# articles

feed_id: 6d99f2a9dcebf95fa433e1be85d0f68d
title: EU: pesticide ban
uri: EU-pesticide-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28EU%3A_pesticide_ban%29
content:
<p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/27/eu-agrees-total-ban-on-bee-harming-pesticides">EU will ban neonicotinoid pesticides</a> to protect bees (and other wildlife).  There is an exception for greenhouses, because the pesticides can't get out of the greenhouse and into soil, water, and bees.</p>
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feed_id: 668f4206167b7bb4f7b1a0642850d604
title: Syria: home confiscating
uri: Syria-home-confiscating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Syria%3A_home_confiscating%29
content:
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/26/10m-syrians-at-risk-of-forfeiting-homes-under-new-property-law">Assad plans to confiscate the homes of Syrians that have fled</a>.</p>
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feed_id: 2167bc1d36fb4a390e51b29301b0853f
title: Bulldoze business school
uri: Bulldoze-business-school
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Bulldoze_business_school%29
content:
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/27/bulldoze-the-business-school">Why We Should Bulldoze the Business School</a>, by a business-school professor.  The hidden curriculum of the business school is always that the rich should be able to get richer, and that "capitalist market managerialism" is the only solution regardless of what the problem is. Students learn to seek as much money as possible, and never mind the cost to others.</p>
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feed_id: 741503de636d71ec4c1019fc48346209
title: Anthony Ray Hinton on Death Row
uri: Anthony-Ray-Hinton-on-Death-Row
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Anthony_Ray_Hinton_on_Death_Row%29
content:
<p>Anthony Ray Hinton: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/27/anthony-ray-hinton-death-row-a-legal-lynching-alabama-crime">How I Got 30 Years on Death Row for Someone Else's Crime</a>.</p>
<p>Republicans want to "streamline" executions so that people like Hinton will be executed before they get a fair retrial.</p>
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feed_id: 9177469ef64e2b157cc663d0394d3271
title: Urgent: Rent hikes
uri: Urgent-Rent-hikes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Rent_hikes%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/congress-reject-trumps-rent-hikes-and-fully-fund-hud-2?nowrapper=true">tell Congress</a> to reject Trump's Rent Hikes and Fully Fund
HUD.


feed_id: 99e5f752453214662d406fe5b2431085
title: Urgent: National Environmental Policy Act
uri: 2018-06-05-Urgent-National-Environmental-Policy-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_National_Environmental_Policy_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Defend_NEPA">call for protecting</a> the National Environmental Policy Act.


feed_id: 85935db917aa888ee92c7b6203485428
title: Urgent: Refugees' children
uri: Urgent-Refugees-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Refugees%27_children%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://www.aclu.org/issues/call-senators-stop-dhs-separating-children">phone your senators</a> to ask them to stop the Department of
Harshness and Suffering from taking refugees' children away.


feed_id: 35fcd18af1414682236698d37d358853
title: Urgent: Coverage of Palestine
uri: Urgent-Coverage-of-Palestine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Coverage_of_Palestine%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-palestine/">Call on US media</a> to cover the occupation of Palestine accurately.


feed_id: cae4db127bfddc1059e081785b5c55bf
title: Margaret Atwood on reality
uri: Margaret-Atwood-on-reality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Margaret_Atwood_on_reality%29
content:
<p>
Margaret Atwood says she expects reality to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/margaret-atwood-women-will-bear-brunt-of-dystopian-climate-future">resemble her fictional
dystopias</a>.
<p>
Some predict the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_July_2016_(Existential_Risks_Are_More_Likely_to_Kill_You_Than_Terrorism)">extinction of humanity</a>.
I don't think
things will go that far, since humans are very good at surviving even
in horrible conditions.  But I think it is likely that the living will
envy the dead, at least until 40 years have gone by, by which time
nearly all surviving humans have no idea what there was to envy.


feed_id: ffff9bf643a1842c9ff95a580845159f
title: Airbnb in Maryland
uri: Airbnb-in-Maryland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Airbnb_in_Maryland%29
content:
<p>
Maryland is trying to hamper Airbnb by <a href="https://reason.com/archives/2018/05/31/why-does-maryland-hate-airbnb">requiring additional surveillance</a>
of its customers.
<p>
The surveillance of Airbnb &mdash; and of hotels &mdash; is already so
much that I stay away.


feed_id: 29972a0530c75015a8d5b90d6dcaec3f
title: Making antibiotics
uri: Making-antibiotics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Making_antibiotics%29
content:
<p>
The concentration of manufacture of antibiotics <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/may/31/antibiotic-resistance-crisis-worsening-because-of-collapse-in-supply">puts everyone in
danger</a> when anything goes wrong in one manufacturer.
<p>
A sensible (non-plutocratist) government would explicitly ensure there
are more sources.


feed_id: a6d81e54e16d306056448ebc622172f1
title: Supermarket surveillance
uri: Supermarket-surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Supermarket_surveillance%29
content:
<p>
Some UK supermarkets now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/31/benefits-claimants-fear-supermarkets-spy-poor-disabled">surveil their customers</a> for the thugs, whenever
the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> or other government agencies ask.
The result is to turn life into a miasma of suspicion.
<p>
Surveillance like this should be explicitly forbidden except when
ordered by a court for specific suspects.


feed_id: 3d767921a9f22cd8d511ef75bf1c3289
title: Pipeline required by treaty
uri: Pipeline-required-by-treaty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Pipeline_required_by_treaty%29
content:
<p>
Canada agreed to a business-supremacy treaty with China that requires
building the Unkinder Morgan pipeline.  The penalty for not doing so
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/31/justin-trudeau-kinder-morgan-pipeline-china-did-he-fear-being-sued">could be even more billions</a> than the cost of building the pipeline,
and the government might pay it secretly.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/business-supremacy-treaties.html">Business-supremacy treaties</a>
subjugate all the countries that agree to them, so we must
cancel all those treaties.


feed_id: d4d5d9dc96258a6a1636841e5d95838e
title: Freedom of speech
uri: 2018-06-05-Freedom-of-speech
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Freedom_of_speech%29
content:
<p>
Freedom of speech does not imply entitlement to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/31/tommy-robinson-freedom-of-speech-far-right">use anyone else's amplifier</a>
for that speech.
<p>
It is true that the right-wing extremists of today don't respect the
freedom of speech of those they disagree with.  Nonetheless, if we
were to prohibit their views outright, their governmental sponsors
such as the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a> would surely take the opportunity to ban our views.


feed_id: db85aee4a0bace04f352de2f2102bff9
title: Yemeni port
uri: Yemeni-port
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Yemeni_port%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>
may soon <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/31/battle-for-rebel-held-yemen-port-may-trigger-humanitarian-disaster">besiege the Yemeni port</a> where 80% of relief
supplies arrive.


feed_id: 6512c1ef42c6a111a43013aec6119f99
title: California net neutrality
uri: 2018-06-05-California-net-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28California_net_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
California is <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/california-senate-defies-att-votes-for-strict-net-neutrality-rules/">adopting stricter net neutrality rules</a> than those the
FCC has eliminated.


feed_id: a19511938cfc5e710359c5b3c6946aaa
title: Student protest in Puerto Rico
uri: Student-protest-in-Puerto-Rico
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Student_protest_in_Puerto_Rico%29
content:
<p>
Students at the University of Puerto Rico <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/05/31/university-of-puerto-rico-protests/">face prosecution</a> for a
protest a year ago.


feed_id: 92b68cf9938cf51bbec5a50c3fadcc76
title: Effects of binge drinking
uri: Effects-of-binge-drinking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Effects_of_binge_drinking%29
content:
<p>
Binge drinking can be fatal.  Or it can <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/may/30/one-weekend-bender-can-ruin-your-life-pancreatitis">cause chronic pancreatitis</a>.


feed_id: 9b261bd514906bc79db498e6ed5b013d
title: Controlling Italy
uri: Controlling-Italy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Controlling_Italy%29
content:
<p>
How the right-wing justifies controlling the Italian state in the name
of <a href="https://slate.com/business/2018/05/italy-euro-crisis-how-likely-is-the-worst-case-scenario.html">avoiding a "crisis"</a>.
<p>
The author is clearly a supporter of banksterism; he aims to convince
Italians to surrender meekly.
<p>
However, the only peaceful way to make the Euro zone boa constrictor
let go of Italy is to threaten a crisis that will hurt the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bankster">banksters</a>
too.  If they don't want a catastrophe, they should stop imposing one
on Italy (and Greece!).


feed_id: 22dbec2196ec6cdfdd47025ca095fa79
title: Ambien does not cause racism
uri: Ambien-does-not-cause-racism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Ambien_does_not_cause_racism%29
content:
<p>
The manufacturer of Ambien says that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/may/30/roseanne-ambien-racism-tweet-side-effect-response-sanofi">racism is not a known side-effect</a>.


feed_id: 23736f7de389d04e83b7bedaa6c1d39e
title: UK's hostile environment
uri: UK-s-hostile-environment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28UK%27s_hostile_environment%29
content:
<p>
The scandal of the UK's intentional "hostile environment" for
unauthorized immigrants has caused it to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/30/windrush-scandal-how-changed-uk-immigration-system">drop some aspects of the
policy</a>.


feed_id: e7d638cf120b64e8fa22f892a1b00b10
title: Making unauthorized immigrants suffer
uri: Making-unauthorized-immigrants-suffer
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Making_unauthorized_immigrants_suffer%29

content:
<p>
The bully has made it official policy to cause unauthorized immigrants <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-the-trump-administration-got-comfortable-separating-immigrant-kids-from-their-parents">as
much suffering as possible</a>, even making babies suffer so as to cause their
parents to suffer.
<p>
The people who do these jobs are sadists, and that should go on their records
so that they can't get employment dealing with the public.  If they work in
a warehouse they won't be able to inflict their sadism on anyone.


feed_id: 6f95e031704f044c99ef191467d678f6
title: Bank investments
uri: Bank-investments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_June_2018_%28Bank_investments%29
content:
<p>
The Federal Reserve is proposing to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/may/30/volcker-rule-federal-reserve-ease-regulations">loosen the regulations</a> on banks
own investments, to encourage the banks that don't do much of this to
do more.
<p>
Allowing a bank to do any of this is a motor for corruption; it should be
completely forbidden, as it was by the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-sep-dec.html#14%20November%202009%20(Consequences%20of%20repealing%20the%20Glass-Steagall%20Act)">Glass-Steagall Act</a>.


feed_id: 24bed1c04ee768303e45380fbc58ea63
title: Urgent: Disney employee pay
uri: Urgent-Disney-employee-pay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Disney_employee_pay%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="https://go.berniesanders.com/page/s/disney-greed">call on Disney</a> to pay all employees at least $15 per hour.


feed_id: d821ebce9ac727908388907601f70ac4
title: Urgent: Children taken away
uri: Urgent-Children-taken-away
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Children_taken_away%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/where-are-the-children?nowrapper=true">tell the government</a> to stop taking children away from
border-crossing parents.


feed_id: 8f6849b03849d2995dc9bbb4f3518b2e
title: Disability and assisted suicide
uri: Disability-and-assisted-suicide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Disability_and_assisted_suicide%29
content:
<p>
Disabled people in the UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/01/disabled-people-assisted-dying-safeguards-pressure">fear the legalization</a> of assisted suicide.
They expect to be pressured into suicide by a state that saves money
by leaving them totally helpless.
<p>
There is no fundamental conflict between providing the disabled with
what they need for a decent life, if that is possible, and giving
people a way out of a life which is inevitably hell.  To do both, we
need to put an end to plutocracy.


feed_id: af75af95bdf19a639a82d135e9c77591
title: Shot by border thugs
uri: Shot-by-border-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Shot_by_border_thugs%29
content:
<p>
US border <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> shot refugee Claudia Patricia Gómez González dead,
then told various stories to create an excuse.  They said that the
refugees were "rushing" them.
<p>
The other witnesses <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/31/guatemala-migrant-shot-us-immigration-border-patrol">have been jailed</a> and can't be found.
<p>
It turns out that border thugs have a <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/01/border-patrol-agent-assault-statistics-fbi/">made a practice of grossly
exaggerating</a> the frequency of "assaults" against them.


feed_id: 8b2e35515ea27a49aef0c74a5e5852c0
title: Suing journalists in UK
uri: Suing-journalists-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Suing_journalists_in_UK%29
content:
<p>
Rich people and politicians from many countries choose the UK as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/01/murdered-maltese-reporter-faced-threat-of-libel-action-in-uk">the
place to sue critical journalists</a> so as to silence them.


feed_id: f5cfb1df7d103a2d60657cb23b17d582
title: Possibility of peace
uri: Possibility-of-peace
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Possibility_of_peace%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: Israel converted Gaza into an enemy, but that enemy now
offers a 40-year truce that it will certainly not break.  <a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1527857702/">Will Israel
dare tolerate</a> the possibility of peace?


feed_id: 74a3cb6e19f624634da898846eba9a12
title: Election cheating
uri: Election-cheating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Election_cheating%29
content:
<p>
This year's congressional election will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/31/aging-paperless-voting-machines-hotly-contested-districts-stoke-fears-ahead-midterms">remain vulnerable to cheating</a> through
computerized voting machines.


feed_id: 906dcdfc8dacc2ee6c3f607fdd06a926
title: Investigation of China deals
uri: Investigation-of-China-deals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Investigation_of_China_deals%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/31/amid-signs-cronyism-nepotism-and-conflicts-interest-watchdog-demands-probe-trump-zte">Calling for House and Senate investigations</a> of the Trump family's prima facie
corruption in deals with China.
<p>
The cheater is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/31/democrats-demand-oversight-hearing-trump-white-house-stonewalls-gao-investigators">refusing to cooperate</a> with the Government
Accountability Office.


feed_id: 7b74711f4008726712b761ee6580f503
title: Tax on 'social media use'
uri: Tax-on-social-media-use
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Tax_on_%27social_media_use%27%29
content:
<p>
Uganda has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/01/social-media-use-taxed-in-uganda-to-tackle-gossip">put a tax on "social media use"</a> to discourage citizens from
communicating with anyone.


feed_id: 67c7aecc4ae7b1819dfcfc5549987ba2
title: Economy minister of Italy
uri: Economy-minister-of-Italy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Economy_minister_of_Italy%29
content:
<p>
Italy's two governing parties have agreed to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/31/italys-populist-leaders-strike-deal-resurrect-coalition">replace the proposed
economy minister</a> that was vetoed because he was willing simply to
think about separating Italy from the euro.
<p>
I think that reforming the euro-zone rules would be better
than pulling Italy and Greece out of the euro zone.  However,
as long as governments are unwilling to threaten to leave,
the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bankster">banksters</a> won't even consider reforming the rules.


feed_id: f00b4ef4f74fbf4c7c5541af0e9521d5
title: Abortion rights in Ireland
uri: Abortion-rights-in-Ireland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Abortion_rights_in_Ireland%29
content:
<p>
Protesters in Northern Ireland <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/31/pro-choice-activists-take-abortion-pills-belfast-protest">demand abortion rights</a> such as women in
the Irish Republic will soon have.


feed_id: 930fc154604486738fa653dfc60fdbf6
title: Protests in Nicaragua
uri: Protests-in-Nicaragua
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Protests_in_Nicaragua%29
content:
<p>
Nicaragua's suppression forces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/31/nicaragua-peace-talks-daniel-ortega-abandoned-mothers-day-protest">killed 11 more protesters</a> in a massive
demonstration led by mothers of protesters previously killed.


feed_id: 311fa0e78ecf79a542481cd2a1171d16
title: 4 cents awarded in damages
uri: 4-cents-awarded-in-damages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%284_cents_awarded_in_damages%29
content:
<p>
Florida <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> killed a black man over nothing but their own imagination
and panic.  Relatives sued, and a jury <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2018/05/31/whats-black-life-worth-trumps-america-four-bucks-evidently-oops-scratch-four">awarded them 4 cents in damages</a>.


feed_id: 1be822d108480778b54521888fdfb0c9
title: Offshore windfarms and fish
uri: Offshore-windfarms-and-fish
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Offshore_windfarms_and_fish%29
content:
<p>
Offshore windfarms off the Netherlands are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/01/dutch-fishermen-to-sail-fleet-into-amsterdam-in-wind-turbine-protest">driving away fish</a>.
<p>
If the species found in the area are not threatened overall, I think
the renewable electricity is more important than the fishing in that
area.
<p>
However, it is worth looking for ways to reduce the impact.  There may
be an alternative to pile driving as a way to emplace the wind
turbines.  Also, taller turbine poles could reduce the electromagnetic
fields that reach the water.


feed_id: 796a3e8f81e86b416dba64df1cecbb32
title: Nightmare for lawful immigrants
uri: Nightmare-for-lawful-immigrants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Nightmare_for_lawful_immigrants%29
content:
<p>
A lawful immigrant to the UK was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/31/a-shadow-of-myself-the-home-office-lost-records-and-ruined-lives">dropped into a Kafkaesque nightmare</a> when
the government lost her passport and then made impossible requirements for
her to get another one.
<p>
She has been destitute for 10 years.
<p>
This sort of thing has happened to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/31/vital-immigration-papers-lost-by-uk-home-office">thousands of people</a>.
<p>
Everyone makes mistakes.  However, when a system punishes the victims
of its mistakes, that's inexcusable.  One must suspect that the agency
does this because it was directed to create a "hostile environment".


feed_id: af01260b2cbca4dbd8e5cf0fef52be8d
title: Inauguration protesters
uri: 2018-06-06-Inauguration-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Inauguration_protesters%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/31/victory-dissent-government-drops-charges-against-group-j20-protesters">A judge dropped charges</a> against some inauguration protesters because
US prosecutors were shown to have violated their right to a fair
trial.


feed_id: c69e00b2c0b95bc60bd6f887117fe00d
title: Ruling on US torture bases
uri: Ruling-on-US-torture-bases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Ruling_on_US_torture_bases%29
content:
<p>
13 years later, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the
countries that allowed the US to operate torture bases on their
territory <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/05/31/eu-anti-torture-ruling-shows-need-uk-public-inquiry">acted illegally</a>.


feed_id: a01cdafd6eb17399e426ec4bbfe51a11
title: Republican-appointed judges
uri: Republican-appointed-judges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Republican-appointed_judges%29
content:
<p>
Federal judges appointed by Republicans tend to be 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/30/1768212/-Now-there-s-proof-Republican-judges-are-more-racist-A-lot-more-racist">biased
against blacks</a>.


feed_id: 65e0c796bafd7c6a2dbcfff11532ec22
title: Children
uri: Children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Children%29
content:
<p>
Debunking 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/may/31/truth-about-only-children-insular-confident-worry">myths</a>
that pressure people that have one child to make another child.


feed_id: 81dcca381d41cdb89a628e55da4baf36
title: Charter schools
uri: 2018-06-06-Charter-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Charter_schools%29
content:
<p>
A plan for increasing charter schools in North Carolina is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/05/31/new-charter-school-plan-should-alarm-nation">designed
so that they will be segregated</a>.


feed_id: d78074d0025d4982d89abb46d84823e3
title: Facebook age-discriminating job ads
uri: Facebook-age-discriminating-job-ads
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Facebook_age-discriminating_job_ads%29

content:
<p>
Workers are suing Facebook for its 
<a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/5/31/17408884/facebook-amazon-job-ads-age-discrimination-lawsuit">age-discriminating
job ads</a>, as well as the companies that buy the targeted ads.


feed_id: d7d17514968829bcb77b29f97aaad756
title: Amazon warehouse staff
uri: Amazon-warehouse-staff
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Amazon_warehouse_staff%29
content:
<p>
Amazon works its warehouse staff to the point of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/may/31/amazon-accused-of-treating-uk-warehouse-staff-like-robots">sickness
and even death</a>.


feed_id: 5df82047bf4e7d7d1649d2afe2098a2b
title: Virginia approves expansion of Medicaid
uri: Virginia-approves-expansion-of-Medicaid
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Virginia_approves_expansion_of_Medicaid%29

content:
<p>
Virginia has 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/31/imposed-work-requirements-taint-medicaid-expansion-victory-virginia">approved
expansion of Medicaid</a> &mdash; that is, participation in part of
Obama's medical care program.
<p>
Republicans fight to the death to prevent expansion of Medicaid
&mdash; poor people's death, that is.  Republicans oppose this program
on principle because it provides government help to people who they
believe aren't rich enough to deserve it.  But they also oppose it
more specifically because it was a victory for Democrats.


feed_id: d21b56096ad147c656841e2abecdde44
title: Military drones
uri: Military-drones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Military_drones%29
content:
<p>
Leaked Emails Show Google 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/05/31/google-leaked-emails-drone-ai-pentagon-lucrative/">Expected
Lucrative Military Drone AI Work to Grow Exponentially</a>.
<p>
As far as I'm concerned, what's important here is not which company
does the work, but the danger to society of drone bombing with or
without AI.


feed_id: 49f1c754ac6d7a81f9f39fec15ee17e4
title: Rohingya
uri: Rohingya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Rohingya%29
content:
<p>
The UN has made a deal that would eventually 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/jun/01/myanmar-and-un-announce-deal-for-safe-return-of-rohingya">enable
some of the Rohingya to return to Burma</a>.  However, if the majority
of Rohingya, who don't have any papers, are excluded, it isn't much of
a deal.


feed_id: 050af1948104d1540428b84390aba6b2
title: Assange
uri: 2018-06-06-Assange
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Assange%29
content:
<p>
Assange will be welcome to stay in the Ecuadorian embassy 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/may/31/julian-assange-ecuador-president-lenin-moreno">provided
he avoids making political statements</a>.


feed_id: 319fffeaa2c5ab3e404e40948e59d5a8
title: Protection of nature
uri: Protection-of-nature
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Protection_of_nature%29
content:
<p>
New Zealand aims to eliminate some introduced predators &mdash; rats,
possums, and stoats &mdash; to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/01/save-kiwi-new-zealand-protect-bird-species">protect
kiwis and other native birds</a>.
<p>
We exaggerate the extent to which native peoples actively protected
nature.  Humans have a tendency to hunt animals to extinction, until
they learn better.  It was the Maori that wiped out the moas, and
presumably the aboriginals of Australia that wiped out the giant bird
Dromornis, and presumably the Malagasy that wiped out the elephant
birds.
<p>
Fortunately, humans can also learn to protect nature.  In the 1700s,
European traders organized a system of territories to limit hunting of
beavers in Canada, so that the natives wouldn't hunt them to
extinction and bring the profitable beaver fur trade to a halt.  This
was good for all the humans involved, as well as for the beavers as a
species.
<p>
The question is whether today's civilization can learn to protect
nature and work hard enough to succeed in doing it.
<p>
2050 might be fine as a target for eliminating those predators from
New Zealand, if civilization continues so that New Zealand remains
able to carry out the plan.  But that slow time scale offers plenty of
time for something to happen that would bring the effort to a halt.
<p>
Meanwhile, what about the cats?  Domestic and feral cats kill
tremendous numbers of birds, all around the world, including
endangered birds.
<p>
The world is full of eco-menaces that humans actively keep in check.
These include invasive species, pollution in the ground, and nuclear
waste.  If technological civilization falls, there will still be
humans (I expect), but they won't have the means to stop these menaces
from spreading.


feed_id: e9c0da5d93856f35d5f122b968380120
title: Sun cream labeling
uri: Sun-cream-labeling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Sun_cream_labeling%29
content:
<p>
The system for labeling sun cream is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/01/britons-risking-skin-damage-and-cancer-due-to-suncare-ignorance">confusing</a>,
so most people misunderstand it.
<p>
Correcting this should not be left to the good will of companies.


feed_id: ddb500573b4f8283cd586690b21f4237
title: Obstruction of justice by violent thug
uri: Obstruction-of-justice-by-violent-thug
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Obstruction_of_justice_by_violent_thug%29

content:
<p>
A New Jersey <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/01/police-officer-woman-beach-punched-new-jersey-emily-weinman">punched
a teenager in the head, then slammed her to the ground</a>, after
determining that she was not drunk.
<p>
For a <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> to switch off a bodycam while attacking a person ought to
be considered obstruction of justice.  The <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> should go to prison
for that alone, and serve additional time for the violence itself.
<p>
As for Ms Weinman, even if she spit intentionally at the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> who had
already brutalized her, that should be considered self-defense.


feed_id: a9b9b406b3760d173a438b784891ff07
title: Right-wing ruling party of Spain
uri: Right-wing-ruling-party-of-Spain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Right-wing_ruling_party_of_Spain%29
content:
<p>
The right-wing ruling party of Spain has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/01/mariano-rajoy-ousted-as-spain-prime-minister">lost
power due to the corruption convictions of some of its leaders</a>.
<p>
The new governing party is the Socialist Party, which has proved
rather weak in confronting plutocracy, but we can hope it will
eliminate some of the oppressive measures, such as making it a crime
to post photos of uniformed <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> in the act of attacking people and
prosecuting squatters in abandoned buildings.


feed_id: eb066771157698be9cc85b0f8bc1a725
title: Pushing poor people into crime
uri: Pushing-poor-people-into-crime
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Pushing_poor_people_into_crime%29
content:
<p>
Denying welfare benefits, including food stamps, to poor people who
were convicted of drug crimes 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/01/food-stamps-drug-conviction-snap-welfare/">makes
them more likely to return to crime</a>.
<p>
To try to discourage crime with punishment presupposes that everyone
can get by ok without crime.  In the US today, that is false for a
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#29_May_2018_(Poverty_in_the_US)">large
fraction</a> of
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#5_October_2017_(Health_care,_food,_and_shelter)">people</a>.


feed_id: 56fb3d0534282a0eee63248158272c82
title: FBI's use of informants
uri: FBI-s-use-of-informants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28FBIs_use_of_informants%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/05/31/spygate-trump-russia-fbi-informants/">FBI's
Use of Informants</a> Is Full of Problems, but What Happened in
"Spygate" Isn’t One of Them.


feed_id: 0b38f687b5677173373f5cf551e8a167
title: Australia's investment in fossil fuels
uri: Australia-s-investment-in-fossil-fuels
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Australias_investment_in_fossil_fuels%29

content:
<p>
Australia's big four banks stopped investing in coal but 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/31/big-four-banks-quit-coal-only-to-invest-in-other-fossil-fuels-research-finds">shifted
the investment into oil and gas</a>.


feed_id: e2fa670ef20fe500ee83c0347d4ea0ad
title: Applying for work as an ex-convict
uri: Applying-for-work-as-an-ex-convict
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#5_June_2018_%28Applying_for_work_as_an_ex-convict%29

content:
<p>
Education Is One Way Out of Prison.  
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/31/education-prison-work-ex-offenders-university-convictions">Let's
Make Work Another</a>.
<p>
One of the problems is that you can no longer make a living from the
jobs that are not highly competitive.


feed_id: 6ad13795fca05c2868095aef7dbb9180
title: Urgent: Equality Act
uri: 2018-06-07-Urgent-Equality-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Equality_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://action.aclu.org/petition/congress-pass-equality-act-now">call on Congress</a> to pass the Equality Act to prohibit
discrimination based on gender identity or sexual identity.


feed_id: 65ec87bbe403f2761626b1e20b5bbcd0
title: Urgent: Guantanamo prisoner
uri: Urgent-Guantanamo-prisoner
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Guantanamo_prisoner%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="https://act.amnestyusa.org/page/20344/action/1">Call on Mattis</a> to free Toffiq al-Bihani, a prisoner
in Guantanamo.


feed_id: 999fbaa50dad05bbbd46334fe4842ea1
title: Washington Post on Yemen
uri: Washington-Post-on-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_June_2018_%28Washington_Post_on_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
The Washington Post supports US participation in <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>'s
disastrous intervention in Yemen <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/01/wapo-editors-we-have-help-destroy-yemen-save-it">regretting the disaster</a> it has
produced.


feed_id: a3b8a00d6e3eae2d06b12d1bdfc62ca7
title: FiveThirtyEight's algorithms
uri: FiveThirtyEight-s-algorithms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_June_2018_%28FiveThirtyEight%27s_algorithms%29
content:
<p>
The Onion: <a href="https://sports.theonion.com/cash-strapped-fivethirtyeight-lays-off-dozens-of-top-al-1826485613">FiveThirtyEight announced Friday</a> that they
would be laying off dozens of the site’s top algorithms.


feed_id: adf877f6da25629694d862c677126fa7
title: The baby went to Texas
uri: The-baby-went-to-Texas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_June_2018_%28The_baby_went_to_Texas%29
content:
<p>
The baby went to Texas to talk with parents of recently murdered students.
One said it was <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/01/talking-toddler-mother-school-shooting-victim-reveals-how-it-felt-discuss-gun-policy">"like talking to a toddler"</a>.


feed_id: d2b92c6c6503d232522e2c933a602f17
title: Dangerous rose bush
uri: Dangerous-rose-bush
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_June_2018_%28Dangerous_rose_bush%29
content:
<p>
The Onion: <a href="https://local.theonion.com/botanic-garden-forced-to-euthanize-rose-bush-that-prick-1826486145">&hellip;officials&hellip;were forced</a> to euthanize a rose bush after
it pricked a child.
<p>
I think armed plants should always be kept in cages ;-).


feed_id: 7430deb0cc94393b17db8e14e2a17476
title: Devotion of immigrant parents
uri: Devotion-of-immigrant-parents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_June_2018_%28Devotion_of_immigrant_parents%29
content:
<p>
The Onion: A deportation thug <a href="https://www.theonion.com/ice-agent-decides-he-wants-kids-after-seeing-incredible-1826461558">wants to have kids of his own</a> after
seeing the love and devotion of the immigrant parents begging him
not to take their child.


feed_id: 4ab749cd92c560739edb57a8a318af9f
title: Anti-abortion policy
uri: Anti-abortion-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_June_2018_%28Anti-abortion_policy%29
content:
<p>
Senator Warren <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/05/31/trumps-new-proposal-another-attempt-government-control-womens-bodies">describes the anti-abortion policy</a> that the bully aims
to impose on the US.


feed_id: 39c0fb2573c47537fa531e5eae0aafd1
title: Cuts in social benefits
uri: Cuts-in-social-benefits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_June_2018_%28Cuts_in_social_benefits%29
content:
<p>
Racist white Americans <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/31/though-white-americans-benefit-most-social-safety-net-study-shows-how-racial">support cuts in social benefits</a> because they
have been told (falsely) that nonwhites get most of these benefits.
<p>
How foolish it is to let rich people divide you based on superficial
things.


feed_id: 9d5010b794f77a46622043cfe539c113
title: Japanese corruption scandal
uri: Japanese-corruption-scandal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_June_2018_%28Japanese_corruption_scandal%29
content:
<p>
The Japanese government dealt with a corruption scandal that included 
the prime minister's wife by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/01/japan-charges-dropped-cronyism-scandal-threateningshinzo-abe">dropping charges against everyone</a>.


feed_id: 96caeff7680fbe426f724c0ede4a7b3e
title: Hard-right judges
uri: Hard-right-judges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_June_2018_%28Hard-right_judges%29
content:
<p>
Trump's Hard-Right Judges Will Do <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/30/trump-judge-appointments-roe-v-wade-courts">Lasting Damage to America</a>.
<p>
We need to create a way to remove them.


feed_id: b3a7958ade25c623dd8d9546efd3d937
title: Training scheme in the UK
uri: Training-scheme-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_June_2018_%28Training_scheme_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
A "training" scheme in the UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/01/capita-scheme-graduates-tied-servitude-graduate-schemes-young-people">traps trainees in debt servitude</a>.
No wonder the "training" is not actually useful.


feed_id: 8321685b13f94dc3cdf06a442ebe8616
title: 'Strategic silence'
uri: Strategic-silence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_June_2018_%28%27Strategic_silence%27%29
content:
<p>
"When confronted with white supremacists, newspaper editors should
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/01/extremist-ideas-media-coverage-kkk">consider 'strategic silence'</a>."


feed_id: acd0d8d13c193d0e58fe2bd7a99f3849
title: Ban on fracking protests
uri: Ban-on-fracking-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_June_2018_%28Ban_on_fracking_protests%29
content:
<p>
UK frackers have convinced a court to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/01/cuadrilla-secures-new-injunction-against-fracking-protesters">ban all protests</a> that would
interfere in any way with fracking.
<p>
The Tories are absolutely determined to risk Britain's water supplies
to put more CO2 into the air.


feed_id: 8da0694d502660e6fd57300640110ffe
title: Puerto Rico lawsuit
uri: Puerto-Rico-lawsuit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_June_2018_%28Puerto_Rico_lawsuit%29
content:
<p>
Puerto Rico is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/01/puerto-rico-sues-to-obtain-data-on-deaths-from-hurricane-maria">suing the US government</a> demanding release of data on people
killed by the hurricane.


feed_id: 46028ab1163697485f8d3395ca3895a7
title: Gaza protesters shot
uri: Gaza-protesters-shot
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_June_2018_%28Gaza_protesters_shot%29
content:
<p>
Gazans protested again, and Israelis shot some, including <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/01/palestinian-woman-shot-during-protest-dead-near-gaza-fence">a medic who
was killed</a>.
<p>
Israel says the Palestinian protests were violent.  If that is true,
the Palestinians are making a misguided choice.  Their only chance of
winning more world support is nonviolence.


feed_id: 3f326241a8a013948b637f005be6a090
title: Surveillance homes
uri: Surveillance-homes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#6_June_2018_%28Surveillance_homes%29
content:
<p>
The Guardian starts to recognize that the "smart" home <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/01/uk-homes-vulnerable-to-staggering-level-of-corporate-surveillance">means a
surveillance home</a>.


feed_id: fbf6878ada839d9ce5f4b040c9f3d713
title: Gaza
uri: 2018-06-07-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#7_June_2018_%28Gaza%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery: Israel converted Gaza into an enemy, but that enemy now
offers a 40-year truce that 
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1527857702/">it
will certainly not break</a>.  Will Israel dare tolerate the
possibility of peace?


feed_id: 97f09af2600cbed8037dce51e2ba8173
title: Computerized voting machines
uri: 2018-06-07-Computerized-voting-machines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#7_June_2018_%28Computerized_voting_machines%29
content:
<p>
This year's congressional election will remain vulnerable to cheating
through 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/31/aging-paperless-voting-machines-hotly-contested-districts-stoke-fears-ahead-midterms">computerized
voting machines</a>.


feed_id: 094ba17dc5b6442d7ae2dedcbeadeafe
title: Investigate Trump family corruption
uri: Investigate-Trump-family-corruption
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#7_June_2018_%28Investigate_Trump_family_corruption%29

content:
<p>
Calling for House and Senate investigations of the Trump family's
prima facie corruption
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/31/amid-signs-cronyism-nepotism-and-conflicts-interest-watchdog-demands-probe-trump-zte">in
deals with China</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">The cheater</a> is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/31/democrats-demand-oversight-hearing-trump-white-house-stonewalls-gao-investigators">refusing
to cooperate</a> with the Government Accountability Office.


feed_id: 57b8d9bdade8116af98615384041971d
title: Uganda taxing "social media use"
uri: Uganda-taxing-social-media-use
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#7_June_2018_%28Uganda_taxing_social_media_use%29
content:
<p>
Uganda has put a tax on "social media use" to discourage citizens from
communicating with anyone.  Uganda has put a tax on "social media use"
to discourage citizens from communicating with anyone.


feed_id: 37cafc759c66fb3cf33f7a6881e1fa29
title: Italy's two governing parties
uri: Italy-s-two-governing-parties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#7_June_2018_%28Italys_two_governing_parties%29
content:
<p>
Italy's two governing parties have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/31/italys-populist-leaders-strike-deal-resurrect-coalition">agreed
to replace the proposed economy minister that was vetoed</a> because
he was willing simply to think about separating Italy from the euro.
<p>
I think that reforming the euro-zone rules would be better that
pulling Italy and Greece out of the euro zone.  However, as long as
governments are unwilling to threaten to leave, the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bankster">banksters</a> won't
even consider reforminmg the rule.


feed_id: ef34fc657e8ee32b0ba35ed17c6b1910
title: Abortion rights in Northern Ireland
uri: 2018-06-07-Abortion-rights-in-Northern-Ireland
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#7_June_2018_%28Abortion_rights_in_Northern_Ireland%29

content:
<p>
Protesters in Northern Ireland 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/31/pro-choice-activists-take-abortion-pills-belfast-protest">demand
abortion rights</a> such as women in the Irish Republic will soon
have.


feed_id: 73ae6fd3be264ca6c0be61f754303e62
title: Nicaragua's suppression forces
uri: Nicaragua-s-suppression-forces
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#7_June_2018_%28Nicaraguas_suppression_forces%29
content:
<p>
Nicaragua's suppression forces 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/31/nicaragua-peace-talks-daniel-ortega-abandoned-mothers-day-protest">killed
11 more protesters</a> in a massive demonstration led by mothers of
protesters previously killed.


feed_id: 5c879f5658c811fe049bef34efa60b31
title: 4 cents in damages for killing black man
uri: 4-cents-in-damages-for-killing-black-man
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#7_June_2018_%284_cents_in_damages_for_killing_black_man%29

content:
<p>
Florida <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> kills a black man over nothing but their own imagination
and panic.  Relatives sued, and a jury awarded them 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2018/05/31/whats-black-life-worth-trumps-america-four-bucks-evidently-oops-scratch-four">4
cents in damages</a>.


feed_id: 9711cf47a4fd9933f6f803c1577444d6
title: Offshore windfarms
uri: Offshore-windfarms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#7_June_2018_%28Offshore_windfarms%29
content:
<p>
Offshore windfarms off the Netherlands are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/01/dutch-fishermen-to-sail-fleet-into-amsterdam-in-wind-turbine-protest">driving
away fish</a>.
<p>
If the species found in the area are not threatened overall, I think
the renewable electricity is more important than the fishing in that
area.
<p>
However, it is worth looking for ways to reduce the impact.  There may
be an alternative to pile driving as a way to emplace the wind
turbines.  Also, taller turbine poles could reduce the electromagnetic
fields that reach the water.


feed_id: 4b12fc1e88adf86b04c97e452b163a1e
title: Lawful immigrant punished by UK system
uri: Lawful-immigrant-punished-by-UK-system
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#7_June_2018_%28Lawful_immigrant_punished_by_UK_system%29

content:
<p>
A lawful immigrant to the UK was dropped into a Kafkaesque nightmare
when 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/31/a-shadow-of-myself-the-home-office-lost-records-and-ruined-lives">the
government lost her passport</a> and then made impossible requirements
for her to get another one.
<p>
She has been destitute for 10 years.
<p>
This sort of thing has happened to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/31/vital-immigration-papers-lost-by-uk-home-office">thousands
of people</a>.
<p>
Everyone makes mistakes.  However, when a system punishes the victims
of its mistakes, that's inexcusable.  One must suspect that the agency
does this because it was directed to create a "hostile environment".


feed_id: 8d7ed3dd5e1cfa61d9a1c1e7753b566f
title: Inauguration protesters
uri: 2018-06-07-Inauguration-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#7_June_2018_%28Inauguration_protesters%29
content:
<p>
A judge dropped charges against some inauguration protesters because
US prosecutors were shown to have 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/05/31/victory-dissent-government-drops-charges-against-group-j20-protesters">violated
their right to a fair trial</a>.


feed_id: cbd16bde3d7e110e949015d8036f7e2d
title: US torture bases
uri: US-torture-bases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#7_June_2018_%28US_torture_bases%29
content:
<p>
13 years later, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the countries
that allowed the US operate torture bases on their territory 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/05/31/eu-anti-torture-ruling-shows-need-uk-public-inquiry">acted
illegally</a>.


feed_id: 45ad23f38137c7a152638805ac78d089
title: Very urgent: Net Neutrality rules
uri: Very-urgent-Net-Neutrality-rules
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Very_urgent%3A_Net_Neutrality_rules%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: by June 10, phone your congresscritter and demand person vote to
continue the partial Network Neutrality rules.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard
numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.


feed_id: 22142a3fe053bb5193db92a5f49681ed
title: Urgent: Ronald Mortenson
uri: Urgent-Ronald-Mortenson
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Ronald_Mortenson%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/block_Mortensen">call on the Senate</a> to block the nomination of
anti-immigrant bigot Ronald Mortenson to be in charge of assistance to
refugees.


feed_id: 934b4bba8db757998556d2f7df93ce6e
title: Urgent: Unkinder Morgan pipeline
uri: 2018-06-08-Urgent-Unkinder-Morgan-pipeline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Unkinder_Morgan_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="https://act.climatetruth.org/sign/climate_hypocrite">call on Trudeau</a> to kill the Unkinder Morgan pipeline.


feed_id: 759cc7865c529bee2f1a4d3c145a7bbd
title: Whales eating plastic bags
uri: Whales-eating-plastic-bags
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Whales_eating_plastic_bags%29
content:
<p>
A whale was found dying from eating <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/03/whale-dies-from-eating-more-than-80-plastic-bags">more than 80 plastic bags</a>.
Apparently they filled up the whale's stomach, so it starved.


feed_id: e0cd923c0a39b01fbb6a17b804c4b597
title: Marijuana prohibition
uri: Marijuana-prohibition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Marijuana_prohibition%29
content:
<p>
Prohibition of marijuana does not "work", if you define "working" as
stopping people from using it.  Even if one presumes that it would be
better if nobody used marijuana, the right thing to do is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/02/why-we-must-legalise-cannabis-public-health">legalize it
and regulate it</a>.
<p>
However, the premise that it would be better if nobody used marijuana
is wrong anyway.


feed_id: 18c58f51ee6d9f88da7dc258a99134d0
title: Reality Winner in jail
uri: Reality-Winner-in-jail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Reality_Winner_in_jail%29
content:
<p>
Whistleblower Reality Winner, who made the public aware of the
Trump-Russia collusion scandal, <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/02/reality-winner-whistleblower-without-constituency/">is almost forgotten</a>, jailed while
awaiting trial for leaking the document that led to Mueller's investigation.
<p>
Meanwhile, the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a> is trying to stop the Department of Justice
from investigating him and his campaign.
<p>
The government is also <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/03/reality-winner-nsa-paul-manafort/">obstructing her lawyers</a> from searching for 
evidence to base their case on.


feed_id: e87ae0c26694758d4b48ad028118ed51
title: Casino worker strike
uri: Casino-worker-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Casino_worker_strike%29
content:
<p>
Casino workers in Las Vegas are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/02/las-vegas-workers-strike-automation-casinos">planning to go on strike</a>, partly to oppose
automation that would eliminate their jobs.
<p>
I support them, but I hope they will also campaign for state legislators
to put legal limits on automation, to maintain employment.


feed_id: 804db823141c845912e795a21613fd3a
title: Break up the big banks
uri: Break-up-the-big-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Break_up_the_big_banks%29
content:
<p>
The weak Dodd-Frank compromise bank regulation law, just recently
weakened even further with the help of plutocratist democrats, shows
the need to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/02/why-only-answer-break-biggest-wall-street-banks">break up the big banks</a> into much smaller pieces.
<p>
An adaptation of <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/progressive-tax-on-business-gross-income.html">my tax proposal</a> could pressure each big bank to split itself up.


feed_id: a228f942bf4564034d404e0f1938c105
title: Old and right-wing
uri: Old-and-right-wing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Old_and_right-wing%29
content:
<p>
One reason old Americans tend to be more right-wing is that poor people
and blacks <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/poor-people-often-dont-survive-to-become-seniors-who-vote.html">tend to die younger</a>.


feed_id: 2a100516db93d31a69510d71893b67dd
title: Abortion and freedom
uri: Abortion-and-freedom
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Abortion_and_freedom%29
content:
<p>
"An abortion at the age of 23 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/02/an-abortion-at-the-age-of-23-gave-me-freedom">gave me freedom.</a>"
Even for women who don't desperately need an abortion, abortion
rights are crucial.


feed_id: 864f71d141ebd63ef54f951e5ff1cc8e
title: Deaths from heat waves
uri: Deaths-from-heat-waves
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Deaths_from_heat_waves%29
content:
<p>
India has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/02/india-heat-wave-deaths-public-health-measures">launched effective programs</a> that have reduced deaths from
heat waves.
<p>
If we keep heating up the atmosphere, we will make this
a moving target.  It is more effective to turn the heat down
than to cope with its increase.


feed_id: e74c4c58e1f9f3b36b813a454de17fde
title: UN report on Republicans
uri: UN-report-on-Republicans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28UN_report_on_Republicans%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/01/scathing-un-report-condemns-trump-and-gop-deliberately-driving-already-devastating">A UN report says</a> that Republicans are deliberately trying to increase
inequality and poverty in the US.
<p>
When US children grow up in poverty, it is nearly impossible for them
to escape poverty, now that the government <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/02/trumps-tragic-policies-likely-to-make-child-poverty-much-worse-says-un">no longer offers much help</a>.
<p>
I think the underlying reason for this is that American rich consider
most Americans superfluous as workers, and would rather eradicate them
than allow them any hope.  The plan is to turn them against each other
based on various kinds of racial, ethnic or gender groupings.


feed_id: 7b94c0189cbed526bfa7c6726513bda7
title: Equal Rights Amendment
uri: 2018-06-08-Equal-Rights-Amendment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Equal_Rights_Amendment%29
content:
<p>
If one more state ratifies the Equal Rights Amendment, Congress could <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/01/following-illinoiss-overdue-vote-era-momentum-surges-one-these-13-states-ratify">vote
to extend the deadline</a> so that the amendment would pass.
<p>
This might be possible in January.


feed_id: deadb353106701aea2de55149da01aa0
title: Civilian casualty count
uri: Civilian-casualty-count
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Civilian_casualty_count%29
content:
<p>
The US government continues <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/01/carnage-concealed-experts-denounce-pentagon-lowballing-number-civilians-us-killed">presenting gross undercounts</a> of the number
of civilian casualties.
<p>
This practice <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-may-aug.html#24%20May%202004%20(Wedding%20Party%20Attack)">started under Dubya</a>
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#12_August_2015_(US_bombing_campaign)">continued under Obama</a>.
<p>
Amnesty International <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/06/01/amnesty-international-calls-us-investigate-all-claims-civilian-casualties">Calls on US</a> to Investigate All Claims of Civilian
Casualties.


feed_id: 798609c39a2adea6aff86f609de29fd2
title: 'Free Trade' problem
uri: Free-Trade-problem
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28%27Free_Trade%27_problem%29
content:
<p>
The US really has a "Free Trade" problem, but rather than managing the
economy to make it work better, the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a>'s "solution" is to manage it
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/01/we-have-free-trade-problem-trump-offers-all-wrong-economic-answers">for his own profit</a>.


feed_id: 58cab6e43b5eb88e727cb365e685ee9a
title: DoE civil rights cases
uri: DoE-civil-rights-cases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28DoE_civil_rights_cases%29
content:
<p>
The Department of Education, under the control of <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> DeVos, has
dismissed <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/01/advocates-see-hundreds-civil-rights-cases-dismissed-trumps-education-dept-national">hundreds of civil rights cases</a> &mdash; not based on their
merits but rather based on Republicans' lack of merit.


feed_id: 2c8c27bf05d7bced603579465fbf124e
title: Coal and nuclear bailouts
uri: Coal-and-nuclear-bailouts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Coal_and_nuclear_bailouts%29
content:
<p>
The saboteur-in-chief wants to force electric utilities to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/06/01/sierra-club-statement-trump-administrations-latest-attempt-bail-out-money-losing">buy electricity
from failing coal and nuclear plants</a>, to keep them running and endangering
people.
<p>
To create an excuse, the saboteurs would pretend there is an emergency.


feed_id: 5b77e8ee8eee66071e9e53169b981730
title: Deferring gratification
uri: Deferring-gratification
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Deferring_gratification%29
content:
<p>
Will four-year-olds who can resist eating a marshmallow for 10 minutes
develop into more capable teenagers?  A study years ago said yes; an attempt to
replicate it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/01/famed-impulse-control-marshmallow-test-fails-in-new-research">found little effect</a>.
<p>
These studies measure correlation between the four-year-olds'
untrained capacity to defer gratification and their later abilities.
Whether <em>actively teaching</em> four-year-olds to defer gratification
would lead to later benefits for them is a different question.
<p>
Indeed, it is possible that changes in patterns of raising children
have altered the tendencies that the studies measure.


feed_id: 2da6bbfd69abe3d8abf3407ddd5328ce
title: Urgent: Charges against Reality Winner
uri: Urgent-Charges-against-Reality-Winner
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Charges_against_Reality_Winner%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://stallman.org/petitions/petition-winner/">call for</a> charges against Reality Winner to be dropped.


feed_id: 375c3e73397241ecd96b2cb93c6b09ee
title: Criticism of Nauru government
uri: Criticism-of-Nauru-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Criticism_of_Nauru_government%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/04/fears-naurus-sweeping-new-contempt-laws-target-opposition">Nauru has made</a> criticism of the government and its courts a crime.
<p>
That makes it even more useful as a sealed immigration prison for Australia.


feed_id: b0f0f4bdff1c30d893e0ca4dbeb3bc3c
title: Theocratic Christian plans
uri: Theocratic-Christian-plans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Theocratic_Christian_plans%29
content:
<p>
Theocratic Christians plan to make state legislatures <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/04/project-blitz-the-legislative-assault-by-christian-nationalists-to-reshape-america">push their
religion into public schools</a>, and to legalize discrimination against
queer people.
<p>
They published a document describing the states in their plan.  Laws
to impose religious slogans in public buildings are the first step.


feed_id: 7e521903eceeffdec12e85f19fe3bb55
title: Hong Kong activists
uri: Hong-Kong-activists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Hong_Kong_activists%29
content:
<p>
Hong Kong Independence Activists Sentenced to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/04/hong-kong-independence-activists-sentenced-to-four-weeks-jail">Four Weeks' Jail</a>.
<p>
It is actually Hong Kong that will be in jail.


feed_id: bc4ad413ce88cd8486cef9e6bcc39712
title: Asylum seekers in Hungary
uri: Asylum-seekers-in-Hungary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Asylum_seekers_in_Hungary%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/04/no-entry-hungarys-crackdown-on-helping-refugees">Hungary will jail people</a> for informing asylum seekers of their legal
rights.
<p>
What this means is that the state plans to cheat them of their rights.


feed_id: ac202355314786e7629c29330a019609
title: Carbon bubble
uri: Carbon-bubble
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Carbon_bubble%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/04/what-is-the-carbon-bubble-and-what-will-happen-if-it-bursts">What will happen</a> when the carbon bubble bursts?


feed_id: 337d62d8e67a14184c918f208422f665
title: US ambassador to Germany
uri: US-ambassador-to-Germany
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28US_ambassador_to_Germany%29
content:
<p>
The US ambassador to Germany <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/04/trumps-ambassador-berlin-promises-help-far-right-nationalists-take-power/">tried to meddle</a> in German internal politics.
<p>
The Germans have been too gentle in response.  <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> is likely to
think of this as ineffectual resistance which means he should continue
along the same lines.
<p>
I urge Germany to expel that ambassador.


feed_id: a5d962dcc13af2f10995e69bfde3272e
title: Presidential pardon
uri: Presidential-pardon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Presidential_pardon%29
content:
<p>
Can a criminal president <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/04/is-trump-correct-that-he-can-pardon-himself-experts-weigh-in">pardon perself</a>?
<p>
I think we need to amend the US Constitution to make it clear that the
president cannot pardon crimes that were committed in connection with that
president's own actions or orders.


feed_id: b2bdc7d064626363202a92a1ebbae087
title: Returning to Fukushima area
uri: Returning-to-Fukushima-area
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Returning_to_Fukushima_area%29
content:
<p>
Some of the evacuated areas near Fukushima are now safe, but most people
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/03/was-fallout-from-fukushima-exaggerated">afraid to return</a>.
<p>
If a nuclear power plant accident does not pollute the surrounding
area with radiation, it is a disaster anyway, simply because of the
loss of a plant that cost billions of dollars to build.


feed_id: 6b107ba75348ff23ccd1993f23cbb701
title: Anniversary of Tank Man
uri: Anniversary-of-Tank-Man
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Anniversary_of_Tank_Man%29
content:
<p>
Chinese are commemorating the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/04/tankman2018-hero-of-tiananmen-protest-remembered-across-globe">anniversary of Tank Man</a>, who blocked for a while
the tanks that were sent to slaughter protesting students in Beijing.


feed_id: 16a3c478cd76e100cfa7dbd2f99adb1c
title: Publix campaign contributions
uri: Publix-campaign-contributions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Publix_campaign_contributions%29
content:
<p>
Publix supermarkets said it would <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/florida-politics/buzz/2018/05/25/publix-suspends-political-contributions-amid-statewide-protests/">stop making campaign contributions</a>.
Those were directed at right-wing candidates.
<p>
I suppose the owners will continue supporting them, though.


feed_id: 9d7adfc1a12c1b801d0f3ca7e21d8eb9
title: Obstruction of justice
uri: 2018-06-09-Obstruction-of-justice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Obstruction_of_justice%29
content:
<p>
The cheater's lawyers claim that the US president <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/03/ludicrous-critics-slay-memo-trump-lawyers-claiming-president-above-law">cannot ever be said
to commit</a> obstruction of justice, because he is in charge of all
investigations.
<p>
Trump's Lawyers Want Legal Immunity for the President.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/04/trump-russia-pardon-power-president">Who Will Stop Them?</a>


feed_id: 771759f4baad6798067bf4e1cb657af8
title: Languages in the US
uri: Languages-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Languages_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Irrational mob violence against non-English-speakers has flared up in the US
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180531124213/https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/653544">a number of times</a> since 100 years ago.
<p>
Foolish people do this because non-English-speakers make good scapegoats.
I wonder, do billionaires speak some special language we could ban?
<p>
I have to correct one flippant point: English did not become dominant
in what is now the US in the 17th century.  I've read that around 1800
German seemed to be the most common language in the US of the time,
though I can't be sure that is accurate.
<p>
The US expanded westward in the 19th century to lands that surely
didn't use English much before that.  After the US conquered parts of
Mexico in the 1840s, the inhabitants continued speaking Spanish for
quite some time.


feed_id: 84108f7b619710c4214fedee0a07a9b6
title: The cheater's use of vagueness
uri: The-cheater-s-use-of-vagueness
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28The_cheater%27s_use_of_vagueness%29
content:
<p>
How the cheater turns vagueness <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/opinion/trump-lying-imprecision.html">to the service of lies and bullshit</a>.
<p>
I suggest not paying attention to anything he says.  Focus instead
on what he and his henchmen are doing.


feed_id: ad45ddc5b680ec28a7a08cdec73bd07f
title: Hotel and restaurant workers
uri: Hotel-and-restaurant-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Hotel_and_restaurant_workers%29
content:
<p>
Hotel and restaurant workers in Melbourne are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jun/04/everyone-i-know-who-works-in-hospitality-has-been-exploited-that-needs-to-change">learning not to tolerate
wage theft</a> and unbearable schedules as normal.


feed_id: cbeedcec7382ec1bea5814b986f08476
title: Torture by UK partners
uri: Torture-by-UK-partners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_%28Torture_by_UK_partners%29
content:
<p>
UK spies still have intelligence collaborations which <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/02/uk-spies-breaching-rules-sharing-intelligence-gained-torture-mi5-mi6">involve torture by
partner countries</a>.
This despite having been ordered not to do so.


feed_id: c2726cf73f35d7cbb5603cb446cada72
title: Urgent: Bill Gates
uri: Urgent-Bill-Gates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Bill_Gates%29
content:
<p>
US college seniors: Are you graduating from college in the US this
year?  Did you get Bill Gates's "gift" of gratis download of a book?
<p>
If so, can you tell me (1) whether you can download it without running
any nonfree software, (2) whether it has DRM, and (3) whether you have
to agree to a jerkmaking "no sharing, no lending, no giving" contract
before you can get a copy?


feed_id: f62e638c4560848a07479bcd4d307b6e
title: Urgent: Rainforest in Indonesia
uri: Urgent-Rainforest-in-Indonesia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Rainforest_in_Indonesia%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="https://www.lovetheleuser.org/tampurhydrodam">call on Indonesia and Aceh</a> not to build a dam that would
destroy a protected rainforest which is a habitat for endangered species.


feed_id: d264b553c72ab1b1a81c738c95856f01
title: Feeding the world
uri: Feeding-the-world
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_June_2018_%28Feeding_the_world%29
content:
<p>
Who Should Feed the World: Real People or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/05/feed-the-world-real-people-faceless-multinationals-monsanto-bayer">Faceless Multinationals</a>?


feed_id: d68ea1c5dcd6f287a789b3d057aceb33
title: Truck driver strike
uri: Truck-driver-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_June_2018_%28Truck_driver_strike%29
content:
<p>
Activity in Brazil was brought to a halt by a <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/05/brazil-truckers-strike/">strike by truck drivers</a>,
self-organized and not going through a union.  They demanded a lower
price for diesel fuel.
<p>
By making the price unpredictable, President Temer put the burden on
the truck drivers.  The country needs to charge more for fossil fuels;
subsidy of fossil fuels promotes <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a>.  However, it needs to
make sure that the burden does not fall on truck drivers, but rather
on the businesses that use the services of trucks.


feed_id: a939b7362134263419cafa8d5dd390f1
title: Prison phone fees
uri: Prison-phone-fees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_June_2018_%28Prison_phone_fees%29
content:
<p>
Sheriffs Are <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180527/15041839927/sheriffs-are-raking-millions-prison-phone-fees-some-really-dont-want-to-talk-about-it.shtml">Raking In Millions In Prison Phone Fees</a> And Some Really 
Don't Want To Talk About It.


feed_id: 71b7ed090952d523f6ad82328e15b3c2
title: Canadian pipeline protest
uri: Canadian-pipeline-protest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_June_2018_%28Canadian_pipeline_protest%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/04/lets-not-subsidize-our-own-extinction-rallies-across-canada-denounce-trudeaus-kinder">Canadians are protesting</a> Trudeau's plan to force the Unkinder Morgan
pipeline through.


feed_id: a37c7e91d901e56e8943a926c59dd259
title: Prison for baby immigrants
uri: Prison-for-baby-immigrants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_June_2018_%28Prison_for_baby_immigrants%29
content:
<p>
Senator Merkley tried to visit a prison for baby immigrants,
but <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/3/1769169/-Sen-Merkley-refused-entry-into-facility-holding-hundreds-of-children-separated-from-parents">they wouldn't let him in</a> or tell him anything.
<p>
The motive for the policy of taking all babies away from their parents
is to create what in the UK is called a "hostile environment".  These
babies are being used as hostages; hurting them is intended to make
their parents miserable.  Thus, the US has become the world leader in
sadism.


feed_id: 5059ac5bfa9a6570c331a12eb93c9ddf
title: US involvement in Yemen
uri: US-involvement-in-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_June_2018_%28US_involvement_in_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
The bully wants to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/04/aid-groups-issue-grave-warnings-us-considers-major-escalation-military-role-yemen">increase US involvement</a> in Salafi Arabia's
sickness-spreading intervention in Yemen.


feed_id: 016f8d5a9f21fee265223a98389a955a
title: Maximum income limit
uri: Maximum-income-limit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_June_2018_%28Maximum_income_limit%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/04/minimum-decency-maximum-wage">Proposing a maximum income limit</a>, linked to most people's income.
This way, high earners could only increase their post-tax income
by helping everyone else get a higher income.


feed_id: 7fae07bcfc96318d4ebcd3ed75ea9376
title: Nigerian asylum seeker
uri: Nigerian-asylum-seeker
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_June_2018_%28Nigerian_asylum_seeker%29
content:
<p>
Udoka Nweke faces murder if he is sent back to Nigeria, because mobs
there tend to murder homosexuals.  He asked for asylum in the US in
December, 2016, and has <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/1/1768773/--All-he-s-seen-of-the-U-S-is-a-cell-Gay-Nigerian-asylum-seeker-has-been-detained-for-15-months">been in prison ever since</a>.


feed_id: 26244983375cddc2c9ed0079144bff24
title: Fun name for a jail cell
uri: Fun-name-for-a-jail-cell
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_June_2018_%28Fun_name_for_a_jail_cell%29
content:
<p>
The Onion: ICE agent Don Neville was reportedly trying Monday to <a href="https://www.theonion.com/ice-agent-trying-to-think-of-fun-name-for-jail-cell-bef-1826545410">think
of a fun name for a jail cell</a> before locking up a 5-year-old
immigrant.
<p>
The Onion truly excels at helping us see <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> as human beings with the
same range of emotions as all the rest of us.


feed_id: 66f372ba47dc0620223e6c00d88e639a
title: Equating to nonhuman animals
uri: Equating-to-nonhuman-animals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_June_2018_%28Equating_to_nonhuman_animals%29
content:
<p>
Equating certain people to nonhuman animals makes it <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/04/slippery-slope-dehumanizing-language">easier to
commit violence</a> against them.


feed_id: 58243dd50bc465365f72de1fd7f0be74
title: Facebook's deals with manufacturers
uri: Facebook-s-deals-with-manufacturers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_June_2018_%28Facebook%27s_deals_with_manufacturers%29

content:
<p>
Facebook made deals for phone and computer manufacturers including
Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Samsung to access data about its useds
and their friends as well.  These deals <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/03/technology/facebook-device-partners-users-friends-data.html">seem to still be operative</a>.
<p>
When Zuckerberg testified to Congress, he said Facebook had <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/04/sure-looks-zuckerberg-lied-congress-about-user-privacy-new-facebook-data-sharing">stopped
doing this years ago</a>. Apparently he lied.


feed_id: 77cfbde8b49ae5133e016eb0f3e9d78a
title: Campaigning for gun control
uri: Campaigning-for-gun-control
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_June_2018_%28Campaigning_for_gun_control%29
content:
<p>
The students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/04/parkland-students-bus-tour-gun-control-midterms">spend two months
campaigning</a> for candidates that support gun control.


feed_id: 5152bce165fffaa4108ecdf241c51240
title: Building a new bomber
uri: Building-a-new-bomber
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_June_2018_%28Building_a_new_bomber%29
content:
<p>
The US Air Force has so much military power that it has no difficulty
in spending 100 billion dollars to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/04/military-industrial-complex-strikes-out-again">build a totally pointless new bomber</a>.


feed_id: e4ba9eb4e03c17b94d4f22f113abd85a
title: Carbon bubble burst
uri: Carbon-bubble-burst
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_June_2018_%28Carbon_bubble_burst%29
content:
<p>
The carbon bubble is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/04/carbon-bubble-could-spark-global-financial-crisis-study-warns">likely to burst before 2035</a>.  When it does, if your
money is in fossil fuels, you are likely to lose it.
<p>
The sooner the bubble bursts, the less of Earth we will destroy.
The current rate of switching to renewable energy will not avoid
global disaster, but it won't be the worst possible disaster.
Thus, the bully wants to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#8_June_2018_(Coal_and_nuclear_bailouts)">force cities to buy electricity</a> from
obsolete coal plants.


feed_id: 9e6e55d740a06afd8cb1b934130020a5
title: Edward Snowden
uri: Edward-Snowden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#9_June_2018_%28Edward_Snowden%29
content:
<p>
Edward Snowden: "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/04/edward-snowden-people-still-powerless-but-aware">The people are still powerless</a>, but now they're aware."


feed_id: 8d034ad27abe8b62b5e4d1b7f324425d
title: The military and global heating
uri: The-military-and-global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28The_military_and_global_heating%29
content:
<p>
The military is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/04/dont-turn-to-the-military-to-solve-the-climate-change-crisis">not
a very good tool for dealing with the problem</a> of global heating.
<p>
They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but the
military is proposed only as treatment of the symptoms.  What could
the military do to prevent <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a>?  Bomb fossil fuel
facilities to render them unusable, I suppose.  But how about trying
peaceful approaches first?


feed_id: f32e91877a00abfea27b91bc87a98062
title: Not having a mobile phone
uri: Not-having-a-mobile-phone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Not_having_a_mobile_phone%29
content:
<p>
Not having a mobile phone 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jun/03/simon-cowell-says-giving-up-mobile-phone-has-made-him-happier">can
make you happier</a>.
<p>
It will certainly do wonders for your privacy.


feed_id: ab2ef7000df6b088cfb3f6b958e7b9cb
title: Photographing actions of Israeli army
uri: Photographing-actions-of-Israeli-army
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Photographing_actions_of_Israeli_army%29

content:
<p>
Israel 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2018/jun/03/israel-must-halt-law-that-could-criminalise-media">plans
to make it a crime</a> to photograph the actions of the Israeli army
with intent to criticize.
<p>
So journalists will be allowed to make videos of soldiers shooting
protesters only if the purpose is to praise them for it.


feed_id: 1cd521863723a8ddfe9c98ea4eb01702
title: Copyright censorship filters
uri: Copyright-censorship-filters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Copyright_censorship_filters%29
content:
<p>
The EU governments joined the EU executive in supporting 
<a href="https://cdt.org/blog/copyright-eu-parliament-must-step-up-council-adopts-ill-advised-position/">mandatory
copyright censorship filters</a>.
<p>
This is terribly dangerous.


feed_id: 0ad82caefa4acceb65c8d775b0384f8a
title: Abortion pill distribution in Arkansas
uri: Abortion-pill-distribution-in-Arkansas
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Abortion_pill_distribution_in_Arkansas%29

content:
<p>
The Supreme Court seems inclined to tolerate an Arkansas law that
creates a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/29/supreme-court-arkansas-abortion-pill-rejected-planned-parenthood">pretext
to ban distribution of abortion pills</a>.
<p>
This decision seems to be about a preliminary injunction to delay
application of the law, rather than about the validity of the law
itself.  But we have to fear that this presages the ultimate decision
about the law's validity.
<p>
A week ago the Irish Republic threw off Christian theocracy, but now
it threatens the US.  If theocratists make safe abortion unobtainable
in the US, they will kill thousands of women, and condemn millions of
adults to lifelong poverty, and millions of children to stunted lives.
<p>
"It's telling that those zealots who want to defend the 'unborn child'
are complicit in policies that 
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/29/children-poverty-rocketing-defend-rights-unborn-child'>impoverish
women and children</a>."


feed_id: c918417412068a77b1d6455e2006718e
title: Effects of Javascript code
uri: Effects-of-Javascript-code
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Effects_of_Javascript_code%29
content:
<p>
Misguided values of the day: a writer thinks that the effect of
<a href="https://daringfireball.net/linked/2018/05/27/usa-today-gdpr">Javascript
code</a> of slowing down a web page from 3 seconds to 45 seconds is
worse than spying on users and taking control of their computers.


feed_id: f692315d04b4e85d7f9aaf7af5ace4a1
title: Auditing big companies
uri: Auditing-big-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Auditing_big_companies%29
content:
<p>
There are only four big accounting companies big enough to audit big
companies.  This creates a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/29/the-financial-scandal-no-one-is-talking-about-big-four-accountancy-firms">danger
of tolerating fraud</a>.  We need to break up these companies, as well
as the other big companies they audit.


feed_id: bae0d8982c8456995bfb2c818b7b1399
title: Paywalled academic journals
uri: Paywalled-academic-journals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Paywalled_academic_journals%29
content:
<p>
Thousands of AI researchers have 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2018/may/29/why-thousands-of-ai-researchers-are-boycotting-the-new-nature-journal">taken
a stand against the intrusion of paywalled journals</a> into their
field.
<p>
I salute their willingness to act to put an end to nonfree scientific
publication.  They could make their principles clearer and sharper if
they replace the word "open" with "free (libre)".


feed_id: c13d1d72c37e25078b9b374944cbb249
title: Apple blocks Telegram upgrades
uri: Apple-blocks-Telegram-upgrades
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Apple_blocks_Telegram_upgrades%29
content:
<p>
Apple has 
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/31/17412396/telegram-apple-app-store-app-updates-russia">blocked
Telegram from upgrading its app for a month</a>.  This evidently has
to do with Russia's command to Apple to block Telegram in Russia.
<p>
The Telegram client is free software on other platforms,
but no apps are free on an iThing.


feed_id: fda4cca297fee9dc1b283bbfbd2bc819
title: Netanyahu prepared to attack Iran
uri: Netanyahu-prepared-to-attack-Iran
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Netanyahu_prepared_to_attack_Iran%29

content:
<p>
Netanyahu ordered generals to prepare to attack Iran, in 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/01/amid-new-threat-war-former-mossad-chief-admits-israel-had-2011-plan-attack-iran">2011</a>.
He could do that again at any moment if he thinks it is advantageous
for him.


feed_id: ecf22a2f73e14de5a87cc8947195060f
title: War on Pain Sufferers
uri: 2018-06-10-War-on-Pain-Sufferers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28War_on_Pain_Sufferers%29
content:
<p>
The US government is 
<a href="https://reason.com/reasontv/2018/06/01/how-the-government-made-the-opioid-crisi">shutting
down the few remaining clinics</a> where people in great pain can get
enough opiates to treat it.  The doctor warns that some will commit
suicide.
<p>
I hope they do it in congresscritter's offices so that it might help
end the War on Pain Sufferers.


feed_id: 68d711cfe4f8ef23e344c65884e62730
title: Italy to deport refugees
uri: Italy-to-deport-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Italy_to_deport_refugees%29
content:
<p>
Italy's new government says it will deport 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/01/italy-vows-to-send-home-undocumented-immigrants">half
a million refugees</a>.


feed_id: b498d91bcbc1e4b42183522eac7d8fbb
title: The dishonesty of thugs
uri: The-dishonesty-of-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28The_dishonesty_of_thugs%29
content:
<p>
Lush 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jun/01/cosmetics-retailer-lush-criticised-by-police-over-spycops-ad-campaign">publicized
the dishonesty of thugs</a>, and faces criticism from thugs who say it
is wrong to remind people of their dishonesty.
<p>
One of the women that the undercover <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> seduced says she
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/03/sajid-javid-lush-spycops-campaign-victims">appreciates
the support</a>.


feed_id: 86c4f76a06b0b94106dacf19567a5ee0
title: Overuse of antibiotics on farms
uri: Overuse-of-antibiotics-on-farms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Overuse_of_antibiotics_on_farms%29
content:
<p>
When farm animals are regularly given antibiotics, the antibiotics
pollute local water and trigger antibiotic resistance.  The EU was
considering a plan to try to stop that, but 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/01/antibiotic-apocalypse-eu-scraps-plans-to-tackle-drug-pollution-despite-fears-of-rising-resistance">gave
up</a>.


feed_id: 10172ec53f118b4979c0dedd42feeb18
title: Schools buying face recognition systems
uri: Schools-buying-face-recognition-systems
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Schools_buying_face_recognition_systems%29

content:
<p>
Some US schools are 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/05/30/face-recognition-schools-school-shootings/">buying
tremendously expensive face recognition surveillance systems</a>,
supposedly for security against shootings.  These systems are useless
for such security, but will subject all the students to tyranny.


feed_id: 47e85da202686938258ed7a22c5b929b
title: Cost of cheater's golf trips
uri: Cost-of-cheater-s-golf-trips
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Cost_of_cheaters_golf_trips%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/1/1768646/-Mueller-investigation-cost-16-7M-over-the-first-year">Mueller's
investigation cost only 1/4 as much</a> as the cheater's golf trips.


feed_id: 4715dd519f00fbd513dfd96ed5b7373f
title: Officials appointed by the hater
uri: Officials-appointed-by-the-hater
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Officials_appointed_by_the_hater%29
content:
<p>
The hater has appointed many officials that were 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/31/1768455/-Trump-has-been-steadily-stacking-top-posts-with-hate-group-leaders-and-anti-immigrant-activists">known
for stirring up hatred against immigrants</a>.


feed_id: 9ad7bf7a4de53482820d5b69879d1bb4
title: Car fuel efficiency standards
uri: Car-fuel-efficiency-standards
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Car_fuel_efficiency_standards%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> Pruitt 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/31/1768532/-EPA-prepares-to-ditch-clean-car-rules-over-objections-of-their-own-scientists">wants
to erase future car fuel efficiency standards</a> so that the US car
companies can sell extravagant large cars.  Worse, he intends to take
away states' rights to set higher standards.


feed_id: c85e64de88bc073d211099f752c57502
title: Unfair sentences
uri: Unfair-sentences
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Unfair_sentences%29
content:
<p>
Holding people responsible for what their partners in crime do can
lead to sentences that are 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/1/1768681/-Judge-sentences-black-15-year-old-to-five-years-prison-10-years-probation-over-one-pair-of-shoes">clearly
unfair</a>.


feed_id: 76b7c38cb51ac04ca19fa7c714dcff4b
title: Bottleneck for publications
uri: Bottleneck-for-publications
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Bottleneck_for_publications%29
content:
<p>
Youtube is 
<a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-44281586">deleting lots of
"drill" music with violent lyrics</a>.
<p>
I don't think any company is obligated to publish such music.  (I
would surely find it disgusting.)  What worries me is for any one
company to be such a bottleneck that its publication decisions should
become news.


feed_id: 324be1a53d3d99acd3d1d1e804719158
title: "Alternative" cancer treatments
uri: Alternative-cancer-treatments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Alternative_cancer_treatments%29
content:
<p>
Some common "alternative" cancer treatments are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/dec/03/alternative-therapies-risk-effectiveness-of-cancer-treatment-researchers-find">worse
than useless</a> &mdash; they undermine the effectiveness of drugs and
radiation.


feed_id: dc7a791c5be73a33f0743b1569e2b454
title: Seabirds in the Shetland Islands
uri: Seabirds-in-the-Shetland-Islands
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Seabirds_in_the_Shetland_Islands%29
content:
<p>
Hundreds of thousands of seabirds used to nest in the Shetland Islands.
Only 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/03/shetland-seabirds-climate-change-catastrophe-terns-kittiwakes-puffins">a
few thousand remain</a>.  The cause is global heating.


feed_id: 73336893a56b1a869ae149018e921272
title: Gender neutral role "in the home"
uri: Gender-neutral-role-in-the-home
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Gender_neutral_role_in_the_home%29
content:
<p>
The Irish Republic's constitution has a clause about preserving
women's role "in the home", which is now recognized as
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/03/irish-feminists-target-women-in-the-home-clause-in-constitution">sexist</a>.
<p>
I think it is better to make the clause gender-neutral than to repeal
it.  Repealing it would tend to lead to less state aid to parents;
making it gender-neutral would lead to more.


feed_id: 2c6565b58b7c6d60b5b012ae1546b45f
title: Escape from spell of jihadi cult
uri: Escape-from-spell-of-jihadi-cult
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Escape_from_spell_of_jihadi_cult%29
content:
<p>
Only in prison did Mohammed Khalid find friends and therapists to
help him 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/03/mohammed-khalid-america-youngest-terrorist-interview">escape
the spell of the jihadi cult he had fallen into</a>.  Before that, the
jihadis were his only friends.
<p>
Why did FBI agents slam an unarmed person against a wall?
There was no need for that.


feed_id: b8b17e33d3e2bb14e4e5e410a9bb5047
title: IMF imposing hardship on non-rich
uri: IMF-imposing-hardship-on-non-rich
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28IMF_imposing_hardship_on_non-rich%29

content:
<p>
The IMF is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/03/jordan-amman-protest-imf-austerity-measures">imposing
hardship on non-rich Jordanians</a>.
<p>
At least the state is increasing taxes more for businesses than for
individuals.  It could be worse, if it acted like the US.


feed_id: cd361aff95ed2b72f707bf63485ab336
title: Commitment to democracy
uri: Commitment-to-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Commitment_to_democracy%29
content:
<p>
"The research suggests that when intolerant white people fear democracy
may benefit marginalized people, they 
<a href='https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-effect-new-study-connects-white-american-intolerance-support-authoritarianism-ncna877886'>abandon
their commitment to democracy</a>."


feed_id: 020f79ab07a083c784c5c877f484aca7
title: TSA's harass-list
uri: TSA-s-harass-list
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28TSAs_harass-list%29
content:
<p>
The TSA's harass-list for travelers that have protested or complained
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-bovard-tsa-watchlist-20180528-story.html">violates
civil liberties</a>, especially given that the agency tends to cover
up and demand immunity for when it attacks people.


feed_id: b646f72699b05dd6bfbf26a66c49efa4
title: Cell phone location tracking data
uri: Cell-phone-location-tracking-data
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Cell_phone_location_tracking_data%29

content:
<p>
"Anonymizing" people's cell phone location tracking data still allows
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2018/06/01/location-privacy-is-hard.html">determining
a lot about them from locations</a>.


feed_id: b16a3ff1f4050fd9b13addcc7210548a
title: Urgent: Farm bill
uri: Urgent-Farm-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Farm_bill%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://secure.foodandwateraction.org/act/tell-the-senate-we-need-farm-bill-works">call on the Senate</a> to about the wrongs of the House farm bill.


feed_id: a1c09de64f82f4437c23960d43ec3f0c
title: Urgent: Copyright censorship directive
uri: Urgent-Copyright-censorship-directive
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Copyright_censorship_directive%29

content:
<p>
EU citizens: <a href="https://boingboing.net/2018/06/07/thanks-axel-voss.html">write to and phone your MEPs</a> to oppose the copyright
censorship directive.
<p>
The Parliament should kill this directive entirely,
rather than try to modify it.  The rules of the EU
will allow the other EU organs (which have already approved
this tyrannical measure) to override the Parliament's decisions,
and it is very hard for Parliament to block that afterward.


feed_id: f879f7c4bb229aa225f88e17a00be1e0
title: Politician killed in Bangladesh
uri: Politician-killed-in-Bangladesh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Politician_killed_in_Bangladesh%29
content:
<p>
Bangladesh's <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> department death squad killed politician Akramul
Haque, then said it was in a shoot-out.  His wife recorded a phone
with him as he died, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/06/audio-clip-captures-bangladeshi-police-killing-drugs-suspect-akramul-haque">proving that the thugs were lying</a>.


feed_id: 00140c9444dfdbddbbeca9f10796c3cc
title: Fear of false accusations
uri: Fear-of-false-accusations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Fear_of_false_accusations%29
content:
<p>
Brian Jones is now middle-aged, but since he is black, he still <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/06/growing-up-black-in-america-racism-education">fears
being falsely accused</a> of various crimes because of his race.
<p>
The job of American <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> is upholding law and order; when bigotry is
included in that "order", the result is to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/06/america-police-called-on-black-people-everyday-racism">multiply the bigotry</a>
of any bigot that calls 911.
<p>
Other Americans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/06/americans-vox-pop-everyday-racism">describe the everyday bigotry</a> they encounter in the
US.


feed_id: ee9326bf529091746d8a02d3d7808588
title: Search rankings and elections
uri: Search-rankings-and-elections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Search_rankings_and_elections%29
content:
<p>
Google could manipulate elections simply by jiggering with search
ranking.  Experiments show that this can <a href="https://theconversation.com/when-will-google-defend-democracy-96838">influence how people vote</a>.
<p>
It would be very difficult to make regulations against this that a
search engine company could not evade.  The computation of search
ranking is complex, for good reasons including stopping sites from
gaming the system; this creates many places to hide the manipulation
and many ways to disguise it.
<p>
I am not sure what the solution could be.
<p>
When I want to check some facts, the first place I look
is Wikipedia.  To do a search for articles, then read them,
takes a long time, so I rarely go that way.
<p>
It is a shame that the writer endorses the prejudices embodied
by <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Consume">using the word "consume"</a> to refer to reading articles.


feed_id: c3d07ad245b435e72314c4b64fc71ac7
title: Single-use plastic
uri: 2018-06-11-Single-use-plastic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Single-use_plastic%29
content:
<p>
Modi said India would <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/05/india-will-abolish-all-single-use-plastic-by-2022-vows-narendra-modi">eliminate all single-use plastic</a> by 2022.
<p>
That must be the eventual target, but it might be important to
allow some specific temporary exceptions until better substitutes are
developed.   Paper bags already exist for carrying purchases,
and paper straws were standard order when I was a child,
but some specific uses in food packaging might not have
replacements yet.


feed_id: a97c5443157f2c25ff7afe0e278a5fa7
title: Marjory Stoneman Douglas survivor
uri: Marjory-Stoneman-Douglas-survivor
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Marjory_Stoneman_Douglas_survivor%29

content:
<p>
David Hogg escaped being killed in Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school,
so a right-wing terrorist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/05/florida-school-shooting-survivor-david-hogg-swatting-prank">tried to get a SWAT team to kill him</a>.
Fortunately for him, nobody was home at the time.


feed_id: 0f63ddf9e81c587fe352cc7467e24e99
title: Airport expansion
uri: Airport-expansion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Airport_expansion%29
content:
<p>
If we take the danger of <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> disaster seriously, we must
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/05/the-guardian-view-on-heathrow-expansion-better-never-than-so-late">put an end to airport expansion</a> and start resisting plans to increase
the number of flights.


feed_id: f603ed65f6a8744baa8d9b360c182968
title: Punishing non-rich Italians
uri: Punishing-non-rich-Italians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Punishing_non-rich_Italians%29
content:
<p>
Soros: Instead of trying to teach Italy a lesson by punishing non-rich
Italians, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/05/eu-italy-european-leaders-punish-government-help">the EU should learn one</a>.


feed_id: 071d25495f17afaf0a83207fbafeb7c2
title: Warren on the saboteur-in-chief
uri: Warren-on-the-saboteur-in-chief
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Warren_on_the_saboteur-in-chief%29
content:
<p>
Senator Warren <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/05/elizabeth-warren-trump-regulatory-cuts-big-greasy-sandwich-republicans">condemned the saboteur-in-chief</a> for launching "a war on
public health, a war on public safety, a war on truly free and
competitive markets, a war on American workers, a war on American
consumers.”


feed_id: 9cd51a6e6dff0f9bd568ac275d485b98
title: Uranium enrichment in Iran
uri: Uranium-enrichment-in-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Uranium_enrichment_in_Iran%29
content:
<p>
Iran is increasing the pressure to maintain the nonnuclear deal
by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/05/iran-to-launch-plan-to-boost-uranium-enrichment">making parts for additional uranium enrichment centrifuges</a>.


feed_id: 07378a42bd4e728923d06597a35a93ce
title: Panel for student safety
uri: Panel-for-student-safety
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Panel_for_student_safety%29
content:
<p>
DeVos set up a panel to study safety of students in school.  It <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/05/betsy-devos-guns-school-shootings-safety-panel-not-include">won't cover
the possibility of being shot</a>.
<p>
Will it cover the danger of being <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#15_August_2016_(Thugs_in_schools)">jailed by a "school resource" thug</a>?


feed_id: 0caf6300038e06179ae20d8145b55bde
title: Monsanto to Bayer
uri: Monsanto-to-Bayer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Monsanto_to_Bayer%29
content:
<p>
Monsanto is (in effect) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/04/monsanto-to-ditch-its-infamous-name-after-sale-to-bayer">changing its name to "Bayer"</a>.  So transfer to
"Bayer" all the criticism and hostility that you associated with
"Monsanto".


feed_id: b919ec126637e735978bb8b7824da9bd
title: Tech company competitors
uri: Tech-company-competitors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Tech_company_competitors%29
content:
<p>
Giant tech companies now systematically <a href="https://boingboing.net/2018/06/04/thanks-milton-friedman.html">kill off potential new
competitors</a>, or threaten to do so in order to force them to sell
for a low price.


feed_id: 07c2671f694b1274ebd759c03d1c00f8
title: Fee for seeing doctor in prison
uri: Fee-for-seeing-doctor-in-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Fee_for_seeing_doctor_in_prison%29
content:
<p>
Many US prisons charge prisoners a small fee to see a doctor &mdash;
but it can <a href="https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/05/30/the-580-co-pay?ref=hp-2-111">take a prisoner a month</a> to make that small fee on prison
wages.


feed_id: b9d7e2127aedcb7cfa5959f7836736d6
title: School vouchers
uri: School-vouchers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28School_vouchers%29
content:
<p>
Public-funded school vouchers are <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/education/school-zone/os-voucher-school-curriculum-20180503-story.html">supporting religiously biased "schools"</a>
that inculcate religion and bogus science.


feed_id: 6c29cbd0d96a979f1f472c2d32578aa1
title: Selling favorable news coverage
uri: Selling-favorable-news-coverage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Selling_favorable_news_coverage%29
content:
<p>
A former Tory official is now a corrupt newspaper editor,
and has sold Google and Uber a <a href="https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/james-cusick/george-osborne-s-london-evening-standard-promises-positive-news-coverage-to-uber-goo">promise of favorable news coverage</a>.


feed_id: 18122fe6898a8fafaa00e4b100ad38ba
title: Dress code discrimination
uri: Dress-code-discrimination
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Dress_code_discrimination%29
content:
<p>US school dress codes are often explicitly biased against blacks, but even when they aren't, <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/4/24/1759659/-How-dress-codes-are-used-to-discriminate-against-black-girls-and-keep-them-out-of-the-classroom?detail=emaildkre">they tend to be enforced in a biased way</a> (like so many laws).</p>
</li></p>


feed_id: 1853f7b4bf16640fa655a509641af8e3
title: Mississippi: jailing poor people
uri: Mississippi-jailing-poor-people
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Mississippi%3A_jailing_poor_people%29

content:
<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center made the town of Corinth, Mississippi, <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/news/2018/04/26/splc-lawsuit-settlement-ends-debtors-prison-corinth-mississippi">stop jailing poor people over fines they could not pay</a>.</p>
<p>However, towns and cities across the US engage in this cruelty.  In many cases it is a byproduct of Republican tax-cutting.  For plutocratists, squeezing money out of poor people is preferable to taxing rich people.</p>
</li></p>


feed_id: 4163d4614172be4d757c0777c048ea23
title: US: Trump cabinet rubber stamp
uri: US-Trump-cabinet-rubber-stamp
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28US%3A_Trump_cabinet_rubber_stamp%29
content:
<p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/04/26/rubber-stamping-trumps-war-cabinet-6-democrats-just-voted-gop-confirm-mike-pompeo">"Rubber-Stamping" Trump's War Cabinet, 6 Democrats Voted With GOP to Confirm Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State</a>.</p>
<p>These DINOs are Joe Donnelly (Indiana), Heidi Heitkamp (North Dakota), Doug Jones (Alabama), Joe Manchin (West Virginia), Claire McCaskill (Missouri), and Bill Nelson (Florida).  If I lived in one of those states, I would support a progressive primary challenger at the next opportunity.</p>
</li></p>


feed_id: 7149fdc15859730b1e1e25d7eb5636e0
title: UK: Amber Rudd lying
uri: UK-Amber-Rudd-lying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28UK%3A_Amber_Rudd_lying%29
content:
<p>The Tory minister in charge of deportation <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/27/amber-rudd-was-told-about-migrant-removal-targets-leak-reveals">said she didn't know about the numerical targets</a>, but a secret memo shows she was lying.</p>
<p>A former manager of the immigration agency <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/27/ministers-must-have-known-of-removals-targets-says-former-immigration-chief">says that ministers could hardly have been ignorant of the targets</a>.  He also says that the policy ("hostile environment") is more responsible for the cruelty than the targets are.  Maybe that is so, but targets can push staff to be crueler than their consciences would normally permit.</p>
<p>US Republicans are even worse, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/27/lesbian-family-values-ruth-davidson-scottish-tory-gay-lgbt-prejudices-rethink">because they are theocratic too</a>. The Tories don't judge people by their lifestyle, only by their wealth.</p>
</li></p>


feed_id: aaa9bfeddb30a32840f08b89eb660331
title: India: human rights abuse
uri: India-human-rights-abuse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28India%3A_human_rights_abuse%29
content:
<p>For Indian women, rape is the extreme manifestation of a spectrum of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/27/india-abuse-women-human-rights-rape-girls">subjection that starts when they are children</a>.</p>
</li></p>


feed_id: 1a4b7e85ab063c7ac29f65b6776649ac
title: Plastic in Swiss mountains
uri: Plastic-in-Swiss-mountains
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Plastic_in_Swiss_mountains%29
content:
<p>Microscopic pieces of plastic are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/27/the-hills-are-alive-with-the-signs-of-plastic-even-swiss-mountains-are-polluted">found in the soil in Swiss mountains</a>.  If these kill the earthworms, they will indirectly harm the plants, too.</p>
</li></p>


feed_id: 52404c0262f349d6ab42d69f87a14a64
title: North and South Korea peace agreement
uri: North-and-South-Korea-peace-agreement
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28North_and_South_Korea_peace_agreement%29

content:
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/27/north-south-korea-summit-leaders-promise-lasting-peace-denuclearisation-kim-jong-un-moon-jae-in">South and North Korea pledged to make peace</a>.  If they follow through, that will be a great advance.</p>
<p>Denuclearizing both countries would be a great step forward, too. Maybe someday even India and Pakistan could agree to denuclearize.</p>
<p>We should not presume that final agreement will be reached; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/27/bonhomie-korean-peninsula-trump">there remain many opportunities for things to go wrong</a>.  For instance, the bully won't like it, and he may try to wreck it.  He does not mind looking like a warmonger.</p>
<p>What has changed is that now there are opportunities for things to go right.</p>
</li></p>


feed_id: 40e4e38a1d1783233a45c6e401c9106a
title: Online Privacy a human right
uri: Online-Privacy-a-human-right
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#10_June_2018_%28Online_Privacy_a_human_right%29
content:
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/26/the-guardian-view-on-privacy-online-a-human-right">"Encryption on the internet will be abused, but better that than a society where no one is allowed secrets from the government."</a></p>
<p>I agree completely, but encrypting the contents of messages is not enough to protect us from repression.  <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">We must not allow the government to be able to find out, in general, where people go or who talks with whom</a>.</p>
</li></p>


feed_id: 08ce221bb8d584eca5cf0bead3893ffe
title: Urgent: Public housing rent hikes
uri: Urgent-Public-housing-rent-hikes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#11_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Public_housing_rent_hikes%29

content:
<p>
US Citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/congress-reject-trumps-rent-hikes-and-fully-fund-hud-2?nowrapper=true">tell Congress</a> to reject public housing rent hikes and
fully fund hud.


feed_id: 32ba9746acbc3f1f044f47594cb4a160
title: Targeting Canada
uri: Targeting-Canada
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#11_June_2018_%28Targeting_Canada%29
content:
<p>
The bullshitter is trying to stir up Americans to hate Canada
by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/06/donald-trump-justin-trudeau-burning-down-white-house-tariffs">citing (incorrectly) the war of 1812</a>.
<p>
That's typical target-of-the-day rhetoric for the bullshitter, but why
this particular target?  He is cunning and generally has reasons for
his choices of target for hatred &mdash; reasons that are rational
although vicious and duplicitous.
<p>
The bullshitter is totally loyal to fossil fuels, so he surely
appreciates Trudeau's recent <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#3_June_2018_(Unkinder_Morgan_pipeline)">act of pipeline treachery</a>.
I wonder if he aims to anger Canadians so they will stand with
Trudeau, just when they need to fight him about the pipeline.


feed_id: b48470eeb1f478b302ee58182e926428
title: Expand Social Security
uri: Expand-Social-Security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#11_June_2018_%28Expand_Social_Security%29
content:
<p>
The US should <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/05/despite-rightwing-fearmongering-experts-say-now-time-expand-social-security">expand Social Security</a>.


feed_id: 0bb2c02d400a45d05bdcedfd41b9f22b
title: Sungai Putri forest
uri: Sungai-Putri-forest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#11_June_2018_%28Sungai_Putri_forest%29
content:
<p>
Indonesia is failing to stop loggers from <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/06/05/illegal-operations-indonesia-threaten-more-1000-orangutans">cutting down the Sungai
Putri forest</a>.
<p>
In addition to killing a thousand orangutans, a substantial fraction
of those remaining it Borneo, cutting down the forest is likely to
result in drying of the peat, which would imply the burning of the
peat, or perhaps only the upper few feet of it.  This would
put a major spike into <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a>.


feed_id: 876ad518d18c43599b87da344816f29f
title: Plan for plastic waste
uri: Plan-for-plastic-waste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#11_June_2018_%28Plan_for_plastic_waste%29
content:
<p>
The UN has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/05/planet-chokes-plastic-waste-un-report-offers-roadmap-tackle-global-crisis">proposed a plan</a> to cut down plastic waste carefully but soon.


feed_id: db2c12dbcd82404ba932dcda6784b6ae
title: Palestinian medic
uri: Palestinian-medic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#11_June_2018_%28Palestinian_medic%29
content:
<p>
Israeli militarists and bigots <a href="https://972mag.com/in-memory-of-razan-al-najjar/135910/">don't feel any shame</a> about killing
Palestinian medic Razan Najjar.
They defend the shooting with specific lies, general lies, and
absurd conspiracy theories reminiscent of <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#28_October_2017_(Las_Vegas_massacre)">the absurd claims</a> that
mass shootings in the US were fabricated.
<p>
Their attitude is that of a lynch mob.


feed_id: 0206e623b529eb5e6d70a380fbb0cf57
title: Charges against Ezra Nawi
uri: Charges-against-Ezra-Nawi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#11_June_2018_%28Charges_against_Ezra_Nawi%29
content:
<p>
Israel has <a href="https://972mag.com/the-persecution-of-ezra-nawi/135807/">dropped nearly all the charges</a> filed two years ago against
anti-occupation activist Ezra Nawi, because they were false.
They were fabricated to sabotage his life and mission.
Perhaps from the stress, he has suffered a stroke and will never be able
to campaign as he did before.
<p>
The article reports that using spurious or far-fetched charges is standard
repressive Israeli practice against human rights activists.


feed_id: 0269823b91b48db3fb462c843f2c7803
title: Right to a stable climate
uri: Right-to-a-stable-climate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#11_June_2018_%28Right_to_a_stable_climate%29
content:
<p>
Legal efforts to establish the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/06/climate-constitution-courts-and-streets">right to a stable climate</a> under the US
Constitution.


feed_id: 57022e8d6de64d43f306780e3ce1b0b1
title: Sensors in 3D printed houses
uri: Sensors-in-3D-printed-houses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#11_June_2018_%28Sensors_in_3D_printed_houses%29
content:
<p>
3D printed houses <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/jun/06/netherlands-to-build-worlds-first-habitable-3d-printed-houses">will contain "sensors"</a> built into the pieces of the
structure.
<p>
It might be difficult to remove sensors embedded in big chunks of
solid material.  I wonder what they will sense.  Sounds, perhaps?
Presence of people?


feed_id: deb3b1276eb48a013115ef7c42610c06
title: Decrypting users' data
uri: Decrypting-users-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#11_June_2018_%28Decrypting_users%27_data%29
content:
<p>
Australia plans to force companies to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/06/planned-laws-to-force-tech-firms-to-reveal-encrypted-data">help decrypt users' data</a>.
But it is not clear how far that would go.


feed_id: 53af90ba9e0f80fb75039b45631ac83a
title: Worker safety agreement
uri: Worker-safety-agreement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#11_June_2018_%28Worker_safety_agreement%29
content:
<p>
Western sales front companies have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/06/rana-plaza-disaster-bangladesh-brands-ikea-new-safety-accord">refused to sign</a> the Bangladesh
worker safety agreement for the manufacture of their products.


feed_id: 1a18fa9c53e386742ec6598e21983128
title: New emissions tests
uri: New-emissions-tests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#11_June_2018_%28New_emissions_tests%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/06/impossible-to-cheat-emissions-tests-show-almost-all-new-diesels-still-dirty">New emissions tests</a> carried out by a light beam as cars pass on the road
have made cheating impossible.  However, some Diesel cars have really been made
much cleaner.


feed_id: a306d6b721c598583586d10d0d921e4a
title: Funding for homeopathy
uri: Funding-for-homeopathy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#11_June_2018_%28Funding_for_homeopathy%29
content:
<p>
A UK parliamentary committee <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2010/feb/22/mps-verdict-homeopathy-useless-unethical">recommends ceasing to provide</a> any government
funding for homeopathy.
<p>
It was foolish to give any official support to that pseudoscientific
practice.


feed_id: 70b22b1a551ab33d18e888fd205098f0
title: Salafi Arabia's 'anti-terror' laws
uri: Salafi-Arabia-s-anti-terror-laws
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#11_June_2018_%28Salafi_Arabia%27s_%27anti-terror%27_laws%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> uses "anti-terror" laws to imprison and torture human
rights defenders, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/06/un-accuses-saudi-arabia-of-using-anti-terror-laws-to-justify-torture">according to a UN examination</a>.
Some of them are flogged, even executed.
<p>
I wonder if <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#dubya">Dubya</a> learned the practice from Salafi Arabia.


feed_id: 764fb45819dd2c9029a4cfa3a6d91732
title: Wedding cake lawsuit
uri: Wedding-cake-lawsuit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#11_June_2018_%28Wedding_cake_lawsuit%29
content:
<p>
The lawsuit against a Colorado bakery was decided by the Supreme Court
in a very narrow opinion that found the bakery <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/06/fury-despair-masterpiece-cakeshop-ruling-misplaced">not guilty of
discrimination</a>, but clearly said that discrimination against
homosexual customers as a general policy is unacceptable.
<p>
There are two ways to look at that bakery's action: as refusal to make
a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, or as refusal to make a wedding
cake showing two men as the couple.  The first is unacceptable; the
second can perhaps be defended on First Amendment grounds.  Alas, the
two conditions tend to go together.


feed_id: ccad6d73f112439ec547a162397c2dbb
title: Finding an abortion clinic
uri: Finding-an-abortion-clinic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#11_June_2018_%28Finding_an_abortion_clinic%29
content:
<p>
Even where abortion is legal, if it is hard to find a clinic that does
abortions, women <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jun/06/pro-choice-laws-deaths-unsafe-abortions-south-africa-dr-tlaleng-mofokeng">turn to dangerous methods</a> that can kill them.


feed_id: 90fdf1753268e3df9b43ee9a89ac7700
title: Puerto Rico
uri: 2018-06-12-Puerto-Rico
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Puerto_Rico%29
content:
<p>
The nondemocratic imposed government of Puerto Rico is 
<a href="https://e360.yale.edu/features/after-the-storm-puerto-rico-misses-a-chance-to-rebuild-with-renewables-hurricane-maria">insisting
on rebuilding fossil fuel facilities</a>.  This probably has to do
with the fact that they have been 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-nov-feb.html#5_February_2018_(Plan_for_Puerto_Rico)">privatized</a>,
so rebuilding them is welfare for the rich.  Distributed solar
facilities would belong to the citizens.


feed_id: ec5cc87b8cb1b72ed2698177257410d8
title: Punishment of whistleblowers
uri: Punishment-of-whistleblowers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Punishment_of_whistleblowers%29
content:
<p>
Australia is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jun/05/major-parties-agree-to-foreign-espionage-laws-that-critics-fear-would-criminalise-journalism">pushing
to punish whistleblowers more harshly</a>, and perhaps also
journalists that publish their reports.


feed_id: cbc56e7227880e3c073f083ab1e3fc56
title: Global plastic calamity
uri: Global-plastic-calamity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Global_plastic_calamity%29
content:
<p>
Earth is approaching a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/05/the-planet-is-on-edge-of-a-global-plastic-calamity">global
plastic calamity</a>.  We need to eliminate most single-use plastic
objects of all kinds.


feed_id: 65365fc9c8644391e3bb147ed2e92249
title: Protesters shut down copper smelting plant
uri: Protesters-shut-down-copper-smelting-plant
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Protesters_shut_down_copper_smelting_plant%29

content:
<p>
After <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> killed a dozen protesters, the people of Tuticorin in
India
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/05/the-martyrs-did-it-bloody-end-to-indian-copper-plant-saga">won
the battle to shut down the copper smelting plant</a> that has made
many of them sick.


feed_id: b30d4b09433d668e53f0c786a074e4e1
title: Unkinder Morgan pipeline
uri: 2018-06-12-Unkinder-Morgan-pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Unkinder_Morgan_pipeline%29
content:
<p>
It may still be possible to thwart Trudeau's attempt to finish the
Unkinder Morgan pipeline.  But even if it is finished, it 
<a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/trans-mountain-pipeline-justin-trudeau-climate">may
not have many customers</a>.
<p>
Nonetheless, he will still have succeeded in wasting billions of
dollars of Canadians' money.


feed_id: d70d5ce9f5dc59cfc122b3580dd55fcb
title: Medicare for all
uri: 2018-06-12-Medicare-for-all
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Medicare_for_all%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/medicare-for-all-health-care-unions">Time
For Unions To Step Up</a> On Medicare For All.


feed_id: 041fd01e4ebe99d2f55d003e75a98b44
title: INSYS paid doctors to prescribe fentanyl
uri: INSYS-paid-doctors-to-prescribe-fentanyl
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28INSYS_paid_doctors_to_prescribe_fentanyl%29

content:
<p>
The pharma company INSYS hired prostitutes who had sex with doctors to
<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/05/insys-subsys-whistleblower-lawsuits/">encourage
them to proscribe fentanyl in high doses for off-label use</a>.  It
also paid doctors money as kickbacks.
<p>
Its executives are on trial for this.


feed_id: b538d3c7de8bdf42c28545b7d8e446cb
title: Great Barrier Reef
uri: 2018-06-12-Great-Barrier-Reef
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Great_Barrier_Reef%29
content:
<p>
The northern section of the Great Barrier Reef has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/05/coral-decline-in-great-barrier-reef-unprecedented">lost
half the coral</a>.  This was due to successive bleaching events in
two very hot summers.
<p>
It demonstrates that continuing <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> is likely to wipe out
the reef even before the level of CO2 in the ocean kills all coral.


feed_id: c067aa1b3e257774a4647da84dcaaf1e
title: Overfishing in Australia
uri: Overfishing-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Overfishing_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Australia is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/05/australias-large-fish-species-declined-30-in-past-decade-study-says">driving
its large fish species to extinction by overfishing</a>, outside of
limited protected areas.


feed_id: bf4bc6c4617f6fcda9898d5b0a1d10a4
title: Civilians killed by "precision airstrikes"
uri: Civilians-killed-by-precision-airstrikes
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Civilians_killed_by_precision_airstrikes%29

content:
<p>
Amnesty's Research Reveals the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/05/british-us-airstrikes-raqqa-civilians-killed">Huge
Civilian Toll</a> of the Coalition Forces 'Precision Airstrikes'
against [<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a>] in the Syrian City.
<p>
What's more, the US tries to bury the issue rather than investigating
civilian casualties.


feed_id: e94ff0f08e9eda0a05678997f60b9700
title: US violating human rights law
uri: US-violating-human-rights-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28US_violating_human_rights_law%29
content:
<p>
The UN says that the US is violating human rights law by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/05/un-says-us-must-stop-separating-migrant-children-from-parents">taking
children away from immigrant parents</a>.


feed_id: 8f8f232c4591266edc3890385f8845a2
title: Urgent: Civilian casualties in Raqqa
uri: Urgent-Civilian-casualties-in-Raqqa
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Civilian_casualties_in_Raqqa%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.amnestyusa.org/page/25491/action/1">Call on Mattis</a> to respond with justice to the civilian
casualties in Raqqa.


feed_id: 9986782edd3c83e4fc698789fb2a7b91
title: Urgent: WATER act
uri: Urgent-WATER-act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_WATER_act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/save-our-water">call on Congress</a> to pass the WATER act (Water
Affordability, Transparency Equity and Reliability Act, to provide
Americans with what people in Flint and other cities don't have.


feed_id: 1f266398ba3a33d30f18496fb9e210e1
title: Urgent: Social Security propaganda
uri: Urgent-Social-Security-propaganda
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Social_Security_propaganda%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/fox-social-security">Demand corrections</a> from FOX affiliates for Social Security propaganda.


feed_id: e8ef96db9504fe1a0e072b6f22875bc6
title: Urgent: Military AI
uri: Urgent-Military-AI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Military_AI%29
content:
<p>
Graduating in AI?  <a href="https://gizmodo.com/students-pledge-to-refuse-job-interviews-at-google-in-p-1826614260">Pledge not to interview for Google</a> unless it vows
permanently not to work on military AI.
<p>
You can sign the pledge without running nonfree software by
email to stanfordsolidaritynetwork@gmail.com.


feed_id: ca31dd62bcfb6ccab8010f3a4e49358f
title: Kim Jong-un impersonator
uri: Kim-Jong-un-impersonator
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Kim_Jong-un_impersonator%29
content:
<p>
Singapore made its repressive side visible by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/08/kim-jong-un-impersonator-says-he-was-held-in-singapore">harassing a comedian</a>
that impersonates Kim Jong-un.


feed_id: d11c0745daaeadac22c1712274641d6a
title: Razan al-Najjar
uri: Razan-al-Najjar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Razan_al-Najjar%29
content:
<p>
Israel published a <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/08/israel-attempts-smear-razan-al-najjar-palestinian-medic-killed-calling-no-angel/">deceptive smear video</a> against Razan al-Najjar.


feed_id: 22b643a7d748f3f41b82c618afe490a4
title: Plastic in seafood
uri: Plastic-in-seafood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Plastic_in_seafood%29
content:
<p>
All seafood now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2018/jun/08/microplastics-in-our-mussels-the-sea-is-feeding-human-garbage-back-to-us">contains microscopic bits of plastic</a>.  Many species may be
wiped out by it.  The rest will feed us plastic as we eat it.
<p>
I find it offensive that the author says "we" drink bottled water.  I
never buy bottled water where I can find another way to get safe
drinking water.  I carry around a refillable bottle and I refill it.


feed_id: 1e719d52939cc172f35ab56bbdaadb1a
title: Useless negotiator
uri: Useless-negotiator
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Useless_negotiator%29
content:
<p>
The chump "is a useless negotiator, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/08/trump-master-negotiator-meeting-kim-jong-un-art-of-deal">Kim Jong-un will know that</a>."


feed_id: c7e90d56f36073fdcd05193c3f683630
title: Soviet political prisons
uri: Soviet-political-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Soviet_political_prisons%29
content:
<p>
Putin's ministers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/08/russian-museum-discovers-secret-order-to-destroy-gulag-data">gave an order in 2014</a> to destroy the historical
records of prisoners in Soviet political prisons.


feed_id: 86e87bc0fc090b5d5a24ba817598d1a3
title: AI contract with the Pentagon
uri: AI-contract-with-the-Pentagon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28AI_contract_with_the_Pentagon%29
content:
<p>
Google employees persuaded Google to <a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/google-project-maven-military-tech-workers">drop its AI contract</a> with the Pentagon.
<p>
However, Google did not promise not to take other such contracts in
the future.


feed_id: 0bed5472938588852d62dd3e6e788180
title: California's deaf prisoners
uri: California-s-deaf-prisoners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28California%27s_deaf_prisoners%29
content:
<p>
Without Interpreters, California’s Deaf Prisoners Are <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2018/06/without-interpreters-californias-deaf-prisoners-are-getting-stuck-behind-bars/">Getting Stuck Behind
Bars</a>.


feed_id: 39d56ece8028c679459563693e3f25d1
title: Prison for opioid addiction
uri: Prison-for-opioid-addiction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Prison_for_opioid_addiction%29
content:
<p>
In Massachusetts, many men committed involuntarily for opioid
addiction are <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/does-forced-rehab-work/">put into a prison</a> where guards pay little attention to
prisoners' health.


feed_id: f014db5cb2adb86e4a21cd7bec45cbae
title: Expelling imams
uri: Expelling-imams
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Expelling_imams%29
content:
<p>
Austria is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/08/turkey-austria-close-mosques-expel-imams">expelling imams</a> that are funded by hostile Turkey.
<p>
More countries should expel imams funded by extremist countries.
Indonesia would be much better off today if it had expelled
imams <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#27_May_2017_(Islamist_bigotry)">funded by Salafi Arabia</a> 30 years ago.


feed_id: 3e179090d705516f6c515111cb702349
title: Destitution by design
uri: Destitution-by-design
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Destitution_by_design%29
content:
<p>
Tories latest crushing contradiction: a woman who cannot get out of
her wheelchair without help was told to report for an inspection where
an incompetent non-doctor will decide whether she is fit for work.
But she can't get into the office <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/08/wheelchair-benefits-take-stairs-disabled-people">because it is upstairs</a>.
<p>
The building has an elevator, but they said she is forbidden to use it
unless she can walk up and down the stairs.
<p>
If she tells them, a second time, that she can't go up the stairs, they
will call her a malingerer and cut off the welfare benefits she lives on.
<p>
It takes a special kind of heartlessness to design a bureaucracy to
order people to do the impossible and then punish them for failing.
That is the heartlessness of Tories.
<p>
Tory <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#doohnibor">dooH niboR</a> policies amount to destitution by
design.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/07/destitution-system-poverty-standards-of-living">1.5 million people</a>
in the UK were destitute in 2017.
But that record won't last long, with Tories in charge.  They will
beat it this year.
<p>
The danger is that this has been getting worse for so long that it starts
seeming normal.


feed_id: 0e184635f231eae97899fb0ed4ab6e7d
title: Expectations of black people
uri: Expectations-of-black-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Expectations_of_black_people%29
content:
<p>
"<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/07/how-do-black-people-navigate-white-worlds-shape-shifting">Black people are unduly burdened</a> by the expectation that we always be
on our 'best' behavior &mdash; or be subject to punishment."
<p>
When it comes to voting, even your best behavior <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/07/black-voter-suppression-rights-america-trump">is not enough</a> if
you're black.


feed_id: 85e68fbcd7a15dbb870b29868e831a71
title: Canada's future
uri: Canada-s-future
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Canada%27s_future%29
content:
<p>
"Oil may be Canada's past, but we <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2018/jun/07/canada-oil-industry-environment-kinder-morgan-pipeline">cannot let it be our future</a>."


feed_id: 10e0c0ab5b6ee05bb5ea6d108f749cf9
title: China and Taiwan
uri: 2018-06-13-China-and-Taiwan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28China_and_Taiwan%29
content:
<p>
China is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/07/chinas-interference-will-not-stop-with-qantas-how-will-open-societies-respond">bullying companies</a> into pretending that Taiwan is part of
China.  This is dangerous, especially since it combines with military
threats to invade Taiwan.


feed_id: bdf0ff4c01a11653ae2168d837fe31b6
title: US suicide rate
uri: US-suicide-rate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28US_suicide_rate%29
content:
<p>
There was a <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/08/cdc-suicide-rates-guns/">big increase in the US suicide rate</a> from 1999 to 2016.
<p>
The easy availability of guns in the US is not new.  I think this
indicates that precarious work, with wages inadequate to live on,
is driving Americans to suicide.
<p>
Suicide rates of teenagers are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/08/london-teenage-suicide-rate-england-wales-figures">rising in London</a>.


feed_id: 853d88a74c4323cb774110013f3c58a2
title: Medics in Gaza
uri: Medics-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_June_2018_%28Medics_in_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
Gaza medics take several precautions so that Israeli snipers can't fail
to recognize them.  Sometimes the snipers shoot them anyway.  They have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/08/mother-shot-gaza-medic-razan-al-najjar-white-coat-strategy">shot
25 medics in Gaza</a> so far.


feed_id: 3412e902fb257ea468c4635005b32e1b
title: Thugs raid Chelsea Manning's home
uri: Thugs-raid-Chelsea-Manning-s-home
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Thugs_raid_Chelsea_Mannings_home%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/05/chelsea-manning-video-twitter-police-mental-health/">raided
Chelsea Manning's home with guns drawn</a>, after concerned friends
said they feared she might be suicidal.
<p>
Her friends were well-intentioned, but sending <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> to your friend's
home is asking for violence.


feed_id: 76959c0dfe86d868dbefa898c243675c
title: Nicaraguans stop tolerating Ortega
uri: Nicaraguans-stop-tolerating-Ortega
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Nicaraguans_stop_tolerating_Ortega%29

content:
<p>
Ortega's deadly repression has made Nicaraguans 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/06/the-guardian-view-on-nicaragua-protests-on-the-brink">unwilling
to tolerate him any longer</a>.
<p>
Nicaragua needs a progressive democratic movement to oppose Ortega.


feed_id: 176604cb5f6a659477f2c1ef8d15156c
title: Sea-level rise
uri: 2018-06-13-Sea-level-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Sea-level_rise%29
content:
<p>
In 30 years, the amount of flooding from high tides has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/06/flooding-from-high-tides-has-doubled-in-the-us-in-just-30-years">doubled
in the US</a>.
<p>
This is sea-level rise at work, and most of it is caused by global
heating, so it will keep getting worse.  As heating accelerates, the
sea-level rise will also accelerate.
<p>
It is folly to choose to "adapt" to this with ever more costly partial
measures.  What we need to do is stop the actions that will lead to
more sea-level rise.


feed_id: bad08594c3977b0c83803e955cb2d1e9
title: Toxic pig waste
uri: Toxic-pig-waste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Toxic_pig_waste%29
content:
<p>
Pig factories in North Carolina release 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/06/north-carolina-hog-farms-toxins-waste-reporting-inquiry">a
lot more toxic pig waste than they claim to release</a>.


feed_id: 4a1986d0a01ef1e8af85ce2ff841d002
title: Free Professor Abbas Edalat
uri: Free-Professor-Abbas-Edalat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Free_Professor_Abbas_Edalat%29
content:
<p>
Professors call for the release of Professor Abbas Edalat, an Iranian
expat who was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/06/our-concerns-about-the-arrest-of-abbas-edalat-in-iran">arrested
on a visit home</a>.


feed_id: 95c8e148ee6e13bb4d189329174111aa
title: Plutocratist Democrats
uri: 2018-06-13-Plutocratist-Democrats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Plutocratist_Democrats%29
content:
<p>
Rev Al Sharpton: 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/06/rev-al-sharpton-trump-democrats-midterm-election-2018-political-strategy">Democrats</a>
'too tame to deal with Trump'.
<p>
I would say, rather, that many Democrats support the plutocratist
establishment almost as much as the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a> does.  They don't aim
to make America great for the non-rich again.


feed_id: b0bb774afd0e00fc07b54f661a1eeb61
title: Urgent: Privatizing public housing
uri: Urgent-Privatizing-public-housing
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Privatizing_public_housing%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/minneapolis-public-housing-authority-don-t-auction-off-our-homes-to-the-highest-bidder">oppose privatization</a> of Minneapolis's public housing.


feed_id: 5d14789ec5440c99f102037318fab4f3
title: Urgent: Net neutrality legislation
uri: Urgent-Net-neutrality-legislation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Net_neutrality_legislation%29

content:
<p>
Americans: <a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=13223">call on your state</a> to pass network neutrality legislation.


feed_id: 610a8d5d2374c02bd41f57c2c318c7ff
title: Urgent: Debt-Free College Act
uri: Urgent-Debt-Free-College-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Debt-Free_College_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Debt-Free_College_Act">support the Debt-Free College Act</a>. 


feed_id: 916063bb02668029b6c42864c3f26ece
title: Urgent: Protect the oceans
uri: Urgent-Protect-the-oceans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_the_oceans%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.nrdc.org/letter/world-oceans-180601">take a stand</a> for protecting the oceans.
<p>
(Things have gone so far that instead of protecting this or that in
the oceans, we need to protect <em>the oceans</em>.)


feed_id: 820cc75876b990380b523d67956ec071
title: Systematic wage theft
uri: Systematic-wage-theft
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Systematic_wage_theft%29
content:
<p>
Big US companies <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/06/jaw-dropping-report-reveals-rampant-wage-theft-among-top-us-corporations">systematically cheat</a> low-wage employees out of their pay.
<p>
We should make participation in cheating employees a crime for the
individuals that do it, to threaten the managers responsible
with jail, rather than merely the corporation with a small fine.


feed_id: 6c4fdf11de666e4fe684a763026b699d
title: New law in Israel
uri: New-law-in-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28New_law_in_Israel%29
content:
<p>
Israel's parliament <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4918700,00.html">approved a law</a> to let Israel confiscate
Palestinians' land so as to settle Israelis in occupied territory.
<p>
Establishing colonies in occupied territory <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#28_December_2014_(Israels_disregards_Geneva_Convention)">violates the Geneva
Conventions</a>.


feed_id: e6777185bbdd1fee857bcd78bab46521
title: Leaving Gaza for medical care
uri: Leaving-Gaza-for-medical-care
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Leaving_Gaza_for_medical_care%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://mailchi.mp/phr/muwsh5pulz-991821">The Oncologists Letter</a>: Let Gaza Women Cancer Patients Out.
<p>
This is sexist.  Men deserve medical care just as much as women;
Israel should let everyone with a grave illness leave Gaza for medical
care.


feed_id: 8af79e003da105631f6052e92cfabdf4
title: Yellowstone National Park
uri: Yellowstone-National-Park
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Yellowstone_National_Park%29
content:
<p>
Dan Wenk, superintendent of Yellowstone National Park, was kicked out for
trying to conserve nature in the park.  Saboteurs are now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/07/yellowstone-trump-administration-dan-wenk">using his example</a>
to eliminate the culture of conservation.


feed_id: df099c0e9ce158664ac52b293f3747db
title: Fighting in Yemen
uri: Fighting-in-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Fighting_in_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
If the Yemeni forces backed by the US attack Hodeidah, and the battle
continues for more than a short time, it could leave most of Yemen <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/07/yemen-hodeidah-uae-saudi-arabia-houthis/">without
food and medicine</a>.
<p>
I don't see anything about either side in Yemen that deserves support.
If one of them conclusively defeated the other, at least Yemen would
have peace.  So if the Houthis lose quickly, that might be a good
thing for Yemen.
<p>
But what if they don't?  The Houthis are not just an armed gang, they
are an ethnic group.  If all the sides represent large communities, a
conclusive military outcome may be impossible.


feed_id: 78de739797b8ba3d6d2cc87e30bd90a8
title: Private Facebook postings
uri: Private-Facebook-postings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Private_Facebook_postings%29
content:
<p>
Facebook erroneously made millions of users' private postings <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/07/facebook-private-posts-public-glitch">visible
to all useds</a>.
<p>
Everyone makes mistakes, so I won't reproach Facebook for the mistake
itself.  However, this mistake demonstrates the folly of using a single
system for both publication and private communications.  They ought
to be separate systems.


feed_id: 0fcde3c045e5cbdc3825f5abb370472a
title: Infinite war
uri: Infinite-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Infinite_war%29
content:
<p>
The Pentagon has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/07/infinite-war">accepted "infinite war"</a> as its mission.
<p>
According to Greg Jaffe, "winning for much of the U.S. military’s top
brass has come to be synonymous with staying put."  Air Force General
Mike Holmes says that the goal is "not losing. It’s staying in the
game."


feed_id: 6482abc5e63e30c402d6d6cb69983885
title: Rent for public housing
uri: Rent-for-public-housing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Rent_for_public_housing%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> of Housing Carson's rent increase would increase the rents
for people in public housing by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/07/ben-carson-housing-plan-would-raise-rents-for-poor-by-20-analysis-shows">20% on the average</a>.  But some would
suffer a 50% increase.
<P>
He displays the usual Republican blackwhiting by saying this would
"give poor people a way out of poverty" &mdash; unless he's
envisioning the path to the cemetery.
<p>
Homelessness in the US <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/07/conspiracy-theories-homelessness-arizona-child-sex-camp">is already increasing</a>, 
but the rent increase will accelerate it.
<p>
I expect the newly homeless will have trouble getting permission to vote
in Republican-controlled states.  Republicans surely <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#10_October_2016_(Photo_ID_run-around)">consider that a plus</a>.


feed_id: 45caefe1563fc010f45e0cf9403ae037
title: EU copyright proposal
uri: 2018-06-14-EU-copyright-proposal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28EU_copyright_proposal%29
content:
<p>
The EU's Copyright Proposal is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/eus-copyright-proposal-extremely-bad-news-everyone-even-especially-wikipedia">Even 
(Especially!) Wikipedia</a>.


feed_id: 693a675441e5890c03502df63416a3ae
title: Ethical principles for AI
uri: Ethical-principles-for-AI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Ethical_principles_for_AI%29
content:
<p>
Google has posted a <a href="https://blog.google/topics/ai/ai-principles/amp/">list of ethical principles</a> for AI work.
<p>
What I note is that principle 5, about privacy, is a small step
in the right direction, but far short of what we need to avoid
a China-style <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">society of total surveillance</a>.
<p>
In particular, asking for users' consent is totally ineffective
as a way of protecting society from systematic surveillance,
if refusing said consent is considered by most people to be
utterly impossible.  Look at the terms for a Google account:
obscene surveillance, but only by consent.  If refusal
is not a practical, easy thing, it's not really consent.
<p>
The EFF has some other criticisms, on issues I think are important
but not as important as this one.


feed_id: 5830042efbdf1ec0646674a283a69e87
title: Thugs punch harmless man
uri: Thugs-punch-harmless-man
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Thugs_punch_harmless_man%29
content:
<p>
Thugs in Oregon punched a harmless mentally ill man <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2018/06/06/i-am-not-resisting">ten or twenty
times</a> because he kept trying to warn them about a possibly nonexistent
danger.
<p>
I can understand how he was distracting.  Perhaps it was justified to
arrest him and move him away.  That was no need, or excuse, for violence.


feed_id: 380058adf68937f10877026d457cdd95
title: Movie about Franco
uri: Movie-about-Franco
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Movie_about_Franco%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/08/francos-cruel-legacy-film-wants-stop-spain-forgetting-silence-others">A movie</a> tries to end Spain's amnesia about dictator Franco's mass murder
and other crimes.


feed_id: 5a2bc6ec5e81b6e88af14a5f52ca903e
title: Leaking to the press
uri: Leaking-to-the-press
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Leaking_to_the_press%29
content:
<p>
Senate aide James Wolfe has been accused of leaking to the press,
based on getting <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/08/us-senate-aide-charged-over-leaking-stories-to-reporters">a reporter's phone call records</a>.
<p>
Reporters and whistleblowers must learn to communicate anonymously,
regarding the US as a repressive surveillance state like the
Soviet Union.


feed_id: 357216eb1cce3e8b11bf9d7d8f474212
title: Slavery in Mauritania
uri: 2018-06-14-Slavery-in-Mauritania
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Slavery_in_Mauritania%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jun/08/the-unspeakable-truth-about-slavery-in-mauritania">20% of Mauritanians are slaves</a>.  The slaves are mainly blacks, while
Arabs and Berbers are the masters.
<p>
An abolitionist party hopes to win in the
next election and free the slaves.


feed_id: 3b23a2ebf23acfc59a4434f63e67172f
title: Heathrow airport protesters
uri: Heathrow-airport-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_June_2018_%28Heathrow_airport_protesters%29
content:
<p>
Activists trying to block addition of a new runway to Heathrow airport
have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/08/heathrow-third-runway-protesters-vow-to-go-on-hunger-strike">announced a hunger strike</a>.  They are focusing on the people that
would be killed by the additional fossil fuel emissions from increased
air travel.


feed_id: af78c23e56672b5d839dac0cc85376ae
title: Afrin region of Syria
uri: Afrin-region-of-Syria
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Afrin_region_of_Syria%29
content:
<p>
After Turkey conquered the Afrin region of Syria, and many Kurds fled,
Turkey 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/07/too-many-strange-faces-kurds-fear-forced-demographic-shift-in-afrin">settled
Arabs in their homes</a>.


feed_id: 3e9fe01cdeec16fd9a37822f351516cc
title: Life sentence for possession of cocaine
uri: Life-sentence-for-possession-of-cocaine
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Life_sentence_for_possession_of_cocaine%29

content:
<p>
After 30 years of a life sentence for possession of a lot of cocaine,
under a law repealed 20 years ago, Rick Wershe has a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/05/rick-wershe-jr-life-without-parole-michigan-drug-laws">chance
at resentencing</a>.


feed_id: 83eff783f5f461d51fc0277e59ca3b0b
title: Oppression of foreign visitors
uri: Oppression-of-foreign-visitors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Oppression_of_foreign_visitors%29
content:
<p>
UK universities must now take attendance of foreign students so as to
help
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/05/universities-immigration-risk-hostile-environments">deport
them if they don't come to class</a>.  Foreign professors are likely
to get deported if they go on strike.
<p>
This means that oppressing foreign visitors helps oppress Britons.


feed_id: 83710d979ea25552d78771eb0efdddf2
title: Cost of living in the US
uri: Cost-of-living-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Cost_of_living_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
The US is pioneering a 
<a href="https://eand.co/why-america-is-the-worlds-first-poor-rich-country-17f5a80e444a">new
kind of poverty</a>, where most people's income is large compared with
ordinary poor countries, but the cost of living is so high that life
for most people is walking on a knife edge.
<p>
A hundred years ago, poor people in the US made very little money, but
they could live on very little money.  To Kill a Mockingbird refers to
a schoolchild that couldn't accept a loan of a few cents because his
family wouldn't be able to repay it.  But they did not die from this.
They evidently lived in a house they owned and didn't have to buy very
much.
<p>
The equivalent purchasing power today might be ten dollars.
Anyone in the US today that never had ten dollars would die.


feed_id: 73856940d179330d7d21b04bb7b3e5e4
title: Raises
uri: Raises
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Raises%29
content:
<p>
US business executives intend to 
<a href="https://angrybearblog.com/2018/06/more-evidence-of-increasing-deflationary-pressure-on-wages.html">make
sure that workers don't get much in the way of raises</a> despite full
employment.
<p>
This means that workers must organize &mdash; through unions, or
through laws &mdash; so that employers can't do this.


feed_id: f716a51df318d4310f64a3cdde2095a9
title: US ambassador to Israel
uri: US-ambassador-to-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28US_ambassador_to_Israel%29
content:
<p>
The US ambassador to Israel 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/05/us-ambassador-israel-tells-journalists-who-report-truth-gaza-massacre-keep-your">told
journalists to "keep your mouths shut"</a> rather than criticize
Israel for massacres of protesters.
<p>
Like a typical trumpet, he claims that the US media are biased against
his side.  The fact is that they usually go about "blaming
Palestinians for their own slaughter".
<p>
The Israeli army will not allow us to find out who shot medic Razan
al-Najjar, but we know 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/05/anonymous-snipers-and-lethal-verdict">the
identities of those who wrote the orders</a> that permitted this and
those who protect the killer.


feed_id: f225a83f65b75bec91c9f27a28ff3d46
title: The children in Gaza
uri: The-children-in-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28The_children_in_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
Save the Children found that 95% of the children in Gaza showed 
<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/save-children-gaza-children-brink-mental-health-crisis-180603190059320.html">deep
psychological distress</a>.


feed_id: 2115bf67df809f6cb92406a28e1b21a6
title: Bombing of Raqqa
uri: Bombing-of-Raqqa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Bombing_of_Raqqa%29
content:
<p>
Amnesty International: US and allied forces bombed Raqqa with 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/05/civilians-paid-very-high-price-raqqas-devastating-liberation-us-led-forces">bombs
so large they destroyed entire buildings</a>.  There was no chance for
civilians to escape, and the bombarding forces hardly tried to
distinguish where civilians were.


feed_id: a75554a83832e7bb78b771e3788fa8bc
title: Bully's interpretation of Constitution
uri: Bully-s-interpretation-of-Constitution
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Bullys_interpretation_of_Constitution%29

content:
<p>
If the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a>'s interpretation of the US constitution is accepted, it
makes him an 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/05/americas-rickety-constitution-proving-no-match-mad-king-donald">autocrat</a>
who could kill anyone in Congress who refuses to vote as he says, and
get away with it.


feed_id: 457bf8adc714637313fb2bbd3667c9a3
title: Victims of spycops stand with Lush
uri: Victims-of-spycops-stand-with-Lush
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Victims_of_spycops_stand_with_Lush%29

content:
<p>
"As victims of spycops, we stand with Lush in 
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/04/as-victims-of-spycops-we-stand-with-lush-in-campaign-for-full-disclosure'>campaign
for full disclosure</a>."


feed_id: ad3bc51bf2e932f695c1317a845aa4e5
title: Urgent: STATES Act
uri: Urgent-STATES-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_STATES_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://engage.drugpolicy.org/secure/it%E2%80%99s-time-congress-end-federal-war-marijuana">Support the STATES Act</a>, for the federal government to
cooperate with states that legalize marijuana.


feed_id: 2fa2f6f473ad51b8bd553fc8982fcfa0
title: Urgent: Dumping a US citizen in Syria
uri: Urgent-Dumping-a-US-citizen-in-Syria
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Dumping_a_US_citizen_in_Syria%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://action.aclu.org/petition/dont-give-released-detainees-death-sentence">call on Mattis</a> not to dump a US citizen on a road
in Syria, where anyone is likely to be killed.


feed_id: 2d49f880c8ab3a03f08b2a0371dd8490
title: Working for terrorists
uri: Working-for-terrorists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Working_for_terrorists%29
content:
<p>
The US punishes people for doing <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/09/immigration-terrorism-prosecutions-material-support-united-states/">menial work for terrorists</a> &mdash; who
kidnaped them and threatened to kill them if they didn't work.
<p>
I don't believe that fact that the work was cooking and cleaning is a
crucial point.  That it wasn't done voluntarily is the crucial point.


feed_id: 1a624a7ce3e296e7903e33d10be3d44e
title: Abolishing medicaid extension
uri: Abolishing-medicaid-extension
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Abolishing_medicaid_extension%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> has found a new method for abolishing Obama's medicaid extension:
by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/07/obamacare-aca-trump-administration-defend-mandate">deciding not to defend it</a> against a right-wing state government's lawsuit
to overturn the law.
<p>
Will anyone else get a chance to defend it in the Supreme Court?


feed_id: a610768fae7811cc7c13389fb2ddea08
title: North Korea's repression
uri: North-Korea-s-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28North_Korea%27s_repression%29
content:
<p>
North Korea is among the most repressive states on Earth, with perhaps
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/07/beatings-killings-gulags-north-korea-rights-abuses-likely-to-be-ignored-at-summit">a hundred thousand political prisoners</a>.
<p>
I think it is wise to try to aim for nuclear disarmament of North
Korea and an end to the Korean War, as the first targets, without
demanding an end to the repression as well.  Adding that demand would
make agreement impossible.  With peace, there is hope that the Kim
dynasty will decide to reduce the repression.


feed_id: 9b1d960682f3ca8cd56b0db3f9f77d4a
title: Exclusive food vendor of the U.S.
uri: Exclusive-food-vendor-of-the-U-S
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Exclusive_food_vendor_of_the_U.S.%29

content:
<p>
The Onion: The United States of America signed Dunkin’ Donuts to a
10-year deal Wednesday naming the doughnut company and coffeehouse as
the <a href="https://www.theonion.com/dunkin-donuts-signs-10-year-partnership-to-be-exclusiv-1826602707">exclusive food vendor of the U.S.</a>


feed_id: c643c0318b3f1f1d9ee72bc2bc075595
title: Misappropriated EPA funds
uri: Misappropriated-EPA-funds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Misappropriated_EPA_funds%29
content:
<p>
The Onion: &hellip;Environmental Protection Agency administrator
Scott Pruitt reportedly claimed Wednesday that the funds he has
misappropriated would have only been wasted on <a href="https://politics.theonion.com/scott-pruitt-claims-misappropriated-epa-funds-would-hav-1826604956">dumb shit like clean
water</a>.


feed_id: dea2cfcbc2d85861bb2eea7a0b31481d
title: Suspect hit with thugcar
uri: Suspect-hit-with-thugcar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Suspect_hit_with_thugcar%29
content:
<p>
A <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> in Georgia drove into an unarmed suspect with his thugcar,
injuring him, and was fired as a punishment.  A sheriff who is
evidently eager to injure the public hired him and praised him, and
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/5/1769567/-Officer-fired-for-intentionally-hitting-unarmed-man-with-car-hired-one-day-later-by-new-department?detail=emaildkre">lots of thugs are cheering</a>.


feed_id: 1e2ef502aff6e544e9479aac6f570a64
title: Deaths in Puerto Rico
uri: Deaths-in-Puerto-Rico
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Deaths_in_Puerto_Rico%29
content:
<p>
Naomi Klein: 4,645 Deaths in Puerto Rico From Hurricane Maria Were
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/06/naomi-klein-4645-deaths-puerto-rico-hurricane-maria-were-state-sponsored-mass">"State-Sponsored Mass Killing"</a>.


feed_id: bc8d34a26aa13b85754af38c04a88ec3
title: Spycop Lush Campaign
uri: Spycop-Lush-Campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Spycop_Lush_Campaign%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/06/spycop-ex-wives-we-support-the-lush-campaign">"Spycop"s' Ex-Wives</a>: We Support the Lush Campaign.


feed_id: cca5f652ebb1fb4a7bc80657aff7c6af
title: Deported due to pizza delivery
uri: Deported-due-to-pizza-delivery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Deported_due_to_pizza_delivery%29
content:
<p>
An unauthorized immigrant working as a pizza delivery courier was sent
to deliver a pizza to a military base in Brooklyn.  The base <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/06/terrorizing-immigrant-community-continues-ice-arrest-pizza-delivery-man-sends-shock">sent him
to be deported</a>.
<p>
I hope that all the couriers refuse to deliver there.


feed_id: df5ed5ebb16332f97ec3ba19c8af256e
title: Criminalizing expression
uri: Criminalizing-expression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#14_June_2018_%28Criminalizing_expression%29
content:
<p>
The UK's relentless attack on human rights, in the name of "fighting
terrorism", now envisages <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/06/anti-terrorism-plans-criticised-make-thoughtcrime-reality">criminalizing expression of opinions</a>.
<p>
Surely within a decade the forbidden opinions will include criticism
of plutocracy.


feed_id: a4c8634766a1a4831ca9da0ebfde82b5
title: Scooters that threaten to call thugs
uri: Scooters-that-threaten-to-call-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#16_June_2018_%28Scooters_that_threaten_to_call_thugs%29

content:
<p>
New dockless scooters 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/07/scooters-littering-city-streets-shout-at-people-unlock-me-or-ill-call-the-police">threaten
to call the thugs</a> if someone stands on them and doesn't log in.
<p>
One person quoted compares them to police state behavior but does not
mention the aspect that is most like a police state: the scooters
require users to identify themselves, then 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">track
where people go</a>.
<p>
This is just as bad as Uber or Lyft, so I urge you to reject them
absolutely, and tell other people why you do.


feed_id: 0f4344ec59b96a2c8b175f4b0af0ccc3
title: Myths about Gaza
uri: Myths-about-Gaza
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#16_June_2018_%28Myths_about_Gaza%29
content:
<p>
Correcting
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/07/three-myths-about-gaza-dispelled">myths
about Gaza</a>.  For instance, even Hamas is willing to make peace; it
is Israel that won't.


feed_id: ef549d1a59171e12b4c6dccf8668eac4
title: The service sweatshop economy
uri: The-service-sweatshop-economy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#16_June_2018_%28The_service_sweatshop_economy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/07/america-gig-economy-work-bureau-labor-statistics">6%
of US workers</a> work precariously in the service sweatshop economy.


feed_id: f3bbfbf32bf16597d660266307d7c497
title: Hannity urges for obstruction of justice
uri: Hannity-urges-for-obstruction-of-justice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#16_June_2018_%28Hannity_urges_for_obstruction_of_justice%29

content:
<p>
Sean Hannity 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/6/1769978/-Sean-Hannity-Breaks-The-Law-On-TV-Telling-Mueller-Witnesses-to-Destroy-Evidence">urged
people to commit obstruction of justice</a>.  The punishment for this
is up to 20 years in prison.
<p>
He probably feels he is safe because <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">the cheater</a> would pardon him.


feed_id: c59969878bf268062cba64313d7d46c5
title: The cheater and ZTE
uri: The-cheater-and-ZTE
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#16_June_2018_%28The_cheater_and_ZTE%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">The cheater</a> has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/07/us-china-zte-deal-fine-sanctions">allowed
ZTE to get back in business with a billion-dollar fine</a>.
<p>
I don't know what ZTE's overall income is, or whether that fine is
enough to motivate ZTE to avoid the risk of another fine.


feed_id: b6bfd35781bd18f8f3a17889fa4a6b01
title: Former thugs threaten Lush staff
uri: Former-thugs-threaten-Lush-staff
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#16_June_2018_%28Former_thugs_threaten_Lush_staff%29
content:
<p>
Lush took down the "spycops" posters at its stores because former
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/07/lush-removes-posters-undercover-police-spies-campaign">threatened
the staff</a>.
<p>
Have they got recordings of these threats?  It would be enlightening
to publish the recordings so as to hold those former <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>
accountable.


feed_id: 3bf18713f9a5c5da4a68a79255d45aaa
title: Drug companies
uri: Drug-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#16_June_2018_%28Drug_companies%29
content:
<p>
Yet another reason why drug companies shouldn't fund (and thus
control) clinical trials of drugs: they 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/06/07/corporate-financed-clinical-trials-stifle-important-data">withhold
important data</a>.


feed_id: e1b45ec8d29459eb7a4cfb2ec0b51a41
title: Solar power projects canceled
uri: Solar-power-projects-canceled
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#15_June_2018_%28Solar_power_projects_canceled%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#saboteur">saboteur</a>'s 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/07/after-just-few-months-trumps-solar-tariffs-blamed-billions-shelved-clean-energy">tariffs
on imported solar panels</a> have caused cancellation of 12 billion
dollars in solar power projects.
<p>
These tariffs were not designed to effectively promote investment in
US solar panel manufacture.  They will last only a few years, which is
not long enough for such investment to pay off.  New factories would
take time to set up, reducing the period of time for which they could
be profitable.
<p>
The <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#saboteur">saboteur</a> is blatantly dishonest, but he is cunning.  I think this
is a cunning plan to slow down the migration of the US to solar power,
and that he did this for the sake of the fossil fools he generally
serves.
<p>
A 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/07/leaving-room-trumps-signature-coal-baron-provided-drafts-pro-industry-executive">coal
magnate dictated memos</a> for the bullshitter to sign.


feed_id: 9a79554f8edf9023bf4b8c7990a171d5
title: US war industry
uri: US-war-industry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#15_June_2018_%28US_war_industry%29
content:
<p>
How The War Industry 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/07/how-war-industry-corrupts-us-congress">Corrupts
The U.S. Congress</a>.  This includes several Democratic senators.


feed_id: 2e902ae2e1037e9975ee17c2dc6ebd03
title: US thugs sent to train with Israeli soldiers
uri: US-thugs-sent-to-train-with-Israeli-soldiers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#15_June_2018_%28US_thugs_sent_to_train_with_Israeli_soldiers%29

content:
<p>
Many US <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> departments 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/07/why-we-should-be-alarmed-israeli-forces-and-us-police-are-training-together">send
thugs to train with Israeli soldiers</a>.  This way they learn the
attitudes that make them quick to shoot unarmed blacks.


feed_id: 74e20495eadaa7c744d3c20bdcbf33a5
title: Families separated at US border
uri: Families-separated-at-US-border
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#15_June_2018_%28Families_separated_at_US_border%29
content:
<p>
Nearly 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/08/nearly-1800-immigrant-families-separated-at-us-border-in-four-months">1,800
Immigrant Families</a> Separated at US Border in Four Months.
<p>
Senator Merkley visited one prison, and describes how immigrants must
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/6/1769909/-Merkley-describes-dog-kennel-style-facility-where-some-migrant-parents-and-kids-are-initially-held">sleep
on the floor in cages</a>.
<p>
US border <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> take children away from their parents as a means of
pressuring them to plead guilty and/or drop their bid for asylum 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/6/1769784/-Asylum-seeking-parents-are-being-coerced-into-guilty-pleas-through-the-theft-of-their-children">in
order to get their children back</a>.  Parents might feel they must
protect their children from the trauma of being "cared for" by
overworked strangers who might despise them.
<p>
In addition to this cruelty, note that Sessions refuses to recognize
that people who ask for political asylum are not breaking any laws.
<p>
Sorry, persecuted people &mdash; the US is not the kind of asylum you
were looking for.  It is the other kind.


feed_id: 2ac2ffccd03c0506d528dd323bc701dc
title: Asbestos in cheater's buildings
uri: Asbestos-in-cheater-s-buildings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#15_June_2018_%28Asbestos_in_cheaters_buildings%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">The cheater</a> rejects the idea that asbestos in his buildings could
cause disease, and has had <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> Pruitt 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/7/1770149/-Another-very-very-good-reason-to-NEVER-stay-in-a-building-built-or-owned-by-Donald-Trump">invent
an excuse to make the EPA disregard the issue</a>.
<p>
In parts of the US, state and local laws require removal of asbestos
or forbid its use.  Therefore, some of his buildings might not have
any.  Also, the risk from spending a few nights in a hotel which has
asbestos in it somewhere may be too small to worry about.  On the
other hand, the staff might have a reason for concern.
<p>
Under a plutocratic regime, those staff, if they get sick, will be
left to cope, on their own, asbestos they can.


feed_id: 7453d71d73ce67469ddac12263cc24d9
title: US mismanagement of dairy industry
uri: US-mismanagement-of-dairy-industry
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#15_June_2018_%28US_mismanagement_of_dairy_industry%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> wants to export US mismanagement of the dairy industry
to Canada, but 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2018/jun/09/milk-canada-us-trade-war">Canada
won't stand for it</a>.
<p>
If this leads to cancellation of NAFTA, that would be a tremendous
advance since
<a href="https://stallman.org/business-supremacy-treaties.html">NAFTA includes the ISDS (I
Sue Democratic States) provision</a> that allows foreign companies to
sue to abolish any laws that get in their way.


feed_id: 9494036a61ce268941432856b72f382a
title: Future workers
uri: Future-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#15_June_2018_%28Future_workers%29
content:
<p>
The Teamsters' Union has learned that it is a 
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2018/06/06/divide-and-rule-2.html">mistake
to abandon future workers</a> to preserve the wage level of the
current workers.


feed_id: 94eb802acf0fa18b66cd276748e41c29
title: Environmental Poisoning Agency
uri: Environmental-Poisoning-Agency
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#15_June_2018_%28Environmental_Poisoning_Agency%29
content:
<p>
A US court ordered the Environmental Poisoning Agency to
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/judge-orders-epa-to-disclose-any-science-backing-up-pruitts-climate-claims/">hand
over any scientific material it might have</a> that justifies Saboteur
Pruitt's <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> denialism.
<p>
The EPA claims it would have to spend "countless hours" studying
literature about <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a>.  Perhaps trying to find the few (if
any) documents that deny <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a>, among the huge stacks that
demonstrate <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a>, would be like looking for a needle in a
haystack.


feed_id: 2b78e5b0843f13569fe17c2a69a59f8a
title: Facebook's deal with Huawei
uri: Facebook-s-deal-with-Huawei
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#15_June_2018_%28Facebooks_deal_with_Huawei%29
content:
<p>
Facebook made a deal with Huawei to give it 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/technology/facebook-device-partnerships-china.html">access
to personal data of Facebook useds</a>.  This included useds who were
customers of Huawei, and their "friends".  This even though the US
government considers Huawei a spy for China.
<p>
Facebook did the same thing for other phone manufacturers such as
Apple and Blackberry.
<p>
Even if you are not a customer of those companies, you are still
<a href="https://stallman.org/facebook.html">better off not being a used of Facebook</a>.


feed_id: 35b1686033d2b9d521d517856319d0cf
title: Sale of rainforest to oil companies
uri: Sale-of-rainforest-to-oil-companies
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#15_June_2018_%28Sale_of_rainforest_to_oil_companies%29

content:
<p>
Ecuador 
<a href="http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2013/04/ecuador-to-sell-third-of-its-amazon.html">To
Sell A Third Of Its Amazon Rainforest</a> To Chinese Oil Companies.


feed_id: 0c717334482d91ae2fe91d84568c8ea0
title: Alexa sweatshop
uri: Alexa-sweatshop
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#15_June_2018_%28Alexa_sweatshop%29
content:
<p>
Hello, Alexa, were you made in a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/09/human-cost-kindle-amazon-china-foxconn-jeff-bezos">Chinese
sweatshop</a>?


feed_id: 49304b763f75c20c53ec9ebdcdaddb88
title: Rampaging white mobs in 1921
uri: Rampaging-white-mobs-in-1921
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#15_June_2018_%28Rampaging_white_mobs_in_1921%29
content:
<p>
In 1921, mobs of rampaging whites burned down the black neighborhood
of Tulsa, imprisoning and killing many of the inhabitants, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2018/06/08/more-things-change-tulsas-race-massacre-history-books-turned-race-riot">all
as the government stood by</a>.


feed_id: 8f99117d1e109ab8dfbd0aee30e5e00a
title: Plastic pollution crisis
uri: Plastic-pollution-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#15_June_2018_%28Plastic_pollution_crisis%29
content:
<p>
Our Plastic Pollution Crisis Is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/09/recycling-plastic-crisis-oceans-pollution-corporate-responsibility">Too
Big for Recycling to Fix</a>.


feed_id: f459baa7390174c9d5fa4cb739976a90
title: Activist faces threat of prison
uri: Activist-faces-threat-of-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Activist_faces_threat_of_prison%29
content:
<p>
Activist Wayne Hsiung is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/08/big-ag-targets-activists-animal-rights-leader-arrested-felony-charges-saving-sick">facing
the threat of years in prison</a> in North Carolina for "stealing" a
sick baby goat from a farm, then giving it treatment.
<p>
I do not support animal rights beyond certain limited points, but when
I see businesses turn governments into their armed servants, I rankle.


feed_id: f587c672b1b044bee7199a9379fc939c
title: The Israeli propaganda machine
uri: The-Israeli-propaganda-machine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28The_Israeli_propaganda_machine%29
content:
<p>
Uri Avnery describes the powerful Israeli propaganda machine, which
<a href="http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1528467876/">insists
that everyone in Gaza is a "terrorist"</a>, especially protesters, and
that the slightest pretext justifies killing them.


feed_id: 551385b7f1beced64d6b93d2e973cde7
title: Extremist Hindus
uri: Extremist-Hindus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Extremist_Hindus%29
content:
<p>
An Indian film star is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/10/bollywood-star-priyanka-chopra-apologises-over-hindu-terror-plot-row">being
reviled</a> for making a movie that involves a false flag terror
attack carried out by extremist Hindus.
<p>
The scheme in the movie sounds to me (based on what the article says)
too complicated and risky to be plausible, but extremist Hindus are no
strangers to terrorism.  It was an extremist Hindu that assassinated
Mohatma Gandhi.  The assassin was from an organization that is linked
to the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#23_March_2017_(Party_of_political_Hinduism)">Hindu-theocratic
party that now rules India</a>.


feed_id: 54b0e3185273e476987e2f45df945373
title: Patents on computational ideas
uri: Patents-on-computational-ideas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Patents_on_computational_ideas%29
content:
<p>
Google is 
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/inventor-says-google-is-patenting-work-he-put-in-the-public-domain/">trying
to patent a data compression system that Jarek Duda invented</a>.  He
wants to make available to everyone for all use freely.
<p>
Applying for a patent on a computational idea is wrong, inherently
wrong, unless it is blocked from use for aggression.  One way to do
this is with something like Twitter's 
<a href="https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/a/2012/introducing-the-innovator-s-patent-agreement.html">defensive
use commitment</a>.
<p>
I urge people to demand that their employers do this.  Or find another
employer who will.


feed_id: cbe16eb57db1783083c4144ce7e30f30
title: The "spycops" campaign
uri: The-spycops-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28The_spycops_campaign%29
content:
<p>
The son of an undercover <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> (who lied to his mother) 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/10/as-the-son-of-an-undercover-cop-i-wholeheartedly-support-lush">supports
the "spycops" campaign</a> and hopes it will pressure the thug
department to tell him something about his father.
<p>
Please don't think that your own identity depends crucially on who
your parents were or what they did.  Their actions surely affected
you, just as their genes did (in the usual case), but you are not
responsible for them and they don't define you.  It wasn't you that
did them.  You might regret those actions, appreciate them, reproach
them, or admire them, but you never have a moral reason to feel
ashamed of them.


feed_id: 9976c9f16943f2e882ee4ffe7103eab4
title: The EPA
uri: 2018-06-17-The-EPA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28The_EPA%29
content:
<p>
The Environmental Poisoning Agency has 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/08/catering-chemical-industrys-demands-trump-epa-scales-back-safety-checks-toxic">weakened
its standards for judging toxic chemicals</a>.
<p>
This won't cause any immediate changes, but it is likely to enable
some toxins to remain in our food, clothing, cosmetics, etc., in the
future which would otherwise have been banned.


feed_id: 503e355c27f8878043776d345a1ce9ba
title: Puerto Rico's government
uri: Puerto-Rico-s-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Puerto_Ricos_government%29
content:
<p>
Puerto Rico's nondemocratic imposed government has made its priority
paying the creditors &mdash; which means 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/06/06/puerto-ricos-oversight-board-putting-debt-repayment-over-peoples-needs-midst">neglecting
the people's hardship</a>.


feed_id: a15831d5d10525657e00dab7cb2b0b19
title: On trial for filming factory farms
uri: On-trial-for-filming-factory-farms
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28On_trial_for_filming_factory_farms%29

content:
<p>
Animal rights activists are on trial in Utah for 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/07/animal-rights-activists-face-multiple-felony-charges-brought-by-prosecutors-with-ties-to-smithfield-foods/">filming
in factory farms</a>, and for "stealing" diseased pigs that would have
died soon, and curing them.
<p>
The prosecutors have corrupt personal links to factory farms, but the
biggest corruption is that which procured these laws themselves.


feed_id: 20545ce8de2daa04a154898ca25e614b
title: The sadist distracting America
uri: The-sadist-distracting-America
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28The_sadist_distracting_America%29
content:
<p>
The sadist's cruelty to targets of opportunity is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/07/trump-climate-change-poverty-crisis">distracting
America from constructive action</a>.
<p>
We need to try to protect border-crossers' children from trauma that
they may never recover from.  But we also need to focus on the linked
long-term dangers such as <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> and plutocracy.


feed_id: e67d68e18b298f07fd8edd2c784fe0e6
title: Removing CO2 from the atmosphere
uri: Removing-CO2-from-the-atmosphere
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Removing_CO2_from_the_atmosphere%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05357-w">Progress</a>
is being made on removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
<p>
I would not bet civilization's survival on the success of this, but it
would be good if it works.  However, to avoid disaster this way would
require lots of investment &mdash; and the fossil fuel interests will
be against that.


feed_id: 898e5ebd20bff6363f637d5efef6e26f
title: US TV networks silence criticism
uri: US-TV-networks-silence-criticism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28US_TV_networks_silence_criticism%29
content:
<p>
The US TV networks often 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/07/elon-musk-and-corporate-controlled-media">silence
all criticism of major US industries that advertise</a> on TB.


feed_id: 47c747e5c0e293e87bfce170e08e9d60
title: Medicare for All
uri: 2018-06-17-Medicare-for-All
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Medicare_for_All%29
content:
<p>
Rep. Pelosi, a plutocratist to the end, is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/07/despite-medicare-all-support-spreading-wildfire-pelosi-shrugs-says-dems-will">doing
her best to oppose Medicare for All</a>.


feed_id: 54eb8e64394122bd1341be3badc2fe1a
title: People in the US without clean water
uri: People-in-the-US-without-clean-water
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28People_in_the_US_without_clean_water%29

content:
<p>
People in many localities in the US 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/10/who-owns-americas-water">don't
have access to clean water</a>.
<p>
Michigan is cutting off water to people in 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#7_April_2018_(Flint_water_bills)">Flint</a>
and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_May_2018_(Detroit_to_cut_off_water)">Detroit</a>
because they can't pay their water bills for lead-poisoned water.
This while charging Nestle $200, total, for a quantity 100,000 times
as much.


feed_id: ef615e8e8022e5705705e855f30ade85
title: When a newspaper closes
uri: When-a-newspaper-closes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28When_a_newspaper_closes%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jun/10/cost-of-government-rises-when-local-newspaper-closes-study-finds">Cost
of Government Rises</a> When Local Newspaper Closes, Study Finds.
<p>
Sometimes the state should raise more money by taxing the rich, and
spend it on the poor.  But I suspect that is not what tends to happen
when a newspaper closes.


feed_id: 438188ac6595434574d9bc26624429c5
title: Italy turns away 600 refugees in boat
uri: Italy-turns-away-600-refugees-in-boat
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Italy_turns_away_600_refugees_in_boat%29

content:
<p>
Italy has refused to allow a boat carrying 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/10/italy-shuts-ports-to-rescue-boat-with-629-migrants-on-board">600
refugees rescued at sea</a> into any Italian port.


feed_id: 4f7fe68e6997274d5a79e889adf60c9c
title: Underground abortions in Venezuela
uri: Underground-abortions-in-Venezuela
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#16_June_2018_%28Underground_abortions_in_Venezuela%29

content:
<p>
Women in Venezuela, in extreme poverty and unable to afford
contraception, are 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/10/venezuela-crisis-sterilization-women-abortion/">turning
to underground abortions, and to sterilization</a>.
<p>
If fanatical US Christians get their way, they will ban both abortion
and contraception.  And they are not very far away from it.  They
might ban sterilization, too; it is against their religion.
<p>
The worst choice, in such a situation, is to have a baby which you
can't afford to raise.  Thus, the right thing to do is sterilization.
If you are an adult today, there is no danger of an insufficiency of
births before you are 55 years old.


feed_id: a095618dd04ba380211a9c9d307b7564
title: Judge temporarily blocks deportation
uri: Judge-temporarily-blocks-deportation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#16_June_2018_%28Judge_temporarily_blocks_deportation%29

content:
<p>
Judge 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/10/judge-blocks-deportation-new-york-pizza-worker-army-delivery">Temporarily
Blocks Deportation</a> of New York Pizza Shop Worker.


feed_id: 5bc3e80147e46a7dd628a1a52925c4fc
title: Do-dirty's Drugs War
uri: Do-dirty-s-Drugs-War
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#16_June_2018_%28Do-dirtys_Drugs_War%29
content:
<p>
Do-dirty's Drugs War: 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/10/rodrigo-duterte-harry-war-on-drugs-manila-murder">How
One Family Was Destroyed</a>.
<p>
In generally, when a ruler says he will send <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> to kill all the
drug dealers, they kill a lot of other people.  This 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2005-may-aug.html#18%20July%202005%20(State%20of%20emergency%20in%20Thailand)">happened
in Thailand some years ago</a>, and it is happening now in
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#29_May_2018_(Thugs_killing_political_activists)">Bangladesh</a>.
<p>
A trial 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#06_February_2016_(False_convictions_in_the_US)">can
fail to do justice</a>, but having no trial is much worse.
<p>
I have chosen to use my alteration of his name, rather than his.  To
use his would support him.
<p>
Getting rid of Do-dirty could end the murder of the poor, but there is
only one way to end their hunger: to have a lot fewer babies.


feed_id: 1c7d5ed971bb55a2aecd77ca2e4b1a4b
title: Pretext for attacking Hodeidah
uri: Pretext-for-attacking-Hodeidah
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#16_June_2018_%28Pretext_for_attacking_Hodeidah%29
content:
<p>
The pretext for attacking Hodeidah is that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/10/aid-groups-in-yemen-warned-attack-could-endanger-all-supplies">Houthis
receive arms through there</a>.
<p>
Where does <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> receive arms from the US?  Why call one of
them "smugling" and not the other?


feed_id: 6c8a72b50097cccf4b837409c3c90e2b
title: Seizure of phone and email records
uri: Seizure-of-phone-and-email-records
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#16_June_2018_%28Seizure_of_phone_and_email_records%29

content:
<p>
The seizure reporter Ali Watkins' phone and email contact records --
not from her, but 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/08/trumps-justice-dept-escalates-its-disturbing-crackdown-leaks-seizing-new-york-times">from
companies</a> &mdash; shows that US reporters must be extremely
careful when talking with confidential sources that report on
government wrongdoing.


feed_id: 25c88ea7a9fcfb68c3eb55746d1f30c0
title: Homelessness in Canada
uri: Homelessness-in-Canada
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#16_June_2018_%28Homelessness_in_Canada%29
content:
<p>
Canada is suffering from homelessness like the US.  Many homeless people
have found 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/07/canada-death-homeless-man-tim-hortons-vancouver">shelter
in all-night coffee shops</a>.


feed_id: ac95f395b8b9f4cd47e6fe250fdb69d5
title: Urgent: Imprisoned immigrants' families
uri: Urgent-Imprisoned-immigrants-families
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Imprisoned_immigrants%27_families%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/ice-take-action?nowrapper=true">call on Sessions</a> to reunite imprisoned immigrants' families.


feed_id: 4c3532cbe4a1745d8b7743b3fd66d3b4
title: Urgent: Asylum seeker Alejandra
uri: Urgent-Asylum-seeker-Alejandra
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Asylum_seeker_Alejandra%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.amnestyusa.org/page/25608/action/1">call on the US</a> to free asylum seeker Alejandra while she
waits for her asylum ruling.


feed_id: b843240eabd361486e8a2d487ab16c25
title: Urgent: Protecting Mueller
uri: Urgent-Protecting-Mueller
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Protecting_Mueller%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://act.pfaw.org/sign/dont-let-mcconnell-block-the-bill-to-protect-mueller/">call on Senator McConnell</a> to allow a vote on protecting Mueller.


feed_id: 7c68c1e9c9f5a5e02ea562f59c73b803
title: Dictator Kim
uri: Dictator-Kim
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Dictator_Kim%29
content:
<p>
Dictator Kim turned out to be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/12/tuesday-briefing-trump-and-kim-embark-on-terrific-relationship">just Trump's kind of guy</a>.
<p>
The agreement they made <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/12/full-text-donald-trump-kim-jong-un-statement">doesn't commit either side to much</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/12/the-singapore-summit-is-a-global-exercise-in-damage-limitation-of-donald-trump">Some rebuke the bully</a> for giving Kim a kind of legitimacy and getting
no practical concessions in return.
<p>
However, denying Kim legitimacy was doing nothing to win any
concessions from him, so the leverage that the US has forfeited was
not worth much.  Changing to a friendly tone might achieve some
progress toward peace, and that progress could make possible concrete
deals that are impossible today.
<p>
Or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/12/a-glorified-photo-op-your-responses-to-the-trump-kim-summit">it might backfire</a> and trigger a resumption of hostilities when the
expectations of either side are disappointed.
<p>
History of US-North Korea Deals Shows Hard Part Is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/11/history-of-us-north-korea-deals-singapore-summit">Making Them Stick</a>.


feed_id: 1ee81dff61750bc4c5e3f8e22ff11142
title: Voting by computer
uri: Voting-by-computer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Voting_by_computer%29
content:
<p>
Brazil has imposed 100% voting by computer, <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/in-a-blow-to-e-voting-critics-brazil-suspends-use-of-all-paper-ballots/">totally unverifiable</a>.


feed_id: f294f565261245082dff12a1f23c8746
title: IMF and Argentina
uri: IMF-and-Argentina
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28IMF_and_Argentina%29
content:
<p>
Argentines are aware of how the IMF will crush them, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/08/argentina-loan-imf-protests-peso">protested
massively</a>, but couldn't stop right-wing President Macri from
putting their country under IMF power.


feed_id: f1d3dab78a3ae4a30cb74087e10b0908
title: Keeping Social Security and Medicare
uri: Keeping-Social-Security-and-Medicare
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Keeping_Social_Security_and_Medicare%29

content:
<p>
Plutocratist politicians are not interested in keeping Social Security
and Medicare going.  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/08/we-need-mass-movement-save-and-expand-social-security-and-medicare">We need a progressive victory.</a>
<p>
The plutocratists would rather simply pull the plug on the increasing
fraction of Americans they deem surplus.


feed_id: 2137b40f5bb19397f3298fa197bc0fa2
title: Military support for Salafi Arabia
uri: Military-support-for-Salafi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Military_support_for_Salafi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> has given Salafi Arabia the total military support of the US.
He even <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/11/trump-yemen-saudi-arabi-war-us-involvement-worsening-crisis">accepted a medal</a> from the king.
<p>
The US has no legitimate grounds to be involved in <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>'s
attack on Yemen even slightly, and no sensible reason to want to be
involved.


feed_id: d8c2129e2cfefcf6efe39f2349a47e32
title: Purpose of ICE
uri: Purpose-of-ICE
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Purpose_of_ICE%29
content:
<p>
The US deportation <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> department (ICE) was created in the name of
"homeland security", and this <a href="https://reason.com/archives/2018/06/11/abolish-ice">promoted the fictitious idea</a> that
unauthorized immigrants are threats, even "terrorists".
<p>
This may explain the use of tactics that verge on terrorism &mdash;
such as taking babies and children away from their parents, for no
purpose except to terrify.
<p>
Since there is no real need for this agency, let's get rid of it.
<p>
I support this particular proposal despite the fact that it
comes from the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#anti">Antisocialist Party</a>.


feed_id: f795908158b58d8ce3e68ceadf0bb0aa
title: Non-chain stores
uri: Non-chain-stores
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Non-chain_stores%29
content:
<p>
When big chain stores close, to revitalize shopping districts
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/11/french-surrealism-big-chains-high-streets-small-business">calls for non-chain stores</a>, each different from the rest.


feed_id: 869ce2b05c0ff933e2dcf86ff1861049
title: Big oil propaganda
uri: Big-oil-propaganda
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Big_oil_propaganda%29
content:
<p>
The Wall Street Journal Keeps <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jun/11/the-wall-street-journal-keeps-peddling-big-oil-propaganda">Peddling Big Oil Propaganda</a>.


feed_id: 4b7ffae33ebf728ecfd95e5939dcb6f5
title: Centralized internet companies
uri: Centralized-internet-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Centralized_internet_companies%29
content:
<p>
As large, centralized companies come to dominate the internet for most
users, they
become <a href="https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2018/06/censorship_in_the_ag.html">choke
points for censorship</a>.  (Please don't call them "cloud" anything
&mdash; <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#CloudComputing">the real cloud</a> is in the minds of the people who use that
term.)
<p>
In the free world, we do not depend on those companies, or any
specific companies.  That is necessary for freedom.
<p>
Note that Telegram's cryptography software is not "proprietary"
in the usual sense; the Telegram client is free software.
WhatsApp, by contrast, is proprietary software, which is plenty
of reason to refuse to run it.


feed_id: adf4a6506bf3405a244b4b8d13c2218c
title: Robot weeders
uri: Robot-weeders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Robot_weeders%29
content:
<p>
Robot weeders could make herbicides obsolete, for farmers that can afford
the robots, or cut the amount used <a href="http://www.dw.com/en/could-agricultural-robots-replace-glyphosate/a-43964752">by a factor of ten</a>.


feed_id: 5367f155eee109d189f54f7acf142d3b
title: Dropping voters from the list
uri: Dropping-voters-from-the-list
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Dropping_voters_from_the_list%29
content:
<p>
The US Supreme Court <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/jun/11/supreme-court-ohio-voting-rolls-inactive-electors">approved the practice</a> of dropping voters from
the list if they don't vote for several years.
<p>
I think this unfortunate, as it will stop some marginalized people from
voting, but I doubt this is anywhere near as harmful as <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-jan-apr.html#8_March_2017_(Voter_ID_laws)">voter ID</a>
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#21_September_2016_(Urgent:_Investigation_of_Crosscheck_scheme)">crosscheck</a>.


feed_id: 834d74386fad5498306463f8c9f2aed0
title: Refusing a refugee ship
uri: Refusing-a-refugee-ship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Refusing_a_refugee_ship%29
content:
<p>
Italy's anti-immigration government has intentionally provoked an
European Union crisis by refusing to let a ship, the Aquarius, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/11/italy-coalition-collision-course-eu-migration-standoff-matteo-salvini">land
African refugees</a>.
<p>
This reminds me of what happened to the MS St Louis, which sailed from
Germany in 1939 with 900 Jewish refugees.  Cuba, the US, and Canada
refused to allow them in, so they had to return to Europe, which
proved to be a dangerous place for them.
<p>
I believe this was one of the events that inspired the modern treaties
about the right to asylum.


feed_id: 0c9eca2d8cbbf26135dc0e4a57940fe7
title: Inebriation sensor
uri: Inebriation-sensor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Inebriation_sensor%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/11/uber-drunk-technology-new-ai-feature-patent">A patent application</a> suggests Uber plans to use sensing in the phone
to determine whether a client is inebriated.
<p>
Uber could multiply the price by 10 or 30, figuring the client would probably
accept that high price without noticing it ;-}.


feed_id: 19f864d640011e33787c9fb9053eb8de
title: The bully and Dictator Kim
uri: The-bully-and-Dictator-Kim
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28The_bully_and_Dictator_Kim%29
content:
<p>
The bully broke off the meeting with Dictator Kim, then <a href="https://reason.com/archives/2018/06/11/giuliani-and-trump-blunder-toward-the-no">they arranged
it again</a>.  But we don't know the sequence of real events.  Did Kim eat
crow to get a meeting with the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a>, or did the bully eat crow to get
a meeting with Kim?  Or was it all a dance, jostling for who gets the
public image of being most important?


feed_id: 71be899d7be2c19d5dfa8603157f5346
title: Traffic signal systems
uri: Traffic-signal-systems
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Traffic_signal_systems%29
content:
<p>
Traffic signal systems designed to optimize driving make
walking around the city <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/commentisfree/2018/jun/11/how-australias-traffic-signals-favour-drivers-and-discourage-walking">20% slower</a>.
<p>
I would not assume that this is crucial to people's decisions about
whether to walk or drive.  It would have some effect, yes, but sometimes
the effect would be that they take the bus.
<p>
If we change the design to favor pedestrians more, I would not want to
take it to an absurd extreme.  I as a pedestrian (which I usually am)
would rather wait a couple of seconds than delay cars for ten seconds.


feed_id: 99fe1e75eb4d25e0248ff57fed6cf608
title: Cartoonist fired for mocking the bully
uri: Cartoonist-fired-for-mocking-the-bully
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Cartoonist_fired_for_mocking_the_bully%29

content:
<p>
Cartoonist Rob Rogers was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jun/17/pittsburgh-post-gazette-rob-rogers-cartoons">fired by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for mocking the bully.</a> He was told to express the views of the editorial team, and refused to accept that. 


feed_id: b3814a2c7e6411ca6375ed28458a8a0f
title: Indonesia has improved its marine conservation
uri: Indonesia-has-improved-its-marine-conservation
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Indonesia_has_improved_its_marine_conservation%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/30/walking-shark-discovered">Indonesia has improved its marine conservation,</a> in particular
protecting sharks and rays. 


feed_id: 61ad107e0d4cb52adac697f1f60c57fb
title: Large US companies caught cheating workers of their pay
uri: Large-US-companies-caught-cheating-workers-of-their-pay
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Large_US_companies_caught_cheating_workers_of_their_pay%29

content:
<p>
Many large, famous <a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/heres-how-much-money-americas-biggest-corporations-have-stolen-from-their-own-workers">US companies have been caught cheating workers of their pay.</a>
The total probably comes to tens of billions of dollars, though we have no
reliable figures.

Naturally the cheater wants to eliminate penalties for cheating.


feed_id: e321c4f0e0b4199b61d668059250ada2
title: US deportation thug agency coercing Iraqi immigrants into agreeing to deportation
uri: US-deportation-thug-agency-coercing-Iraqi-immigrants-into-agreeing-to
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28US_deportation_thug_agency_coercing_Iraqi_immigrants_into_agreeing_to_deportation%29

content:
<p>
The US deportation thug agency is <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/iraqi-detainees-say-ice-coerced-them-into-signing-documents-that-could-get-them-deported/">coercing Iraqi immigrants into
agreeing to deportation</a> &mdash; which would be especially disastrous for
those that were born outside Iraq and don't speak Arabic.
Those who are Chaldeans, not Muslims, would be in likely to be
persecuted or killed for that if they were deported.


feed_id: b868633d0a1841a39a01c3e95b4c439d
title: Leave the Dirtiest Fossil Fuels in the Ground
uri: Leave-the-Dirtiest-Fossil-Fuels-in-the-Ground
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Leave_the_Dirtiest_Fossil_Fuels_in_the_Ground%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jun/14/the-legal-fight-to-leave-the-dirtiest-fossil-fuels-in-the-ground">Legal Fight to Leave the Dirtiest Fossil Fuels in the Ground.</a>
ALberta tar sands are among the dirtiest.


feed_id: 125d3c5556a4dbff742a87f6a76c9b43
title: EU proposal to improve international cooperation in wiretapping
uri: EU-proposal-to-improve-international-cooperation-in-wiretapping
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28EU_proposal_to_improve_international_cooperation_in_wiretapping%29

content:
<p>
An <a href="https://edri.org/wiretapping-data-access-by-foreign-courts-why-not/">EU proposal to improve international cooperation in wiretapping<a/>
will naturally be used as an opportunity to attack everyone's privacy
by cutting legal protections.


feed_id: 1a771acf1b55e487146b7748d4c3990e
title: Suing to stop the massive use of facial recognition
uri: Suing-to-stop-the-massive-use-of-facial-recognition
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Suing_to_stop_the_massive_use_of_facial_recognition%29

content:
<p>

UK human rights organizations are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/14/police-face-legal-action-over-use-of-facial-recognition-cameras">suing to stop the massive use of facial recognition.</a>


feed_id: f7f23abe5498b3e2af60f299ae7d9bc4
title: Super-urgent: call MEPs to oppose the copyright censorship directive
uri: Super-urgent-call-MEPs-to-oppose-the-copyright-censorship-directive
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28Super-urgent%3A_call_MEPs_to_oppose_the_copyright_censorship_directive%29

content:
<p>
EU citizens: <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180613/00492240024/european-citizens-you-stopped-acta-new-copyright-directive-is-much-much-worse-speak-up.shtml">call MEPs to oppose the copyright censorship directive.</a>


feed_id: 098b42f244d6726780a9a92c15a55932
title: The system won't let low-income black fathers become good dads
uri: The-system-won-t-let-low-income-black-fathers-become-good-dads
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28The_system_won%27t_let_low-income_black_fathers_become_good_dads%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/17/black-fathers-parenting-child-support-policy-flaws">"Low-income black fathers want to be good dads. The system won't let them."</a> I support the article's recommendations, but above all we need to lead
people not to have children when they don't have the funds to raise a
child. There is nothing virtuous or desirable about making more
children.

Unpredictable problems can happen to any family, and <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">one of the
state's responsibilities is to provide such parents all the help they
need,</a> including what they need so as to raise their existing children
free from want or stress.

However, if it is predictable that any children certain people have
would live in want and stress, the best outcome is that they <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">don't have children.</a>


feed_id: 4c5dbf25fca79fbc4a88f46c9193c502
title: Insect populations in Britain have fallen drastically
uri: Insect-populations-in-Britain-have-fallen-drastically
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Insect_populations_in_Britain_have_fallen_drastically%29

content:
<p>
Summer <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/17/where-have-insects-gone-climate-change-population-decline">insect populations in parts of Britain have fallen drastically.</a> Some bird species are starting to disappear.


feed_id: dd8e3f84a2e6eb12d63bd281919645d0
title: No political force in UK wants to look at Russian interfence
uri: No-political-force-in-UK-wants-to-look-at-Russian-interfence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28No_political_force_in_UK_wants_to_look_at_Russian_interfence%29

content:
<p>
None of the political forces in the UK wants to look at the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/17/why-isnt-there-greater-outrage-about-russian-involvement-in-brexit">Russian interfence
in the referendum on leaving the UK.</a>


feed_id: 977fc1b7f8124408a4c9c857ca0ad20a
title: Urgent: Workplace Democracy Act
uri: 2018-06-18-Urgent-Workplace-Democracy-Act
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Workplace_Democracy_Act%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: support the <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/sanders_pocan_workers">Workplace Democracy Act</a>.
<p>
Also ask candidates whether they support it.


feed_id: b3f5c3590d99f2069cadffd4ec3a78a9
title: Urgent: Labeling Black Lives Matter activists
uri: Urgent-Labeling-Black-Lives-Matter-activists
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Labeling_Black_Lives_Matter_activists%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/fbi_no_bie">tell the FBI</a> to stop labeling Black Lives Matter activists
as supposed violent extremists.


feed_id: b6fd798562b5e82e44c9aa63e0964d44
title: Poor People's Campaign arrests
uri: Poor-People-s-Campaign-arrests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28Poor_People%27s_Campaign_arrests%29
content:
<p>
Poor People's Campaign protesters were <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/12/poor-peoples-campaign-leaders-among-dozens-arrested-nationwide-moral-movement">arrested in protests</a> around the US,
including some of the campaign's leaders.
<p>
Kentucky <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/06/12/kentucky-poor-peoples-campaign-shut-out-state-capitol-second-week-row">created new rules</a> for limiting access to the state capitol
just to keep the Poor People's Campaign out.


feed_id: 2da7b9346816d3e50b0e27358be16bd1
title: Macedonia dispute
uri: Macedonia-dispute
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28Macedonia_dispute%29
content:
<p>
A part of former Yugoslavia has agreed to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/12/macedonia-agrees-to-new-name-after-27-year-dispute-with-greece">change its name to
Northern Macedonia</a>, to resolve a dispute with Greece.
<p>
It is indisputable that Pella, the capital of ancient Macedonia, is in
Greece.  The burial tumulus of Philip the Great, in Pella, has been
hollowed out as a museum so that its interior can be visited.
<p>
The two countries have a history of <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/greece.html">laying claim</a> to each other's
traditions.


feed_id: d7c17fa17bd3101af07a4c4ab1f4a004
title: Blasphemy vote
uri: Blasphemy-vote
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28Blasphemy_vote%29
content:
<p>
Ireland to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/12/ireland-blasphemy-referendum">Vote on Removing Blasphemy</a> as an Offence.


feed_id: 31559ae604e1b38d0c263a50d0410515
title: Recordings of inmate phone calls
uri: Recordings-of-inmate-phone-calls
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28Recordings_of_inmate_phone_calls%29
content:
<p>
A Private Prison Company <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2018/06/securus-corecivic-kansas-prison-phone-calls/">Gave 1,300 Recordings</a> of Confidential Inmate Phone
Calls to Prosecutors.


feed_id: 8e81101ef2f8a47d333680c63f39cda4
title: Citizenship census question
uri: Citizenship-census-question
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28Citizenship_census_question%29
content:
<p>
Court documents show that the citizenship question being put in the
2020 US census was explicitly intended to <a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/we-now-know-why-steve-bannon-and-kris-kobach-lobbied-for-a-citizenship-question-on-the-census/">achieve an undercount of
non-citizens</a>.


feed_id: 65be0c4e9415451481aa09f088892162
title: Veterans' medical care
uri: Veterans-medical-care
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28Veterans%27_medical_care%29
content:
<p>
US veterans enjoy good medical care, funded by the government.
Plutocratists want to <a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/veterans-administration-health-care-privatization">privatize veterans' medical care</a> so it won't be
good any more.


feed_id: ea41db33b7da591dc74e284b3e5902ed
title: Carbon absorption
uri: Carbon-absorption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28Carbon_absorption%29
content:
<p>
Pristine areas of the Amazon rainforest are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/mar/18/amazons-trees-remove-third-less-carbon-decade-ago-emissions">absorbing 1/3 less carbon</a>
now than they were 10 years ago.
This seems to be a positive feedback loop of <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a>.


feed_id: 4b1ddaf9576e06dcb755792c7a3ff5a8
title: Selling off public housing
uri: 2018-06-18-Selling-off-public-housing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28Selling_off_public_housing%29
content:
<p>
Selling off public housing is the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/12/housing-true-cost-privatisation-right-to-buy-landlords">cause of bad housing situations</a> in the UK.


feed_id: cfed9d37575fb58b330ec4a62449662d
title: Constrained power
uri: Constrained-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28Constrained_power%29
content:
<p>
"The crux of America's current constitutional crisis is this: Our system
of government was designed to constrain power, but Trump <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/11/constitutional-crisis-now">doesn’t want
to be constrained</a>."


feed_id: 4a4ec28055f0d8451126eddf25c6dfec
title: 'Centrist' Democrats
uri: 2018-06-18-Centrist-Democrats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28%27Centrist%27_Democrats%29
content:
<p>
Right-wing "centrist" Democrats have failed at the polls in recent
years, so when they win primaries today, that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/11/establishment-wins-are-bad-democrats-and-country">doesn't bode well</a>, not even
for expelling Republicans.
<p>
The worse problem is that replacing Republicans with "centrist" Democrats
doesn't get us officials that want to fix what's wrong with the US.


feed_id: bd8bb4a0f681a12eed3b554e6243b925
title: Eight or nine lives ago
uri: Eight-or-nine-lives-ago
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28Eight_or_nine_lives_ago%29
content:
<p>
The Onion: "Man, I’m almost positive I’ve seen that person before, but
this was years ago &mdash; like, <a href="https://www.theonion.com/dalai-lama-swears-he-recognizes-guy-at-party-from-past-1826737115">eight or nine lives, at least</a>," said the
Dalai Lama.


feed_id: 7c61f459e610b28c33403d53645852d8
title: Controlling Iran
uri: Controlling-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28Controlling_Iran%29
content:
<p>
The warlover and the neocons have no more of a plan for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/11/scapegoating-iran">how to control
Iran</a> than Dubya had for how to control Iraq.


feed_id: 7b0c0fabdeff260b6771201469bc8397
title: Cholera clinic bombed
uri: Cholera-clinic-bombed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28Cholera_clinic_bombed%29
content:
<p>
Salafi Arabia, the UAE and/or the US <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/11/senator-let-me-repeat-us-helped-bomb-doctors-without-borders-cholera-treatment">bombed and destroyed</a> a cholera
clinic run by Medecins sans Frontieres.
<p>
All three countries are morally responsible for the attack.


feed_id: 33d5f1f7bfa398c99a4d315c2f0f14d4
title: Net neutrality regulations
uri: Net-neutrality-regulations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28Net_neutrality_regulations%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/11/not-end-net-neutrality-say-internet-defenders-beginning-most-important-battle-yet">Activists have not given up</a> on reversing Saboteur Pai's abolition of
the US network neutrality regulations,
which were <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#19_July_2012_(ATT_attacks_network_neutrality)">always too weak</a>
but better than none at all.


feed_id: 453ba28d6d62203068320d70370ad7bb
title: Dying baobab trees
uri: Dying-baobab-trees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#18_June_2018_%28Dying_baobab_trees%29
content:
<p>
Researchers studying South Africa's oldest and largest baobab trees
(over 1000 years old) found that many of them <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/11/giant-african-baobab-trees-die-suddenly-after-thousands-of-years">died in the past decade</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jan/26/giant-trees-dying">Similar things are happening</a> in other parts of the world.


feed_id: b1a3cb4827f67cfbe46b7e36f0f0767d
title: No political force in UK wants to look at Russian interference
uri: No-political-force-in-UK-wants-to-look-at-Russian-interference
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28No_political_force_in_UK_wants_to_look_at_Russian_interference%29

content:
<p>
None of the political forces in the UK wants to look at the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/17/why-isnt-there-greater-outrage-about-russian-involvement-in-brexit">Russian interference
in the referendum on leaving the UK.</a>


feed_id: d8e3985deb62543f46df6e35e48eca00
title: Large US companies caught cheating workers of their pay
uri: 2018-06-18-Large-US-companies-caught-cheating-workers-of-their-pay
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#17_June_2018_%28Large_US_companies_caught_cheating_workers_of_their_pay%29

content:
<p>
Many large, famous <a href="https://jacobinmag.com/2018/06/heres-how-much-money-americas-biggest-corporations-have-stolen-from-their-own-workers">US companies have been caught cheating workers of their pay.</a>
The total probably comes to tens of billions of dollars, though we have no
reliable figures.

Naturally <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">the cheater</a> wants to eliminate penalties for cheating.


feed_id: 4e856e840fe179804d18e0a92ea3a391
title: Urgent: Fossil fuel money
uri: Urgent-Fossil-fuel-money
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Fossil_fuel_money%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.climatetruth.org/call/pledge-tool">call on candidates</a> to pledge not to take fossil fuel money.


feed_id: 9c6b6bc1618c3f8ff9f8f7c2b1877aa2
title: Urgent: Separated Children Act
uri: Urgent-Separated-Children-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Separated_Children_Act%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/families_belong_together">tell Congress</a> to pass the Separated Children Act.


feed_id: 843639d08677da0d9db4b14d1208f872
title: Urgent: Oppose fracking
uri: 2018-06-20-Urgent-Oppose-fracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_fracking%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/little-colorado">oppose fracking</a> in the Little Colorado River basin.


feed_id: 911ca66d8ee551c997d6f7ed6d8f62f8
title: Mammals in Britain
uri: Mammals-in-Britain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Mammals_in_Britain%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/13/fifth-of-britains-wild-mammals-at-high-risk-of-extinction">1/5 of the mammal species</a> in Britain are likely to be gone from there
in 10 years, due to habitat destruction.


feed_id: 599db5b16a5efdbed3a840935170ed8c
title: Planned Parenthood workers
uri: Planned-Parenthood-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Planned_Parenthood_workers%29
content:
<p>
Planned Parenthood Chapter Should Back Its Workers, who have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/13/planned-parenthood-union-workers-rocky-mountains">decided
to unionize</a>.


feed_id: 45f58dc0f1e137791c1d5031e8cc87bb
title: Global CO2 emissions
uri: Global-CO2-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Global_CO2_emissions%29
content:
<p>
Global CO2 emissions <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/13/rise-in-global-carbon-emissions-a-big-step-backwards-says-bp">are increasing again</a>, partly because China is
burning more coal.


feed_id: 4c933cd93939ca980118b6c9cc767129
title: Norwegian court opinions
uri: Norwegian-court-opinions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Norwegian_court_opinions%29
content:
<p>
A Norwegian court ordered volunteers to take their database of
Norwegian court opinions off the internet, <a href="https://boingboing.net/2018/06/11/rettspraksis-no.html">for the sake
of a copyright parasite</a>.


feed_id: e16335b29798a6d8577d579335e99f53
title: Transferring a Palestinian population
uri: Transferring-a-Palestinian-population
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Transfering_a_Palestinian_population%29

content:
<p>
Notable political, academic and cultural figures <a href="media/92557934.9ED795D793D7A2D794_D797D790D79F_D790D79C_D790D797D79ED7A8_3_.pdf" data-original-source="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/920751e31402107695c00c26f/files/bc4e5bb7-8560-4781-a833-bf38476a47e4/%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%93%D7%A2%D7%94_%D7%97%D7%90%D7%9F_%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%90%D7%97%D7%9E%D7%A8_3_.pdf">remind Israel</a> that
forcibly transferring a Palestinian population out of the region they live in
would be a war crime.


feed_id: 28761fb9420d06dd994118c33cf36a65
title: Selling to North Korea
uri: Selling-to-North-Korea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Selling_to_North_Korea%29
content:
<p>
The Onion: <a href="https://politics.theonion.com/trump-touts-success-of-singapore-summit-after-securing-1826742733">President Trump concluded his summit</a>
with Kim Jong-un Monday by securing a $10 billion trade deal to sell
both strategic and tactical nuclear warheads directly to North Korea.


feed_id: b39b7a3d73d7716222fbe68638b5df0d
title: Cash in Swedish banks
uri: Cash-in-Swedish-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Cash_in_Swedish_banks%29
content:
<p>
Swedish parliamentarians propose to require the largest banks to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-11/sweden-tries-to-halt-total-cashlessness-with-lawmaker-proposal">handle cash
in all their branches</a>.
<p>
If you are a Swedish citizen, please tell them your support for this
measure and other measures to defend the use of cash.  Say that anonymous
purchasing is important for you.
<p>
If you live in Sweden or have connections with Sweden, please pass the word!


feed_id: 92c2bdf05be2697cd0e521640f05e736
title: Investigation of journalist murder
uri: Investigation-of-journalist-murder
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Investigation_of_journalist_murder%29

content:
<p>
Maltese officials are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/13/daphne-caruana-galizia-top-eu-official-flies-to-malta">stalling the investigation</a> of the murder
of corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.


feed_id: 7ebd7f0b6249a060e0b33e3ad1e1c051
title: Mega-mergers
uri: 2018-06-20-Mega-mergers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Mega-mergers%29
content:
<p>
Zephyr Teachout: Mega-mergers like AT&amp;T And Time Warner <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/13/mega-mergers-att-time-warner-crush-american-democracy">Crush American
Democracy</a>.


feed_id: 6fde0c0eca2165f6417a48e0cdbf216a
title: Billions to big banks
uri: Billions-to-big-banks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Billions_to_big_banks%29
content:
<p>
The big US banks got billions of dollars from the Republican tax attacks.
The billions are going <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/06/12/bank-heist-wall-street-banks-get-huge-trump-gop-tax-cuts">almost entirely to the owners</a>.


feed_id: e512771d138e9f2f5ebf299b3c4f376a
title: Unarmed Palestinian killed
uri: Unarmed-Palestinian-killed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Unarmed_Palestinian_killed%29
content:
<p>
Two Israeli soldiers were charged with killing an unarmed Palestinian
teenager, but <a href="https://972mag.com/once-charged-with-killing-palestinian-teen-two-israeli-soldiers-will-walk-free/135955/">charges have been dropped</a>.
<p>
It's like when <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> kill unarmed blacks in the US.


feed_id: 39f8004865f46f0c2db34fd7c18f1ee3
title: Wildfires in Israel
uri: Wildfires-in-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Wildfires_in_Israel%29
content:
<p>
Israel accused Gazans of launching fire-kites and said that they <a href="http://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-minister-assassinate-palestinians-who-launch-kites/">set wildfires
in Israel</a>.
<p>
Setting wildfires can cause widespread damage, even kill.  (They
probably can't spread as much in arid southern Israel as they can in
wooded parts of California.)  Such kites are an indiscriminate weapon.
If Gazans did indeed launch them &mdash; we cannot take that as
certain because Israel says so &mdash; then Israel is entitled to
fight back with the legitimate military means.
<p>
However, Israel's siege of Gaza, and its practice of shooting at
anyone that comes near the fence (which is inside Gaza, not at the
border, I have read), are morally comparable, except much larger in
effect.  If Israel demands compensation for wildfires, that is
legitimate, but shouldn't Israel pay compensation for the fishing
boats seized or sunk, the fish not caught, the cutoff from travel
especially for study and medical care, and all the civilian casualties
of its bombardment and shooting?


feed_id: 3942d58aee852c549d4d4054353481cd
title: Keystone XL pipeline land
uri: Keystone-XL-pipeline-land
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Keystone_XL_pipeline_land%29
content:
<p>
Landowners in the path of the Keystone XL pipeline and the Unkinder
Morgan pipeline are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/06/12/tribes-landowners-and-climate-groups-expand-campaign-build-solar-inside-keystone">building solar installations</a> on the land that
would be seized.


feed_id: 8ac01769b3bd3a8a3d22644efabcedda
title: Copyright filtering proposal
uri: Copyright-filtering-proposal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Copyright_filtering_proposal%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/internet-luminaries-ring-alarm-eu-copyright-filtering-proposal">70+ Internet Luminaries</a> Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal.
<p>
I condemn the automated copyright censorship system too, but
I would have refused to sign that letter because it endorses the bogus
premise that the copyright industry uses to justify the War on
Sharing: "for creators to receive fair remuneration for the use of
their works".  These funds go more to editors than to artists <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Creator">(let's
not call them "creators")</a>,
but even the artists are not entitled to "remuneration" simply because
people look at, or share, their work.  What we ought to do
is support artists (especially non-star artists) better,
not give "fair remuneration" that <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-vs-community.html">goes mainly to stars</a>.
<p>
I can't recommend that you use the EFF's campaign site, since it requires
running nonfree Javascript code.  Instead, please contact your MEPs and
those on the JURI committee.  Also please contact the EFF to politely
ask them to fix the site, if the campaign continues past June 21.


feed_id: b37e82d757761ece26ca40fe17cd23f9
title: Saving net neutrality
uri: Saving-net-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Saving_net_neutrality%29
content:
<p>
Net Neutrality <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/11/net-neutrality-can-still-be-saved">Can Still Be Saved</a>.
<p>
I hope we can legislate <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2014-sep-dec.html#11_November_2014_(Full_and_true_internet_neutrality)">full network neutrality</a> some day.


feed_id: c64187e8e0a5e8f6ab3cea33941e1d1b
title: Attack on antifascists
uri: Attack-on-antifascists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Attack_on_antifascists%29
content:
<p>
Right-wing extremist Quillinan went to a rally in Berkeley,
California, armed and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/15/police-pro-trump-berkeley-leftwing-activists-court-case">attacked
antifascists</a>.  The thugs treated Quillinan as a victim rather than
as a criminal, and together they prosecuted several antifascists.
<p>
It fits a general pattern where right-wing <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> lie to attack their
political enemies.
<p>
Don't believe anything a <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> says in court if it inculpates a black
or a progressive protester.  While it is not impossible that blacks or
progressive protesters can do wrong, a <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> is not a reliable witness
about them.


feed_id: 8a8199a2148736d0e1e64324d10ad4fb
title: UN mandate for Palestine
uri: UN-mandate-for-Palestine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28UN_mandate_for_Palestine%29
content:
<p>
Proposing that European leaders 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/15/two-state-solution-un-mandate-razan-al-najja-israel-palestine">call
for a UN mandate</a> for Palestine.


feed_id: a39c06c77639a80289028e4be1f0f45e
title: Medical value of THC
uri: Medical-value-of-THC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Medical_value_of_THC%29
content:
<p>
A child has severe epilepsy and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/15/mothers-plea-for-uk-to-legalise-cannabis-oil-charlotte-caldwell-billy">the
only treatment that works is made from THC</a>.  This has put the
spotlight on the UK's continuing War on Drugs, which requires it to
pretend that THC has no medical value.


feed_id: c44a2fa6f24f96a8076f4363d04a1dd5
title: Extremists taking up Nazi salute
uri: Extremists-taking-up-Nazi-salute
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Extremists_taking_up_Nazi_salute%29
content:
<p>
Europe's right-wing extremist parties are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/14/far-right-nazi-tommy-robinson-racist-movements-donald-trump">organizing
and taking up the Nazi salute</a>.


feed_id: 95f4fd9441761d412577c9ffaf4255bb
title: Democrat Rep tied to businesses
uri: Democrat-Rep-tied-to-businesses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Democrat_Rep_tied_to_businesses%29
content:
<p>
Democrat Rep. Crowley voted to weaken the CFPB in favor of businesses
that had hired his brother to lobby for them.
<p>
Whether or not the fee to his brother was the reason, he supported the
wrong side.  But not only once.  Crowley has a history of ties to
financial businesses, and 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/14/joe-crowley-congress-new-york/">using
his political clout on their behalf</a>.
<p>
He also voted for the PAT RIOT Act and for invading Iraq.


feed_id: 0dc85aea90e98f72a38dae1988798f5d
title: Worsening repression in Iran
uri: Worsening-repression-in-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Worsening_repression_in_Iran%29
content:
<p>
Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is a political prisoner of the
Iranian right wing.  It is plausible that the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a>'s cancellation of
the nonnuclear deal with Iran
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/14/iran-nasrin-sotoudeh-trump">gave
them an opportunity to do this</a>.


feed_id: 38eff11b7cf740a1efb1ee90325097d9
title: Progressive political movements
uri: Progressive-political-movements
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Progressive_political_movements%29
content:
<p>
Some 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/14/1771872/-A-Progressive-Movement-in-the-United-States-Is-it-Possible">lessons
from US history</a> about progressive political movements.


feed_id: 17ebc262148f59ad16407adbc076236b
title: Censorship law endangering sex workers
uri: Censorship-law-endangering-sex-workers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Censorship_law_endangering_sex_workers%29

content:
<p>
The censorship law that blocks sex workers from online advertising is
also 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/13/sesta-fosta-sex-work-criminalize-advocacy/">suppressing
them from organizing and communicating to the public</a>.


feed_id: 70950c56348118fddcb2d0d3aec0fe45
title: Naming deal for "Macedonia"
uri: Naming-deal-for-Macedonia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Naming_deal_for_Macedonia%29
content:
<p>
The naming deal for "Macedonia" seems to be 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/13/macedonia-rejects-treaty-greece-name-row-zoran-zaev">falling
apart at both ends</a>.


feed_id: 274d44a33e9593ef53bebf3a71b44d10
title: Jogger who trashed homeless man's things
uri: Jogger-who-trashed-homeless-man-s-things
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Jogger_who_trashed_homeless_mans_things%29

content:
<p>
Jogger Who Trashed Homeless Man's Things 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/13/oakland-jogger-homeless-man-lake-robbery-charge">Charged
with Robbery in New Dispute</a>.


feed_id: 353ce7d52a1ea932bbacc71a3f947e45
title: "Zero tolerance" policies
uri: Zero-tolerance-policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Zero_tolerance_policies%29
content:
<p>
"Zero tolerance" policies tend to mean 
<a href="https://reason.com/archives/2018/06/13/america-needs-to-declare-zero-tolerance">suffering
for anyone who makes a mistake</a>.  They are generally a very bad
idea.  When applied to being an immigrant with a green card, they
produce massive suffering.


feed_id: 00f869496286b7b1ee88cdcd2fb97d51
title: Taxing per job
uri: Taxing-per-job
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Taxing_per_job%29
content:
<p>
Seattle's city council 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/13/shameless-capitulation-amazon-seattle-lawmakers-repeal-tax-aimed-tackling">repealed
the per-employee tax on businesses</a> that it adopted a few weeks
ago.
<p>
Taxing businesses more is necessary, but taxing per job is a bad idea
since it would pressure businesses to cut jobs.


feed_id: 183561894bac720c127a6d79526ad43b
title: The military-industrial complex
uri: The-military-industrial-complex
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28The_military-industrial_complex%29
content:
<p>
The military-industrial complex is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/13/backlash-trump-kim-summit-motivated-commitment-projecting-american-superpower">freaking
out at the possibility of peace</a> on the Korean peninsula.


feed_id: 7186e5fe4f16d5ad1bd08ae2beccfee5
title: US deportation thugs
uri: 2018-06-21-US-deportation-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28US_deportation_thugs%29
content:
<p>
The US deportation <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/13/ices-military-style-raid-leaves-immigrant-communities-terrorized">terrorizing
whole communities</a> by arresting hundreds of people, scaring
hundreds more into fleeing.
<p>
Those deported are not even allowed to see their families again.
Some are cut off from lawyers.


feed_id: 883ba065e933596a12ee3df25a7d1e5c
title: SCROTUS want more tax cut for rich
uri: SCROTUS-want-more-tax-cut-for-rich
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28SCROTUS_want_more_tax_cut_for_rich%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/06/13/130-national-organizations-urge-congress-oppose-round-2-trump-gop-tax-cuts">want
to cut taxes for the rich</a> <em>again</em>.


feed_id: 9fdef323137e3f4959846708aca0554b
title: Fossil fuel industry donations to DNC
uri: Fossil-fuel-industry-donations-to-DNC
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Fossil_fuel_industry_donations_to_DNC%29

content:
<p>
The Democratic National Committee 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/13/what-winning-looks-dnc-bans-donations-fossil-fuel-companies">voted
to reject donations</a> from the fossil fuel industry.
<p>
Those companies can still support individual candidates and PACs, so
this doesn't eliminate their power to corrupt Democrats.  However, the
rejection will influence politics.


feed_id: 7070f9d22d68f243d2678d927d30f331
title: Palestinians need protection
uri: Palestinians-need-protection
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Palestinians_need_protection%29
content:
<p>
Palestinians need international protection from the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/13/beating-us-veto-palestinians-need-urgent-protection-israel">violence
of Israelis</a>.  Only the US prevents the UN from taking action.
<p>
This will get even worse if Israel adopts proposed laws that would
give soldiers immunity for war crimes and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#25_November_2017_(Netanyahu%27s_law)">criminalize
anyone that documents those crimes</a>.
<p>

Imagine if it were a crime to post a video of a <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> beating up
or killing a black.


feed_id: 48c31ef174dc1ce45fa5550ac4c6d7a5
title: The troll and Kaiser Wilhelm II
uri: The-troll-and-Kaiser-Wilhelm-II
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28The_troll_and_Kaiser_Wilhelm_II%29
content:
<p>
The narcissist has a 
<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-happens-when-a-bad-tempered-distractible-doofus-runs-an-empire">strong
resemblance</a> in personality to Kaiser Wilhelm II.


feed_id: b6978c99ca496f8898de729c95d3293d
title: Reports of sexual harassment
uri: Reports-of-sexual-harassment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Reports_of_sexual_harassment%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/half-of-women-in-science-face-harassment-policies-and-institutions-fail-them/">Over
half of US women professors and university staff</a> report sexual
harassment.
<p>
A basic principle of justice is that whether some action on your part
would be wrong may not depend on another person arbitrary opinion of
it.  A just criterion must be something you can in principle apply to
your own actions before you do them.
<p>
It follows that it is unjust to criticize people for making "unwanted
advances".  In some cases the only way to find out whether an advance
is wanted is to make one.


feed_id: 7bf9f782d41d675b7a3286d1f11bbd17
title: Human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia
uri: Human-rights-abuses-in-Saudi-Arabia
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Human_rights_abuses_in_Saudi_Arabia%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/saudi-arabia-announces-escalation-of-human-rights-abuse-1826778314">The
Onion</a>: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced Tuesday plans to
escalate human rights abuses to curry more favor with the United
States.


feed_id: 7cff5e0802d6e933f15830612f9c4513
title: Republicans plan to require ID for voting
uri: Republicans-plan-to-require-ID-for-voting
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Republicans_plan_to_require_ID_for_voting%29

content:
<p>
Republicans 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/8/1770367/-North-Carolina-GOP-plots-new-voter-ID-law-after-old-one-was-struck-down-for-suppressing-black-voters">plan
to amend the constitution of North Carolina</a> to impose an ID
requirement for voting.  But the citizens will have to vote on it
first.


feed_id: 2d3ee4a3eaa765583ce6dc87283d3dd2
title: The bully and Dictator Kim
uri: 2018-06-21-The-bully-and-Dictator-Kim
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28The_bully_and_Dictator_Kim%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/13/donald-trump-kim-jong-un-fox-news-human-rights">said
that Dictator Kim's systematic oppression of Koreans is nothing
important</a>.
<p>
I support negotiating peace with North Korea notwithstanding Kim's
oppression, because war could do immense harm.  If that requires the
US to keep quiet about the issue of Kim's oppression for the time
being, that can be worth while.  But there is no need to make
statements that it is <em>not</em> horrible.


feed_id: e017b227baa2b157ecfdc1a9e9e5b265
title: US returns money taken from nurse
uri: US-returns-money-taken-from-nurse
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28US_returns_money_taken_from_nurse%29

content:
<p>
The US 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/31/1768518/-U-S-government-finally-returns-41-000-seized-from-nurse-traveling-to-Nigeria-to-open-clinic">returned
nurse Anthonia Nwaorie's $41,000</a>, which she was bringing to a
clinic in Nigeria.


feed_id: cb0106a5a864faf194c433764bbf84f2
title: Deportation to a violent country
uri: Deportation-to-a-violent-country
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Deportation_to_a_violent_country%29
content:
<p>
Deportation to a violent country which you knew only as a child is
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/8/1770343/-Iowa-high-school-student-is-killed-just-three-weeks-after-being-sent-back-to-Mexico">very
dangerous</a>.
<p>
To deport people for getting a traffic ticket reflects a policy that
aims to cause suffering under whatever pretext.  The authorities deny
this, of course, but we will not make the mistake of believe them.
<p>
I criticize the article on one point: It asks us to sympathize more
with Sr. Cano Pacheco because he had a child at the young age of 19.
It is irresponsible to do that; people should not.  To suggest that
people would deserve less sympathy if they have helped stabilize the
human population is unfair to us.
<p>
However, that is a side issue.  The way the US treated him was wrong,
child or no child.


feed_id: b0e45529345859366c00bcb8936d5764
title: Euro zone rules
uri: 2018-06-21-Euro-zone-rules
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Euro_zone_rules%29
content:
<p>
Stiglitz: the Euro zone rules are causing great suffering in many
countries, and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/13/euro-growth-eurozone-joseph-stiglitz">Italy
might be able to crack it up</a> if it isn't reformed soon.


feed_id: 536c2bebd1ff710934e88b7ef752b3ca
title: Department of Heavy Surveillance
uri: Department-of-Heavy-Surveillance
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Department_of_Heavy_Surveillance%29
content:
<p>
The Department of Heavy Surveillance (DHS) has a database that will
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/hart-homeland-securitys-massive-new-database-will-include-face-recognition-dna-and">enable
it to investigate everyone in the US, all the time</a>.
<p>
If we allow this to operate, it could make us safer from minor street
crime, but it will surely make us more vulnerable to suppression of
our human rights by the state.
<p>
Especially we should not allow systematic face recognition in public,
by anyone including agents and agencies of the state, in the absence
of specific court authorization.


feed_id: 111a91bc62d2e0fa7b55bfce1208e125
title: Ranked-choice voting
uri: 2018-06-21-Ranked-choice-voting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Ranked-choice_voting%29
content:
<p>
Maine's Republican legislators have fought tooth and nail against
ranked-choice voting, but they 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/13/historic-victory-maine-voters-demand-ranked-choice-voting-statewide-electionsagain">couldn't
stop it</a>.


feed_id: b54d89711ffc17f2ff5fd6b1ee08f694
title: Tanzania shuts down web publication
uri: Tanzania-shuts-down-web-publication
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Tanzania_shuts_down_web_publication%29

content:
<p>
Tanzania has shut down independent web publication by 
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2018/06/13/jamii-forum.html">taxing it
so heavily that most people can't even think of paying it</a>.


feed_id: e93763f89f36735f9b72988ce9550bae
title: Statistics without tracking
uri: Statistics-without-tracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Statistics_without_tracking%29
content:
<p>
Taking statistics on foot and car traffic in a way that is 
<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/05/30/devices-map-people-movements-downtown-crossing-help-businesses-fine-tune-offerings/NnASkINm8ti4kQyvAgRF5K/amp.html">useful
for planning but can't track anyone</a>.


feed_id: 5e6765db746f61a8142b85d0fa989540
title: "Smart" phone keywords
uri: Smart-phone-keywords
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Smart_phone_keywords%29
content:
<p>
"Smart" phones are always listening for keywords, and there 
<a href="https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia">may
be thousands of keywords</a>.


feed_id: 84db57cd612f691348a141637209afa6
title: Sweatshop service companies
uri: Sweatshop-service-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Sweatshop_service_companies%29
content:
<p>
When Will [sweatshop service] Companies Admit That 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/14/gig-economy-workers-pimlico-plumbers-employment-rights">Their
Workers Have Rights</a>?


feed_id: 2668b06ce49cb233595a0fad729fac35
title: Urgent: War on immigrants
uri: Urgent-War-on-immigrants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_War_on_immigrants%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/block_antiimmigrantbills">call on Congress</a> to block any bill that would supercharge
Trump's war on immigrants.


feed_id: 49414304bc7c55d2bb1922d7968ebdaf
title: Urgent: Immigrant women and children
uri: Urgent-Immigrant-women-and-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Immigrant_women_and_children%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/attacks-immigrant-women/">call on Congress</a> to stop the sadism towards immigrant
women and children.


feed_id: d29fce9d65138462beafeab4cd4ed472
title: Mapuche
uri: Mapuche
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Mapuche%29
content:
<p>
Mapuche are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/14/chile-mapuche-indigenous-arson-radical-environmental-protest">burning farms and farm vehicles</a> to chase others off their
traditional land.


feed_id: cd4558c91ad5ff2e61176fd49cdfafd9
title: Dangers facing US journalists
uri: Dangers-facing-US-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Dangers_facing_US_journalists%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/14/doxxing-assault-death-threats-the-new-dangers-facing-us-journalists-covering-extremism">Doxxing, Assault, Death Threats</a>: the New Dangers Facing US Journalists
Covering [right-wing] Extremism.


feed_id: 076497dc08907c70eedb5e4540728446
title: Iranian lawyer
uri: Iranian-lawyer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Iranian_lawyer%29
content:
<p>
Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested and told she had been
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/13/nasrin-sotoudeh-arrested-iran-human-rights-lawyer-islamic-headscarf">sentenced to 5 years in prison</a> on charges she had not been informed
about.


feed_id: 046e128519259b5457e55b022b875091
title: Melting Antarctic ice
uri: 2018-06-21-Melting-Antarctic-ice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Melting_Antarctic_ice%29
content:
<p>
The Antarctic ice is melting faster.  This will lead to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/13/antarctic-ice-melting-faster-than-ever-studies-show">1 meter of
sea-level rise</a> by 2070, assuming no unexpected increase due to
unpredictable tipping points.


feed_id: 62784471b262696cee87503495b8aeb6
title: 'Spycops' posters
uri: Spycops-posters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28%27Spycops%27_posters%29
content:
<p>
Lush has put <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/13/cosmetics-chain-lush-resumes-undercover-police-poster-campaign">new "spycops" posters</a> into its store windows, resisting the
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>' attempt to intimidate them.


feed_id: f19713347a1b91555196fad0fd005018
title: Prescription history
uri: Prescription-history
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Prescription_history%29
content:
<p>
North Carolina proposes to allow thugs to <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/12/1771419/-Forget-probable-cause-New-bill-could-let-cops-pull-your-prescription-history-without-a-warrant?detail=emaildkre">look at anybody's
prescription history</a> without giving any justification.
<p>
I think that centralized databases of people's prescription history are
dangerous already.


feed_id: c3ea0f7483a9d075db04273875168676
title: Protesters in Honduras
uri: Protesters-in-Honduras
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Protesters_in_Honduras%29
content:
<p>
Honduras is suppressing protest against its rigged election by
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/06/13/honduras-authorities-are-denying-due-process-people-arrested-during-post">arresting and prosecuting</a> large numbers of protesters.
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#19_December_2017_(Stealing_Honduras_election)">Here's info</a> about the rigged election.


feed_id: 6a76ce3240f6fbe2331ed4d6270e0be2
title: Pruitt's sabotage
uri: Pruitt-s-sabotage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Pruitt%27s_sabotage%29
content:
<p>
Scott Pruitt's Corruption Is Bad, But His <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/13/scott-pruitts-corruption-bad-his-planetary-sabotage-worse">Planetary Sabotage Is Worse</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/06/13/courts-continue-pressure-scott-pruitt-do-his-job-protect-communities-dangerous">A court has ordered</a> the EPA to do some of the jobs it is supposed to do.
However, I doubt that courts will correct all Pruitt's acts of sabotage,
and I am not sure he will even comply with their decisions.


feed_id: 52bdef217d689d90d76a96bd01c06f86
title: Institutionalized child abuse
uri: Institutionalized-child-abuse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Institutionalized_child_abuse%29
content:
<p>
What Do You Call a Country That Institutionalizes Child Abuse?
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/13/what-do-you-call-country-institutionalizes-child-abuse-democrats-hold-sit-demanding">The United States.</a>


feed_id: e64dc0dfdca1a426975f4b5bc9fb7462
title: EU whistleblower directive
uri: EU-whistleblower-directive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28EU_whistleblower_directive%29
content:
<p>
The EU has drafted a proposed directive to protect whistleblowers, but
it is too narrow and limited.  <a href="https://xnet-x.net/en/recommendations-modifications-draft-ec-directive-protection-whistle-blowers/">This page</a> describes the limitations
and recommends changes.
<p>
I get the impression that it is aimed at protecting only those who
reveal business wrongdoing, not those that reveal crimes and oppression
committed by the state.


feed_id: 7864d3d75ffbf273a50e7ca67a9810ca
title: Trump family's income
uri: Trump-family-s-income
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Trump_family%27s_income%29
content:
<p>
The Trump family's income from renting their political power is in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/13/trump-white-house-donald-ivanka-jared-clinton">tens of millions, perhaps hundreds</a>.  All of it is corruption.
<p>
When Clinton got paid tens of thousands for speeches, that was not
corruption in the same sense.  It was however a reason to expect that
she would probably favor the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bankster">banksters</a> (over the non-rich, and even
over cities and states and smaller businesses) if she were elected.


feed_id: 1e2d4e3d1e51571a489e22d469b3c037
title: Investment in natural gas
uri: Investment-in-natural-gas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Investment_in_natural_gas%29
content:
<p>
Trillions of dollars of planned investment in extracting more natural
gas threatens to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/06/12/report-g20-countries-set-invest-over-16-trillion-fossil-gas-jeopardizing-paris">blow past the world's carbon budget</a>.


feed_id: 02dbbef3bfeb997e6919915549112b71
title: Yemeni port attacked
uri: Yemeni-port-attacked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Yemeni_port_attacked%29
content:
<p>
Salafi Arabia, backed by the US, has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/13/yemen-saudi-led-coalition-begins-battle-for-vital-port">attacked the Yemeni port</a> of Hodeidah.
<p>
It claims this is ok because it first asked the Houthis to abandon the
city and they wouldn't.
<p>
The Houthis took most of Yemen pretty quickly, and I think the war
would have ended in 2016 if Obama hadn't supported <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> in
intervening.  The bulk of the suffering caused by the war has been
since then.  It would have been much less if the US had done nothing
and thus let the Houthis win.


feed_id: 6d9b23e7498f221e2dc7f7863779b71f
title: Trade treaty expiration
uri: Trade-treaty-expiration
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Trade_treaty_expiration%29
content:
<p>
NAFTA and other trade treaties <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/13/trump-nafta-g7-sunset-clause-trade-agreement">should have expiration dates</a>, so that they
don't function as weapons against democracy and public safety.
<p>
Opposition to the existing <a href="https://stallman.org/business-supremacy-treaties.html">business supremacy treaties</a>
is one of
the few points on which I agree with <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#cheater">the cheater</a>.  Not that he cares
about democracy or public safety.  I've read that he is for certain
businesses and against others.  But I will not change my conclusion just
because he supports it.


feed_id: 234b88123b2183fb0f87bdf5c8c53273
title: Propaganda film for Dictator Kim
uri: Propaganda-film-for-Dictator-Kim
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#20_June_2018_%28Propaganda_film_for_Dictator_Kim%29
content:
<p>
The US government made a propaganda film extolling Dictator Kim.
Supposedly it was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/13/trump-video-national-security-council-destiny-pictures">meant as flattery for him</a>.
<p>
The film was signed with the name of a real film company
that had nothing to do with making it.


feed_id: 2a1129dca197be6d24f0f07b571a285c
title: Transferring a Palestinian population
uri: 2018-06-21-Transferring-a-Palestinian-population
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#19_June_2018_%28Transfering_a_Palestinian_population%29

content:
<p>
Notable political, academic and cultural
figures <a href="media/4cfe7a68.20180611_khan_al_ahmar_petition.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.btselem.org/sites/default/files/2018-06/20180611_khan_al_ahmar_petition.pdf">remind
Israel</a> that forcibly transferring a Palestinian population out of
the region they live in would be a war crime.


feed_id: b32f2fdebd3a63764ebc5daa8783b309
title: Urgent: Separation of families
uri: Urgent-Separation-of-families
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Separation_of_families%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/call/hleaderscalls_badlattewh2/">phone your congresscritter</a> to oppose Republican bills that
would not end the separation of families.


feed_id: 4a610fd8abdaf231bb0404d3e62f88de
title: Urgent: Corrupt practices of Mulvaney
uri: Urgent-Corrupt-practices-of-Mulvaney
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Corrupt_practices_of_Mulvaney%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/mulvaney_warren_ethics">call on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau</a> to investigate
the corrupt practices of its acting head, Mulvaney.


feed_id: 0af71d4317833131742f2840754d350d
title: Border thug jurisdiction
uri: Border-thug-jurisdiction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Border_thug_jurisdiction%29
content:
<p>
US border <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> try to question people where they have no
jurisdiction.  You can stop them by <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/ice-and-border-patrol-abuses/one-woman-who-knew-her-rights-forced-border">pointing out that fact</a>.


feed_id: f36acad1ec848baa70ef70e8d384b895
title: Reporter in Malta
uri: Reporter-in-Malta
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Reporter_in_Malta%29
content:
<p>
A BBC reporter in Malta was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/apr/28/chris-packham-malta-is-a-bird-hell">arrested and separately beaten up</a> for
trying to show the annual shooting of migrating birds, some of then
endangered.


feed_id: 460c6ec47bc09c5a919747b26f344edb
title: Delhi's air toxicity
uri: Delhi-s-air-toxicity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Delhi%27s_air_toxicity%29
content:
<p>
Delhi's level of air toxicity is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/15/delhi-blanketed-by-smog-so-toxic-it-cant-be-measured">beyond what their meters can
indicate</a>.


feed_id: a553d931522b8a902775ec8a4e73bb31
title: Prosecutorial misconduct
uri: Prosecutorial-misconduct
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Prosecutorial_misconduct%29
content:
<p>
It is hard to expose prosecutorial misconduct, so the real frequency
of this is surely <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/15/prosecutors-misconduct-criminal-justice-reform-texas/">far more than we can measure</a> by how often it is
exposed and remedied.


feed_id: bf2c5b7d3c12c57ea2e4fd5533794058
title: New asylum policy
uri: New-asylum-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28New_asylum_policy%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/15/domestic-violence-asylum-jeff-sessions/">The Misogynistic Logic</a> of Jeff Sessions’s Horrifying New Asylum Policy
For Domestic Violence Victims.


feed_id: be44f2131fc39b8d8680de21dc76a74b
title: Admiring dictators
uri: Admiring-dictators
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Admiring_dictators%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> admires dictators for their absolute power, but considers
democratically elected leaders "weak" because they are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/15/trump-strongman-democracy-xi-kim-elected-leaders">constrained by
rule of law</a>.


feed_id: bee3f96b9a90abe83a942e27192059de
title: Defining antisemitism
uri: Defining-antisemitism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Defining_antisemitism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jun/15/we-must-define-antisemitism-to-fight-it-effectively">Defining antisemitism carefully</a> to distinguish it from political
criticism of Israel and political pressure on Israel.


feed_id: 6aa05deecc4381b8e0a639901290c530
title: Social mobility
uri: 2018-06-22-Social-mobility
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Social_mobility%29
content:
<p>
Social mobility is falling in wealthy countries.
In the UK &hellip;it could take [on the average] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/15/social-mobility-in-richest-countries-has-stalled-since-1990s">at least five
generations</a> for the child of a poor family to reach the average
national income (roughly $40,000 a year).


feed_id: ed9f21b421335dfd50dd47b449289b3c
title: Becoming more nocturnal
uri: Becoming-more-nocturnal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Becoming_more_nocturnal%29
content:
<p>
Over 60 species of mammals <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/14/human-activity-making-mammals-more-nocturnal-study-finds">become more nocturnal</a> when humans are in the
area.  This is presumably because humans scare them, but forgoing daytime
activity can make it hard for them to survive.


feed_id: 23721591ae2fa281daad770cd32cf03b
title: Competition and research
uri: Competition-and-research
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Competition_and_research%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2018/jun/15/is-competition-driving-innovation-or-damaging-scientific-research">Is Competition Driving Innovation</a> Or Damaging Scientific Research?
<p>
I have to comment that doing similar research two or three times
is not necessarily a waste.  In redundancy is reliability.


feed_id: e75b7c5bc44cb9a2ca2a39f0a0084a32
title: Refugees entering France
uri: Refugees-entering-France
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Refugees_entering_France%29
content:
<p>
French border <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are supposed to let immigrant minors enter from
Italy, but instead <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/14/french-border-police-accused-of-cutting-soles-off-migrant-childrens-shoes">jail them without food or water</a>, steal their
phones, then send them walking back barefoot.
<p>
Those refugees are not getting proper care in Italy.  Proper care
includes contraception and instructions on how to use it.
<p>
More broadly, a large part of the persecution and violence that
makes millions flee was caused by <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#4_March_2018_(Election_interference)">wealthy and powerful countries</a>
such as France and the US.
The US is partially responsible for the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-jul-oct.html#14%20July%202009%20(On%20the%20coup%20in%20Honduras)">coup in Honduras</a>
and the recent stolen election.  If Americans don't want Hondurans to
come fleeing, how about if we allow them to have a democratic
government in their own country?


feed_id: 9685e4095b0c3533d83b941e9d97621b
title: Disclosure laws
uri: Disclosure-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Disclosure_laws%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/15/stop-spies-subcontractors-freedom-of-information-act">Even spy agencies</a> must be subject to disclosure laws.


feed_id: d15915a38664e149fccb3a7b009e5eea
title: Espionage charge in Cambodia
uri: Espionage-charge-in-Cambodia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Espionage_charge_in_Cambodia%29
content:
<p>
An Australian journalist is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/15/james-ricketson-cambodia-espionage-charges-grapevine-australian-film-maker-court">charged with espionage</a> in Cambodia.
For doing journalism, I suppose.
<p>
Cambodia has abolished freedom of the press, along with <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#19_November_2017_(Cambodia_opposition_dissolved)">all the
opposition parties</a>.


feed_id: 816b2212b3ae3dd53d19bb0dda8460d5
title: Attack on Hodeida
uri: Attack-on-Hodeida
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Attack_on_Hodeida%29
content:
<p>
The US, UK and France <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/15/un-rejects-plan-to-demand-immediate-ceasefire-saudi-uae-coalition-in-yemen-port">are supporting</a>
the Salafi Arabian attack on Hodeida.


feed_id: 5e43a3271078fee997c9f0799121866c
title: Cursing the bully
uri: Cursing-the-bully
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Cursing_the_bully%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/15/samantha-bee-robert-de-niro-trump-language">Is it a bad idea</a> to use curse words when talking about the bully?
<p>
It is true that the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a> is equally vulgar and has no basis to complain.
It is surely true that his supporters don't care about our cursing at him
except as an excuse.
<p>
Whether we curse at him or not, it won't influence them.  Their reaction
to cursing is beside the point.  What matters is the possible reaction
of those who we might be able to influence.
<p>
I'd rather call him a <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a>, a bullshitter, a cheater, a harasser, a
war-lover.  Those words make actual points, valid points.
<p>
When the media reprove progressives for cursing at the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a>, it is
clear that they are applying a double standard.  That's what we should
say to them: "Why criticize us while giving the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a> a free pass?"


feed_id: c6329624fc44c05ec505f9902a8f4706
title: Global heating
uri: 2018-06-22-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Global_heating%29
content:
<p>
The IPCC's draft report says that we need 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/15/leaked-un-draft-report-warns-of-urgent-need-to-cut-global-warming">"rapid
and far-reaching"</a> measures to curb global heating fast.
<p>
This requires kicking out the fossil fuel puppets that control the US,
Canada, Australia and UK.


feed_id: ad3c64b22f33f4d83d370497f304951a
title: Thugs "solve" burglaries
uri: Thugs-solve-burglaries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Thugs_solve_burglaries%29
content:
<p>
A Florida town's <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> boasted of a perfect record for solving burglaries.
They 
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/06/11/police-framed-a-teen-for-four-burglaries-so-chief-could-tout-perfect-clearance-rate-feds-say/">framed
someone for all of them</a>.
<p>
These <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> now face charges.  Hooray!


feed_id: 89bae39c3662220c25bbc505597af7e1
title: US immigration prisons
uri: US-immigration-prisons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28US_immigration_prisons%29
content:
<p>
Since US immigration prisons are full, the border sadists are 
<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/06/07/ice-send-1-600-immigration-violators-federal-prisons/683086002/">moving
1600 arrested border-crossers into the normal federal prison
system</a>.
<p>
Eventually the numbers will require the US to build new prisons.
The private prison companies will love this.


feed_id: 633d7ab9c1bd951e2fa7322de28a9f2d
title: Minimum wage in the US
uri: Minimum-wage-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Minimum_wage_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
A Minimum-Wage Worker
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/13/a-minimum-wage-worker-cant-afford-a-2-bedroom-apartment-anywhere-in-the-u-s/">Can't
Afford a 2-Bedroom Apartment Anywhere in the U.S.</a>  In most cities,
even a 1-bedroom apartment is too expensive.


feed_id: a0bd7952048071dd7463d41da3f9aa83
title: China requiring cars to carry RFID
uri: China-requiring-cars-to-carry-RFID
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28China_requiring_cars_to_carry_RFID%29

content:
<p>
China is
<a href="https://www.ecommercedailynews.com/records-and-sources-say-china-will-begin-using-electronic-identification-system-to-track-cars-nationwide-on-july-1-compliance-will-be-compulsory-from-jan-2019-yoko-kubota-wall-street-journal/">requiring
all cars to carry RFID tracking devices</a>.
<p>
Let this be a warning to us of what tyrants will do in our countries,
if we don't organize to stop them.


feed_id: 30993a5b1eb5b6775c4a92096f43ffda
title: Baby-based fear industry
uri: Baby-based-fear-industry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Baby-based_fear_industry%29
content:
<p>
The baby-based fear industry will sell parents all sorts of products
to prevent
<a href="https://letgrow.org/dear-parents-absolutely-everything-could-kill-your-child-love-the-marketplace/">extremely
unlikely dangers</a>.
<p>
Understanding this example may help you understand the terrorist-based
fear industry, which will sell all sorts of "security" policies at the
cost of your civil liberties and democracy.


feed_id: 84a9ee9f18223e89202d79a9ce454059
title: Repression in Yemen
uri: Repression-in-Yemen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Repression_in_Yemen%29
content:
<p>
Yemeni human rights defender Abdulrasheed al-Faqih 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/06/14/yemen-prominent-human-rights-defender-arrested">keeps
getting arrested by various sides in the war there</a>.  Although they
hate each other, repression is one area where they agree.


feed_id: 8ad9e715cf1a88a3f126b91d76be7ff4
title: Privatized water supply
uri: Privatized-water-supply
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Privatized_water_supply%29
content:
<p>
In Camden, New Jersey, the water supply has been privatized.  The water company
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/06/14/camdens-privatized-water-hides-data-shut-offs">refused
to reveal how many customers' water supply it has shut off</a>.
<p>
As usual, privatization blocks accountability.  All private water
supply companies should be made into public agencies.


feed_id: 03c1f9aa3942c82a4cb45e2549ee397e
title: Neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: 2018-06-22-Neonicotinoid-pesticides
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Neonicotinoid_pesticides%29
content:
<p>
One US store chain is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/06/14/costco-releases-new-policy-limit-toxic-pesticides-protect-pollinators">encouraging
farms to avoid neonicotinoid pesticides</a>.


feed_id: dce5eb57886f14ebfb1f3eaf7bd22e6c
title: Bully's plan to imprison children
uri: Bully-s-plan-to-imprison-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Bullys_plan_to_imprison_children%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a>'s latest sadistic plan is to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/13/despicable-outrage-over-trumps-plans-tent-cities-imprison-child-migrants">imprison
thousands of children</a> in rude improvised prisons made of tents.
<p>
With so many children in prison, it will be easy to lose track of
those that have special medical needs, and easy to sweep their
suffering or deaths under the rug.
<p>
Please avoid the term "tent cities" which, as the article says,
attempts to deny that they are prisons.


feed_id: b658aa96790a0633d5b05066cd4d51af
title: Forbidding criticism of Israel
uri: Forbidding-criticism-of-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Forbidding_criticism_of_Israel%29
content:
<p>
When criticism of Israel is put off-limits by labeling it as
"antisemitism", 
<a href="https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2018-06-08/guardian-anti-semites/">real
antisemites take advantage</a> by presenting that as "evidence" that
Jews rule the world.
<p>
In fact, many Jews now criticize the occupation of Palestine, but the
most powerful US defenders of Israel's occupation practices are not
Jews.  They are Christian extremists who aim to destroy the world
(literally!) by
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#28%20August%202010%20(Don%27t%20forget%20the%20fanatical%20Christians)">making
events occur that resemble biblical prophecies</a>.  Some of them are
politically powerful because they are rich and back Republican
candidates.


feed_id: 5f7af1bfabbf5b9f085c71fb650ffd86
title: Palestinian Authority torture
uri: Palestinian-Authority-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Palestinian_Authority_torture%29
content:
<p>
Amnesty accuses the Palestinian Authority of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/15/palestinian-forces-accused-of-vicious-response-to-protests">torturing
Palestinians involved in peaceful protests</a>, as well as one of
Amnesty's staff who was monitoring events at the protest.


feed_id: fb8a656a948595e7f0990dc432efb1ba
title: Money for tearing refugee families apart
uri: Money-for-tearing-refugee-families-apart
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Money_for_tearing_refugee_families_apart%29

content:
<p>
Contractors are already making 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/15/mind-blowing-military-contractors-making-tens-millions-helping-trump-tear-families">tens
of millions of dollars</a> helping tear refugee families apart.


feed_id: abaa41eb4b597572476b8541593a4808
title: Poverty in America
uri: 2018-06-22-Poverty-in-America
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Poverty_in_America%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/15/un-report-says-us-shithole-country">Millions
of Americans live in abject poverty</a> such as we thought we had
eliminated.  Republicans are working hard at making it worse.


feed_id: 64ce1f7687c896a84a2d390c057782c9
title: Chants that promote gang violence
uri: Chants-that-promote-gang-violence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Chants_that_promote_gang_violence%29

content:
<p>
The UK has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/15/london-drill-rap-gang-banned-from-making-music-due-to-threat-of-violence">ordered
a rap group to stop</a> chanting texts that promote gang violence.
<p>
It is legitimate to stop people from inciting violence.  Where to draw
the line is the difficult question.


feed_id: 264a01272e3145f9407e7a40e221881f
title: Merger of AT&amp;T and Time Warner
uri: Merger-of-AT-T-and-Time-Warner
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Merger_of_ATT_and_Time_Warner%29
content:
<p>
The merger of AT&amp;T and Time Warner is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/15/att-time-warner-close-deal-floodgates-wide-open-corporate-mega-mergers">likely
to inspire a wave of other mergers</a> in the US.  Each merger
advantages the owners and harms the rest of society.
<p>
My 
<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/progressive-tax-on-business-gross-income.html">proposed
solution</a> is a tax designed to pressure big companies to split up.


feed_id: 87de4acede0ecbb19dafe8edb756aed3
title: Unkinder Morgan pipeline
uri: 2018-06-22-Unkinder-Morgan-pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Unkinder_Morgan_pipeline%29
content:
<p>
The former head of the Bank of Canada wants Trudeau to be ready to
<a href="">kill protesters to push the Unkinder Morgan pipeline
through</a>.  Then the pipeline's oil exports could kill a lot more
people.
<p>
Precisely because the demand for oil (and fossil fuel overall) is still
growing, the whole world is in grave danger.  We need to reduce the
supply, so as to push up the price and drive users to install
renewable energy instead.  That will reduce the demand.


feed_id: f36422a3ac148f17ea152a531c947bfb
title: The troll's lawyers
uri: The-troll-s-lawyers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28The_trolls_lawyers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://politics.theonion.com/president-s-lawyers-move-to-discredit-michael-cohen-by-1826842082">The
Onion</a>: &hellip; the president’s lawyers reportedly moved to
discredit Michael Cohen Thursday by pointing out his long history of
committing crimes for Donald Trump.


feed_id: 2f75211e853f776dd69fcbea7076b9d3
title: US immigration
uri: US-immigration
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28US_immigration%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/immigrant-child-still-hoping-to-achieve-american-dream-1826839711">The
Onion</a>: 3-year-old Honduran immigrant Luis Pereira still hopes to
achieve the American dream of someday living in a bigger, better cage.


feed_id: c5cf0c9ab1215e8e1963a70d36d66707
title: Mistreatment of Washington Post workers
uri: Mistreatment-of-Washington-Post-workers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Mistreatment_of_Washington_Post_workers%29

content:
<p>
Bezos is treating the workers at the Washington Post 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/14/how-can-worlds-richest-man-jeff-bezos-give-back-staffers-washington-post-think">like
the workers in Amazon warehouses</a>.


feed_id: 3c098853d18845e40cb670538630286a
title: Cruel treatment of refugees in Nauru
uri: Cruel-treatment-of-refugees-in-Nauru
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Cruel_treatment_of_refugees_in_Nauru%29

content:
<p>
An Iranian refugee that Australia imprisoned in Nauru in 2013 has been
begging ever since to see a psychiatrist.  Recently he had become
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jun/16/iranian-asylum-seeker-begged-for-help-i-am-suffering-intensely">too
depressed to respond</a>, and finally he killed himself.
<p>
Both Australia and Nauru are responsible for the cruel treatment of
refugees, under the principle that when A hires B to do wrong to
people, each of A and B has full moral responsibility for the wrong.
Neither one can cite the other as an excuse.
<p>
Nauru is a tyrannical state which 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#13_January_2014_(Nauru_requires_$7000_special_visas_for_journalists)">excludes
foreign journalists</a> and
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#21_October_2015_(Australian_governments_priorities)">does
not recognize rule of law</a>.
<p>
It is justified to rebel against such a regime, and that's better
than killing yourself.


feed_id: cb2a27d3996b10f0094b276852d8bffd
title: Protester faces prosecution in Vietnam
uri: Protester-faces-prosecution-in-Vietnam
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Protester_faces_prosecution_in_Vietnam%29

content:
<p>
Vietnamese-American William Nguyen faces prosecution in Vietnam 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/16/vietnam-prosecute-american-protests-william-nguyen-state-media">for
participation in a protest</a>.
<p>
Vietnam is ruled by a "Communist" government that is totally
plutocratist.


feed_id: 72ef2d05a7a387ead27f9ebd0b5c37a1
title: Plutocratist terrorism in Philippines
uri: Plutocratist-terrorism-in-Philippines
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Plutocratist_terrorism_in_Philippines%29

content:
<p>
Do-dirty is using a fight against real terrorism in the island of
Mindanao as a smokescreen for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/16/the-unassuming-australian-nun-taking-on-rodrigo-duterte">supporting
plutocratist terrorism</a>.  Mining companies are murdering peasants
or just taking their land, with the help of the official <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.
Targeted farmers are arrested then reported as "terrorists" who had
"surrendered".
<p>
When the state starts shooting "drug dealers" on the street,
that won't be limited to drug dealers.


feed_id: f13fa7cda128afd80a2a5265705384e7
title: Negotiations between US and North Korea
uri: Negotiations-between-US-and-North-Korea
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Negotiations_between_US_and_North_Korea%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/16/trump-kim-summit-analysis-north-korea">Various
views</a> of the negotiations between the US and North Korea.


feed_id: 03720628906e7d6d844cf3cb09b53448
title: Public housing in the UK
uri: Public-housing-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Public_housing_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
The best way to commemorate the people who died in the London public
housing fire a year ago is to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/14/grenfell-fire-memorial-housing-crisis-green-paper">make
enough public housing</a> in the UK.


feed_id: 2aae6c96b222833c0cd7670bb15ea663
title: Restore the 4th
uri: 2018-06-22-Restore-the-4th
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Restore_the_4th%29
content:
<p>
Restore the 4th calls on the US Senate to 
<a href="media/abe0da44.NDAA2018.pdf" data-original-source="http://restorethe4th.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/NDAA2018.pdf">eliminate
the law that authorizes imprisonment without trial</a>.


feed_id: 66dc99cc9cc66b077b3bcfa868d41edf
title: Legalization of abortion
uri: Legalization-of-abortion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28Legalization_of_abortion%29
content:
<p>
Argentina's Chamber of Deputies has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/14/argentina-congress-vote-legalise-abortion">passed
a bill</a> to legalize abortion.  Now it goes to the senate.


feed_id: 7d66b8512d4397f9fdd867ec26d7b66b
title: Urgent: Family separation policy
uri: Urgent-Family-separation-policy
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Family_separation_policy%29

content:
<p>
In the US: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/19/mass-mobilization-planned-june-30-protest-trumps-cruel-separation-families">protest on June 30</a> against the sadist's family separation policy.


feed_id: 86dc9191f684228c081416dd57f141cc
title: Urgent: Families at the US border
uri: Urgent-Families-at-the-US-border
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Families_at_the_US_border%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/no_family_separation/">Call on the Department of Harshness and Sadism</a> to desist
from separating families at the US border.


feed_id: 46b440a27f5e51daa16cac6f4142e981
title: Temporal bandwidth
uri: Temporal-bandwidth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Temporal_bandwidth%29
content:
<p>
"To survive our high-speed society, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/16/temporal-bandwith-social-media-alan-jacobs">cultivate 'temporal bandwidth'</a>."
<p>
Note the curious opposition between this advice and other advice
to "live for today" and "focus on the present."


feed_id: 1b0353c5a7c1f5bbc5e494009715014d
title: Glass-Steagall Act
uri: 2018-06-22-Glass-Steagall-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Glass-Steagall_Act%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/16/case-glass-steagall-act-ganesh-sitaraman">Several reasons why</a> the US needs to bring back the Glass-Steagall Act
in its strongest form.
<p>
Businesses constantly pressure to weaken and then eliminate the
regulations that protect the public from their power.  We need to
elect candidates that don't feel a need to assuage their calculated
dissatisfaction; who are ready to answer them with "Tough," or "Go
jump in the lake!"  Saying that in a polite guise is ok, provided it
is no less firm.


feed_id: 3f1c232341d5c39fc76e692c5cfbe51d
title: Marijuana oil
uri: Marijuana-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Marijuana_oil%29
content:
<p>
The UK's minister in charge <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/16/billy-caldwells-mother-hopeful-of-cannabis-medicine-licence">made a special exception</a> to allow a child
to have the marijuana oil that is the only effective treatment for his
epilepsy.
<p>
His mother <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/17/mother-of-boy-whose-cannabis-oil-was-seized-pushes-for-legalisation">demands a general policy change</a> rather than a special
personal exception.


feed_id: 000da77a38cd275d0f67f67791f19805
title: Amritsar massacre files
uri: Amritsar-massacre-files
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Amritsar_massacre_files%29
content:
<p>
A court ordered the UK government <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/16/british-government-ordered-to-open-amritsar-massacre-files">to publish its files</a> about the 1984
Amritsar massacre to show whether the UK government was involved.


feed_id: 482180df26c71f8f4e853bdb0d53dae2
title: Communication in China
uri: Communication-in-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Communication_in_China%29
content:
<p>
In China, outright censorship is used together with other methods to "manage"
communication so that it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/16/how-china-censors-internet-information">becomes useless for dissent</a>.


feed_id: 17c3de16e7e42d142ed8c486af154dff
title: Facebook's answers
uri: Facebook-s-answers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Facebook%27s_answers%29
content:
<p>
Facebook answered senators' questions with 500 pages, but <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/facebook-wont-promise-to-share-post-cambridge-analytica-investigation-results/">parts of it
are doubletalk</a>.


feed_id: 54c958e9ade22b6cbd40b634636812ad
title: Save ignorance from AI
uri: Save-ignorance-from-AI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Save_ignorance_from_AI%29
content:
<p>
We Need to <a href="http://nautil.us/issue/61/coordinates/we-need-to-save-ignorance-from-ai">Save Ignorance From AI</a>.
<p>
This is another reason to limit the design of systems so that they
don't collect so much data about people.


feed_id: 165f882d11a2a79c65fdd6ac0f84ddb8
title: Designing city streets
uri: Designing-city-streets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Designing_city_streets%29
content:
<p>
Designing city streets primarily for cars leads to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/14/canada-toronto-cycling-pedestrian-deaths-cars">many kinds of problems</a>
for the city's inhabitants.
<p>
I mostly agree with the article, but I disagree on one point: lowering
speed limits.  Most people need a way to get around the city quickly.
That can be cars, or it can be buses; but if all vehicles are required
to move slowly, neither cars nor buses can do the job.
<p>
I don't mention metro trains because few cities have developed trains
to the point where they are almost sufficient without buses.  The only
ones I know that come close are Paris and Tokyo.  Most cities can't afford
to try to develop a train network that can get everywhere buses go.


feed_id: 252a3279ef5286b40b89bc7a65cb51d5
title: British and German copyright history
uri: British-and-German-copyright-history
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28British_and_German_copyright_history%29

content:
<p>
In the 1800s, British publishers armed with copyright made books into
luxury goods, while German publishers with no copyright system made books
available to all.  Counter to what the copyright lobby pretends, this led
to far more books' being published in Germany.  This <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/no-copyright-law-the-real-reason-for-germany-s-industrial-expansion-a-710976.html">made education
available in Germany</a> to people that couldn't have afforded it in Britain.


feed_id: d9ba547ced8e188b4f1bac179f8c04d6
title: Military draft in the US
uri: Military-draft-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Military_draft_in_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Attacking Iran could be an opportunity/excuse to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/15/boys-go-baghdad-real-men-go-tehran">reimpose the military draft</a>
in the US.
<p>
Young Americans should start organizing now, against the draft and
against attacking Iran.


feed_id: 05c5132aed508cab67a2e253e7afba3e
title: Peace in Korea
uri: Peace-in-Korea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Peace_in_Korea%29
content:
<p>
The US establishment <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/15/pundits-worry-threat-nuclear-war-being-reduced">rejects the idea of peace</a> in Korea unless it is achieved
through the total submission of North Korea.
<p>
As I see it, avoiding nuclear war with the repressive nuclear-armed
North Korean regime is important progress, just as avoiding nuclear
war with the repressive nuclear-armed Soviet regime was important
progress.
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/15/progressives-denounce-democratic-senators-trying-keep-trump-permanent-war-footing">Progressives Denounce Democratic Senators</a> for Trying to Keep Trump on a
'Permanent War Footing' in Korea.


feed_id: ac3d6c13c30c96ace2e30440902a4c0c
title: Establishment Democrats on Korea
uri: Establishment-Democrats-on-Korea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Establishment_Democrats_on_Korea%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/14/everybody-especially-congressional-democrats-take-deep-breath-and-follow-presidents">Some establishment Democrats</a> are highly unhappy with the idea of peace
in the Korean peninsula.
<p>
South Korean President Moon could guide things to a good outcome.


feed_id: e1184e9da1693d96240893dad32302fd
title: Income inequality
uri: 2018-06-22-Income-inequality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Income_inequality%29
content:
<p>
"Income inequality isn't the defining social issue of our time because
your neighbor bought a slightly bigger house or nicer car than you
did. It's because multi-millionaires and billionaires are competing
for slightly bigger mega-yachts <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/14/just-how-rich-are-ultra-rich">while our friends &hellip; plead for
help</a> with basic medical expenses."


feed_id: ac3c03e3145a30e17c26ac640eae9ed3
title: Cameras with public feeds
uri: Cameras-with-public-feeds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Cameras_with_public_feeds%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> in Newark, New Jersey, have set up cameras in public places and made
the feeds <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/09/nyregion/newark-surveillance-cameras-police.html">available to everyone</a>.  They invite everyone to watch everyone else.
<p>
This is even worse for privacy than if only the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are watching.
(And they are, of course &mdash; and surely saving the recordings
permanently.)


feed_id: 31e9f8a1c31b0ab7441e90c5f09271c9
title: System for welfare benefits
uri: System-for-welfare-benefits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28System_for_welfare_benefits%29
content:
<p>
The UK's high tech unified system for welfare benefits <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/15/universal-credit-colossal-catastrophe-national-audit-office">is a catastrophe</a>
for the people it is supposed to serve.
<p>
Secondarily, it fails to deliver the efficiency improvements that it
was supposed to provide.  Not that operating efficiency could justify
cutting people's benefits so that they go hungry or become homeless.


feed_id: bac5ae27ba8218e109eab4d74c098eec
title: Urgent: GMO labels
uri: Urgent-GMO-labels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_GMO_labels%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.foodandwaterwatch.org/act/gmo-label-comments">oppose
cute smiley-face labels</a> for GMOs.


feed_id: 62d0f736a00744e06ec779fdb27c6c36
title: Urgent: Protect wildlife
uri: 2018-06-23-Urgent-Protect-wildlife
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Protect_wildlife%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3339">call
on Congress</a> to protect wildlife in the farm bill.


feed_id: 7f5a054fcd1a109dacec6a592409abff
title: Urgent: Oppose mining near Yellowstone
uri: Urgent-Oppose-mining-near-Yellowstone
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_mining_near_Yellowstone%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/yellowstone_mining">Oppose
mining right next to Yellowstone</a>.  The mines' pollution won't stop
at the boundary of the park.


feed_id: 177d1690771c45cfd824d17b2e3a6013
title: New system for rigging elections
uri: New-system-for-rigging-elections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28New_system_for_rigging_elections%29
content:
<p>
There is a new system in Mexico for rigging elections: 
<a href="http://wp.telesurtv.net/english/news/Mexican-Mayoral-Candidate-Becomes-Murder-Victim-Number-114-20180615-0013.html">assassinating
candidates</a>.  Over 100 candidates have been assassinated in the
current election campaign.


feed_id: efc1bc2042ce5cd4c3a2b22b86f8ff2b
title: Americans own 40 percent of world's guns
uri: Americans-own-40-percent-of-world-s-guns
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Americans_own_40_percent_of_worlds_guns%29

content:
<p>
Americans own 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jun/18/civilians-own-85-per-cent-of-world-1-billion-firearms-survey-reveals">40%
of the world's guns</a>.


feed_id: cc5ef45cb3478cf9207957a962163577
title: Salafi Arabia and US reject cease-fire
uri: Salafi-Arabia-and-US-reject-cease-fire
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Salafi_Arabia_and_US_reject_cease-fire%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> and the US 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/18/yemen-crisis-saudi-coalition-demands-houthis-unconditional-withdrawal-from-port">rejected
a cease-fire plan for Hodeidah based on placing it under UN
control</a>.  They seem to be dead-set on killing lots of Yemenis.


feed_id: cb95bcf2be00327a6fffe68fb9a03d59
title: War on drugs
uri: 2018-06-23-War-on-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28War_on_drugs%29
content:
<p>
The UK minister allowed epileptic boy Billy Caldwell to have marijuana oil
as a special exception, but 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/18/drug-laws-epilepsy-cannabis-oil-billy-caldwell-sajid-javid">only
for three weeks</a>.  After that, his illness will be untreated again.
<p>
At least the minister 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/18/billy-caldwell-jeremy-hunt-review-of-cannabis-oil-law">wants
to change the law</a>.
<p>
The "war on drugs" creates a dynamic in which politicians compete to
be the "toughest".  Therefore they bend over backwards to do harm.
I'm glad the policy might be changed in this one narrow area, but that
is not enough.


feed_id: 4041d8cf3fb57df3c4334c53f653c334
title: Access to clean water
uri: Access-to-clean-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Access_to_clean_water%29
content:
<p>
Increasing numbers of poor people around the world 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jun/18/are-we-running-out-of-water">don't
have access to clean water</a>, but the cost of solving this problem
would not be very much if the rich were not grabbing ever more of the
world's wealth.


feed_id: fb3a855c0804bfea9ef7ea97ac02f249
title: US military assistance to dictatorships
uri: US-military-assistance-to-dictatorships
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28US_military_assistance_to_dictatorships%29

content:
<p>
US Provides Military Assistance to 
<a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-provides-military-assistance-to-73-percent-of-world-s-dictatorships/">73
Percent of World’s Dictatorships</a>.
<p>
The article's doubt that Russia is a dictatorship seems to indicate
bias, but the statistics are surely correct.


feed_id: 53e50bb2496993b35c2eff19b7817707
title: Separation of children from parents
uri: Separation-of-children-from-parents
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Separation_of_children_from_parents%29

content:
<p>
"Nazis separated me from my parents as a child. 
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/18/separation-children-parents-families-us-border-trump'>The
trauma lasts a lifetime</a>."
<p>
The sadist sponsors Nazis today; no wonder he acts like one.


feed_id: 923da17abbe1fbfce4f14a3857e793b3
title: Bid to unseat Erdo&gbreve;an
uri: Bid-to-unseat-Erdo-gbreve-an
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Bid_to_unseat_Erdogan%29
content:
<p>
Turkey's Islamists And Secularists Join Forces in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/18/turkey-islamists-and-secularists-join-forces-in-bid-to-unseat-erdogan">Bid
to Unseat Erdo&gbreve;an</a>.


feed_id: ef7322b93f7aae727b96e4f0a64f9ab7
title: Global heating and flooding
uri: Global-heating-and-flooding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Global_heating_and_flooding%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/17/sea-level-rise-impact-us-coastal-homes-study-climate-change">300,000
houses in the US</a> will suffer frequent flooding due to global
heating in just the next 30 years.


feed_id: 1f56312b7bfe716d5db9b5590baf19b7
title: Denying asylum to those fleeing violence
uri: Denying-asylum-to-those-fleeing-violence
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Denying_asylum_to_those_fleeing_violence%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> Sessions has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/16/jeff-sessions-political-bias-hiring-immigration-judges">decided
to deny asylum</a> to people fleeing from the violence of gangs and
spouses.
<p>
He has already corrupted the immigration hearings by giving judges
quotas that are incompatible with giving any real attention to each
case.


feed_id: e16fe5c426f25e7fd8d89491280f1bc8
title: EU regulation of agriculture
uri: EU-regulation-of-agriculture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28EU_regulation_of_agriculture%29
content:
<p>
A campaign launched by &mdash; amazingly &mdash; the supermarket chain
Carrefour has 
<a href="http://www.fruitnet.com/eurofruit/article/175783/carrefour-campaign-prompts-eu-rule-change">made
the EU pull back</a> from the strict regulation that kept many
varieties of vegetables and fruits out of agriculture.
<p>
Activists have been campaigning against this regulation for years, but
their voice was not heeded.


feed_id: 7c0854a4c574611e4f85a7e5562fcdf2
title: Uber pushing people to suicide
uri: Uber-pushing-people-to-suicide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Uber_pushing_people_to_suicide%29
content:
<p>
Uber is 
<a href="http://amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2018/06/16/new-york-cab-driver-suicide-uber">pushing
taxi drivers to suicide</a>.
<p>
Don't be a customer for Uber!


feed_id: 1e7786bb5b05b3228659b7658178b947
title: Troll's concentration camps for children
uri: Troll-s-concentration-camps-for-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Trolls_concentration_camps_for_children%29

content:
<p>
The sadist may have gone too far, 
<a href="https://www.politicususa.com/2018/06/17/trumps-child-concentration-camps-may-destroy-gop-in-midterms.html">building
concentration camps for thousands of children</a>.
<p>
Taking children away from their parents to punish the parents is a
<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/taking-children-from-their-parents-is-a-form-of-state-terror">form
of terrorism</a> &mdash; it is hostage-taking.  Putin is already using
that tactic.  I wonder if the sadist got the idea from him.
<p>
The workers who are supposed to "care for" these child hostages are
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/06/16/america-is-better-than-this-what-a-doctor-saw-in-a-texas-shelter-for-migrant-children/">forbidden
to touch them</a>.
<p>
Is this an intentional plan to maximize the terror by causing them
maximum permanent damage?  I am sure the sadist's advisers know what
happens to children who don't get held and stroked.  They will suffer
for years, perhaps for their whole lives.
<p>
Supporters of the sadist have a new slogan: "Save the fetuses, torture
the children!"  Not that they really care about fetuses; that's just
an excuse for making other women and children suffer.
<p>
Under the principle of necessity, violence would be legally justified
to rescue those children and reunite them with their parents -- if
that is the only way to do it.


feed_id: 4ac99916fc2516989397459e9022bf83
title: US case against "Kill List"
uri: US-case-against-Kill-List
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28US_case_against_Kill_List%29
content:
<p>
Can US Government 'Secretly Plot to Assassinate' Americans Without Due
Process? Judge Says No, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/14/can-us-government-secretly-plot-assassinate-americans-without-due-process-judge-says">Allowing
Case Against 'Kill List' to Proceed</a>.


feed_id: e25ba3684b6850e992095f8cfbd49578
title: Warner media conglomerate
uri: Warner-media-conglomerate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Warner_media_conglomerate%29
content:
<p>
The Warner media conglomerate that owns Harry Potter 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/16/harry-potter-warner-bros-wizard-fan-festivals">crushed
fan conventions with legal threats</a>.
<p>
The company was not legally compelled to do this: it was a choice, and
Warner chose to be nasty, motivated by greed.  In moral terms, greed
is not an excuse for an action that is nasty.  Morally, Warner has no
excuse.
<p>
I still maintain the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/harry-potter.html">boycott against buying Harry Potter
products</a> (including books), and I hope that this new act of
aggression towards fans diminishes their inclination to buy those
products.


feed_id: 814e793c084ced8da59b269fa739c425
title: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
uri: The-Universal-Declaration-of-Human-Rights
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28The_Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights%29

content:
<p>
Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/16/we-need-reclaim-uns-radical-vision-global-economic-justice">everyone
has the right to food, housing, healthcare, and vital social
services</a>.  Governments reject the idea that people can enforce
this right, but they could instead uphold it.


feed_id: 62fe833493e6e783e0bedcbb22d07bfd
title: Trump family foundation
uri: Trump-family-foundation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Trump_family_foundation%29
content:
<p>
New York State has sued to close the Trump family foundation
for 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/14/persistently-illegal-conduct-new-york-ags-lawsuit-demands-trump-foundation-be">persistent
violation of the laws for "charitable" foundations</a>.


feed_id: d1adb57bab7ecb936982fc55e8f9add9
title: Leaders of campaign to take UK out of EU
uri: Leaders-of-campaign-to-take-UK-out-of-EU
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Leaders_of_campaign_to_take_UK_out_of_EU%29

content:
<p>
The leaders of the campaign to take the UK out of the EU coordinated
with the Russian government, and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/16/arron-banks-nigel-farage-leave-brexit-russia-connection">lied
about it</a>.


feed_id: 21eca4da396d2ca4668998ba79075f6d
title: Showing ID to connect to internet
uri: Showing-ID-to-connect-to-internet
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Showing_ID_to_connect_to_internet%29

content:
<p>
A Tory minister 
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2018/06/11/authoritarian-britain.html">proposes
to force people to show ID</a> to connect to the internet in any
public place in the UK.
<p>
If you are in the UK, please tell your MP that you hate this idea.


feed_id: eccb4f2abfe4436007396a4ca6c2693d
title: Press implicitly supports troll
uri: Press-implicitly-supports-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Press_implicitly_supports_troll%29
content:
<p>
The press gives the bullshitter implicit support by 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/13/how-to-report-trump-media-manipulation-language">repeating
the terms he uses</a> to frame issues his way.
<p>
This article, by George Lakoff who deeply understands the matter, also
recommends ways to resist this manipulation.  My practice of rejecting
words that frame issues in ways I don't support is one of those ways.
<p>
This also shows why it is so important to talk about 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html">"free/libre
software"</a> and avoid the terms "open" and "closed".


feed_id: 88c758eb717d913f3243ca9040033b6d
title: US thug departments and camera drones
uri: US-thug-departments-and-camera-drones
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28US_thug_departments_and_camera_drones%29

content:
<p>
US <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> departments are now being offered camera drones that 
<a href="https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2018/06/drone-surveillance-state/148832/">feed
AI programs that are supposed to detect violent attacks</a>.
<p>
If they really only detect crimes of violence, this wouldn't bother me
too much.  I fear they will be used also to track people who are not
committing crimes of violence on the street.


feed_id: fc102085ba509431495768e6a71688de
title: Refugees' rights
uri: Refugees-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Refugees_rights%29
content:
<p>
The US border <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are systematically denying refugees the right to
apply for asylum at the border, by 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/16/immigration-border-asylum-central-america/">refusing
to let them into the border checkpoint</a>.  Each time they try, they
are told "come back later", day after day.  The agents say that there
is no room to process refugees, but facts show this is bullshit.  They
back down when someone is taking notes.


feed_id: 90440a21f604d37e6fa6c33b8ae5718a
title: Short-term burden of refugees
uri: Short-term-burden-of-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28Short-term_burden_of_refugees%29
content:
<p>
If the European Union does not develop a way to share the short-term
burden of refugees, it is likely to fall into the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/17/observer-view-europe-migration-policy-populism-rescue-ship-aquarius">politics
of the armed lifeboat</a>.


feed_id: b312d092ed1f1ab4d6ed0086fa973870
title: NHS funding under Tories
uri: NHS-funding-under-Tories
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#22_June_2018_%28NHS_funding_under_Tories%29
content:
<p>
The Tories say they will put more money into the NHS, but say 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/17/theresa-may-nhs-funding-budget-rise-brexit">nothing
sensible about where the money will come from</a>.
<p>
The only place it really can come from is the rich, but the Tories
don't want to tax the rich, so I think they might end up not
really putting the extra money into the NHS.


feed_id: 85979c55bb6aa1ee75c3b48d232d27bf
title: Urgent: Discharge petition for net neutrality
uri: Urgent-Discharge-petition-for-net-neutrality
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#23_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Discharge_petition_for_net_neutrality%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.freepress.net/sign/open_letter_support_nn_cra/">call on Representatives</a> to use a discharge petition and
vote for network neutrality.


feed_id: 163d38b4e97741607301cd769fa8e1e6
title: Urgent: Nielsen should resign
uri: Urgent-Nielsen-should-resign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#23_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Nielsen_should_resign%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/nielsen-resign">call on Nielsen</a>, head of the Department of Harshness and Sadism,
to resign.


feed_id: 4a917d773b8c6dc8f9f227faa6b295e4
title: Polish judges
uri: Polish-judges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#23_June_2018_%28Polish_judges%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/19/theyre-trying-to-break-me-polish-judges-face-state-led-intimidation">Polish judges describe</a> the government's attacks on their independence.


feed_id: 712dbf55071f27cfb5b6f16bd3a51198
title: Fleeing war or persecution
uri: Fleeing-war-or-persecution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#23_June_2018_%28Fleeing_war_or_persecution%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jun/19/record-68-million-people-flee-war-persecution-un">Record 68.5 Million People</a> Fleeing War Or Persecution Worldwide.


feed_id: b49990937bd0a3998d1e1523a63c4692
title: Great climate hoax
uri: Great-climate-hoax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#23_June_2018_%28Great_climate_hoax%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/19/james-hansen-nasa-scientist-climate-change-warning">James Hansen warns</a> of the great climate hoax: governments that pretend
they are taking adequate steps to protect civilization and nature
from <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> disaster.


feed_id: 2f38afce2239e8e2f64f1ea95474d087
title: Distraction with tweets
uri: Distraction-with-tweets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#23_June_2018_%28Distraction_with_tweets%29
content:
<p>
Daily coverage of the bullshitter's latest tweets <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/18/we-get-it-trump-awful">is a distraction</a>
from the right-wing activities of the Democratic Party establishment.


feed_id: 17a1d564a6d2c2b4559396f730fcdde5
title: Genital recognition software
uri: Genital-recognition-software
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#23_June_2018_%28Genital_recognition_software%29
content:
<p>
The Onion:  Onion Social announces the very
first-of-its-kind <a href="https://www.theonion.com/onion-social-ceo-we-re-proud-to-announce-the-first-ge-1826907537">genital recognition software</a>.


feed_id: 7686fc22628e9a135ff6f53f6e70c281
title: Flooding of US homes
uri: Flooding-of-US-homes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#23_June_2018_%28Flooding_of_US_homes%29
content:
<p>
By 2100, over 2 million homes in the US <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/06/18/25-million-homes-businesses-totaling-1-trillion-threatened-high-tide-flooding">may become unusable</a> due to
regular flooding caused by <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a>.
<p>
The article focuses on the consequent decrease in property tax revenue,
which is worrying about the tail instead of the dog.


feed_id: bbf766230ee38d62b1cc5ce2ec54d646
title: Hopelessness of poverty
uri: Hopelessness-of-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#23_June_2018_%28Hopelessness_of_poverty%29
content:
<p>
Under the hopelessness and stress of poverty in the US today, you
almost need to be a superman to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/18/what-does-poverty-feel">make a long-term plan</a> to better your
own life.
Everything is stacked against you, and you know it.


feed_id: 9dd0231b31a58d12a3e95f07c8d827f5
title: DHS lying to Congress
uri: DHS-lying-to-Congress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#23_June_2018_%28DHS_lying_to_Congress%29
content:
<p>
The head of the Department of Harshness and Sadism <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/18/heinous-lie-trump-dhs-secretary-denies-existence-family-separation-policy">told a
Congressional hearing</a> that the department was not taking children away
from their parents.
<p>
Lying blatantly directly to Congress is an escalation in the general
policy of bullshitting.  The US system of government is based on the
assumption that checks and balances will limit lying.  Now that
Republicans in Congress permit, even encourage officials to lie to
their faces, the system is breaking down.


feed_id: 84e2b4ea6bffbf72d26086aa89a56d6c
title: Greece and the banksters
uri: Greece-and-the-banksters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#23_June_2018_%28Greece_and_the_banksters%29
content:
<p>
Greece has surrendered to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/18/eu-eurozone-braces-for-row-with-greece-over-bailout-exit-terms">another round of economic crushing</a> by the
Euro zone <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bankster">banksters</a>, in exchange for more loans that it won't be able
to pay back.


feed_id: 97ae491e6512537428561177ec5f0e11
title: Ignoring security warnings
uri: Ignoring-security-warnings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#23_June_2018_%28Ignoring_security_warnings%29
content:
<p>
MRI studies show that users quickly learn
to <a href="https://boingboing.net/2018/06/15/attentional-tragic-commons.html">stop
seeing security warnings</a>.  They ignore the warnings at an
unconscious level, so they do not become consciously aware of the
warnings.


feed_id: 1b3b47994e8a017e2f38099678741b52
title: Copyright censorship system
uri: 2018-06-23-Copyright-censorship-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#23_June_2018_%28Copyright_censorship_system%29
content:
<p>
The copyright censorship system that the EU is on the verge of adopting <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180614/13211740041/un-free-speech-expert-eus-copyright-directive-would-be-attack-free-speech-violate-human-rights.shtml">would
directly violate</a> the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
<p>
Please don't follow those writers in referring to works people want to
publish as "content".  The term <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content">disparages those works</a>.


feed_id: ea26dde5dd2d30e3aa9f2f072da08206
title: Shape of the US economy
uri: Shape-of-the-US-economy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#23_June_2018_%28Shape_of_the_US_economy%29
content:
<p>
Plutocrats say the US economy is in "great shape".  That's true
&mdash; <a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvnmj5/people-cant-pay-rent-debt-is-insane-and-the-economy-is-somehow-great">for plutocrats only</a>.
<p>
The US now has "jobs for everyone", but the pay is so bad you need to
work <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/18/jobs-everyone-fantasy">two full-time jobs</a> to support yourself.


feed_id: dfa25ead698d9c04a829533615edf369
title: FBI threatens democracy and dissent
uri: FBI-threatens-democracy-and-dissent
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28FBI_threatens_democracy_and_dissent%29

content:
<p>
The FBI poses a threat to democracy and dissent, and its history is
<a href="https://reason.com/archives/2018/06/19/after-the-ig-report-lets-kill-the-fbi-wh">hardly
one of acting professionally and honestly</a>.
<p>
I think we need an organization to investigate organized crime, which
we should understand as including crimes of companies such as stealing
wages and cheating customers.  But perhaps we should make a new one
which would stay away from dissident groups.


feed_id: 458e30e0a13df91115a70f0ea4b833d6
title: Audi CEO arrested
uri: Audi-CEO-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Audi_CEO_arrested%29
content:
<p>
The CEO of Audi, a division of Volkswagen, has been 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/18/audi-chief-arrested-germany-diesel-rupert-stadler">arrested
over his involvement with the emissions test fraud software</a>.


feed_id: a58d142299539cc2ef84ce27b28a09a3
title: Pharma companies and sale of antibiotics
uri: Pharma-companies-and-sale-of-antibiotics
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Pharma_companies_and_sale_of_antibiotics%29

content:
<p>
Pharma companies make around 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/19/how-much-does-big-pharma-make-from-animal-antibiotics">5
billion dollars a year from antibiotics for farm animals</a>.  This is
the size of the lobby we will need to defeat in order to protect our
lives from resistant bacteria.
<p>
We must eliminate the supposed "duty" of corporation executives to
subordinate everything more important to maximizing their profit.
This "duty" 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/19/how-much-does-big-pharma-make-from-animal-antibiotics">was
not accepted until around 1980</a>.


feed_id: f01d7d289e0cf18deb8e61b97a9ae33c
title: Synthetic biology
uri: Synthetic-biology
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Synthetic_biology%29
content:
<p>
Synthetic biology could make it easy to create
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/19/urgent-need-to-prepare-for-manmade-virus-attacks-says-us-government-report">deadly
artificial disease bacteria and viruses</a>.  Public health systems
are not ready to cope with them.


feed_id: a8f14c653c200851dafa0365be46c4b7
title: Pharma company marketing campaign
uri: Pharma-company-marketing-campaign
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Pharma_company_marketing_campaign%29

content:
<p>
A pharma company is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/19/animal-antibiotics-calm-down-about-your-chicken-says-big-pharma">running
a deceptive marketing campaign</a> saying not to worry about feeding
antibiotics to animals raised for meat.
<p>
The deception is that it correctly denies an imaginary problem and
ignores the real one &mdash; breeding drug-resistant bacteria.


feed_id: c22b109d1c67783d1ed3dceb6bea9038
title: US unsafe for refugees
uri: US-unsafe-for-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28US_unsafe_for_refugees%29
content:
<p>
Canada 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/19/canada-safe-third-country-policy-us-no-longer-safe">must
cancel</a> its designation of the US as a "safe country" for refugees.


feed_id: 6f773e1cfd387d5fea9f403f361d12a1
title: Overuse of antibiotics in agriculture
uri: Overuse-of-antibiotics-in-agriculture
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Overuse_of_antibiotics_in_agriculture%29

content:
<p>
Chinese agriculture uses far more antibiotics than US agriculture, but
at least the government is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/19/can-china-kick-its-animal-antibiotic-habit">trying
to reduce it</a>.
<p>
The US government is unable to defy agribusiness that much.


feed_id: 6e737679c0aac7ffeee6f5c9b5d2b61a
title: Today's US
uri: Today-s-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Todays_US%29
content:
<p>
If you're not a US citizen and you're not in desperate trouble
somewhere else, why would you want to live in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/19/is-it-time-for-me-and-other-expats-to-leave-the-us">today's
US</a>?


feed_id: 4281fa38bfb3958e2132d2bd2620242c
title: Solar power development in UK
uri: Solar-power-development-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Solar_power_development_in_UK%29
content:
<p>
The Tories are very effectively 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/19/uk-solar-power-growth-halves-for-second-year-running">cutting
solar power development</a> in the UK.


feed_id: be80ccef5cb6547ca01317bd63273734
title: Unkinder Morgan pipeline
uri: 2018-06-24-Unkinder-Morgan-pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Unkinder_Morgan_pipeline%29
content:
<p>
The planned Pacific Ocean terminal of the Unkinder Morgan pipeline is
in a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2018/jun/19/salish-sea-pipeline-indigenous-salish-sea-canada-trans-mountain">port
reached through a narrow passage</a>.  Accidents and spills are almost
guaranteed, and just one would pollute the for decades.
<p>
However, the danger to the world as a whole is even worse.


feed_id: 3c9369403d1049598f48387a829a046c
title: Gay Pride parade corporation "sponsorship"
uri: Gay-Pride-parade-corporation-sponsorship
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Gay_Pride_parade_corporation_sponsorship%29

content:
<p>
The Gay Pride parade in London has gone in for corporation "sponsorship" to the
point that it 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/19/gay-people-muslim-heritage-pride-london-march">celebrates
capitalism more than anything else</a>.


feed_id: f59e7b566eab60d486e374dc7718c246
title: Fascist frenzy in Italy
uri: Fascist-frenzy-in-Italy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Fascist_frenzy_in_Italy%29
content:
<p>
The fascist frenzy in Italy against immigrant 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/19/italy-war-migrants-fear-civil-rights">threatens
the human rights of everyone in Italy</a>.
<p>
I can imagine Italian <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> eagerly awaiting an opportunity to frame
and beat up protesters,
<a href="https://stallman.org/genoa-experience.html">as they did in Genoa in 2000</a>.


feed_id: 3bffefda4c78117f9e5c66755a48979c
title: Sessions
uri: Sessions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Sessions%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://politics.theonion.com/jeff-sessions-argues-family-separations-only-happening-1826925577">The
Onion</a>: "Simply put, I am forced to tear kids away from their
parents, because I am legally prohibited from throttling immigrants
until their bodies go limp," said Sessions.


feed_id: a1ef4b633b4c0446cb36c9093079e911
title: Urgent: Oppose overuse of antibiotics
uri: Urgent-Oppose-overuse-of-antibiotics
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_overuse_of_antibiotics%29

content:
<p>
Everyone: 
<a href="https://masspirg.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=27346&uid=1985639">Call
on McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's</a> to reject meat from animals
regularly fed antibiotics.
<p>
This petition does not work with JavaScript totally disabled, but does
work with LibreJS active &mdash; it evidently needs some free or
trivial JavaScript code.  However, it might also contain some nonfree,
nontrivial JavaScript code that isn't necessary to sign.


feed_id: 07c43c6aef61886e30fb6a97ff3c96df
title: Urgent: Oppose Keystone XL pipeline
uri: 2018-06-25-Urgent-Oppose-Keystone-XL-pipeline
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Oppose_Keystone_XL_pipeline%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: 
<a href="https://act.climatetruth.org/sign/stopkxl">file a public
comment</a> against building the Keystone XL pipeline.
<p>
Extraction of Alberta tar sands oil is extremely polluting, both
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html#20%20February%202011%20(Tar%20sand%20mining%20harms%20US)">locally</a> and 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#16_November_2017_(Tar_sands)">globally</a>.


feed_id: dc945e597e32a605543492def32316df
title: Asbestos companies
uri: Asbestos-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Asbestos_companies%29
content:
<p>
ALEC is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/19/alecs-deadly-asbestos-agenda-benefits-koch-industries-nationwide">trying
to stop Americans dying from asbestos from winning in court</a>
against the companies that made the asbestos.
<p>
Perhaps this wouldn't matter so much if the US had a universal medical
system.  As things stand, those people need to sue to get funds for
their medical care.


feed_id: b8cf1889233a83ffbb717d232b97ee61
title: When Israeli soldiers shoot protesters
uri: When-Israeli-soldiers-shoot-protesters
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28When_Israeli_soldiers_shoot_protesters%29

content:
<p>
Israel 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/19/fallacy-israels-human-shields-claims-gaza">says
that Gazans are child-murderers</a> for bringing children to peaceful
protests where Israeli soldiers might shoot them.


feed_id: 7234f8f6b84548900ba5b763c6438a59
title: Saboteur Zinke
uri: Saboteur-Zinke
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Saboteur_Zinke%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#saboteur">Saboteur</a> Zinke is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/19/outrageous-and-unprecedented-ethical-violation-alarm-bells-over-zinke-foundation">making
rules to benefit a company headed by his wife</a>.


feed_id: 82d5fd786e2b3ac3a3d0300f8750ae57
title: SCROTUS wants cuts to aid programs
uri: SCROTUS-wants-cuts-to-aid-programs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28SCROTUS_wants_cuts_to_aid_programs%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> want to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and other
aid programs by 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/19/morally-bankrupt-after-tax-cuts-richest-house-gop-unveils-54-trillion-attack-nations">500
billion dollars a year</a>.


feed_id: fc4bbaf5effe8f6fb4c4a6ae255ff802
title: Fox News
uri: Fox-News
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Fox_News%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/tucker-carlson-angrily-explains-difference-between-good-1826962089">The
Onion</a>: Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson used the opening segment of
his show Tuesday to angrily explain the difference between a good baby
and a bad baby.


feed_id: 00c1cc5a1c6d0f9ae8f32f94ee573fa2
title: ICE
uri: 2018-06-25-ICE
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28ICE%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/ms-13-gang-leader-getting-some-pretty-great-ideas-from-1826961586">The
Onion</a>: MS-13 gang leader Edwin Manica Flores admitted Tuesday that
observing ICE's work in recent weeks has provided him with quite a bit
of inspiration.


feed_id: fd8cef20f5eb47fd5e04c307ea0171d0
title: Deportation of refugee parents
uri: Deportation-of-refugee-parents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Deportation_of_refugee_parents%29
content:
<p>
The US government is deporting refugee parents without their children,
and they
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/17/us/immigration-deported-parents.html">don't
have a way to get their children back</a>.


feed_id: 49dbcef419dceffe94cc7610e7f62e78
title: Australia shifting money to the rich
uri: Australia-shifting-money-to-the-rich
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Australia_shifting_money_to_the_rich%29

content:
<p>
Australia's right-wing government is shifting money to the rich by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jun/21/australia-cant-afford-tax-cuts-say-unions-as-coalition-seals-143bn-package">cutting
taxes on business</a>.  It is pretending that this will "trickle
down", but we know that is bullshit, just as it was when Reagan said
it.


feed_id: b3513933ac61002fa09104bbfa98054c
title: Offshore tax-dodging companies
uri: Offshore-tax-dodging-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Offshore_tax-dodging_companies%29
content:
<p>
Mossack Fonseca, which supported tax-dodging, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/20/panama-papers-firm-mossack-fonseca-did-not-know-who-75-of-its-clients-were">did
not even know the names of most of its clients</a>.
<p>
Making offshore companies identify their owners will help reduce
tax-dodging, but individual countries can implement a complete
solution by ending the deductibility of payments to companies that
don't entirely satisfy certain requirements.
<p>
That is, they can do this unless 
<a href="https://stallman.org/business-supremacy-treaties.html">business-supremacy
treaties</a> get in the way.  If so, they should pull out of those
treaties, which do harm in many ways.


feed_id: 16440bbe260edcf2e3492b86353116be
title: Patents on genes
uri: Patents-on-genes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Patents_on_genes%29
content:
<p>
Genetic engineering has been used to make pigs that are immune to a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jun/20/scientists-genetically-engineer-pigs-immune-to-costly-disease">virus
that is very common in farms</a>.
<p>
I have a suspicion that factory farms are responsible for the
prevalence of this virus.
<p>
I don't see any biological harm or danger in this genetic
modification.  It appears to have no effect, other than the pigs do
not get sick and have healthier immune systems.  That is all to the
good.
<p>
However, the modification is likely to spread patent pollution that
would harm farmers' rights in countries that permit patents on genes
to apply to farming of animals.


feed_id: 5886ebeeb3d86d097b089b2e677cafd9
title: Copyright filtering
uri: Copyright-filtering
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Copyright_filtering%29
content:
<p>
The European Parliament's JURI committee 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/20/eu-votes-for-copyright-law-that-would-make-internet-a-tool-for-control">voted
for mandatory copyright filtering</a>.


feed_id: 4d99d92e0ad0d837306b9b79f52d9d9b
title: Asylum rights in Hungary
uri: Asylum-rights-in-Hungary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Asylum_rights_in_Hungary%29
content:
<p>
Hungary has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/20/hungary-passes-anti-immigrant-stop-soros-laws">made
it a crime to help border-crossing refugees press their legal claims
for asylum rights</a>.
<p>
The effect is that they theoretically have these rights but are
legally unable to exercise them.


feed_id: 98f524e929408d4f5f554f1c3b66827e
title: Idea of masculinity in Kamloops
uri: Idea-of-masculinity-in-Kamloops
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Idea_of_masculinity_in_Kamloops%29
content:
<p>
Working-class men from Kamloops 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/20/canada-why-have-so-many-guys-from-my-town-died-young-mental-health">killing
themselves in large numbers, either directly or through gratuitous
risks of death</a>.  An article contends that their idea of
masculinity gives them no way to cope with the fact that they can't be
a success in its terms.


feed_id: 7fc21e89a897624a5bf14106eca08a99
title: Troll's family separation policy
uri: Troll-s-family-separation-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Trolls_family_separation_policy%29
content:
<p>
"Trump's family separation policy is 
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/20/trump-border-policy-family-separation-abu-ghraib'>as
damaging to America as Abu Ghraib</a>."
<p>
I don't think that the possible blowback from this evil is as
important as the evil itself.


feed_id: 96791cbb01210f5e4925b2ec90eaaf30
title: Bombs dropped by troll's military
uri: Bombs-dropped-by-troll-s-military
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Bombs_dropped_by_trolls_military%29
content:
<p>
Trump's Military Drops a Bomb 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/20/trumps-military-drops-bomb-every-12-minutes-and-no-one-talking-about-it">Every
12 Minutes</a>, and No One Is Talking About It.


feed_id: 521ea3ada9935333d75f228fc9ef229f
title: Prison for young children
uri: Prison-for-young-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Prison_for_young_children%29
content:
<p>
The 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/shortcuts/2018/jun/20/tender-age-shelters-a-new-way-to-describe-the-kidnapping-of-children">latest
US newspeak term</a> for a prison for young children: "tender age
shelter".


feed_id: d7607694ba0f76ff90479dfddbca25c5
title: Child refugees in the UK
uri: Child-refugees-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Child_refugees_in_the_UK%29
content:
<p>
Child refugees in the UK are not imprisoned.  Rather, they are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/20/alex-child-refugee-failed-uk-system-dead">left
in penury</a>, forbidden to work or go to school.  Some lose hope and
die.


feed_id: f620cbf79c0c3f5b34099fe7145c69cc
title: Sale of personal data
uri: Sale-of-personal-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Sale_of_personal_data%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/cops-bust-filthy-unshaven-mark-zuckerberg-for-selling-1826940013">The
Onion</a>: San Francisco police busted a filthy, unshaven Mark
Zuckerberg in the early hours of the morning Tuesday for trying to
sell his personal data on a street corner.


feed_id: 030bfdcf94b9278d67c2153be3b47e79
title: UK convicts fantasy terrorist
uri: UK-convicts-fantasy-terrorist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28UK_convicts_fantasy_terrorist%29
content:
<p>
The UK has convicted a fantasy terrorist, who was going to set off a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/19/london-man-planned-suicide-attack-to-kill-the-pm-court-hears">dummy
bomb provided by agents</a>.
<p>
It would have been a real crime if he had really done it, but it is
not clear he would ever have tried anything without the encouragement
and assistance of the state.  It is unjust for the state to lead
people into crime and then punish them for it, and it isn't
protecting the public from real danger.


feed_id: ebddef7e46b45a7efc39e742ba6557d9
title: Urgent: Tar sands pipeline
uri: Urgent-Tar-sands-pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Tar_sands_pipeline%29
content:
<p>
Everyone: <a href="https://www.ran.org/chasestopline3">phone JP Morgan Chase bank</a> to demand it stop funding another
tar sands pipeline and tar sands extraction.
<p>
You could also talk with your city councilors about moving funds out
of JP Morgan Chase, perhaps into a public bank.


feed_id: 24169d3788f3d09f694ee5114c28ccf4
title: Urgent: Zombie campaigns
uri: Urgent-Zombie-campaigns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Zombie_campaigns%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tell-fec-stop-zombie-campaigns/">call on the Federal Election Commission</a> to stop candidates from
personally using funds from their terminated zombie campaigns.


feed_id: c309a8aec83a2f0f5b2bcff1b8a7dba8
title: Military spending bill
uri: Military-spending-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Military_spending_bill%29
content:
<p>
Most Senate Democrats <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/19/millions-lack-food-housing-and-healthcare-38-democrats-just-joined-gop-spend-716">supported a military spending bill</a> that will
spend 700 billion dollars on the military.


feed_id: f359ae2b300deb0ce72971ed6071c0dd
title: Pipeline opposition
uri: Pipeline-opposition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Pipeline_opposition%29
content:
<p>
Greenpeace: how pipeline companies <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/reports/too-far-too-often/#executive-summary">try to crush opposition and protest</a>
in North Dakota.


feed_id: bc018784e2e3004213c606beaf4556e7
title: Marijuana in Canada
uri: Marijuana-in-Canada
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Marijuana_in_Canada%29
content:
<p>
Canada has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/20/canada-legalises-cannabis-senate-vote">passed a law</a> to legalize marijuana.


feed_id: 48c9c14d6dde6821304b10da3ab198a6
title: Rejecting reproducing
uri: Rejecting-reproducing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Rejecting_reproducing%29
content:
<p>
More people are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/20/give-up-having-children-couples-save-planet-climate-crisis">openly rejecting reproducing</a>.
<p>
I do not want the human species to become extinct.  I want to bring the
future population down to 1 billion or so, which would enable all humans
to have a good life and leave room for wildlife too.


feed_id: 4617d5a739a4fada28ed64a53c0b4673
title: Tigers in back yards
uri: Tigers-in-back-yards
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Tigers_in_back_yards%29
content:
<p>
More tigers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/shortcuts/2018/jun/20/more-tigers-live-in-us-back-yards-than-in-the-wild-is-this-a-catastrophe">live in back yards</a> in the US than in the wild.


feed_id: c67718488d6c3c59472c992b2aa83065
title: Refugee families
uri: Refugee-families
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Refugee_families%29
content:
<p>
US border thugs take minors away from their refugee parents <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/18/us-immigration-court-parents-separated-children-families">using the
excuse</a> of prosecuting all the parents.
They pretend that the minors arrived "unaccompanied", which is an
example of a law that lies.
<p>
Sometimes parents are deported and cannot find their children again.
The minors' lawyers can't contact the parents, who are the only ones that
know why the parents fled.
<p>
I use the word "minors" to correct a factual error.  Some large
fraction of them are children, and the other large fraction are
adolescents (teenagers).
<p>
This fact doesn't affect my condemnation of what the US is doing to
these families.  Whether the number of children taken away is 2000 or
1000 or 500, the cruelty cannot be justified, given that it
is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/20/babies-and-toddlers-sent-to-tender-age-shelters-under-trump-separations">worse
than gratuitous</a> (it is the consequence of another cruel policy).
And it is almost as bad to take a 14-year-old adolescent away from per
family indefinitely as an 8-year-old child.
<p>
I simply want to resist the tendency to infantilize teenagers.


feed_id: 684187171d5aa452cb7dcd6d61993856
title: Publicly-funded private schools
uri: Publicly-funded-private-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Publicly-funded_private_schools%29
content:
<p>
The UK's experiment in publicly-funded private schools <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/19/academy-schools-collapse-executive-pay-assets">is collapsing</a>.
<p>
As I recall, the state set up a system which forced some schools to
convert to that status, if their students' test scores were bad, but
didn't force privatized schools with bad test scores to reconvert
to ordinary state schools.


feed_id: 0b62019744d1350b0bea4c99a649e323
title: Ann Coulter on immigrant children
uri: Ann-Coulter-on-immigrant-children
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Ann_Coulter_on_immigrant_children%29

content:
<p>
Ann Coulter called the crying imprisoned immigrant children <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/media/392774-ann-coulter-calls-immigrant-children-child-actors">"actors"</a>.
<p>
This is the standard Republican line, used against everyone that shows
the evil that Republicans do.  A survivor of the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#27_May_2018_(Las_Vegas_massacre)">Las Vegas terrorist attack</a>
was accused of being a fraud.
<p>
This didn't start with the bullshitter; Coulter has been doing it for
many years.


feed_id: 50a22110ee574b656f64977515d28dfa
title: Puerto Rico and the banksters
uri: Puerto-Rico-and-the-banksters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Puerto_Rico_and_the_banksters%29
content:
<p>
Puerto Rico, under the rule of the vampire banksters, is <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/18/1772448/-Gov-and-Junta-move-to-shut-down-Community-Health-Centers-in-Puerto-Rico-WTF?detail=emaildkre">cutting
medical care</a> so they can take more blood.
<p>
The <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bankster">banksters</a>' motto is, today Puerto Rico, tomorrow the United
States.


feed_id: a38847fc0c948ccc23cfda48ac7cbca5
title: Eugene Debs
uri: 2018-06-25-Eugene-Debs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Eugene_Debs%29
content:
<p>
The US <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/18/one-hundred-years-ago-eugene-debs-gave-anti-war-speech-landed-him-prison">put Eugene Debs in prison</a> for a radical speech 100 years ago that
opposed war and inequality.
<p>
My views are not as radical as his, but people should not be imprisoned
for stating political views.


feed_id: a81882516de2ee7b7fe925c14678fec9
title: Drawings of beetles
uri: Drawings-of-beetles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Drawings_of_beetles%29
content:
<p>
Volkswagen issued DMCA takedown notices three times on drawings of
beetles.  Insects, that is.  It <a href="https://www.eff.org/takedowns/volkswagen-claims-ownership-entire-group-insects">took a lawyer's letter</a> to get the
matter corrected &mdash; that's how unfair the DMCA
takedown <em>system</em> is, in practice.
<p>
IANAL, but I don't think it would have changed matters if they were
drawings of Volkswagen cars.  As I understand it, there is no US
copyright on the shape of a car (it is not a sculpture), so Volkswagen
would have no copyright grounds to object to someone else's drawing or
photo of those cars.
<p>
The DMCA applies to copyright law and only copyright law, not to the
bogus category of "intellectual property" which does not correspond to
real laws.  If you use that term in your thoughts (or worse, your words),
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">it is confusing you</a>.


feed_id: 0aa890d23d2ccd5d732ef35a458a9c7f
title: Encryption back doors
uri: Encryption-back-doors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#24_June_2018_%28Encryption_back_doors%29
content:
<p>
Australia's politicians plan a law that would require back doors in encryption
software, but they <a href="https://www.innovationaus.com/2018/06/An-encryption-bill-with-holes-in-it">pretend it would not</a>.


feed_id: 40dfe6d7962cf3ca9ed608144cae0879
title: The troll's lawyers
uri: 2018-06-25-The-troll-s-lawyers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#21_June_2018_%28The_trolls_lawyers%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://politics.theonion.com/president-s-lawyers-move-to-discredit-michael-cohen-by-1826842082">The
Onion</a>: &hellip; the president's lawyers reportedly moved to
discredit Michael Cohen Thursday by pointing out his long history of
committing crimes for Donald Trump.


feed_id: cb43f3fc56c299653d8977014c958106
title: Censorship in Hungary
uri: Censorship-in-Hungary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28Censorship_in_Hungary%29
content:
<p>
Censorship in repressive Hungary now 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/22/billy-elliot-musical-cuts-dates-hungary-claims-turn-children-gay">aims
to ban a theater production</a> because it has a homosexual
protagonist.


feed_id: b6de8adf0e88b51b237acd2efaddc96e
title: China making abortions harder to get
uri: China-making-abortions-harder-to-get
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28China_making_abortions_harder_to_get%29

content:
<p>
China is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/22/china-new-rules-jiangxi-province-prevent-sex-selective-abortions">making
abortions harder to get</a>, based on the misguided idea that a low
birth rate is some sort of problem.
<p>
When the population is decreasing, the working adults have more to do
to take care of old people, and less to do to take care of children.
It works out.  Robots can do part of the job.  It will be ok.


feed_id: 59d027bd5459d43331cf9e2b5910b684
title: Stopping the troll
uri: Stopping-the-troll
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28Stopping_the_troll%29
content:
<p>
"Dear Europe, if you want stop Trump, 
<a href='https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/22/europe-trump-sanction-companies'>sanction
his companies</a>."


feed_id: ef73cf0ecc513ac95b1c3c3a68cc4024
title: Ruling on cell phone records
uri: Ruling-on-cell-phone-records
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28Ruling_on_cell_phone_records%29
content:
<p>
The Supreme Court ruled that <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> must get a warrant to access
people's cell phone records 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/jun/22/supreme-court-bans-police-access-to-phone-data-without-a-warrant">over
an extended period of time</a>.
<p>
I fear this means they are allowed to find where a person is located
momentarily.
<p>
This is still a step forward, but does the ruling apply to the FBI?
Snowden informed us that some phone companies were telling the FBI
about 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_July_2013_(Epic_sued_to_put_an_end_to_FBI%27s_collection_of_phone_call_records)">every
long distance phone call they made</a>.


feed_id: 64332aec605a4d84d0000d161f25b8e6
title: Officials hiding from asylum-seekers
uri: Officials-hiding-from-asylum-seekers
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28Officials_hiding_from_asylum-seekers%29

content:
<p>
Asylum-seekers are compelled to cross the US border to find an
official to present their case for asylum to, since the officials are
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/22/family-separation-lawsuit/">hiding
from them</a>.
<p>
The article also says that the border <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> lie to parents, basically
like gangsters, saying "your children will be back in a few days."


feed_id: 5287a7ed81b656dab496b2bf003395e2
title: Imprisonment of border-crossers
uri: Imprisonment-of-border-crossers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28Imprisonment_of_border-crossers%29
content:
<p>
Democrats have 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/20/house-democrats-propose-bill-counter-trumps-dangerous-executive-order-lock-families">proposed
a bill to end the imprisonment of all border-crossers</a>, as well as
the separation of their families.


feed_id: dffd8604f7acded2e8f1587574027ae1
title: Cruelty of ICE
uri: Cruelty-of-ICE
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28Cruelty_of_ICE%29
content:
<p>
ICE tends naturally to cruelty because it was created as 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/20/why-abolishing-ice-good-climate-policy">part
of the Department of Harshness and Sadism</a>.  We ought to abolish
it.


feed_id: fed7fb118cd102370f4a275cc9f7d309
title: Tesla suing whistleblower
uri: Tesla-suing-whistleblower
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28Tesla_suing_whistleblower%29
content:
<p>
A whistleblower criticized Tesla for some sort of problems (I am not
sure what), and Tesla is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/21/tesla-whistleblower-sabotage-elon-musk-gigafactory-martin-tripp">suing
him</a>.
<p>
It appears that Tesla falsely accused him of planning sabotage.  In
the conversation quoted, Musk tries to construe his statement as a
threat, but that is clearly incorrect.


feed_id: 294a603700a82d499a452f4408786ec9
title: Thugs fire machine guns at city
uri: Thugs-fire-machine-guns-at-city
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28Thugs_fire_machine_guns_at_city%29
content:
<p>
Brazilian <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> in a helicopter fired machine guns at a city and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/21/brazil-latest-death-teenager-favela-raid-police-marcus-da-silva">killed
a teenager as well as perhaps others</a>.


feed_id: 8e949a5b06aa99b59f262caebd56bde2
title: Canada secretly uses US blacklist
uri: Canada-secretly-uses-US-blacklist
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28Canada_secretly_uses_US_blacklist%29

content:
<p>
Canada secretly denies people entry at its borders using a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/21/canada-us-tuscan-anti-terrorist-database-at-borders">blacklist
maintained by the US</a>.


feed_id: ea6e90fb183f6ebe95f82b20d49dee8c
title: Discouraging blacks from voting
uri: Discouraging-blacks-from-voting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28Discouraging_blacks_from_voting%29
content:
<p>
Virginia legislators have a 
<a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/go/66025">clever plan</a> to
discourage many blacks from voting.


feed_id: fa3c697fe3142160a6124375cb324673
title: Indifference to suffering and injustice
uri: Indifference-to-suffering-and-injustice
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28Indifference_to_suffering_and_injustice%29

content:
<p>
If you let yourself become indifferent to suffering and injustice,
the results are 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/20/vivid-dangers-our-indifference-hellish-world">bad
for you</a> as well as for the world.


feed_id: 7162623259a836b8e621c244bf7c3747
title: Cracking down on sexual harassment
uri: Cracking-down-on-sexual-harassment
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28Cracking_down_on_sexual_harassment%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/onion-social-cracks-down-on-sexual-harassment-by-bannin-1826973222">The
Onion</a>: Onion Social announced Wednesday that it intends to crack
down on sexual harassment by banning women from the platform.


feed_id: 44831ec1e7b023beec360684705d6ad6
title: Microsoft to help US deportation thugs
uri: Microsoft-to-help-US-deportation-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28Microsoft_to_help_US_deportation_thugs%29

content:
<p>
Microsoft is helping the US deportation <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> with 
<a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/20/17482500/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-ice-contract-memo">face
recognition</a>.
<p>
Helping any government agency do face recognition ought to get any
company on everyone's boycott list.


feed_id: 4778a39439ec26d96cbc65df898293e7
title: Business "security" automation
uri: Business-security-automation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28Business_security_automation%29
content:
<p>
When a company's business "security" automation spuriously believes
that a worker is fired, the human staff
<a href="https://idiallo.com/blog/when-a-machine-fired-me">can't
override it</a>.
<p>
I wonder what would happen if a cracker marked every worker (including
the executives) as fired.


feed_id: 5500c2b32d298cc968a91a2eac508332
title: Puerto Rico public schools
uri: Puerto-Rico-public-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28Puerto_Rico_public_schools%29
content:
<p>
Puerto Rico is 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/06/20/1773816/-263-schools-are-closing-in-Puerto-Rico%E2%80%94forcing-young-students-to-travel-for-miles-in-order-to-learn">closing
25% of its public schools</a>.  It can't afford to run them while
feeding the hungry <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bankster">banksters</a>.


feed_id: c600a1f22e5bb4624e7519be81f42505
title: Child prisoners
uri: Child-prisoners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28Child_prisoners%29
content:
<p>
To "protect" child prisoners, the immigration <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> say visiting
members of Congress are 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/20/1773833/-Trump-administration-bans-members-of-Congress-from-talking-to-kids-in-detention-centers">not
allowed to photograph them or talk with them</a>.  Did they get this
inspiration from the 
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-nov-feb.html#12_January_2014_(Artist_not_allowed_to_speak_with_prisoners_in_Guantanamo)">Guantanamo
prison</a>?
<p>
Furthermore, if they have to arrange a visit two weeks in advance, the
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> could move all the prisoners to some other prison camp in the
mean time.  Federal prisons often
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#16_June_2011_(US_Bounced_Around_Country)">move
prisoners around repeatedly for no evident reason</a>, perhaps to
interfere with their contact with their lawyers and relatives.


feed_id: 3c6e7845ae99f9bca7e7a689f000b298
title: US ocean protection policy cancelled
uri: US-ocean-protection-policy-cancelled
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28US_ocean_protection_policy_cancelled%29

content:
<p>
The <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#saboteur">saboteur</a> has 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/20/affirming-belief-waters-are-drilling-and-pillaging-trump-erases-ocean-protection">cancelled</a>
the US ocean protection policy.


feed_id: d67d4ac4276647524c58b8620f601a92
title: AT&amp;T-sponsored California state rep
uri: AT-T-sponsored-California-state-rep
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28ATT-sponsored_California_state_rep%29

content:
<p>
An AT&amp;T-sponsored California state representative has 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/20/telecom-backed-democrat-california-just-mutilated-nations-strongest-state-net">ruined
the state's network neutrality bill</a>.
<p>
Here's 
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2018/06/20/primary-that-dino.html">more
detail of what he did</a>.


feed_id: 72ef3480c86fd0d4e4bf359766f0b8d3
title: Border-crossers' children
uri: Border-crossers-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#25_June_2018_%28Border-crossers_children%29
content:
<p>
The sadist changed his mind; he says future border-crossers' children
will now be 
<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-says-he-ll-sign-order-stopping-separation-families-border-n885061">imprisoned
with their families</a>.
<p>
The actual executive order is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/21/us-family-separations-trump-executive-order-explainer">unclear
and somewhat indirect</a>, so we can't be sure which parts will be
enforced.
<p>
Lawyers 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/21/family-separations-children-attorneys-not-confident-end-trump-order">'Not
Confident' Family Separations Will End</a>.
<p>
Supposing the border <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> do stop taking children away from their
parents, the US will no longer inflict this one extra fillip of
cruelty.  However, the hostage-taker's many other immigration
cruelties continue:


feed_id: 7cea0bec75311fc8e247e7bb86ba0b87
title: Injustice based on suspicions
uri: Injustice-based-on-suspicions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Injustice_based_on_suspicions%29
content:
<p>
Immigrants in the US face injustice at every stage of deportation
proceedings based on suspicions of gang membership that are 
<a href="https://reason.com/archives/2018/06/19/tattoos-shouldnt-be-cause-for-deportatio">often
irrational and based on vague nothing</a>.


feed_id: 5dbf22879ad4b43eb33af75154fb37bd
title: Zimbabwe opposition
uri: Zimbabwe-opposition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Zimbabwe_opposition%29
content:
<p>
Zimbabwe Opposition 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/24/zimbabwe-opposition-fears-crackdown-election-rally-bombing-emmerson-mnangagwa">Fears
Crackdown after Election Rally Bombing</a>.


feed_id: 13639256481889ca74e060365b8b323a
title: Protest in London for new referendum
uri: Protest-in-London-for-new-referendum
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Protest_in_London_for_new_referendum%29

content:
<p>
100,000 people marched in London to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jun/23/brexit-demonstration-whitehall-demand-second-referendum">demand
a new referendum about whether to continue leaving the EU</a>.
<p>
It disappoints me greatly that most of the arguments for remaining in
the EU or for leaving are based on trickle-down and "free trade".


feed_id: a3d7753800c3bfd65102bd2bcb741de9
title: Threat of prison for cartoonist's work
uri: Threat-of-prison-for-cartoonist-s-work
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Threat_of_prison_for_cartoonists_work%29

content:
<p>
Malaysian cartoonist Zunar feels 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/24/malaysia-top-political-cartoonist-zunar-will-miss-pm-najib-razak">nostalgia
for Razak's repeated attempts to imprison him</a> for his work.


feed_id: abbc1564217a2b49a4ca96dce0d5f6e2
title: US immigration prison
uri: US-immigration-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28US_immigration_prison%29
content:
<p>
Arnovis Guidos Portillo was deported to El Salvador without getting a
chance to apply for asylum.  Now he 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/24/all-i-hear-is-my-daughter-crying-salvadoran-father-yearns-to-see-his-child-again">can't
get his daughter out of US immigration prison</a>.
<p>
Gangs in El Salvador are so menacing that inhabitants threatened 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/24/salvadorans-deported-from-us-facing-violence-fleeing-poverty">have
to flee</a>, no matter what the US might do to them.
<p>
I wonder if there is any way to set up a safe refuge in a part of El
Salvador.


feed_id: 5c54f18d6b6e29f87d6ddaa94ad9546b
title: Guerrilla war in South Sudan
uri: Guerrilla-war-in-South-Sudan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Guerrilla_war_in_South_Sudan%29
content:
<p>
South Sudan has settled down into a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jun/24/south-sudan-civil-war-refugees-families-flee-murder-rape-arson-nyal-global-development">state
of permanent guerrilla war</a> against many splintered guerrilla
groups.
<p>
All these groups, including the state, fight for nothing but the
advancement of their own leaders.


feed_id: 546f60854b87da3f7a6c8ec359037d16
title: Coral reefs
uri: 2018-06-27-Coral-reefs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Coral_reefs%29
content:
<p>
Rising sea level will kill coral reefs, because corals 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/23/coral-reefs-overwhelmed-by-rising-oceans">can't
grow fast enough to stay near the surface</a>.
<p>
Too much CO<sub>2</sub> in the water will inevitably kill corals.  The
temperature can also kill them.  So it seems that coral has little
chance of surviving to the end of this century.
<p>
A billion people depend on marine resources for their food.  In a few
decades it could be a billion and a half.  Thus, the loss of most of
those resources could easily kill a billion people.
<p>
They won't all die directly from hunger.  Many of them will die in
wars over control of the dwindling marine resources.  These wars will
be futile, in that victory will at most delay the death of the
victors.
<p>
If they start sooner, and fight fossil fuel extraction and use, they
might avert much of the disaster.  However, if they don't limit their
populations, then barring some unforeseeable event they will reach the
starvation point sooner or later.


feed_id: 97e5f8a43870ace98f8a371c07861eaa
title: Student loan debts
uri: Student-loan-debts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Student_loan_debts%29
content:
<p>
A Movement Emerges to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/23/movement-emerges-free-former-students-crushing-loan-debts">Free
Former Students from Crushing Loan Debts</a>.
<p>
Until <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#dubya">Dubya</a> was president, Americans could get rid of unpayable
student loans through personal bankruptcy.  We should make that
possible again.


feed_id: e6ea90ce78d3a27bf081272127f00fb1
title: Puerto Rico serves creditors
uri: Puerto-Rico-serves-creditors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Puerto_Rico_serves_creditors%29
content:
<p>
Puerto Rico's imposed nondemocratic unofficial government has
responded to last summer's hurricane by 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/23/pain-puerto-ricans-profit-source-creditors">planning
to extract some of the recovery funds</a> for the vampires (creditors)
they serve.
<p>
The imposed unofficial government gives its members big salaries while
cutting the wages of real workers.


feed_id: 1e00d7a434bd8f7f5a8bf8bcbe673e55
title: White-supremacists
uri: 2018-06-27-White-supremacists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28White-supremacists%29
content:
<p>
An ex-conservative who lives with white-supremacist parents in a
white-supremacist town says that what they want is to dominate others,
and
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/19/1773122/-Living-with-a-supremacist-in-a-supremacist-place-I-ll-tell-you-where-Trumpism-ends">they
don't think in terms of reasons</a>.
<p>
The writer feels despair, feels that there is no chance of resisting
these power-crazed bullies who intimidate others into surrender where
they get a chance.  I can't say that is impossible, but I think that
the overall situation in the US is not as bad as it looks from where
he sits.


feed_id: c370b5a6f61b193f9b0e68c557b84380
title: Dishonesty of anti-abortion groups
uri: Dishonesty-of-anti-abortion-groups
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Dishonesty_of_anti-abortion_groups%29

content:
<p>
Anti-abortion groups including "Focus on the Family" exposed the
dishonesty of their concern for families by refusing to criticize
their point man for 
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/20/1773077/--Pro-Life-Religious-Right-Remained-Silent-Let-the-Babies-Suffer-We-Won-t-Ever-Forget">taking
children and teenagers away from their parents</a>.
<p>
They don't criticize the substitute policy, indefinite imprisonment of
families, either.


feed_id: 78d8017f75f252190e3871e6db4c1c71
title: Saboteur of commerce
uri: 2018-06-27-Saboteur-of-commerce
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Saboteur_of_commerce%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#saboteur">saboteur</a> of commerce faces an ethics complaint about 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2018/06/22/crew-files-criminal-ethics-complaints-against-wilbur-ross">insider
trading</a>, a crime.


feed_id: 3451bd8b49c958c687e5dd49e57fca89
title: Crushing social relationships
uri: Crushing-social-relationships
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Crushing_social_relationships%29
content:
<p>
The way to make pliant, craven people is to crush social
relationships.  Several decades of various US policies have led
Americans quite a ways down that road (see the book Bowling Alone),
but the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a> is 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/22/national-suicide-point">rushing
us further along</a>.


feed_id: ce622e28478a15916ba993e146f941ac
title: Oil train derails in Iowa
uri: Oil-train-derails-in-Iowa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Oil_train_derails_in_Iowa%29
content:
<p>
An oil train derailed in Iowa because tracks were flooded.  Oil 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/22/we-dont-know-how-bad-it-31-car-oil-train-derails-iowa-floodwaters">leaked
into the water</a> and has flowed downstream to the state capital, Des
Moines.
<p>
The oil may get into the wells that provide water for Des Moines and
various river towns, or it may not.  It may get into them after a long
time.  If it does, the wells could remain polluted for a long time.


feed_id: c0d63bc310b33e9d3fdb7ce6b3cf5528
title: Ethiopa unblocks access to news web sites
uri: Ethiopa-unblocks-access-to-news-web-sites
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Ethiopa_unblocks_access_to_news_web_sites%29

content:
<p>
Ethiopia has unblocked access to 
<a href="https://cpj.org/2018/06/ethiopia-allows-access-to-over-260-blocked-website.php">several
news web sites</a> that it blocked in the past.


feed_id: 915d63a8189af11335549917505df1c6
title: USGS scientists gagged
uri: USGS-scientists-gagged
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28USGS_scientists_gagged%29
content:
<p>
The saboteurs have 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/22/censorship-trumps-war-facts-continues-muzzling-usgs-scientists">forbidden</a>
scientists at the USGS from talking with the press.


feed_id: 61035521ac1072513ad04dd878368e5a
title: Urgent: Immigration plans
uri: Urgent-Immigration-plans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Immigration_plans%29
content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.credoaction.com/sign/defundhate_2018">call on Democrats in Congress</a> not to fund the bully's
immigration plans.


feed_id: 7fd9cba69865d51d587dce4f1beb212e
title: Cell phone tracking
uri: 2018-06-27-Cell-phone-tracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Cell_phone_tracking%29
content:
<p>
The Supreme Court decision about cell phone location tracking was
written in a <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/22/supreme-court-rules-that-government-must-get-a-warrant-before-accessing-cell-phone-location-data/">very narrow way</a>.  It doesn't directly affect any other
surveillance cases.


feed_id: 52024705d3bd981efe744876234fa7d7
title: Elections in Turkey
uri: Elections-in-Turkey
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Elections_in_Turkey%29
content:
<p>
Opposition leader Selahattin Demirtaş, campaigning from jail, says that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/23/just-election-turkey-not-possible-imprisoned-candidate-demirtas-erdogan">no fair election is possible</a> in Turkey given its repression of opposition.


feed_id: 422dfa25631cbebc18c9838dc04162e9
title: Jogging into the US
uri: Jogging-into-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Jogging_into_the_US%29
content:
<p>
A visitor to Canada was jogging along the beach and without any
notification found herself in the US.  The US border thugs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/22/jogger-detained-us-border-cedella-roman-immigration-ordeal">jailed her
for two weeks</a>, supposedly to make doubly sure she was not an
unauthorized visitor to Canada.
<p>
That "reason" is no reason at all, since it wasn't necessary to do.
The US <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> could have handed her over to a Canadian border post,
which could have checked this immediately.
<p>
I am sure the reason for this policy, at some level, is a desire
to cause pain &mdash; rationalized somehow, of course.
<p>
Cedella, please don't ask to be "allowed" into the US.
Insist instead on an apology!


feed_id: 12374b0fb73765aef4fd7abadf2b428e
title: Minors in military bases
uri: Minors-in-military-bases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Minors_in_military_bases%29
content:
<p>
The torturer told US military bases to get ready to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/21/trump-has-called-pentagon-make-beds-available-20000-children-us-military-bases">hold 20,000
minors as prisoners</a>.
<p>
This would make it especially difficult for protesters to show those
prisoners any sort of support.  They would have to protest at the edge
of the base, far away from anyone.
<p>
Another step in making protest useless and thus squishing democracy.


feed_id: 1762e2d48bff4e72242b3149fa930402
title: Unsurpassed power trip
uri: Unsurpassed-power-trip
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Unsurpassed_power_trip%29
content:
<p>
Ralph Nader: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/21/unsurpassed-power-trip-insuperable-control-freak-open-letter-jeff-bezos">The Unsurpassed Power Trip</a> by an Insuperable Control
Freak.


feed_id: b4cf7691e776452054cb672881d6630a
title: Relatives as hostages
uri: Relatives-as-hostages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Relatives_as_hostages%29
content:
<p>
Tories propose to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/23/gangs-families-should-lose-council-homes-urges-minister">put whole families on the street</a> if one person in
the family is a gang member.
<p>
This would be self-defeating, since the whole family would be forced to turn
to some sort of crime, but it's worse than that: it is fundamentally unjust
to use people as hostages for their relatives.
<p>
The US has already <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#10_August_2013_(Rochelle_Bing_struggled_for_4_years_to_prevent_thugs_from_seizing_her_house)">done things like this</a>.


feed_id: c3297e8eebae3c4d952ce8b7376927cd
title: Methane leaks
uri: 2018-06-27-Methane-leaks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Methane_leaks%29
content:
<p>
Measured methane leaks exceed the EPA's estimate of methane leaks
<a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/6/21/1774239/-New-study-says-methane-emissions-from-gas-and-oil-industry-60-percent-higher-than-EPA-report">by about 60%</a>.
<p>
Since methane contributes heavily to <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> for the next few
decades, this has a big effect.
<p>
Better EPA regulations could make fossil fuel companies greatly reduce
leaks, but if they spent the money to do that they might not make a
profit.  So they tell the EPA not to bother them.


feed_id: a21578cae4775d82e9d77033e1745d11
title: Reminder to journalists
uri: Reminder-to-journalists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Reminder_to_journalists%29
content:
<p>
The Onion: Sarah Huckabee Sanders reminded journalists Friday that
children under the age of 14 are <a href="https://politics.theonion.com/exasperated-huckabee-sanders-reminds-press-corps-that-c-1827054897">unable to experience pain</a>.


feed_id: d6e4588970b7aeef7dd34432aa113048
title: New UK exams
uri: New-UK-exams
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28New_UK_exams%29
content:
<p>
The UK's new extremely difficult one-time exams for 16-year-olds made
many of them <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/22/how-new-gcses-affected-pupils-panic-attacks-crying-exams">sick with stress</a>.
<p>
Perhaps they could help themselves cope with this stress by holding
protests after and between exams.  They could hang Mr Gove in effigy,
for instance.  If crowds of students did this all across the UK, it
could have a political effect.
<p>
Students should not limit their condemnation to one single Tory
minister.  The whole Tory party deserves the blame.
<p>
The exhilaration of the protest could also help them feel less hurt by
the stress.


feed_id: a7dcf9ce2b996cbc9d04bfa2b95688c7
title: Denying food stamps
uri: Denying-food-stamps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Denying_food_stamps%29
content:
<p>
The <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#scrotus">SCROTUS</a> farm bill would deny food stamps
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/22/slap-face-poor-americans-house-gop-passes-farm-bill-attacking-nations-hungriest">2
million people</a>.
<p>
Republicans apparently hope that desperate poor people won't be able to
struggle to vote.


feed_id: e3dde32793002649641d42a7835b5617
title: Pruitt hiding communications
uri: Pruitt-hiding-communications
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Pruitt_hiding_communications%29
content:
<p>
Saboteur Pruitt appears to be illegally <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/22/where-are-scott-pruitts-emails-sierra-club-demands-after-foia-request-turns-only-one">hiding his official
communications</a> from FOIA requests.


feed_id: 651e8103fd1d04837d449c0ae05d4acb
title: Refugees to the US
uri: Refugees-to-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#26_June_2018_%28Refugees_to_the_US%29
content:
<p>
The number of refugees moving to the US since the 1990s is partly due
to the business-supremacy treaties that the US has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/22/recognizing-neoliberal-roots-heart-trumps-cruel-and-inhumane-border-policies">pushed onto Mexico
and Central America</a>.
<p>
Those coming from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala are also partly caused
by US-imposed dictatorship and military coups.


feed_id: 1515c70f706e1055b6a460ec174bcb5e
title: Urgent: Greyhound aiding deportation thugs
uri: Urgent-Greyhound-aiding-deportation-thugs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#27_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Greyhound_aiding_deportation_thugs%29

content:
<p>
In the US: <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/sign/Greyhound_BorderPatrol/">tell Greyhound</a> to stop aiding the US deportation thugs.


feed_id: 027a546c4c3966c5d2dcf2fe0e9fe6e7
title: Fracking in Australia
uri: Fracking-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#27_June_2018_%28Fracking_in_Australia%29
content:
<p>
Fracking in northern Australia would <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/25/new-nt-gasfields-would-put-paris-commitment-in-doubt">immediately destroy</a> Australia's
Paris treaty greenhouse gas emissions.  Even a single new gas field is
too much.


feed_id: 43e6654449e6e259660562c184914ff1
title: Censoring poems and songs
uri: Censoring-poems-and-songs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#27_June_2018_%28Censoring_poems_and_songs%29
content:
<p>
Since we do not prohibit movies from showing murders with guns and
knives, what justification can there be for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jun/22/the-war-against-rap-censoring-drill-may-seem-radical-but-its-not-new">censoring poems and songs</a>
that do likewise?


feed_id: 6f5d9678bfe01484ff53711bbfad3a7a
title: Controls on communication
uri: Controls-on-communication
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#27_June_2018_%28Controls_on_communication%29
content:
<p>
"The clamour in the west is for more controls on those who use the
internet for communications, but little control of governments that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jun/24/shooting-the-messenger-the-chilling-effect-of-criminalising-journalism">use it for surveillance</a>."


feed_id: 8bea39ede988a76991f71a8e3bea3f57
title: Number of separated minors
uri: Number-of-separated-minors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#27_June_2018_%28Number_of_separated_minors%29
content:
<p>
US cruelty officials sadists claim that they have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/24/trump-family-separations-children-immigration-dhs-texas">kept track of all
2053 minors</a> separated from their families.
<p>
If that is really true (who knows?), I hope it is all of them.  The
figure I have seen published is 2300 minors taken from their families.
<p>
In any case, these officials have the responsibility to reunite all of
the families, and quickly.


feed_id: 09895ba93c60ef2924d102d915eb01a6
title: News and political polemics
uri: News-and-political-polemics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#27_June_2018_%28News_and_political_polemics%29
content:
<p>
Facebook finds it has trouble <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2018/jun/24/facebook-journalism-publishers">separating news from political polemics</a>.


feed_id: 788112e21e870acf63e071f7c3207277
title: Charging extra for payment
uri: Charging-extra-for-payment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#27_June_2018_%28Charging_extra_for_payment%29
content:
<p>
The UK forbade stores to charge extra for paying with a bank card.
Since then, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/jun/17/credit-debit-cards-fees-costs-rules">banks started charging stores more</a> for the use of a card.
<p>
Does the UK allow stores to offer a discount for paying in cash?


feed_id: 3134c57491ab4c933ac2459bdf8a1e90
title: Denying entry to refugee ship
uri: Denying-entry-to-refugee-ship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#27_June_2018_%28Denying_entry_to_refugee_ship%29
content:
<p>
Italy is denying entry to another ship carrying refugees, and 
more refugees are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/24/european-leaders-urged-to-guarantee-safe-ports-for-migrants">drowning in the Mediterranean</a>.


feed_id: 1f285ba932456ef7db2716ec9e651d70
title: FBI questioning activists
uri: FBI-questioning-activists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#27_June_2018_%28FBI_questioning_activists%29
content:
<p>
The FBI Is Using <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/24/students-for-justice-in-palestine-fbi-sjp/">Unvetted,
Right-Wing Blacklists</a> to Question Activists About Their Support for Palestine.


feed_id: 9453c254b2965fda00b2542044bd05b7
title: Repression of Gypsies
uri: Repression-of-Gypsies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#27_June_2018_%28Repression_of_gypsies%29
content:
<p>
Gypsies have suffered <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/20/italys-treatment-of-roma-people-reflects-a-centuries-old-prejudice">repression and atrocities</a> in Europe for 500 years.


feed_id: dc681fec0e9b4412612e6580829a2736
title: Koch brothers campaign
uri: Koch-brothers-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#27_June_2018_%28Koch_brothers_campaign%29
content:
<p>
The Koch brothers are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/19/koch-brothers-are-bankrolling-local-efforts-kill-american-public-transit">funding a campaign</a> against investing in
public transit in the US.


feed_id: b18dc25e402325b69ed3462a7423903e
title: Urgent: Investigate cops that kill
uri: Urgent-Investigate-cops-that-kill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Urgent%3A_Investigate_cops_that_kill%29

content:
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-this-petition-police-are-not-above-the-law-demand-the-doj-investigate-police-killings-and-harassment-of-african-americans">Call on the Department of Justice</a> to investigate cops
that kill.


feed_id: f54fe02f6d1a7fea03428bc3ec84ff7c
title: Single-use plastic ban
uri: 2018-06-29-Single-use-plastic-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Single-use_plastic_ban%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/25/mumbai-india-bans-plastic-bags-and-bottles">Mumbai has banned</a> single-use plastic bags, cups and bottles.
<p>
I try to avoid bottled water, but in India that's not feasible.
How are they selling drinking water there?


feed_id: d2737bfa6b03f5b57601b75a4ae6274f
title: Surveillance 'wall'
uri: Surveillance-wall
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Surveillance_%27wall%27%29
content:
<p>
The US is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/13/mexico-us-border-wall-surveillance-artificial-intelligence-technology">building a surveillance "wall"</a> at the US-Mexico border, but
it is likely to track everyone within 100 miles of the border in their
daily lives.


feed_id: 15e55cfce6f46c5915b3761451244c54
title: Sweatshop service economy
uri: Sweatshop-service-economy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Sweatshop_service_economy%29
content:
<p>
The sweatshop service economy assures that most people's wages do not
rise even when there is high demand for workers.  The businesses have
arranged to <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/supply-and-demand-model-of-labour-markets-is-fundamentally-broken-2018-6">charge workers' piecework directly to consumers</a>.
<p>
Applying the minimum wage to this piecework would be fine, but perhaps
it would be better to get rid of that business model.


feed_id: 5e5d405970fb376517cda015b2a225fe
title: China's trade warfare
uri: China-s-trade-warfare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28China%27s_trade_warfare%29
content:
<p>
China's trade warfare <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jun/24/tariffs-trump-china-red-states-retaliation">specifically targets the states</a> that voted for
the <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">bully</a>.


feed_id: ce9fc2af1832ad6444b46d1af36e3f2c
title: Dickens revisited
uri: Dickens-revisited
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Dickens_revisited%29
content:
<p>
Republican active cruelty to downtrodden people <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/24/breaking-families-america-looks-dickens-novel">brings back the world
of 1830s Britain</a>, shown in Dickens' novels.


feed_id: 6827ce6b86387df20a09f1999014947b
title: Fighting the Taliban
uri: Fighting-the-Taliban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Fighting_the_Taliban%29
content:
<p>
17 years after the US conquest of Afghanistan, and some 15 years after
the Taliban began fighting effectively, it is clear that the US has
<a href="https://reason.com/archives/2018/06/25/in-afghanistan-we-persist-in-futility">no way ever to win this war</a>.
<p>
I've been saying so <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2006-jan-apr.html#04%20February%202006%20(Afghanistan%205%20years%20after)">for many years</a>.
<p>
The only way to have peace in Afghanistan is for the US to let the
Taliban win.


feed_id: 1ab75d36a7bce86b1afe04f6645bf061
title: Syrian rebels and the US
uri: Syrian-rebels-and-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Syrian_rebels_and_the_US%29
content:
<p>
Assad is attacking Syrian Arab rebels, and the US has told them <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/24/youre-on-your-own-us-tells-syrian-rebels-as-assad-goes-on-offensive">it
will not intervene</a>.
<p>
This might be better than intervening to keep the fighting going.
These rebels are not particularly deserving of support.


feed_id: 7bf8735ae8a985c64bb11c2fc644ffcc
title: Harassment using appliances
uri: Harassment-using-appliances
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Harassment_using_appliances%29
content:
<p>
For "smart", read "sabotage".  Computerized appliances can be used for
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/23/technology/smart-home-devices-domestic-abuse.html">harassment
and gaslighting</a> by a lover or ex-lover.  Since men generally know
more about using these devices than women, it tend to be men that do
this to women.
<p>
This special case of wrongdoing does not depend on the device itself
to be malicious (although the same devices probably do spy, and may
be vulnerable to sabotage by the manufacturer).


feed_id: d7736aa6bc3a272bd2c65014de64d9e2
title: Multilingual children
uri: Multilingual-children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Multilingual_children%29
content:
<p>
Raising a multilingual child requires knowing what to do, but it is a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180619001018/http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-speak-english-20180616-story.html">great
help to per future</a>.
<p>
I sure wish I could have learned French and Spanish as a child rather than
having to study them as an adult.
<p>
If you've already had a child (since especially today it is <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">better to
avoid that</a>),
and you speak a language other than the principal one used where
you live, give per the best.  Give per your other language.


feed_id: 89109ec17b0e053306db872d2cb0a942
title: Sessions citing bible verses
uri: Sessions-citing-bible-verses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Sessions_citing_bible_verses%29
content:
<p>
Saboteur Sessions defended splitting refugee families by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/18/trump-american-caliphate-democracy-arab-world">citing the
same bible verses</a> that were usually cited in the 19th century to
justify slavery.
His supporters love it, because they have more or less shut off their
consciences and dehumanized scapegoats and opposition.


feed_id: 605b32852a6b9a51b82a2e5f1f973c85
title: Freedom of speech on campus
uri: Freedom-of-speech-on-campus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#29_June_2018_%28Freedom_of_speech_on_campus%29
content:
<p>"As a black man, I don't need to be protected from offensive ideas.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/23/uncomfortable-conversations-campus-zachary-wood">I'd rather hear them for myself &mdash; and challenge them</a>."</p>
</li></p>


feed_id: 03e08e23a4129beca18f2a00bcea6087
title: Red Hen ejected Sarah Sanders
uri: Red-Hen-ejected-Sarah-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#29_June_2018_%28Red_Hen_ejected_Sarah_Sanders%29
content:
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/23/trump-press-secretary-sarah-sanders-ejected-virginia-restaurant-red-hen-lexington">A restaurant owner refused to serve Sarah Sanders</a>, who has the job of running supposed "press briefings" for the White House, holding her responsible for taking refugee children and adolescents away from their parents.</p>
<p>It would be a mistake to hold government employees in general responsible for specific actions, other than those directly involved in carrying them out.  For instance, a national park ranger or meat inspector would not be culpable for this at all.  Even some cabinet secretaries might have nothing to do with it.</p>
<p>However, Ms Sanders works visibly and directly for the president.  We can presume she supports all the president's policies if she does not denounce them or quit.</p>
</li></p>


feed_id: ead1d6e04e7973c5013c671b6fb5c3c0
title: UK hides arms trade
uri: UK-hides-arms-trade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#29_June_2018_%28UK_hides_arms_trade%29
content:
<p>The UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/23/uk-hides-arms-trade-saudi-arabia--yemen">disguises some of its sales of bombs</a> to Salafi Arabia.</p>
</li></p>


feed_id: 8ad7e756149b8c795668b93c09785ed9
title: Venezuela UN report
uri: Venezuela-UN-report
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#29_June_2018_%28Venezuela_UN_report%29
content:
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/22/venezuela-rule-of-law-virtually-absent-un-report">Thugs in Venezuela kill people at will</a>, then fake evidence of a fictional gunfight to justify it.</p>
</li></p>


feed_id: 0284961278562f36f79a978a472fb41a
title: NY: prosecutor accountable bill
uri: NY-prosecutor-accountable-bill
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#29_June_2018_%28NY%3A_prosecutor_accountable_bill%29

content:
<p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/22/new-york-prosecutorial-misconduct-andrew-cuomo/">New York's legislature has passed a bill</a> to make prosecutors accountable for misconduct (denying suspects a fair trial).</p>
</li></p>


feed_id: e4784551de50474e544e692f5da8fe36
title: US poverty levels
uri: US-poverty-levels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#29_June_2018_%28US_poverty_levels%29
content:
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/22/united-nations-poverty-report-philip-alston">UN Condemns Trump Administration for Exacerbating US Poverty Levels</a>.</p>
</li></p>


feed_id: e327de5aa159251eb412ecd4c728b9a2
title: US: Forced prison labor
uri: US-Forced-prison-labor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#29_June_2018_%28US%3A_Forced_prison_labor%29
content:
<p>States <a href="https://www.freedomunited.org/advocate/forced-labor-detention/">force prisoners into hard labor</a> for absurd reasons.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/ices-captive-immigrant-labor-force/">Deportation thugs</a>, too.</p>
</li></p>


feed_id: 753b8f2364a4a032ac648c633ba7de6f
title: Sam Lavigne ICE staff doxx
uri: Sam-Lavigne-ICE-staff-doxx
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#29_June_2018_%28Sam_Lavigne_ICE_staff_doxx%29
content:
<p>Sam Lavigne <a href="https://theintercept.com/2018/06/22/the-american-right-wing-had-another-great-week-online/">tried to help Americans hold deportation thugs responsible</a> for imprisoning migrant children and adolescents, by publishing the names and phone numbers of the thugs.  However, various web sites deleted his post.</p>
<p>I think it is usually wrong to doxx people, but the staff of ICE are engaged in terrible cruelty that will scar some of their victims permanently.  Due to their personal actions, they deserve to face personal protests.</p>
</li></p>


feed_id: 301eaa404630294f6e8150ba12ca75a8
title: Flights attendant takes action
uri: Flights-attendant-takes-action
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#29_June_2018_%28Flights_attendant_takes_action%29
content:
<p>Flight attendant Hunt Palmquist <a href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/Flight-attendant-I-won-t-work-flights-that-13008372.php">vowed he would refuse</a> to work on flights to transport immigrant child prisoners.</p>
<p>He realized that if he helped do this, he would morally responsible for his actions.</p>
<p>His response may be the reason that some airlines have since refused to carry those prisoners.  We should pressure the other airlines in the US to do the same.</p>
</li></p>


feed_id: c35ced18d483632a846f1ff078038eeb
title: Acting saboteur of NOAA
uri: Acting-saboteur-of-NOAA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Acting_saboteur_of_NOAA%29
content:
<p>
The acting <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#saboteur">saboteur</a> of NOAA wants to redefine its mission to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/06/25/unconscionable-and-shocking-trumps-head-noaa-proposes-axing-climate-and-conservation">exclude
concern for the climate and conservation</a>.


feed_id: daa11b3a3f75c1e76aa41db156c24f02
title: Anti-terrorist terrorism
uri: Anti-terrorist-terrorism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Anti-terrorist_terrorism%29
content:
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/25/snipers-war-and-anti-terrorist-terrorism">Sniper's
War and Anti-Terrorist Terrorism</a>.


feed_id: 80f2b73619e7610c203cf31963f865d0
title: Reappearance of polio
uri: Reappearance-of-polio
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Reappearance_of_polio%29
content:
<p>
Polio has reappeared in Papua New Guinea, where it was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/26/papua-new-guinea-suffers-first-polio-outbreak-in-18-years">supposed
to have been eradicated</a>.
<p>
It seems unlikely that it got there from Afghanistan or Africa, so
where did it come from?  Was polio being passed on there for many
years, unnoticed?


feed_id: 74f535cc993aa796bc1e9e6913d81309
title: Meat consumption by dogs and cats
uri: Meat-consumption-by-dogs-and-cats
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Meat_consumption_by_dogs_and_cats%29

content:
<p>
One problem with having dogs and cats as pets is that they eat a lot
of meat.  This 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/jun/26/pet-food-is-an-environmental-disaster-are-vegan-dogs-the-answer">contributes
substantially to our exhaustion of the Earth</a>.
<p>
Cats that hunt birds to eat do great harm to bird populations.  We
need a smaller population of dogs and cats, just as we need a smaller
population of humans.
<p>
If you keep a parrot as a pet, it will eat seeds, which use up a lot
less agricultural resources than meat for a dog or cat.


feed_id: 98e24300578fb3b4dcef0d04666eaf3f
title: UK treatment of refugees
uri: UK-treatment-of-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28UK_treatment_of_refugees%29
content:
<p>
The UK treats refugees the way it treats disabled people: 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/26/trump-british-brutality-us-mexico-border">seizing
any fragment of an excuse to deport them</a>.


feed_id: 9cf59fc59e81b7c3a8b92bdf5317e63f
title: Troll fundamentally anti-American
uri: Troll-fundamentally-anti-American
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Troll_fundamentally_anti-American%29

content:
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a>-saboteur-cheater is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/26/donald-trump-immigration-most-un-american-president">directly
and fundamentally anti-American</a>.


feed_id: 24ef8f794c733f892dbc03c536cf00f5
title: Politicians who poison democracy
uri: Politicians-who-poison-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Politicians_who_poison_democracy%29
content:
<p>
Politicians that treat politics 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/26/heathrow-brexit-politics-boris-johnson-commons-vote">as
a show rather than as an argument</a> are a poison for democracy in
general</a>.


feed_id: 8f29228bfc70ee95494587aff43b5919
title: Homeless families easy prey for gangs
uri: Homeless-families-easy-prey-for-gangs
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Homeless_families_easy_prey_for_gangs%29

content:
<p>
Making families homeless because a child belongs to a gang will create
more and increasingly vulnerable children that are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/26/gang-members-families-evicting">easy
prey for gangs</a>.


feed_id: 4ecf82d69b9496cd1bf2dd5261ac3cb7
title: Enslaved people forced into crime
uri: Enslaved-people-forced-into-crime
url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Enslaved_people_forced_into_crime%29

content:
<p>
Enslaved people are often forced to commit crimes.  <a href="https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> 
<a href="https://www.freedomunited.org/news/should-trafficking-victims-keep-their-criminal-records/">plans
to stop helping them vacate the convictions</a> for those crimes.


feed_id: 8c0c09a6ac28d7f263045be725a2a39b
title: Troll's ambassador to Israel
uri: Troll-s-ambassador-to-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#28_June_2018_%28Trolls_ambassador_to_Israel%29
content:
<p>
The bigot's ambassador to Israel 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/26/us-ambassador-israel-boon-far-right">uses
his position to advance repression in Israel and the US</a>.  He also
violates rules for US ambassadors, and should be investigated for
that.


