# articles

title: Proposal to stop government contracts with businesses connected to tax havens
uri: Proposal-to-stop-government-contracts-with-businesses-connected-to-tax
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Proposal_to_stop_government_contracts_with_businesses_connected_to_tax_havens)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Proposal_to_stop_government_contracts_with_businesses_connected_to_tax_havens)

content:
 
<p>
Labour proposes to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/24/one-in-six-uk-public-procurement-contracts-had-tax-haven-link-study-finds">stop giving government contracts to businesses
connected with tax havens</a>.
<p>
It would be a change for the better, but only a small one.  It would
be simple to require <em>all</em> companies that do business in in Britain to
reveal their real owners, whereas this would only affect those businesses
that get government contracts.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Giorgia_Meloni_and_fascism)
title: Giorgia Meloni and fascism
uri: Giorgia-Meloni-and-fascism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Giorgia_Meloni_and_fascism)
content:
 
<p>
*Giorgia Meloni is a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2022/sep/24/giorgia-meloni-is-a-danger-to-italy-and-the-rest-of-europe-far-right">danger to Italy and the rest of Europe</a>.
The Brothers of Italy leader denies she is a fascist but clings to the
Mussolini-era slogan "God, homeland, family."*
<p>
*Meloni appears the most dangerous Italian political figure not because
she explicitly evokes fascism or the practices of the black-shirted
squadristi (militia), but because of her ambiguity.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Vanuatu)
title: Vanuatu
uri: Vanuatu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Vanuatu)
content:
 
<p>
*Vanuatu makes bold call for global treaty to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/24/vanuatu-makes-bold-call-for-global-treaty-to-phase-out-fossil-fuels">phase out fossil fuels</a>.*
<p>
*Pope calls for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/24/pope-calls-for-courage-in-halting-use-of-fossil-fuels-to-protect-planet">courage in halting use of fossil fuels to protect
planet</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Attempted delays by the wrecker have been largely thwarted
uri: Attempted-delays-by-the-wrecker-have-been-largely-thwarted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Attempted_delays_by_the_wrecker_have_been_largely_thwarted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Attempted_delays_by_the_wrecker_have_been_largely_thwarted)

content:
 
<p>
*Attempts by [the wrecker] to delay the criminal investigation into
his unlawful retention of government secrets have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/24/donald-trump-investigation-mar-a-lago-legal-woes">largely thwarted
after the Department of Justice regained access to about 100 documents
with classified markings that the FBI seized from the former US
president's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Big businesses openly and shamelessly hires Congressional staff
uri: Big-businesses-openly-and-shamelessly-hires-Congressional-staff
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Big_businesses_openly_and_shamelessly_hires_Congressional_staff)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Big_businesses_openly_and_shamelessly_hires_Congressional_staff)

content:
 
<p>
Big businesses openly and shamelessly hire Congressional staff
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/23/gross-republican-openly-brags-about-staffer-leaving-work-wall-street">lobby their former coworkers</a>.
<p>
They hire former Congressional representatives, too, but they disguise that
behind polite veils.

<p>
 


title: 80% of US voters want National Paid Family Leave
uri: 80-of-US-voters-want-National-Paid-Family-Leave
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(80%25_of_US_voters_want_National_Paid_Family_Leave)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(80%25_of_US_voters_want_National_Paid_Family_Leave)

content:
 
<p>
*80% of US Voters Want Congress to Enact <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/23/80-us-voters-want-congress-enact-national-paid-family-leave-poll">National Paid Family Leave</a>:
Poll.*
<p>
Politicians that call themselves "<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#29_September_2017_(Right-wing_plutocratic_politicians)">centrists</a>" are opposed to this,
but they are nowhere near the political center of Americans.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(War_crimes)
title: War crimes
uri: 2022-09-28-War-crimes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(War_crimes)
content:
 
<p>
UN investigators have reported evidence of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/23/russia-has-committed-war-crimes-in-ukraine-say-un-investigators">many war crimes committed
by the Putin forces</a>,
as well as a couple of instances of war crimes by Ukrainians.

 


title: Fossil fuel pipelines show failure to meet climate goals
uri: Fossil-fuel-pipelines-show-failure-to-meet-climate-goals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Fossil_fuel_pipelines_show_failure_to_meet_climate_goals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Fossil_fuel_pipelines_show_failure_to_meet_climate_goals)

content:
 
<p>
*More than 24,000km of [fossil fuel] pipelines planned around world,
showing "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/27/huge-expansion-oil-pipelines-endangering-climate-says-report">an almost deliberate failure to meet climate goals.</a>"*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Mexican_military_thugs)
title: Mexican military thugs
uri: Mexican-military-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Mexican_military_thugs)
content:
 
<p>
Mexico's president, AMLO, has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/27/amlo-mexico-army-national-guard">created a new nationwide police and made
it part of the military</a>.  That means the military are the thugs.

<p>
 


title: We don't know if there will be another attempt to overthrow American democracy
uri: We-don-t-know-if-there-will-be-another-attempt-to-overthrow-American-d
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(We_don't_know_if_there_will_be_another_attempt_to_overthrow_American_democracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(We_don't_know_if_there_will_be_another_attempt_to_overthrow_American_democracy)

content:
 
<p>
We don't know yet <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/27/january-6-changed-america-here-are-two-directions-the-country-could-go-now">whether the Jan 6 coup attempt will lead to the
overthrow of American democracy</a>.
The fanatical party, now committed to contempt for truth, has not given up.

<p>
 


title: Biden's plan to end hunger and reduce obesity
uri: Biden-s-plan-to-end-hunger-and-reduce-obesity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Biden's_plan_to_end_hunger_and_reduce_obesity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Biden's_plan_to_end_hunger_and_reduce_obesity)

content:
 
<p>
Biden has launched <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/27/us-biden-effort-end-hunger-2030-expanding-benefits-diet-food-deserts">a plan to end hunger in the US, and reduce obesity</a>,
with federal help.
To pass this plan requires electing more democrats.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(People_have_rejected_Spotify)
title: People have rejected Spotify
uri: People-have-rejected-Spotify
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(People_have_rejected_Spotify)
content:
 
<p>
Some people are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/27/theres-endless-choice-but-youre-not-listening-fans-quitting-spotify-to-save-their-love-of-music">rejecting Spotify for reasons that have to do with their
emotional relationship with music</a>.
<p>
To use Spotify is inconceivable for me -- its injustices
(the same as those of <a href="media/3f1e898d.ebooks.pdf" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/ebooks.pdf">Amazon e-books</a>)
overrides all the secondary details.
<p>
If you stop using Spotify, please choose alternatives that don't impose
those injustices.  Check that you don't need to use nonfree software,
don't have to identify yourself to listen, and don't have to make
an antisocial agreement not to share.
<p>
You can access Youtube without running nonfree Javascript code
by means of the proxy system, invidio.us.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Edward_Snowden)
title: Edward Snowden
uri: 2022-09-29-Edward-Snowden
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Edward_Snowden)
content:
 
<p>
Edward Snowden speaks about <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/26/after-nearly-decade-exile-snowden-granted-russian-citizenship">being granted Russian citizenship</a> --
Russia being the only country that will let him stay and not hand him
over for prosecution.  He wishes that he could safely return to the
US and live here.
<p>
Snowden did not choose to go to Russia at all.  He had a flight connection
in Moscow, and was unable to board the second flight because the US had
cancelled his passport.
<p>
I hope that whatever happens at the end of the war doesn't result in handing
over Snowden to the US.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Argument_for_if_Putin_falls)
title: Argument for if Putin falls
uri: Argument-for-if-Putin-falls
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Argument_for_if_Putin_falls)
content:
 
<p>
Arguing that, if Putin falls, it would be good for the west <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/27/putin-regime-fall-ukraine-west-negotiate">to offer
his successor a deal</a> that perse could present to the Russian people as
a good one.
<p>
I am in favor of this, provided the deal doesn't include keeping any
of Ukraine.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Whale-detection_system)
title: Whale-detection system
uri: Whale-detection-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Whale-detection_system)
content:
 
<p>
A whale-detection system will <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/world/whales-noise-pollution-anti-collision-c2e-spc-intl-scn/index.html">inform ships in a narrow bay in Chile</a> that
they should slow down to avoid hitting whales.
<p>
I am only guessing, but I tend to think that this will not be
sufficient change -- that we need to reduce the overall level of
human-generated noise if we want whales to be safe.

<p>
 


title: States restricting prescriptions for drugs
uri: States-restricting-prescriptions-for-drugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(States_restricting_prescriptions_for_drugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(States_restricting_prescriptions_for_drugs)

content:
 
<p>
Some state laws banning abortions <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/26/us-abortion-bans-restrict-access-essential-medications">restrict all prescriptions for drugs
widely used to treat other medical problems</a>,
other than the problem of unwanted pregnancy that is.  If these
laws covered the whole US, it would interfere with the treatment of
millions of patients.
<p>
Let us not make the usual mistake of emphasizing the uncontroversial
collateral damage over the more controversial intended damage.  Those
religious fanatics want to force people to have babies!

<p>
 


title: British society and communication impoverished
uri: British-society-and-communication-impoverished
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(British_society_and_communication_impoverished)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(British_society_and_communication_impoverished)

content:
 
<p>
Institutions have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/26/hilary-mantel-monarchy-royal-death-accession-crown">impoverished British society and communication</a> to
the point where jumping into a wave of deference to the monarchy is
the only outlet for the yearning for a sense of common social feeling
and purpose.
<p>
The article speaks of "<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Consume">consuming</a>" a "national account of ourselves"
(referring to the British, thus not including me).  This is not as
twisted as the idea of <a>"consuming" books or movies,
but I think "absorbing" fits better.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Russian_shot_official)
title: Russian shot official
uri: Russian-shot-official
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Russian_shot_official)
content:
 
<p>
A Russian about to be drafted <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/26/russia-man-shoots-commander-drafting-residents-for-war-in-ukraine">shot the official</a> that was trying to
draft him.

<p>
 


title: California school students get gratis breakfast and lunch
uri: California-school-students-get-gratis-breakfast-and-lunch
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(California_school_students_get_gratis_breakfast_and_lunch)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(California_school_students_get_gratis_breakfast_and_lunch)

content:
 
<p>
California now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/26/free-school-meals-california-universal">gives all school students gratis breakfast and lunch</a>.
Students, no longer going hungry, are doing better.
<p>
It seemed to me that lunch in my schools in New York City was gratis
in the 1960s.  I certainly was never asked to pay for lunch.  Could it
be that my mother bills paid for my school lunches?  It never occurred
to me to wonder about this before, and it is too late to ask her now.

<p>
 


title: Churches pressing members to install spyware
uri: Churches-pressing-members-to-install-spyware
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Churches_pressing_members_to_install_spyware)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Churches_pressing_members_to_install_spyware)

content:
 
<p>
Some churches pressure members to <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/covenant-eyes-anti-porn-accountability-monitoring-apps/">install spyware so the church can
shame them for what they look at on the web</a>.

<p>
 


title: System to help people freaking out calm down
uri: System-to-help-people-freaking-out-calm-down
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(System_to_help_people_freaking_out_calm_down)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(System_to_help_people_freaking_out_calm_down)

content:
 
<p>
Westport, Connecticut, has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/24/us/westport-connecticut-police-reforms-mental-health-cfc/index.html">set up a system to help its police department
deescalate confrontations with people who are freaking out</a>.  The system
helps them quickly find friends or relatives to calm someone down,
rather than a cop who is a stranger.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Torture_and_brainwashing)
title: Torture and brainwashing
uri: 2022-09-29-Torture-and-brainwashing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Torture_and_brainwashing)
content:
 
<p>
British-Ukrainian Aiden Aslin describes the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/25/aiden-aslin-release-russia-uk-ukraine">torture and brainwashing
he was subjected to during 5 months as a prisoner of war</a>, before he
was exchanged.
It ranged from solitary confinement to threats to murder him
summarily.
<p>
It is interesting that the guards in the supposedly independent
Donetsk People's Republic forced prisoners to sing <em>Russia's</em> national
anthem, not an anthem of their supposed country.  They seem not to
take its "independence" more seriously than it warrants.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: No one should be jailed or imprisoned for an unintentional voting error
uri: Urgent-No-one-should-be-jailed-or-imprisoned-for-an-unintentional-vot
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Urgent:_No_one_should_be_jailed_or_imprisoned_for_an_unintentional_voting_error)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Urgent:_No_one_should_be_jailed_or_imprisoned_for_an_unintentional_voting_error)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: tell Congress and state legislatures that <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/fix-our-system-no-one-should-be-jailed-or-imprisoned-for-an-unintentional-voting-error?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-petition-no-jail-time-for-an-unintentional-voting-error-2">no one
should be jailed or imprisoned for an unintentional voting error</a>.

<p>
 


title: Iranians enraged at the state protesting around the country
uri: Iranians-enraged-at-the-state-protesting-around-the-country
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Iranians_enraged_at_the_state_protesting_around_the_country)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Iranians_enraged_at_the_state_protesting_around_the_country)

content:
 
<p>
Iranians are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/24/at-least-35-dead-in-eight-nights-of-protests-iran-state-media-reports">enraged at the state, and keep protesting around the country
despite 35 killings</a> -- mostly protesters, it is clear, but not all.
<p>
They are angry about a lot more than the death of Mahsa Amini.
Iranians, led by women, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/24/something-big-is-happening-the-iranians-risking-everything-to-protest">demand changes in laws to respect their
rights</a>.

<p>
 


title: California to ban gas heater and furnace sales
uri: California-to-ban-gas-heater-and-furnace-sales
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(California_to_ban_gas_heater_and_furnace_sales)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(California_to_ban_gas_heater_and_furnace_sales)

content:
 
<p>
*California to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/23/big-climate-win-california-ban-sale-gas-heaters-and-furnaces-2030">Ban Sale of Gas Heaters and Furnaces</a> by 2030.*

<p>
 


title: Museum bows to indigenous group's demand
uri: Museum-bows-to-indigenous-group-s-demand
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Museum_bows_to_indigenous_group's_demand)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Museum_bows_to_indigenous_group's_demand)

content:
 
<p>
Setting a sad precedent: a museum has bowed to the pressure of an
indigenous group that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/25/they-belong-to-waramungu-new-zealand-museum-agrees-to-return-items-to-indigenous-australians">demanded the "return" of four artifacts that the
museum legitimately owns</a>.
<p>
The group agrees that these artifacts were not stolen; that the
anthropologist who gave them to the museum had acquired them
legitimately.  Why should the museum feel an obligation to give in?
What justification can the group present for demanding to get them
back?  The article does not present any, it only cites someone who
takes this for granted.  The people in that group are not the only
ones concerned here.
<p>
In general, should anthropologists obey demands to discard part of
anthropological knowledge?  I contend this should require a reason
stronger than, "These artifacts are related to us so only we can have
them."

<p>
 


title: Tories plan for increasing CO2 emissions
uri: Tories-plan-for-increasing-CO2-emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Tories_plan_for_increasing_CO2_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Tories_plan_for_increasing_CO2_emissions)

content:
 
<p>
The Tories are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/24/this-dash-for-growth-represents-the-death-of-green-toryism">adopting plans for greatly increasing CO2 emissions in
the UK</a>.

<p>
 


title: (Satire) Rigged elections results
uri: (Satire)-Rigged-elections-results
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_((Satire)_Rigged_elections_results)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_((Satire)_Rigged_elections_results)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Putin Stays Up Late <a href="https://www.theonion.com/putin-stays-up-late-constantly-refreshing-website-for-r-1849574281">Constantly Refreshing Website</a> For
Results From Rigged Elections.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_((satire)_UN_disappears)
title: (satire) UN disappears
uri: (satire)-UN-disappears
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_((satire)_UN_disappears)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *U.N. <a href="https://www.theonion.com/u-n-mysteriously-disappears-after-criticizing-russia-1849574232">Mysteriously Disappears After Criticising Russia</a>.*

<p>
 


title: The wrecker and "executive privilege"
uri: The-wrecker-and-executive-privilege
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(The_wrecker_and_executive_privilege)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(The_wrecker_and_executive_privilege)

content:
 
<p>
There is a secret legal dispute about whether the wrecker can use
"executive privilege" to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/politics/trump-grand-jury-court-fight/index.html">block some of his henchmen from testifying to
a grand jury</a> about what appears to be a conspiracy to overturn part of
the 2020 election.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(To_fix_the_US_welfare_system)
title: To fix the US welfare system
uri: To-fix-the-US-welfare-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(To_fix_the_US_welfare_system)
content:
 
<p>
*To <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/23/welfare-system-built-exclude-will-never-reduce-poverty-us">fix its broken welfare system</a>, the U.S. must move away from its
fixation on fraud, exclusions by design, and the stigmatization of
people in poverty.*

<p>
 


title: Britain to reform electoral system
uri: Britain-to-reform-electoral-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Britain_to_reform_electoral_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Britain_to_reform_electoral_system)

content:
 
<p>
Britain is ready to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/25/liz-truss-keir-starmer-electoral-reform-voting-system">reform its broken electoral system</a>, but the conservative
leaders in control of the Labour Party refuse to advocate that.

<p>
 


title: Fast food companies want the power to abuse workers
uri: Fast-food-companies-want-the-power-to-abuse-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Fast_food_companies_want_the_power_to_abuse_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Fast_food_companies_want_the_power_to_abuse_workers)

content:
 
<p>
Now that California has passed a law to protect fast-food workers pay
and rights, the big fast-food companies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/18/california-labor-law-fast-food-industry-referendum">want Californians to vote to
restore the power to abuse those workers</a>, in the name of low prices.

<p>
 


title: DeMentis secretly transported immigrants to Martha's Vineyard
uri: DeMentis-secretly-transported-immigrants-to-Martha-s-Vineyard
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(DeMentis_secretly_transported_immigrants_to_Martha's_Vineyard)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(DeMentis_secretly_transported_immigrants_to_Martha's_Vineyard)

content:
 
<p>
DeMentis now claims to have sincerely <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/25/ron-desantis-marthas-vineyard-immigrants-welfare">transported immigrants to
Martha's Vineyard</a> to help them.
<p>
One could ask him, "If you really wanted to help them, why did you give
them a false picture of the support they would find there?"

<p>
 


title: World Bank head is a global heating denialist
uri: World-Bank-head-is-a-global-heating-denialist
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(World_Bank_head_is_a_global_heating_denialist)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(World_Bank_head_is_a_global_heating_denialist)

content:
 
<p>
The head of the World Bank <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/25/head-of-world-bank-under-pressure-after-white-house-condemns-his-climate-denial-comments">really is a global heating denialist</a>, and
it appears he was put in that position by the wrecker precisely to
obstruct climate defense.  The world needs to oust him.

<p>
 


title: California government and local governments took black citizens' land
uri: California-government-and-local-governments-took-black-citizens-land
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(California_government_and_local_governments_took_black_citizens'_land)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(California_government_and_local_governments_took_black_citizens'_land)

content:
 
<p>
The government of California, and local governments, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/25/the-forgotten-history-of-what-california-stole-from-black-families">took away black
citizens' land and houses systematically</a> in various parts of the state.

<p>
 


title: Corporate greed is behind inflation
uri: Corporate-greed-is-behind-inflation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Corporate_greed_is_behind_inflation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Corporate_greed_is_behind_inflation)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/25/inflation-price-controls-robert-reich">Corporate greed, not wages, is behind inflation</a>. It's time for price
controls.*
<p>
Rigid price controls cause a different kind of market distortion.  I
wonder if there is a way to get a similar effect but less rigid.  For
instance, what if any increase of X in the price of a product resulted
in an additional tex starting at .9X and decreasing linearly over the
following year down to .1X, then ending after that year.  This might
discourage price increases that are not meant to be long-term.

<p>
 


title: Crimean Tatars say Putin is targeting them
uri: Crimean-Tatars-say-Putin-is-targeting-them
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Crimean_Tatars_say_Putin_is_targeting_them)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Crimean_Tatars_say_Putin_is_targeting_them)

content:
 
<p>
The Crimean Tatars, those that remain in the Crimea, say that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/25/a-way-to-get-rid-of-us-crimean-tatars-decry-russia-mobilisation">Putin is
targeting them for conscription as a method of getting rid of them</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_Social_Security)
title: Urgent: Protect Social Security
uri: Urgent-Protect-Social-Security
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_Social_Security)
content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protect-social-security/?t=1001&akid=29507%2E96703%2EEgJWt_">protect Social Security</a>.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Britain crying out for radical solutions
uri: Britain-crying-out-for-radical-solutions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Britain_crying_out_for_radical_solutions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Britain_crying_out_for_radical_solutions)

content:
 
<p>

  *Britain is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/24/britain-radical-solutions-labour-1990s-strikes">crying out for radical solutions</a>, but Labour still thinks
it’s in the 1990s.* Warning that if Labour doesn't support what
non-wealthy Britons demand, if they have no hope of supporting Corbyn,
they will turn to radicals that are authoritarian.
<p>
I stand by my <a href="media/17a21a4c.anurin-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/archives/anurin-bevan.jpg">cartoon contrasting B'liar's "New Labour" with the
    Labour government</a> that established the great social democratic
policies that lifted most Britons out of poverty after World War II.
Just imagine that <a href="/glossary.html#bliar">Tony B'liar</a> is replaced by keir Starmer.
<p>
If you won't recognize that "The Tories are lower than vermin,"
you will never offer anything more than a lesser evil.

 


title: Ecocide as an international crime
uri: Ecocide-as-an-international-crime
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Ecocide_as_an_international_crime)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Ecocide_as_an_international_crime)

content:
 
<p>

  A campaign to define <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/26/activists-push-make-ecocide-international-crime">"ecocide" as an international crime</a>, comparable
to genocide.
<p>
I don't think that prosecuting ecocide is a panacea.  It is easy to
understand intentional deforestation as ecocide.  Each piece of the
forest is cut down or burnt by certain people.
<p>
However, when a lightning-sparked wildfire destroys a forest, it is
harder to pin the destruction on anyone.  Everyone's CO2 emissions
contribute a little to each wildfire.
<p>
Nonetheless, prosecuting people like Bolosonaro could help, and they
certainly deserve it.

 


title: Watching protests in Iran with hope
uri: Watching-protests-in-Iran-with-hope
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Watching_protests_in_Iran_with_hope)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Watching_protests_in_Iran_with_hope)

content:
 
<p>

*We watch the protests in Iran and hope, but false optimism may be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/25/we-watch-protests-in-iran-and-hope-but-false-optimism-may-be-clouding-our-eyes">clouding
    our eyes</a>.*

 


title: Elderly Americans at risk of Covid
uri: Elderly-Americans-at-risk-of-Covid
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Elderly_Americans_at_risk_of_Covid)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Elderly_Americans_at_risk_of_Covid)

content:
 
<p>

Disregard for the goal of reducing the spread of Covid has put
millions of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/25/covid-19-older-americans-risk">elderly Americans in a vice</a> between the need to go out
to do things (even seeing doctors) and the danger of being exposed
by a risk denier.
<p>
Please wear a good mask whenever you are indoors sharing air with
other people.

 


title: EPA won't make up for Manchin deal
uri: EPA-won-t-make-up-for-Manchin-deal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(EPA_won't_make_up_for_Manchin_deal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(EPA_won't_make_up_for_Manchin_deal)

content:
 
<p>

  *EPA's Environmental Justice Office <a herf="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/25/epas-environmental-justice-office-wont-make-manchin-deal-campaigner-says">'Won't Make Up for'</a> Manchin Deal,
Campaigner Says.*

 


title: Women in Russia holding protests against conscription
uri: Women-in-Russia-holding-protests-against-conscription
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Women_in_Russia_holding_protests_against_conscription)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Women_in_Russia_holding_protests_against_conscription)

content:
 
<p>

  Women in Dagestan (part of Russia) are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/europe/russia-dagestan-protests-mobilization-intl-hnk/index.html">holding mass protests</a> against
conscription.

 


title: (satire) Soldiers required to recruit troops
uri: (satire)-Soldiers-required-to-recruit-troops
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_((satire)_Soldiers_required_to_recruit_troops)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_((satire)_Soldiers_required_to_recruit_troops)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/struggling-u-s-military-requires-every-soldier-to-recr-1849574270">*Struggling U.S. Military Requires Every
    Soldier To Recruit Additional 300 New Troops.*</a>

 


title: Starmer's policy speech more progressive than expected
uri: Starmer-s-policy-speech-more-progressive-than-expected
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Starmer's_policy_speech_more_progressive_than_expected)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Starmer's_policy_speech_more_progressive_than_expected)

content:
 
<p>

  A panel of judges rated Starmer's policy speech as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/27/keir-starmer-speech-labour-conference-panel-verdict">more progressive</a>
than they expected from him.

 


title: Crabs staying where oceans stay warm longer
uri: Crabs-staying-where-oceans-stay-warm-longer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Crabs_staying_where_oceans_stay_warm_longer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Crabs_staying_where_oceans_stay_warm_longer)

content:
 
<p>

Crabs, enjoying the warming ocean around Normandy and Brittany and the
delicious mussel farms there, are staying most of the year and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/27/voracious-spider-crabs-threaten-french-mussel-farms-brittany-normandy">devouring the mussels</a>.
<p>
Since their numbers are growing, we should encourage people to eat them
and keep the numbers stable.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Campaign_to_end_prison_slavery)
title: Campaign to end prison slavery
uri: Campaign-to-end-prison-slavery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Campaign_to_end_prison_slavery)
content:
 
<p>

  On the campaign to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/27/slavery-loophole-unpaid-labor-in-prisons">end prison slavery</a> &mdash; forcing prisoners to work for
private employers for a pittance.

 


title: Hydrogen unsuitable for home heating
uri: Hydrogen-unsuitable-for-home-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Hydrogen_unsuitable_for_home_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Hydrogen_unsuitable_for_home_heating)

content:
 
<p>

  *Hydrogen is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/27/hydrogen-is-unsuitable-for-home-heating-review-concludes">unsuitable for home heating</a>, review concludes.*
<p>
Hydrogen made from renewable electricity may be useful for
decarbonizing transport, but that's a different issue.

 


title: Bans on speaking of abortion at University of Idaho
uri: Bans-on-speaking-of-abortion-at-University-of-Idaho
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Bans_on_speaking_of_abortion_at_University_of_Idaho)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Bans_on_speaking_of_abortion_at_University_of_Idaho)

content:
 
<p>

The University of Idaho has <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/09/27/abortion-university-idaho/">banned its employees from saying anything
    about abortion</a>.  Even medical personnel.  And they are warned not to
offer anything under the rubric of contraception.
<p>
This requirement, if attributed to a law, seems to be
unconstitutional.

 


title: Laws to suppress climate activists
uri: Laws-to-suppress-climate-activists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Laws_to_suppress_climate_activists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Laws_to_suppress_climate_activists)

content:
 
<p>

  *As resistance grows to the fossil fuel regime, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/19/as-resistance-grows-to-the-fossil-fuel-regime-laws-are-springing-up-everywhere-to-suppress-climate-activists">laws are springing up</a>
everywhere to suppress climate activists.*
<p>
  The global climate disaster, which I expect will <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#28_November_2020_(Planning_gigadeaths)">cause gigadeaths</a>,
will not be an accident.  It will be mass murder, carried out by the
power of the <a href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a>.
<p>
What punishment will they deserve for these murders?
What actions would people be justified in using to prevent mass murder?

 


title: Italian government to demonize immigrants and queer people
uri: Italian-government-to-demonize-immigrants-and-queer-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Italian_government_to_demonize_immigrants_and_queer_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Italian_government_to_demonize_immigrants_and_queer_people)

content:
 
<p>

Italy's new right-wing government is expected to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/26/we-need-to-unite-against-this-nationalism-italians-air-fears-after-victory-for-populist-right">demonize immigrants
    and queer people</a>.  It may also attack the right to an abortion.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Increasing_taxes_for_the_rich)
title: Increasing taxes for the rich
uri: Increasing-taxes-for-the-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Increasing_taxes_for_the_rich)
content:
 
<p>

  Finally, something good from Labour: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/26/labour-vows-to-bring-back-45-top-rate-tax-and-invest-in-nhs">increasing taxes for the rich</a>,
and funding the NHS.

<p>
 


title: Courts must stop shielding government surveillance programs from accountability
uri: Courts-must-stop-shielding-government-surveillance-programs-from-accou
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Courts_must_stop_shielding_government_surveillance_programs_from_accountability)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Courts_must_stop_shielding_government_surveillance_programs_from_accountability)

content:
 
<p>
*US courts must <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/26/us-courts-government-accountability-state-secrets">stop shielding government surveillance programs from
accountability</a>.*
<p>
To do this, we must also crack down on all kinds of commercial surveillance.
Once the data have been put in a database, the state will surely arrange
to access them.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Meloni's_no_Mussolini)
title: Meloni's no Mussolini
uri: Meloni-s-no-Mussolini
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Meloni's_no_Mussolini)
content:
 
<p>
*Italy's Giorgia Meloni is no Mussolini -- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2022/sep/28/giorgia-meloni-mussolini-trump-europe-italy-elections">but she may be a Trump</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Cuba's_referendum_)
title: Cuba's referendum
uri: Cuba-s-referendum
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Cuba's_referendum_)
content:
 
<p>
Cuba has held a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/americas/cuba-legalizes-same-sex-marriage-intl-latam/index.html">referendum on a proposed law</a> -- to legalize same-sex
marriage.
<p>
The new law was approved, with 2/3 of the votes in favor and 1/3
against.  It appears there was actual public disagreement about the
law.  Allowing democracy in one policy area and tolerating public
disagreement is a step forward for Cuba.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Starbucks_agrees_to_negotiate)
title: Starbucks agrees to negotiate
uri: Starbucks-agrees-to-negotiate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Starbucks_agrees_to_negotiate)
content:
 
<p>
Starbucks has agreed to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/26/huge-victory-starbucks-agrees-begin-contract-talks-230-union-stores">negotiate with all 230 of the US stores that
have unionized</a>.

<p>
 


title: Recruiter service rejecting oil, gas, and mining companies
uri: Recruiter-service-rejecting-oil-gas-and-mining-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Recruiter_service_rejecting_oil,_gas,_and_mining_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Recruiter_service_rejecting_oil,_gas,_and_mining_companies)

content:
 
<p>
A university student recruiting service has adopted a policy of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/28/fossil-fuel-recruiters-banned-from-birkbeck-university-of-london-careers-service">rejecting
oil, gas and mining companies</a>.

<p>
 


title: Central banks financing rainforest destruction
uri: Central-banks-financing-rainforest-destruction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Central_banks_financing_rainforest_destruction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Central_banks_financing_rainforest_destruction)

content:
 
<p>
*World's central banks <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/28/worlds-central-banks-financing-destruction-of-the-rainforest">financing destruction of the rainforest</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Palestinian villages strangled by demolition
uri: Palestinian-villages-strangled-by-demolition
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Palestinian_villages_strangled_by_demolition)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Palestinian_villages_strangled_by_demolition)

content:
 
<p>
Palestinian villages such as Masafer Yatta are being <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/28/every-day-is-worse-than-the-one-before-a-palestinian-community-fights-for-survival">slowly strangled by
the demolition</a> of all the houses.

<p>
 


title: Governments should be saving the planet
uri: Governments-should-be-saving-the-planet
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Governments_should_be_saving_the_planet)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Governments_should_be_saving_the_planet)

content:
 
<p>
*Patagonia's radical business move is great -- but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/20/patagonia-billion-dollar-climate-initiative-philanthropy">governments, not
billionaires, should be saving the planet</a>.*
<p>
*We cannot simply stand back and hope that the elite will give away
their wealth to tackle the climate emergency.* Most of them won't
help voluntarily, so we need laws to compel them.

 


title: Urgent: Eliminate election disinformation from social media
uri: Urgent-Eliminate-election-disinformation-from-social-media
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Urgent:_Eliminate_election_disinformation_from_social_media)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Urgent:_Eliminate_election_disinformation_from_social_media)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on social media platforms to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-social-media-platforms-undeniably-bolstered-election-lies-they-must-prevent-spreading-election-disinformation">eliminate election
    disinformation</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Ban sale of bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides
uri: Urgent-Ban-sale-of-bee-killing-neonicotinoid-pesticides
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Urgent:_Ban_sale_of_bee-killing_neonicotinoid_pesticides)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Urgent:_Ban_sale_of_bee-killing_neonicotinoid_pesticides)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the EPA to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=51955">ban consumer sale of bee-killing
    neonicotinoid pesticides</a>. Use in commercial farms should be banned too.

 


title: Thugs seizure of reporter Jeff German's phone and computers
uri: Thugs-seizure-of-reporter-Jeff-German-s-phone-and-computers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Thugs_seizure_of_reporter_Jeff_German's_phone_and_computers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Thugs_seizure_of_reporter_Jeff_German's_phone_and_computers)

content:
 
<p>

After Las Vegas corruption reporter Jeff German was murdered, the thugs <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/27/us/jeff-german-computers-phone-las-vegas-police-search/index.html">seized
    his phone and computers</a>.  The Las Vegas Review Journal is suing because this
is likely to identify his confidential sources.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Nord_stream_pipelines_sabotaged)
title: Nord stream pipelines sabotaged
uri: Nord-stream-pipelines-sabotaged
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Nord_stream_pipelines_sabotaged)
content:
 
<p>

The two Nord Stream pipelines, which used to carry methane from Russia
to Germany, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/27/energy/nord-stream-pipeline-leaks/index.html">have been sabotaged</a> &mdash; gas now leaks out and bubbles up to
the surface of the Baltic Sea.
<p>
Putin shut down the pipelines to put economic pressure on Europe.
Putin could have resumed the gas supply at any time.  But no longer:
the sabotage has eliminated the option of resuming delivery.  The
economic difficulties for Europe continue, but Putin no longer has the
power to switch them on and off.  Thus, Europe no longer has the
option of ending the economic difficulties by caving to Putin.
<p>
Some are accusing Putin of causing the sabotage, but I don't see
how that would have given him any advantage.

 


title: Building 15,000 miles of oil pipelines
uri: Building-15-000-miles-of-oil-pipelines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Building_15,000_miles_of_oil_pipelines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Building_15,000_miles_of_oil_pipelines)

content:
 
<p>

  The world's fossil fools plan to build <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/27/15k-miles-new-oil-pipelines-worldwide-show-almost-deliberate-failure-meet-climate">15000 miles of new oil pipelines</a>.
<p>
This at a time when reducing fossil fuel consumption is the only
way to reduce global disaster.

 


title: Zoom cancelled a round table discussion
uri: Zoom-cancelled-a-round-table-discussion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Zoom_cancelled_a_round_table_discussion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Zoom_cancelled_a_round_table_discussion)

content:
 
<p>

Zoom <a href="https://www.thefire.org/as-critics-call-for-deplatforming-defunding-and-prosecution-over-leila-khaled-discussion-san-francisco-state-university-president-gets-it-right/">cancelled by fiat a round table discussion</a> that San Francisco
State University planned to hold, because it included an actual
terrorist who hijacked an airplane in the 1970s.
<p>
Zoom claimed that the discussion was illegal.  The article explains
why that is not so; the protection of freedom of association and
freedom of speech under the US Constitution are so broad and firm that
"so and so is a terrorist," <em>even if true</em>, cannot justify
censoring the meeting.
<p>
However, Zoom went beyond citing a putative censorship interpretation
of those laws.  It asserted that its "terms of service" gave it the
power to dictate what topics the university could discuss.
<p>
It is intolerable for a company to have veto power over what topics
universities can cover in remote discussions.  The side issue of
<em>how</em> it would use that power, <em>which</em> topics the
company wishes to censor, must not distract us from the wrong of
putting the company in charge.
<p>
Universities should cancel their contracts with Zoom rather than
tolerate this censorship.
<p>
This is in addition to <a href="zoom.html">the injustices</a> that Zoom does to each user:
for instance, the requirement to run nonfree software, the requirement
to identify oneself (by making an account), and the requirement to
agree to an unfair contract.

 


title: Labour Party MP punished for calling Tory "superficially black"
uri: Labour-Party-MP-punished-for-calling-Tory-superficially-black
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Labour_Party_MP_punished_for_calling_Tory_superficially_black)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Labour_Party_MP_punished_for_calling_Tory_superficially_black)

content:
 
<p>

The Labour Party punished one of its MPs for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/27/rupa-huq-has-labour-whip-suspended-after-kwarteng-comments">calling Chancellor
    Kwarteng, a Tory, "superficially black"</a> &mdash; presuming that truly having
 your skin of a certain color depends on something other than skin color.
<p>
Ms Huq's statement was both racist and a distraction from what
matters.  The problem with Kwarteng is not his skin color.  Whether he
is "superficially" black or really and truly black, whether he is
black at all, are hardly even politically significant.
<p>
What's wrong with Kwarteng is that he's really and truly Tory &mdash; a
plutocratist and a <a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg">henchman of dooH niboR</a>.  He's lower than vermin.
<p>
He is trying to impoverish everyone in Britain who's not wealthy or
specially fortunate, whatever color per skin is.  Why even try to look
for a worse thing to say about him than that?

 


title: Women traveling from EU countries to Netherlands for abortions
uri: Women-traveling-from-EU-countries-to-Netherlands-for-abortions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Women_traveling_from_EU_countries_to_Netherlands_for_abortions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Women_traveling_from_EU_countries_to_Netherlands_for_abortions)

content:
 
<p>

  Due to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/28/europe/europe-abortion-travel-as-equals-intl-cmd/index.html">patchy European restrictions</a> on late-term abortions,
women need to travel from other EU countries to the Netherlands to get one.

 


title: Local community support for book store
uri: Local-community-support-for-book-store
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Local_community_support_for_book_store)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Local_community_support_for_book_store)

content:
 
<p>

How the local community <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/sep/28/drag-queen-story-hour-book-store-montana">showed their support to defend a book
    store</a> and its Drag Story Hour from right-wing bullying.

 


title: Government spending cuts and privatizations
uri: Government-spending-cuts-and-privatizations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Government_spending_cuts_and_privatizations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Government_spending_cuts_and_privatizations)

content:
 
<p>

85% of the human population is being hit by government spending cuts
and privatizations that will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/28/85-global-population-set-live-under-deadly-austerity-measures-next-year">cause suffering for the poor</a>.
<p>
Stiglitz and some associates say, let's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/20/world-renowned-economists-call-emergency-corporate-profit-taxes-avert-global">tax rich individuals and
    companies</a> instead.

 


title: English castles in danger from rising sea levels
uri: English-castles-in-danger-from-rising-sea-levels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(English_castles_in_danger_from_rising_sea_levels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(English_castles_in_danger_from_rising_sea_levels)

content:
 
<p>

Famous English castles, beloved of sightseers, are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/sep/23/tintagel-among-castles-at-risk-coastal-erosion-english-heritage">in danger from
    rising sea levels</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Our_increase_of_CO2_in_the_air)
title: Our increase of CO2 in the air
uri: Our-increase-of-CO2-in-the-air
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Our_increase_of_CO2_in_the_air)
content:
 
<p>

  We have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/26/terrifying-future-which-we-return-past-too-warm-antarcticas-ice-shelves">increased the level of CO2 in the air</a> to 421 parts per million.
In the past, when it was above 400 ppm, Antarctica's marine ice sheets melted;
this would have led to a lot of loss of ice from the ice cap, and sea level
rise of perhaps tens of meters.

 


title: DeMentis elevates election deniers
uri: DeMentis-elevates-election-deniers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(DeMentis_elevates_election_deniers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(DeMentis_elevates_election_deniers)

content:
 
<p>

*[DeMentis] privately elevates election deniers while <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/politics/ron-desantis-election-deniers-florida-2020/index.html">publicly staying
    mum</a> on 2020.*

 


title: Support to ban stock trading by members of congress
uri: Support-to-ban-stock-trading-by-members-of-congress
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Support_to_ban_stock_trading_by_members_of_congress)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Support_to_ban_stock_trading_by_members_of_congress)

content:
 
<p>

*Nearly 80% of Americans <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2022/09/28/new-stand-america-poll-nearly-80-americans-support-legislation-ban-congressional">Support Legislation to Ban &hellip; Stock
    Trading</a> [by members of Congress].*

 


title: Environmental activists murdered in the past decade
uri: Environmental-activists-murdered-in-the-past-decade
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Environmental_activists_murdered_in_the_past_decade)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Environmental_activists_murdered_in_the_past_decade)

content:
 
<p>

  *More than 1,700 environmental activists <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/29/global-witness-report-1700-activists-murdered-past-decade-aoe">murdered in the past decade</a>.*

 


title: States shield fortunes of the world's richest
uri: States-shield-fortunes-of-the-world-s-richest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(States_shield_fortunes_of_the_world's_richest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(States_shield_fortunes_of_the_world's_richest)

content:
 
<p>

*New Report Reveals How 13 US States <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/28/new-report-reveals-how-13-us-states-shield-fortunes-worlds-richest-people">"Shield the Fortunes of the
    World's Richest People."</a>*


 


title: Amount of wealth the richest 1% own
uri: Amount-of-wealth-the-richest-1-own
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Amount_of_wealth_the_richest_1%25_own)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Amount_of_wealth_the_richest_1%25_own)

content:
 
<p>

  *Richest 1% Now <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/28/obscene-says-sanders-after-cbo-reports-richest-1-now-owns-over-13-us-wealth">Owns Over 1/3 of US Wealth</a>.*
<p>
  More details of the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2022/09/28/rich-got-richer-while-middle-class-took-more-debt-and-fell-further-behind">increased concentration of wealth in the US</a>.

 


title: Rejection of petition to ban neonicotinoids on seeds
uri: Rejection-of-petition-to-ban-neonicotinoids-on-seeds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Rejection_of_petition_to_ban_neonicotinoids_on_seeds)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Rejection_of_petition_to_ban_neonicotinoids_on_seeds)

content:
 
<p>

  The EPA <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2022/09/28/epa-refuses-close-pesticide-coated-seed-loophole-kills-bees-and-endangered">rejected a petition</a> to ban using neonicotinoids to coat seeds.
<p>
The pesticide gets into the whole plant, and kills bees.

 


title: French consider extending UK nuclear plant use
uri: French-consider-extending-UK-nuclear-plant-use
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(French_consider_extending_UK_nuclear_plant_use)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(French_consider_extending_UK_nuclear_plant_use)

content:
 
<p>

The French government owns the UK's nuclear power plants, and is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/28/edf-considers-extending-life-of-two-uk-nuclear-plants-due-to-energy-crisis-hartlepool-heysham">considering extending their operation</a> again.
<p>
This seems logical if you don't look at the numbers, but Amory Lovins has
shown that it is an <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/09/28/inflation-prices-investors-iron-mountain/">inefficient, wasteful expense</a>.
It would be cheaper to build
additional renewable generation to replace the nuclear plants than to
keep operating them for much additional time.
<p>
The idea that the UK is "behind" on building new nuclear power plants
flies in the face of all economics.  It makes no sense to do that
since building renewable generating capacity is far cheaper, safer and
faster.

 


title: Inflation is an excuse to jack prices up
uri: Inflation-is-an-excuse-to-jack-prices-up
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Inflation_is_an_excuse_to_jack_prices_up)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Inflation_is_an_excuse_to_jack_prices_up)

content:
 
<p>

*CEO Says He's Been "Praying for Inflation" Because It's an <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/09/28/inflation-prices-investors-iron-mountain/">Excuse to
    Jack Up Prices</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Call on Anti-Defamation league to stop defaming
uri: Call-on-Anti-Defamation-league-to-stop-defaming
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Call_on_Anti-Defamation_league_to_stop_defaming)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Call_on_Anti-Defamation_league_to_stop_defaming)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on the Anti-Defamation League to <a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14705">stop defaming</a>
Rashida Tlaib, Human Rights Watch, and perhaps also you.

 


title: Urgent: Keep Manchin's environmental sabotage deal dead
uri: Urgent-Keep-Manchin-s-environmental-sabotage-deal-dead
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Urgent:_Keep_Manchin's_environmental_sabotage_deal_dead)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Urgent:_Keep_Manchin's_environmental_sabotage_deal_dead)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your members of Congress to <a href="https://act.greennewdealnetwork.org/letter/side-deal-followup-petition/?source=em20220928-347&t=1002&akid=347%2E421439%2ECJc0Wd">keep Manchin's
    environmental sabotage deal dead</a>.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Eliminate sales of fossil fuel leases
uri: Urgent-Eliminate-sales-of-fossil-fuel-leases
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Urgent:_Eliminate_sales_of_fossil_fuel_leases)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Urgent:_Eliminate_sales_of_fossil_fuel_leases)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Department of the Interior to <a href="https://act.greennewdealnetwork.org/letter/BOEM-comment/?source=em20220927-344&t=1001&akid=344%2E421439%2Ew0bi7e">eliminate
    sales of fossil fuel leases</a>.

 


title: Rejecting the use of carbon offsets
uri: Rejecting-the-use-of-carbon-offsets
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Rejecting_the_use_of_carbon_offsets)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Rejecting_the_use_of_carbon_offsets)

content:
 
<p>

An Australian mining magnate estimates that only 15% (at most) of
supposed carbon offsets offered for sale correspond to real avoidance
of carbon emissions.  He is converting his iron mining business to
zero emissions for real, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/29/companies-using-carbon-credits-to-cover-their-tracks-says-iron-ore-billionaire-andrew-forrest">rejecting the use of offsets</a>.
<p>
  I've been <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-jan-apr.html#22%20January%202007%20(Carbon%20offsetting%20is%20ineffective)">criticizing emissions trading as ineffective</a>, and vulnerable
to cheating, since 2007,

 


title: India banned the Popular Front of India
uri: India-banned-the-Popular-Front-of-India
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(India_banned_the_Popular_Front_of_India)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(India_banned_the_Popular_Front_of_India)

content:
 
<p>

India has banned the Popular Front of India, whose stated purpose is
to defend the rights of minorities.  The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/29/narendra-modis-bjp-bans-islamic-group-in-india-for-terrorist-links">government said it is
    involved in Islamist terrorism</a>.  The organization says it isn't.
<p>
I know nothing about the facts of the matter, but I am sure that it is
unjust for any government to declare arbitrarily that a group is
"terrorist."  Such condemnation should require a trial.

 


title: Chicago shooting survivors sue Smith & Wesson
uri: Chicago-shooting-survivors-sue-Smith-Wesson
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Chicago_shooting_survivors_sue_Smith_%26_Wesson)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Chicago_shooting_survivors_sue_Smith_%26_Wesson)

content:
 
<p>

  *Chicago Fourth of July parade shooting survivors <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/29/chicago-fourth-july-parade-shooting-survivors-sue-gunmaker-smith-wesson">sue Smith & Wesson</a>*,
alleging that it practiced *illegally targeting ads at young men at
risk of committing violence.*

 


title: Large amount of water dumped on land by hurricanes
uri: Large-amount-of-water-dumped-on-land-by-hurricanes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Large_amount_of_water_dumped_on_land_by_hurricanes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Large_amount_of_water_dumped_on_land_by_hurricanes)

content:
 
<p>

  *   Hurricane Ian and Hurricane Fiona <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/29/climate-crisis-global-heating-storms-hurricane-ian-florida">dumped great amounts of water</a> across
   larger stretches of land &mdash; <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> is to blame.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Wolves_back_on_protected_list)
title: Wolves back on protected list
uri: Wolves-back-on-protected-list
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Wolves_back_on_protected_list)
content:
 
<p>

  Wolves are <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/09/29/wolves-endangered-species-martha-williams/">back on the US list of protected species</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Lanternfish_for_fish_farms)
title: Lanternfish for fish farms
uri: Lanternfish-for-fish-farms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Lanternfish_for_fish_farms)
content:
 
<p>

Lanternfish are plentiful, and grow fast.  To catch them and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/29/into-the-twilight-zone-lanternfish-the-fish-that-could-feed-the-world-or-destroy-it">use them to feed fish farms is tempting</a>.  But they also transport large amounts
of carbon to the bottom of the ocean, and it mostly stays there.
Catching enough of them to make a difference could speed <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Low-tax_enterprise_zones)
title: Low-tax "enterprise zones"
uri: Low-tax-enterprise-zones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Low-tax_enterprise_zones)
content:
 
<p>

The UK government created low-tax "enterprise zones" with the aim of
increasing the jobs available in those places, but this <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-48856440">did not
    achieve very much</a>.
<p>
I also wonder to what extent businesses moved jobs there
from other places.  If you give businesses special benefits
to move jobs to X, they tend to take the jobs from Y and Z.
<p>
Whatever the specific effect of any special benefits for some
businesses, it always contributes to the transfer of wealth to
business owners from the rest of society.

 


title: Biden's commitment to tackle climate crisis
uri: Biden-s-commitment-to-tackle-climate-crisis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Biden's_commitment_to_tackle_climate_crisis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Biden's_commitment_to_tackle_climate_crisis)

content:
 
<p>

*   Biden promised to tackle climate crisis but administration’s rhetoric
   "changed substantially" after the onset of the Ukraine war and it
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/22/gas-industry-ukraine-war-biden-policy">adopted the [fossil fuel] industry's major demands</a>.*

 


title: A reason businesses use subcontractors
uri: A-reason-businesses-use-subcontractors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(A_reason_businesses_use_subcontractors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(A_reason_businesses_use_subcontractors)

content:
 
<p>

One reason why businesses move jobs to subcontractors is that
it helps them get away with <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/28/california-ab-257-tip-iceberg-when-it-comes-workplace-fissure">treating workers illegally</a>.
<p>
  This is why I advocate laws to <a href="/there-ought-to-be-a-law.html#fine-for-subcontracting-over-120-hours-in-4-months">strictly limit the amount</a> of any kind
of work that can be done by subcontracting.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Genetically_engineered_trees)
title: Genetically engineered trees
uri: Genetically-engineered-trees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Genetically_engineered_trees)
content:
 
<p>

The development of genetically engineered trees is likely to lead to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/28/experts-sound-alarm-over-growing-threat-genetically-engineered-trees">replacing
    forests with plantations</a>.
Tree plantations won't support a variety of wildlife like a forest.

 


title: Manchin's sabotage of environmental permit requirements
uri: Manchin-s-sabotage-of-environmental-permit-requirements
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Manchin's_sabotage_of_environmental_permit_requirements)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Manchin's_sabotage_of_environmental_permit_requirements)

content:
 
<p>

  We <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/28/well-beat-you-again-say-climate-advocates-biden-eyes-new-path-manchins-dirty-deal">licked the first attempt</a> to pass Manchin's sabotage of
environmental permit requirements.  But Biden seems determined to pass
it.
<p>
Shame on you for this, Biden.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Alabama_prisoners_going_on_strike)
title: Alabama prisoners going on strike
uri: Alabama-prisoners-going-on-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Alabama_prisoners_going_on_strike)
content:
 
<p>

  Alabama prisoners, condemned to work for a pittance, are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/28/demanding-broad-reforms-thousands-inmate-workers-strike-alabama-prisons">going on strike</a>.
A strike requires even more courage for prisoners than it does for
desperate low-wage employees, because the prisoners may face solitary
confinement and other privations.

 


title: "Nonprofit" hospitals cheating poor patients
uri: Nonprofit-hospitals-cheating-poor-patients
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Nonprofit_hospitals_cheating_poor_patients)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Nonprofit_hospitals_cheating_poor_patients)

content:
 
<p>


In the US, "nonprofit" hospital chains <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/business/nonprofit-hospitals-poor-patients.html">cheat poor patients</a>, demanding
they pay even when state law says they don't have to, and sending debt
collectors after them.
<p>
I suspect that mergers and competition for mergers are part of what
turns formerly altruistic organizations greedy.  Competition with
for-profit companies may be part of it true.
<p>
I propose that states pass laws to prohibit mergers of organizations
that provide medical care, and to prohibit for-profit companies from
doing that.  They should never have existed; let's get rid of them.

 


title: Donations from fossil fuel companies to universities
uri: Donations-from-fossil-fuel-companies-to-universities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Donations_from_fossil_fuel_companies_to_universities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Donations_from_fossil_fuel_companies_to_universities)

content:
 
<p>

  Universities must <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/27/confront-climate-crisis-universities-must-refuse-fossil-fuel-industry-funding">refuse donations</a> from fossil fuel companies,
to avoid being corrupted by them.

 


title: Zimbabwean author convicted of inciting violence for peaceful protest
uri: Zimbabwean-author-convicted-of-inciting-violence-for-peaceful-protest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Zimbabwean_author_convicted_of_inciting_violence_for_peaceful_protest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#1_October_2022_(Zimbabwean_author_convicted_of_inciting_violence_for_peaceful_protest)

content:
 
<p>

  Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/29/zimbabwean-author-tsitsi-dangarembga-found-guilty-of-inciting-violence">convicted of "inciting violence"</a>
for a peaceful protest calling for political reform.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Tories_privatizing_museums)
title: Tories privatizing museums
uri: Tories-privatizing-museums
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Tories_privatizing_museums)
content:
 
<p>
The Tories are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/01/british-art-privatised-gallery-museum-cultural-institutions">privatizing Britain's public museums</a>.

<p>
 


title: Amazon Google and Facebook's campaign against Roe
uri: Amazon-Google-and-Facebook-s-campaign-against-Roe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Amazon_Google_and_Facebook's_campaign_against_Roe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Amazon_Google_and_Facebook's_campaign_against_Roe)

content:
 
<p>
*How Amazon, Google, and Facebook <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/10/01/roe-amazon-google-facebook-independent-womens-forum/">Helped Fund the Campaign to Overturn
Roe</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Human-made_disasters)
title: Human-made disasters
uri: Human-made-disasters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Human-made_disasters)
content:
 
<p>
Hurricanes today are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/30/hurricane-ian-climate-crisis-no-anomaly-storms-more-powerful">no longer natural disasters</a>.  These disasters are
augmented by human-made <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>, which causes stronger winds,
stronger rain for a longer period of time, and bigger storm surges
starting from a higher mean sea level.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Geico_deterring_unions)
title: Geico deterring unions
uri: Geico-deterring-unions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Geico_deterring_unions)
content:
 
<p>
*Geico workers accuse company of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/30/geico-united-union-employees-management">aggressive tactics to deter union push</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Labour_ignoring_electoral_reform)
title: Labour ignoring electoral reform
uri: Labour-ignoring-electoral-reform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Labour_ignoring_electoral_reform)
content:
 
<p>
*Why is Labour <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/30/labour-resisting-members-electoral-reform-pr">ignoring its own members on electoral reform</a>?*
<p>
I can't prove it, but I suspect that <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratists</a> are now in control
of Labour, and changes outside of a limited range are beyond the range
of thinking.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Iran_protests_keep_growing)
title: Iran protests keep growing
uri: Iran-protests-keep-growing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Iran_protests_keep_growing)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/2022/09/28/bella-ciao-irans-women-rise-and-hack-their-hair-woman-life-freedom">protests in Iran keep growing</a>, showing enormous resentment against the
rigidity of the regime.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Prime_minister's_ideology)
title: Prime minister's ideology
uri: Prime-minister-s-ideology
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Prime_minister's_ideology)
content:
 
<p>
George Monbiot: *The prime minister's ideology <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/30/environmental-destruction-is-part-of-liz-trusss-plan">encourages the
extraction of as much income as possible from nature before abandoning
it</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Regime_change)
title: Regime change
uri: 2022-10-03-Regime-change
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Regime_change)
content:
 
<p>
*Those desiring regime change in Russia <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/30/those-desiring-regime-change-in-russia-should-be-careful-what-they-wish-for">should be careful what they wish for</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Bolsonaro and rainforest destruction
uri: Bolsonaro-and-rainforest-destruction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Bolsonaro_and_rainforest_destruction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Bolsonaro_and_rainforest_destruction)

content:
 
<p>
*Further destruction under Bolsonaro could <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/30/fate-of-the-amazon-brazil-election-bolsonanro-lula-da-silva">push vital rainforest past
irreversible tipping point</a>.*
<p>
To stop the deforestation will not be easy even with <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(lula_vows_protect_amazon_forest)">Lula's support</a>.
The Workers' Party presidents governed for around 13 years, and their
laws slowed the rate of deforestation, but never succeeded in stopping
it.

<p>
 


title: Ukraine applied for NATO membership
uri: Ukraine-applied-for-NATO-membership
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Ukraine_applied_for_NATO_membership)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Ukraine_applied_for_NATO_membership)

content:
 
<p>
Zelenskiy said that Ukraine has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/30/ukraine-applies-for-nato-membership-after-russia-annexes-territory">applied for membership</a> in NATO.
<p>
That threatens to embarrass Ukraine's supporters, since they can't
possibly accept.  They have good reasons not to get involved in actual
fighting with the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> -- to avoid a step down a path that could
lead to nuclear war.
<p>
It might be useful for NATO to announce that it will treat Ukraine as
a NATO member, for the duration of this war, if Putin uses nuclear
weapons.  That might convince him not to take the risk.

<p>
 


title: Copyright claims over vague similarities
uri: Copyright-claims-over-vague-similarities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Copyright_claims_over_vague_similarities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Copyright_claims_over_vague_similarities)

content:
 
<p>
Big hit songs are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/sep/30/ed-sheeran-copyright-trial-thinking-out-loud-marvin-gaye-lets-get-it-on">hit with copyright infringement claims</a> over vague
similarities to other songs.
<p>
I think this is a sign that the criteria for infringement are too
loose.  But it is also a consequence of the increased practice of
songwriters' or their heirs' selling their whole catalogs to
companies.  I speculate that they are using AI to search databases of
thousands of songs to find opportunities to sue.
<p>
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/copyright-vs-community.html">Copyright lasts far too long</a>.  A 1973 work should not be copyrighted
today.

<p>
 


title: Torture against opposition and human rights defenders
uri: Torture-against-opposition-and-human-rights-defenders
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Torture_against_opposition_and_human_rights_defenders)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Torture_against_opposition_and_human_rights_defenders)

content:
 
<p>
A UN investigative team concluded that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/20/venezuela-crimes-against-humanity-un-report-maduro">Venezuelan government officials
are using torture</a> against oppositionists and human rights defenders,
sometimes at the direct request of high officials including the president.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Tuvalu)
title: Tuvalu
uri: Tuvalu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#2_October_2022_(Tuvalu)
content:
 
<p>
The people of Tuvalu hope to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/29/could-a-digital-twin-of-tuvalu-preserve-the-island-nation-before-its-lost-to-the-collapsing-climate">develop a virtual replica of their home,
to remember it by after it has been inundated permanently</a>.
<p>
If we had started seriously fighting <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> 20 years ago,
perhaps Tuvalu could have remained habitable.  The <a href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a>
decided to sacrifice it to their profit.

 


title: Urgent: End voter suppression among college students
uri: Urgent-End-voter-suppression-among-college-students
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Urgent:_End_voter_suppression_among_college_students)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Urgent:_End_voter_suppression_among_college_students)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Secretaries of State to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-secretaries-of-state-to-end-voter-suppression-among-college-students-sign-on">end voter suppression</a>
among college students.

 


title: Urgent: Call on the Senate to pass the PRO Act
uri: Urgent-Call-on-the-Senate-to-pass-the-PRO-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_Senate_to_pass_the_PRO_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_Senate_to_pass_the_PRO_Act)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-the-senate-pass-the-pro-act">pass the PRO Act</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Summer_of_climate_insanity)
title: Summer of climate insanity
uri: Summer-of-climate-insanity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Summer_of_climate_insanity)
content:
 
<p>

  Peter Kalmus: *It has been a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/01/climate-emergency-hurricane-ian-crisis">summer of climate insanity</a> &hellip; on
average, the coolest summer with the least climate chaos for the rest
of your life. That is just the nature of trends.*
<p>
*The desperation I feel over this clear failure of world leaders to take
   the obvious and necessary actions to halt Earth breakdown and
   potentially save billions of lives led me to engage in civil
   disobedience earlier this year, an action that resulted in my
   arrest.*

 


title: Increase in Covid-19 hospitalizations in the UK
uri: Increase-in-Covid-19-hospitalizations-in-the-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Increase_in_Covid-19_hospitalizations_in_the_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Increase_in_Covid-19_hospitalizations_in_the_UK)

content:
 
<p>

  The rate of Covid-19 hospitalizations in the UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/01/latest-covid-surge-a-heavy-straw-on-camels-back-for-every-hospital-in-uk">increased by over 1/3</a>
last week. With the hospitals damaged by Tory under-funding, and understaffed, they are
already having trouble coping at all.

 


title: Planet-roaster politicians insist on coal
uri: Planet-roaster-politicians-insist-on-coal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Planet-roaster_politicians_insist_on_coal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Planet-roaster_politicians_insist_on_coal)

content:
 
<p>

Planet-roaster politicians in Australia continue to insist that
Australia will need coal-powered electricity for decades more, These
claims are based on combining falsehoods with exaggerations.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/29/nationals-say-renewables-cant-meet-energy-needs-without-fossil-support-but-do-the-claims-firm-up">This
    article</a> spells it out.

 


title: Reasons there hasn't been a climate revolt
uri: Reasons-there-hasn-t-been-a-climate-revolt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Reasons_there_hasn't_been_a_climate_revolt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Reasons_there_hasn't_been_a_climate_revolt)

content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/29/eight-reasons-why-there-hasnt-been-global-climate-revolt-yet">Eight Reasons</a> Why There Hasn't Been a Global Climate Revolt Yet.*

 


title: All-time low of uninsured Americans
uri: All-time-low-of-uninsured-Americans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(All-time_low_of_uninsured_Americans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(All-time_low_of_uninsured_Americans)

content:
 
<p>

  *   "When the 'all-time low' of uninsured Americans is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/29/lets-pass-medicare-all-says-jayapal-survey-spotlights-failures-profit-system">still 26 MILLION</a>,
   something needs to change," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal.*

 


title: (satire) Lease does not include rooftop access
uri: (satire)-Lease-does-not-include-rooftop-access
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_((satire)_Lease_does_not_include_rooftop_access)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_((satire)_Lease_does_not_include_rooftop_access)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/florida-landlord-reminds-tenants-fleeing-flood-that-lea-1849597055">* FORT MYERS, FL—Issuing a reminder that the building’s rules
   must be followed even in the most catastrophic natural disasters,
   Florida landlord Rick Palacio told tenants fleeing floods from
   Hurricane Ian Thursday that their lease did not include rooftop
    access.*</a>

 


title: Lawsuits compelled Biden to exclude some Americans from student loan forgiveness
uri: Lawsuits-compelled-Biden-to-exclude-some-Americans-from-student-loan-f
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Lawsuits_compelled_Biden_to_exclude_some_Americans_from_student_loan_forgiveness)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Lawsuits_compelled_Biden_to_exclude_some_Americans_from_student_loan_forgiveness)

content:
 
<p>

Republican lawsuits on behalf of loan management companies <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/29/politics/biden-student-loan-forgiveness-plan-lawsuit/index.html">compelled
    Biden</a> to exclude .77 million Americans from student loan forgiveness.

 


title: More excuses to delay efforts on cutting greenhouse emissions
uri: More-excuses-to-delay-efforts-on-cutting-greenhouse-emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(More_excuses_to_delay_efforts_on_cutting_greenhouse_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(More_excuses_to_delay_efforts_on_cutting_greenhouse_emissions)

content:
 
<p>

The US government has put billions of dollars into efforts at carbon
capture and storage, and the only result is to provide an imaginary
excuse to delay serious efforts to cut down on greenhouse emissions.
Now Congress <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/29/analysis-exposes-taxpayer-billions-wasted-dead-end-carbon-capture-schemes">proposes to do more of the same</a>.

 


title: Ineffectiveness of Flaring natural gas
uri: Ineffectiveness-of-Flaring-natural-gas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Ineffectiveness_of_Flaring_natural_gas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Ineffectiveness_of_Flaring_natural_gas)

content:
 
<p>

"Flaring" of natural gas burns the methane to convert it into CO2.
However, the process is not totally effective; the amount of methane
that survives to heat the Earth is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/29/us-gas-flaring-releases-five-times-more-methane-previously-thought">5 times what was calculated</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Russia_blocking_Ukrainians)
title: Russia blocking Ukrainians
uri: Russia-blocking-Ukrainians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Russia_blocking_Ukrainians)
content:
 
<p>

  Russia is starting to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/sep/29/russia-ukraine-war-live-news-pressure-grows-to-declare-russia-terrorist-state-norway-beefs-up-security-at-gas-sites?page=with:block-63358a698f086841b84c4712#block-63358a698f086841b84c4712">block Ukrainians from leaving</a> the supposedly
annexed parts of Ukraine into Russia, and also from Russia to EU
countries.

 


title: Right-wing extremists want to ban abortion in the whole US
uri: Right-wing-extremists-want-to-ban-abortion-in-the-whole-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Right-wing_extremists_want_to_ban_abortion_in_the_whole_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Right-wing_extremists_want_to_ban_abortion_in_the_whole_US)

content:
 
<p>

The right-wing extremists that dominate the Republican Party <a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2022/09/mike-pence-overturning-roe-v-wade-just">still
    intend to ban abortion</a> in the whole US.  
<p>
The only thing they disagree on is whether to hide it for the meantime.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Contempt_toward_suicidal_taxpayers)
title: Contempt toward suicidal taxpayers
uri: Contempt-toward-suicidal-taxpayers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Contempt_toward_suicidal_taxpayers)
content:
 
<p>

Richard Boyle, a whistleblower in the Australian Taxation Office,
reports that the management had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/21/whistleblower-claims-ato-was-callous-when-taxpayer-said-he-was-losing-will-to-live-over-debts">adopted a stance of contempt</a> towards
taxpayers who felt suicidal because tax debt collectors had left them
with no way out.
<p>
I can see that there is something insincere about telling a creditor that
your debt makes you suicidal.  The temptation to exaggerate is obvious.
<p>
However, people in debt have often suffered much worse treatment at the
hands of rich businesses and the plutocratic state, and all in all I
think we must forgive them for lesser wrongs like this.
<p>
Boyle is facing criminal charges and could be sent to prison for years.

 


title: (satire) Nihilist perspective on why none of this matters
uri: (satire)-Nihilist-perspective-on-why-none-of-this-matters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_((satire)_Nihilist_perspective_on_why_none_of_this_matters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_((satire)_Nihilist_perspective_on_why_none_of_this_matters)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/cnn-s-chief-nihilist-correspondent-gives-perspective-on-1849435944">*CNN’s Chief Nihilist Correspondent Gives Perspective On Why
    None Of This Matters.*</a>

 


title: Ways US military keeps power and keeps itself in wars
uri: Ways-US-military-keeps-power-and-keeps-itself-in-wars
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Ways_US_military_keeps_power_and_keeps_itself_in_wars)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(Ways_US_military_keeps_power_and_keeps_itself_in_wars)

content:
 
<p>

The US military keeps itself in power, and keeps itself fighting wars,
by <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/30/lies-and-dishonor-plague-americas-war-machine">lying about failures</a> and lying to cover up the previous lies.

 


title: DeMentis obstructed efforts to reduce global heating
uri: DeMentis-obstructed-efforts-to-reduce-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(DeMentis_obstructed_efforts_to_reduce_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_October_2022_(DeMentis_obstructed_efforts_to_reduce_global_heating)

content:
 
<p>

DeMentis as governor of Florida has systematically obstructed efforts
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/01/climate-idiocy-desantis-exposes-him-threat-entire-nation">reduce global heating</a>, or help the poor.  Now Florida has been
hit by a symptom of <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.
<p>
DeMentis deserves this, but the people of Florida do not.

<p>
 


title: Percentage of long-term problems with Covid-19
uri: Percentage-of-long-term-problems-with-Covid-19
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Percentage_of_long-term_problems_with_Covid-19)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Percentage_of_long-term_problems_with_Covid-19)

content:
 
<p>

About 5% of people who get infected with Covid-19 have <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/01/health/long-covid-smell-taste-loss-wellness/index.html">long-term
    problems with taste and smell</a>.
For some, the sense of smell is gone.  For others smells get mixed
up &mdash; the foods you used to like may smell bad.

 


title: Railroad between Los Angeles and San Diego
uri: Railroad-between-Los-Angeles-and-San-Diego
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Railroad_between_Los_Angeles_and_San_Diego)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Railroad_between_Los_Angeles_and_San_Diego)

content:
 
<p>

The railroad between Los Angeles and San Diego runs so close to the
ocean that big storms are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/01/amtrak-san-diego-los-angeles-trains-suspended">likely to mess up the tracks</a> and require
repairs.
<p>
I don't think the approach of repairing the damage each time will be
adequate for another few decades.  Hadn't they better start planning
to move the tracks inland?

 


title: Tax cuts for rich don't increase economic growth
uri: Tax-cuts-for-rich-don-t-increase-economic-growth
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Tax_cuts_for_rich_don't_increase_economic_growth)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Tax_cuts_for_rich_don't_increase_economic_growth)

content:
 
<p>

Yanis Varoufakis: tax cuts for the rich <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/01/trickle-down-liz-truss-thatcher-blair-osborne-britain-keir-starmer">can't make wealth trickle down
    to the poor</a>, because those tax cuts don't increase economic growth at
all. Rich people and companies given extra wealth don't seek, nowadays,
to invest it in increased production.  Instead they manipulate
markets.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Law_to_help_farm_workers_unionize)
title: Law to help farm workers unionize
uri: Law-to-help-farm-workers-unionize
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Law_to_help_farm_workers_unionize)
content:
 
<p>

  California has passed a law intended to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/29/incredible-victory-california-gov-newsom-signs-farmworker-unionization-bill-law">help farm workers unionize</a>.

 


title: Amount Labour can raise taxes on the rich
uri: Amount-Labour-can-raise-taxes-on-the-rich
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Amount_Labour_can_raise_taxes_on_the_rich)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Amount_Labour_can_raise_taxes_on_the_rich)

content:
 
<p>

Timid Labour <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/26/labour-vows-to-bring-back-45-top-rate-tax-and-invest-in-nhs">can't suggest raising taxes on the rich</a> beyond what the
Tories have left after almost 10 years in power.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Eliminating_nuclear_weapons)
title: Eliminating nuclear weapons
uri: Eliminating-nuclear-weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Eliminating_nuclear_weapons)
content:
 
<p>

  *Eliminating Nuclear Weapons <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/26/eliminating-nuclear-weapons-not-only-possible-it-necessary-un-chief">"Is Not Only Possible, It Is Necessary"</a> &mdash;
 UN Chief.*
<p>
I agree it is necessary.  But is it possible to get the nuclear powers
to agree to disarm?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Right-wing_politics_in_Italy)
title: Right-wing politics in Italy
uri: Right-wing-politics-in-Italy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Right-wing_politics_in_Italy)
content:
 
<p>

The history of right-wing politics in Italy in the past few decades,
and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/26/italy-far-right-before-giorgia-meloni-berlusconi-brothers-of-italy">where that is leading now</a>.
<p>
I have a general theory that the right-wing has been strengthened in
EU countries by the power that the EU's banks have over spending and
money.  Italy and Greece suffered economic crises after the 2009
recession and the EU <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-may-aug.html#04_July_2011_(EU_Bullying)">blocked them from applying</a> the necessary
Keynesian policies.
The non-extreme left was stymied and had nothing to offer.
Right-wing parties couldn't fix the problem either, but they could
propose useless attacks on scapegoats.

 


title: General Petraeus on retaliating on Putin
uri: General-Petraeus-on-retaliating-on-Putin
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(General_Petraeus_on_retaliating_on_Putin)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(General_Petraeus_on_retaliating_on_Putin)

content:
 
<p>

  General Petraeus suggested <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/02/us-russia-putin-ukraine-war-david-petraeus">how to retaliate</a> for Putin's possible use
  of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, with more or less the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(What_will_NATO_do_if_Putin_uses_nuclear,_biological_or_chemical_weapons_)">approach I suggested</a>. I think his idea does not go quite far enough.
<p>
NATO should not limit itself to the rather small Black Sea fleet.  It
should capture or sink every ship in the Russian navy, explicitly and
carefully excluding nuclear missile submarines because we don't want
to lead Putin to think that he must use them fast or lose them.
<p>
In addition, we should seize as much as possible of Russia's civilian
shipping, including their giant fishing ships.
<p>
Russia would be unable to prevent this, and the effects would last for
many years.  Announcing the plan should have a substantial deterrent
effect.
<p>
A deterrent effect is what we want.  Our goal is to deter Putin's use
of nuclear weapons, not punish them.

 


title: Evidence for trial of Jamal Khashoggi
uri: Evidence-for-trial-of-Jamal-Khashoggi
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Evidence_for_trial_of_Jamal_Khashoggi)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Evidence_for_trial_of_Jamal_Khashoggi)

content:
 
<p>

Turkey seized Jamal Khashoggi's phone after he was murdered, for a
planned trial of accused murderers.  But Turkey made a deal to let
Crown Prince Bone Saw, the probable murderer, take charge of the trial.
Khashoggi's widow <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/02/turkey-must-give-me-the-evidence-it-has-about-the-of-my-husband-jamal-khashoggi">demands that evidence</a>.

 


title: Discouraging disadvantaged people from voting
uri: Discouraging-disadvantaged-people-from-voting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Discouraging_disadvantaged_people_from_voting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Discouraging_disadvantaged_people_from_voting)

content:
 
<p>

  Georgia Republicans are trying <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/02/sb202-georgia-voting-rights-midterm-elections">many different methods</a> of discouraging
disadvantaged people from voting.
The idea is that eventually these obstacles will impose more trouble
and hassle than non-rich people can free up.

 


title: Iranian students defy suppression forces
uri: Iranian-students-defy-suppression-forces
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Iranian_students_defy_suppression_forces)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Iranian_students_defy_suppression_forces)

content:
 
<p>

  *Iranian students <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/03/iranian-students-defy-security-forces-as-anti-regime-protests-continue">defy [suppression forces]</a> as anti-regime protests continue.*

 


title: Removal of landmines planted in Ukraine
uri: Removal-of-landmines-planted-in-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Removal_of_landmines_planted_in_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Removal_of_landmines_planted_in_Ukraine)

content:
 
<p>

  Experts say it will take at least a decade to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/03/ukraine-de-miners-russia-war">remove the landmines</a>
that the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> have planted in Ukraine.

 


title: Australia's plan to halt extinction crisis
uri: Australia-s-plan-to-halt-extinction-crisis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Australia's_plan_to_halt_extinction_crisis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Australia's_plan_to_halt_extinction_crisis)

content:
 
<p>

  *Australia announces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/04/australia-announces-plan-to-halt-extinction-crisis-and-save-110-species">plan to halt extinction crisis</a> and save 110 species.*
  Plus other species that share their habitats.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(The_Future_of_Clean_Water)
title: The Future of Clean Water
uri: The-Future-of-Clean-Water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(The_Future_of_Clean_Water)
content:
 
<p>

  *The Supreme Court <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2022/10/03/supreme-court-will-decide-future-clean-water-generations">Will Decide</a> the Future of Clean Water for Generations.
  Polluters' legal challenge aims to maximize profits at the expense of the health of communities and our environment.*

 


title: Starbucks strike near Boston University
uri: Starbucks-strike-near-Boston-University
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Starbucks_strike_near_Boston_University)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_October_2022_(Starbucks_strike_near_Boston_University)

content:
 
<p>

Starbucks made concessions to the strikers in the store near Boston
University, and they <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/21/after-64-day-strike-boston-starbucks-workers-declare-victory">ended the strike</a>.
<p>
That was after the Boston <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> department threatened to arrest the picketers
for trespassing, and the community chased the <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> away.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Dept. of Education to defend free speech
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Dept-of-Education-to-defend-free-speech
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Dept._of_Education_to_defend_free_speech)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Dept._of_Education_to_defend_free_speech)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on the Dept of Education to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-dept-of-ed-to-step-up-and-defend-free-speech-due-process-and-the-right-to-learn-without-fear-of-a-right-wing-gestapo">defend free speech</a>, due
process, and the right to learn without fear of right-wing hate.

 


title: Urgent: Give the Supreme Court a Code of Ethics
uri: Urgent-Give-the-Supreme-Court-a-Code-of-Ethics
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Urgent:_Give_the_Supreme_Court_a_Code_of_Ethics)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Urgent:_Give_the_Supreme_Court_a_Code_of_Ethics)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/scotus-ethics-thomas/?t=1001&akid=29801%2E96703%2E6P0bS2">give the Supreme Court a Code of
    Ethics</a>.

 


title: All phones in EU to use the same charger
uri: All-phones-in-EU-to-use-the-same-charger
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(All_phones_in_EU_to_use_the_same_charger)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(All_phones_in_EU_to_use_the_same_charger)

content:
 
<p>

  *EU votes to force all phones to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/eu-votes-to-force-all-phones-to-use-same-charger-by-2024">use same charger by 2024</a>.*
<p>
This is a victory over callous abuse of power by a nasty corporation
which makes for massive waste.  However, this is hardly the worst
thing that Apple does.  Apple won't let the "owner" of an iMonster
install free software in it!  The EU should very deliberately force
Apple to change this practice.

 


title: Mexican journalists snooped on with Pegasus spyware
uri: Mexican-journalists-snooped-on-with-Pegasus-spyware
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Mexican_journalists_snooped_on_with_Pegasus_spyware)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Mexican_journalists_snooped_on_with_Pegasus_spyware)

content:
 
<p>

Mexican journalists that investigate corruption have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/mexico-nso-spyware-journalists-human-rights-hacked-pegasus">snooped on
    with Pegasus spyware</a> after the Mexican government promised to stop
doing this.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Big_Oil_gouging_American_customers)
title: Big Oil gouging American customers
uri: Big-Oil-gouging-American-customers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Big_Oil_gouging_American_customers)
content:
 
<p>

  Big Oil is gouging American customers with a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2022/10/03/new-analysis-big-oil-continues-price-gouging-consumers-after-oil-prices-drop">13% increase</a> in retail prices
compared to the last time the crude price was the same as now.
<p>
A tax on oil would boost conservation by raising the price in a
predictable way.  People could plan long-term investments in reducing
their greenhouse emissions based on that.  But this unpredictable gouging
doesn't encourage anything positive.

 


title: Herscel Walker's son calls him a hypocrite
uri: Herscel-Walker-s-son-calls-him-a-hypocrite
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Herscel_Walker's_son_calls_him_a_hypocrite)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Herscel_Walker's_son_calls_him_a_hypocrite)

content:
 
<p>

  Candidate Herschel Walker's son publicly called him a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/04/christian-walker-son-herschel-abortion-hypocrite">lying hypocrite</a>
for denying he paid for the son's girlfriend's abortion.
<p>
That doesn't surprise me.  Right-wing leaders talk about "morality"
to stir up hatred that is the fuel for their campaigns, but they often believe
that they and their family are exempt from the rules.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Iranian_pop_musician_arrested)
title: Iranian pop musician arrested
uri: Iranian-pop-musician-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Iranian_pop_musician_arrested)
content:
 
<p>

A famous Iranian pop musician played a song whose words are the words
protesters have posted.  The regime <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/oct/04/iran-arrests-musician-anthem-iran-protests-viral-mahsa-amini-shervin-hajipour-baraye">arrested him</a>, but the song is
heard everywhere.
<p>
The article says that copyright threats are being used to try to get
the song taken down.  The details are not clear in the article, but it
seems to involve a false attribution of the song; why that claim is there
is not explained.
<p>
Technical systems of copyright enforcement are repressive in their own
right, and here they are being used to support of more general repression.

 


title: Cities refusing to present video of world cup of soccer
uri: Cities-refusing-to-present-video-of-world-cup-of-soccer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Cities_refusing_to_present_video_of_world_cup_of_soccer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Cities_refusing_to_present_video_of_world_cup_of_soccer)

content:
 
<p>

Several French cities, including Paris, will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/paris-joins-other-french-cities-in-world-cup-tv-boycott-qatar">refuse to present the
    video of the world cup of soccer</a>, as a rebuke to Qatar for its abuse
of human rights and the environment.
In particular, the abusive treatment of the foreign workers who
built the facilities for the world cup.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(White_House_hunger_conference)
title: White House hunger conference
uri: White-House-hunger-conference
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(White_House_hunger_conference)
content:
 
<p>

  *   The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/04/un-special-rapporteur-biden-hunger-summit">White House hunger conference</a> last week was a step in the right
   direction.*
<p>
*Policymakers should be focusing on those causes if they want to solve
   hunger, said Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right
   to food. Racism, corporate control and poverty contribute heavily to
   hunger, he said.*
<p>
The US military depends on poverty and debt to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/22/military-american-youth-you-belong-me">push young people into
    joining up</a>.  To militarists, the widespread poverty in the US looks like
a good thing and reducing it looks like weakening the army.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Bolsonarismo_is_here_to_stay)
title: Bolsonarismo is here to stay
uri: Bolsonarismo-is-here-to-stay
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Bolsonarismo_is_here_to_stay)
content:
 
<p>

*The lesson from the first round of Brazil’s election: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/04/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-luiz-inacio-lula-da-silva-president">Bolsonarismo is here to
    stay</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Relabeling_white_supremacism)
title: Relabeling "white supremacism"
uri: Relabeling-white-supremacism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Relabeling_white_supremacism)
content:
 
<p>

Relabeling "white supremacism" as "whiteness", a calculated ambiguity,
morphs the opposition to white supremacy &mdash; opposition which I support
&mdash; into a new form of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/04/how-whiteness-poses-the-greatest-threat-to-us-democracy">racial hostility</a> which is more or less the
reverse of white supremacy.
<p>
Instead of "whiteness", let's call it "white inferioricism" for clarity.
<p>
I oppose both white supremacism and white inferioricism.

 


title: Replacing paper Metro tickets with a digital payment system
uri: Replacing-paper-Metro-tickets-with-a-digital-payment-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Replacing_paper_Metro_tickets_with_a_digital_payment_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Replacing_paper_Metro_tickets_with_a_digital_payment_system)

content:
 
<p>

  The Paris Metro is replacing paper Metro tickets with a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/paris-metro-paper-ticket-paper-journey-transport">digital payment system</a>.
<p>
There are more than sentimental reasons to find this horrible: the
digital payment methods track the passenger.
<p>
Paying with a mobile phone inevitably identifies the payer.  It is not
inevitable that travelcards identify the payer &mdash; in New York City and
Boston, the payment cards can be anonymous.  (Be careful, never feed
money into the card with anything but cash!)  But Paris has set them
up so that it is not feasible.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Ohio's_abortion_ban)
title: Ohio's abortion ban
uri: Ohio-s-abortion-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Ohio's_abortion_ban)
content:
 
<p>

Ohio's abortion ban puts pregnant females in danger when some things go
wrong with the pregnancy.  The supporters of that ban deal with this
by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/22/health/ohio-abortion-patient-doctor/index.html">pretending it isn't so</a>.

 


title: China wants DNA samples and voice prints of everyone
uri: China-wants-DNA-samples-and-voice-prints-of-everyone
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(China_wants_DNA_samples_and_voice_prints_of_everyone)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(China_wants_DNA_samples_and_voice_prints_of_everyone)

content:
 
<p>

China is not content with facial recognition; it is <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/f473a3e2-ca31-4d16-88ef-307544423ba5?r=9za75">pushing to get DNA
    samples and voice prints</a> of everyone.
<p>
In Hong Kong, China is arresting people for having indirect
relationships with past protesters.  Increased data to identify people
will compel people to act like robots.
<p>
Meanwhile, San Francisco has invited private owners of surveillance
cameras to let the thug department <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/04/san-francisco-police-video-surveillance">look through them live</a>.
<p>
No one should be allowed to set up surveillance cameras that see and
show everyone that passes a certain place, with out a specific court
order for a limited time and a limited place.  Not a <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> department,
and not a private entity.

 


title: Cost overruns of "Small, modular" nuclear reactors
uri: Cost-overruns-of-Small-modular-nuclear-reactors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Cost_overruns_of_Small,_modular_nuclear_reactors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Cost_overruns_of_Small,_modular_nuclear_reactors)

content:
 
<p>

Nuclear industry has pushed in many countries for "small, modular"
power reactors, but the only projects that were actually completed
had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/05/unproven-small-nuclear-reactors-would-raise-energy-costs-and-delay-renewable-uptake-report-says">giant cost overruns</a>.
<p>
And there remains the question of what to do with the long-term
radioactive waste.

 


title: National Archives had complained the cheater had taken documents
uri: National-Archives-had-complained-the-cheater-had-taken-documents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(National_Archives_had_complained_the_cheater_had_taken_documents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(National_Archives_had_complained_the_cheater_had_taken_documents)

content:
 
<p>

In May 2021, the National Archives complained that <a href="/glossary.html#cheater">the cheater</a> had
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/03/politics/national-archives-mar-a-lago-records-trump-kim-jong-un/index.html">taken some documents</a> &mdash; including documents from Obama's term &mdash; and
had to return them.
<p>
The article does not say whether <a href="/glossary.html#cheater">the cheater</a> has yet all of those
documents.

 


title: Australian children in prison camps in Syria coming home
uri: Australian-children-in-prison-camps-in-Syria-coming-home
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Australian_children_in_prison_camps_in_Syria_coming_home)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Australian_children_in_prison_camps_in_Syria_coming_home)

content:
 
<p>

  Australia will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/05/young-and-sick-children-to-be-first-australians-repatriated-from-syrian-detention-camps">bring home some Australian children</a> from prison camps
in Syria. Some of their mothers, who fought for <a href="/glossary.html#pissi">PISSI</a>, will also be brought to
Australia for trial.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_((satire)_Tasing_innocent_man)
title: (satire) Tasing innocent man
uri: (satire)-Tasing-innocent-man
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_((satire)_Tasing_innocent_man)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/police-apologize-for-tasing-innocent-man-they-meant-to-1849436523">*Police Apologize For Tasing Innocent Man They Meant To
    Shoot.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Reports_on_corporations'_profits)
title: Reports on corporations' profits
uri: Reports-on-corporations-profits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Reports_on_corporations'_profits)
content:
 
<p>

The US issues monthly reports on prices, jobs, and wages. 
But there are <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/we-get-what-we-measure-why-policymakers">no such reports</a> on corporations' profits.
We ought to have those reports too.

 


title: Ukraine call for privatization and flexibility of work
uri: Ukraine-call-for-privatization-and-flexibility-of-work
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Ukraine_call_for_privatization_and_flexibility_of_work)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Ukraine_call_for_privatization_and_flexibility_of_work)

content:
 
<p>

  Ukraine's economic advisor calls for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/ukraine-must-revamp-labour-laws-and-step-up-privatisation-to-fix-economy">privatization and flexibility</a> of work.
(I presume that last would include making it easier to fire employees.)
Also, more borrowing.
<p>
It may be that Ukraine's system is too inflexible, but any steps in
that direction must be taken with great care, because there are plenty
of advisors who serve the banks that want to lend you more than you
can pay and denominate the loans in a foreign currency.  This path has
led many countries into a <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-jul-oct.html#7_October_2021_(Borrowing_from_IMF)">debt trap</a>.

 


title: (satire) Things to never say to Amazon listening device
uri: (satire)-Things-to-never-say-to-Amazon-listening-device
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_((satire)_Things_to_never_say_to_Amazon_listening_device)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_((satire)_Things_to_never_say_to_Amazon_listening_device)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) Things you should <a href="https://www.theonion.com/things-you-should-never-say-to-your-amazon-alexa-1849603080">never say</a> to your Amazon listening device. 

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Mehmet_Oz_rebuked_by_Fetterman)
title: Mehmet Oz rebuked by Fetterman
uri: Mehmet-Oz-rebuked-by-Fetterman
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Mehmet_Oz_rebuked_by_Fetterman)
content:
 
<p>

  Fetterman rebukes Mehmet Oz for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/03/new-reporting-exposes-dr-oz-malicious-scam-artist-says-fetterman">peddling dangerous quackery</a>. 

 


title: Truss backs down on tax cut for rich
uri: Truss-backs-down-on-tax-cut-for-rich
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Truss_backs_down_on_tax_cut_for_rich)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Truss_backs_down_on_tax_cut_for_rich)

content:
 
<p>

Truss backed down from a planned tax cut for rich people, but many
planned give-aways to companies <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/03/uks-truss-drops-tax-break-wealthy-austerity-threat-remains-amid-tory-class-war">remain in the plan</a>.

 


title: Battle that expelled Putin forces from Lyman
uri: Battle-that-expelled-Putin-forces-from-Lyman
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Battle_that_expelled_Putin_forces_from_Lyman)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Battle_that_expelled_Putin_forces_from_Lyman)

content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/recaptured-lyman-left-shattered-russian-occupation-ukraine">Reporting on the battle</a> that expelled the Putin forces from Lyman.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(CIA_predictions_on_Ukraine)
title: CIA predictions on Ukraine
uri: CIA-predictions-on-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(CIA_predictions_on_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>

The CIA predicted the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> would rapidly conquer Ukraine.
Asked to <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/10/05/russia-ukraine-putin-cia/">explain this failure to predict correctly</a>, they say they
underestimated the effect of the pervasive corruption in Russia.
<p>
The US also suffers from pervasive corruption &mdash; less than Russia
historically, but Republicans' by-hook-or-by-crook attitude is
boosting it.  The military-industrial complex is a major center of
corruption.  I hope Congress thinks about this when funding more <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-may-aug.html#17_July_2017_(Spending_billions_on_weapons)">F35
    airplanes</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Futile_demand_for_climate_justice)
title: Futile demand for "climate justice"
uri: Futile-demand-for-climate-justice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Futile_demand_for_climate_justice)
content:
 
<p>

  On the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/05/the-guardian-view-on-cop27-climate-justice-must-take-centre-stage">futile demand</a> for "climate justice".
<p>
The supporters of this demand are responding to the level of disaster
that we have seen in the past few years &mdash; disasters that
civilization, countries, and international trade can for the most part
survive, albeit with considerable pain.  To rebuild after these disasters
is well within the capabilities of wealthy countries.
<p>
After a disaster of that level, a country can find those responsible
and make them compensate those who suffered the most.  It would be
right to do so.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">Global heating</a> disaster is going to be far too bad for compensation.
To measure the damages in money would give a meaningless number, far
beyond what anyone could pay.  The countries that today are wealthy
will by that time be struggling to save the lives of most of their own
people &mdash; and eventually fail to do so.  If you had that much money,
in Africa, say, you couldn't buy feed the hungry with it, as food will
be scarce globally.
<p>
Our priority for action, and our main demand, must be to reduce the
extent of the coming disaster.

 


title: Drought on Pacific northwest of Canada
uri: Drought-on-Pacific-northwest-of-Canada
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Drought_on_Pacific_northwest_of_Canada)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Drought_on_Pacific_northwest_of_Canada)

content:
 
<p>

  The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/05/canada-dead-salmon-drought-british-columbia">drought on the Pacific northwest of Canada</a>
has dried out some rivers, and killed lots of salmon.
<p>
Since the drought is due to <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>, such even worse droughts are
to be expected frequently.

 


title: Covid recovery in "jeopardy" if poorer countries aren't helped
uri: Covid-recovery-in-jeopardy-if-poorer-countries-aren-t-helped
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Covid_recovery_in_jeopardy_if_poorer_countries_aren't_helped)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Covid_recovery_in_jeopardy_if_poorer_countries_aren't_helped)

content:
 
<p>

  *US Covid recovery in "jeopardy" <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/05/us-covid-recovery-global-vaccine-testing-wto">unless poorer countries helped</a>, group
[of members of congress] warns.*

 


title: Russia will test the west's resolve again
uri: Russia-will-test-the-west-s-resolve-again
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Russia_will_test_the_west's_resolve_again)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Russia_will_test_the_west's_resolve_again)

content:
 
<p>

*Ukraine won back territory and support, but Russia will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/05/ukrainian-advances-russia-vladimir-putin">test the
    west’s resolve again</a>.*
<p>
The article presents several indications that Putin has no real intention
of using nuclear weapons.  Let's not be defeated by shadows.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Conservative_conference)
title: Conservative conference
uri: Conservative-conference
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Conservative_conference)
content:
 
<p>

*   The RSPB, National Trust, green farmers and anti-frackers all <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/05/conservative-conference-liz-truss-policy-environment-green-fracking">got it in
    the neck</a> at the Conservative conference.*
<p>
Is "growth" a desirable goal?  Putting aside the deeper long-term
questions about whether further economic growth is sustainable,
it is clear that "growth" under <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> Tories would
go to the wealthy, and would not benefit most Britons.  Why should
that kind of "growth" be a valid goal for government policies?
<p>
Greenpeace activists: *No one voted for Liz Truss's policies. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/05/greenpeace-liz-truss-conference-speech-economy-environment">That's
    why we stormed her conference speech</a>.*
<p>
That statement is basically true, but it exaggerates: some small
number of Britons did vote for them.  Truss is an MP and won that seat
in a district election.  A minority of the Tory MPs agree with her,
and some Britons voted for them.  But these voters add up to far too
few to win a national election.
<p>
*Greenpeace UK analysis has identified at least seven areas across
environmental protection, climate action, workers’ rights and tackling
inequality where policies either confirmed or being considered by Truss
and her ministers are at odds with the 2019 Conservative manifesto.*

 


title: Protesting against clothing restrictions in Iran
uri: Protesting-against-clothing-restrictions-in-Iran
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Protesting_against_clothing_restrictions_in_Iran)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Protesting_against_clothing_restrictions_in_Iran)

content:
 
<p>

High School girls in Iran are now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/04/iranian-schoolgirls-take-up-battlecry-as-protests-continue">protesting against clothing
    restrictions</a>.
<p>
The Iranian regime is nonplussed by masses of young women, even girls, who
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/05/protests-iran-violence-leaderless-movement-young-women">burning their veils in public</a> and chanting "Death to Khamenei."
<p>
I speculate that it is a mistake for the US to apply additional
sanctions &mdash; surely minuscule in their practical effect &mdash; since that
lends justification to the regimes' claim that the protesters are in
cahoots with the US.  As far as can see, there is nothing effective
that the US can do to help the protesters.

 


title: Marina Ovsyannikova fled house arrest
uri: Marina-Ovsyannikova-fled-house-arrest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Marina_Ovsyannikova_fled_house_arrest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_October_2022_(Marina_Ovsyannikova_fled_house_arrest)

content:
 
<p>

  Dissident TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/05/russian-journalist-fled-house-arrest-marina-ovsyannikova">fled from house arrest</a>
in Russia. She faces possibly 10 years
  in prison for <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Marina_Ovsyannikova)">criticizing Putin on live TV</a> in March.
<p>
  Much like his <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#27_February_2022_(The_corrupter's_supporters)">some-time American ally</a>,
the corrupter, Putin any reports that contradict his propaganda
"fake news".  Putin has made that a crime and prosecutes people for it.
The corrupter would do the same, if he could.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(justice_department_trump_documents)
title: US justice department says Trump didn’t turn over all documents – report
uri: US-justice-department-says-Trump-didn-t-turn-over-all-documents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(justice_department_trump_documents)
content:
 
<p>
*US justice department says [the bullshitter] didn’t turn over all
 [government] 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/07/us-justice-department-says-trump-didnt-turn-over-all-documents-report">documents &mdash; report.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(economy_growth_inequality)
title: The broken US economy breeds inequality and insecurity. Here’s how to fix it
uri: The-broken-US-economy-breeds-inequality-and-insecurity-Here-s-how-t
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(economy_growth_inequality)
content:
 
<p>
James K Galbraith: *The broken US economy breeds inequality and
insecurity. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/07/us-economy-growth-inequality-james-k-galbraith">Here's how to fix it.</a>*

 


title: (Satire) High Schoolers Given Detention For Cutting Class During Active Shooting.
uri: (Satire)-High-Schoolers-Given-Detention-For-Cutting-Class-During-Activ
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_((satire)_high_school_active_shooting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_((satire)_high_school_active_shooting)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *High Schoolers Given Detention For 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/high-schoolers-given-detention-for-cutting-class-during-1849609270">Cutting Class During
Active Shooting.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(ceo_pay_has_soared)
title: As Fed Pushes to 'Get Wages Down,' Study Shows CEO Pay Has Soared by 1,460% Since 1978
uri: As-Fed-Pushes-to-Get-Wages-Down-Study-Shows-CEO-Pay-Has-Soared-by-1
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(ceo_pay_has_soared)
content:
 
<p>
*As Fed Pushes to "Get Wages Down," Study Shows CEO 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/04/fed-pushes-get-wages-down-study-shows-ceo-pay-has-soared-1460-1978">Pay Has Soared by
[a factor of 15] Since 1978.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(shell_chief_tax_energy_firms)
title: Shell chief: governments may need to tax energy firms to help the poor
uri: Shell-chief-governments-may-need-to-tax-energy-firms-to-help-the-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(shell_chief_tax_energy_firms)
content:
 
<p>
The CEO of Shell calls for European countries to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/04/shell-chief-tax-energy-firms-ben-van-beurden-gas-electricity">tax oil companies and use
the money to help the poor.</a>
<p>
This is instead of capping the price that individuals pay &mdash; because such a cap
entails a big subsidy to the oil companies.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_((satire)_far_right)
uri: (Satire)-Far-Right-Republican-Wondering-What-He-Has-To-Do-To-Get-Media
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_((satire)_far_right)
title:
 (Satire) Far-Right Republican Wondering What He Has To Do To Get Media To Stop Calling Him Moderate 

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Far-Right Republican Wondering What He Has To Do To Get
   Media To 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/far-right-republican-wondering-what-he-has-to-do-to-get-1849559055">Stop Calling Him "Moderate."</a>*
<p>
He should feel much better once he realizes that "moderate", in
mainstream US journalism, 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201006141154/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/moderate-americans-elect-group-hoping-to-add-third-candidate-to-2012-election-ballot/2011/11/21/gIQAtPpMtN_story.html">always means "right wing."</a>

 


title: European Commission aims to end secret system protecting fossil fuel holdings
uri: European-Commission-aims-to-end-secret-system-protecting-fossil-fuel-h
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(european_commission_fossil_fuel_holdings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(european_commission_fossil_fuel_holdings)

content:
 
<p>
The European Commission wants to abolish or get out of the Energy
Charter Treaty, a business-supremacy treaty that makes countries pay
oil companies "compensation" 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/08/european-commission-aims-to-end-secret-system-protecting-fossil-fuel-holdings">for laws that cut down oil extraction.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(covid_rules_wise_to_keep)
title: Hand-washing and mask-wearing: Covid rules we would be wise to keep
uri: Hand-washing-and-mask-wearing-Covid-rules-we-would-be-wise-to-keep
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(covid_rules_wise_to_keep)
content:
 
<p>
*Hand-washing and mask-wearing: 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/08/hand-washing-and-mask-wearing-covid-rules-we-would-be-wise-to-keep">Covid rules we would be wise to keep.</a>*
<p>
Likewise higher mandatory standards for indoor ventilation in
schools, workplaces, stores and transport.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(forever_chemicals_found_study)
title: Toxic ‘forever chemicals’ detected in commonly used insecticides in US, study finds
uri: Toxic-forever-chemicals-detected-in-commonly-used-insecticides-i
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(forever_chemicals_found_study)
content:
 
<p>
*Toxic [PFOS] detected in commonly 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/07/forever-chemicals-found-insecticides-study">used insecticides in US, study finds.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(killer_robots)
title: Top robot companies pledge not to add weapons to their tech to avoid harm risk
uri: Top-robot-companies-pledge-not-to-add-weapons-to-their-tech-to-avoid-h
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(killer_robots)
content:
 
<p>
Six prominent robot manufacturers committed not to add weapons 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/07/killer-robots-companies-pledge-no-weapons">to "general use" robots.</a>
<p>
I think that means they will have a separate product line for
militarized robots.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(crimea_kerch_bridge)
title: Key bridge linking Crimea to Russia hit by huge explosion
uri: Key-bridge-linking-Crimea-to-Russia-hit-by-huge-explosion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(crimea_kerch_bridge)
content:
 
<p>
A big explosion on the Kerch bridge (between Russia and Crimea) has
made the bridge unusable until 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/08/crimea-kerch-bridge-explosions-russia-ukraine">major repairs are finished.</a>
If Ukrainian forces in Donetsk get within artillery range of the Sea
of Azov, they will be able to cut off most supply to most of the
territory that Putin has conquered.  Putin's attempts to send supplies
by ship have resulted in defeat.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(tories_protest)
title: 'Enough is Enough': Hundreds of Thousands March Across the UK
uri: Enough-is-Enough-Hundreds-of-Thousands-March-Across-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(tories_protest)
content:
 
<p>
Hundreds of thousands protested in the UK against the Tories' 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/01/enough-enough-hundreds-thousands-march-across-uk">piss-on-the-poor economic policies.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(national_archives_trump)
title: National Archives says it still doesn’t have all Trump White House records
uri: National-Archives-says-it-still-doesn-t-have-all-Trump-White-House-r
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(national_archives_trump)
content:
 
<p>
The National Archives say that some of the corrupter's high officials
are still holding on to government records that they 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/01/politics/national-archives-trump-records-house-oversight-committee/index.html">should have handed
in to the national archives.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(reich_how_billionaries_get_wealth)
title: The Truth Behind “Self-Made” Billionaires
uri: The-Truth-Behind-Self-Made-Billionaires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(reich_how_billionaries_get_wealth)
content:
 
<p>
Watch Robert Reich explain how billionaires get their wealth:
not creating it, but 
<a href="https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=wcfm2Zn-IpQ">taking it from the rest of us.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(low_tax_rate_myths)
title: The US ultra-rich justify their low tax rates with three myths – all of them rubbish
uri: The-US-ultra-rich-justify-their-low-tax-rates-with-three-myths-all
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(low_tax_rate_myths)
content:
 
<p>
*The US ultra-rich justify their low tax rates with three myths &mdash; 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/02/ultra-rich-low-tax-rates-economy-myths">all
of them rubbish.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(musk_taiwan_china)
title: Elon Musk suggests making Taiwan a ‘special administrative zone’ similar to Hong Kong
uri: Elon-Musk-suggests-making-Taiwan-a-special-administrative-zone-s
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(musk_taiwan_china)
content:
 
<p>
Elon Musk proposed to consign 20 million people to Chinese repression
for the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/08/elon-musk-taiwan-china-special-administrative-zone-hong-kong">sake of his profits.</a>
<p>
China has gone out of its way to show, in Hong Kong, how little its
promises of a "special administrative zone" are worth.  Musk evidently
hopes people will choose to forget this because they fawn on him so much.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(vladimir_putin_war_draft)
title: Putin’s war is illegal – and Russians fleeing the draft may have the right to asylum
uri: Putin-s-war-is-illegal-and-Russians-fleeing-the-draft-may-have-t
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(vladimir_putin_war_draft)
content:
 
<p>
Arguably, Russians fleeing to avoid being conscripted have a valid
claim for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/08/vladimir-putin-war-russia-draft-asylum-refugee-ukraine">asylum under international treaties.</a>
<p>
That is an interesting argument, but it ought not to be secondary.  If
a country wants to support Ukraine, it would be utterly foolish <Em>not</Em>
to help Russians avoid fighting for Putin against Ukraine.  Isn't this
obvious? I can't understand how officials can miss this.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(right_wing_rise)
title: The Rise of the Right-Wing University
uri: The-Rise-of-the-Right-Wing-University
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(right_wing_rise)
content:
 
<p>
Beware of right-wing domination and indoctrination in 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/03/rise-right-wing-university">US colleges and
universities.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(un_accuses_richest_nations)
title: UN accuses richest countries of ‘imprudent gamble’ in inflation fight
uri: UN-accuses-richest-countries-of-imprudent-gamble-in-inflation-fi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(un_accuses_richest_nations)
content:
 
<p>
*  [A UN] Report says policies of high interest rates and austerity risk
   triggering global recession that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/03/un-accuses-richest-nations-of-imprudent-gamble-in-inflation-fight"> will hit developing nations hardest.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(corporate_tied_republican_partys)
title: Corporate-Tied Republican Party’s Cruelty to Children
uri: Corporate-Tied-Republican-Party-s-Cruelty-to-Children
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(corporate_tied_republican_partys)
content:
 
<p>
Ralph Nader: *   The GOP has blocked pro-family votes and 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/02/corporate-tied-republican-partys-cruelty-children">pushed for corporate
   anti-family policies.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(big_oil_profits)
title: 'Their Price Strategies Are Bearing Fruit': Oil and Coal Profits Surge 340%
uri: Their-Price-Strategies-Are-Bearing-Fruit-Oil-and-Coal-Profits-Surge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(big_oil_profits)
content:
 
<p>
US Big Oil profits grew by 4 times between 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/30/their-price-strategies-are-bearing-fruit-oil-and-coal-profits-surge-340">1st quarter and 2nd quarter 2022.</a>
<p>
They raised prices because they 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/25/inflation-price-controls-robert-reich">found they could get away with it.</a>
<p>
To cut inflation, we need to tax them a lot more, and distribute the
funds to the non-rich.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(permian_basin_leaking)
title: Permian Basin Leaking 14 Times More Methane Than EPA Estimates: Study
uri: Permian-Basin-Leaking-14-Times-More-Methane-Than-EPA-Estimates-Study
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(permian_basin_leaking)
content:
 
<p>
*Permian Basin [gas pipelines] Leaking 14 Times More 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/05/permian-basin-leaking-14-times-more-methane-epa-estimates-study">Methane Than EPA
 Estimates: Study.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(draconian_silencing)
title: The Draconian Silencing of Those Who Call Out 'Israeli Apartheid'
uri: The-Draconian-Silencing-of-Those-Who-Call-Out-Israeli-Apartheid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(draconian_silencing)
content:
 
<p>
Several human beings and one company that tried to acknowledge the
apartheid system of Israel's occupation of 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/05/draconian-silencing-those-who-call-out-israeli-apartheid">Palestine have recently
been silenced.</a>
<p>
On a side issue raised by the article, people have the right to
criticize or to defend Israel's occupation practices; UC Berkeley must
respect academic and political freedom by allowing people to present
either of those sides (and other sides of the issue as well).  We must
reject all claims that "presenting a certain political stand is
harassment because it makes the campus unsafe for group XYZ," because we
cannot accept any excuse to abolish political freedom of speech.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(voting_rights_act)
title: Supreme Court Poised to Shred What's Left of Voting Rights Act, Plaintiffs Warn
uri: Supreme-Court-Poised-to-Shred-What-s-Left-of-Voting-Rights-Act-Plaint
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(voting_rights_act)
content:
 
<p>
*Supreme Court Poised to Shred What's 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/04/supreme-court-poised-shred-whats-left-voting-rights-act-plaintiffs-warn">Left of Voting Rights Act,
Plaintiffs Warn.</a>*
<p>
What can we possibly do to stop this?
<p>
The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white".  (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.)  I denounce bigotry, and
normally I will not link to articles that promote it.  But I make
exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important.
That article is one of the exceptions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(covid_europe)
title: Covid wave looms in Europe as booster campaign makes slow start
uri: Covid-wave-looms-in-Europe-as-booster-campaign-makes-slow-start
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(covid_europe)
content:
 
<p>
Complacent Europe is seeing the start of 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/europe/covid-wave-europe-intl-scli/index.html">another wave of Covid-19.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(kenyan_president_renewable_energy)
title: Kenyan President Says 'Wind and Solar Energy Can Power the Development of Africa'
uri: Kenyan-President-Says-Wind-and-Solar-Energy-Can-Power-the-Development
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(kenyan_president_renewable_energy)
content:
 
<p>
The president of Kenya says Africa can get out of the fossil fuel
trap, and points to what 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/04/kenyan-president-says-wind-and-solar-energy-can-power-development-africa">Kenya has already achieved.</a>
<p>
Can African countries help <Em>each other</Em> get out of fossil fuel?
That would enable them to get out of poverty.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(energy_crisis)
title: Energy crisis? It isn’t that we have too little oil and gas. It’s that we have too much
uri: Energy-crisis-It-isn-t-that-we-have-too-little-oil-and-gas-It-s
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(energy_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
UK Green leader: *Energy crisis? It isn’t that we have too little oil
and gas. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/07/energy-crisis-it-isnt-that-we-have-too-little-oil-and-gas-we-have-too-much-lucas">It’s that we have too much.</a>*
<p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(daca_appeal)
title: Immigrant Rights Advocates Tell Congress to 'Step Up' After Court Declares DACA Illegal
uri: Immigrant-Rights-Advocates-Tell-Congress-to-Step-Up-After-Court-Decl
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(daca_appeal)
content:
 
<p>
A panel of a federal appeals court overturned the DACA policy that protects
immigrants 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/06/immigrant-rights-advocates-tell-congress-step-after-court-declares-daca-illegal">who have grown up in the US.</a>
<p>
There are two more stages of appeal before a final judgment, but
right-wing judges are likely to eliminate it.  What is needed is to pass
a law explicitly to give then residency, and the opportunity to apply for
citizenship.  But this will be hard to do, with the Senate split 51-50
and no way to eliminate the filibuster.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(social_media_doomed)
title: Social Media Is Probably Doomed
uri: Social-Media-Is-Probably-Doomed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(social_media_doomed)
content:
 
<p>
Predicting the 
<a href="https://lauren.vortex.com/2022/10/04/social-media-is-probably-doomed">disappearance of "social" media.</a>
<p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(great_britain_excess_deaths)
title: Over 330,000 excess deaths in Great Britain linked to austerity, finds study
uri: Over-330-000-excess-deaths-in-Great-Britain-linked-to-austerity-finds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_October_2022_(great_britain_excess_deaths)
content:
 
<p>
*Over 330,000 excess deaths in Great Britain linked to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/05/over-330000-excess-deaths-in-great-britain-linked-to-austerity-finds-study">[cutting the
support for poor people], finds study.</a>*
<p>
Now Truss wants to cut even more, which will surely increase the rate
of death of poor people.

 


title: Urgent: In Massachusetts votes yes on question 4
uri: Urgent-In-Massachusetts-votes-yes-on-question-4
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Urgent:_In_Massachusetts_votes_yes_on_question_4)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Urgent:_In_Massachusetts_votes_yes_on_question_4)

content:
 
<p>

Massachusetts citizens: Pledge to vote yes on question 4, to <a href="https://action.aclu.org/webform/ma-yes-on-four">allow
    non-citizens to get Massachusetts driver's licenses</a>, and then tell
others you know.
<p>
A law to allow this was passed this year, but this
referendum was requested by people who want to reverse that decision.

 


title: Tory policy would make it harder to get political asylum in UK
uri: Tory-policy-would-make-it-harder-to-get-political-asylum-in-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Tory_policy_would_make_it_harder_to_get_political_asylum_in_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Tory_policy_would_make_it_harder_to_get_political_asylum_in_UK)

content:
 
<p>

Proposed new Tory policy would make it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/05/priti-patel-suella-braverman-claiming-asylum-home-secretary">nearly impossible to get political
    asylum</a> in the UK, and violate UN treaties.

 


title: Call for reform to Australian National Security Information Act
uri: Call-for-reform-to-Australian-National-Security-Information-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Call_for_reform_to_Australian_National_Security_Information_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Call_for_reform_to_Australian_National_Security_Information_Act)

content:
 
<p>

  An Australian lawyer, Bernard Collaery, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/05/bernard-collaery-likens-his-prosecution-by-australia-to-a-moscow-show-trial">calls for reforms</a> in the
National Security Information Act which allowed the government to put
his client, a whistleblower, and Collaery himself on trial secretly.
<p>
The national shame that they revealed was that Australia spied on East
Timor's negotiators in order to impose a disadvantageous deal on East
Timor about undersea fossil fuel reserves between the two countries.
<p>
That deal was eventually replaced with a fairer deal, but both
versions of the deal were dangerous for humanity because both
permitted the fossil fuels to be extracted and burnt.  The only safe
thing to do with new fossil fuel reserves is <em><a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Burning_all_known_fossil_fuel_reserves)">keep them in the
      ground</a></em>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Michigan's_sneaky_legal_maneuver)
title: Michigan's sneaky legal maneuver
uri: Michigan-s-sneaky-legal-maneuver
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Michigan's_sneaky_legal_maneuver)
content:
 
<p>

  Michigan has used an <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/05/absolutely-shameful-michigan-judge-drops-flint-water-crisis-charges-against-7">sneaky and arguably dishonest legal maneuver</a> to
drop the criminal charges against state officials accused of poisoning
the people of Flint.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Covid-19_vaccine_for_Africa)
title: Covid-19 vaccine for Africa
uri: Covid-19-vaccine-for-Africa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Covid-19_vaccine_for_Africa)
content:
 
<p>

Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/oct/05/covid-vaccine-inequity-south-africa-afrigen-mrna">developing a Covid-19 vaccine to distribute
    in Africa</a>, but has to fear that Moderna, or perhaps Pfizer, will use patents
to destroy it.
<p>
We should not allow patents on medicines that people's health depends on.
<p>
  Please reject the perverted concept of <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">"intellectual property"</a>,
which was [promoted starting as the 1960s] as a campaign to shape public opinion in favor of various kinds of
imposed monopolies.

 


title: Philadelphia thug convicted for shooting unarmed motorist
uri: Philadelphia-thug-convicted-for-shooting-unarmed-motorist
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Philadelphia_thug_convicted_for_shooting_unarmed_motorist)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Philadelphia_thug_convicted_for_shooting_unarmed_motorist)

content:
 
<p>

  A Philadelphia thug has been <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/09/22/philly-cop-eric-ruch-convicted-of-voluntary-manslaughter-after-shooting-and-killing-unarmed-black-motorist.html">convicted for shooting</a> an unarmed,
unthreatening motorist dead.

 


title: In Israel, human rights lawyer imprisoned without charges
uri: In-Israel-human-rights-lawyer-imprisoned-without-charges
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(In_Israel,_human_rights_lawyer_imprisoned_without_charges)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(In_Israel,_human_rights_lawyer_imprisoned_without_charges)

content:
 
<p>

Israel has imprisoned human rights lawyer Salah Hamouri for six months
without charges.  He is now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/28/human-rights-lawyer-salah-hamouri-in-israeli-prison-goes-on-hunger-strike">starting a hunger strike</a>.
<p>
Israel's law allows imprisoning a person for life without a conviction
or even a stated accusation, based on secret (supposed) evidence. This
resembles what South Africa did under its apartheid system (as shown
in the film, A World Apart).

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Link_to_PFAS_and_low_sperm_count)
title: Link to PFAS and low sperm count
uri: Link-to-PFAS-and-low-sperm-count
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Link_to_PFAS_and_low_sperm_count)
content:
 
<p>

*Study links in utero [PFAS] exposure to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/05/pfas-sperm-count-mobility-testicle-development">low sperm count
    and mobility</a>.*

 


title: Rightwing thinktanks run this government
uri: Rightwing-thinktanks-run-this-government
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Rightwing_thinktanks_run_this_government)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Rightwing_thinktanks_run_this_government)

content:
 
<p>

  George Monbiot: *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/05/rightwing-thinktanks-government-bbc-news-programmes">Rightwing thinktanks run this government.</a> But first,
they had to capture the BBC.*
<p>
Monbiot explains that these "think tanks" are effectively lobbyists
that conceal their clients.  I suspect they are called "think tanks"
because they are the equivalent, in the field of political persuasion,
of armored vehicles with treads and cannons.
<p>
Liz Truss follows the doctrinaire <a href="/glossary.html#doohnibor">dooH niboR</a> philosophy introduced by
Margaret Thatcher, who promised increased total economic growth in
exchange for greater poverty.  She delivered the poverty but economic
growth went down.
<p>
  Now Labour needs the courage to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/05/britains-economic-crisis-offers-an-opportunity-for-new-ideas-labour-must-be-ready">reject the bogus assumptions</a> <em>and
    values</em> underlying that <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> plan.
<p>
It could get that courage from Corbyn.

 


title: Crown Prince Bone Saw switching to Putin camp
uri: Crown-Prince-Bone-Saw-switching-to-Putin-camp
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Crown_Prince_Bone_Saw_switching_to_Putin_camp)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Crown_Prince_Bone_Saw_switching_to_Putin_camp)

content:
 
<p>

  Crown Prince Bone Saw is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/05/putin-mohammed-bin-salman-russia-saudi-arabia-deepen-ties">switching to the Putin camp</a>.
<p>
It makes some sense, in terms of pure selfishness, that two major oil
exporters with no goal other than greed would get together in this
way.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Environmental_damage_of_Bitcoin)
title: Environmental damage of Bitcoin
uri: Environmental-damage-of-Bitcoin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Environmental_damage_of_Bitcoin)
content:
 
<p>

  *   <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/29/bitcoin-climate-impact-gold-mining-environmental-damage-cryptocurrency">Environmental damage of producing [Bitcoin]</a> averages 35% of its
   market value over past five years.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Vaping_vs_Smoking)
title: Vaping vs Smoking
uri: Vaping-vs-Smoking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Vaping_vs_Smoking)
content:
 
<p>

*   Vaping is substantially less harmful than smoking, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/29/switch-from-smoking-to-vaping-cuts-health-risks-substantially-report-finds">according to a major
    review of nicotine products</a>, but action is needed to tackle the sharp
   rise in e-cigarette use among [minors].*
<p>
The article says "children" referring to students in "secondary
schools", people who are teenagers, not children.  I support efforts
to discourage them from using nicotine, but calling them "children" is
not going to win their cooperation on this or anything else.

 


title: Belief that diversity would have eradicating effect on racism
uri: Belief-that-diversity-would-have-eradicating-effect-on-racism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Belief_that_diversity_would_have_eradicating_effect_on_racism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Belief_that_diversity_would_have_eradicating_effect_on_racism)

content:
 
<p>

*The liberal belief that diversity would have a mellowing or
eradicating effect on racism has proven to be a costly fallacy.*
<p>
Instead, Tories and other powerful organizations have learned to
present their "diversity" as an excuse for policies that contribute to
systemic racism, as they actively <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/29/rupa-huq-wrong-left-singled-out-racist-kwasi-kwarteng">boost systemic class prejudice</a>.
<p>
Is Kwasi Kwarteng "superficially black"?  Anyone's skin color is
superficial.  Rupa Huq's error was in treating that superficial
characteristic as determining what a person ought to think and feel.
In effect, a form of stereotyping that denies people's diverse forms
of lived experience and the values they develop.
<p>
I don't think it was necessary to formally punish Huq for expressing
that erroneous concept.  Surely there was a way to help her clarify it
in her mind.
<p>
Kwarteng has a duty to have a heart for the poor and those that the
powerful mistreat.  But the reason is <em>not</em> his skin color.  If that
were the reason, it would follow that white Tories were excused for
lacking one.
<p>
  The valid reason is that <em>everyone</em> has this duty.

 


title: 'Brexit freedoms bill' could abolish pesticide protections
uri: Brexit-freedoms-bill-could-abolish-pesticide-protections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_('Brexit_freedoms_bill'_could_abolish_pesticide_protections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_('Brexit_freedoms_bill'_could_abolish_pesticide_protections)

content:
 
<p>

  *‘Brexit freedoms bill’ could <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/29/brexit-freedoms-bill-pesticide-protections">abolish all pesticide protections</a>,
campaigners say.*

 


title: Bad pay in UK National Health Service
uri: Bad-pay-in-UK-National-Health-Service
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Bad_pay_in_UK_National_Health_Service)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Bad_pay_in_UK_National_Health_Service)

content:
 
<p>

  The UK National Health Service is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/30/nhs-nurses-not-eating-at-work-in-order-to-feed-their-children-survey-finds">paying some staff so badly</a> that some
quit to work for more money in pubs and shops.
Some call in sick the in days before they get paid, because they
can't afford to travel to work.  Some have to skip meals at work.
<p>
The only thing preventing the NHS from paying staff adequately is the
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Staff_positions_unfilled_at_NHS)">Tory Party</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Stock_Trade_Ban_designed_to_fail)
title: Stock Trade Ban designed to fail
uri: Stock-Trade-Ban-designed-to-fail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_October_2022_(Stock_Trade_Ban_designed_to_fail)
content:
 
<p>

  *House Democratic Leadership <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/09/30/house-stocks-trade-ban-fail/">Designed Stock Trade Ban to Fail</a>,
 Negotiators Say.*

 


title: Urgent: Wealth tax on the ultra-rich
uri: Urgent-Wealth-tax-on-the-ultra-rich
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Urgent:_Wealth_tax_on_the_ultra-rich)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Urgent:_Wealth_tax_on_the_ultra-rich)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-pass-a-wealth-tax-on-the-ultra-rich-now">pass a wealth tax</a> on the ultra-rich.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Reject underwater tunnel for Line 5 oil pipeline
uri: Urgent-Reject-underwater-tunnel-for-Line-5-oil-pipeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Urgent:_Reject_underwater_tunnel_for_Line_5_oil_pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Urgent:_Reject_underwater_tunnel_for_Line_5_oil_pipeline)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Army Corps of Engineers to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=51963">reject the underwater
    tunnel</a> for the Line 5 oil pipeline.

 


title: Urgent: Save Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
uri: Urgent-Save-Florida-Keys-National-Marine-Sanctuary
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Urgent:_Save_Florida_Keys_National_Marine_Sanctuary)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Urgent:_Save_Florida_Keys_National_Marine_Sanctuary)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on NOAA to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=51710">save the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Reject an Article V constitutional convention
uri: Urgent-Reject-an-Article-V-constitutional-convention
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Urgent:_Reject_an_Article_V_constitutional_convention)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Urgent:_Reject_an_Article_V_constitutional_convention)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on state legislators to <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/protect-our-constitution-reject-any-calls-for-an-article-v-convention">reject an Article V
    constitutional convention</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Biden to decriminalize marijuana
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Biden-to-decriminalize-marijuana
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_decriminalize_marijuana)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_decriminalize_marijuana)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/time-to-unleash-dank-brandon">decriminalize marijuana</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Reproductive Health Care Accessibility Act
uri: Urgent-Reproductive-Health-Care-Accessibility-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Urgent:_Reproductive_Health_Care_Accessibility_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Urgent:_Reproductive_Health_Care_Accessibility_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: support the <a href="https://act.ayannapressley.com/signup/apem-20221005-reproductivejustice/?source=em20221005-2669&t=1002&akid=2669%2E324449%2E7O2rG6">Reproductive Health Care
    Accessibility Act</a>.

 


title: Urgent: halt funding for candidates that want to rig elections
uri: Urgent-halt-funding-for-candidates-that-want-to-rig-elections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Urgent:_halt_funding_for_candidates_that_want_to_rig_elections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Urgent:_halt_funding_for_candidates_that_want_to_rig_elections)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on Ford and GM to <a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/ford_gm_repro/">stop funding candidates that want
    to rig elections</a> and ban abortion.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Repetitive_Republican_lies)
title: Repetitive Republican lies
uri: Repetitive-Republican-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Repetitive_Republican_lies)
content:
 
<p>

  Republicans have been <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/28/big-lie-media-complicity-and-science-propaganda">repeating since the 1930s</a> the lies they told
to attack the New Deal.
<p>
It is true that the corrupter added some new lies to go with the old lies.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(How_13_states_are_tax_havens)
title: How 13 states are tax havens
uri: How-13-states-are-tax-havens
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(How_13_states_are_tax_havens)
content:
 
<p>

*New Report Reveals How 13 US States <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/28/new-report-reveals-how-13-us-states-shield-fortunes-worlds-richest-people">"Shield the Fortunes of the
    World's Richest People."</a>*  In other words, they are tax havens.

 


title: (satire) Passing drug test for rescue
uri: (satire)-Passing-drug-test-for-rescue
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_((satire)_Passing_drug_test_for_rescue)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_((satire)_Passing_drug_test_for_rescue)

content:
 
<p>

(Satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/fema-requires-flood-victims-to-pass-drug-test-before-qu-1849602827">*FEMA Requires Flood Victims To Pass Drug Test Before
    Qualifying For Rescue.*</a>

 


title: Republicans buying political office
uri: Republicans-buying-political-office
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Republicans_buying_political_office)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Republicans_buying_political_office)

content:
 
<p>

Without campaign finance reform, rich Republicans will be able to <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/buying-a-mayor">buy
    themselves almost any office</a> by spending tens of millions of dollars.

 


title: Australian journalists could face jail
uri: Australian-journalists-could-face-jail
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Australian_journalists_could_face_jail)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Australian_journalists_could_face_jail)

content:
 
<p>

  *   Journalists working for foreign-owned outlets <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/05/journalists-at-foreign-owned-outlets-in-australia-could-face-jail-for-exposing-adf-war-crimes-paper-suggests">could face jail</a> under
   Australia's foreign interference laws for exposing defence force war
   crimes or misuse of surveillance powers, a new paper has warned.*
<p>
There is a general pattern in which Australian laws to "protect security"
lack safeguards against repression.  Consider the Australian equivalent 
of the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(bill_to_protect_whistleblowers_espinonage_act)">Espionage Act</a>, which was used to prosecute whistleblower Witness K,
and the law allowing Australia to force anyone to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jul-oct.html#15_July_2020_(Secret_menace_to_software_developers)">sabotage any
    computer system</a> (that perse has access to) or be put in prison.

 


title: Summer drought 20 times more likely
uri: Summer-drought-20-times-more-likely
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Summer_drought_20_times_more_likely)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Summer_drought_20_times_more_likely)

content:
 
<p>

*Climate crisis made [northern hemisphere] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/05/climate-crisis-made-summer-drought-20-times-more-likely-scientists-find">summer drought 20 times
    more likely</a>, scientists find.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Rules_for_how_AIs_treat_people)
title: Rules for how AIs treat people
uri: Rules-for-how-AIs-treat-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Rules_for_how_AIs_treat_people)
content:
 
<p>

The White House published a draft statement of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/04/biden-takes-important-first-step-ai-bill-rights-blueprint">rules for how AIs
    treat people</a>.
Although these rules are not legally binding, it makes sense to
test a set of rules &mdash; for a while &mdash; before making it binding.
<p>
However, from what I can see in this article, these rules are based
on the usual wrong assumption: that rules about the <em>use</em> of data
about individuals can eliminate the <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">danger posed by of accumulation of
    that data</a>.
<p>
  Does it require an <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#17_September_2017_(Secret_algorithms_in_trials)">AI used to judge people</a> be free software?
If not, we know it is too weak.
<p>
  The dangers of collecting data about you include repression, for instance when <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#22_December_2019_(Chinas_surveillance_network)">China does it</a>,
  and putting you at a disadvantage, for instance when a <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Taking_control_of_John_Deere_tractors)">John Deere</a>
tractor does it.
<p>
To make data collection by tractors respect the rights of farmers, it
must deliver that data about a given farm only to the farm owner,
and if an AI analyzes the data, that should be free software running
on the farmer's computer.

 


title: (satire) Lack of mental health care in schools
uri: (satire)-Lack-of-mental-health-care-in-schools
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_((satire)_Lack_of_mental_health_care_in_schools)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_((satire)_Lack_of_mental_health_care_in_schools)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/kevin-mccarthy-claims-lack-of-mental-health-services-in-1849602838">*Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy stated
   Wednesday that a lack of mental healthcare in schools was precisely
   what got him where he is today. "My political career is a great example
   of what a completely broken mental healthcare system can create, and
    every kid deserves that same opportunity." *</a>

 


title: Thug attacked teenager making video
uri: Thug-attacked-teenager-making-video
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Thug_attacked_teenager_making_video)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Thug_attacked_teenager_making_video)

content:
 
<p>

  A Welsh thug has been convicted of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/05/south-wales-police-inspector-convicted-of-assaulting-vulnerable-boy">attacking a teenager for making a video</a>
of the exterior of a police station.
The <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> said he had decided to assume arbitrarily that anyone
making a video of the police station was a terrorist.
<p>
The judge described the victim as a "vulnerable boy".  This suggests
to me that the judge may believe there are people who are "not
vulnerable" and that it would have been acceptable to attack one of
them this way.  I don't think so.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Climate_emergency_already_started)
title: Climate emergency already started
uri: Climate-emergency-already-started
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Climate_emergency_already_started)
content:
 
<p>

The climate emergency has already started.  We need to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/05/climate-emergency-very-much-here-now-we-must-act">push hard to
    avoid disaster</a>.  Most Americans understand this, but rich
planet-roasters dominate the media.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(OPEC_driving_oil_prices_up)
title: OPEC driving oil prices up
uri: OPEC-driving-oil-prices-up
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(OPEC_driving_oil_prices_up)
content:
 
<p>

  OPEC has decided to cut supplies of oil and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/05/energy/opec-production-cuts/index.html">drive the price back up</a>.
<p>
If it were only a matter of prices and the short-term economy, I would
recommend that the US ship a lot of oil &mdash; that would really screw
OPEN.  However, the most important issue at stake is <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>
and the disaster we must avoid.  To do the right thing now means
helping people get through this winter, in ways that will reduce the
long-term demand for fossil fuels.

 


title: Abortion paid for by Republican Herschel Walker
uri: Abortion-paid-for-by-Republican-Herschel-Walker
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Abortion_paid_for_by_Republican_Herschel_Walker)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Abortion_paid_for_by_Republican_Herschel_Walker)

content:
 
<p>

Correction about Republican candidate Herschel Walker: the woman whose
abortion he paid for in 2009 was not his son's girlfriend, as I wrote.
She was, rather, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/05/politics/herschel-walker-georgia-senate-what-comes-next/index.html">his own girlfriend</a>.
It appears I misunderstood some of the text in the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_October_2022_(Herscel_Walker's_son_calls_him_a_hypocrite)">previous article</a>.
<p>
Paying for her abortion was the right thing for him to do.  We should
not criticize him for that &mdash; not in the slightest.  (In a country with
a good national medical system, she would not have needed such help, but
that's a different issue.)
<p>
When Walker has done which does deserve criticism is (1) advocating a ban
on abortions in the future, and (2) covering up his history to win support
from others who want to ban abortions.
<p>
It does children no favor to bring them into a world in which climate
crisis is developing into climate disaster &mdash; so please <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">help avoid it</a>.
Avoiding this will also help stop the process short of total disaster.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Workers_suspended_by_Amazon)
title: Workers suspended by Amazon
uri: Workers-suspended-by-Amazon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Workers_suspended_by_Amazon)
content:
 
<p>

After a machine fire in an Amazon warehouse, some workers in the next
shift refused to work, perhaps fearing the smoke could damage their
respiratory tracts.  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/05/unreal-amazon-suspends-50-employees-who-refused-work-after-fire-broke-out">Amazon "suspended" them</a>.

 


title: FBI requests statistics from thug departments
uri: FBI-requests-statistics-from-thug-departments
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(FBI_requests_statistics_from_thug_departments_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(FBI_requests_statistics_from_thug_departments_)

content:
 
<p>

The FBI has asked US thug departments to submit <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/05/us/fbi-national-crime-report-2021-data/index.html">more detailed crime
    statistics</a>, but does not require them to offer data at all.
Many <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> departments did not submit any.
<p>
These reports are important, so they should be mandatory.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Iranian_protester_beat_to_death)
title: Iranian protester beat to death
uri: Iranian-protester-beat-to-death
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_October_2022_(Iranian_protester_beat_to_death)
content:
 
<p>

  Someone <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/06/mother-of-dead-iran-schoolgirl-accuses-authorities-of">beat Iranian protester Nika Shahkarami to death</a>, then the
state buried her body and ordered her relatives to say she jumped off
a building.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(new_zealand_farmer_greenhouse_gas)
title: New Zealand farmers may pay for greenhouse gas emissions under world-first plans
uri: New-Zealand-farmers-may-pay-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-under-world-f
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(new_zealand_farmer_greenhouse_gas)
content:
 
<p>
New Zealand is considering a carbon tax that would cover farm animals
as 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/11/new-zealand-farmers-may-pay-for-greenhouse-gas-emissions-under-world-first-plans">well as fossil fuels.</a>
<p>
I think we need such a tax, or some other strong measures worldwide to press
reduction in emissions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(us_midterm_abortion_initiatives)
title: Abortion on the ballot: here are the US states voting on a woman’s right to choose
uri: Abortion-on-the-ballot-here-are-the-US-states-voting-on-a-woman-s-r
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(us_midterm_abortion_initiatives)
content:
 
<p>
*California, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana and Vermont will hold
   referendums on 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/11/us-midterms-abortion-initiatives-california-michigan-kentucky-vermont-montana">abortion next month.</a>*
<p>
If you live in one of those states, please vote!
<p>
If you live in some other state of the US, please vote!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(labour_party_sam_tarry)
title: Sam Tarry’s deselection is just one part of a bigger shakeup of the Labour party
uri: Sam-Tarry-s-deselection-is-just-one-part-of-a-bigger-shakeup-of-the
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(labour_party_sam_tarry)
content:
 
<p>
Starmer is very effectively excluding potential Labour candidates for
parliament who would aim to make 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/11/sam-tarry-deselection-labour-party-keir-starmer">substantial changes for the better</a>
<p>
In effect, this finalizing the conversion of the Labour Party into a
right-wing party more "sensible" than the Tories, and nailing the
coffin of the Labour Party that inspired my support a few years ago.
<p>
If I were in the UK, I would probably vote Green.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(sergei_surovikin)
title: Sergei Surovikin: the ‘General Armageddon’ now in charge of Russia’s war
uri: Sergei-Surovikin-the-General-Armageddon-now-in-charge-of-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(sergei_surovikin)
content:
 
<p>
Putin has appointed a supreme commander for the war against Ukraine.
Perhaps he has come to understand that filling that role himself
is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/10/sergei-surovikin-the-general-armageddon-now-in-charge-of-russias-war">resulting in losses.</a>
<p>
The new commander is cruel and vicious, and cheerfully kills civilians
when he thinks he has an excuse.  It is only a matter of time before
he commits war crimes.  Indeed, he may 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/10/un-chief-decries-unacceptable-escalation-war-ukraine">already have done so, if he gave
the order for the volley of missiles recently aimed at Kyiv.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(opec_biden)
title: OPEC's Slap in the Face Shows Biden Critics Were Right About Meeting With Murderous Saudi Prince
uri: OPEC-s-Slap-in-the-Face-Shows-Biden-Critics-Were-Right-About-Meeting-W
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(opec_biden)
content:
 
<p>
*OPEC's Slap in the Face Shows Biden Critics Were Right About Meeting
With 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/08/opecs-slap-face-shows-biden-critics-were-right-about-meeting-murderous-saudi-prince">Murderous Saudi Prince.*</a>
<p>
Some people will respond to a gesture of friendship with cooperation,
but a murderous power-hungry despot may interpret it as a sign of that
you are weak and desperate.

 


title: Urgent: No Climate Change Deniers at the World Bank
uri: Urgent-No-Climate-Change-Deniers-at-the-World-Bank
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(Urgent:_No_Climate_Deniers_World_Bank)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(Urgent:_No_Climate_Deniers_World_Bank)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the head of the World Bank to resign,
since he is a 
<a href="https://civicshout.com/p/no-climate-change-deniers-at-the-world-bank">global heating denialist.</a>
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/06/after-dumping-15-billion-fossil-fuels-world-bank-urged-stop-investing-climate">For more explanation.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(rise_of_guilty_pleas)
title: Rise of plea-bargaining coerces young defendants into guilty pleas, says report
uri: Rise-of-plea-bargaining-coerces-young-defendants-into-guilty-pleas-sa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(rise_of_guilty_pleas)
content:
 
<p>
* US-style negotiations for reduced sentences in England and Wales
raises fears of false confessions and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/oct/06/rise-of-plea-bargaining-coerces-young-defendants-into-guilty-pleas-says-report">lack of informed consent.</a>*
<p>
It ought to raise concern &mdash; those are the results in the US.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(us_midterms)
title: US midterms 2022: the key candidates who threaten democracy
uri: US-midterms-2022-the-key-candidates-who-threaten-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(us_midterms)
content:
 
<p>
*US midterms 2022: the key 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/11/us-midterms-candidates-who-threaten-democracy
">candidates who threaten democracy.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(leicester_bjp)
title: In Britain and India, we must resist the tragic thinking that pits Hindus against Muslims
uri: In-Britain-and-India-we-must-resist-the-tragic-thinking-that-pits-Hin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(leicester_bjp)
content:
 
<p>
The violent hatred of India's Hindu-nationalist ruling party (BJP) is
spreading into other countries where people of Indian descent live.
In 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/11/britain-india-hindus-muslims-leicester-bjp">England it sparked a riot.</a>
<p>
I don't know if it has generated a riot yet in the US, but they are
working on 
<a href="http://twocircles.net/2022may30/445954.html">building the foundation for one.</a>
<p>
Naturally there is a counter-movement among Indian Muslims, but the
Hindu nationalist's hostility covers 
<a href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/nation-bjp-hindutva-groups-are-helping-hate-crime-accused-kodagu-158742">Christians, Buddhists, and other
minority religions.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(strikers_union_wins_tories)
title: From barristers to bin collectors, strikers are working to empower us all
uri: From-barristers-to-bin-collectors-strikers-are-working-to-empower-us
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(strikers_union_wins_tories)
content:
 
<p>
*From barristers to bin collectors, strikers 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/11/barristers-bin-collectors-strikers-union-wins-tories">are working to empower us all.</a>*
<p>
But it isn't easy &mdash; the plutocratists are fighting hard.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(imf_world_bank)
title: Activists Disrupt Meeting to Demand 'Loan Sharks' IMF and World Bank Cancel All Debt
uri: Activists-Disrupt-Meeting-to-Demand-Loan-Sharks-IMF-and-World-Bank-C
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(imf_world_bank)
content:
 
<p>
CODEPINK activists crashed a meeting of the IMF and World Bank,
calling on them to release poor countries from the debt trap 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/11/activists-disrupt-meeting-demand-loan-sharks-imf-and-world-bank-cancel-all-debt">that is
impossible to escape from.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(igor_danchenko)
title: Sources in Russian analyst’s Trump dossier fabricated, prosecutors argue
uri: Sources-in-Russian-analyst-s-Trump-dossier-fabricated-prosecutors-a
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(igor_danchenko)
content:
 
<p>
*   Igor Danchenko, who played a vital role in creating the Steele dossier,
   has been indicted on five 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/11/russian-analyst-igor-danchenko-steele-dossier-sources">counts of lying to the FBI.</a>*
<p>
The Steele dossier made accusations about the bullshitter; it seems that
some of the accusations may have been fabricated by Danchenko.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(iran_hijab_law_protest)
title: Cracks appear among Iran elite as senior figure calls for hijab policing rethink
uri: Cracks-appear-among-Iran-elite-as-senior-figure-calls-for-hijab-polici
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(iran_hijab_law_protest)
content:
 
<p>
An important Iranian politician called for more freedom for Iranians
and less imposition of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/12/iran-hijab-law-protest-ali-larijani">Islamic customs by force.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(newspeak_russia)
title: Newspeak in the New Russia
uri: Newspeak-in-the-New-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(newspeak_russia)
content:
 
<p>
A study of Putin's 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221007011056/https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/09/23/newspeak-in-the-new-russia-a78816">official Newspeak.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(russia_crimea)
title: Russia's Crimea Disconnect
uri: Russia-s-Crimea-Disconnect
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(russia_crimea)
content:
 
<p>
The real and complex history of Crimea, Ukraine and Russia, since
around 1100 years ago, have almost nothing to do with Putin's 
<a href="https://snyder.substack.com/p/russias-crimea-disconnect">fantasy
justification for conquest.</a>
<p>
I've read about parts of this history before, and the article
accords with what I read.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(jobs_recession)
title: US economy will soon start losing 175,000 jobs a month, Bank of America warns
uri: US-economy-will-soon-start-losing-175-000-jobs-a-month-Bank-of-Americ
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(jobs_recession)
content:
 
<p>
*   The Federal Reserve’s fight to squash inflation will cause the US
   economy to start losing tens of thousands of jobs a month beginning
   early next year, 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/10/economy/jobs-recession-unemployment/index.html">Bank of America Warns.</a>*

 


title: The crushing of the American Socialist Party
uri: The-crushing-of-the-American-Socialist-Party
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(The_crushing_of_the_American_Socialist_Party)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(The_crushing_of_the_American_Socialist_Party)

content:
 
<p>

How the Espionage Act, together with kidnappings and threats of
violence, were used to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/06/why-we-cant-have-nice-things-socialism-united-states">crush the American Socialist Party</a>, which was
pushing for a national medical system as well as to keep the US out of
World War I.
<p>
  Now it is being <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(bill_to_protect_whistleblowers_espinonage_act)">used to prosecute</a> Julian Assange
  and to force Edward Snowden to remain in exile in an oppressive
  country where <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#28_September_2022_(Edward_Snowden)">he never intended to go</a>.

 


title: Polluters hid climate-related financial risks
uri: Polluters-hid-climate-related-financial-risks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Polluters_hid_climate-related_financial_risks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Polluters_hid_climate-related_financial_risks)

content:
 
<p>

*Analysis Shows World's Biggest Polluters <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/06/flying-blind-analysis-shows-worlds-biggest-polluters-hide-climate-related-financial">Hide Climate-Related
    Financial Risks</a>.*

 


title: Covid-19 deaths higher in Republicans than Democrats
uri: Covid-19-deaths-higher-in-Republicans-than-Democrats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Covid-19_deaths_higher_in_Republicans_than_Democrats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Covid-19_deaths_higher_in_Republicans_than_Democrats)

content:
 
<p>

  In the US, Republicans have been <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/10/10/covid-republican-democrat-deaths/">more likely to die from Covid-19</a> than
Democrats.  Especially since vaccines became available and Republicans
convinced other Republicans not to get vaccinated.
<p>
This holds *even after controlling for location and age differences.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Trickle_down_never_delivers)
title: "Trickle down" never delivers
uri: Trickle-down-never-delivers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Trickle_down_never_delivers)
content:
 
<p>

Robert Reich: "Trickle down" economics never deliver the paradoxical
benefits that they promise.  They <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/09/why-is-trickle-down-economics-still-with-us">deliver more riches to the rich</a>.
The rich buy politicians to get them enacted, and they buy economics
departments so paint them as beneficial.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Oath_Keepers'_civil_war_timeline)
title: Oath Keepers' "civil war" timeline
uri: Oath-Keepers-civil-war-timeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Oath_Keepers'_civil_war_timeline)
content:
 
<p>

  *New evidence details Oath Keepers' <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/08/oath-keepers-trial-evidence-civil-war">"civil war" timeline</a>.*

 


title: UK "libertarians" want to allow rich to do whatever they like
uri: UK-libertarians-want-to-allow-rich-to-do-whatever-they-like
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(UK_libertarians_want_to_allow_rich_to_do_whatever_they_like)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(UK_libertarians_want_to_allow_rich_to_do_whatever_they_like)

content:
 
<p>

UK "libertarians" believe the state should <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/09/libertarians-let-you-live-life-as-you-wish-as-long-as-rich-powerful">let rich people do whatever
    they like</a> &hellip; while actively restricting the poor as well as letting
the rich walk all over them.
<p>
  For example, *Poorest families would <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/09/poorest-families-would-lose-400-a-year-under-liz-truss-benefits-plan">lose £400</a> a year under Liz Truss
benefits plan.*
<p>
Among all forms of government we know of, the only one that doesn't
allow crushing the non-rich is democracy &mdash; when the non-rich understand
that that is its purpose and know how to use it.

 


title: Over 2 million living in US without running water
uri: Over-2-million-living-in-US-without-running-water
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Over_2_million_living_in_US_without_running_water)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Over_2_million_living_in_US_without_running_water)

content:
 
<p>

  *Over 2 million people in the United States live <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/05/safe-tap-water-human-right">without running water</a>..*

 


title: Toxic pollution particles in unborn babies
uri: Toxic-pollution-particles-in-unborn-babies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Toxic_pollution_particles_in_unborn_babies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Toxic_pollution_particles_in_unborn_babies)

content:
 
<p>

  *Toxic air pollution particles <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/05/toxic-air-pollution-particles-found-in-lungs-and-brains-of-unborn-babies">found in lungs and brains of unborn babies</a>.*
<p>
Air pollution, whether generated by natural phenomena or made by human
activities (which nowadays include wildfires), puts each person born
at risk, and harms society with complete certainty.  However, some
people profit greatly from continuing to cause pollution, and fight hard
to resist efforts to reduce it.

 


title: Children of mothers who eat junk food
uri: Children-of-mothers-who-eat-junk-food
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Children_of_mothers_who_eat_junk_food)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Children_of_mothers_who_eat_junk_food)

content:
 
<p>

  *Children of mothers who eat junk food <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/05/children-of-mothers-who-eat-junk-food-more-likely-to-be-overweight-study">more likely to be overweight</a>.*

 


title: Coal companies plan to increase production
uri: Coal-companies-plan-to-increase-production
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Coal_companies_plan_to_increase_production)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Coal_companies_plan_to_increase_production)

content:
 
<p>

Coal companies around the world, but mainly in in China, India,
Australia, Russia and South Africa, are planning to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/06/reckless-coal-firms-plan-climate-busting-expansion-study-finds">build new mines
    and increase production</a>.
<p>
That implies almost certain global disaster.
<p>
The US is not building new coal-burning power plants,
but it is not shutting down the existing ones fast enough.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Just_Stop_Oil_activists_arrested)
title: Just Stop Oil activists arrested
uri: Just-Stop-Oil-activists-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Just_Stop_Oil_activists_arrested)
content:
 
<p>

  *Just Stop Oil activists arrested after <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/06/just-stop-oil-activists-arrested-after-glueing-themselves-to-road-in-whitehall">gluing themselves</a> to road in
Whitehall.*
<p>
  One protester <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/03/doing-my-son-uk-climate-activist-gives-interview-while-handcuffed-hauled-cops">sang a protest song</a> as cops carried her off.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Italy's_communists_in_1976)
title: Italy's communists in 1976
uri: Italy-s-communists-in-1976
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Italy's_communists_in_1976)
content:
 
<p>

  *The secret British plan to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/02/revealed-the-secret-british-plan-to-keep-italys-communists-from-power">keep Italy's communists from winning</a> the 1976
election in Italy.*

 


title: Torture and murder of Ukrainian prisoners
uri: Torture-and-murder-of-Ukrainian-prisoners
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Torture_and_murder_of_Ukrainian_prisoners)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Torture_and_murder_of_Ukrainian_prisoners)

content:
 
<p>

  *Pro-Kremlin neo-Nazi militia <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/02/pro-kremlin-neo-nazi-militia-inciting-torture-murder-ukrainian-prisoners">inciting the torture and murder</a> of Ukrainian
prisoners.*
<p>
They murder prisoners without reporting having captured them.

 


title: High cost of drug for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
uri: High-cost-of-drug-for-amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(High_cost_of_drug_for_amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(High_cost_of_drug_for_amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis)

content:
 
<p>

  A drug combination that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/04/158000-cost-als-treatment-called-poster-child-unjust-drug-pricing"><em>might</em> treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis</a> is
being sold for $158,000 per patient.
<p>
The US Patent Office is such a patsy that it will allow a company to patent
using two known drugs together.
<p>
The fact that this combination might not even work well is a side issue.

 


title: Student Borrower Bankruptcy Relief Act
uri: Student-Borrower-Bankruptcy-Relief-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Student_Borrower_Bankruptcy_Relief_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Student_Borrower_Bankruptcy_Relief_Act)

content:
 
<p>

The Student Borrower Bankruptcy Relief Act would allow people who
owe student debt to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/06/democrats-push-lift-ban-student-loan-bankruptcy-relief">get rid of it through bankruptcy</a>.
<p>
Until around 2000, Americans with burdensome student debt
could declare bankruptcy and eliminate it.  Then a law was
passed to make an exception for student debt: it was exempt
from bankruptcy.  This bill would eliminate that exception.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Parody_files_as_amicus_brief)
title: Parody files as amicus brief
uri: Parody-files-as-amicus-brief
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Parody_files_as_amicus_brief)
content:
 
<p>

  The Onion <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/opinions/the-onion-supreme-court-amicus-brief-hemmer/index.html">filed a parody as an amicus brief</a> with the Supreme Court, in
the spirit of Ha Ha Only Serious, to defend a man who was jailed for
parodying the web site of the local <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> department.

 


title: UN climate summit hosted by Despotic Egyptian Regime
uri: UN-climate-summit-hosted-by-Despotic-Egyptian-Regime
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(UN_climate_summit_hosted_by_Despotic_Egyptian_Regime)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(UN_climate_summit_hosted_by_Despotic_Egyptian_Regime)

content:
 
<p>

  *Perils of UN Climate Summit <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/07/naomi-klein-spotlights-perils-un-climate-summit-hosted-despotic-egyptian-regime">Hosted by Despotic Egyptian Regime</a>.*
<p>
*Unless political freedoms are defended, there will be no meaningful
   climate action. Not in Egypt, nor anywhere else. These issues are
   intertwined, as are our fates.*

 


title: Concern of Biden administration's handling of Covid
uri: Concern-of-Biden-administration-s-handling-of-Covid
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Concern_of_Biden_administration's_handling_of_Covid)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Concern_of_Biden_administration's_handling_of_Covid)

content:
 
<p>

*We are deeply concerned that the Biden administration is minimizing
Covid at a time when it <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/07/covid-inaction-leaves-us-facing-major-storm-without-even-umbrella-hand-experts-warn">needs to be redoubling its efforts</a> to ensure funding and resources to prevent another surge.*

 


title: Citizens pardoned for possession of marijuana
uri: Citizens-pardoned-for-possession-of-marijuana
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Citizens_pardoned_for_possession_of_marijuana)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Citizens_pardoned_for_possession_of_marijuana)

content:
 
<p>

  Biden <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/07/advocates-lament-extremely-disappointing-exclusion-noncitizens-biden-marijuana">pardoned  US citizens that were convicted of possession of marijuana</a>.
He ought to pardon noncitizens, too.

 


title: Repeal 2002 Iraq war authorization
uri: Repeal-2002-Iraq-war-authorization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Repeal_2002_Iraq_war_authorization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Repeal_2002_Iraq_war_authorization)

content:
 
<p>

  *Urge the Senate to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-urge-the-senate-to-repeal-the-2002-iraq-war-authorization?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">repeal the 2002 Iraq war authorization</a>.*

 


title: Stricter controls on drone bombing attacks
uri: Stricter-controls-on-drone-bombing-attacks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Stricter_controls_on_drone_bombing_attacks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Stricter_controls_on_drone_bombing_attacks)

content:
 
<p>

  Biden has established <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/07/politics/drone-strikes-counterterrorism-white-house-biden-new-rules/index.html">stricter controls</a> on drone bombing attacks
by the US military and the CIA.
<p>
Despite these rules, drone attacks against civilians, away from battlefields,
will continue.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Kerch_bridge_train_tracks)
title: Kerch bridge train tracks
uri: Kerch-bridge-train-tracks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Kerch_bridge_train_tracks)
content:
 
<p>

  Russia states it has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/08/putin-dealt-bitter-blow-as-blast-cripples-key-bridge-to-crimea">repaired the train tracks</a> on the Kerch bridge.
  I expect it is true.
<p>
This is unfortunate, because it means the bridge is once again
functional for delivering military supplies to the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>.

 


title: Cutting of tall trees in Papua New Guinea
uri: Cutting-of-tall-trees-in-Papua-New-Guinea
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Cutting_of_tall_trees_in_Papua_New_Guinea)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Cutting_of_tall_trees_in_Papua_New_Guinea)

content:
 
<p>

  Logging companies are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/09/fighting-off-the-bulldozers-in-the-sacred-kwila-forests-of-papua-new-guinea">cutting tall trees</a> in Papua New Guinea,
  and crushing whatever gets in their way.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Protests_in_Iran)
title: Protests in Iran
uri: 2022-10-13-Protests-in-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(Protests_in_Iran)
content:
 
<p>

The protests in Iran did not happen now by sheer chance.  They are the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/08/are-hijab-protests-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-irans-regime">response to a recent intensification of repression</a>, 
   which was itself the regime's reaction
to public opinion's shift away from strictness.
<p>
There is a lot of other interesting material in the article.

 


title: China's repression of racial minorities and dissidents
uri: China-s-repression-of-racial-minorities-and-dissidents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(China's_repression_of_racial_minorities_and_dissidents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_October_2022_(China's_repression_of_racial_minorities_and_dissidents)

content:
 
<p>

  China's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/06/now-moment-global-solidarity-chinas-ethnic-minorities">repression of racial minorities, and dissidents</a>, is pervasive.
The state uses a dissident's relatives as hostages.
<p>
Imagine the worst injustices of the US, as the official and
systematically enforces policy of the state, and you get China.

 


title: Report Reveals How Utilities' Climate Pledges Amount to 'Textbook Greenwashing'
uri: Report-Reveals-How-Utilities-Climate-Pledges-Amount-to-Textbook-Gree
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(report_reveals_utilities_climate_pledge)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(report_reveals_utilities_climate_pledge)

content:
 
<p>
*   Despite the passage of nearly $370 billion in renewable energy funding,
   the nation's utilities are squandering "a massive opportunity for clean
   
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/04/report-reveals-how-utilities-climate-pledges-amount-textbook-greenwashing">electricity and electrification."</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(isis_gas_reserves)
title: ISIS-linked militants are threatening huge natural gas reserves the world needs badly right now
uri: ISIS-linked-militants-are-threatening-huge-natural-gas-reserves-the-wo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(isis_gas_reserves)
content:
 
<p>
Mozambique has large reserves of natural gas.  Oil companies describe
natural gas as a "transition fuel to get us to support extracting
them.  Too bad that the extra global heating could destroy civilization.
<p>
There is no 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/10/africa/isis-mozambique-gas-reserves-cmd-intl/index.html">hint of that in this article,</a>
<p>
which focuses on the threat that a predatory terrorist army (related
to PISSI) might prevent the extraction (and unwittingly save us all).
<p>
This form of distraction is a standard pattern for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/18/exxon-texas-courts-critics-climate-crimes">global heating
denialism nowadays.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(uks_online_safety_bill)
title: The UK Online Safety Bill Attacks Free Speech and Encryption
uri: The-UK-Online-Safety-Bill-Attacks-Free-Speech-and-Encryption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(uks_online_safety_bill)
content:
 
<p>
The UK's "Online Harms" bill will grievously harm privacy and 
<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/uks-online-safety-bill-attacks-free-speech-and-encryption">freedom
of speech.</a>
<p>
Article 19 also warned of a 
<a href="https://www.article19.org/resources/uk-online-safety-bill-serious-threat-to-human-rights-online/">threat to freedom of speech.</a>
<p>
There is currently a moral panic in the UK about a teenager who
committed suicide, apparently under the influence of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/30/how-molly-russell-fell-into-a-vortex-of-despair-on-social-media">antisocial
media sites' recommendation algorithm.</a>
<p>
When they saw she was looking at postings of despair, they directed
her to more despair, which became overwhelming.
<p>
This suggests another approach which could achieve the goal without
threatening people's freedom of speech or people's privacy: namely, to
restrict the recommendation algorithms only.
<p>
The most basic way is to make a rule that the site must not offer any
recommendations, any "promoted" posts, except when the user makes an
explicit request &mdash; "please show me something you think might interest
me".  Even if the site's algorithm for deciding what to show you <Em>when
you request this</Em> is unchanged, it will operate less often and show
you fewer things.
<p>
The next step might be to have a way for users to mark a posting as
"not nice".  A posting thus marked would still be on line, so you
could still see it if you ask for it specifically, but the site would
never recommend it automatically to anyone.
<p>
We can conceive of many variations of this idea.  Surely some variation
of them will avoid the real danger without causing real repression.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(anti_trust_murder)
title: An antitrust murder whodunnit
uri: An-antitrust-murder-whodunnit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(anti_trust_murder)
content:
 
<p>
Analysis of pertinent events showed that US antitrust law was
eviscerated 40 years ago by a conspiracy of big US businesses that
wanted to 
<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/03/powell-memo/#means-motive-opportunity">buy their competitors.</a>
<p>
Other political causes for that change have been ruled out by the data.

 


title: UN vote to ignore human rights abuses in China leaves west in dead end
uri: UN-vote-to-ignore-human-rights-abuses-in-China-leaves-west-in-dead-end
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(un_vote_ignore_human_rights_abuses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(un_vote_ignore_human_rights_abuses)

content:
 
<p>
The UN Human Rights Council voted to do nothing at all with the
Human Rights Commissioner's report on 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/06/un-vote-ignore-human-rights-abuses-china-leaves-west-dead-end">China's oppression in Xinjiang.</a>
<p>
In effect, most of the world treats China as too big to criticize,
probably due to having been corrupted by China.
<p>
The US has done plenty of such corrupting, and plenty of oppressing,
but China will do more because it lacks any substantial domestic
opposition or criticism.
<p>
Nowhere in the world is safe if China continues to extend its power.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Utility_redlining)
title: Utility redlining
uri: Utility-redlining
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Utility_redlining)
content:
 
<p>

  "Utility redlining": <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2022/oct/06/detroit-power-outages-impact-minority-low-income-neighborhoods">systematic underinvestment in the infrastructure</a> of
neighborhoods with a large nonwhite population.
  The result, in the case of electricity in Detroit, is that they get
frequent power outages which the same company prevents (with newer
equipment) for the wealthier neighborhoods (where more whites live).
<p>
Do all electricity customers pay the same rates?  If so, some other factor
convinced the electric company to serve the white neighborhoods better.
It would be interesting to find out how that operated.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Walmart_and_CVS_face_lawsuit)
title: Walmart and CVS face lawsuit
uri: Walmart-and-CVS-face-lawsuit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Walmart_and_CVS_face_lawsuit)
content:
 
<p>

*Judge says Walmart and CVS must face lawsuit for <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/10/02/judge-says-walmart-and-cvs-must-face-lawsuit-for-placing-homeopathic-nostrums-with-actual-medicines.html">placing homeopathic nostrums
    with actual medicines</a>.*
<p>
Hooray!

 


title: Inventing "holidays" to get people to spend
uri: Inventing-holidays-to-get-people-to-spend
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Inventing_holidays_to_get_people_to_spend)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Inventing_holidays_to_get_people_to_spend)

content:
 
<p>

  US businesses have been <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/09/30/you-arent-spending-enough-money-so-corporations-keep-inventing-new-national-whatever-days.html">inventing "holidays"</a> as excuses to get people
to spend money for more than a century.
<p>
  About <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fake-holidays-invented-by-brands-2018-10">10 of the many examples</a>.
<p>
I decided long ago to disregard all the holidays that pressure people
to give gifts.  
<p>
I would not "celebrate" Record Store Day, but I do wish there were a
good record store in Boston, with a big selection of classical and
world records &mdash; I would visit it from time to time to look for
interesting CDs to buy.  The CD is the last media substrate that was
invented without malfeatures to restrict people or impose nonfree
technology, and I am happy to use it.
<p>
  Meanwhile: Out, out, <a href="https://DefectiveByDesign.org">damned Spotify</a>!  
<p>
  It has the same injustices as Amazon <a href="media/d62a2831.ebooks.pdf" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/archives/ebooks.pdf">e-books(PDF)</a>,
  and even one of those injustices is too much.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Digital_payments_for_parking)
title: Digital payments for parking
uri: Digital-payments-for-parking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Digital_payments_for_parking)
content:
 
<p>

People who use a digital method to pay for parking are contributing
to a system of tracking which endangers human rights and democracy.
Occasionally, some of them also <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/oct/05/worcester-parking-glitch-drains-money-from-drivers-bank-accounts">get scammed</a> and then screwed.

 


title: Question to power people denying 2020 election results
uri: Question-to-power-people-denying-2020-election-results
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Question_to_power_people_denying_2020_election_results)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Question_to_power_people_denying_2020_election_results)

content:
 
<p>

  Robert Reich: *A <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/b6671845-c977-4e3a-aa8b-edba5a673b72?r=9za75">personal question to powerful people</a> who continue to deny the
results of the 2020 election: What do you tell yourself in private?*
<p>
Reich cannot expect an actual answer, but his speculations about the
possibilities are interesting.

 


title: Cutting 25% greenhouse gases will cost less than not acting
uri: Cutting-25-greenhouse-gases-will-cost-less-than-not-acting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Cutting_25%25_greenhouse_gases_will_cost_less_than_not_acting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Cutting_25%25_greenhouse_gases_will_cost_less_than_not_acting)

content:
 
<p>

*   IMF says taking swift action to achieve 25% cut in greenhouse gases by
end of decade will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/05/cutting-emissions-will-hit-growth-but-costs-of-inaction-much-higher-says-imf">cost less</a> than failing to act.*
<p>
Since this goes against the pressure from powerful <a href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a>, I think
we can trust it confidently.

 


title: Lower income countries debt spending
uri: Lower-income-countries-debt-spending
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Lower_income_countries_debt_spending)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Lower_income_countries_debt_spending)

content:
 
<p>

*21 out of 70 low- and lower-middle-income countries spent <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/11/1-3-worlds-poorest-countries-spend-more-debt-repayments-education">more on
    external debt repayment</a> than on education in 2020.*
<p>
The 70 countries considered are those for which data was available.

 


title: Inadequate supply of Covid tests in the US
uri: Inadequate-supply-of-Covid-tests-in-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Inadequate_supply_of_Covid_tests_in_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Inadequate_supply_of_Covid_tests_in_the_US)

content:
 
<p>

  Due to Republican votes against, the US <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/politics/covid-19-testing-ashish-jha/index.html">does not have an adequate supply</a>
of Covid-19 tests or vaccines for this winter.
  However, public anti-vax sentiment is an even bigger problem.  A
study forecasts around 90,000 additional deaths from Covid-19 through
this winter that more booster shots now would prevent.

 


title: Republicans plan to attack social security, Medicare and welfare
uri: Republicans-plan-to-attack-social-security-Medicare-and-welfare
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Republicans_plan_to_attack_social_security,_Medicare_and_welfare)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Republicans_plan_to_attack_social_security,_Medicare_and_welfare)

content:
 
<p>

  Republicans plan to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/11/social-security-grave-danger-if-gop-retakes-congress-advocates-warn">attack Social Security, Medicare, and welfare</a>
benefits for poor families, if they take control of the House of
Representatives.  They plan to overcome opposition by sabotage:
refusing to raise the arbitrary "debt ceiling."
<p>
The article explains how Democrats could eliminate this problem now,
without Republican support.  This would require the support of Manchin
and Sinema.  I have a hunch that one of them is blocking this.
<p>
  More <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/12/house-dems-slam-economically-catastrophic-gop-ploy-gut-social-security-and-medicare">info</a>.
<p>
A historical rundown of how today's Republican Party developed into a
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/12/gop-cultish-destructive-fascist-organization-not-legitimate-political-party">"cultish, destructive Fascist organization"</a>, one that would have
dismayed and shocked President Eisenhower.

 


title: Trump-pet burns camper and blames "antifa"
uri: Trump-pet-burns-camper-and-blames-antifa
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Trump-pet_burns_camper_and_blames_antifa)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Trump-pet_burns_camper_and_blames_antifa)

content:
 
<p>

A trump-pet burned his own camper van to commit insurance fraud, and
claimed "antifa" started the fire.  He was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/12/us/trump-supporter-false-flag-fire-minnesota-camper/index.html">caught and charged</a>.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The bullshitter</a> taught his supporters that lying for victory for their
party is acceptable; this naturally leads people to think up many
different lies to try.

 


title: Fast-track non-nuclear agreement with Iran to punish Prince Bone Saw
uri: Fast-track-non-nuclear-agreement-with-Iran-to-punish-Prince-Bone-Saw
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Fast-track_non-nuclear_agreement_with_Iran_to_punish_Prince_Bone_Saw)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Fast-track_non-nuclear_agreement_with_Iran_to_punish_Prince_Bone_Saw)

content:
 
<p>

  *Want to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/12/want-punish-saudis-fast-track-nuke-agreement-iran-and-green-new-deal">Punish [Salafia Arabia and Crown Prince Bone Saw]</a>?  Fast-Track
[the non-nuclear] Agreement With Iran and the Green New Deal.*
<p>
Regardless of oil prices, the US should end its <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#14_July_2022_(US_and_Salafi_Arabia)">cooperation with
    Salafi Arabia</a> and the UAE's war in Yemen.

 


title: Animal populations have fallen since the 70's
uri: Animal-populations-have-fallen-since-the-70-s
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Animal_populations_have_fallen_since_the_70's)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Animal_populations_have_fallen_since_the_70's)

content:
 
<p>

Wild animal populations (of birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles) have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/13/almost-70-of-animal-populations-wiped-out-since-1970-report-reveals-aoez">fallen 70%</a> on the average since 1970.
<p>
When a population becomes small and localized, it is at high risk of
being wiped out by random events.  One wildfire, one storm, one new
mine, one new housing development, and it could be gone.  Mines and
housing are made by humans; nowadays, wildfires and storms are, too.

 


title: Enslavement of foreign workers in Britain
uri: Enslavement-of-foreign-workers-in-Britain
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Enslavement_of_foreign_workers_in_Britain)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Enslavement_of_foreign_workers_in_Britain)

content:
 
<p>

The Tories plan to treat enslavement of foreign workers in Britain
as an opportunity to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/13/home-office-reclassifies-modern-slavery-as-immigration-issue">punish those enslaved</a>.

 


title: Americans choosing to forget Covid-19 is still here
uri: Americans-choosing-to-forget-Covid-19-is-still-here
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Americans_choosing_to_forget_Covid-19_is_still_here)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_October_2022_(Americans_choosing_to_forget_Covid-19_is_still_here)

content:
 
<p>

As most Americans choose to forget that Covid-19 is still here and
infecting many new people, measures to track infections have been
discarded along with measures to prevent them.
<p>
One measure may still show us that the Covid rate is increasing:
people buy scented candles and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/13/zero-scent-candles-covid">report that they seem to have no odor</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Speed up EPA climate and clean air standards
uri: Urgent-Speed-up-EPA-climate-and-clean-air-standards
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Urgent:_Speed_up_EPA_climate_and_clean_air_standards)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Urgent:_Speed_up_EPA_climate_and_clean_air_standards)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the EPA to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-epa-go-further-faster">speed up the rest of its climate and
    clean air standards</a>.

 


title: Investment funds exposure to climate risks
uri: Investment-funds-exposure-to-climate-risks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Investment_funds_exposure_to_climate_risks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Investment_funds_exposure_to_climate_risks)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to support the SEC's plan to protect
retirement savings from climate-related financial risks, by making
investment funds <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-the-sec-must-protect-retirement-savings-from-climate-related-financial-risks">publish more about their exposure</a> to such risks.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Maximus to cease union-busting efforts
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Maximus-to-cease-union-busting-efforts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Maximus_to_cease_union-busting_efforts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Maximus_to_cease_union-busting_efforts)

content:
 
<p>

  Everyone: call on Maximus to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/ulpsupport">cease union-busting efforts</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Replace Donald Moak on USPS board of governors
uri: Urgent-Replace-Donald-Moak-on-USPS-board-of-governors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Urgent:_Replace_Donald_Moak_on_USPS_board_of_governors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Urgent:_Replace_Donald_Moak_on_USPS_board_of_governors)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-biden-replace-donald-lee-moak-on-the-usps-board-of-governors-now">replace Donald Moak</a> on the USPS board of
  governors with someone that will <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jul-oct.html#23_August_2020_(Post_Office_saboteur_opposes_reconnection_of_sorting_machines)">replace DeJoy</a>.

 


title: Mar-a-Lago employee testified to moving documents
uri: Mar-a-Lago-employee-testified-to-moving-documents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Mar-a-Lago_employee_testified_to_moving_documents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Mar-a-Lago_employee_testified_to_moving_documents)

content:
 
<p>

  An employee at Mar-a-Lago testified to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/12/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-documents">helping move boxes of documents</a>
at <a href="/glossary.html#cheater">the cheater</a>'s orders after he received a subpoena to return them.

 


title: DART planetary defense test was a success
uri: DART-planetary-defense-test-was-a-success
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(DART_planetary_defense_test_was_a_success)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(DART_planetary_defense_test_was_a_success)

content:
 
<p>

  The DART planetary defense test <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/11/world/nasa-dart-success-update-scn/index.html">was a success</a>.  We can save the Earth
from being hit by an asteroid.
<p>
Can we save the Earth from being hit by human-caused <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>?

 


title: British-based companies main bringers of business-supremacy treaties cases
uri: British-based-companies-main-bringers-of-business-supremacy-treaties-c
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(British-based_companies_main_bringers_of_business-supremacy_treaties_cases)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(British-based_companies_main_bringers_of_business-supremacy_treaties_cases)

content:
 
<p>

*   Transform Trade charity says British-based companies are among <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/11/uk-firms-legal-muscle-human-rights-climate-abuses-report">main
    bringers of cases</a> based on [business-supremacy treaties].
<p>
These cases aim to use ISDS clauses (I Sue Democratic States clauses)
to sue states that respond to their citizens' demands by adopting laws
that protect the public but reduce the profits of foreign companies.
Usually they force the retraction of those laws &mdash; or ensure the laws
are never passed.
<p>
ISDS also stands for I Spread Death and Suffering.  We must put an end
to the regime of these treaties.  It's not easy to effectively abolish
the treaties, or for a country to pull out of them, since normally a country
remains subject to the treaty for a long time after that.
<p>
What is needed is to make powerful countries pass laws that they will
not enforce these treaties, perhaps limited to certain cases where those
laws are crucial.

 


title: US policies to reduce danger of nuclear war
uri: US-policies-to-reduce-danger-of-nuclear-war
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(US_policies_to_reduce_danger_of_nuclear_war)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(US_policies_to_reduce_danger_of_nuclear_war)

content:
 
<p>

Several sensible US policies that won't hurt Ukraine but can <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/11/dont-just-worry-about-nuclear-war-do-something-help-prevent-it">reduce
    the danger of nuclear war</a>, both now and for the long term.

 


title: Proposed rule to classify Uber and Lyft drivers as employees
uri: Proposed-rule-to-classify-Uber-and-Lyft-drivers-as-employees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Proposed_rule_to_classify_Uber_and_Lyft_drivers_as_employees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Proposed_rule_to_classify_Uber_and_Lyft_drivers_as_employees)

content:
 
<p>

Biden's Labor Department has proposed an employment rule that would
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/11/biden-labor-rule-aims-help-end-gig-company-exploitation-workers">classify the drivers of Uber and Lyft as employees</a>.
<p>
This would be a big step forward for employee's rights, but it won't
do anything about the injustice of Uber and Lyft to the <em>passengers</em>:
making them nonfree software (an app) and identify themselves
(enabling surveillance).  This should be forbidden.
<p>
So I will continue to get into an Uber or Lyft car.  I go out of my
way to get a real taxi that I can board anonymously and pay with cash.
Or I take a bus.  Or I walk.
<p>
In some places, such as New York City, even taxis are part of a
surveillance machine.  A cab driver there told me that all NYC taxis
are required to have cameras that transmit the passengers' face images
immediately by radio to the city department of massive surveillance.
Such surveillance is a bigger threat than terrorism, because <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">tracking
    people threatens to subjugate everyone</a>.

 


title: German court rules international British thug illegal
uri: German-court-rules-international-British-thug-illegal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(German_court_rules_international_British_thug_illegal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(German_court_rules_international_British_thug_illegal)

content:
 
<p>

One of the undercover British <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> that was detailed to infiltrate
nonviolent dissident groups traveled outside the UK to infiltrate
dissidents in other countries.  A German court has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/11/british-police-spy-unlawfully-operated-in-germany-court-finds">ruled that this was
    illegal</a> since it was not authorized by a German judge.
<p>
I wonder what consequences this will have, for the British state and
for that <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a>.

 


title: Why "trickle-down economics" is still taken seriously
uri: Why-trickle-down-economics-is-still-taken-seriously
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Why_trickle-down_economics_is_still_taken_seriously)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Why_trickle-down_economics_is_still_taken_seriously)

content:
 
<p>

Why the paradoxical claim of "trickle-down economics" <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/11/antidote-gops-trickle-down-scam-bottom-economy">continues to be
    taken seriously</a> despite never achieving the claimed result.

 


title: New EU directive for companies that use AI
uri: New-EU-directive-for-companies-that-use-AI
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(New_EU_directive_for_companies_that_use_AI)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(New_EU_directive_for_companies_that_use_AI)

content:
 
<p>

A new EU directive will make companies that use AI algorithms to
decide how to treat individuals <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/08/tech-firms-artificial-intelligence-ai-liability-directive-act-eu-ccia">liable for damages</a> if they cause harm
to those individuals thereby.
<p>
I don't know the details; I can't judge the directive at that level.
But I approve of the general idea, because <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/rms-pavia-doctoral-address.html">innovation must not be our
    highest goal</a>. Innovation can do good or harm.  Treating people justly and
helpfully is more important than innovation.
<p>
Freedom is also more important than innovation; the argument that
nonfree software leads to "progress" is fallacious because using
nonfree software is inherently a change for the worse.

 


title: Cheater privately admitted he lost 2020 election
uri: Cheater-privately-admitted-he-lost-2020-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Cheater_privately_admitted_he_lost_2020_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Cheater_privately_admitted_he_lost_2020_election)

content:
 
<p>

  *The cheater <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/13/trump-admission-election-aides-january-6-panel">privately admitted</a> he lost 2020 election, top aides testify.*

 


title: Plan to "evacuate civilians" from Kherson
uri: Plan-to-evacuate-civilians-from-Kherson
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Plan_to_evacuate_civilians_from_Kherson)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Plan_to_evacuate_civilians_from_Kherson)

content:
 
<p>

  Putin's stooge has announced a plan to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/13/russia-announces-kherson-evacuation-raising-fears-city-will-become-frontline">"evacuate civilians" from Kherson</a>. Given what we have seen the Putin forces do to civilians in Donetsk,
  I think this is an item in <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_October_2022_(newspeak_russia)">Putin newspeak</a>
and stands for capturing Ukrainian
civilians in Kherson and taking them forcibly and permanently to
Russia, or perhaps other parts of conquered Ukrainian territory.
<p>
It would be easy for the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> to allow Ukrainian civilians to
evacuate to Mykolaiv or Kryvy Rih, but we saw in Mariupol that Putin
doesn't want to permit that.
<p>
[pol note about the repeated pattern of arranging for evacuation
and preventing it by shelling the evacuation path]
<p>
        He would rather take them to Russia and pretend that they
chose Russia over Ukraine, interrogating them along the way (and
	murdering some) in <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#17_June_2022_(Details_of_Russia's_filtration_camps)">transit prisons he calls "filtration"</a>.

 


title: Australia's wheat harvest disrupted
uri: Australia-s-wheat-harvest-disrupted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Australia's_wheat_harvest_disrupted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Australia's_wheat_harvest_disrupted)

content:
 
<p>

  Global heating has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/14/australian-wheat-yields-plummet-after-decades-of-global-heating-study-finds">disrupted Australia's wheat harvest</a>, and it's getting
worse.

 


title: Climate risk making dwellings undesirable
uri: Climate-risk-making-dwellings-undesirable
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Climate_risk_making_dwellings_undesirable)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Climate_risk_making_dwellings_undesirable)

content:
 
<p>

  10% of dwellings in Canada are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/13/the-uninsurables-how-storms-and-rising-seas-are-making-coastlines-unlivable">now uninsurable</a> because the climate risk
has become too great.
<p>
People whose homes are destroyed won't have the capital to buy another.
Government must buy them out, while imposing building codes that make
new housing safer.
<p>
The article did not mention tar sands, but the Canadian government has
a duty to recognize that its tar sands exports are fueling disaster
for Canadians (as well as for the rest of the world).  Fossil fuel
extraction is tantamount to planet roasting.  The Canadian government
must reverse its policy of <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_June_2022_(canada_big_bank_trans_mountain_pipeline)">supporting that</a>.

 


title: Demand for surgical sterilization in the US
uri: Demand-for-surgical-sterilization-in-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Demand_for_surgical_sterilization_in_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Demand_for_surgical_sterilization_in_the_US)

content:
 
<p>

  Demand for surgical sterilization is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/13/us-vasectomies-planned-parenthood-abortion-roe-v-wade">increasing considerably</a> in the US,
and some clinics are offering gratis vasectomy. I don't think the rate is large enough to visibly affect the future
population.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Wake-up_call_for_the_west)
title: Wake-up call for the west
uri: Wake-up-call-for-the-west
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Wake-up_call_for_the_west)
content:
 
<p>

  *Let Saudi Arabia’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/13/saudi-arabia-putin-prince-mohammed">friendship with Putin</a> be a wake-up call for the west.*
But not only for realpolitik, and the larger goals should not be
limited to human rights and democracy.  Curbing <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> fast
must also be a first-priority goal, and that means that, starting as
soon as possible, we must keep the wholesale price of oil low and the
retail price high.
<p>
The natural way to do that is with a heavy tax on fossil fuels that is
scheduled to increase predictably every year.

 


title: UK ministers imposed laws by decree
uri: UK-ministers-imposed-laws-by-decree
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(UK_ministers_imposed_laws_by_decree)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(UK_ministers_imposed_laws_by_decree)

content:
 
<p>

  During the Covid-19 emergency, a few UK ministers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/13/boris-johnson-covid-laws-rights-decree-two-years-democracy">imposed laws by decree</a>,
which Parliament hardly looked at.  This could easily happen again.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Refugees_crossing_the_Darién_Gap)
title: Refugees crossing the Darién Gap
uri: Refugees-crossing-the-Darién-Gap
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Refugees_crossing_the_Darién_Gap)
content:
 
<p>

  This year over 150,000 refugees have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/13/record-numbers-risking-lives-cross-darien-gap-us-migration-poverty-humanitarian-crisis">crossed the Darién Gap</a>, the wild
area that straddles the border between Panama and Colombia.
You have to be totally desperate to undertake a trek so difficult
and dangerous.  Most of them are people from countries where things
are very desperate &mdash; last year Haiti, now Venezuela.  Nearly all
heading towards the US border, more than 3400 miles away.

 


title: Agreement for Palestinian national elections
uri: Agreement-for-Palestinian-national-elections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Agreement_for_Palestinian_national_elections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Agreement_for_Palestinian_national_elections)

content:
 
<p>

The main Palestinian parties, Hamas and Fatah, have agreed on a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/middleeast/palestinian-deal-hamas-fatah-intl/index.html">plan
    for national elections</a>.

 


title: Student protesters being put into mental hospitals
uri: Student-protesters-being-put-into-mental-hospitals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Student_protesters_being_put_into_mental_hospitals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Student_protesters_being_put_into_mental_hospitals)

content:
 
<p>

An Iranian official says that <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are putting arrested student
protesters <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/12/middleeast/iran-schoolgirls-protests-institutions-intl/index.html">into mental hospitals</a>.

 


title: Scientists called on Elsevier to stop support for fossil fuel companies
uri: Scientists-called-on-Elsevier-to-stop-support-for-fossil-fuel-companie
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Scientists_called_on_Elsevier_to_stop_support_for_fossil_fuel_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Scientists_called_on_Elsevier_to_stop_support_for_fossil_fuel_companies)

content:
 
<p>

Scientists that publish in Elsevier journals called on Elsevier to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/12/scientists-launch-petition-urging-academic-publisher-stop-aiding-fossil-fuel">stop its support for fossil fuel companies</a>.
<p>
I agree, but I point out that Elsevier does other things that are even
worse.  For instance, keeping many articles under a paywall.  For the
sake of science, scientists should drive Elsevier and other paywalled
journal publishers out of business.
<p>
Sad to say, this includes many scientific professional organizations.

 


title: Companies padding bills in Medicare Advantage program
uri: Companies-padding-bills-in-Medicare-Advantage-program
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Companies_padding_bills_in_Medicare_Advantage_program)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Companies_padding_bills_in_Medicare_Advantage_program)

content:
 
<p>

Most of the large companies operating Medicare Advantage plans have
<a href="https://act.medicare4all.org/go/49577?t=1001&akid=158716%2E1479168%2EV0DeCO">padded their bills</a> to the US government.  Some are being sued for
fraud.
<p>
They will do it again, too, if they don't get charged punitive damages
in the tens of billions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(social_media_interaction)
title: Social Media Interaction Does Not Improve Political Knowledge, but It Does Polarize Us
uri: Social-Media-Interaction-Does-Not-Improve-Political-Knowledge-but-It
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(social_media_interaction)
content:
 
<p>
*Two new studies say there's no evidence of political learning on social
media, but it does increasingly 
<a href="https://reason.com/2022/10/14/social-media-interaction-does-not-improve-political-knowledge-but-does-polarize-us/">teach us to hate our opponents.*</a>
<p>
The article presents a new proposed explanation for why antisocial media
increases political polarization: in a big discussion about a major
polarizing issue, you won't have a chance to find out that some
of the people on the other side share views with you on other issues.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_((satire)_trump_name_change)
title: (satire) *Trump Outmaneuvers New York Lawsuit By Changing Name To Donald 2.*
uri: (satire)-Trump-Outmaneuvers-New-York-Lawsuit-By-Changing-Name-To-D
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_((satire)_trump_name_change)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Trump Outmaneuvers New York Lawsuit By
   Changing 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/trump-outmaneuvers-new-york-lawsuit-by-changing-name-to-1849659399">Name To Donald 2.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(cop27_silencing_climate_voices)
title: Activist Says Egypt's Pre-COP27 Silencing of Climate Voices Should Be a 'Wake-Up Call'
uri: Activist-Says-Egypt-s-Pre-COP27-Silencing-of-Climate-Voices-Should-Be
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(cop27_silencing_climate_voices)
content:
 
<p>
*[Human Rights Watch] Says Egypt's Pre-COP27 Silencing of Climate
Voices 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/14/activist-says-egypts-pre-cop27-silencing-climate-voices-should-be-wake-call">Should Be a "Wake-Up Call."</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(iran_bans_director)
title: Iran bans director Mani Haghighi from attending London film festival
uri: Iran-bans-director-Mani-Haghighi-from-attending-London-film-festival
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(iran_bans_director)
content:
 
<p>
Iran confiscated director Mani Haghighi's passport and stopped him
from attending the London film festival, where one of his films
will be shown.  He believes this was meant as punishment for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/oct/14/iran-bans-director-mani-haghighi-from-attending-london-film-festival">stating
his support for the protest movement.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(poll_workers)
title: Poll Workers Will Play Key Role in Midterm Elections
uri: Poll-Workers-Will-Play-Key-Role-in-Midterm-Elections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(poll_workers)
content:
 
<p>
The US election on Nov 8 will depend, as always, on volunteer poll
workers &mdash; 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/09/poll-workers-will-play-key-role-midterm-elections">around a million of them.</a>
<p>
A free and fair election depends
on impartial poll workers.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(csiro)
title: CSIRO abruptly scraps globally recognized climate forecast program
uri: CSIRO-abruptly-scraps-globally-recognized-climate-forecast-program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(csiro)
content:
 
<p>
CSIRO (Australia's scientific research organization) had an admired
program for forecasting future climate, but in 2021 a government
minister 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/16/csiro-abruptly-scraps-globally-recognised-climate-forecast-program">forced CSIRO to shut it down.</a>
<p>
That government, right-wing, was firmly 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/may/02/csiro-has-become-extravagant-consulting-company-one-of-its-former-top-climate-scientist-says">on the planet roaster side,</a>
<p>
so it would naturally prefer to eliminate honest and thoughtful
forecasts to leave a gap for its patrons' bullshit.
<p>
It is now 16 months later &mdash; is it possible to resume what was cancelled?
<p>
CSIRO has been accused of abandoning research of importance
for whatever research business wants.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(starlink_ukraine)
title: Elon Musk says SpaceX will keep funding Starlink internet in Ukraine
uri: Elon-Musk-says-SpaceX-will-keep-funding-Starlink-internet-in-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(starlink_ukraine)
content:
 
<p>
Musk changed his mind and said SpaceX would continue to pay for Ukraine's
use of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/15/the-hell-with-it-elon-musk-says-spacex-will-fund-starlink-internet-in-ukraine">Starlink satellite communications.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(study_reveals_lost_gear_oceans)
title: New study reveals ‘staggering’ scale of lost fishing gear drifting in Earth’s oceans
uri: New-study-reveals-staggering-scale-of-lost-fishing-gear-drifting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(study_reveals_lost_gear_oceans)
content:
 
<p>
*   Lost nets, lines and hooks (including 25 million pots and
   traps and 14 billion hooks) trap wildlife for years as they float in the
   ocean, sink to the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/16/new-study-reveals-staggering-scale-of-lost-fishing-gear-drifting-in-earths-oceans">bottom or are washed ashore.</a>*
<p>
Proposed solutions: *local governments introducing buy-backs of older
fishing gear which tended to get lost more often than new
equipment. Tags or labels could be attached to gear, and free
   facilities could be introduced at harbors to allow fishers to
   discard unusable nets safely.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(kroger_albertsons)
title: As Kroger Eyes Albertsons, Biden Admin Urged to Reject 'Greed-Driven' Grocery Buyout
uri: As-Kroger-Eyes-Albertsons-Biden-Admin-Urged-to-Reject-Greed-Driven
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(kroger_albertsons)
content:
 
<p>
If Kroger and Albertsons are allowed to merge, it will probably 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/13/kroger-eyes-albertsons-biden-admin-urged-reject-greed-driven-grocery-buyout">increase the prices in US supermarkets.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(gop_ssn_medicare_ploy)
title: Corporate Media Mostly Ignoring GOP Ploy to Cut Social Security and Medicare
uri: Corporate-Media-Mostly-Ignoring-GOP-Ploy-to-Cut-Social-Security-and-Me
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(gop_ssn_medicare_ploy)
content:
 
<p>
*Corporate Media Mostly Ignoring GOP Ploy to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/14/corporate-media-mostly-ignoring-gop-ploy-cut-social-security-and-medicare">Cut Social Security and Medicare.</a>*

 


title: Adapting in the US west due to climate disaster
uri: Adapting-in-the-US-west-due-to-climate-disaster
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Adapting_in_the_US_west_due_to_climate_disaster)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Adapting_in_the_US_west_due_to_climate_disaster)

content:
 
<p>

As climate disaster settles in on the US west, more and more
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/16/politics/water-cuts-drought-climate-change-what-matters/index.html">effort to adapt</a> is required.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Hinduismist_bigotry_and_hate)
title: Hinduismist bigotry and hate
uri: Hinduismist-bigotry-and-hate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Hinduismist_bigotry_and_hate)
content:
 
<p>

  Victories in the US <a href="http://twocircles.net/2022oct12/447202.html">against the spread of Hinduismist bigotry and hate</a>.

 


title: Countries that can't pay their debts
uri: Countries-that-can-t-pay-their-debts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Countries_that_can't_pay_their_debts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Countries_that_can't_pay_their_debts)

content:
 
<p>

Almost 1/5 of the world's population lives in countries that can't pay
their debts.  Many of them <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/13/time-may-be-running-out-chronicle-of-a-debt-crisis-foretold">spend more on debt interest</a> than on health,
education and social protection combined. The system is headed for a
collapse.
<p>
It is fundamentally unjust to the people of poor countries to keep
making them pay interest on unpayable debts.  The world must make a
way to cancel those debts.

 


title: Eastern tree frogs in neighborhood of Chernobyl
uri: Eastern-tree-frogs-in-neighborhood-of-Chernobyl
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Eastern_tree_frogs_in_neighborhood_of_Chernobyl)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Eastern_tree_frogs_in_neighborhood_of_Chernobyl)

content:
 
<p>

Eastern tree frogs in the neighborhood of Chernobyl have <a href="https://phys.org/news/2022-09-chernobyl-black-frogs-reveal-evolution.html">evolved black
    skin</a>. This benefits them because melanin
 protects tissues from radiation.

 


title: Florida law restricting certain discussions by teachers
uri: Florida-law-restricting-certain-discussions-by-teachers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Florida_law_restricting_certain_discussions_by_teachers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Florida_law_restricting_certain_discussions_by_teachers)

content:
 
<p>

The Florida law restricting discussion of racism, slavery and other injustices
by teachers <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/10/5/2127196/-Florida-GOP-s-Assault-on-the-Freedom-to-Teach?_=2022-10-05T13:43:18.000-07:00">is no joke</a>.
The right-wing fanatics in the Supreme Court may be inclined to
uphold it, thus attacking academic freedom.  That may lead to firing
many teachers, even for what they say outside of working hours.  The
US did not recognize academic freedom as a legal priority until 1957.

 


title: Flying refugees to Martha's vineyard helped them
uri: Flying-refugees-to-Martha-s-vineyard-helped-them
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Flying_refugees_to_Martha's_vineyard_helped_them)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Flying_refugees_to_Martha's_vineyard_helped_them)

content:
 
<p>

DeMentis may be surprised to learn that flying refugees to Martha's
Vineyard <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/14/marthas-vineyard-migrants-visas-victims-crime-florida-texas">ended up helping them</a>, indirectly.
<p>
But he won't care.  His goal was to show Republicans he will find excuses
to be cruel.

 


title: Opportunities to limit governments' ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions
uri: Opportunities-to-limit-governments-ability-to-regulate-greenhouse-gas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Opportunities_to_limit_governments'_ability_to_regulate_greenhouse_gas_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Opportunities_to_limit_governments'_ability_to_regulate_greenhouse_gas_emissions)

content:
 
<p>

Several cases before the Supreme Court provide the right-wing
extremists with opportunities to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/14/supreme-court-epa-climate-cases">limit governments' ability to
    regulate greenhouse gas emissions</a> and protect the environment.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Unusual_public_protest_in_Beijing)
title: Unusual public protest in Beijing
uri: Unusual-public-protest-in-Beijing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Unusual_public_protest_in_Beijing)
content:
 
<p>

An unusual public protest in Beijing caused Chinese to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/14/we-all-saw-it-anti-xi-jinping-protest-electrifies-chinese-internet">spread the word
    intensely</a>.
<p>
  This despite <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/14/dissidents-in-china-detained-and-harassed-as-beijing-prepares-for-party-congress">systematic intimidation</a> of suspected protesters for the past month.

 


title: Climate experts' voices silenced before Cop27
uri: Climate-experts-voices-silenced-before-Cop27
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Climate_experts'_voices_silenced_before_Cop27)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Climate_experts'_voices_silenced_before_Cop27)

content:
 
<p>

  *Egypt <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/14/cop27-egypt-host-climate-talks">silenced climate experts' voices</a> before hosting Cop27, HRW says.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Roadmap_for_prosecution_for_Trump)
title: Roadmap for prosecution for Trump
uri: Roadmap-for-prosecution-for-Trump
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Roadmap_for_prosecution_for_Trump)
content:
 
<p>

  *January 6 panel’s case against Trump lays out <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/14/january-6-hearing-trump-analysis">roadmap for prosecution</a>,*
using evidence provided by the non-corrupt Republicans that worked for
the wrecker or had been elected.

 


title: Law in Turkey to criminalize "fake news"
uri: Law-in-Turkey-to-criminalize-fake-news
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Law_in_Turkey_to_criminalize_fake_news)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Law_in_Turkey_to_criminalize_fake_news)

content:
 
<p>

  Turkey is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/13/turkey-new-disinformation-law-could-jail-journalists-for-3-years">considering a law</a> to criminalize "fake news."
  Following other right-wing bullies, such as the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-nov-feb.html#21_January_2018_(Fake_news_awards)">bullshitter</a>,
  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#2_October_2019_(Truth-hating_right-wing_politicians)">Bolsonaro</a> and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_April_2022_(Denounced_for_massive_persecution)">Putin</a>, Erdoğan will call news "fake" if he does not like it.

 


title: Last details about how the wrecker planned to lead insurrection
uri: Last-details-about-how-the-wrecker-planned-to-lead-insurrection
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Last_details_about_how_the_wrecker_planned_to_lead_insurrection)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Last_details_about_how_the_wrecker_planned_to_lead_insurrection)

content:
 
<p>

The last hearing of the Jan 6 coup investigation committee filled in
the last part of the criminal case that the wrecker <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/today-the-criminal-case-against-trump">planned and led an
    insurrection</a> on that day.
<p>
I wonder whether Attorney General Garland has the courage to charge
him now.  But I also wonder whether today's Republicans would hesitate
to vote for the supporters of this criminal plan.

 


title: US hospitals gag doctors from describing harm of denying needed abortions
uri: US-hospitals-gag-doctors-from-describing-harm-of-denying-needed-aborti
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(US_hospitals_gag_doctors_from_describing_harm_of_denying_needed_abortions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(US_hospitals_gag_doctors_from_describing_harm_of_denying_needed_abortions)

content:
 
<p>

  Various hospitals in the US <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/12/health/abortion-doctors-talking/index.html">gag the doctors that work for them</a> from
describing their experiences of harm and danger to patients caused
by denying them needed abortions.
<p>
The article describes this censorship even in states where abortion is
still lawful.
<p>
The worst part is that these hospitals' censorship conceals their
censorship, too, so that we cannot condemn them for it specifically.

 


title: Trap to reveal the real intentions of trickle-downers
uri: Trap-to-reveal-the-real-intentions-of-trickle-downers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Trap_to_reveal_the_real_intentions_of_trickle-downers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Trap_to_reveal_the_real_intentions_of_trickle-downers)

content:
 
<p>

Interesting idea: a higher tax bracket for millionaires can act
as a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/14/will-new-zealands-opposition-fall-into-the-same-tax-trap-as-liz-truss">trap to reveal</a> the real intentions of trickle-downers.
<p>
However, to make these brackets just a little higher misses the
opportunity to make the rich contribute substantially to help the
poor.  We should do that too.  With so much <a href="/glossary.html#doohnibor">dooH niboR</a>, we need more
Robin Hood.

 


title: Italy party's nostalgia for fascism
uri: Italy-party-s-nostalgia-for-fascism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Italy_party's_nostalgia_for_fascism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Italy_party's_nostalgia_for_fascism)

content:
 
<p>

The Brothers of Italy party claims not to be fascist, but its founders
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/13/ignazio-la-russa-brothers-of-italy-politician-fascist-relics-elected-senate-speaker">show nostalgia for fascism</a>.  One, Ignazio La Russa, collects fascist
memorabilia.
<p>
Meloni, the party leader, has moved the party partly away from fascism
but its symbols continues to allude to it.

 


title: Red Cross being denied access to prisoners of war
uri: Red-Cross-being-denied-access-to-prisoners-of-war
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Red_Cross_being_denied_access_to_prisoners_of_war)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Red_Cross_being_denied_access_to_prisoners_of_war)

content:
 
<p>

Putin's puppets in Donetsk are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/14/ukraine-red-cross-frustrated-lack-of-access-pow-russian-occupied-donetsk">denying the International Red Cross
    access</a> to prisoners of war.
(Perhaps they don't want to admit having murdered some.)
<p>
Putin's ceremonial annexation of Donetsk could offer an avenue to make
progress on this &mdash; he can no longer deny that he is responsible for
everything that happens there.
<p>
The article also reports that Putin's "help to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_October_2022_(Plan_to_evacuate_civilians_from_Kherson)">evacuate civilians from
    Kherson</a>" means conscription.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Musk_has_punished_Ukraine)
title: Musk has punished Ukraine
uri: Musk-has-punished-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Musk_has_punished_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>

Musk has punished Ukraine for responding negatively to his
"peace plan," which consisted of letting Putin keep his conquests.
The punishment consists of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/14/elon-musk-spacex-no-longer-fund-starlink-internet-ukraine">withdrawing Ukraine's Starlink service</a>,
which SpaceX had been providing.
<p>
Musk has shown a tendency to shape facts to suit his own wishes.  Now
he claims that the cutoff of service is due to financial motives.  I
doubt that it is true.

 


title: Kroger and Albertsons want to merge
uri: Kroger-and-Albertsons-want-to-merge
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Kroger_and_Albertsons_want_to_merge)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Kroger_and_Albertsons_want_to_merge)

content:
 
<p>

  Two large US supermarket chains, Kroger and Albertsons, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/13/kroger-eyes-albertsons-biden-admin-urged-reject-greed-driven-grocery-buyout">want to merge</a>.
Progressives have told Biden to prevent this.  I fully agree.

 


title: Protesters disrupted IMF/World Bank meeting
uri: Protesters-disrupted-IMF-World-Bank-meeting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Protesters_disrupted_IMF%2FWorld_Bank_meeting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Protesters_disrupted_IMF%2FWorld_Bank_meeting)

content:
 
<p>

Protesters disrupted the IMF/World Bank meeting, demanding that those
organizations <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/13/cancel-debt-climate-protests-disrupt-world-bank-summit">stop funding planet-roasting fossil fuel projects</a>.
Bravo!
<p>
I disapprove of protests that consist of throwing soup on famous
paintings.  Why risk damage to humanity's heritage, when it has
nothing directly to do with the problem?
<p>
By contrast, these protests against organizations that directly
promote <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> disaster are right on target.


 


title: (satire) Corkscrew Whirlycoaster IUD
uri: (satire)-Corkscrew-Whirlycoaster-IUD
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_((satire)_Corkscrew_Whirlycoaster_IUD)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_((satire)_Corkscrew_Whirlycoaster_IUD)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/new-corkscrew-whirlycoaster-iud-gets-sperm-cell-too-diz-1849575364">*New Corkscrew Whirlycoaster IUD Gets Sperm
    Cell Too Dizzy To Find Uterus.*</a>

 


title: Urgent: Legality of Israel's colonies in Palestinian territory
uri: Urgent-Legality-of-Israel-s-colonies-in-Palestinian-territory
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Urgent:_Legality_of_Israel's_colonies_in_Palestinian_territory)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Urgent:_Legality_of_Israel's_colonies_in_Palestinian_territory)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/settlements-are-illegal-the-biden-administration-must-say-so-3">acknowledge that Israel's colonies in
    Palestinian territory are illegal</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Investigate human rights abuses against migrants
uri: Urgent-Investigate-human-rights-abuses-against-migrants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Urgent:_Investigate_human_rights_abuses_against_migrants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Urgent:_Investigate_human_rights_abuses_against_migrants)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the the Department of Justice to
  investigate Govs. Abbott, DeMentis and Ducey for their <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-the-department-of-justice-govs-abbott-desantis-and-ducey-must-be-investigated-for-their-human-rights-abuses-against-migrants-3">human rights
    abuses against migrants</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Cancer_in_adults_increasing)
title: Cancer in adults increasing
uri: Cancer-in-adults-increasing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Cancer_in_adults_increasing)
content:
 
<p>

  Cancer in adults before middle-age is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/14/health/early-onset-cancer-increase/index.html">increasing every decade</a>, in many
countries.
<p>
The cause is not known, but the obvious suspects are lifestyle trends
(such as obesity) and environmental pollution.

 


title: (satire) Putt around woman being beheaded
uri: (satire)-Putt-around-woman-being-beheaded
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_((satire)_Putt_around_woman_being_beheaded)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_((satire)_Putt_around_woman_being_beheaded)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/liv-golfers-on-saudi-course-forced-to-putt-around-woman-1849642918">*LIV Golfers On Saudi Course Forced To Putt
    Around Woman Being Beheaded.*</a>

 


title: Life and death for Palestinian children
uri: Life-and-death-for-Palestinian-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Life_and_death_for_Palestinian_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Life_and_death_for_Palestinian_children)

content:
 
<p>

  On <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/14/death-rayan-suliman-and-palestinian-childrens-very-real-fear-monsters">life and death for Palestinian children</a>, in villages invaded
repeatedly by Israeli soldiers who are protecting Israeli colonies that shouldn't be there in the
  first place.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Return_of_Koh-i-noor_diamond)
title: "Return" of Koh-i-noor diamond
uri: Return-of-Koh-i-noor-diamond
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Return_of_Koh-i-noor_diamond)
content:
 
<p>

  Both India and Pakistan have called for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/14/koh-i-noor-diamond-royal-family-india-modi-queen-consort">"return" of the Koh-i-noor diamond</a>
by the remnant of the British Empire.
<p>
These requests are silly because they are anachronistic.  The
Koh-i-noor was part of the spoils of conquest on several occasions,
across centuries, back when despoiling after conquest was normal.
<p>
Nowadays we reject the idea that victors in war have the right to loot
whatever wealth they find in a defeated country, and we try to prevent
that.  That is a step forward.  But it is absurd to selectively
denounce one specific long-ago instance of this practice, and demand
"restitution" of specific pieces of loot to a previous conqueror.

 


title: Things Biden should do to "re-evaluate" Saudi relations
uri: Things-Biden-should-do-to-re-evaluate-Saudi-relations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Things_Biden_should_do_to_re-evaluate_Saudi_relations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Things_Biden_should_do_to_re-evaluate_Saudi_relations)

content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/13/5-things-biden-should-do-re-evaluate-saudi-relations">5 Things</a> Biden Should Do to "Re-evaluate" Saudi Relations.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Big_Oil's_greenwashing)
title: Big Oil's greenwashing
uri: Big-Oil-s-greenwashing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Big_Oil's_greenwashing)
content:
 
<p>

  The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/13/new-evidence-released-congress-further-confirms-big-oils-climate-disinformation">misleading details</a> of Big Oil's greenwashing PR.

 


title: (satire) Hanging bread thief in town square
uri: (satire)-Hanging-bread-thief-in-town-square
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_((satire)_Hanging_bread_thief_in_town_square)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_((satire)_Hanging_bread_thief_in_town_square)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/ron-johnson-shows-he-s-tough-on-crime-by-hanging-bread-1849643528">*Ron Johnson Shows He's Tough On Crime By
    Hanging Bread Thief In Town Square.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Opportunity_in_labor_shortage)
title: Opportunity in labor shortage
uri: Opportunity-in-labor-shortage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Opportunity_in_labor_shortage)
content:
 
<p>

The current labor shortage is a good opportunity to for businesses to start
seriously <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/13/perspectives/college-degrees-careers-roslansky-auguste/index.html">considering candidates</a> that don't have college degrees.
<p>
This could help people avoid the expensive student loans that would shackle
them for life, and still get good jobs.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Republican_Adam_Laxalt)
title: Republican Adam Laxalt
uri: Republican-Adam-Laxalt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Republican_Adam_Laxalt)
content:
 
<p>

As <a href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">bullshitter</a>-supporting Republican Adam Laxalt runs for the Senate
in Nevada, 14 of his relatives have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/13/cortez-mastos-october-surprise-support-gop-challenger-adam-laxalts-family">endorsed Democrat Catherine Cortez
    Masto</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(ALEC_voter_suppression_summits)
title: ALEC voter suppression summits
uri: ALEC-voter-suppression-summits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(ALEC_voter_suppression_summits)
content:
 
<p>

  *ALEC Held <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/10/14/alec-held-third-voter-suppression-summit-with-dark-money-group-this-summer/">Third Voter Suppression Summit</a> with Dark Money Group This Summer.*

 


title: Drought stopped freight on the Mississippi
uri: Drought-stopped-freight-on-the-Mississippi
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Drought_stopped_freight_on_the_Mississippi)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Drought_stopped_freight_on_the_Mississippi)

content:
 
<p>

  Drought has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/14/mississippi-river-boats-barges-water-levels">stopped freight transportation</a> on the Mississippi river.
  This is going to happen more and more in the future.
<p>
Using ground transport would enormously increase the fossil fuel
required.  I wonder if it is possible to correct the problem by
dredging a narrow channel in the riverbed.  The same amount of water
would be deeper if it is narrower.

 


title: Focusing only on abortions during midterms
uri: Focusing-only-on-abortions-during-midterms
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Focusing_only_on_abortions_during_midterms)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Focusing_only_on_abortions_during_midterms)

content:
 
<p>

  Bernie Sanders: *Democrats <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2022/oct/10/democrats-midterms-victory-economy-bernie-sanders">shouldn't focus only on abortion</a> in the
midterms. That's a mistake.*

 


title: Simple reasoning on Republican claim of "stolen election"
uri: Simple-reasoning-on-Republican-claim-of-stolen-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Simple_reasoning_on_Republican_claim_of_stolen_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Simple_reasoning_on_Republican_claim_of_stolen_election)

content:
 
<p>

Simple reasoning from basic facts shows that the Republican
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/08/heres-brutal-truth-republicans-have-given-democracy">"stolen election" claim</a> is bogus.

 


title: Peter Thiel declared enemy of democracy
uri: Peter-Thiel-declared-enemy-of-democracy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Peter_Thiel_declared_enemy_of_democracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Peter_Thiel_declared_enemy_of_democracy)

content:
 
<p>

  Peter Thiel is a declared <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/15/peter-thiel-who-is-he-republican-donor-tech-entrepreneur">enemy of democracy</a> and is spending tens of millions
on politicians who aim to sabotage it.
<p>
He is also specifically working to sabotage climate defense.  It
follows that, unless you are old, his plan includes your probable
death, and most people's death, though not right away.
<p>
And he is not the only billionaire Republican megadonor,
but he is the one that is most deeply hostile to Democracy.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Movement_to_end_the_death_penalty)
title: Movement to end the death penalty
uri: Movement-to-end-the-death-penalty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(Movement_to_end_the_death_penalty)
content:
 
<p>

The movement to end the death penalty reports that 170 countries have
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/10/un-experts-say-abolishing-death-penalty-only-viable-path">abolished it or stopped using it</a>.
<p>
However, some of the recalcitrant countries are executing more
people now than before.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(putin_diplomats_terror)
title: Putin’s lying diplomats make excuses for terror in Ukraine. Expel them all
uri: Putin-s-lying-diplomats-make-excuses-for-terror-in-Ukraine-Expel-th
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(putin_diplomats_terror)
content:
 
<p>
Arguing for breaking diplomatic relations with Russia, on the grounds
that Putin does not want peace except on the basis of conquest, and
his 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/16/putin-diplomats-terror-ukraine-expel-peace-embassies-russia">"negotiations" and "diplomacy" are all dishonest.</a>
<p>
That's 90% true, but I am not convinced.  Even though there is no hope
that diplomacy will lead to an acceptable peace now, that may change
in the coming year.  We should be ready for that.  In the mean time,
there are other issues to be discussed, and some of them are
important.  The Ukraine food export deal, by itself, is no small thing
for the poor people of the world.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(dearborn_michigan_book_bans)
title: Conservative Muslims join forces with Christian right on Michigan book bans
uri: Conservative-Muslims-join-forces-with-Christian-right-on-Michigan-book
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(dearborn_michigan_book_bans)
content:
 
<p>
US Muslims join with US Christians to advocate censorship in the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/16/dearborn-michigan-book-bans">name
of repression.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(russian_volunteer_soldiers)
title: Eleven Russian soldiers killed in mass shooting by fellow volunteers
uri: Eleven-Russian-soldiers-killed-in-mass-shooting-by-fellow-volunteers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(russian_volunteer_soldiers)
content:
 
<p>
Two soldiers being trained by the Putin forces opened fire on
the other trsinees, causing many casualties 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/15/11-russian-volunteer-soldiers-reportedly-shot-dead-and-15-wounded-in-training-ground-attack">before they were
killed.</a>
<p>
Things like this happened repeatedly in the Afghan government army
which was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/04/us-army-chief-says-death-toll-of-afghan-security-forces-is-unsustainable">supported by the US.</a>
<p>
Those soldiers were not from Russia,
and volunteered for the Russian army.  It bespeaks powerful hatred,
though I am not sure what they hate or why.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(journalist_crackdown_iran)
title: ‘I’m in survival mode’: crackdown on journalists intensifies in Iran
uri: I-m-in-survival-mode-crackdown-on-journalists-intensifies-in
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(journalist_crackdown_iran)
content:
 
<p>
Iran's regime is applying repression to the press, forcing formerly
honest journalists to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/16/im-in-survival-mode-crackdown-on-journalists-intensifies-in-iran">become puppets for the state.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(war_propaganda)
title: Russia’s genocidal propaganda must not be passed off as freedom of speech
uri: Russia-s-genocidal-propaganda-must-not-be-passed-off-as-freedom-of-s
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(war_propaganda)
content:
 
<p>
If a troll farm is directed to systematically promote war crimes or
crimes against humanity, can we draw a line 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/16/propaganda-russia-ukraine-war-crimes-accountability">between that and freedom or speech?</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(adam_kinzinger)
title: Republican Adam Kinzinger: election deniers won’t ‘go away organically’
uri: Republican-Adam-Kinzinger-election-deniers-won-t-go-away-organic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(adam_kinzinger)
content:
 
<p>
Anti-insurrection Republican congresscritter Kinzinger is campaigning
for the Democratic opponents of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/16/adam-kinzinger-republican-january-6-panel-trump">Republican Big Liars.</a>
<p>
I hope this defeats them, but at the same time, counting elections
honestly is just the beginning of the duties of a politician loyal to
democracy.  We need Democrats that will defy the plutocracy and reduce
its power.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(queensland_energy_minister)
uri: Public-ownership-of-power-assets-key-to-smooth-shift-to-renewables-Qu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(queensland_energy_minister)
title:
 Public ownership of power assets key to smooth shift to renewables, Queensland energy minister says 

content:
 
<p>
Queensland lags behind the rest of Australia in renewable electricity,
but now has a plan to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/17/public-ownership-of-power-assets-key-to-smooth-shift-to-renewables-queensland-energy-minister-says">invest big and advance.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(putin_sexual_violence)
title: Russia using rape as ‘military strategy’ in Ukraine: UN envoy
uri: Russia-using-rape-as-military-strategy-in-Ukraine-UN-envoy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(putin_sexual_violence)
content:
 
<p>
The UN accuses the Putin forces of planning 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/15/europe/russia-ukraine-rape-sexual-violence-military-intl-hnk/index.html">the use of rape as a part
of war.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(therese_coffey)
title: Thérèse Coffey criticized for giving leftover antibiotics to a friend
uri: Thérèse-Coffey-criticized-for-giving-leftover-antibiotics-to-a-frien
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(therese_coffey)
content:
 
<p>
The UK's health secretary admitted giving partial prescriptions of
leftover antibiotics to others.  This is very dangerous as taking a
short course of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/16/therese-coffey-criticised-for-giving-leftover-antibiotics-to-a-friend">antibiotics promotes resistance.</a>
<p>
It may also be illegal in the UK, but that is less important, morally,
than the fact that it can be harmful.  Preventing antibiotic
resistance is the responsibility of everyone &mdash; including, above all,
the farms that promote resistance by dispensing pounds and pounds of
antibiotics to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2021/01/26/coalition-calls-urgent-action-livestock-antibiotic-overuse">large numbers of animals that are not even sick.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(dangers_fracking_oil_drilling)
title: Dangers posed by fracking and oil drilling
uri: Dangers-posed-by-fracking-and-oil-drilling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(dangers_fracking_oil_drilling)
content:
 
<p>
The UK's new "climate minister" is a denialist across the board.  Two
scientists debunk his claims that fracking benefits the environment
and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/16/dangers-posed-by-fracking-and-oil-drilling">can lower prices in the short term.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(liz_truss)
uri: The-unraveling-the-full-story-of-how-Liz-Truss-lost-her-way-and-h
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(liz_truss)
title:
 The unraveling: the full story of how Liz Truss lost her way – and her authority in the Tory party 

content:
 
<p>
The Tory Party is rapidly self-destructing, and Britain may have a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/16/liz-truss-lost-authority-tory-party-prime-minister-conservative-mps-kwasi-kwarteng">general election soon.</a>
<p>
One lesson from this is the system of allowing the governing party's
members to choose a new prime minister when one steps down is a
disaster.  The Tories have done this three times since they got into
power, and each one was worse than the last.  The right thing to do
is to hold a general election.
<p>
Another lesson is that the Tory approach to leaving the European Union
was too extreme.  Corbyn wanted to negotiate a customs union, and in general
a closer relationship that the Tories wanted.  This would have been much
less damaging, and might even have done some good.
<p>
We can expect Labour to return the UK to sober and sensible implementation
of a somewhat gentler form of plutocracy.  Maybe it will move to renewable
energy faster.  But non-rich Britons need bigger changes, and I doubt
Labour will advocate them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(alaska_snow_crab_decline)
title: Alaska cancels snow crab season over population decline
uri: Alaska-cancels-snow-crab-season-over-population-decline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(alaska_snow_crab_decline)
content:
 
<p>
*Alaska cancels snow crab 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/16/alaska-snow-crab-season-canelled-population-decline">season over population decline.</a>
<p>
King crabs are in trouble, too.
<p>
Although scientists don't know the full cause of the problem,
it is clear that global heating plays a role.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(yuriy_kerpatenko)
title: Russian troops kill Ukrainian musician for refusing role in Kherson concert
uri: Russian-troops-kill-Ukrainian-musician-for-refusing-role-in-Kherson-co
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(yuriy_kerpatenko)
content:
 
<p>
Ukraine accuses the Putin forces of murdering conductor Yuriy Kerpatenko
for refusing to conduct an orchestra in a celebration of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/16/russian-troops-kill-ukrainian-musician-yuriy-kerpatenko-for-refusing-role-in-kherson-concert">Putin's conquest
of Kherson.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(republican_talking_points)
title: Republicans are trying to win by spreading three false talking points. Here’s the truth
uri: Republicans-are-trying-to-win-by-spreading-three-false-talking-points
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(republican_talking_points)
content:
 
<p>
Three Republican 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2022/oct/16/republican-talking-points-midterms-robert-reich">lies corrected:</a>
<p>
<li> Gun crime has increased most where gun laws are weak.
Not due to criminal justice reform.
<li> Inflation is caused by the effects of Covid-19 (including
millions incapacitated by long Covid), together with near-monopolies.
Not be the (still inadequate) wage increases.
<li> The IRS is hiring new agents to catch rich tax dodgers.
Not to harass poor people Republican style.
<p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(central_bankers)
title: The Guardian view on central bankers: don’t put them in charge of the crisis
uri: The-Guardian-view-on-central-bankers-don-t-put-them-in-charge-of-th
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_October_2022_(central_bankers)
content:
 
<p>
Central banks aren't "fighting the last war", they are fighting some
dimly remembered war from long ago.  According to UNCTAD, it's
entirely 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/16/the-guardian-view-on-central-bankers-dont-put-them-in-charge-of-the-crisis">wrong way to control today's inflation.</a>

 


title: Urgent:Call on Amazon to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Amazon-to-reduce-its-greenhouse-gas-emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Urgent:Call_on_Amazon_to_reduce_its_greenhouse_gas_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Urgent:Call_on_Amazon_to_reduce_its_greenhouse_gas_emissions)

content:
 
<p>

  Everyone: call on Amazon to radically <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/amazon-must-reduce-greenhouse-emissions">reduce its greenhouse gas emissions</a>.
<p>
  You can help reduce Amazon's emissions by <a href="/amazon.html">boycotting Amazon</a>, as I do.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Just_Stop_Oil_back_to_protesting)
title: Just Stop Oil back to protesting
uri: Just-Stop-Oil-back-to-protesting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Just_Stop_Oil_back_to_protesting)
content:
 
<p>

  Just Stop Oil has returned to protesting by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/15/it-was-terrifying-stop-oil-activists-on-the-new-battle-against-fossil-fuel">blocking streets in London</a>,
and now demands subsidy for public transport as well as quick reductions
in oil extraction.

 


title: Guatemala cracks down on protesters
uri: Guatemala-cracks-down-on-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Guatemala_cracks_down_on_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Guatemala_cracks_down_on_protesters)

content:
 
<p>

  *   Guatemala <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/09/central-american-anti-corruption-activists-are-facing-criminal-prosecution">cracks down on protesters in the streets</a> and in the halls of congress—where lawmakers are pushing a bill that would justify the use
   of deadly force.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Criticism_of_The_Woman_King)
title: Criticism of The Woman King
uri: Criticism-of-The-Woman-King
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Criticism_of_The_Woman_King)
content:
 
<p>

Criticism of The Woman King for presenting a sanitized and false
picture of Dahomey, and hiding the fact that its main business was
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/09/filmmakers-should-tell-truth-about-slavery-critique-woman-king">capturing Africans and selling them as slaves</a>.
<p>
The first article I read about that movie mentioned that it was about
Dahomey, and I immediately wondered how it treated this basic fact.
This article shows the answer.
<p>
There may be much to appreciate in The Woman King, but this is an
important flaw.  In general, I'd always prefer if "based on a true
story" were more true and less "based on."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Cuban_state_repressed_protestors)
title: Cuban state repressed protestors
uri: Cuban-state-repressed-protestors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Cuban_state_repressed_protestors)
content:
 
<p>

After Hurricane Ian wiped out Cuba's electric system and destroyed
some buildings, Cubans protested, and the state <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/15/americas/cuba-hurricane-ian-protestors-charges/index.html">responded with
    repression</a>.
<p>
Cuban repression is wrong, now as it was in the past, but I don't
think the Cuban state is responsible for the weakness of its power
grid.  US sanctions, increased by the wrecker, are responsible for
that.

 


title: The corrupter's antisocial media company
uri: The-corrupter-s-antisocial-media-company
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(The_corrupter's_antisocial_media_company)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(The_corrupter's_antisocial_media_company)

content:
 
<p>

A whistleblower reports that the corrupter cheated other participants
in his antisocial media company by pressuring them to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/16/trump-media-truth-social-whistleblower-sec-complaint">give shares
    to Melania</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Poor_People's_Campaign)
title: Poor People's Campaign
uri: 2022-10-20-Poor-People-s-Campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Poor_People's_Campaign)
content:
 
<p>

  Poor People's Campaign marches aim to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/15/marches-us-main-streets-center-poor-voters-demands-ahead-midterms">reach 5 million US voters</a> before
the election.

 


title: Atlanta thugs harassing air passengers
uri: Atlanta-thugs-harassing-air-passengers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Atlanta_thugs_harassing_air_passengers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Atlanta_thugs_harassing_air_passengers)

content:
 
<p>

  Atlanta thugs have a habit of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/16/us/atlanta-police-stop-lawsuit-reaj/index.html">harassing air passengers</a> just as they are
about to get into an airplane, and asking them to "voluntarily"
answer questions about whether they are carrying illegal drugs.
<p>
Of the 400-odd passengers questioned. the <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> took the cash that 25 of them
were carrying.  It added up to a million dollars.  Only one of those 25
was charged with a crime.  How very lucrative.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Giving_the_homeless_apartments)
title: Giving the homeless apartments
uri: Giving-the-homeless-apartments
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Giving_the_homeless_apartments)
content:
 
<p>

  How one county in Minnesota <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/16/politics/minnesota-homeless-affordable-housing/index.html">gives homeless people apartments</a>
and helps them learn how to pay for them.

 


title: Republican candidate for governor of Arizona
uri: Republican-candidate-for-governor-of-Arizona
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Republican_candidate_for_governor_of_Arizona)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Republican_candidate_for_governor_of_Arizona)

content:
 
<p>

The Republican candidate for governor of Arizona is suggesting, in a
vague dogwhistle manner, that if she loses the election she will try
to steal it by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/17/arizona-governor-race-kari-lake-republican-election-midterms">pretending that she had won it</a>, and hope other
Republicans will support lie.
<p>
This sort of conduct ought to land a candidate in prison.

 


title: Corrupt officers in London thug department
uri: Corrupt-officers-in-London-thug-department
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Corrupt_officers_in_London_thug_department)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Corrupt_officers_in_London_thug_department)

content:
 
<p>

The London <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> department allowed hundreds of "racist, corrupt and
misogynist officers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/17/hundreds-of-met-police-officers-not-sacked-for-serious-offences-finds-review">remain in their jobs</a>."
<p>
Even worse, the new head of the department says he may not even have
the authority to fire them.
<p>
  A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/17/casey-report-met-police-sarah-everard">retired London cop</a> says that the London thug department was
"corrupt, racist and misogynistic" for the 30 years she worked there.

 


title: Iranian government thugs attack girls' high school
uri: Iranian-government-thugs-attack-girls-high-school
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Iranian_government_thugs_attack_girls'_high_school)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Iranian_government_thugs_attack_girls'_high_school)

content:
 
<p>

Iranian government thugs attacked a girls' high school and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/oct/18/iranian-schoolgirl-beaten-to-death-for-refusing-to-sing-pro-regime-anthem">ordered students to sing a song</a> that praises Ayatollah Khamenei, whom they call "the dictator".
They refused, so the <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> attacked them, arresting some and injuring others.
One of the girls died afterwards; protesters claim she was beaten to death.
<p>
There is an ethnic element in protests in the Kurdish and Baloch regions.
I wonder how strong the protests are in the rest of Iran.

 


title: If you don't like activists' art gallery protests
uri: If-you-don-t-like-activists-art-gallery-protests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(If_you_don't_like_activists'_art_gallery_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(If_you_don't_like_activists'_art_gallery_protests)

content:
 
<p>

  One person argues, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/18/if-you-dont-like-climate-activists-staging-art-gallery-protests-organise-something-better">*If you don't like climate activists staging art gallery protests, organize something better.*</a>
<p>
I think it is wrong to damage art as a protest.  To make a statement,
there is no need to damage things at random.
<p>
However, it turns out that Van Gogh's painting, Sunflowers, was in no
danger of being harmed by the soup that protesters threw at it.  It is
protected behind a piece of plastic.  I suppose they knew this.  So
there was no objective harm in protesting that way, no objective
reason why they should not.
<p>
Still, that method may still have been self-defeating, influencing
people such as me who did not know how the painting is protected.

 


title: Putin forces aiming missiles at monuments
uri: Putin-forces-aiming-missiles-at-monuments
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Putin_forces_aiming_missiles_at_monuments)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Putin_forces_aiming_missiles_at_monuments)

content:
 
<p>

  It appears that the Putin forces are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/sandbag-sculpture-kyiv-shielding-statues-from-russian-bombs">aiming missiles at monuments</a> to
Ukrainian historical nationalists of the past.
<p>
Putin says he aims to eliminate Ukraine as a nation.  Destroying those
monuments might be one method of trying.

 


title: Wildfires in US west causing extreme weather
uri: Wildfires-in-US-west-causing-extreme-weather
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Wildfires_in_US_west_causing_extreme_weather)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Wildfires_in_US_west_causing_extreme_weather)

content:
 
<p>

  *Wildfires in US west <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/17/wildfires-us-west-extreme-weather-central-states">causing extreme weather</a> in other states, study finds.*
<p>
The extreme weather has caused $100 million in damage, including to
houses and crops.

 


title: Chancellor Hunt to reverse Truss' economic policy decisions
uri: Chancellor-Hunt-to-reverse-Truss-economic-policy-decisions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Chancellor_Hunt_to_reverse_Truss'_economic_policy_decisions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_October_2022_(Chancellor_Hunt_to_reverse_Truss'_economic_policy_decisions)

content:
 
<p>

The Tories have left Truss in position as "prime minister", but allowed
a newly appointed Chancellor Hunt to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/17/with-the-energy-price-climbdown-liz-truss-has-probably-sealed-her-own-fate">reverse all her economic policy decisions</a>. This seems paradoxical to me, but my knowledge of the UK's unwritten
constitution is limited.
<p>
Practically speaking, Hunt has cancelled plans for tax cuts (mainly
for the rich) that were supposed to to achieve mythical trickle-down,
and is perhaps amenable to a windfall profits tax.
<p>
He has cancelled plans to limit what people pay for heating their
homes, but so far he doesn't seem to intend to replace that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(ovo_energy_scheme_tax_system)">flawed
    method</a> for protecting the poor from inability to afford heating with
any better method.
<p>
  He also intends <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/17/hunt-uk-services-nhs">cuts in government programs</a> that non-rich Britons
depend on: education, medicine, and such. He seems to be ideologically opposed to even trying to protect poor
people from being driven out to starve on the street while dying of
illness.

 


title: Urgent: Protect Boundary Waters in Minnesota
uri: Urgent-Protect-Boundary-Waters-in-Minnesota
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_Boundary_Waters_in_Minnesota)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_Boundary_Waters_in_Minnesota)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=51139">protect the Boundary Waters in
    Minnesota</a>.
<p>
  To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a>
  from the web site, use the <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>.</p>
  <p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Lawsuit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
uri: Urgent-Lawsuit-against-the-Consumer-Financial-Protection-Bureau
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Urgent:_Lawsuit_against_the_Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Urgent:_Lawsuit_against_the_Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Wall Street banks to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-wall-street-banks-to-keep-their-pledge-to-stand-against-racial-injustice-by-forcing-their-lobbyists-to-drop-their-lawsuit-against-the-cfpb-now">stop supporting a lawsuit</a>
against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

 


title: Letter from Just Stop Oil protester
uri: Letter-from-Just-Stop-Oil-protester
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Letter_from_Just_Stop_Oil_protester)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Letter_from_Just_Stop_Oil_protester)

content:
 
<p>

  A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/17/im-in-prison-for-fighting-this-governments-fossil-fuel-folly">letter from a Just Stop Oil protester</a> in prison, defending the need
to overcome the British government's determination to drill more.
<p>
  *Oil addiction will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/17/oil-addiction-will-keep-the-west-in-hock-to-dictators">keep the west in hock to dictators</a>.*
It also helps dictators take over western countries.

 


title: Belarus jails opposition activists
uri: Belarus-jails-opposition-activists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Belarus_jails_opposition_activists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Belarus_jails_opposition_activists)

content:
 
<p>

  *Belarus <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/17/belarus-jails-opposition-activists-on-charges-of-terrorism-and-treason">jails opposition activists</a> on charges of terrorism and treason.*
<p>
When Ukraine is through with Putin, he may no longer have the strength
to keep Lukashenko in power.

 


title: Economic program to repair damage Tories have done
uri: Economic-program-to-repair-damage-Tories-have-done
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Economic_program_to_repair_damage_Tories_have_done)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Economic_program_to_repair_damage_Tories_have_done)

content:
 
<p>

Jeremy Corbyn presents a basic economic program to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/17/truss-hunt-activists-unions-tory-austerity">repair the damage
    that Tories have done</a> in 12 years in power.

 


title: Fauci acknowledgment of Long Covid
uri: Fauci-acknowledgment-of-Long-Covid
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Fauci_acknowledgment_of_Long_Covid)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Fauci_acknowledgment_of_Long_Covid)

content:
 
<p>

Dr Anthony Fauci acknowledges: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/17/long-covid-research-unlock-medical-mysteries">*Long Covid is an "insidious" public
    health emergency.*</a>
<p>
He calls on Congress to put funds into research on treating it.  I
agree &mdash; but we already know of ways to protect people from developing
long Covid: masks, distance, and improved ventilation.  Every level of
government should use all methods it can use to convince or require
more Americans to use masks and keep distance, and help and require
all work and gathering places to increase the rate of replacing the
air.
<p>
  Research is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/17/fauci-interview-long-covid-risk-emergency-response-coronavirus">already starting</a>,
and it may eventually help people with various other long-term "post-viral" syndromes
whose mechanisms are mysterious.

 


title: Hurricanes increasing intensity due to global heating
uri: Hurricanes-increasing-intensity-due-to-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Hurricanes_increasing_intensity_due_to_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Hurricanes_increasing_intensity_due_to_global_heating)

content:
 
<p>

  Global heating has caused hurricanes to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/17/us-atlantic-coast-hurricanes-fossil-fuels">increase in intensity</a> faster
than before.  This will make them do more damage.

 


title: Oakland thug department wants armed robots
uri: Oakland-thug-department-wants-armed-robots
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Oakland_thug_department_wants_armed_robots)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Oakland_thug_department_wants_armed_robots)

content:
 
<p>

  The Oakland thug department wants <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/10/17/police-robot-gun-oakland/">armed robots that can shoot people</a>.
<p>
If this is allowed, the next step will be to allow robots
to decide when to shoot someone, based on heuristics.

 


title: Essential skills are being lost in education systems
uri: Essential-skills-are-being-lost-in-education-systems
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Essential_skills_are_being_lost_in_education_systems)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Essential_skills_are_being_lost_in_education_systems)

content:
 
<p>

Autistic scholar Temple Grandin: *The education system is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/15/autistic-scholar-temple-grandin-the-education-system-is-screening-out-visual-thinkers">screening out visual thinkers</a>.&hellip; essential skills are being lost.*

 


title: Senator Warren rebuked Federal Reserve
uri: Senator-Warren-rebuked-Federal-Reserve
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Senator_Warren_rebuked_Federal_Reserve)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Senator_Warren_rebuked_Federal_Reserve)

content:
 
<p>

  Senator Warren <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/14/most-dems-silent-warren-slams-fed-pushing-us-toward-painful-recession">rebuked the Federal Reserve</a> for pushing the US into
recession.

 


title: EPA loopholes allowing sales of PFAs
uri: EPA-loopholes-allowing-sales-of-PFAs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(EPA_loopholes_allowing_sales_of_PFAs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(EPA_loopholes_allowing_sales_of_PFAs)

content:
 
<p>

  Half the sale of PFAs in the US are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2022/10/13/half-forever-chemicals-commerce-approved-through-epa-loopholes">authorized by EPA loopholes</a> that
should not properly apply to them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Van_Gogh's_sunflowers)
title: Van Gogh's sunflowers
uri: Van-Gogh-s-sunflowers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Van_Gogh's_sunflowers)
content:
 
<p>

George Monbiot: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/19/van-gogh-sunflowers-just-stop-oil-tactics">*Do we really care more about Van Gogh’s sunflowers
    than real ones?*</a>
<p>
His points, about the shocking level of repression that the UK
plans to impose <em>without trial</em> on anyone who has participated
in a protest, comparable to putting per on probation, and about the
danger government plans pose to nature at every scale, are valid.
But I want to quibble with the hook that he has used in the title.
<p>
Do I care more about that series of paintings (or just the one in the
UK's National Gallery) than about some real sunflowers?
<p>
I think any painting by an admired artist has more value to the world
than a few cut flowers in a vase.  The species of sunflowers is not
one I personally adore, but preventing any species' extinction is
important, arguably more so than saving a famous painting.  But so
what?
<p>
Those comparisons are pure distraction because there is no reason to
compare them.  Humanity does not face a choice of "this painting or
that species."
<p>
Neither did the protesters &mdash; their protest did not risk damaging the
painting.
<p>
So why does the comparison suggest itself?  I think it is implied,
though misleadingly, by that method of protest.  Even if it can't
actually damage the painting, it suggests an attempt, threat or wish
to do so.
<p>
That is why I think that particular form of protest is misguided.
It leads people to make the misleading comparison.
<p>
A painting won't survive for millennia without help &mdash; it needs
protection, conservation, and restoration.  If <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> wipes
out technological civilization, the humans that survive won't have the
skill, tools, or spare wealth to attend to such work.
<p>
So we can argue that Just Stop Oil's goal is necessary for preserving
that very painting, along with the civilization it forms a part of.

 


title: Authoritarian or neglectful parenting linked to higher weight in children
uri: Authoritarian-or-neglectful-parenting-linked-to-higher-weight-in-child
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Authoritarian_or_neglectful_parenting_linked_to_higher_weight_in_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Authoritarian_or_neglectful_parenting_linked_to_higher_weight_in_children)

content:
 
<p>

*UK data shows authoritarian or neglectful parenting linked to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/18/children-whose-parents-lack-warmth-more-likely-to-grow-up-obese-study-finds">higher
    weight in children and adolescents</a>.*
<p>
Modern life under plutocracy, with parents under stress all the time
and having little time for their children, is likely to result
in the kind of relationship that might make children seek comfort
from junk food.  This could be part cause of the increase in obesity.

 


title: Pressures halt insuring coal mine development
uri: Pressures-halt-insuring-coal-mine-development
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Pressures_halt_insuring_coal_mine_development)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Pressures_halt_insuring_coal_mine_development)

content:
 
<p>

Public pressure has convinced many large insurance companies to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/19/coal-projects-outside-china-becoming-uninsurable-says-climate-group">stop
    insuring coal mine development</a>. Refusal is spreading in oil and gas extraction too.
The article argues that this already makes it almost impossible to
start a new large coal mine, except in China, which is still tears
through our atmosphere.  China does not allow environmentalist
protests.

 


title: People in the UK can't afford enough to eat
uri: People-in-the-UK-can-t-afford-enough-to-eat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(People_in_the_UK_can't_afford_enough_to_eat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(People_in_the_UK_can't_afford_enough_to_eat)

content:
 
<p>

  Around 15% of people in the UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/18/one-in-7-britons-skipping-meals-in-cost-of-living-crisis-says-tuc">can't afford enough to eat</a>.
More than half are reducing their use of heat, hot water and electricity.
<p>
It is hard for me to understand why they don't all march demanding Corbyn
as their next prime minister.

 


title: Scottish farmed salmon industry covering up poor practices
uri: Scottish-farmed-salmon-industry-covering-up-poor-practices
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Scottish_farmed_salmon_industry_covering_up_poor_practices)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Scottish_farmed_salmon_industry_covering_up_poor_practices)

content:
 
<p>

  *   The Scottish farmed salmon industry is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/17/scottish-farmed-salmon-industry-using-loopholes-to-cover-up-harm-report-alleges">using loopholes</a> to cover up
   evidence of environmental harm, poor animal welfare and high levels of
   disease, an investigation has found..*

 


title: Gun laws adopted by Texas governor
uri: Gun-laws-adopted-by-Texas-governor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Gun_laws_adopted_by_Texas_governor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Gun_laws_adopted_by_Texas_governor)

content:
 
<p>

Texas governor Abbott calls Mexican drug mobs "terrorists" while <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/17/texas-lax-gun-laws-us-mexico-border">adopting
    gun laws</a> that help them get lots of guns.

 


title: Urgent: Resist Republican pressure to increase the cost of medicine
uri: Urgent-Resist-Republican-pressure-to-increase-the-cost-of-medicine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Urgent:_Resist_Republican_pressure_to_increase_the_cost_of_medicine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Urgent:_Resist_Republican_pressure_to_increase_the_cost_of_medicine)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your congresscritter to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-your-member-of-congress-lower-drug-prices-now">resist Republican pressure
    to increase the cost of medicine</a>.
<p>
And vote for a Democrat for Congress!

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>.</p>
  <p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Stop excluding military pollution from climate agreements
uri: Urgent-Stop-excluding-military-pollution-from-climate-agreements
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_excluding_military_pollution_from_climate_agreements)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_excluding_military_pollution_from_climate_agreements)

content:
 
<p>

  Everyone: call on COP27 to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/stop-excluding-military-pollution-from-climate-agreements-3">stop excluding military pollution</a> from
climate agreements.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Republican_lies_to_swing_midterms)
title: Republican lies to swing midterms
uri: Republican-lies-to-swing-midterms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Republican_lies_to_swing_midterms)
content:
 
<p>

Robert Reich: *It's not just the Big Lie. Republicans are telling
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-3-biggest-gop-lies-of-the-midterms">three other lies</a> they hope will swing the midterms.*
<p>
The lies are about crime (rising faster in Republican,
Trump-supporting states), about inflation (caused in the US by
corporations as well as by shortages and the war), and the IRS
(which will use its new funding to go after rich cheaters
that give money to Republican candidates).

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Chinese_thugs_beat_up_protester)
title: Chinese thugs beat up protester
uri: Chinese-thugs-beat-up-protester
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Chinese_thugs_beat_up_protester)
content:
 
<p>

Chinese <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> came out of the Chinese consulate in Manchester, England,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/oct/17/hong-kong-protester-attacked-at-chinese-consulate-in-manchester">grabbed a protester, and beat him up</a>.
<p>
British political leaders including Tories said that peaceful
protesters must not be attacked in the UK, which makes an interesting
contrast to the ways they <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_October_2022_(Van_Gogh's_sunflowers)">plan to attack protesters</a> in the future.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(UC_Berkeley_repatriating_items)
title: UC Berkeley "repatriating" items
uri: UC-Berkeley-repatriating-items
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(UC_Berkeley_repatriating_items)
content:
 
<p>

  UC Berkeley is "repatriating" <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/us/uc-berkeley-indigenous-repatriate-cultural-artifacts-reaj/index.html">over 50,000</a> "sacred items" to indigenous
groups.
<p>
Imagine if everything in museums that had come from a church or
temple, from an idol or a statue of a god, all ancient scriptures and
myths of whatever religion, or anything that was associated with them,
were "returned" to someone!  There would be almost nothing left about
the ancient world.  It would be a calamity for anthropology.
<p>
At least there is not much danger that this will be extended to
artifacts from Europe, or most of Asia.  So far, people of European
and Asian ancestry are not trying to extend this policy of excluding
our own ancestors and past from anthropology.  But there may be little
trace in 2050 of cultures from the Americans, Australia and Africa to
compare them with.
<p>
For what it's worth, I see nothing wrong with digging up the graves or
artifacts of people related to me for the sake of scientific
study.  And that includes my own "remains" &mdash; but I've arranged for
scientists to get first crack at those, after my death.

 


title: Lies GOP tells to destroy public education
uri: Lies-GOP-tells-to-destroy-public-education
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Lies_GOP_tells_to_destroy_public_education)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Lies_GOP_tells_to_destroy_public_education)

content:
 
<p>

  *The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/17/litany-lies-gop-tells-order-destroy-public-education">Litany of Lies</a> the GOP Tells in Order to Destroy Public Education.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(New_head_of_British_government)
title: New head of British government
uri: New-head-of-British-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(New_head_of_British_government)
content:
 
<p>

The new de-facto head of the British government is another Tory,
Jeremy Hunt.  He has cancelled various tax cuts, which mostly benefit
the rich.  So far, so good.  But he plans to cut government
spending, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/17/jeremy-hunt-economic-plan-austerity-recession">there is nothing superfluous to cut</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_((satire)_Annoying_Space_Accent)
title: (satire) Annoying Space Accent
uri: (satire)-Annoying-Space-Accent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_((satire)_Annoying_Space_Accent)
content:
 
<p>

  (satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/astronaut-returns-from-iss-with-annoying-space-accent-1849659471">*Astronaut Returns From ISS With Annoying Space Accent.*</a>

 


title: Hopes to finish remains of democracy
uri: Hopes-to-finish-remains-of-democracy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Hopes_to_finish_remains_of_democracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Hopes_to_finish_remains_of_democracy)

content:
 
<p>

  The corrupter and his Republicans hope to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/17/socialist-response-american-fascist-threat">finish off the remains of democracy</a>
that <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> Democrats have not already wiped out.
<p>
  Polls suggest Americans will express their <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/17/progressives-say-new-midterm-poll-must-be-wake-call-democrats">resentment of rising prices</a>
by voting for Republicans. Which means, punishing non-rich Americans for it and destroying what remains
of democracy.
<p>
How foolish of them, and how sad.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Ron_Johnson's_campaign)
title: Ron Johnson's campaign
uri: Ron-Johnson-s-campaign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Ron_Johnson's_campaign)
content:
 
<p>

*Ron Johnson’s campaign paid law firm <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/politics/ron-johnson-law-firm-false-elector-scheme-fec-records/index.html">associated with January 6 false
    elector scheme</a>.*

 


title: Americans unable to afford insulin
uri: Americans-unable-to-afford-insulin
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Americans_unable_to_afford_insulin)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Americans_unable_to_afford_insulin)

content:
 
<p>

Over a million Americans with diabetes were <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/18/policy-failure-13-million-us-adults-diabetes-ration-insulin-due-high-cost">unable to afford (in 2021)
    all the insulin they needed</a> to take.

 


title: Clean energy production needs to double by 2030
uri: Clean-energy-production-needs-to-double-by-2030
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Clean_energy_production_needs_to_double_by_2030)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Clean_energy_production_needs_to_double_by_2030)

content:
 
<p>

World Meteorological Organization: *Clean Energy Production <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/11/clean-energy-production-must-double-2030-stave-catastrophe-wmo">Must
    Double by 2030</a> to Stave Off Catastrophe.*
<p>
Otherwise *there is an increased risk that worsening extreme weather
disasters turbocharged by the fossil fuel-driven climate crisis will
further diminish energy security and even imperil renewable power
generation.*

 


title: The defeat of free market ideology
uri: The-defeat-of-free-market-ideology
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(The_defeat_of_free_market_ideology)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(The_defeat_of_free_market_ideology)

content:
 
<p>

  *   The defeat of free market ideology <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/18/trussonomics-labour-market-public-spending">will be worthless</a> if it results in a
   fear of public spending and an unquestioning faith in the markets.*
<p>
I think we can count on Starmer to fall into that trap.  He already
leans that way.

 


title: CDC officials blocked from providing accurate Covid-19 information
uri: CDC-officials-blocked-from-providing-accurate-Covid-19-information
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(CDC_officials_blocked_from_providing_accurate_Covid-19_information)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(CDC_officials_blocked_from_providing_accurate_Covid-19_information)

content:
 
<p>

*House [of Representatives] report alleges [the wrecker's] aides
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/17/politics/covid-19-report-house-democrats-trump-health-officials/index.html">blocked [CDC] officials from providing accurate Covid-19 information</a>
during pandemic.*

 


title: Threat of Elon Musk owning Twitter
uri: Threat-of-Elon-Musk-owning-Twitter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Threat_of_Elon_Musk_owning_Twitter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Threat_of_Elon_Musk_owning_Twitter)

content:
 
<p>

  Arguing that for Musk to own Twitter would <a href="https://techpolicy.press/elon-musk-owning-twitter-is-a-national-security-threat/">threaten US national security</a>
(as well as democracy and human rights).

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Permanent_tax_cuts_for_the_rich)
title: Permanent tax cuts for the rich
uri: Permanent-tax-cuts-for-the-rich
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Permanent_tax_cuts_for_the_rich)
content:
 
<p>

  Republicans plan to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/17/if-they-retake-congress-gop-plan-make-trump-tax-cuts-rich-permanent">cut taxes for the rich permanently</a>.
<p>
They hope that non-rich Americans will be too busy to vote, especially
when voting gets really hard for them.

 


title: Opinions on Just Stop Oil protests
uri: Opinions-on-Just-Stop-Oil-protests
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Opinions_on_Just_Stop_Oil_protests)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Opinions_on_Just_Stop_Oil_protests)

content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/19/climate-justice-is-bigger-than-public-opinion-are-just-stop-oils-tactics-right">Various people's opinions</a> about Just Stop Oil protests.

 


title: Putin forces to move population of Kherson
uri: Putin-forces-to-move-population-of-Kherson
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Putin_forces_to_move_population_of_Kherson)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#24_October_2022_(Putin_forces_to_move_population_of_Kherson)

content:
 
<p>

  The Putin forces are planning to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/19/russia-planning-evacuate-up-to-60000-people-kherson-ukraine">move the population of Kherson</a> into
Russia, claiming that they are going voluntarily.
<p>
To make damned sure they all "volunteer", the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> claim the
city will be destroyed by shelling.  I guess that means they are planning to
destroy the city by shelling it.

 


title: What a pregnancy looks like at nine weeks
uri: What-a-pregnancy-looks-like-at-nine-weeks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(What_a_pregnancy_looks_like_at_nine_weeks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(What_a_pregnancy_looks_like_at_nine_weeks)

content:
 
<p>

  *What a pregnancy actually looks like <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/pregnancy-weeks-abortion-tissue">at nine weeks</a>.*
(It doesn't look much like a human being.)

 


title: Wet parts of British Columbia are in drought
uri: Wet-parts-of-British-Columbia-are-in-drought
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Wet_parts_of_British_Columbia_are_in_drought)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Wet_parts_of_British_Columbia_are_in_drought)

content:
 
<p>

Parts of British Columbia, known for normally having a lot of rain,
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/19/british-columbia-drought-floods-climate-crisis">now in drought</a>.
<p>
The immediate causes of the drought are complex, but the short
explanation is, "<a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>."  But over-logging made it worse.

 


title: Foreign interventions that implanted elites in Haiti
uri: Foreign-interventions-that-implanted-elites-in-Haiti
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Foreign_interventions_that_implanted_elites_in_Haiti)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Foreign_interventions_that_implanted_elites_in_Haiti)

content:
 
<p>

Previous foreign interventions in Haiti have only helped to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/19/us-backed-foreign-intervention-disaster-haiti-un">implant
    elites</a> that serve foreign interests.  There is no reason to think that
another one will do Haiti any good.
<p>
I can't imagine what kind of actions have a chance of doing any good.

 


title: Systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in UK
uri: Systems-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions-in-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Systems_to_reduce_greenhouse_gas_emissions_in_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Systems_to_reduce_greenhouse_gas_emissions_in_UK)

content:
 
<p>

Laws proposed for the UK offer systems to reduce the greenhouse gas
emissions of things used in the UK, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/20/two-ways-to-ensure-a-level-playing-field-for-carbon-intensive-imports">independent of where they are
    produced</a>. Tories have not supported these proposals much, but perhaps they
should change their stance.

 


title: Iran selling exploding drones to Russia
uri: Iran-selling-exploding-drones-to-Russia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Iran_selling_exploding_drones_to_Russia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Iran_selling_exploding_drones_to_Russia)

content:
 
<p>

Ukraine and the US say that Iran is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/20/russia-threatens-to-reassess-collaboration-with-un-over-drone-inspection-ukraine">selling exploding drones to
    Russia</a>.  Iran and Russia deny this and say that Russia is building
the drones. I don't see why this should matter.
<p>
The wrecker broke the old non-nuclear deal, and Biden's weak efforts
to restore it have <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#8_July_2022_(Possibility_or_resuming_non-nuclear_deal_is_ebbing_away)">more or less collapsed</a>.  That is quite unfortunate,
but since that is the case, why does Iran's exporting exploding
drones change anything significant?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Another_Apple_store_unionizing)
title: Another Apple store unionizing
uri: Another-Apple-store-unionizing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Another_Apple_store_unionizing)
content:
 
<p>

  Workers at another Apple Store <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/15/we-won-workers-vote-become-second-unionized-us-apple-store">voted to unionize</a>.
<p>
If only the users of Apple computers would go on strike against the <a href="/apple.html">injustice
    in those computers</a>,

 


title: New Jersey sued oil and gas companies
uri: New-Jersey-sued-oil-and-gas-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(New_Jersey_sued_oil_and_gas_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(New_Jersey_sued_oil_and_gas_companies)

content:
 
<p>

  *   New Jersey on Tuesday <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/18/new-jersey-sues-5-oil-giants-industry-lobby-climate-fraud">sued five oil and gas companies</a> and a leading
   fossil fuel lobby group for knowingly lying to the public about the
   existence of climate change and the role their products play in
   exacerbating human-caused <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Pesticide_use_doubles_since_1990)
title: Pesticide use doubles since 1990
uri: Pesticide-use-doubles-since-1990
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Pesticide_use_doubles_since_1990)
content:
 
<p>

  *Pesticide use around world <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/18/pesticide-use-around-world-almost-doubles-since-1990-report-finds">almost doubles</a> since 1990, report finds.*
<p>
The pesticides harm the health of almost 400 million people every
year, and are part of the cause of the great decrease of bird and
insect populations.

 


title: Putin's conscripts not issued proper equipment
uri: Putin-s-conscripts-not-issued-proper-equipment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Putin's_conscripts_not_issued_proper_equipment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Putin's_conscripts_not_issued_proper_equipment)

content:
 
<p>

  Putin's new conscripts find that they are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/20/the-army-has-nothing-new-russian-conscripts-bemoan-lack-of-supplies">not issued proper equipment</a>,
armor, weapons, or even uniforms.  Some beg their relatives to buy
some of what is missing.
<p>
I can't imagine anything worse for relatives of conscripts to do than
pay for equipment to enable sending those conscripts to the front.
That is self-defeating.
<p>
If you don't have warm underwear, you might get sick or frostbitten
and be sent to the rear.  Isn't that a good outcome?
<p>
I've read that British soldiers in France in World War I, knowing that
the generals' incompetent tactics would get almost all soldiers killed
uselessly sooner or later, used to pray for wounds that would make
them invalids &mdash; that was a chance for survival.
<p>
If they give you a fake helmet that won't protect you, how about
throwing it away?  Likewise, a rusted rifle that you can't rely on.
Why disguise the fact that you lack necessary equipment?  The army
needs to know this.
<p>
On the other hand, asking your relatives for a bulletproof vest might
make sense; that would tend to protect you from the hits that are
likely to kill you.

 


title: Salafi Arabia's oil output cut and the US election
uri: Salafi-Arabia-s-oil-output-cut-and-the-US-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Salafi_Arabia's_oil_output_cut_and_the_US_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Salafi_Arabia's_oil_output_cut_and_the_US_election)

content:
 
<p>

  Arguing that Salafi Arabia's oil output cut is an <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/10/20/saudi-oil-production-cut/">attempt to intervene</a>
in the US election against the Democratic Party.
I fear it may be very effective.

 


title: Racism visible in British court judges
uri: Racism-visible-in-British-court-judges
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Racism_visible_in_British_court_judges)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Racism_visible_in_British_court_judges)

content:
 
<p>

  Racism on the part of judges is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/oct/18/judiciary-in-england-and-wales-institutionally-racist-says-report">visibly present</a> in British courts.
<p>
If half of all lawyers have seen instances of this, that doesn't mean
half the judges have demonstrated such behavior.  I expect it is more
like 1%.  If one out of 100 judges displays racism, and those that do
so do it frequently, and if the average lawyer gets to see observe 50
judges' behavior, then half of all lawyers would see a judge act racist.
<p>
It is unacceptable for any judge to act in a biased way in court.
What's needed is a system for helping biased judges learn,
or excluding them.

 


title: NHS not functioning to keep people healthy and well
uri: NHS-not-functioning-to-keep-people-healthy-and-well
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(NHS_not_functioning_to_keep_people_healthy_and_well)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(NHS_not_functioning_to_keep_people_healthy_and_well)

content:
 
<p>

Economic growth based on real work depends on keeping workers healthy
and well.  The UK's right-wing government is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/18/healthy-workforce-economy-britain-liz-truss-ill">not keeping the NHS functioning
    enough</a> to achieve that.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(UK_to_deport_Sri_Lankan_refugees)
title: UK to deport Sri Lankan refugees
uri: UK-to-deport-Sri-Lankan-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(UK_to_deport_Sri_Lankan_refugees)
content:
 
<p>

  The UK plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/tamil-refugees-on-chagos-islands-fear-deportation-under-rwanda-type-plan">deport Sri Lankan refugees</a> in the Chagos Islands
to some other country, disregarding the UN's ruling
  that the UK <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-jan-apr.html#31_January_2021_(Chagos_Islands)">must return the Chagos Islands</a> to the inhabitants it
forcibly expelled.
  
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Outrage_at_Tories'_war_on_nature)
title: Outrage at Tories' "war on nature"
uri: Outrage-at-Tories-war-on-nature
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Outrage_at_Tories'_war_on_nature)
content:
 
<p>

  *How the Tories' "war on nature" <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/20/im-shedding-tears-of-rage-how-the-tories-war-on-nature-outraged-everyone-from-the-rspb-to-farmers">outraged everyone</a> from the RSPB to
farmers.*

 


title: Next Prime Monster(minister) without an election
uri: Next-Prime-Monster(minister)-without-an-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Next_Prime_Monster(minister)_without_an_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Next_Prime_Monster(minister)_without_an_election)

content:
 
<p>

The Tory MPs have gone through Prime Monster <a href="/glossary.html#bogus-johnson">Bogus Johnson</a> and
Prime Monster Liz Truss.  She resigned so that they can choose the
next Prime Monster <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/20/tories-last-chance-conservatives-britain-demands-election-liz-truss">without an election</a>.
<p>
This way they will still have a chance to enact arbitrary repression
of protesters before the people are consulted about it.
<p>
This sequence of events shows that 

 


title: Incarcerated Louisiana men wrongly convicted
uri: Incarcerated-Louisiana-men-wrongly-convicted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Incarcerated_Louisiana_men_wrongly_convicted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Incarcerated_Louisiana_men_wrongly_convicted)

content:
 
<p>

*   Three Louisiana men incarcerated for over 28 years were found to have
been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/20/louisiana-new-orleans-wrongful-convictions-murder-police">wrongfully convicted</a> of murder on Wednesday, after newly uncovered
   evidence linked the original police investigation to a notorious
   [<a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a>] found guilty of murder conspiracy and endemic corruption in the
   New Orleans police department.*

 


title: Republicans trying to pass "don't say gay" law
uri: Republicans-trying-to-pass-don-t-say-gay-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Republicans_trying_to_pass_don't_say_gay_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Republicans_trying_to_pass_don't_say_gay_law)

content:
 
<p>

  **Republicans aim to pass <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/20/republicans-national-dont-say-gaw-law-lgbtq">national "don't say gay" law</a>.*
<p>
These laws spread broad fear because Republicans have a pattern of
stretching the repressive potential of any <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_October_2022_(Florida_law_restricting_certain_discussions_by_teachers)">law that fits their
    ideology</a>. We cannot judge these laws by interpretations that would be reasonable.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Israel_apartheid_rules)
title: Israel apartheid rules
uri: Israel-apartheid-rules
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Israel_apartheid_rules)
content:
 
<p>

  Israel has announced <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/20/israel-imposes-strict-rules-on-travel-to-west-bank">new apartheid rules</a> that would greatly interfere
with anything but a short visit to Palestinian territory.
People born in the few countries where most Palestinian refugees live
would be banned entirely from entering Palestinian territory.

 


title: One good thing Liz Truss did for Britain
uri: One-good-thing-Liz-Truss-did-for-Britain
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(One_good_thing_Liz_Truss_did_for_Britain)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(One_good_thing_Liz_Truss_did_for_Britain)

content:
 
<p>

One good thing Liz Truss did for Britain: tying trickle-down tax cuts
and dooH niboR to a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/20/liz-truss-resignation-brexit-brexitism">crushing response</a> from markets.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(mental_health_covid_revolution)
title: How Covid prompted Asian startups to use tech in revolutionizing mental health support
uri: How-Covid-prompted-Asian-startups-to-use-tech-in-revolutionizing-menta
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(mental_health_covid_revolution)
content:
 
<p>
Can you trust an app as a medium for "confidential" communication with
psychotherapists or 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/19/tech/covid-singapore-startup-mental-health-revolution/index.html">mental health coaches?</a>
<p>
Obviously not &mdash; cr&hellip;apps are made for snooping.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(xi_jinping_zero_covid)
title: Under Xi Jinping, zero-Covid is accelerating China’s surveillance state
uri: Under-Xi-Jinping-zero-Covid-is-accelerating-China-s-surveillance-st
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(xi_jinping_zero_covid)
content:
 
<p>
China continues to use enforced quarantines trying to stamp out Covid-19,
though the evolution of the virus 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/china/china-party-congress-xi-jinping-zero-covid-intl-hnk/index.html">makes that ever more of a struggle.</a>
<p>
<li>Increasingly strict monitoring and restriction over daily
activities.  When that is used only based on Covid-19 exposure and
infection, it's a pain in the neck, but perhaps not worse than what
would happen without these controls.  But the same computer system is
the ideal base for repression.
<p>
Is it possible to develop a system that lets you show your Covid status
at the door of a building or store, but won't say who you are?
It should be inherently anonymous.  Of course, China would not use that
even if it were available, but other countries could.
<p>
<li>The inconvenience of quarantine.  I think that is less thsn the
inconvenience of being likely to catch rampaging Covid-19.
<p>
<li>The harshness of quarantine measures.  It sounds like China
enforces quarantine without doing anything to cushion the effect.  The
quarantine may be necessary, but dehumanizing the patient is not.
<p>
I wonder how people in quarantine are supposed to get food to eat.  Is
it delivered to them?  All sorts of things can go wrong with such a
system, when you are compelled to use it and it is run by people
who act hastily and don't respect the people they protect.
<p>
<li>Deadly fluke accidents happen in any society; no society can
eliminate them.  These flukes may draw more attention now because of
Covid-19, but that does not make them a major problem for society.
<p>
For instance, is the danger of dying from a bus collision in China
more today than it was in 2019?  I doubt it.  If it wasn't a big issue
then, it isn't a big issue now.

 


title: Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminalization
uri: Private-Prisons-Are-Behind-the-Push-for-Homeless-Criminalization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(private_prisons_homeless_criminalization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(private_prisons_homeless_criminalization)

content:
 
<p>
Privatized prisons fund lobbying for laws to 
<a href="https://invisiblepeople.tv/private-prisons-for-homeless-criminalization/">criminalize homelessness.</a>
<p>
Privatization of prisons creates a force that will always lobby for
imprisoning more people.  This is why we must 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/01/26/big-step-progressives-welcome-biden-executive-order-ending-doj-private-prison">abolish privatized
prisons.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(health_insurance_increase)
title: The price of health insurance has increased 24% over the last year
uri: The-price-of-health-insurance-has-increased-24-over-the-last-year
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(health_insurance_increase)
content:
 
<p>
The price of medical insurance in the US has increased 24% in the past
year.  The cost of actual medical care has not 
<a href="https://wendellpotter.substack.com/p/the-price-of-health-insurance-has">increased anywhere near
so much.</a>
<p>
This pattern has continued for several years, with 2020 as the sole
exception.  The insurance companies are gouging.
<p>
The article ends with a comparison between this and the low price
of a TV set.  A modern TV set is a surveillance device &mdash; they
are cheap because 
<a href="https://gnu.org/malware/">surveillance is part of the price.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(enrich_big_law_jones)
title: David Enrich on Big Law Jones Day and the Corruption of Justice
uri: David-Enrich-on-Big-Law-Jones-Day-and-the-Corruption-of-Justice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(enrich_big_law_jones)
content:
 
<p>
Lawyers and law firms have come to view their work as an "industry"
rather than as a "profession".  The consequence, often, is that they
unhesitatingly undertake to do the 
<a href="https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/david-enrich-on-big-law-jones-day-and-the-corruption-of-justice/">nastiest jobs for the nastiest rich
bastards.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(biden_gas_oil_midterms)
title: Biden implores US oil companies to pass on record profits to consumers
uri: Biden-implores-US-oil-companies-to-pass-on-record-profits-to-consumers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(biden_gas_oil_midterms)
content:
 
<p>
*Biden implores US oil 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/19/biden-gas-prices-oil-production-midterms">companies to pass on record profits to consumers.*</a>
<p>
How pitiable it is to see the US government reduced by Republicans to
begging callous businesses to reduce prices &mdash; when it ought to
legislate to tax those businesses togive aid to the poor.  A few weeks
ago he implored Crown Prince Bone Saw to reduce prices.  Won't he ever
learn that imploring your enemies does not have good results?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(variants_covid_winter_surge)
title: Quick and stealthy ‘Scrabble variants’ are poised to drive a winter Covid-19 surge
uri: Quick-and-stealthy-Scrabble-variants-are-poised-to-drive-a-winte
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(variants_covid_winter_surge)
content:
 
<p>
New variants of SARS-Cov-2, descendants of Omicron, are unaffected by
the monoclonal antibody treatment.  We need to develop a new one, 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/health/variants-covid-winter-surge/index.html">but
Republicans won't allow it.</a>
<p>
They rejected funding for treatment and prevention of Covid-19.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(gop_solutions_inflation)
title: So-Called GOP 'Solutions' to Inflation Are Just Another Giveaway to the Rich and Corporations
uri: So-Called-GOP-Solutions-to-Inflation-Are-Just-Another-Giveaway-to-th
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(gop_solutions_inflation)
content:
 
<p>
*So-Called GOP "Solutions" to Inflation Are Just Another Giveaway to the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/20/so-called-gop-solutions-inflation-are-just-another-giveaway-rich-and-corporations">Rich
and Corporations.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(tax_bracket_overhaul)
uri: America-s-richest-want-to-pay-more-taxes-but-we-won-t-let-them
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(tax_bracket_overhaul)
title:
 America’s richest want to pay more taxes–but we won’t let them. We need a tax bracket and rate overhaul 

content:
 
<p>
How the Patriotic Millionaires recommend revamping US taxes so that
the rich pay a higher fraction of their income, 
<a href="https://fortune.com/2022/10/20/americas-richest-want-pay-taxes-tax-bracket-rate-overhaul-lord-dusseault/?link_id=1&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-end-the-bracket-racket&email_referrer=email_1709525___subject_2196821&email_subject=america-needs-a-tax-bracket-overhaul">instead of a lower
fraction.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(lawless_and_reckless)
title: 'Lawless and Reckless': Warren Condemns Fifth Circuit Attack on CFPB
uri: Lawless-and-Reckless-Warren-Condemns-Fifth-Circuit-Attack-on-CFPB
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(lawless_and_reckless)
content:
 
<p>
An appeals court ruled (at the first level) that the Consumer
Financial Protection 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/20/lawless-and-reckless-warren-condemns-fifth-circuit-attack-cfpb">Bureau is unconstitutional.</a>
<p>
I expect this case will go to the Supreme Court and that the
plutocratist majority will wipe out the CFPB.

 


title: YouTube users' influence on their video feed
uri: YouTube-users-influence-on-their-video-feed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(YouTube_users'_influence_on_their_video_feed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(YouTube_users'_influence_on_their_video_feed)

content:
 
<p>

YouTube claims to give the user ways to influence what videos it will
recommend to per, but researchers report that these features
empirically prove to <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/09/20/1059709/youtube-algorithm-recommendations/">have little effect</a>.
<p>
  The story errs in asserting that users <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Consume">"consume"</a>
YouTube videos.  Watching a video does not use it up; it remains available to be shown to others.
<p>
For your freedom's sake, don't visit youtube.com directly,
Use the proxy system of invidio.us instead.

 


title: Irshad Matto barred from leaving India
uri: Irshad-Matto-barred-from-leaving-India
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Irshad_Matto_barred_from_leaving_India)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Irshad_Matto_barred_from_leaving_India)

content:
 
<p>

India has arbitrarily stopped Kashmiri journalists from departing
on trips to other countries.  Now Sanna Irshad Mattoo has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/oct/20/india-criticised-over-arbitrary-travel-bans-after-photojournalist-blocked-from-pulitzer-trip">barred from leaving for the US</a> to receive a Pulitzer Prize.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Chinese_agents_in_US_arrested)
title: Chinese agents in US arrested
uri: Chinese-agents-in-US-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Chinese_agents_in_US_arrested)
content:
 
<p>

Chinese agents in the US have been arrested for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/21/us-charge-seven-over-alleged-beijing-plot-to-forcibly-repatriate-elite-chinese">trying to pressure
    a Chinese exile to go to China</a>.

 


title: Amount of UK population infected with Covid-19 this month
uri: Amount-of-UK-population-infected-with-Covid-19-this-month
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Amount_of_UK_population_infected_with_Covid-19_this_month)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Amount_of_UK_population_infected_with_Covid-19_this_month)

content:
 
<p>

3% of the population of the UK have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/21/more-than-2m-people-in-uk-had-covid-in-early-october-as-flu-cases-rise">infected with Covid-19 this
    month</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(A_Marshall_plan_for_Africa)
title: A Marshall plan for Africa
uri: A-Marshall-plan-for-Africa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(A_Marshall_plan_for_Africa)
content:
 
<p>

  Ilhan Omar: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/21/we-need-a-marshall-plan-for-africa">*We need a Marshall plan for Africa.*</a>
<p>
To do this, we need to make rich people and big companies pay a fair
amount of tax: a much higher rate than the less-rich pay.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Answer_to_a_crisis)
title: Answer to a crisis
uri: Answer-to-a-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Answer_to_a_crisis)
content:
 
<p>

* Who would think a lying, hypocritical degenerate [such as Bogus
Johnson] was the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/21/the-tories-boris-johnson-crisis-conservatives">answer to this crisis</a>? A large number of
   Conservatives, apparently.*
<p>
I can see why.  Johnson is glib and can invent a lie to excuse almost
anything, for the short term.  Of course, people suspected the lies
but it took ages to pin him down on one.  That is why an act of
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_April_2022_(Bogus_Johnson's_attempt_to_prevent_investigation)">hypocrisy</a>
which was small-scale by his standards caused such a scandal:
it was one that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#5_May_2021_(Bogus_Johnson_on_keeping_the_UK_economy_open)">could be <em>proved</em></a>.
After Truss was brutally honest about plans so outrageous that
Tories compelled her to resign, they may wish for Johnson's bogus
glibness again &mdash; but it won't work.  After so much time, his
dishonesty has become impossible to disguise.

 


title: People arrested and killed in Iran for protesting
uri: People-arrested-and-killed-in-Iran-for-protesting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(People_arrested_and_killed_in_Iran_for_protesting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(People_arrested_and_killed_in_Iran_for_protesting)

content:
 
<p>

  Iran's thugs have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/21/arrests-iran-protest-crackdown-plight-thousands-in-jail">arrested around 12,500 people</a> for protesting, and
killed around 250.  They claim to have crushed the protests.

 


title: Swedish environmental ministry made part of energy, business and industry ministry
uri: Swedish-environmental-ministry-made-part-of-energy-business-and-indus
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Swedish_environmental_ministry_made_part_of_energy,_business_and_industry_ministry)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Swedish_environmental_ministry_made_part_of_energy,_business_and_industry_ministry)

content:
 
<p>

The new right-Wing Swedish government has made the environmental ministry
a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/19/devastating-right-wing-swedish-government-shutters-environment-ministry">part of the energy, business, and industry ministry</a>.
This is a clear statement of a policy to allow the powerful to
plunder and pollute almost without limit.
<p>
The article's statement about biofuels is based on an error, the same
error that EU biofuel policy is based on.  The requirement to include
biofuels in fuels is supposedly a way of reducing carbon emissions,
because the biofuels are supposedly renewable.  But they aren't,
because <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-may-aug.html#26_July_2019_(Increasing_industrial_agriculture)">because producing today's biofuels uses fertilizer made
    from petroleum</a>.
<p>
In the future, perhaps biofuels made by microbes will actually 
reduce emissions. Until then, it is harmful to require the use of biofuels
as they now exist.

 


title: (satire) Food donations accepted from Homosexuals
uri: (satire)-Food-donations-accepted-from-Homosexuals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_((satire)_Food_donations_accepted_from_Homosexuals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_((satire)_Food_donations_accepted_from_Homosexuals)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/food-banks-begin-accepting-donations-from-homosexuals-1849660001">*Food Banks Begin Accepting Donations From Homosexuals.*</a>

 


title: (satire) Twitter to let one user tweet at a time
uri: (satire)-Twitter-to-let-one-user-tweet-at-a-time
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_((satire)_Twitter_to_let_one_user_tweet_at_a_time)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_((satire)_Twitter_to_let_one_user_tweet_at_a_time)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/twitter-to-promote-healthier-discussion-by-letting-one-1849659469">*Twitter To Promote Healthier Discussion By Letting One User
    Tweet At A Time.*</a>

 


title: Artificially drumming up concern about inflation
uri: Artificially-drumming-up-concern-about-inflation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Artificially_drumming_up_concern_about_inflation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Artificially_drumming_up_concern_about_inflation)

content:
 
<p>

  Dean Baker: the corporate media <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/19/how-corporate-media-help-gop-spread-inflation-misinformation">artificially drum up concern about inflation</a>.
<p>
This could be a way to advance Republican candidates, and it could be the work
of the same billionaires that fund them.

 


title: Adjusting economy to meet the needs of war
uri: Adjusting-economy-to-meet-the-needs-of-war
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Adjusting_economy_to_meet_the_needs_of_war)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Adjusting_economy_to_meet_the_needs_of_war)

content:
 
<p>

  Stiglitz: the west must <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/18/neoliberalism-failure-during-peacetime-and-wartime-too">adjust its economy to meet the needs of war</a>.
<p>
One adjustment is to impose a windfall profits tax.
<p>
He advocates a nonlinear price scheme for electricity.  The first 90%
of the electricity you used last year, you can buy at last year's
price, the next 20% you can by at 1.5 times that price, and any more
beyond that you would buy at a price based on current conditions.
<p>
He also advocates an end to paying farmers to grow less food.
(I think this would have to be accompanied by rules to give
wildlife a home in farms.)

 


title: Florida voters being arrested as a political show
uri: Florida-voters-being-arrested-as-a-political-show
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Florida_voters_being_arrested_as_a_political_show)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Florida_voters_being_arrested_as_a_political_show)

content:
 
<p>

  DeMentis is having ineligible Florida voters <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/18/makes-me-physically-ill-footage-shows-desantis-election-police-force-action">arrested as a political show</a>.
<p>
Those people, convicted of felonies, registered and voted because
state officials told them &mdash; erroneously &mdash; that they were allowed to
do so.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a> knows they will be convicted of a crime for following
officials' advice.  Indeed, one's case has already been dismissed.
But this may suffice as political grandstanding and make right-wing
haters feel vicariously powerful.

 


title: Arizona voters report harassment by poll watchers
uri: Arizona-voters-report-harassment-by-poll-watchers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Arizona_voters_report_harassment_by_poll_watchers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Arizona_voters_report_harassment_by_poll_watchers)

content:
 
<p>

  *Early voters in Arizona midterms report <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/20/arizona-early-voters-harassment-drop-box-monitors">harassment by poll watchers</a>.*

 


title: Fully-protected marine area near Hawaii
uri: Fully-protected-marine-area-near-Hawaii
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Fully-protected_marine_area_near_Hawaii)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Fully-protected_marine_area_near_Hawaii)

content:
 
<p>

The large fully-protected marine area near Hawaii is achieving what
protected marine areas often do: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/21/hawaii-papahanaumokuakea-ocean-reserve-spillover-benefits-yellowfin-bigeye-tuna-study">increasing the number of fish caught</a>
in nearby unprotected areas.

 


title: Effect of state abortion ban on imprisoned women
uri: Effect-of-state-abortion-ban-on-imprisoned-women
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Effect_of_state_abortion_ban_on_imprisoned_women)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Effect_of_state_abortion_ban_on_imprisoned_women)

content:
 
<p>

  State abortion bans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/21/us-abortion-bans-insurmountable-barriers-incarcerated-women">force imprisoned women to have babies</a>.

 


title: Farmers suing over possible connection of paraquat to Parkinson's
uri: Farmers-suing-over-possible-connection-of-paraquat-to-Parkinson-s
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Farmers_suing_over_possible_connection_of_paraquat_to_Parkinson's)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Farmers_suing_over_possible_connection_of_paraquat_to_Parkinson's)

content:
 
<p>

Parkinson's disease is caused mainly by environmental factors.  The
weed killer paraquat may be one of them, and farmers who used it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/21/paraquat-papers-weedkiller-parkinsons">are
    suing</a>.
<p>
Lawsuits and damages are not a very good method for deciding whether a
chemical is safe to use.  The US does it this way for lack of a better
system.  The absence of a national medical system means that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#24_May_2015_(US_needs_national_health_service)">the
    people affected by expensive diseases</a> desperately need to sue
someone and collect damages to pay for their treatment.
<p>
With a national medical system, the people who are sick would get
treatment without suing.  The determination of whether any particular
chemical is responsible for the disease, and the decision of whether
to ban it, could be made separately.

 


title: Alarm over [Trump-pets]' efforts to win key posts
uri: Alarm-over-Trump-pets-efforts-to-win-key-posts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Alarm_over_[Trump-pets]'_efforts_to_win_key_posts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Alarm_over_[Trump-pets]'_efforts_to_win_key_posts)

content:
 
<p>

  *The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/oct/21/trump-election-denier-trifecta-fraud-midterms">"election-denier trifecta"</a>: alarm over [Trump-pets]' efforts to win key
posts.*

 


title: Spread of bird flu among wild birds
uri: Spread-of-bird-flu-among-wild-birds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Spread_of_bird_flu_among_wild_birds)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Spread_of_bird_flu_among_wild_birds)

content:
 
<p>

The spread of bird flu among wild birds has made it impossible to 
leave farmed fowl outdoors.  There can <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/21/bird-flu-free-range-eggs-uk">no longer be "free range" poultry</a>.

 


title: Berlusconi admitted to exchanging expensive gifts with Putin
uri: Berlusconi-admitted-to-exchanging-expensive-gifts-with-Putin
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Berlusconi_admitted_to_exchanging_expensive_gifts_with_Putin)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Berlusconi_admitted_to_exchanging_expensive_gifts_with_Putin)

content:
 
<p>

  Berlusconi was recorded <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/18/silvio-berlusconi-said-he-received-shipment-of-vodka-from-vladimir-putin-say-reports">admitting privately</a> to exchanging expensive
gifts with Putin to "reestablish ties".
<p>
We should expect two autocratically inclined right wing rich bastards
to have much in common.  Naturally they are friends, unless they are rivals.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(lab_grown_fish)
title: ‘Fishless fish’: the next big trend in the seafood industry
uri: Fishless-fish-the-next-big-trend-in-the-seafood-industry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(lab_grown_fish)
content:
 
<p>
Trying to grow cell cultures of fish cells, as a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/22/lab-grown-fish-cell-seafood-bluenalu-wildtype">substitute for fish
as food.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(hunts_expected_austerity)
title: Hunt’s expected austerity drive - where will the axe fall?
uri: Hunt-s-expected-austerity-drive-where-will-the-axe-fall
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(hunts_expected_austerity)
content:
 
<p>
The Tories discarded Truss's plan for tax cuts for the rich.  Now
their goal is to reduce the deficit &mdash; quite opposite to what Truss
wanted &mdash; but they plan to achieve it by cutting the UK's
already-starved public services.
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/oct/18/hunts-expected-austerity-drive-where-will-the-axe-fall"></a>
<p>
I've claimed that the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/dec/13/nhs-england-on-its-knees-as-performance-figures-hit-new-lows">Tories intend to wreck the NHS.</a>
<p>
I think these cuts will finish it, as well as other services.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(nike_profit_donates_far_right)
title: Nike makes money off progressive celebrities, then donates money to far-right candidates
uri: Nike-makes-money-off-progressive-celebrities-then-donates-money-to-fa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(nike_profit_donates_far_right)
content:
 
<p>
*Nike makes money off progressive celebrities, then donates money to 
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/10/20/nike-makes-money-off-progressive-celebrities-then-donates-money-to-far-right-candidates.html">far-right candidates.*</a>
<p>
If we can make it embarrassing to be caught wearing Nike symbolism,
we can put a dent in the company.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(cost_of_fast_fashion)
title: The True Cost Of Fast Fashion
uri: The-True-Cost-Of-Fast-Fashion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(cost_of_fast_fashion)
content:
 
<p>
On the true cost of 
<a href="https://www.shared-impact.com/perspectives/the-true-cost-of-fast-fashion/">"fast fashion".</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(citizen_tortured_saudi_prison)
uri: American-citizen-tortured-in-Saudi-prison-for-tweets-he-made-in-Florid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(citizen_tortured_saudi_prison)
title:
 American citizen tortured in Saudi prison for tweets he made in Florida criticizing Saudi government 

content:
 
<p>
*American[/Saudi dual] citizen tortured in [Salafi Arabian] prison for
tweets he made in 
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/10/19/american-citizen-tortured-in-saudi-prison-for-tweets-he-made-in-florida-criticizing-saudi-government%ef%bf%bc%ef%bf%bc.html">Florida criticizing Saudi government.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(New_Pun:_Mousetraps)
title: New Pun: Mousetraps
uri: New-Pun-Mousetraps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(New_Pun:_Mousetraps)
content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://stallman.org/puns.html#mousetraps">Mousetraps Pun:</a>
<p>
   I told a gathering that I was in favor of mousetraps.
A mouse replied, claiming that they are de-bait-able.
  
 


title: Rule to classify drivers of Uber and Lyft as employees
uri: Rule-to-classify-drivers-of-Uber-and-Lyft-as-employees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Rule_to_classify_drivers_of_Uber_and_Lyft_as_employees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Rule_to_classify_drivers_of_Uber_and_Lyft_as_employees)

content:
 
<p>

Biden's Labor Department has proposed an employment rule that would
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/11/biden-labor-rule-aims-help-end-gig-company-exploitation-workers">classify the drivers of Uber and Lyft as employees</a>.
<p>
This would be a big step forward for employee's rights, but it won't
do anything about the injustice of Uber and Lyft to the _passengers_:
making them run nonfree software (an app) and identify themselves
(enabling surveillane).  This should be forbidden.
<p>
So I will continue to refuse to get into an Uber or Lyft car.  I go
out of my way to get a real taxi that I can board anonymously and pay
with cash.  Or I take a bus.  Or I walk.
<p>
In some places, such as New York City, even taxis are part of a
surveillance machine.  A cab driver there told me that all NYC taxis
are required to have cameras that transmit the passengers' face images
immediately by radio to the city department of massive surveillance.
Such surveillance is a bigger threat than terrorism, because <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">tracking
    people threatens to subjugate everyone</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Resolution for Human Rights to Utilities
uri: Urgent-Resolution-for-Human-Rights-to-Utilities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Urgent:_Resolution_for_Human_Rights_to_Utilities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Urgent:_Resolution_for_Human_Rights_to_Utilities)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your congresscritter to <a href="https://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_resolution_2210?akid=25107.9489429.T1xSPY&rd=1&t=1007">co-sponsor the Resolution
    Recognizing the Human Rights to Utilities</a> (electric, phone, internet,
water, etc).

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: (satire) AmazonBasics human infant
uri: (satire)-AmazonBasics-human-infant
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_((satire)_AmazonBasics_human_infant)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_((satire)_AmazonBasics_human_infant)

content:
 
<p>

  (satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/amazon-unveils-new-amazonbasics-human-infant-1849659999">*Amazon Unveils New AmazonBasics Human Infant.*</a>

 


title: Funding for COVID-19 vaccines and testing blocked
uri: Funding-for-COVID-19-vaccines-and-testing-blocked
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Funding_for_COVID-19_vaccines_and_testing_blocked)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Funding_for_COVID-19_vaccines_and_testing_blocked)

content:
 
<p>

  Republicans <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/21/daylight-robbery-pfizer-condemned-hiking-us-covid-vaccine-price-10000-above-cost">blocked funding</a> for COVID-19 vaccines and testing.  As a
result, next year vaccination will cost around $110.
<p>
Many Americans, who are on the brink of penury and can barely afford
food and heat, will go without vaccination.  That's unjust for them,
and dangerous for everyone.  Those who are not current on vaccination
are more likely to spread the virus &mdash; to you or anyone else.
<p>
Catching COVID-19 if you're vaccinated still has a substantial chance
of incapacitating you for months or years, so don't take a foolish
risk.  Obtain N95 masks and use them as a precaution whenever you are
near other people in an enclosed space.  That's what I do, and I am
doing it right now.  I am in an airplane, and I am going to keep my
N95 mask on until I am outside the terminal after arrival.

 


title: Putin's attack on Ukraine's electric generators
uri: Putin-s-attack-on-Ukraine-s-electric-generators
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Putin's_attack_on_Ukraine's_electric_generators)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Putin's_attack_on_Ukraine's_electric_generators)

content:
 
<p>

Putin's tactic of destroying Ukraine's electric generators is having
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/23/ukraine-faces-power-outages-after-massive-russian-strikes-target-energy-facilities">devastating effect</a>.
The drones and missiles are cheap, so the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> fire many of them,
day after day.  Even though Ukraine destroys most of them, each power plant
damaged will be out of service for weeks.
<p>
Putin's forces are also talking about blowing up a major dam near Kherson.
This might destroy a lot of the infrastructure around Kherson, and maybe much
of the city itself.

 


title: UN inspectors blocked from visiting prisons
uri: UN-inspectors-blocked-from-visiting-prisons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(UN_inspectors_blocked_from_visiting_prisons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(UN_inspectors_blocked_from_visiting_prisons)

content:
 
<p>

  Parts of Australia <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/23/un-accuses-australia-of-clear-breach-of-human-rights-obligations-as-it-suspends-tour-of-detention-facilities">blocked UN inspectors</a> from visiting their prisons
to check for respect for human rights.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Qatar_labor_laws)
title: Qatar labor laws
uri: Qatar-labor-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Qatar_labor_laws)
content:
 
<p>

Qatar made a start at reforming its unjust labor laws, but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/oct/23/qatar-labour-policy-workers-world-cup-2022-expert-verdict">undid it when
    the big employers complained</a>.  Once again it is thoroughly unjust.

 


title: How Chairman Xi chose China's highest officials
uri: How-Chairman-Xi-chose-China-s-highest-officials
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(How_Chairman_Xi_chose_China's_highest_officials)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(How_Chairman_Xi_chose_China's_highest_officials)

content:
 
<p>

Chairman Xi has chosen China's highest officials (aside from him)
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/23/xi-jinping-chooses-yes-men-over-economic-growth-politburo-purge-china">based on personal obedience to him</a>.
<p>
In the short term, this will encourage grave mistakes.  It will also
very likely leave China with weak leaders whenever Xi dies or retires.
But that could be ten years from now.
<p>
China's repression in Xinjiang and Hong Kong has brought China a
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/23/sharp-fall-in-chinas-global-standing-as-poll-shows-backing-for-taiwan-defence">well-deserved increase in world condemnation</a>.
<p>
Can we envision a way that China could become a free, successful country?

 


title: Ethiopia doing great harm to Tigrayan civilians
uri: Ethiopia-doing-great-harm-to-Tigrayan-civilians
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Ethiopia_doing_great_harm_to_Tigrayan_civilians)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Ethiopia_doing_great_harm_to_Tigrayan_civilians)

content:
 
<p>

Vague glimpses of the developments in the war between Ethiopia and
Tigray show that Ethiopia is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/23/the-guardian-view-on-the-worlds-forgotten-conflict-ethiopias-devastating-war">doing great harm</a> to Tigrayan civilians.
<p>
I have never seen enough clear information on what is happening in
Ethiopia to understand what is going on in that war, or why.  I wish I
knew.

 


title: Making Labour choice of British business
uri: Making-Labour-choice-of-British-business
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Making_Labour_choice_of_British_business)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Making_Labour_choice_of_British_business)

content:
 
<p>

  Starmer is trying to make Labour the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/23/labour-woo-business-prawn-cocktail-offensive">preferred choice of British business</a>.
Perhaps it should change its name to the "Shareholding/Management
Party."

 


title: Big money could fuel victory for "Big Lie" candidates
uri: Big-money-could-fuel-victory-for-Big-Lie-candidates
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Big_money_could_fuel_victory_for_Big_Lie_candidates)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Big_money_could_fuel_victory_for_Big_Lie_candidates)

content:
 
<p>

  *Corporate America's Big Money Could <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/21/corporate-americas-big-money-could-fuel-victory-big-lie-candidates">Fuel Victory</a> for "Big Lie"
 Candidates.*

 


title: Keeping Republican election monitors from intimidating voters
uri: Keeping-Republican-election-monitors-from-intimidating-voters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Keeping_Republican_election_monitors_from_intimidating_voters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Keeping_Republican_election_monitors_from_intimidating_voters)

content:
 
<p>

Harris County in Texas has asked for federal election monitors to make
sure the state's Republican election monitors <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/20/politics/harris-county-texas-officials-request-federal-monitors/index.html">don't intimidate voters</a>.

 


title: Election shows billionaires' power to buy elections
uri: Election-shows-billionaires-power-to-buy-elections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Election_shows_billionaires'_power_to_buy_elections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Election_shows_billionaires'_power_to_buy_elections)

content:
 
<p>

This year's election shows that the billionaires' <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/22/america-democracy-can-simply-be-bought-billionaires">power to buy
    elections</a> is almost total.
<p>
It includes the influence of the mainstream media &mdash; which belong to
billionaires &mdash; which deflect attention from the issues that electing
the right politicians could fix, to other <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_October_2022_(Artificially_drumming_up_concern_about_inflation)">issues such as inflation</a>.

 


title: Cancellation done by right-wing bullies
uri: Cancellation-done-by-right-wing-bullies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Cancellation_done_by_right-wing_bullies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Cancellation_done_by_right-wing_bullies)

content:
 
<p>

Cancellation is done by right-wing bullies and left-wing bullies, but
the right-wing bullies often <a href="https://www.readtpa.com/p/free-speech-and-cancel-culture-1?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web">utilize state power and spread much more
    fear</a>.

 


title: Florida prison thugs paralyze prisoners
uri: Florida-prison-thugs-paralyze-prisoners
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Florida_prison_thugs_paralyze_prisoners)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Florida_prison_thugs_paralyze_prisoners)

content:
 
<p>

When Florida prison thugs beat up prisoners, sometimes they <a href="http://click1.e.reason.com/vyyycycbbprnchdgnkcjhnqpdgnyfrcthpdqpqrkgymjf_clddqmdcqftllldmjdhh.html">break
    their necks and paralyze them</a>.  They did this to Craig Ridley, and he
starved to death.
<p>
They left food for him every day, but he was unable to pick it up and
eat it.  He told them he was paralyzed, but they insisted he was
malingering.

 


title: EU Parliament Backs Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty
uri: EU-Parliament-Backs-Fossil-Fuel-Non-Proliferation-Treaty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(EU_Parliament_Backs_Fossil_Fuel_Non-Proliferation_Treaty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(EU_Parliament_Backs_Fossil_Fuel_Non-Proliferation_Treaty)

content:
 
<p>

  *EU Parliament <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/10/20/big-win-climate-eu-parliament-backs-fossil-fuel-non-proliferation-treaty">Backs Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Brazil_disinformation_on_Facebook)
title: Brazil disinformation on Facebook
uri: Brazil-disinformation-on-Facebook
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Brazil_disinformation_on_Facebook)
content:
 
<p>

  *YouTube and Facebook <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/20/brazil-election-disinformation-youtube-facebook">letting Brazil election disinformation spread</a>, NGO says.*
Global Witness produced many misleading ads and ads that attacked
the election, and asked for approval from YouTube and Facebook.
YouTube appeoved all of them, and Facebook many of them.  The organization
did not actually run the misleading ads.

 


title: Victoria, Australia renewable electricity
uri: Victoria-Australia-renewable-electricity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Victoria,_Australia_renewable_electricity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Victoria,_Australia_renewable_electricity)

content:
 
<p>

The state of Victoria, in Australia, has plans to build renewable
electric generation facilities and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/20/victoria-sets-target-of-95-of-its-electricity-sourced-from-renewable-energy-by-2035">produce 95% of the state's electricity</a> from renewable sources by 2035.
<p>
The new generating facilities will be owned mostly by the state.

 


title: The Economist advocates legalizing cocaine
uri: The-Economist-advocates-legalizing-cocaine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(The_Economist_advocates_legalizing_cocaine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(The_Economist_advocates_legalizing_cocaine)

content:
 
<p>

  The Economist <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/10/12/joe-biden-is-too-timid-it-is-time-to-legalise-cocaine">advocates legalizing cocaine</a>, to reduce the danger from
contaminants and reduce its corrupting power.

 


title: Amazon being sued for promoting "special offers"
uri: Amazon-being-sued-for-promoting-special-offers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Amazon_being_sued_for_promoting_special_offers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Amazon_being_sued_for_promoting_special_offers)

content:
 
<p>

Campaigners are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/20/amazon-facing-900m-lawsuit-claiming-users-manipulated-into-paying-higher-prices">suing Amazon for a practice promoting "special offers"</a> that are not actually better deals for the customer, but are presented
to give the impression that they are better deals.

 


title: Australian laws to strip citizenship
uri: Australian-laws-to-strip-citizenship
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Australian_laws_to_strip_citizenship)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Australian_laws_to_strip_citizenship)

content:
 
<p>

  Australia plans to make another try at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/24/australian-government-to-restore-powers-to-strip-citizenship-from-terrorism-suspects">laws to strip citizenship</a> from people suspected of involvement with terrorism.
<p>
Australia's previous laws that allowed ministers to cancel citizenship
based on suspicion were ruled unconstitutional.
<p>
The proposed replacement will be somewhat less unjust, simply because
there will be some sort of court hearing to decide.  But will that
hearing be supposed to respect the same rights that a trial is
supposed to respect?  I fear it will follow a lesser standard, and
that would make it an injustice.
<p>
Exile is a severe punishment, and it should not be imposed without
the same safeguards that imprisonment would require.
<p>
I suggest that if a country wants to take away someone's citizenship
over alleged terrorism, it should first arrest per, then put per on
trial for that terrorism.  If the accused chooses to remain in exile
to avoid the trial, this achieves the same goal indirectly.  However,
person must have the right to return and face trial so as to clear per
name.
<p>
Laws to empower a government to impose temporary exile on a citizen
are likewise unjust.  Any form of arbitrary state power can be useful
for "managing risks", but that is not enough to excuse it.

 


title: Bogus Johnson not trying to become Prime Monster again
uri: Bogus-Johnson-not-trying-to-become-Prime-Monster-again
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_not_trying_to_become_Prime_Monster_again)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_not_trying_to_become_Prime_Monster_again)

content:
 
<p>

  Bogus Johnson <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/23/boris-johnson-exit-from-tory-leadership-race-avoids-likely-humiliation">abandoned his attempt</a> to become Prime Monster again,
with the parting bogus claim that he would probably have won
and was withdrawing from the race only for the sake of "party unity".

 


title: Publicly subsidized insurers raising prices on Medicare Advantage Plans
uri: Publicly-subsidized-insurers-raising-prices-on-Medicare-Advantage-Plan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Publicly_subsidized_insurers_raising_prices_on_Medicare_Advantage_Plans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Publicly_subsidized_insurers_raising_prices_on_Medicare_Advantage_Plans)

content:
 
<p>

  * Publicly subsidized insurers are <a href="https://www.levernews.com/health-insurers-get-government-cash-then-jack-up-prices/">jacking up prices</a> [on their
   Medicare Advantage plans] while Americans lose coverage.*

 


title: Proposed Journalism Competition and Preservation Act
uri: Proposed-Journalism-Competition-and-Preservation-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Proposed_Journalism_Competition_and_Preservation_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_October_2022_(Proposed_Journalism_Competition_and_Preservation_Act)

content:
 
<p>

  Arguing that the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/10/21/journalisms-bad-bargain">proposed Journalism Competition and Preservation Act</a>
would help large US newspapers get more advertising money out of
adtech companies, but would not help support local newspapers
or local journalism.

 


