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Richard Stallman's Political Notes

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Secular state for Jews and Arabs

lundi 9 avril 2018 à 02:00

The organizer of Gaza's nonviolent protests advocates a single secular state for Jews and Arabs.

Nonorthodox Jews in Israel may find, in a decade or two, that their only safety from the oppression of the ultra-orthodox would be in having Arabs to counterbalance them. Today the ultra-orthodox demand segregation of women, but if they win that, they will demand more.

Held incommunicado in China

lundi 9 avril 2018 à 02:00

China has held human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang incommunicado since he was arrested in 2015. His wife suspects he may be dead, but the state won't tell her anything.

Mexico's migrant caravan

lundi 9 avril 2018 à 02:00

'If Our Countries Were Safe, We Wouldn't Leave': the Harsh Reality of Mexico's Migrant Caravan.

Child welfare benefits

lundi 9 avril 2018 à 02:00

Various religious groups in the UK call for an end to the policy of offering no welfare benefits for children after the second. They say it increases poverty and abortions.

A rise in poverty means suffering. I expect that the Tories put on the limit with suffering in mind. It would fit everything else they do. However, a rise in abortions is good (at least, compared with having more babies).

Surely we can find a way to discourage birth of possible future children, without imposing privation on real children after their birth.

Erasing messages

lundi 9 avril 2018 à 02:00

Facebook executives can send a message to a used and later seamlessly delete it, so they can pretend it never existed.