-uk-solution">provide housing to all homeless
people</a>.  Then it sent them back to the street.
<p>
I use the term "homeless" in the US manner, meaning people who have to
live on the street unless they find temporary space.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Oregon's_state_employee_pension)
title: Oregon's state employee pension
uri: Oregon-s-state-employee-pension
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Oregon's_state_employee_pension)
content:
 
<p>

Unions call for Oregon's state employee pension fund to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/31/us-unions-pension-funds-investment-nso-group">divest from
the company that makes the Pegasus spy software</a>, as well as from fossil
fuels.

 


title: Covid vaccines protect previously infected
uri: Covid-vaccines-protect-previously-infected
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Covid_vaccines_protect_previously_infected)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Covid_vaccines_protect_previously_infected)

content:
 
<p>

*Covid vaccines give <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/31/covid-vaccines-give-extra-protection-to-previously-infected-studies-show">extra protection</a> to previously infected, studies show.*

 


title: Sentence for protesters blocking roads
uri: Sentence-for-protesters-blocking-roads
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Sentence_for_protesters_blocking_roads)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Sentence_for_protesters_blocking_roads)

content:
 
<p>

New South Wales is trying to impose a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/01/nsw-labor-mps-uneasy-about-partys-support-for-bill-aimed-at-road-blocking-protests">two-year sentence on protesters</a> that block roads.  The Green Party is trying to stop it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_((satire)_Terminal_Cancer)
title: (satire) Terminal Cancer
uri: (satire)-Terminal-Cancer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_((satire)_Terminal_Cancer)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Terminal Cancer <a href="https://www.theonion.com/terminal-cancer-wasted-on-man-who-was-already-living-in-1848673585">Wasted On Man Who Was Already Living In The
 Moment</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Competent_evaluators_for_fire_risk)
title: Competent evaluators for fire risk
uri: Competent-evaluators-for-fire-risk
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Competent_evaluators_for_fire_risk)
content:
 
<p>

The UK's Tory government refused to insist on competent evaluators for
fire risk in building designs because that would be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/30/grenfell-inquiry-told-government-had-ideological-aversion-to-red-tape">"red tape"</a>.
<p>
Strangely, the same government always wants more red tape to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#18_February_2020_(Children_of_immigrants_in_UK_at_risk_of_arbitrary_exile)">tie up
immigrants</a>, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#23_November_2021_(UK_welfare_fraud_algorithm)">disabled</a> people
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#10_November_2019_(UK_public_funds_misused_to_publish_lies)">poor people</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Transition_to_zero-emission_vehicles)
title: Transition to zero-emission vehicles
uri: Transition-to-zero-emission-vehicles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Transition_to_zero-emission_vehicles)
content:
 
<p>

*Transition to Zero-Emission Vehicles [in the US] Would Deliver <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/30/transition-zero-emission-vehicles-would-deliver-12-trillion-public-health-benefits">$1.2
Trillion in Public Health Benefits</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Facebook's_political_manipulation)
title: Facebook's political manipulation
uri: Facebook-s-political-manipulation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Facebook's_political_manipulation)
content:
 
<p>

Facebook's political manipulation is not done solely by targeted ads.  The choice of what posting to show each used also <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/30/facebooks-boosting-climate-lies-pushes-skeptics-toward-denial-report">depends on per profile</a>.

 


title: Plutocratist Democrats block Biden's nominee for a Labor Department subunit
uri: Plutocratist-Democrats-block-Biden-s-nominee-for-a-Labor-Department-su
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Plutocratist_Democrats_block_Biden's_nominee_for_a_Labor_Department_subunit)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Plutocratist_Democrats_block_Biden's_nominee_for_a_Labor_Department_subunit)

content:
 
<p>
  Plutocratist Democrats in the Senate <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/31/body-blow-working-people-right-wing-democrats-reject-biden-labor-nominee">blocked Biden's nominee for a
  subunit of the Labor Department that deals with disputes about which
  workers are employees</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Climate_refugees)
title: Climate refugees
uri: 2022-04-04-Climate-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Climate_refugees)
content:
 
<p>
  Authors argue that if the west can receive 4 million Ukrainians, or
  perhaps eventually 10 million, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/01/ukraine-war-west-immigration-climate-refugees">it can accept climate refugees without
  limit</a>, even if they number in the hundreds of millions, or eventually
  billions.
<p>
  That claim is absurd.  For any kind of burden, there is a limit.
<p>
  It is clearly true that western countries are motivated by prejudice
  when they decide how to treat various groups of refugees.  But western
  countries would find it hard to admit hundreds of millions of refugees
  even if they were all Europeans, even today.  20 years from now, when
  all these countries will have shortages of food and millions will be
  homeless, it would be even harder.
<p>
  The only way for the world to get through this is to cut our greenhouse
  emissions, fast.

 


title: Florida Republicans and home solar-powered electric generation
uri: Florida-Republicans-and-home-solar-powered-electric-generation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Florida_Republicans_and_home_solar-powered_electric_generation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Florida_Republicans_and_home_solar-powered_electric_generation)

content:
 
<p>
  Florida Republicans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/01/florida-solar-energy-bill-financial-incentive">plan to eliminate financial incentives for
  installing home solar-powered electric generation</a>.
<p>
  Republicans are not on humanity's side, not on civilization's side.
  They are on the other side.

 


title: Florida GOP's voter suppression law blocked
uri: Florida-GOP-s-voter-suppression-law-blocked
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Florida_GOP's_voter_suppression_law_blocked)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Florida_GOP's_voter_suppression_law_blocked)

content:
 
<p>
  *Citing Likely Racist Motives, Federal Judge <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/31/citing-likely-racist-motives-federal-judge-blocks-florida-gops-voter-suppression-law">Blocks Florida GOP's Voter Suppression Law</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Getting_personal_data_from_Amazon)
title: Getting personal data from Amazon
uri: Getting-personal-data-from-Amazon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Getting_personal_data_from_Amazon)
content:
 
<p>
*I Want You Back: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/03/27/amazon-personal-data-request-dark-pattern/">Getting My Personal Data From Amazon Was Weeks of
Confusion and Tedium</a>.*  It uses a dark pattern to make it slow and
inconvenient.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Long-range_artillery)
title: Long-range artillery
uri: Long-range-artillery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Long-range_artillery)
content:
 
<p>
  Ukraine <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/31/west-to-send-more-lethal-aid-to-ukraine-uk-defence-minister-says">will get long-range artillery to attack Russia's artillery,
  and "coastal defense systems" to interfere with attacks from the sea</a>.
<p>
  I think the latter can only be anti-ship missiles.

 


title: Demand for living wage and right to union
uri: Demand-for-living-wage-and-right-to-union
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Demand_for_living_wage_and_right_to_union)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Demand_for_living_wage_and_right_to_union)

content:
 
<p>
  *Airport Workers Protest Across US <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/30/airport-workers-protest-across-us-demanding-living-wage-and-right-union">Demanding "Living Wage" and Right to Union</a>.*

 


title: It is possible to prosecute the wrecker
uri: It-is-possible-to-prosecute-the-wrecker
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(It_is_possible_to_prosecute_the_wrecker)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(It_is_possible_to_prosecute_the_wrecker)

content:
 
<p>
  A recent court ruling shows that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/opinions/trump-road-map-accountability-january-6-eisen-wertheimer/index.html">it is possible to prosecute</a> the wrecker
  for trying to interfere in the 2020 election.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Denounced_for_massive_persecution)
title: Denounced for massive persecution
uri: Denounced-for-massive-persecution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Denounced_for_massive_persecution)
content:
 
<p>
  Amnesty International denounced Putin <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/30/russia-conducting-witch-hunt-against-war-critics-says-amnesty">for massive persecution of
  anyone in Russia that opposes his invasion of Ukraine</a>.
  Even describing what is happening is a crime.  Like the bullshitter
  in the US, Putin unhesitatingly labels all unflattering truths "fake
  news."

 


title: Urgent: Pressure Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from all insurrection-related cases
uri: Urgent-Pressure-Clarence-Thomas-to-recuse-himself-from-all-insurrecti
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Urgent:_Pressure_Clarence_Thomas_to_recuse_himself_from_all_insurrection-related_cases)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Urgent:_Pressure_Clarence_Thomas_to_recuse_himself_from_all_insurrection-related_cases)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Chief Justice Roberts to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-preserve-what-remains-of-the-supreme-courts-credibility-chief-justice-roberts-must-act-to-recuse-justice-thomas-from-all-cases-involving-jan-6-immediately?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-chief-justice-roberts-must-act">pressure Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from all insurrection-related cases</a>.
<p>
  I have doubts that Roberts has much influence to restrain fanatics like Thomas, but I urge him to do his best.

 


uri: Urgent-Investigate-the-wrecker-s-crimes-now-that-a-judge-ruled-he-is
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Urgent:_Investigate_the_wrecker's_crimes,_now_that_a_judge_ruled_he_is_likely_to_have_committed_some)

title:
 Urgent: Investigate the wrecker's crimes, now that a judge ruled he is likely to have committed some 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Urgent:_Investigate_the_wrecker's_crimes,_now_that_a_judge_ruled_he_is_likely_to_have_committed_some)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on the DoJ to <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/investigate-federal-judge-says-trump-more-likely-than-not-committed-a-crime?nowrapper=true">investigate the wrecker's crimes, now that a judge ruled he is likely to have committed some</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Permanently protect the Grand Canyon from uranium mining
uri: Urgent-Permanently-protect-the-Grand-Canyon-from-uranium-mining
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Urgent:_Permanently_protect_the_Grand_Canyon_from_uranium_mining)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Urgent:_Permanently_protect_the_Grand_Canyon_from_uranium_mining)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on your senators to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49248">permanently protect the Grand Canyon from uranium mining</a>.
<p>
  To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a> from the web site, use <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">the Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Europe_drought)
title: Europe facing a future with extreme droughts
uri: Europe-facing-a-future-with-extreme-droughts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Europe_drought)
content:
 
<p>
*Europe faces a future of extreme droughts,
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220404035430/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/apr/01/europe-faces-a-future-of-extreme-droughts">due to global heating.</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(blockade_gaza_child)
title: Baby dies after treatment delayed by blockade
uri: Baby-dies-after-treatment-delayed-by-blockade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(blockade_gaza_child)
content:
 
<p>
*A 19-month-old child has died in Gaza after waiting for five months
for Israel to grant her permission to 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220404104327/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/01/palestinian-baby-dies-after-treatment-delayed-by-israeli-blockade-of-gaza">leave the blockaded enclave for
treatment.</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Ukraine_helicopter)
title: Ukraine accused of attacking oil facility inside Russia
uri: Ukraine-accused-of-attacking-oil-facility-inside-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Ukraine_helicopter)
content:
 
<p>
Russia says that Ukrainian helicopters attacked a Russian oil storage
facility 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220404134049/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/01/ukraine-accused-of-helicopter-attack-on-oil-depot-inside-russia">inside Russia.</a>
<p>
Morally, I see no reason why Ukraine should not do this. It is not
escalation, since the Putin forces regularly attack targets in Ukraine
from bases in Russia, so this is just a little bit of turnabout. That
oil is surely there to be be transported into Ukraine for Putin forces
vehicles.
<p>
It is natural that the powers that are arming Ukraine might be
concerned that Putin might react to this by a real escalation.  But he
could not make the attack on Ukraine much more heinous, so no reason
to worry greatly about that.
<p>
What if he reacts by bombing NATO countries? That is conceivable, but
he would recognize that that is more likely to bring him great harm
than any good.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(big_oil_profits)
title: Oil companies profits report
uri: Oil-companies-profits-report
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(big_oil_profits)
content:
 
<p>
Big Oil companies are raising their prices more than they need to, so
as to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/31/big-oil-creating-pain-pump-boost-profits-report">increase their profits.</a>
<p>
Those companies' owners don't deserve more profits -- they deserve to
lose everything.  But what they deserve is less important than what
Americans deserve, and what the rest of the world deserves.  Above
all, we all deserve to avoid global heating disaster.
<p>
The crucial question is whether Americans, and the US government, can
take the long view and respond to this gouging by pushing quickly to
decarbonize.
<p>
So far it appears that Biden is planning to do the exact opposite: to
fine oil companies for whatever fossil fuel reserves they <Em>do not</Em>
drill into.
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/31/climate-groups-warn-biden-oil-reserve-release-will-open-drilling-floodgates"></a>
<p>
Putin is acutely evil, and dangerous. Oil companies are evil on a
longer time scale, and far more dangerous.  We must defeat them both,
and we know how to do it.
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220404120945/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/25/this-is-how-we-defeat-putin-and-other-petrostate-autocrats">we know how to do it.</a>
<p>
*Hundreds of environmental protesters have blocked seven oil terminals
across the [UK] as part of a campaign to paralyze the UK's fossil 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220402084033/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/01/environmental-protesters-block-oil-terminals-across-england">fuel infrastructure.</a>*
<p>
An interview with 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220404031613/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/01/down-to-earth-just-stop-oil-protest">participants.</a>
<p>
This is a last-ditch effort to stop global heating disaster from
killing them before they get old.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(medicare_push_struggle)
title: 112 Million Americans struggle to afford healthcare
uri: 112-Million-Americans-struggle-to-afford-healthcare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(medicare_push_struggle)
content:
 
<p>
*Amid Renewed Medicare for All Push, Study Shows 112 Million Americans
Struggle to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/31/amid-renewed-medicare-all-push-study-shows-112-million-americans-struggle-afford">Afford Healthcare.</a>*
<p>
Providing medical care for everyone who lives in a country is one
of the 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">missions of the state.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(putin_forces_chernobyl)
title: Some Russian soldiers develop radiation sickness
uri: Some-Russian-soldiers-develop-radiation-sickness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(putin_forces_chernobyl)
content:
 
<p>
Hundreds of soldiers from the Putin forces dug trenches in soil near Chernobyl
which has a high level of radioactive contamination. They developed radiation sickness and have withdrawn to a 
<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-troops-suffer-acute-radiation-sickness-after-digging-chernobyl-trenches">hospital for treatment.</a>
<p>
The workers who take care of the ruined reactors are back in
unimpeded control. That is a step forward, for safety.
<p>
What is the situation with the Zaporozhzhia reactors?


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(eric_taylor_police)
title: London police detain Eric Taylor
uri: London-police-detain-Eric-Taylor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(eric_taylor_police)
content:
 
<p>
London thugs handcuffed Eric Taylor because they considered his heavy
coat to be suspect.  He posted a video.  They didn't like that, so
they handcuffed him again, and this time deleted the 
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/03/31/uk-police-twice-detain-black-man-for-wearing-a-coat-and-reportedly-delete-his-footage.html">video he was
making.</a>
<p>
If the thug department allows its "officers" to defy people's rights
with impunity, it has surrendered to lawlessnes.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(ivermectin_study)
title: Study shows ivermectin makes things worse
uri: Study-shows-ivermectin-makes-things-worse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(ivermectin_study)
content:
 
<p>
A large clinical trial found that no category of Covid-19 patients
benefits from taking Ivermectin, and 
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/03/31/new-large-study-shows-ivermectin-makes-things-worse.html">some categories have it worse.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(malibu_homeless)
title: Malibu planning relocation of up to 30 homeless
uri: Malibu-planning-relocation-of-up-to-30-homeless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(malibu_homeless)
content:
 
<p>
*Malibu [agreed to plan] an "Alternative Sleeping Location" for up to
30 homeless people, 
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/03/30/malibu-to-solve-homelessness-by-moving-people-elsewhere.html">some place outside of Malibu.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(nokia_russia)
title: Nokia helped Russia snoop on dissidents
uri: Nokia-helped-Russia-snoop-on-dissidents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(nokia_russia)
content:
 
<p>
Nokia has built products for years to help Russia 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/30/business/nokia-russia-big-tech-ethics/index.html">snoop on dissidents,</a>
<p>
much as Apple has helped 
<a href="https://locusmag.com/2021/01/cory-doctorow-neofeudalism-and-the-digital-manor/">China's surveillance</a>
<p>
and Microsoft has helped the 
<a href="http://techrights.org/2015/01/13/blaming-the-messenger/">NSA's surveillance.</a>
<p>
In Russia, it started with snooping, but it didn't stop there; it
continued to shutting down their organizations, putting them in
prison, and even poisoning them. In China, also, it surely includes
the first two; we don't know whether China killed any of them.
<p>
Speaking of Apple, it treats its users 
<a href="https://www.matthewball.vc/all/applemetaverse">unjustly in many ways,</a>
<p>
even censorship, since the iMonsters are designed so users
can't even freely install programs others have released.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_((Satire)_tempting_brownie)
title: (satire) Delegate knows It is Dangerous
uri: (satire)-Delegate-knows-It-is-Dangerous
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_((Satire)_tempting_brownie)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Ukrainian Delegate Knows It Is Dangerous To Eat At Peace Talks,
But Brownie 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/ukrainian-delegate-knows-it-dangerous-to-eat-at-peace-t-1848733454">Just Too Tempting.</a>*



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(ferries_union)
title: Shapps backtracks on action
uri: Shapps-backtracks-on-action
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(ferries_union)
content:
 
<p>
New Tory strategy to confuse the public and smooth the way for
plutocrats: they talk about measures to do justice, 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220404031350/https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/31/p-and-o-ferries-unions-shapps-backtracks-action-sacking">change their mind
back and forth.</a>
<p>
By the time they eventually do nothing about the problem, the public
is confused about the outcome.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Ukraine_reports)
title: Ukraine's recent news reports
uri: Ukraine-s-recent-news-reports
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Ukraine_reports)
content:
 
<p>
Ukraine said that the Putin forces have pulled out of the region around Kyiv,
but they have planted mines in 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220404134154/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/02/ukraine-says-it-has-recaptured-city-of-brovary-but-warns-of-russian-mines">homes and on corpses.</a>
<p>
Ukraine reports finding lots of corpses of civilians, and that
the Putin forces used buses full of 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220404160655/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/02/ukrainian-children-used-as-human-shields-near-kyiv-say-witness-reports">children as human shields for tanks.</a>
<p>
Ukraine also reports finding corpses of civilians who were murdered by
Putin forces soldiers who were close enough to see 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220404141557/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/02/i-realised-my-husband-was-dead-ukrainians-tell-of-russian-army-atrocities">who they were
shooting at.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Argentina_veterans_day)
title: Argentina Falklands veterans 'day of sadness'
uri: Argentina-Falklands-veterans-day-of-sadness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Argentina_veterans_day)
content:
 
<p>
When Argentina's military rulers invaded and occupied the Falkland
Islands, the officers of the invasion force used torture to punish
soldiers 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220404054923/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/02/argentina-falklands-veterans-day-of-sadness">for even the smallest infractions,</a>
<p>
and made them sign nondisclosure agreements about the torture they had experienced.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(protestor_UK_oil)
title: Protesters continue to block UK terminals despite arrests
uri: Protesters-continue-to-block-UK-terminals-despite-arrests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(protestor_UK_oil)
content:
 
<p>
*Protesters continue to block 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220404073003/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/02/protesters-continue-block-uk-terminals-arrests-just-stop-oil">UK oil terminals despite arrests.</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Russian_academics_flee_west)
title: Russian academics hoping to flee to west
uri: Russian-academics-hoping-to-flee-to-west
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Russian_academics_flee_west)
content:
 
<p>
Russian scientists say that conferences and journals in other countries
are 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220404130443/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/02/no-hope-science-russia-academics-trying-flee-to-west">refusing to consider their papers.</a>
<p>
Boycotting individuals because they are Russian is wrong. We should
protect scientific cooperation to keep it safe from wars and nationalism.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Minnesota_george_floyd)
title: Minnesota George Floyd protest state police review
uri: Minnesota-George-Floyd-protest-state-police-review
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Minnesota_george_floyd)
content:
 
<p>
Minnesota investigated the behavior of thugs at George Floyd protests
and 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/31/us/minnesota-george-floyd-protests-state-police-review/index.html">found many things they did badly.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Ukrainian_baturin)
title: Ukrainian journalist describes his torture
uri: Ukrainian-journalist-describes-his-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Ukrainian_baturin)
content:
 
<p>
Ukrainian journalist Oleh Baturin describes his 8 days of torture
after the Putin 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220404131041/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/03/they-said-theyd-mutilate-and-kill-me-says-kidnapped-ukrainian-journalist">forces lured him into a trap.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Russian_protestors)
title: Russian anti-war protesters fly a new flag for peace
uri: Russian-anti-war-protesters-fly-a-new-flag-for-peace
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Russian_protestors)
content:
 
<p>
Russian émigrés and dissidents are using a white-and-blue flag to show
they are 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220404144137/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/03/red-is-dead-russian-anti-war-protesters-fly-a-new-flag-for-peace">Russians opposed to Putin's war.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(long_covid)
title: Long Covid detrimental effects
uri: Long-Covid-detrimental-effects
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(long_covid)
content:
 
<p> 
Long Covid frequently incapacitates people in their prime working years.
Governments 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220404110818/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/03/i-have-long-covid-despair-that-government-ignores-its-blight">must put more research into how to treat it.</a>
<p>
In the mean time, governments must recognize the long-term damage they
risk by allowing Covid-19 to run rampant through millions of people.

 


title: Urgent: America must lead on clean energy
uri: Urgent-America-must-lead-on-clean-energy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Urgent:_America_must_lead_on_clean_energy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Urgent:_America_must_lead_on_clean_energy)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Democratic leaders to say that Putin's invasion
reaffirms America <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-stop-putin-end-our-dependence-on-fossil-fuel">must lead on clean energy</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Starbucks to stop union-busting
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Starbucks-to-stop-union-busting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Starbucks_to_stop_union-busting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Starbucks_to_stop_union-busting)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Starbucks CEO to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-starbucks-interim-ceo-howard-schultz-stop-union-busting">stop union-busting</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Pass bills to restrict anticompetitive Big Tech
uri: Urgent-Pass-bills-to-restrict-anticompetitive-Big-Tech
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_bills_to_restrict_anticompetitive_Big_Tech)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_bills_to_restrict_anticompetitive_Big_Tech)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to pass two bills that would <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/save-the-world-stop-big-tech">restrict
anticompetitive actions</a> by Big Tech.
<p>
One bill would <a href="https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-blackburn-and-klobuchar-introduce-bipartisan-antitrust-legislation-to-promote-app-store-competition">reduce the power that Apple has</a> over use of iMonsters
and their app stores.
<p>
This would eliminate some of the injustice, but not all.  It would
certainly not make <a href="https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-mobiles.html">non-libre apps</a>, or <a href="https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.html">non-libre spyphone operating
systems</a>, safe to actually run.
<p>
Another bill seems to be aimed at <a href="https://www.klobuchar.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2021/10/klobuchar-grassley-colleagues-to-introduce-bipartisan-legislation-to-rein-in-big-tech">curbing the power and abuses</a> of dominant online stores.
<p>
Other interesting US antitrust bills are described <a href="https://www.natlawreview.com/article/senate-zeros-big-tech-latest-antitrust-reform-bill">here</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Investigate the corrupter's crimes with Jan 6 insurrection
uri: Urgent-Investigate-the-corrupter-s-crimes-with-Jan-6-insurrection
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Urgent:_Investigate_the_corrupter's_crimes_with_Jan_6_insurrection)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Urgent:_Investigate_the_corrupter's_crimes_with_Jan_6_insurrection)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Department of Justice to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/investigate-this-critical-new-evidence-against-donald-trump">investigate the
corrupter's possible crimes</a> in connection with the Jan 6 insurrection
and efforts to steal the 2020 election.

 


title: Urgent: Recognize the Condé Nast Union
uri: Urgent-Recognize-the-Condé-Nast-Union
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Urgent:_Recognize_the_Condé_Nast_Union)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Urgent:_Recognize_the_Condé_Nast_Union)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on Condé Nast to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-conde-nast-to-recognize-our-union">recognize the Condé Nast Union</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Putin's_disinformation_system)
title: Putin's disinformation system
uri: Putin-s-disinformation-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Putin's_disinformation_system)
content:
 
<p>

With all communications channels in Russia repeating Putin's lies in
different forms, he has created the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/01/the-russian-journalists-fighting-to-cut-through-the-state-sponsored-noise">ultimate disinformation system</a>.
Its effectiveness shows us how vulnerable people are to such
disinformation system.
<p>
I am convinced that we must disassemble the right-wing disinformation
system that operates in most countries.  What I don't see is how to do
so without the risk of building up a system that would be perfect for
enforcing disinformation, as Putin is doing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Latest_threat_to_democracy)
title: Latest threat to democracy
uri: Latest-threat-to-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Latest_threat_to_democracy)
content:
 
<p>

*The latest threat to democracy? A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/01/michigan-secretary-of-state-candidate-kristina-karamo">[cheater]-backed candidate</a> willing
to "find extra votes."*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Cost_of_Qatar's_glittering_World_Cup)
title: Cost of Qatar's glittering World Cup
uri: Cost-of-Qatar-s-glittering-World-Cup
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Cost_of_Qatar's_glittering_World_Cup)
content:
 
<p>

*Low-wage workers have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/apr/01/low-wage-workers-have-paid-dearly-for-qatar-world-cup">paid dearly</a> for Qatar's glittering World Cup.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Food_aid_for_Tigray)
title: Food aid for Tigray
uri: Food-aid-for-Tigray
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Food_aid_for_Tigray)
content:
 
<p>

Food aid is finally <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/apr/01/first-food-aid-for-100-days-enters-tigray-under-humanitarian-truce">reaching Tigray</a>.

 


title: Not evacuating civilians from Mariupol
uri: Not-evacuating-civilians-from-Mariupol
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Not_evacuating_civilians_from_Mariupol)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Not_evacuating_civilians_from_Mariupol)

content:
 
<p>

Putin forces continue to promise to permit evacuation of civilians
from Mariupol, and continue <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/01/refugee-convoy-makes-it-out-of-mariupol-ukraine">not actually doing so</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Greenpeace_activists_in_kayaks)
title: Greenpeace activists in kayaks
uri: Greenpeace-activists-in-kayaks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Greenpeace_activists_in_kayaks)
content:
 
<p>

A team of Greenpeace activists in kayaks tried to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/31/stop-fueling-war-kayakers-block-transfer-100000-tonnes-russian-oil">stop the transfer of
oil cargo</a> from one supertanker that had brought it from Russia, to another
supertanker that might have passed it off as non-Russian.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Tasered_while_leaping_a_fence)
title: Tasered while leaping a fence
uri: Tasered-while-leaping-a-fence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Tasered_while_leaping_a_fence)
content:
 
<p>

A UK thug is being prosecuted for using a taser on a man who was
leaping a fence, which caused him to fall down and be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/31/met-police-officer-charged-with-gbh-after-paralysing-man">permanently
paralyzed</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Mining_for_minerals_for_batteries)
title: Mining for minerals for batteries
uri: Mining-for-minerals-for-batteries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Mining_for_minerals_for_batteries)
content:
 
<p>

Biden intends to promote mining of minerals needed for batteries.
Before new mines start, we must <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/31/biden-warned-clean-energy-transition-cannot-be-built-dirty-mining">replace the old law</a> that almost guarantees
the mine will be left leaking pollution for decades, or millennia.
<p>
The obvious step is to require the mine, before it operates, to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-sep-dec.html#11_December_2016_(Thousands_of_geese_dead_in_Montana)">put aside
a bond</a> to clean it up &mdash; and then pay during operation to increase that
bond, since the cost will probably increase.
<p>
But even better would be to operate the mine in a way that reduces or avoids
the source of pollution.  Has anyone developed a way to do this?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Payment_of_debt_to_Iran)
title: Payment of debt to Iran
uri: Payment-of-debt-to-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Payment_of_debt_to_Iran)
content:
 
<p>

A parliamentary committee is treating the payment of a debt to Iran
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/apr/01/mps-to-examine-why-uk-delayed-iran-payment-that-freed-detainees">as a ransom</a>.
<p>
By tying the payment, which the UK owed to Iran since around 1980, to
the hostages, this investigation treats the money as a ransom and
effectively criticizes the government for being slow to ransom them.
Governments must not pay ransom for hostages; as Reagan taught us when
he did precisely that, paying ransoms tends to encourage further kidnappings.
<p>
The reason why the UK had to pay this money to Iran is that it owed
Iran the money Iran had paid for goods that were never delivered.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Extension_for_coal_mine)
title: Extension for coal mine
uri: Extension-for-coal-mine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Extension_for_coal_mine)
content:
 
<p>

Australia has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/01/unfathomable-narrabri-coalmine-expansion-gets-final-approval-from-nsw-planning-commission">approved a long extension</a> for a large coal mine.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Jail_time_for_blocking_roads)
title: Jail time for blocking roads
uri: Jail-time-for-blocking-roads
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Jail_time_for_blocking_roads)
content:
 
<p>

New South Wales finally did pass the law to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/01/labor-helps-pass-nsw-bill-targeting-road-blocking-protesters-despite-union-opposition">put people in jail for blocking roads</a>, with the support of the principal "opposition" party, which <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-mar-jun.html#11%20March%202004%20(Australian%20Civil%20Liberties)">doesn't
oppose very much</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Democracy_in_peril)
title: Democracy in peril
uri: Democracy-in-peril
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Democracy_in_peril)
content:
 
<p>

*Democracy is in peril when our leaders [such as Bogus Johnson] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/01/boris-johnson-forget-partygate-resigning-matter-democracy-peril-leaders-lie">no
longer care about being seen to lie</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Amazon_workers_vote_to_unionize)
title: Amazon workers vote to unionize
uri: Amazon-workers-vote-to-unionize
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Amazon_workers_vote_to_unionize)
content:
 
<p>

Workers at an Amazon warehouse <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/01/win-workers-across-america-amazon-union-victory-inspires-progressives">voted to unionize</a>.
<p>
*Democratic-Aligned Firm Slammed for Working on Amazon's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/01/disgusting-democratic-aligned-firm-slammed-working-amazons-failed-anti-union-effort">Failed
Anti-Union Effort</a>.*
<p>
If Amazon workers generally unionize, they may succeed in putting an
end to a substantial subset of that company's <a href="/amazon.html">predatory practices</a>:
those aimed at workers.  That won't be enough to make Amazon safe for
our anyone to tolerate.
For its anticompetitive activities, and its denial of freedom to its
customers, it would be better to get rid of Amazon entirely.
<p>
But as long as it exists, I hope its workers will have a union.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_((satire)_Aborted_Fetuses_Flee)
title: (satire) Aborted Fetuses Flee
uri: (satire)-Aborted-Fetuses-Flee
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_((satire)_Aborted_Fetuses_Flee)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Dozens Of Aborted Fetuses <a href="https://www.theonion.com/dozens-of-aborted-fetuses-flee-through-back-window-afte-1848738795">Flee Through Back Window</a> After
D.C. Police Bust Down Door.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Ralph_Nader_on_budgets_and_lobbyists)
title: Ralph Nader on budgets and lobbyists
uri: Ralph-Nader-on-budgets-and-lobbyists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Ralph_Nader_on_budgets_and_lobbyists)
content:
 
<p>

Ralph Nader explains how Congressional committees used to scrutinize
the US budget &mdash; and how Congress handed most of the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/01/we-need-massive-civic-action-take-indefensible-us-budget-violations">control to lobbyists</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Lynching_made_a_federal_crime)
title: Lynching made a federal crime
uri: Lynching-made-a-federal-crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Lynching_made_a_federal_crime)
content:
 
<p>

The US government has made <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/01/long-overdue-emmett-till-antilynching-act-signed-law">lynching a federal crime</a>.
<p>
Since murder (and attempted murder) are crimes already, why is this
law necessary?  Because some jurors are racist, and some prosecutors
are racist, and they often protect people who commit crimes of hatred.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Suicide_hotlines_in_the_US)
title: Suicide hotlines in the US
uri: Suicide-hotlines-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Suicide_hotlines_in_the_US)
content:
 
<p>

If you call a suicide hotline, it may send the thugs to <a href="https://slate.com/technology/2022/04/crisis-lifelines-surveillance-geolocation-algorithms.html?via=rss">arrest you
"for your own good</a>."  This is standard practice now in the US.

 


title: Exploiting crisis to implement authoritarian rule
uri: Exploiting-crisis-to-implement-authoritarian-rule
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Exploiting_crisis_to_implement_authoritarian_rule)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Exploiting_crisis_to_implement_authoritarian_rule)

content:
 
<p>

*[Republican Party] Will Exploit Every Single Global and Domestic
Crisis to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/01/gop-will-exploit-every-single-global-and-domestic-crisis-implement-authoritarian">Implement Authoritarian Rule</a>.*

 


title: (satire) Universe may be a simulation
uri: (satire)-Universe-may-be-a-simulation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_((satire)_Universe_may_be_a_simulation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_((satire)_Universe_may_be_a_simulation)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Scientists Speculate Universe May Be Simulation After <a href="https://www.theonion.com/scientists-speculate-universe-may-be-simulation-after-1848673336">"Trial
Version Expired" Appears Across Sky</a>.*

 


title: Homelessness crisis lawsuit settlement
uri: Homelessness-crisis-lawsuit-settlement
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Homelessness_crisis_lawsuit_settlement)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(Homelessness_crisis_lawsuit_settlement)

content:
 
<p>

*City of Los Angeles agrees to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/01/us/los-angeles-homeless-population-settlement/index.html">provide thousands of beds</a> in
homelessness crisis lawsuit settlement.*
<p>
Contrast this with <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_April_2022_(malibu_homeless)">Malibu's plan</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Loosen_surveillance_restrictions)
title: Loosen surveillance restrictions
uri: Loosen-surveillance-restrictions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Loosen_surveillance_restrictions)
content:
 
<p>

San Francisco's mayor wants to <a href="https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/san-francisco-mayor-proposes-loosening-landmark-surveillance-ordinance/618302/">loosen the recently adopted
restrictions</a> on surveillance by city government.  The thug department
would be allowed to watch directly through surveillance cameras in
areas which have seen certain kinds of crimes.
<p>
This exception would still keep limits on their surveillance, but the
use of the exception needs to be monitored.  Here are my suggestions:

<ul>
<li> The times and places where they exercise this exception must be
  logged precisely, and the log must be published in full within 6
  months.

<li> The number of people who appear in the videos for which the
exception is invoked must be counted, and published, together with
the number of people charged with a crime as a result of being watched
in the video, and the number subject to a possible miscarriage of
justice as a result.
</ul>

 


title: Resist blaming US for every world problem
uri: Resist-blaming-US-for-every-world-problem
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Resist_blaming_US_for_every_world_problem)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Resist_blaming_US_for_every_world_problem)

content:
 
<p>

Leftists should resist the compulsion to blame the US for every
problem in the world.  A non-imperialist Russia had options
for trying to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/02/there-no-left-position-justifies-putins-attack-ukraine">keep Ukraine out of NATO</a> without launching a war.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Taliban_ban_opium_cultivation)
title: Taliban ban opium cultivation
uri: Taliban-ban-opium-cultivation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Taliban_ban_opium_cultivation)
content:
 
<p>

The Taliban have <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/03/asia/taliban-bans-drug-cultivation-opium-afghanistan-intl/index.html">banned opium cultivation</a> again.
<p>
Prohibition is not a solution to the problem of opiates and opioids.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(US_economy_as_it_exists_today)
title: US economy as it exists today
uri: US-economy-as-it-exists-today
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(US_economy_as_it_exists_today)
content:
 
<p>

Looming behind the cheater's Big Lie is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/02/real-big-lie-has-nothing-do-donald-trump">another Big Lie</a>: that the US economy
as it exists nowadays works for everyone.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Gaza_water_crisis)
title: Gaza water crisis
uri: Gaza-water-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Gaza_water_crisis)
content:
 
<p>

Gaza is facing a water crisis: nearly all of its <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/01/gazas-forthcoming-water-crisis-might-be-worse-anything-we-have-ever-seen">water is undrinkable</a>.

 


title: Ukrainians taken from Mariupol to Russia
uri: Ukrainians-taken-from-Mariupol-to-Russia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Ukrainians_taken_from_Mariupol_to_Russia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Ukrainians_taken_from_Mariupol_to_Russia)

content:
 
<p>

When Russia took Ukrainians from Mariupol to Russia, some wanted to go.
Others were effectively <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/04/hundreds-of-ukrainians-forcibly-deported-to-russia-say-mariupol-women">compelled to go</a>.
<p>
Some who had brought money found it was not too hard to get out of
Russia.  No one was actively trying to stop them.  But those without
money may be trapped there.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Civilians_shot_by_Putin_forces)
title: Civilians shot by Putin forces
uri: Civilians-shot-by-Putin-forces
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Civilians_shot_by_Putin_forces)
content:
 
<p>

When Putin forces soldiers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/04/why-did-they-do-this-to-us-buchas-survivors-come-out-of-hiding">shot civilians in Bucha</a>, sometimes it was
clearly murder.  Sometimes it might have been a panicking soldier who
shot someone unidentified who seemed like a possible threat.
<p>
That danger is an inevitable concomitant of war, which is why fighting
a war without a valid justification is a heinous crime.

 


title: Ways Putin could be prosecuted for war crimes
uri: Ways-Putin-could-be-prosecuted-for-war-crimes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Ways_Putin_could_be_prosecuted_for_war_crimes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Ways_Putin_could_be_prosecuted_for_war_crimes)

content:
 
<p>

Discussing various <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/04/putin-war-crimes-accusation-ukraine-icc">ways Putin could be prosecuted</a> for war crimes, or
for the crime of aggression (starting a war without valid
justification). All approaches face obstacles.
<p>
I read of an argument that Russia was never properly authorized as the
successor of the Soviet Union's permanent membership in the Security
Council.  If Russia can be replaced there, it would unlock many
things.
<p>
Dubya set the US on a policy of <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#17%20July%202010%20(Charged%20with%20genocide)">undermining and weakening</a> the International
Criminal Court.
(Perhaps he feared being tried for the crime of aggression.)
Will the US now <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/04/biden-demands-war-crimes-trial-putin-will-us-end-its-opposition-icc">give the ICC support</a>?

 


title: California bills to reduce surveillance
uri: California-bills-to-reduce-surveillance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(California_bills_to_reduce_surveillance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(California_bills_to_reduce_surveillance)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/california-speak-biometric-and-student-privacy">Two bills</a> being considered by the California senate would take
significant steps to reduce massive surveillance.
But they don't go half far enough.
<p>
S.B. 1189 requires that companies and organizations ask for "consent"
before collecting biometrics.  That will protect you  in many
situations, but not all, because it is easy for that entity to arrange
for others to pressure you to consent.  Those others could be employers,
schools, or social groups.  If it is the general practice for people
to chat on Scroo'm, and Scroo'm won't let you use it unless you consent
to its collection of biometrics, the pressure may feel irresistible to
people in general.
<p>
The Student Test Taker Privacy Protection Act (STTPPA) would take a
substantial step forward in putting a limit the snooping that these
prokto-programs do to students.  But the limit in this bill would be
vague, because it is easy for the company to argue that collecting
your face image, your fingerprint, your voice print and your gait
pattern is absolutely necessary.  To assure real effect, the bill
should set a standard that snoopers can't stretch.
<p>
In the event that some kinds of biometric snooping &mdash; or other
snooping &mdash; become accepted, there should be limits on storing the
data.  Also, having your school testify to your identity, rather than
letting the prokto-program's developer see your face, should be an
option.
<p>
Simply requiring you to run that non-free program (perhaps developed
only for Windows and MacOS) on your own computer is an unacceptable
injustice, and we need to press the campaign until that is prohibited.
<p>
More generally, see
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html</a>

 


title: IPCC report on saving civilization from global heating
uri: IPCC-report-on-saving-civilization-from-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(IPCC_report_on_saving_civilization_from_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(IPCC_report_on_saving_civilization_from_global_heating)

content:
 
<p>

The IPCC has now published its <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/04/why-are-the-three-ipcc-working-group-reports-significant">third report</a>, the one on how to save
civilization from <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> disaster.
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/04/ipcc-report-now-or-never-if-world-stave-off-climate-disaster">"Now or Never"</a>, if world is to stave off climate disaster.*
<p>
Here is a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/04/its-over-for-fossil-fuels-ipcc-spells-out-whats-needed-to-avert-climate-disaster">summary of the specifics</a>.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#planet">Planet roasters</a>' influence in IPCC was strong enough to make the organization
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/05/ipcc-report-scientists-climate-crisis-fossil-fuels">delete the called-for denunciation of planet roasters</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Tories_try_to_resume_fracking_in_UK)
title: Tories try to resume fracking in UK
uri: Tories-try-to-resume-fracking-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Tories_try_to_resume_fracking_in_UK)
content:
 
<p>

The Tories are trying to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/05/ministers-launch-uk-fracking-study-paving-way-to-end-moratorium">resume fracking</a> in the UK.
<p>
Meanwhile, an organization that puts on airs of supporting "renewable
energy" is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/05/charity-linked-to-uk-anti-onshore-wind-campaigns-active-again-renewable-energy-foundation">campaigning against land-based wind power</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Treaty_to_ban_heavy_bombs_in_cities)
title: Treaty to ban heavy bombs in cities
uri: Treaty-to-ban-heavy-bombs-in-cities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Treaty_to_ban_heavy_bombs_in_cities)
content:
 
<p>

Negotiations are progressing towards a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/05/sixty-countries-discuss-curbs-heavy-bombing-urban-areas">treaty to ban the use of heavy
bombs</a> in cities.
<p>
It looks like the US and Russia will not sign it.

 


title: Poor people are put in bigger danger from Covid-19 death
uri: Poor-people-are-put-in-bigger-danger-from-Covid-19-death
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Poor_people_are_put_in_bigger_danger_from_Covid-19_death)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Poor_people_are_put_in_bigger_danger_from_Covid-19_death)

content:
 
<p>
  Society and institutions in the US <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/04/us-covid-devastating-toll-poor-low-income-communities">put poor people in bigger danger
  of death from Covid-19 than well-off people</a>.
<p>
  *People in poorer counties have died overall at almost twice the rate
  of those in richer counties. &hellip; During the third pandemic wave
  in the US, over the winter of 2020 and 2021, death rates were
  four-and-a-half times higher in the poorest counties than those with
  the highest median incomes.*
<p>
  I wonder how a similar comparison for long Covid disabilities would
  come out.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Manchin_wants_to_fund_fossil_fuels)
title: Manchin wants to fund fossil fuels
uri: Manchin-wants-to-fund-fossil-fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Manchin_wants_to_fund_fossil_fuels)
content:
 
<p>
  *Democrats see hope for a clean energy bill, but <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/01/politics/climate-clean-energy-bill-fossil-fuels-manchin/index.html">Manchin is adding a new
  hurdle: More funding for fossil fuels</a>.*
<p>
  His "reason" is balderdash.  The efficient and safe way to make the US
  self-sufficient in energy generation is to use 100% American sunlight
  and 100% American wind.  Manchin is not trying to offer a rational
  argument, only an excuse that will suffice for a sound bite.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Botcott_Burma)
title: Botcott Burma
uri: Botcott-Burma
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Botcott_Burma)
content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/04/everything-is-not-ok-here-tourists-urged-to-avoid-myanmar-as-junta-prepares-to-reopen-to-world">Calling on tourists to boycott Burma</a>.

 


title: Women raped and some killed by Putin forces
uri: Women-raped-and-some-killed-by-Putin-forces
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Women_raped_and_some_killed_by_Putin_forces)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Women_raped_and_some_killed_by_Putin_forces)

content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/03/all-wars-are-like-this-used-as-a-weapon-of-war-in-ukraine">Ukrainian women report being raped</a> by Putin forces soldiers.
  Some may have been raped and then killed.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Civilians_murdered)
title: Civilians murdered
uri: Civilians-murdered
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Civilians_murdered)
content:
 
<p>
  Witnesses from Bucha report seeing Putin forces soldiers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/03/bucha-violence-invasion-russia-ukraine">murder
  civilians with extreme cruelty</a>.
<p>
  These acts of cruelty do not indicate whether commanders encouraged
  the cruelty.  Perhaps they did, perhaps they didn't.  Many soldiers
  could have done these things on their own initiative, after hearing
  that other soldiers were doing it.  Each soldier who intentionally
  shot at civilians committed a war crime, but without more evidence, we
  have no basis to pin responsibility on commanders or on Putin.
<p>
  Planting mines is a different story.  That takes effort and time, as
  well as specific training.  I don't think many soldiers would have
  planted mines or booby traps _unless they were ordered to do that_.
<p>
  Even if the commanders did not order soldiers to kill civilians,
  they have the responsibility to prosecute murderers in their ranks.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Peace_talks)
title: Peace talks
uri: Peace-talks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Peace_talks)
content:
 
<p>
  *Yemen: two-month ceasefire <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/03/yemen-two-month-ceasefire-begins-un-hopes-for-peace-talks">begins with hopes for peace talks</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Ecosystems_vs_humans_for_water)
title: Ecosystems vs humans for water
uri: Ecosystems-vs-humans-for-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Ecosystems_vs_humans_for_water)
content:
 
<p>
  As global heating dries up the US mountain west, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/03/cedar-city-utah-drought-pine-valley">wild ecosystems have
  to compete with humans for water</a>.

 


title: Global heating distraction guarantees disaster
uri: Global-heating-distraction-guarantees-disaster
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Global_heating_distraction_guarantees_disaster)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Global_heating_distraction_guarantees_disaster)

content:
 
<p>
  Climate scientists warn that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/03/dire-warning-on-climate-change-is-being-ignored-amid-war-and-economic-turmoil">getting distracted from global heating
  will guarantee disaster</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Investigate the cheater for removing/destroying official records.
uri: Urgent-Investigate-the-cheater-for-removing-destroying-official-recor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Urgent:_Investigate_the_cheater_for_removing%2Fdestroying_official_records.)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Urgent:_Investigate_the_cheater_for_removing%2Fdestroying_official_records.)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on the Dept of Justice
  to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-trump-stole-top-secret-documents-the-doj-must-investigate-2?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-progressive-reform-network&source=direct_link">investigate
  the cheater for removing/destroying official records</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Keep toxic pesticides out of wildlife refuges
uri: Urgent-Keep-toxic-pesticides-out-of-wildlife-refuges
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Urgent:_Keep_toxic_pesticides_out_of_wildlife_refuges)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Urgent:_Keep_toxic_pesticides_out_of_wildlife_refuges)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on your senators
  to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49451">keep
  toxic pesticides out of wildlife refuges</a>.
<p>
  To sign without
  running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree
  JavaScript code</a> from the web site,
  use <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">the Salsalabs workaround</a>.


 


title: El Salvador arrested and holding 6,000 people
uri: El-Salvador-arrested-and-holding-6-000-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(El_Salvador_arrested_and_holding_6,000_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(El_Salvador_arrested_and_holding_6,000_people)

content:
 
<p>

El Salvador has arrested 6,000 people and plans to hold them for a long time
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/apr/05/el-salvador-crackdown-ms13-state-of-emergency">without any specific charges</a> or letting them talk with lawyers.
The government says they are gang members, but without individual trials,
there is no way to see if that is true.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Anti-racist_activism)
title: Anti-racist activism
uri: Anti-racist-activism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Anti-racist_activism)
content:
 
<p>

Anti-racist activism <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/05/jay-z-beyonce-picket-line-party-celebrity-activism-oscars-chateau-marmont">focuses too much on microagressions and choice of
words</a>, instead of supporting people's campaigns for better treatment
in substantive ways.

 


title: Palestinian journalists charged with incitement
uri: Palestinian-journalists-charged-with-incitement
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Palestinian_journalists_charged_with_incitement)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Palestinian_journalists_charged_with_incitement)

content:
 
<p>

*Israel <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/04/05/israel-palestine-journalists-incitement/">Charges Palestinian Journalists With Incitement</a> &mdash; for Doing
 Their Jobs.*

 


title: UK's DHS can't keep up with tests for cancer
uri: UK-s-DHS-can-t-keep-up-with-tests-for-cancer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(UK's_DHS_can't_keep_up_with_tests_for_cancer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(UK's_DHS_can't_keep_up_with_tests_for_cancer)

content:
 
<p>

Tories have damaged the UK's DHS so much that it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/05/340000-cancer-patients-face-late-diagnosis-due-to-nhs-staff-shortages">can't keep up with the need
to test people for cancer</a>.  Hundreds of thousands of people are likely to
get late diagnoses before it catches up.
That is, supposing they give it enough funds to catch up.  Perhaps
they will reduce the standard of care to the point where those who
have money pay for a private exam, and everyone else just dies of
cancer.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Truly_dangerous_radicals)
title: Truly dangerous radicals
uri: Truly-dangerous-radicals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Truly_dangerous_radicals)
content:
 
<p>

*UN Chief: Those Expanding Fossil Fuels &mdash; Not Climate Activists &mdash;
Are the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/04/un-chief-those-expanding-fossil-fuels-not-climate-activists-are-truly-dangerous">"Truly Dangerous Radicals."</a>*
<p>
Hear, hear!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Orbán_defeated_opposition)
title: Orbán defeated opposition
uri: Orbán-defeated-opposition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Orbán_defeated_opposition)
content:
 
<p>

Orbán <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/04/dark-day-democracy-hungary-orban-wins-dubious-reelection">defeated the united opposition</a>, in an election alleged to be
crooked.

 


title: Covid tests, vaccines and treatments for the US
uri: Covid-tests-vaccines-and-treatments-for-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Covid_tests,_vaccines_and_treatments_for_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Covid_tests,_vaccines_and_treatments_for_the_US)

content:
 
<p>

Congress has agreed to spend 10 billion dollars on Covid-19 tests,
vaccines and treatments in the US, but <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/04/victory-virus-congress-cuts-new-global-covid-aid-0">nothing at all</a> for vaccinating
the rest of the world.
<p>
The Covid-spreader party has taken a small step back,
forgoing some method of spreading the disease in the US.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Putin's_concept_of_human_shields)
title: Putin's concept of "human shields"
uri: Putin-s-concept-of-human-shields
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Putin's_concept_of_human_shields)
content:
 
<p>

Putin's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/03/why-we-need-challenge-russias-human-shields-narrative">stretching the concept</a> of "human shields", arguing that
all the civilians that live in a city Putin is attacking and that
Ukraine is defending are "human shields", just because soldiers are
fighting in the neighborhood of their homes.
<p>
The article lists other countries that it accuses of doing the same thing.

 


title: Viktor Orbán has won an unfair election
uri: Viktor-Orbán-has-won-an-unfair-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Viktor_Orbán_has_won_an_unfair_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Viktor_Orbán_has_won_an_unfair_election)

content:
 
<p>

Viktor Orbán has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/04/the-guardian-view-on-hungarys-election-a-dismal-day-for-democracy">won an unfair election</a> to be reelected the ruler of
Hungary. He <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#4_April_2020_(Dictator_in_all_but_name)">handles elections the way US Republicans do</a>.
<p>
The EU needs to be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/04/orbans-victory-in-hungary-adds-to-the-darkness-overshadowing-europe">tough on Putin, and tough on Orbán</a>, but is that
possible?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Australia's_bully)
title: Australia's bully
uri: Australia-s-bully
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Australia's_bully)
content:
 
<p>

The head of Australia's government, planet-roaster Scott Morrison, is
a <a href="/glossary.html#bully">bully</a> as well.  One of his party's members of Parliament has quit
the party, denouncing him as a <a href="/glossary.html#bully">bully</a> for trying to offer flood aid
only to the towns <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/04/liberal-mp-catherine-cusack-scott-morrison-ruthless-bullying-flood-victims".which had voted for his party</a>.
<p>
He's still <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/04/coalition-tries-for-third-time-to-let-renewable-energy-agency-fund-technologies-using-fossil-fuels">trying to corrupt</a> the few decarbonization measures that
Australia has.

 


title: Zelensky points out UN Security Council failure
uri: Zelensky-points-out-UN-Security-Council-failure
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Zelensky_points_out_UN_Security_Council_failure)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Zelensky_points_out_UN_Security_Council_failure)

content:
 
<p>

Zelensky spoke to the UN Security Council and pointed out that it is
a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/05/volodymyr-zelenskiy-un-security-council-sketch">failure at its stated goal</a>.
<p>
That truth is well known.  We also know why it is true: because we don't
know of any way to set it up that would make it able to enforce justice
without being corruptible too.

 


title: Getting personal data from Apple and Facebook
uri: Getting-personal-data-from-Apple-and-Facebook
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Getting_personal_data_from_Apple_and_Facebook)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Getting_personal_data_from_Apple_and_Facebook)

content:
 
<p>

Many government agencies, and anyone pretending to represent a
government agency, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/04/us-law-enforcement-agencies-access-your-data-apple-meta">can get people's personal data from Apple and
Greater Facebook</a> just by saying, "This is an emergency".
<p>
People will be tempted to try to fix this problem through a system for
authenticating real government agencies and real emergencies.  My view
is that companies should not have so much data about people.

 


title: Oregon's drug decriminalisation sees some success
uri: Oregon-s-drug-decriminalisation-sees-some-success
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Oregon's_drug_decriminalisation_sees_some_success)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Oregon's_drug_decriminalisation_sees_some_success)

content:
 
<p>

*Oregon’s bold drug decriminalisation sees some success &mdash; but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/04/oregon-drugs-decriminalisation-ballot-measure-110">use
 still rising</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Sri_Lanka_medical_emergency)
title: Sri Lanka medical emergency
uri: Sri-Lanka-medical-emergency
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Sri_Lanka_medical_emergency)
content:
 
<p>

*Sri Lanka <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/05/sri-lanka-faces-medical-emergency-economic-crisis-drug-supplies">faces medical emergency</a> as economic crisis hits drug supplies.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Severe_weather_power_outages)
title: Severe weather power outages
uri: Severe-weather-power-outages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Severe_weather_power_outages)
content:
 
<p>

*US power outages from severe weather have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/06/us-power-outages-severe-weather-doubled-in-20-years">doubled in 20 years</a>.*
Mostly because severe weather happens more often, due to global
heating effects.

 


title: Tories cut off welfare benefits for children
uri: Tories-cut-off-welfare-benefits-for-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Tories_cut_off_welfare_benefits_for_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#6_April_2022_(Tories_cut_off_welfare_benefits_for_children)

content:
 
<p>

The Tories have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/06/two-child-policy-hasnt-made-families-smaller-only-poorer-finds-report">cut off welfare benefits for children</a> after the first
two in a family.  Research shows that this does not reduce the number
of children in a family, it only increases the number of children
growing up in poverty.
<p>
Poverty often results when people lack the ability to make good plans,
or the ability to stick to a plan.  It is hard to fill those lacks by
punishing people.
<p>
I don't know whether Tories were seriously seeking to avoid
overpopulation, or only used it as an excuse to keep more money for
the wealthy.

No children should grow up in poverty, but it is very important for people
to have <a href="/articles/children.html ">fewer children</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(mubarak_jail_sentence)
title: Nigerian humanist receives sentence for "blasphemy"
uri: Nigerian-humanist-receives-sentence-for-blasphemy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(mubarak_jail_sentence)
content:
 
<p>
The president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria has been sentenced to 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220407200059/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/05/nigerian-humanist-mubarak-bala-receives-24-year-jail-sentence">24 years in prison for "blasphemy".</a>
<p>
He had been told that his relatives would be threatened unless he
pleaded guilty, and that he'd get a short sentence if he did so.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(Bucha_massacre)
title: Satellite images of corpses prove Russia claims wrong
uri: Satellite-images-of-corpses-prove-Russia-claims-wrong
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(Bucha_massacre)
content:
 
<p>
*Analysis of the images [from Bucha] date massacre to before Russian
forces 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220406004443/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/05/satellite-images-of-corpses-in-bucha-prove-russian-claims-wrong">evacuated the Ukrainian city.</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(shadow_credit_score)
title: How your shadow credit could impact you
uri: How-your-shadow-credit-could-impact-you
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(shadow_credit_score)
content:
 
<p>
Unregulated companies rate prospective tenants as good or bad using
questionable machine-learning algorithms and big data. They don't
give reasons for blacklisting a specific tenant. Perhaps their method
<a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/how-your-shadow-credit-score-could-decide-whether-you-get-an-apartment">gives them no way to do that.</a>
<p>
The lack of clarity about the reasons for blacklisting would-be
renters adds gratuitous frustration, but the basic problem is that
rents are so high that workers struggle to afford them, so many
tenants don't succeed in paying rent.
<p>
To make the algorithms more transparent would change who gets to rent
an apartment and who does not, but would not prevent that the shortage.
The only way to do that is to make a lot more housing.
<p>
The best way to make a lot more housing is to eliminate the zoning
laws that prohibit dense housing.
<p>
As long as that does not happen, landlords will see that scarcity
enables them to raise rents to levels that make struggle to afford the
rent, which means that some will be unfortunate and get evicted, which
means that landlords will seek ways not to rent to anyone who might
have get into that situation.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(Amazon_banned_words)
title: Amazon's banned word list in app
uri: Amazon-s-banned-word-list-in-app
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(Amazon_banned_words)
content:
 
<p>
Amazon has a special cr&hellip;app for discussions among staff. The
company plans to censor the words 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220406032533/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/05/amazon-banned-words-list-union-internal-app">"union", "fire", "slave labor",
"diversity" and "injustice."</a>
<p>
That will be done using an "auto bad word monitor" which will
recognize "inappropriate" messages.
<p>
This reminds us that <a href="https://www.stallman.org/antiglossary.html">"inappropriate"</a> states a subjective judgment and
nothing more, so we should be suspicious whenever anyone is accused of
acting or speaking "inappropriately" without some explanation of why
we should consider it wrong.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(Ukrainian_man_torture)
title: Ukrainian civilian accounts torture by Russian captors.
uri: Ukrainian-civilian-accounts-torture-by-Russian-captors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(Ukrainian_man_torture)
content:
 
<p>
A Ukrainian civilian reports on three nights of torture by Russian
captors, 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220406004506/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/05/ukrainian-man-tells-of-days-of-torture-at-hands-of-occupying-troops">along with other civilian prisoners.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(Australia_corruption)
title: Australian federal cops demand investigative body
uri: Australian-federal-cops-demand-investigative-body
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(Australia_corruption)
content:
 
<p>
Australian federal cops, in thousands, demand Australia set up a body
to investigate charges of corruption against politicians, 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220407192738/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/06/australian-federal-police-demand-parties-commit-to-far-reaching-anti-corruption-body">and against cops also.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(Oklahoma_bill)
title: Oklahoma bill makes abortion illegal
uri: Oklahoma-bill-makes-abortion-illegal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(Oklahoma_bill)
content:
 
<p>
Oklahoma has made performing an abortion a felony in nearly all
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220406175512/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/05/oklahoma-lawmakers-bill-makes-abortion-illegal">circumstances.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(foxnews_mammal)
title: Police catch mammal accused of attacking congressman
uri: Police-catch-mammal-accused-of-attacking-congressman
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(foxnews_mammal)
content:
 
<p>
Fox News: it actually <Em>bit</Em> 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220406004424/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/05/fox-news-capitol-police-catch-mammal-accused-of-attacking-congressman">a congressional Democrat.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(koch_climate_lies)
title: Put Koch under oath for his climate lies
uri: Put-Koch-under-oath-for-his-climate-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(koch_climate_lies)
content:
 
<p>
*If the House Oversight Committee is serious about getting to the bottom
of the fossil fuel industry's longtime campaign to stymie climate
policy, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/05/time-put-charles-koch-under-oath-his-climate-lies">it should call [Charles] Koch on the carpet.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(Appalachia_climate)
title: Appalachia climate crisis
uri: Appalachia-climate-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(Appalachia_climate)
content:
 
<p>
Planet roasters pretend that helping Europe boycott Russia's gas
justifies building new 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/05/appalachia-knows-theres-climate-crisis-does-president-biden">fracked gas pipelines in the US.</a>
<p>
Europe's gas crunch will last just a few years, if European countries
push hard to build renewable generation. But any new fossil fuel
facilities built now will be used for decades: to stop using them will
provoke powerful lobbying, as if making a pipeline investor lose money
would be worse than the end of the world.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_((Satire)_betterhelp_therapy)
title: (satire) *BetterHelp Therapy Session
uri: (satire)-BetterHelp-Therapy-Session
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_((Satire)_betterhelp_therapy)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *BetterHelp Therapy Session Leads To Breakthrough In 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/betterhelp-therapy-session-leads-to-breakthrough-in-sel-1848700493">Sell-able
Patient Data.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(mungo_man_woman)
title: Mungo skeletons to be reburied after federal decision
uri: Mungo-skeletons-to-be-reburied-after-federal-decision
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_April_2022_(mungo_man_woman)
content:
 
<p>
Two of the oldest modern human skeletons ever discovered are going
to be "reburied", meaning further 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220407194917/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/06/mungo-man-and-mungo-lady-to-be-reburied-in-willandra-world-heritage-area-after-federal-decision">research will not be possible.</a>
<p>
In principle, that is a bad outcome. However, it is possible that it
makes little actual difference in this case.  Wikipedia says that some
of the corpses found there have already been checked for DNA and none
was recoverable.


 


title: Urgent: Fight back if executive authority for decarboniztion is abolished
uri: Urgent-Fight-back-if-executive-authority-for-decarboniztion-is-abolis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Urgent:_Fight_back_if_executive_authority_for_decarboniztion_is_abolished)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Urgent:_Fight_back_if_executive_authority_for_decarboniztion_is_abolished)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to prepare to fight back if Supreme
Court right-wing radicals <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-congress-its-time-to-step-up-our-climate-change-response-in-light-of-the-supreme-court">abolish executive authority for decarbonization</a>.

 


title: Urgent: End big money's stranglehold on our democracy
uri: Urgent-End-big-money-s-stranglehold-on-our-democracy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Urgent:_End_big_money's_stranglehold_on_our_democracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Urgent:_End_big_money's_stranglehold_on_our_democracy)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to end Big Money’s <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-congress-end-big-moneys-stranglehold-on-our-democracy">stranglehold on our
democracy</a>.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Climate scientists' hope of preventing global heating
uri: Climate-scientists-hope-of-preventing-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Climate_scientists'_hope_of_preventing_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Climate_scientists'_hope_of_preventing_global_heating)

content:
 
<p>

*Climate scientists are desperate: we’re <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/06/climate-scientists-are-desperate-were-crying-begging-and-getting-arrested">crying, begging and getting arrested</a>.*
All in the hope of preventing global heating disaster.
<p>
*The Fossil Fuels Era Must End. Collective Transformation <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/06/fossil-fuels-era-must-end-collective-transformation-must-start-now">Must Start Now</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Screen_time)
title: Screen time
uri: Screen-time
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Screen_time)
content:
 
<p>

Too much screen time can <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/06/gorilla-chicago-zoo-screen-time">cause real life to lose interest</a> &mdash; for
gorillas.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(From_Covid_to_climate_breakdown)
title: From Covid to climate breakdown
uri: From-Covid-to-climate-breakdown
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(From_Covid_to_climate_breakdown)
content:
 
<p>

*‘Learning to live with it’? From <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/07/learning-live-covid-climate-breakdown-failing-government-flooding">Covid to climate breakdown</a>, it’s the
new way of failing.*
<p>
I think that statement is too weak.  It's the new way of saying,
"Tough on you, non-rich people!"

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Global_food_prices_at_highest_levels)
title: Global food prices at highest levels
uri: Global-food-prices-at-highest-levels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Global_food_prices_at_highest_levels)
content:
 
<p>

*Global food prices rise to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/apr/08/global-food-prices-rise-to-highest-ever-levels-after-russian-invasion-ukraine-wheat">highest ever levels</a> after Russian invasion.*
<p>
I have a hunch they will never again fall to the level of before the
war.

 


title: American's Covid vaccine and treatment held hostage
uri: American-s-Covid-vaccine-and-treatment-held-hostage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(American's_Covid_vaccine_and_treatment_held_hostage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(American's_Covid_vaccine_and_treatment_held_hostage)

content:
 
<p>

Senate Republicans are holding Americans' Covid vaccine and treatment
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/06/gop-threatens-tank-covid-funding-bid-preserve-trump-immigration-policy">hostage to demand renewed repression</a> against asylum seekers.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_((satire)_Oil_switched_for_molasses)
title: (satire) Oil switched for molasses
uri: (satire)-Oil-switched-for-molasses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_((satire)_Oil_switched_for_molasses)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *"They <a href="https://www.theonion.com/they-switched-it-for-molasses-yells-energy-secretary-1848733481">Switched It For Molasses</a>!" Yells Energy Secretary
Discovering Nation's Entire Oil Reserves Stolen.*

 


title: Price Russian military pays in Ukraine
uri: Price-Russian-military-pays-in-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Price_Russian_military_pays_in_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Price_Russian_military_pays_in_Ukraine)

content:
 
<p>

Jesse Jackson: *The higher the price the Russian military pays in
   Ukraine, the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/05/war-crimes-there-must-be-accountability">less likely Putin will be emboldened to repeat his
   aggression</a>.*
<p>
My view is that the resolution of the war must not give Putin anything that
could be construed as a victory.  Especially, no territorial gains and
no legitimization of past seizures of Ukrainian territory.
<p>
It would be useful to make him withdraw troops from Moldova too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(White_supremacist_bias)
title: White supremacist bias
uri: White-supremacist-bias
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(White_supremacist_bias)
content:
 
<p>

Several US states have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/05/why-gop-very-afraid-students-learning-real-history-reconstruction">incorporated white supremacist bias</a> into their
standards for teaching about the reconstruction period and how it
was crushed.

 


title: Pre-condition underlying Covid-19 mortality
uri: Pre-condition-underlying-Covid-19-mortality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Pre-condition_underlying_Covid-19_mortality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Pre-condition_underlying_Covid-19_mortality)

content:
 
<p>

*Poverty: The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/06/poverty-pre-condition-underlying-covid-19-mortality">Pre-Condition Underlying Covid-19 Mortality</a>.*

 


title: Right-wing radicals on US Supreme Court
uri: Right-wing-radicals-on-US-Supreme-Court
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Right-wing_radicals_on_US_Supreme_Court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Right-wing_radicals_on_US_Supreme_Court)

content:
 
<p>

The right-wing radicals on the US Supreme Court fabricate artificial
emergencies as excuses to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/06/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket-john-roberts-epa-water/index.html">impose questionable right-wing decisions
without even a hearing</a>.
<p>
The most recent example was to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/06/right-wing-supreme-court-justices-just-further-poisoned-your-water">limit states' power to challenge
approval of "energy projects"</a> &mdash; such as pipelines and export
terminals &mdash; once federal agencies, if corrupted by planet-roasters,
approve them.
<p>
Normally, right-wing officials claim to promote "states' rights", but
that really only means states' rights to serve business.  States'
rights to resist big business are less appealing to these
plutocratists.

 


title: Fossil fuel money watered down IPCC report
uri: Fossil-fuel-money-watered-down-IPCC-report
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Fossil_fuel_money_watered_down_IPCC_report)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Fossil_fuel_money_watered_down_IPCC_report)

content:
 
<p>

Scientist Rebellion shows how fossil fuel money <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/06/rebellious-climate-scientists-have-message-humanity-mobilize-mobilize-mobilize">watered down the IPCC
report</a>.

 


title: Biden's plan for the billionaire's tax
uri: Biden-s-plan-for-the-billionaire-s-tax
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Biden's_plan_for_the_billionaire's_tax)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Biden's_plan_for_the_billionaire's_tax)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/06/understanding-bidens-billionaire-tax-proposal">Explaining Biden's plan for the billionaire's tax</a>, and how it would tax their
asset appreciation every year.
<p>
I think it would require people with more than 100 million dollars in
assets to report those assets to the IRS.  That is fine with me.
<p>
I campaign against the sorts of government surveillance that put
dissidents and whistleblowers in danger.  The worst things for the
government to know about people are where you go, what you do there,
and who you talk with.
<p>
Knowing the large property holdings of centimillionaires is not much
of a threat to dissidents and whistleblowers.  And even for them,
it would collect little information about their daily activities.

 


title: Interviews with Patriotic Millionaires
uri: Interviews-with-Patriotic-Millionaires
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Interviews_with_Patriotic_Millionaires)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Interviews_with_Patriotic_Millionaires)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/08/patriotic-millionaires-one-percenters-pay-higher-taxes">Interviews with the Patriotic Millionaires</a>, who advocate raising the tax
rate for millionaires.

 


title: Extinction Rebellion protests in London
uri: Extinction-Rebellion-protests-in-London
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Extinction_Rebellion_protests_in_London)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Extinction_Rebellion_protests_in_London)

content:
 
<p>

*Extinction Rebellion vows fossil fuels protest will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/08/extinction-rebellion-fossil-fuels-protest-grind-london-halt">"grind London to a halt."</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Attack_on_Kramatorsk_train_station)
title: Attack on Kramatorsk train station
uri: Attack-on-Kramatorsk-train-station
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Attack_on_Kramatorsk_train_station)
content:
 
<p>

The Putin forces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/08/kramatorsk-train-station-ukraine-russia-rockets">attacked the Kramatorsk train station</a> where
thousands of Ukrainian civilians were waiting to evacuate to the west.
<p>
At least 39 of them were killed.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Danger_of_nuclear_war_increases)
title: Danger of nuclear war increases
uri: Danger-of-nuclear-war-increases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Danger_of_nuclear_war_increases)
content:
 
<p>

The "world nuclear order" which kept us at a distance from nuclear war
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/06/new-global-nuclear-disorder-must-be-halted">has been fraying</a>, strand by strand, for decades.  This means that the
danger of nuclear war increases.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Amtrak_wants_to_identify_passengers)
title: Amtrak wants to identify passengers
uri: Amtrak-wants-to-identify-passengers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Amtrak_wants_to_identify_passengers)
content:
 
<p>

Amtrak wants to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/06/non-starter-critics-slam-amtrak-request-dhs-watchlist-screening-passengers">identify all passengers</a> and check them against a
secret suspects list belonging to the Department of Harshness and
Suspicion.
<p>
This would require demanding official identification from each
passenger.  That's what Amtrak did until a few years ago.
My response to that was never to use Amtrak.
<p>
In practice, I still never take Amtrak, because the trains I might
have a reason to require reservations, and those reservations
still do require identifying oneself.
<p>
People should be free to travel within a country without identifying
themselves.  You can support this by phoning your congresscritter.

 


title: Strong measures to reduce Europe's energy use
uri: Strong-measures-to-reduce-Europe-s-energy-use
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Strong_measures_to_reduce_Europe's_energy_use)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Strong_measures_to_reduce_Europe's_energy_use)

content:
 
<p>

Proposing strong measures to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/08/slugs-ban-european-flights-cities-car-use-hurt-putin-russia-oil-gas-income-report">reduce Europe's energy use</a>.
<p>
In the short term, these measures would cause great difficulty.
Public transit systems could not cope with the extra passengers,
and they would push people into dangerous proximity.
<p>
Over a somewhat longer period, giving time to prepare lots of buses
and trained drivers for them, I think they could work.
<p>
I am not sure what "internal flights" is supposed to mean.  If it
means "flights within the EU", that would not be feasible; there are
trips that would take days by train.  However, the EU has many short
flights that could be eliminated without great difficulties.

 


title: Archaeological investigation aboriginal site
uri: Archaeological-investigation-aboriginal-site
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Archaeological_investigation_aboriginal_site)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Archaeological_investigation_aboriginal_site)

content:
 
<p>

A mining company has, after years of pressure, joined in supporting a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/08/wa-aboriginal-site-near-rio-tinto-mine-more-than-50000-years-old-new-study-reveals">proper archaeological investigation</a> of an old Australian aboriginal
site, in cooperation with the local aboriginal group.
<p>
This is very good news, as it will lead to more understanding of
ancient humanity.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Ketanji_Jackson_confirmed)
title: Ketanji Jackson confirmed
uri: Ketanji-Jackson-confirmed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Ketanji_Jackson_confirmed)
content:
 
<p>

Ketanji Jackson has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/07/ketanj-brown-jackson-confirmation-vote-supreme-court">confirmed for the US Supreme Court</a>.
<p>
That is a relief; it would have been very bad if she had not been
confirmed.  But I don't feel joy, because we are not out of the woods
yet.
<p>
Her confirmation prevented the Supreme Court situation from getting
one notch worse.  But I don't see how we are going to make things
start to get better.

 


title: LA jail guards punch incarcerated people
uri: LA-jail-guards-punch-incarcerated-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(LA_jail_guards_punch_incarcerated_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(LA_jail_guards_punch_incarcerated_people)

content:
 
<p>

*LA jail guards routinely <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/08/los-angeles-jail-sheriffs-department-violence-accusation">punch incarcerated people in the head</a>,
monitors find.*
<p>
Each of these thugs deserves to be prosecuted, and then experience
jail as a prisoner.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Spying_on_political_rivals)
title: Spying on political rivals
uri: Spying-on-political-rivals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Spying_on_political_rivals)
content:
 
<p>

West Germany's first elected chancellor, Adenauer, used the country's
intelligence agency to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/08/germany-1950s-chancellor-konrad-adenauer-spy-agency-infiltrate-rival-party-watergate">spy on political rivals</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Atmospheric_methane)
title: Atmospheric methane
uri: 2022-04-10-Atmospheric-methane
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Atmospheric_methane)
content:
 
<p>
*Methane in Earth’s atmosphere <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/08/methane-earth-atmosphere-record-high-usa-government-data">rose by record amount last year, US
government data shows</a>.  Climate scientists say plugging methane leaks
and phasing out fossil fuels are necessary to avert catastrophic
<a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Artists_and_political_stands)
title: Artists and political stands
uri: Artists-and-political-stands
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Artists_and_political_stands)
content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.usfsu.org/p/art-crushed-by-political-orthodoxy?s=r">We should not demand of artists</a> that they take political stands
  we support &mdash; or that they take political stands at all.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Freedom_of_information_law)
title: Freedom of information law
uri: Freedom-of-information-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Freedom_of_information_law)
content:
 
<p>
Tory ministers are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/07/uk-foi-transparency-laws-are-being-undermined-warn-journalists">disregarding freedom of information law</a> and getting
away with it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(State_offices_and_election_stealing)
title: State offices and election stealing
uri: State-offices-and-election-stealing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(State_offices_and_election_stealing)
content:
 
<p>
  The wrecker hinted that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/05/state-candidates-and-trump-ticket-he-said-quiet-part-out-loud-again">he is endorsing candidate for state offices
  because they would steal the election for him</a>.

 


title: Department of Agriculture and a beginning global food shortage
uri: Department-of-Agriculture-and-a-beginning-global-food-shortage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Department_of_Agriculture_and_a_beginning_global_food_shortage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Department_of_Agriculture_and_a_beginning_global_food_shortage)

content:
 
<p>
  Congress is proposing to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/05/global-food-crisis-looms-groups-blast-proposed-165-billion-usda-cut">cut the Department of Agriculture
  just as a global food shortage is beginning</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Global_Covid_funds_and_variants)
title: Global Covid funds and variants
uri: Global-Covid-funds-and-variants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Global_Covid_funds_and_variants)
content:
 
<p>
*Aid Groups Warn <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/05/aid-groups-warn-more-variants-will-emerge-if-congress-kills-global-covid-funds">"More Variants Will Emerge" If Congress Kills Global
Covid Funds</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(High-pressure_kindergarten_studies)
title: High-pressure kindergarten studies
uri: High-pressure-kindergarten-studies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(High-pressure_kindergarten_studies)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/03/schools-testing-inequality-covid-pandemic-remote-learning-loss">We can't make poor people better off through high-pressure studies in
kindergarten</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(21st_Century_Economic_Bill_of_Rights)
title: 21st Century Economic Bill of Rights
uri: 2022-04-10-21st-Century-Economic-Bill-of-Rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(21st_Century_Economic_Bill_of_Rights)
content:
 
<p>
Proposing the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/06/why-should-progressives-embrace-21st-century-economic-bill-rights-because-they">21st Century Economic Bill of Rights</a> &mdash; a collection of
the main progressive policy proposals.    

 


title: Letting workers and customers be sick or injured for profits
uri: Letting-workers-and-customers-be-sick-or-injured-for-profits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Letting_workers_and_customers_be_sick_or_injured_for_profits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Letting_workers_and_customers_be_sick_or_injured_for_profits)

content:
 
<p>
  Government safety regulations save lives, but <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratists</a> prefer to
  let workers and customers be sick or injured in the name of increased
  profits.  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/06/how-supreme-court-could-make-your-life-more-dangerous">The right-wing Supreme Court is likely to attack safety
  regulation and make your life more dangerous</a>.

 


title: Minneapolis and no-knock search warrants
uri: Minneapolis-and-no-knock-search-warrants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Minneapolis_and_no-knock_search_warrants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Minneapolis_and_no-knock_search_warrants)

content:
 
<p>
  Minneapolis has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/05/us/minneapolis-no-knock-search-warrants-end/index.html">put an end to no-knock search warrants</a>.
<p>
  I wonder if there is a good solution, such as a way to enter and
  search a house using robots, so there is no reason to shoot at the
  inhabitants even if they start shooting.

 


title: Bizarre statements from Starbucks CEO
uri: Bizarre-statements-from-Starbucks-CEO
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Bizarre_statements_from_Starbucks_CEO)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(Bizarre_statements_from_Starbucks_CEO)

content:
 
<p>
  The Starbucks CEO made <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/05/ceo-howard-schultz-ripped-saying-starbucks-being-assaulted-unionization">bizarre statements</a> about unions coming between
  the company and its workers.
<p>
  Starbucks is not a charity; it acts solely for the owners' profits.
  There is no reason for the staff to feel loyal to that.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(John_Eastman's_emails)
title: John Eastman's emails
uri: John-Eastman-s-emails
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_April_2022_(John_Eastman's_emails)
content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/06/trump-lawyer-emails-released-january-6-panel-discuss-plans-block-biden-victory">John Eastman's emails in the Jan 6 plot</a> have been delivered to the
  investigating committee.  (He was one of the wrecker's lawyers.)  They
  explicitly talk about the goal of undermining the election.  

 


title: Urgent: Eliminate preventive antibiotics use in animals
uri: Urgent-Eliminate-preventive-antibiotics-use-in-animals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Eliminate_preventive_antibiotics_use_in_animals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Eliminate_preventive_antibiotics_use_in_animals)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call for <a href="https://uspirg.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49247">eliminating preventive use of antibiotics</a> in
animals.

 


title: Urgent: Remind Democratic party that primaries are good
uri: Urgent-Remind-Democratic-party-that-primaries-are-good
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Remind_Democratic_party_that_primaries_are_good)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Remind_Democratic_party_that_primaries_are_good)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: remind the Democratic Party that <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-the-dnc-primaries-are-good-actually">primaries are good</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Windfall_tax_on_fossil_fuels)
title: Urgent: Windfall tax on fossil fuels
uri: Urgent-Windfall-tax-on-fossil-fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Windfall_tax_on_fossil_fuels)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.350.org/letter/windfall-tax-petition/">adopt a windfall tax</a> on fossil fuels.
<p>
I sent the following personalized message, advocating improvements
in the bill that the campaign supports.  You can send your own
version of it, if you wish to.

<blockquoe>
We should have a windfall profits tax on fossil fuels, but the Big Oil
Windfall Profits Tax bill does too little and does it the wrong way.

* It should cover all fossil fuel sales for which prices fluctuate,
not exempting smaller companies.

* It should capture more than just half of their windfall.

* Does taxing companies that sell wholesale capture all of the windfall
that actual users pay?  I don't know, but I suspect not.

* The funds collected should not be aimed particularly at drivers,
because that is equivalent to subsidizing fossil fuels -- exactly the
wrong thing to do when we need reduce the amount which is used.

Instead, we should give those funds to all poor Americans, those that
use fossil fuels and those that don't. That way, we will enable them
all to cope with the high prices, and we will preserve the incentive
for them to use less fuel if they can.

As your constituent, I urge you to sponsor a better bill.
</blockquoe>

 


title: Urgent: Investigate Clarence Thomas's unethical behavior
uri: Urgent-Investigate-Clarence-Thomas-s-unethical-behavior
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Investigate_Clarence_Thomas's_unethical_behavior)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Investigate_Clarence_Thomas's_unethical_behavior)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-house-and-senate-democrats-must-initiate-an-investigation-into-clarence-thomass-unethical-behavior">investigate Clarence Thomas's unethical behavior</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Stop banks investing in climate chaos
uri: Urgent-Stop-banks-investing-in-climate-chaos
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_banks_investing_in_climate_chaos)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_banks_investing_in_climate_chaos)

content:
 
<p>

Customers of big US banks: tell your bank to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-your-banks-investors-to-stop-climate-chaos">stop investing in climate
chaos</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on senate to pass EQUAL act
uri: Urgent-Call-on-senate-to-pass-EQUAL-act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_senate_to_pass_EQUAL_act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_senate_to_pass_EQUAL_act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://action.aclu.org/send-message/congress-end-racist-sentencing-disparities-now">pass the EQUAL act</a>, reducing the
penalties for crack cocaine to the same level as powder cocaine.
<p>
Possession of recreational drugs should not be a crime at all.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word</p>

 


title: Urgent: No more op-eds from warmongers
uri: Urgent-No-more-op-eds-from-warmongers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_No_more_op-eds_from_warmongers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_No_more_op-eds_from_warmongers)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: Tell the Washington Post: <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/tell-wapo-no-more-op-eds-warmongers?source=em20220403_2&t=1006&akid=7687%2E223515%2E_JCOo4">No more op-eds from warmongers</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Don't increase fossil fuel subsidies
uri: Urgent-Don-t-increase-fossil-fuel-subsidies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Don't_increase_fossil_fuel_subsidies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Don't_increase_fossil_fuel_subsidies)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: tell the US government, <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=48187">don't increase fossil fuel
subsidies</a> &mdash; cancel them.

 


title: Urgent: Don't insure oil drilling in the Arctic
uri: Urgent-Don-t-insure-oil-drilling-in-the-Arctic
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Don't_insure_oil_drilling_in_the_Arctic)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Don't_insure_oil_drilling_in_the_Arctic)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on Travelers Insurance <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49455">not to insure oil drilling
in the Arctic</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Protections for investors against Wall Street private equity
uri: Urgent-Protections-for-investors-against-Wall-Street-private-equity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Protections_for_investors_against_Wall_Street_private_equity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Protections_for_investors_against_Wall_Street_private_equity)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: tell the SEC you support <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-and-send-a-comment-supporting-the-sec-new-protections-for-investors-against-wall-street-private-equity">new protections for investors</a> against Wall Street private equity.

 


title: Urgent: Make polluters pay for transition to renewables
uri: Urgent-Make-polluters-pay-for-transition-to-renewables
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Make_polluters_pay_for_transition_to_renewables)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Make_polluters_pay_for_transition_to_renewables)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on world leaders to make polluters <a href="https://act.350.org/sign/make_polluters_pay/">pay to fund the
transition to renewables</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Pass the Agriculture Right to Repair Act
uri: Urgent-Pass-the-Agriculture-Right-to-Repair-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_the_Agriculture_Right_to_Repair_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_the_Agriculture_Right_to_Repair_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://uspirg.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=48836&supporter_KEY=229474">pass the Agriculture Right to
Repair Act</a>.
<p>
This is just a small part of the freedoms tractor owners deserve.
The software in a tractor, or a car, or any other product, if
it is meant to be changed, should be free.
<p>
To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript</a> code
from the web site, use the <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Ban Congress members trading military contractor stocks
uri: Urgent-Ban-Congress-members-trading-military-contractor-stocks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Ban_Congress_members_trading_military_contractor_stocks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Ban_Congress_members_trading_military_contractor_stocks)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call for <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/stop-war-profiteering-ban-members-of-congress-from-trading-defense-contractor-stocks-now">banning members of Congress
from trading military contractor stocks</a> now.
<p>
I'd rather <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#30_January_2022_(Urgent:_Ban_members_of_congress_from_buying%2Fselling_stocks)">ban them from
trading <em>any</em> stocks</a> but this would be a start.

 


title: Urgent: Minimum tax on billion-dollar corporations
uri: Urgent-Minimum-tax-on-billion-dollar-corporations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Minimum_tax_on_billion-dollar_corporations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Urgent:_Minimum_tax_on_billion-dollar_corporations)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on congress to make billion-dollar corporations pay
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-make-billion-dollar-corporations-pay-minimum-15-tax-on-reported-domestic-profits-and-on-offshore-profits">minimum 15% tax</a> on reported domestic profits and on offshore profits.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(How_to_solve_the_climate_crisis)
title: How to solve the climate crisis
uri: How-to-solve-the-climate-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(How_to_solve_the_climate_crisis)
content:
 
<p>

*Scientists have just told us how to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/06/scientists-climate-crisis-ipcc-report">solve the climate crisis</a> &mdash; will
the world listen?*

 


title: Tories plan to cut back on renewable energy construction
uri: Tories-plan-to-cut-back-on-renewable-energy-construction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Tories_plan_to_cut_back_on_renewable_energy_construction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Tories_plan_to_cut_back_on_renewable_energy_construction)

content:
 
<p>

The Tories plan to give oil companies priority and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/06/uk-more-oil-gas-drilling-north-sea-energy-security-strategy-kwasi-kwarteng-net-zero-targets">cut back on renewable energy construction</a>.
<p>
Activists occupied an oil import terminal near London, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/06/activists-occupy-south-east-englands-busiest-oil-terminal">shutting it down</a>.

 


title: Iranian men assigned to the Revolutionary guards
uri: Iranian-men-assigned-to-the-Revolutionary-guards
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Iranian_men_assigned_to_the_Revolutionary_guards)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Iranian_men_assigned_to_the_Revolutionary_guards)

content:
 
<p>

Many Iranian men were drafted and assigned to the Revolutionary
Guards.  If the US finds out that an Iranian was one of them, it
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/04/06/iran-terrorist-watchlist-travel-irgc/">treats him as a terrorist</a>.
<p>
This tendency to jump to conclusions and act cruelly is unjust,
and harms the US as well as the people punished this way.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Special_immunity_from_deportation)
title: Special immunity from deportation
uri: Special-immunity-from-deportation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Special_immunity_from_deportation)
content:
 
<p>

An Australia court ruled that anyone formally adopted into an
indigenous group, even if not an Australian citizen, gets a special
immunity from deportation.  Non-aboriginal groups have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/06/government-seeks-legal-power-to-deport-aboriginal-dual-nationals">no comparable
power</a>.  The government wants to change this.
<p>
English (mainly) colonists stole the indigenous peoples' land.  By
modern standards of universal justice, that was a crime and calls for
compensation.  Indigenous people today face the usual forms of
discrimination of disprivileged groups, and that must cease.
<p>
But this peculiar privilege contributes nothing to that, and could
even work against it because it likewise contravenes modern standards
of universal justice.

 


title: Right wing in step with Kremlin over Ukraine disinformation
uri: Right-wing-in-step-with-Kremlin-over-Ukraine-disinformation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Right_wing_in_step_with_Kremlin_over_Ukraine_disinformation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Right_wing_in_step_with_Kremlin_over_Ukraine_disinformation)

content:
 
<p>

US right wing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/06/us-right-wing-republicans-russia-ukraine-disinformation">in step with Kremlin</a> over Ukraine disinformation, experts say.
<p>
The US right wing includes <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#13_February_2020_(Neo-Nazis">self-proclaimed Nazis</a>
as well as <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#15_April_2021_(Fascist_parties)">many others</a> with similar views.
(This happened because, over his four years as president, the inflamer
did his best to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jan-apr.html#1_January_2019_(Covering_for_extremism)">shift his supporters to right-wing extremism</a>.)
Those of them who pay attention to consistency will surely
find it strange that their movement advocates "denazification."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Violence_against_reporters_in_Mexico)
title: Violence against reporters in Mexico
uri: Violence-against-reporters-in-Mexico
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Violence_against_reporters_in_Mexico)
content:
 
<p>

Over the years while President AMLO has attacked the press, violence
against reporters in Mexico has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/apr/05/attacks-press-mexico-lopez-obrador-presidency-report">greatly increased</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Russian_forward_base)
title: Russian forward base
uri: Russian-forward-base
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Russian_forward_base)
content:
 
<p>

The Russian army <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/05/barbarians-russian-troops-leave-grisly-mark-on-ukraine-town-of-trostianets">made the town of Trostianets into a forward base</a> after a blown
bridge stopped them from continuing on south.  They killed some residents and
terrorized the rest, while gratuitously making the town a wreck.
<p>
I think they took out on the civilians their resentment at the Ukrainian
military.

 


title: Republican that committed voting fraud
uri: Republican-that-committed-voting-fraud
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Republican_that_committed_voting_fraud)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_April_2022_(Republican_that_committed_voting_fraud)

content:
 
<p>

Finally someone turns up who committed real voting fraud in the US.
He is a Republican, of course, and this year he <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/05/trump-official-voter-fraud-possibility-matt-mowers-two-states">wants to run for Congress</a>.

 


title: Upcoming talk: The State of the Free Software Movement
uri: Upcoming-talk-The-State-of-the-Free-Software-Movement
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(Upcoming_talk:_The_State_of_the_Free_Software_Movement)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(Upcoming_talk:_The_State_of_the_Free_Software_Movement)

content:
 
<p>

  <h2>April 13, 2022, 2:00pm EDT</h2>
  <p><b>The State of the Free Software Movement</b></p>
  <p>Richard Stallman will be speaking about the free software movement and your freedom. His speech will be nontechnical, admission is gratis, and the public is encouraged to attend online.</p>
  <p>Online at <a href="https://www.fsf.org/live">fsf.org/live</a></p>
  
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(health_and_human_rights)
title: World's health and human rights threatened by toxic issues
uri: World-s-health-and-human-rights-threatened-by-toxic-issues
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(health_and_human_rights)
content:
 
<p>
*‘Toxic combination’ of issues threaten world’s 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220410093210/https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/apr/07/toxic-combination-of-issues-threaten-worlds-health-and-human-rights-bma">health and human
 rights –- BMA.*</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(yemen_president)
title: Exiled Yemen president steps aside amid hopes over truce
uri: Exiled-Yemen-president-steps-aside-amid-hopes-over-truce
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(yemen_president)
content:
 
<p>
Yemen's president (according to Salafi Arabia) has agreed to let others
negotiate the future of 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220409081817/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/07/exiled-yemen-president-steps-aside-amid-hopes-over-truce-abd-rabbu-mansour-hadi">Yemen with the Houthis.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(rising_sea_levels_crisis)
title: Rising sea levels forcing Americans to move to higher ground
uri: Rising-sea-levels-forcing-Americans-to-move-to-higher-ground
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(rising_sea_levels_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
Rising sea levels (caused by global heating) are already forcing
Americans to move to higher ground.  Over the next few decades,
millions will need to move. 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220410175156/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/07/its-happening-now-how-rising-sea-levels-are-causing-a-us-migration-crisis">The US is not doing a good job of helping
them.</a>
<p>
If we were wise, we would get ahead of the problem by curbing
greenhouse gas emissions so as to reduce the number that will have to
move.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(mail_order_abortions)
title: Oklahoma's repressive anti-abortion measures
uri: Oklahoma-s-repressive-anti-abortion-measures
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(mail_order_abortions)
content:
 
<p>
Republicans that control state governments are extending anti-abortion
repression to forbid going to another state to get an abortion.
They even want to prosecute doctors and pharmacists in other states
for 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220411012818/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/07/us-mail-order-abortions-oklahoma">serving people who reside in a repressive state.</a>
<p>
The idea that state A could prosecute someone in state B for treating
a patient who has travelled from state A, or for shipping a drug by US
mail to someone in state A, seems absurd.  But the right-wing Supreme
Court extremists can't be relied on to uphold basic constitutional
principles.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(covid_risks_friends)
title: False sense of security about covid risks
uri: False-sense-of-security-about-covid-risks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(covid_risks_friends)
content:
 
<p>
People systematically underestimate the danger of 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220411040144/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/07/people-have-false-sense-of-security-about-covid-risks-among-friends-study">catching Covid-19
from friends.</a>
<p>
A group of many strangers is more dangerous than a group of a few
friends, simply because the latter group is fewer.  It is safer to eat
at home with a few friends than in a restaurant with those friends
plus many strangers.  But even at home you should take precautions:
set up a current of fresh air (strong enough you can feel it a little)
through the dining room, sit far apart, and keep distance from each
other whenever you don't have your N95 mask on.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(biden_corp_election)
title: Biden needs to get tough if he wants to win again
uri: Biden-needs-to-get-tough-if-he-wants-to-win-again
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(biden_corp_election)
content:
 
<p>
*Biden needs to start going after large corporations if 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220411073011/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/10/biden-large-corporations-2024-election">he wants to win again.</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(iraqi_man_aus_airstrike)
title: Iraqi man alleging family members were killed by airstrike
uri: Iraqi-man-alleging-family-members-were-killed-by-airstrike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(iraqi_man_aus_airstrike)
content:
 
<p>
An Australian bomb appears to have killed 35 members of an Iraqi
family in a house in Mosul. However, because the Australian air force
refuses to give details about that bombing run, the hearing was unable
to determine for certain whether 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220411073624/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/11/iraqi-man-alleging-35-family-members-were-killed-by-australian-airstrike-denied-compensation">that bomb run killed them, so it
refused compensation.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(black_carbon_threat)
title: Black carbon threat to Arctic
uri: Black-carbon-threat-to-Arctic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(black_carbon_threat)
content:
 
<p>
Another positive feedback cycle in global heating: as Arctic ice melts, more
ships travel through the Arctic Ocean, which pump out more black carbon,
which 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220411104113/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/10/black-carbon-threat-to-arctic-as-sea-routes-open-up-with-global-heating">falls on ice and melts it.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(Texas_woman_abortion)
title: Texas woman's murder charges dropped
uri: Texas-woman-s-murder-charges-dropped
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(Texas_woman_abortion)
content:
 
<p>
Texas's right-wing rulers showed what they really want to do to women
who have abortions: 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220411125742/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/10/texas-woman-murder-charges-dropped-self-induced-abortion">charge them with murder.</a>
<p>
They can't that nowadays, because they haven't actually passed
a law to do it. But now we know they want it.
<p>
What will they do to the women they convict? Execute them, I suppose.
Right-wingers love the death penalty.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_((satire)_Stan_lee_corpse)
title: (Satire) Stan Lee's Corpse Sells At Auction
uri: (Satire)-Stan-Lee-s-Corpse-Sells-At-Auction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_((satire)_Stan_lee_corpse)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Original Stan Lee Corpse Sells At 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/original-stan-lee-corpse-sells-at-auction-for-5-millio-1848704543">Auction For $5 Million.</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_((satire)_wendys_periodic_table)
title: (Satire) Several Wendy's Menu Items Added to Periodic Table
uri: (Satire)-Several-Wendy-s-Menu-Items-Added-to-Periodic-Table
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_((satire)_wendys_periodic_table)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Several Wendy’s Menu Items Added To Periodic Table As Part
Of 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/several-wendy-s-menu-items-added-to-periodic-table-as-p-1848700551">New Sponsorship Deal.</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(fireproof_australia)
title: Who are Fireproof Australia?
uri: Who-are-Fireproof-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(fireproof_australia)
content:
 
<p>
Fireproof Australia protests demanding the state do more to help people
whose houses 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220410054549/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/10/fireproof-australia-who-are-the-radical-extinction-rebellion-splinter-group">are destroyed by wildfires.</a>
<p>
The question of tactics is secondary, in my view. I support
Extinction Rebellion because it focuses on the heart of the problem,
on the disease rather than the symptoms.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(having_kids_journalist)
title: As a science journalist I'm reconsidering having kids.
uri: As-a-science-journalist-I-m-reconsidering-having-kids
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(having_kids_journalist)
content:
 
<p>
*As a science journalist I'm reconsidering having kids. 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220411061615/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/10/as-a-science-journalist-im-reconsidering-having-kids-im-not-the-only-one">I'm not the
only one.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(jahner_impact_germany)
title: Historian thinks about what made Germany civil and peaceful after WWII
uri: Historian-thinks-about-what-made-Germany-civil-and-peaceful-after-WWII
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(jahner_impact_germany)
content:
 
<p>
A German historian thinks about what made Germany become civil and 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220411054948/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/09/harald-jahner-american-culture-had-a-very-pacifying-effect-on-germany">peaceful
after World War II.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(uk_nuclear_energy_strategy)
title: Johnson to build more nuclear power
uri: Johnson-to-build-more-nuclear-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_April_2022_(uk_nuclear_energy_strategy)
content:
 
<p>
Bogus Johnson now wants to build more nuclear power, plus sea-based
wind power, while finding and excuse to 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220410175237/https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/06/pm-to-put-nuclear-power-at-heart-of-uks-energy-strategy">reject land-based wind power
and solar power.</a>
<p>
There is no rational reason for this as energy policy. It won't
reduce prices, it won't stop the import of Russian fossil fuels.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Renewable_energy_generation)
title: Renewable energy generation
uri: Renewable-energy-generation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Renewable_energy_generation)
content:
 
<p>
  Renewable energy generation grew fast in 2021, by past standards.
  But <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/solar-wind-surge-2021-another-testament-renewable-energys-resilience">not fast enough to avoid global heating disaster</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Union_victory)
title: Union victory
uri: Union-victory
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Union_victory)
content:
 
<p>
  Describing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/10/chris-smalls-amazon-union-staten-island">the organizing methods</a> that led, over years, to a union victory
  at one Amazon warehouse.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Gratis_bus_trip)
title: Gratis bus trip
uri: Gratis-bus-trip
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Gratis_bus_trip)
content:
 
<p>
  Texas Governor Abbott said he would forcibly take border-crossers to
  Washington DC against their will.  He received a hostile reaction and
  changed the plan.  Now he says he will offer them a gratis bus trip to
  Washington.
<p>
  I don't see anything wrong in his making them that offer -- provided
  that's really what happens.  But you can't trust Republicans to keep
  their commitments to anyone that is disprivileged, or even to anyone
  not filthy rich.  Their contempt for the weak is unrestrained.  Who
  knows what nasty things they might do, to unauthorized immigrants who
  decline the offer, or to make sure that they "choose" to go.
<p>
  So I suggest sending spanish-speaking federal marshals to monitor the
  whole operation, including the stage of asking who wants to go and who
  does not, and what happens afterwards to both groups, inviting reports
  and audio/video recordings of any abuses.  A marshall should ride in
  each bus.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Urgent:_Lockheed)
title: Urgent: Lockheed
uri: Urgent-Lockheed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Urgent:_Lockheed)
content:
 
<p>
Everyone: call on Lockheed to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-lockheed-martin-to-begin-conversion-to-peaceful-industries?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=">start converting to peaceful industries</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Martha Wright Prison Phone Justice Act
uri: Urgent-Martha-Wright-Prison-Phone-Justice-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Urgent:_Martha_Wright_Prison_Phone_Justice_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Urgent:_Martha_Wright_Prison_Phone_Justice_Act)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: Fax your members of Congress to tell them to
  <a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/go/351768?t=1006&akid=53213%2E1242918%2EkAJnSV">pass the Martha Wright Prison Phone Justice Act</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Urgent:_More_money_to_communities)
title: Urgent: More money to communities
uri: Urgent-More-money-to-communities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Urgent:_More_money_to_communities)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/congress-put-people-before-the-pentagon?source=em20220407&t=1006&akid=7703%2E223515%2EcFz5pZ">give more money to our communities
  and less to the military</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Keep single-use plastics out of government purchases
uri: Urgent-Keep-single-use-plastics-out-of-government-purchases
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Urgent:_Keep_single-use_plastics_out_of_government_purchases)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Urgent:_Keep_single-use_plastics_out_of_government_purchases)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on the Biden administration to <a href-"https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=48890">keep single-use
  plastics out of federal government purchases</a>.
<p>
  To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a> from the web site, use <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">the Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Stop distributing single-use plastics in national parks
uri: Urgent-Stop-distributing-single-use-plastics-in-national-parks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_distributing_single-use_plastics_in_national_parks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_distributing_single-use_plastics_in_national_parks)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to <a href="https://uspirg.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=45543">stop
  distributing single-use plastics in US national parks</a>.
<p>
  To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a> from the web site, use <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">the Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Support the Stop Wall Street Looting act
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Stop-Wall-Street-Looting-act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Urgent:_Support_the_Stop_Wall_Street_Looting_act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_April_2022_(Urgent:_Support_the_Stop_Wall_Street_Looting_act)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: phone your senators to support the Stop Wall Street Looting act.
  A brief summary is:
</p>
<ul>
  <li>Make private equity executives legally liable for the damage
    they cause;</li>
  <li>Close tax loopholes and change rules that encourage predatory
    financial activities;</li>
  <li>Protect workers if employers go bankrupt;</li>
  <li>Require private funds to be fair and transparent with investors
    about costs and returns</li>
</ul>


<li><a name="12_April_2022_((Satire)_trojan_contraceptive)" /> 12 April 2022 (<a class="titlelink" href="#12_April_2022_((Satire)_trojan_contraceptive)">(satire) Trojan Introduces New Contraceptive</a>)
<p>
(satire) *Trojan Introduces New Contraceptive Fife For Charming Sperm 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/trojan-introduces-new-contraceptive-fife-for-charming-s-1848704625">Out Of Vaginal Canal.</a>*


<li><a name="12_April_2022_(pentagon_bloat_china)" /> 12 April 2022 (<a class="titlelink" href="#12_April_2022_(pentagon_bloat_china)">China's commitment to decarbonization is incomplete.</a>)
<p>
*As US Funds Pentagon Bloat, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/08/us-funds-pentagon-bloat-china-investments-green-energy-soar">China Investments in Green Energy Soar.</a>*
<p>
China's commitment to decarbonization is incomplete.  It is building
many new coal-fired power plants, so the electric vehicles it is
building will in fact be powered by fossil fuels for some decades.
<p>
However, the US is not much better.


<li><a name="12_April_2022_(soldier_atrocities)" /> 12 April 2022 (<a class="titlelink" href="#12_April_2022_(soldier_atrocities)">The Idea of a Clean and Efficient War Is a Dangerous Lie</a>)
<p>
The dynamics of an army at war systematically pressures and inspires
soldiers to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/08/idea-clean-and-efficient-war-dangerous-lie">commit atrocities.</a>
<p>
So we see them in all armies.
<p>
This is why the crime of 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/18/all-war-criminals-must-be-held-accountable-russia-us-and-elsewhere">aggressive war is so grave.</a>
<p>
Putin's army seems to order soldiers to commit atrocities. But even
armies which try to enforce laws against atrocities face constant
temptation to disregard or cover up the atrocities that 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210826061744/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/14/damned-either-way-biden-opts-out-of-afghanistan-as-us-tires-of-forever-wars">its soldiers
have committed.</a>
<p>
Joining the International Criminal Court 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/08/us-invasion-iraq-russias-assault-ukraine-we-need-global-standard-war-crimes">can firm up those efforts.</a>


<li><a name="12_April_2022_(starbucks_union_win)" /> 12 April 2022 (<a class="titlelink" href="#12_April_2022_(starbucks_union_win)">Several Starbucks stores' workers voting to unionize</a>)
<p>
13 Starbucks stores' workers have voted to unionize.  180 more stores 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/07/union-once-again-cleans-starbucks-clock-worker-wins-against-coffee-giant-continue">are planning to follow.</a>
<p>
Only one site
has voted not to unionize.


<li><a name="12_April_2022_(amazon_alabama_union)" /> 12 April 2022 (<a class="titlelink" href="#12_April_2022_(amazon_alabama_union)">Amazon warehouse in Alabama voted on unionization</a>)
<p>
The workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama voted on unionization.
The outcome is not clear, because some ballots are being challenged.
Meanwhile, the workers accuse Amazon of using illegal methods to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/07/labor-group-files-objections-amazons-conduct-during-alabama-union-election">pressure the workers.</a>
It is standard practice for companies to violate these laws, because
the boss would rather take the risk of paying a small fine than have a
union.
<p>
It is no accident that the laws that protect workers' rights are so hard
to enforce.  Businesses lobby for this, and plutocratist politicians
are eager to be bought.


 


title: Urgent: Call on Home Depot to protect Boreal forest
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Home-Depot-to-protect-Boreal-forest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Home_Depot_to_protect_Boreal_forest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Home_Depot_to_protect_Boreal_forest)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on Home Depot to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=48625">protect the Boreal forest</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Support Protect America's Children from Toxic Pesticides Act
uri: Urgent-Support-Protect-America-s-Children-from-Toxic-Pesticides-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Urgent:_Support_Protect_America's_Children_from_Toxic_Pesticides_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Urgent:_Support_Protect_America's_Children_from_Toxic_Pesticides_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=48981&supporter_KEY=229474&uid=80194c17d0fbbc71ce12626b1b44954e&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:105237&utm_campaign=EAC4-FCNS:WILDLIFE:BEES-0222&utm_content=EM9:02C:0HH-LLE">support the Protect America's
Children from Toxic Pesticides Act</a>.
<p>
To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a>
from the web site, use the <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Affirm validity of the Equal Rights Amendment
uri: Urgent-Affirm-validity-of-the-Equal-Rights-Amendment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Urgent:_Affirm_validity_of_the_Equal_Rights_Amendment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Urgent:_Affirm_validity_of_the_Equal_Rights_Amendment)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-equal-rights-amendment-ratification-now">affirm the validity</a> of the Equal Rights Amendment.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: High military casualties in the Ukraine
uri: High-military-casualties-in-the-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(High_military_casualties_in_the_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(High_military_casualties_in_the_Ukraine)

content:
 
<p>

*Russians <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/08/russians-start-to-see-evidence-of-high-military-casualties-in-ukraine">start to see evidence</a> of high military casualties in
 Ukraine.*
<p>
This may show them that Putin is bullshitting them.

 


title: Foreign investors banned from buying homes in Canada
uri: Foreign-investors-banned-from-buying-homes-in-Canada
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Foreign_investors_banned_from_buying_homes_in_Canada)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Foreign_investors_banned_from_buying_homes_in_Canada)

content:
 
<p>

Canada has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/08/canada-bans-foreign-investors-buying-homes-housing-market">banned foreign investors</a> from buying homes in Canada.
(Except those who will actually live in a home they buy.)
This is wise; other countries should do it.
<p>
However, it might be slightly better to tax homes owned by foreigners
(except homes they reside in) at a very high rate.  That would deal
with the problem of homes foreigners have already bought.

 


title: Assad accused of seizing possessions of political prisoners
uri: Assad-accused-of-seizing-possessions-of-political-prisoners
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Assad_accused_of_seizing_possessions_of_political_prisoners)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Assad_accused_of_seizing_possessions_of_political_prisoners)

content:
 
<p>

Accusing Assad of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/apr/08/syria-billion-dollar-seizure-of-protesters-property-akin-to-scare-tactic">seizing the possessions</a> (including homes) of
political prisoners, amounting to 1.5 billion dollars.

 


title: Brazil military posed as NGOs on social media
uri: Brazil-military-posed-as-NGOs-on-social-media
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Brazil_military_posed_as_NGOs_on_social_media)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Brazil_military_posed_as_NGOs_on_social_media)

content:
 
<p>

*Brazil military "posed as NGOs on social media" to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/07/brazil-military-posed-as-ngos-on-social-media-to-play-down-deforestation">play down deforestation</a>.*
<p>
Why, I wonder, does the military wish to protect deforestation?
It's not likely that military activity is causing the deforestation.
I suspect that the military has joined in a corrupt plan to support 
plutocrats that profit from deforestation.

 


title: Call to fine the wrecker until he complies with order to turn over files
uri: Call-to-fine-the-wrecker-until-he-complies-with-order-to-turn-over-fil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Call_to_fine_the_wrecker_until_he_complies_with_order_to_turn_over_files)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Call_to_fine_the_wrecker_until_he_complies_with_order_to_turn_over_files)

content:
 
<p>

* Attorney general Letitia James requests <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/07/trump-new-york-attorney-general-judge-contempt-request">calls for fines</a> [of $10,000
   per day] until [the wrecker] complies with order to turn over files
   related to his businesses.*
<p>
$10,000 amounts to 3.65 million per year.  That may not be enough to get
the wrecker to comply &mdash; he could simply pay the fine.
<p>
Can New York State jail him until he complies?  I think that would do
the job.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(New_Zealand_feral_cats)
title: New Zealand feral cats
uri: New-Zealand-feral-cats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(New_Zealand_feral_cats)
content:
 
<p>

New Zealand should treat feral cats as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/07/new-zealands-cats-are-decimating-native-wildlife-should-they-be-treated-as-pests">pests to be eliminated</a>,
like the other introduced predators, to protect the endangered birds.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Shooting_prisoners_of_war)
title: Shooting prisoners of war
uri: Shooting-prisoners-of-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Shooting_prisoners_of_war)
content:
 
<p>

A <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> soldier was recorded describing by radio a practice of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/07/russian-soldiers-discussed-killing-civilians-in-radio-intercepts">shooting prisoners of war after interrogating them</a>.
<p>
That was clearly not a matter of spontaneous individual crimes
stemming from rage or panic.  The commanders had to be responsible for
those crimes.

 


title: Article about Putin's career since 1999
uri: Article-about-Putin-s-career-since-1999
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Article_about_Putin's_career_since_1999)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Article_about_Putin's_career_since_1999)

content:
 
<p>

This article <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/09/understanding-vladimir-putin-the-man-who-fooled-the-world">recounts Putin's career since 1999</a>, including how he step
by step centralized all political power, then all communication
influence, under his control.

 


title: Companies pretend to reduce emissions while increasing them
uri: Companies-pretend-to-reduce-emissions-while-increasing-them
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Companies_pretend_to_reduce_emissions_while_increasing_them)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Companies_pretend_to_reduce_emissions_while_increasing_them)

content:
 
<p>

Companies such as Nike and H&M use quirks in definitions to pretend
that they are reducing greenhouse gas emissions, when in fact their
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/09/why-eco-conscious-fashion-brands-can-continue-to-increase-emissions">emissions are increasing</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Life_expectancy_in_US_goes_down)
title: Life expectancy in US goes down
uri: Life-expectancy-in-US-goes-down
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Life_expectancy_in_US_goes_down)
content:
 
<p>

Life expectancy in the US has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/08/drop-life-expectancy-speaks-volumes-about-how-us-handled-covid-expert">gone down 2.6 years</a> since 2019.
Other wealthy countries lost around .3 years.
Overall, the US now has a life expectancy 5 years shorter then
those other countries.
<p>
I'm sure a considerable fraction of this was caused by the
crush-the-poor Covid-spreading party.

 


title: Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch Moscow offices closed
uri: Amnesty-International-and-Human-Rights-Watch-Moscow-offices-closed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Amnesty_International_and_Human_Rights_Watch_Moscow_offices_closed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Amnesty_International_and_Human_Rights_Watch_Moscow_offices_closed)

content:
 
<p>

Putin has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/08/kremlin-shutters-amnesty-human-rights-watch-offices-moscow">closed the Moscow offices</a> of Amnesty International and Human
Rights Watch.

 


title: Blockade of power plant burning Manchin family coal
uri: Blockade-of-power-plant-burning-Manchin-family-coal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Blockade_of_power_plant_burning_Manchin_family_coal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Blockade_of_power_plant_burning_Manchin_family_coal)

content:
 
<p>

Protesters plan to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/07/mass-action-planned-heart-joe-manchins-coal-empire">blockade a West Virginia power plant</a> that burns
Manchin family coal.

 


title: (satire) DJ gets the dance floor thinking
uri: (satire)-DJ-gets-the-dance-floor-thinking
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_((satire)_DJ_gets_the_dance_floor_thinking)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_((satire)_DJ_gets_the_dance_floor_thinking)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Avant-Garde DJ Really <a href="https://www.theonion.com/avant-garde-dj-really-gets-the-dance-floor-thinking-1848700536">Gets The Dance Floor Thinking</a>.*

 


title: Government press representatives in new media jobs
uri: Government-press-representatives-in-new-media-jobs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Government_press_representatives_in_new_media_jobs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Government_press_representatives_in_new_media_jobs)

content:
 
<p>

The flow of government press representatives into news media jobs
tends to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/10/jen-psaki-white-house-tv-msnbc-news-politics">tarnish both sides</a>.

 


title: Tories can't see way to treating Ukrainian refugees better
uri: Tories-can-t-see-way-to-treating-Ukrainian-refugees-better
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Tories_can't_see_way_to_treating_Ukrainian_refugees_better)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Tories_can't_see_way_to_treating_Ukrainian_refugees_better)

content:
 
<p>

The Tories are so habituated to demonizing anyone who would like to live in
the UK, and creating bureaucratic nightmares to keep them out, that they
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/10/still-in-thrall-to-rightwing-obsession-tories-spin-lies-against-victims-of-war">can't see their way to treating Ukrainian refugees any better</a>.

 


title: Call to nationalize dominant US fossil fuel companies
uri: Call-to-nationalize-dominant-US-fossil-fuel-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Call_to_nationalize_dominant_US_fossil_fuel_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Call_to_nationalize_dominant_US_fossil_fuel_companies)

content:
 
<p>

Economist Robert Pollin calls for nationalizing the three dominant US
fossil fuel companies, so as to face <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/08/fight-climate-emergency-nationalizing-us-fossil-fuel-industry-says-top-economist">less resistance to shutting the
fossil fuel companies gradually down</a>.

 


title: Scientists participated in civil disobedience
uri: Scientists-participated-in-civil-disobedience
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Scientists_participated_in_civil_disobedience)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Scientists_participated_in_civil_disobedience)

content:
 
<p>

Over a thousand scientists participated in civil disobedience,
blocking doors and so on, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/07/dozens-arrested-scientists-worldwide-mobilize-demand-climate-revolution">demanding adequate action</a> to reduce climate
mayhem to a level we can survive.

 


title: Visitor gifts given to the corrupter as president
uri: Visitor-gifts-given-to-the-corrupter-as-president
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Visitor_gifts_given_to_the_corrupter_as_president)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Visitor_gifts_given_to_the_corrupter_as_president)

content:
 
<p>

The corrupter <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/09/politics/state-department-trump-administration-foreign-gifts/index.html">did not hand in a list of gifts</a> that visitors gave to
him as president during 2020.
These gifts belong to the US government, not to whoever was president.
One must suspect that the corrupter has walked off with public property.

 


title: Donald Trump Jr. pushed to declare the corrupter the winner
uri: Donald-Trump-Jr-pushed-to-declare-the-corrupter-the-winner
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Donald_Trump_Jr._pushed_to_declare_the_corrupter_the_winner)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Donald_Trump_Jr._pushed_to_declare_the_corrupter_the_winner)

content:
 
<p>

The corrupter's son, Donald Trump Jr., started privately pushing
to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/09/opinions/trump-jr-text-messages-coup-obeidallah/index.html">cut short the electoral process</a> and declare his father the winner,
two days after election day, before the true result was even known.
<p>
More <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/09/trump-jr-pushed-meadows-overturn-election-votes-were-counted-texts-show">info</a>.

 


title: Failure of nationwide standardized tests
uri: Failure-of-nationwide-standardized-tests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Failure_of_nationwide_standardized_tests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Failure_of_nationwide_standardized_tests)

content:
 
<p>

Nationwide standardized tests have been tried for decades in several
different varieties, each supposedly going to make US public education
better, and each a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/09/after-over-4-decades-failure-time-ban-high-stakes-standardized-testing-regime">failure in its own terms</a>.
Each time they fail, the proponents insist on trying another variation.
<p>
How about getting rid of them entirely?

 


title: CDC's message to public regarding Covid-19
uri: CDC-s-message-to-public-regarding-Covid-19
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(CDC's_message_to_public_regarding_Covid-19)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(CDC's_message_to_public_regarding_Covid-19)

content:
 
<p>

The CDC's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/10/public-health-experts-raise-alarm-amid-capitol-hill-covid-19-outbreak">current message to the public</a> is, if the hospitals in your
county are not close to being packed with Covid-19 patients, relax and
don't worry about taking precautions.
<p>
To the extent that local governments base their rules on this
guidance, it will tend to encourage careless contagion.

 


title: UK debts handed to collection agencies
uri: UK-debts-handed-to-collection-agencies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(UK_debts_handed_to_collection_agencies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(UK_debts_handed_to_collection_agencies)

content:
 
<p>

Many UK government agencies are quick to hand debts of a few dollars
worth to a collection agency, which will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/apr/10/uk-councils-turn-to-bailiffs-to-collect-tolls">tack on a few hundred more
and ruin someone's life</a>.
<p>
The agency will presume that any bureaucratic confusion is your fault,
and that justifies nasty treatment of you.

 


title: Challenge of investigating Putin forces' war crimes
uri: Challenge-of-investigating-Putin-forces-war-crimes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Challenge_of_investigating_Putin_forces'_war_crimes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Challenge_of_investigating_Putin_forces'_war_crimes)

content:
 
<p>

The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/11/russian-war-crimes-prosecution-ukraine">challenge of investigating and prosecuting</a> the Putin forces'
apparent war crimes.

 


title: Thug pushed and fractured skull of Martin Gugino
uri: Thug-pushed-and-fractured-skull-of-Martin-Gugino
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Thug_pushed_and_fractured_skull_of_Martin_Gugino)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Thug_pushed_and_fractured_skull_of_Martin_Gugino)

content:
 
<p>

A Buffalo <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> pushed Martin Gugino to the ground and fractured his skull.
This was judged by an arbitration procedure which <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/10/buffalo-police-cleared-over-pushing-75-year-old-george-floyd-protester">predictably ruled that the
thug did nothing wrong</a>.
<p>
Gugino is suing the city, but such damages are paid by the city, not the <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a>
who did the damage.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Ambulance_service_in_the_UK)
title: Ambulance service in the UK
uri: Ambulance-service-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Ambulance_service_in_the_UK)
content:
 
<p>

The Tories have run down ambulance service in the UK to the point where
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/11/england-ambulance-service-failing-patients-paramedics-nhs-999-calls">patients wait hours</a> (and get sicker).

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(12_year_drought_in_Santiago,_Chile)
title: 12 year drought in Santiago, Chile
uri: 12-year-drought-in-Santiago-Chile
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(12_year_drought_in_Santiago,_Chile)
content:
 
<p>

Santiago, Chile, has been in drought for 12 years and there <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/11/santiago-chile-ration-water-drought">isn't enough water
to keep it flowing</a> in the city all the time.
<p>
Basically, northern Chile (along with Peru) is getting wiped out by
<a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.

 


title: US' continued support for Crown Prince Bone Saw
uri: US-continued-support-for-Crown-Prince-Bone-Saw
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(US'_continued_support_for_Crown_Prince_Bone_Saw)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(US'_continued_support_for_Crown_Prince_Bone_Saw)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/mehdi-hasan-asks-official-why-biden-can-call-putin-war-criminal-not-mbs">Pressing the US</a> on the issue of its continuing support for Crown
Prince Bone Saw.

 


title: Teacher denounces Taliban for closing schools for women
uri: Teacher-denounces-Taliban-for-closing-schools-for-women
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Teacher_denounces_Taliban_for_closing_schools_for_women)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#13_April_2022_(Teacher_denounces_Taliban_for_closing_schools_for_women)

content:
 
<p>

A former teacher in Kabul <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/11/girls-kabul-afghanistan-taliban-school-close">denounces the Taliban</a> for closing schools
for women.
<p>
I wish I could see a way to change this.

 


title: Landmines detecting people walking nearby
uri: Landmines-detecting-people-walking-nearby
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Landmines_detecting_people_walking_nearby)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Landmines_detecting_people_walking_nearby)

content:
 
<p>
  The latest Russian landmines <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/29/ukraine-russia-uses-banned-antipersonnel-landmines">detect the footsteps of people walking
  nearby</a>.  Putin forces deployed them at a distance using missiles -- in
  effect a sort of mine-dropping cluster bomb.
<p>
  Interestingly, these mines are proof that potential atrocities were
  set up by the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>, not by putative omnipresent but never-seen
  Ukrainian Nazis bent on killing thousands of Ukrainians to make a
  false accusation.  Only the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> had these ultra-modern
  mine-missiles.
<p>
  The US should join most of the world's countries and <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/11/long-lasting-danger-cluster-bomb-use">sign up to the
  prohibition of cluster bombs</a>.

 


title: Data illegally collected from children
uri: Data-illegally-collected-from-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Data_illegally_collected_from_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Data_illegally_collected_from_children)

content:
 
<p>
  The Federal Trade Commission ordered two companies to <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/03/ftc-takes-action-against-company-formerly-known-weight-watchers-illegally-collecting-kids-sensitive">destroy all the
  data they illegally collected from children, plus all work product
  based on such data</a>.
<p>
  That represents a recognition that the product of collecting data can
  be morphed into various forms, including algorithms derived from deep
  learning, and allowing the culprits to retain any form whatsoever of
  that data would let them make a monkey out of any and all privacy
  laws.
<p>
  On the front end, however, this shows how weak US privacy protection
  is.  It protects only children, and that protection disappears when
  they get "consent".  <a href="/articles/real-privacy-laws.html">That is not enough</a>.

 


title: London apartment fire and recommendations for building codes
uri: London-apartment-fire-and-recommendations-for-building-codes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(London_apartment_fire_and_recommendations_for_building_codes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(London_apartment_fire_and_recommendations_for_building_codes)

content:
 
<p>
  Tory ministers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/10/grenfell-tower-inquiry-exposes-miscommunication-poor-governance-and-misguided-policies">received recommendations for changed building codes after a London apartment building fire in 2009</a>, but paid hardly any attention.
<p>
  The various reasons come down to giving the matter low priority.
  Basically, the priority was to help business profit more by relaxing
  regulations, and not looking hard when businesses stretched the
  regulations further -- which is what caused the fire in the Grenfell
  building.

 


title: Right-wing campaigns to recall school board members
uri: Right-wing-campaigns-to-recall-school-board-members
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Right-wing_campaigns_to_recall_school_board_members)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Right-wing_campaigns_to_recall_school_board_members)

content:
 
<p>
  Right-wing extremists <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/10/2091225/-Rightwing-Money-Escalates-School-Wars?_=2022-04-10T14:25:32.000-07:00">fund campaigns to recall school board members</a>.

 


title: Covid-19 vaccine no more likely to cause myopericarditis
uri: Covid-19-vaccine-no-more-likely-to-cause-myopericarditis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Covid-19_vaccine_no_more_likely_to_cause_myopericarditis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Covid-19_vaccine_no_more_likely_to_cause_myopericarditis)

content:
 
<p>
  Covid-19 vaccine is no more likely than other vaccines to cause
  the rare temporary condition, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/apr/11/heart-inflammation-after-covid-vaccine-no-more-common-than-after-other-jabs">myopericarditis</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Philadelphia_and_Covid_cases)
title: Philadelphia and Covid cases
uri: Philadelphia-and-Covid-cases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Philadelphia_and_Covid_cases)
content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/11/philadelphia-indoor-mask-mandate-covid">Philadelphia has brought back mask requirements</a>, having seen
  the Covid case rate increase rapidly.
<p>
  New York City and Boston have high rates of Covid-19 and should have
  mask requirements too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Frackwell)
title: Frackwell
uri: Frackwell
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Frackwell)
content:
 
<p>
  A fossil fuel company <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/11/ineos-wants-to-drill-uk-fracking-test-site-in-attempt-to-show-it-is-safe-jim-ratcliffe">wants to do a frackwell in England</a> to "to show
  that a competent operator can be trusted to develop the technology
  safely."
  This proposed "test" is a swindle, for two reasons.
<p>
  Suppose the test fails because the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#16_November_2021_(No_running_water)">local water supply is contaminated</a>.
  (That has happened in the US.)
  What will the company do to correct
  that damage?  Without a commitment to do that, this "test" would be
  carried out at great risk to the public.  "We risk not finding a new
  business, you risk permanent loss of your water supply."
<p>
  The test could also fail because the well appears to "work."
  Those wells would continue to be used for many years, and the resulting
  increase in greenhouse gas emissions would certainly <em>not</em> be safe.

 


title: British teachers call for removal of thugs from schools
uri: British-teachers-call-for-removal-of-thugs-from-schools
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(British_teachers_call_for_removal_of_thugs_from_schools)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(British_teachers_call_for_removal_of_thugs_from_schools)

content:
 
<p>

British teachers are fed up with the cruelty that <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> stationed in
schools display towards students, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/apr/11/teachers-say-they-no-longer-want-police-based-in-schools-after-child-q-outrage">voted to call for the thugs'
removal</a>.
<p>
In my view, the race of the students who are treated cruelly is an
insignificant detail, because it would be wrong regardless of who is
the victim.  But it doesn't surprise me that bigotry and cruelty tend
to go together.  That pattern is widespread: bigotry brings out a
person's tendency towards cruelty.

 


title: Proposed vaccine patent waiver has been leaked
uri: Proposed-vaccine-patent-waiver-has-been-leaked
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Proposed_vaccine_patent_waiver_has_been_leaked)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Proposed_vaccine_patent_waiver_has_been_leaked)

content:
 
<p>

The text of the proposed vaccine patent waiver has been leaked.  It
gives only a small part of the permissions needed to vaccinate the
world.  Activists call on South Africa to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/11/leaked-wto-covid-patent-waiver-text-very-bad">reject this deal and
denounce it</a>.
<p>
Four kinds of legal obstacles block the making of generic mRMS
vaccines: patents, secrecy, propagating culture contracts, and special
restrictions on generic medicines.  The first two are covered in the
treaty I call TRIPES (*); the last two are not.  Perhaps countries
can simply legislate themselves exceptions for the last two,
<p>
* Trade-Restricting Impediments to Production, Education and Science:
a treaty that gives powerful corporations global power.  The world
should abolish the TRIPES accord; waiving parts of it could be a first
step.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Affinity_Partners)
title: Affinity Partners
uri: Affinity-Partners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Affinity_Partners)
content:
 
<p>

Crown Prince Bone Saw <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/hes-cashing-kushner-firm-gets-2-billion-saudi-fund-run-mbs">invested 2 billion dollars</a> in a corporation,
Affinity Partners, recently started by Jared Kushner.
<p>
Speculation says that this is a payoff for helping protecting the
prince from any punishment for <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#1_April_2022_(Erdo%C4%9Fan's_relations_with_Crown_Prince_Bone_Saw)">organizing the murder of journalist
Jamal Khashoggi</a>.

 


title: (satire) Financial advisor recommends fraud
uri: (satire)-Financial-advisor-recommends-fraud
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_((satire)_Financial_advisor_recommends_fraud)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_((satire)_Financial_advisor_recommends_fraud)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Financial Advisor <a href="https://www.theonion.com/financial-advisor-recommends-fraud-1848769307">Recommends Fraud</a>.*

 


title: (satire) Gaping void in parents' lives
uri: (satire)-Gaping-void-in-parents-lives
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_((satire)_Gaping_void_in_parents'_lives)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_((satire)_Gaping_void_in_parents'_lives)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Parents Ask If Son Wouldn't Mind Stopping By To <a href="https://www.theonion.com/parents-ask-if-son-wouldn-t-mind-stopping-by-to-fix-gap-1848743394">Fix Gaping
Void In Their Lives</a>.*

 


title: Defeating autocracy key to combating climate crisis
uri: Defeating-autocracy-key-to-combating-climate-crisis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Defeating_autocracy_key_to_combating_climate_crisis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Defeating_autocracy_key_to_combating_climate_crisis)

content:
 
<p>

Bill McKibben: *Putin's Aggression Shows Why Defeating Autocracy Is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/11/putins-aggression-shows-why-defeating-autocracy-key-combating-climate-crisis">Key
to Combating Climate Crisis</a>.*

 


title: Resist pressure to condemn and exclude Russians in the arts
uri: Resist-pressure-to-condemn-and-exclude-Russians-in-the-arts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Resist_pressure_to_condemn_and_exclude_Russians_in_the_arts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Resist_pressure_to_condemn_and_exclude_Russians_in_the_arts)

content:
 
<p>

Let us <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/11/dostoevsky-was-not-villain-neither-are-war-resisters-within-russia">resist the pressure to condemn and exclude</a> all Russians in the arts.

 


title: UK labour party has gone full planet-roaster
uri: UK-labour-party-has-gone-full-planet-roaster
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(UK_labour_party_has_gone_full_planet-roaster)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(UK_labour_party_has_gone_full_planet-roaster)

content:
 
<p>

The UK Labour Party has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/disgrace-uk-labour-party-slammed-seeking-injunction-against-climate-activists">gone full planet-roaster</a>, calling for harsh
injunctions that would put climate defense protesters in prison.

 


title: Sonic pollution from boats and ships
uri: Sonic-pollution-from-boats-and-ships
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Sonic_pollution_from_boats_and_ships)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Sonic_pollution_from_boats_and_ships)

content:
 
<p>

Sonic pollution from boats and ships is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/12/ocean-of-noise-sonic-pollution-hurting-marine-life">making it hard for orcas
to find prey</a>, or find their families, in some areas.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Global_food_shortage)
title: Global food shortage
uri: 2022-04-15-Global-food-shortage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Global_food_shortage)
content:
 
<p>

The global food shortage <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/apr/12/quarter-of-a-billion-people-now-face-extreme-poverty-warns-oxfam">threatens a quarter of a billion people</a> with
extreme poverty.
<p>
The more stressed our food systems become, the smaller the margin of
safety.  Increasing production increases environmental damage.  Each
increase in efficiency is harder than the previous one.
<p>
The long-term solution is to reduce the human birth rate.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Herd_immunity_now_seems_impossible)
title: Herd immunity now seems impossible
uri: Herd-immunity-now-seems-impossible
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Herd_immunity_now_seems_impossible)
content:
 
<p>

*Herd immunity <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/12/herd-immunity-covid-reinfection-virus-world">now seems impossible</a>. Welcome to the age of Covid reinfection.*
<p>
I am glad to see some attention given to the problem of long Covid.
If vaccination continues to make death unlikely, I think the main
long-term harm done by Covid-19 will be the steady accumulation of
people disabled by it.
<p>
However, treating and helping those disabled by it, as the author
proposes, is not enough.  We need to reduce the number of people that
are disabled by Covid-19 over the coming years.

 


title: Justice O'Connor rejects gerrymandering
uri: Justice-O-Connor-rejects-gerrymandering
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Justice_O'Connor_rejects_gerrymandering)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Justice_O'Connor_rejects_gerrymandering)

content:
 
<p>

Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice O'Connor is a Republican who still
has an idea of civic duty.  So she <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/12/ohio-republican-judge-blocking-party-from-distorting-electoral-districts">rejects gerrymandering</a> designed to
rig elections.  Modern Republicans want to impeach her for that.
<p>
The difference between the two parties is clear.  Democrats will
impeach you for trying to steal an election.  Republicans will impeach
you for not trying to steal an election.

 


title: Sunscreen chemicals accumulating in Mediterranean seagrass
uri: Sunscreen-chemicals-accumulating-in-Mediterranean-seagrass
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Sunscreen_chemicals_accumulating_in_Mediterranean_seagrass)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Sunscreen_chemicals_accumulating_in_Mediterranean_seagrass)

content:
 
<p>

*Sunscreen chemicals <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/12/sunscreen-chemicals-accumulating-in-mediterranean-seagrass-finds-study">accumulating in Mediterranean seagrass</a>&hellip; UV filters absorbed by Posidonia oceanica may have damaging effects on
ecosystems, scientists warn.*

 


title: Bogus Johnson fined for having prohibited party
uri: Bogus-Johnson-fined-for-having-prohibited-party
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_fined_for_having_prohibited_party)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_fined_for_having_prohibited_party)

content:
 
<p>

Bogus Johnson has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/12/boris-johnson-and-rishi-sunak-fined-for-breaking-covid-lockdown-laws">fined officially</a> for having a party with people
from different households when that was prohibited.
That law was being enforced vigorously against everyone else,
and arguably in a manner that was too strict.  But he was totally behind
that rule for everyone else, while covering up his own disobedience.
<p>
Many Britons now hate him for this, and demand his resignation.

 


title: Leaders urge Biden to drop US charges against Assange
uri: Leaders-urge-Biden-to-drop-US-charges-against-Assange
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Leaders_urge_Biden_to_drop_US_charges_against_Assange)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Leaders_urge_Biden_to_drop_US_charges_against_Assange)

content:
 
<p>

*Global Progressive Leaders Urge Biden to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/global-progressive-leaders-urge-biden-drop-us-charges-against-assange">Drop US Charges Against Assange</a>.*
<p>
To get its hands on Assange, the US government <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#17_February_2020_(Nils_Melzer_on_Assange)">corrupted first Swedish
justice</a>, then <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#4_March_2020_(Laws_and_treaties)">British justice</a>.
It is clear that in both countries the end result was decided first
and the rulings chosen to procure that result.

 


title: Complications for Biden's aim to aid Putin war crimes probe
uri: Complications-for-Biden-s-aim-to-aid-Putin-war-crimes-probe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Complications_for_Biden's_aim_to_aid_Putin_war_crimes_probe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_April_2022_(Complications_for_Biden's_aim_to_aid_Putin_war_crimes_probe)

content:
 
<p>

*US Limits on ICC Complicate Biden's Aim to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/us-limits-icc-complicate-bidens-aim-aid-putin-war-crimes-probe">Aid Putin War Crimes Probe</a>.*
<p>
The article describes some of the measures that the US adopted to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2006-jan-apr.html#06%20January%202006%20(Pressure%20and%20bribes)">render the International Criminal Court null and void</a>, but doesn't
mention that the US pressured other countries around the world not to
sign up to it. The European Union was too strong to be pressured in
this way, but most countries did as the US bid.
<p>
I agree that when the US recognizes a crime of war, it is likely to
prosecute the perpetrator.  The hard part is getting the US to
recognize such a crime.  For example, there seems to be little move to
make Dubya pay for <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#10_October_2019_(Dubyas_war_crimes)">his war of aggression</a>
which was based on <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-nov-feb.html#8_February_2018_(Colin_Powell">lies</a> that have been exposed.

 


title: Urgent: No cushy jobs for corrupter's former chief of staff
uri: Urgent-No-cushy-jobs-for-corrupter-s-former-chief-of-staff
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Urgent:_No_cushy_jobs_for_corrupter's_former_chief_of_staff)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Urgent:_No_cushy_jobs_for_corrupter's_former_chief_of_staff)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone, tell CBS News: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-cbs-news-no-cushy-jobs-for-trumps-chief-of-staff">No cushy jobs</a> for the corrupter's
former chief of staff.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Costco to eliminate single-use plastic
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Costco-to-eliminate-single-use-plastic
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Costco_to_eliminate_single-use_plastic)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Costco_to_eliminate_single-use_plastic)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on Costco to <a href="https://uspirg.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49670&supporter_KEY=229474&uid=80194c17d0fbbc71ce12626b1b44954e&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:105269&utm_campaign=USP4-FWST:SOLIDWSTRED:PACKAGING-1121&utm_content=EM9:01C:0HH-CCP">eliminate single-use plastic</a> packaging.

 


title: Australia's planned investments in gas facilities
uri: Australia-s-planned-investments-in-gas-facilities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Australia's_planned_investments_in_gas_facilities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Australia's_planned_investments_in_gas_facilities)

content:
 
<p>

Australia's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/13/australias-new-gas-projects-to-struggle-financially-after-2030-if-15c-climate-goal-met-report-says">planned investments in gas facilities</a> are going to prove a
big bust if we don't cause global disaster.
<p>
That means the "investors" are betting on causing disaster.

 


title: Reimbursement of green renovation of old house
uri: Reimbursement-of-green-renovation-of-old-house
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Reimbursement_of_green_renovation_of_old_house)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Reimbursement_of_green_renovation_of_old_house)

content:
 
<p>

Italy will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/13/italys-superbonus-110-scheme-prompts-surge-of-green-home-renovations">reimburse 110%</a> of the cost of a green renovation of an old
house. Over 100,000 renovations have already been approved.

 


title: Uyghur to testify to International Criminal Court
uri: Uyghur-to-testify-to-International-Criminal-Court
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Uyghur_to_testify_to_International_Criminal_Court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Uyghur_to_testify_to_International_Criminal_Court)

content:
 
<p>

Along with a million or more Muslim Uyghurs, some Christians of other
minority groups get imprisoned and tortured similarly.  One is
visiting the US to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/13/former-xinjiang-detainee-arrives-in-us-to-testify-over-china-abuses">testify to the International Criminal Court</a>.
<p>
He reports being forcibly injected in prison with something that may
have caused the unknown debilitating illness that started soon after.
<p>
The US should join the International Criminal Court; that is the way
to give it wholehearted support.

 


title: Hurricanes drop more rain due to global heating
uri: Hurricanes-drop-more-rain-due-to-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Hurricanes_drop_more_rain_due_to_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Hurricanes_drop_more_rain_due_to_global_heating)

content:
 
<p>

Hurricanes drop <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/12/us/hurricane-rainfall-increase-climate-change/index.html">10% more rain per hour</a> nowadays due to global
heating. In some places, this causes widespread floods.

 


title: High loss of workers in UK since start of Covid
uri: High-loss-of-workers-in-UK-since-start-of-Covid
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(High_loss_of_workers_in_UK_since_start_of_Covid)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(High_loss_of_workers_in_UK_since_start_of_Covid)

content:
 
<p>

<p>

The UK has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/12/uk-jobs-market-pandemic-covid-unemployment-public-sector-workers">lost over a million workers</a> since Covid-19 started.
<p>
Some of them decided to retire earlier than planned.  Perhaps they
don't dare go out to work and risk getting Covid-19.  Some of them
have been disabled by Covid-19.  Maybe some are taking care of people
as a result of the death or incapacitation of whoever was taking care
of those people before.  I wonder what other causes there are,
and how each cause relates to Covid-19.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Cost_of_living_crisis_in_the_UK)
title: Cost of living crisis in the UK
uri: Cost-of-living-crisis-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Cost_of_living_crisis_in_the_UK)
content:
 
<p>

*The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/13/cost-of-living-crisis-working-class-families">cost of living crisis</a> [in the UK] has been going on for
decades&hellip; What's new is the utter lack of support for those
that need it the most.*

 


title: Goons and buffoons in the Republican party
uri: Goons-and-buffoons-in-the-Republican-party
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Goons_and_buffoons_in_the_Republican_party)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Goons_and_buffoons_in_the_Republican_party)

content:
 
<p>

Goons and buffoons like Marjorie Greene may seem absurd, but the
Republican Party expects to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/13/extremists-like-marjorie-taylor-greene-are-the-future-of-the-republican-party">follow them to brutal power</a>.
<p>
*Copying the far right doesn’t help mainstream parties. But it can <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2022/apr/13/copying-far-right-doesnt-help-mainstream-parties">boost the
far right</a>.*

 


title: Union-busting consultants becoming less effective
uri: Union-busting-consultants-becoming-less-effective
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Union-busting_consultants_becoming_less_effective)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Union-busting_consultants_becoming_less_effective)

content:
 
<p>

High-priced union-busting consultants are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/13/union-victories-busting-consultants-amazon-tactics">becoming less effective</a>
as workers show more courage and determination against them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(About_Putin's_crushing_of_Chechnya)
title: About Putin's crushing of Chechnya
uri: About-Putin-s-crushing-of-Chechnya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(About_Putin's_crushing_of_Chechnya)
content:
 
<p>

About Putin's crushing of Chechnya, in which he developed the pattern
of mass murder <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/13/russia-ukraine-chechnya-moscow-aggression-putin-victims">now being applied to Ukraine</a>.
<p>
I read about the wars in Chechnya, but it was a small region of Russia
I had not heard of except for Islamist extremism, and the occasional
news coverage didn't make an impression on me.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Seized_Russian_funds)
title: Seized Russian funds
uri: Seized-Russian-funds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Seized_Russian_funds)
content:
 
<p>

Seized Russian funds <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/11/opinions/ukraine-russia-monetary-damages-legislation/index.html">could be used to rebuild Ukraine</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Confirm Gigi Sohn as FCC commissioner
uri: Urgent-Confirm-Gigi-Sohn-as-FCC-commissioner
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Urgent:_Confirm_Gigi_Sohn_as_FCC_commissioner)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Urgent:_Confirm_Gigi_Sohn_as_FCC_commissioner)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://act.freepress.net/sign/confirm_nominee_gigi/?akid=22103.9489429.TwiT80&rd=1&t=1002">confirm Gigi Sohn</a> as an FCC
commissioner.

 


title: Urgent: End the hater's Title 42 "wait in Mexico" policy
uri: Urgent-End-the-hater-s-Title-42-wait-in-Mexico-policy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Urgent:_End_the_hater's_Title_42_wait_in_Mexico_policy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Urgent:_End_the_hater's_Title_42_wait_in_Mexico_policy)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-support-biden-end-trumps-xenophobic-title-42-now">end the hater's Title 42 "wait in Mexico"
policy</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Reject automatic censorship filters
uri: Urgent-Reject-automatic-censorship-filters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Urgent:_Reject_automatic_censorship_filters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Urgent:_Reject_automatic_censorship_filters)

content:
 
<p>

US Citizens: tell Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/keep-our-speech-online-tell-congress-to-reject-the-filter-mandate?nowrapper=true">reject mandatory automatic censorship filters</a>
to be based loosely on copyright.
<p>
This "smart act" will sure make copyright smart.  It will smart so
much we will <a href="https://www.nocensorshipfilter.com/?link_id=0&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-april-25-we-take-action-to-stop-censorship-filters-2&email_referrer=email_1511806&email_subject=creators-of-all-stripes-should-be-screaming">all cry out</a>.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</a>

 


title: Urgent: Check each oil pipeline's environmental impact
uri: Urgent-Check-each-oil-pipeline-s-environmental-impact
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Urgent:_Check_each_oil_pipeline's_environmental_impact)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Urgent:_Check_each_oil_pipeline's_environmental_impact)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Army Corps of Engineers to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-big-oil-from-using-loopholes?source=direct_link&referrer=group-the-climate-reality-project-2&redirect=https://www.climaterealityproject.org/donate/nwp12">check each
proposed oil pipeline's environmental impact</a> instead of approving them
under a blanket order.

 


title: Amazon warehouse workers rate of injury is double
uri: Amazon-warehouse-workers-rate-of-injury-is-double
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Amazon_warehouse_workers_rate_of_injury_is_double)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Amazon_warehouse_workers_rate_of_injury_is_double)

content:
 
<p>

Amazon warehouse workers have almost <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/12/staggering-analysis-finds-amazons-injury-rate-rose-20-last-year">double the rate of work injuries</a>
typical in other warehouses.
<p>
This adds to the many other <a href="amazon.html">reasons not to buy from Amazon</a>.

 


title: Indiana University students on strike
uri: Indiana-University-students-on-strike
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Indiana_University_students_on_strike)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Indiana_University_students_on_strike)

content:
 
<p>

The graduate students at Indiana University are on strike because the
university administration has refused to recognize their union.
<p>
It would make sense for the adjunct professors to organize together with
the grad students.  Why don't they?  My guess is that precarious workers
have fewer rights than students.  They can be junct at any moment.
<p>
In a just country, workers wouldn't have to struggle to get their
rights respected.  Employers that violate their rights would be
prosecuted like muggers.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(How_big_oil_companies_greenwash)
title: How big oil companies greenwash
uri: How-big-oil-companies-greenwash
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(How_big_oil_companies_greenwash)
content:
 
<p>

Big oil companies do greenwashing by <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/12/tricks-trade-analysis-shows-why-big-oil-cannot-be-part-solution">disregarding 3/4 of the
greenhouse emissions</a> of their operations: the part due to their
suppliers.
<p>
They also omit half their methane leaks from reporting.

 


title: Alden Global Capital takes over US newspaper companies
uri: Alden-Global-Capital-takes-over-US-newspaper-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Alden_Global_Capital_takes_over_US_newspaper_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Alden_Global_Capital_takes_over_US_newspaper_companies)

content:
 
<p>

Alden Global Capital <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/12/stripped-parts-hedge-fund-destroying-us-journalism">takes over US newspaper companies</a> in order to turn
them into profitable censored trash.
<p>
The US needs to change its tax and investment laws so that asset
strippers can't operate in any industry.  The only assets that
strippers should work with are the sexy ones.

 


title: Accusing Wikipedia of becoming too exclusive
uri: Accusing-Wikipedia-of-becoming-too-exclusive
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Accusing_Wikipedia_of_becoming_too_exclusive)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Accusing_Wikipedia_of_becoming_too_exclusive)

content:
 
<p>

Accusing Wikipedia of becoming <a href="https://www.opensourceforu.com/2022/01/an-open-letter-to-maryana-iskander/">too exclusive and "deletionist"</a>,
and giving businesses a dangerous level of influence.

 


title: Fight to kill Mountain Valley Pipeline
uri: Fight-to-kill-Mountain-Valley-Pipeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Fight_to_kill_Mountain_Valley_Pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Fight_to_kill_Mountain_Valley_Pipeline)

content:
 
<p>

The fight to kill the Mountain Valley Pipeline <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/12/after-deluge-court-cases-go-bad-worse-mountain-valley-pipeline">continues in court</a>,
with no final outcome yet.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Mark_of_a_rotten_political_system)
title: Mark of a rotten political system
uri: Mark-of-a-rotten-political-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Mark_of_a_rotten_political_system)
content:
 
<p>

*Boris Johnson’s impunity is the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/13/boris-johnsons-impunity-is-the-mark-of-a-rotten-political-system">mark of a rotten political system</a>.*
<p>
The Tory justice minister has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/13/justice-minister-david-wolfson-resigns-partygate-boris-johnson">resigned</a>, rebuking Bogus Johnson.

 


title: Just Stop Oil representative after a TV interview
uri: Just-Stop-Oil-representative-after-a-TV-interview
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Just_Stop_Oil_representative_after_a_TV_interview)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Just_Stop_Oil_representative_after_a_TV_interview)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/13/just-stop-oil-climate-crisis-good-morning-britain">Just Stop Oil representative after a TV interview</a>: *The worst part is
that these presenters and journalists think they know better than
chief scientists or academics who have been studying the climate
crisis for decades, and they refuse to hear otherwise.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(BBC_warns_of_fake_video)
title: BBC warns of fake video
uri: BBC-warns-of-fake-video
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(BBC_warns_of_fake_video)
content:
 
<p>

*BBC <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/13/bbc-warns-fake-video-claiming-ukraine-carried-out-kramatorsk-attack">warns of fake video</a> claiming Ukraine carried out Kramatorsk attack.*

 


title: Indonesia law passed to punish sexual violence
uri: Indonesia-law-passed-to-punish-sexual-violence
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Indonesia_law_passed_to_punish_sexual_violence)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Indonesia_law_passed_to_punish_sexual_violence)

content:
 
<p>

Indonesia has passed a law to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/apr/13/indonesia-passes-bill-outlawing-sexual-abuse-gender-violence-forced-marriage">punish various sorts of sexual violence</a> and harassment, including forced marriage.

 


title: Extinction Rebellion scientists glued hands to windows
uri: Extinction-Rebellion-scientists-glued-hands-to-windows
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Extinction_Rebellion_scientists_glued_hands_to_windows)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Extinction_Rebellion_scientists_glued_hands_to_windows)

content:
 
<p>

Extinction Rebellion scientists <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/13/xr-scientists-glue-hands-to-business-department-in-london-climate-protest">glued their hands to windows</a> at the
UK's Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Preliminary_war_crimes_assessment)
title: Preliminary war crimes assessment
uri: Preliminary-war-crimes-assessment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Preliminary_war_crimes_assessment)
content:
 
<p>

*   A preliminary war crimes assessment, conducted on behalf of 45
   members of the OSCE, concluded that Russia had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/14/as-russia-continues-to-bomb-ukraine-are-its-weapons-of-choice-getting-worse">engaged in "a clear
   pattern" of war crimes</a>, targeting, for example, hospitals, schools and
   places of shelter during the seven weeks of fighting.*

 


title: Lightning-sparked forest fires in North America
uri: Lightning-sparked-forest-fires-in-North-America
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Lightning-sparked_forest_fires_in_North_America)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Lightning-sparked_forest_fires_in_North_America)

content:
 
<p>

*Lightning-sparked forest fires set to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/apr/14/lightning-sparked-forest-fires-set-to-increase-in-north-america">increase in North America</a>.*
This is because <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> will make fire weather more frequent.

 


title: Campaign accuses rich countries of obstructing Covid-19 vaccine
uri: Campaign-accuses-rich-countries-of-obstructing-Covid-19-vaccine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Campaign_accuses_rich_countries_of_obstructing_Covid-19_vaccine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Campaign_accuses_rich_countries_of_obstructing_Covid-19_vaccine)

content:
 
<p>

A campaign accuses the rich countries of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/13/experts-accuse-rich-nations-creating-perfect-breeding-ground-new-covid-variants">obstructing vaccinating all
of humanity against Covid-19</a>, by upholding the artificial monopolies
of the vaccine companies, and thus encouraging dangerous new variants
of the virus.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Elon_Musk_offered_to_buy_Twitter)
title: Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter
uri: Elon-Musk-offered-to-buy-Twitter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Elon_Musk_offered_to_buy_Twitter)
content:
 
<p>

Elon Musk offered to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/14/elon-musk-buy-twitter-share">buy Twitter</a> &mdash; the whole company.
<p>
He has no sense of social responsibility.  Twitter today, aside from
being inacceptable to use because it requires running nonfree software,
makes imperfect efforts to respect human rights.  Musk might drop that
in the trash.

 


title: Dogger Bank gets protection from bottom-trawling
uri: Dogger-Bank-gets-protection-from-bottom-trawling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Dogger_Bank_gets_protection_from_bottom-trawling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Dogger_Bank_gets_protection_from_bottom-trawling)

content:
 
<p>

The UK has given Dogger Bank <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/14/uk-largest-sandbank-dogger-bank-protection-bottom-trawling">protection from bottom-trawling</a>.
<p>
This is a vital step for protecting endangered ecosystems.
It needs to be done in a lot more parts of the sea bottom.

 


title: Women and Journalists targets of violence in Afghanistan
uri: Women-and-Journalists-targets-of-violence-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Women_and_Journalists_targets_of_violence_in_Afghanistan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Women_and_Journalists_targets_of_violence_in_Afghanistan)

content:
 
<p>

*Women and Journalists Are <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/04/14/afghanistan-taliban-violence-women-journalists/">Targets of Violence</a> in Taliban-Ruled Afghanistan.*
Especially women that protest against repression, and journalists that
cover protests.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Sending_refugees_to_Rwanda)
title: Sending refugees to Rwanda
uri: Sending-refugees-to-Rwanda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(Sending_refugees_to_Rwanda)
content:
 
<p>

Just as Australia has sent refugees to Nauru, and then to Manus Island
in New Guinea, as prisoners, so Tories plan to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/14/uk-asylum-seekers-rwanda-government">send refugees in the UK
to Rwanda</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(If_Elon_Musk_buys_Twitter)
title: If Elon Musk buys Twitter
uri: If-Elon-Musk-buys-Twitter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(If_Elon_Musk_buys_Twitter)
content:
 
<p>

If Elon Musk buys Twitter, he is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/14/how-free-speech-absolutist-elon-musk-would-transform-twitter">likely to reenable the bullshitter's
account</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(UK_wants_refugees_to_wait_in_Rwanda)
title: UK wants refugees to "wait in Rwanda"
uri: UK-wants-refugees-to-wait-in-Rwanda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_April_2022_(UK_wants_refugees_to_wait_in_Rwanda)
content:
 
<p>

The UK wants to force refugees to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/14/rwanda-human-rights-fears-paul-kagame">"wait in Rwanda"</a>, a country whose
president is accused of having exiled dissidents assassinated, and
holding show trials of those he could grab.
<p>
It shouldn't be surprising the UK is not averse to this record, given
that the UK is currently <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#10_December_2021_(UK_agreed_to_extradite_Julian_Assange)">helping the US grab a famous dissident</a> for a
show trial.
<p>
If Rwanda proves too dirty for this use, the UK could try China ;-{.

<li><a name="16_April_2022_(airlines_mask_policy)" /> 16 April 2022 (<a class="titlelink" href="#16_April_2022_(airlines_mask_policy)">Flights cancelled due to Covid illness</a>)
<p>
Some European airlines eliminated the requirement to wear a mask.
Now they are cancelling lots of flights because their 
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/04/07/hundreds-of-flights-cancelled-due-to-covid-illness-immediately-after-airlines-cancelled-mask-policy.html">crew staff are sick.</a>

<li><a name="16_April_2022_(unicorn_book_lgbtq)" /> 16 April 2022 (<a class="titlelink" href="#16_April_2022_(unicorn_book_lgbtq)">Censorship law banned an author from reading aloud</a>)
<p>
Teachers obeying a new Republican censorship law banned an author
from reading aloud from his book, 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220413123945/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/unicorn-book-ban-push-ohio-lgbtq_n_6254a11be4b052d2bd58faa1"><Em>It's Ok to be a Unicorn.</Em></a>


<li><a name="16_April_2022_(home_office_passport)" /> 16 April 2022 (<a class="titlelink" href="#16_April_2022_(home_office_passport)">Visa limbo</a>)
<p>
It's not just hostility that leads the UK government to cause people
great harm in regard to issues of residency. It appears they are
prone to trivial errors, 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220413125524/https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/apr/13/the-home-office-has-kept-my-passport-for-eight-months">and can take months to correct them.</a>


<li><a name="16_April_2022_(england_homes_health_threat)" /> 16 April 2022 (<a class="titlelink" href="#16_April_2022_(england_homes_health_threat)">1/8 of rented homes in England pose health risk</a>)
<p>
1/8 of the rental homes in England violate legal standards with
problems that cause 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220413165811/https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/apr/13/one-in-eight-privately-rented-homes-england-pose-threat-health-mps-say">serious risk to health.</a>
<p>
The agencies that ought to make landlords fix these problems are
hampered by being given insufficient funds by the Tories.

<li><a name="16_April_2022_(foia_safety_laws)" /> 16 April 2022 (<a class="titlelink" href="#16_April_2022_(foia_safety_laws)">How trade secrets swallowed your right to know</a>)
<p>
US businesses are using claims of trade secrecy to override safety laws,
environmental protection laws, worker protection laws, and 
<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/06/foia-be-damned/#but-id-have-to-kill-you">the right to a fair trial.</a>
<p>
The article describes some legal strategies to use in lawsuits, but I
think we need to legislate to weaken trade secret law.  For instance,
trade secrecy must give way to any legitimate public need to know the
information, and government's responsibility to keep the trade secret
secret should be limited to when that is easy to do.


<li><a name="16_April_2022_(filternets_hazard)" /> 16 April 2022 (<a class="titlelink" href="#16_April_2022_(filternets_hazard)">Moral hazard of filter nets</a>)
<p>
If <a href="/glossary.html#guber">Guber</a> and Lyft drivers are independent contractors,
some of what those companies do to them 
<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/07/moral-hazard-of-filternets/#dmas">violates US anti-trust law.</a>


<li><a name="16_April_2022_(copyright_filters)" /> 16 April 2022 (<a class="titlelink" href="#16_April_2022_(copyright_filters)">Filter Mandate Bill</a>)
<p>
Both the Registry of Copyright and US Congress are looking at requiring
platforms to 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/latest-threat-independent-online-creators-filter-mandate-bill">run automated copyright filters.</a>
<p>
I appreciate that EFF's efforts against this threat, but it is disappointing
to see them give more weight to whether some businesses can be profitable
than to whether people are free to share, and free to post what they see.
And they highlight those bad values by calling artists 
<a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Creator">"creators".</a>
<p>
Requiring these filters would in effect 
<a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article260245605.html">permit cops to block</a>
videos of their actions from being posted in 
<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57698858">popular platforms.</a>
<p>
Will Russian shells and bullets play Disney tunes so that Youtube
won't post recordings of their attacks?

<li><a name="16_April_2022_(young_missing_mexicans)" /> 16 April 2022 (<a class="titlelink" href="#16_April_2022_(young_missing_mexicans)">young Mexicans have been reported as missing</a>)
<p>
Around 100,000 young Mexicans have been reported as missing and hardly 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220412222647/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/12/organized-crime-corrupt-officials-mexico-enforced-disappearances-un">any have been found.</a>

<li><a name="16_April_2022_(benjamin_fraud_charges)" /> 16 April 2022 (<a class="titlelink" href="#16_April_2022_(benjamin_fraud_charges)">NY lieutenant governor quits after arrest</a>)
<p> 
*New York lieutenant governor quits after arrest on 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220413175015/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/12/new-york-lieutenant-governor-brian-benjamin-quits-arrest">bribery and fraud
 charges.</a>*

<li><a name="16_April_2022_(elon_musk_lawsuit)" /> 16 April 2022 (<a class="titlelink" href="#16_April_2022_(elon_musk_lawsuit)">Musk being sued for delaying Twitter announcement</a>)
<p>
Elon Musk is being sued for illegally delaying the announcement that he
had bought a 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220413191447/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/12/elon-musk-twitter-lawsuit-shares">large stake in Twitter.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Rwanda)
title: Rwanda
uri: Rwanda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Rwanda)
content:
 
<p>
  Educated guesses about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/14/what-are-the-tories-trying-to-achieve-by-offshoring-asylum-seekers">why Bogus Johnson proposes to send refugees to Rwanda</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_((Satire)_Gratis_trial_membership)
title: (Satire) Gratis trial membership
uri: (Satire)-Gratis-trial-membership
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_((Satire)_Gratis_trial_membership)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) NATO has offered Finland and Sweden <a href="https://www.theonion.com/finland-sweden-evaluating-nato-membership-with-free-on-1848795063">gratis one-day trial membership in NATO</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Australia_and_Covid)
title: Australia and Covid
uri: Australia-and-Covid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Australia_and_Covid)
content:
 
<p>
  Now that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/apr/14/people-feel-abandoned-as-masks-come-off-thousands-of-australians-feel-scared-to-go-out">Australia has thrown away the precautions against the spread
  of Covid-19</a>, lots of people go to sports events, concerts and so on,
  3% of the population is immunocompromised and don't dare go.
<p>
  Another 3% is immunocompromised and takes a wild risk by going anyway.
<p>
  It would be so easy to require vaccination and reduce the threat to
  all those people.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Blood_money)
title: Blood money
uri: Blood-money
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Blood_money)
content:
 
<p>
  In the short term, <a href="In the short term, money spent buying Russian oil is blood money.  In
the long term view, money spent buying oil anywhere is blood money.">money spent buying Russian oil is blood money</a>.  In
  the long term view, money spent buying oil anywhere is blood money.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(USDA_pollution_funding)
title: USDA pollution funding
uri: USDA-pollution-funding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(USDA_pollution_funding)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/14/usda-conservation-program-must-be-reformed-stop-funding-pollution-report-shows">USDA Conservation Program Must Be Reformed to Stop Funding Pollution</a>,
Report Shows.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(bowman_bob_act)
title: 'Babies Over Billionaries' Act
uri: Babies-Over-Billionaries-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(bowman_bob_act)
content:
 
<p>
The "Babies not Billionaires" bill is another version of the
billionaire's tax.
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/14/bowman-introduces-babies-over-billionaires-act-pursuit-tax-fairness">the billionaire's tax.</a>
<p>
Its feature is that it would require the IRS to audit annually
everyone with over $100 million in assets.  No more harping on poor people's
child tax credit.
<p>
I support the substance of this bill because it will help make sure no
children in the US have to grow up in poverty.  But I dislike the
<Em>name</Em> of this bill because it spreads the dangerous, obsolete idea
that there is something good about having babies.  On the contrary, it
is important to 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/articles/children.html">reduce the birth rate to a low number.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(artist_to_ransom)
title: Musicians struggle to break even
uri: Musicians-struggle-to-break-even
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(artist_to_ransom)
content:
 
<p>
Now that concert halls take a large fraction of the merch musicians
sell there, 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220418121004/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/15/holding-the-artist-to-ransom-musicians-struggle-to-break-even-as-venues-and-universal-cream-off-merch-sales">musicians can't make a go of it</a>
<p>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(super_wealthy_americans)
title: Tax loopholes that allow the rich to pay little tax
uri: Tax-loopholes-that-allow-the-rich-to-pay-little-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(super_wealthy_americans)
content:
 
<p>
More about the loopholes that rich 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/13/secret-irs-files-reveal-super-low-tax-rates-super-wealthy-americans">Americans use to pay very little tax.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(autocrats_exploit_failures)
title: How Some Autocrats Exploit Failures of Neoliberalism
uri: How-Some-Autocrats-Exploit-Failures-of-Neoliberalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(autocrats_exploit_failures)
content:
 
<p>
Politics offers two ways to end the injustice of neoliberalism (the
system that plutocracy imposes to serve the plutocrats): democratic
socialism, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/13/autocrats-trump-putin-and-le-pen-exploit-failures-neoliberalism">and hate-based fascist authoritarianism.</a>
<p>
The article describes neoliberalism as a "failure".  In a sense, it is.
Neoliberalism was presented (for instance, by Reagan) as a system that
would serve people better in general.  In those terms, it is a
failure.
<p>
However, it's not a failure for the plutocrats.  That's why they fight
so hard against progressives.
<p>
But they might find fascism even more lucrative.  Instead of
corrupting and lobbying the legal system, they could wipe away
all governmental respect for popular opposition to plutocracy.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(teens_climate_poll)
title: 84% of US Teens Back Urgent Climate Action
uri: 84-of-US-Teens-Back-Urgent-Climate-Action
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(teens_climate_poll)
content:
 
<p>
*84% of US Teens Back Urgent Climate Action to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/13/84-us-teens-back-urgent-climate-action-save-future-generations-poll">Save Future Generations: Poll.</a>*
<p>
More precisely, they agree that "If we don't address climate change
today, it will be too late for future generations, making some
parts of the planet unlivable."
<p>
Most have already seen the effects of global heating in the short period
they have lived.
<p>
It may be that the term "climate change" is losing its distractive
ability, for teenagers, since they know the reality it stands for.
However, not everyone is a teenager, so I still make sure to use terms
that were not chosen to downplay the point about which overall
direction this change is going.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(police_disney_investigation)
title: CA Police Dept investigates officers blaring Disney music
uri: CA-Police-Dept-investigates-officers-blaring-Disney-music
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(police_disney_investigation)
content:
 
<p>
The Santa Ana thug department is investigating its own thugs' practice
of playing loud Disney music to cause Youtube's automated filters to
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220418012031/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/15/california-police-disney-music-investigation">delete recordings of their actions.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(boa_accused)
title: Bank of America accused of using "Accounting Tricks"
uri: Bank-of-America-accused-of-using-Accounting-Tricks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(boa_accused)
content:
 
<p>
*Bank of America Accused of Using "Accounting Tricks as 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/14/bank-america-accused-using-accounting-tricks-real-climate-action">Real Climate Action.</a>"*
<p>
If your bank account is in a big bank, how about moving it to a local bank
that invests in your local economy.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(omar_icc_putin)
title: Ilhan Omar's opinion on US hypocrisy
uri: Ilhan-Omar-s-opinion-on-US-hypocrisy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(omar_icc_putin)
content:
 
<p>
Ilhan Omar: *If we oppose investigations into countries, like our own, that haven't 
joined the ICC, how can we support an investigation into Russia,
another 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/14/omar-us-hypocrisy-icc-hamstrings-justice-putins-war-crimes">country that hasn't joined the court?</a>*
<p>
I personally commit no hypocrisy by calling for prosecution of
Putinite war criminals, because I advocate joining the ICC, for the US
and other countries.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(policing_reform)
title: Groups Force Policing Reforms to Settle
uri: Groups-Force-Policing-Reforms-to-Settle
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(policing_reform)
content:
 
<p>
Remember when the hate-spreader ordered various thugs to clear the
protesters out of a park so he could walk through it?  The ACLU sued,
supported by the Department of Justice, and won an agreement from the
Secret Service and the U.S. Park Police to make rules against various 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/14/groups-force-policing-reforms-settle-attack-protesters-outside-trump-white-house">dangerous and unjustified tactics.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(unrest_in_sweden_rally)
title: Unrest in Sweden over far right anti-Islam rally.
uri: Unrest-in-Sweden-over-far-right-anti-Islam-rally
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(unrest_in_sweden_rally)
content:
 
<p>
Some Muslims in Sweden are violently crazed, trying to prevent a
right-wing 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220418105323/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/17/third-night-of-unrest-in-sweden-over-far-right-anti-islam-rally">group from burning a Qur'an.</a>
<p>
Freedom of speech includes the right to offend anyone -- even you,
even me. If someone burns your sacred book in a free country,
whichever book that may be, you just have to live with it.
<p>
Those who demand the privilege to punish people who offend them are
fighting against other people's freedom. The state must never
surrender to that.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(aus_pod_homes)
title: Modular homes sent to accommodate New South Wales flood victims
uri: Modular-homes-sent-to-accommodate-New-South-Wales-flood-victims
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(aus_pod_homes)
content:
 
<p>
Australia is sending 2000 "pod homes" to 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220418103430/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/17/modular-homes-on-way-to-accommodate-new-south-wales-flood-victims">victims of flooding.</a>
<p>
How about providing these to homeless people, too?



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(brooklyn_subway_shooting)
title: NY mayor called for an increase of psychiatric services
uri: NY-mayor-called-for-an-increase-of-psychiatric-services
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(brooklyn_subway_shooting)
content:
 
<p>
New York's mayor called for an increase in state psychiatric hospital
facilities as a way to deal with the 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220418093047/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/17/brooklyn-subway-shooting-eric-adams-mayor-psychiatric-services">recent subway shooting.</a>
<p>
That is a step in the right direction, and better than what I had expected.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(bucha_ukraine)
title: Interviews with people in towns near the Donetsk front line
uri: Interviews-with-people-in-towns-near-the-Donetsk-front-line
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(bucha_ukraine)
content:
 
<p>
Interviews with people in towns 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220418093033/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/17/after-bucha-im-afraid-of-russian-soldiers-people-in-east-ukraine-prepare-for-fresh-assault">near the Donetsk front line.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(wfp_mariupol_starvation)
title: World Food Program warns of starvation in Mariupol
uri: World-Food-Program-warns-of-starvation-in-Mariupol
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(wfp_mariupol_starvation)
content:
 
<p>
The World Food Program warns of starvation in Mariupol, present and
future, after Putin's forces have stopped them from 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/15/head-world-food-programme-warns-people-being-starved-death-mariupol">bring food to the
civilians there.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(emma_smart_hunger_strike)
title: Emma Smart goes on hunger strike
uri: Emma-Smart-goes-on-hunger-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(emma_smart_hunger_strike)
content:
 
<p>
Scientist Emma Smart has started a hunger strike in jail after being held
for extra time after her 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/15/denied-bail-scientist-emma-smart-goes-hunger-strike-after-arrest-climate-protest">nonviolent protest for climate defense.</a>



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_((Satire)_God_Took_Form)
title: (satire) God Who Took Form Of Swan
uri: (satire)-God-Who-Took-Form-Of-Swan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_((Satire)_God_Took_Form)
content:
 
<p> 
(satire) *God Who Took Form Of Swan Finding It Much Harder 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/god-who-took-form-of-swan-finding-it-much-harder-to-sed-1848734044">To Seduce
Women Than Expected.*</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(climate_adviser_oil_ties)
title: Biden's main climate advisor, is reportedly planning to quit
uri: Biden-s-main-climate-advisor-is-reportedly-planning-to-quit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(climate_adviser_oil_ties)
content:
 
<p> 
Gina McCarthy, Biden's main climate advisor, is reportedly planning to
quit because she little opportunity to make progress, with 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/15/official-oil-ties-next-line-biden-climate-adviser-reportedly-plans-quit">climate
legislation blocked by the Republicans and Manchin.</a>
<p>
I don't know whether having done bankruptcy law work for a few failing
fossil fuel companies implies that her deputy has planet roaster
sympathies. It might.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(ukraine_kidnapping_russia)
title: Ukraine accuses the Putin forces of kidnaping Ukrainian children
uri: Ukraine-accuses-the-Putin-forces-of-kidnaping-Ukrainian-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(ukraine_kidnapping_russia)
content:
 
<p> 
Ukraine accuses the Putin forces of kidnaping Ukrainian children and taking
them by 
<a href="https://inews.co.uk/news/ukraine-claims-2389-children-abducted-russia-forced-deportations-1532652">force to Russia.</a>
<p>
If this is true, I can imagine that Putin might make it extremely hard
for Ukraine, or their relatives, to find them in Russia and ask where they
would rather go.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(russia_rape_weapon_war)
title: The world cannot ignore Russia's use of rape as a weapon of war
uri: The-world-cannot-ignore-Russia-s-use-of-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(russia_rape_weapon_war)
content:
 
<p>
Rape of civilians is a frequent concomitant of war, but it is very 
<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/03/31/world-cant-ignore-russias-use-rape-weapon-war/">rarely punished as a war crime.</a>
<p>
It seems to me that there are two big practical obstacles to
prosecution of war rapists: 
    <li>(1) to identify the rapist and 
	<li>(2) to arrest the rapist so as to try him.  This is possible in special
situations, but usually very difficult.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(CA_condors_yurok_tribe)
title: Project to reintroduce California condors to northern CA
uri: Project-to-reintroduce-California-condors-to-northern-CA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(CA_condors_yurok_tribe)
content:
 
<p>
There is a project to reintroduce California condors to northern California,
where some of 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220418093952/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/16/california-condors-yurok-tribe">them lived until 1892.</a>
<p>
We reintroduce condors (or other species) to places that were once good
habitat for them, and expect them to live there.  But will those same places
be good habitat for them in 2060, or 2100?  Will anyplace on Earth be good
habitat for them?


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(south_africa_flood)
title: South Africa to receive more heavy rain
uri: South-Africa-to-receive-more-heavy-rain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(south_africa_flood)
content:
 
<p>
After an unusual heavy rain that caused a local disaster, South Africa
is 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220418104846/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/16/south-africa-flood-ravaged-east-more-heavy-rain">about to get one more.</a>
<p>
Eastern Australia recently had a similar 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220308010646/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/02/flooding-cuts-off-railway-supply-routes-to-northern-australia">series of rain-driven floods.</a>
<p>
These two regions are in comparable latitudes, and I suspect that
the two series of floods are part of one single climatic pattern --
due to global heating.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(delhi_toxic_air)
title: Women are starting to drive electric three-wheel minitaxies in Delhi.
uri: Women-are-starting-to-drive-electric-three-wheel-minitaxies-in-Delhi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(delhi_toxic_air)
content:
 
<p>
Women are starting to drive electric 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220418105040/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/16/women-with-electric-rickshaws-combat-delhi-toxic-air-and-its-sexism">three-wheel minitaxies in Delhi.</a>
<p>
I find it fun to ride in those.  They exist in Latin America too.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(agroecology_climate)
title: Agroecology and the path to make farming sustainable
uri: Agroecology-and-the-path-to-make-farming-sustainable
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(agroecology_climate)
content:
 
<p>
On the spread of Agroecology as a movement to make farming more
sustainable (and more efficient) by taking 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/15/nature-based-agroecology-gaining-momentum-key-climate-solution">advantage of natural
tendencies instead of overriding them.</a>



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(NUS_students_antisemitism)
title: UK NUS is under fire for for antisemitism.
uri: UK-NUS-is-under-fire-for-for-antisemitism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(NUS_students_antisemitism)
content:
 
<p>
The UK National Union of Students is 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220418141836/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/apr/13/national-union-students-investigated-antisemitism">under fire for for antisemitism.</a>
<p>
Distinguishing between antisemitism and criticism of Israel's policy
requires care. I take care because I condemn antisemitism and I oppose
the occupation of Palestine. 
<p>
The article presents an old example from an NUS leader which is real
antisemitism. However, the NUS has adopted the <a>IHRC's
classificatory scheme for antisemitism
<p>
as a criterion for judgment.  That draws the line at the wrong
place, and thus systematically opens the door to repressing criticism
of the occupation of Palestine.  Past examples suggest that some
organizations, perhaps including the British government, will try to
make the NUS expel all those who criticize it.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_((Satire)_ketanji_brown)
title: (satire) *Supreme Court IT Guy Walks Ketanji Brown Jackson Through Logging Into Gavel
uri: (satire)-Supreme-Court-IT-Guy-Walks-Ketanji-Brown-Jackson-Through-Log
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_((Satire)_ketanji_brown)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Supreme Court IT Guy Walks 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/supreme-court-it-guy-walks-ketanji-brown-jackson-throug-1848769782">Ketanji Brown Jackson Through
Logging Into Gavel</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(biden_epa)
title: Biden EPA Blueprint to Protect Endangered Species
uri: Biden-EPA-Blueprint-to-Protect-Endangered-Species
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(biden_epa)
content:
 
<p>
*Biden EPA Unveils 'First-Ever' Blueprint to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/12/biden-epa-unveils-first-ever-blueprint-protect-endangered-species-pesticides">Protect Endangered Species From Pesticides.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(ice_customs_lawsuit)
title: US deportation thugs are tracking the movements of 200,000 immigrants.
uri: US-deportation-thugs-are-tracking-the-movements-of-200-000-immigrants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(ice_customs_lawsuit)
content:
 
<p>
The US deportation thugs are tracking the movements of 200,000
immigrants. Even worse, it is privatized. 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220418112036/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/14/immigration-advocates-alternative-to-detention-lawsuit-ice">Activists are suing to
find out what data they store.</a>
<p>
Tracking people's movements is much less than keeping them in prison,
but is this change being used as an opportunity to "jail" more people?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Biden_public_lands)
title: Public lands to reopen for oil and gas drilling in a first under Biden
uri: Public-lands-to-reopen-for-oil-and-gas-drilling-in-a-first-under-Biden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Biden_public_lands)
content:
 
<p>
Biden has restarted the sale of oil and gas leases on public land,
but 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220418093602/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/16/public-lands-reopen-oil-gas-drilling-joe-biden-government">multiplied the royalty rate by 3/2.</a>
<p>
A big enough royalty rate could discourage investment in these leases,
but I have a feeling that around 20% is not enough to do that.
Furthermore, I have to ask, "18.75% of what?"  Many oil wells are run
by smaller companies that sell the oil to a big company.  If this
is 20% of what the small company charges the big company, it may not
amount to much money, or much dissuasion.
<p>
Unless we have a long-term increasing carbon tax big enough to make
new investments unprofitable, we will have too many.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(abbott_truck_inspection)
title: Greg Abbott's Texas/Mexico truck inspection policy
uri: Greg-Abbott-s-Texas-Mexico-truck-inspection-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(abbott_truck_inspection)
content:
 
<p>
Truck drivers protested again, this time against Greg Abbott's
policy of searching all trucks entering Texas from Mexico,
and made him cancel it.
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220418093900/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/16/greg-abbott-texas-mexico-truck-inspection-policy"></a>
<p>
The search was for smuggling, of goods or people.  In principle, there is
nothing wrong with checking for that, but the cost was disastrous.
<p>
An idea occurs to me.  Every truck that crosses the border could be
required to carry inside cameras and lamps that could be used at the
border to inspect the inside of the cargo compartment quickly.
<p>
Since there are supposed to be people inside, this system would
surveil any people unjustly.


 


title: Urgent: Stop blocking Amazon Labor Union
uri: Urgent-Stop-blocking-Amazon-Labor-Union
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_blocking_Amazon_Labor_Union)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_blocking_Amazon_Labor_Union)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: tell Amazon to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tell-amazon-stop-blocking-amazon-labor-union/?t=1001&akid=29051%2E96703%2EgcrSvR">stop blocking the Amazon Labor Union</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Stop selling bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: Urgent-Stop-selling-bee-killing-neonicotinoid-pesticides
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_selling_bee-killing_neonicotinoid_pesticides)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_selling_bee-killing_neonicotinoid_pesticides)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on Amazon to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49578&supporter_KEY=229474&uid=80194c17d0fbbc71ce12626b1b44954e&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:105052&utm_campaign=AME4-FCNS:WILDLIFE:BEES-0422&utm_content=SE9:01C:0HH-CCP">stop selling bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Address marijuana policy reform
uri: Urgent-Address-marijuana-policy-reform
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Urgent:_Address_marijuana_policy_reform)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Urgent:_Address_marijuana_policy_reform)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/petition-tell-the-senate-to-address-marijuana-policy-reform">address marijuana policy reform</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Insist schools teach American history
uri: Urgent-Insist-schools-teach-American-history
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Urgent:_Insist_schools_teach_American_history)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Urgent:_Insist_schools_teach_American_history)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: insist that US schools <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-for-the-sake-of-all-our-children-schools-must-teach-american-history-not-just-straight-white-history?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-teach-american-history-in-our-schools-not-just-straight-white-history">must
 teach American history</a>, not just straight white history.

 


title: Urgent: Call Biden to declare climate an emergency
uri: Urgent-Call-Biden-to-declare-climate-an-emergency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Urgent:_Call_Biden_to_declare_climate_an_emergency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Urgent:_Call_Biden_to_declare_climate_an_emergency)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-president-biden-declare-climate-an-emergency-under-the-national-emergencies-act">declare climate an emergency under the National Emergencies Act</a>. This would give him several useful powers to start climate defense.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_old-growth_forests)
title: Urgent: Protect old-growth forests
uri: Urgent-Protect-old-growth-forests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_old-growth_forests)
content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on British Columbia to <a href="https://act.stand.earth/page/40209/action/1?ea.tracking.id=email-ea">protect old-growth forests</a>.

 


title: China failing at distributing food in Shanghai
uri: China-failing-at-distributing-food-in-Shanghai
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(China_failing_at_distributing_food_in_Shanghai)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(China_failing_at_distributing_food_in_Shanghai)

content:
 
<p>

China is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/17/shanghai-lockdown-desperation-rises-food-runs-low-china">failing at the task of distributing food</a> to everyone in Shanghai
during lockdown.  People who have run out of food and are not allowed to go out
and get any.
<p>
I am surprised that China cannot organize people to walk around with
pressurized air breathing masks to distribute food to everyone.
It would be worth the trouble of that, to get rid of Covid-19 in Shanghai
instead of suffering all the damage it would do &mdash; if it is possible.

 


title: Labour split over call for action against climate crisis blockades
uri: Labour-split-over-call-for-action-against-climate-crisis-blockades
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Labour_split_over_call_for_action_against_climate_crisis_blockades)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Labour_split_over_call_for_action_against_climate_crisis_blockades)

content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/17/labour-split-by-leadership-call-for-action-against-climate-crisis-blockades">Labour split by leadership call</a> for action against climate crisis blockades.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Covid-19_during_concert)
title: Covid-19 during concert
uri: Covid-19-during-concert
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Covid-19_during_concert)
content:
 
<p>

The Tanglewood Festival Chorus joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in
the first concert without masks since two years ago.  <a href="https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/04/15/tanglewood-festial-chorus-boston-symphony-orchestra-covid">More than 30 of
them caught Covid-19</a> there.
<p>
I suppose they were singing, "Imagine there's no Covid."

 


title: Accusations of using EU funds to hold anti-EU meetings
uri: Accusations-of-using-EU-funds-to-hold-anti-EU-meetings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Accusations_of_using_EU_funds_to_hold_anti-EU_meetings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Accusations_of_using_EU_funds_to_hold_anti-EU_meetings)

content:
 
<p>

The EU accuses right-wing extremist Marine Le Pen of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/17/eu-anti-fraud-body-accuses-marine-le-pen-france-election">using EU funds to pay to hold meetings of her anti-EU party</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Enslaved_by_gang_of_rapists)
title: Enslaved by gang of rapists
uri: Enslaved-by-gang-of-rapists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Enslaved_by_gang_of_rapists)
content:
 
<p>

Amber was enslaved by a gang of rapists, then accused by the British
state of being their assistant.  Then prosecutors changed their mind
and she identified some of the rapists &mdash; only to find that
prosecutors had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/17/rochdale-victim-i-was-groomed-at-14-then-the-courts-came-for-my-children">labeled her a "co-conspirator</a>."

 


title: Putin reportedly taken thousands of Ukrainian children
uri: Putin-reportedly-taken-thousands-of-Ukrainian-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Putin_reportedly_taken_thousands_of_Ukrainian_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Putin_reportedly_taken_thousands_of_Ukrainian_children)

content:
 
<p>

Putin has reportedly <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/17/europe/ukrainian-girl-russian-orphanage-intl-cmd/index.html">taken thousands of Ukrainian children</a> and plan to
send some of them to orphanages in Russia.
<p>
Some of these cases have been independently confirmed, at least partially.
It appears that Kira really can talk with her grandfather, but will Putin's
forces let her leave?

 


title: Study shows abortion ban would increase pregnancy-related deaths
uri: Study-shows-abortion-ban-would-increase-pregnancy-related-deaths
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Study_shows_abortion_ban_would_increase_pregnancy-related_deaths)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Study_shows_abortion_ban_would_increase_pregnancy-related_deaths)

content:
 
<p>

*A study &hellip; found banning abortion nationwide would lead to a
   <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/17/us/abortion-restrictions-black-maternal-health/index.html">21% increase in the number of pregnancy-related deaths</a> for all
   women and a 33% increase among Black women.*

 


title: Christians forced out of Christian quarter of old Jerusalem
uri: Christians-forced-out-of-Christian-quarter-of-old-Jerusalem
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Christians_forced_out_of_Christian_quarter_of_old_Jerusalem)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Christians_forced_out_of_Christian_quarter_of_old_Jerusalem)

content:
 
<p>

Christians are being <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/04/16/therell-no-christians-50-years-faithful-fight-reclaim-jerusalems/">forced out of the Christian quarter of old Jerusalem</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Top_5_Charter_School_Myths_Debunked)
title: Top 5 Charter School Myths Debunked
uri: Top-5-Charter-School-Myths-Debunked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Top_5_Charter_School_Myths_Debunked)
content:
 
<p>

*Top 5 Charter School <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/16/top-5-charter-school-myths-debunked">Myths Debunked</a>.*  "Charter schools" are funded by
the government, but in other respects they act like private schools.
So we get the worst of both sides.

 


title: Consumer Protection Progress and Regress
uri: Consumer-Protection-Progress-and-Regress
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Consumer_Protection_Progress_and_Regress)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Consumer_Protection_Progress_and_Regress)

content:
 
<p>

Ralph Nader: *<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/16/consumer-protection-progress-and-regress-sixties-now">Consumer Protection Progress and Regress</a> &mdash; From the
Sixties to Now.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Refugee_given_asylum_in_UK)
title: Refugee given asylum in UK
uri: Refugee-given-asylum-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Refugee_given_asylum_in_UK)
content:
 
<p>

* A refugee who fled torture in Rwanda and was given asylum in the UK
   has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/16/refugee-who-fled-torture-in-rwanda-attacks-uk-asylum-deal">criticised [UK] government plans</a> to fly unauthorised migrants to his home country.*

 


title: Jackie Robinson was an antiracist campaigner
uri: Jackie-Robinson-was-an-antiracist-campaigner
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Jackie_Robinson_was_an_antiracist_campaigner)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Jackie_Robinson_was_an_antiracist_campaigner)

content:
 
<p>

Jackie Robinson <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/16/dont-believe-sanitized-history-jackie-robinson-he-was-radical">was an antiracist campaigner</a>, both before and after he played
major-league baseball.

 


title: New abortion restrictions in Florida
uri: New-abortion-restrictions-in-Florida
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(New_abortion_restrictions_in_Florida)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(New_abortion_restrictions_in_Florida)

content:
 
<p>

Florida has been an abortion refuge for the southeast of the US.
The new restriction there will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/14/new-gop-laws-will-devastate-abortion-access-across-large-parts-nation">oppress millions of US women</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Pro-abortion,_not_just_pro-choice)
title: Pro-abortion, not just pro-choice
uri: Pro-abortion-not-just-pro-choice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Pro-abortion,_not_just_pro-choice)
content:
 
<p>

Valerie Tarico: <a href="https://secularhumanism.org/2016/07/cont-why-i-am-pro-abortion-not-just-pro-choice/">*Why I Am Pro-Abortion, Not Just Pro-Choice*</a>.
<p>
I too am pro-abortion.  I think her reasons are good,
but my own principal reasons are very different.  The most important one
is that fewer births will reduce the horror of <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> disaster.

 


title: Australian citizens in camps in Syria
uri: Australian-citizens-in-camps-in-Syria
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Australian_citizens_in_camps_in_Syria)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Australian_citizens_in_camps_in_Syria)

content:
 
<p>

*Australia failing its own citizens <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/18/australia-failing-its-own-citizens-held-in-sordid-camps-in-syria-un-experts-say">held in 'sordid' camps in Syria</a>.*

 


title: Military and Economic power fail to produce happiness
uri: Military-and-Economic-power-fail-to-produce-happiness
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Military_and_Economic_power_fail_to_produce_happiness)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_April_2022_(Military_and_Economic_power_fail_to_produce_happiness)

content:
 
<p>

*Military and Economic Power Once Again <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/17/military-and-economic-power-once-again-fail-produce-happiness">Fail to Produce Happiness</a>.*
<p>
*Rich countries that let inequality run rampant <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2022/apr/17/rich-countries-that-let-inequality-run-rampant-make-citizens-unhappy">make citizens unhappy</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(big_idea_cashless_society)
title: Companies save money by pushing people to pay digitally
uri: Companies-save-money-by-pushing-people-to-pay-digitally
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(big_idea_cashless_society)
content:
 
<p>
Payment companies and stores save money by pushing people
to pay using digital systems, but if 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/18/the-big-idea-should-we-embrace-a-cashless-society">we don't maintain the use of cash, we will all lose.</a>
<p>
Long before there was any system for digital payments, a think tank
predicted that those systems would be 
<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/53n9ka/china-cashless">every repressive regime's dream.</a>
<p>
The main reason I insist on paying only cash to buy products is not
my own privacy -- though I appreciate that too -- but rather to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/global-progressive-leaders-urge-biden-drop-us-charges-against-assange">defend the privacy of the heroic journalists</a>
 and their 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jan/30/alexa-factory-whistleblower-i-was-tortured-and-jailed-now-amazon-should-apologise">heroic sources, the whistleblowers.</a>
<p>
We all depend on them, for our freedom.
<p>
Please support the defense of cash.  When you leave the house,
bring a reasonable amount with you for the day's purchases,
and use the cash at least sometimes.
<p>
If at a store you don't have enough cash, that doesn't mean you have
to pay with a card or give up.  You can go to an ATM, get cash, then
return to the store.  With that method, the bank learns only where you
were when you got the cash, and the store doesn't learn anything about
you.
<p>
Beware of the defeatists who predict that surveillance is (or will
become) so complete that there is no use even trying for privacy.
They get a perverse pleasure from urging people to despair and give
up.  You can tell them, "On something important, only fools give up
without a fight."


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(ultra_fast_fashion)
title: The drastically wasteful business of "fast fashion"
uri: The-drastically-wasteful-business-of-fast-fashion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(ultra_fast_fashion)
content:
 
<p>
The drastically wasteful business of "fast fashion" is accelerating
into even more wasteful 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/18/ultra-fast-fashion-retail-sites-shein">"ultra-fast fashion".</a>
<p>
Its predatory marketing sets up a competition of consumption which
wealthy "mean girls" can use to sneer at and exclude other girls.
It amounts to an addiction, but an addiction of social groups rather
than individuals, so that your social circle would pressure you do
join in.
<p>
It seems to be bad for almost everyone, except the few who win the
game and don't get in money trouble, and the few business owners
that succeed.
<p>
I wonder what happens to the now-unfashionable purchases of a few
months ago.  Are they given away to frugal people?


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(moskva_warship_missing_crew)
title: Relatives seek answers to missing sailors on the Moskva warship
uri: Relatives-seek-answers-to-missing-sailors-on-the-Moskva-warship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(moskva_warship_missing_crew)
content:
 
<p>
Some parents of sailors on the Moskva know their children are alive.
A few have been told that their children are dead.  But many others
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/18/moskva-warship-need-answers-relatives-missing-crew-russia">can't get any information.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(who_india_death_toll)
title: India accused of attempting to delay death-toll revision effort by the WHO
uri: India-accused-of-attempting-to-delay-death-toll-revision-effort-by-the
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(who_india_death_toll)
content:
 
<p>
*India has been accused of attempting to delay an effort by the
World Health Organization to revise the global death toll from
Covid-19 after its calculations suggested that the country had
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/18/covid-19-india-accused-of-attempting-to-delay-who-revision-of-death-toll">under counted its dead by an estimated 3.5 million.</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(communal_violence_india)
title: Communal violence grips India
uri: Communal-violence-grips-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(communal_violence_india)
content:
 
<p>
The Hindu-theocratic movement whose party rules India is converting
traditional religious festivals into 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/18/hatred-bigotry-and-untruth-communal-violence-grips-india">violent pogroms against Muslims.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(imfs_abuse_power)
title: PI Outlines Four Ways to End IMF's 'Abuse of Power'
uri: PI-Outlines-Four-Ways-to-End-IMF-s-Abuse-of-Power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(imfs_abuse_power)
content:
 
<p>
*Progressive International Outlines Four Ways to End IMF's 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/18/progressive-international-outlines-four-ways-end-imfs-abuse-power">'Abuse of Power'.</a>*
<p>
They say, "Only strong mechanisms of accountability -— changing
both who decides and how -— can end the Fund's impunity."



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(mask_mandate_public_transport)
title: Florida federal judge strikes down mask mandate for public transport
uri: Florida-federal-judge-strikes-down-mask-mandate-for-public-transport
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(mask_mandate_public_transport)
content:
 
<p>
One Republican extremist judge overturned the US mask mandate
for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/18/mask-mandate-airplanes-public-transport-struck-down-florida-federal-judge">transportation of all kinds.</a>
<p>
I am very worried about the danger that will result from this.
I hope the government appeals it.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(ukraine_cluster_bombs)
title: Evidence of Ukraine's use of cluster bombs against Putin forces.
uri: Evidence-of-Ukraine-s-use-of-cluster-bombs-against-Putin-forces
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(ukraine_cluster_bombs)
content:
 
<p>
There is evidence that Ukraine has used cluster bombs in fighting 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/18/ukrainians-used-cluster-bombs-russian-controlled-village-nyt">the Putin forces.</a>
<p>
It appears that Ukraine used them on Putin's military, not on
civilians.  But regardless of who the immediate target is, cluster
bombs tend to harm civilians later, because the bomb-lets lie around
and can be set off later by civilians, even children.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(industry_groups_privacy)
title: Industry groups are taking control of state laws that protect privacy
uri: Industry-groups-are-taking-control-of-state-laws-that-protect-privacy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(industry_groups_privacy)
content:
 
<p>
Industry groups representing companies that systematically eliminate
privacy are taking control of the development of 
<a href="https://www.protocol.com/policy/state-privacy-utah-spsc">state laws that supposedly aim to protect privacy.</a>
<p>
These laws are mainly based on trying to limit how companies can use
data once collected.  That approach is inherently inadequate: it may
reduce certain annoyances but what it can't provide is actual privacy.
To do that, we must limit the <Em>collection</Em> of data. and that can only be done
by limiting what kinds of 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">data systems can be designed to collect.</a>

 


title: Urgent: Boeing funding insurrectionist candidates
uri: Urgent-Boeing-funding-insurrectionist-candidates
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Urgent:_Boeing_funding_insurrectionist_candidates)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Urgent:_Boeing_funding_insurrectionist_candidates)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on Boeing to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/boeing-support-our-fundamental-democratic-values">stop funding insurrectionist candidates</a>.
<p>
Here's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/19/boeing-stop-funding-those-who-undermine-democracy">more information</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Counting on Biden to seal Iran deal
uri: Urgent-Counting-on-Biden-to-seal-Iran-deal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Urgent:_Counting_on_Biden_to_seal_Iran_deal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Urgent:_Counting_on_Biden_to_seal_Iran_deal)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: Tell Biden, we're counting on you to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/biden-reseal-iran-deal?source=em20220416&t=1006&akid=7724%2E223515%2EAwMVxr">seal the Iran
deal</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Let congress' staff form a union
uri: Urgent-Let-congress-staff-form-a-union
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Urgent:_Let_congress'_staff_form_a_union)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Urgent:_Let_congress'_staff_form_a_union)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-now-congressional-workers-need-a-union">let its staff form a union</a>.

 


title: Grill CEO Howard Schultz on Union-Busting
uri: Grill-CEO-Howard-Schultz-on-Union-Busting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Grill_CEO_Howard_Schultz_on_Union-Busting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Grill_CEO_Howard_Schultz_on_Union-Busting)

content:
 
<p>

*Starbucks Workers Urge Congress to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/18/starbucks-workers-urge-congress-grill-ceo-howard-schultz-union-busting">Grill CEO Howard Schultz on Union-Busting</a>.*

 


title: What Democrats need to do to avoid losing Congress
uri: What-Democrats-need-to-do-to-avoid-losing-Congress
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(What_Democrats_need_to_do_to_avoid_losing_Congress)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(What_Democrats_need_to_do_to_avoid_losing_Congress)

content:
 
<p>

Senator Warren states what Democrats need to do to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/18/opinion/elizabeth-warren-democrats-biden-midterms.html">avoid losing
Congress</a> in November.
<p>
However, they also need to defeat the Republican corrupt election
officials plot.  Robert Reich points to a description of the
Republican plan to install state election officials who will try to
<a href="https://invidio.us/gV5VKW_fPVc">steal elections</a> for offices at all levels, state and federal.
<p>
What he sent was a youtube URL.  I won't direct people to run nonfree
Javascript code so I converted it into an invidious proxy URL.
Invidio.us will ask you to choose one of the many proxy sites to watch
the video from.
<p>
There is also the problem of gerrymandering and voter suppression.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Jan._6_call_logs)
title: Jan. 6 call logs
uri: Jan-6-call-logs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Jan._6_call_logs)
content:
 
<p>

*DOJ <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/18/doj-urged-probe-whether-trump-willfully-mutilated-and-destroyed-jan-6-call-logs">Urged to Probe</a> Whether Trump "Willfully Mutilated and Destroyed"
Jan. 6 Call Logs.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Republican_censorship_campaigns)
title: Republican censorship campaigns
uri: Republican-censorship-campaigns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Republican_censorship_campaigns)
content:
 
<p>

Republican censorship campaigns have <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20220422054228/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/04/17/public-libraries-books-censorship/">reached public libraries too</a>.

 


title: (satire) Potential employees to fire
uri: (satire)-Potential-employees-to-fire
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_((satire)_Potential_employees_to_fire)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_((satire)_Potential_employees_to_fire)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/company-referral-program-offers-bonuses-for-recommendin-1848770012">*Company Referral Program Offers Bonuses For Recommending
Potential Employees To Fire.*</a>

 


title: Refugees arriving by boat to Australia
uri: Refugees-arriving-by-boat-to-Australia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Refugees_arriving_by_boat_to_Australia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Refugees_arriving_by_boat_to_Australia)

content:
 
<p>

Australia vows <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/19/refugees-resettled-in-new-zealand-from-australia-to-be-permanently-banned-from-returning">unending hatred</a> for refugees that arrived by boat. Even if they move to New Zealand and become citizens there, Australia
will not let them live in Australia as New Zealand citizens generally can.

 


title: Abominable job protecting new mothers' health
uri: Abominable-job-protecting-new-mothers-health
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Abominable_job_protecting_new_mothers'_health)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Abominable_job_protecting_new_mothers'_health)

content:
 
<p>

The US does an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/19/black-mothers-birth-maternal-mortality">abominable job of protecting new mothers' health</a>.
For black new mothers, it does even worse.

 


title: More police will not make people safer
uri: More-police-will-not-make-people-safer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(More_police_will_not_make_people_safer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(More_police_will_not_make_people_safer)

content:
 
<p>

*No, more police <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/19/subway-shooting-new-york-more-police-wont-make-new-yorkers-safer">won’t make New Yorkers &mdash; or anyone else &mdash; safer</a>. It never does.*

 


title: Worker wages at large retail and food corporations
uri: Worker-wages-at-large-retail-and-food-corporations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Worker_wages_at_large_retail_and_food_corporations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Worker_wages_at_large_retail_and_food_corporations)

content:
 
<p>

*Most workers at large retail and food corporations receive <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/19/how-much-retail-food-companies-pay-workers-per-hour">less than
$15 an hour</a>.*  That is not a living wage nowadays.


Autopsy confirmed that Patrick Lyoya, unarmed, was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/19/autopsy-confirms-patrick-lyoya-shot-head-police-officer-face-down">shot by a Michigan
thug</a> who was on top of Lyoya while he was lying face down on
the ground.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/15/patrick-lyoya-shooting-family-police-killed-execution">More info</a> about the situation in which he was killed.
<p>
I agree with Lyoya's relatives that this was this was totally gratuitous,
and inexcusable.  Let's see charges against the <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a>!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Boys_harassing_female_teachers)
title: Boys harassing female teachers
uri: Boys-harassing-female-teachers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Boys_harassing_female_teachers)
content:
 
<p>

In some high schools, boys <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/19/girls-college-rape-culture-teachers">harass female teachers</a> as well as female
students.
<p>
Why does this happen?  Are teachers not allowed to punish students for
harassing students and teachers?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Ukraine's_latest_stamp)
title: Ukraine's latest stamp
uri: Ukraine-s-latest-stamp
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Ukraine's_latest_stamp)
content:
 
<p>

Ukraine's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/19/russian-warship-go-ukrainians-queue-for-stamp-celebrating-act-of-defiance">latest stamp</a> gives the finger to the Moskva.
It is selling fast.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Oath_Keepers_and_Proud_Boys)
title: Oath Keepers and Proud Boys
uri: Oath-Keepers-and-Proud-Boys
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Oath_Keepers_and_Proud_Boys)
content:
 
<p>

The Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/19/oath-keepers-proud-boys-capitol-attack-texts">planning something together</a>
for Jan 6.
<p>
Some of them said they were in communication with extremist Rep. Ronny
Jackson.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Rogue_prosecutor_in_Argentina)
title: Rogue prosecutor in Argentina
uri: Rogue-prosecutor-in-Argentina
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Rogue_prosecutor_in_Argentina)
content:
 
<p>

Argentina has legalized abortion, but one rogue prosecutor decided to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/apr/19/doctor-faces-jail-in-argentina-legal-abortion-miranda-ruiz">prosecute an abortion doctor anyway</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(IMF_loans_for_coping_with_Covid-19)
title: IMF loans for coping with Covid-19
uri: IMF-loans-for-coping-with-Covid-19
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(IMF_loans_for_coping_with_Covid-19)
content:
 
<p>

When countries turn to the IMF for loans for coping with Covid-19,
it almost always demands they <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/19/87-imf-loans-forcing-austerity-crisis-ravaged-nations-analysis">adopt crush-the-poor policies</a>.
<p>
The IMF has done this for decades.  In the 1980s it was famous for making
countries charge money for public school.

 


title: (satire) Safe to fly planes indoors again
uri: (satire)-Safe-to-fly-planes-indoors-again
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_((satire)_Safe_to_fly_planes_indoors_again)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_((satire)_Safe_to_fly_planes_indoors_again)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/airlines-announce-it-safe-to-fly-planes-indoors-again-1848813233">*Airlines Announce It Safe To Fly Planes Indoors Again.*</a>

 


title: Threats of violence cancel performances
uri: Threats-of-violence-cancel-performances
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Threats_of_violence_cancel_performances)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Threats_of_violence_cancel_performances)

content:
 
<p>

Threats of violence from right-wing fanatics forced the Family Sex
Show to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/apr/19/sex-education-theatre-show-children-cancelled-violent-threats">cancel its performances</a>.
They consist of the very beginning of sex education.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_((satire)_Boycotting_Disney)
title: (satire) Boycotting Disney
uri: (satire)-Boycotting-Disney
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_((satire)_Boycotting_Disney)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/conservative-parents-explain-why-they-are-boycotting-di-1848809738">*Conservative Parents Explain Why They Are Boycotting Disney.*</a>
<p>
The Disney streaming channel is an injustice for real &mdash; just like
all other streaming channels.  They all impose <a href="DefectiveByDesign.html">DRM, 
all snoop on you, all demand you sign an antisocial contract promising not to share,
and they all require you to run nonfree software <a href="https://gnu.org/malware/proprietary-drm.html ">including the DRM
software</a>, Only the details differ.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Formal_apology_for_Marshall_Islands)
title: Formal apology for Marshall Islands
uri: Formal-apology-for-Marshall-Islands
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Formal_apology_for_Marshall_Islands)
content:
 
<p>

*   After decades of interfering in the island nation with nuclear testing,
   disposal of radioactive waste, and human experimentation, U.S. leaders
   are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/19/shameful-us-nuclear-history-marshall-islands">considering a formal apology</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Study_on_state-legalized_marijuana)
title: Study on state-legalized marijuana
uri: Study-on-state-legalized-marijuana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(Study_on_state-legalized_marijuana)
content:
 
<p>

A study found that state-legalized recreational marijuana correlates with
"<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/19/legal-recreational-cannabis-reduces-prescription-drug-demand-study">significant reductions</a> in the
   volume of prescriptions within the drug classes that align with the
   medical indications for pain, depression, anxiety, sleep, psychosis,
   and seizures."

 


title: Urgent: Lead the IMF to give Ukraine debt relief
uri: Urgent-Lead-the-IMF-to-give-Ukraine-debt-relief
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Urgent:_Lead_the_IMF_to_give_Ukraine_debt_relief)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Urgent:_Lead_the_IMF_to_give_Ukraine_debt_relief)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to have the US lead the IMF to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/ukraine-debt-relief?source=em20220419&t=1006&akid=7731%2E223515%2EYCiXJ6">give
Ukraine debt relief</a>.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Designate some flights as masks-required
uri: Urgent-Designate-some-flights-as-masks-required
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Urgent:_Designate_some_flights_as_masks-required)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Urgent:_Designate_some_flights_as_masks-required)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on airlines to <a href="https://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/petition_airlines_masks/?source=e220419_1619-e1-fin-rest&amount=10&tandembox=show&t=1004&akid=82340%2E636740%2EI99tyP">designate some flights as masks-required</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Safety_failures_on_P%26O_ferry)
title: Safety failures on P&O ferry
uri: Safety-failures-on-P-O-ferry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Safety_failures_on_P%26O_ferry)
content:
 
<p>

The UK has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/19/record-31-failings-found-on-po-ferries-boat-at-safety-inspection">forbidden a P&O ferry to operate</a>, after inspecting it and finding
31 different safety failures.
<p>
I have a suspicion that these failures are the result of skimping.
It is urgent for the UK to bring in new requirements about the minimum
pay for the crew, which the Tories said they would bring in when P&O
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(UK_transport_minister)">fired all the crew in order to use subcontracted workers instead</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_((satire)_Dead-end_7-figure_job)
title: (satire) Dead-end 7-figure job
uri: (satire)-Dead-end-7-figure-job
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_((satire)_Dead-end_7-figure_job)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/frustrated-ceo-stuck-in-dead-end-7-figure-job-1848770599">*Frustrated CEO Stuck In Dead-End 7-Figure Job.*</a>

 


title: Fewer people consuming less energy and materials
uri: Fewer-people-consuming-less-energy-and-materials
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Fewer_people_consuming_less_energy_and_materials)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Fewer_people_consuming_less_energy_and_materials)

content:
 
<p>

*   It's time to talk honestly about "fewer and less": <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/19/earth-day-enemies-and-opportunities">fewer people
   consuming less energy and materials</a>.*
<p>
There will surely have fewer people in 2100; what is not certain is
whether the population will decrease the humane way or the brutal way.
Likewise, human use of resources will almost surely be less in 2100;
what is not certain is whether people will have comfortable lives
or live in squalor.  Those questions are political questions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Power_to_garnish_payments_for_oil)
title: Power to garnish payments for oil
uri: Power-to-garnish-payments-for-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Power_to_garnish_payments_for_oil)
content:
 
<p>

The European Court of Human Rights has the power to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/19/how-end-war-ukraine-solution-beyond-sanctions">garnish payments</a> for oil
coming in to Russia as reparations for Russia's damage to Ukraine.

 


title: (satire) Insurance Plan covers only random hippopotamus attacks
uri: (satire)-Insurance-Plan-covers-only-random-hippopotamus-attacks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_((satire)_Insurance_Plan_covers_only_random_hippopotamus_attacks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_((satire)_Insurance_Plan_covers_only_random_hippopotamus_attacks)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/health-insurance-plan-only-covers-random-hippopotamus-a-1848738603">*Health Insurance Plan [Covers Only] Random Hippopotamus Attacks.*</a>

 


title: Fracked gas exports will worsen climate emergency
uri: Fracked-gas-exports-will-worsen-climate-emergency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Fracked_gas_exports_will_worsen_climate_emergency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Fracked_gas_exports_will_worsen_climate_emergency)

content:
 
<p>

*More Fracked Gas Exports Will Worsen Climate Emergency. <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/19/more-fracked-gas-exports-will-worsen-climate-emergency-send-heat-pumps-instead">Send Heat
Pumps Instead</a>.*
<p>
This is basically correct, but in practice it isn't that simple.  For
a heat pump system to do good, it needs to be first built, then
installed.  I doubt that the world's capacity to build heat pumps can
deliver enough by next winter to avoid shivering in Europe, and I
doubt that the capacity there to install them is enough either.
<p>
No business will choose to build so much new capacity that it will
satisfy the whole market in a year and put itself out of business.
With public subsidy and careful planning, we could arrange to do the
whole job in a few years.  In parallel with that, we could insulate
houses in their hundreds of millions.  We should do this, but we
can't do it by next winter.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_((satire)_Lifelong_eating_disorder)
title: (satire) Lifelong eating disorder
uri: (satire)-Lifelong-eating-disorder
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_((satire)_Lifelong_eating_disorder)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/gymnastics-program-gives-child-self-discipline-needed-t-1848769944">*Gymnastics Program Gives Child Self-Discipline Needed To
Sustain Lifelong Eating Disorder.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Ukrainians_in_UK_on_farm_work_visas)
title: Ukrainians in UK on farm work visas
uri: Ukrainians-in-UK-on-farm-work-visas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Ukrainians_in_UK_on_farm_work_visas)
content:
 
<p>

Around 20,000 Ukrainians got visas to visit the UK for farm work, and
some were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/19/ukrainian-workers-flee-modern-slavery-conditions-on-uk-farms">enslaved once there</a>.

 


title: Military hiding casualties from public
uri: Military-hiding-casualties-from-public
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Military_hiding_casualties_from_public)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Military_hiding_casualties_from_public)

content:
 
<p>

Russian journalist Mikhail Afanasyev: * 11 members of the Russian
   National Guard from his home region of Khakassia had refused to
   fight in Ukraine, he said, and the military was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/21/im-waiting-to-be-arrested-russian-fake-news-law-targets-journalists">hiding information</a>
   about their unit’s casualties from the public.*
<p>
Now he is waiting for state censorship <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> to arrest him and accuse
him for "fake news".

 


title: Two Floridians voted twice in 2020 election
uri: Two-Floridians-voted-twice-in-2020-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Two_Floridians_voted_twice_in_2020_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Two_Floridians_voted_twice_in_2020_election)

content:
 
<p>

Two Floridians have pleaded guilty to <a href="https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ne-2020-election-voting-fraud-the-villages-pre-trial-intervention-20220413-ccfyv2u2ozdmrpxdc7ztboczym-story.html">voting twice in the 2020
presidential election</a>. Both got a slap on the wrist.
<p>
One is a registered Republican; the other has no party affiliation but
is probably a Republican, since they live in a suburb whose
inhabitants are nearly all white and retired.
<p>
Republicans' outrage against <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#19_November_2020_(Accusations_of_voter_fraud)">voter fraud</a>
seems to be limited to the possibility of improper voting for Democrats.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(If_Elon_Musk_buys_Twitter)
title: If Elon Musk buys Twitter
uri: 2022-04-23-If-Elon-Musk-buys-Twitter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(If_Elon_Musk_buys_Twitter)
content:
 
<p>

Elon Musk said that if he buys Twitter, he would <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/tech/twitter-algorithm-open-source-elon-musk/index.html">make its recommendation
algorithm free software</a>.
More precisely, he said "open source", but it's almost the same
in practice.  There are a few programs which are open source but not free,
as explained in <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html</a>.

 


title: Fun violence records from California
uri: Fun-violence-records-from-California
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Fun_violence_records_from_California)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Fun_violence_records_from_California)

content:
 
<p>

A study of gun violence records from California shows that starting to
live in a house where there is a gun <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/07/guns-handguns-safety-homicide-killing-study">correlates with increased danger</a>
of being killed by domestic violence, and is no protection against
killing by strangers.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(DeSantis_is_bullying_Disney)
title: DeSantis is bullying Disney
uri: DeSantis-is-bullying-Disney
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(DeSantis_is_bullying_Disney)
content:
 
<p>

DeSantis has found a way to <a href="/glossary.html#bully">bully</a> Disney into silence on the question
of queer rights, by proposing a law that would <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/20/disney-world-florida-dont-say-gay-bill">take away Disney's
special privileges</a> &mdash; in 2023.  This means that that the law would
pressure Disney to keep quiet for the 2022 election.
<p>
This contest pitches one kind of corruption against another.  Companies
such as Disney should not have much political influence on elections;
that influence is how plutocracy works.  That power undermines democracy.
<p>
However, Republicans also undermine democracy.
<p>
Woe is my country, caught between these dangers.

 


title: US justice department appeals mask mandate ruling
uri: US-justice-department-appeals-mask-mandate-ruling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(US_justice_department_appeals_mask_mandate_ruling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(US_justice_department_appeals_mask_mandate_ruling)

content:
 
<p>

*US justice department <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/20/mask-mandate-cdc-appeal-justice-department-travel">appeals mask mandate ruling</a> after CDC request.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Australia_spending_money_on_dams)
title: Australia spending money on dams
uri: Australia-spending-money-on-dams
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Australia_spending_money_on_dams)
content:
 
<p>

Australia's planet-roaster government proposes to spend lots of money
building dams that may not serve any other purpose.  Nominally they
will collect water for irrigation, but they have not been chosen to
provide useful irrigation.  They were chosen to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/21/morrison-governments-74bn-in-dam-commitments-could-be-biggest-pork-barrel-in-history">reward a right-wing governing party's voters</a>.
<p>
One thing they will surely do is <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jan-apr.html#23_April_2019_(Emissions_from_concrete)">release lots of CO2</a> as the concrete sets.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_said_something_valid)
title: Bogus Johnson said something valid
uri: Bogus-Johnson-said-something-valid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_said_something_valid)
content:
 
<p>

Bogus Johnson said something valid, for once: he acknowledged that
there is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/20/boris-johnson-casts-doubt-on-possibility-of-negotiated-peace-in-ukraine">no chance of a peace deal</a> between Ukraine and Russia just
now.
<p>
The reason is that the sides are too far apart.  Each side would
rather fight than agree to terms that the other side might possibly
accept.  Putin wants to seize additional parts of Ukraine's territory,
and Ukraine wants to recapture the areas that the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> have
already taken, starting in 2014.  Each side sees a hope of winning.
So they will fight.
<p>
Aside from territory, Ukraine also wants to recover the citizens who
were taken to Russia and don't see a way to get out.
<p>
After one side or both sides recognize that the victory it had sought
is unattainable, they may converge on an idea of peace that they
could agree on.
<p>
For now, the best thing to do is to help Ukraine make Putin recognize
that victory is impossible and he may as well accept a peace deal that
gives him at least something.

 


title: Bogus Johnson's attempt to prevent investigation
uri: Bogus-Johnson-s-attempt-to-prevent-investigation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Bogus_Johnson's_attempt_to_prevent_investigation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Bogus_Johnson's_attempt_to_prevent_investigation)

content:
 
<p>

Bogus Johnson was compelled to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/20/boris-johnson-abandons-efforts-block-inquiry-on-misleading-commons-over-partygate">abandon the attempt</a> to prevent an
investigation into his lies about participating in parties at work
during the time when he had made such parties illegal.

 


title: Jeremy Corbin questions role of military alliances
uri: Jeremy-Corbin-questions-role-of-military-alliances
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Jeremy_Corbin_questions_role_of_military_alliances)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Jeremy_Corbin_questions_role_of_military_alliances)

content:
 
<p>

*[Jeremy Corbin] does not blame Nato for Russian invasion but
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/20/jeremy-corbyn-would-like-to-see-nato-ultimately-disband">questions role of military alliances</a>.*
<p>
He said he *hoped military alliances like Nato could be ultimately
disbanded, saying they could create "greater danger" in the world.*
<p>
I don't agree with him on that point, but I don't consider that
position horrible.  Despite that disagreement, I still support Corbyn.
Overall, he is the one I would trust to fight plutocracy.

 


title: Studying what causes a nature reserve to succeed
uri: Studying-what-causes-a-nature-reserve-to-succeed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Studying_what_causes_a_nature_reserve_to_succeed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Studying_what_causes_a_nature_reserve_to_succeed)

content:
 
<p>

Protected nature reserves can ensure the survival of species, but that
is not automatic.  Researchers are now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/20/protected-areas-dont-always-benefit-wildlife-global-study-finds-aoe">studying what causes a given
nature reserve to succeed or fail</a> with any particular species.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(America's_crime_panic)
title: America's crime panic
uri: America-s-crime-panic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(America's_crime_panic)
content:
 
<p>

*America’s crime panic: why we <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/20/us-crime-policing-research-james-forman-jr">can’t afford to repeat mistakes of the 90s</a>.*
<p>
The mistakes were hiring more <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>, stop-and-search, and longer prison terms.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Methods_designed_to_cool_the_Earth)
title: Methods designed to cool the Earth
uri: Methods-designed-to-cool-the-Earth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Methods_designed_to_cool_the_Earth)
content:
 
<p>

Geoengineering methods designed to cool the Earth could also <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/20/geoengineering-to-slow-global-heating-risks-malaria-rise">exacerbate
malaria</a>.
<p>
Those methods would fail to counteract the acidification of the oceans,
caused by the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-nov-feb.html#24%20January%202008%20(Global%20warming%20is%20destroying%20coral%20reefs)">CO2 dissolving in them</a>.  That would kill a large fraction
of ocean life.

 


title: Coup attempt organized by the corrupter
uri: Coup-attempt-organized-by-the-corrupter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Coup_attempt_organized_by_the_corrupter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Coup_attempt_organized_by_the_corrupter)

content:
 
<p>

Rep. Raskin, of the January 6 investigation committee, asserted that the
insurrection was a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/19/donald-trump-jamie-raskin-january-6-committee-capitol-attack">coup attempt organized by the corrupter</a>.

 


title: Apple store workers seek to unionize
uri: Apple-store-workers-seek-to-unionize
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Apple_store_workers_seek_to_unionize)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Apple_store_workers_seek_to_unionize)

content:
 
<p>

Workers in a major Apple store <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/18/business/apple-store-unionize/index.html">seek to unionize</a>.
As long as Apple stores exist, it would be good for their workers
to have a union &mdash; but due to the <a href="/apple.html">injustice of Apple's hardware and software</a>,
what we should really wish for is the elimination of Apple's
products (along with products running Android and Windows).

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_April_2022_(Worthless_referendum)
title: Worthless referendum
uri: Worthless-referendum
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_April_2022_(Worthless_referendum)
content:
 
<p>
  Zelenskyy accused Putin of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/22/russia-plans-to-hold-sham-independence-vote-in-southern-ukraine-zelenskiy-says">planning to hold a worthless "referendum"
  in conquered areas of Ukraine</a>.
  He <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jan-apr.html#27_April_2019_(Seizure_of_Crimea)">did that in Crimea after conquering it</a>, and the election
  was clearly bogus.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_April_2022_(Protest_over_religious_persecution)
title: Protest over religious persecution
uri: Protest-over-religious-persecution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_April_2022_(Protest_over_religious_persecution)
content:
 
<p>
  An Indian cabinet minister faced protests when visiting UC Berkeley
  for <a href="https://pieterjfriedrich.medium.com/bjps-smriti-irani-protested-at-uc-berkeley-for-indian-muslim-genocide-464734a10009">the Modi government's policies of religious persecution</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_April_2022_(Permanent_occupation)
title: Permanent occupation
uri: Permanent-occupation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_April_2022_(Permanent_occupation)
content:
 
<p>
  *A senior Russian military commander has said that the goal of [Putin's]
  new offensive is to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/22/ukraine-south-occupation-russian-military-chief-rustam-minnekayev">seize control of southern Ukraine and form a
  land bridge to Crimea, indicating that Russia plans a permanent
    occupation of Ukrainian territory taken in the war</a>.*
<p>
  Another part of the statement suggests that Putin wants to conquer Odessa as well.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_April_2022_(Satellites_and_collisions)
title: Satellites and collisions
uri: Satellites-and-collisions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_April_2022_(Satellites_and_collisions)
content:
 
<p>
  Scientists call
    for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/22/orbital-space-earth-protected-scientists-satellites">limiting
    the number of satellites in near-Earth orbit to avoid
    collisions</a>.
<p>
  The desire of a company to launch thousands of satellites is of no
  importance compared to this.

 


title: Modi arrests official for an accusation of admiring assassination of Mahatma Gandhi
uri: Modi-arrests-official-for-an-accusation-of-admiring-assassination-of-M
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_April_2022_(Modi_arrests_official_for_an_accusation_of_admiring_assassination_of_Mahatma_Gandhi)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_April_2022_(Modi_arrests_official_for_an_accusation_of_admiring_assassination_of_Mahatma_Gandhi)

content:
 
<p>
  Modi arrested a Dalit activist elected official for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/22/orbital-space-earth-protected-scientists-satellites">accusing Modi of
  admiring the fanatical assassin of Mahatma Gandhi</a>.
<p>
  I don't know whether Modi actually admires him, but <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-mar-jun.html#2_May_2020_(Violence_in_control)">his party
  is allied with the RSS</a>
  which inspired the assassin.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_April_2022_(Live_audiences_have_gotten_worse)
title: Live audiences have gotten worse
uri: Live-audiences-have-gotten-worse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_April_2022_(Live_audiences_have_gotten_worse)
content:
 
<p>
  After years without live shows to see, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/21/its-no-joke-since-lockdown-live-audiences-have-forgotten-how-to-behave">some people have lost their inhibitions
    about disrupting shows</a>.
<p>
  With so much Covid-19 spreading around, I think it is foolhardy to go to
  any indoor live show where people will not follow mask discipline and
  stay distant from each other.

 


title: Urgent: Pass Biden's billionaire tax
uri: Urgent-Pass-Biden-s-billionaire-tax
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_Biden's_billionaire_tax)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_Biden's_billionaire_tax)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your congressional representative to <a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/pass-biden-tax-plan/?utm_source=aa&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=bidentaxplan&t=1009&akid=26750%2E660322%2EOmB51U">pass Biden's billionaire tax</a>.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Geoengineering schemes that carry risk of increasing malaria
uri: Geoengineering-schemes-that-carry-risk-of-increasing-malaria
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Geoengineering_schemes_that_carry_risk_of_increasing_malaria)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Geoengineering_schemes_that_carry_risk_of_increasing_malaria)

content:
 
<p>

Geoengineering schemes that work by reflecting sunlight from the upper
atmosphere carry a risk of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/20/study-warns-use-geoengineering-fight-climate-crisis-risks-malaria-surge">greatly increasing malaria</a>.

 


title: Renewable electric generation and large batteries
uri: Renewable-electric-generation-and-large-batteries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Renewable_electric_generation_and_large_batteries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Renewable_electric_generation_and_large_batteries)

content:
 
<p>

California is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/20/california-briefly-runs-97-renewable-energy-reveals-future-which-oil-and-gas">building renewable electric generation and large batteries</a>
in a way that shows the world what everyone should do.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Nationalizing_lithium_deposits)
title: Nationalizing lithium deposits
uri: Nationalizing-lithium-deposits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Nationalizing_lithium_deposits)
content:
 
<p>

Mexico is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/20/mexican-lawmakers-approve-bill-nationalize-lithium">nationalizing lithium deposits</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Export_market_for_coal)
title: Export market for coal
uri: Export-market-for-coal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Export_market_for_coal)
content:
 
<p>

Warning to Australian politicians: the export market for coal will
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/21/australias-coal-export-boom-forecast-to-end-abruptly-amid-big-drop-in-demand-from-china">vanish in a few years</a>.
It must stop building expensive new coal facilities that will never
make a profit.
<p>
Meanwhile, Australia <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/21/over-90-of-australias-fuel-imported-leaving-country-vulnerable-to-shortages-report-says">imports nearly all its oil</a>.  It needs to invest in renewable power for vehicles.

 


title: OSHA must plan to protect workers from heat
uri: OSHA-must-plan-to-protect-workers-from-heat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(OSHA_must_plan_to_protect_workers_from_heat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(OSHA_must_plan_to_protect_workers_from_heat)

content:
 
<p>

OSHA must start planning to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/20/extreme-heat-coming-what-policies-are-place-protect-workers">protect American workers from the heat
that is coming</a>.
<p>
The only way to protect workers from the even worse heat of 30 years
from now is to curb global heating.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Cruel_family-separation_policy)
title: Cruel family-separation policy
uri: Cruel-family-separation-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Cruel_family-separation_policy)
content:
 
<p>

Physicians for Human Rights called on Biden to stop defending the
cruel family-separation policy of the vicious president and instead
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/20/doctors-group-urges-biden-redress-victims-trump-era-family-separation">pay compensation to the victims</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Atlanta_Apple_store_union_election)
title: Atlanta Apple store union election
uri: Atlanta-Apple-store-union-election
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Atlanta_Apple_store_union_election)
content:
 
<p>

*Atlanta Apple Store Workers File for Company's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/20/atlanta-apple-store-workers-file-companys-first-union-election-us">First Union Election in US</a>.*
<p>
Until we can make <a href="/apple.html">Apple</a> respect <a href="https://gnu.org/malware/malware-apple.html ">users' freedom</a>, or get rid of it,
at least its workers should have a union.

 


title: Appeal to revive travel mask mandate
uri: Appeal-to-revive-travel-mask-mandate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Appeal_to_revive_travel_mask_mandate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Appeal_to_revive_travel_mask_mandate)

content:
 
<p>

*DOJ Files Appeal to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/20/doj-files-appeal-revive-travel-mask-mandate">Revive Travel Mask Mandate</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Defending_lions_in_Tanzania)
title: Defending lions in Tanzania
uri: Defending-lions-in-Tanzania
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Defending_lions_in_Tanzania)
content:
 
<p>

One ethnic group in Tanzania has taken up the project of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/20/africa/barabaig-lion-defenders-tanzania-c2e-scn-spc-intl/index.html">defending lions</a>,
while also protecting livestock from lions.

 


title: New Zealand agreed to extradite to China
uri: New-Zealand-agreed-to-extradite-to-China
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(New_Zealand_agreed_to_extradite_to_China)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(New_Zealand_agreed_to_extradite_to_China)

content:
 
<p>

New Zealand agreed to extradite to China a defendant accused of murder
there.  Now there is a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/22/new-zealand-china-pressure-extradition-kyung-yup-kim-dangerous-precedent">campaign not to extradite him</a>, because China
might torture him and give him an unfair trial.
<p>
Indeed, that is quite possible.  However, it is not only China that
does this.  The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/22/vaccination-could-have-prevented-3-5-us-covid-deaths-june-2021-analysis">campaign against extraditing Julian Assange</a> to the US
cites the danger of similar conduct by the US.

 


title: Gerrymandering to control congressional seats
uri: Gerrymandering-to-control-congressional-seats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Gerrymandering_to_control_congressional_seats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Gerrymandering_to_control_congressional_seats)

content:
 
<p>

Florida Republicans have used gerrymandering to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/21/florida-republicans-pass-map-limits-black-voter-power">assure they will control
20 out of the state's 28 congressional seats</a>.
<p>
Republicans do have a majority in Florida, but nothing like that.

 


title: Stop subsidizing Bezos's space business
uri: Stop-subsidizing-Bezos-s-space-business
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Stop_subsidizing_Bezos's_space_business)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Stop_subsidizing_Bezos's_space_business)

content:
 
<p>

Bernie Sanders: the US should <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/22/jeff-bezos-space-elon-musk-billionaires-bernie-sanders">stop subsidizing</a> any part of Bezos's space
business.  He can afford it himself.

 


title: Secretly burying corpses to cover casualties
uri: Secretly-burying-corpses-to-cover-casualties
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Secretly_burying_corpses_to_cover_casualties)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Secretly_burying_corpses_to_cover_casualties)

content:
 
<p>

The mayor of Mariupol accuses the Putin forces of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/21/russian-forces-accused-of-secret-burials-of-civilians-in-mariupol">secretly burying corpses</a>
lying around in Mariupol, to cover up the number of casualties.
And, in some cases, possible war crimes.
<p>
As long as the Putin forces hold Mariupol it will never be possible
to check whether that is true.

 


title: Evidence of cluster bombs used on civilian area
uri: Evidence-of-cluster-bombs-used-on-civilian-area
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Evidence_of_cluster_bombs_used_on_civilian_area)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Evidence_of_cluster_bombs_used_on_civilian_area)

content:
 
<p>

Guardian journalists have found physical evidence that the Putin
forces used <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/21/russia-using-banned-weapons-to-kill-ukrainian-civilians-pictures-suggest">cluster bombs on civilian area</a> in towns north of Kiev.
<p>
The evidence includes, among other things, fragments found in
corpses.
<p>
This article makes much of the fact that most countries in the world
have signed the treaty to ban cluster bombs.  However, the major
powers have not signed it, and I don't think "that's forbidden" is a
valid moral argument in regard to the countries that have not signed.
<p>
Rather, the valid moral argument to condemn the use of cluster bombs
is the practical consequence of using them: the unexploded
submunitions keep killing civilians (especially children) for decades
after the war.
<p>
It is also true that using these or other powerful munitions in
civilian areas is a war crime.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Land_for_reindeer_herding)
title: Land for reindeer herding
uri: Land-for-reindeer-herding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Land_for_reindeer_herding)
content:
 
<p>

Sami defending their use of land for reindeer herding are in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/21/green-industry-wants-to-take-our-land-the-new-battle-for-the-arctic">conflict
with plans to make steel with less carbon emissions</a>.
<p>
Sustainable steel is crucial for all of society; reindeer herding is a
niche activity.  If the two inescapably conflict, in principle we
should approve the mine and the wind farms.
<p>
But not necessarily the specific plans that have been proposed.  Wind
farms can go in various places.  Other places might cost more, but
that might be a good compromise.  If compromise increases the cost of
mining, the Sami's interest can justify that.
<p>
We can't trust companies, and especially not mining companies.  Before
approving any specific plans, we should study them in minute detail
looking for deceptions, and for promises they might wiggle out of &mdash;
or that might be impossible to carry out.
<p>
I also wonder whether the existing mines could be used for the new,
less-polluting steel plant.  Perhaps the company hopes that increased output
will cover the cost of building the new plant.  If so, perhaps the state
should pay for it as a replacement, and own it.

 


title: Running out of time to prosecute the wrecker
uri: Running-out-of-time-to-prosecute-the-wrecker
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Running_out_of_time_to_prosecute_the_wrecker)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Running_out_of_time_to_prosecute_the_wrecker)

content:
 
<p>

We are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/21/trump-republican-party-midterm-elections-democracy">running out of time</a> to prosecute the wrecker for trying to overthrow
the US government and seize power.

 


title: People killed by police in traffic stops
uri: People-killed-by-police-in-traffic-stops
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(People_killed_by_police_in_traffic_stops)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(People_killed_by_police_in_traffic_stops)

content:
 
<p>

*US police have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/21/us-police-violence-traffic-stop-data">killed nearly 600 people</a> in traffic stops since 2017, data
shows.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Putin_ordered_blockade_of_Mariupol)
title: Putin ordered blockade of Mariupol
uri: Putin-ordered-blockade-of-Mariupol
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Putin_ordered_blockade_of_Mariupol)
content:
 
<p>

Putin ordered his forces to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/21/putin-blockade-mariupol-ukraine-forces-steelworks">blockade Mariupol</a> so that no civilians can
possibly flee. It would also stop soldiers from getting out, but I don't think
there was much chance of that anyway.  Putin has been taking strong
measures to keep civilians from escaping.  I can think of a few
possible motives:

<li> So they can't testify about the war crimes.

<li> So he seize as many captives as possible, and take them by force
to Russia

<li> So he can kill more of them.

 


title: Mural depicting underground railroad
uri: Mural-depicting-underground-railroad
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Mural_depicting_underground_railroad)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Mural_depicting_underground_railroad)

content:
 
<p>

Students in Vermont Law School have demanded that a school <a href="https://www.usfsu.org/p/art-crushed-by-political-orthodoxyagain?s=r">get rid
of a mural which depicts the Underground Railroad</a> (in which whites
helped escaped slaves reach Canada and freedom) in a tone they
don't agree with.
<p>
I have no opinion on the mural itself, because I have not seen it.  I
don't know whether I would agree with the reported criticism.  It
doesn't say precisely what aspects of the mural are being criticized,
and I don't know if I would recognize them without more explanation.
<p>
I think the court's ruling was correct.  To remove a piece of art from
view is not "distortion, mutilation, or &hellip; modification", just
as deleting a file does not make a modified version of it.
<p>
It would be ludicrous to give whoever painted a mural in a publicly
visible place the power to require it to be preserved there forever.
Imagine if the mural showed adulation for Donald Trump or Vladimir
Putin &mdash; should this compel the building's owner to display propaganda
for them?  The school must have the choice to cover up or paint over
art that it does not wish to display.  Indeed, it may someday wish to
remodel or demolish the building, and eliminate that wall entirely.
<p>
Although this means the school has the right to decide to hide the
mural, I disapprove of that decision.  It is partly for the reasons
stated in the article, but it is more than that.
<p>
Although I am not sure what aspects of the mural some students
criticize, I can tell that it is a matter of nuance.  It is _not_ like
a painting that admires Trumputin.  That means that the critics are
being demanding more than anyone in a free society has a right to
demand.  They must learn to respect disagreement on such points.  I
say this without knowing whether I would agree or disagree with them
on their specific criticisms of the mural.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Wildfire_in_Arizona)
title: Wildfire in Arizona
uri: Wildfire-in-Arizona
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Wildfire_in_Arizona)
content:
 
<p>

Now Arizona is the state that's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/22/arizona-tunnel-fire-wildfire-new-mexico">dealing with a wildfire</a> that is much
worse than normal.

 


title: Charges against Pamela Moses dropped
uri: Charges-against-Pamela-Moses-dropped
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Charges_against_Pamela_Moses_dropped)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Charges_against_Pamela_Moses_dropped)

content:
 
<p>

*Prosecutor <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/22/pamela-moses-prosecutor-drops-charges-memphis-tennessee">drops all charges</a> against Pamela Moses, jailed over voting error.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Analysis_of_Covid_Vaccination)
title: Analysis of Covid Vaccination
uri: Analysis-of-Covid-Vaccination
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Analysis_of_Covid_Vaccination)
content:
 
<p>

*Vaccination Could Have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/22/vaccination-could-have-prevented-3-5-us-covid-deaths-june-2021-analysis">Prevented 3 in 5 US Covid Deaths</a> Since June
2021: Analysis.*

 


title: Australia's major parties are planet-roasters
uri: Australia-s-major-parties-are-planet-roasters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Australia's_major_parties_are_planet-roasters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Australia's_major_parties_are_planet-roasters)

content:
 
<p>
  The major Australian parties are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/21/a-close-look-at-election-campaign-promises-shows-major-parties-still-back-fossil-fuels">all planet-roasters</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Hydrogen_instead_of_coal)
title: Hydrogen instead of coal
uri: Hydrogen-instead-of-coal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Hydrogen_instead_of_coal)
content:
 
<p>
  The US should <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/04/19/russia-steel-pig-iron-green-energy/">speed up the conversion</a> of US steel production to use
  hydrogen instead of coal.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Unprofitable_nuclear_power_plants)
title: Unprofitable nuclear power plants
uri: Unprofitable-nuclear-power-plants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Unprofitable_nuclear_power_plants)
content:
 
<p>
  Biden plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/19/biden-effort-nuclear-plants-energy-climate-crisis">offer money to keep unprofitable nuclear power plants
  operating</a>.
<p>
  Shutting down a nuclear power plant has a plus &mdash; it avoids making
  more radioactive material and gets a start on cleaning up the site.
<p>
  I wonder how these payments will work.  Will they be a simple subsidy?
  Or would the company have to pay something in return &mdash; perhaps its
  own stock?  I think that when the state tries to aid a company, it
  should never be a simple subsidy; the state should demand payment in
  shares.
<p>
  The most basic way to prevent the switch from nuclear power to fossil
  fuel power is to tax the use of fossil fuels heavily.  That would not
  lead to building any new nuclear plants, as that is far too expensive,
  but it would encourage building renewable energy.
  

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Drug_patents)
title: Drug patents
uri: 2022-04-24-Drug-patents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Drug_patents)
content:
 
<p>
  The enormous profits to be made from drug patents create pressure to corrupt
  the details of the patent system.
<p>
  That's aside from the question of <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#28_April_2021_(Lobbying_against_exception_to_vaccine_patents)">whether patents should apply to medicine,
  or to any other field</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Censorship_army_saturated)
title: Censorship army saturated
uri: Censorship-army-saturated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Censorship_army_saturated)
content:
 
<p>
  The level of dissent in Shanghai is so high that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/20/china-internet-censors-scramble-as-lockdown-frustration-sparks-creative-wave-of-dissent">it is saturating
  China's censorship army</a>.

 


title: Pegasus on phones of Catalunya's officials
uri: Pegasus-on-phones-of-Catalunya-s-officials
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Pegasus_on_phones_of_Catalunya's_officials)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Pegasus_on_phones_of_Catalunya's_officials)

content:
 
<p>
  It looks like <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/19/catalan-president-calls-for-investigation-as-spyware-targets-pro-independence-leaders">someone used Pegasus to snoop on the phones of Catalunya's
  officials</a>.  They accuse the government of Spain.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Mask_mandate)
title: Mask mandate
uri: Mask-mandate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Mask_mandate)
content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/18/right-wing-judge-kills-cdc-mask-mandate-travel">More about the US mask mandate</a>, whose loss will increase the danger
  to everyone in the US.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Extinction_Rebellion)
title: Extinction Rebellion
uri: 2022-04-24-Extinction-Rebellion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Extinction_Rebellion)
content:
 
<p>
  *&ldquo;<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/18/no-wars-no-warming-extinction-rebellion-marches-nyc">No Wars, No Warming</a>&lsquo;: Extinction Rebellion Marches on NYC.*
<p>
  Supporting Ukraine in defeating the Putin forces is a necessary part
  of discouraging wars launched by states against states.  However,
  among US wars since 1960, that is an exception.  For most of them, the US
  had no valid grounds for fighting.
<p>
  Support for Ukraine is a small fraction of US military spending; we
  could reduce it greatly, especially via new nuclear diplomacy.
<p>
  Thus, we can cut the US military budget while supporting Ukraine
  as much as it needs.
  

 


title: Putin's invasion leading to disaster
uri: Putin-s-invasion-leading-to-disaster
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Putin's_invasion_leading_to_disaster)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Putin's_invasion_leading_to_disaster)

content:
 
<p>
  Putin's invasion is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/04/18/climate-change-also-major-casualty-war-ukraine">leading to disaster for the whole world</a>,
  as it interferes with urgent climate defense measures.

 


title: Drop in support for Biden among young voters
uri: Drop-in-support-for-Biden-among-young-voters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Drop_in_support_for_Biden_among_young_voters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_April_2022_(Drop_in_support_for_Biden_among_young_voters)

content:
 
<p>
*Progressives Say Climate Inaction, Student Debt Explain <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/18/progressives-say-climate-inaction-student-debt-explain-bidens-drop-support-among">Biden's Drop in
    Support Among Young Voters</a>.*
<p>
  They reduce my support for him, too.  However, they do not make
  planet-roaster Republicans and plutocratist Democrats any better for
  us than they used to be.

 


title: UK labour party has gone full planet-roaster
uri: 2022-04-24-UK-labour-party-has-gone-full-planet-roaster
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(UK_labour_party_has_gone_full_planet-roaster)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(UK_labour_party_has_gone_full_planet-roaster)

content:
 
<p>

The UK Labour Party has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/11/disgrace-uk-labour-party-slammed-seeking-injunction-against-climate-activists">gone full planet-roaster</a>, calling for harsh
injunctions that would put climate defense protesters in prison.

 


title: Sonic pollution from boats and ships
uri: 2022-04-24-Sonic-pollution-from-boats-and-ships
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Sonic_pollution_from_boats_and_ships)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Sonic_pollution_from_boats_and_ships)

content:
 
<p>

Sonic pollution from boats and ships is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/12/ocean-of-noise-sonic-pollution-hurting-marine-life">making it hard for orcas
to find prey</a>, or find their families, in some areas.

 


title: Justice O'Connor rejects gerrymandering
uri: 2022-04-24-Justice-O-Connor-rejects-gerrymandering
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Justice_O'Connor_rejects_gerrymandering)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Justice_O'Connor_rejects_gerrymandering)

content:
 
<p>

Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice O'Connor is a Republican who still
has an idea of civic duty.  So she <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/12/ohio-republican-judge-blocking-party-from-distorting-electoral-districts">rejects gerrymandering</a> designed to
rig elections.  Modern Republicans want to impeach her for that.
<p>
The difference between the two parties is clear.  Democrats will
impeach you for trying to steal an election.  Republicans will impeach
you for not trying to steal an election.

 


title: Sunscreen chemicals accumulating in Mediterranean seagrass
uri: 2022-04-24-Sunscreen-chemicals-accumulating-in-Mediterranean-seagrass
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Sunscreen_chemicals_accumulating_in_Mediterranean_seagrass)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Sunscreen_chemicals_accumulating_in_Mediterranean_seagrass)

content:
 
<p>

*Sunscreen chemicals <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/12/sunscreen-chemicals-accumulating-in-mediterranean-seagrass-finds-study">accumulating in Mediterranean seagrass</a>&hellip; UV filters absorbed by Posidonia oceanica may have damaging effects on
ecosystems, scientists warn.*

 


title: Bogus Johnson fined for having prohibited party
uri: 2022-04-24-Bogus-Johnson-fined-for-having-prohibited-party
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_fined_for_having_prohibited_party)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_April_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_fined_for_having_prohibited_party)

content:
 
<p>

Bogus Johnson has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/12/boris-johnson-and-rishi-sunak-fined-for-breaking-covid-lockdown-laws">fined officially</a> for having a party with people
from different households when that was prohibited.
That law was being enforced vigorously against everyone else,
and arguably in a manner that was too strict.  But he was totally behind
that rule for everyone else, while covering up his own disobedience.
<p>
Many Britons now hate him for this, and demand his resignation.

 


title: Autopsy shows Patrick Lyoya shot by thug
uri: Autopsy-shows-Patrick-Lyoya-shot-by-thug
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_April_2022_(Autopsy_shows_Patrick_Lyoya_shot_by_thug)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_April_2022_(Autopsy_shows_Patrick_Lyoya_shot_by_thug)

content:
 
<p>

Autopsy confirmed that Patrick Lyoya, unarmed, was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/19/autopsy-confirms-patrick-lyoya-shot-head-police-officer-face-down">shot by a Michigan
thug</a> who was on top of Lyoya while he was lying face down on
the ground.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/15/patrick-lyoya-shooting-family-police-killed-execution">More info</a> about the situation in which he was killed.
<p>
I agree with Lyoya's relatives that this was this was totally gratuitous,
and inexcusable.  Let's see charges against the <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a>!

 


title: Replacing NSW coal plant would create more jobs
uri: Replacing-NSW-coal-plant-would-create-more-jobs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Replacing_NSW_coal_plant_would_create_more_jobs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Replacing_NSW_coal_plant_would_create_more_jobs)

content:
 
<p>
  *Replacing NSW coal plant with renewables <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/apr/25/replacing-nsw-coal-plant-with-renewables-would-create-thousands-more-jobs-than-gas-report-says">would create thousands more
  jobs than gas</a>, report says.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Climate_debate_and_health)
title: Climate debate and health
uri: Climate-debate-and-health
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Climate_debate_and_health)
content:
 
<p>
  *The key to winning the climate debate isn’t economics: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/23/key-to-winning-climate-debate-isnt-economics-its-health">it’s health</a>.*
<p>
  <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">Global heating</a> effects are already killing substantial numbers of
  people, and the GDP is not a very good way to measure that.  It is
  also causing sicknesses that will later cause premature death for a
  considerable fraction.  (For instance, breathing smoke from
  wildfires.)  That doesn't show up in today's GDP at all.
<p>
  I hazard a guess that the people who think about <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> in
  terms of effect on the GDP are the people who simply don't recognize
  how dangerous it is.

 


title: Right-wing extremists using exploitative sex to persecute the queer
uri: Right-wing-extremists-using-exploitative-sex-to-persecute-the-queer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Right-wing_extremists_using_exploitative_sex_to_persecute_the_queer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Right-wing_extremists_using_exploitative_sex_to_persecute_the_queer)

content:
 
<p>
  Anti-sex feminism saw the pornography that shows exploitative sex, and
  took alarm.  Now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/apr/24/eva-wiseman-the-ghost-of-mary-whitehouse-and-the-new-anti-sex-backlash">right-wing extremists are using that to persecute the
  queer</a>.
<p>
  They want to reimpose the prudery of the 1950s.  Will we let them?

 


title: Tech companies made religions out of working for them
uri: Tech-companies-made-religions-out-of-working-for-them
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Tech_companies_made_religions_out_of_working_for_them)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Tech_companies_made_religions_out_of_working_for_them)

content:
 
<p>
  Proposing that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/apr/24/carolyn-chen-the-tech-company-offers-the-most-efficient-solution-to-providing-a-meaningful-life">tech companies have made a religion out of working for
  the company, and expect/require all employees to be believers</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Rashism)
title: Rashism
uri: Rashism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Rashism)
content:
 
<p>
  In Ukrainian, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220423013851/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/magazine/ruscism-ukraine-russia-war.html">"rashism" means Russian fascism -- except that the joke
  has additional layers in the Ukrainian context</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Flechette_shells)
title: Flechette shells
uri: Flechette-shells
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Flechette_shells)
content:
 
<p>
  The Putin forces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/24/dozens-bucha-civilians-killed-flechettes-metal-darts-russian-artillery">fired flechette shells in Bucha a few days before
  leaving</a>.  The flechettes have been found in corpses of civilians.
<p>
  Using those weapons in a built-up civilian area, such as Bucha, is a
  war crime.
<p>
  Other civilians in Bucha were killed by cluster bombs.

 


title: Florida bans math textbooks for data about racism
uri: Florida-bans-math-textbooks-for-data-about-racism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Florida_bans_math_textbooks_for_data_about_racism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Florida_bans_math_textbooks_for_data_about_racism)

content:
 
<p>
  Florida banned some math textbooks because <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/22/florida-examples-prohibited-topics-math-textbooks">they contain examples
  involving data about racism</a>.
<p>
  I sense something artificial in the examples described in this
  article.  I am sure that those passages were written that way out of a
  desire to encourage students to be aware in a general way of the
  phenomenon of racism, and subtly encourage them to think about the
  issue.  But that is a well-known fact of life, that the students
  experience in their own lives.  Only a white supremacist could demand
  denying it entirely.
<p>
  Many math problems are formulated in terms of numbers of various sorts
  of fruits.  Will Florida Republicans find them in violation of the new
  law restricting teaching about homosexual relationships?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Parliament_mislead)
title: Parliament mislead
uri: Parliament-mislead
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Parliament_mislead)
content:
 
<p>
  The UK's minister of personal control and repression <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/22/priti-patel-accused-misleading-parliament-refugee-pushbacks">misled Parliament
  officially</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(BJP_pogrom)
title: BJP pogrom
uri: BJP-pogrom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(BJP_pogrom)
content:
 
<p>
  Interviews with Muslims in Delhi who were <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/21/india/india-hindu-muslim-violence-khargone-bulldozing-intl-hnk-dst/index.html">victims of a pogrom stirred
  up by the ruling BJP party</a>
  and its Hinduismist movement.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Elon_Musk_and_Twitter)
title: Elon Musk and Twitter
uri: Elon-Musk-and-Twitter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Elon_Musk_and_Twitter)
content:
 
<p>
  CNN's opinion: We shouldn’t trust Musk’s plans to transform Twitter.
<p>
  He has <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jan-apr.html#31_March_2019_(Teslas_auto-drive)">made cars that have surveillance engines</a>,
  so we should hardly trust him with any other digital systems.

 


title: Protest over lousy global heating coverage from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal
uri: Protest-over-lousy-global-heating-coverage-from-the-New-York-Times-and
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Protest_over_lousy_global_heating_coverage_from_the_New_York_Times_and_Wall_Street_Journal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Protest_over_lousy_global_heating_coverage_from_the_New_York_Times_and_Wall_Street_Journal)

content:
 
<p>
  Activists blocked the door of a printing plant in New York City, which
  prints the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, to
  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/22/activists-blockade-corporate-newspapers-over-inadequate-climate-coverage">protest their lousy coverage of global heating and the disaster it is
  causing</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Harm_reduction_embrace)
title: Harm reduction embrace
uri: Harm-reduction-embrace
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Harm_reduction_embrace)
content:
 
<p>
  *Drug Policy Alliance <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/04/21/drug-policy-alliance-applauds-bidens-embrace-harm-reduction">Applauds Biden's Embrace of Harm Reduction</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Gun_violence_and_US_youth)
title: Gun violence and US youth
uri: Gun-violence-and-US-youth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(Gun_violence_and_US_youth)
content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/22/us-gun-violence-leading-cause-of-death-youth">Gun violence becomes leading cause of death among US youth</a>, data shows.*
<p>
  This includes accidents and suicides as well as fighting and murder.
  Fewer guns makes all of them less frequent, and not just for
  teenagers.

 


