# articles

title: Massachusetts law to increase tax rate for incomes over a million dollars a year
uri: Massachusetts-law-to-increase-tax-rate-for-incomes-over-a-million-doll
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Massachusetts_law_to_increase_tax_rate_for_incomes_over_a_million_dollars_a_year)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Massachusetts_law_to_increase_tax_rate_for_incomes_over_a_million_dollars_a_year)

content:
 
<p>

Massachusetts voters amended the state constitution to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/11/26/taxing-rich-requires-more-policy">increase the
    tax rate a few percent</a> for incomes over a million dollars a year.  So
far so good.  But the greedy rich have many ways to get rid of laws
that make them pay their fair share.

 


title: Activities in UK exclude people not using snoop-phones
uri: Activities-in-UK-exclude-people-not-using-snoop-phones
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Activities_in_UK_exclude_people_not_using_snoop-phones)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Activities_in_UK_exclude_people_not_using_snoop-phones)

content:
 
<p>

In the UK, many necessary life activities exclude people that don't use
snoop-phones full of nonfree software.
This article <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/nov/26/britons-digital-banking-shopping-parking">shows how common that is</a>.
<p>
The author cannot envision the idea of choosing to reject snoop-phones
as a matter of justice if you are capable of using one.  But you can.
Every one of the restrictive activities that excludes the old people that
can't use a snoop-phone are likewise doing wrong to everyone that refuses
to use them.
<p>
And doing wrong to each person that <em>does</em> contact them with a
snoop-phone.

 


title: Hindu-supremacism and violence exported to Britain
uri: Hindu-supremacism-and-violence-exported-to-Britain
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Hindu-supremacism_and_violence_exported_to_Britain)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Hindu-supremacism_and_violence_exported_to_Britain)

content:
 
<p>

  India is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/27/the-guardian-view-on-modis-india-the-danger-of-exporting-hindu-chauvinism">exporting Hindu-supremacism and its violence</a> to Britain. And <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Cancelled_statement_in_support_of_Hindu_Swayamsevak_Sangh)">to the US</a>.

 


title: Some influential newspapers argue for dropping charges against Assange
uri: Some-influential-newspapers-argue-for-dropping-charges-against-Assange
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Some_influential_newspapers_argue_for_dropping_charges_against_Assange)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Some_influential_newspapers_argue_for_dropping_charges_against_Assange)

content:
 
<p>

  Finally some influential newspapers argue for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/28/because-publishing-not-crime-major-newspapers-push-us-drop-assange-charges">dropping the charges</a> against
Julian Assange.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Cutting_plastic_waste)
title: Cutting plastic waste
uri: Cutting-plastic-waste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Cutting_plastic_waste)
content:
 
<p>
  The EU has proposed a plan to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/30/eu-unveils-plans-to-cut-europes-plastic-and-packaging-waste">cut plastic waste from consumer goods</a>.
<p>
  This is good, but what about <a href="/notes/2022-sep-dec.html#9_November_2022_(Plastic_pollution_from_fishing_gear)">the fishing nets</a>?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Billionaire_donation_pledges)
title: Billionaire donation pledges
uri: Billionaire-donation-pledges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Billionaire_donation_pledges)
content:
 
<p>
  When billionaires pledge to donate most of their wealth to charity,
  there is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/opinions/billionaires-pledge-share-wealth-collins/index.html">no guarantee</a> that that money will ever reach a charity,
  The system is complicated and the pledge may be almost meaningless.
<p>
  Never mind their pledges -- let's tax them a lot more.
<p>
  *UK super-rich [are] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/nov/30/uk-super-rich-less-charitable-than-decade-ago-charity-chief-orlando-fraser">less charitable</a> than decade ago, says charity chief.*
<p>
  Stop depending on them to give voluntarily, and tax them more!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Biden_and_Israel_weapons_halt)
title: Biden and Israel weapons halt
uri: Biden-and-Israel-weapons-halt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Biden_and_Israel_weapons_halt)
content:
 
<p>
  *Biden urged to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/30/biden-israel-weapons-palestinian-territories-far-right">threaten Israel weapons halt</a> over far-right concerns.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(NHS_strikes)
title: NHS strikes
uri: NHS-strikes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(NHS_strikes)
content:
 
<p>
  How will Tories face the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/30/the-guardian-view-on-nhs-strikes-a-last-resort-and-a-cry-of-despair">NHS strikes that are due to their 12 years of
    budget cuts</a>?

 


title: Paid sick leave for railroad workers
uri: Paid-sick-leave-for-railroad-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Paid_sick_leave_for_railroad_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Paid_sick_leave_for_railroad_workers)

content:
 
<p>
  The House of Representatives narrowly passed a law to give railroad
  workers the <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/11/30/rail-workers-strike-house-bill/">seven days of paid sick leave (is that per year?)</a> that
  they want.  Now the question is whether Republicans will filibuster it
  and kill it, to ensure a strike.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(ALEC)
title: ALEC
uri: 2022-12-02-ALEC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(ALEC)
content:
 
<p>
  *ALEC Lawmakers and Corporate Lobbyists Meet in D.C. to Debate
  <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/11/30/alec-lawmakers-and-corporate-lobbyists-meet-in-d-c-to-debate-rewriting-the-constitution-punishing-socially-responsible-businesses-and-protecting-misinformation/">Rewriting the Constitution, Punishing Socially Responsible
    Businesses, and Protecting Misinformation.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(George_Takei)
title: George Takei
uri: George-Takei
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(George_Takei)
content:
 
<p>
  George Takei talks about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/nov/28/star-trek-george-takei-on-william-shatner-love-and-life-as-an-enemy-alien">growing up in an internment camp for
    Japanese-Americans, and later coming out as gay</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(England_railroad_privatization)
title: England railroad privatization
uri: England-railroad-privatization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(England_railroad_privatization)
content:
 
<p>
Railroads in England cancel a lot of trains.  But the ones they cancel
before 10pm the night before are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/27/revealed-north-of-england-train-line-vastly-under-reports-cancellations">omitted from the statistics</a>, so the
statistics don't show how bad this really is.
<p>
Privatization makes this worse.  Instead of government agency, which
would obey orders to report more useful figures, these are "private
companies" that have "rights" to state their cancellation rate in
a way that minimizes it.
<p>
The railroad passengers deserve rights, and the railroad workers
deserve rights, but there should be no stockholders or executives
involved in running trains that "deserve rights" over how the trains
run.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Weather_disaster)
title: Weather disaster
uri: Weather-disaster
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Weather_disaster)
content:
 
<p>
90% of US countries have had at least one <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/16/weather-disasters-us-counties-11-years-report">weather disaster</a> from 2011
through 2022.  This figure does not count heatwaves.
<p>
There is no information about how much each disaster was due to global
heating, but it is a big cause of weather disasters now and going
forward.  Each American should recognize that "<a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> is going
to hit the place I live."
<p>
That doesn't count the crop failures that are going to affect us all
even though the place they occur may be far away.
<p>
The article points out also that it would be more economical to
do things to prevent disasters than to repair them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Business_tax_cuts)
title: Business tax cuts
uri: 2022-12-02-Business-tax-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#1_December_2022_(Business_tax_cuts)
content:
 
<p>
  Businesses are pushing for a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/22/progressives-say-democrats-should-raise-not-cut-corporate-taxes-during-lame-duck">federal tax cut this year</a>.  As if they didn't pay too little tax already!


 


title: US, China, must collaborate on global heating
uri: US-China-must-collaborate-on-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(US,_China,_must_collaborate_on_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(US,_China,_must_collaborate_on_global_heating)

content:
 
<p>

Could the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/11/28/imagining-necessary-world-which-us-and-china-cooperate-climate">US and China collaborate to curb global heating?</a>
<p>
It seems to me that neither government has a strong enough commitment
to that cause.  In the US, it is because Republicans are determined to
keep driving straight at the cliff.  As for China, it seems to assume
that doing this slowly and arriving decades late is sufficient.  The
two countries need to be set individually on the goal before they can
collaborate on it.

 


title: Urgent: Federal contractors, disclose political spending
uri: Urgent-Federal-contractors-disclose-political-spending
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Urgent:_Federal_contractors,_disclose_political_spending)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Urgent:_Federal_contractors,_disclose_political_spending)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone President Biden and urge him to issue an executive
order requiring federal contractors to disclose all of their political
spending.

<p>The White House comments line is <a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>.</p>
If you phone, please spread the word!

 


title: Urgent: Federal contractors should disclose political spending
uri: Urgent-Federal-contractors-should-disclose-political-spending
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Urgent:_Federal_contractors_should_disclose_political_spending)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Urgent:_Federal_contractors_should_disclose_political_spending)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone President Biden and urge him to issue an executive
order requiring federal contractors to disclose all of their political
spending.

<p>The White House comments line is <a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>.</p>
If you phone, please spread the word!

 


title: Urgent: Fair districting in every state
uri: Urgent-Fair-districting-in-every-state
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Urgent:_Fair_districting_in_every_state)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Urgent:_Fair_districting_in_every_state)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your state legislature to implement <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/we-need-fair-independent-redistricting?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-petition-fair-redistricting-now-2">fair
districting</a>.



 


title: Georgia sheriffs charged with beating
uri: Georgia-sheriffs-charged-with-beating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Georgia_sheriffs_charged_with_beating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Georgia_sheriffs_charged_with_beating)

content:
 
<p>

*Three Georgia sheriff's deputies, all white, <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/11/23/3-georgia-sheriffs-deputies-all-white-charged-with-battery-after-beating-black-inmate.html">charged with battery after
beating black inmate</a>.*
<p>
The video shows that they prepared to attack him, while he was
standing in a cell, doing nothing significant.
<p>
Two versions of the video have been published, one in which it the
attack was intentionally blurred and one which shows what happened.
The thug department promoted the former and the latter is hard to find.

 


title: Nigerian student verses government
uri: Nigerian-student-verses-government
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Nigerian_student_verses_government)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Nigerian_student_verses_government)

content:
 
<p>

A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/01/nigeria-charges-student-with-defamation-over-tweet-about-first-lady-aisha-buhari">Nigerian student faces criminal charges</a> of "defamation" after
beatings in jail were not enough to make him confess.
<p>
The details of what the student said are a side issue &mdash; treating
defamation as a crime always endangers freedom of speech.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Systemic_US_corruption)
title: Systemic US corruption
uri: Systemic-US-corruption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Systemic_US_corruption)
content:
 
<p>

The "big four" accounting firms are structurally embedded in
<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/29/great-andersens-ghost/#mene-mene-bezzle">systematic corruption</a>.
  They are "<a href="https://thedig.substack.com/p/tipping-point-the-financial-fragility">too big to fail</a>", but sooner or later one of them will fail.
<p>
The way to end the corruption is clear: prohibit accounting companies
from doing anything other than auditing.
<p>
If a sudden change is hard to implement, here's a way to force them to
make them separate gradually.
<p>
Tax the consulting gross sales of accounting firms a stated percentage
that rises annually.  It could be 3% in the first year, 6% in the
second year, and so on.  I think that in 5 years they will have moved
most of the consulting business to some new sister company.
<p>
The details could be adjusted so as to require splitting each current
company's non-auditing work into N or more independent new companies.
<p>
Other adjustments could make them split the auditing work among
a larger number of new auditing companies.


 


title: Corporate monopoly on national park fees
uri: Corporate-monopoly-on-national-park-fees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Corporate_monopoly_on_national_park_fees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Corporate_monopoly_on_national_park_fees)

content:
 
<p>

The insufficient competition in the US allows businesses with market
power to gouge by piling on "junk fees".  <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/30/military-industrial-park-service/#booz-allen">Booz Alan has a monopoly</a>
over some kinds of access to some US national parks and other public
lands, exercised via a "government" web site run by that company, and
pulls in much more income from junk fees than the US government agency
concerned actually gets.
<p>
But it's worse than that.  Aside from the matter of price, use of that
"government" web site requires running nonfree software.  Those parks
are off-limits to the free world.
<p>
I have visited some US national parks, and I paid cash to enter them.
Is that still possible?  Can anyone investigate that site (see the
article) and report which parks and places can't be entered by paying
cash, without using any web site?
<p>
Or which parks and places <em>can</em> still be entered by paying cash,
without any web site?
<p>
Whichever list is shorter would be the more useful.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Elections_official_threatened)
title: Elections official threatened
uri: Elections-official-threatened
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Elections_official_threatened)
content:
 
<p>

*Arizona <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/11/21/arizona-elections-official-goes-into-hiding-after-post-midterm-threats.html">elections official goes into hiding</a> after post-midterm threats*
from right-wing Big Lie fanatics.


 


title: Georgia sheriffs charged with beating
uri: 2022-12-03-Georgia-sheriffs-charged-with-beating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Georgia_sheriffs_charged_with_beating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Georgia_sheriffs_charged_with_beating)

content:
 
<p>

*Three Georgia sheriff's deputies, all white, <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/11/23/3-georgia-sheriffs-deputies-all-white-charged-with-battery-after-beating-black-inmate.html">charged with battery after
beating black inmate</a>.*
<p>
The video shows that they prepared to attack him, while he was
standing in a cell, doing nothing significant.
<p>
Two versions of the video have been published, one in which it the
attack was intentionally blurred and one which shows what happened.
The thug department promoted the former and the latter is hard to find.

 


title: Canada timber trade verses global environment
uri: Canada-timber-trade-verses-global-environment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Canada_timber_trade_verses_global_environment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#2_December_2022_(Canada_timber_trade_verses_global_environment)

content:
 
<p>

*Canada accused of putting its <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/01/canada-accused-of-putting-its-timber-trade-ahead-of-global-environment">timber trade ahead of global environment</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Save_Great_Barrier_Reef)
title: Save Great Barrier Reef
uri: Save-Great-Barrier-Reef
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Save_Great_Barrier_Reef)
content:
 
<p>

*Plibersek's "determination" alone won’t save the Great Barrier Reef –-
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/01/pliberseks-determination-alone-wont-save-the-great-barrier-reef-heres-what-needs-to-happen">here’s what needs to happen</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Colombia_2021_protests)
title: Colombia 2021 protests
uri: Colombia-2021-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Colombia_2021_protests)
content:
 
<p>
Amnesty Interational: Colombian thugs used <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/dec/01/colombian-police-used-gender-based-violence-2021-protests-amnesty-report">torture, rape, and
kidnaping to repress the mass protests of 2021</a>.
  They also used lesser forms of psychological punishment, such as
forcing people to strip.
<p>
The article embodies a strange set of values.  It seems to take for
granted that acting based on sexism or racism is a more serious wrong
than rape.
<p>
I disagree with that.  In my view, rape is wrong regardless of the
details of the victim.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Money_blocks_HIV_cure)
title: Money blocks HIV cure
uri: Money-blocks-HIV-cure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Money_blocks_HIV_cure)
content:
 
<p>

The UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/01/end-hiv-britain-falling-behind-2030-goal">could pretty much end transmission of HIV</a> and illness from HIV,
but it doesn't spend the money to do so.

 


title: Australia's ambitious greenhouse gas goals
uri: Australia-s-ambitious-greenhouse-gas-goals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Australia's_ambitious_greenhouse_gas_goals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Australia's_ambitious_greenhouse_gas_goals)

content:
 
<p>
Victoria (in Australia) has adopted <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/02/victorias-bold-emissions-target-could-be-a-turning-point-now-heres-what-we-have-to-do">ambitious greenhouse gas goals</a>.
Here are suggestions for how to achieve them.

 


title: Israel's brute-force legal tactics
uri: Israel-s-brute-force-legal-tactics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Israel's_brute-force_legal_tactics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Israel's_brute-force_legal_tactics)

content:
 
<p>
*Israel has stripped a prominent  Palestinian-French <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/01/israel-strips-salah-hamouri-palestinian-french-human-rights-lawyer-jerusalem-residency">human rights
lawyer of his Jerusalem residency and is expected to deport</a> him to France.*
<p>
Israel has had a pattern of <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/#20_August_2022_(Israel_labels_civil_society_groups_as_terrorists_wit hout_trials">repression of lawyers that defend the
rights of Palestinians.</a>
<p>
Also a pattern of causing suffering by <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/#26_June_2010_(Residency_permits)">inventing excuses to take away
Jerusalem residency</a> permits.  For example, being away studying in a
university for a few years.
<p>
The article refers to "administrative detention", a euphemism
for putting people in jail without trial.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Universities_ban_fossil_fuel)
title: Universities ban fossil fuel
uri: Universities-ban-fossil-fuel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Universities_ban_fossil_fuel)
content:
 
<p>
*Three UK <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/01/three-uk-universities-ban-fossil-fuel-industry-recruiters-campus">Universities Ban Fossil Fuel Industry Recruiters</a> From
 Campus.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(UK_incompetent,_confused)
title: UK incompetent, confused
uri: UK-incompetent-confused
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(UK_incompetent,_confused)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/01/home-office-manston-asylum-seekers-phantom-interviews">UK's immigation department sent 20 asylum seekers letters</a> inviting
them to come to meetings to discuss their cases.  When they arrived,
which in some cases was a big expense for them, they were told that
the staff did no plans for meetings with them that day.
<p>
Either these letters were a prank, or the UK government has become so
incompetent and confused that it can't carry out the simplest plan.

After seeing <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#18_October_2022_(liz_truss)">how incompetent Tories are</a>,
  I think the latter is more plausible.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Single_family_homes_of_Big_Co.)
title: Single family homes of Big Co.
uri: Single-family-homes-of-Big-Co
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Single_family_homes_of_Big_Co.)
content:
 
<p>
Senator Merkely has proposed a bill to put a heavy tax on <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/01/merkley-bill-aims-dismantle-hedge-fund-stranglehold-housing-market">single
family homes when they are owned by big companies</a> that own hundreds of
them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(History,_US_tax_cuts)
title: History, US tax cuts
uri: History-US-tax-cuts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(History,_US_tax_cuts)
content:
 
<p>
The history, since 1940, of the series of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/03/once-upon-time-us-taxed-rich">US tax cuts for the rich
that impoverished the country</a>.
<p>
Want to really make America great again?  Tax the rich!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Grand_jury_avoidance)
title: Grand jury avoidance
uri: Grand-jury-avoidance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Grand_jury_avoidance)
content:
 
<p>

*The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/29/donald-trump-legal-trouble-us-courts-favor-justice-department">[corrupter's] supporters can no longer avoid testifying</a> before
grand juries in Washington DC and Georgia.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Carbon_emmissions_permits)
title: Carbon emmissions permits
uri: Carbon-emmissions-permits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Carbon_emmissions_permits)
content:
 
<p>

*Big polluters given almost <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/29/big-polluters-given-almost-100bn-in-free-carbon-permits-by-eu">€100bn[-worth] in carbon [emissions]
 permits</a> [gratis] by EU.*
  That was over a period of 9 years.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Domestic_terrorism)
title: Domestic terrorism
uri: 2022-12-04-Domestic-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Domestic_terrorism)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/29/us-domestic-terrorism-threats-report-fbi-dhs">FBI and DHS focus disproportionately on foreign terrorists</a> as
possible threats, and insufficienly on (right-wing) domestic terrorists
such as white supreacists and Nazis.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Tyre_Extinguishers_act)
title: Tyre Extinguishers act
uri: Tyre-Extinguishers-act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Tyre_Extinguishers_act)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/29/tyre-extinguishers-deflate-tyres-of-900-suvs-in-biggest-ever-action">Tyre Extinguishers have deflated the tires of 900 SUVs</a> around the world
as a protest against these dangerous gas guzzlers.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Protester_sentenced)
title: Protester sentenced
uri: Protester-sentenced
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Protester_sentenced)
content:
 
<p>
A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/29/just-stop-oil-activist-sentenced-to-six-months-in-prison-for-motorway-disruption">Just Stop Oil protester was sentenced to 6 months</a> in prison for
blocking a highway for a while.
  The court called this "causing a public nuisance," and I'm sure it
did.  As these protesters say, it's nothing compared to the unending
public nuisance conditions that increased use of fossil fuels will
cause.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Ukraine_needs_tanks)
title: Ukraine needs tanks
uri: Ukraine-needs-tanks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Ukraine_needs_tanks)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/29/ukraine-tanks-west-putin-russia-churchill">Ukraine needs tanks</a>, and the west should supply them. They could
finish off Putin and Russia.*
  The proposal includes modern aircraft and longer-range missiles.
Careful strategic thought is required about whether to donate the latter.

 


title: Georgia senator, republican candidate
uri: Georgia-senator-republican-candidate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Georgia_senator,_republican_candidate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Georgia_senator,_republican_candidate)

content:
 
<p>
Herschel Walker, MAGA maggot candidate for the Senate in Georgia,
filed for a tax break on a <a href="https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/georgia-authorities-urged-to-probe-herschel-walkers-texas-tax-break/JKZMAB3VGNFKRLH7CHC5M4TAPQ/">"primary residence" in Texas</a> where he
really lives.  This may have been illegal.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Pest_image_recognition)
title: Pest image recognition
uri: Pest-image-recognition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Pest_image_recognition)
content:
 
<p>

Pheromone-assisted INSECT traps CAN photograph and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/24/business/trapview-ai-pest-management-spc-intl/index.html">identify pests
via image recognition</a>.
  This technique can potentially save greatly on the use of pesticides.
<p>
Unfortunately, under today's general practices, it will also be a trap
for farmers.  It will be run by nonfree software, so it will snoop
on the farm and put the farm at a disadvantage.  And the farmers won't
be able to repair it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Too_few_medicine_producers)
title: Too few medicine producers
uri: Too-few-medicine-producers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Too_few_medicine_producers)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/opinions/drug-shortages-antibiotics-ranney/index.html">US system of producing medicines</a> suffers from too much commercial
centralization (few producers) without much central planning.
Also a tendency to optimize for <a href="2013-jan-apr.html#28_April_2013_(Hoax_tweet_on_Associated_Press_account)">efficiency rather than reliability</a>.
<p>
The result is susceptibility to shortages.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Anti-vax_fanatics)
title: Anti-vax fanatics
uri: Anti-vax-fanatics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Anti-vax_fanatics)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/30/new-zealand-parents-refuse-use-of-vaccinated-blood-in-life-saving-surgery-on-baby">Anti-vax fanatics in New Zealand</a> would rather let their baby die
than let it get a transfusion of "vaccinated blood" for surgery.
<p>
They and others have convinced each other that there is some danger in
this.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Farming_subsidies_dangerous)
title: Farming subsidies dangerous
uri: Farming-subsidies-dangerous
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Farming_subsidies_dangerous)
content:
 
<p>
George Monbiot: Farming and its <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/30/amazon-public-money-earth-destruction-fossil-fuels-subsidies">subsidies are an increasing danger
to nature and the climate</a>.
<p>
There is no mystery to why governments subsidizes farming.  It is not just
that rich people want to profit from them; everyone wants the results.
But we need to cut down this unsustainable practice.
<p>
Fewer babies will certainly help!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Fracking_victims_win_water)
title: Fracking victims win water
uri: Fracking-victims-win-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Fracking_victims_win_water)
content:
 
<p>
A <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/30/finally-some-justice-fracking-company-pay-millions-poisoning-towns-water">fracking company accepted criminal liability</a> for poisoning the water
of Dimock, Pennsylvania and will pay to replace the wells with new
water systems and to deliver clean water for the next 75 years.
<p>
<a href="media/6f6f955c.Dimock-Timeline-11.28.22.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Dimock-Timeline-11.28.22.pdf">Here is a timeline</a> of how the company caused the damage, of
enforcement efforts, and how the company resisted them.
<p>
This is justice in a narrow sense, but it won't clean up the water of
that region.  It won't undo the lasting diminiution of water supplies
in Pennsylvania.  There may not be any feasible way to do that.
<p>
There must be many other regions of the US which have already suffered
similar damage.
<p>
We must not allow it to happen in any more places.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Oath_Keepers_convicted)
title: Oath Keepers convicted
uri: Oath-Keepers-convicted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Oath_Keepers_convicted)
content:
 
<p>

Leaders of the Oath Keepers have been <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/30/politics/oath-keepers-verdict-justice-department-trump/index.html">convicted of secitious
conspiracy</a> for organizing the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol,
   based on their conversations about same.
<p>
This gives the Department of Justice a basis for confidence in
bringing that charge against others who were involved, including
potentially the corrupter himself.

 


title: Antifascist Twitter accounts suspended
uri: Antifascist-Twitter-accounts-suspended
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Antifascist_Twitter_accounts_suspended)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Antifascist_Twitter_accounts_suspended)

content:
 
<p>

Antifascist individuals and groups are finding their <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/30/evidence-grows-left-wing-twitter-purge-directed-musk">Twitter accounts
suspended</a>.
  Apparently Musk's idea of freedom of speech has a right-wing bias.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Involuntary_commitment)
title: Involuntary commitment
uri: Involuntary-commitment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Involuntary_commitment)
content:
 
<p>

New York City's night-mayor has asked a wide variety of workers to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/30/nyc-eric-adams-involuntarily-hospitalize-mentally-ill-people">incarcerate homeless people</a> in mental hospitals &mdash; including people
who are supposed to help the public.  This plan is explicitly <em>not</em>
limited to people who seem to pose a threat to others.
<p>
Many homeless people run away from shelters because the conditions there
are so unpleasant they would rather be on the street.
<p>
A host of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/30/rights-groups-rip-nyc-mayor-over-forced-hospitalizations-mental-illness">criticisms of this plan</a>.
<p>
Once you get committed to a hospital &mdash; even if you did it by faking
insanity &mdash; it is reported to be very hard to prove you are sane.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Pursuit_of_Julian_Assange)
title: Pursuit of Julian Assange
uri: Pursuit-of-Julian-Assange
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Pursuit_of_Julian_Assange)
content:
 
<p>

*Australian PM Anthony Albanese urges US government to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/nov/30/australian-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-us-government-julian-assange-wikileaks">end pursuit of
Julian Assange</a>.*

Assange has been hounded for over a decade using a <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-may-aug.html#26_June_2019_(Procedural_abuses_in_Julian_Assange_case)">series of dirty tricks</a>
and twisting of the law.
  But this injustice has a bigger target than Julian Assange.  Its
main target is the freedom of the press to report on crimes committed
by governments.
<p>
Democracy depends on whistleblowers, and it depends on journalists to
publish what whistleblowers report.  The prosecution puts democracy too
in danger.
<p>
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">Massive surveillance</a> is part of the threat to democracy.
That is why we must limit the collection of databases of personal data,
  not merely regulate how the data are used.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Tory_voter_suppression)
title: Tory voter suppression
uri: 2022-12-04-Tory-voter-suppression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Tory_voter_suppression)
content:
 
<p>

The Tories have adopted a "voter ID" law, which as always is systematic
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/30/wednesday-briefing-first-edition-voter-id-electoral-systems">suppression of voting</a> by voters who are poor, young, or marginalized.
In addition, merely through the extra work it requires at underfunded
polling places, it will cause chaos.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Urgent:_Drug_stores)
title: Urgent: Drug stores
uri: Urgent-Drug-stores
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Urgent:_Drug_stores)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/we-need-a-drug-store-mask-requirement/">drug stores to require people to wear masks</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Manchin,_filibuster_on_RR)
title: Manchin, filibuster on RR
uri: Manchin-filibuster-on-RR
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#3_December_2022_(Manchin,_filibuster_on_RR)
content:
 
<p>

41 Republicans plus <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/01/putting-profits-over-people-senate-rejects-paid-sick-leave-rail-workers">Manchin used a filibuster to kill the proposed
railroad workers' contract</a> that gave them sick leave.
  Then the Senate
approved the contract lacking sick leave, the version that Biden had
asked for.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#4_December_2022_(Surveillance-based_Co.)
title: Surveillance-based Co.
uri: Surveillance-based-Co
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#4_December_2022_(Surveillance-based_Co.)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/29/abortion-rights-us-google-roe-dobbs">Google promised not to save location data about "sensitive" places</a>
such as abortion clinics, which some states threaten to sue or
prosecute people for going near.  It did not make enough change to
eliminate the danger.
<p>
I am not surprised, because surveillance-based companies will always tend
to collect too much data and hold on to too much data.
<p>
However, data tends to get duplicated and get stored in various
places.  The root of the search problem is (1) collecting location
data, (2) collecting personal identifying data, and (3) identifying
return visitors (with cookies).
<p>
An acceptable web service must not find out any of those facts about
you unless you request to send them.  And it must do its job even if
you choose _not_ to send them.
<p>
See <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">surveillance verses democracy</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#4_December_2022_(No_customer_telephones)
title: No customer telephones
uri: No-customer-telephones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#4_December_2022_(No_customer_telephones)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/26/business/frontier-airlines-customer-service-call-center/index.html">Frontier Airlines has eliminated telephone customer support</a>.  The only
way to communicate with the airline is through its web site.
<p>
I once flew on a Frontier flight, and noted that the staff seemed to
have a right ear and a left ear, but no front ear.  That cast its name
in question.  Now it should be called "No-ear Airlines."
<p>
I tried looking around that web site.  For the most part, the
information seemed to be present and navigation worked.  But I think
that most inquiries and actions depend on nonfree Javascript code,
which excludes me from doing them.
<p>
They invite people to use a chat system to get in contact with an
agent.  That might be an acceptable solution, except that that chat
system is part of the web site and it seems to depend on Javascript
too.
<p>
One thing I noticed on the site is that the company is pressuring
people to use its cr&hellip;app rather than its web site.
Surveillance by the web site is limited; surveillance by a
cr&hellip;app is much more complete.


 


title: Call on Costco to protect the boreal forest
uri: Call-on-Costco-to-protect-the-boreal-forest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Call_on_Costco_to_protect_the_boreal_forest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Call_on_Costco_to_protect_the_boreal_forest)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on Costco to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=52498">commit to protecting the boreal
    forest</a>.

 


title: Call on Congress to work towards world free of nuclear weapons
uri: Call-on-Congress-to-work-towards-world-free-of-nuclear-weapons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Call_on_Congress_to_work_towards_world_free_of_nuclear_weapons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Call_on_Congress_to_work_towards_world_free_of_nuclear_weapons)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/congress-work-for-a-nuke-free-world">work towards a world that is free of
    nuclear weapons</a>.

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

 


title: Small reforms in rules for Minnesota thug department
uri: Small-reforms-in-rules-for-Minnesota-thug-department
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Small_reforms_in_rules_for_Minnesota_thug_department)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Small_reforms_in_rules_for_Minnesota_thug_department)

content:
 
<p>

Minnesota is considering <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/11/27/36-months-after-george-floyds-murder-police-reform-finally-considered-in-minnesota.html">small reforms in rules</a> for thug departments
to better control their predilection to <a href="/glossary.html#bully">bully</a> people, brutalize people
from time to time, and associate with racists, Nazis and
insurrectionist organizations.  The <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>' unions are pushing back
hard.
<p>
  More <a href="https://minnesotareformer.com/2022/11/17/law-enforcement-opposes-rules-banning-cops-from-being-involved-in-extremist-groups/">information</a>.

 


title: NIH set up site for voluntarily reporting results of Covid-19 at-home test
uri: NIH-set-up-site-for-voluntarily-reporting-results-of-Covid-19-at-home
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(NIH_set_up_site_for_voluntarily_reporting_results_of_Covid-19_at-home_test)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(NIH_set_up_site_for_voluntarily_reporting_results_of_Covid-19_at-home_test)

content:
 
<p>

NIH has set up a web site for <a href="https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-establishes-website-self-reporting-covid-19-test-results">reporting the results of your at-home
    Covid-19 test</a>, if you wish.
  It is a good idea, but you should not use the site as currently
implemented, because it requires you to run nonfree Javascript code.
What a shame.

 


title: San Antonio thug that shot Erik Cantu faces attempted murder charges
uri: San-Antonio-thug-that-shot-Erik-Cantu-faces-attempted-murder-charges
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(San_Antonio_thug_that_shot_Erik_Cantu_faces_attempted_murder_charges)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(San_Antonio_thug_that_shot_Erik_Cantu_faces_attempted_murder_charges)

content:
 
<p>

The San Antonio <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> who shot at Erik Cantu 10 times and maimed him
faces <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/12/02/cop-who-shot-burger-eating-teen-charged-with-attempted-murder.html">charges of attempted murder</a>.
<p>
The increased willingness to prosecute <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> for violent crimes even
if the victim does not die will help control cop crime.

 


title: Woman gets three years prison for selling fake immunization cards
uri: Woman-gets-three-years-prison-for-selling-fake-immunization-cards
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Woman_gets_three_years_prison_for_selling_fake_immunization_cards)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Woman_gets_three_years_prison_for_selling_fake_immunization_cards)

content:
 
<p>

*A woman who sold fake COVID-19 immunization cards gets <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/12/01/a-woman-who-sold-fake-covid-19-immunization-cards-gets-three-years-in-federal-prison.html">three years in
    Federal prison</a>.*
<p>
There is no market any more for fake vaccination records, but one more
naturopathic "doctor" taken off the streets is likely to make the
public safer.

 


title: Republicans barely won control of the House
uri: Republicans-barely-won-control-of-the-House
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Republicans_barely_won_control_of_the_House)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Republicans_barely_won_control_of_the_House)

content:
 
<p>

  Republicans just <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/03/right-wing-supreme-courts-shredding-voting-rights-act-helped-gop-win-house">barely won control</a> of the House of Representatives,
and they did it because of the right-wing partisans that Republicans
put on the Supreme Court.

 


title: Crooks abuse ease of UK registrar of corporations
uri: Crooks-abuse-ease-of-UK-registrar-of-corporations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Crooks_abuse_ease_of_UK_registrar_of_corporations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Crooks_abuse_ease_of_UK_registrar_of_corporations)

content:
 
<p>

The UK's registrar of corporations was "reformed" to make it cheap,
quick and easy to create a corporation.  Crooks <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/03/crisis-uk-companies-house-fake-directors-fraud">started many fraudulent
    corporations</a> and used them to steal and hide millions.

 


title: Leaving EU is big reason for increased food prices in UK
uri: Leaving-EU-is-big-reason-for-increased-food-prices-in-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Leaving_EU_is_big_reason_for_increased_food_prices_in_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Leaving_EU_is_big_reason_for_increased_food_prices_in_UK)

content:
 
<p>

  An economist official at Bank of England says that leaving the EU has a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/03/brexit-has-fuelled-surge-in-uk-food-prices-says-bank-of-england-policymaker">large share of responsibility</a> for the increase in food prices in the UK.

 


title: Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is a strong plutocratist
uri: Rep-Hakeem-Jeffries-is-a-strong-plutocratist
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Rep._Hakeem_Jeffries_is_a_strong_plutocratist)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Rep._Hakeem_Jeffries_is_a_strong_plutocratist)

content:
 
<p>

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Pelosi's successor as leader of the Democratic
minority in the House of Representatives, is a strong and firm
plutocratist, who supports a few progressive positions so people <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/11/29/beware-corporate-democrats-passing-torch">won't
    recognize how plutocratist</a> he is.
<p>
Perhaps in your eyes the fact that he is black and Muslim makes his
election to that position something to celebrate.  In my eyes, he's
just another <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> congresscritter that we should try to
replace with a progressive.

 


title: Australia investigating slave labor use in building of renewable power systems
uri: Australia-investigating-slave-labor-use-in-building-of-renewable-power
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Australia_investigating_slave_labor_use_in_building_of_renewable_power_systems)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Australia_investigating_slave_labor_use_in_building_of_renewable_power_systems)

content:
 
<p>

  Australia is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/29/australian-report-advises-urgent-action-combat-slavery-clean-energy-supply-chains">investigating the use of slave labor</a> in building its
renewable power systems.

 


title: "Grassroots" nuclear power survey linked to US nuclear reactor industry
uri: Grassroots-nuclear-power-survey-linked-to-US-nuclear-reactor-industr
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Grassroots_nuclear_power_survey_linked_to_US_nuclear_reactor_industry)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Grassroots_nuclear_power_survey_linked_to_US_nuclear_reactor_industry)

content:
 
<p>

*[The right-wing Australian government's] "grassroots" nuclear power
 survey <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/04/coalition-mps-grassroots-nuclear-power-survey-linked-to-consulting-firm">linked to consulting firm [working for US nuclear reactor
    industry]</a>.*
<p>
Should we call this a "public-private partnership for profit"?

 


title: Biggest food corporations make big profits and warn of price rises
uri: Biggest-food-corporations-make-big-profits-and-warn-of-price-rises
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Biggest_food_corporations_make_big_profits_and_warn_of_price_rises)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Biggest_food_corporations_make_big_profits_and_warn_of_price_rises)

content:
 
<p>

  *World's biggest food [corporations] made £20bn in profits &mdash; while <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/03/millions-face-poverty-global-food-companies-paid-out-nearly-15-billion-shareholders">warning of price rises to come</a>.*

 


title: Ecosystems more immediately threatened by human activities
uri: Ecosystems-more-immediately-threatened-by-human-activities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Ecosystems_more_immediately_threatened_by_human_activities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Ecosystems_more_immediately_threatened_by_human_activities)

content:
 
<p>

Curbing <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> will not save our planet's ecosystems.  They
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/03/un-official-alarmed-by-jailing-of-climate-activist-who-blocked-traffic-on-sydney-harbour-bridge">threatened more immediately by other human activities</a> including
deforestation, overgrazing, overfishing, desertification, and soil
degradation.
<p>
A relationship does exist: <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> will eventually destroy many
ecosystems, if they survive that long.  But we have to curb the other
environmental threats, too.
<p>
  Having <a href="/articles/children.html ">fewer children</a>
will help reduce <em>all</em> those forms of excessive human impact, all at once.
And will free up your effort to work on the other problems.

 


title: Climate protester sentenced to over a year in prison
uri: Climate-protester-sentenced-to-over-a-year-in-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Climate_protester_sentenced_to_over_a_year_in_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Climate_protester_sentenced_to_over_a_year_in_prison)

content:
 
<p>

  Australia has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/03/un-official-alarmed-by-jailing-of-climate-activist-who-blocked-traffic-on-sydney-harbour-bridge">sentenced a climate protester to over a year in prison</a> for blocking one lane of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

 


title: US should pressure Israel into nuclear disarmament
uri: US-should-pressure-Israel-into-nuclear-disarmament
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(US_should_pressure_Israel_into_nuclear_disarmament)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(US_should_pressure_Israel_into_nuclear_disarmament)

content:
 
<p>

  The US should pressure Israel to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/01/deliberate-ambiguity-israels-nuclear-weapons-are-greatest-threat-middle-east">agree to nuclear disarmament</a>.
  Maybe Iran and Israel would agree to nuclear disarmament together. 

 


title: Police unit for focusing on deterring environmental crimes
uri: Police-unit-for-focusing-on-deterring-environmental-crimes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Police_unit_for_focusing_on_deterring_environmental_crimes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Police_unit_for_focusing_on_deterring_environmental_crimes)

content:
 
<p>

*President Lula da Silva wants to establish a new Federal Police unit
focused on <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/01/lula-aims-create-new-federal-police-unit-curb-environmental-crimes-brazil">deterring environmental crimes</a>.*

 


title: Campaigners demand deep cuts to plastic production
uri: Campaigners-demand-deep-cuts-to-plastic-production
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Campaigners_demand_deep_cuts_to_plastic_production)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Campaigners_demand_deep_cuts_to_plastic_production)

content:
 
<p>

  *Campaigners Demand <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/01/campaigners-demand-deep-cuts-plastic-production-global-treaty-negotiations-ramp">Deep Cuts to Plastic Production</a> as Global Treaty
Negotiations Ramp Up.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Arguments_against_KOSA_bill)
title: Arguments against "KOSA" bill
uri: Arguments-against-KOSA-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Arguments_against_KOSA_bill)
content:
 
<p>

  Here is a set of <a href="https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2022-11-28-letter-90-lgbtq-and-human-rights-organizations-oppose-kosa">narrow arguments against</a> the "KOSA" bill that is
supposed to protect "children's" privacy, but will instead deny the
privacy of all internet services.
<p>
I agree with the arguments in general, but I need to state these
points of disagreement.

<ul>
<li> It is wrong to classify designate teenagers as children.  We need
  to give teenagers <a href="https://letgrow.org">more freedom and agency</a>, not less.
</li>

<li> The Edtech programs and dis-services that children, and
teenagers, typically use in school is typically snooping malware.
These programs are a real part of what students of any age <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#21_April_2020_(Human_rights_organizations_condemn_snooping_software_in_schools.)">deserve to
    be protected from</a>.
</li>

<li>
  <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">Snooping on adults is unjust</a>, too.
</li>

<li> Please do not refer to postings, communications, stories, art,
  etc. as <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content">"content"</a>.  That disparages all of them.
</li>

</ul>

 


title: British government has become incompetent
uri: British-government-has-become-incompetent
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(British_government_has_become_incompetent)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(British_government_has_become_incompetent)

content:
 
<p>

  The British government has become <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/nov/30/i-ended-up-facing-court-after-my-cars-licence-plates-were-stolen">simply incompetent</a>.
They summon people to court by mistake, after reporting judgments
against them by mistake, after failing to notify them at all.

 


title: Indonesia plans political and sexual repression
uri: Indonesia-plans-political-and-sexual-repression
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Indonesia_plans_political_and_sexual_repression)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Indonesia_plans_political_and_sexual_repression)

content:
 
<p>

  Indonesia plans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/02/indonesia-set-to-make-sex-outside-marriage-punishable-by-jail">political and sexual repression</a>: it will be a crime to
(1) insult the president, the state, or the official ideology or (2)
have sex (except for married couples).
<p>
Reportedly Islamists are behind this attack on freedom in Indonesia.

 


title: Thugs charged for reckless endangerment
uri: Thugs-charged-for-reckless-endangerment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Thugs_charged_for_reckless_endangerment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Thugs_charged_for_reckless_endangerment)

content:
 
<p>
  Five Connecticut prison thugs face <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/28/us/randy-cox-new-haven-connecticut-officers-charged/index.html">charges of reckless endangerment</a>
  for transporting Richard Cox in a van without a seat belt and thus
  breaking his neck.
<p>
  Shouldn't they be charged with gross bodily harm, too?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Urgent:_Help_families)
title: Urgent: Help families
uri: Urgent-Help-families
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Urgent:_Help_families)
content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-congress-should-put-children-first-not-corporate-tax-breaks?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-progressive-change-campaign-committee&source=pccc-e221202_1930-fin-rest">help families, not give tax cuts to corporations</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(UN_and_plastic)
title: UN and plastic
uri: UN-and-plastic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(UN_and_plastic)
content:
 
<p>
  *"<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/03/turn-tap-plastic-un-chief-declares-amid-debate-over-new-global-treaty">Turn Off the Tap on Plastic</a>," UN Chief Declares Amid Debate Over New
  Global Treaty.*
<p>
  I think it is crucial to stop the production of plastic products which
  are fundamentally difficult to recycle -- for instance, different
  materials joined together.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Elnaz_Rekabi)
title: Elnaz Rekabi
uri: Elnaz-Rekabi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Elnaz_Rekabi)
content:
 
<p>
  Elnaz Rekabi participated in an international sports competition
  without wearing the required head-covering.  <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/02/middleeast/iran-climber-home-intl/index.html">Her family's home was
  then demolished</a>.
<p>
  If the Iranian state did this, then ironically it joins Israel in the
  practice of punishing an entire family for one person's infraction.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_((Satire)_Lesser_known_nazis)
title: (Satire) Lesser known nazis
uri: (Satire)-Lesser-known-nazis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_((Satire)_Lesser_known_nazis)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Right-Wingers Criticize Kanye For Not Using Platform To
  <a href="https://www.theonion.com/right-wingers-criticize-kanye-for-not-using-platform-to-1849847779">Raise Awareness Of Lesser-Known Nazis</a>.*
<p>
  If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling Javascript entirely or
  telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts in the page, then
  right-click and select item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser
  such as lynx that doesn't implement Javascript and CSS.

 


title: Macron business-supremacy treaties
uri: Macron-business-supremacy-treaties
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Macron_business-supremacy_treaties)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Macron_business-supremacy_treaties)

content:
 
<p>
  Macron threatens to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/02/climate-activists-tell-macron-stop-using-trade-rules-thwart-clean-energy">invoke business-supremacy treaties to stop the US
  from carrying out its insufficient but helpful greenhouse gas
  reduction plans</a>.  Environmental activists protest this when Macron was
  visiting the White House.
<p>
  Will French activists protest this too?  I hope so?
<p>
  <a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">Business-supremacy treaties</a> are fundamentally unjust because they
  elevate trade over democracy.  Businesses had too much power already,
  and these treaties gave them even more.

 


title: Biden imposes no paid sick days for railroad workers
uri: Biden-imposes-no-paid-sick-days-for-railroad-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Biden_imposes_no_paid_sick_days_for_railroad_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Biden_imposes_no_paid_sick_days_for_railroad_workers)

content:
 
<p>
  Biden joined Congress to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/02/politics/biden-signs-legislation-avert-rail-shutdown/index.html">impose on railroad workers the contract
    that the railroads had proposed -- with no paid sick days</a>.
<p>
  *Biden <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/01/biden-urged-sign-executive-order-guaranteeing-rail-workers-paid-sick-leave">Urged to Sign Executive Order</a> Guaranteeing Rail Workers Paid
   Sick Leave.*
<p>
  These same railroads <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/02/democrats-failed-understand-fundamentals-collective-bargaining-railway-workers">commit safety violations repeatedly, and get
  fined over and over</a>, but they do not correct the dangers.
<p>
  (satire) *Biden Signs Legislation To <a href="https://www.theonion.com/biden-signs-legislation-to-avert-crisis-of-treating-rai-1849847966">Avert Crisis Of Treating Rail Workers Like Humans</a>.*
  <br>
  (If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling Javascript entirely or
  telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts in the page, then
  right-click and select item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser
  such as lynx that doesn't implement Javascript and CSS.)

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Abortions_across_state_lines)
title: Abortions across state lines
uri: Abortions-across-state-lines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Abortions_across_state_lines)
content:
 
<p>
  *The pilots flying passengers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/30/us-abortion-flights-elevated-access">across US state lines</a> for abortions.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Mosques_attacked)
title: Mosques attacked
uri: Mosques-attacked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Mosques_attacked)
content:
 
<p>
  The Hinduismists that rule India are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/30/thousands-of-mosques-targeted-as-hindu-nationalists-try-to-rewrite-indias-history">attacking hundreds of old mosques</a>
  by fabricating claims that the buildings are former Hindu temples which
  were seized centuries ago and converted into mosques.
  In most cases there is no real evidence that this ever happened.
  But such is the fanaticism and contempt for truth on the part of the
  ruling BJP and its supporters that they disregard evidence.
  The <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#19_December_2019_(Repression_in_India)">track record of repression</a> and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#27_February_2020_(Pogrom_against_Muslims)">pogroms</a>
  suggests they are hoping this gives them an excuse to kill some
  Muslims.
<p>
  Historians who know about the history of these sites face threats to
  shut them up.  The threats range from firing them to murdering them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(__Arizona)
title: Arizona
uri: Arizona
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(__Arizona)
content:
 
<p>
  *Rural Arizona county <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/01/arizona-certifies-midterm-results-cochise">certifies midterm results</a> after judge orders vote.*
<p>
  The county supervisors voted to certify the results they had because
  refusing was illegal.
<p>
  They presented no grounds to refuse to certify the results, but <a href="https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-arizona-phoenix-government-and-politics-938a920c848d28ca23435a6d2cb61f98">we can
    determine what their motives were</a>:
  The country's vote had voted majority Democratic, and the Republican
  election officials figured that they could steal some statewide
  elections by (in effect) discarding all the votes from their own
  county.
<p>
  A large fraction of Republicans are traitors at heart, and seek
  opportunities to steal any election that they lose.  If imprisonment
  is required to thwart their treachery, prison it should be.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(The_politics_of_Brexit)
title: The politics of Brexit
uri: The-politics-of-Brexit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(The_politics_of_Brexit)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#09_July_2016_(UKs_vote_to_leave_the_EU)">I forecast years ago</a>
that leaving the EU could be beneficial if Corbyn
were in charge, but would be harmful with Tories in charge.
Sad to say, Britain did the latter and has been harmed.

Leaving the EU created opportunities to change policies, laws and
relationships &mdash; opportunities that Britain could use in various ways.
Assuming that each party would use those opportunities to achieve its
goals, the consequences were clear.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(China_drops_zero-Covid_policy)
title: China drops zero-Covid policy
uri: China-drops-zero-Covid-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(China_drops_zero-Covid_policy)
content:
 
<p>
  China has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/04/fears-of-deadly-infection-surge-as-china-abandons-zero-covid-policy">dropped the zero-Covid policy</a> of trying, via tests and
  quarantines, to stamp out transmission.
<p>
  It is to be celebrated that powerful protests can make
  China change rigid, harsh policies.  But is this change
  the wise change to make?
<p>
  My recommendation was to make the quarantine system less harsh and
  rigid, so people would not die or get badly sick from being in
  quarantine for a while.

 


title: The wrecker is an enemy of US democracy and freedom
uri: The-wrecker-is-an-enemy-of-US-democracy-and-freedom
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(The_wrecker_is_an_enemy_of_US_democracy_and_freedom)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(The_wrecker_is_an_enemy_of_US_democracy_and_freedom)

content:
 
<p>
  Two weeks ago, The wrecker publicly associated with a white
  nationalist and a Nazi, and thus <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/02/trump-dinner-antisemites-nick-fuentes-kanye-west">took a clear stand against justice
    and equal rights</a>.
<p>
  Since then, he called for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/04/biden-trump-us-constitution-terminated-election-fraud">abolishing the US Constitution</a>, and thus
  revealed himself indisputably as an enemy of US democracy and freedom.
<p>
  Perhaps other Republican leaders, such as Governor Dementis, are less
  hostile to justice, equal rights, democracy and freedom.  But I tend
  to think they are simply more circumspect.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(UN_war_crimes_resolution)
title: UN war crimes resolution
uri: UN-war-crimes-resolution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(UN_war_crimes_resolution)
content:
 
<p>
  The UN is considering a resolution to prosecute Putin and other high officials
  for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/dec/04/russian-war-crimes-draft-resolution-circulated-un-ukraine-zelenskiy">systematic war crimes</a> by the Putin forces.
<p>
  They deserve prosecution, but I think it would be a mistake to demand
  they surrender to prosecution.  That would be, in effect, a decision
  to pursue regime change as a war goal.
<p>
  That decision would have bad consequences for Ukraine, for the kidnapped
  Ukrainians, and for the Russian people as well.  If Putin yields up
  all of Ukraine's territory, and returns the kidnapped Ukrainians, he
  will have had a defeat, not a victory.  Those war aims are enough.
  If Putin is willing to give those, we should offer him peace.
<p>
  To demand more than that would give him more reason to keep fighting
  instead of making peace.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Iran_strike)
title: Iran strike
uri: Iran-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Iran_strike)
content:
 
<p>
  *Iranian protesters call for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/04/iranian-protesters-call-for-three-day-strike-as-pressure-on-regime-builds">three-day strike</a> as pressure on regime
  builds.*
<p>
  I would not be so quick to conclude that the repressive regime will
  fall soon.  Repressive regimes have faced very strong protests and
  stayed in power.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Republicans_supporting_Putin)
title: Republicans supporting Putin
uri: Republicans-supporting-Putin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Republicans_supporting_Putin)
content:
 
<p>
Republican extremists are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/06/us-conservatives-pushing-russian-spin-ukraine-war">supporting Putin's lies</a> about Ukraine.
<p>
That includes a Faux News announcer.  Does an airport near you show
Faux News most of the time?  You could complain to the airport and say
to show something else instead.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Just_Stop_Oil_isn't_listening)
title: "Just Stop Oil" isn't listening
uri: Just-Stop-Oil-isn-t-listening
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Just_Stop_Oil_isn't_listening)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/06/just-stop-oil-suella-braverman-climate-breakdown">Just Stop Oil's message to Suella Braverman</a>: threaten us all you like
-- we're not listening.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Meta_protects_business_partners)
title: Meta protects business partners
uri: Meta-protects-business-partners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Meta_protects_business_partners)
content:
 
<p>
*Facebook moderation system <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/06/meta-protecting-business-partners">favours "business partners"</a>, says oversight board.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Urgent:_Book_bans)
title: Urgent: Book bans
uri: Urgent-Book-bans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Urgent:_Book_bans)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Missouri schools to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-missouri-schools-to-reverse-overzealous-book-bans?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=">reverse overzealous book
bans</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Chinhook_salmon)
title: Chinhook salmon
uri: Chinhook-salmon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Chinhook_salmon)
content:
 
<p>
The chinook salmon are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/05/canada-first-nations-yukon-river-chinook-salmon">heading rapidly towards extinction</a>, though no one
is sure why.
<p>
A strange aspect of this article is that it assumes that only by
identifying with the sadness of a local indigenous group can we
appreciate that the loss of these salmon is a great loss.  In effect,
it treats their feelings about the possible extinction of chinook
salmon as the primary issue.
<p>
I can empathize with their sense of loss.  I recognize the
loss too.  But I insist that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Lobbyists_fighting_efforts_to_solve_biodiversity_crisis)">the objective loss is more important than
how people feel about it</a>.
<p>
Peoples adapt their cultures to their environments.  The ancestors of
that group, long enough ago, lived elsewhere and perhaps did not
encounter salmon.  If the group survives through the coming global
disaster, in time it will get used to the absence of chinook salmon.
But the damage done by their extinction and the loss of ecosystem they
was part of will never go away.
<p>
If a species goes extinct and there is no indigenous group to notice,
did the extinction really happen?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Academic_workers_on_strike)
title: Academic workers on strike
uri: Academic-workers-on-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Academic_workers_on_strike)
content:
 
<p>
The University of California academic workers are on strike.  The management
is trying to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/05/california-academic-strike-most-important-us-higher-education-history">break their solidarity</a> by offering raises to everyone but the
graduate student employees.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Ukraine_attacks_distant_airfields)
title: Ukraine attacks distant airfields
uri: Ukraine-attacks-distant-airfields
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Ukraine_attacks_distant_airfields)
content:
 
<p>
Ukraine has reportedly <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/05/explosions-russia-airbases-far-from-ukraine-frontline-bombers">attacked distant Russian airfields</a> used as
bases for heavy bombers that bomb Ukraine, and for cruise missiles.
Some bombers were damaged.
<p>
To attack Russian aircraft and missiles on the ground is a legitimate
and natural tactic, but challenging to carry out.  Bravo, Ukraine!
<p>
The Ukrainian Army seems to have a genius for figuring out clever ways
to win the war.  Meanwhile, the Putin forces have only a plodding
hunger for bigger war crimes.

 


title: International banksters control the UK
uri: International-banksters-control-the-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(International_banksters_control_the_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(International_banksters_control_the_UK)

content:
 
<p>
Leaving the EU <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/30/taking-back-control-its-the-markets-that-are-sovereign-over-brexit-britain">was supposed to let the UK "take back control" over
its laws and policies</a>, but instead the international banksters have
control.
<p>
Tories fundamentally believe in letting the rich have power, even if
they dislike some of the consequences.  Naturally they were never
going to fight hard against it.  Corbyn would have.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Iran_protester_interviews)
title: Iran protester interviews
uri: Iran-protester-interviews
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Iran_protester_interviews)
content:
 
<p>
The Intercept <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/11/30/intercepted-iran-protests/">interviews two Iranian exiles about the continuing protests</a>, 
 one of whom says we should rather call this a revolution in progress.

 


title: Adding a media player forbids tinkering
uri: Adding-a-media-player-forbids-tinkering
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Adding_a_media_player_forbids_tinkering)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Adding_a_media_player_forbids_tinkering)

content:
 
<p>
Cory Doctorow: in many kinds of products, adding a media-player and
its DRM creates an excuse to use the DMCA to forbid users to tinker
with any aspect.
<p>
Nowadays, any product with DRM is no longer merely <a href="http://www.defectivebydesign.org/">defective by design</a>.
It is oppressive by design also.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Urgent:_Climate_finance_pledges)
title: Urgent: Climate finance pledges
uri: Urgent-Climate-finance-pledges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Urgent:_Climate_finance_pledges)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://act.350.org/sign/biden-fossil-fuel-finance-pledge/">commit to the full $100 million for
climate finance pledges</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Public_phones)
title: Public phones
uri: Public-phones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(Public_phones)
content:
 
<p>
Volunteers are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/04/us/philadelphia-pay-phones-philtel-trnd/index.html">installing public phones</a> in Philadelphia.  They are like payphones except gratis.
<p>
Every city and town ought to provide these,
and you should never have to walk half an hour to reach one.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(War_on_America)
title: War on America
uri: War-on-America
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(War_on_America)
content:
 
<p>
More on the wrecker's <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/03/politics/trump-constitution-truth-social/index.html">declaration of war on America and everything
that is good about it</a>.
<p>
Nothing is perfect.  There are a number of things in the US
Constitution that ought to be changed, Republicans have highlighted
some of them in recent decades by stretching them for abuse.  The
Constitution must protect the environment much more, and the rights
and well-being of the disprivileged and disadvantaged.  Fairly taxing
the rich and curbing the power of business would make that possible.
Eliminating the electoral college could make elections more
democratic.
<p>
The wrecker would not do any of that.  He would make himself dictator.

 


title: The wrecker shares Roosevelt's bad aspects
uri: The-wrecker-shares-Roosevelt-s-bad-aspects
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(The_wrecker_shares_Roosevelt's_bad_aspects)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#6_December_2022_(The_wrecker_shares_Roosevelt's_bad_aspects)

content:
 
<p>
The wrecker <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/04/politics/trump-teddy-roosevelt-parallels-blake-cec/index.html">shares all the bad aspects</a> of Teddy Roosevelt, minus
all that was good and all that was great about the latter.

 


title: Urgent: US citizens: raise the debt ceiling
uri: 2022-12-07-Urgent-US-citizens-raise-the-debt-ceiling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#30_November_2022_(Urgent:_US_citizens:_raise_the_debt_ceiling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#30_November_2022_(Urgent:_US_citizens:_raise_the_debt_ceiling)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-p
etition-democrats-must-raise-the-debt-ceiling-now-to-stop-the-gop-from-holding-our-e
conomy-hostage-2?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-coalition-on-human-needs&source=direc
t_link">raise the debt ceiling now</a>
  so Republicans can't use it as a lever for sabotage later.
<p>
    The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.

 


title: Abortion rights ballot initiatives
uri: Abortion-rights-ballot-initiatives
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Abortion_rights_ballot_initiatives)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Abortion_rights_ballot_initiatives)

content:
 
<p>
Abortion rights activists are considering <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/07/abortion-supporters-building-midterm-wins">ballot initiatives to
legalize abortion</a> in 10 states.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Mone_PPE_scandal_deepens)
title: Mone PPE scandal deepens
uri: Mone-PPE-scandal-deepens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Mone_PPE_scandal_deepens)
content:
 
<p>
In 2020, when much of the world was desperate for masks and other
Covid-19 protective equipment, the Tories <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/07/mone-ppe-procurement-scandal-ministers-feign-ignorance">gave contracts to companies
owned by their cronies</a>.  Many of those companies had no experience or
manufacturing capacity.

 


title: Australia citizenship-stripping law overturned
uri: Australia-citizenship-stripping-law-overturned
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Australia_citizenship-stripping_law_overturned)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Australia_citizenship-stripping_law_overturned)

content:
 
<p>
*Australian government <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/07/australian-government-overturns-decision-to-cancel-citizenship-of-man-on-death-row-in-iraq">overturns decision to cancel citizenship</a> of man
on death row in Iraq.*
<p>
It is very good news that Australia has overturned the law used to
cancel people's citizenship over alleged crimes.  That law was an
inspiration for various other countries with right-wing governments
that base their popularity on performative cruelty.
<p>
Those other countries remain to be convinced to eliminate those unjust
policies.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Labour_reforms)
title: Labour reforms
uri: Labour-reforms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Labour_reforms)
content:
 
<p>
Labour has proposed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/06/fix-british-politics-labour-westminster-regions">some good reforms</a> for the structure and rules
of the UK government.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Overprotecting_children)
title: Overprotecting children
uri: 2022-12-08-Overprotecting-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Overprotecting_children)
content:
 
<p>
Shocking rare crimes against children <a href="https://www.freerangekids.com/thoughts-on-the-tragic-abduction-and-murder-of-athena-strand-in-texas/">create an impulse and a pressure
to overprotect children by locking them up</a>.  For the children's sake,
we must resist that pressure.

 


title: Argentina's Vice President and Ex-President sentenced
uri: Argentina-s-Vice-President-and-Ex-President-sentenced
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Argentina's_Vice_President_and_Ex-President_sentenced)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Argentina's_Vice_President_and_Ex-President_sentenced)

content:
 
<p>
*Argentina's [vice president and ex-president] Cristina Fern&aacute;ndez
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/06/cristina-fernandez-de-kirchner-argentina-sentenced-prison-fraud-case">sentenced to six years in $1bn fraud case</a>.*

 


title: Research into royal role in colonialism
uri: Research-into-royal-role-in-colonialism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Research_into_royal_role_in_colonialism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Research_into_royal_role_in_colonialism)

content:
 
<p>
*Dutch king commissions research into <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/06/research-into-royal-role-in-colonialism-commissioned-by-dutch-king">royal role in colonialism</a>.*

 


title: Trump Organization guilty of tax fraud
uri: Trump-Organization-guilty-of-tax-fraud
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Trump_Organization_guilty_of_tax_fraud)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Trump_Organization_guilty_of_tax_fraud)

content:
 
<p>
*Trump Organization <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/06/trump-organization-guilty-verdict-tax-fraud">guilty of tax fraud</a>, New York jury finds.*
<p>
The corrupter was not personally charged with the crime, but if
prosecutors have evidence that he knew about the scheme, they should
charge him too.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/06/trump-organization-tax-fraud-guilty-verdict-analysis">More explanation</a>.

 


title: US "REAL ID" requirement delayed again
uri: US-REAL-ID-requirement-delayed-again
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(US_REAL_ID_requirement_delayed_again)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(US_REAL_ID_requirement_delayed_again)

content:
 
<p>
The US has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/dhs-real-id-deadline-extended/index.html">delayed yet again</a> the requirement for "REAL ID" drivers
licenses for purposes such as getting on an commercial flight.
<p>
There is too much identifying and tracking people in the US.
Let's keep resisting, and see how many years we can block this.

 


title: Yoon threatened protesters with prison time
uri: Yoon-threatened-protesters-with-prison-time
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Yoon_threatened_protesters_with_prison_time)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Yoon_threatened_protesters_with_prison_time)

content:
 
<p>
South Korean President Yoon <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/05/after-us-prevents-railway-strike-south-korea-moves-crush-truckers">threatened truck drivers with years in prison</a>
if they didn't end their strike.  They defied him.
<p>
The way to end a strike that causes great inconvenience for society is
to make the employers pay proper wages and offer proper working
conditions.  Whose side are you on, Yoon?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_((Satire)_Santa_institutionalized)
title: (Satire) Santa institutionalized
uri: (Satire)-Santa-institutionalized
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_((Satire)_Santa_institutionalized)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Fate Of Christmas Uncertain After Eric Adams
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/fate-of-christmas-uncertain-after-eric-adams-institutio-1849848393">Institutionalizes Real Santa</a>.*
<p>
  If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling Javascript entirely or
  telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts in the page, then
  right-click and select item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser
  such as lynx that doesn't implement Javascript and CSS.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(TSA_facial_recognition)
title: TSA facial recognition
uri: TSA-facial-recognition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(TSA_facial_recognition)
content:
 
<p>
The TSA has a "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221208032803if_/https://news.yahoo.com/tsa-now-wants-scan-face-165936123.html">pilot program</a>" to use facial recognition to identify
airline passengers.  And a second generation coming which will do the
matching against a database.
<p>
Widespread use of facial recognition enables the sort of tracking that
China's pervasive repression is based on.  We cannot allow such systems
to exist.
<p>
For now, you can refuse to participate in the TSA's facial matching.
Please refuse!  To maintain even a little privacy, we must fight tooth
and nail against massive surveillance systems, both new systems like
this one and existing systems such as <a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2021-nov-feb.html#14_February_2022_(Stopping_Clearview_AI)">Clearview AI</a>.

 


title: Biden does not want progressive candidates challenging him
uri: Biden-does-not-want-progressive-candidates-challenging-him
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Biden_does_not_want_progressive_candidates_challenging_him)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Biden_does_not_want_progressive_candidates_challenging_him)

content:
 
<p>
Biden wants North Carolina to be the Democratic Party's first primary
in 2024 so that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/06/bidens-push-south-carolina-primary-clear-effort-sabotage-progressive-gains-within">no progressive candidate can challenge him for the
presidential nomination</a>.  He is confident of winning heavily there.

 


title: Effort to prevent repeat of Hurricane Sandy damage is inadequate
uri: Effort-to-prevent-repeat-of-Hurricane-Sandy-damage-is-inadequate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Effort_to_prevent_repeat_of_Hurricane_Sandy_damage_is_inadequate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Effort_to_prevent_repeat_of_Hurricane_Sandy_damage_is_inadequate)

content:
 
<p>
New York City is spending a lot of money to prevent a repeat of <em>some</em>
of the damage done by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, but the overall effort
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/29/new-york-hurricane-sandy-climate-protest">is far inadequate</a>.
<p>
For the longer term, there is no hope of protecting New York City from
future inundation with local measures.  The only way is to <a href="http://www.stallman.org/notes/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(Ecosystems_more_immediately_threatened_by_human_activities)">curb global heating</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Qatar_paid_for_support)
title: Qatar paid for support
uri: Qatar-paid-for-support
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Qatar_paid_for_support)
content:
 
<p>
Qatar paid British MPs to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/29/qatar-lavished-british-mps-with-250000-worth-of-freebies-ahead-of-world-cup">give Qatar support in Parliament</a>.
<p>
I find it hard to understand how this could be lawful, but in my sense
of justice this is outright bribery and ought to land the participants
in prison.

 


title: Drivers force "Just Stop Oil" protesters off road
uri: Drivers-force-Just-Stop-Oil-protesters-off-road
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Drivers_force_Just_Stop_Oil_protesters_off_road)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#7_December_2022_(Drivers_force_Just_Stop_Oil_protesters_off_road)

content:
 
<p>
Drivers in London <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/29/just-stop-oil-activists-dragged-out-of-way-by-motorists-at-london-protests">forcibly moved Just Stop Oil protesters out of the
road</a>.
<p>
I agree fully with the Just Stop Oil's arguments for these protests.
If you think being delayed for half an hour is painful, wait and see
what food rationing feels like, or a flood or wildfire smoke or heat
prostration.
<p>
But if this approach to protesting inspires the passersby to fight the
protesters, it is not useful or constructive.
<p>
Here are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/07/low-pay-authors-writing-books-joanne-harris">suggestions</a> for new tactics for climate protesters.

 


title: Urgent: American Innovation and Choice Online Act
uri: Urgent-American-Innovation-and-Choice-Online-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Urgent:_American_Innovation_and_Choice_Online_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Urgent:_American_Innovation_and_Choice_Online_Act)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Innovation_and_Choice_Online_Act">phone your congresscritter and senators to support</a> the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2992">American Innovation and Choice Online Act</a>, which would prohibit some of the harmful practices of Amazon and
some other platforms.
<p>
  This bill would not do anything to make anonymous purchase possible, or insist that the sites work without sending <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree software</a> to the
        user's browser, so I would sill refuse more or less to do use those sites.  But their overall injustice would be reduced.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Urgent:_Open_App_Markets_Act)
title: Urgent: Open App Markets Act
uri: Urgent-Open-App-Markets-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Urgent:_Open_App_Markets_Act)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_App_Markets_Act">phone your congresscritter and senators to support the
    Open App Markets Act</a>.  It would require Apple to allow users to
install apps obtained from places other than Apple's store.
<p>
  It looks like this would make it possible to distribute free software
  for the iThings which users could build from source.  That means
  iThings would no longer be <a href="https://gnu.org/malware/proprietary-jails.html">jails</a>.
<p>
  Of course, they would still be nasty in many <em>other</em> ways,
        so I would still urge everyone to reject iThings, along with Android.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Coking_coal)
title: Coking coal
uri: Coking-coal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Coking_coal)
content:
 
<p>
The Tories plan to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/07/opening-coalmine-cumbria-climate-crime-against-humanity">open a new coal mine in England</a>.  Supposedly the
reason is to reduce the cost of electricity, but the mine will produce
coking coal to be exported to make steel.
  Meanwhile, the steel industry is looking to replace the use of coking coal
to reduce its emissions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Fate_of_the_entire_living_world)
title: Fate of the entire living world
uri: Fate-of-the-entire-living-world
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Fate_of_the_entire_living_world)
content:
 
<p>
*The "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/07/cop15-fate-living-world-decided-say-scientists-aoe">fate of the entire living world</a>" will be determined at the
Cop15 UN biodiversity summit, according to leading scientists.*
It is considering a partly concrete plan to slow the destruction
of the Earth's natural ecosystems.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Altruism)
title: Altruism
uri: 2022-12-09-Altruism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Altruism)
content:
 
<p>
[Effective altruism] is
   "profoundly individualistic" and reliant on the status quo. EA's
   calculations assume that humans won't change.
   But <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/06/most-effective-altruism-igniting-positive-social-change">humans have to change</a> if we are going to [save] life on Earth.*

 


title: Anti-vaxxers convinced "vaccinated blood" is risky
uri: Anti-vaxxers-convinced-vaccinated-blood-is-risky
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Anti-vaxxers_convinced_vaccinated_blood_is_risky)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Anti-vaxxers_convinced_vaccinated_blood_is_risky)

content:
 
<p>
Superstitious anti-vaxxers have convinced each other that a blood
transfusion with "vaccinated blood" is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/08/parents-who-refused-baby-w-nz-vaccinated-blood-transfusion-speak-out-new-zealand">somehow dangerous</a>.  One couple
tried to prevent their baby from getting a transfusion unless it was
with "unvaccinated blood"; since the baby would have died without
surgery and a transfusion, the state intervened and took guardianship
to authorize the operation.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Qatar)
title: Qatar
uri: 2022-12-09-Qatar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Qatar)
content:
 
<p>
Qatar promises to vastly <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/08/qatar-gas-output-increase-catastrophic-global-heating-report">expand its fossil fuel exports</a>; the resulting
greenhouse gas emissions would imply global disaster.
<p>
The specific point that the total emissions from Qatar's exports would
eventually add up to more than one year of the whole world's emissions
seems like a red herring to me.  I would expect that the same is true
for the US too, and perhaps several other countries.
<p>
But even though this is just a red herring, I think the article's conclusions
are plausible anyway.

 


title: Independent state legislature theory
uri: Independent-state-legislature-theory
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Independent_state_legislature_theory)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Independent_state_legislature_theory)

content:
 
<p>
At least four on the Supreme Court seem to lean towards the bizarre
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-can-we-protect-our-democracy">"independent state legislature" theory</a>.
The confrontation in Arizona, in which <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#5_December_2022_(__Arizona)">one country refused
to certify its vote</a>,
is exactly the kind of situation where a state legislature could
(under this theory) arbitrarily make up its own presidential election
results.
<p>
The revised Electoral Count Act could close that mad loophole, if
Congress passes it this month.

 


title: Urgent: Block One Medical purchase
uri: Urgent-Block-One-Medical-purchase
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Urgent:_Block_One_Medical_purchase)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Urgent:_Block_One_Medical_purchase)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the US government to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/stop-amazons-health-care-mergers?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=">block Amazon's planned merger
with One Medical</A>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Urgent:_Keep_Ilhan_Omar)
title: Urgent: Keep Ilhan Omar
uri: Urgent-Keep-Ilhan-Omar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Urgent:_Keep_Ilhan_Omar)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on your congresscritter to stand up for <a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14744">keeping
Ilhan Omar on the foreign affairs committee</a>.i
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

 


title: Urgent: Don't allow oil drilling near Chaco Canyon
uri: Urgent-Don-t-allow-oil-drilling-near-Chaco-Canyon
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Urgent:_Don't_allow_oil_drilling_near_Chaco_Canyon)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Urgent:_Don't_allow_oil_drilling_near_Chaco_Canyon)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the Biden administration <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=52898&supporter_KEY=229474&uid=80194c17d0fbbc71ce12626b1b44954e&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:114688&utm_campaign=AME4-FCNS:SPECPLCCNS:NATLPARKSPEC-1122&utm_content=EM9:00C:0HH-AAP">not to allow oil
drilling near Chaco Canyon</a>.
<p>
Chaco Canyon is beautiful, as well as having great historic significance.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Global_Heating)
title: Global Heating
uri: 2022-12-09-Global-Heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Global_Heating)
content:
 
<p>
Global heating is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/08/puffin-nesting-sites-western-europe-seabirds-global-heating">causing sea animals to move</a> to different habitats.
The result will be to wipe out most of the seabirds in western Europe.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Manchin's_dirty_deal_defeated)
title: Manchin's dirty deal defeated
uri: Manchin-s-dirty-deal-defeated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Manchin's_dirty_deal_defeated)
content:
 
<p>
Climate defense activists <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/07/monumental-victory-manchins-industry-backed-permitting-reform-defeated-again">defeated Manchin's "dirty deal"</a> to undermine
environmental regulations in the US Senate.
<p>
He could try again to pass it in another way, so the fight is not
conclusively finished.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(DoJ_subpoenas)
title: DoJ subpoenas
uri: DoJ-subpoenas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(DoJ_subpoenas)
content:
 
<p>
*DOJ <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/06/politics/jack-smith-subpoena-local-officials-michigan-wisconsin/index.html">subpoenas officials</a> in Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona for
communications with [the wrecker] around 2020 election.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Israel_fires_at_reporter)
title: Israel fires at reporter
uri: Israel-fires-at-reporter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Israel_fires_at_reporter)
content:
 
<p>
Al Jazeera asserts it has proof that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/06/revealing-new-evidence-abu-aklehs-killing-al-jazeera-sues-israeli-forces-icc">Israeli forces fired directly at
reporter Shireen Abu Akleh</a>, and has filed a case with the
International Criminal Court about this.

 


title: Haitians have temporary protected status
uri: Haitians-have-temporary-protected-status
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Haitians_have_temporary_protected_status)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Haitians_have_temporary_protected_status)

content:
 
<p>
The Biden administration has given Haitians in the US <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/06/biden-admin-takes-urgent-and-necessary-step-protect-100000-haitians-deportation">temporary
protected status</a> through August, 2024.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_((Satire)_Raid_apology)
title: (Satire) Raid apology
uri: (Satire)-Raid-apology
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_((Satire)_Raid_apology)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *SWAT Team Busts Down Door Of Denver Woman's Home To
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/swat-team-busts-down-door-of-denver-woman-s-home-to-apo-1849859591">Apologize For Previous Raid</a>.*
<p>
  If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling Javascript entirely or
  telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts in the page, then
  right-click and select item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser
  such as lynx that doesn't implement Javascript and CSS.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Urgent:_Abolish_tax_ceiling)
title: Urgent: Abolish tax ceiling
uri: Urgent-Abolish-tax-ceiling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Urgent:_Abolish_tax_ceiling)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on  Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-abolish-the-debt-ceiling-now?nowrapper=true">abolish the debt ceiling</a> now.

 


title: Government documents in storage unit
uri: Government-documents-in-storage-unit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Government_documents_in_storage_unit)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Government_documents_in_storage_unit)

content:
 
<p>
Lawyers hired by the corrupter searched a rented storage unit and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/07/trump-classified-documents-found">found
additional secret government documents</a>.

 


title: Daniel Ellsberg dares US to prosecute him
uri: Daniel-Ellsberg-dares-US-to-prosecute-him
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Daniel_Ellsberg_dares_US_to_prosecute_him)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Daniel_Ellsberg_dares_US_to_prosecute_him)

content:
 
<p>
Great 1970s whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/07/revealing-he-too-had-manning-leaks-ellsberg-dares-doj-prosecute-him-assange">dares the US to prosecute
him</a> like Julian Assange.
  He wants to challenge the constitutionality of such prosecutions.
<p>
Ellsberg faced the threat of prosecution at the time, but ultimately
officials decided not to prosecute him.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Conspiracy_to_attack_Parliament)
title: Conspiracy to attack Parliament
uri: Conspiracy-to-attack-Parliament
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Conspiracy_to_attack_Parliament)
content:
 
<p>
A right-wing conspiracy in Germany <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/07/reichsburger-the-german-conspiracy-theorists-at-heart-of-alleged-coup-plot">plotted to attack Parliament and overthrow
the government</a>.
<p>
Their ideology was a strange mixture of Nazism, anarchism, and superstition.
But they had real weapons and could surely have done real killing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Prohibiting_NHS_strikes)
title: Prohibiting NHS strikes
uri: Prohibiting-NHS-strikes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Prohibiting_NHS_strikes)
content:
 
<p>
The Tories plan to deal with strikes by NHS workers by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/07/nhs-workers-could-be-banned-from-striking-no-10-suggests">prohibiting strikes</a>.
<p>
This approach would be of little use for fixing the broken NHS,
but assuming their real goal is to ruin it, this could be quite effective.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Thug_killer_robots_banned)
title: Thug killer robots banned
uri: Thug-killer-robots-banned
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Thug_killer_robots_banned)
content:
 
<p>
San Francisco responded to public revulsion and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/06/san-francisco-lawmakers-ban-killer-robots-u-turn">reversed its recent
decision</a> to authorize the thug department to use robots for killing
people.
<p>
To halt (and then reverse) the general <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#16_September_2014_(Militarization_of_thug_forces)">militarization of US thug departments</a> is a much bigger job.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Contempt_for_the_Constitution)
title: Contempt for the Constitution
uri: Contempt-for-the-Constitution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#8_December_2022_(Contempt_for_the_Constitution)
content:
 
<p>
Some Republican senators are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/05/politics/trump-constitution-hill-republican-reaction/index.html">condemning the wrecker</a> for showing
contempt for the Constitution.
<p>
It could be that they are looking for a chance to publicly split from
him, having seen that his endorsements of candidates turned out to be
disadvantageous for them.  They may have decided they will be better
off with a new, fresh fascist leader.

 


title: Urgent: Call on US to end subsidies for fracking in Argentina
uri: Urgent-Call-on-US-to-end-subsidies-for-fracking-in-Argentina
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_US_to_end_subsidies_for_fracking_in_Argentina)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_US_to_end_subsidies_for_fracking_in_Argentina)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on the US to <a href="https://act.350.org/sign/vaca-muerta-petition-oct-2022/">end subsidies</a> for fracking in
Argentina.

 


title: Urgent: US citizens reject anything like SECURE Act and EARN Act
uri: Urgent-US-citizens-reject-anything-like-SECURE-Act-and-EARN-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Urgent:_US_citizens_reject_anything_like_SECURE_Act_and_EARN_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Urgent:_US_citizens_reject_anything_like_SECURE_Act_and_EARN_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and senators and say to reject
anything like the SECURE Act (HR 2954) and the EARN Act (S 4808).
These bills would change Social Security to give less to the poor
and more to the rich.

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

 


title: FTC blocked merger of Microsoft and Activision
uri: FTC-blocked-merger-of-Microsoft-and-Activision
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(FTC_blocked_merger_of_Microsoft_and_Activision)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(FTC_blocked_merger_of_Microsoft_and_Activision)

content:
 
<p>

  The FTC has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/08/us-agency-block-merger-microsoft-activision-blizzard-video-games">blocked the merger of Microsoft and Activision</a>, both giants
in making video games.
<p>
These video games are nonfree software, which means <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">they treat
    users unjustly</a>.
  I would not allow any of them on my computers, and I urge you to
reject them too.
<p>
Notwithstanding that, it is still important to stop them from merging.
Allowing them to merge would exacerbate the evil of concentration of
industry, and do nothing to reduce the evil o f nonfree software.

 


title: President of Peru removed from office by Congress
uri: President-of-Peru-removed-from-office-by-Congress
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(President_of_Peru_removed_from_office_by_Congress)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(President_of_Peru_removed_from_office_by_Congress)

content:
 
<p>

  The president of Peru was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/08/peru-pedro-castillo-court-rebellion-conspiracy-charges">removed from office</a> by Congress.  He had
attempted to prevent this by dismissing Congress.
<p>
I don't have enough contact with Peru to judge which side was
basically at fault, but I lean towards trusting Arce's view.  He is a
leftist elected president in a country that borders on Peru, so he has
surely paid plenty of attention.
<p>
  More about the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/08/dina-boluarte-peru-first-female-president">new president Dina Boluarte</a>, who was previously
the vice president.

 


title: Raphael Warnock defeated Herschel Walker by under 3%
uri: Raphael-Warnock-defeated-Herschel-Walker-by-under-3
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Raphael_Warnock_defeated_Herschel_Walker_by_under_3%25)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Raphael_Warnock_defeated_Herschel_Walker_by_under_3%25)

content:
 
<p>

Raphael Warnock defeated Herschel Walker in the Georgia Senate runoff
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/07/why-it-close-why-narrow-warnock-win-sparks-fears-ominous-doom-democrats">by under 3%</a>.
<p>
It is good that he won, but the closeness of the outcome shows that
most Republicans hate our freedoms so much that they will vote for
even a lying creep who will help destroy them.

 


title: Republicans running political platform on weakening education
uri: Republicans-running-political-platform-on-weakening-education
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Republicans_running_political_platform_on_weakening_education)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Republicans_running_political_platform_on_weakening_education)

content:
 
<p>

*   Republicans are literally running a political platform on weakening
teachers, schools and education because <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/31/teacher-exodus-proves-we-are-wilfully-destroying-us-public-education">they need the poorly educated</a>
   to make up their voting base.*

 


title: Brown University bans caste discrimination throughout campus
uri: Brown-University-bans-caste-discrimination-throughout-campus
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Brown_University_bans_caste_discrimination_throughout_campus)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Brown_University_bans_caste_discrimination_throughout_campus)

content:
 
<p>

  *Brown University <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/us/brown-university-caste-protections-cec/index.html">bans caste discrimination</a> throughout campus in a
first for the Ivy League.*
<p>
I think caste discrimination should be prohibited like race or sex
discrimination.

 


title: Apple dropped plan to scan every user's photos
uri: Apple-dropped-plan-to-scan-every-user-s-photos
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Apple_dropped_plan_to_scan_every_user's_photos)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Apple_dropped_plan_to_scan_every_user's_photos)

content:
 
<p>

  Apple has <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/apple-photo-scanning-csam-communication-safety-messages/">dropped its plan to scan every user's photos</a> and will use another
approach to protect children from would-be abusers.
<p>
The new approach seems not to be a threat to other users' privacy.

 


title: Plutocratist "mainstream" Democrats continue control of party's leadership in House
uri: Plutocratist-mainstream-Democrats-continue-control-of-party-s-leader
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Plutocratist_mainstream_Democrats_continue_control_of_party's_leadership_in_House)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Plutocratist_mainstream_Democrats_continue_control_of_party's_leadership_in_House)

content:
 
<p>

  Plutocratist "mainstream" Democrats <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/07/dems-back-blue-dog-spanberger-swing-district-post-over-progressive-cartwright">continue to control</a> the party's
leadership in the House of Representatives.

 


title: Labour party turning to mythical trickle-down economics
uri: Labour-party-turning-to-mythical-trickle-down-economics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Labour_party_turning_to_mythical_trickle-down_economics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Labour_party_turning_to_mythical_trickle-down_economics)

content:
 
<p>

  The Labour Party is turning to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/07/labour-unveils-funding-shake-up-to-help-turn-uk-into-global-startup-hub">mythical trickle-down economics</a>, saying it
aims to turn the UK into a "global start-up hub."
<p>
Poor Britain.  Competing to help the rich dominate society won't help
anyone but the rich.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_((satire)_Progressive_in_year_2180)
title: (satire) Progressive in year 2180
uri: (satire)-Progressive-in-year-2180
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_((satire)_Progressive_in_year_2180)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/progressive-in-year-2180-blasts-gender-discrimination-i-1849853897">*Progressive In Year 2180 Blasts Gender Discrimination In
    Conscription Practices Of Nabisco's Corporate Military.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Congress_considering_link_tax)
title: Congress considering "link tax"
uri: Congress-considering-link-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Congress_considering_link_tax)
content:
 
<p>

  Congress is <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2022/07/14/the-journalism-competition-preservation-act-is-lose-lose-legislation/">considering a kind of "link tax"</a> to require discussion platforms
to pay for hosting links to news sites.  It would harm libraries and smaller
news media.
<p>
It would also give lots of subsidy to Big Media.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Criticizing_effective_altruism)
title: Criticizing effective altruism
uri: Criticizing-effective-altruism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Criticizing_effective_altruism)
content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v37/n18/amia-srinivasan/stop-the-robot-apocalypse">Criticizing Effective Altruism</a>: to program people as donation robots
is desocializing, isolating and alienating.
<p>
I suspect those things reduce people's lifespan.

 


title: Pegasus spyware used to crack reporters' phones
uri: Pegasus-spyware-used-to-crack-reporters-phones
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Pegasus_spyware_used_to_crack_reporters'_phones)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Pegasus_spyware_used_to_crack_reporters'_phones)

content:
 
<p>

  *Pegasus spyware was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/05/pegasus-spyware-journalists-phone-hacking-lawsuit">used to [crack] reporters’ phones</a>. I’m suing its
[developers].*
<p>
  Referring to the developers of a program as <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Creator">"creators"</a>
is propaganda for ideas we would be wiser not to promote.

 


title: US rescued hostage Brittney Griner by trading Russian arms dealer
uri: US-rescued-hostage-Brittney-Griner-by-trading-Russian-arms-dealer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(US_rescued_hostage_Brittney_Griner_by_trading_Russian_arms_dealer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(US_rescued_hostage_Brittney_Griner_by_trading_Russian_arms_dealer)

content:
 
<p>

The US rescued hostage Brittney Griner by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/08/brittney-griner-russia-us-prisoner-swap-viktor-bout">trading an important Russian
    arms dealer</a> for her.
<p>
Griner deserved to be freed for the simple reason that what she did
was not wrong.  However, I don't understand why Americans clamor for
Griner's release more than for the release of everyone imprisoned in
the US for possession of marijuana.  There are many Americans unjustly
imprisoned in the US for doing nothing more than what Griner did.  They too
deserve to be freed.
<p>
It is a shame to let arms merchant Viktor Bout go free, though.
<p>
I think we should not pressure the US to try to ransom hostages,
because that pressure benefits the regimes that take hostages at the
expense of the US.  If I were a hostage, I would say, "Don't ransom me
if the ransom hurts my country!"

 


title: Denying the call to boycott Russian music
uri: Denying-the-call-to-boycott-Russian-music
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Denying_the_call_to_boycott_Russian_music)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#9_December_2022_(Denying_the_call_to_boycott_Russian_music)

content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/09/silencing-russian-music-plays-into-putins-hands">Denying the call</a> to boycott Russian music.
<p>
I take a stronger stand: it is misguided and destructive to blame
"Russia" for Putin's crime of aggressive war.  Putin is the one
responsible.  Let us not refer to the army that invaded Ukraine as
"the Russian army" &mdash; call them the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#4_March_2022_(Putin_forces)">Putin forces</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#11_December_2022_(musk_fighting_regulators_zoning)
uri: US-zoning-laws-obstruct-the-conversion-of-surplus-office-space-into-ba
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#11_December_2022_(musk_fighting_regulators_zoning)
title:
 US zoning laws obstruct the conversion of surplus office space
into badly needed residential space. 

content:
 
<p>
US zoning laws obstruct the conversion of surplus office space
into 
<a href="https://reason.com/2022/12/08/elon-musk-isnt-the-only-one-fighting-regulators-for-turning-offices-into-bedrooms/">badly needed residential space.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#11_December_2022_(house_vote_ndaa_vaccine_mandate)
title: Republicans have added to the NDAA a clause to repeal the Covid-19 vaccine mandate
uri: Republicans-have-added-to-the-NDAA-a-clause-to-repeal-the-Covid-19-vac
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#11_December_2022_(house_vote_ndaa_vaccine_mandate)
content:
 
<p>
Republicans have added to the NDAA a clause to repeal the Covid-19
vaccine 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/08/politics/house-vote-ndaa-military-vaccine-mandate/index.html">mandate for the military.</a>
<p>
This is more harmful than it appears.  The vaccination requirement
has convinced some right-wing fanatics to leave the US military,
and we need to keep it going.
<p>
It also helps keep the troops healthy.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#11_December_2022_(railway_labor_strike)
title: Accusing the US rail unions of being weak-spirited and divided.
uri: Accusing-the-US-rail-unions-of-being-weak-spirited-and-divided
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#11_December_2022_(railway_labor_strike)
content:
 
<p>
Accusing the US rail unions of 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/08/what-you-need-know-probably-dont-about-railway-labor-strike-wasnt">being weak-spirited and divided.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#11_December_2022_(arizona_midterm_results_cochise)
title: Rural Arizona county certifies midterm results
uri: Rural-Arizona-county-certifies-midterm-results
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#11_December_2022_(arizona_midterm_results_cochise)
content:
 
<p>
*Rural Arizona county certifies midterm results 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/01/arizona-certifies-midterm-results-cochise">after judge orders vote.</a>*
<p>
The Republican county supervisors in Cochise county had refused to
certify that county's election.  Then they got a court order which
required them to certify the vote, so they did.
<p>
They presented no grounds for refusing to certify the results, but we
can see that it was mad hatred: they hate the election so much that
they wanted to fight it regardless of what effects that would have.
<p>
Ironically, if they had got away with not certifying that county's
vote, the result would have been to elect one more Democrat to the
House of Representatives.  That would have been a major setback to
Republican power nationwide.
<p>
I therefore conclude that the refusal was not an instance of
Republican "by hook or by crook" cheating, but rather mad rage 
<a href="https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-arizona-phoenix-government-and-politics-938a920c848d28ca23435a6d2cb61f98">against free elections.</a>
<p>
I previously posted that Cochise county's vote was majority
Democratic, because had I read that in another article. That would
have made the refusal consistent with by-hook-or-by-crook cheating.
But it appears that that other article was mistaken about this.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#11_December_2022_((satire)_twitter_musk)
uri: (Satire)-Elon-Musk-Worried-He-Won-t-Have-Enough-Twitter-Employees-Le
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#11_December_2022_((satire)_twitter_musk)
title:
 (Satire) *Elon Musk Worried He Won't Have Enough Twitter Employees
 Left To Fire On Christmas Eve.* 

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Elon Musk Worried He Won't Have Enough Twitter Employees Left To 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-worried-he-won-t-have-enough-twitter-employee-1849870554">Fire On Christmas Eve.</a>*

 


title: Urgent: Call on Biden to extend paid sick leave to railway workers
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Biden-to-extend-paid-sick-leave-to-railway-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_extend_paid_sick_leave_to_railway_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_extend_paid_sick_leave_to_railway_workers)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-president-biden-extend-paid-leave-to-railway-workers">extend paid sick leave</a> to railway workers.

 


title: Urgent: Block Albertson's from giving enormous dividend payment to shareowners
uri: Urgent-Block-Albertson-s-from-giving-enormous-dividend-payment-to-sha
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Urgent:_Block_Albertson's_from_giving_enormous_dividend_payment_to_shareowners)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Urgent:_Block_Albertson's_from_giving_enormous_dividend_payment_to_shareowners)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your state's attorney general to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/ask-your-attorney-general-to-stop-albertsons-4-billion-giveaway-to-wall-street-private-equity-now">block
 Albertsons from giving an enormous $4 billion special dividend payment to
    shareowners</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Wall Street banks to drop their lawsuit against the CFPB
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Wall-Street-banks-to-drop-their-lawsuit-against-the-CF
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Wall_Street_banks_to_drop_their_lawsuit_against_the_CFPB)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Wall_Street_banks_to_drop_their_lawsuit_against_the_CFPB)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on Wall Street banks to keep their pledge
to stand against racial injustice by forcing their lobbyists to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-wall-street-banks-to-keep-their-pledge-to-stand-against-racial-injustice-by-forcing-their-lobbyists-to-drop-their-lawsuit-against-the-cfpb-now">drop their
    lawsuit against the CFPB</a>.

 


title: Court Orders U.S. to examine California shipping lanes
uri: Court-Orders-U-S-to-examine-California-shipping-lanes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Court_Orders_U.S._to_examine_California_shipping_lanes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Court_Orders_U.S._to_examine_California_shipping_lanes)

content:
 
<p>

  *Court Orders U.S. to Examine California <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2022/12/08/court-orders-us-examine-california-shipping-lanes-role-endangered-whale-deaths">Shipping Lanes' Role in Endangered Whale Deaths</a>.*

 


title: Ayatollah Khamenei is badly ill and may be dying
uri: Ayatollah-Khamenei-is-badly-ill-and-may-be-dying
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Ayatollah_Khamenei_is_badly_ill_and_may_be_dying)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Ayatollah_Khamenei_is_badly_ill_and_may_be_dying)

content:
 
<p>

  Ayatollah Khamenei is <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/12/09/iran-regime-khamenei-death/">badly ill and may be dying</a>.  If he dies, the
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is likely to take power.
<p>
The writer speculates that the IRGC might give Iranians personal
freedoms, to reduce resistance to their rule, but not democracy,
and expects power rivalries to continue unchanged.
<p>
I would rejoice to see Iranians have somewhat more freedom.
I hope that the US and Iran can make peace some day.

 


title: Kansas city thug charges of collaborating with drug gang
uri: Kansas-city-thug-charges-of-collaborating-with-drug-gang
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Kansas_city_thug_charges_of_collaborating_with_drug_gang)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Kansas_city_thug_charges_of_collaborating_with_drug_gang)

content:
 
<p>

An extremely corrupt Kansas City thug faces charges of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/09/roger-golubski-kansas-city-police">collaborating
    with a drug gang</a> to force 73 women into slavery and prostitution.
  He is also accused of raping people to intimidate them, and a series
of frame-ups.
<p>
The whole <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> department knew about his pattern of crime, and stood
behind their fellow <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a>.

 


title: Ukrainians and Putin Forces face off in Donetsk
uri: Ukrainians-and-Putin-Forces-face-off-in-Donetsk
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Ukrainians_and_Putin_Forces_face_off_in_Donetsk)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Ukrainians_and_Putin_Forces_face_off_in_Donetsk)

content:
 
<p>

*‘Only 100 meters apart’: Ukrainians and [Putin forces] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/09/ukraine-russia-war-cold-donetsk-frontline">face off in
    Donetsk</a>.*
<p>
I read that the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>' persistent focus on taking Bakhmut is
that it is the next step toward capturing 100% of the Donetsk oblast.
If they take Bakhmut, and then take Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, they
could boast of holding 100% of one of the regions that Putin claims to
have annexed this year.
<p>
In military terms, this would be worth nothing, but that's the sort of
irrationality that tends to happen under an absolute ruler.

 


title: Renewed call for DOJ to drop charges against Assange
uri: Renewed-call-for-DOJ-to-drop-charges-against-Assange
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Renewed_call_for_DOJ_to_drop_charges_against_Assange)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Renewed_call_for_DOJ_to_drop_charges_against_Assange)

content:
 
<p>

  *Press Freedom Champions Renew Call for DOJ to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/08/press-freedom-champions-renew-call-doj-drop-charges-against-assange">Drop Charges Against Assange</a>.*

 


title: Free condoms for 18- to 25-year-olds in France
uri: Free-condoms-for-18-to-25-year-olds-in-France
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Free_condoms_for_18-_to_25-year-olds_in_France)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Free_condoms_for_18-_to_25-year-olds_in_France)

content:
 
<p>

  *Macron announces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/09/macron-free-condoms-under-25s-france-contraception-sti-unwanted-pregnancies">free condoms for 18- to 25-year-olds in France</a>.*
<p>
This  offer is a good start; it should be extended to everyone.

 


title: Ilya Yashin sentenced to eight and a half years
uri: Ilya-Yashin-sentenced-to-eight-and-a-half-years
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Ilya_Yashin_sentenced_to_eight_and_a_half_years)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Ilya_Yashin_sentenced_to_eight_and_a_half_years)

content:
 
<p>

  *[Dissident Ilya Yashin] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/09/russian-opposition-figure-ilya-yashin-jailed-for-denouncing-ukraine-war">sentenced to eight and a half years</a> over
series of posts about [<a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>] atrocities in Bucha.*
<p>
Putin's obedient servants lie on command, too afraid to refuse.  The
wrecker has led US Republicans to do likewise.  Yashin has chosen
to go to prison rather than become a tool of falsehood.

 


title: Comparing imprisoned antipollution protester with convicted polluters
uri: Comparing-imprisoned-antipollution-protester-with-convicted-polluters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Comparing_imprisoned_antipollution_protester_with_convicted_polluters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Comparing_imprisoned_antipollution_protester_with_convicted_polluters)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/09/violet-coco-how-does-the-15-month-sentence-for-environmental-protester-compare">Comparing imprisoned antipollution protester Violet Coco with
  convicted polluters</a>: *less than 6% of people charged with
environmental pollution and property damage offenses are sent to
prison.*

 


title: Racism poses public health threat
uri: Racism-poses-public-health-threat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Racism_poses_public_health_threat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Racism_poses_public_health_threat)

content:
 
<p>

  *Racism <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/08/racism-poses-public-health-threat-to-millions-worldwide-finds-report">poses public health threat</a> to millions worldwide, finds report.*

 


title: Covid-19 contact tracing data shared with crime investigation agency
uri: Covid-19-contact-tracing-data-shared-with-crime-investigation-agency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Covid-19_contact_tracing_data_shared_with_crime_investigation_agency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Covid-19_contact_tracing_data_shared_with_crime_investigation_agency)

content:
 
<p>

Victoria gave 2020 Covid-19 contact tracing data to an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/09/victorians-covid-contact-tracing-data-sent-to-authority-for-potential-use-by-palantir">agency that
    investigates crime</a>.
<p>
The reported purpose of this was to figure out the unknown ways that
Covid-19 was spreading.  That purpose is legitimate, but giving the data
to an agency that investigates crime is going to make people worry that
they can't trust the government with such data.
<p>
  Indeed, such data may <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">endanger whistleblowers</a>.


Lula has sued Bolsonaro for various reasons, one of which is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/09/lula-sues-bolsonaro-abuse-power-and-baseless-attacks-brazils-voting-system">accusing the
    country's computerized voting system of being vulnerable</a>.
<p>
Bolsonaro has done much to undermine democracy and elections in
Brazil, and morally deserves punishment.  However, the general claim
that Brazil's computerized voting system makes Brazil's elections
vulnerable is valid.  That is because the machines record only totals,
and do not keep individual paper ballots that voters marked by hand.
<a href="/evoting.html">Such systems are vulnerable to someone, somehow</a>.
<p>
Brazilian experts campaigned against this system when it was adopted,
demanding a system that enabled the results to be audited, but they
lost the battle.
<p>
There is no evidence that anything wrong happened in the voting
machines in this election, but Brazil should change to an audit-able
voting system for the sake of the future.

 


title: Raising interest rates will cause more pain
uri: Raising-interest-rates-will-cause-more-pain
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Raising_interest_rates_will_cause_more_pain)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Raising_interest_rates_will_cause_more_pain)

content:
 
<p>

Joseph Stiglitz: *Raising interest rates to tame inflation will only
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/09/raising-interest-rates-inflation-central-banks-recession">cause more pain</a>.*

 


title: Steps toward releasing remaining prisoners in Guantanamo
uri: Steps-toward-releasing-remaining-prisoners-in-Guantanamo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Steps_toward_releasing_remaining_prisoners_in_Guantanamo_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Steps_toward_releasing_remaining_prisoners_in_Guantanamo_)

content:
 
<p>

Biden has taken <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/09/guantanamo-will-americas-forever-prison-finally-close-bidens-watch">significant steps towards releasing all the prisoners
    remaining in Guantanamo</a>.  That would enable the US to put an end to
its national shame.

 


title: Senator Sinema has left the Democratic Party
uri: Senator-Sinema-has-left-the-Democratic-Party
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Senator_Sinema_has_left_the_Democratic_Party)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Senator_Sinema_has_left_the_Democratic_Party)

content:
 
<p>

  Senator Sinema has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/09/shes-just-awful-critics-swing-after-sinema-ditches-dems-just-days-after-warnock-win">officially left the Democratic Party</a>, which suggests
that she will run as an independent in 2024.
<p>
As the article said, we already knew she belongs to the Plutocratic
Party.  What matters is, will this make it easier or harder to elect a
better senator in her place?  I fear this will make it harder &mdash;
because it won't be possible to eliminate her in the Democratic Party.
I don't know whether her presence in the general election as an
independent candidate would help or hurt.

 


title: Congress trying to impose link tax
uri: Congress-trying-to-impose-link-tax
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Congress_trying_to_impose_link_tax)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Congress_trying_to_impose_link_tax)

content:
 
<p>

Congress is trying to <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/01/congress-trying-to-sneak-through-internet-link-tax-to-funnel-cash-to-private-equity-firms-that-are-destroying-local-journalism/">impose a link tax through an increasingly
    frequent sneaky method</a> &mdash; last minute inclusion in "must pass"
omnibus bills.

 


title: Call on IMF to eliminate extra interest it charges poor countries
uri: Call-on-IMF-to-eliminate-extra-interest-it-charges-poor-countries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Call_on_IMF_to_eliminate_extra_interest_it_charges_poor_countries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#12_December_2022_(Call_on_IMF_to_eliminate_extra_interest_it_charges_poor_countries)

content:
 
<p>

  Calling on the IMF to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/22/civil-society-groups-imf-abolish-surcharges-help-finance-climate-action">eliminate the extra interest</a> that it charges poor
countries.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(New_pun:_Polisemias)
title: New pun: Polisemias
uri: New-pun-Polisemias
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(New_pun:_Polisemias)
content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://stallman.org/spanish-puns.html#polisemias">Polisemias pun:</a>
<p>
Se me dijo que mis chistes son polisemias.</br>
Dije, "No, polisemia es tener polizontes en la sangre."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(power_grid_attacks)
title: People have shot at electric power stations in Oregon and Washington.
uri: People-have-shot-at-electric-power-stations-in-Oregon-and-Washington
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(power_grid_attacks)
content:
 
<p>
People have shot at electric power stations in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/09/us-power-grid-pacific-northwest-attacks">Oregon and Washington.</a>
<p>
The attackers have not been identified, but the obvious suspects are
right-wing extremists.  That region (outside its big cities) is known
for the presence of people who hate the very idea of government
and can consider any sort of sabotage justified if it damages government.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(afghan_refugee_greece)
title: Afghan refugee freed in Greece after two years of wrongful imprisonment
uri: Afghan-refugee-freed-in-Greece-after-two-years-of-wrongful-imprisonmen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(afghan_refugee_greece)
content:
 
<p>
Afghan refugees being smuggled into Greece were caught and charged with
doing the smuggling.  One such conviction has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/dec/10/afghan-refugee-freed-in-greece-after-two-years-of-wrongful-imprisonment">been overturned on appeal.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(warnock_georgia_record_collapse)
uri: Warnock-won-the-election-for-senator-from-Georgia-in-the-face-of-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(warnock_georgia_record_collapse)
title:
 Warnock won the election for senator from Georgia in the face of
powerful and effective Republican voter suppression. 

content:
 
<p>
Warnock won the election for senator from Georgia in the face of
powerful and effective Republican voter suppression.  The Warnock's
general election for senator in 2022 had a million fewer voters than
Warnock's general election in 2020.  And the subsequent runoff in 2022
had a million fewer voters than the 
<a href="https://www.gregpalast.com/record-turnout-in-georgia-there-was-a-record-collapse/">runoff for the 2020 election.</a>
<p>
Republican voter suppression is intended to hit Democrats harder than
Republicans.  Why it did not succeed this time in defeating Warnock,
I don't know, and I wonder.
<p>
The article explains that Georgia Republicans have already passed
further laws to make it harder to fight voter suppression in 2024.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(uae_embassy_giorgia_meloni)
title: Italian trapped in UAE embassy pleads with Giorgia Meloni to get him home
uri: Italian-trapped-in-UAE-embassy-pleads-with-Giorgia-Meloni-to-get-him-h
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(uae_embassy_giorgia_meloni)
content:
 
<p>
An Italian is trapped in the Italian embassy in the United Arab Emirates
because he has been sentenced to a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/11/andrea-costantino-italian-trapped-uae-embassy-pleads-with-giorgia-meloni">large fine and he has no money.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(nhs_nurse_pay)
title: Ministers refuse to negotiate with nurses on pay to prevent NHS strikes
uri: Ministers-refuse-to-negotiate-with-nurses-on-pay-to-prevent-NHS-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(nhs_nurse_pay)
content:
 
<p>
UK ministers refused to negotiate with the NHS workers who are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/11/nhs-strikes-nurses-pay">preparing to strike soon.</a>
<p>
This confirms, in my view, their intention to destroy the NHS.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Urgent:_War_with_Yemen)
title: Urgent: War with Yemen
uri: Urgent-War-with-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Urgent:_War_with_Yemen)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and call on them to vote to end US
support for Salafi Arabia's war with Yemen.

*UN Report Shows <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/12/un-report-shows-11000-children-killed-or-maimed-us-backed-war">11,000 Children Killed or Maimed in This US-Backed War</a>.*

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


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Urgent:_SCOTUS_corruption)
title: Urgent: SCOTUS corruption
uri: Urgent-SCOTUS-corruption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Urgent:_SCOTUS_corruption)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the U.S. Senate to investigate <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-its-time-for-the-us-senate-to-investigate-corruption-and-ethical-lapses-at-the-supreme-court?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-courage-campaign&source=direct_link">corruption and ethical
lapses at the Supreme Court</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(UK_workers'_pain)
title: UK workers' pain
uri: UK-workers-pain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(UK_workers'_pain)
content:
 
<p>
Most managers in the UK say that stress over the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/11/stress-over-cost-of-living-crisis-harming-workers-performance-survey-finds">cost of living is
making workers anxious</a> and interfering with their work.
<p>
Those managers are in a special position to tell the company
executives, "Give the workers a raise!"  Will they do it?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Big_Pharma_threats)
title: Big Pharma threats
uri: Big-Pharma-threats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Big_Pharma_threats)
content:
 
<p>
How Big Pharma used <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/10/outrage-investigation-shows-how-big-pharma-snuffed-out-vaccine-patent-waiver">threats against governments to defeat the proposed "patent waiver" for Covid-19 vaccines</a> in the World Trade Organization.
<p>
<a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">The WTO is a business-supremacy treaty;</a>
its basic purpose is to give
business more power over the world's governments.  We need to
eliminate most of that power by greatly weakening every
<a href="media/05727331.trade-treaty-comic.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/trade-treaty-comic.jpg">
business-supremacy treaty.</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Homeless_need_toilets)
title: Homeless need toilets
uri: Homeless-need-toilets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Homeless_need_toilets)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/12/skid-row-toilets-los-angeles-homelessness">4400 homeless people live. in the "skid row" of Los Angeles</a>, and they
have only 9 toilets to use at night.
<p>
The UN standard for refugee camps calls for far more than that.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(US_armed_coup)
title: US armed coup
uri: US-armed-coup
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(US_armed_coup)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/12/marjorie-taylor-greene-jan-6-capitol-attack-armed-speech">Rep. Greene declares her support for an armed coup</a>.
<p>
When she takes her oath of office again in January, she will say it
insincerely.  Is there any way to exclude her from Congress over this?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(UK_nurses,_strike)
title: UK nurses, strike
uri: UK-nurses-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(UK_nurses,_strike)
content:
 
<p>

The UK nurses say <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/12/uk-ministers-accused-of-making-false-claims-on-efforts-to-avert-nurses-strike">Tories are making false statements rather than
negotiating</a>, while the "Labour" party doubts that Britain can afford a
10% raise for them.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/12/labour-win-general-election-party-defeat">This reflects Starmer's</a> implicit rejection of a change in the general
policy of starving and freezing the poor to enrich the rich.
<p>
Here's <a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg">
what a true Labour leader would say</a>.
<p>
Some <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/dec/12/factcheck-uk-strikes">pertinent facts</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Crucial_treaties_ignored)
title: Crucial treaties ignored
uri: Crucial-treaties-ignored
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Crucial_treaties_ignored)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/09/cop15-biodiversity-summit-highlights-deadly-us-attitude-toward-world">US is blocking the full adoption and effective enforcement</a>
of many crucial treaties.
<p>
To present one extreme example, every member of the UN has ratified
the Convention on Biological Diversity, except for the US.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Remember_Nazi_genocide)
title: Remember Nazi genocide
uri: Remember-Nazi-genocide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Remember_Nazi_genocide)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/11/after-eighty-years-there-is-no-excuse-to-not-know-about-the-holocaust">House of Commons will observe a minute of silence</a> in remembrance of the
Nazi genocide of Jews (and some others).
<p>
The threat of Nazism still exists ad is growing.  I suggest that the
House of Representatives adopt a similar annual practice, starting
this month.  It won't be easy for the Republicans that will control
the House next year to reject this.  They support Nazis but don't want
to admit it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Tory_lie_presses_for_coal)
title: Tory lie presses for coal
uri: Tory-lie-presses-for-coal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Tory_lie_presses_for_coal)
content:
 
<p>

The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/11/new-cumbria-coalmine-backlash-grows-as-steel-industry-plays-down-demand">Tories want to start a new coal mine</a> in England, so they claim
that steelmaking companies want that coal.
<p>
  Turns out, they don't.
<p>
Others say it is a boondoggle to artificially create jobs in
a certain region.  That could be true, but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/09/cumbria-coalmine-protests-planned-as-local-opposition-grows">why do it this way</a>?
There are many kinds of jobs that could really be needed.
Indeed, Many of the region's inhabitants oppose the mine.
<p>
I suspect that the Tories' real motive is to help some rich donor
get richer.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Democrats_fail_representation)
title: Democrats fail representation
uri: Democrats-fail-representation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Democrats_fail_representation)
content:
 
<p>

Ralph Nader: As Republicans push numerous plans that most Americans
would oppose, most <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/11/12/democrats-need-fire-their-corporate-conflicted-political-consultants">Democratic candidates fail to go on the offensive</a>
against them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(big_oil_report)
title: Congressional Report Proves Big Oil Always Saw Gas as a 'Destination' Not a 'Bridge'
uri: Congressional-Report-Proves-Big-Oil-Always-Saw-Gas-as-a-Destination
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(big_oil_report)
content:
 
<p>
An investigation by the House of Representatives found that the idea
of natural gas as a temporary "bridge fuel" was an intentional deception:
Big Oil's real goal 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/09/congressional-report-proves-big-oil-always-saw-gas-destination-not-bridge">was always to make it a permanent choice.</a>
<p>
The article points out a number of ways in which extracting
transporting and burning gas are dangerous.  But Big Oil's propaganda
still tries to convince people that gas is safe.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(cop15_world_biodiversity)
title: Opinion: We are tearing holes in the fabric of life on Earth
uri: Opinion-We-are-tearing-holes-in-the-fabric-of-life-on-Earth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(cop15_world_biodiversity)
content:
 
<p>
What's at stake in the biodiversity conference?  *We are tearing holes
in the 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/09/opinions/cop15-world-biodiversity-alexander/index.html">fabric of life on Earth.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(yemen_war)
title: 'War Is Over, If You Want It'
uri: War-Is-Over-If-You-Want-It
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(yemen_war)
content:
 
<p>
*US Can End Its Complicity in 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/09/war-over-if-you-want-it-us-can-end-its-complicity-horrendous-yemen-war-today">Horrendous Yemen War Today.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(masks_tripledemic)
title: Masking could fight the ‘tripledemic’, experts say. Will anyone listen?
uri: Masking-could-fight-the-tripledemic-experts-say-Will-anyone-li
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(masks_tripledemic)
content:
 
<p>
The US needs mask mandates to stop the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/10/masks-tripledemic-covid-flu-rsv-us">spread of flu, RSC and Covid-19.</a>
<p>
This one measure is effective against all pathogens that spread
through the air.
<p>
When someone sits near me in a train or plane and isn't wearing a
mask, I ask per to wear one.  If perse says perse doeesn't have one, I
offer per an unused N95 mask, still in its unbroken plastic wrapper.
<p>
Often perse responds that it is not obligatory.  I'm going to try out
this response: "Legally it is not obligatory.  Morally it is obligatory."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(harry_dunn_road_safety)
title: Harry Dunn family to press for road safety training call at inquest
uri: Harry-Dunn-family-to-press-for-road-safety-training-call-at-inquest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(harry_dunn_road_safety)
content:
 
<p>
A campaign to give all US personnel stationed at bases in the UK
training in driving on the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/10/harry-dunn-family-to-press-for-road-safety-training-call-at-inquest">left side of the road.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Prescribed_burn_turned_wildfire)
title: Prescribed burn turned wildfire
uri: Prescribed-burn-turned-wildfire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Prescribed_burn_turned_wildfire)
content:
 
<p>

A US Forest Service crew head carried out a prescribed burn to reduce
the danger of wildfires.  Things went wrong and it started a big wildfire.
But <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/13/prescribed-burn-fire-chief-arrest-oregon-new-mexico">is that a reason to arrest him</a>?
<p>
Perhaps the Forest Service needs to change some aspects of its practices.
I am not an expert on prescribed burns, and I don't want to become one,
so I have no opinion on that.
<p>
But what is absolutely clear is that arresting the employees who carry
them out is absurd trumpery.

 


title: Top officials abuse intelligence apparatus
uri: Top-officials-abuse-intelligence-apparatus
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Top_officials_abuse_intelligence_apparatus)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#13_December_2022_(Top_officials_abuse_intelligence_apparatus)

content:
 
<p>

An internal investigation by the DHS published a report that
*describes <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/11/07/new-dhs-reports-reveals-terrifying-scope-of-the-departments-manufactured-antifa-scare.html">attempts by top officials to link protesters to
     an imaginary terrorist plot</a> in an apparent effort to boost Trump's
     reelection odds, raising concerns now about the ability of a sitting
     president to co-opt billions of dollars' worth of domestic
     intelligence assets for their own political gain.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(Tobacco_restrictions)
title: Tobacco restrictions
uri: Tobacco-restrictions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(Tobacco_restrictions)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/13/new-zealand-passes-world-first-tobacco-law-to-ban-smoking-by-2025">New Zealand will gradually ban tobacco</a> by raising the age requirement to buy tobacco by one year per year,

Tobacco is death, and I hope you will not smoke it.  But banning a widely
used drug generally leads to widespread corruption and injustice.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(Chinese_political_trials)
title: Chinese political trials
uri: Chinese-political-trials
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(Chinese_political_trials)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/13/trial-of-hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lai-delayed-after-british-lawyer-denied-visa-extension">China does not allow fair trials</a>.  To bias the trial of opposition
publisher Jimmy Lai to be fair, China kicked his British lawyer out of
Hong Kong.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(North_Sea_fossil_fuel)
title: North Sea fossil fuel
uri: North-Sea-fossil-fuel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(North_Sea_fossil_fuel)
content:
 
<p>

The UK plans to hand out <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/12/uk-ministers-face-legal-challenge-over-north-sea-oil-and-gas-licences">130 more fossil fuel licenses for the North
Sea</a>.  This puts civilization in danger.  So environmentalists are
suing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(COP15,_the_plan)
title: COP15, the plan
uri: COP15-the-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(COP15,_the_plan)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/12/plan-to-protect-30-of-earth-divides-and-inspires-at-cop15">Plan to protect 30% of Earth</a> divides and inspires at Cop15.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(NHS_operations_backlog)
title: NHS operations backlog
uri: NHS-operations-backlog
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(NHS_operations_backlog)
content:
 
<p>

Tories have undermined the National Health Service to the point where
it can't even tackle the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/12/decade-of-neglect-means-nhs-unable-to-tackle-care-backlog-report-says">backlog of millions of important but
non-urgent operations</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(Protestors_executed)
title: Protestors executed
uri: Protestors-executed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(Protestors_executed)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/12/scores-of-executions-feared-in-iran-as-23-year-old-hanged-in-public-execution">Iran is executing protesters</a> after bogus trials.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(Peru's_congress_detested)
title: Peru's congress detested
uri: Peru-s-congress-detested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(Peru's_congress_detested)
content:
 
<p>

Peruvians detest Congress, which removed President Castillo from office,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/12/peru-pedro-castillo-new-president-dina-boluarte-usurper-early-election">even more than they detest President Castillo.</a>
<p>
I wish I had a basic understanding of politics in Peru, or knew
someone who could explain it to me, so that I could have a background
against which to judge what is happening.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(Fusion_achieves_%25125)
title: Fusion achieves %125
uri: Fusion-achieves-125
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(Fusion_achieves_%25125)
content:
 
<p>

Scientists started a fusion reaction that released about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/12/breakthrough-in-nuclear-fusion-could-mean-near-limitless-energy">25% more
energy than what was used to start i</a>t.  This demonstrates in principle
that controlled fusion can be used to generate energy.

There is a <a href="/archives/2021-may-aug.html#30_August_2021_(Fusion_power)">long way to go to develop fusion</a> into a practical energy source.

         For the next few decades, survival of civilization still
depends on replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy as fast as
possible.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(Computerized_voting)
title: Computerized voting
uri: 2022-12-15-Computerized-voting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(Computerized_voting)
content:
 
<p>

Lula has sued Bolsonaro for various reasons, one of which is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/09/lula-sues-bolsonaro-abuse-power-and-baseless-attacks-brazils-voting-system">accusing the
    country's computerized voting system of being vulnerable</a>.
<p>
Bolsonaro has done much to undermine democracy and elections in
Brazil, and morally deserves punishment.  However, the general claim
that Brazil's computerized voting system makes Brazil's elections
vulnerable is valid.  That is because the machines record only totals,
and do not keep individual paper ballots that voters marked by hand.
<a href="/evoting.html">Such systems are vulnerable to someone, somehow</a>.
<p>
Brazilian experts campaigned against this system when it was adopted,
demanding a system that enabled the results to be audited, but they
lost the battle.
<p>
There is no evidence that anything wrong happened in the voting
machines in this election, but Brazil should change to an audit-able
voting system for the sake of the future.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(Urgent:_Julian_Assange,_now)
title: Urgent: Julian Assange, now
uri: Urgent-Julian-Assange-now
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(Urgent:_Julian_Assange,_now)
content:
 
<p>

*Biden faces growing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/12/julian-assange-biden-press-freedom-legacy">pressure to drop charges against Julian Assange</a>.*

  Pressure is coming from Australia and Brazil, as well as American defenders
of freedom of the press.
<p>
So phone the White House and say, drop the charges against Assange &mdash;
reporting on leaked dirty secrets must not be a crime.

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

 


title: Istanbul mayor punished for dissent
uri: Istanbul-mayor-punished-for-dissent
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_(Istanbul_mayor_punished_for_dissent)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_(Istanbul_mayor_punished_for_dissent)

content:
 
<p>

One of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/14/istanbul-mayor-ekrem-imamoglu-sentenced-to-jail-over-fools-insult">Erdoğan's political rivals has been convicted of insulting</a> Turkey’s
supreme election council, calling them "fools."
<p>
<a href="/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#23_December_2014_(Arrested_for_saying_fuck_the_police)">Many countries make it a crime to insult officials</a>.  Indonesia just made
itself one of them.
<p>
<a href="/archives/2018-sep-dec.html#11_November_2018_(Singapores_censorship)">Freedom of speech includes the freedom to insult anyone</a>
-- even me,
even you.  Erdoğan shows plenty of contempt for freedom and democracy.

  He even started a small <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-may-aug.html#12_August_2014_(Authoritarian_wins_Turkish_election)">civil war to reverse an electoral defeat</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_(Fracking_crimes_pay)
title: Fracking crimes pay
uri: Fracking-crimes-pay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_(Fracking_crimes_pay)
content:
 
<p>
Just after Cabot Oil & Gas (part of Coterra Energy) accepted 15
criminal charges for polluting the water of Dimock. Pennsylvania,
the state <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/13/outrageous-betrayal-pennsylvania-lifts-fracking-ban-polluted-town-dimock">government allowed it to resume</a> fracking there.
<p>
Fracking should be illegal.  The risk of poisoning groundwater for
centuries or more is too high a price to pay for some more fossil fuel
to burn -- especially since burning it is harmful globally.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_(Arctic_changes)
title: Arctic changes
uri: Arctic-changes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_(Arctic_changes)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/us/arctic-noaa-report-card-climate-change/index.html">Arctic: Hotter, rainier, wetter, and less ice and birds</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_(Devastated_crops,_FL)
title: Devastated crops, FL
uri: Devastated-crops-FL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_(Devastated_crops,_FL)
content:
 
<p>
Extreme weather (which is partly caused by global heating) has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/business/florida-orange-crop/index.html">devastated
the Florida orange crop</a>.
<p>
We must expect all sorts of crops to be harmed by global heating effects.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_(Musk_leading_for_QAnon)
title: Musk leading for QAnon
uri: Musk-leading-for-QAnon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_(Musk_leading_for_QAnon)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/12/13/elon-musk-openly-tells-his-followers-to-follow-qanon.html">Musk urged his Twitter followers to adopt QAnonsense</a>.
<p>
Maybe he is trying to compete with the wrecker to seize power in the US.

 


title: Urgent: Environmental deregulation
uri: Urgent-Environmental-deregulation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Urgent:_Environmental_deregulation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Urgent:_Environmental_deregulation)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your senators and implore them to reject any bill
containing Manchin's <a href="https://act.350.org/go/205227">environmental planning deregulation deal</a>.
<p>
You can phone (888) 997-5380.
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Election_denial_support)
title: Election denial support
uri: Election-denial-support
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Election_denial_support)
content:
 
<p>
US corporations gave 8 million <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/23/us-corporations-donate-midterm-campaigns-election-deniers">dollars to Republican election liars</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Fusion_power_reality)
title: Fusion power reality
uri: Fusion-power-reality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Fusion_power_reality)
content:
 
<p>
Explaining the enormous challenges of going from "ignition" in a
laser-fusion target <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/13/us-scientists-confirm-major-breakthrough-in-nuclear-fusion">to the production of commercially useful power</a>,
and why this is likely to take decades.
<p>
We need to quit using fossil fuels fast -- we can't wait for fusion
to be usable for this job.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Amazon_anti-forestry_chaos)
title: Amazon anti-forestry chaos
uri: Amazon-anti-forestry-chaos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Amazon_anti-forestry_chaos)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/12/brazil-goldminers-carve-road-to-chaos-amazon-reserve">Brazil goldminers carve illegal ‘Road to Chaos’</a> out of Amazon
reserve.*
<p>
They use bulldozers and power-diggers, and carry submachine guns.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Sanctions_as_punishment)
title: Sanctions as punishment
uri: Sanctions-as-punishment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Sanctions_as_punishment)
content:
 
<p>
The US keeps using economic sanctions to punish unjust or aggressive
governments, but the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/13/dear-america-sanctions-dont-solve-problems">sanctions almost never have any positive effect</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(General_humanitarian_crisis)
title: General humanitarian crisis
uri: General-humanitarian-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(General_humanitarian_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
Without a big increase in humanitarian aid donations, the UN predicts that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/04/observer-view-humanitarian-calamity-in-making">200 million people will die in 2023 for the lack of aid</a>.
<p>
200 million is a very large number of deaths in one year.
The average number is around 83 million.  The human population
will decrease in 2023 if this forecast comes true.  The 200 million
maybe _in addition to_ the 80 million that would have died anyway.
<p>
The typical annual increase in human population is around 18 million.
It follows that 200 million deaths will mean that the total human
population decreases by several years' worth of population growth.
<p>
It sees that we have reached the point at which the global disaster we
have caused starts to kill so many people that it reduces the human
population.  This is very bad.
<p>
I have begged humans to reduce their birth rate, so that we could
reduce the population the painless way and avoid ever reaching this
point.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Mass_extinction,_eels)
title: Mass extinction, eels
uri: Mass-extinction-eels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Mass_extinction,_eels)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/13/eels-facing-population-collapse-conservation-groups-warn">Eels facing population collapse</a>, conservation groups warn.*
<p>
The EU has given in to the usual short-term thinking, prioritizing
short-term profits over sustainability.  Such a decision is tantamout
to saying, "Let's make one last batch of money by wiping out the fish."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Vaccine_FUD)
title: Vaccine FUD
uri: Vaccine-FUD
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Vaccine_FUD)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/13/ron-desantis-grand-jury-investigation-covid-vaccines-florida">DeMentis has started an "investigation"</a> of everything about Covid-19
vaccines.
<p>
They may not find any serious problem or wrongdoing, but they will have plenty
of opportunities to talk endlessly about hypothetical, conceivable problems,
thus blowing smoke that they can claim implies the presence of a fire.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Codified_marriage_rights)
title: Codified marriage rights
uri: Codified-marriage-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Codified_marriage_rights)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/13/biden-signs-law-protecting-same-sex-interracial-marriages">US government protected people</a> against possible right-wing attempts
to ban interracial and same-sex marriages.
<p>
This is good, but it is just a part of the harm that right-wing
extremists on the Supreme Court threaten to do.  Since Democrats
refused to eliminate the filibuster and expand the court,
Americans are now sitting ducks for at least two years.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Funding_workers'_rights)
title: Funding workers' rights
uri: Funding-workers-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Funding_workers'_rights)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/12/only-robustly-funded-and-staffed-nlrb-can-protect-workers-livelihoods">NLRB funding is inadequate</a>, and the result is that workers' rights
go undefended.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Major_economic_change)
title: Major economic change
uri: Major-economic-change
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Major_economic_change)
content:
 
<p>
Varoufakis <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/12/varoufakis-details-vision-ending-global-empire-capital-avert-catastrophe">calls for two major economic changes</a>: to make corporations
belong to their workers, and to reduce the dependence on banks for
financial transactions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Documentalism_attacked)
title: Documentalism attacked
uri: Documentalism-attacked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Documentalism_attacked)
content:
 
<p>
A thug in Vallejo, California, attacked a <a href="https://reason.com/2022/12/12/california-city-pays-300000-to-marine-veteran-tackled-for-filming-a-cop-from-his-porch/">documentalist who was
standing on his own porch</a>, making a video of the thug's traffic stop.
<p>
The documentalist sued and the city paid $300,000 to settle the dispute.
<p>
The recording showed the thug making false accusations against Burrell.
Such false accusations are a common first step in an attempted frame-up.
Any thug caught doing this, even if nothing worse results, should be fired
and blacklisted for all jobs that involve special authority over the public.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Oil_pipeline_spill)
title: Oil pipeline spill
uri: Oil-pipeline-spill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Oil_pipeline_spill)
content:
 
<p>

The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/12/tragedy-unfolding-cleanup-largest-ever-keystone-pipeline-oil-spill-continues">Keystone 1 tar sands oil pipeline leaked 600,000 gallons</a> of oil into
a creek in Kansas that feeds a river and a reservoir for 800,000 people.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Medicare_privatization)
title: Medicare privatization
uri: Medicare-privatization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Medicare_privatization)
content:
 
<p>
The pilot <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/12/progressive-lawmakers-demand-fraud-probe-medicare-privatization-scheme">program to privatize Medicare</a> includes insurance companies
that have been fined for inflating charges. 

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Shielding_whereabouts)
title: Shielding whereabouts
uri: Shielding-whereabouts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Shielding_whereabouts)
content:
 
<p>
Twitter has more or less <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-account-following-elon-musks-private-jet-gets-shadow-banned">blocked access to a bot account that tweets where
Musk's private jet goes</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Covid-19_battle)
title: Covid-19 battle
uri: Covid-19-battle
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Covid-19_battle)
content:
 
<p>
*Covid-19 vaccines have <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/13/health/covid-19-vaccines-study/index.html">saved more than 3 million lives in US</a>, study says, but
the fight isn't over.*
<p>
Three million is around one percent of the US population.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Security_in_doubt)
title: Security in doubt
uri: Security-in-doubt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Security_in_doubt)
content:
 
<p>
*Hundreds of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/12/hundreds-oath-keepers-have-worked-dhs-recent-years-report-finds">Oath Keepers Have Worked for DHS</a> in Recent Years, Report Finds.*

There are probably tens of thousands of workers for the DHS, so this is
not necessarily a large fraction.  Nonetheless, it is dangerous.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(End_gov_subsidies)
title: End gov subsidies
uri: End-gov-subsidies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(End_gov_subsidies)
content:
 
<p>
Protecting biodiversity (or any aspect of the environment) requires
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/12/end-destructive-subsidies-key-demand-cop15-biodiversity-talks">ending government subsidies to activities which damage</a> biodiversity.

  Allowing businesses to excuse damage to habitats by means of "offsets"
is asking to be lied to.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Poor_romance)
title: Poor romance
uri: Poor-romance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Poor_romance)
content:
 
<p>
*Framing men as the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/11/men-villains-women-romantic-relationships-victimhood">"villains" gets women</a> no closer to better romantic
relationships.*
<p>
That assumption means getting stuck in a shallow form of feminism based on
not believing things can get any better.

 


title: Australian environmental protection
uri: Australian-environmental-protection
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Australian_environmental_protection)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Australian_environmental_protection)

content:
 
<p>
*Labor proposal to fix <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/11/labor-proposal-to-fix-australias-broken-environmental-protection-system-could-revolutionise-sector">Australia’s broken environmental protection</a> system
could revolutionise sector.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Rigged_economy_cons_generations)
title: Rigged economy cons generations
uri: Rigged-economy-cons-generations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Rigged_economy_cons_generations)
content:
 
<p>

*The 50-Year Takeaway From Middle-Class America.  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/11/50-year-takeaway-middle-class-america">We [Americans]
should be demanding</a> the same benefits enjoyed by less wealthy but more
progressive nations.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Big_bad_Co.)
title: Big bad Co.
uri: Big-bad-Co
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Big_bad_Co.)
content:
 
<p>

US states provide enormous special tax breaks to companies -- almost always
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/12/2023-its-time-end-corporate-tax-giveaways">big companies that can play one state against another</a>.  A campaign seeks
to put an end to this, first of all by limiting them and publishing them.
<p>
  <a href="/articles/states-union.html">I proposed a federal law to enable any one state to object</a>
  to any
special subsidy propsed by any other (competing) states.
  This would prevent a company from playing one state against another.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Indonesian_repression)
title: Indonesian repression
uri: Indonesian-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Indonesian_repression)
content:
 
<p>
The governor of Bali reassures foreign tourists and visitors that the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/12/balis-governor-says-indonesias-ban-on-sex-outside-marriage-poses-no-risk-to-tourists">prohibition against sex outside of marriage won't threaten them</a> in Bali.
<p>
There are other places in Indonesia which are also interesting to visit,
but <a href="#(Indonesia_plans_political_and_sexual_repression)">maybe they won't be safe</a>.
<p>
More importantly for Indonesia, this law also restricts freedom of
speech and freedom of the press.
<p>
No country should allow a prudish religion any influence in its laws.
Laws driven by Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism are causing
cruelty and repression around the world.




 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Flint_lead_poisoning)
title: Flint lead poisoning
uri: Flint-lead-poisoning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_December_2022_(Flint_lead_poisoning)
content:
 
<p>

Although <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/09/indignation-michigan-judge-drops-flint-water-charges-against-gop-ex-gov-snyder">no court has proved that Governor Snyder conspired to put the
people of Flint at risk of lead poisoning</a>, we have plenty of reason to
believe <a href="/archives/2017-may-aug.html#17_June_2017_(Governor_Snyder_and_Flint)">he and his high officials did so</a>.
  I can't put him in prison, but my conclusion is that he's guilty,
partly because the ideology of the Republican Party is to do things like
that to the poor, weak, and disprivileged.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_((satire)_Musk_implant)
title: (satire) Musk implant
uri: (satire)-Musk-implant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_((satire)_Musk_implant)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Elon Musk Receives Experimental Neuralink Implant In Attempt
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/elon-musk-receives-experimental-neuralink-implant-in-at-1849888767">To Delete Memory Of Being Booed</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_(Green_tariffs,_EU)
title: Green tariffs, EU
uri: Green-tariffs-EU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_(Green_tariffs,_EU)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/13/eu-becomes-first-leading-economy-to-legislate-for-green-tariff-on-imports">EU is setting up a system of "green tariffs"</a> to charge imports
based on how much greenhouse gas is emitted in producing them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_(Anti-abortionists_retargeting)
title: Anti-abortionists retargeting
uri: Anti-abortionists-retargeting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_(Anti-abortionists_retargeting)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/13/abortion-restrictions-us-state-legislatures">Anti-abortion fanatics have proposed to move on</a> from laws
criminalizing performing abortions to prosecuting people who have
abortions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_(Disreguard_for_vulnerability)
title: Disreguard for vulnerability
uri: Disreguard-for-vulnerability
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_(Disreguard_for_vulnerability)
content:
 
<p>
* Without a plan in place to minimise infection [by Covid-19], a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/13/britain-forget-covid-moving-on-vulnerable-economy">"moving on" strategy leaves vulnerable people behind</a>.*
<p>
Most people want to believe the danger is gone, and governments have
decided not to let them do it.  It's good for business also.  How easy it
is to dismiss suggestions to protect yourself and others with a mask
by saying, "It is no longer obligatory."
<p>
It's no longer legally obligatory, but it is morally obligatory.
<p>
When someone without a mask sits near me on a train or plane,
I ask per to please wear a mask.  If perse says, "I don't have a mask,"
I offer per an unused N95 mask, still in its plastic wrapper.
The masks sold by BYD are simple to put on, so I offer those.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Urgent:_Corporate_price_gouging)
title: Urgent: Corporate price gouging
uri: Urgent-Corporate-price-gouging
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Urgent:_Corporate_price_gouging)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-congress-pass-legislation-that-holds-corporations-accountable-for-price-gouging?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-acttv&source=2022CorpPriceGouging_ATV">hold corporations accountable for price
gouging</a>.

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

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Flying_insects,_UK)
title: Flying insects, UK
uri: Flying-insects-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Flying_insects,_UK)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/flying-insect-numbers-plunge-64-since-2004-uk-survey-finds">Flying insect numbers plunge 64% since 2004, UK</a> survey finds.*
<p>
Some years ago, a <a href="/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#19_October_2017_(Flying_insects)">similar decline was observed in Germany</a>.
<p>
This portends ecological disaster.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Urgent:_Wrecker's_tax_returns)
title: Urgent: Wrecker's tax returns
uri: Urgent-Wrecker-s-tax-returns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Urgent:_Wrecker's_tax_returns)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the House Ways and Means Committee to <a href="Https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-house-ways-and-means-send-trump-tax-documents-to-the-senate-finance-committee?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-take-action-trumps-tax-return-must-be-shared-with-the-senate-finance-committee">share the
wrecker's tax returns with the Senate Finance Committee</a> ASAP.

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

 


title: Urgent: Work bipartisan Republicans
uri: Urgent-Work-bipartisan-Republicans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Urgent:_Work_bipartisan_Republicans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Urgent:_Work_bipartisan_Republicans)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Democrats including Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-any-quest-for-bipartisanship-must-mean-that-the-public-agrees-with-our-agenda-not-dc-republican-politicians-like-marjorie-taylor-greene-and-kevin-mccarthy?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-social-security-works&source=direct_link">seek the kind
of "bipartisanship" that means progressive policies that many Republicans
support</a> &mdash; not deals with right-wing extremist Republicans.

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



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Urgent:_Supreme_court_corruption)
title: Urgent: Supreme court corruption
uri: Urgent-Supreme-court-corruption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Urgent:_Supreme_court_corruption)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-its-time-for-the-us-senate-to-investigate-corruption-and-ethical-lapses-at-the-supreme-court?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-progressive-change-campaign-committee&source=pccc-e221209_2311-fin-rest-2023">investigate corruption and ethical
lapses at the Supreme Court</a>.

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


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Ukranian_Crimea)
title: Ukranian Crimea
uri: Ukranian-Crimea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Ukranian_Crimea)
content:
 
<p>

Ukraine's plans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/15/why-crimea-is-volodymyr-zelenskiys-greatest-bargaining-chip">to reconquer Crimea militarily may be impossible</a> or unwise.
<p>
The places that Russaian troops were stationed since 2014 include, as
a fact, parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but Putin always
denied that this was the case.  He should not be invited to
acknowledge it belatedly now and reap any benefit.
<p>
To negotiate the fate of Crimea is more sensible.  An honest election
would have been a legitimate approach in 2014, but Putin drove out or
exiled those who supported Ukraine, then (according to this article)
lost anyway and lied about the result.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-sep-dec.html#10%20December%202007%20(Rigged%20election)">Putin's elections in Russia are blatantly dishonest</a>.
<p>
The population of Crimea today is different from the population in
2014.  If an election is to be held now about which country Crimea
should belong to, which people should vote in it?  To give the
decision to the current population would mean that Putin (or anyone
else) can conquer territory and legitimize that with an unfair
election.  To give the decision to the 2014 population might be asking
for further violence.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Nuclear_waste_process)
title: Nuclear waste process
uri: Nuclear-waste-process
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Nuclear_waste_process)
content:
 
<p>
The incredibly complex history of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/dismantling-sellafield-epic-task-shutting-down-decomissioned-nuclear-site">reprocessing and disposing of nuclear
waste</a> in the UK.
<p>
In theory, the process is clearly simple.  In practice, it keeps getting
more complex.


 


title: QAnonenties are transferring worship from wrecker to Musk
uri: QAnonenties-are-transferring-worship-from-wrecker-to-Musk
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(QAnonenties_are_transferring_worship_from_wrecker_to_Musk)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(QAnonenties_are_transferring_worship_from_wrecker_to_Musk)

content:
 
<p>

  QAnonenties are starting to transfer their worship <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/14/qanon-musk-revival-twitter/">from the wrecker to Musk</a>.
<p>
  They are mostly <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#8_March_2016_(Authoritarian_followers)">authoritarian followers</a>
and it isn't crucial to them which authoritarian leader they can follow.


 


title: AT&T, Amazon and Comcast donated to election denialists
uri: AT-T-Amazon-and-Comcast-donated-to-election-denialists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(AT%26T,_Amazon_and_Comcast_donated_to_election_denialists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(AT%26T,_Amazon_and_Comcast_donated_to_election_denialists)

content:
 
<p>

AT&T, Amazon, Comcast and Intel <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20221215071152/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tech-telecom-firms-resumed-giving-130017018.html">donated to the campaigns of Republican
    election denialists</a>, well before this year's election.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(A_world_tailored_to_Men)
title: A world tailored to Men
uri: A-world-tailored-to-Men
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(A_world_tailored_to_Men)
content:
 
<p>

  Article talking about how the world is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/28/invisible-women-by-caroline-criado-perez-review">tailored toward men</a>.
<p>
For the most of the issues listed, I agree that we should change
practices so that they serve women as well as men.  I disagree in
regard to office temperature, though, for the simple reason that you
can wear more clothing without limit, but there are limits to how much
you clothing can remove in an office with other workers.  If at that
point some people are still too hot, the only solution that can
satisfy everyone is to make the office cool enough for them, and for
those who find that too cold to wear another layer.
<p>
There were times that my office in the Stata Center was so hot that I
needed to be nude to be comfortable.  I kept the door locked so that
visitors would knock and I could ask them to wait a minute.  I did not
usually explain that this was so I could put my shirt and pants on.

 


title: Ouster of Peru's President Castillo as "legislative coup"
uri: Ouster-of-Peru-s-President-Castillo-as-legislative-coup
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Ouster_of_Peru's_President_Castillo_as_legislative_coup)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Ouster_of_Peru's_President_Castillo_as_legislative_coup)

content:
 
<p>

The presidents of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, and Mexico
condemned the ouster of Peru's President Castillo as a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/14/latin-american-leaders-call-perus-president-castillo-victim-anti-democratic">"legislative coup"</a>,
saying it was backed by the US.
<p>
  This is not an absurd idea; the US backed such a <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#13_June_2022_(Former_Bolivian_president_%C3%81%C3%B1ez_convicted)">coup in Bolivia</a> a few
years ago,
and in <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-may-aug.html#29%20June%202009%20(Military%20in%20Honduras%20overthrew%20President%20Zelaya)">Honduras</a>
a few years before that.
<p>
Information in the article suggests that the poor voted him into
office and still support him.  They are now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/16/peru-protests-death-toll-rises-to-12-after-another-day-of-violent-clashes-castillo">protesting vigorously</a>, and
the "forces of law and order" are shooting and gassing them from
helicopters.
  It sounds like the <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> support the right wing and treat
the people as the enemy.
<p>
This does not necessarily imply that the coup story is the whole
truth; there are valid reasons to argue that it is Castillo who tried
to overthrow constitutional order, as President Boric of Chile said.
<p>
It seems clear that there was a process of reciprocal escalation.  In
such a situation, it is easy to perceive the escalations by the side
you oppose as injustice, and the escalations by the side you support
as legitimate self-defense.
<p>
To judge the right and wrong of such a process requires a lot
of facts about the actions and the background.  All I can do is try
to judge which of the other presidents to trust.

 


title: (satire) How water becomes property of Nestlé
uri: (satire)-How-water-becomes-property-of-Nestlé
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_((satire)_How_water_becomes_property_of_Nestlé)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_((satire)_How_water_becomes_property_of_Nestlé)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/elementary-school-lesson-on-water-cycle-explains-how-wa-1849876430">*Elementary School Lesson On Water Cycle Explains How Water
    Becomes Property Of Nestlé.*</a>

 


title: Twitter suspends accounts of journalists reporting on Elon Musk
uri: Twitter-suspends-accounts-of-journalists-reporting-on-Elon-Musk
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Twitter_suspends_accounts_of_journalists_reporting_on_Elon_Musk)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Twitter_suspends_accounts_of_journalists_reporting_on_Elon_Musk)

content:
 
<p>

  *Twitter <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/15/twitter-suspends-accounts-journalists-musk">suspends accounts of several journalists</a> who had reported on
Elon Musk.*
  Musk defines "free speech" the way autocrats do.

 


title: Workers will pay price for Fed rate hikes
uri: Workers-will-pay-price-for-Fed-rate-hikes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Workers_will_pay_price_for_Fed_rate_hikes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Workers_will_pay_price_for_Fed_rate_hikes)

content:
 
<p>

*Workers, Not "Stockbrokers and CEOs," Will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/15/workers-not-stockbrokers-and-ceos-will-pay-price-fed-rate-hikes-warren">Pay Price for Fed Rate
    Hikes</a>: Warren.*

 


title: Plastic 'nurdles' stop sea urchins developing properly
uri: Plastic-nurdles-stop-sea-urchins-developing-properly
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Plastic_'nurdles'_stop_sea_urchins_developing_properly)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Plastic_'nurdles'_stop_sea_urchins_developing_properly)

content:
 
<p>

  *Plastic ‘nurdles’ <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/plastic-nurdles-stop-sea-urchins-developing-properly-study-finds">stop sea urchins developing properly</a>, study finds.*
<p>
It would be nice to imagine that this provides a way to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Tasmania's_kelp_forests)">protect kelp
    forests</a>, but enough plastic to do that would surely harm other species too.

 


title: Australia revoked rule on burning of wood waste counting as "renewable"
uri: Australia-revoked-rule-on-burning-of-wood-waste-counting-as-renewable
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Australia_revoked_rule_on_burning_of_wood_waste_counting_as_renewable)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Australia_revoked_rule_on_burning_of_wood_waste_counting_as_renewable)

content:
 
<p>

  Australia has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/16/electricity-generated-by-burning-native-australian-timber-no-longer-classified-as-renewable-energy">revoked a rule</a>, made by the previous planet-roaster
government, that permitted the burning of wood waste from native trees
to count as "renewable".
<p>
In practice, native forests are not renewable under present conditions.

 


title: Campaign to prevent nondisclosure agreements to prevent cover up of abuse
uri: Campaign-to-prevent-nondisclosure-agreements-to-prevent-cover-up-of-ab
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Campaign_to_prevent_nondisclosure_agreements_to_prevent_cover_up_of_abuse)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Campaign_to_prevent_nondisclosure_agreements_to_prevent_cover_up_of_abuse)

content:
 
<p>

The world-wide campaign to prevent nondisclosure agreements from
being used by employers to cover up any abuses, from harassment to
rape, is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/15/nda-harvey-weinstein-confidentiality-clause-abuse">making substantial progress</a>, but not in the UK.
<p>
You can't expect the Tories to eagerly pursue this goal, because they
represent the rich who commit the abuses and want them covered up.
<p>
My first experience with a nondisclosure agreement was when I asked
someone at CMU for a copy of the Xerox laser printer software source
code.  He said he had actually promised in advance to refuse to share
that code with me and other colleagues at MIT.  Shame on him!  He had
made a commitment to be a jerk and deny his cooperation to his
colleagues.
<p>
From this I learned that signing a nondisclosure agreement for
generally useful technical information, such as software, was
betraying the whole world &mdash; so I vowed I would never agree to one,
and I never knowingly done so.
<p>
That led me, a year or two later, to the conclusion that nonfree
software was an injustice, regardless of whether the nonfreedom was
brought about by a nondisclosure agreement.

 


title: Deception of "Crisis pregnancy centers"
uri: Deception-of-Crisis-pregnancy-centers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Deception_of_Crisis_pregnancy_centers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Deception_of_Crisis_pregnancy_centers)

content:
 
<p>

"Crisis pregnancy centers" look like abortion clinics, but their
mission is to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/15/us-anti-abortion-pregnancy-centers">confuse females</a> so that they don't get abortions.  They
get away with lies because they are almost exempt from regulation.
<p>
The right-wing extremists on the Supreme Court have protected them
from regulations intended to protect women from being deceived.

 


title: Chinese doctors and nurses told to work while infected
uri: Chinese-doctors-and-nurses-told-to-work-while-infected
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Chinese_doctors_and_nurses_told_to_work_while_infected)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Chinese_doctors_and_nurses_told_to_work_while_infected)

content:
 
<p>

  *Chinese doctors and nurses reportedly <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/15/chinese-doctors-and-nurses-reportedly-told-to-work-while-infected-as-covid-surges">told to work while infected</a> as
Covid surges.*
<p>
In the US, this is achieved by denying workers paid sick leave.  They
can't afford to do the right thing and avoid infecting follow workers,
even customers.
<p>
The infection is spreading very fast.  I presume it is one of the
recent Omicron variants.  At least that will reduce the number of
deaths and serious injuries.

 


title: Ukraine's plans to reconquer Crimea military
uri: Ukraine-s-plans-to-reconquer-Crimea-military
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Ukraine's_plans_to_reconquer_Crimea_military)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Ukraine's_plans_to_reconquer_Crimea_military)

content:
 
<p>

  Ukraine's plans to reconquer Crimea military may be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/15/why-crimea-is-volodymyr-zelenskiys-greatest-bargaining-chip">impossible or unwise</a>.
<p>
The places that Russian troops were stationed since 2014 include, as
a fact, parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, but Putin always
denied that this was the case.  He should not be invited to
acknowledge it belatedly now and reap any benefit.
<p>
To negotiate the fate of Crimea is more sensible.  An honest election
would have been a legitimate approach in 2014, but Putin drove out or
exiled those who supported Ukraine, then (according to this article)
lost anyway lied about the result.
<p>
  Putin's elections in Russia are <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#25_December_2017_(Nominating_Alexei_Navalny)">blatantly dishonest</a>.
<p>
The population of Crimea today is different from the population in
2014.  If an election is to be held now about which country Crimea
should belong to, which people should vote in it?  To give the
decision to the current population would mean that Putin (or anyone
else) can conquer territory and legitimize that with an unfair
election.  To give the decision to the 2014 population might be asking
for further violence.

 


title: Global heating killing fir trees in Oregon
uri: Global-heating-killing-fir-trees-in-Oregon
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Global_heating_killing_fir_trees_in_Oregon)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Global_heating_killing_fir_trees_in_Oregon)

content:
 
<p>

  Global heating is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/15/oregon-dead-fir-trees-conifers-climate-crisis">killing millions of fir trees in Oregon</a>.

 


title: China's relaxation of restrictions on capturing wildlife for food
uri: China-s-relaxation-of-restrictions-on-capturing-wildlife-for-food
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(China's_relaxation_of_restrictions_on_capturing_wildlife_for_food)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(China's_relaxation_of_restrictions_on_capturing_wildlife_for_food)

content:
 
<p>

China's relaxation of restrictions on capturing wildlife for food
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/chinas-return-to-wildlife-farming-a-risk-to-global-health-and-biodiversity">could weaken animal protection and pose a hazard to public health</a>,
   say experts(.
<p>
The term "post-pandemic" is wishful thinking, not reality.

 


title: Suspicion of vote-counting fraud in Fiji's election
uri: Suspicion-of-vote-counting-fraud-in-Fiji-s-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Suspicion_of_vote-counting_fraud_in_Fiji's_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Suspicion_of_vote-counting_fraud_in_Fiji's_election)

content:
 
<p>

  There is a suspicion of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/15/fiji-election-opposition-leader-disputes-results-as-vote-count-continues">fraud in the vote-counting of Fiji's election</a>.
<p>
Fiji has a history of real trouble in its elections.  I wonder whether
it will be possible to assure the honesty of this election.

 


title: Public rap sheet for Corporate criminals
uri: Public-rap-sheet-for-Corporate-criminals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Public_rap_sheet_for_Corporate_criminals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Public_rap_sheet_for_Corporate_criminals)

content:
 
<p>

  *CFPB Applauded for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/13/cfpb-applauded-proposing-public-rap-sheet-corporate-criminals">Proposing "Public Rap Sheet" for Corporate Criminals</a>.*

 


title: Drivers force "Just Stop Oil" protesters off road
uri: 2022-12-18-Drivers-force-Just-Stop-Oil-protesters-off-road
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Drivers_force_Just_Stop_Oil_protesters_off_road)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#17_December_2022_(Drivers_force_Just_Stop_Oil_protesters_off_road)

content:
 
<p>
Drivers in London <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/29/just-stop-oil-activists-dragged-out-of-way-by-motorists-at-london-protests">forcibly moved Just Stop Oil protesters out of the
road</a>.
<p>
I agree fully with the Just Stop Oil's arguments for these protests.
If you think being delayed for half an hour is painful, wait and see
what food rationing feels like, or a flood or wildfire smoke or heat
prostration.
<p>
But if this approach to protesting inspires the passersby to fight the
protesters, it is not useful or constructive.
<p>
  Here are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/07/just-stop-oil-risk-save-the-planet-rethink-protest">suggestions</a> for new tactics for climate protesters.


 


title: Call for treaty to regulate production of plastics
uri: Call-for-treaty-to-regulate-production-of-plastics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Call_for_treaty_to_regulate_production_of_plastics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Call_for_treaty_to_regulate_production_of_plastics)

content:
 
<p>

  Everyone: call for a <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/the-world-demands-an-ambitious-global-treaty-to-end-the-age-of-plastic">treaty to regulate production of plastics</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call Congress to end private prisons
uri: Urgent-Call-Congress-to-end-private-prisons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Urgent:_Call_Congress_to_end_private_prisons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Urgent:_Call_Congress_to_end_private_prisons)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-demand-congress-put-an-end-to-private-prisons">put an end to private prisons</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>


 


title: Urgent: Renters and homeowners need data on impact of global heating on insurance
uri: Urgent-Renters-and-homeowners-need-data-on-impact-of-global-heating-o
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Urgent:_Renters_and_homeowners_need_data_on_impact_of_global_heating_on_insurance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Urgent:_Renters_and_homeowners_need_data_on_impact_of_global_heating_on_insurance)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: tell Federal Insurance Office that renters and homeowners
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/co-sign-our-official-comment-renters-and-homeowners-need-data-on-how-climate-change-impacts-their-insurance">need data on how global heating impacts their insurance</a>.

 


title: Increased heat may explain shootings in US
uri: Increased-heat-may-explain-shootings-in-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Increased_heat_may_explain_shootings_in_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Increased_heat_may_explain_shootings_in_US)

content:
 
<p>

  Increased heat <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/16/almost-8000-us-shootings-attributed-to-unseasonable-heat-study">may explain</a> around 8000 shootings each year in the US.

 


title: Thugs who killed Ronald Greene charged with crimes
uri: Thugs-who-killed-Ronald-Greene-charged-with-crimes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Thugs_who_killed_Ronald_Greene_charged_with_crimes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Thugs_who_killed_Ronald_Greene_charged_with_crimes)

content:
 
<p>

  The thugs who killed Ronald Greene have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/16/ronald-greene-death-louisiana-police-officers-charged">charged with crimes</a>
including homicide.
<p>
I can't tell whether one of these charges does justice to the lies the
<a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> told about how Greene died.
<p>
We are all waiting to see if high officials of the <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> department will
face charges for trying to protect the killers themselves from charges.

 


title: The reason Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested
uri: The-reason-Sam-Bankman-Fried-was-arrested
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(The_reason_Sam_Bankman-Fried_was_arrested)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(The_reason_Sam_Bankman-Fried_was_arrested)

content:
 
<p>

  The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/15/ftx-warned-before-sam-bankman-fried-arrest">reason Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested</a> seems to have been an
illegal funds transfer between two parts of FTX whose funds were
supposed to be kept separate.

 


title: Ellsberg, Donziger demanding freedom for drone whistleblower
uri: Ellsberg-Donziger-demanding-freedom-for-drone-whistleblower
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Ellsberg,_Donziger_demanding_freedom_for_drone_whistleblower)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Ellsberg,_Donziger_demanding_freedom_for_drone_whistleblower)

content:
 
<p>

*Ellsberg, Donziger <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/15/ellsberg-donziger-among-those-demanding-freedom-drone-whistleblower-daniel-hale">Among Those Demanding Freedom for Drone Whistleblower
    Daniel Hale</a>.*

 


title: Biden endorsed Manchin's deal to undermine environmental regulations
uri: Biden-endorsed-Manchin-s-deal-to-undermine-environmental-regulations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Biden_endorsed_Manchin's_deal_to_undermine_environmental_regulations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Biden_endorsed_Manchin's_deal_to_undermine_environmental_regulations)

content:
 
<p>

  Biden <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/15/bidens-latest-push-manchin-dirty-deal-condemned-disgraceful-betrayal">endorsed Manchin's dirty deal</a> to undermine environmental regulations
on energy projects. Even worse, he endorsed the values that deal is based on: that
hypothetical reductions in the price of fossil fuel is more important
than protecting or planet from <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> or pollution.

 


title: Colombia implemented progressive wealth tax
uri: Colombia-implemented-progressive-wealth-tax
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Colombia_implemented_progressive_wealth_tax)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Colombia_implemented_progressive_wealth_tax)

content:
 
<p>

  Colombia has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/16/can-colombia-show-rest-world-how-tax-rich">implemented a progressive wealth tax</a> and other tax increases
for the rich. The specific details of the wealth tax respond to problems
encountered by previous wealth taxes in Europe, to ensure it touches
only the rich.

 


title: Film director Ken Loach accuses BBC of helping to write Corbyn out of history
uri: Film-director-Ken-Loach-accuses-BBC-of-helping-to-write-Corbyn-out-of
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Film_director_Ken_Loach_accuses_BBC_of_helping_to_write_Corbyn_out_of_history)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Film_director_Ken_Loach_accuses_BBC_of_helping_to_write_Corbyn_out_of_history)

content:
 
<p>

Leftist film director Ken Loach accused the BBC of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/16/ken-loach-says-bbc-helped-destroy-jeremy-corbyn">helping to write Corbyn
    out of history</a>, including trying to make Corbyn out as anti-semitic.
<p>
He also stated that 200,000 members or more have left the Labour Party
in response to Starmer's right-wing shift.

 


title: Starbucks workers strike for three days
uri: Starbucks-workers-strike-for-three-days
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Starbucks_workers_strike_for_three_days)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Starbucks_workers_strike_for_three_days)

content:
 
<p>

  Workers at 100 Starbucks stores will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/16/starbucks-workers-launch-biggest-strike-yet-rebellion-against-anti-union-bullying">strike for three days</a>.

 


title: US voted against UN resolution for moratorium on executions
uri: US-voted-against-UN-resolution-for-moratorium-on-executions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(US_voted_against_UN_resolution_for_moratorium_on_executions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(US_voted_against_UN_resolution_for_moratorium_on_executions)

content:
 
<p>

Biden said, during the campaign, that he wanted to eliminate the death
penalty.  However, the US just <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/16/despite-us-opposition-un-passes-resolution-condemning-death-penalty">voted against a UN resolution</a> calling for
a worldwide moratorium on executions.

 


title: Example of collective governance of organization
uri: Example-of-collective-governance-of-organization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Example_of_collective_governance_of_organization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Example_of_collective_governance_of_organization)

content:
 
<p>

  An <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/16/collective-governance-collective-care">interesting example</a> of collective governance of an organization.

 


title: Tunisia president reorganized how legislature functions
uri: Tunisia-president-reorganized-how-legislature-functions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Tunisia_president_reorganized_how_legislature_functions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Tunisia_president_reorganized_how_legislature_functions)

content:
 
<p>

Tunisia's authoritarian president has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/17/tunisian-parliamentary-election-records-just-88-turnout">reorganized how the legislature
    functions</a> and held an election under totally new rules.  There were
not many candidates and not many voters.

 


title: Iranian actor Taraneh Alidoosti arrested for crticizing death penalty
uri: Iranian-actor-Taraneh-Alidoosti-arrested-for-crticizing-death-penalty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Iranian_actor_Taraneh_Alidoosti_arrested_for_crticizing_death_penalty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Iranian_actor_Taraneh_Alidoosti_arrested_for_crticizing_death_penalty)

content:
 
<p>

*[Famous] Iranian actor Taraneh Alidoosti <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/17/iranian-actor-taraneh-alidoosti-arrested-after-criticism-of-death-penalty">arrested after criticism of
    death penalty</a> [given to protesters].*

 


title: Standard denialist tactic for global heating
uri: Standard-denialist-tactic-for-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Standard_denialist_tactic_for_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Standard_denialist_tactic_for_global_heating)

content:
 
<p>

Pointing at technological advances that are supposed to eliminate
<a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> in a few years is a standard denialist tactic.  They
have often <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/17/dont-bank-on-nuclear-fusion-to-save-the-world-from-a-climate-catastrophe-i-have-seen-it-all-before">cited fusion power</a> for this,
but also <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#13_November_2021_(Carbon_capture_and_storage)">carbon capture and storage</a>
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#10_February_2022_(Carbon_offsets)">"carbon offsets"</a> (which tend to be bogus).
<p>
We don't have time to wait for these things.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Insulate_Britain_protests)
title: Insulate Britain protests
uri: Insulate-Britain-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Insulate_Britain_protests)
content:
 
<p>

Insulate Britain protests met with ire from motorists, but everyone <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/17/insulate-britain-on-what-happened-next-energy-crisis">now
    sees that they were right</a>.

 


title: Australia to build more grid storage batteries
uri: Australia-to-build-more-grid-storage-batteries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Australia_to_build_more_grid_storage_batteries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Australia_to_build_more_grid_storage_batteries)

content:
 
<p>

  Australia will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/17/eight-batteries-to-be-built-around-australia-to-increase-renewable-energy-storage-capacity">build more large grid storage batteries</a>
so as to keep unneeded renewable electricity for when it is needed.

 


title: Corrupter marketing NFT "trading cards"
uri: Corrupter-marketing-NFT-trading-cards
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Corrupter_marketing_NFT_trading_cards)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Corrupter_marketing_NFT_trading_cards)

content:
 
<p>

  The corrupter is <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/2022/12/15/are-donald-trump-nfts-being-sold">marketing NFT "trading cards"</a>.  The money people pay for them
goes to a secret business, and I suspect it won't appear in the corrupter's
future tax returns.

 


title: Urgent: call on Biden to give endangered species protection to manatees
uri: Urgent-call-on-Biden-to-give-endangered-species-protection-to-manatee
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Urgent:_call_on_Biden_to_give_endangered_species_protection_to_manatees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Urgent:_call_on_Biden_to_give_endangered_species_protection_to_manatees)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53036">give endangered species
    protection to manatees</a>.

 


title: Urgent: call on Biden to drop Espionage Act charges against Assange
uri: Urgent-call-on-Biden-to-drop-Espionage-Act-charges-against-Assange
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Urgent:_call_on_Biden_to_drop_Espionage_Act_charges_against_Assange)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Urgent:_call_on_Biden_to_drop_Espionage_Act_charges_against_Assange)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/urge-president-biden-drop-espionage-act-charges-against-julian-assange/?t=1010&akid=30117%2E96703%2ES0xTdE">drop Espionage Act charges against Julian Assange</a>.

 


title: 1/10 of all living species to go extinct by end of century
uri: 1-10-of-all-living-species-to-go-extinct-by-end-of-century
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(1%2F10_of_all_living_species_to_go_extinct_by_end_of_century)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(1%2F10_of_all_living_species_to_go_extinct_by_end_of_century)

content:
 
<p>

  Modeling suggests <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/16/more-than-1-in-10-species-could-be-lost-by-end-of-century-study-warns-aoe">1/10 of all living species will be extinct</a> by the
end of this century, if <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> continues as projected.

 


title: Crown Prince Bone Saw trying to "sportswash" Salafi Arabia's reputation
uri: Crown-Prince-Bone-Saw-trying-to-sportswash-Salafi-Arabia-s-reputatio
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Crown_Prince_Bone_Saw_trying_to_sportswash_Salafi_Arabia's_reputation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Crown_Prince_Bone_Saw_trying_to_sportswash_Salafi_Arabia's_reputation)

content:
 
<p>

  Crown Prince Bone Saw is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/16/messi-business-how-sportswashing-could-land-saudi-arabia-the-2030-world-cup">trying to "sportswash"</a> Salafi Arabia's
cruel and repressive reputation.
<p>
Tobacco companies used sportswashing, and maybe still do in some
places.  In the US, that was eventually prohibited.

 


title: Crypto was supposed to solve financial corruption
uri: Crypto-was-supposed-to-solve-financial-corruption
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Crypto_was_supposed_to_solve_financial_corruption)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Crypto_was_supposed_to_solve_financial_corruption)

content:
 
<p>

*Crypto was supposed to solve financial corruption. But <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/15/crypto-financial-and-corruption-making-it-worse-ftx">FTX shows it’s
    just got worse</a>.*
<p>
I am not sure this is an inherent part of using cryptocurrencies.  It
may be due to a twisted way of using them: people buy and sell them
through companies called "exchanges" rather than trading them
directly.  Those exchanges <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/14/elizabeth-warren-crypto-regulation-bill-ftx">seem to tend particularly to corruption</a>.
<p>
However, even if all users did everything directly in the currency's
blockchain, it would seem to be just perfect for bribing politicians
untraceably.

 


title: Campaigners say global corporations cheating public out of tax money
uri: Campaigners-say-global-corporations-cheating-public-out-of-tax-money
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Campaigners_say_global_corporations_cheating_public_out_of_tax_money)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Campaigners_say_global_corporations_cheating_public_out_of_tax_money)

content:
 
<p>

  *Global corporations <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/15/global-corporations-cheating-public-out-of-billions-in-tax-say-campaigners">"cheating public out of billions in tax,"</a> say
 campaigners.*
<p>
  This is why we designed <a href="https://taler.net">GNU Taler</a>
  to reliably identify the payee.  It gives anonymity to the payer only.

 


title: Enslaved migrant workers suing Tesco for selling clothing they were forced to make
uri: Enslaved-migrant-workers-suing-Tesco-for-selling-clothing-they-were-fo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Enslaved_migrant_workers_suing_Tesco_for_selling_clothing_they_were_forced_to_make)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Enslaved_migrant_workers_suing_Tesco_for_selling_clothing_they_were_forced_to_make)

content:
 
<p>

Former enslaved migrant workers in Thailand are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/18/workers-in-thailand-who-made-ff-jeans-for-tesco-trapped-in-effective-forced-labour">suing the UK
    supermarket Tesco</a> for selling the clothing that they were forced to make.

 


title: US Justice Department must drop charges against Assange
uri: US-Justice-Department-must-drop-charges-against-Assange
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(US_Justice_Department_must_drop_charges_against_Assange)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(US_Justice_Department_must_drop_charges_against_Assange)

content:
 
<p>

Amy Goodman: *The US Justice Department <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/18/us-justice-department-must-drop-charges-against-julian-assange">Must Drop Charges Against
    Julian Assange</a>.*

 


title: Cinderella as a joke on Louis XIV's fancy for glass
uri: Cinderella-as-a-joke-on-Louis-XIV-s-fancy-for-glass
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Cinderella_as_a_joke_on_Louis_XIV's_fancy_for_glass)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Cinderella_as_a_joke_on_Louis_XIV's_fancy_for_glass)

content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/18/cinderella-fairytale-glass-slipper-joke-royalty-louis-xiv">Cinderella as a joke</a> on Louis XIV's fancy for glass.

 


title: US right-wingers danced with fascism and Nazism since '30s
uri: US-right-wingers-danced-with-fascism-and-Nazism-since-30s
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(US_right-wingers_danced_with_fascism_and_Nazism_since_'30s)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(US_right-wingers_danced_with_fascism_and_Nazism_since_'30s)

content:
 
<p>

  US right-wingers have <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/12/18/college-republicans-fascist-nazi-song/">danced with fascism and Nazism since the 1930s</a>
and have only occasionally been afraid to show it.

 


title: Peru's suppression forces have killed 20 protesters
uri: Peru-s-suppression-forces-have-killed-20-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Peru's_suppression_forces_have_killed_20_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Peru's_suppression_forces_have_killed_20_protesters)

content:
 
<p>

  Peru's suppression forces have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/18/violent-protests-in-peru-evoke-memories-of-darkest-days-of-civil-war">killed 20 protesters</a>, generally by
shooting them.  This caused protests to spread.
  People demand that Congress resign for new elections, but Congress refuses.

 


title: Twitter users banned from telling where to find them on other sites
uri: Twitter-users-banned-from-telling-where-to-find-them-on-other-sites
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Twitter_users_banned_from_telling_where_to_find_them_on_other_sites)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Twitter_users_banned_from_telling_where_to_find_them_on_other_sites)

content:
 
<p>

<!--
[also add to twitter.html]
 -->
Musk has banned Twitter users from <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/18/twitter-wont-let-you-post-your-facebook-instagram-and-mastodon-handles/">posting information about where to
    find them on other sites</a>.
<p>
Of course, you shouldn't be used by Facebook or Instagram at all, anyway.
<p>
  Twitter's policy <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/18/ftc-urged-take-close-look-musks-twitter-bans-links-competitors">may be illegal</a> in the US.
  I wonder, though, whether FTC enforcement power can prevail against
a billionaire who is willing to lose millions of dollars as a result
of his choice of policies.  If he chooses to defy the FTC, can they
do more than fine Twitter a few million?

 


title: (satire) Price raise on Band-Aids
uri: (satire)-Price-raise-on-Band-Aids
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_((satire)_Price_raise_on_Band-Aids)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_((satire)_Price_raise_on_Band-Aids)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/johnson-johnson-raises-price-of-band-aids-to-100-000-1849876539">*Johnson & Johnson Raises Price Of Band-Aids To $100,000 Apiece.*</a>

 


title: Open Fascism the wrecker unleashed
uri: Open-Fascism-the-wrecker-unleashed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Open_Fascism_the_wrecker_unleashed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Open_Fascism_the_wrecker_unleashed)

content:
 
<p>

*[The wrecker] Is Not Our Biggest Problem: It's the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/14/trump-not-our-biggest-problem-its-open-fascism-he-has-unleashed">Open Fascism He
    Has Unleashed</a>.*
  Many fascists are flexible enough to follow another authoritarian
leader, such as <a href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a>, instead of the wrecker.
<p>
The article discusses a conjecture that fascism wakes up in the US
every 80 years as the people who defeated fascism before die and
cease to lead the country to reject fascism.

 


title: Light pollution pushing animals and plants to extinction
uri: Light-pollution-pushing-animals-and-plants-to-extinction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Light_pollution_pushing_animals_and_plants_to_extinction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Light_pollution_pushing_animals_and_plants_to_extinction)

content:
 
<p>

  How light pollution <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/19/the-big-idea-why-we-need-to-make-the-world-a-darker-place">pushes animals and plants to extinction</a>.

 


title: Cop15 deal to included protecting 30% of nature
uri: Cop15-deal-to-included-protecting-30-of-nature
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Cop15_deal_to_included_protecting_30%25_of_nature)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Cop15_deal_to_included_protecting_30%25_of_nature)

content:
 
<p>

  *Cop15 deal includes target to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/19/cop15-deal-includes-target-to-protect-30-of-nature-on-earth-by-2030-aoe">protect 30% of nature</a> on Earth by
2030.*
<p>
The basic question is, will countries give this more than lip service?
For instance, most of the UK's "protected marine areas" are <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(UK_barely_started_protecting_sea_bottom_from_trawling)">hardly
    protected at all</a>.
<p>
The article claims that China imposed the deal despite objections from
many countries.  Given that the survival of civilization and the
natural world are at stake, I feel little sympathy for anyone that
refuses to help save But these objections may make the treaty a dead
letter.
<p>
The biodiversity movement seems to have adopted as a matter of faith
that indigenous humans will always protect biodiversity and ecosystems.
In many cases they will, because they depend on those ecosystems
for their living.  In those cases, damage to those ecosystems will
harm them so they will oppose such damage.
<p>
But this is not invariably guaranteed.  Human beings have been
polluting their environments for short-term benefit for millennia.
Humans often bend and redraw their moral rules to excuse their own
benefit.  Humans can resist this tendency, but nobody is automatically
above it due to descent alone.
<p>
The part of this agreement that is absolutely perverse: the plan to
establish a parallel patent system in the name of preventing
<a href="/articles/bioprivacy.htnl">"biopiracy."</a>
The patent system we already have is harmful and unjust; this plan
creates a second parallel system of restrictions on the use of
knowledge, adds a second harm, a second injustice, to the first.
<p>
The goal, clearly, is to give some income to poor countries.
That goal is fine, but do it in some other way!

 


title: Homes built from 2025 in Tokyo to have solar panels
uri: Homes-built-from-2025-in-Tokyo-to-have-solar-panels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Homes_built_from_2025_in_Tokyo_to_have_solar_panels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Homes_built_from_2025_in_Tokyo_to_have_solar_panels)

content:
 
<p>

  *Tokyo will require new homes built from 2025 to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/15/business/japan-tokyo-solar-panels-mandate-climate-intl-hnk/index.html">have solar panels</a>.*

 


title: Blueprint for achieving "net zero emissions"
uri: Blueprint-for-achieving-net-zero-emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Blueprint_for_achieving_net_zero_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Blueprint_for_achieving_net_zero_emissions)

content:
 
<p>

  California <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/16/california-approves-blueprint-become-carbon-neutral-2045">adopted a "blueprint"</a> for achieving a "net zero emissions",
  but the plan is bogus since it calls for carbon capture and storage,
which has never been made to work properly.
<p>
A blueprint means a precise set of measurements for something to be
made.  A rough sketch is not a blueprint.

 


title: Truce in Yemen could lead to end to the war
uri: Truce-in-Yemen-could-lead-to-end-to-the-war
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Truce_in_Yemen_could_lead_to_end_to_the_war)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(Truce_in_Yemen_could_lead_to_end_to_the_war)

content:
 
<p>

  The UN-brokered truce in Yemen <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/17/what-now-us-policy-toward-yemen">could lead to an end to the war</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(The_road_to_fascism)
title: The road to fascism
uri: The-road-to-fascism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(The_road_to_fascism)
content:
 
<p>

  Joseph Stiglitz: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/17/road-fascism">*The Road to Fascism*</a>
<p>
*   Growing hardship is all but assured in 2023, and it will provide even
   more fertile ground for dangerous demagogues.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(US_bombing_of_Hanoi_in_1972)
title: US bombing of Hanoi in 1972
uri: US-bombing-of-Hanoi-in-1972
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#20_December_2022_(US_bombing_of_Hanoi_in_1972)
content:
 
<p>

  The story of the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/17/asia/operation-linebacker-ii-50th-anniversary-intl-hnk-ml-dst/index.html">US bombing of Hanoi in 1972</a> makes me think of Putin's
shelling and missile attacks on Ukraine.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Wrecker_and_insurrection)
title: Wrecker and insurrection
uri: Wrecker-and-insurrection
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Wrecker_and_insurrection)
content:
 
<p>

The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/19/trump-evidence-documents-house-hearings-capitol-attack">Jan 6 committee voted to recommend prosecution</a> of the wrecker for
four crimes, including supporting an insurrection.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Wrecker_lawyers_bribe)
title: Wrecker lawyers bribe
uri: Wrecker-lawyers-bribe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Wrecker_lawyers_bribe)
content:
 
<p>

The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/19/trump-lawyers-influence-witness-testimony-jan-6">wrecker's lawyers tried to bribe witnesses</a> to mislead federal
investigators.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Bolsanaro_staying_power)
title: Bolsanaro staying power
uri: Bolsanaro-staying-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Bolsanaro_staying_power)
content:
 
<p>

The right-wing allies of <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/right-wing-wins-brazils-congress-show-staying-power-bolsonarismo-2022-10-03/">Bolsonaro won a majority in Brazil's congress</a>.
  Human rights, conservation and democracy in Brazil are still in
  danger from them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Protester_crackdown,_Iran)
title: Protester crackdown, Iran
uri: Protester-crackdown-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Protester_crackdown,_Iran)
content:
 
<p>

Iran's <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/19/business/iran-social-media-accounts-intl-cmd/index.html">secret police are cracking protesters' Telegram accounts</a>
to get information to arrest people.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Biodiversity_offsets)
title: Biodiversity offsets
uri: Biodiversity-offsets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Biodiversity_offsets)
content:
 
<p>

One weakness of the global biodiversity pact is that it allows
countries to give <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/19/weak-global-biodiversity-pact-approved-cop15-despite-objections-african-nations">permission to destroy natural ecosystems</a> based on
"offsets" as an excuse.
  This means a promise to construct a new wild area to replace the one
that was destroyed.  Such <a href="2014-may-aug.html#05_June_2014_(Biodiversity_offsetting)">replacement is easy to say and hard to do</a>.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Urgent:_Starbucks_picket_line)
title: Urgent: Starbucks picket line
uri: Urgent-Starbucks-picket-line
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Urgent:_Starbucks_picket_line)
content:
 
<p>

Everyone: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/tell-starbucks-board-of-directors-you-stand-with-workers-and-wont-cross-the-picket-line?nowrapper=true">tell the Starbucks board</a> you will not cross the picket line.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Urgent:_Youth_voting_rights)
title: Urgent: Youth voting rights
uri: Urgent-Youth-voting-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Urgent:_Youth_voting_rights)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call for passage of the <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/pass-the-youth-voting-rights-act?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-americans-for-tax-fairness&source=group-americans-for-tax-fairness">Youth Voting Rights Act</a>,
  which would defend younger voters from tactics used to impede
them from voting.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Right-wing_political_psychology)
title: Right-wing political psychology
uri: Right-wing-political-psychology
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Right-wing_political_psychology)
content:
 
<p>

Right-wing <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/19/crazy-code-behind-far-rights-success">extremist candidates combine racism and disinformation</a> with
promises to help the poor (but excluding poor blacks and poor immigrants).



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Senator_rebukes_Pentagon)
title: Senator rebukes Pentagon
uri: Senator-rebukes-Pentagon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Senator_rebukes_Pentagon)
content:
 
<p>

Senator Warren <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/20/warren-jacobs-accuse-pentagon-vastly-undercounting-civilians-killed-us-military">rebuked the Pentagon for "vastly" underreporting
civilian casualties</a> in its required annual report.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Governments_protect_people)
title: Governments protect people
uri: Governments-protect-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Governments_protect_people)
content:
 
<p>

In various countries, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/20/courts-will-hear-groundbreaking-climate-cases-2023">people are suing governments for failing to protect
them</a> from the harm global heating will do to them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Facial_recognition_abuse,_NY)
title: Facial recognition abuse, NY
uri: Facial-recognition-abuse-NY
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Facial_recognition_abuse,_NY)
content:
 
<p>

Radio City Music Hall decided in advance <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/20/calls-us-facial-recognition-ban-grow-after-mom-booted-theater-over-her-job">to exclude certain people
from its shows, and sent bouncers</a> to get one
from a show, and identified her through facial recognition.
<p>
The reason they did not want her to watch the show is that she is a
lawyer that works for a law firm that is handling someone's a legal
dispute with the operators of Radio City Music Hall.
<p>
In addition to being a bizarre overreaction, it demonstrates why we
need to ban the practice of identifying people by their faces, outside
of very limited circumstances.
<p>
However, the crucial step in the chain of surveillance is not the step
of matching the face in a picture against a database.  Rather, it is
systematically collecting images of people (whether video or still)
that could be used to identify people.  That is what we need to
prohibit.  We must prohibit surveillance cameras and allow only
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">security cameras</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Ending_forever_chemicals)
title: Ending forever chemicals
uri: Ending-forever-chemicals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Ending_forever_chemicals)
content:
 
<p>

*3M sets <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/20/3m-pfas-forever-chemicals-deadline">2025 deadline to stop making [PFAS]</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Prosecuting_the_wrecker)
title: Prosecuting the wrecker
uri: Prosecuting-the-wrecker
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Prosecuting_the_wrecker)
content:
 
<p>

After the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20/opinions/criminal-referrals-jan-6-committee-filipovic/index.html">wrecker's veiled but undeniable launch of an attack against
the US government</a>, prosecuting him is a necessary part of loyalty.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Wells_Fargo_fraud)
title: Wells Fargo fraud
uri: 2022-12-22-Wells-Fargo-fraud
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Wells_Fargo_fraud)
content:
 
<p>

The CFPB has ordered <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20/investing/wells-fargo-cfpb-foreclosure-fine/index.html">Wells Fargo Bank to pay almost 4 billion dollars
for fraud</a> committed against 16 million customers.
<p>
The CFPB called Wells Fargo a "repeat offender" and said that this
is just the beginning of its actions against the bank.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(No_nonsense_COP_28)
title: No nonsense COP 28
uri: No-nonsense-COP-28
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(No_nonsense_COP_28)
content:
 
<p>

UN Secretary-General Guterres announced a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/20/effort-move-needle-un-chief-announces-special-summit-climate-crisis">"no-nonsense" climate
defense conference for September 2023</a> for which *the price
   of entry is non-negotiable -— credible, serious, and new climate action
   and nature-based solutions that will move the needle forward and
   respond to the urgency of the climate crisis must be presented.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Right_Whales_doomed)
title: Right Whales doomed
uri: Right-Whales-doomed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Right_Whales_doomed)
content:
 
<p>

A last-minute deal in a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/20/groups-say-us-spending-bill-heartlessly-dooms-right-whales-extinction">must-pass spending bill gave Maine fishermen
6 more years</a> before they have to protect North Atlantic Right Whales.
<p>
 Given the rate at which the population of those whales is decreasing,
that could wipe them out.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Congressman_falsehoods)
title: Congressman falsehoods
uri: Congressman-falsehoods
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Congressman_falsehoods)
content:
 
<p>

Republican George Santos, who was recently elected to Congress, seems
to have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/19/george-santos-new-york-republican-resume">filled up his biography with falsehoods</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Turkey_politics_at_NATO)
title: Turkey politics at NATO
uri: Turkey-politics-at-NATO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Turkey_politics_at_NATO)
content:
 
<p>

Turkey may block Sweden from joining NATO because <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/19/swedish-court-blocks-extradition-journalist-turkey-nato-bulent-kenes">Sweden's supreme
court has rejected the extradition of a Turkish journalist</a> wanted by
Erdoğan for political persecution.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Dutch_apologise_for_slavery)
title: Dutch apologise for slavery
uri: Dutch-apologise-for-slavery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Dutch_apologise_for_slavery)
content:
 
<p>

*Dutch PM apologises for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/19/dutch-pm-apologises-for-netherlands-role-in-slave-trade">Netherlands’ role in slave trade</a>.*

Activists in former Dutch colonies imperiously rejected the apology
because its words and its ceremony were not done to their satisfaction.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Twitter_and_Pentagon,_propaganda)
title: Twitter and Pentagon, propaganda
uri: Twitter-and-Pentagon-propaganda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Twitter_and_Pentagon,_propaganda)
content:
 
<p>

Twitter intentionally hid the origin of <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/twitter-dod-us-military-accounts/">Pentagon political propaganda
aimed at the Middle East</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Afghans_banned_from_university)
title: Afghans banned from university
uri: Afghans-banned-from-university
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Afghans_banned_from_university)
content:
 
<p>

*   Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have ordered an indefinite <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/20/taliban-ban-afghan-women-university-education">ban on
   university education for the country’s women</a>,*



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Police_robotics)
title: Police robotics
uri: Police-robotics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Police_robotics)
content:
 
<p>

Even if we stop thug departments from putting weapons on robots,
some robots will endanger human rights in other ways.  This article
suggests some <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/19/arming-robots-too-dangerous">rules to limit use of robots</a> by thug departments.
<p>
The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white".  (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.)  I denounce bigotry, and
normally I will not link to articles that promote it.  But I make
exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important.
That article is one of the exceptions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(US_prosecutors_violate_rights)
title: US prosecutors violate rights
uri: US-prosecutors-violate-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(US_prosecutors_violate_rights)
content:
 
<p>

Why is it that so many US prosecutors so often violate the rights of the
accused by making trials unfair?  Perhaps it's because <a href="https://reason.com/2022/12/17/prosecutors-shouldnt-be-above-the-law/?utm_medium=email">the Supreme
Court has barred them from being sued</a> for such illegalities.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Biden_homelessness_plan)
title: Biden homelessness plan
uri: Biden-homelessness-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Biden_homelessness_plan)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/19/biden-unveils-plan-reduce-homelessness-25-2025">Biden has a plan for how to eradicate homelessness</a> in the US.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Urgent:_DOJ_verses_Wrecker)
title: Urgent: DOJ verses Wrecker
uri: Urgent-DOJ-verses-Wrecker
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Urgent:_DOJ_verses_Wrecker)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-the-doj-act-on-the-criminal-referrals-for-donald-trump?link_id=0">call on the DOJ to act on the criminal referrals for the wrecker</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Amazon neonicotinoid profits
uri: Urgent-Amazon-neonicotinoid-profits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Urgent:_Amazon_neonicotinoid_profits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Urgent:_Amazon_neonicotinoid_profits)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53091">call on Amazon to Stop the sale of neonicotinoid
pesticides</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Fiji_corrects,_a_democracy)
title: Fiji corrects, a democracy
uri: Fiji-corrects-a-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Fiji_corrects,_a_democracy)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/20/frank-bainimaramas-reign-as-leader-of-fiji-ends-after-15-years">Fiji has ousted coup-leader Bainimarama through a democratic election</a>.
  But <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/22/fiji-deploys-military-for-law-and-order-as-power-hangs-in-balance-after-election">it is not yet clear he won't stage another coup</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Sentence_the_wrecker.)
title: Sentence the wrecker.
uri: Sentence-the-wrecker
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Sentence_the_wrecker.)
content:
 
<p>

Even if we <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2022/dec/20/trump-january-6-committee-republicans-trumpism">sentence the wrecker to prison, the fascists he unleashed
will remain</a> dangerous.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Musk_compares_to_Ford)
title: Musk compares to Ford
uri: Musk-compares-to-Ford
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Musk_compares_to_Ford)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elon-musk-henry-ford-extremism/">Elon Musk compared with Henry Ford</a> -- brilliant entrepreneurs that
turned to spreading hatred and almost destroyed their companies.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Amazon_rainforest,_2023)
title: Amazon rainforest, 2023
uri: Amazon-rainforest-2023
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Amazon_rainforest,_2023)
content:
 
<p>

*Seven reasons to be cheerful <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/20/seven-reasons-to-be-cheerful-about-the-amazon-in-2023-and-three-to-be-terrified">about the Amazon in 2023</a> –- and three to be
terrified.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Twitter_blocking_journalist)
title: Twitter blocking journalist
uri: Twitter-blocking-journalist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Twitter_blocking_journalist)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/12/20/elon-musk-twitter-banned-journalists/">Micah Lee reports that Musk is still blocking his Twitter account</a>
and those of some other journalists that have criticized Musk.
<p>
However, instead of marking the accounts "suspended", so the public can
see how Twitter is treating them, they are blocked from logging in.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Afganistan's_seized_funds)
title: Afganistan's seized funds
uri: Afganistan-s-seized-funds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Afganistan's_seized_funds)
content:
 
<p>

The US seized funds from Afghanistan's central bank, and in September
set up a channel to donate those funds for food for Afghans.  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/20/millions-afghans-are-starving-us-stalls-returning-central-bank-funds">But it's
not doing anything</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Musk's_Twitter_intent)
title: Musk's Twitter intent
uri: Musk-s-Twitter-intent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Musk's_Twitter_intent)
content:
 
<p>

There are hints that Musk is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/elon-musk-twitter-shakeup.html">preparing Twitter for bankruptcy</a>.
<p>
  I speculated that <a href="#16_November_2022_(Musk's_leveraged_buyout_of_Twitter)">his aim might be to eliminate it</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Political_prisoner,_Egypt)
title: Political prisoner, Egypt
uri: Political-prisoner-Egypt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Political_prisoner,_Egypt)
content:
 
<p>

Sherif Osman is an Egyptian dissident who moved to the US long ago.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/21/uae-poised-to-deport-activist-who-called-for-protests-during-cop27-in-egypt">On a visit to Dubai, he was arrested and may now be handed over to Egypt</a>
to be a political prisoner.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(IRS_failed_to_audit_corrupter)
title: IRS failed to audit corrupter
uri: IRS-failed-to-audit-corrupter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(IRS_failed_to_audit_corrupter)
content:
 
<p>

*The US Internal Revenue Service <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/21/irs-donald-trump-tax-audit-failure">(IRS) failed to pursue mandatory audits
   of [the corrupter] on a timely basis</a> during his presidency.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Tenant_background_checks)
title: Tenant background checks
uri: Tenant-background-checks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Tenant_background_checks)
content:
 
<p>

Alameda county passed a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/21/california-alameda-county-landlords-background-checks">law prohibiting landlords from doing criminal
background checks on would-be tenants</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Netflix_password_sharing,_UK)
title: Netflix password sharing, UK
uri: Netflix-password-sharing-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Netflix_password_sharing,_UK)
content:
 
<p>

It looks like the UK government is going to join in a campaign of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/21/sharing-tv-streaming-passwords-is-says-uk-copyright-watchdog">repression against people who share Netflix passwords</a>.
<p>
The name "Intellectual Property Office" indicates a basic leaning
towards dividing people and imposing repression.  This is a typical
example.  If you allow <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">
that term</a>
                                    to shape your thinking, you will
be evil too.  Likewise for <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html@piracy">calling sharing "piracy</a>."
<p>
  <a href="/netflix.html">Netflix</a>
  does so many unjust things to its customers
                                                    that I urge
everyone to reject it entirely.  In particular, it requires customers
to run nonfree software designed specifically to restrict them.
<p>
Using it and sharing a subscription deals the company a small blow,
which it deserves, but does not protect customers from most of the
injustice.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Anti-Vaxxers,_worse_drivers)
title: Anti-Vaxxers, worse drivers
uri: Anti-Vaxxers-worse-drivers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Anti-Vaxxers,_worse_drivers)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/12/14/anti-vaxxers-disregard-for-basic-human-safety-also-makes-them-lousy-drivers.html">Anti-Vaxxers' disregard for basic human safety</a> also makes them lousy
 drivers.*



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(No_death_penalty,_Oregon)
title: No death penalty, Oregon
uri: No-death-penalty-Oregon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(No_death_penalty,_Oregon)
content:
 
<p>

The outgoing <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/12/gov-kate-brown-commutes-sentences-of-all-17-people-on-oregons-death-row.html">governor of Oregon has commuted all of Oregon's death
sentences</a>.
  Slowly the US advances toward abolishing the death penalty.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Long_Covid_progress)
title: Long Covid progress
uri: Long-Covid-progress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Long_Covid_progress)
content:
 
<p>

Progress, though slow, in <a href="https://www.brainandlife.org/articles/many-people-who-had-covid-19-continue-to">understanding long Covid</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Gmail_encryption_offer)
title: Gmail encryption offer
uri: Gmail-encryption-offer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Gmail_encryption_offer)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://gizmodo.com/gmail-google-end-to-end-encryption-email-1849911695">Google is adding client-side encryption</a>, but due to the basic
architecture it's not entirely trustworthy.
<p>
Google encryption may be effective against snoopers that have no
special relationship with Google.  However, Google remains ultimately
in control of the encryption software and the operating system it runs
on, so you can't trust it fully.  Google will have the power to give
you an "upgrade" that shows Google the plaintext of every encrypted
message.

 


title: Urgent: Julian Assange rally, Boston
uri: Urgent-Julian-Assange-rally-Boston
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Urgent:_Julian_Assange_rally,_Boston)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Urgent:_Julian_Assange_rally,_Boston)

content:
 
<p>

‘First Night Against the Wars’ is coming up.  Let's have our next stand-out
for Julian starting at 2pm on Dec 31 in *Copley Sq*. at the corner of
Boylston and Dartmouth, in front of the Public Library.  We are expecting
more activists this year as we join forces with Boston’s new coalition
‘Solidarity Action Network’. The coalition group will be gathering from
noon to 5, bringing all our issues together, crushing inequality, climate
collapse, endless war, nuclear Armageddon and, of course, free speech! It
grew out of the Earth Day Strike a few months back.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Dutch_apologize_for_slavery)
title: Dutch apologize for slavery
uri: Dutch-apologize-for-slavery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#22_December_2022_(Dutch_apologize_for_slavery)
content:
 
<p>

*Dutch PM apologizes for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/19/dutch-pm-apologises-for-netherlands-role-in-slave-trade">Netherlands’ role in slave trade</a>.*

Activists in former Dutch colonies imperiously rejected the apology
because its words and its ceremony were not done to their satisfaction.

 


title: Iranian actor Taraneh Alidoosti arrested for criticizing death penalty
uri: Iranian-actor-Taraneh-Alidoosti-arrested-for-criticizing-death-penalty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Iranian_actor_Taraneh_Alidoosti_arrested_for_criticizing_death_penalty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#19_December_2022_(Iranian_actor_Taraneh_Alidoosti_arrested_for_criticizing_death_penalty)

content:
 
<p>

*[Famous] Iranian actor Taraneh Alidoosti <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/17/iranian-actor-taraneh-alidoosti-arrested-after-criticism-of-death-penalty">arrested after criticism of
    death penalty</a> [given to protesters].*

 


title: Fiji ousted coup-leader Bainimarama
uri: Fiji-ousted-coup-leader-Bainimarama
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Fiji_ousted_coup-leader_Bainimarama)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Fiji_ousted_coup-leader_Bainimarama)

content:
 
<p>

  Fiji has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/20/frank-bainimaramas-reign-as-leader-of-fiji-ends-after-15-years">ousted coup-leader Bainimarama</a> through a democratic election.
  But it is not yet clear he won't <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/22/fiji-deploys-military-for-law-and-order-as-power-hangs-in-balance-after-election">stage another coup</a>.

 


title: Cities in Puerto Rico suing fossil fuel companies
uri: Cities-in-Puerto-Rico-suing-fossil-fuel-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Cities_in_Puerto_Rico_suing_fossil_fuel_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Cities_in_Puerto_Rico_suing_fossil_fuel_companies)

content:
 
<p>

16 cities in Puerto Rico are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/20/big-oil-is-behind-conspiracy-to-deceive-public-first-climate-racketeering-lawsuit-says">suing fossil fuel companies and their PR tools</a> for conspiring to deny the dangers of burning oil &mdash; in
particular, increasingly devastating hurricanes.

 


title: Campaign against restarting US nuclear reactor
uri: Campaign-against-restarting-US-nuclear-reactor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Campaign_against_restarting_US_nuclear_reactor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Campaign_against_restarting_US_nuclear_reactor)

content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2022/12/19/media-statement-kevin-kamps-beyond-nuclear-radioactive-waste-specialist">Campaigning against plans to restart a US nuclear reactor</a> that has been permanently shut down for being dangerous to operate.

 


title: May be difficult to convict wrecker on Jan 6 committee recommendations
uri: May-be-difficult-to-convict-wrecker-on-Jan-6-committee-recommendations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(May_be_difficult_to_convict_wrecker_on_Jan_6_committee_recommendations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(May_be_difficult_to_convict_wrecker_on_Jan_6_committee_recommendations)

content:
 
<p>

Convicting the wrecker on the charges recommended by the Jan 6 committee
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/20/donald-trump-house-committee-charges-how-to">may be difficult</a>.
<p>
  But it is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/21/why-algerias-coup-and-civil-war-should-alarm-americans-about-trumpism">crucial to try</a>.
<p>
However, putting the wrecker in prison won't be enough.  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#16_December_2022_(Musk_leading_for_QAnon)">Other
    fascists</a> are <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#15_November_2022_(DeMentis_supplanting_the_corrupter)">jockeying to be his successor</a> as the leader of American
fascism.

 


title: Australians propose a "right to protest" law
uri: Australians-propose-a-right-to-protest-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Australians_propose_a_right_to_protest_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Australians_propose_a_right_to_protest_law)

content:
 
<p>

  Australians propose a "right to protest" law <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/20/greens-push-for-federal-right-to-protest-law-after-nsw-jailing-of-deanna-violet-coco">to override state laws</a>
that impose severe punishments on nonviolent protests.
<p>
I've read that Australia does not have anything like the US Bill of
Rights in its constitution.  It needs one.

 


title: Musk's response to disappointing poll result on Twitter
uri: Musk-s-response-to-disappointing-poll-result-on-Twitter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Musk's_response_to_disappointing_poll_result_on_Twitter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Musk's_response_to_disappointing_poll_result_on_Twitter)

content:
 
<p>

  Musk's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/20/elon-musk-breaks-silence-after-10-million-twitter-users-vote-for-him-to-step-down">response to a disappointing result</a> in a poll on Twitter:
voter suppression.

 


title: (satire) Man holding gun in diverging timeline
uri: (satire)-Man-holding-gun-in-diverging-timeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_((satire)_Man_holding_gun_in_diverging_timeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_((satire)_Man_holding_gun_in_diverging_timeline)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/man-who-could-have-been-holding-gun-in-diverging-timeli-1849603742">*Man Who Could Have Been Holding Gun In Diverging Timeline
    Shot Dead By Police.*</a>
<p>
Deepening the satire of this item is the fact that it describes the
way racist stereotyping actually works.  When <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> see a black man,
they imagine what they believe a black man might have been doing
and may shoot for those imaginings.

 


title: Senate considered harmful tax trade
uri: Senate-considered-harmful-tax-trade
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Senate_considered_harmful_tax_trade)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Senate_considered_harmful_tax_trade)

content:
 
<p>

  The Senate considered a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/21/congress-decides-corporate-tax-cuts-are-too-expensive-if-it-means-also-helping">harmful trade</a>: to extend tax credits for poor families
with children in exchange for tax cuts for corporations
  (mostly for the rich).
<p>
The article does not make it clear which of those two changes were temporary
and which were permanent.  But I expect that the increase in tax credits for
children was temporary.
<p>
This sort of deal is bad and we should defeat it.  Continuing to
reduce taxes for the rich will paralyze the government, leaving it
unable to afford tax credits for the poor, or anything else.
We need to increase taxes on the rich.

 


title: Republican attitudes lead whites to die younger
uri: Republican-attitudes-lead-whites-to-die-younger
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Republican_attitudes_lead_whites_to_die_younger)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Republican_attitudes_lead_whites_to_die_younger)

content:
 
<p>

The real "great replacement": a broad range of Republican attitudes
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/21/there-great-replacement-going-its-not-what-youve-been-told">lead whites to die younger</a> (especially those without a college
education).
<p>
Some of these attitudes lead people to take foolish risks, from which
some die.  But in areas where Republican attitudes dominate, they also
lead to laws that put people in increasing danger.  The Republican
Party has become the Republican DEATH CULT.

 


title: Biden sees non-nuclear deal impossible to resurrect
uri: Biden-sees-non-nuclear-deal-impossible-to-resurrect
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Biden_sees_non-nuclear_deal_impossible_to_resurrect)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Biden_sees_non-nuclear_deal_impossible_to_resurrect)

content:
 
<p>

Biden privately sees the non-nuclear deal with Iran as <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/20/video-shows-biden-saying-iran-nuclear-deal-dead-were-not-gonna-announce-it">impossible to
    resurrect</a>.
  However, he is still open to diplomacy on the matter.

 


title: Experts welcome new Biden Policy for humanitarian aid in sanctioned nations
uri: Experts-welcome-new-Biden-Policy-for-humanitarian-aid-in-sanctioned-na
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Experts_welcome_new_Biden_Policy_for_humanitarian_aid_in_sanctioned_nations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Experts_welcome_new_Biden_Policy_for_humanitarian_aid_in_sanctioned_nations)

content:
 
<p>

*Experts Welcome New Biden Policy to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/20/experts-welcome-new-biden-policy-facilitate-humanitarian-aid-sanctioned-nations">Facilitate Humanitarian Aid in Sanctioned
    Nations</a>.*
<p>
It is clearly established that US trade sanctions harm poor people in those
countries, by interfering with imports of food and medicine.
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#24_December_2019_(Blocking_humanitarian_aid)">This was the case in Iraq</a> in the 1990s and until the Bush forces
conquered that country. People have been clamoring for changes
to avoid that result ever since then.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Lesson_from_Cuban_missile_crisis)
title: Lesson from Cuban missile crisis
uri: Lesson-from-Cuban-missile-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Lesson_from_Cuban_missile_crisis)
content:
 
<p>

*Sixty years on from the Cuban missile crisis, the US has learned its
lessons &mdash; but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/22/sixty-years-cuban-missile-crisis-us-putin-ukraine">Putin has not</a>.*
<p>
The challenge is to give Putin an exit that isn't either a victory for
him or a disaster for everyone.  I can't offer an answer, but the
start of an answer is to stop pushing to oust or prosecute Putin.
Desirable and just they would be, but not wise.

 


title: Battle to keep LGBTQ+ books in Louisiana libraries
uri: Battle-to-keep-LGBTQ-books-in-Louisiana-libraries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Battle_to_keep_LGBTQ+_books_in_Louisiana_libraries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Battle_to_keep_LGBTQ+_books_in_Louisiana_libraries)

content:
 
<p>

  *The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/22/louisiana-lgbtq-battle-books-libraries">battle to keep LGBTQ+ books in Louisiana libraries</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Greater_enemy_of_truth_than_lies)
title: Greater enemy of truth than lies
uri: Greater-enemy-of-truth-than-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Greater_enemy_of_truth_than_lies)
content:
 
<p>

  *Bullshit is a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/22/politics-difference-between-lies-bullshit">greater enemy of truth</a> than lies are.*
<p>
A lie denies specific truths.  Bullshit attacks the very idea of
truth.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Retirement_tax_changes)
title: Retirement tax changes
uri: Retirement-tax-changes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Retirement_tax_changes)
content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/20/progressives-slam-omnibus-retirement-provisions-giveaway-rich">Retirement tax changes</a>: *This bill does not make it easier for workers
   to save for retirement, it just makes it easier for high-income
   earners to shelter more of their earnings from taxes.*

 


title: Elon Musk censoring info from public
uri: Elon-Musk-censoring-info-from-public
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Elon_Musk_censoring_info_from_public)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Elon_Musk_censoring_info_from_public)

content:
 
<p>

*Elon Musk claims the FBI paid Twitter to "censor info from the
public."  Here's what the Twitter Files <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/20/media/elon-musk-fbi-twitter-reliable-sources/index.html">actually show</a>.*

 


title: Keystone tar sands oil pipeline leaks
uri: Keystone-tar-sands-oil-pipeline-leaks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Keystone_tar_sands_oil_pipeline_leaks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Keystone_tar_sands_oil_pipeline_leaks)

content:
 
<p>

  The Keystone tar sands oil pipeline has had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/21/oil-spills-keystone-pipeline-seem-worse-kansas">several big leaks</a>, more than one
would expect.  Its safety record is deteriorating, and it may have been
built with low-quality materials.
<p>
It's a good thing that the Keystone XL pipeline was not built.
<p>
Given the extra corrosivity of tar sands oil, and the extra pollution
caused by extracting and burning it, we should probably shut down
the existing Keystone pipeline and stop the extraction of tar sands oil.

 


title: Why Democratic party keeps doing badly against Republicans
uri: Why-Democratic-party-keeps-doing-badly-against-Republicans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Why_Democratic_party_keeps_doing_badly_against_Republicans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#23_December_2022_(Why_Democratic_party_keeps_doing_badly_against_Republicans)

content:
 
<p>

  Why the Democratic Party <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/20/democrats-fantasies-about-midterms-could-cost-party-big-2024">keeps doing badly against Republicans</a> that
despise the non-rich.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#25_December_2022_(Celestial_body_as_property)
title: Celestial body as property
uri: Celestial-body-as-property
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#25_December_2022_(Celestial_body_as_property)
content:
 
<p>

Proposing a <a href="https://reason.com/2022/11/15/space-is-an-opportunity-to-rethink-property-rights/?utm_medium=email">system for acquiring property on celestial bodies</a> and objects
which avoids the bad outcome that the early space travelers claim everything.
<p>
My view of property rights is very different from an <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#antisocialist">antisocialist</a>'s.
  People are not inherently entitled to own any kind of property, but
a system of property rights can be beneficial on the margin for people
in general.  In normal circumstances, where no one is in penury, it is
useful for individuals to own clothing, books, furniture, bicycles,
food, and so on, and maybe even houses.  I mean "useful" in the sense
that in those circumsances the system of property rights benefits
everyone.  This presumes that overall economic system protects
people from poverty, so that every individual gets to own a reasonable
amount of those things.
<p>
However, property rights must not be absolute.  If the system does
push someone into poverty, "property rights" can't justify keeping
that person in penury.  If you need food to survive, you are entitled
to "steal" some, with a few special exceptions such as taking the food
some other penurious person was about to eat, or taking a farmer's
seed corn.
<p>
That said, the temporary property rental system proposed in the
article linked to could be a useful method to add to a system of
non-absolute property.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#25_December_2022_(Freedom_of_Press,_India)
title: Freedom of Press, India
uri: Freedom-of-Press-India
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#25_December_2022_(Freedom_of_Press,_India)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/11/13/freedom-press-dealt-deadly-blows-modis-proto-fascist-regime-india">Freedom of Press is Dealt Deadly Blows by Modi's Proto-Fascist Regime</a>
in India.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#25_December_2022_(La_Niña_and_El_Niño, 2030)
title: La Niña and El Niño, 2030
uri: La-Niña-and-El-Niño-2030
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#25_December_2022_(La_Niña_and_El_Niño, 2030)
content:
 
<p>

*Global heating to drive <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/17/global-heating-to-drive-stronger-la-nina-and-el-nino-events-by-2030-researchers-say">stronger La Niña and El Niño events by 2030</a>,
researchers say.*
<p>
These events already cause havoc &mdash; droughts and fires in some places
and times, floods in others.  Global heating is likely to make them
worse.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#25_December_2022_(COP28_in_UAE)
title: COP28 in UAE
uri: COP28-in-UAE
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#25_December_2022_(COP28_in_UAE)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/16/uae-cop28-host-lobby-climate-reputation-cop27">Next year's climate conference</a> will be hosted (and run) by the UAE.
<p>
The UAE is a repressive regime that recognizes human rights only when that
pleases the emirs, so protest will be crushed and most activists kept out,
as <a href="#13_October_2022_(UN_climate_summit_hosted_by_Despotic_Egyptian_Regime)">happened this year in Egypt.</a>
<p>
In addition, the UAE is a big oil exporter, which means that next
year's event will be even more corrupted by global heating denialists
than this year's.
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/11/15/new-revelations-uae-interference-us-politics">The UAE spends lots of money to manipulate the US goverment and policies</a>.
<p>
If any powerful coutries really want to make progress in defending the
climate, they should denounce the UN climate conferences as corrupt
betrayals, refuse to attend, and organize a new kind of event.  But
maybe they are corrupted enough to be content with this corruption.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#25_December_2022_(Big_Banks_and_crimes)
title: Big Banks and crimes
uri: Big-Banks-and-crimes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#25_December_2022_(Big_Banks_and_crimes)
content:
 
<p>

Big <a href="https://www.levernews.com/criminal-banks-want-to-have-their-cake-and-eat-it-too/">US banks are lobbying against a proposed rule</a> that would stop them
from managing retirement funds any more if they are caught committing
crimes in doing that.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#24_December_2022_(The_Landmines_in_Kherson)
title: The Landmines in Kherson
uri: The-Landmines-in-Kherson
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#24_December_2022_(The_Landmines_in_Kherson)
content:
 
<p>

*"The [Putin forces] mined everything": why <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/16/the-russians-mined-everything-why-making-kherson-safe-could-take-years">making Kherson safe could
 take years</a>.*
<p>
Please <a href="2022-jan-apr.html#4_March_2022_(Putin_forces)">distinguish between the Putin forces and Russia</a>.
                                                         Ukraine will
need to live with Russia, and Ukrainians will need to live with their
Russian relatives, for centuries, assuming those countries survive
coming global disaster.  Hate Putin, not Russia!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#24_December_2022_(Urgent:_Replace_Senator_Manchin)
title: Urgent: Replace Senator Manchin
uri: Urgent-Replace-Senator-Manchin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#24_December_2022_(Urgent:_Replace_Senator_Manchin)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-replace-senator-joe-manchin-as-energy-chairman-6?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-just-strategy&source=group-just-strategy">call on the Senate to replace Senator Manchin as energy chairman</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#24_December_2022_(Celestial_body_as_property)
title: Celestial body as property
uri: 2022-12-25-Celestial-body-as-property
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#24_December_2022_(Celestial_body_as_property)
content:
 
<p>

Proposing a <a href="https://reason.com/2022/11/15/space-is-an-opportunity-to-rethink-property-rights/?utm_medium=email">system for acquiring property on celestial bodies</a> and objects
which avoids the bad outcome that the early space travelers claim everything.
<p>
My view of property rights is very different from an <a class="glossary" href="/glossary.html#antisocialist">antisocialist</a>'s.
  People are not inherently entitled to own any kind of property, but
a system of property rights can be beneficial on the margin for people
in general.  In normal circumstances, where no one is in penury, it is
useful for individuals to own clothing, books, furniture, bicycles,
food, and so on, and maybe even houses.  I mean "useful" in the sense
that in those circumstances the system of property rights benefits
everyone.  This presumes that overall economic system protects
people from poverty, so that every individual gets to own a reasonable
amount of those things.
<p>
However, property rights must not be absolute.  If the system does
push someone into poverty, "property rights" can't justify keeping
that person in penury.  If you need food to survive, you are entitled
to "steal" some, with a few special exceptions such as taking the food
some other penurious person was about to eat, or taking a farmer's
seed corn.
<p>
That said, the temporary property rental system proposed in the
article linked to could be a useful method to add to a system of
non-absolute property.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#24_December_2022_(La_Niña_and_El_Niño, 2030)
title: La Niña and El Niño, 2030
uri: 2022-12-25-La-Niña-and-El-Niño-2030
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#24_December_2022_(La_Niña_and_El_Niño, 2030)
content:
 
<p>

*Global heating to drive <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/17/global-heating-to-drive-stronger-la-nina-and-el-nino-events-by-2030-researchers-say">stronger La Niña and El Niño events by 2030</a>,
researchers say.*
<p>
These events already cause havoc &mdash; droughts and fires in some places
and times, floods in others.  <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">Global heating</a> is likely to make them
worse.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#24_December_2022_(COP28_in_UAE)
title: COP28 in UAE
uri: 2022-12-25-COP28-in-UAE
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#24_December_2022_(COP28_in_UAE)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/16/uae-cop28-host-lobby-climate-reputation-cop27">Next year's climate conference</a> will be hosted (and run) by the UAE.
<p>
The UAE is a repressive regime that recognizes human rights only when that
pleases the emirs, so protest will be crushed and most activists kept out,
as <a href="#13_October_2022_(UN_climate_summit_hosted_by_Despotic_Egyptian_Regime)">happened this year in Egypt.</a>
<p>
In addition, the UAE is a big oil exporter, which means that next
year's event will be even more corrupted by <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> denialists
than this year's.
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/11/15/new-revelations-uae-interference-us-politics">The UAE spends lots of money to manipulate the US government and policies</a>.
<p>
If any powerful countries really want to make progress in defending the
climate, they should denounce the UN climate conferences as corrupt
betrayals, refuse to attend, and organize a new kind of event.  But
maybe they are corrupted enough to be content with this corruption.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#25_December_2022_(Preservation_of_US_democracy)
title: Preservation of US democracy
uri: Preservation-of-US-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#25_December_2022_(Preservation_of_US_democracy)
content:
 
<p>

Legal steps needed to block <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/22/how-make-sure-another-january-6-never-happens-again">avenues for future presidential coup
attempts</a> in the US.
<p>
To have unrigged elections, we need also to <a href="2020-sep-dec.html#23_September_2020_(Control_of_state_legislatures)">prohibit gerrymandering</a>
          and
<a href="2020-sep-dec.html#7_September_2020_(Republican_democrats)">voter suppression</a>.  
                    To have fair elections for president, we need to
do <a href="2022-may-aug.html#24_June_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_your_state_legislators_to_support_the_National_Popular_Vote_Compact)">away with the electoral college</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Long_Covid_can_be_fatal)
title: Long Covid can be fatal
uri: Long-Covid-can-be-fatal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Long_Covid_can_be_fatal)
content:
 
<p>

  Long Covid is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/14/health/long-covid-deaths/index.html">sometimes fatal</a>.  Just how often that occurs
is an open question.

 


title: Lawsuit against Georgia election vigilantes
uri: Lawsuit-against-Georgia-election-vigilantes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Lawsuit_against_Georgia_election_vigilantes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Lawsuit_against_Georgia_election_vigilantes)

content:
 
<p>

  The Department of Justice has <a href="https://www.gregpalast.com/dept-of-justice-sues-vigilante-vote-challengers/">joined the lawsuit</a> against Georgia
election vigilantes.

 


title: US throwing monkey wrench into WTO's system for resolution of trade disputes
uri: US-throwing-monkey-wrench-into-WTO-s-system-for-resolution-of-trade-di
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(US_throwing_monkey_wrench_into_WTO's_system_for_resolution_of_trade_disputes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(US_throwing_monkey_wrench_into_WTO's_system_for_resolution_of_trade_disputes)

content:
 
<p>

  The US is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/25/australia-and-china-team-up-to-protest-wto-blockages-caused-by-us-vetoes-on-appeal-body">throwing a monkey wrench</a> into the WTO's system for
business-friendly resolution of trade disputes, by blocking nomination
of judges to hear appeals.
  If you are in favor of business-friendly resolution of trade disputes,
as the author of the article is, you will conclude that the US is doing
something wrong.
<p>
I've condemned the WTO since the beginning, first because of its
patent rules, and later because its system for "resolution of trade
disputes" is used to stop countries from protecting themselves against
harmful products that happen to be imported from other countries.
The US tried to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#1_May_2021_(Ban_on_flavored_cigarettes_and_cigars)">protect itself against flavored cigarettes</a>,
and to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Fully-protected_marine_area_near_Hawaii)">protect marine mammals</a> from tuna caught in ways that killed them,
  and each time the WTO reached a judgment that compelled the US to give up
on it.
<p>
I am sure the WTO has harmed other countries in similar ways, all based on the
idea that every kind of business opportunity must be permitted.

 


title: Australia proposes proof of identity for dating apps
uri: Australia-proposes-proof-of-identity-for-dating-apps
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Australia_proposes_proof_of_identity_for_dating_apps)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Australia_proposes_proof_of_identity_for_dating_apps)

content:
 
<p>

Australia proposes to require people to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/24/call-for-dating-apps-to-require-criminal-checks-as-australian-government-plans-summit-on-safety">prove their identity to sign up
    for a dating app</a>, and undergo criminal background checks.
<p>
This is likely to mean that the app companies get a lot more data about
each user, which they can then abuse.
<p>
If Australia passes a law to require these checks, it should also pass
a law strictly limiting what other personal data the company can collect.
It should not be allowed to know any user's location, ever, and it must
delete all copies of a user's data when the user says to do so.
Messages between users should be encrypted such that the company
cannot decrypt them.
<p>
Even with this law, I would refuse to use those apps
because they are nonfree software.

 


title: Putin forces have stolen collections of archaeological museums
uri: Putin-forces-have-stolen-collections-of-archaeological-museums
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Putin_forces_have_stolen_collections_of_archaeological_museums)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Putin_forces_have_stolen_collections_of_archaeological_museums)

content:
 
<p>

  The Putin forces have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/18/ukraine-museums-scythian-gold-russian-looters-putin">stolen the collections of several archaeological museums</a>
in the captured areas of Ukraine.
  They have also destroyed archaeological sites by building
fortifications on them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(UK's_Rwanda_deportation_scheme)
title: UK's Rwanda deportation scheme
uri: UK-s-Rwanda-deportation-scheme
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(UK's_Rwanda_deportation_scheme)
content:
 
<p>

*The [UK's] Rwanda deportation scheme might be legal, but it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/19/rwanda-deportation-scheme-legal-shameful-britain-asylum-seekers">remains
    deeply shameful</a>.*

 


title: Factors leading university students to cheat
uri: Factors-leading-university-students-to-cheat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Factors_leading_university_students_to_cheat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Factors_leading_university_students_to_cheat)

content:
 
<p>

The need to work for income as well as study, leaving students with no
time to do their homework, is a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/20/university-students-turn-to-contract-cheating-amid-housing-crisis-and-lack-of-support">major factor leading university students to cheat</a>.

 


title: India's Hindu-nationalist government
uri: India-s-Hindu-nationalist-government
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(India's_Hindu-nationalist_government)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(India's_Hindu-nationalist_government)

content:
 
<p>

India's Hindu-nationalist government is also a Hindi-nationalist government,
trying to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/25/threat-unity-anger-over-push-make-hindi-national-language-of-india">impose Hindi on the 3/4 of Indians that don't speak Hindi</a>.
<p>
Many defend English as India's de-facto "lingua anglica", because it
is neutral &mdash; it does not prefer any one part of India over the others.

 


title: Evidence from Jan 6 committee report shows basis to prosecute the corrupter
uri: Evidence-from-Jan-6-committee-report-shows-basis-to-prosecute-the-corr
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Evidence_from_Jan_6_committee_report_shows_basis_to_prosecute_the_corrupter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Evidence_from_Jan_6_committee_report_shows_basis_to_prosecute_the_corrupter)

content:
 
<p>

The evidence in the Jan 6 committee's report shows the Department of
Justice that there is a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/26/january-6-capitol-attack-donald-trump-report">basis to prosecute the corrupter</a>.
<p>
I think its most important effect will be to show the public that
prosecuting him is legitimate.

 


title: Industrial Policy Is Not a Remedy for Income Inequality
uri: Industrial-Policy-Is-Not-a-Remedy-for-Income-Inequality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Industrial_Policy_Is_Not_a_Remedy_for_Income_Inequality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Industrial_Policy_Is_Not_a_Remedy_for_Income_Inequality)

content:
 
<p>

  Dean Baker: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/industrial-policy-income-inequality">*Industrial Policy Is Not a Remedy for Income Inequality.*</a>

 


title: We need to replace the electoral college with the popular vote
uri: We-need-to-replace-the-electoral-college-with-the-popular-vote
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(We_need_to_replace_the_electoral_college_with_the_popular_vote)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(We_need_to_replace_the_electoral_college_with_the_popular_vote)

content:
 
<p>

Fixing vulnerabilities in the function of the electoral college
is not enough: we need to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/26/jamie-raskin-electoral-college-danger-american-people">replace it with popular vote</a>.
<p>
The electoral college was designed when the United States was founded.
People thought of themselves as citizens of the various states, and
thought of the union as literally a federation of states.  In terms of
those concepts, the electoral college made sense as a way for states to
choose the chief executive of their federation.  But we no longer think
of the US that way.
<p>
  Please urge your state to sign up to the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Urgent:_Support_the_National_Popular_Vote_Compact)">National Popular Vote</a>.

 


title: Mainstream media don't dare admit one political side is better than other
uri: Mainstream-media-don-t-dare-admit-one-political-side-is-better-than-ot
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Mainstream_media_don't_dare_admit_one_political_side_is_better_than_other)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Mainstream_media_don't_dare_admit_one_political_side_is_better_than_other)

content:
 
<p>

In the US, right-wing state governments reduce working people's life
expectancy.  But the mainstream media <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corporate-media-both-sides">don't dare admit that one of the two
    political sides is better than the other</a>.

 


uri: Urgent-Call-Senator-Mary-Peters-to-push-for-appointment-of-replacemen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#26_December_2022_(Urgent:_Call_Senator_Mary_Peters_to_push_for_appointment_of_replacement_fo_DeJoy_with_good_postmaster)

title:
 Urgent: Call Senator Mary Peters to push for appointment of replacement of DeJoy with good postmaster 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#26_December_2022_(Urgent:_Call_Senator_Mary_Peters_to_push_for_appointment_of_replacement_fo_DeJoy_with_good_postmaster)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Senator Mary Peters to push to appoint people to
the USPS board of governors who will <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-chairman-peters-lead-the-fight-to-send-public-service-champions-to-the-usps-board-of-governors-who-will-fire-louis-dejoy-now">replace DeJoy with a good
    postmaster</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call Senator Schumer to give Sellout Sinema no special favors
uri: Urgent-Call-Senator-Schumer-to-give-Sellout-Sinema-no-special-favors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#26_December_2022_(Urgent:_Call_Senator_Schumer_to_give_Sellout_Sinema_no_special_favors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#26_December_2022_(Urgent:_Call_Senator_Schumer_to_give_Sellout_Sinema_no_special_favors)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Senator Schumer to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-majority-leader-schumer-no-special-favors-for-sellout-sinema-in-the-new-senate-next-year">give Sellout Sinema no special
    favors</a>.

 


title: Counsel for how Democrats can gain in 2024 elections
uri: Counsel-for-how-Democrats-can-gain-in-2024-elections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#26_December_2022_(Counsel_for_how_Democrats_can_gain_in_2024_elections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#26_December_2022_(Counsel_for_how_Democrats_can_gain_in_2024_elections)

content:
 
<p>

  Counsel for Democrats for how to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/midterm-elections-2022">gain in the 2024 elections</a>.
<p>
A lot of this seems valid to me, but I see one pitfall to avoid.  The
next Republican presidential candidate could easily be <a href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a>.  To
focus on the corrupter too strongly could be weak in opposing <a href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a>.
<p>
I am not sure what is the best way to prevent that, but I have an
idea: to focus condemnation on Republican demonization/distraction.
All Republican candidates try to demonize weak "enemies" to take our
minds off the powerful enemies: billionaires (both individuals and
businesses).

 


title: Congress should pass laws about transparency and auditing of most powerful
uri: Congress-should-pass-laws-about-transparency-and-auditing-of-most-powe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#26_December_2022_(Congress_should_pass_laws_about_transparency_and_auditing_of_most_powerful)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#26_December_2022_(Congress_should_pass_laws_about_transparency_and_auditing_of_most_powerful)

content:
 
<p>

* Congress should pass laws to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/24/republicans-calling-trumps-tax-returns-private-dont-understand-privacy">ensure both transparency (about income)
    and proper auditing</a> of the most powerful in politics.*
  The same law could help protect the privacy of everyone else from
Republican threats.

 


title: Transcripts reveal Cassidy Hutchinson was pressured to protect the bullshitter
uri: Transcripts-reveal-Cassidy-Hutchinson-was-pressured-to-protect-the-bul
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#26_December_2022_(Transcripts_reveal_Cassidy_Hutchinson_was_pressured_to_pretect_the_bullshitter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#26_December_2022_(Transcripts_reveal_Cassidy_Hutchinson_was_pressured_to_pretect_the_bullshitter)

content:
 
<p>

*Transcripts reveal Cassidy Hutchinson was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/24/transcripts-reveal-cassidy-hutchinson-was-pressured-to-protect-trump-i-was-scared">pressured to protect [the
    bullshitter]</a>.*  For instance, not to try to remember the answers
to questions she was asked while testifying.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#26_December_2022_(Polar_bears_vanishing)
title: Polar bears vanishing
uri: Polar-bears-vanishing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#26_December_2022_(Polar_bears_vanishing)
content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/24/polar-bears-vanishing-from-polar-bear-capital-of-the-world-in-canada">Polar bears are vanishing</a> from the region where they were formerly
most numerous.

 


title: Practice of forcing convicts to work for a pittance
uri: Practice-of-forcing-convicts-to-work-for-a-pittance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#26_December_2022_(Practice_of_forcing_convicts_to_work_for_a_pittance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#26_December_2022_(Practice_of_forcing_convicts_to_work_for_a_pittance)

content:
 
<p>

7 states have amended their constitutions to prohibit treating
convicts as slaves, but practical changes in the practice of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/24/us-prison-labor-workers-slavery-13th-amendment-constitution">forcing
    convicts to work for a pittance</a> are just starting.
<p>
American workers should keep in mind that forcing prisoners to work
for a low wage undercuts the wages of free workers.
<p>
I think it makes sense to distinguish prison chores (for instance,
cooking food for for the prisoners to eat, and cleaning their
clothing) from work on products or services for use outside the prison.
It is legitimate to require prisoners to do the chores they need done,
but that cannot legitimately take more than a few hours a week.

 


title: American teenagers perceive basic adult activities as risky
uri: American-teenagers-perceive-basic-adult-activities-as-risky
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#26_December_2022_(American_teenagers_perceive_basic_adult_activities_as_risky)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#26_December_2022_(American_teenagers_perceive_basic_adult_activities_as_risky)

content:
 
<p>

Many American teenagers have so little experience of independent activity
that they <a href="https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/60624/young-adults-are-struggling-with-their-mental-health-is-more-childhood-independence-the-answer">perceive basic adult activities as risky</a>.
<p>
It is plausible that this is a frequent result of treating adolescents
like children, and children like infants.

 


title: (Satire) Google, Denny's conspire
uri: (Satire)-Google-Denny-s-conspire
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_((Satire)_Google,_Denny's_conspire)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_((Satire)_Google,_Denny's_conspire)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *New Sponsored <a href="https://www.theonion.com/new-sponsored-google-maps-feature-directs-every-driver-1849774391">Google Maps Feature Directs Every Driver To Denny's</a>.*
<p>
This is a joke, but it illustrates a serious danger about <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html">Service as a
Software Substitute</a>
  (SaaSS).

 


title: Final congressional report on Jan 6
uri: Final-congressional-report-on-Jan-6
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Final_congressional_report_on_Jan_6)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Final_congressional_report_on_Jan_6)

content:
 
<p>

*The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/23/the-17-findings-in-the-january-6-committees-final-report">17 findings in the January 6 committee’s final report</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Indigenous_land_loss,_Peru)
title: Indigenous land loss, Peru
uri: Indigenous-land-loss-Peru
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Indigenous_land_loss,_Peru)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/23/peru-indigenous-protections-bill">Peru's congress sneakily plans to eliminate</a> the protected lands for
"uncontacted" indigenous groups.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Drinking_water_poisoned)
title: Drinking water poisoned
uri: Drinking-water-poisoned
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Drinking_water_poisoned)
content:
 
<p>

Over half a million current <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/23/us-soldiers-pfas-forever-chemicals-higher-rate-pentagon-military">members of the US military have drunk
PFAS-tainted water</a>, preceded by millions of others in the past.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Palestinian_support,_Chile)
title: Palestinian support, Chile
uri: Palestinian-support-Chile
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Palestinian_support,_Chile)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/chile-boric-palestina">Chile will open an embassy to Palestine in occupied territory</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(The_very_poor,_taxes)
title: The very poor, taxes
uri: The-very-poor-taxes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(The_very_poor,_taxes)
content:
 
<p>

We can't help the very poor more than a little <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/17/fighting-poverty-means-targeting-very-wealthy">unless we tax the very rich
much more</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(End-stage_Reaganism)
title: End-stage Reaganism
uri: End-stage-Reaganism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(End-stage_Reaganism)
content:
 
<p>

*This Is the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/18/dying-phase-reaganism-and-its-hideous">Dying Phase of Reaganism</a> &mdash; and It's Hideous.*

<blockquote>
*The question today is whether we as a nation and a people will recover
   from it, or if it will, as Reagan promised, destroy the American
experiment of pluralistic liberal democracy.*
</blockquote>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Nuclear_warring_deal,_Iran)
title: Nuclear warring deal, Iran
uri: Nuclear-warring-deal-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Nuclear_warring_deal,_Iran)
content:
 
<p>

*Positive signals from Iran over nuclear deal put west in a tricky position.*

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/20/positive-signals-from-iran-over-nuclear-deal-put-west-in-a-tricky-position
<p>
I suggest dropping sanctions against Iran, then inviting it to decide
whether to continue arming Russia (and face sanctions for that) or
stop arming Russia (and continue without sanctions).

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Systemic_racism,_Israel)
title: Systemic racism, Israel
uri: Systemic-racism-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Systemic_racism,_Israel)
content:
 
<p>

*Israel's New Far-Right <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/israeli-racism">Government to Lift Ban on Parliamentary
Candidates Inciting Racism</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Book_ban,_Texas)
title: Book ban, Texas
uri: Book-ban-Texas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Book_ban,_Texas)
content:
 
<p>

The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/21/biden-admin-opens-first-its-kind-civil-rights-probe-book-banning-texas-schools">US government is investigating a Texas school district</a>'s book ban
as a civil rights issue.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Republicans_starve_the_poor)
title: Republicans starve the poor
uri: Republicans-starve-the-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Republicans_starve_the_poor)
content:
 
<p>

Republicans in the Senate are fighting tooth and nail to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/21/omnibus-spending-bill-boosts-school-lunches-cutting-pandemic-era-snap-benefits">keep poor
Americans in hunger</a>.
<p>
At least this deal replaces a temporary aid program with a permanent
aid program.  In the long term, that is a step forward.  However, the
permanent aid program is limited to families with children.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Big_oil,_gov_subsidies)
title: Big oil, gov subsidies
uri: Big-oil-gov-subsidies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Big_oil,_gov_subsidies)
content:
 
<p>

*Markey Asks Biden to Draft Plan for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/21/markey-asks-biden-draft-plan-ending-public-funding-overseas-fossil-fuel-projects">Ending Public Funding of Overseas
Fossil Fuel Projects</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Emperor_penguin,_extinction)
title: Emperor penguin, extinction
uri: Emperor-penguin-extinction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Emperor_penguin,_extinction)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/23/two-thirds-of-antarcticas-native-species-under-threat-of-extinction-from-global-heating-research-shows">Two-thirds of Antarctica’s native species are threatened by global heating</a>.
<p>
The species most threatened is the emperor penguin, beloved by everyone.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Big_oil_owes_cleanup)
title: Big oil owes cleanup
uri: Big-oil-owes-cleanup
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Big_oil_owes_cleanup)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/fossil-fuels-public-lands">Make Big Oil Pay to Clean Up Their Mess</a> on Public Lands.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Neoniconinoids_killing_bees)
title: Neonicotinoids killing bees
uri: Neonicotinoids-killing-bees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Neoniconinoids_killing_bees)
content:
 
<p>

*Court Finds EPA Approval of Bee-Killing <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/21/huge-win-court-finds-epa-approval-bee-killing-sulfoxaflor-unlawful">Sulfoxaflor [a neonicotinoid]
 Unlawful</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Ten_good_things,_2022)
title: Ten good things, 2022
uri: Ten-good-things-2022
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Ten_good_things,_2022)
content:
 
<p>

Medea Benjamin describes <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/21/ten-surprisingly-good-things-happened-2022">10 good developments during 2022</a>.

I disagree with her about one of them.  The use of dollars as the
standard international exchange currency gives the US a considerable
economic advantage.  15 years ago, with US power more or less
dominating the world and starting wars, I figured that ending that
advantage would be a change for the better.

Today, however, US power is reduced while China's economic and
military power is growing.  China's government is repressive and
aggressive, and it denies facts like any fascist.  The US is the
nucleus of resistance to China's aggression.  If the US avoids falling
into fascism, we will appreciate US power to resist China's dominion.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Top_anti-union_conservative,_NY)
title: Top anti-union conservative, NY
uri: Top-anti-union-conservative-NY
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Top_anti-union_conservative,_NY)
content:
 
<p>

New York Governor <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/hector-lasalle">Hochul nominated an anti-union conservative judge</a>
to the state's highest judgeship.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_((Satire)_FIFA_World_Cup)
title: (Satire) FIFA World Cup
uri: (Satire)-FIFA-World-Cup
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_((Satire)_FIFA_World_Cup)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *<a href="https://www.theonion.com/fifa-officials-open-for-2030-world-cup-bribes-1849904666">FIFA Officials Open For 2030 World Cup Bribes</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_((Satire)_Plastic_kills_swimmers)
title: (Satire) Plastic kills swimmers
uri: (Satire)-Plastic-kills-swimmers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_((Satire)_Plastic_kills_swimmers)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *<a href="https://www.theonion.com/report-hundreds-of-swimmers-die-every-year-getting-tan-1849860040">Hundreds Of Swimmers Die Every Year Getting Tangled Up In
Plastic Lane Dividers</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Bombed_market,_Kherson)
title: Bombed market, Kherson
uri: Bombed-market-Kherson
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Bombed_market,_Kherson)
content:
 
<p>

The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/24/russia-launches-deadly-artillery-barrages-in-southern-and-eastern-ukraine-kherson">Putin forces shelled the market at the center of Kherson</a>.
<p>
This leads me to think that they can't be terribly short of artillery shells.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_((Satire)_Wild_bills)
title: (Satire) Wild bills
uri: (Satire)-Wild-bills
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_((Satire)_Wild_bills)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *<a href="https://www.theonion.com/u-s-treasury-introduces-new-wild-bills-that-can-be-use-1849436518">U.S. Treasury Introduces New Wild Bills That Can Be Used For
Any Dollar Amount</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Big_capitalists,_US)
title: Big capitalists, US
uri: Big-capitalists-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Big_capitalists,_US)
content:
 
<p>

*[Some of] the <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-frankenstein-monsters-of-modern">monsters of American capitalism</a>:
Trump, Bankman-Fried's, and Musk.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(NHS_pay_review,_UK)
title: NHS pay review, UK
uri: NHS-pay-review-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(NHS_pay_review,_UK)
content:
 
<p>

The Tories hide behind <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/14/england-nhs-crisis-government-strikes-guardian-report">"pay review bodies" instituted to set pay for
NHS workers</a>.  These bodies do what the government wants, but the government
can pretend it has nothing to do with the issue.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Haiti_ruins,_the_history)
title: Haiti ruins, the history
uri: Haiti-ruins-the-history
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Haiti_ruins,_the_history)
content:
 
<p>

How <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/dec/14/haiti-faces-famine-but-its-troubles-are-rooted-in-a-brutal-colonial-past">Haiti's history of colonization and slavery</a> drove it to today's
ruin.
<p>
The <a href="2016-sep-dec.html#4_December_2016_(Haitians_protest_election_rigging)">"elections" of presidents Martelly</a>
                                       and <a href="2021-may-aug.html#4_December_2016_(Haitians_protest_election_rigging)">Moise</a>
                                                 were quietly imposed
by the US government.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Big_oil_waxing_political)
title: Big oil waxing political
uri: Big-oil-waxing-political
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#27_December_2022_(Big_oil_waxing_political)
content:
 
<p>

The <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/12/24/oil-gas-climate-disinformation/">House Oversight Committee subpoenaed documents from big oil</a>
companies and studied the tactics they use for climate disinformation.
The committee was going to publish the documents, but seems to have
been pressured out of it.
  Soon Republicans will take over that committee and kill the
investigation completely.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Urgent:_A_bipartisan_deal)
title: Urgent: A bipartisan deal
uri: Urgent-A-bipartisan-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Urgent:_A_bipartisan_deal)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: tell Democrats such as Biden that the kind of
"bipartisanship" that is desirable is to fight for progressive
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-any-quest-for-bipartisanship-must-mean-that-the-public-agrees-with-our-agenda-not-dc-republican-politicians-like-marjorie-taylor-greene-and-kevin-mccarthy?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-social-security-works&source=direct_link">policies that most Americans support, even many Republicans</a> &mdash; not
making deals with right-wing extremists.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Urgent:_SCOTUS_code_of_ethics)
title: Urgent: SCOTUS code of ethics
uri: Urgent-SCOTUS-code-of-ethics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Urgent:_SCOTUS_code_of_ethics)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: Kavanaugh's ugly holiday party proves we need a
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/kavanaughs-gross-friends/?t=1001&akid=30168%2E96703%2EBntiIY">SCOTUS code of ethics; call on Congress to enact one</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(New_pun:_Sleeping-car_doctors.)
title: New pun: Sleeping-car doctors.
uri: New-pun-Sleeping-car-doctors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(New_pun:_Sleeping-car_doctors.)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://stallman.org/puns.html#sleeping-car">Sleeping-car doctors pun:</a>
<p>
The doctors that worked on US sleeping car trains created a special
branch of medicine, known as Pullmanary medicine.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Afghanistan_aid,_UK_escapade)
title: Afghanistan aid, UK escapade
uri: Afghanistan-aid-UK-escapade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Afghanistan_aid,_UK_escapade)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/24/uk-aid-to-afghanistan-entrenched-corruption-and-injustice-report-finds">UK aid to Afghanistan entrenched corruption and injustice</a>, report finds.*
<p>
A powerful elite received most of the benefits.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Corporate_social_responsibility)
title: Corporate social responsibility
uri: 2022-12-29-Corporate-social-responsibility
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Corporate_social_responsibility)
content:
 
<p>

Corporate Social Responsibility is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/dec/26/how-price-pressures-lead-to-exploitation-of-workers">an inadequate substitute for respecting
workers' rights</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Winter_storm,_US)
title: Winter storm, US
uri: Winter-storm-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Winter_storm,_US)
content:
 
<p>

The governor of New York said that the current blizzard is a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/27/us-braces-for-more-deaths-as-blizzard-of-the-century-grips-nation">"war with mother nature."</a>
  I think that well describes the things humans have done to produce
the global heating that made a storm this powerful happen.
<p>
She also called it "the blizzard of the century," which is an
over-optimistic prediction about the storms of the next 77 years.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Banned_word,_Indian)
title: Banned word, "Indian"
uri: Banned-word-Indian
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Banned_word,_Indian)
content:
 
<p>

There is a campaign to make <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/22/grand-canyon-changes-name-havasupai-gardens">the word "Indian"</a>, referring to
indigenous groups of the Americas, taboo.
<p>
The article claims that any use whatsoever of that term is
"offensive", regardless of the intended meaning.  I am skeptical of
this, so I challenge those who think so to provide grounds for the
claim.
<p>
The use of "Indian" to refer to people from the Americas started with
an error, when Columbus believed he had reached India or what is now
Indonesia.  It also invites confusion, since there are more people in
the US that were born in India than members of indigenous tribes.
For clarity I usually write "indigenous" to identify the latter.
<p>
But those things do not add up to an offense or justify imposing yet
another language taboo.  There is no need to eradicate "Indian" from
place names around the US.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Musk's_Twitter)
title: Musk's Twitter
uri: Musk-s-Twitter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Musk's_Twitter)
content:
 
<p>

Another <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/22/elon-musk-twitter-business-politics-right">conjecture about Musk's goal in dealing with Twitter</a>: that he aims
to make it explicitly serve as a tool for right-wing extremism.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Digital_Services_Act)
title: Digital Services Act
uri: Digital-Services-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Digital_Services_Act)
content:
 
<p>
Describing the requirements of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/dec/17/digital-services-act-inside-the-eus-ambitious-bid-to-clean-up-social-media">EU's Digital Services Act</a>.
<p>
Every time I encounter the term "<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content">content</a>", referring to publications,
postings or messages, it makes me angry.
<p>
However, most of the substantial requirements look reasonable to me.
<p>
What I worry about is that some of the requirements may have the
effect of requiring users to prove their identity.  For instance,
rules about "protecting children" could have the effect of imposing
censorship on adults unless they prove their age by showing official
identity documents.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Senator_Warnock)
title: Senator Warnock
uri: Senator-Warnock
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Senator_Warnock)
content:
 
<p>
Senator Warnock's victory in the Georgia runoff had to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/15/we-cant-let-voter-suppression-be-normalized">overcome very strong
voter-suppression efforts</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Amazon_antitrust_lawsuit)
title: Amazon antitrust lawsuit
uri: Amazon-antitrust-lawsuit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Amazon_antitrust_lawsuit)
content:
 
<p>
California's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/15/californias-new-antitrust-suit-shows-how-state-can-lead-reining-amazon">antitrust lawsuit against Amazon</a> could force it to change
its operations, world-wide.
<p>
Even if we stop Amazon from doing wrong to its warehouse workers and
its competitors, that won't end the injustice of snooping on its
customers and making them run nonfree software.  Please join me in
<a href="/amazon.html">refusing to accept such treatment</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(President_can_reduce_rent)
title: President can reduce rent
uri: President-can-reduce-rent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(President_can_reduce_rent)
content:
 
<p>
The president can and should take steps to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/12/15/after-latest-fed-rate-hike-housing-justice-activists-demand-biden-act-fight-soaring">reduce rents</a> for many Americans.

 


title: Private equity and extreme inequality
uri: Private-equity-and-extreme-inequality
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Private_equity_and_extreme_inequality)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Private_equity_and_extreme_inequality)

content:
 
<p>
*How Private Equity <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/private-equity">Gave Rise to Extreme Inequality</a>.*

 


title: University of Leiden rewriting past
uri: University-of-Leiden-rewriting-past
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(University_of_Leiden_rewriting_past)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(University_of_Leiden_rewriting_past)

content:
 
<p>
Staff at the University of Leiden <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/27/impromptu-takedown-of-painting-in-netherlands-ignites-cancel-culture-row">took down a painting of former
administrators of the university</a> because (1) they were depicted
smoking and (2) they were all male.
<p>
The university president said that some people "do not feel
represented" by the painting.  So what?  It doesn't represent me,
either.  It doesn't represent present-day people at all, and it wasn't
meant to.
<p>
It's right to call for changing the past sexism which is visible in
the painting.  Evidently the university has already started doing so,
since its current president is a woman.
<p>
It is sometimes necessary to break with past errors; to erase
references to the past because of past errors is outrageous.  The
people of today have no right to demand that the art of the past be
replaced to represent them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(BP_greenwashing)
title: BP greenwashing
uri: BP-greenwashing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(BP_greenwashing)
content:
 
<p>
BP tries to present itself falsely as a green oil company while
planning to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/27/bp-plan-spend-billions-fossil-fuels-green-energy-oil-gas-renewables">spend a lot more in fossil fuels</a> than in renewable energy.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Summer_camps_to_prison_camps)
title: Summer camps to prison camps
uri: Summer-camps-to-prison-camps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Summer_camps_to_prison_camps)
content:
 
<p>
Summer camps in Crimea <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/27/children-become-stuck-at-camps-in-crimea-ukraine-russia">turned into prison camps</a> for some Ukrainian children.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Australia_and_war_crimes)
title: Australia and war crimes
uri: Australia-and-war-crimes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#28_December_2022_(Australia_and_war_crimes)
content:
 
<p>
Australia is taking a stern attitude towards <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/dec/28/australian-defence-force-members-warned-they-face-prosecution-if-they-plant-weapons-on-people-killed-in-combat">soldiers that try to cover
up or disguise war crimes</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Reusability,_France)
title: Reusability, France
uri: Reusability-France
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Reusability,_France)
content:
 
<p>

France has required <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/28/france-ban-on-single-use-restaurant-tableware-hailed-as-fast-food-revolution">packaging and utensils provided with food</a> to eat
in a restaurant be reusable, and used many times.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Right_wing_sociopaths)
title: Right wing sociopaths
uri: Right-wing-sociopaths
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Right_wing_sociopaths)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/cruelty">Right wing politics is based on cruelty</a>, and the behavior of its
leaders and movement is sociopathic.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Mastadon's_fidelity)
title: Mastadon's fidelity
uri: Mastadon-s-fidelity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Mastadon's_fidelity)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/28/mastodon-founder-elon-musk-twitter-takeover">Mastodon's founder, Eugen Rochko, has rejected offers</a> to convert
Mastodon into a business and give him lots of money.
  He says that accepting such investment would make Mastodon as bad as Twitter.
<p>
Bravo!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Global_broken_system)
title: Global broken system
uri: Global-broken-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Global_broken_system)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/the-system-is-ruining-our-present-and-collective-future">'The System' Is Ruining Our Present and Collective Future</a>.*
  Especially for young people.  This creates a special opportunity for
political organizing.
<p>
The article proposes the AARP as an example to follow.  Sad to say, the AARP
attracts old people by offering them opportunities to save money, but it
doesn't represent their interests.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Abortion_or_suicide)
title: Abortion or suicide
uri: Abortion-or-suicide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Abortion_or_suicide)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/abortion-suicide">Restrictions on abortion in US states led to measurably higher rates
of suicide</a> among women of reproductive age.
<p>
This is especially significant since it largely compares the
same states before and after introducing restrictions.
<p>
The other result, that states which restrict abortion also show a
worse state of health for women and infants, does not necessary
demonstrate consequences of restricting abortion.  They may be the
more general consequences of being ruled by right-wing government.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Tax_avoidance,_Exxon)
title: Tax avoidance, Exxon
uri: Tax-avoidance-Exxon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Tax_avoidance,_Exxon)
content:
 
<p>

*Flush With Record Profits, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/exxon-sues-windfall-tax">Exxon Sues to Block EU Windfall Tax</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Wage_increase,_UC_workers)
title: Wage increase, UC workers
uri: Wage-increase-UC-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Wage_increase,_UC_workers)
content:
 
<p>

48,000 student academic <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/27/university-of-california-strike-settlement">workers at the University of California
have accepted a new contract</a> with big wage increases.

 


title: Protesters, death sentences, Iran
uri: Protesters-death-sentences-Iran
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Protesters,_death_sentences,_Iran)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Protesters,_death_sentences,_Iran)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/28/dozens-of-iran-protesters-facing-charges-punishable-by-death-rights-group">Over 100 Iranian protesters face possible capital charges</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Secret_Kennedy_documents)
title: Secret Kennedy documents
uri: Secret-Kennedy-documents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Secret_Kennedy_documents)
content:
 
<p>

Recently released secret documents add to the evidence that the <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/12/22/deconstructed-jfk-files-cia/">CIA
was involved in something with Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination</a> of President Kennedy.
  However, it's not clear what they were doing.  The CIA has 4,000
still-unreleased documents relating to Kennedy.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Discussion_sites_gone_bad)
title: Discussion sites gone bad
uri: Discussion-sites-gone-bad
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Discussion_sites_gone_bad)
content:
 
<p>

Describing the dynamic where companies make <a href="https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start">discussion sites that
build real communities, then spoil them</a> hoping to make the users
purchase more.
<p>
There is an interesting aside about LiveJournal (which I never used),
claiming it was used a lot by Russian dissidents, and eventually sold
to a company that worked for Putin.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Corporate_monopoly,_US)
title: Corporate monopoly, US
uri: Corporate-monopoly-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Corporate_monopoly,_US)
content:
 
<p>

US corporations amass enormous <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/16/schumpeterian-terrorism/#deliberately-broken">quasi-monopolies by buying many small
businesses</a> one by one.  The US government never investigates.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Global_Minimum_Tax)
title: Global Minimum Tax
uri: Global-Minimum-Tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Global_Minimum_Tax)
content:
 
<p>

Details of the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/global-minimum-tax">Global Minimum Tax system for corporations</a> that the
EU and US are plannimg to adopt.
<p>
My proposal for a progressive tax on a corporation's gross income,
with the tax rate to depend on the global corporation's total gross
income, is simpler and I expect it to have better results.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(An_ethical_appeal_to_Ukraine)
title: An ethical appeal to Ukraine
uri: An-ethical-appeal-to-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(An_ethical_appeal_to_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/11/22/even-during-war-self-defense-zelenskyy-government-must-respect-human-rights-and">Calling on Ukraine to respect freedom of the press and labor rights,
and the rights of Ukrainians conscripted into the Putin forces and then captured.</a>
<p>
In addition to the standard moral reasons to treat prisoners of war
with respect, Ukraine has a special practical interest in doing so.
Every conscript in the Putin forces must wonder, "Should I look for a
chance to surrender?"  Ukraine should act so that the answer will be
an unhesitating "Yes!"

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#30_December_2022_(National_decarbonization,_US)
title: National decarbonization, US
uri: National-decarbonization-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#30_December_2022_(National_decarbonization,_US)
content:
 
<p>

Finally, the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/inflation-reduction-act">US is making substantial investments in decarbonizing</a>
electricity and ground transportation.
<p>
Other major sources of greenhouse gas emissions include agriculture,
concrete. air transportation and plastic.  The US needs to work on reducing
emissions from all of them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Republican_ethics,_George_Santos)
title: Republican ethics, George Santos
uri: Republican-ethics-George-Santos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(Republican_ethics,_George_Santos)
content:
 
<p>

The question of whether to allow exposed total liar <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/27/opinions/republican-george-santos-congress-test-filipovic/index.html">George Santos to
take a seat in the House of Representatives will compel each other Republican member</a> to take a public stand on whether there is any limit
to what lies they will accept for grabbing power.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(AI_not_safe,_code-generation)
title: AI not safe, code-generation
uri: AI-not-safe-code-generation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_(AI_not_safe,_code-generation)
content:
 
<p>

When programmers try to save time by using <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/28/code-generating-ai-can-introduce-security-vulnerabilities-study-finds/">AI assistants to write
code, they tend to overlook bugs</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_((Satire)_Tesla_hurts_child)
title: (Satire) Tesla hurts child
uri: (Satire)-Tesla-hurts-child
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#29_December_2022_((Satire)_Tesla_hurts_child)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/self-loving-tesla-forgives-itself-for-running-over-chil-1849745380">*Self-Loving Tesla Forgives Itself For Running
   Over Child.*</a>


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#30_December_2022_(Cyberwar_munitions,_for_sale)
title: Cyberwar munitions, for sale
uri: Cyberwar-munitions-for-sale
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#30_December_2022_(Cyberwar_munitions,_for_sale)
content:
 
<p>

A company distributes <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/israeli-spyware-toka">software to crack the security on surveillance
cameras</a> and alter the recordings stored in them.
<p>
This is an additional reason why security cameras must not be
connected to a network.  To uphold security, they must be secure, and
that means air-gapped.
<p>
The original reasons why <a href=https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html>security cameras must not be connected to a
network</a>
        is to avoid furthering massive surveillance of people in general,
with the terrible threat of China-style repression.

 


title: Global heating, bursts of cold air
uri: Global-heating-bursts-of-cold-air
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#30_December_2022_(Global_heating,_bursts_of_cold_air)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#30_December_2022_(Global_heating,_bursts_of_cold_air)

content:
 
<p>

How global heating causes
occasional <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/extreme-cold">bursts of very cold air in
the northern hemisphere</a>.
<p>
The melting of so much Arctic sea ice has made the Arctic
considerably warmer than it used to be, and that makes it
easier for an air mass of Arctic air to head south and freeze
people.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#30_December_2022_(Urgent:_Bees_need_better_habitat)
title: Urgent: Bees need better habitat
uri: Urgent-Bees-need-better-habitat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#30_December_2022_(Urgent:_Bees_need_better_habitat)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=52559&supporter_KEY=229474&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:113627&utm_campaign=AME4-FCNS:WILDLIFE:BEES-1122&utm_content=EM9:01C:0HH-AAP">call on USDA to plant prairie habitat for bees</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#30_December_2022_(Corporate_politics,_US)
title: Corporate politics, US
uri: Corporate-politics-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#30_December_2022_(Corporate_politics,_US)
content:
 
<p>

Robert Reich: *<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corporate-takeover-american-politics">How the Corporate Takeover of American Politics Began</a>*,
in the 1970s.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#30_December_2022_(Prescription_drug_pricing)
title: Prescription drug pricing
uri: Prescription-drug-pricing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#30_December_2022_(Prescription_drug_pricing)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/big-pharma-gop-drug-prices">Big Pharma and [Republican] Allies Aim to Sabotage</a> Medicare Drug
 Price Reforms.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#30_December_2022_(Big_oil,_the_House_investigation)
title: Big oil, the House investigation
uri: Big-oil-the-House-investigation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#30_December_2022_(Big_oil,_the_House_investigation)
content:
 
<p>

The House of Representatives decided not to give the Senate or the DoJ
the evidence it has obtained in <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/watchdog-house-democrats-big-oil">a year of investigating Big Oil</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Offshore_wind_farms,_UK)
title: Offshore wind farms, UK
uri: Offshore-wind-farms-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Offshore_wind_farms,_UK)
content:
 
<p>

British offshore wind-farms pay <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/how-corporations-own-the-wind">large sums to rich aristocrats for the
"right" to operate</a>.
<p>
There may be injustice in these details, and maybe some of these
details should be changed.  Perhaps some of the laws that require
payment to the rich for permission to set up a wind farm.
<p>
But none of that calls into question the need to make the wind farm!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Health_care,_Canadian_stability)
title: Health care, Canadian stability
uri: Health-care-Canadian-stability
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Health_care,_Canadian_stability)
content:
 
<p>

Canadians love their national medical system, but <a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2022/12/29/schemes-for-profiting-privatizers-lick-their-chops-as-medicare-totters.html">privatizers never give
up trying to eliminate it</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Amazon_defenders_rewarded)
title: Amazon defenders rewarded
uri: Amazon-defenders-rewarded
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Amazon_defenders_rewarded)
content:
 
<p>

*Lula Applauded for Naming <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/amazon-brazil">Amazon Defenders as Brazilian Ministers</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Surveillance_video,_China)
title: Surveillance video, China
uri: Surveillance-video-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Surveillance_video,_China)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/29/china-surveillance-protests-alarms-cameras-hikvision">Hikvision video systems can classify people by many dimensions</a> of personal
characteristics, and purports to identify patterns of actions that suggest
forbidden dissent.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Mass_incarceration,_US)
title: Mass incarceration, US
uri: Mass-incarceration-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Mass_incarceration,_US)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/29/us-criminal-justice-system-lenore-anderson-in-their-names">The crime victims’ advocate [who is] fighting mass incarceration</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Democrats_risk_losing_voters)
title: Democrats risk losing voters
uri: Democrats-risk-losing-voters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Democrats_risk_losing_voters)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/29/al-sharpton-democratic-leaders-waning-support-black-electorate">Al Sharpton has warned Democratic leaders that they must step up the
party’s appeal to African American voters</a> or risk &hellip;Republican
leaders making greater inroads with the Black electorate.*
<p>
I've read that the danger is even greater among Hispanics.
<p>
The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white".  (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.)  I denounce bigotry, and
normally I will not link to articles that promote it.  But I make
exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important.
That article is one of the exceptions.

 


title: Greed, incompetence, Southwest Airlines
uri: Greed-incompetence-Southwest-Airlines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Greed,_incompetence,_Southwest_Airlines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Greed,_incompetence,_Southwest_Airlines)

content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-southwest-greed">Sanders Calls on Buttigieg to Hold Southwest CEO Accountable</a> for
"Greed and Incompetence."*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Womens_rights,_Afghanistan)
title: Womens rights, Afghanistan
uri: Womens-rights-Afghanistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Womens_rights,_Afghanistan)
content:
 
<p>

The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/dec/29/what-taliban-bar-on-women-ngo-work-means">Taliban have forbidden women to work for NGOs</a>.

  Decades of war have left many families with only women to earn
money; now that they cannot work, they are desperate.  Are they
desperate enough to kill Taliban -- any Taliban they can get?
<p>
The west tried sending armies to defeat the Taliban, but the Taliban
defeated them.  The western-sponsored Afghan government was corrupt,
and its army did not have the will to win that the Taliban had.  There
is no sense in trying that approach again.  What could defeat the
Taliban?
<p>
If Afghan women, in total desperation and with total determination,
start killing whatever Taliban they can get their hands on, they can
put an end to religious tyranny.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Gas_price_fall,_Europe)
title: Gas price fall, Europe
uri: Gas-price-fall-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Gas_price_fall,_Europe)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/29/european-gas-prices-fall-to-pre-ukraine-war-level">European gas prices fall to pre-Ukraine war level</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Lousy_nursing_homes,_UK)
title: Lousy nursing homes, UK
uri: Lousy-nursing-homes-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Lousy_nursing_homes,_UK)
content:
 
<p>

Nursing home care for disabled or demented old people in the UK is
utterly lousy, because the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/29/neglect-loved-one-care-home-visiting-ban-dementia">nursing homes cannot hire enough staff</a> to
do the job right.
<p>
The necessary first step to fix this is to tax the rich more, and use
some of that money to give nursing home staff a raise and increase the
number of staff.  But are there more workers available to hire?  Where
did the former staff go?  Were they foreigners who cannot now work in
the UK?  The government could fix that by allowing more foreigners to
immigrate and work.  Are they disabled by long Covid?  Fixing that
would be harder.k

 


title: Journalist, retaliation for reporting
uri: Journalist-retaliation-for-reporting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Journalist,_retaliation_for_reporting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Journalist,_retaliation_for_reporting)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/wv-journalist">West Virginia Journalist Fired in Alleged Retaliation Over Reporting</a>
 on Abuse in State [psychiatric] Facilities.*

 


title: Journalist fired for reporting, WV
uri: Journalist-fired-for-reporting-WV
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Journalist_fired_for_reporting,_WV)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Journalist_fired_for_reporting,_WV)

content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/wv-journalist">West Virginia Journalist Fired in Alleged Retaliation Over Reporting</a>
 on Abuse in State [psychiatric] Facilities.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Reporter_coercion,_Ukraine)
title: Reporter coercion, Ukraine
uri: Reporter-coercion-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Reporter_coercion,_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/12/29/matilde-kimer-ukraine/">*Danish Reporter Says Ukrainian Intelligence Tried to Coerce Her</a> Into
 Working as a Propagandist.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Land_theft,_Israel)
title: Land theft, Israel
uri: Land-theft-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Land_theft,_Israel)
content:
 
<p>

Human <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/israeli-government">
    rights advocates are alarmed about Israel's new governmemt</a>, the
most right-wing it has ever had, which is endorsing fascist, racist
and colonialist policies towards Palestine.
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/netanyahu-palestinian-land">
  Netanyahu has promised to legalize thefts of Palestinians' land</a>
carried out by private groups of Israelis, and to annex the whole West Bank.

I expect that the next goal after that will be to expel all
Palestinians, a few at a time so that it can deny the intention
to expel them all.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Surveillance,_iMonster_phones)
title: Surveillance, iMonster phones
uri: Surveillance-iMonster-phones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Surveillance,_iMonster_phones)
content:
 
<p>

iMonsters can be
<a href="https://www.makeuseof.com/iphone-can-be-tracked-even-when-powered-off/#:~:text=For%20up%20to%2024%20hours,even%20when%20it">tracked for 24 hours after being switched "off."</a>

The suthor of the article considers this harmless in and of itself, but
I disagree: simply recording your movements is harm.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Police_brutality,_Minneapolis)
title: Police brutality, Minneapolis
uri: Police-brutality-Minneapolis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Police_brutality,_Minneapolis)
content:
 
<p>

A Minneapolis thug faces major charges for beating up Jaleel Stallings
and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/29/us/minneapolis-police-justin-stetson-assault-charge/index.html">seriously injuring him, while Stallings was lying prone</a> on the
ground.

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/09/academy-nutrition-financial-ties-processed-food-companies-contributions">
It also has financial relationshops with major companies that would like to influence that policy</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Financial_influence,_US)
title: Financial influence, US
uri: Financial-influence-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(Financial_influence,_US)
content:
 
<p>

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is influential in nutrition policy
in the US.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/dec/09/academy-nutrition-financial-ties-processed-food-companies-contributions">
It also has financial relationshops with major companies that would like to influence that policy</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(End-to-end_encryption,_Apple)
title: End-to-end encryption, Apple
uri: End-to-end-encryption-Apple
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(End-to-end_encryption,_Apple)
content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/07/tech/apple-expands-encryption/index.html">
    Apple said it will implement end-to-end encryption for many purposes</a>,
including storing backups on Apple servers.
<p>
One can't really trust the security of this encryption, because it
will be done by nonfree software running in a nonfree operating
system.  There would be nothing to stop Apple from making that
software send Apple every encryption key the user uses.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(A_congressman's_campaign_debt)
title: A congressman's campaign debt
uri: A-congressman-s-campaign-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(A_congressman's_campaign_debt)
content:
 
<p>

A 28-year-old man, running for Congress, had to sleep on friends'
couches at the end of the campaign.  He won the election, and was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/08/maxwell-frost-florida-gen-z-dc-housing">rejected for an apartment in Washington because of his campaign debts</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_((Satire)_Landlord_racism)
title: (Satire) Landlord racism
uri: (Satire)-Landlord-racism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_((Satire)_Landlord_racism)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/d-c-landlord-clarifies-he-rejected-gen-z-congressman-b-1849876048">D.C. Landlord Clarifies He Rejected Gen Z Congressman Because
He’s Black</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(FDA_broke_rules_for_Aduhelm)
title: FDA broke rules for Aduhelm
uri: FDA-broke-rules-for-Aduhelm
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-sep-dec.html#31_December_2022_(FDA_broke_rules_for_Aduhelm)
content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/29/biogen-fda-alzheimers-aduhelm-congressional-report">The FDA disregarded its rules</a>
  to approve the super-expensive and
questionable Alzheimer's preventative, Aduhelm.


 


title: Urgent: Call on Biden administration to drop charges against Assange
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Biden-administration-to-drop-charges-against-Assange
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_administration_to_drop_charges_against_Assange)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_administration_to_drop_charges_against_Assange)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Biden administration to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/letters/publishing-is-not-a-crime-demand-the-biden-administration-respect-the-first-amendment-and-drop-the-prosecution-of-julian-assange-now">drop charges against
    Julian Assange</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Biden and DNC to prioritize battleground states for voting in primaries
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Biden-and-DNC-to-prioritize-battleground-states-for-vo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_and_DNC_to_prioritize_battleground_states_for_voting_in_primaries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_and_DNC_to_prioritize_battleground_states_for_voting_in_primaries)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on President Biden and the DNC <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-president-biden-and-the-dnc-dont-make-south-carolina-the-first-state-to-vote-prioritize-battleground-states-instead">not to make South Carolina the first state to vote in primaries</a>.  Prioritize
battleground states instead.

 


title: Urgent: Normalize relations with Cuba
uri: Urgent-Normalize-relations-with-Cuba
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(Urgent:_Normalize_relations_with_Cuba)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(Urgent:_Normalize_relations_with_Cuba)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/normalize_cuba">Normalize Relations with Cuba</a>.

 


title: EPA issued new definition of "waters of the United States"
uri: EPA-issued-new-definition-of-waters-of-the-United-States
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(EPA_issued_new_definition_of_waters_of_the_United_States)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(EPA_issued_new_definition_of_waters_of_the_United_States)

content:
 
<p>

  The EPA has issued a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/30/water-new-regulations-biden-administration-streams-wetlands">new definition</a> of "waters of the United States"
for the sake of the Clean Water Act.
<p>
Since this one would be an advance in regulating dangerous and
profitable pollution, polluters have already asked the Supreme Court
to toss out the whole thing.  The right-wing majority wants to transform
the United States into a subservient fiefdom full of powerless people
so that the rich can take more and more while poisoning more and more.
<p>
Although we can't do anything about this for the next two years, we
must aim to expand or shrink the Supreme Court to get rid of
its right-wing majority, and their <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#20_November_2021_(Gerrymandering)">gerrymandering</a>,
and their <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#31_October_2022_(Republicans_propose_federal_laws_to_make_voting_more_difficult)">voter suppression</a>.

 


title: UK corporations give visible holiday donations as publicity stunts
uri: UK-corporations-give-visible-holiday-donations-as-publicity-stunts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(UK_corporations_give_visible_holiday_donations_as_publicity_stunts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(UK_corporations_give_visible_holiday_donations_as_publicity_stunts)

content:
 
<p>

Many well-known large corporations in the UK <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/amazon-coca-cola-christmas-donations-scrooge/">give visible holiday
    donations as publicity stunts</a> to buy good opinion that their overall
actions do not deserve.

 


title: People in Santa Cruz region of Bolivia support right-wing politics
uri: People-in-Santa-Cruz-region-of-Bolivia-support-right-wing-politics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(People_in_Santa_Cruz_region_of_Bolivia_support_right-wing_politics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(People_in_Santa_Cruz_region_of_Bolivia_support_right-wing_politics)

content:
 
<p>

In Bolivia, most people in the Santa Cruz region actually <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/30/bolivians-demand-release-of-opposition-leader-luis-fernando-camacho">support
    right-wing politics</a>,
  including the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#19_September_2020_(US-backed_coup_against_Evo_Morales_in_Bolivia)">right-wing coups against President Morales.
  Their leader
has been arrested and accused of terrorism.
<p>
It would not surprise me at all if he aided the coup in a criminal
way, but the charge of terrorism is somewhat shocking, and I wonder
what concrete actions the alleged terrorism consists of.

 


title: Republicans remain silent over George Santos campaign lies
uri: Republicans-remain-silent-over-George-Santos-campaign-lies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(Republicans_remain_silent_over_George_Santos_campaign_lies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(Republicans_remain_silent_over_George_Santos_campaign_lies)

content:
 
<p>

  *Top Republicans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/30/george-santos-republican-congressman-investigation">remain silent</a> over George Santos campaign lies.*
  If you can stomach the <a href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">bullshitter</a>'s Big Lie, you'd hardly feel a
qualm about Santos's series of little lies.

 


title: Exiled chief rabbi says Jews should leave Russia
uri: Exiled-chief-rabbi-says-Jews-should-leave-Russia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(Exiled_chief_rabbi_says_Jews_should_leave_Russia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(Exiled_chief_rabbi_says_Jews_should_leave_Russia)

content:
 
<p>

  *Exiled chief rabbi says <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/30/exiled-chief-rabbi-jews-should-leave-russia-while-they-can-pinchas-goldschmidt-war-ukraine">Jews should leave Russia while they can</a>
&hellip; Jewish population will be made scapegoat for hardship caused
by war.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(Forecasting_in_economic_modeling)
title: Forecasting in economic modeling
uri: Forecasting-in-economic-modeling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(Forecasting_in_economic_modeling)
content:
 
<p>

Astrological forecasts were useful for monarchs even though astrology
was not valid as a means of predicting the future.  The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/30/escape-from-model-land-by-erica-thompson-review-the-power-and-pitfalls-of-prediction">same is true
    today for economic modeling</a>.

 


title: Italy's rules to slow down ships that rescue boat people
uri: Italy-s-rules-to-slow-down-ships-that-rescue-boat-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(Italy's_rules_to_slow_down_ships_that_rescue_boat_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(Italy's_rules_to_slow_down_ships_that_rescue_boat_people)

content:
 
<p>

Italy's right-wing government has made arbitrary rules to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/30/sea-rescue-charities-rebel-against-italian-anti-immigration-rules">slow down
    the operations of the ships</a> that rescue boat people.

 


title: Iran randomly selected and convicted five protesters
uri: Iran-randomly-selected-and-convicted-five-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(Iran_randomly_selected_and_convicted_five_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#1_January_2023_(Iran_randomly_selected_and_convicted_five_protesters)

content:
 
<p>

  Iran selected five protesters at random and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/dec/30/actor-doctor-engineer-stories-of-iranians-sentenced-to-death-over-killing-at-protest">convicted all of them</a> of helping to kill one of the "morality" thugs.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_(Corrupter's_tax_returns)
title: Corrupter's tax returns
uri: Corrupter-s-tax-returns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_(Corrupter's_tax_returns)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/31/business/trump-taxes-questions/index.html">Questions raised by the corrupter's tax return</a>s.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_((Satire)_Bacteria's_struggles,_FL)
title: (Satire) Bacteria's struggles, FL
uri: (Satire)-Bacteria-s-struggles-FL
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_((Satire)_Bacteria's_struggles,_FL)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *<a href="https://www.theonion.com/flesh-eating-bacteria-struggle-to-chew-through-leathery-1849888830">Flesh-Eating Bacteria Struggle To Chew Through Leathery Florida Residents</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_(Apple_competition,_EFF)
title: Apple competition, EFF
uri: Apple-competition-EFF
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_(Apple_competition,_EFF)
content:
 
<p>

The EFF warns of ways Apple could "permit competing app stores" but
make them useless for independent distribution of software -- or,
perhaps, useless specifically for the Free World.
<p>
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/heres-how-apple-could-open-its-app-store-without-really-opening-its-app-store
<p>
This is an important issue and the warning is important too.  Sad to
say, the article shows how little the EFF values users' freedom.
<blockquote>
   When Apple removes an app store for allegedly failing to meet its
   security obligations, it could take a long time to figure out whether
   the action was warranted, and during that delay, the suspended app
   store’s customers could lose access to the media they’ve purchased,
</blockquote>
If you have "purchased media" through an app, why in the world would
you "lose access to it" if that app ceases to function?  Is the EFF
assuming that the "media" is covered with digital shackles, so you
can't play said "media" except through a nonfree program that tracks
and restricts you?  It looks that way.  Even worse, EFF's statement
legitimizes such shackles.
<p>
Here we see the values that EFF's position is based on:
<blockquote>
   In the case of audiobooks, Apple uses its high fees to clear the field
   of competitors for its own product, Apple Books, which sells books that
   are permanently locked (through Digital Rights Management) to Apple’s
   platform.
<p>
   Incredibly, that’s the best outcome of Apple’s “app tax.” In other
   cases, companies simply pass on Apple’s commission to Apple’s customers
   by raising prices (since everyone who sells via an iOS app must pay the
   app tax, they all raise prices). Even that is better than the worst
   outcome, where products and services never come to market because they
   can’t be profitable after paying the app tax, and the products won’t
   sell if the app tax is added onto their sale price.
</blockquote>
The "worst outcome" according to the EFF would be the lack of some
sort of convenience.  In the digital world of today, much worse
outcomes are possible, and indeed likely.
<p>
The usual outcome of anything digital today is that it offers you all
the convenience you might want, but it snoops on, tracks, and
restricts the users.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_(Rape_laws,_Pakistan)
title: Rape laws, Pakistan
uri: Rape-laws-Pakistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_(Rape_laws,_Pakistan)
content:
 
<p>

*Anger as Pakistan
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/dec/30/pakistan-court-frees-rapist-after-he-agrees-deal-to-marry-his-victim">court frees rapist after he agrees deal to marry
his victim</a>.*
<p>
That law reflects the idea, shocking to us, that a woman is property
&mdash; initially property of her father, then later property of her
husband.  Rape of an unmarried woman damages her value as property, so
the rapist is required to compensate the father for the damage;
marrying her imposes that responsibility.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_(Avian_health,_fireworks)
title: Avian health, fireworks
uri: Avian-health-fireworks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_(Avian_health,_fireworks)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/dec/30/do-fireworks-harm-animals-we-ask-an-expert">Fireworks may cause harm to migrating birds</a>, especially when there are
fireworks over a wide area on the same night.
<p>
There are certain periods of the year in which birds mainly migrate.
It should be easy enough to avoid having more than isolated fireworks
presentations during those periods.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_((Satire)_Police_corruption)
title: (Satire) Police corruption
uri: (Satire)-Police-corruption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_((Satire)_Police_corruption)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *<a href="https://www.theonion.com/police-release-composite-sketch-of-what-they-would-pref-1849463399">Police Release Composite Sketch Of What They Would Prefer
Murder Suspect To Look Like</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_(Culture_war,_Ukraine)
title: Culture war, Ukraine
uri: Culture-war-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_(Culture_war,_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/dec/31/mikhail-bulgakov-museum-kyiv-calls-to-close">Some Ukrainian nationalists want to close the Mikhail Bulgakov museum</a>
in Kyiv, because he wrote about factions fighting over Kyiv during the
Russian revolution.
<p>
Putin's efforts to set up Ukrainian and Russian culture as mutually
exclusive and hostile reflects his totalitarian leanings.  It would be
a shame and a disaster for Ukraine to take a similar attitude.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_(Political_censorship,_Youtube)
title: Political censorship, Youtube
uri: Political-censorship-Youtube
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_(Political_censorship,_Youtube)
content:
 
<p>

When Youtube cut off RT TV's channel,
<a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/03/31/hedg-m31.html">it deleted years of past
programs</a> which were not simply Kremlin propaganda.
<p>
I disagree with some of the views expressed in that article,
but I trust its factual report.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_(Indigenous_politics,_Canada)
title: Indigenous politics, Canada
uri: Indigenous-politics-Canada
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#2_January_2023_(Indigenous_politics,_Canada)
content:
 
<p>

Indigenous political control of the
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/indigenous-protected-and-conserved-areas-canada">
Northwest Territories of Canada has opened the door to projects</a>
  to give protection to large areas of land.
<p>
To preserve the world's ecosystems requires doing this sort of work in
every region.  Protecting large areas in Canada won't make up for the
failure to protect the very different ecosystems of other regions.
Perhaps this energetic example can inspire people elsewhere.
<p>
However, in this article I also see something that looks like
prejudice.  I get the impression that the author admires
"indigenous-led conservation efforts" first of all for putting the
more worthy race in charge, and only secondly for conservation itself.
<p>
Protection of biodiversity is important regardless of who is in charge
  of it, but I don't like the prejudice.
  
 


title: EDRi on client-side-scanning censorship system
uri: EDRi-on-client-side-scanning-censorship-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(EDRi_on_client-side-scanning_censorship_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(EDRi_on_client-side-scanning_censorship_system)

content:
 
<p>

  EDRi <a href="https://edri.org/our-work/a-safe-internet-for-all-upholding-private-and-secure-communications/">rips the proposed European client-side-scanning</a> censorship system
to shreds.
<p>
  That proposed system is also referred to as <a href="https://chatcontrol.eu">"chatcontrol"</a>.

 


title: Environmental dangers of low Earth orbit satellites
uri: Environmental-dangers-of-low-Earth-orbit-satellites
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Environmental_dangers_of_low_Earth_orbit_satellites)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Environmental_dangers_of_low_Earth_orbit_satellites)

content:
 
<p>

Tens of thousands of satellites in low Earth orbit <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/seals-navigate-with-stars">pose environmental
    dangers</a>: disrupting star-tracking navigation by birds, insects and
seals, and filling the upper atmosphere with sunlight-blocking and
ozone-destroying aluminum oxide.

 


title: Social media triggers children to dislike their own bodies
uri: Social-media-triggers-children-to-dislike-their-own-bodies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Social_media_triggers_children_to_dislike_their_own_bodies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Social_media_triggers_children_to_dislike_their_own_bodies)

content:
 
<p>

  *Social media triggers children to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/01/social-media-triggers-children-to-dislike-their-own-bodies-says-study">dislike their own bodies</a>, says study.*
<p>
Even at age 12, 75% say they dislike their bodies.  Half the teenagers
have become withdrawn.

 


title: Extinction Rebellion drops "disruptive" protests
uri: Extinction-Rebellion-drops-disruptive-protests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Extinction_Rebellion_drops_disruptive_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Extinction_Rebellion_drops_disruptive_protests)

content:
 
<p>

Extinction Rebellion in the UK has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/01/extinction-rebellion-announces-move-away-from-disruptive-tactics">dropped its practice of
    "disruptive" protests</a> in the face of long prison sentences for
nonviolent protest.
<p>
I can't criticize the leaders of Extinction Rebellion &mdash; but this is a
victory for repression, and <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a> world-wide will take note.

 


title: Hard to believe, but things are getting better
uri: Hard-to-believe-but-things-are-getting-better
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Hard_to_believe,_but_things_are_getting_better)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Hard_to_believe,_but_things_are_getting_better)

content:
 
<p>

Robert Reich: *It’s hard to believe, but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2023/jan/01/things-are-getting-better-keep-fighting-2023">things are getting
    better</a>. They will continue to if we keep up the fight.*

 


title: Chinese propaganda around Covid deaths is failing
uri: Chinese-propaganda-around-Covid-deaths-is-failing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Chinese_propaganda_around_Covid_deaths_is_failing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Chinese_propaganda_around_Covid_deaths_is_failing)

content:
 
<p>

  Chinese propaganda <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/01/chinas-president-xi-battles-to-save-face-as-covid-u-turn-weakens-his-grip-on-power">tries and fails</a> to convince the Chinese that Chinese
aren't dying from Covid.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Lula's_foreign_policy)
title: Lula's foreign policy
uri: Lula-s-foreign-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Lula's_foreign_policy)
content:
 
<p>

  *Lula's foreign policy? <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/01/brazil-lula-foreign-policy-multipolar-world">Encouraging a multipolar world</a>.*
<p>
In the long term, I think that is a wise policy, provided it is done
cleverly to avoid a pitfall.  The pitfall is that of treating various
rival powers alike, while some of them find ways to take advantage of
Brazil's neutrality to gain advantage over other powers.
<p>
In the short term, though, I think this should not extend to countries
that are actually fighting wars of conquest.

 


title: Proposal to prohibit algorithms recommend "harmful" messages
uri: Proposal-to-prohibit-algorithms-recommend-harmful-messages
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Proposal_to_prohibit_algorithms_recommend_harmful_messages)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Proposal_to_prohibit_algorithms_recommend_harmful_messages)

content:
 
<p>

Labour proposes to prohibit discussion platforms from having
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jan/01/labour-pledges-toughen-online-safety-bill">recommendation algorithms that promote "harmful" messages</a> &mdash; without
actually censoring these messages.
<p>
This is the approach I have advocated; I am glad they are considering this
rather than banning such messages.

 


title: Italy's rules on ships that rescue migrants from boats at sea
uri: Italy-s-rules-on-ships-that-rescue-migrants-from-boats-at-sea
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Italy's_rules_on_ships_that_rescue_migrants_from_boats_at_sea)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Italy's_rules_on_ships_that_rescue_migrants_from_boats_at_sea)

content:
 
<p>

  Italy's right-wing government has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/meloni-crackdown-ngo">imposed impossible rules</a>
on ships that rescue migrants from small boats at sea.
  The point of the rules is to be a monkey wrench in the 
ships' engines, so that they can't save very many.

 


title: Bainimarama continues to threaten Fiji with a coup
uri: Bainimarama-continues-to-threaten-Fiji-with-a-coup
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Bainimarama_continues_to_threaten_Fiji_with_a_coup)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Bainimarama_continues_to_threaten_Fiji_with_a_coup)

content:
 
<p>

  Bainimarama continues to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/03/dramatic-change-severe-obstacles-fiji-enters-2023-with-a-new-government-but-many-of-the-same-problems">threaten Fiji with a coup</a>, having previously
imposed a constitution which authorizes the military to overthrow any
government.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#4_January_2023_(National_standing,_Russia)
title: National standing, Russia
uri: National-standing-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#4_January_2023_(National_standing,_Russia)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/01/europe/putin-ukraine-war-shift-europe-security-intl-cmd/index.html">Comments on Europe's strategic situation</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#4_January_2023_(Wolf_cull,_Sweden)
title: Wolf cull, Sweden
uri: Wolf-cull-Sweden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#4_January_2023_(Wolf_cull,_Sweden)
content:
 
<p>

Sweden is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/02/huge-swedish-wolf-hunt-will-be-disastrous-for-species-warn-experts">planning to kill half of its small wolf population</a>.
  The population is already so small that that will put
its genetic health in danger.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Poverty_levels,_UK)
title: Poverty levels, UK
uri: Poverty-levels-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Poverty_levels,_UK)
content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/02/more-than-third-of-uk-adults-would-struggle-to-find-extra-20">More than a third of UK adults</a>
  would struggle to find extra £20 [per month].*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Social_cohesion,_US)
title: Social cohesion, US
uri: Social-cohesion-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Social_cohesion,_US)
content:
 
<p>

American <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/02/america-social-recession-less-friends-sex-mental-health">society is evolving towards more loneliness and less
    connection</a>
of every kind.  Today's use of the internet seems to be
accelerating this change.
<p>
My personal impression is that the spaces of possible friendship and
possible love have been somehow poisoned, so that what you can find in
them isn't quite friendship or love any more.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Young_offender_prisons)
title: Young offender prisons
uri: Young-offender-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Young_offender_prisons)
content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/02/philosophy-children-prison-moral-anger-young-lives-wasted-politicians">Teaching philosophy in a [minors'] prison</a>
   has shown me the meaning of anger.*
<p>
It's a side issue, but please don't refer to 15-year-olds as
"<a class="glossary" href="/antiglossary.html#children">children</a>".
  They are teenagers &mdash; adolescents.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Young_offender_prisons,_anger)
title: Young offender prisons, anger
uri: Young-offender-prisons-anger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Young_offender_prisons,_anger)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/02/philosophy-children-prison-moral-anger-young-lives-wasted-politicians">Teaching philosophy in a [minors'] prison has shown me the meaning of anger.</a>*

It's a side issue, but please don't refer to 15-year-olds as
"<a class="glossary" href="/antiglossary.html#children">children</a>".
  They are teenagers &mdash; adolescents.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Work_strikes_prohibited,_UK)
title: Work strikes prohibited, UK
uri: Work-strikes-prohibited-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Work_strikes_prohibited,_UK)
content:
 
<p>

The Tories plan laws to prohibit strikes in the usual sense of the
word, for a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jan/02/unions-expected-to-take-legal-action-against-rishi-sunaks-anti-strike-laws">wide range of industrial activities considered "essential"</a>
and whose workers are therefore unable to get by.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Banning_women,_Afghanistan)
title: Banning women, Afghanistan
uri: Banning-women-Afghanistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_January_2023_(Banning_women,_Afghanistan)
content:
 
<p>

Forbidding women from working for NGOs has made
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/02/the-guardian-view-on-afghanistans-suffering-the-war-against-women">humanitarian aid in
  Afghanistan impossible &mdash; those tens of thousands of workers</a>
were essential for them to operate.

 


title: Chagos Islands control negotiations
uri: Chagos-Islands-control-negotiations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Chagos_Islands_control_negotiations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Chagos_Islands_control_negotiations)

content:
 
<p>
Mauritius and the UK are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/02/chagos-islanders-demand-say-as-uk-mauritius-sovereignty-talks-begin">negotiating over control</a> of the Chagos
islands.
The Chagosians, who were kicked out of their home in the
1960s, want to be consulted.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Automobile_security)
title: Automobile security
uri: Automobile-security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Automobile_security)
content:
 
<p>
Hackers discovered <a href="https://samcurry.net/web-hackers-vs-the-auto-industry/">dozens of flaws in the security</a> (in the usual
narrow sense) of many brands of automobiles.
<p>
Security in the usual narrow sense means security against unknown
third parties.
<p>
I am more concerned with security in the broader sense -- against the
manufacturer as well as against unknown third parties.  It is clear that each
of these vulnerabilities can be exploited by the manufacturer too,
and by any government that can threaten the manufacturer enough to
compel the manufacturer's cooperation.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Jordan_Trengove)
title: Jordan Trengove
uri: Jordan-Trengove
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Jordan_Trengove)
content:
 
<p>
Jordan Trengove, a man with no particular power or fame, was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/03/i-went-downhill-man-falsely-accused-of-on-becoming-a-hate-figure">falsely
accused of rape in 2019</a>.  Eager cancellationists joined in hounding
him everywhere, driving him to move to a different town, and almost to
suicide.
They ignored him when he said that accusation was not true -- until
it was proved in court that it was totally a lie.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Climate_obstacles)
title: Climate obstacles
uri: Climate-obstacles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Climate_obstacles)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/save-the-planet">obstacles to avoiding climate disaster mount up</a>, and Republican
saboteurs have taken more power.  But we must not give up!
Giving up ensures defeat.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Cultures_swept_away)
title: Cultures swept away
uri: Cultures-swept-away
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Cultures_swept_away)
content:
 
<p>
Indigenous cultures are being <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/03/forgotten-songs-collective-saving-music-biate-indian-hill-tribe-global-audience">swept away by the world's seductive
mass cultures</a>.  The young people are not interested
in their ancestors' culture, so they don't learn it.
<p>
Hundreds of cultures are being forgotten in this way.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Covid_imports)
title: Covid imports
uri: Covid-imports
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Covid_imports)
content:
 
<p>
Scientific advice on what countries should do to avoid being harmed by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/03/china-is-now-the-epicentre-of-covid-the-world-should-be-watching-and-testing">Covid-19 cases imported</a> from China.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Noise_pollution)
title: Noise pollution
uri: 2023-01-05-Noise-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Noise_pollution)
content:
 
<p>
Aquatic plants have a sense of hearing, which they depend on for
simple orientation.  Loud noises generated by human activity can
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/03/noise-pollution-is-a-menace-to-humanity-and-a-deadly-threat-to-animals">damage their hearing and perhaps kill them</a>.
<p>
Loud sounds can also kill zooplankton and fish embryos.
<p>
Since any additional fossil fuel reserves are useless (to extract all
the reserves we already know about would be suicidal), and since
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Mining_sea_floor_for_valuable_metals)">mining the sea floor causes other dangers</a>,
Prohibiting seismic surveys in bodies of water seems indicated as a
first step.  Other not-quite-so-loud sounds may also require action.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(George_Santos_prosecution_resumed)
title: George Santos prosecution resumed
uri: George-Santos-prosecution-resumed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(George_Santos_prosecution_resumed)
content:
 
<p>
Brazil has resumed prosecuting across-the-board liar George Santos of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/03/george-santos-brazil-reactivates-fraud-case">a fraud that he more or less admitted committing</a>,
now that the prosecutors know where to find him.
They plan to ask the US to extradite him.
<p>
Santos embodies more than any other person the spirit of the
Republican Party.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Cigarette_butts)
title: Cigarette butts
uri: Cigarette-butts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Cigarette_butts)
content:
 
<p>
Spain is pushing to reduce the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/03/tobacco-companies-cleaning-up-cigarette-butts-spain">enormous environmental impact</a> of
discarded cigarette butts, which nowadays are made of plastic.

<p>
 


title: Republicans fighting over speaker of the House
uri: Republicans-fighting-over-speaker-of-the-House
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Republicans_fighting_over_speaker_of_the_House)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_January_2023_(Republicans_fighting_over_speaker_of_the_House)

content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich: *Republicans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/03/republicans-house-speaker-party-loses">fight over speaker of the House</a> -- but
whoever wins, the party loses.*

<p>
 


