# articles

feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(UK_snoop-phones)
title: UK snoop-phones
uri: UK-snoop-phones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(UK_snoop-phones)
content:
 
<p>

The UK spy organization <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/21/uk-cybersecurity-chiefs-back-plan-to-scan-phones-for-child-abuse-images">supports the plan</a> to make all UK snoop-phones
check everything people send through them.
<p>
They would like this, wouldn't they?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Gullible_cynicism)
title: Gullible cynicism
uri: Gullible-cynicism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Gullible_cynicism)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/09/dangerous-rise-gullible-american-cynic">"Gullible cynicism"</a>: the practice of bending over backwards to
disbelieve the generally accepted explanation for anything whatsoever,
while eagerly accepting absurdly implausible conspiracy theories
instead.
<p>
Gullible cynicism appeared long before there were modern
disinformation campaigns.  Nowadays it has spread beyond the US &mdash; but
gullible cynicism sure helps disinformation campaigns succeed.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Unions_and_the_labor_movement)
title: Unions and the labor movement
uri: Unions-and-the-labor-movement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Unions_and_the_labor_movement)
content:
 
<p>
Unions and the labor movement have great capacity to support democracy
and human rights, and have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/11/organized-labor-and-crisis-democracy">done so throughout history</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Powerful_evidence)
title: Powerful evidence
uri: Powerful-evidence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Powerful_evidence)
content:
 
<p>
The Jan 6 committee has <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/07/22/trump-cult-jan-6-hearings-pence/">presented powerful evidence</a> that the wrecker
intentionally built up and directed the attack on the capitol, and
chose intentionally to keep it going until he concluded it had failed.
<p>
*How the January 6 panel set the stage for a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/23/january-6-hearings-trump-criminal-case">criminal case</a> against Trump.*

 


title: California models gun control law after Texas's anti-abortion law
uri: California-models-gun-control-law-after-Texas-s-anti-abortion-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(California_models_gun_control_law_after_Texas's_anti-abortion_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(California_models_gun_control_law_after_Texas's_anti-abortion_law)

content:
 
<p>
California has passed a law that parodies the Texas law authorizing almost
anyone to sue whoever helps someone get an abortion.  California's law
does that same thing to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/22/new-california-gun-control-law-modeled-after-texas-anti-abortion-measure">people who do anything with illegal guns</a>.
Is this a good idea?
<p>
I think that the "anyone can sue you" approach to enforcing a law is
cruel and repressive, regardless of what actions are being prohibited.
Using this to enforce anti-gun laws is bad for the same reason
that using this to enforce anti-abortion laws is bad.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Kenyan_thugs_convicted)
title: Kenyan thugs convicted
uri: Kenyan-thugs-convicted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Kenyan_thugs_convicted)
content:
 
<p>
Kenyan thugs have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jul/22/police-officers-found-guilty-of-of-three-including-kenyan-human-rights-lawyer-willie-kimani">convicted of murdering</a> a human rights lawyer
and others.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Graham_Mansfield)
title: Graham Mansfield
uri: 2022-07-25-Graham-Mansfield
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Graham_Mansfield)
content:
 
<p>
Although Graham Mansfield was not convicted of murdering his dying
wife, he was convicted of manslaughter.  His <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/22/man-who-killed-his-wife-in-act-of-love-calls-for-assisted-dying-law">sentence was suspended</a> so
he probably will not go to prison for this.
<p>
I don't know whether he cares about that question.  He did not want to
outlive Dyanne, but having survived his suicide attempt, he is stuck
with it.  Can he find meaning in life now?
<p>
I believe that the right to die should not be limited to people who
are going to die soon anyway.  People who are incapacitated, whose
prospect is many years of helpless boredom and futility, should have
the right to help in dying, too, if that's what they want.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Extreme_hot_weather)
title: Extreme hot weather
uri: Extreme-hot-weather
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Extreme_hot_weather)
content:
 
<p>
Extreme hot weather is causing <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/21/weather/global-infrastructure-its-so-hot-extreme-heat/index.html">local damage to roofs, bridges,
railroads, pipes</a>&hellip;
<p>
In ten years, the heat waves will be hotter, and cause a lot more damage.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Codifying_marriage_equality)
title: Codifying marriage equality
uri: Codifying-marriage-equality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Codifying_marriage_equality)
content:
 
<p>
Same-sex couples organize to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/21/opinions/time-to-codify-marriage-equality-hope/index.html">stop right-wing fanatics</a> from ruling same-sex
marriage invalid in the US.

 


title: Regulators urged to block Amazon's terrifying medical clinic company acquisition
uri: Regulators-urged-to-block-Amazon-s-terrifying-medical-clinic-company-a
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Regulators_urged_to_block_Amazon's_terrifying_medical_clinic_company_acquisition)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Regulators_urged_to_block_Amazon's_terrifying_medical_clinic_company_acquisition)

content:
 
<p>
*US Regulators Urged to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/21/us-regulators-urged-block-amazons-terrifying-purchase-one-medical">Block Amazon's "Terrifying" Purchase</a> of [the
medical clinic company] One Medical.*
<p>
Large companies like Amazon should not be allowed to acquire <em>any</em>
other companies.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Disloyal_text_messages)
title: Disloyal text messages
uri: Disloyal-text-messages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Disloyal_text_messages)
content:
 
<p>
The inspector general is investigating the deletion of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/21/dhs-inspector-general-launches-criminal-probe-secret-service-text-deletions">possibly
disloyal text messages</a> posted by Secret Service agents.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_((Satire)_Homeownership)
title: (Satire) Homeownership
uri: (Satire)-Homeownership
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_((Satire)_Homeownership)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *More Young Americans Achieving Homeownership By <a href="https://www.theonion.com/report-more-young-americans-achieving-homeownership-by-1849156454">Changing
Locks On Airbnb</a>.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts on the page, then right-click
and select the item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as
lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


title: Push to stop military weapon transfer to cops
uri: Push-to-stop-military-weapon-transfer-to-cops
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Push_to_stop_military_weapon_transfer_to_cops)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Push_to_stop_military_weapon_transfer_to_cops)

content:
 
<p>
*Progressive Lawmakers Push Biden to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/21/progressive-lawmakers-push-biden-stop-transferring-military-weapons-cops">Stop Transferring Military
Weapons to Cops</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(IMF_and_US)
title: IMF and US
uri: IMF-and-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(IMF_and_US)
content:
 
<p>
The IMF could provide funds for food for starving countries, if the US
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/21/treasury-department-could-prevent-widespread-global-starvation-no-cost-us-taxpayers">gives the ok</a>.

 


title: Republicans against contraception rights
uri: Republicans-against-contraception-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Republicans_against_contraception_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Republicans_against_contraception_rights)

content:
 
<p>
*Nearly Every House Republican Votes Against <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/21/nearly-every-house-republican-votes-against-codifying-right-contraception">Codifying Right to
Contraception</a>.
<p>
"If they had the chance they would ban it," said Rep. Ilhan Omar
(D-Minn.).*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_((Satire)_Vacation_photo)
title: (Satire) Vacation photo
uri: (Satire)-Vacation-photo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_((Satire)_Vacation_photo)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Local Mom Wants Just One Nice Vacation Photo Where Family
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/local-mom-wants-just-one-nice-vacation-photo-where-fami-1849150605">Isn't Running From Gunfire</a>.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts on the page, then right-click
and select the item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as
lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


title: Urgent: Support the National Popular Vote Compact
uri: Urgent-Support-the-National-Popular-Vote-Compact
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Urgent:_Support_the_National_Popular_Vote_Compact)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Urgent:_Support_the_National_Popular_Vote_Compact)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: support the <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/stop-letting-candidates-who-lose-the-popular-vote-win-the-presidency">National Popular Vote Compact</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Create sustainable options now
uri: 2022-07-25-Urgent-Create-sustainable-options-now
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Urgent:_Create_sustainable_options_now)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Urgent:_Create_sustainable_options_now)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on investment fund companies to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/asset-managers-must-create-sustainable-options-now">create sustainable
options now</a>. This refers to companies such as Vanguard, Fidelity, and BlackRock.

 


title: Urgent: Replace Senator Manchin as Energy Committee Chairman
uri: Urgent-Replace-Senator-Manchin-as-Energy-Committee-Chairman
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Urgent:_Replace_Senator_Manchin_as_Energy_Committee_Chairman)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Urgent:_Replace_Senator_Manchin_as_Energy_Committee_Chairman)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-replace-senator-joe-manchin-as-energy-chairman-3">replace Senator Manchin</a> as Energy
Committee Chairman.

<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>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Urgent:_End_Remain_in_Mexico_policy)
title: Urgent: End Remain in Mexico policy
uri: Urgent-End-Remain-in-Mexico-policy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Urgent:_End_Remain_in_Mexico_policy)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-president-biden-terminate-remain-in-mexico">end the Remain in Mexico policy</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Pass the Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act
uri: Urgent-Pass-the-Fourth-Amendment-Is-Not-for-Sale-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_the_Fourth_Amendment_Is_Not_for_Sale_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_the_Fourth_Amendment_Is_Not_for_Sale_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.freepress.net/sign/fourth_amendment_not_for_sale_act?akid=23323.9489429.5k-CZF&rd=1&t=1002">pass the Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act</a>.
<p>
The Department of Hostility and Suffering currently <a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/new-records-detail-dhs-purchase-and-use-of-vast-quantities-of-cell-phone-location-data">buys lots of surveillance data</a>. This law would prohibit that, but it wouldn't eliminate the resulting
injustice.  It is a small step forward, but not a true solution.
<p>
Governments could buy other kinds of data which would enable them to
find out what sort of places you have been, and then use parallel
construction to attack you.

<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: Oil and gas permits in endangered gorilla habitat
uri: Oil-and-gas-permits-in-endangered-gorilla-habitat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Oil_and_gas_permits_in_endangered_gorilla_habitat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Oil_and_gas_permits_in_endangered_gorilla_habitat)

content:
 
<p>

*DRC to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/23/democratic-republic-of-congo-auction-oil-gas-permits-endangered-gorilla-habitat-aoe">auction oil and gas permits</a> in endangered gorilla habitat.*
<p>
Global disaster will push many people to the brink, and before
actually dying, they will try desperate schemes to survive.
Many of those schemes will involve destruction.  This is a foretaste.

 


title: Effect of stronger winds on fire in London
uri: Effect-of-stronger-winds-on-fire-in-London
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Effect_of_stronger_winds_on_fire_in_London)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Effect_of_stronger_winds_on_fire_in_London)

content:
 
<p>

If there had been stronger winds, fire <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/23/low-winds-stopped-what-might-have-been-new-great-fire-of-london-says-expert">might have engulfed</a> much of London
last week.
<p>
*These soaring temperatures have given Britain a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/23/temperatures-britain-dystopia-wildfires-railway">taste of the dystopia</a>
 to come.* Other parts of the world, too.
<p>
The planet-roasters, and the officials they have bought influence with,
are responsible.  Let's rub their noses in their mess.

 


title: Cruise missile strikes on Ukraine's main port
uri: Cruise-missile-strikes-on-Ukraine-s-main-port
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Cruise_missile_strikes_on_Ukraine's_main_port)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Cruise_missile_strikes_on_Ukraine's_main_port)

content:
 
<p>

*Barely 12 hours after Moscow signed a deal with Ukraine to allow
monitored grain exports from Ukraine’s southern ports, [Putin]
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/23/russia-fires-missiles-odesa-port-hours-after-grain-export-deal">targeted Ukraine’s main port</a> of [Odessa] &mdash; through which grain shipments
would take place &mdash; with cruise missile strikes.*
<p>
*Airstrikes on ports could <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/24/ukraine-russia-airstrikes-ports-grain-export-plan-odesa">derail grain export plan</a>, warns Ukraine.*
<p>
I had a feeling that this deal was too good to be true.  Cheating is
Putin's way; you can't expect him to keep a deal sincerely.
<p>
Putin has been using food effectively as a weapon, and he would hardly
let go of a weapon.
<p>
I support Ukraine in this war, but "Odessa" has been the English name
of that city for much more than a century, and I don't see a reason to
change the way we write it in English.

 


title: Opponents of masks bully officials to resign
uri: Opponents-of-masks-bully-officials-to-resign
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Opponents_of_masks_bully_officials_to_resign)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Opponents_of_masks_bully_officials_to_resign)

content:
 
<p>

In Shasta county, ideological opponents of masks <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/23/california-shasta-county-far-right-extremists-politics-pandemic">bullied many county
officials into resigning</a>, and removed some officials from office,
demonstrating how they wish to harass anyone who doesn't bow down to them.

 


title: Dip in UK woodland’s ability to capture CO2
uri: Dip-in-UK-woodland-s-ability-to-capture-CO2
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Dip_in_UK_woodland’s_ability_to_capture_CO2)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Dip_in_UK_woodland’s_ability_to_capture_CO2)

content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/23/dip-in-uk-woodlands-ability-to-capture-co2-as-felled-trees-not-replaced">Dip in UK woodland’s ability to capture CO2</a> [because] felled trees not
 replaced.*
<p>
I would guess that other countries have the same problem, if they don't
take care to grow new trees as fast as they cut trees down.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(State_Department's_main_mission)
title: State Department's main mission
uri: State-Department-s-main-mission
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(State_Department's_main_mission)
content:
 
<p>

Ralph Nader: * <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/23/weaning-state-department-war-making">Waging peace and conflict resolution</a> should be the
State Department's main mission.*

 


title: Heat driving species towards extinction
uri: Heat-driving-species-towards-extinction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Heat_driving_species_towards_extinction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Heat_driving_species_towards_extinction)

content:
 
<p>

Extreme heat in the US is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/22/extreme-heat-destroying-biodiversity">driving many species towards extinction</a>,
including birds, fish and mollusks.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Schedule_F)
title: Schedule F
uri: Schedule-F
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Schedule_F)
content:
 
<p>

The wrecker made a plan, called "Schedule F", to enable him to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/22/authoritarianism-101-trump-plot-purge-civil-servants-if-reelected-draws-alarm">arbitrarily purge the employees</a> in 50,000 federal civil service jobs
and replace them with people personally loyal to him.  This could corrupt
the whole federal bureaucracy.
<p>
Any Republican elected in 2024 might put this into practice.
Reportedly Republicans in the Senate support that plan, and will block
the efforts to legislate against it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Bannon's_defiance_of_subpoena)
title: Bannon's defiance of subpoena
uri: Bannon-s-defiance-of-subpoena
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Bannon's_defiance_of_subpoena)
content:
 
<p>

Why Bannon's defiance of a subpoena to testify in Congress goes <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/22/opinions/conviction-contempt-steve-bannon-eisen-aftergut/index.html">hand in hand
with insurrection</a>.
<p>
Bannon claimed that the wrecker still has the "executive privilege" to
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/22/politics/steve-bannon-contempt-of-congress-january-6-verdict/index.html">forbid Bannon from testifying</a>, even though the wrecker no longer holds
an executive office.  This could be the basis of an appeal.
<p>
It seems pretty obvious to me that ex-officials must not have any
power to block testimony about what they did while in office.

 


title: Who do you trust about the climate emergency?
uri: Who-do-you-trust-about-the-climate-emergency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Who_do_you_trust_about_the_climate_emergency_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_July_2022_(Who_do_you_trust_about_the_climate_emergency_)

content:
 
<p>

*Do you trust the people in suits downplaying this [climate]
   emergency, or the activists lying in roads in an attempt to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/24/climate-sceptics-protest-emergency-activists">ward
   off catastrophe</a>?*

 


title: Two large chains of Australia stores have ceased using facial recognition
uri: Two-large-chains-of-Australia-stores-have-ceased-using-facial-recognit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(two_chains_ceased_using_facial_recognition)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(two_chains_ceased_using_facial_recognition)

content:
 
<p>
Two large chains of Australia stores have ceased using 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/25/bunnings-and-kmart-halt-use-of-facial-recognition-in-stores-as-australian-privacy-watchdog-investigates">facial recognition
to identify all customers.</a>

 


title: *Tyre dust: the "stealth pollutant"*
uri: Tyre-dust-the-stealth-pollutant
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(tyre_dust_becoming_threat_to_ocean_life)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(tyre_dust_becoming_threat_to_ocean_life)

content:
 
<p>
*Tyre dust: the "stealth pollutant" that’s becoming a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/25/tyre-dust-the-stealth-pollutant-becoming-a-huge-threat-to-ocean-life">huge threat to
ocean life.</a>*
<p>
Governments' mission requires compelling tire manufacturers to disclose what
the tires contain.  No one is entitled to keep secrets about
chemicals that may be endangering ecosystems.  The idea that businesses
should have such powers is sheer plutocracy.

 


uri: The-American-Data-Privacy-and-Protection-Act-takes-a-step-toward-limit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(is_preemption_too_high_a_price_for_federal_privacy_law)

title:
 The American Data Privacy and Protection Act takes a step toward
limiting how companies can snoop on computer users. 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(is_preemption_too_high_a_price_for_federal_privacy_law)

content:
 
<p>
The American Data Privacy and Protection Act takes a step toward
limiting how companies can snoop on computer users.  But the bad part
is 
<a href="https://teachprivacy.com/a-faustian-bargain-is-preemption-too-high-a-price-for-a-federal-privacy-law/">that it preempts state laws.</a>
<p>
I suspect that the ADPPA is fundamentally based on limiting the use of
data once collected, an approach that it is inadequate, because the
only method that will really work is to 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html"><Em>limit the collection of the
data</Em>.</a>
<p>
If states can't pass laws that go beyond this, all progress will
stop.
<p>
So I think this law should not be passed.

 


uri: A-recent-decision-by-the-Supreme-Court-may-have-blocked-Biden-from-can
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(scotus_climate_change_biden_student_loans)

title:
 A recent decision by the Supreme Court may have blocked Biden from cancelling federal student loans 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(scotus_climate_change_biden_student_loans)

content:
 
<p>
A recent decision by the Supreme Court may have 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/politics/scotus-climate-change-biden-student-loans/index.html">blocked Biden from
cancelling federal student loans.</a>
<p>
It is not clear.

 


title: A movement for white Christian nationalism is spreading through the US.
uri: A-movement-for-white-Christian-nationalism-is-spreading-through-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(white_christian_nationalism_spreading_usa)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(white_christian_nationalism_spreading_usa)

content:
 
<p>
A movement for white Christian nationalism is spreading through the US.
It is based on falsifying the history and 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/24/us/white-christian-nationalism-blake-cec/index.html">founding principles of the US.</a>

 


title: Republicans ruling Arkansas and Nebraska rejected federal rental assistance
uri: Republicans-ruling-Arkansas-and-Nebraska-rejected-federal-rental-assis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(federal_rental_assistance_arkansas_nebraska)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(federal_rental_assistance_arkansas_nebraska)

content:
 
<p>
Republicans ruling Arkansas and Nebraska, for ideological reasons,
rejected federal rental assistance for poor people in those states. 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/07/19/federal-rental-assistance-arkansas-nebraska/">They prefer to see poor people evicted.</a>
<p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(trumps_coup_attempts_continue)
title: The wrecker is continuing to try to overthrow the US government.
uri: The-wrecker-is-continuing-to-try-to-overthrow-the-US-government
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(trumps_coup_attempts_continue)
content:
 
<p>
The wrecker is continuing to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/24/trumps-attempted-coup-continues-even-after-january-6-hearings-are-over-for-now">try to overthrow the US government.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(google_israel_ai_project_nimbus)
title: Israel is using Google's AI services to track Palestinians by facial recognition
uri: Israel-is-using-Google-s-AI-services-to-track-Palestinians-by-facial-r
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(google_israel_ai_project_nimbus)
content:
 
<p>
Israel is using Google's AI services to track Palestinians by facial
recognition and analyze everything they say, write, read or express
with their faces to 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/07/24/google-israel-artificial-intelligence-project-nimbus/">generate suspicions about them</a>

 


title: Starmer is taking the Labour Party a step closer to plutocratism
uri: Starmer-is-taking-the-Labour-Party-a-step-closer-to-plutocratism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(starmer_labour_party_closer_to_plutocratism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(starmer_labour_party_closer_to_plutocratism)

content:
 
<p>
Starmer is taking the Labour Party a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/25/starmer-says-he-wont-be-ideological-labour-renationalisation-row">step closer to plutocratism.</a>
<p>
"Growth" as a political goal tends to be an excuse to reject other
more important goals, such as "tax the rich and help the rest."

 


title: *If Biden isn’t willing to really fight the climate crisis, he shouldn’t run in 2024.*
uri: If-Biden-isn-t-willing-to-really-fight-the-climate-crisis-he-shoul
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(if_biden_fails_climate_shouldnt_run_in_2024)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(if_biden_fails_climate_shouldnt_run_in_2024)

content:
 
<p>
*If Biden isn’t willing to really fight the climate crisis, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/25/if-biden-isnt-willing-to-really-fight-the-climate-crisis-he-shouldnt-run-in-2024">he shouldn’t run
in 2024.</a>*
<p>
I disagree with the article on one subpoint: it is not <Em>only</Em> the
results that count.  When something really important is at stake, we
can forgive you for being defeated, if we see you fought really hard.
But if you fail to do that, you have failed us.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_same-sex_marriage)
title: Urgent: Protect same-sex marriage
uri: Urgent-Protect-same-sex-marriage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_same-sex_marriage)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/the-senate-must-protect-marriage-equality">protect same-sex marriage</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Urgent:_Declare_a_climate_emergency)
title: Urgent: Declare a climate emergency
uri: Urgent-Declare-a-climate-emergency
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Urgent:_Declare_a_climate_emergency)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://act.greennewdealnetwork.org/sign/tell-biden-its-time-declare-climate-emergency/?source=em20220721&t=1001&akid=247%2E421439%2EplYUNt">declare a climate emergency, and use
his emergency powers to decarbonize</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(World_burns,_richest_profit)
title: World burns, richest profit
uri: World-burns-richest-profit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(World_burns,_richest_profit)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/24/world-burns-and-richest-profit-it-doesnt-have-be-way">The World Burns and the Richest Profit</a>. It Doesn't Have to Be This Way.*

 


title: Biden's symbolic support of Netanyahu and Crown Prince Bone Saw
uri: Biden-s-symbolic-support-of-Netanyahu-and-Crown-Prince-Bone-Saw
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Biden's_symbolic_support_of_Netanyahu_and_Crown_Prince_Bone_Saw)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Biden's_symbolic_support_of_Netanyahu_and_Crown_Prince_Bone_Saw)

content:
 
<p>
Biden's gestures, making nice to Netanyahu and Crown Prince Bone Saw
were ugly but merely symbolic.  Sad to say, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/24/fist-bump-was-bad-bidens-middle-east-policies-are-worse">they symbolize support for
actions that are horrible</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Unabashed_racism)
title: Unabashed racism
uri: Unabashed-racism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Unabashed_racism)
content:
 
<p>
Orb&aacute;n publicly endorses <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/24/viktor-orban-against-race-mixing-europe-hungary">unabashed racism</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Tracking_with_snoop-phones)
title: Tracking with snoop-phones
uri: Tracking-with-snoop-phones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Tracking_with_snoop-phones)
content:
 
<p>
Cellular network operators in Europe are associating each network
access from a snoop-phone with its phone number, so web sites
(advertisers) can <a href="https://blog.simpleanalytics.com/vodafone-deutsche-telekom-to-introduce-persistent-user-tracking">track each user</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Women_sterilizing_themselves)
title: Women sterilizing themselves
uri: Women-sterilizing-themselves
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Women_sterilizing_themselves)
content:
 
<p>
Thousands of US women are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/25/us/people-getting-sterilized-roe-v-wade-cec/index.html">getting themselves sterilized</a>, for fear that
they would no longer have the option of abortion.  But it can be difficult
to find a surgeon willing to do the operation.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Bleak_midterms)
title: Bleak midterms
uri: Bleak-midterms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Bleak_midterms)
content:
 
<p>
*Let's Acknowledge Why the Midterms Look So Bleak for Democrats: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/25/lets-acknowledge-why-midterms-look-so-bleak-democrats-joe-biden">Joe
Biden</a>.*
<p>
I can't say I am entirely sure that this is true.  The reason why I am
not sure is because voters' thinking seems to be irrational.  Why let
your opinion of Biden affect whether to vote for your local
progressive candidate?
<p>
Biden or no Biden, it's clear that the only way to get progressive
laws through Congress is to elect more progressives to Congress.  The
2022 elections are an opportunity to do this &mdash; so what are we waiting
for?
<p>
Since I can't make sense of what those voters are thinking, I can't model
what would influence them.  But the article could be right.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_((Satire)_Private_prison)
title: (Satire) Private prison
uri: (Satire)-Private-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_((Satire)_Private_prison)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Snobby Ex-Con Always Mentioning How He <a href="https://www.theonion.com/snobby-ex-con-always-mentioning-how-he-went-to-private-1849157938">Went To Private
Prison</a>.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts on the page, then right-click
and select the item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as
lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Government_lied_to_public)
title: Government lied to public
uri: Government-lied-to-public
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Government_lied_to_public)
content:
 
<p>
Reality Winner speaks about her duty to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/25/reality-winner-leaked-file-on-russia-election-hacking-because-public-was-being-lied-to">inform the public
when the government was lying to the public</a>.
<p>
This reinforces the need to change the Espionage Act to include a
public interest defense.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Urgent:_Prosecute_for_coup_attempt)
title: Urgent: Prosecute for coup attempt
uri: Urgent-Prosecute-for-coup-attempt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Urgent:_Prosecute_for_coup_attempt)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Merrick Garland to prosecute the wrecker and his
co-conspirators <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-merrick-garland-prosecute-trump-and-his-criminal-network-of-coup-conspirators?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-progressive-change-campaign-committee&source=pccc-e220719_1911-non-signers">for their coup attempt</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_the_Boundary_Waters)
title: Urgent: Protect the Boundary Waters
uri: Urgent-Protect-the-Boundary-Waters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_the_Boundary_Waters)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the U.S. Forest Service to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=50820">protect the Boundary
Waters</a>.

 


title: Urgent: End support for Salafi Arabia's war in Yemen
uri: Urgent-End-support-for-Salafi-Arabia-s-war-in-Yemen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Urgent:_End_support_for_Salafi_Arabia's_war_in_Yemen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_July_2022_(Urgent:_End_support_for_Salafi_Arabia's_war_in_Yemen)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/letter/pass-war-powers-resolution-yemen/?t=1001&akid=29308%2E96703%2EK9yM_u">end US military support</a> for Salafi
Arabia's war in Yemen.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(american_starbucks_labor_200th_win)
title: 200 Starbucks stores in the US have voted to unionize.
uri: 200-Starbucks-stores-in-the-US-have-voted-to-unionize
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(american_starbucks_labor_200th_win)
content:
 
<p>
200 Starbucks stores in the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/23/historic-moment-american-labor-starbucks-workers-notch-200th-union-win">US have voted to unionize.</a>

 


title: *Biden's Presidency Isn't Sinking Because of the Left it's Because of Right-Wing Democrats.*
uri: Biden-s-Presidency-Isn-t-Sinking-Because-of-the-Left-it-s-Because-of
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(biden_presidency_and_right_wing_democrats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(biden_presidency_and_right_wing_democrats)

content:
 
<p>
*Biden's Presidency Isn't Sinking Because of the Left &mdash; It's 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/23/bidens-presidency-isnt-sinking-because-left-its-because-right-wing-democrats">Because of
Right-Wing Democrats.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(biden_prep_act_medical_abortion)
title: The PREP Act and how the Biden Administration can protect medical abortions
uri: The-PREP-Act-and-how-the-Biden-Administration-can-protect-medical-abor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(biden_prep_act_medical_abortion)
content:
 
<p>
*  By declaring a public health emergency under the Public Readiness and
   Emergency Preparedness Act, the Biden administration could "enable
   out-of-state prescribing and dispensing of medications for 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/23/biden-must-do-more-protect-medication-abortion-post-roe-south">abortion for those in states with abortion bans."</a>*

 


title: The Burmese military government has executed democracy activists
uri: The-Burmese-military-government-has-executed-democracy-activists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(myanmar_junta_executes_democracy_activists_state_media)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#26_July_2022_(myanmar_junta_executes_democracy_activists_state_media)

content:
 
<p>
The Burmese military government has executed democracy activists, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/25/myanmar-junta-executes-democracy-activists-state-media">accusing them of "terrorism".</a>

 


title: Urgent: Tell Congress AIPAC doesn't speak for you
uri: Urgent-Tell-Congress-AIPAC-doesn-t-speak-for-you
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Urgent:_Tell_Congress_AIPAC_doesn't_speak_for_you)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Urgent:_Tell_Congress_AIPAC_doesn't_speak_for_you)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: tell Congress that <a href="https://act.jstreet.org/sign/tell-congress-aipac-doesnt-speak-me/?akid=309894.538688.QCzCrn&rd=1&t=1006">AIPAC doesn’t speak for you</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: How a temporary cease-fire would help Putin
uri: How-a-temporary-cease-fire-would-help-Putin
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(How_a_temporary_cease-fire_would_help_Putin)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(How_a_temporary_cease-fire_would_help_Putin)

content:
 
<p>

Zelensky explains why a temporary cease-fire would <a href="https://archive.ph/Mk5Lm">help the Putin
forces</a> in the long term.
<p>
We must not allow Putin to succeed in <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(Russia_succeeding_in_holding_out_against_sanctions)">capturing and holding Ukrainian
territory</a>, but as long as we prevent that, it makes sense to help him <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#7_June_2022_(Emmanuel_Macron:_Russia_must_not_be_humiliated_in_Ukraine)">save face</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Testimony_from_militia_leader)
title: Testimony from militia leader
uri: Testimony-from-militia-leader
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Testimony_from_militia_leader)
content:
 
<p>

A militia leader testified in the Jan 6 committee that the wrecker was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/12/jan-6-hearings-trump-capitol-attack-oath-keepers-ex-spokesperson-witness">preparing for an armed revolt</a>.

 


title: Cuts to burning natural gas in the EU
uri: Cuts-to-burning-natural-gas-in-the-EU
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Cuts_to_burning_natural_gas_in_the_EU)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Cuts_to_burning_natural_gas_in_the_EU)

content:
 
<p>

The EU is making big <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/26/how-does-the-eu-plan-to-cut-gas-usage-by-15-this-winter">cuts in burning natural gas</a>.  The immediate
motive is to resist Putin's pressure, but this is a good thing for
more general reasons.

 


title: "Sustainable investment" is no help to what we need
uri: Sustainable-investment-is-no-help-to-what-we-need
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Sustainable_investment_is_no_help_to_what_we_need)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Sustainable_investment_is_no_help_to_what_we_need)

content:
 
<p>

In practice, "Sustainable investment" funds try to avoid investing in
businesses that would lose value from decarbonization &mdash; but they
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/26/failure-green-capitalism">don't invest in accelerating decarbonization</a>.  So they are no help
to what we need.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Trump_lacked_courage_to_act_on_Jan_6)
title: Trump lacked courage to act on Jan 6
uri: Trump-lacked-courage-to-act-on-Jan-6
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Trump_lacked_courage_to_act_on_Jan_6)
content:
 
<p>

*Biden says Trump <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/26/biden-trump-january-6-capitol-riot-courage">"lacked the courage to act"</a> during January 6 attack.*
<p>
What a bizarre understatement!  The wrecker had already acted, by
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_July_2022_(Powerful_evidence)">preparing and launching</a> the attack on the Capitol,
and he continued to act by keeping it going and protecting it.
<p>
What he lacked was not guts, but loyalty to his country.

 


title: Obtaining insurance for ships for exporting grain
uri: Obtaining-insurance-for-ships-for-exporting-grain
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Obtaining_insurance_for_ships_for_exporting_grain)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Obtaining_insurance_for_ships_for_exporting_grain)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/26/food-traders-remain-skeptical-of-deal-to-export-ukrainian-grain">Doubts over obtaining insurance</a> for the ships puts a cloud on the
supposed deal to export grain from Ukraine through the Black Sea.

 


title: Walgreens in Texas refused to prescribe methotrexate
uri: Walgreens-in-Texas-refused-to-prescribe-methotrexate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Walgreens_in_Texas_refused_to_prescribe_methotrexate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Walgreens_in_Texas_refused_to_prescribe_methotrexate)

content:
 
<p>

Walgreens in Texas <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/11/post-roe-us-patients-already-denied-care-wide-range-medical-concerns">refused to prescribe methotrexate</a> for the purpose
of facilitating insertion of an IUD, claiming the pharmacy couldn't
know that it wasn't for an abortion.
<p>
Millions of people take methotrexate to treat various medical problems
other than pregnancy, and the Texas law has put them all in danger.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Enduring_tyranny_of_oil)
title: Enduring tyranny of oil
uri: Enduring-tyranny-of-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Enduring_tyranny_of_oil)
content:
 
<p>

*The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/26/enduring-tyranny-oil-war-inflation-geopolitical-rivalry-and-soaring-world">Enduring Tyranny of Oil</a>: War, Inflation, Geopolitical Rivalry,
and Soaring World Temperatures.*

 


title: Student protests for climate inaction
uri: Student-protests-for-climate-inaction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Student_protests_for_climate_inaction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Student_protests_for_climate_inaction)

content:
 
<p>

Students: *We're planning <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/26/school-strikes-climate-protests-activists">school strikes across the world</a> to protest
climate inaction.*
<p>
This is entirely reasonable, for those who realize that <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> disaster
will not leave them much of a chance to use their studies.
<p>
Sad to say, their web site depends so totally on JavaScript code that
it shows no information with JavaScript disabled.  It's as much as to
require, arbitrarily, that you can't support your own freedom and
their campaign too.  Why create a gratuitous conflict between these
two causes, when fundamentally they are entirely compatible?
<p>
If you are in contact with them, please offer to make their site
work at least minimally for users that reject JavaScript code.
<p>
If you attend a school where an occupation is planned, I expect you
will be hear about it in other ways, so that you can support it.

 


title: Paying to stay overnight in a hospital
uri: Paying-to-stay-overnight-in-a-hospital
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Paying_to_stay_overnight_in_a_hospital)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_July_2022_(Paying_to_stay_overnight_in_a_hospital)

content:
 
<p>

Tories plan to require carers who need to stay overnight in a hospital
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/27/for-disabled-people-and-carers-hospital-charges-would-be-the-last-straw">take care of a patient to pay to stay</a>.
<p>
Little by little they are making the NHS impossible for poor people to use.
Tory policy is, sick poor people should die.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(UK_heatwaves)
title: UK heatwaves
uri: 2022-07-30-UK-heatwaves
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(UK_heatwaves)
content:
 
<p>
*Climate breakdown made UK heatwave <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/28/climate-breakdown-made-uk-heatwave-10-times-more-likely-study-finds">10 times more likely</a>, study finds.*
<p>
The article does not discuss the heatwaves in western Europe and
various parts of the US, but I expect <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> is largely
responsible for them too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Law_and_order)
title: Law and order
uri: Law-and-order
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Law_and_order)
content:
 
<p>
*Self-awareness in short supply as Trump calls for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/26/donald-trump-washington-dc-speech-america-first">law and order in DC</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Misoprostol_business_cards)
title: Misoprostol business cards
uri: Misoprostol-business-cards
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Misoprostol_business_cards)
content:
 
<p>
Hackers have developed a way to <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvmn35/diy-collective-embeds-abortion-pill-onto-business-cards-distributes-them-at-hacker-conference">embed misoprostol in business cards</a>
so that it can be used for abortion straight off the card.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Military_more_aggressive)
title: Military more aggressive
uri: Military-more-aggressive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Military_more_aggressive)
content:
 
<p>
General Milley reports that China's military has become <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/25/politics/mark-milley-china-aggression/index.html">more
aggressive in dealing with US military forces</a> since 5 years ago.
<p>
China states repeatedly that it intends to capture Taiwan; we know
from what we saw in Hong Kong that this would mean subjection and
repression.
<p>
When China posed no real threat of conquering Taiwan, it was safe to
smile at China's pretensions of doing so, and avoid ostentatious
support for Taiwan.  But now that the threat is real, the US needs to
face up to it with a calm, explicit visible commitment to Taiwan's
defense.  That means that China can't order the US to limit its ties
with Taiwan.
<p>
The present aggressive confrontations are harassment, intended to
pressure Taiwan and the US to step on the path of yielding.  That,
above all, they must not do.  To argue that "Pelosi should not visit
Taiwan now because China might respond by increasing the harassment"
is the first step of abandoning Taiwan.
<p>
However, it would be a mistake to treat these harassments as if they
were real attacks &mdash; for instance, to respond aggressively.  The only
response to these acts of harassment should be the necessary defensive
precautions <em>in case</em> one turns into a real bombing raid.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Arrested_for_climate_sit-in)
title: Arrested for climate sit-in
uri: Arrested-for-climate-sit-in
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Arrested_for_climate_sit-in)
content:
 
<p>
*Congressional Staffers <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/25/congressional-staffers-arrested-climate-sit-schumers-office">Arrested for Climate Sit-In</a> at Schumer's Office.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Before_total_disaster)
title: Before total disaster
uri: Before-total-disaster
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Before_total_disaster)
content:
 
<p>
One thing we can  expect in last stages before total disaster is that people
will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/25/climate-catastrophe-feared-congo-moves-sell-critical-ecosystem-oil-drilling">desperately pollute and destroy unusual ecosystems</a>, to delay the local
disaster a few more years.  Now the DR Congo is about to open up a large
rainforest for oil drilling.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Censoring_political_ads)
title: Censoring political ads
uri: Censoring-political-ads
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Censoring_political_ads)
content:
 
<p>
Hulu is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/25/dems-accuse-hulu-outrageous-censorship-abortion-rights-gun-control-ads">censoring Democrat's political ads</a> that talk about abortion
rights and gun control.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Students_walked_out_on_ceremony)
title: Students walked out on ceremony
uri: Students-walked-out-on-ceremony
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Students_walked_out_on_ceremony)
content:
 
<p>
Incoming medical students at the University of Michigan <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/25/michigan-students-walk-out-ceremony-over-keynote-speakers-pro-forced-birth-views">walked out on
a ceremony</a> which presented a speaker who claims that fetuses are
people, and rebuked the university for inviting a speaker who advocates
forbidding abortions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Marjorie_Taylor_Greene)
title: Marjorie Taylor Greene
uri: Marjorie-Taylor-Greene
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Marjorie_Taylor_Greene)
content:
 
<p>
The US Constitution forbids people who have participated in insurrection
against the United States from running for elected office, but judges have
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-reelection/index.html">thwarted the attempt to make this apply to Marjorie Taylor Greene</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(PFAs_costs)
title: PFAs costs
uri: PFAs-costs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(PFAs_costs)
content:
 
<p>
A study estimates that exposure of today's living Americans to PFAs
could cost <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/26/study-ties-forever-chemicals-exposure-billions-us-health-costs">5 to 63 billion dollars in medical costs</a>.
<p>
That is assuming that the US continues functioning with a modern
medical system that actually tries to treat most Americans who have
these medical problems.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Extinction)
title: Extinction
uri: 2022-07-30-Extinction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Extinction)
content:
 
<p>
*The Global Ruling Class Is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/26/global-ruling-class-frog-marching-us-towards-extinction">Frog-Marching Us Towards Extinction</a>.*
<p>
*Extreme Heat Could <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/25/extreme-heat-could-wipe-out-decades-gain-fight-against-child-malnutrition-study">Wipe Out Decades of Gain</a> in Fight Against Child
Malnutrition.*
<p>
That's just the beginning.  In a couple of decades, malnutrition could affect
most of the human population.
<p>
Humans are very adaptable.  I expect that small groups of humans will
survive for a long time at low levels of technology &mdash; but that will
be little comfort for the rest.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Republican_principle)
title: Republican principle
uri: Republican-principle
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Republican_principle)
content:
 
<p>
The central principle of the Republican Party is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/26/performative-cruelty-republicans-only-remaining-policy">performative cruelty</a>.
<p>
Unless you are a millionaire (as well as white and straight), don't suppose
that you are not the target.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Tyre_Extinguishers)
title: Tyre Extinguishers
uri: Tyre-Extinguishers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Tyre_Extinguishers)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/27/dreamworld-rollercoaster-was-built-with-27m-tagged-for-koala-research-government-says">Tyre Extinguishers campaign</a> against gas-guzzling SUVs by deflating
their tires, and leaving leaflets on the cars thus targeted.
<p>
Students at the University of Cambridge persuaded the university <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/25/student-climate-campaigners-welcome-momentous-victory-cambridge">not
to name a research lab in honor of Billionaire Polluters</a>.
<p>
*Adopting a policy to reject "all fossil fuel
industry funding and research partnerships" is what's needed.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Four_parents)
title: Four parents
uri: Four-parents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Four_parents)
content:
 
<p>
A female couple wants to join with a male couple to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/27/four-baby-together-parental-burnout">have and raise one baby
as four parents</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Funding_of_coal,_oil,_and_gas)
title: Funding of coal, oil, and gas
uri: Funding-of-coal-oil-and-gas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Funding_of_coal,_oil,_and_gas)
content:
 
<p>
*[US]  Banksâ€™ financing of coal, oil, and gas was higher in 2021 than it was
 in 2016, the year after the Paris agreement was adopted.*
<p>
This activity amounts to mass murder, to accelerate over the next few decades.

 


title: Power companies fighting clean energy
uri: Power-companies-fighting-clean-energy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Power_companies_fighting_clean_energy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_July_2022_(Power_companies_fighting_clean_energy)

content:
 
<p>
*Leaked: US power companies secretly spending millions to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/27/leaked-us-leaked-power-companies-spending-profits-stop-clean-energy">protect profits and
fight clean energy</a>.*
<p>
What they spend it on includes election dirty tricks to defeat legislators
that support bills to decarbonize.
<p>
This activity amounts to mass murder, to accelerate over the next few decades.

 


title: Urgent: Urge senators to vote for Equal Rights Amendment
uri: Urgent-Urge-senators-to-vote-for-Equal-Rights-Amendment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Urgent:_Urge_senators_to_vote_for_Equal_Rights_Amendment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Urgent:_Urge_senators_to_vote_for_Equal_Rights_Amendment)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your senators and urge them to vote to allow the
Equal Rights Amendment to take effect.  The Equal Rights Amendment says,

<blockquote>
     Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged
     by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
</blockquote>

<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: Extend and expand social security
uri: Urgent-Extend-and-expand-social-security
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Urgent:_Extend_and_expand_social_security)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Urgent:_Extend_and_expand_social_security)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/expandsocialsecurity?nowrapper=true">extend and expand 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: Urgent: Call on elected officials to speed decarbonization
uri: Urgent-Call-on-elected-officials-to-speed-decarbonization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_elected_officials_to_speed_decarbonization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_elected_officials_to_speed_decarbonization)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on elected officials to <a href="https://act.afuture.org/action/pledge-letter">speed decarbonization and
make the greenhouse gas emitters pay</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(BBC_criticised_over_climate_question)
title: BBC criticised over climate question
uri: BBC-criticised-over-climate-question
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(BBC_criticised_over_climate_question)
content:
 
<p>

*BBC <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/27/bbc-criticised-over-climate-question-in-tory-leadership-debate">criticised over climate question</a> in Tory leadership debate.*
The sole question about climate disaster supported the fossil fuel
companies' distraction campaign, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-may-aug.html#24_August_2021_(Carbon_footprint)">reducing one's own "carbon footprint"</a>,
rather than on the systematic state actions that they seek to prevent.
<p>
However, when it comes to reducing your own personal efforts to avoid
<a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> disaster, it's clear that the best thing you can do is
<a href="/articles/children.html">avoid having children</a>.  Fewer humans in the future means humanity's
collective ecological footprint will be smaller in every dimension.
<p>
Reproducing at full speed, and letting the human population be reduced
by famine and war is the other alternative, and it's much worse.

 


title: US assisted in Nigerian air raid on displaced persons camp
uri: US-assisted-in-Nigerian-air-raid-on-displaced-persons-camp
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(US_assisted_in_Nigerian_air_raid_on_displaced_persons_camp)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(US_assisted_in_Nigerian_air_raid_on_displaced_persons_camp)

content:
 
<p>

The US <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/07/28/nigeria-civilian-displaced-bombing-us/">assisted in a Nigerian air raid</a> on a displaced persons' camp,
which killed aid workers and civilians; then it secretly investigated
what had happened.
<p>
The raid was intended to target terrorists, but something went very
wrong in the planning.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Democrats'_deal_with_Manchin)
title: Democrats' deal with Manchin
uri: Democrats-deal-with-Manchin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Democrats'_deal_with_Manchin)
content:
 
<p>

The Democrats' great "deal" with Manchin includes <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/28/climate-bill-joe-manchin-whats-in-it">increased drilling
for fossil fuels</a>.
<p>
It is one step forward in exchange for Manchin's <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/two-cheers-for-manchin-and-the-dems">demanded half a step
back</a>.
<p>
The deal also includes some positive changes regarding taxes: a 15%
corporate profits minimum tax, more higher tax on private equity funds,
and funding the IRS to investigate tax cheaters that aren't poor.
<p>
Also, it makes an effort to reduce the cost of medicines for people
on Medicare.  Sanders called it <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/26/it-better-nothing-i-suppose-sanders-disappointed-dems-drug-pricing-plan">"better than nothing."</a>
<p>
Overall, it is a change for the better, but the additional wells
will pump <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#5_April_2022_(Global_heating_distraction_guarantees_disaster)">death for decades</a>.
<p>
But we must never talk about this deal without condemning the price
to civilization that Manchin has charged for it.
<p>
*Climate targets at risk as countries <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/28/climate-targets-at-risk-as-countries-lag-in-updating-emission-goals-say-campaigners">lag in updating emission goals</a>, say campaigners.*

 


title: Main opposition to Australia assisted suicide law
uri: Main-opposition-to-Australia-assisted-suicide-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Main_opposition_to_Australia_assisted_suicide_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Main_opposition_to_Australia_assisted_suicide_law)

content:
 
<p>

Christian anticharity is the main opposition to Australia's plan to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/29/conservative-christian-groups-lobby-federal-mps-against-territories-assisted-dying-rights-legislation">eliminate the national law prohibiting assistance for suicide</a>.

 


title: Anti-cancer drugs clinical trial data
uri: Anti-cancer-drugs-clinical-trial-data
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Anti-cancer_drugs_clinical_trial_data)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Anti-cancer_drugs_clinical_trial_data)

content:
 
<p>

The US clinical trial data for some recently approved anti-cancer drugs
is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/29/cancer-researchers-unable-to-access-clinical-trial-data-for-top-selling-drugs-study-finds">still secret</a> some years later.
<p>
The US government should stop negotiating with those exploitative
companies and legislate that the US government can and will publish
those studies as soon as the drug is approved.  Or perhaps as soon as
the application for approval is filed.
<p>
The biggest companies tend to want to increase their trade secrecy to
gain more advantage over competitors.  But what is good for the public
is to give the biggest companies <em>less</em> advantage over competitors.
Therefore, whenever there is a public-interest reason to demand that
companies come clean about their operations, we should make that a
legal requirement.

 


title: Workers at a Trader Joe's store unionize
uri: Workers-at-a-Trader-Joe-s-store-unionize
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Workers_at_a_Trader_Joe's_store_unionize)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Workers_at_a_Trader_Joe's_store_unionize)

content:
 
<p>

Trader Joe's workers at one store have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/28/trader-joes-union-employees-massachusetts">voted to unionize</a>.

 


title: New Deal-style regulation can be reinstated and strengthened
uri: New-Deal-style-regulation-can-be-reinstated-and-strengthened
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(New_Deal-style_regulation_can_be_reinstated_and_strengthened)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(New_Deal-style_regulation_can_be_reinstated_and_strengthened)

content:
 
<p>

Noam Chomsky: *Even without fundamental changes in prevailing state
capitalism, the kind of New Deal-style regulation that was dismantled
by the neoliberal assault can be <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/28/noam-chomsky-we-can-free-ourselves-state-capitalism">reinstated, and strengthened</a>.*

 


title: Republicans made deal to improve veteran care, then killed the deal
uri: Republicans-made-deal-to-improve-veteran-care-then-killed-the-deal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Republicans_made_deal_to_improve_veteran_care,_then_killed_the_deal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Republicans_made_deal_to_improve_veteran_care,_then_killed_the_deal)

content:
 
<p>

Republicans made a deal to improve medical care for military veterans
who were poisoned by toxic substances while deployed.  Then they demanded
to change the deal, and ultimately <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/28/republicans-bill-healthcare-military-veterans-jon-stewart">killed it</a>.
<p>
Military veterans used to be politically untouchable in the US, but in
2016 the wrecker started started <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#20_October_2017_(White-supremacist_supporters)">showing public contempt</a> for veterans
and their families. Maybe that made them less sacrosanct.

 


title: Right-wing climate defense party will oppose Tories
uri: Right-wing-climate-defense-party-will-oppose-Tories
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Right-wing_climate_defense_party_will_oppose_Tories)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Right-wing_climate_defense_party_will_oppose_Tories)

content:
 
<p>

A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/28/centre-right-climate-party-ed-gemmell-launches-oust-tory-mps-opposing-climate-action">right-wing party that advocates climate defense</a> will oppose Tories
in the next UK elections.

 


title: What has happened to the Labour party?
uri: What-has-happened-to-the-Labour-party
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(What_has_happened_to_the_Labour_party_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(What_has_happened_to_the_Labour_party_)

content:
 
<p>

*What has happened to the Labour party that it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/28/labour-party-cost-of-living-keir-starmer-striking-workers">can’t stand up for labour</a>?*
<p>
The answer is, it has followed the Democratic Party in the US in
becoming "centrist", and forgotten the goal of making working people
better off.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(People_killed_fleeing_from_police)
title: People killed fleeing from police
uri: People-killed-fleeing-from-police
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(People_killed_fleeing_from_police)
content:
 
<p>

*One in three people killed by US police <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/28/hunted-one-in-three-people-killed-by-us-police-were-fleeing-data-reveals">were fleeing</a>, data reveals.*
<p>
It is usually unjustified for <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> to shoot someone who is running away
or even looking away from them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(National_security_law_review)
title: National security law review
uri: National-security-law-review
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(National_security_law_review)
content:
 
<p>

*Labor announces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/28/labor-announces-national-security-law-review-after-inquiry-criticises-secrecy-of-witness-j-case">national security law review</a> after inquiry criticises
secrecy of Witness J case.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(This_is_a_climate_emergency)
title: This is a climate emergency
uri: This-is-a-climate-emergency
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(This_is_a_climate_emergency)
content:
 
<p>

*Humanity <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/28/climate-crisis-emergency-rebecca-solnit-terry-tempest-williams">can't equivocate any longer</a>.  This is a climate emergency.*

 


title: Cuba on the US "state sponsors of terrorism" list
uri: Cuba-on-the-US-state-sponsors-of-terrorism-list
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Cuba_on_the_US_state_sponsors_of_terrorism_list)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Cuba_on_the_US_state_sponsors_of_terrorism_list)

content:
 
<p>

The wrecker put Cuba on the US "state sponsors of terrorism" list for
no valid reason &mdash; <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/27/biden-should-remove-cuba-infamous-state-sponsors-terrorism-list">Biden should remove it from that list</a>.

 


title: Accusations of Senator Schumer protecting big tech
uri: Accusations-of-Senator-Schumer-protecting-big-tech
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Accusations_of_Senator_Schumer_protecting_big_tech)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Accusations_of_Senator_Schumer_protecting_big_tech)

content:
 
<p>

Accusing Senator Schumer of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/27/schumer-pushed-stop-defending-greedy-monopolies-and-hold-votes-big-tech-bills">protecting big tech near-monopolies</a> in exchange for campaign funds.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Amazonia_highway)
title: Amazonia highway
uri: Amazonia-highway
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Amazonia_highway)
content:
 
<p>
Brazil has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/29/paved-highway-to-run-through-amazon-gains-initial-approval-in-brazil">approved a paved highway</a> through Amazonia, which risks encouraging
illegal logging.
<p>
This is Bolsonaro at work.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Reaching_foreign_policy_goals)
title: Reaching foreign policy goals
uri: Reaching-foreign-policy-goals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Reaching_foreign_policy_goals)
content:
 
<p>
The US achieves foreign policy goals by sending arms or troops.  Cuba
achieves foreign policy goals by sending doctors or teachers.  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/15/how-get-war-out-america">Can the
US do with sending more doctors or teachers, and less arms or troops</a>?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Indiana's_attorney_general)
title: Indiana's attorney general
uri: Indiana-s-attorney-general
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Indiana's_attorney_general)
content:
 
<p>
Indiana's attorney general is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/28/us/caitlin-bernard-indiana-ag-investigation-consumer-complaints/index.html">a religious fanatic</a>.  He is looking for
any possible excuse to harass Dr Caitlin Bernard, including "complaints"
about her from people who never met her or had anything to do with her.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Wickremesinghe)
title: Wickremesinghe
uri: Wickremesinghe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Wickremesinghe)
content:
 
<p>
Sri Lanka's new president, Wickremesinghe, formerly prime minister, is
imposing harsh repression of protests.
<p>
I have a suspicion that Wickremesinghe allowed protests to chase out
Rajapaksa, for reasons of his own.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Australia_and_coal_myths)
title: Australia and coal myths
uri: Australia-and-coal-myths
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Australia_and_coal_myths)
content:
 
<p>
Australia's prime minister is not an extreme planet roaster, but he is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2022/jul/28/albanese-parrots-a-pro-coal-talking-point-as-ampol-offers-carbon-neutral-petrol">repeating myths</a> used by the coal industry to keep coal cheap.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Medically_accurate_sex_education)
title: Medically accurate sex education
uri: Medically-accurate-sex-education
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Medically_accurate_sex_education)
content:
 
<p>
Only 11 states require sex education classes that are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/26/health/sex-education-misconceptions-myths-wellness/index.html">medically
accurate</a>.
Good education for adolescents about sexual relationships is rare.
<p>
Good education about how to be confident of delighting your lover is
almost nonexistent in our society, and that absence causes millions of
people years of misery.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Performative_cruelty)
title: Performative cruelty
uri: Performative-cruelty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Performative_cruelty)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/26/doctors-warn-christian-zealots-aca-lawsuit-threatens-preventive-care-millions">Republican performative cruelty</a> includes US workers whose medical insurance
is currently required to cover screening for various dangerous diseases.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Phone_electors_plot)
title: Phone electors plot
uri: Phone-electors-plot
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Phone_electors_plot)
content:
 
<p>
The Department of Justice is investigating the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220726230406/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/07/26/trump-justice-investigation-january-6/">phony electors plot</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Bolsonaro_and_democracy)
title: Bolsonaro and democracy
uri: Bolsonaro-and-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Bolsonaro_and_democracy)
content:
 
<p>
Sanders warns that Bolsonaro is plotting to overthrow democracy in Brazil,
and called on Biden to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/27/sanders-warns-trump-bolsonaro-attempting-undermine-democracy-brazil">help Brazil resist this</a>.
<p>
Sad to say, there are <a href="/evoting.html">reasons to distrust the computerized voting
machines</a> used in Brazil.
Or at least, that was the case 10 years ago.
They are digital and the system does nothing to try to detect systemic
digital fraud.  Brazil should replace them with paper ballots.
<p>
But there is no reason to think that cheating in Lula's favor is more
likely than cheating in Bolsonaro's favor.  Quite the contrary:
Bolsonaro's supporters are more likely to have the business
connections necessary to cheat, more likely to think they need to
cheat, and more likely to be unscrupulous enough to cheat.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Inflation)
title: Inflation
uri: 2022-08-01-Inflation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#31_July_2022_(Inflation)
content:
 
<p>
*Inflation Is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/26/inflation-not-excuse-withhold-support-needed-tax-reforms-and-investments">Not an Excuse</a> to Withhold Support for Needed Tax Reforms and
Investments.*

 


title: Urgent: Pass "trans bill of rights" now
uri: Urgent-Pass-trans-bill-of-rights-now
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_trans_bill_of_rights_now)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_trans_bill_of_rights_now)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your senators and urge them to pass the "trans bill
of rights" now.

<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: Call on Biden not to run again in 2024
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Biden-not-to-run-again-in-2024
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_not_to_run_again_in_2024)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_not_to_run_again_in_2024)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden <a href="https://www.dontrunjoe.org/">not to run again</a> in 2024.
<p>
Here are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/14/nation-needs-you-mr-president-so-please-dont-run-2024">reasons</a>.

 


title: Trading lots of fossil fuels for some clean energy
uri: Trading-lots-of-fossil-fuels-for-some-clean-energy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Trading_lots_of_fossil_fuels_for_some_clean_energy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Trading_lots_of_fossil_fuels_for_some_clean_energy)

content:
 
<p>

*   "Approving lots of new fossil fuel projects <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/14/biden-urged-reject-preemptive-giveaway-manchin-destructive-oil-projects">in exchange for some clean
   energy</a> funding is completely bonkers and will make the climate crisis
   worse."*

 


title: Legalizing abortion of pregnancies caused by rape
uri: Legalizing-abortion-of-pregnancies-caused-by-rape
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Legalizing_abortion_of_pregnancies_caused_by_rape)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Legalizing_abortion_of_pregnancies_caused_by_rape)

content:
 
<p>

All but 6 Republicans in the House of Representatives voted against
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/15/99-house-gop-just-showed-they-support-forcing-children-birth-their-rapists-child">legalizing abortion of pregnancies caused by rape</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Price_jacking_to_help_Republicans)
title: Price jacking to help Republicans
uri: Price-jacking-to-help-Republicans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Price_jacking_to_help_Republicans)
content:
 
<p>

Could it be that big US businesses are jacking up prices to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/15/behold-big-business-plot-overthrow-democratic-rule">help the
Republican Party</a> win this year's election?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_((satire)_Regretful_officer)
title: (satire) Regretful officer
uri: (satire)-Regretful-officer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_((satire)_Regretful_officer)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/regretful-officer-believes-more-could-have-been-done-to-1849183678">*Regretful Officer Believes More Could Have Been Done To Kill
Unarmed Black Man.*</a>

 


title: Collective suicide over climate crisis
uri: Collective-suicide-over-climate-crisis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Collective_suicide_over_climate_crisis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Collective_suicide_over_climate_crisis)

content:
 
<p>

*Humanity faces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/18/humanity-faces-collective-suicide-over-climate-crisis-warns-un-chief">‘collective suicide’</a> over climate crisis, warns UN chief.*

 


title: New shipping speed limits to save endangered whales
uri: New-shipping-speed-limits-to-save-endangered-whales
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(New_shipping_speed_limits_to_save_endangered_whales)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(New_shipping_speed_limits_to_save_endangered_whales)

content:
 
<p>

*US drafts <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/30/whales-shipping-speed-limits-north-atlantic-right-us">new speed limits</a> on shipping to help save endangered whales.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Managed_retreat_from_housing)
title: Managed retreat from housing
uri: Managed-retreat-from-housing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Managed_retreat_from_housing)
content:
 
<p>

The US government must fund <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/29/managed-retreat/">"managed" retreat</a> from housing that is doomed
to be flooded or burnt.
<p>
The people who live in those homes can't afford to move or build
elsewhere &mdash; the government must help them.  But subsidizing
rebuilding in place is an enormously inefficient way to do that.
<p>
I disagree with the statement that "managed retreat is not defeat."
Of course it is!  <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">Global heating</a> disaster will be one defeat after
another.  However, there are different kinds of defeats.  When you
can't win the battle, an orderly retreat is much less bad than a
disorderly rout, and that's what will happen if we don't plan this.

 


title: Rootkit that attacks treacherous computing
uri: Rootkit-that-attacks-treacherous-computing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Rootkit_that_attacks_treacherous_computing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Rootkit_that_attacks_treacherous_computing)

content:
 
<p>

Cory Doctorow explains how the rootkit that attacks treacherous
computing is a <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/28/descartes-was-an-optimist/#uh-oh">disaster for "security"</a> in the usual sense.
<p>
It means that machines with the WHAT? can now have additional <a href="https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html">back doors</a> 
other than the one that Microsoft designed into Windows.
<p>
However, since WHAT is what ensures we can't free our machines from
Microsoft's control, the same vulnerability that this rootkit uses
might give us a way to turn off treacherous computing and/or install
our own free boot software.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Deleted_messages_from_January_6)
title: Deleted messages from January 6
uri: Deleted-messages-from-January-6
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Deleted_messages_from_January_6)
content:
 
<p>

The inspector general of the Department of Hostility and Sadism knew for months
that some important Jan 6 messages <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/29/records-show-there-are-more-missing-jan-6-texts-dhs-watchdog-failed-mention">had been deleted</a>, and did not tell Congress.
The missing (deleted) messages extend beyond the Secret Service;
some involved the highest officials of the DHS.

 


title: Disinformation to kill drug price reform
uri: Disinformation-to-kill-drug-price-reform
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Disinformation_to_kill_drug_price_reform)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Disinformation_to_kill_drug_price_reform)

content:
 
<p>

*Big Pharma <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/29/big-pharma-flooding-airwaves-disinformation-kill-drug-price-reform">Flooding Airwaves</a> With Disinformation to Kill Drug Price Reform.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_((satire)_Multifamily_tenement_sedan)
title: (satire) Multifamily tenement sedan
uri: (satire)-Multifamily-tenement-sedan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_((satire)_Multifamily_tenement_sedan)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/toyota-unveils-multifamily-tenement-sedan-for-people-li-1848799332">*Toyota Unveils Multifamily Tenement Sedan For People Living
Out Of Their Cars.*</a>

 


title: Doctors afraid to treat miscarriages and nonviable pregnancies
uri: Doctors-afraid-to-treat-miscarriages-and-nonviable-pregnancies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Doctors_afraid_to_treat_miscarriages_and_nonviable_pregnancies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Doctors_afraid_to_treat_miscarriages_and_nonviable_pregnancies)

content:
 
<p>

Doctors in US states that have banned abortions are now <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07/16/abortion-miscarriage-ectopic-pregnancy-care/">afraid to treat</a>
miscarriages and nonviable pregnancies, because that overlaps with abortion.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Total_surveillance_in_Telengana)
title: Total surveillance in Telengana
uri: Total-surveillance-in-Telengana
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Total_surveillance_in_Telengana)
content:
 
<p>

The Indian state of Telengana is <a href="https://slate.com/technology/2022/07/telangana-india-surveillance-state.html">pushing for total surveillance</a>.
The excuse is terrorism, but India's repression combined with total
surveillance will do more damage than terrorism that lacks the backing of
the Indian government.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Four_myths_about_inflation)
title: Four myths about inflation
uri: Four-myths-about-inflation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Four_myths_about_inflation)
content:
 
<p>

Four <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/29/debunking-four-myths-about-inflation">myths about inflation</a> (in the US).

 


title: Republican push for constitutional convention
uri: Republican-push-for-constitutional-convention
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Republican_push_for_constitutional_convention)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(Republican_push_for_constitutional_convention)

content:
 
<p>

Republicans have, for years, pushed to <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/07/31/voters-have-no-role-to-play-in-the-rights-vision-of-a-constitutional-convention/">start a constitutional convention</a>
that would rewrite the US Constitution.  It turns out that Republicans would
have pre-imposed control of that convention, and could do whatever they wish,
disregarding the public.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(egypt_cop27_summit_human_rights)
title: *Fears that Egypt may use Cop27 to whitewash human rights abuses.*
uri: Fears-that-Egypt-may-use-Cop27-to-whitewash-human-rights-abuses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(egypt_cop27_summit_human_rights)
content:
 
<p>
*Fears that Egypt may use Cop27 to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/29/fears-egypt-cop27-summit-human-rights-abuses">whitewash human rights abuses.</a>*

 


title: Momentum is building’: high hopes for an Indigenous voice to parliament as Garma festival starts
uri: Momentum-is-building-high-hopes-for-an-Indigenous-voice-to-parliam
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(australia_indigenous_voice_parliament)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(australia_indigenous_voice_parliament)

content:
 
<p>
Australia may soon change its constitution to establish something to
be known as "an indigenous voice to parliament", 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jul/29/momentum-is-building-high-hopes-for-an-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-as-garma-festival-starts">though no one has
stated clearly what that would concretely mean.</a>
<p>
In general, it is wrong to establish rights or privileges for citizens
based on their racial background.  Would this "voice" do a thing?
Without a concrete plan, we can't tell.
<p>
Prime Minister Albanese has promised to state simply and clearly the
text for the referendum to decide on the plan.  Supposing that the
simple and clear text also states concretely what would be done, then
depending on those details, it might perhaps be a good thing.
<p>
The indigenous Australians suffered a grave wrong when the British
colonists took their land, and suffer from direct and systemic racism
today.  They deserve various sorts of help and compensation &mdash; but that
is a different question.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(kris_mayes_ag_voting_2022_election)
uri: Democracy-runs-through-Arizona-candidate-for-attorney-general-s
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(kris_mayes_ag_voting_2022_election)
title:
 ‘Democracy runs through Arizona’: candidate for attorney general says fate of the nation is at stake 

content:
 
<p>
Some former Republicans are campaigning against trump-pets and for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/29/kris-mayes-arizona-attorney-general-voting-2022-election">preserving democracy.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(michael_hudson_junk_economics)
title: Michael Hudson: From Junk Economics to a False View of History
uri: Michael-Hudson-From-Junk-Economics-to-a-False-View-of-History
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(michael_hudson_junk_economics)
content:
 
<p>
The ancient Middle East understood the need to cancel debts
periodically, so that the rich did not 
<a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/07/michael-hudson-from-junk-economics-to-a-false-view-of-history-where-western-civilization-took-a-wrong-turn.html">drive the rest into bondage.</a>
<p>
Nowadays, by contrast, the creditors rule and government believes it exists
to make sure that debts are not forgiven.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(ivf_embryos_jeopardy_personhood)
title: IVF may be in jeopardy in states where embryos are granted person hood
uri: IVF-may-be-in-jeopardy-in-states-where-embryos-are-granted-person-hood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(ivf_embryos_jeopardy_personhood)
content:
 
<p>
*IVF may be in jeopardy in states where 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jul/16/ivf-anti-abortion-states-embryos-personhood">embryos are granted person hood.</a>*
<p>
I think that artificial assistance to getting pregnant is ok in
theory, but terribly self-destructive to a society in our present
situation.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(epa_coal_supreme_court_ruling)
title: The EPA has an indirect plan to get coal-fired generators to close.
uri: The-EPA-has-an-indirect-plan-to-get-coal-fired-generators-to-close
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(epa_coal_supreme_court_ruling)
content:
 
<p>
The EPA has an indirect plan to get 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/29/epa-coal-ozone-supreme-court-ruling">coal-fired generators to close.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(boris_johnson_cronies_bribery)
title: Boris Johnson is planning to fill the Lords with his cronies and legitimize bribery
uri: Boris-Johnson-is-planning-to-fill-the-Lords-with-his-cronies-and-legit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(boris_johnson_cronies_bribery)
content:
 
<p>
Accusation: *Boris Johnson is planning to fill the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/29/boris-johnson-lords-cronies-legitimising-bribery">Lords with his
cronies and legitimize bribery</a>*

 


title: Bank of America executive hopes workers will lose power
uri: Bank-of-America-executive-hopes-workers-will-lose-power
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(bank_of_america_worker_conditions_worse)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(bank_of_america_worker_conditions_worse)

content:
 
<p>
<Em>A Bank of America</Em> executive expressed hope that workers will lose their
power to pressure for raises, and 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/07/29/bank-of-america-worker-conditions-worse/">that unemployment will rise.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(mediterranean_ecosystem_suffering)
title: Maritime heatwaves have destroyed up to 90% of coral
uri: Maritime-heatwaves-have-destroyed-up-to-90-of-coral
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(mediterranean_ecosystem_suffering)
content:
 
<p>
*Maritime heatwaves have destroyed up to 90% of coral 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/29/mediterranean-ecosystem-suffering-marine-wildfire-as-temperatures-peak">populations in parts of the Mediterranean,</a>*
<p>
These heat waves are intense &mdash; almost 6C hotter than normal.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(long_covid_rise_of_four_day_week)
title: Could Long Covid lead to the rise of a four-day work-week?
uri: Could-Long-Covid-lead-to-the-rise-of-a-four-day-work-week
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#1_August_2022_(long_covid_rise_of_four_day_week)
content:
 
<p>
*Could Long Covid lead to the rise of a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/29/could-long-covid-lead-to-the-rise-of-a-four-day-work-week">four-day work-week?</a>*
<p>
A four-day work week might be a change for the better, but in order
for long Covid to make society adopt that, it would have to wreak such
enormous suffering that a mere change in work schedules could not come
near to compensating.  We need to prevent so many people from getting
long Covid.

 


title: Global heating will cause more tornadoes and flooding
uri: Global-heating-will-cause-more-tornadoes-and-flooding
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Global_heating_will_cause_more_tornadoes_and_flooding)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Global_heating_will_cause_more_tornadoes_and_flooding)

content:
 
<p>

Human-caused global heating will cause <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/31/kentucky-flash-floods-climate-crisis">more tornadoes and more
flooding in Kentucky</a>. The governor is horrified seeing this at work, but will he
understand what needs to be done?

 


title: Irrigation of lawns where water is scarce
uri: Irrigation-of-lawns-where-water-is-scarce
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Irrigation_of_lawns_where_water_is_scarce)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Irrigation_of_lawns_where_water_is_scarce)

content:
 
<p>

The US must <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/31/this-heatwave-is-a-reminder-that-grass-lawns-are-terrible-for-the-environment">put an end</a> to irrigation of lawns in areas where water
is going to be scarce.

 


title: Britons that stopped working due to long term illness
uri: Britons-that-stopped-working-due-to-long-term-illness
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Britons_that_stopped_working_due_to_long_term_illness)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Britons_that_stopped_working_due_to_long_term_illness)

content:
 
<p>

88% of Britons who stopped working since 2020 did so <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/31/britains-epidemic-of-long-term-sickness-can-only-lead-to-poor-outcomes-all-round">because of
long-term illness</a>.
<p>
I would expect the same to be true in the US, but does anyone actually know?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Wet_bulb_temperature)
title: Wet bulb temperature
uri: Wet-bulb-temperature
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Wet_bulb_temperature)
content:
 
<p>

Already some places on Earth occasionally experience fatal weather,
for short periods.  But we <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jul/31/why-you-need-to-worry-about-the-wet-bulb-temperature">know only theoretically</a> at which point the
combined heat and humidity (measured as the "wet bulb temperature")
will kill a large fraction of humans.
<p>
I fear we will get clear empirical evidence about this question in the
next 20 years.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Abortion_punishable_by_death)
title: Abortion punishable by death
uri: Abortion-punishable-by-death
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Abortion_punishable_by_death)
content:
 
<p>

*Yes, Republicans really did try to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/30/republicans-abortion-punishable-by-death">make abortion punishable by death</a>.*

 


title: Total climate meltdown cannot be stopped
uri: Total-climate-meltdown-cannot-be-stopped
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Total_climate_meltdown_cannot_be_stopped)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Total_climate_meltdown_cannot_be_stopped)

content:
 
<p>

*‘Soon it will be unrecognisable’: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/30/total-climate-meltdown-inevitable-heatwaves-global-catastrophe">total climate meltdown cannot be stopped</a>,
says expert.*
<p>
<em>Hothouse Earth</em>, by Professor Bill McGuire, says we must stop trying to
give people hope by underplaying the extent of the disaster that we have
already made unavoidable.

 


title: Sanctions against Russia worth while?
uri: Sanctions-against-Russia-worth-while
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Sanctions_against_Russia_worth_while_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Sanctions_against_Russia_worth_while_)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/01/sanctions-against-russia-are-not-backfiring">Are economic sanctions against Russia worth while</a>, if they don't help make
Putin drop the attempt to conquer Ukraine?
<p>
I support showing solidarity with Ukraine, but I contend that the best
ways to do that are the ways that re effective help.  Giving Ukraine
arms to defeat and repel the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> is effective, while economic
warfare through sanctions seems to be backfiring.  Thus, I suggest we
do more of the former and less of the latter.

 


title: Suing to block merger of publishing companies
uri: Suing-to-block-merger-of-publishing-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Suing_to_block_merger_of_publishing_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Suing_to_block_merger_of_publishing_companies)

content:
 
<p>

The US is suing to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/01/merger-antitrust-penguin-random-house-simon-schuster">block the merger</a> of two of the five giant US
publishing companies.
<p>
This demonstrates the weakness of our antitrust laws.  For two such
large companies to merge should be a crime, so that blocking the
merger requires no lawsuit.  We should not have let them get down to
less than 20.

 


title: Evidence EPA didn't assess health risks of chemicals
uri: Evidence-EPA-didn-t-assess-health-risks-of-chemicals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Evidence_EPA_didn't_assess_health_risks_of_chemicals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Evidence_EPA_didn't_assess_health_risks_of_chemicals)

content:
 
<p>

*A group of whistleblowers has provided evidence that the
 Environmental Protection Agency has <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/08/01/epa-chemical-assessments-health-risks-cancer-whistleblowers/">not adequately assessed the
 health risks</a> posed by several new chemicals on the grounds that they
 are corrosive. Managers in the New Chemicals Division have repeatedly
 and incorrectly used the idea that a chemical may cause irritation to
 the eyes, skin, and respiratory tract as an excuse to avoid assessing
 the risk of other harms it may cause.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Austin_will_be_as_hot_as_Dubai)
title: Austin will be as hot as Dubai
uri: Austin-will-be-as-hot-as-Dubai
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Austin_will_be_as_hot_as_Dubai)
content:
 
<p>

By 2100, Austin, Texas, will be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/01/us-cities-risk-middle-eastern-temperatures-by-2100-climate-crisis">as hot as Dubai</a> is now.
<p>
Dubai then will be even hotter.

 


title: UK fruits and vegetables ruined by heat
uri: UK-fruits-and-vegetables-ruined-by-heat
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(UK_fruits_and_vegetables_ruined_by_heat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(UK_fruits_and_vegetables_ruined_by_heat)

content:
 
<p>

The heat wave in the UK has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/01/uk-farmers-count-cost-as-heatwave-kills-fruit-and-vegetable-cropsx">ruined the harvest</a> for many kinds of
fruits and vegetables.
<p>
This is surely true also in parts of the US, but I don't have an
article to reference.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Moon's_Unification_church)
title: Moon's "Unification church"
uri: Moon-s-Unification-church
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Moon's_Unification_church)
content:
 
<p>

Moon's "Unification church" has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/01/revelations-shinzo-abe-death-unification-church-moonies-political-influence-japan">offered electoral support</a> to Japanese and American right-wing politicians, since the 1970s.

 


title: Global heating denialists bullying weather forecasters
uri: Global-heating-denialists-bullying-weather-forecasters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Global_heating_denialists_bullying_weather_forecasters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Global_heating_denialists_bullying_weather_forecasters)

content:
 
<p>

Now that some TV weather forecasters are warning people about the
likely significance of heat waves, <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> denialists are now
trying to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/01/climate-culture-war-uk-meteorologists-heatwave">bully them into shutting up</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Ship_carrying_Ukrainian_grain)
title: Ship carrying Ukrainian grain
uri: Ship-carrying-Ukrainian-grain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#2_August_2022_(Ship_carrying_Ukrainian_grain)
content:
 
<p>

A ship carrying Ukrainian grain has left Odessa, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/01/grain-ship-leaves-ukraine-port-for-first-time-since-russia-blockade">bound for Lebanon</a>.
<p>
If Putin allows grain shipments to continue, that will be a great help
to many countries where people are suffering from hunger.
<p>
I previously suggested the idea that Ukraine could choke off Russia's
oil exports from Novorossiysk.  Back then, it would have been
retaliation in kind for what Putin was doing &mdash; but maybe he is no
longer doing that.
<p>
If Putin henceforth refrains from cutting off Ukraine's exports,
Ukraine should and must refrain from cutting off Russia's exports.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Arizona_bogus_audit)
title: Arizona bogus audit
uri: Arizona-bogus-audit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Arizona_bogus_audit)
content:
 
<p>
Trumppets in Arizona organized a bogus "audit" of the presidential
election in Arizona, evidently aiming to blow smoke so they could
claim there was a fire.  They later reported 282 supposed cases of
dead people who had cast votes.
<p>
A subsequent investigation by Arizona's attorney general found that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/02/investigation-finds-claim-300-dead-people-voted-arizona-2020-election-false">281 of them were in fact alive</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(FBI_luring)
title: FBI luring
uri: FBI-luring
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(FBI_luring)
content:
 
<p>
The FBI continues <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/17/fbi-still-targeting-black-people-entrapment">luring vulnerable people</a> (generally Muslims) into
fantasy terrorism schemes and sentencing them to 20 years in prison.
<p>
If the FBI goes after right-wing extremists it could start protecting us from
real terrorism.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Australia_inflation)
title: Australia inflation
uri: Australia-inflation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Australia_inflation)
content:
 
<p>
Australia's inflation is like America's inflation: caused by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jul/18/rising-corporate-profits-major-factor-in-australias-escalating-inflation-report-finds">big businesses
that have the power to impose price increases because they want to</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Antisocialism)
title: Antisocialism
uri: Antisocialism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Antisocialism)
content:
 
<p>
Antisocialism (so-called "Libertarianism") attracts mainly white
males, and a large part of its attraction for them is their wish to be
allowed to <a href="https://www.salon.com/2015/06/10/why_libertarianism_is_so_popular_on_the_right_its_the_last_bastion_of_white_male_dominance/">put bigotry into practice</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Climate_endgame)
title: Climate endgame
uri: Climate-endgame
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Climate_endgame)
content:
 
<p>
Looking at some of the ways global heating's effects could possibly cause
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/01/climate-endgame-risk-human-extinction-scientists-global-heating-catastrophe">extinction of humanity</a>.
<p>
I think that result is unlikely.  Humans are quite flexible, and have survived
in drastically different situations.  So I think various small groups of humans
will remain, without high technology.  But I can't claim that extinction
is impossible.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Urgent:_Network_neutrality)
title: Urgent: Network neutrality
uri: 2022-08-04-Urgent-Network-neutrality
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Urgent:_Network_neutrality)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to act to let the FCC <a href="https://act.freepress.net/sign/support_nn_broadband_justice_act?akid=23755.9489429.Z4INeY&rd=1&t=1002">restore the past
network neutrality requirements</a> on ISPs.
<p>
As explained before, the Obama-era network neutrality requirements
that the corrupter abolished were <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_July_2022_(net_neutrality_and_broadband_justice_act)">weak</a> and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-sep-dec.html#27_September_2011_(FCC_Network_Neutrality)">inadequate</a>.
Nonetheless, they would do some good.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Nuclear_war_risk)
title: Nuclear war risk
uri: Nuclear-war-risk
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Nuclear_war_risk)
content:
 
<p>
UN Secretary General Guterres warns that the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/02/world-one-miscalculation-away-from-nuclear-annihilation-un-chief-says">risk of nuclear war is
slowly increasing</a>.  The world's nuclear disarmament efforts are
weakening.
<p>
Putin is trying to threaten nuclear war and pretending that he isn't
-- much as US Republicans (also known as the Christian Taliban) are
threatening civil war and pretending they aren't.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Shell)
title: Shell
uri: 2022-08-04-Shell
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Shell)
content:
 
<p>
Shell is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/31/amid-climate-crisis-shells-financial-windfall-profiteering-its-most-grotesque">using its windfall profits</a> for stock buybacks -- not investing them
in renewable electric generation.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Tracking_through_phones)
title: Tracking through phones
uri: Tracking-through-phones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Tracking_through_phones)
content:
 
<p>
US government "security" agencies <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/18/dhs-location-data-aclu-00046208">track people's movements</a> through their
phones, without getting search warrants, by buying location data from
companies that accumulate them.
<p>
We must forbid companies from collecting, or accumulating, people's
location data.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Gas_prices_and_climate_crisis)
title: Gas prices and climate crisis
uri: Gas-prices-and-climate-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Gas_prices_and_climate_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
*Corporate Media <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/30/corporate-media-fails-connect-gas-price-surge-and-climate-crisis">[Fail] to Connect Gas Price Surge and Climate Crisis</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_((Satire)_Speeding_tickets)
title: (Satire) Speeding tickets
uri: (Satire)-Speeding-tickets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_((Satire)_Speeding_tickets)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Police Experimenting With <a href="https://www.theonion.com/police-experimenting-with-nonlethal-methods-to-give-spe-1849184259">Nonlethal Methods To
Give Speeding Ticket</a>.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts on the page, then right-click
and select the item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as
lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Senate_funding)
title: Senate funding
uri: Senate-funding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Senate_funding)
content:
 
<p>
Sanders: *I say to Senator Toomey, if you don't believe we can afford to take
care of our veterans suffering from toxic burn pit exposure, then you
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/01/sanders-says-gop-shouldnt-have-funded-wars-if-it-didnt-want-take-care-vets">should not have approved funding to go to war</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_((Satire)_Apparitions)
title: (Satire) Apparitions
uri: (Satire)-Apparitions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_((Satire)_Apparitions)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *New Windex Formula <a href="https://www.theonion.com/new-windex-formula-removes-menacing-apparitions-from-mi-1849107983">Removes Menacing Apparitions</a> From Mirror.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts on the page, then right-click
and select the item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as
lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Asim_Ghafoor)
title: Asim Ghafoor
uri: Asim-Ghafoor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Asim_Ghafoor)
content:
 
<p>
The UAE has convicted democracy campaigner Asim Ghafoor, who is a US
citizen, of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/16/politics/khashoggi-lawyer-detained/index.html">money laundering</a> after a suspect trial.
<p>
He was arrested in a flight connection in Abu Dhabi.  I recommend people
<a href="https://stallman.org/stay-away-countries.html#uae">avoid setting foot in Abu Dhabi's airport</a>.
<p>
Another bizarre thing in this report is that it the accusation appears
to have come initially from the US; but the US did not arrested him,
instead it let him fly to Abu Dhabi airport and he was arrested there.
<p>
I suspect this represents dirty work.
<p>
The US has a pattern, since 2001, of persecuting Muslims that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#30_October_2016_(Fair_trial)">raise
money in the US for charity in other countries</a>.
Try as they might,
they get accused of terrorism, or violating financial regulations.
Is that what happened here?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Marcos_Martial_Law:_Never_Again)
title: Marcos Martial Law: Never Again
uri: Marcos-Martial-Law-Never-Again
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Marcos_Martial_Law:_Never_Again)
content:
 
<p>
Filipinos, including expats, are buying lots of copies of the book
<em><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/16/asia/philippines-marcos-books-truth-rewrite-history-intl-hnk-dst/index.html">Marcos Martial Law: Never Again</a></em>, fearing that the new president, son
of the late dictator Marcos, will suppress the memory of his crimes.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(US_Covid_policies)
title: US Covid policies
uri: US-Covid-policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(US_Covid_policies)
content:
 
<p>
The US has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/30/we-are-not-together-biden-adminstrations-covid-19-policy-still-killing-vulnerable">adopted policies</a> that encourage the public to ignore
Covid-19 and abandon the effective, low-tech methods of reducing
transmission.  This has allowed transmission to increase enormously,
which puts vulnerable people at great danger.  Politicians say,
implicitly, that it doesn't matter if those people die, that they are
not important enough to wear a mask for.
<p>
There are two side points in the article that I take issue with.
First. eugenics means an active effort to control who can reproduce.
Letting people get sick and perhaps die is not eugenics.  It is wrong,
but it is a different wrong.  This is an example of a pattern of
stretching terminology for condemning a wrong that has excited special
ire, to apply it to other things and carry some of that ire to them.
<p>
Second, the article describes the US practices as "American
exceptionalism", but I've seen similar practices in several European
countries, and I think most of them have adopted the policy of
"Imagine there's no Covid."
<p>
I asked the mayor of Boston to start a PR campaign to convince people
to wear masks in enclosed places.  Even if it's not a legal requirement,
there are ways of convincing people to do it -- and in this case, it
doesn't require any deception.  Obviously, this has not been done.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Assange_rally)
title: Assange rally
uri: Assange-rally
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_August_2022_(Assange_rally)
content:
 
<p>
Rally for Julian Assange on <b>Monday, August 1, from 11 to 12:30, at
Park Street Station</b> on the Boston Common.  People will remain near
the Park St station entrance for an hour, then march through the
Common, giving out literature and talking to people on the way.
<p>
You can also <a href="http://assangedefense.org/take-action/">support the campaign by phone or email</a>.

 


title: Coalition Representing 24 Million Workers Blasts 'Dangerous' Cuellar Bill
uri: Coalition-Representing-24-Million-Workers-Blasts-Dangerous-Cuellar-B
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(coalition_representing_workers_blasts_dangerous_cuellar_bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(coalition_representing_workers_blasts_dangerous_cuellar_bill)

content:
 
<p>
Right-wing Democrat Cuellar joined Republicans in proposing a law that
would allow companies to eliminate important workers' rights, by
extending the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/01/coalition-representing-24-million-workers-blasts-dangerous-cuellar-bill">piecework sweatshop economy to more kinds of work.</a>
<p>
This would also stop states from requiring better wages and
working conditions for existing gig-work companies such as 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/uber.html">Uber</a>
<p>
and 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/lyft.html">Lyft.</a>

 


title: backed Summit Learning platform suggests schools 'listen' to parents' 'online conversations'
uri: backed-Summit-Learning-platform-suggests-schools-listen-to-parents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(zuckerberg_platform_suggests_schools_listen_to_parents_convo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(zuckerberg_platform_suggests_schools_listen_to_parents_convo)

content:
 
<p>
*Zuckerberg-backed Summit Learning platform suggests schools 'listen' to
parents' 
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/zuckerberg-backed-summit-learning-platform-suggests-schools-listen-parents-online-conversations">'online conversations'.</a>*

 


title: Kansas voted to keep abortion rights into the state constitution
uri: Kansas-voted-to-keep-abortion-rights-into-the-state-constitution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(kansas_abortion_vote_state_constitution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(kansas_abortion_vote_state_constitution)

content:
 
<p>
The citizens of Kansas voted to keep abortion rights into the state
constitution, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/03/kansas-abortion-vote-state-constitution">by a landslide.</a>
<p>
*Organizers said treating reproductive rights as a non-partisan issue
was key to success in a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/03/kansas-abortion-rights-referendum-reaction">Republican-leaning state.</a>*
<p>
The vote was on a right-wing initiative to ban abortion in Kansas, but
initiatives to legalize abortion are also possible, in the states that
allow them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(sikh_turban_border_patrol)
title: Yet more gratuitous cruelty by the US border thugs.
uri: Yet-more-gratuitous-cruelty-by-the-US-border-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(sikh_turban_border_patrol)
content:
 
<p>
Yet more gratuitous 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/08/02/sikh-turban-border-patrol/">cruelty by the US border thugs.</a>
<p>
This article mentions a policy of making asylum seekers throw away
all their personal possessions, as well as specific cruelty towards
Sikh men &mdash; forcing them to violate religious commandments for no
rational reason.
<p>
Religion is not an excuse for someone to violate safety requirements
or mistreat anyone else.  But these particular Sikh religious
practices don't hurt or endanger anyone.
<p>
When "security forces" display a persistent habit of gratuitous
cruelty, we cannot take their word about what they do.  Their
punishment should be a requirement to document how they treat each
asylum seeker.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(michigan_primary_andy_levin)
title: *AIPAC Defeats Andy Levin, the Most Progressive Jewish Representative.*
uri: AIPAC-Defeats-Andy-Levin-the-Most-Progressive-Jewish-Representative
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(michigan_primary_andy_levin)
content:
 
<p>
*AIPAC Defeats Andy Levin, 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/08/02/michigan-primary-andy-levin-results-aipac/">the Most Progressive Jewish Representative.</a>*
<p>
AIPAC is a big danger to the US fight against plutocracy.
Americans who care about injustice to persecuted minorities tend to
be concerned with Israel's occupation policies, so AIPAC essentially
campaigns for disdain towards persecuted minorities.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(house_military_spending_bill)
uri: The-military-budget-passed-by-the-House-of-Representatives-is-a-big-gi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(house_military_spending_bill)
title:
 The military budget passed by the House of Representatives is a big give-away to the military-industrial complex 

content:
 
<p>
The military budget passed by the House of Representatives
is a big give-away to the military-industrial complex, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/18/house-military-spending-bill-massive-giveaway-weapons-industry">including systems
that are useless.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(dont_normalize_trump_enablers)
title: What should we say about the people who started out supporting the wrecker?
uri: What-should-we-say-about-the-people-who-started-out-supporting-the-wre
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(dont_normalize_trump_enablers)
content:
 
<p>
What should we say about the people who started out supporting the
wrecker when he was a hate-spewing right-wing extremist, and stopped
only when they saw he was an 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/18/dont-normalize-trumps-enablers">enemy of our system of government?</a>
<p>
I don't think that either the good or the bad erases the other.
I can't deny that Pence is actively campaigning against sedition.
I can't refuse to recognize that he is a religious extremist
that seeks to impose his religious extremism on everyone in the US.
He is a hero and he is atrocious, both at once.

 


title: (satire) *Democrats Worried Biden Will Be Healthy Enough To Run Again In 2024.*
uri: (satire)-Democrats-Worried-Biden-Will-Be-Healthy-Enough-To-Run-Again
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_((Satire)_democrats_worried_biden_healthy_enough_to_run_2024)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_((Satire)_democrats_worried_biden_healthy_enough_to_run_2024)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Democrats Worried Biden Will Be 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/democrats-worried-biden-will-be-healthy-enough-to-run-a-1849164471">Healthy Enough To Run Again In 2024.</a>*

 


title: Several new business-supremacy treaties are being negotiated.
uri: Several-new-business-supremacy-treaties-are-being-negotiated
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(big_tech_undermining_abortion_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(big_tech_undermining_abortion_rights)

content:
 
<p>
Several new business-supremacy treaties are being negotiated.
In addition to the usual kinds of oppression, these may also restrict
governments' in 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/02/how-big-tech-undermining-abortion-rights">blocking massive surveillance by networks of businesses.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(atlanta_music_festival_canceled)
title: A large music festival in Atlanta has been cancelled
uri: A-large-music-festival-in-Atlanta-has-been-cancelled
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(atlanta_music_festival_canceled)
content:
 
<p>
A large music festival in Atlanta has been cancelled because Georgia
does not permit 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/01/entertainment/atlanta-music-festival-canceled/index.html">music festivals in parks to exclude guns.</a>
<p>
The direct cause of cancellation seems to be that Atlanta refused to
authorized it, but I expect the city invited the festival to change
its rules to permit guns in order to get approval.  I expect that the
organizers were wise to stand by their policy.

 


title: According to Russian law, it is illegal to jail volunteer soldiers.
uri: According-to-Russian-law-it-is-illegal-to-jail-volunteer-soldiers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(russian_law_putin_illegal_to_jail_volunteer_soldiers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(russian_law_putin_illegal_to_jail_volunteer_soldiers)

content:
 
<p>
According to Russian law, it is illegal to jail volunteer soldiers (as
distinct from conscripts) for refusing to fight in Ukraine.  However,
Putin is using the puppet governments of Donetsk and Luhansk, and the
Wagner mercenaries, to jail hundreds of refusil soldiers and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/02/russian-soldiers-accuse-superiors-of-jailing-them-for-refusing-to-fight">pretend
that Russia isn't doing it.</a>
<p>
Is it possible to establish in international law that Russia is responsible
for crimes supposedly committed by those puppets?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(nancy_pelosi_taiwan_china_tensions)
title: Nancy Pelosi lands in Taiwan amid soaring tensions with China
uri: Nancy-Pelosi-lands-in-Taiwan-amid-soaring-tensions-with-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(nancy_pelosi_taiwan_china_tensions)
content:
 
<p>
China responded to Pelosi's visit to Taiwan with the typical bluster
with which it tries to pressure other countries not to support Taiwan,
and the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/02/nancy-pelosi-lands-in-taiwan-amid-soaring-tensions-with-china">usual displays of military strength.</a>
<p>
These are the way China tries to intimidate and threaten.  If we don't
want to let China conquer Taiwan, we must not be influenced by China's
pressure.
<p>
China is a real military threat, but that's not due to Pelosi's visit,
and Pelosi could not have made China less of a real threat by staying
away from Taiwan.  We cannot defend Taiwan from China's military power
by tiptoeing.

 


title: Republicans’ agenda for a second Trump term is far more radical than the first
uri: Republicans-agenda-for-a-second-Trump-term-is-far-more-radical-than
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(republicans_trump_america_first_agenda)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(republicans_trump_america_first_agenda)

content:
 
<p>
Republicans seek to purge the employees of federal agencies and
replace them with inexperienced 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/02/republicans-trump-term-america-first-radical-agenda">Republicans who will do whatever they
are told.</a>
<p>
Due to their lack of experience, they won't respect traditional rules
that were adopted to restrain abuse of power.
<p>
In the FBI, the extremist agents will investigate whoever the
president tells them to investigate.  In the DoJ, the extremist staff
will prosecute whoever the president tells them to prosecute.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(oil_industry_profits_climate_crisis)
title: No single crisis will be enough to shut this [planet roasting] machine down naturally
uri: No-single-crisis-will-be-enough-to-shut-this-planet-roasting-machine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(oil_industry_profits_climate_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
* No single crisis, no matter how existential, will be enough to shut
   this [planet roasting] machine down naturally. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/02/oil-industry-record-profits-climate-crisis">We must break it or
   it will break us.</a>*
<p>
*  The fossil fuel industry as a whole is not just another business,
   providing a service to meet a demand; it is a predatory drug dealer
   that works every day to keep the world addicted to its poisonous
   product, knowing full well that it will eventually prove fatal.*
   
 


title: (Satire) *15-Year-Old Finds Summer Job As BetterHelp Therapist.*
uri: (Satire)-15-Year-Old-Finds-Summer-Job-As-BetterHelp-Therapist
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_((Satire)_15_year_old_finds_summer_job_betterhelp_therapist)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_((Satire)_15_year_old_finds_summer_job_betterhelp_therapist)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *15-Year-Old Finds Summer Job As 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/15-year-old-finds-summer-job-as-betterhelp-therapist-1849129709">BetterHelp Therapist.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(Manchin_and_Sinema)
title: Manchin and Sinema
uri: Manchin-and-Sinema
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(Manchin_and_Sinema)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich: *Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/03/joe-manchin-kyrsten-sinema-attention-ego">act out of ego</a>, not principle.*
<p>
In a broad sense, this must be true.  But is it "ego" in the ssnse of
simple emotion, or is it "ego" in the sense of future advantage?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(Fascism)
title: Fascism
uri: 2022-08-05-Fascism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(Fascism)
content:
 
<p>
Umberto Eco explains why the Italian term "facsism" could <a href="media/11320b9b.eco_ur-fascism.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf">generalize
to fit many different repressive tyrannies</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(Nuclear_power_output_reduced)
title: Nuclear power output reduced
uri: Nuclear-power-output-reduced
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#4_August_2022_(Nuclear_power_output_reduced)
content:
 
<p>
The heat in Europe is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/03/edf-to-reduce-nuclear-power-output-as-french-river-temperatures-rise">reducing the power output</a> of some nuclear power
plants.
They are cooled by water from rivers, and it is too hot to cool them
enough.

 


title: (satire) *Woman [is] At That Age Where All Her Friends Getting Prosecuted For Pregnancies.*
uri: (satire)-Woman-is-At-That-Age-Where-All-Her-Friends-Getting-Prosecu
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_((Satire)_woman_at_that_age_where_friends_getting_prosecuted_for_pregnancies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_((Satire)_woman_at_that_age_where_friends_getting_prosecuted_for_pregnancies)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Woman [is] At That Age Where All Her Friends Getting
Prosecuted For 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/woman-at-that-age-where-all-her-friends-getting-prosecu-1849184178">Losing Pregnancies.</a>*
<p>
I suspect that right-wing white women will get preferential treatment:
they won't get prosecuted for miscarriages.

 


title: The heatwave in Europe is damaging olive oil production in Spain and Italy.
uri: The-heatwave-in-Europe-is-damaging-olive-oil-production-in-Spain-and-I
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(spain_heatwave_olive_oil_production_italy_ukraine_war_prices)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(spain_heatwave_olive_oil_production_italy_ukraine_war_prices)

content:
 
<p>
The heatwave in Europe is damaging olive oil 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/02/spain-heatwave-olive-oil-production-italy-grain-ukraine-war-prices">production in Spain and Italy.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(jan_6_pentagon_deleted_texts)
title: Justice department urged to investigate deletion of January 6 texts by Pentagon.
uri: Justice-department-urged-to-investigate-deletion-of-January-6-texts-by
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(jan_6_pentagon_deleted_texts)
content:
 
<p>
*Justice department urged to investigate deletion of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/03/jan-6-pentagon-deleted-texts">January 6 texts
by Pentagon.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(senate_passes_pact_act_veterans)
title: Jon Stewart celebrates after Senate passes bill to assist veterans exposed to toxins
uri: Jon-Stewart-celebrates-after-Senate-passes-bill-to-assist-veterans-exp
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(senate_passes_pact_act_veterans)
content:
 
<p>
Republicans changed their mind about veterans poisoned by military
incineration of toxic substances, and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/03/senate-passes-pact-act-veterans-toxins-burn-pits">passed a bill to help them.</a>
<p>
They tried following their philosophy, which is that if you're not
rich you don't deserve help, but the public disgust made them change
their tune.

 


title: *UN to investigate prison attack that killed [53] Ukrainian prisoners of war.*
uri: UN-to-investigate-prison-attack-that-killed-53-Ukrainian-prisoners
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(un_to_investigate_prison_attack_dozen_deaths_ukraine_prisoners_of_war)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(un_to_investigate_prison_attack_dozen_deaths_ukraine_prisoners_of_war)

content:
 
<p>
*UN to investigate prison attack that killed [53] 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/04/un-to-investigate-prison-attack-that-killed-dozens-of-ukraine-prisoners-of-war">Ukrainian
 prisoners of war.</a>*
<p>
The Putin forces claim this was a false flag attack by Ukraine, but
the claim is not plausible.  It is absurd to think that Ukraine would
kill Ukrainians just to have an excuse to accuse the Putin forces of
yet another atrocity.  Ukraine has hundreds, or is it thousands, of
atrocities to charge them with.
<p>
It is the Putin forces that would desire to kill those Ukrainians;
indeed, it had already threatened to execute them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(state_us_democracy_grim)
uri: The-mechanisms-of-our-democratic-system-of-government-meant-to-ensu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(state_us_democracy_grim)
title:
 The mechanisms of our democratic system of
   government meant to ensure accountability have been at the edge of
   collapse 

content:
 
<p>
*   For a long time now, the mechanisms of our democratic system of
   government meant to ensure accountability have been at the edge of
   collapse, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/18/state-us-democracy-grim-can-it-be-saved">if not obliteration.</a>*

 


title: How Public Real Estate Investment Trusts Extract Wealth from Nursing Homes and Hospitals
uri: How-Public-Real-Estate-Investment-Trusts-Extract-Wealth-from-Nursing-H
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(public_real_estate_investment_trusts_extract_wealth_homes_and_hospitals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(public_real_estate_investment_trusts_extract_wealth_homes_and_hospitals)

content:
 
<p>
The use of Real Estate Investment Trusts for business property cause
complications for businesses that impede them from providing good
service. 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/03/how-public-real-estate-investment-trusts-extract-wealth-nursing-homes-and-hospitals">They also increase the power of the financial industry, which
harms society overall.</a>

 


title: Police department resigns after town appoints a black woman as city manager
uri: Police-department-resigns-after-town-appoints-a-black-woman-as-city-ma
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(police_quit_after_black_woman_hired_city_admin_north_carolina)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(police_quit_after_black_woman_hired_city_admin_north_carolina)

content:
 
<p>
The 6 uniformed thugs of Kenly, North Carolina, who are white, all
handed in resignations after the 
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/07/29/entire-police-department-quits-after-black-woman-hired-as-city-manager-in-north-carolina.html">town appointed a black woman as city
manager.</a>
<p>
In the absence of any specific facts, I speculate that they were used
to getting away with abusing some citizens, and saw that the new city
manager was not going to permit that.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(california_low_insulin_prices)
uri: California-has-decided-to-produce-insulin-and-offer-it-at-a-much-lower
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(california_low_insulin_prices)
title:
 California has decided to produce insulin and offer it at a much lower
price to diabetics in the state. 

content:
 
<p>
California has decided to produce insulin and offer it at a 
<a href="https://apnews.com/article/health-california-diabetes-government-and-politics-f846c58d4cb327578d1c7b3a9495d496">much lower
price to diabetics in the state.</a>
<p>
I wonder if California will sell to diabetics in other states, too?

 


title: Arizona GOP wants a QAnon conspiracy theorist in charge of overseeing their elections
uri: Arizona-GOP-wants-a-QAnon-conspiracy-theorist-in-charge-of-overseeing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(arizona_gop_qanon_conspiracy_theorist)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(arizona_gop_qanon_conspiracy_theorist)

content:
 
<p>
Mark Finchem, who won the Arizona Republican primary for attorney
general, is a Qanonsense believer that advocates the wrecker's 
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/08/02/arizona-gop-wants-a-qanon-conspiracy-theorist-in-charge-of-overseeing-their-elections.html">Big Lie
(that the 2020 election was stolen).</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(big_oil_non_proliferation_treaty)
title: *Big oil is wringing humanity dry*
uri: Big-oil-is-wringing-humanity-dry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(big_oil_non_proliferation_treaty)
content:
 
<p>
*Big oil is wringing humanity dry. We need a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/03/big-oil-fossil-fuel-non-proliferation-treaty">fossil fuel
non-proliferation treaty.</a>*

 


title: Study finds that nature friendly farming does not reduce productivity
uri: Study-finds-that-nature-friendly-farming-does-not-reduce-productivity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(nature_friendly_farming_productivity_study_finds)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(nature_friendly_farming_productivity_study_finds)

content:
 
<p>
Rewilding marginal areas in a large farm was a big help to wildlife,
and the increased wildlife increased the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/03/nature-friendly-farming-does-not-reduce-productivity-study-finds">productivity of the rest of
the farm.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(expensive_hiv_prevention_drug_cabla)
title: The HIV prevention drug that could save millions of people – if they can afford it
uri: The-HIV-prevention-drug-that-could-save-millions-of-people-if-they
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(expensive_hiv_prevention_drug_cabla)
content:
 
<p>
A new HIV-prevention drug could wipe out that disease, over time,
except that it is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/03/the-hiv-prevention-drug-that-could-save-millions-of-people-if-they-can-afford-it-cab-la-cabotegravir">too expensive for the people that need it.</a>

 


title: 10 Reasons Brexit has been disastrous for Britain
uri: 10-Reasons-Brexit-has-been-disastrous-for-Britain
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(spiralling_inflation_brexit_disaster_britain)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(spiralling_inflation_brexit_disaster_britain)

content:
 
<p>
*Spiraling inflation, crops left in the field and travel chaos: 10
reasons [leaving the EU] 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/03/spiralling-inflation-crops-left-in-the-field-and-travel-chaos-10-reasons-brexit-has-been-disastrous-for-britain">has been disastrous for Britain.</a>*
<p>
I dislike the word "Brexit" so I don't use it.

 


title: Discovered in the deep: the snail with iron Armour
uri: Discovered-in-the-deep-the-snail-with-iron-Armour
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(rare_snail_species_endangered_deep_sea_mining)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#5_August_2022_(rare_snail_species_endangered_deep_sea_mining)

content:
 
<p>
An extremely strange snail species, found only at a few deep-sea
thermal vents in one region, is endangered, and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/03/discovered-in-the-deep-the-snail-with-iron-armour">could be wiped out by
deep-sea mining in that region.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(NHS_run_down)
title: NHS run down
uri: NHS-run-down
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(NHS_run_down)
content:
 
<p>
*How the Tory party has systematically <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/03/how-the-tory-party-has-systematically-run-down-the-nhs">run down the NHS</a>.*
It *does not believe in the NHS but dares not say so.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_Uinta_Basin_Railway)
title: Urgent: Stop Uinta Basin Railway
uri: Urgent-Stop-Uinta-Basin-Railway
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_Uinta_Basin_Railway)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=50720">stop the Uinta Basin Railway</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>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Urgent:_Columbia_Sportswear)
title: Urgent: Columbia Sportswear
uri: Urgent-Columbia-Sportswear
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Urgent:_Columbia_Sportswear)
content:
 
<p>
Everyone: call on Columbia Sportswear to commit to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=50726">ending use of
PFAs</a> in its products.

 


title: Chasing white suspect, arrests black man
uri: Chasing-white-suspect-arrests-black-man
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Chasing_white_suspect,_arrests_black_man)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Chasing_white_suspect,_arrests_black_man)

content:
 
<p>
*Boston police <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/04/boston-police-chasing-white-suspect-wrongly-arrested-black-man-lawsuit-says">chasing white suspect wrongly arrested black man</a>, lawsuit says.*
<p>
This is an extreme case of thugs' frequent practice of assuming a
black man is guilty of something, simply because he's black.  They
knew the suspect was white,
<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 object to 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-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Border_patrol_taking_turbans)
title: Border patrol taking turbans
uri: Border-patrol-taking-turbans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Border_patrol_taking_turbans)
content:
 
<p>
*US border patrol accused of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/04/us-border-patrol-accused-taking-turbans-sikh-asylum-seekers">taking turbans</a> from Sikh asylum-seekers.*
<p>
Thugs are fond of contriving excuses to claim that they are <em>required</em>
to do something that will cause suffering to someone weak.

 


title: Thousands deceived and evicted during Covid
uri: Thousands-deceived-and-evicted-during-Covid
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Thousands_deceived_and_evicted_during_Covid)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Thousands_deceived_and_evicted_during_Covid)

content:
 
<p>
*Four corporate US landlords <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/04/four-corporate-us-landlords-deceived-evicted-thousands-during-covid-report-reveals">deceived and evicted thousands</a> during Covid.*
<p>
I contend that we should forbid ownership of buildings containing
housing for rent by corporations.  Or else limit how many units, or
how many buildings, any one owner can own.
<p>
The article linked to above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white".  (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.)  I object to 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 these exceptions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Climate_crisis)
title: Climate crisis
uri: 2022-08-07-Climate-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Climate_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
*Floods, storms and heatwaves are a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/04/floods-storms-heatwaves-direct-product-climate-crisis">direct product of the climate crisis</a> &mdash; that's a fact, so where is the action?*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Thugs_facing_federal_charges)
title: Thugs facing federal charges
uri: Thugs-facing-federal-charges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Thugs_facing_federal_charges)
content:
 
<p>
The thugs involved in killing Breonna Taylor now face federal charges
of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/04/breonna-taylor-death-louisville-police-officers-charged">violating her civil rights</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Elected_prosecutor_suspended)
title: Elected prosecutor "suspended"
uri: Elected-prosecutor-suspended
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Elected_prosecutor_suspended)
content:
 
<p>
Governor Dementis <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/04/ron-desantis-suspends-andrew-warren-prosector-abortion-ban">"suspended" the elected state prosecutor of Tampa</a>,
who said he would refuse to prosecute anyone for abortions, and
put in his place a nonelected prosecutor.
<p>
I suppose Dementis has chosen a replacement who will eagerly prosecute
abortions.  I wonder when the citizens of Tampa will have another chance
to elect a prosecutor.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Business_supremacy_treaty)
title: Business supremacy treaty
uri: 2022-08-07-Business-supremacy-treaty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Business_supremacy_treaty)
content:
 
<p>
Warning, Australia!  Warning, Europe!  Potential <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/05/australia-eu-free-trade-agreement-back-on-track-with-albanese-government-ambassador-says">business-supremacy
treaty sighted near both continents</a>!
<p>
Promotion of these treaties <a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">focuses on increased profits for some
businesses</a>, and those businesses push for treaty approval.  What the
mainstream media tend not to mention is that they transfer power from
government (which can be democratic) to businesses (which are by
definition not democratic).

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Sea_turtles_and_temperature)
title: Sea turtles and temperature
uri: Sea-turtles-and-temperature
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Sea_turtles_and_temperature)
content:
 
<p>
The sex of a baby sea turtle is determined by temperature.
This must have been an effectively random choice in the past,
but now that it is so hot, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/03/us/florida-turtles-born-female-climate-change/index.html">all the loggerhead sea turtles hatching
in Florida are female</a>.
<p>
In a few decades, that will cause extinction of the species &mdash; the females
will have no mates.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Social_Security_%26_Medicare)
title: Social Security & Medicare
uri: Social-Security-Medicare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Social_Security_%26_Medicare)
content:
 
<p>
Extremist Republican senator Johnson wants social security and medicare
to <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3587152-ron-johnson-suggests-medicare-social-security-be-approved-on-annual-basis/">require congressional approval each year</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://www.salon.com/2022/08/03/self-serving-multimillionaire-ron-johnson-pushes-to-dismantle-social-security-and-medicare_partner/">More info</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Schools_spying_on_students)
title: Schools spying on students
uri: Schools-spying-on-students
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Schools_spying_on_students)
content:
 
<p>
Most US schools <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/student-monitoring-software-privacy-in-schools/">monitor everything students say and do on their
school-supplied laptop</a>s, and students are in a substantial danger of
being charged or harassed as a result.
<p>
If this massive surveillance continues, parts of the US may jail
students for seeking abortion resources (or birth control, or whatever
the Christian Taliban may prohibit) using those school-supplied
facilities.
<p>
A school-supplied laptop that allows connection to anything but the
school's own servers is bait &mdash; tempting students to browse the web
under direct monitoring by the school and the local thug department.
Paradoxical as it may seem, perhaps schools should be legally required
to limit these computers strictly to class assignments, so students won't
make the mistake of using them for their other activities.

 


title: Urgent: Saving America's Pollinators Act
uri: Urgent-Saving-America-s-Pollinators-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Urgent:_Saving_America's_Pollinators_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Urgent:_Saving_America's_Pollinators_Act)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on your Senators to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49761">pass the Saving America's
Pollinators Act</a>.
<p>
To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a> from the web site,
use the <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Urgent:_Ending_Corporate_Greed_Act)
title: Urgent: Ending Corporate Greed Act
uri: 2022-08-07-Urgent-Ending-Corporate-Greed-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#6_August_2022_(Urgent:_Ending_Corporate_Greed_Act)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to pass the <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tell-congress-fight-inflation-passing-ending-corporate-greed-act/?t=1001&akid=29329%2E96703%2E4t4AnR">Ending Corporate Greed Act</a> (windfall profits tax).

 


title: (satire) *Biden: U.S. Won’t Rest Until Brittney Griner Returned Home*
uri: (satire)-Biden-U-S-Won-t-Rest-Until-Brittney-Griner-Returned-Home
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_((Satire)_biden_wont_rest_until_griner_returned)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_((Satire)_biden_wont_rest_until_griner_returned)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Biden: U.S. Won’t Rest Until Brittney Griner
Returned Home To Serve 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/biden-u-s-won-t-rest-until-brittney-griner-returned-h-1849373440">Marijuana Possession Sentence.*</a>
<p>
The US should legalize marijuana and free everyone that's in prison
for nonviolent crimes relating to marijuana.  Then it will speak
with moral authority when it calls on other countries not to punish
Americans for such offenses.

 


uri: Republicans-in-some-US-towns-are-defunding-their-public-libraries-or
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(catastrophic_michigan_town_votes_defund_library_over_lgbtq_material)

title:
 Republicans in some US towns are defunding their public libraries, or
trying to, over objections to books about queer people. 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(catastrophic_michigan_town_votes_defund_library_over_lgbtq_material)

content:
 
<p>
Republicans in some US towns are defunding their public libraries, or
trying to, over 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/04/catastrophic-michigan-town-votes-defund-library-over-lgbtq-material">objections to books about queer people.</a>
<p>
I write "queer" rather than "LGBTQ" because the former is one syllable
instead of five and covers the same range of variations.

 


uri: The-wrecker-s-officials-approved-plans-for-coal-mining-which-failed-to
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(applause_court_rejects_trump_coal_plans_defend_biden_admin)

title:
 The wrecker's officials approved plans for coal mining which failed to
uphold environmental requirements. 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(applause_court_rejects_trump_coal_plans_defend_biden_admin)

content:
 
<p>
The wrecker's officials approved plans for coal mining which failed to
uphold environmental requirements.  Environmentalists sued, and
Biden's officials defended the wrecker's plan.
<p>
Fortunately, a court ruled against the plans, but why defend those
plans?  Whether or not they were lawful, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/04/applause-court-rejects-trump-era-coal-plan-defended-biden-administration">they were clearly bad.</a>

 


title: *First-of-Its-Kind Greenwashing Lawsuit Targets Gas Giant for Methane Lies.*
uri: First-of-Its-Kind-Greenwashing-Lawsuit-Targets-Gas-Giant-for-Methane
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(green_washing_lawsuit_targets_gas_giant)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(green_washing_lawsuit_targets_gas_giant)

content:
 
<p>
*First-of-Its-Kind Greenwashing Lawsuit Targets 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/04/first-its-kind-greenwashing-lawsuit-targets-gas-giant-methane-lies">Gas Giant for Methane Lies.</a>*
<p>
Actually, it wasn't what we normally called a "gas giant" &mdash; it was on
the small rocky planet we inhabit.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(election_deniers_voting_key_states)
title: *Election deniers are one step closer to taking control of voting in 4 key states.*
uri: Election-deniers-are-one-step-closer-to-taking-control-of-voting-in-4
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(election_deniers_voting_key_states)
content:
 
<p>
*Election deniers are one step closer to 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/politics/election-deniers-voting-key-states/index.html">taking control of voting in 4
key states.</a>*

 


title: China is going all-out to remind us that it is a military threat to Taiwan.
uri: China-is-going-all-out-to-remind-us-that-it-is-a-military-threat-to-Ta
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(taiwan_says_china_simulated_attack_military_drills)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(taiwan_says_china_simulated_attack_military_drills)

content:
 
<p>
China is going all-out to remind us that it is a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/06/taiwan-says-china-making-simulated-attack-main-island-military-drills">military threat to Taiwan.</a>
<p>
which reinforces that the US must stand firm with Taiwan.
<p>
China's "live fire exercises" close to Taiwan amounted in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/04/taiwan-preparing-for-war-without-seeking-war-as-china-begins-military-exercises">effect to a
temporary blockade of Taiwan.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(native_elders_court_south_dakota)
uri: South-Dakota-has-an-optional-Indian-alternative-justice-system-which-a
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(native_elders_court_south_dakota)
title:
 South Dakota has an optional Indian alternative justice system which
aims for healing rather than punishment. 

content:
 
<p>
South Dakota has an optional Indian alternative justice system which
aims for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/06/native-elders-oyate-court-south-dakota">healing rather than punishment.</a>
<p>
In the 1970s, US courts and prisons aimed for rehabilitation of
criminals, but that was all discarded in the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/01/05/war-drugs-has-failed-when-disease-becomes-crime">1980s under the malign
influence of the "war on drugs".</a>

 


title: Portugal requires residents to have a biometric ID card for many purposes
uri: Portugal-requires-residents-to-have-a-biometric-ID-card-for-many-purpo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(britons_portugal_post_brexit_id_cards)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(britons_portugal_post_brexit_id_cards)

content:
 
<p>
Portugal requires residents to have a biometric ID card for many
purposes, including medical care, employment and travel.  This is an
injustice to everyone that is compelled to have the card; it is also a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/06/britons-portugal-post-brexit-id-cards">practical disaster for the resident foreigners who can't get one.</a>
<p>
The government seems to be using those foreigners as hostages to an
international dispute, but we should not let this distract us from
the injustice those cards present to people who DO have them.

 


title: Justice Department employees ask for expanded benefits to protect abortion access
uri: Justice-Department-employees-ask-for-expanded-benefits-to-protect-abor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(justice_department_employees_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(justice_department_employees_abortion)

content:
 
<p>
*Justice Department employees ask for expanded benefits to

<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/politics/justice-department-employees-abortion-access/index.html">protect abortion access,</a>
<p>
&hellip; asking for the administration to expand health care
   coverage to include abortion-related benefits like paid leave to travel
   out of state and reimbursement for travel expenses.*
   
 


title: Ukraine: Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians
uri: Ukraine-Ukrainian-fighting-tactics-endanger-civilians
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(ukraine_ukrainian_tactics_endanger_civilians)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(ukraine_ukrainian_tactics_endanger_civilians)

content:
 
<p>
Amnesty International criticized Ukraine for stationing military units
and 
<a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/08/ukraine-ukrainian-fighting-tactics-endanger-civilians/"> weapons systems in cities.</a>
<p>
It would be absurd to compare this with the pervasive evil of the
Putin forces, and it certainly doesn't excuse them.  But this is a
valid point.  Ukraine should heed this criticism and change those
practices.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(manchin_side_deal_climate_bomb)
title: Alarm raised over Manchin side deal
uri: Alarm-raised-over-Manchin-side-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(manchin_side_deal_climate_bomb)
content:
 
<p>
The price Biden wants to pay Manchin for approving spending is a
permanent change to environmental 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/02/alarm-raised-over-manchin-side-deal-would-pave-way-major-climate-bomb">rules for damaging projects.</a>
<p>
Sanders lambasted Manchin's 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/03/sanders-blasts-huge-giveaway-fossil-fuel-industry-manchin-deal">planet-roasting demands,</a>
<p>
which were elsewhere described by "Exxon CEO Loves What Manchin Did
for Big Oil in $370 Billion Deal."


 


title: Van that detects if drivers are holding a mobile phone trialed in UK
uri: Van-that-detects-if-drivers-are-holding-a-mobile-phone-trialed-in-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(uk_system_van_detects_drivers_holding_phone_or_wearing_seat_belt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(uk_system_van_detects_drivers_holding_phone_or_wearing_seat_belt)

content:
 
<p>
The UK will test a system that uses photos of drivers of passing cars
to detect those who are not wearing seat belts, or are 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/03/van-that-detects-if-drivers-are-holding-a-mobile-phone-trialled-in-uk">holding phones in
their hands.</a>
<p>
Detecting the use of a snoop-phone while driving is a good thing, in
itself, because that practice is dangerous.  But I wonder what else
these photos could (and will) be used for.  Will the state use them to
identify every driver by facial recognition?  And ever passenger, too?
<p>
There should be technical safeguards in the 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">system to ensure it can't
be used for this</a>

 


uri: A-woman-is-suing-the-only-pharmacy-within-50-miles-of-her-home-for-ref
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(minnesota_morning_after_pill_lawsuit)

title:
 A woman is suing the only pharmacy within 50 miles of her home for
refusing to fill a prescription for contraception 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(minnesota_morning_after_pill_lawsuit)

content:
 
<p>
A woman is suing the only pharmacy within 50 miles of her home for
refusing to fill a prescription for contraception 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/02/us/minnesota-morning-after-pill-lawsuit/index.html">(the morning-after
pill).</a>
<p>
Such situations are likely to arise in the depopulated rural parts of
the US, where stores of any kind are few and far between, and
anti-abortion fanatics are numerous.
<p>
I am suspicious of any pharmacy business that gives its individual
staff the privilege to veto a prescription.  No supermarket would
tolerate a sales clerk who refused to sell certain products &mdash; if you
won't do the whole job, you would need to find some other job.  I
suspect that the owners or managers of those pharmacies are themselves
anti-abortion fanatics, and that letting staff veto prescriptions is a
intentional deniable way of attacking abortion and birth
contraception while denying their responsibility in the matter.
<p>
It's clear that any pharmacy, when open for business, must be legally
required to fill any valid prescription presented by anyone.

 


title: Australia's coral is not out of the woods yet.
uri: Australia-s-coral-is-not-out-of-the-woods-yet
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(great_barrier_reefs_coral_climate_threat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(great_barrier_reefs_coral_climate_threat)

content:
 
<p>
Australia's coral is 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/06/great-barrier-reefs-record-coral-cover-is-good-news-but-climate-threat-remains">not out of the woods yet.</a>
<p>
Global heating will eventually kill the Great Barrier Reef, and the
acidification caused by too much CO2 in the water will eventually wipe
out most sea animals with shells &mdash; including coral.

 


title: President Wickremesinghe has sent Sri Lanka's thugs to use cruelty to crush the protest movement
uri: President-Wickremesinghe-has-sent-Sri-Lanka-s-thugs-to-use-cruelty-to
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(sri_lanka_police_draconian_protesters_wickremesinghe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#7_August_2022_(sri_lanka_police_draconian_protesters_wickremesinghe)

content:
 
<p>
President Wickremesinghe has sent Sri Lanka's thugs to use cruelty to
crush the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/05/sri-lanka-police-draconian-protesters-wickremesinghe">protest movement that drove out President Rajapaksa.</a>

 


title: Urgent: Call on the Senate to pass the DISCLOSE Act
uri: Urgent-Call-on-the-Senate-to-pass-the-DISCLOSE-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_Senate_to_pass_the_DISCLOSE_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_Senate_to_pass_the_DISCLOSE_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-the-us-senate-sunlight-is-the-best-disinfectant-pass-the-disclose-act">pass the DISCLOSE Act</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: Call on the Senate to pass the assault weapons ban
uri: Urgent-Call-on-the-Senate-to-pass-the-assault-weapons-ban
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_Senate_to_pass_the_assault_weapons_ban)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_Senate_to_pass_the_assault_weapons_ban)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/senate-pass-assault-weapons-ban?akid=7996.223515.ojMQMR&c0=senate-pass-assault-weapons-ban.Sta08K&rd=1&source=em20220803&t=1006">pass the assault weapons ban</a>.
<p>
People have criticized this proposed law for drawing the line in not
exactly the right place.  Perhaps that is true &mdash; but it is a step in
the right direction, even if it doesn't end up in exactly the right
place.  It includes a ban on selling large magazines, and that will
generally reduce the number killed in mass shootings.

Although most people killed by guns are killed by handguns,
that doesn't make this measure ineffective &mdash; only less than perfect.

<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: Call on the Senate to pass the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
uri: Urgent-Call-on-the-Senate-to-pass-the-Pregnant-Workers-Fairness-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_Senate_to_pass_the_Pregnant_Workers_Fairness_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_Senate_to_pass_the_Pregnant_Workers_Fairness_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://go.peoplepower.org/letter/protect-pregnant-workers-now/">pass the Pregnant Workers Fairness
Act</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: Call on Biden to reject new oil/gas leases
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Biden-to-reject-new-oil-gas-leases
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_reject_new_oil%2Fgas_leases)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_reject_new_oil%2Fgas_leases)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://act.greennewdealnetwork.org/signup/no-new-leases">reject new oil/gas leases</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on the Senate to pass the Respect for Marriage Act
uri: Urgent-Call-on-the-Senate-to-pass-the-Respect-for-Marriage-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_Senate_to_pass_the_Respect_for_Marriage_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_the_Senate_to_pass_the_Respect_for_Marriage_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/marriage-equality-scotus/?t=1022&akid=29346%2E96703%2EMazyQM">pass the Respect for Marriage Act</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Prevent home demolitions in Masafer Yatta, Palestine
uri: Urgent-Prevent-home-demolitions-in-Masafer-Yatta-Palestine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Prevent_home_demolitions_in_Masafer_Yatta,_Palestine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Prevent_home_demolitions_in_Masafer_Yatta,_Palestine)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden and Blinken to <a href="https://act.jstreet.org/sign/biden-masafer-yatta/?t=1006">prevent home demolitions in
Masafer Yatta, Palestine</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Designate the underwater Hudson Canyon as a national marine sanctuary
uri: Urgent-Designate-the-underwater-Hudson-Canyon-as-a-national-marine-sa
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Designate_the_underwater_Hudson_Canyon_as_a_national_marine_sanctuary)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Designate_the_underwater_Hudson_Canyon_as_a_national_marine_sanctuary)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on NOAA to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=50910">designate the underwater Hudson Canyon
as a national marine sanctuary</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Prosecute the wrecker for his conspiracy to steal the election
uri: Urgent-Prosecute-the-wrecker-for-his-conspiracy-to-steal-the-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Prosecute_the_wrecker_for_his_conspiracy_to_steal_the_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Prosecute_the_wrecker_for_his_conspiracy_to_steal_the_election)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Department of Justice to <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-prosecute-donald-trump">prosecute the wrecker
for his conspiracy to steal the election</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Make the federal minimum wage $15
uri: Urgent-Make-the-federal-minimum-wage-15
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Make_the_federal_minimum_wage_$15)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Urgent:_Make_the_federal_minimum_wage_$15)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress and Biden to <a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14639">make the federal minimum
wage $15</a>.

 


title: (satire) Prosecuted for losing pregnancies
uri: (satire)-Prosecuted-for-losing-pregnancies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_((satire)_Prosecuted_for_losing_pregnancies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_((satire)_Prosecuted_for_losing_pregnancies)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/woman-at-that-age-where-all-her-friends-getting-prosecu-1849184178">*Woman [is] At That Age Where All Her Friends Getting
Prosecuted For Losing Pregnancies.*</a>
<p>
I suspect that right-wing white women will get preferential treatment:
they won't get prosecuted for miscarriages.

 


title: Trump's toadies hold degrees from Harvard and Yale
uri: Trump-s-toadies-hold-degrees-from-Harvard-and-Yale
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Trump's_toadies_hold_degrees_from_Harvard_and_Yale)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Trump's_toadies_hold_degrees_from_Harvard_and_Yale)

content:
 
<p>

*Trump's worst toadies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/07/trump-republicans-harvard-yale">hold degrees from Harvard and Yale</a>. Did they
learn anything [there]?*

 


title: China risks provoking a backlash over Taiwan
uri: China-risks-provoking-a-backlash-over-Taiwan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(China_risks_provoking_a_backlash_over_Taiwan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(China_risks_provoking_a_backlash_over_Taiwan)

content:
 
<p>

*By taunting the US ‘paper tiger’, China risks <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/07/by-taunting-the-us-paper-tiger-china-risks-provoking-a-backlash-over-taiwan">provoking a backlash over Taiwan</a>.*
<p>
Neither the US nor China is engaging in uncalculated emotional
reaction.  Both countries are pursuing their conflicting goals,
driven by the strategic logic.
<p>
China's rulers' goal is to conquer Taiwan; this is not speculation, it
is what they say.  As long as that does not change, the idea of
"stabilizing" this confrontation for the long term is self-delusion
because China won't accept that as an outcome.
<p>
China's "reactions" to whatever happens are not spontaneous emotion.
They are planned actions by officials, aiming at the goal of
conquering Taiwan.  Sometimes they go softer, sometimes harder, but
either way it is tactics.
<p>
One of China's tactics &mdash; China uses it because it is effective &mdash; is
to twist the US up in the contradiction between its "one China" policy
and treating Taiwan as independent.  In the long run, that
contradiction will be debilitating; so if the US is to protect
Taiwan's independence, it must move away from the "one China" policy.
<p>
China will threaten to break off relations, etc.; the US must respond,
"We can't prevent you from doing that, but you'll hurt yourself more
than you hurt us."  Then it must stand firm until China comes to face
facts.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Smoke_from_wildfires)
title: Smoke from wildfires
uri: 2022-08-09-Smoke-from-wildfires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Smoke_from_wildfires)
content:
 
<p>

Smoke from wildfires <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/07/wildfires-air-pollution-sam-heft-neal-interview">harms people even thousands of miles away</a>.  A
small concentration harms a smaller number of people but isn't
harmless.
<p>
Since even wealthy people don't know how to protect themselves, we
should have programs that aim at protecting everyone.  Or perhaps
everyone with asthma, if only people with asthma are particularly in
danger.
<p>
In the long run, we can expect wealthy people to pay for this
protection themselves, once we make sure they know what is needed.

 


title: Opposing the merger of Amazon and Roomba
uri: Opposing-the-merger-of-Amazon-and-Roomba
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Opposing_the_merger_of_Amazon_and_Roomba)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Opposing_the_merger_of_Amazon_and_Roomba)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/05/consumer-advocates-blast-dangerous-amazon-bid-buy-maker-roomba">Opposing the merger of Amazon and Roomba</a>, on grounds of competition and
privacy.
<p>
With proper privacy laws, no privacy issue would arise from this merger.
A product such as the Roomba <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">would not be allowed</a> to send any data
to anyone about the owner or the use of the product.

 


title: Billionaire polluters spend to influence against windfall profits tax
uri: Billionaire-polluters-spend-to-influence-against-windfall-profits-tax
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Billionaire_polluters_spend_to_influence_against_windfall_profits_tax)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Billionaire_polluters_spend_to_influence_against_windfall_profits_tax)

content:
 
<p>

Billionaire Polluters have spent a million dollars to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/06/bp-social-media-influence-ads-labour-windfall-tax">influence the
British public against a windfall profits tax</a>.

 


title: Texas and federal government to fight over abortion as medical care
uri: Texas-and-federal-government-to-fight-over-abortion-as-medical-care
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Texas_and_federal_government_to_fight_over_abortion_as_medical_care)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Texas_and_federal_government_to_fight_over_abortion_as_medical_care)

content:
 
<p>

Texas and the federal government are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/05/opinions/state-federal-showdown-abortion-ziegler-sepper/index.html">headed for a fight</a> where federal
guidelines call for an abortion as part of proper medical care for a
pregnant female with certain kinds of dangerous medical conditions,
but Texas says it is a crime.

 


title: Pearson to "allow" the "resell" of digital textbooks
uri: Pearson-to-allow-the-resell-of-digital-textbooks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Pearson_to_allow_the_resell_of_digital_textbooks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Pearson_to_allow_the_resell_of_digital_textbooks)

content:
 
<p>

Pearson plans to <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/3/23290335/pearson-textbook-publisher-nft-blockchain-secondhand-ebook-sales">allow students to "resell" digital textbooks</a>, but not
freely: they will have to pay Pearson for the privilege, and let
Pearson track them.
<p>
Pearson uses the term "NFT" to describe these plans, but that's a red
herring, as the article explains &mdash; a marketing buzzword that has been
stretched to fit.
<p>
There is no sign that these ebooks will avoid any of the injustices of
existing digital textbooks: <a href="defectivebydesign.org">DRM</a>, <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">surveillance</a>,
and "jerkmaking" contracts where you commit to be a jerk by <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/ebooks.html">refusing
to share copies with others</a>.
<p>
It is unethical to agree to such a contract; however, carrying it out
(supposing you have agreed to it) is even more unethical.  The less
bad option, if you have agreed to such a thing, is to disregard it.

 


title: Protests of US military's failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
uri: Protests-of-US-military-s-failure-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Protests_of_US_military's_failure_to_reduce_greenhouse_gas_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Protests_of_US_military's_failure_to_reduce_greenhouse_gas_emissions)

content:
 
<p>

Veterans for Peace protested the US military's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/03/veterans-arrested-protest-condemning-us-militarys-role-climate-crisis">failure to reduce its greenhouse
gas emissions</a>.

 


title: Ruling on refusing emergency contraception
uri: Ruling-on-refusing-emergency-contraception
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Ruling_on_refusing_emergency_contraception)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Ruling_on_refusing_emergency_contraception)

content:
 
<p>

A judge ruled that refusing to give Andrea Anderson emergency contraception
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/06/morning-after-pill-contraception-judge-minnesota">wasn't discrimination based on sex</a>.
<p>
That conclusion makes sense to me: it didn't fall under the heading of
"discrimination" because there is no reason to believe the pharmacist
would have treated a male patient differently.  In my view, it was an
injustice for the pharmacist to refuse to fill her prescription, but
it was a different kind of injustice.
<p>
There is something in the article I don't clearly understand.  Did the
jury award Anderson $25k in damages (under some other rubric), or not?
If it did, that could be a very good outcome: perhaps sufficient to
convince those pharmacies not to let this happen again.  But if so,
I'd like to understand the reasons for it.

 


title: Fake news about leftest Kenyan politician
uri: Fake-news-about-leftest-Kenyan-politician
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Fake_news_about_leftest_Kenyan_politician)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Fake_news_about_leftest_Kenyan_politician)

content:
 
<p>

* Special [UK Foreign Office] unit <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/06/revealed-uk-ran-cold-war-dirty-tricks-campaign-to-smear-kenyas-first-vice-president-oginga-odinga">spread fake news</a> about leftist
   [Kenyan] politician, Oginga Odinga, seen as threat to British
   interests in 1960s.*

 


title: Reports of torture of male prisoners in Olenivka prison
uri: Reports-of-torture-of-male-prisoners-in-Olenivka-prison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Reports_of_torture_of_male_prisoners_in_Olenivka_prison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Reports_of_torture_of_male_prisoners_in_Olenivka_prison)

content:
 
<p>

Anna Vorosheva was a prisoner in Putin's Olenivka prison, and reports
on the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/06/russian-prison-camp-ukrainians-deaths-donetsk">torture done to male prisoners there</a>.  As for female prisoners,
they were not tortured but were treated degradingly in many ways.
<p>
The article excuses the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> of setting off an explosion a
week ago, inside the prison, which killed around 50 prisoners.
If Putin keeps refusing investigators access, it will be his word
against the satellite photos; but refusing access is a reason to
disbelieve his word.

 


title: Thugs shot at Robert Adams as he ran
uri: Thugs-shot-at-Robert-Adams-as-he-ran
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Thugs_shot_at_Robert_Adams_as_he_ran)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Thugs_shot_at_Robert_Adams_as_he_ran)

content:
 
<p>

San Bernardino <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> got out of an unmarked car, and after a few seconds
started <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/19/police-killed-robert-adams-black-man-running-san-bernardino-california">shooting at Robert Adams</a> who had done nothing but run away.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(china_taiwan_row_climate_change)
title: What does the US-China row mean for climate change?
uri: What-does-the-US-China-row-mean-for-climate-change
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(china_taiwan_row_climate_change)
content:
 
<p>
China is going all out to intimidate US support for Taiwan, even "breaking off" discussions on curbing 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/05/what-does-the-us-china-row-mean-for-climate-change-taiwan">global heating.</a>
<p>
Not that China was cooperating very much anyway: it continues to build new coal-fired generating plants, and its target for (the weak goal of) "net zero"
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/25/china-to-cut-fossil-fuel-use-to-below-20-by-2060">is 2060.</a>
<p>
China has recently experienced disastrous floods and faces the danger of fatal weather in the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/09/intense-rainfall-extreme-weather-northern-china">North China Plain.</a>
<p>
China's rulers are arrogant but not crazy. The only thing that can convince them to try hard to decarbonize is awareness of what will happen if they don't.
<p>
The US is also doing far too little to decarbonize, though the
just-passed climate, welfare and tax law is a step forward.

 


title: At least 68 migrants arrived in NYC over the weekend on buses sent by Texas Gov. Abbott
uri: At-least-68-migrants-arrived-in-NYC-over-the-weekend-on-buses-sent-by
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(gov_abbott_border_crossers_nyc_buses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(gov_abbott_border_crossers_nyc_buses)

content:
 
<p>
Texas governor Abbott is having state officials force border-crossers
onto buses to New York City, 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/07/us/new-york-migrants-buses-texas/index.html">even though they wanted to go elsewhere.</a>
<p>
It would be a kindness to offer them rides to New York City, if they
had the choice to decline the offer without being punished.
Misrepresenting this mistreatment as such a kindness is a big lie,
a typical Republican act.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(china_taiwan_military_exercises)
title: China drills show Beijing is developing the ability to strangle Taiwan, experts say
uri: China-drills-show-Beijing-is-developing-the-ability-to-strangle-Taiwan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(china_taiwan_military_exercises)
content:
 
<p>
China's missile interdiction of seas near Taiwan was such a large exercise
that it was 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/asia/china-taiwan-military-exercises-what-we-learned-intl-hnk-ml/index.html">probably planned for months.</a>
<p>
Pelosi's visit was a convenient excuse, an opportunity to put the blame
on her.
<p>
The great danger is that it shows that China can cut off Taiwan's
maritime trade just by firing missiles.  To prevent that requires some
way of making it cost China more than it costs Taiwan.

 


title: Trump-backed GOP candidate for Michigan AG under criminal investigation
uri: Trump-backed-GOP-candidate-for-Michigan-AG-under-criminal-investigatio
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(matthew_deperno_michigan_tampering_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(matthew_deperno_michigan_tampering_election)

content:
 
<p>
A Republican candidate for attorney general of Michigan is accused of
plotting to 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/matthew-deperno-michigan-attorney-general/index.html">tamper with voting machines after the 2020 election.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(cale_gundy_oklahoma_coach_resigns)
title: The coach of a college football team has been forced to resign
uri: The-coach-of-a-college-football-team-has-been-forced-to-resign
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(cale_gundy_oklahoma_coach_resigns)
content:
 
<p>
The coach of a college football team has been forced to resign after
he started reading aloud the text on a distracted student's iBad, and
in the 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/sport/cale-gundy-oklahoma-sooners-coach-resigns-spt-intl/index.html">process recited some taboo word.</a>
<p>
The word is so taboo that CNN dares not say what it was &mdash; and indeed,
it hardly matters which taboo word it was.  I presume it was a slur of
some sort.
<p>
The ethical issue here is whether to treat such slurs as <Em>insults</Em>,
wrong to use <Em>as insults</Em> because that unjustifiably nasty, or treat
them as <Em>taboos</Em>.  Do people deserve punishment for inadvertently
breaching taboos?
<p>
The coach believes that even though the words he spoke were not his
words, his violation of the taboo was such a grave sin that he
deserves to be shunned and lose his job for quoting them carelessly.
By doing that, he lets down other future people condemned for
violating taboos.  If he had to resign, he should have done so
without admitting guilt.
<p>
If you step on a flagstone that has a taboo word inscribed on it,
should you be shunned?  How about if you are photographed near a sign
(in a non-English-speaking country perhaps) which has a taboo word on
it?  Should you be fired for that?  Is "what people might think" more
important than what really happened?
<p>
Using slurs to insult someone is nasty and wrong.  But we ought to
know better than to punish people for violating taboos.  To do so
indicates a lack of moral reflection.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(Richard_Glossip)
title: Richard Glossip
uri: Richard-Glossip
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(Richard_Glossip)
content:
 
<p>
61 Oklahoma legislators called on the state to reinvestigate <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/09/richard-glossip-oklahoma-death-row-execution-letter">whether
Richard Glossip is really guilty</a>.  They believe there is no evidence
that he committed the murder he is scheduled to be executed for.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(Forgiving_wrongs)
title: Forgiving wrongs
uri: Forgiving-wrongs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(Forgiving_wrongs)
content:
 
<p>
Some people <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/09/i-remember-feeling-incensed-the-woman-who-spent-18-years-learning-about-forgiveness-in-the-face-of-atrocity">can forgive great wrongs; others simply can't</a>.  It's not a matter of choice.
<p>
This suggests to me that society's treatment of criminals should not
be based on whether their specific victims can forgive the crimes.
Society needs to pardon the criminals eventually, if that helps make
society whole, even if the victims can't.

 


title: Central bank modeling cannot predict extreme weather
uri: Central-bank-modeling-cannot-predict-extreme-weather
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(Central_bank_modeling_cannot_predict_extreme_weather)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(Central_bank_modeling_cannot_predict_extreme_weather)

content:
 
<p>
*Climate research finds modelling used [by central banks] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/10/trillions-of-dollars-at-risk-because-central-banks-climate-models-not-up-to-scratch">cannot
predict localised extreme weather</a>, leading to poor estimations of
risk.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(Urgent:_Big_pharma_lobbying)
title: Urgent: Big pharma lobbying
uri: Urgent-Big-pharma-lobbying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(Urgent:_Big_pharma_lobbying)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/08/ira-big-pharmas-first-defeat-lets-make-sure-its-not-last">The climate, tax and welfare bill passed the Senate, but
hasn't passed the House of Representatives.  Big Pharma is lobbying to
kill the part that will reduce drug prices.</a>  Please phone your
representative to support it.
<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>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(Recapturing_Kherson)
title: Recapturing Kherson
uri: Recapturing-Kherson
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(Recapturing_Kherson)
content:
 
<p>
Military challenges Ukraine faces in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/26/can-ukrainian-forces-recapture-kherson-from-russia">recapturing Kherson</a>.
<p>
I believe it is possible.  The Putin forces soldiers have no reason to
fight to the death, if Ukraine shows they will be safe if they
surrender.

 


title: Blocking toilets with ripped-up White House documents
uri: Blocking-toilets-with-ripped-up-White-House-documents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(Blocking_toilets_with_ripped-up_White_House_documents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(Blocking_toilets_with_ripped-up_White_House_documents)

content:
 
<p>
*Photos suggest Trump <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/08/donald-trump-blocked-toilets-photographs-documents-book">blocked toilets with ripped-up White House documents</a>.*
<p>
Destroying those documents may have been illegal.

 


title: Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant as shield
uri: Zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-as-shield
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(Zaporizhzhia_nuclear_plant_as_shield)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(Zaporizhzhia_nuclear_plant_as_shield)

content:
 
<p>
The Putin forces are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/08/how-dangerous-is-the-situation-at-the-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant">using the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as
a shield</a> for their artillery, firing cannons from near the plant's facilities.
Meanwhile, they are interfering with proper maintenance of the plant.

 


title: Fake news about leftist Kenyan politician
uri: Fake-news-about-leftist-Kenyan-politician
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Fake_news_about_leftist_Kenyan_politician)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Fake_news_about_leftist_Kenyan_politician)

content:
 
<p>

* Special [UK Foreign Office] unit <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/06/revealed-uk-ran-cold-war-dirty-tricks-campaign-to-smear-kenyas-first-vice-president-oginga-odinga">spread fake news</a> about leftist
   [Kenyan] politician, Oginga Odinga, seen as threat to British
   interests in 1960s.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(NHS_dental_collapsed)
title: NHS dental collapsed
uri: NHS-dental-collapsed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(NHS_dental_collapsed)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/08/diy-dentistry-on-the-rise-as-90-of-nhs-practices-not-seeing-new-patients">dental part of the UK's National Health Service has collapsed</a>;
many Britons can't find a dentist to treat them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Diseases_worsened)
title: Diseases worsened
uri: Diseases-worsened
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Diseases_worsened)
content:
 
<p>
*Climate impacts have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/08/climate-crisis-study-human-diseases">worsened vast range of human diseases</a>.*
They include Zika, malaria, dengue, chikungunya and even Covid-19.

 


title: Democrats lose effort to cap insulin at $35
uri: Democrats-lose-effort-to-cap-insulin-at-35
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Democrats_lose_effort_to_cap_insulin_at_$35)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Democrats_lose_effort_to_cap_insulin_at_$35)

content:
 
<p>
*Democrats lose effort to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/07/politics/insulin-cap-democrats-reconciliation-bill/index.html">cap insulin at $35</a> for most Americans before passage
of Senate reconciliation bill.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Empathy)
title: Empathy
uri: 2022-08-10-Empathy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Empathy)
content:
 
<p>
*The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/07/danger-empathy">Danger of Empathy</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Amazon's_carbon_emissions)
title: Amazon's carbon emissions
uri: Amazon-s-carbon-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Amazon's_carbon_emissions)
content:
 
<p>
*Amazon [(the company)'s] carbon emissions <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/08/06/amazon-carbon-emissions-up-40-but-somehow-still-on-track-for-net-zero-by-2040.html">up 40% but somehow still on
track for "net zero" by 2040</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(UK_does_as_Adam_Smith_warned)
title: UK does as Adam Smith warned
uri: UK-does-as-Adam-Smith-warned
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(UK_does_as_Adam_Smith_warned)
content:
 
<p>
The right-wing government of the UK does exactly as Adam Smith warned:
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/24/britain-rich-poor-strike-breaking-government-grenfell-tower">it crushes the non-rich and panders to the rich</a>.
It goes as far as murder.
<p>
As Aneurin Bevan said, <a href="media/62a79bb0.anuran-bevan.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/images/anuran-bevan.jpg">the Tories are lower than vermin</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Texas_prosecution_threats)
title: Texas prosecution threats
uri: Texas-prosecution-threats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Texas_prosecution_threats)
content:
 
<p>
Texas <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/23/texas-republican-lawmakers-legal-threats-abortions">threatens to prosecute any Texas organization</a> that funds travel
out of Texas for an abortion, and to sue any individual who provides
such funds.
<p>
This is terrorism.  Fanatical right-with Christian Taliban terrorism.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(New_business-supremacy_treaty
title: New business-supremacy treaty
uri: New-business-supremacy-treaty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(New_business-supremacy_treaty
content:
 
<p>
Activists in 13 countries that propose to negotiate a new
business-supremacy treaty warn that it may become another iteration of
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/22/prevent-another-tpp-100-groups-call-transparent-negotiations-indo-pacific-trade-deal">the Trance Pacific Partnership</a>,
also known as the <a href="/trance-pacific-partnership.html">Pacific Partnership Trance</a>.
<p>
The new treaty has a name, IPEF, and a likely bad result
because of which countries are involved.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(New_Zealand_poverty
title: New Zealand poverty
uri: 2022-08-10-New-Zealand-poverty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(New_Zealand_poverty
content:
 
<p>
Poor children wore body cameras in New Zealand to contribute to a picture
of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/05/researchers-attach-body-cameras-to-children-to-study-new-zealand-poverty">what life in poverty is like</a>.
<p>
A study like this can have good results, but we need to take steps
to prevent poor people from being lured, tricked or forced to contribute
to massive surveillance.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Assange_family_barred
title: Assange family barred
uri: Assange-family-barred
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Assange_family_barred
content:
 
<p>
*Assange family barred from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/aug/05/assange-family-barred-from-taking-book-about-wikileaks-founder-into-australias-parliament">taking book about WikiLeaks founder into
Australia's parliament</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Private_jets
title: Private jets
uri: Private-jets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Private_jets
content:
 
<p>
*It's time to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/05/its-time-to-ban-private-jets-or-at-least-tax-them-onto-the-ground">ban private jets &mdash; or at least tax them to the ground</a>.*
<p>
I favor taxing them heavily, because sufficient tax should make them
insignificant as a contribution to global heating, and we can use the
money.  Prohibiting private jets as tax deductions would also help greatly.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Unreported_PFAs
title: Unreported PFAs
uri: Unreported-PFAs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Unreported_PFAs
content:
 
<p>
*Massive Quantities of PFAS Waste Go <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/08/05/pfas-waste-epa-afff-us-ecology/">Unreported to EPA</a>.*

 


title: Bubble barrier removing plastic particles
uri: Bubble-barrier-removing-plastic-particles
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Bubble_barrier_removing_plastic_particles

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Bubble_barrier_removing_plastic_particles

content:
 
<p>
A bubble barrier is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/05/incredibly-promising-bubble-barrier-extracts-plastic-from-netherlands-river">removing most of the plastic particles from the
Oud Rijn river</a>, with a modicum of energy and little human labor.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Increasing_taxes_and_cutting_support
title: Increasing taxes and cutting support
uri: Increasing-taxes-and-cutting-support
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Increasing_taxes_and_cutting_support
content:
 
<p>
Republicans have been increasing income taxes and cutting support for
working people for 40 years, but they are not satisfied, so they are
proposing extreme ideas for how to do even worse.  Ron Johnson
proposes to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/04/how-stop-gop-killing-medicare-social-security-and-us">make Social Security and Medicare payments a year-by-year
decision</a>.
<p>
People like Ron Johnson and Rick Scott deserve to be sentenced to live
on $100 a week, and forbidden to receive gifts except through begging
from strangers.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Dementis's_oppressive_policies
title: Dementis's oppressive policies
uri: Dementis-s-oppressive-policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Dementis's_oppressive_policies
content:
 
<p>
Governor Dementis <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/3/2114361/-Florida-s-Un-Civic-Illiteracy-Program?_=2022-08-03T14:42:47.000-07:00">advocates a long list of right oppressive right-wing
policies</a>.  One that is subtle and long term is the distortion of
civics education in favor of government promotion (effectively,
establishment) of religion.

 


title: Campaign to limit facial recognition stalled
uri: Campaign-to-limit-facial-recognition-stalled
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Campaign_to_limit_facial_recognition_stalled

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Campaign_to_limit_facial_recognition_stalled

content:
 
<p>
The campaign to limit use of facial recognition <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/05/tech/facial-recognition-bans-reversed/index.html">has stalled, and some
regulations are being reversed, or expiring</a>.
<p>
What makes facial recognition so dangerous is its capacity to track
everyone's movements.  The only legitimate cases for using it are
in systems that cannot be used to track everyone's movements.
To use it for "lead generation" is exactly the danger.

 


title: Democrat ads for extremist republicans
uri: Democrat-ads-for-extremist-republicans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Democrat_ads_for_extremist_republicans

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Democrat_ads_for_extremist_republicans

content:
 
<p>
*Democratic ads <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/07/democrats-boosted-extremists-republican-primaries-was-that-wise">boosted extremists in Republican primaries</a>. Was that
wise?*
<p>
It was a very risky bet.  For such a bet to be wise, you need to be
very sure of the dynamics of the situation.  I don't think any
political group can validly be that confident.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(bolsonaro_dictatorship_democracy)
title: Brazilians fear return to dictatorship as ‘deranged’ Bolsonaro trails in polls
uri: Brazilians-fear-return-to-dictatorship-as-deranged-Bolsonaro-tra
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(bolsonaro_dictatorship_democracy)
content:
 
<p>
*Brazilians fear return to dictatorship as 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/09/brazil-election-bolsonaro-dictatorship-democracy">"deranged" Bolsonaro trails in
polls.</a>*
<p>
Like the wrecker in the US, Bolsonaro has talked about refusing to
hand 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/15/killing-of-lulas-party-treasurer-by-bolsonaro-supporter-raises-fears-of-violent-runup-to-brazils-election">over power peacefully.</a>
<p>
People fear he will try to organize mobs on Brazil's
independence day to overthrow democracy, perhaps arranging a false flag
attack on them as an excuse.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(greenland_melting_mining_climate)
title: Billionaires are funding a massive treasure hunt in Greenland as ice vanishes
uri: Billionaires-are-funding-a-massive-treasure-hunt-in-Greenland-as-ice-v
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(greenland_melting_mining_climate)
content:
 
<p>
As Greenland's ice melts and exposes some areas of land, people
are 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/world/greenland-melting-mineral-mining-climate/index.html">prospecting for rare metals.</a>
<p>
There are no established ecosystems on those areas, but mining can
spread pollution in many ways.  It could pollute the land so that
plants can't grow there; it can pollute the nearby seas.

 


title: Police racial bias played role in UK Covid fines regime, says report
uri: Police-racial-bias-played-role-in-UK-Covid-fines-regime-says-report
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(police_racial_bias_played_role_covid_regime)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(police_racial_bias_played_role_covid_regime)

content:
 
<p>
Investigation finds probable racism in how British thugs applied the rules
for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/05/police-racial-bias-played-role-uk-covid-fines-regime-report">fines for violating Covid rules.</a>
<p>
They were supposed to apply their discretion to make fines a last resort;
now ever, they were much quicker to fine black.
<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 object to 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-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(no_the_market_wont_sort_it_out)
title: No, The Market Won't Sort It Out
uri: No-The-Market-Won-t-Sort-It-Out
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(no_the_market_wont_sort_it_out)
content:
 
<p>
Worshipers of the Invisible Hand have seriously proposed that people
should become corporations and sell shares in 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/05/no-market-wont-sort-it-out">themselves to raise
funds to invest in their education.</a>
<p>
That's effectively a way of selling a fraction of yourself into
slavery.  A few may become successful, while many become controlled by
their shareholders.  The rich who own the shares will dominate the
decisions about the laws to regulate this system.
<p>
The book, <Em>The Unincorporated Man</Em> by Kollin and Kollin, describes a
future world in which this has happened.  The people in that world are
used to the system and defend it, but at the end we see that forces
everyone to be partly owned by whoever buys stock in them.
<p>
Please do <Em>not</Em> get it from 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/amazon.html">Amazon!</a>

 


title: The Other Victims of US Burns Pits Were the Iraqi and Afghan People
uri: The-Other-Victims-of-US-Burns-Pits-Were-the-Iraqi-and-Afghan-People
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(burn_pits_victims_were_iraqi_afghan_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(burn_pits_victims_were_iraqi_afghan_people)

content:
 
<p>
The US military uses a highly polluting method (burn pits) to dispose
of most kinds of 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/05/other-victims-us-burns-pits-were-iraqi-and-afghan-people">inconvenient waste in deployment bases.</a>
<p>
It causes avoidable injury to US solders, and also to the local
civilians.  But it's cheap for the Pentagon, supposing it doesn't bear
the cost of treating those injuries.  Now it will have to pay to treat
the US veterans, but not the local civilians.
<p>
Don't forget about the diseases caused to both US soldiers and local civilians
by 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/09/26/veteran-seeks-answers-depleted-uranium">Depleted Uranium.</a>

 


title: Nebraska teen and her mother charged for aborting and burying fetus
uri: Nebraska-teen-and-her-mother-charged-for-aborting-and-burying-fetus
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(nebraska_teen_charged_aborting_fetus)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(nebraska_teen_charged_aborting_fetus)

content:
 
<p>
*Nebraska teen and her mother charged for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/09/nebraska-teen-charged-aborting-fetus">aborting and burying fetus.</a>*
<p>
Some of the charges are about doing things with a "dead body".  It is
absurd to consider a fetus a dead body, but antiabortionists push for
anything that classifies a fetus as a human being for any specific
purpose in any specific circumstance, regarding that as a step closer
to classifying abortion as murder.
<p>
Roe v Wade did not legalize abortion after 6 months except with
certain specific grounds.  I wonder if any of those grounds applied
here &mdash; and also why she did not have an abortion earlier.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Death_Valley_flooded)
title: Death Valley flooded
uri: Death-Valley-flooded
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Death_Valley_flooded)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/10/death-valley-floods-climate-crisis">Death Valley suffered flooding</a> from unusual heavy rainfall.
At least no homes were flooded, since nobody lives there.

 


title: Company fined for fraudulent "Made in the USA" labels
uri: Company-fined-for-fraudulent-Made-in-the-USA-labels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Company_fined_for_fraudulent_Made_in_the_USA_labels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Company_fined_for_fraudulent_Made_in_the_USA_labels)

content:
 
<p>
A right-wing t-shirt company, which supports the corrupter, has been
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/10/pro-trump-brand-fake-made-in-usa-tags">fined for fraudulently labeling its shirts "Made in the USA"</a>.
In fact, they were made in China.
<p>
What else would you expect from people that support someone who boasts
of lying.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Flawed_private_water_system)
title: Flawed private water system
uri: Flawed-private-water-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Flawed_private_water_system)
content:
 
<p>
Privatized water companies in Britain are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/10/the-guardian-view-on-water-companies-nationalise-a-flawed-private-system">profiteering while draining
their customers</a>.  That's what privatizing a government service tends to do, and the Tories
that did it probably were aiming for that result.

 


title: Urgent: Vote for the "Inflation reduction bill"
uri: Urgent-Vote-for-the-Inflation-reduction-bill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Urgent:_Vote_for_the_Inflation_reduction_bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Urgent:_Vote_for_the_Inflation_reduction_bill)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say to vote for the
"<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#10_August_2022_(Urgent:_Big_pharma_lobbying)">Inflation reduction bill</a>" (which includes climate defense, a little
more tax on the rich, and reducing some medicine prices), which the
Senate already passed.
<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>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Amazon_purchases)
title: Amazon purchases
uri: Amazon-purchases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Amazon_purchases)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-roomba-vacuums-most-dangerous-threatening-acquisition-in-company-history-2022-8">Amazon wants to purchase</a> One Medical, a medical treatment company
which holds lots of patients' medical records.  And if it can
purchase iRobot, which makes robot vacuum cleaners, it can collect
data about the lives of the people who use them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Corrupter_could_be_imprisoned)
title: Corrupter could be imprisoned
uri: Corrupter-could-be-imprisoned
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Corrupter_could_be_imprisoned)
content:
 
<p>
The corrupter could be <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/08/09/trump-fbi-raid-al-capone/">put in prison for years</a> for taking
secret documents home, or for destroying them.
<p>
I don't understand why Risen proposes to involving the Espionage Act
in this.  That would be very dangerous, because it could legitimize
the misuse of that law to prosecute whistleblowers.
<p>
Until the day we change that law to protect whistleblowers, whose
"crime" is to tell the people about the state's actions, we must not
lump them together with people like the corrupter who take secret
documents in order to deny the state access to them and block it from
functioning.

 


title: People collapsing from heat in Phoenix, Arizona
uri: People-collapsing-from-heat-in-Phoenix-Arizona
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(People_collapsing_from_heat_in_Phoenix,_Arizona)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(People_collapsing_from_heat_in_Phoenix,_Arizona)

content:
 
<p>
Phoenix, Arizona, is so hot that people doing nothing more than walk around
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/10/phoenix-fire-department-emergency-calls-heatwave">collapsing and need urgent rescue</a>.

 


title: Celeste Burgess and Jessica Burgess
uri: Celeste-Burgess-and-Jessica-Burgess
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Celeste_Burgess_and_Jessica_Burgess)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Celeste_Burgess_and_Jessica_Burgess)

content:
 
<p>
The abortion charges against Celeste Burgess and Jessica Burgess are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/10/facebook-user-data-abortion-nebraska-police">based on a subpoena for their Facebook messages</a>.
<p>
The only communication systems you can safely use to discuss abortion
plans in the US now are those which do not save any record &mdash; either
in a central server or in your own device.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(China's_monomaniacal_intimidation)
title: China's monomaniacal intimidation
uri: China-s-monomaniacal-intimidation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(China's_monomaniacal_intimidation)
content:
 
<p>
China's communications about Taiwan are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/10/china-halts-military-drills-around-taiwan-but-war-preparation-continues">monomaniacal intimidation pretending
to be friendship</a>.
<p>
It's similar to coercive control, but on an international scale.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_((Satire)_Bodies)
title: (Satire) Bodies
uri: (Satire)-Bodies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_((Satire)_Bodies)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Relieved [corrupter] Thought Mar-A-Lago Raid Was About All
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/relieved-trump-thought-mar-a-lago-raid-was-about-all-th-1849391897">The Bodies</a>.
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts on the page, then right-click
and select the item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as
lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_($180_billion)
title: $180 billion
uri: 180-billion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_($180_billion)
content:
 
<p>
* Pentagon contractors operating in Afghanistan over the past two
decades <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/09/pentagon-contractors-afghanistan-pocketed-108-billion-over-20-years">raked in nearly $108 billion—funds</a> that "were distributed
and spent with a significant lack of transparency," according to a
report published Tuesday.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(AIPAC's_New_Political_Strategy)
title: AIPAC's New Political Strategy
uri: AIPAC-s-New-Political-Strategy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(AIPAC's_New_Political_Strategy)
content:
 
<p>
*AIPAC's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/09/aipacs-new-political-strategy-spend-millions-elections-without-mentioning-israel">New Political Strategy</a>: Spend Millions on Elections Without
Mentioning Israel.*

 


title: Watchdogs demand Schumer disclose big tech donations
uri: Watchdogs-demand-Schumer-disclose-big-tech-donations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Watchdogs_demand_Schumer_disclose_big_tech_donations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Watchdogs_demand_Schumer_disclose_big_tech_donations)

content:
 
<p>
*With Antitrust Bills Stalled, Watchdogs <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/09/antitrust-bills-stalled-watchdogs-demand-schumer-disclose-big-tech-donations">Demand Schumer Disclose Big Tech
Donations</a>.*  They suspect him of being paid to block those bills from getting a vote.

 


title: (Satire) New public safety campaign
uri: (Satire)-New-public-safety-campaign
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_((Satire)_New_public_safety_campaign)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_((Satire)_New_public_safety_campaign)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) Reminding would-be mass shooters that <a href="https://www.theonion.com/new-public-safety-campaign-dissuades-mass-shooters-with-1849158453">it has become old hat,
and people would hardly even remember their names</a>.
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts on the page, then right-click
and select the item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as
lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


title: Warnings for large gun and ammunition purchases
uri: Warnings-for-large-gun-and-ammunition-purchases
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Warnings_for_large_gun_and_ammunition_purchases)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Warnings_for_large_gun_and_ammunition_purchases)

content:
 
<p>
Proposing credit card companies warn <a href="https://www.gunsdownamerica.org/campaigns/credit-cards/">when someone orders large
supplies of guns and ammunition</a>.
<p>
I think this is a good idea.  The interference with privacy would be
very narrow, and little by comparison with the things we are fighting
against.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Psychedelic_therapies)
title: Psychedelic therapies
uri: Psychedelic-therapies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Psychedelic_therapies)
content:
 
<p>
*Biden Administration Plans for <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/07/26/mdma-psilocybin-fda-ptsd/">Legal Psychedelic Therapies</a> Within Two
Years.*
<p>
We must expect Republicans to demonize this with lies and
exaggerations.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(FBI_searching_corrupters'_home)
title: FBI searching corrupters' home
uri: FBI-searching-corrupters-home
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(FBI_searching_corrupters'_home)
content:
 
<p>
FBI agents <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/todays-assault-on-trump">searched the corrupter's home at Mar-a-Lago</a>, looking for
secret government papers he was not allowed to remove from the files.
Naturally they had to look inside his safe, but if "breaking in"
implies damaging the safe, that was gratuitous.  Thugs often cause
gratuitous damage to people when they search. and many of those people
aren't rich like the corrupter and can't shrug off the cost of those
damages
<p>
They should have given him &mdash; and anyone whose premises they search
&mdash; the chance to open things for them and avoid damage.
<p>
However, there is no reason to suppose he was honest about this.
(He's not usually honest.)  Maybe the safe was opened without damaging
it.

 


title: Emmet Till accuser won't be charged
uri: Emmet-Till-accuser-won-t-be-charged
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Emmet_Till_accuser_won't_be_charged)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(Emmet_Till_accuser_won't_be_charged)

content:
 
<p>
*Emmett Till: woman whose accusation led to [his] lynching <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/09/emmett-till-carolyn-bryant-donham-no-charges">will not be
charged</a>.*
<p>
I think this verdict was inevitable.  If her story is true, it implies
she is not responsible for the murder of Emmet Till.  If she is lying,
she might be co-responsible in some way, but there is no evidence about
what it may have been, let alone any proof.
<p>
The people who really should have been convicted of murder were the
people who killed him.  They were acquitted by a racist jury.
<p>
If that were to happen today, the murderers would face federal civil
rights charges, as well as state charges.  The conviction of Ahmaud
Arbery's killers suggests that the US has learned to be less racist in
its justice than it was in 1955.  Maybe some day it will learn to be
even less racist.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(global_heating_shocking_changes)
title: Global heating has caused ‘shocking’ changes in forests across the Americas, studies find
uri: Global-heating-has-caused-shocking-changes-in-forests-across-the
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(global_heating_shocking_changes)
content:
 
<p>
*Global heating has caused ‘shocking’ changes in forests 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/10/forests-changes-global-heating-arctic-amazon-studies">across the Americas,
studies find.</a>*
<p>
Trees are advancing to the north, and dying or burning in the south.
<p>
*Melting of the world's biggest ice sheet [the East Antarctic] would cause catastrophic sea level rise, but 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/10/east-antarctic-ice-sheet-in-our-hands-climate-action">can be avoided with fast climate action.</a>*

 


title: Inside Somalia’s vicious cycle of deforestation for charcoal
uri: Inside-Somalia-s-vicious-cycle-of-deforestation-for-charcoal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(somalia_deforestion_charcoal_farmers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(somalia_deforestion_charcoal_farmers)

content:
 
<p>
*Inside Somalia’s vicious cycle of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/08/somalia-deforestation-charcoal-farmers-logging-al-shabaab">deforestation for charcoal.*</a>
<p>
Reportedly, al-Shabaab is trying to prohibit cutting trees with leaves,
and having some success enforcing the prohibition by burning trucks
caught carrying such wood.  A democratic government might be able to
enforce the rule with less brutality, but this may be better than
nothing in the long term.
<p>
In a world of growing scarcity, the long-term non-brutal solution is
(1) decarbonization and (2) much fewer births.
<p>
ISTR that Haiti has suffered for decades from a similar problem;
nearly all the forests have been cut down.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(gustavo_petro_war_on_drugs_failed)
title: Colombia’s first leftist president says war on drugs has failed
uri: Colombia-s-first-leftist-president-says-war-on-drugs-has-failed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(gustavo_petro_war_on_drugs_failed)
content:
 
<p>
Colombia's new president Gustavo Petro declared that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/08/colombia-gustavo-petro-first-leftist-president-war-on-drugs-has-failed">fighting the war on drugs
has failed.</a>
<p>
but he means, fighting that war on Colombia's territory has failed.  He's
right about that.  But he seems not to realize that fighting that war
on US territory is equally a failure.  "Strong measures that prevent
consumption in developed societies" is not a solution to the problems
caused by use of addictive drugs.
<p>
We should put that war into a treatment program to get it off drugs.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(trump_pleads_fifth)
title: Trump Spews 'Tirade of Same Old Lies' But Pleads the Fifth in New York AG Probe
uri: Trump-Spews-Tirade-of-Same-Old-Lies-But-Pleads-the-Fifth-in-New-York
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(trump_pleads_fifth)
content:
 
<p>
The corrupter said, "Only guilty people and mobsters plead the Fifth."
This week, he did just that, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/10/trump-spews-tirade-same-old-lies-pleads-fifth-new-york-ag-probe">while being questioned for a lawsuit.</a>
<p>
It's tempting to say, "He's guilty, or he's a mobster &mdash; he said so himself!"
But it's wrong to say that, because the "rule" he cited was bullshit all along.
To treat it as valid is to undermine the Fifth Amendment itself, and we
must not do that.
<p>
We have plenty of other reasons to believe that the corrupter is guilty
of trying to overthrow the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/24/trumps-attempted-coup-continues-even-after-january-6-hearings-are-over-for-now">US government and seize power,</a> as well as swindling 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/13/jan-6-committee-confirms-big-lie-was-also-big-ripoff-trump-donors">in his fund-raising.</a>
<p>
Not yet proof that can put him away, though.

 


title: To Tackle Stubborn Inflation, Experts Urge Bold Action Against 'Corporate Profiteering'
uri: To-Tackle-Stubborn-Inflation-Experts-Urge-Bold-Action-Against-Corpor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(stubborn_inflation_experts_urge_action)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#11_August_2022_(stubborn_inflation_experts_urge_action)

content:
 
<p>
To whip inflation in the US, we need to stop big businesses from 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/10/tackle-stubborn-inflation-experts-urge-bold-action-against-corporate-profiteering">raising prices from greed.</a>
<p>
The way I prefer is to break up the many large companies that have too
big a share of whatever market.  Rather than launch a lawsuit against
each excessively large company, 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/articles/progressive-tax-on-business-gross-income.html">I recommend a tax system that raises the
tax rate sharply as a company gets bigger, or as it gets a bigger share
of each market.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_August_2022_(Hepatitis_C)
title: Hepatitis C
uri: Hepatitis-C
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_August_2022_(Hepatitis_C)
content:
 
<p>
The new, effective treatment for Hepatitis C is so expensive that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/health/hepatitis-c-treatment-access-study/index.html">2/3 of
the Americans who catch it don't get treated</a>.
<p>
This failure of the medical system used to happen only in poor countries,
but now even the US is becoming a poor country (for most of its inhabitants).

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_August_2022_(Crime_to_camp_on_street_in_tent)
title: Crime to camp on street in tent
uri: Crime-to-camp-on-street-in-tent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_August_2022_(Crime_to_camp_on_street_in_tent)
content:
 
<p>
Tennessee has made it a crime to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/us/homelessness-in-nashville/index.html">camp on the street in a tent</a>.
<p>
Is it permissible to camp without a tent and get wet and sick?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_August_2022_((Satire)_Proving_SNAP_needs)
title: (Satire) Proving SNAP needs
uri: (Satire)-Proving-SNAP-needs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_August_2022_((Satire)_Proving_SNAP_needs)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *SNAP Recipients Now Required To Prove Need [i.e., hunger] By
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/snap-recipients-now-required-to-prove-need-by-eating-al-1849316338">Eating All Their Groceries On Spot</a>.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts on the page, then right-click
and select the item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as
lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


title: (Satire) Prison charges inmate for family photo
uri: (Satire)-Prison-charges-inmate-for-family-photo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_August_2022_((Satire)_Prison_charges_inmate_for_family_photo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#12_August_2022_((Satire)_Prison_charges_inmate_for_family_photo)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Prison Charges Inmate $1 Per Minute For <a href="https://www.theonion.com/prison-charges-inmate-1-per-minute-for-time-with-photo-1849321523">Time With Photo Of Family</a>.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts on the page, then right-click
and select the item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as
lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(britan_leaders_inflation_energy)
title: Britain faces crisis upon crisis, and our leaders are absent. This is how a country falls apart
uri: Britain-faces-crisis-upon-crisis-and-our-leaders-are-absent-This-is
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(britan_leaders_inflation_energy)
content:
 
<p>
The two Tory contenders to replace Bogus Johnson stand for
neoliberalism.  Their ideology says that the government should do
nothing to correct Britain's devastating problems, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/10/crisis-britain-leaders-inflation-energy-wages-conservative">because interfering with
the market is a sin.</a>
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-jul-oct.html#11_September_2021_(Freedom_to_have_an_abortion)">Laissez faire, laissez mourir.</a>
<p>
In practice, that means they do nothing to stop businesses from
squeezing money out of the non-rich.  The billionaires that fund the
Tory party must find that convenient.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(google_abortion_location_data)
title: Google Says It Will Delete Location Data When Users Visit Abortion Clinics
uri: Google-Says-It-Will-Delete-Location-Data-When-Users-Visit-Abortion-Cli
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(google_abortion_location_data)
content:
 
<p>
Google said it would "delete" location data that show visits to
"sensitive" locations, which include 
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/technology/google-abortion-location-data.html">abortion clinics and some other
places.</a>
<p>
In regard to location data, it is a good first step, but limited.  It
is limited because (1) it excludes all the other places people might
not want to be tracked to, and (2) it excludes location data
collectors other than Google.
<p>
Most crucially, it doesn't include the places where you might someday
arrange to meet a 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">reporter to disclose a crime committed by the state.</a>
<p>
I am not sure what it means to say they "delete" this data rather than
not storing it.  Is it just another way of saying the same thing?
If it really means something tangible, it seems like a risky mistake.

 


title: Urgent: support striking workers at Maximus
uri: Urgent-support-striking-workers-at-Maximus
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Urgent:_maximus_strike_community_support_letter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Urgent:_maximus_strike_community_support_letter)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: support striking workers at Maximus, who demand 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/maximus-strike-community-support-letter">more toilet breaks and sick leave.</a>

 


title: Urgent: call on the eight Democratic holdouts on minimum wage
uri: Urgent-call-on-the-eight-Democratic-holdouts-on-minimum-wage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Urgent:_democratic_holdouts_raise_wages)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Urgent:_democratic_holdouts_raise_wages)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the eight Democratic holdouts on minimum wage to 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-eight-democratic-holdouts-on-minimum-wage-to-come-to-the-bargaining-table-and-raise-wages-for-working-americans-now">raise wages for working americans now.</a>

 


title: Urgent: call on the SEC regulate corporations
uri: Urgent-call-on-the-SEC-regulate-corporations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Urgent:_tell_sec_to_stop_wall_street_greenwashing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Urgent:_tell_sec_to_stop_wall_street_greenwashing)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the SEC 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-sec-to-stop-wall-street-greenwashing-now">regulate corporations to impede greenwashing.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(iran_nuclear_deal)
title: 'Final text' to revive Iran nuclear deal is ready, says EU's Josep Borrell
uri: Final-text-to-revive-Iran-nuclear-deal-is-ready-says-EU-s-Josep-Bor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(iran_nuclear_deal)
content:
 
<p>
European countries have given the US and Iran a "take-it-or-leave-it"
final text for the 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/middleeast/iran-nuclear-deal-final-text-borrell-intl/index.html">non-nuclear deal.</a>
<p>
Let's hope they take it, because that will be a victory over nuclear
proliferation.  And a step towards reducing hostilities between the US
and Iran.

 


title: Koch-Controlled Organizations Spent More Than $1.1 Billion During the 2020 Election Cycle
uri: Koch-Controlled-Organizations-Spent-More-Than-1-1-Billion-During-the
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(koch_controlled_orgs_spent_billions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(koch_controlled_orgs_spent_billions)

content:
 
<p>
*Koch-Controlled Organizations Spent More Than $1.1 
<a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/08/08/koch-controlled-organizations-spent-more-than-1-1-billion-during-the-2020-election-cycle/">Billion During the 2020
Election Cycle.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(we_must_end_war_ukraine)
title: We Must Seize This Opportunity to End the War in Ukraine
uri: We-Must-Seize-This-Opportunity-to-End-the-War-in-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(we_must_end_war_ukraine)
content:
 
<p>
Ukraine has fought the Putin forces to a standstill.  Some American
progressives want to stop the fighting before 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/08/we-must-seize-opportunity-end-war-ukraine">Ukraine can retake any of
the conquered provinces.</a>
<p>
That would pull Ukraine's defeat from the jaws of victory.
<p>
The article speaks of using diplomacy to make Putin return captured
territory, but it would never work.  Putin is doing very well at
standing up to western diplomatic pressure and sanctions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(inside_war_trump)
title: Inside the War Between Trump and His Generals
uri: Inside-the-War-Between-Trump-and-His-Generals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(inside_war_trump)
content:
 
<p>
Chronicling the corrupter's campaign to reduce US military leaders to
give their loyalty to him personally, 
<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/15/inside-the-war-between-trump-and-his-generals">rather than to the United States.</a>
<p>
When the corrupter demanded a military parade in Washington DC,
General Selva (who grew up in Portugal under the rule of a dictator)
told him, "That's what dictators do."  Alas, I doubt that convinced
the would-be autocrat the parade was a bad idea.
<p>
After this, various officials worked hard repeatedly to block the wrecker
from launching a coup, a war, or bloody repression in the streets.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(hubert_horan_uber)
title: Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver?
uri: Hubert-Horan-Can-Uber-Ever-Deliver
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(hubert_horan_uber)
content:
 
<p>
Guber is still running at a loss, 
<a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/08/hubert-horan-can-uber-ever-deliver-part-thirty-one-ubers-legitimate-cumulative-losses-top-32-billion-pl-improvements-driven-by-much-higher-fares-and-multi-billion-dollar-transfers-from.html">even after raising its prices.</a>
<p>
Guber is unjust to workers because it pay them peanuts.  It is unjust
to customers because it <li>(1) requires them to identify themselves and
<li>(2) requires them to run nonfree software.  I can never be a customer
of Guber, and you should refuse too.</li>  
<p>
Please join in wiping out Uber!
<p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(fbi_trump_classified_records)
title: FBI searched Trump’s home seeking classified presidential records – sources
uri: 2022-08-13-
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(fbi_trump_classified_records)
content:
 
<p>
More information about the FBI raid that 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/10/fbi-searched-trumps-home-seeking-classified-presidential-records-sources">seized government records from
the corrupter's home.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(david_pocock_waiving_of_acts)
title: David Pocock to use Senate balance of power to push for waiving of ACT’s public housing debt
uri: David-Pocock-to-use-Senate-balance-of-power-to-push-for-waiving-of-ACT
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(david_pocock_waiving_of_acts)
content:
 
<p>
In Australia, powerful senators are demanding that the government 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/10/david-pocock-to-use-senate-balance-of-power-to-push-for-waiving-of-acts-public-housing-debt">erase the
housing aid debts of states.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(private_equity_shielding_industry)
title: Sinema Received Over $500K From Private Equity Before Shielding Industry From Tax Hikes
uri: Sinema-Received-Over-500K-From-Private-Equity-Before-Shielding-Indust
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(private_equity_shielding_industry)
content:
 
<p>
"private equity" parasites gave Senator Sinema $500 million in campaign
funds this year, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/08/sinema-received-over-500k-private-equity-shielding-industry-tax-hikes">to pay her to protect their low income tax rate.</a>
<p>
Even worse than their low tax rate is the way these so-called
"investors" destroy companies.  Years after the demise of Pay less Shoe
Source, which I used to be a customer of, I have found no physical
stores that sell the things I used to buy there.  That is just one
example of many.

 


title: Facebook and Anti-Abortion clinics collecting sensitive info
uri: Facebook-and-Anti-Abortion-clinics-collecting-sensitive-info
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Facebook_and_Anti-Abortion_clinics_collecting_sensitive_info)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Facebook_and_Anti-Abortion_clinics_collecting_sensitive_info)

content:
 
<p>
*Facebook and Anti-Abortion Clinics Are <a href="https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/06/15/facebook-and-anti-abortion-clinics-are-collecting-highly-sensitive-info-on-would-be-patients">Collecting Highly Sensitive Info on
Would-Be Patients</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Inflation_Reduction_Act)
title: Inflation Reduction Act
uri: Inflation-Reduction-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Inflation_Reduction_Act)
content:
 
<p>
The "<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/09/inflation-reduction-act-should-be-just-beginning">Inflation Reduction Act</a>" is a good start at climate defense, but
only a little in other areas.
<p>
More on <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/10/inflation-reduction-act-will-not-cut-benefits-it-will-reduce-medicare-drug-costs">what it does to do Medicare</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(New_Chilean_constitution_praised)
title: New Chilean constitution praised
uri: New-Chilean-constitution-praised
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(New_Chilean_constitution_praised)
content:
 
<p>
Academic luminaries <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/10/top-economists-hail-chilean-constitution-new-global-standard-climate-inequality">praise the new Chilean constitution</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(IRS_audits)
title: IRS audits
uri: 2022-08-14-IRS-audits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(IRS_audits)
content:
 
<p>
*Yellen directs IRS <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/10/politics/yellen-new-irs-funding-audits/index.html">not to use new funding</a> to increase chances of audits of
Americans making less than $400,000.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Fossil_fuel_limits)
title: Fossil fuel limits
uri: Fossil-fuel-limits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Fossil_fuel_limits)
content:
 
<p>
There are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/27/will-civilization-collapse-because-its-running-out-oil">limits on the amount of fossil fuel energy</a> that we can effectively
extract and usefully combust.
<p>
If we decarbonize rapidly, those limits may not matter.
Otherwise, we may actually hit peak oil.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Covid_problems)
title: Covid problems
uri: Covid-problems
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Covid_problems)
content:
 
<p>
About 5% of the people who catch Covid-19 have problems with taste and
smell for at least 6 months afterwards &mdash; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/27/covid-study-finds-millions-have-long-term-smell-or-taste-problems">bad enough to make life horrible</a>.
<p>
Waiting 6 months for my enjoyment of food to recover, I could live
with.  Waiting years would be a fate worse than death.  I wonder what
fraction suffer loss of taste and smell for years?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Climate_defense_plans_undermined)
title: Climate defense plans undermined
uri: Climate-defense-plans-undermined
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Climate_defense_plans_undermined)
content:
 
<p>
Australia's new government has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/11/labor-to-back-new-fossil-fuel-projects-that-stack-up-economically-and-environmentally">undermined its climate defense plans</a> by
encouraging new natural gas extraction projects and describing natural
gas as an "ally" of decarbonization.
<p>
A precipitous gas shortage and price spike would cause a crisis; that
is not desirable.  What Australia needs (like the rest of the world)
is a planned, steady and predictable rise in the price of gas.
That's easy to do with a tax, scheduling tax increases annually
until decades from now.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Accounting_tricks)
title: Accounting tricks
uri: Accounting-tricks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Accounting_tricks)
content:
 
<p>
*[Australian] Greens urge Labor to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/11/greens-urge-labor-to-reject-international-carbon-offsets-as-accounting-tricks">reject international carbon offsets</a>
as "accounting tricks."*
<p>
Sometimes they are accounting tricks; sometimes they are outright
fraud.  Sometimes they are mere gambling.  We can't predict global
heating well enough to know which "carbon offsets" will really deliver
emissions reductions in future.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Intolerable_UPS_working_conditions)
title: Intolerable UPS working conditions
uri: Intolerable-UPS-working-conditions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#13_August_2022_(Intolerable_UPS_working_conditions)
content:
 
<p>
UPS drivers face <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/08/ups-drivers-union-heat-temperatures-climate-crisis">intolerable working conditions</a>, including 14-hour shifts
working in heat that endangers their health.

 


title: Urgent: call on Governor Baker to sign the abortion access bill
uri: Urgent-call-on-Governor-Baker-to-sign-the-abortion-access-bill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Urgent:_call_on_Governor_Baker_to_sign_the_abortion_access_bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Urgent:_call_on_Governor_Baker_to_sign_the_abortion_access_bill)

content:
 
<p>

Massachusetts residents: call on Governor Baker to <a href="https://action.aclu.org/send-message/ma-sign-abortion-access-bill?initms_aff=ma&initms_chan=eml&utm_medium=eml&initms=220721_affcampaign_sign-bill_gradead_sail&utm_source=sail&utm_campaign=affcampaign&utm_content=220721_reproductiverights_sign-bill_gradead&af=Yb3AJIpkvnwkl6wKwyjELOdf4si7cdbi9GZnigtn2XsinkZMgW/laHLUPy6o6RIvbf5eXPI4VQ9MCb7u6csUcuJHGCwdsf/Ekhq8Oy/iV2Y/VM5bOih/HmQmLg9UcJwBelZFsSGw38zZwE5iPDbe8SiTlCng7MmoxLHWel8aL4o%3D&ms_aff=ma&ms_chan=eml&ms=220721_affcampaign_sign-bill_gradead_sail">sign the abortion
access bill</a>.

 


title: Nixon urged South Vietnamese generals to obstruct President Johnson's peace negotiations
uri: Nixon-urged-South-Vietnamese-generals-to-obstruct-President-Johnson-s
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Nixon_urged_South_Vietnamese_generals_to_obstruct_President_Johnson's_peace_negotiations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Nixon_urged_South_Vietnamese_generals_to_obstruct_President_Johnson's_peace_negotiations)

content:
 
<p>

Nixon talked with the South Vietnamese generals in 1968, urging them
to obstruct President Johnson's peace negotiations. Both parties
expected progress towards peace would <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/08/11/trump-fbi-mar-a-lago-classified-documents-lbj/">help the prospects of Nixon's
Democratic opponent</a>.
<p>
Nixon even discussed this with the bankers that backed him.
<p>
Nixon's actions may have been a violation of the Logan Act, so having
the FBI investigate was proper.  Even supposing they were not illegal,
they were treacherous in spirit.
<p>
Ultimately, Johnson decided to keep the secret reports that proved
Nixon's treachery, so as to avoid stimulating distrust of the US
government when Nixon was at its head.  That was well meant, though we
would today consider it naive and foolish.
<p>
Johnson also had one of his officials take those secret documents away
rather than leaving them in the White House.  The article says nothing
about the motivation for this, but perhaps it was to make sure that
Nixon's treachery would be revealed some day &mdash; decades in the future.
He may have been afraid Nixon would destroy them.

 


title: Some Louisiana Christians hate same-sex couples
uri: Some-Louisiana-Christians-hate-same-sex-couples
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Some_Louisiana_Christians_hate_same-sex_couples)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Some_Louisiana_Christians_hate_same-sex_couples)

content:
 
<p>

Some Louisiana Christians hate same-sex couples, but interestingly
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/11/louisisana-kindergarten-class-kicked-out-parents-same-sex-couple">many other do not</a>.
<p>
I think it is unfortunate when children are taught a religion. but
I still appreciate the good news that some Christian schools reject
the usual Christian hatreds.

 


title: Koch network concealing transactions
uri: Koch-network-concealing-transactions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Koch_network_concealing_transactions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Koch_network_concealing_transactions)

content:
 
<p>

*Koch Network Uses National Philanthropic Trust to <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2022/08/11/koch-network-uses-national-philanthropic-trust-to-conceal-transactions/">Conceal Transactions</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Coercive_control_among_individuals)
title: Coercive control among individuals
uri: Coercive-control-among-individuals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Coercive_control_among_individuals)
content:
 
<p>

Coercive control (among individuals) is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/12/countering-as-routine-world-expert-explains-the-key-to-getting-coercive-control-laws-right">based on threats to cause pain</a>.  Often these involve physical violence, but it takes different
forms from violence in other contexts.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Physical_threat_to_US_poll_workers)
title: Physical threat to US poll workers
uri: Physical-threat-to-US-poll-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Physical_threat_to_US_poll_workers)
content:
 
<p>

*Election lies [and therefore the Republican Party that encourages
those lies] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/11/house-oversight-committee-election-misinformation">pose physical threat to US poll workers</a>, House report
warns.*

 


title: Attempts to inform Congress of deleted text messages
uri: Attempts-to-inform-Congress-of-deleted-text-messages
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Attempts_to_inform_Congress_of_deleted_text_messages)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Attempts_to_inform_Congress_of_deleted_text_messages)

content:
 
<p>

*   Officials at the DHS’s office of inspector general said their attempts
   to inform Congress [about deleted text messages] in April were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/11/missing-secret-service-texts-congress-notified-april">thwarted
  [by its leaders]</a>.*

 


title: Criminal investigations and arrests for abortions involving medications
uri: Criminal-investigations-and-arrests-for-abortions-involving-medication
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Criminal_investigations_and_arrests_for_abortions_involving_medications)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Criminal_investigations_and_arrests_for_abortions_involving_medications)

content:
 
<p>

* [The author has] documented 61 cases from the years 2000 to 2020 in
   which people have been criminally investigated or arrested for
   self-managing their own abortion or helping someone else do so; the
   majority of these cases <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/10/trend-criminalizing-self-managed-abortion-about-intensify">exclusively involved abortion medication</a>.*

 


title: Biden must declare climate emergency despite the climate bill
uri: Biden-must-declare-climate-emergency-despite-the-climate-bill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Biden_must_declare_climate_emergency_despite_the_climate_bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Biden_must_declare_climate_emergency_despite_the_climate_bill)

content:
 
<p>

Despite the climate bill (which was passed), Biden must <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/28/after-manchin-deal-advocates-say-we-still-need-biden-declare-climate-emergency">still declare
a climate emergency</a> and stop approving fossil fuel projects.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_((satire)_Pelosi's_Taiwan_trip)
title: (satire) Pelosi's Taiwan trip
uri: (satire)-Pelosi-s-Taiwan-trip
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_((satire)_Pelosi's_Taiwan_trip)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/china-threatens-to-retaliate-for-pelosi-s-taiwan-trip-b-1849343979">*China Threatens To Retaliate For Pelosi's Taiwan Trip By
Letting Her Return Safely.*</a>

 


title: Shell using money for stock buy-backs
uri: Shell-using-money-for-stock-buy-backs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Shell_using_money_for_stock_buy-backs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Shell_using_money_for_stock_buy-backs)

content:
 
<p>

Shell is using every spare pound for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2022/jul/28/with-such-eye-watering-profits-shell-should-invest-more-in-low-carbon-transition">stock buy-backs</a>.  Investing in
renewables, it is not interested in.
<p>
Stock buy-backs used to be illegal in the US.  There is no reason to
permit them now.  But we should not depend on fossil fuel companies to
invest in renewable energy.  We should charge them a lot of tax, and
have the government fund investment in renewable energy.
<p>
To actually do that depends on electing more progressive legislators;
talking about this is the way we get there.

 


title: The House passed the climate/tax/drug price bill
uri: The-House-passed-the-climate-tax-drug-price-bill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(The_House_passed_the_climate%2Ftax%2Fdrug_price_bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(The_House_passed_the_climate%2Ftax%2Fdrug_price_bill)

content:
 
<p>

The House <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/12/us-house-passes-climate-bill-inflation-reduction-act">passed the climate/tax/drug price bill</a>, so it will soon be
law.
<p>
If Democrats increase their lead in the Senate, maybe they can get rid
of the bad parts next year.

 


title: Obstacles to having discussion about future human population
uri: Obstacles-to-having-discussion-about-future-human-population
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Obstacles_to_having_discussion_about_future_human_population)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Obstacles_to_having_discussion_about_future_human_population)

content:
 
<p>

On the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/28/dual-population-problem-people-and-things">obstacles</a> to having a serious political discussion about future human
population.
<p>
Just as discussion of reducing the human population is insufficient
without discussing reducing per-capita consumption, so discussion of
reducing per-capita consumption is insufficient without discussing
reducing the human population.
<p>
Climate disaster will eventually reduce the human population with
millions of deaths, but if we want to do it by reducing births
instead, we need to plan it.

 


title: Medicare and Medicaid still under threat on 57th anniversary
uri: Medicare-and-Medicaid-still-under-threat-on-57th-anniversary
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Medicare_and_Medicaid_still_under_threat_on_57th_anniversary)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Medicare_and_Medicaid_still_under_threat_on_57th_anniversary)

content:
 
<p>

*On Their 57th Anniversary, Medicare and Medicaid <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/28/their-57th-anniversary-medicare-and-medicaid-remain-under-threat">Remain Under Threat</a>.*

 


title: Money big oil has spent to sabotage climate action
uri: Money-big-oil-has-spent-to-sabotage-climate-action
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Money_big_oil_has_spent_to_sabotage_climate_action)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_August_2022_(Money_big_oil_has_spent_to_sabotage_climate_action)

content:
 
<p>

*Since 2021, Big Oil Has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/28/2021-big-oil-has-spent-over-200-million-sabotage-climate-action-analysis">Spent Over $200 Million</a> to Sabotage Climate
Action: Analysis.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Need_to_fight_censorship)
title: Need to fight censorship
uri: Need-to-fight-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Need_to_fight_censorship)
content:
 
<p>
The attack on Salman Rushdie demonstrates the need to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/14/salman-rushdie-defied-those-who-would-silence-him-too-many-fear-causing-offence">fight censorship
from any and all directions</a>.
<p>
See my article about <a href="/articles/hrant-dink.html">Hrant Dink</a>, who was ready to fight censorship
from all directions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Court_interference)
title: Court interference
uri: Court-interference
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Court_interference)
content:
 
<p>
A senior Hungarian judge condemns the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/14/viktor-orban-grip-on-hungary-courts-threatens-rule-of-law-warns-judge">government's interference</a> with
courts.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Sending_daughters_to_get_education)
title: Sending daughters to get education
uri: Sending-daughters-to-get-education
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Sending_daughters_to_get_education)
content:
 
<p>
Some Taliban officials sneakily send their daughters outside of
Afghanistan to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/14/hypocrisy-or-a-reason-for-hope-the-taliban-who-send-their-girls-to-school">get an education</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Arizona_thugs_attack_parents)
title: Arizona thugs attack parents
uri: Arizona-thugs-attack-parents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Arizona_thugs_attack_parents)
content:
 
<p>
Thugs at an Arizona school, which they had "locked down", <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/14/arizona-police-taser-two-parents-locked-down-school">attacked
parents who were trying to get their children</a>.

 


title: UK torture and murder investigation blocked and suppressed
uri: UK-torture-and-murder-investigation-blocked-and-suppressed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(UK_torture_and_murder_investigation_blocked_and_suppressed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(UK_torture_and_murder_investigation_blocked_and_suppressed)

content:
 
<p>
The UK used torture and murder systematically in the 1950s to fight
the Mau Mau movement in Kenya.  Then it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/14/police-chief-quit-after-abuse-by-british-colonial-troops-in-kenya-covered-up">blocked and suppressed an
investigation into this</a>.
<p>
*"You often hear people say in Britain that it was acceptable by the
standards of the time. And I think documents like this really
illustrate that, no, people at the time knew this was wrong as well."*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_((Satire)_Mar-A-Lago)
title: (Satire) Mar-A-Lago
uri: (Satire)-Mar-A-Lago
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_((Satire)_Mar-A-Lago)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *FBI Sent Itemized Bill For <a href="https://www.theonion.com/fbi-sent-itemized-bill-for-12-hour-stay-at-mar-a-lago-1849403046">12-Hour Stay</a> At Mar-A-Lago.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts in the page, then right-click
and select item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as lynx
that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Leondra_Taylor_fired_for_cartoon)
title: Leondra Taylor fired for cartoon
uri: Leondra-Taylor-fired-for-cartoon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Leondra_Taylor_fired_for_cartoon)
content:
 
<p>
Delta Airlines fired Leondra Taylor for <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/13/us/flight-attendant-delta-lawsuit-trump-cartoon/index.html">posting a cartoon showing the
corrupter with a Ku Klux Klan hood</a>.  The company called this cartoon
"disrespectful, hateful or discriminatory", which is quite a distortion.
Taylor is suing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(US_amusement_parks_and_exclusion)
title: US amusement parks and exclusion
uri: US-amusement-parks-and-exclusion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(US_amusement_parks_and_exclusion)
content:
 
<p>
In the 20th century, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2022/jul/30/sesame-place-theme-parks-black-families-racism">many US amusement parks practiced excluded
blacks, in some cases violently</a>.  This was not only in the south; it
occurred even in New York City.
<p>
Nowadays, black customers face hostility from staff at some amusement
parks, as at Sesame Place.  With so many racists in the US, that is
going to happen randomly.  But is it more than that?  It could be that
that particular park has a habit of bigotry among its staff.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Cheniere_Energy's_greenwashing)
title: Cheniere Energy's greenwashing
uri: Cheniere-Energy-s-greenwashing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Cheniere_Energy's_greenwashing)
content:
 
<p>
A report examines the specific way <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/13/lng-giants-greenwashing-reveals-gas-export-industrys-dangerous-intentions">Cheniere Energy's greenwashing</a>
bends the facts about the methane it trades in.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Oklahoma_governor_harassing)
title: Oklahoma governor harassing
uri: Oklahoma-governor-harassing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Oklahoma_governor_harassing)
content:
 
<p>
The anti-anti-racist Republican governor of Oklahoma is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/us/crt-tulsa-school-accreditation-status-downgrade-reaj/index.html">harassing the
Tulsa city school department</a>.  One thing she did was label it as
"deficient" for allegedly showing a video that shamed white students
for being white, which is prohibited now.
<p>
The school department replied that the video (1) didn't try to shame
anyone alive today and (2) was shown before that law was adopted
anyway.
<p>
Republicans have made it standard practice to stretch laws and twist
facts.  With a little private pressure and harassment on the side,
they can hope to win a victory for injustice.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Protest_in_Kabul)
title: Protest in Kabul
uri: Protest-in-Kabul
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Protest_in_Kabul)
content:
 
<p>
Women <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/13/female-protesters-beaten-by-taliban-fighters-during-rare-kabul-rally-afghanistan">protested again in Kabul</a>, chanting "bread, work and freedom."
Taliban thugs hit them with rifle butts.

 


title: Disapproval for those who call for retreating
uri: Disapproval-for-those-who-call-for-retreating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Disapproval_for_those_who_call_for_retreating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Disapproval_for_those_who_call_for_retreating)

content:
 
<p>
As we remember the death threat Ayatollah Khomeini made against Salman
Rushdie, we should also show our disapproval to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/13/we-internalised-the-fatwa-against-salman-rushdie-this-horrific-attack-is-what-follows">those who call for
retreating in the face of bullies that try to ban books</a>.
<p>
Nowadays, Muslim extremists are not the only group that tries to bully
people into banning books.  For the sake of freedom of thought, we
need to resist all such campaigns.

 


title: President Gustavo Petro's inaugural address
uri: President-Gustavo-Petro-s-inaugural-address
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(President_Gustavo_Petro's_inaugural_address)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(President_Gustavo_Petro's_inaugural_address)

content:
 
<p>
Here is the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/11/gustavo-petro-colombia-possibilities-and-politics-love">inaugural address</a> of Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Stock_buyback_tax)
title: Stock buyback tax
uri: Stock-buyback-tax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Stock_buyback_tax)
content:
 
<p>
The new 1% tax on stock buybacks will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/11/senate-democrats-just-took-bite-out-stock-buybacks">make those corporations pay
a little more tax</a>.
That is a step forward.
<p>
It also sets a precedent: if we can tax them 1% today, we can tax them
25% next year.  If we keep raising that, eventually the percentage
will get big enough to discourage buybacks.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(New_article)
title: New article
uri: 2022-08-16-New-article
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(New_article)
content:
 
<p>
On <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/punishing-corporate-crimes-by-dissolving.html">punishing crimes of corporations by dissolving them</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Inflation_reduction_act)
title: Inflation reduction act
uri: Inflation-reduction-act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Inflation_reduction_act)
content:
 
<p>
*Four Key Climate Questions About the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/11/four-key-climate-questions-about-inflation-reduction-act">Inflation Reduction Act</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(FBI_office_attacked)
title: FBI office attacked
uri: FBI-office-attacked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(FBI_office_attacked)
content:
 
<p>
One of the wrecker's Jan 6 coup mob <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/armed-man-shoots-fbi-cincinnati-building-nail-gun-flees-leading-inters-rcna42669">attacked an FBI office with guns</a>,
and was eventually shot dead.
<p>
I expect the wrecker and his followers to praise the gunman.

 


title: Sars-Cov-2 entered humans in the Wuhan wild animal market
uri: Sars-Cov-2-entered-humans-in-the-Wuhan-wild-animal-market
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Sars-Cov-2_entered_humans_in_the_Wuhan_wild_animal_market)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Sars-Cov-2_entered_humans_in_the_Wuhan_wild_animal_market)

content:
 
<p>
A team of scientists concludes that Sars-Cov-2 almost certainly <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/13/angela-rasmussen-on-covid-19-this-origins-discussion-is-the-worst-thing-about-twitter">entered
humans in the wild animal market in Wuhan</a>.
<p>
I think the question of how the virus started infecting humans is
interesting, but not morally important.  Its importance is only to
affect precisely what we might learn about how to prevent future
epidemics.
<p>
It could be that we already know the crucial lessons for preventing
pandemics from starting from wild animals, and for preventing
pandemics from starting from lab leaks, and all we need not is to put
them into practice.  Regardless of which path this virus followed, we
know both dangers exist.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Marine_heat_waves)
title: Marine heat waves
uri: Marine-heat-waves
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Marine_heat_waves)
content:
 
<p>
The Mediterranean Sea ecosystems are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/29/mediterranean-sea-ecosystem-threatened-heat-induced-marine-wildfire-scientists-warn">threatened by marine heat waves</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Mail-in_ballots)
title: Mail-in ballots
uri: 2022-08-16-Mail-in-ballots
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Mail-in_ballots)
content:
 
<p>
An activist campaigning against voter fraud in Wisconsin <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/29/politics/wisconsin-voter-fraud-harry-wait/index.html">ordered mail-in
ballots for other people, found it was easy to do, then went public</a>.
<p>
It would be wrong to file charges against the activist.  He did not
try to vote using those ballots.  But what should the state do instead?
<p>
In effect, he tried to demonstrate that the state doesn't have much
security against this sort of fraud.  Apparently that is true.  Is
that a real problem?
<p>
If people actually use this "security hole" for fraud, I think it is a
real problem and the state should fix it.
<p>
On the other hand, if nobody really does this, maybe the system is not
really broken and there is no need to fix it.

 


title: Australia holds people without conviction
uri: Australia-holds-people-without-conviction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Australia_holds_people_without_conviction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Australia_holds_people_without_conviction)

content:
 
<p>
Australia holds hundreds of people in prison <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/12/more-than-1200-people-are-detained-indefinitely-in-australia-with-no-criminal-conviction">without a conviction for
any crime</a>, and has no statistics about why, or how many.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(How_abortion_rights_won_in_Kansas)
title: How abortion rights won in Kansas
uri: How-abortion-rights-won-in-Kansas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(How_abortion_rights_won_in_Kansas)
content:
 
<p>
*The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/12/how-abortion-rights-won-kansas-strategies">strategy that worked in Kansas</a> [for defending abortion rights]
&mdash; countering misinformation, building a broad coalition &mdash;
offers lessons for [other states].*

 


title: Bill to limit insulin price defeated
uri: Bill-to-limit-insulin-price-defeated
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Bill_to_limit_insulin_price_defeated)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Bill_to_limit_insulin_price_defeated)

content:
 
<p>
Republicans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/12/insulin-bill-price-cap-republicans-vote-against">defeated the bill</a> to limit the price of insulin.
<p>
California's approach, manufacturing insulin to compete with the giants,
may work better.  Forcing the established companies to tolerate more
competitors could work too.
<p>
My <a href="/articles/progressive-tax-on-business-gross-income.html">proposed giant-splitting and competition-boosting tax scheme</a>
could do it also.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(New_concepts_of_shooting)
title: New concepts of shooting
uri: New-concepts-of-shooting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(New_concepts_of_shooting)
content:
 
<p>
*An Accused War Criminal Trained Florida [Thugs] in "<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/08/12/tallahassee-police-florida-eddie-gallagher-war-crimes/">New Concepts of Shooting</a>."*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(EU_countries_helping_France)
title: EU countries helping France
uri: EU-countries-helping-France
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(EU_countries_helping_France)
content:
 
<p>
EU countries are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/12/eu-countries-rush-to-help-france-tackle-monstrous-wildfires">helping France fight large wildfires</a>.
<p>
Of course, they ought to help each other.  But that won't be
enough in 20 years when they all face large wildfires at once.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Waves_and_shore_erosion)
title: Waves and shore erosion
uri: Waves-and-shore-erosion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Waves_and_shore_erosion)
content:
 
<p>
The interaction between waves and shore is a complex system; a sea
wall can prevent erosion at one point while exacerbating it elsewhere
in the region.  Scientists are developing permeable obstacles that
slow down the ocean waves, to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/12/seawalls-nature-based-alternatives-us">protect shore and land from erosion</a>.
<p>
These measures can be effective against erosion, but not against
inundation.  Therefore, they are temporary expedients, presuming that
we curb global heating and prevent the coming inundation.
<p>
Inland wetlands can <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/12/britain-wetlands-drought-wildfires-floods-climate-change">buffer against floods and drought</a> (and therefore
also against fire).
<p>
I am skeptical of the "biodiversity net gain" requirement.
Constructing a new wetland is surely not as simple as it sounds, so it
is likely that businesses will often follow the rules but produce no
real new wetland.  If a development has destroyed an old wetland and
failed to create a new one, what does the government do?

 


title: FBI raid for secret documents nobody was allowed to take
uri: FBI-raid-for-secret-documents-nobody-was-allowed-to-take
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(FBI_raid_for_secret_documents_nobody_was_allowed_to_take)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(FBI_raid_for_secret_documents_nobody_was_allowed_to_take)

content:
 
<p>
The FBI raid on the corrupter's home was looking for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/12/fbi-agents-trump-search-mar-a-lago-documents">secret documents
that nobody was allowed to take home</a>, and it found quite a few.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Atmospheric_rivers)
title: Atmospheric rivers
uri: Atmospheric-rivers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Atmospheric_rivers)
content:
 
<p>
California could experience <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/12/california-climate-crisis-megafloods">a series of atmospheric rivers that would
add up to an enormous flood</a>, that could flood millions of people's
homes.
<p>
As global heating continues, the likelihood of such a flood will increase.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Web_site_tracking)
title: Web site tracking
uri: Web-site-tracking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Web_site_tracking)
content:
 
<p>
The Markup investigated <a href="https://themarkup.org/blacklight/2020/09/22/blacklight-tracking-advertisers-digital-privacy-sensitive-websites">80,000 popular web sites and reports on
how much they snoop on users</a>.  Almost 70,000 had third-party trackers.
5,000 fingerprinted the browser to identify users.  12,000 recorded
the user's mouse clicks and movements.

 


title: Company urges Australia to forget climate defense target
uri: Company-urges-Australia-to-forget-climate-defense-target
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Company_urges_Australia_to_forget_climate_defense_target)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Company_urges_Australia_to_forget_climate_defense_target)

content:
 
<p>
A natural gas company urged Australia to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/10/australia-should-abandon-goal-to-limit-global-heating-to-15c-says-gas-company-eyeing-beetaloo-basin">forget its climate defense target</a>
so that the company can drill.

 


title: Breaking away from right-wing Christianity
uri: Breaking-away-from-right-wing-Christianity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Breaking_away_from_right-wing_Christianity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_August_2022_(Breaking_away_from_right-wing_Christianity)

content:
 
<p>
A journalist describes how she learned to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/28/becoming-liberal-in-conservative-family">break away from right-wing
Christianity</a>, and how she copes with the resulting breach with her
family.

 


title: Urgent: Stop unmonitored proxy wars
uri: Urgent-Stop-unmonitored-proxy-wars
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_unmonitored_proxy_wars)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_unmonitored_proxy_wars)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/go/34272?c0=congress-stop-pentagon-proxy-wars.1pnnv1&source=em20220811_2&t=1006&akid=8025%2E223515%2Ep8PyFQ">stop the Pentagon's unmonitored
proxy wars</a>.
<p>
Here's <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/07/01/pentagon-127e-proxy-wars/">a description</a> of unmonitored proxy wars.  The US has built up a
world-wide secret program of training military proxy forces in many
countries.  The US sends them on missions to fight anyone that the US
considers enemies.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Europe_wildfires_so_far)
title: Europe wildfires so far
uri: Europe-wildfires-so-far
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Europe_wildfires_so_far)
content:
 
<p>
Europe's wildfires have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/15/wildfires-europe-burn-area-equivalent-one-fifth-belgium">burned 2500 square miles so far this year</a>,
breaking the record.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Heat_above_100F)
title: Heat above 100F
uri: Heat-above-100F
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Heat_above_100F)
content:
 
<p>
*Weeks of heat above 100F will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/15/extreme-heat-risk-temperatures-2053-study">be the norm in much of US by 2053</a>,
 study [predicts].*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Westerners_as_hostages)
title: Westerners as hostages
uri: Westerners-as-hostages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Westerners_as_hostages)
content:
 
<p>
Putin is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/15/five-face-trial-on-mercenary-charges-in-separatist-controlled-ukraine">using westerners in the Ukrainian army as hostages</a>,
employing his sock puppet regime, the "Donetsk People's Republic",
to threaten to kill them.
<p>
If it goes ahead with this, those responsible, from Putin on down,
should face charges of murder.  In the mean time, it would be
appropriate to send commando teams to seize officials involved in this
hostage plot, so as to offer to trade them for the hostages.

 


title: Urgent: Make Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz testify
uri: Urgent-Make-Starbucks-CEO-Howard-Schultz-testify
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Urgent:_Make_Starbucks_CEO_Howard_Schultz_testify)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Urgent:_Make_Starbucks_CEO_Howard_Schultz_testify)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-starbucks-ceo-howard-schultz-testify-before-congress-for-blatant-union-busting?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-more-perfect-union&source=group-more-perfect-union">make Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz
testify about blatant union-busting</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Child_tax_credit)
title: Child tax credit
uri: 2022-08-17-Child-tax-credit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Child_tax_credit)
content:
 
<p>
Congress has failed to extend the increase the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/14/failure-ira-extend-child-tax-credit-tremendous-missed-opportunity">child tax credit</a>, which is about to expire.  Millions of Americans whose income is insufficient will suffer terribly from this.

 


title: Threats from Republicans against federal agencies
uri: Threats-from-Republicans-against-federal-agencies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Threats_from_Republicans_against_federal_agencies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Threats_from_Republicans_against_federal_agencies)

content:
 
<p>
Republican followers of the wrecker are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/14/violent-threats-against-fbi-soar-trump-lies-about-mar-lago-search">making lots of threats</a> against
the FBI and other federal agencies.  And against individual agents.
<p>
I think they are nerving each other for another violent fascist
uprising, with the wrecker leading them on again.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Reducing_enormous_CEO_salaries)
title: Reducing enormous CEO salaries
uri: Reducing-enormous-CEO-salaries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Reducing_enormous_CEO_salaries)
content:
 
<p>
Actions that Biden could take to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/31/steps-biden-should-take-rein-excessive-ceo-pay">reduce the enormous salaries</a> that
corporate CEOs often get nowadays.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(UEFI)
title: UEFI
uri: UEFI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(UEFI)
content:
 
<p>
UEFI <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/07/researchers-unpack-unkillable-uefi-rootkit-that-survives-os-reinstalls/">makes computers vulnerable to advanced persistent threats
that are almost impossible to detect once installed</a>.
<p>
Here are <a href="https://securelist.com/cosmicstrand-uefi-firmware-rootkit/106973/">technical details</a>.
<p>
Kaspersky discovered this example by chance, but is unable to 
check in general for the presence of such rootkits in computers.
<p>
Nonfree software does not make your computer secure &mdash; it does the
opposite: it prevents you from trying to secure it.  UEFI is a nonfree
program required for booting which is impossible to replace: in
effect, a low-level rootkit.  All the things that Intel has done to
make its power over you secure against you also protect UEFI-level
rootkits against you.
<p>
Instead of allowing Intel, AMD, Apple and perhaps ARM to impose
security through tyranny, we should legislate to require them to allow
users to install their choice of startup software, and make available
the information needed to develop such.  Think of this as
right-to-repair at the initialization stage.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(All_rainwater_contains_PFAs)
title: All rainwater contains PFAs
uri: All-rainwater-contains-PFAs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(All_rainwater_contains_PFAs)
content:
 
<p>
PFAs have spread through the world to the point that <a href="https://phys.org/news/2022-08-rainwater-unsafe-due-chemicals.html">they are present
in rainwater everywhere</a>.  There is nowhere on Earth that rainwater
meets the new EPA standard for acceptable levels.

 


title: All election-related news articles should be gratis to read
uri: All-election-related-news-articles-should-be-gratis-to-read
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(All_election-related_news_articles_should_be_gratis_to_read)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(All_election-related_news_articles_should_be_gratis_to_read)

content:
 
<p>
Proposing that all election-related news stories <a href="https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2022/all-news-election-articles-should-be-free/">should be gratis to read</a>.
<p>
I'd add that they should be viewable with wget and lynx.

 


title: Salman Rushdie attacked by assassin
uri: Salman-Rushdie-attacked-by-assassin
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Salman_Rushdie_attacked_by_assassin)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Salman_Rushdie_attacked_by_assassin)

content:
 
<p>
An assassin <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/12/salman-rushdie-attacked-onstage-new-york">attacked Salman Rushdie with a knife</a> as the latter was
about to give a talk.
<p>
Rushdie is seriously injured, and may lose an eye.  But he can still
think, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/14/salman-rushdie-is-off-ventilator-and-able-to-talk-agent-says">and still speak</a>.

 


title: Danger posed by Republican abortion persecution
uri: Danger-posed-by-Republican-abortion-persecution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Danger_posed_by_Republican_abortion_persecution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Danger_posed_by_Republican_abortion_persecution)

content:
 
<p>
Senator Warren has launched a Senate investigation of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/11/warren-opens-probe-shocking-and-horrific-impacts-gop-abortion-bans">the danger that
Republican abortion persecution poses</a> to pregnant Americans, including those that do want to have a baby, and those that don't.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Air_pollution)
title: Air pollution
uri: 2022-08-17-Air-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Air_pollution)
content:
 
<p>
*Even low levels of air pollution can <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/12/even-low-levels-of-air-pollution-can-damage-health-study-finds">damage health</a>
, study finds.*
<p>
Don't panic, though &mdash; a tiny concentration of air pollution will
normally do a tiny amount of harm, which is hard to measure without a
sample of millions.
<p>
In the absence of any standard of perfection (keep air pollution under
level L and it will do exactly zero damage), how should we decide how
much to work to reduce air pollution?  It's a matter of how the danger
from air pollution stacks up against all the other dangers we face.
Suppose we decide to spend a billion dollars on public health, which
allocation of funds would we rationally expect to make the biggest
improvement?  Part of that plan could be spending to reduce air
pollution.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Democrats'_climate_bill)
title: Democrats' climate bill
uri: Democrats-climate-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Democrats'_climate_bill)
content:
 
<p>
*The Democrats' climate bill is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/12/the-democrats-climate-bill-is-a-historic-victory-but-we-cant-stop-here">a historic victory</a>. But we can't stop
 here.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Bullshitter's_bullshit_defenses)
title: Bullshitter's bullshit defenses
uri: Bullshitter-s-bullshit-defenses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Bullshitter's_bullshit_defenses)
content:
 
<p>
The bullshitter's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/13/nuclear-or-not-classified-or-not-mar-a-lago-files-spell-out-jeopardy-for-trump">supposed defenses for taking the secret government
documents home</a> are bullshit.
That does not imply he will be prosecuted.  The government may be
satisfied with having recovered the documents.  But it is important
for him to be prosecuted.

 


title: Blocking use of Espionage Act against journalists
uri: Blocking-use-of-Espionage-Act-against-journalists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Blocking_use_of_Espionage_Act_against_journalists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_(Blocking_use_of_Espionage_Act_against_journalists)

content:
 
<p>
Three members of Congress propose to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/27/us-lawmakers-want-bar-using-espionage-act-target-journalists">block using the Espionage Act
against journalists</a>.
<p>
However, their bill would not offer a public-interest defense to protect
whistleblowers.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_((Satire)_Psychic_hallucinations)
title: (Satire) Psychic hallucinations
uri: (Satire)-Psychic-hallucinations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#17_August_2022_((Satire)_Psychic_hallucinations)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *[<a href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a>] Claim Unarmed Black Man They
Shot Was <a href="https://www.theonion.com/police-officers-claim-unarmed-black-man-they-shot-was-a-1849165755">Attacking Them With Psychic Hallucinations</a>.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScripts entirely,
telling LibreJS to blacklist the scripts that it accepted by default,
or using a browser such as lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Drought_in_US_west)
title: Drought in US west
uri: Drought-in-US-west
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Drought_in_US_west)
content:
 
<p>
Drought in the US west <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/16/drastic-water-cuts-expected-as-megadrought-grips-western-us-states">will require big cuts in water use for Arizona,
California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming</a>.
For now, they must reduce usage 15%, but the drought may get worse and they
may have to cut more.
<p>
The drought will surely get worse if we don't curb global heating.

 


title: Evangelical Taliban against democracy
uri: Evangelical-Taliban-against-democracy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Evangelical_Taliban_against_democracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Evangelical_Taliban_against_democracy)

content:
 
<p>
Bolsonaro is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/16/lula-bolsonaro-brazil-possessed-by-devil-election">trying to use the Evangelical Taliban to attack democracy</a>
in Brazil.  Lula has responded by saying that Bolsonaro is possessed
by the devil.
<p>
That would be entirely plausible, if there were a real devil that
could really possess people.

 


title: (Satire) Wrongful death settlements
uri: (Satire)-Wrongful-death-settlements
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_((Satire)_Wrongful_death_settlements)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_((Satire)_Wrongful_death_settlements)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *City's Primary Investment In Community <a href="https://www.theonion.com/city-s-primary-investment-in-community-comes-through-po-1849413099">Comes Through Police
Department's Wrongful Death Settlements</a>.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts in the page, then right-click
and select item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as lynx
that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Facebook_disinformation_ads)
title: Facebook disinformation ads
uri: Facebook-disinformation-ads
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Facebook_disinformation_ads)
content:
 
<p>
An empirical test found that Facebook <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/15/facebook-appallingly-failed-detect-election-misinformation-brazil-says-democracy">systematically accepted election
disinformation</a> ads for Brazil's upcoming election.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_((Satire)_Texas_gun_law)
title: (Satire) Texas gun law
uri: (Satire)-Texas-gun-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_((Satire)_Texas_gun_law)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *New Texas Law Requires Gun Buyers To <a href="https://www.theonion.com/new-texas-law-requires-gun-buyers-to-show-proof-of-ment-1849360323">Show Proof Of Mental
Illness</a>.*
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or
telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts in the page, then right-click
and select item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as lynx
that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


title: Punishing businesses that recognize global heating danger
uri: Punishing-businesses-that-recognize-global-heating-danger
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Punishing_businesses_that_recognize_global_heating_danger)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Punishing_businesses_that_recognize_global_heating_danger)

content:
 
<p>
Republican state officials are going to extreme lengths to punish
businesses that <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/14/2116597/-Is-the-Republican-Party-Bent-on-Global-Suicide?_=2022-08-14T14:44:53.000-07:00">recognize the danger of global heating</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Ricardo_dos_Santos)
title: Ricardo dos Santos
uri: Ricardo-dos-Santos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Ricardo_dos_Santos)
content:
 
<p>
Ricardo dos Santos, a black man, was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/15/ricardo-dos-santos-iopc-review-case-athlete-stopped-by-armed-officers-met-london">stopped in a car by British thugs</a>
for the third time in two years, for no obvious reason.
<p>
He alleges racial profiling and threatens to sue.

 


title: Urgent: Prioritize judicial nominations
uri: Urgent-Prioritize-judicial-nominations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Urgent:_Prioritize_judicial_nominations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Urgent:_Prioritize_judicial_nominations)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on your senators to <a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/confirm-more-judicial-nominees/">prioritize judicial nominations
when they return from recess</a>.

 


title: Peru recruiting fire prevention brigades
uri: Peru-recruiting-fire-prevention-brigades
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Peru_recruiting_fire_prevention_brigades)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Peru_recruiting_fire_prevention_brigades)

content:
 
<p>
Peru is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/16/peru-fire-prevention-brigade-sacred-valley-wildfires-aoe">recruiting fire prevention brigades to supervise farmers' fires</a>
and make sure they do not get out of control.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Teacher_monitoring)
title: Teacher monitoring
uri: Teacher-monitoring
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Teacher_monitoring)
content:
 
<p>
code.org's new high school course in programming involves <a href="https://slashdot.org/submission/15986170/java-fears-make-new-amazon-bankrolled-ap-cs-course-a-controlled-substance">stricter-than-ever
monitoring of teachers</a>.
<p>
The motive for this is another bad practice: running the students' and
teachers' programs on servers, rather than on local computers.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Americans_dying_younger)
title: Americans dying younger
uri: Americans-dying-younger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Americans_dying_younger)
content:
 
<p>
Since 1980, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/15/united-states-death-study-shows-worrying-mortality-rates-broken-health-system">Americans have tended overall to die younger than people
in other developed countries</a>; since then, the problem has grown.
In 2019, 2/3 of a million more Americans died than would have died
if the US had been like those other countries.
<p>
Part of the problem is that the US lacks the national universal
medical system that other developed countries have.  Another part is
that the US lacks the welfare system that other developed countries
have.  Also contributing is the plutocratist politics of the US,
which impoverish an increasing fraction of Americans.  Other social
problems in the US contribute too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Universal_healthcare)
title: Universal healthcare
uri: Universal-healthcare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Universal_healthcare)
content:
 
<p>
*A universal healthcare system utilizing a single-payer model in the
state will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/30/commissions-report-shows-medicare-all-logical-next-step-california">save California families and businesses over $100 billion
per year</a>.*
That is in addition to thousands of lives, of people who under the
current system go untreated.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(When_cars_record_locations)
title: When cars record locations
uri: When-cars-record-locations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(When_cars_record_locations)
content:
 
<p>
When cars record locations, the data is available to <a href="https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/23/opinion-california-must-lead-on-preserving-privacy-in-our-cars/">advertisers,
insurance companies, and uniformed thugs</a>.  Cars must offer a dashboard
switch to sop them from determining their locations.
<p>
Cars must also offer a dashboard switch to stop the car from sending
out signals by which other systems could track them.
<p>
Toll payment systems must offer an anonymous method so that they don't
track you either.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Conviction_from_weak_association)
title: Conviction from weak association
uri: Conviction-from-weak-association
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Conviction_from_weak_association)
content:
 
<p>
In Britain it is not unusual for people present at a murder to be
convicted of murder <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/11/boys-lives-ruined-joint-enterprise-law">on the basis of a weak association</a> with the
murderer.
<p>
Some US states do this too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Manchin's_owed_nothing)
title: Manchin's owed nothing
uri: Manchin-s-owed-nothing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Manchin's_owed_nothing)
content:
 
<p>
America <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/11/people-fighting-livable-planet-dont-owe-joe-manchin-one-single-thing">does not owe Manchin anything</a>, and especially not cooperation
with his plan to undermine environmental protection.  He has broken deals
with Biden.
<p>
In addition to maintaining environmental regulations, we should reject
the idea that gutting them would be "reform".

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Dictatorship_never_again)
title: Dictatorship never again
uri: Dictatorship-never-again
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Dictatorship_never_again)
content:
 
<p>
*"Dictatorship Never Again": <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/11/dictatorship-never-again-massive-pro-democracy-protests-sweep-brazil">Massive Pro-Democracy Protests Sweep Brazil</a>.*
<p>
This after a million Brazilians signed a petition against the return to
dictatorship which Bolsonaro threatens.

 


title: Attack on Inflation Reduction Act's EV credit
uri: Attack-on-Inflation-Reduction-Act-s-EV-credit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Attack_on_Inflation_Reduction_Act's_EV_credit)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Attack_on_Inflation_Reduction_Act's_EV_credit)

content:
 
<p>

Some countries <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/12/wto-threats-against-us-electric-vehicle-tax-credit-prompt-calls-climate-peace-clause">plan to attack</a> the Inflation Reduction Act's EV credit
with the help of the WTO.
<p>
The World Trade Organization is a business-supremacy treaty;
it prioritizes catering to business over all other goals.

 


title: Cancelled statement in support of Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh
uri: Cancelled-statement-in-support-of-Hindu-Swayamsevak-Sangh
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Cancelled_statement_in_support_of_Hindu_Swayamsevak_Sangh)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Cancelled_statement_in_support_of_Hindu_Swayamsevak_Sangh)

content:
 
<p>

The city of Manteca, California, has <a href="https://pieterjfriedrich.medium.com/rsss-international-wing-defeated-at-californian-city-of-manteca-5b0cf7a6728c">cancelled a statement</a> it made in
support of the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh,
which is a foreign auxiliary
to the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-mar-jun.html#2_May_2020_(Violence_in_control)">RSS in India</a>.

 


title: Biggest fallacy in online privacy issue
uri: Biggest-fallacy-in-online-privacy-issue
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Biggest_fallacy_in_online_privacy_issue)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Biggest_fallacy_in_online_privacy_issue)

content:
 
<p>

* The <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/12/regulatory-uncapture/#conscious-uncoupling">biggest fallacy</a> in the online privacy [issue] is that there is a
   [real] difference between "state surveillance" and
   "commercial surveillance."*
<p>
In fact, government surveillance operates through commercial
surveillance.  Both wholesale (surveillance of the whole net) and
retail (think of Amazon Ring cameras).
<p>
We need to restrict the deployment of <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">massive surveillance systems</a>
regardless of who operates them.

 


title: Tories cut 1/5 of firefighters in UK
uri: Tories-cut-1-5-of-firefighters-in-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Tories_cut_1%2F5_of_firefighters_in_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Tories_cut_1%2F5_of_firefighters_in_UK)

content:
 
<p>

The Tories will cut anything to reduce government spending that
doesn't go to businesses.  They have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/11/firefighters-completely-unprepared-for-high-fire-risk-in-uk-warns-union">cut 1/5 of the firefighters in
the UK</a> since they took power in 2010.

 


title: Finnish tourist visas to Russian citizens
uri: Finnish-tourist-visas-to-Russian-citizens
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Finnish_tourist_visas_to_Russian_citizens)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Finnish_tourist_visas_to_Russian_citizens)

content:
 
<p>

Finland may <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/29/finland-stop-tourist-visas-russian-citizens">stop issuing</a> tourist visas to Russian citizens, to punish
them for Putin's war.
<p>
I think it is misguided to punish Russian tourists for Putin's war.
It's not their fault, and excluding them is counterproductive.
Putin maintains an information blockade; any Russians who visit
Finland will come in contact with non-Putinized news.
<p>
It also gives Russians an opportunity to leave Russia and not return.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(FBI_harassment_of_Aswad_Khan)
title: FBI harassment of Aswad Khan
uri: FBI-harassment-of-Aswad-Khan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(FBI_harassment_of_Aswad_Khan)
content:
 
<p>

The FBI invited Aswad Khan, a Pakistani who was visiting the US after
attending a university there, to become an informant and go to mosques
to spy on people.  Aswad, who was not particularly religious and was
more interested in getting a well-paid job, said no.  After that, the
FBI <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/07/27/intercepted-fbi-aswad-khan/">harassed his friends</a> until they cut off all ties with him.
<p>
FBI whistleblower Terry Albury says that the FBI regularly does this.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(American_men_getting_vasectomies)
title: American men getting vasectomies
uri: American-men-getting-vasectomies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(American_men_getting_vasectomies)
content:
 
<p>

Many American men are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/27/vasectomy-roe-v-wade-abortion-supreme-court">getting vasectomies</a> before the Supreme Court
gets a chance to interfere.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Puerto_Rico_official_corruption)
title: Puerto Rico official corruption
uri: Puerto-Rico-official-corruption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Puerto_Rico_official_corruption)
content:
 
<p>

Puerto Rico is suffering from <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/13/americas/puerto-rico-corruption-bad-bunny-rant/index.html">widespread official corruption</a>.
Mayors and governors have been charged with crimes.
<p>
The article doesn't mention the crushing debts, but I believe they are
the root cause.  The US Congress has given Puerto Rico no debt relief,
so it is forced to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#24_December_2020_(Unpayable_debt)">squeeze the people</a> (even poor people) to pay the loans.
The result is that most everyone who can leave does leave.
<p>
I suppose the creditors hope eventually to take control of the
island's land and turn it into tourist resorts and corporate-owned
plantations.
<p>
They won't stop with Puerto Rico &mdash; they will move on to other parts
of the US.

 


title: CIA whistleblower's thoughts on prosecution of Assange
uri: CIA-whistleblower-s-thoughts-on-prosecution-of-Assange
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(CIA_whistleblower's_thoughts_on_prosecution_of_Assange)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(CIA_whistleblower's_thoughts_on_prosecution_of_Assange)

content:
 
<p>

CIA whistleblower Jeffrey Sterling's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/31/cia-whistleblower-reflects-persecution-julian-assange">thoughts about the prosecution of
Julian Assange</a>. He endorses Rashida Tlaib's proposal to amend the Espionage Act
with a public interest defense.

 


title: Food at risk because of endangered butterflies and bees
uri: Food-at-risk-because-of-endangered-butterflies-and-bees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Food_at_risk_because_of_endangered_butterflies_and_bees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Food_at_risk_because_of_endangered_butterflies_and_bees)

content:
 
<p>

*One-third of the food we eat is at risk because the climate crisis is
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/14/weather/food-risk-bee-butterfly-pollinator-decline-climate-scn/index.html">endangering butterflies and bees</a>.*

 


title: Taliban deal to chase out al-Qa'ida
uri: Taliban-deal-to-chase-out-al-Qa-ida
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Taliban_deal_to_chase_out_al-Qa'ida)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Taliban_deal_to_chase_out_al-Qa'ida)

content:
 
<p>

Before the September 2001 terrorist attacks, the Taliban were <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/14/no-excuse-nprs-distorted-history-us-invasion-afghanistan">offering to
make a deal</a> with the US which involved chasing out al-Qa'ida.  If Dubya
had accepted the deal, we would never have invaded Afghanistan.
<p>
Now US newsmedia &mdash; even NPR &mdash; are covering up this history.
<p>
Why didn't the US accept the deal?  I don't know, but whatever the
reason was, it is likely to be the same reason that motivated the US
to reject the Taliban's <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-may-aug.html#23_August_2021_(Unconditional_surrender)">surrender offer</a>, later in 2001.

<p>
Meanwhile, al-Qa'ida is still <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/14/politics/us-intelligence-assessment-afghanistan/index.html">not very effective</a> in Afghanistan.
<p>
I gather that the Taliban consider al-Qa'ida as a troublesome and
unfriendly rival.  Next time the US identifies a leader of al-Qa'ida
in Afghanistan, it might be wise to try helping the Taliban deal with
him, rather than attacking him directly.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Funerals_for_pets)
title: Funerals for pets
uri: Funerals-for-pets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Funerals_for_pets)
content:
 
<p>

Poor people in Britain whose pets die feel incomprehensibly attached
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/30/britons-costs-pets-die-bills-costs">spending money they don't have</a>, for funerals for those pets.
<p>
Overattachment to pets, and pets' corpses, leads to a perverse sense
of values.  If you are rich and you feel like burying or cremating a
pet, it's harmless.  But we must not stand for the idea that people
have an obligation to spend so much on pets that they ruin themselves.
That way of thinking leads to enormities such as abandoning refugees
in Kabul to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-may-aug.html#29_August_2021_(Afghan_dogs)">evacuate a planeload of dogs</a>.

<p>
I would feel sorry for Freya when her dog died, but I would not cater
to her mishigas.

 


title: Physical and mental health of young Americans
uri: Physical-and-mental-health-of-young-Americans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Physical_and_mental_health_of_young_Americans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Physical_and_mental_health_of_young_Americans)

content:
 
<p>

The broken aspects of US society are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/15/costs-investing-war-not-human-livelihood">damaging the physical and mental
health of young Americans</a> to the point that military recruiters can't
find enough soldiers.
<p>
It may also be the realization that a lot of the fighting the US does
is not justified or not necessary.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Assange's_lawyers_suing_the_CIA)
title: Assange's lawyers suing the CIA
uri: Assange-s-lawyers-suing-the-CIA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Assange's_lawyers_suing_the_CIA)
content:
 
<p>

Assange's lawyers have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/aug/16/julian-assange-lawyers-sue-cia-over-alleged-spying">sued the CIA</a> for violating their
attorney-client privilege &mdash; by spying on their discussions.

 


title: Bizarre appointments of former Australian prime minister
uri: Bizarre-appointments-of-former-Australian-prime-minister
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Bizarre_appointments_of_former_Australian_prime_minister)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Bizarre_appointments_of_former_Australian_prime_minister)

content:
 
<p>

The former Australian prime minister, Morrison, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/16/former-australian-prime-minister-scott-morrison-pm-secretly-gave-himself-five-ministerial-roles">bizarrely appointed
himself</a> minister of health, minister of finance, minister of industry,
ministry of science, minister of energy, minister of home affairs
(policing), and minister of the treasury &mdash; without informing the
public, or even the officially appointed ministers of those issues.
<p>
Apparently this meant that the officially appointed ministers remained
ministers, but Morrison could override them at will.  When he actually
did so, did the officially appointed ministers find out what he had done?
Or was that concealed from them somehow?
<p>
I wonder if Morrison was inspired by the wrecker's practice of
dismissing the heads of agencies and departments and leaving those to
be run by acting heads.  This might have had an equivalent effect.
<p>
In Australia, the governor general (representative of the British
crown) is responsible for swearing in ministers.  He quietly
participated in this abuse of the Australian governmental system.
There is a movement in Australia to cut its tie with Great Britain and
become a republic.  I have a feeling supporters will point to this as
a reason to remove the British crown from the process.
<p>
Morrison, who apparently couldn't keep track of all the things he was
personally the minister of, said there was "no sense of bad faith in
it."  That may be true &mdash; he may be so inured to practicing bad faith
that he has no conscious awareness of it.

 


title: Price for Britain avoiding its biggest problems
uri: Price-for-Britain-avoiding-its-biggest-problems
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Price_for_Britain_avoiding_its_biggest_problems)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Price_for_Britain_avoiding_its_biggest_problems)

content:
 
<p>

*Britain has been avoiding its biggest problems for decades. Now we’re
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/16/britain-has-been-avoiding-its-biggest-problems-for-decades-now-were-paying-the-price">paying the price</a>.*
<p>
It has been avoiding these problems because correcting them required
rich people's money, and those rich people refused to participate
in saving the country.

 


title: Practitioners of mental health strike against Kaiser Permanente
uri: Practitioners-of-mental-health-strike-against-Kaiser-Permanente
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Practitioners_of_mental_health_strike_against_Kaiser_Permanente)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Practitioners_of_mental_health_strike_against_Kaiser_Permanente)

content:
 
<p>

Psychotherapists and other practitioners of mental health
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/15/mental-health-workers-strike-kaiser-permanente-california">on strike against Kaiser Permanente</a>.
<p>
This seems to be a consequence of the increasing frequency of psychological
problems in the US.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Advocating_voter_fraud_at_a_rally)
title: Advocating voter fraud at a rally
uri: Advocating-voter-fraud-at-a-rally
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Advocating_voter_fraud_at_a_rally)
content:
 
<p>

Marjorie Taylor Greene and a defeated Republican congressional candidate
<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20220815195447/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/marjorie-taylor-greene-tells-supporters-181908368.html">advocated voter fraud</a> at a rally.
<p>
This makes a bizarre contrast with her attacks on supposed Democratic
voter fraud, whose existence can't be found anyway.  Does she believe
fraud is wrong only for Democrats?

 


title: Americans worried over ability to pay rent
uri: Americans-worried-over-ability-to-pay-rent
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Americans_worried_over_ability_to_pay_rent)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Americans_worried_over_ability_to_pay_rent)

content:
 
<p>

60% of Americans that rent housing are worried about <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/15/homes/rising-rent-wages-housing/index.html">whether they can
pay the rent</a> in the coming year.
<p>
The governor of Mississippi (a Republican, or course) <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/15/despite-housing-crisis-mississippi-may-return-millions-federal-rent-aid-dc">cancelled the
state's federally-funded rent assistance program</a>.  He said, though in
different words, that helping poor people pay rent made their lives
too easy.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Targeting_protesters)
title: Targeting protesters
uri: Targeting-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Targeting_protesters)
content:
 
<p>
*[London thugs] stop and search powers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/aug/18/police-abuse-stop-and-search-powers-to-target-protesters-suggests-data">to target protesters</a>, suggests data.*

 


title: Christopher Shaw paralyzed from chest down
uri: Christopher-Shaw-paralyzed-from-chest-down
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Christopher_Shaw_paralyzed_from_chest_down)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Christopher_Shaw_paralyzed_from_chest_down)

content:
 
<p>
A Texas <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> threw Christopher Shaw down on the concrete in jail,
and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/18/texas-police-christopher-shaw-civil-rights">this paralyzed him below the chest</a>.  Permanently, it seems.

 


title: Claiming abortions require "maturity" is absurd
uri: Claiming-abortions-require-maturity-is-absurd
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Claiming_abortions_require_maturity_is_absurd)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Claiming_abortions_require_maturity_is_absurd)

content:
 
<p>
It is absurd to claim that having an abortion requires more "maturity"
than having a baby, but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/18/florida-teen-abortion-forced-motherhood">that's what a judge in Florida ruled</a>.
<p>
That teenager needs to get herself to a state which will let her
have an abortion.  I hope her guardian will help.

 


title: Google workers demand abortion care protections
uri: Google-workers-demand-abortion-care-protections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Google_workers_demand_abortion_care_protections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Google_workers_demand_abortion_care_protections)

content:
 
<p>
*Hundreds of Google workers demand abortion care protections.*
<p>
Hundreds of Google workers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/18/google-workers-demand-safety-abortion-care">called on Google</a> to fund abortions
for contract and part-time workers.  Also to stop collecting
data that would expose people to abortion repression.
<p>
They also called on Google to stop all lobbying activities.
I think it would be good to stop all businesses from lobbying.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Expensive_book_reference_following)
title: Expensive book reference following
uri: Expensive-book-reference-following
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Expensive_book_reference_following)
content:
 
<p>
Scientists set out to develop a way to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/08/magic-bookmark-revealed-as-key-to-augmented-reality-books">use a computer to follow
references from printed books</a>.  But instead of doing this the natural
and general way, they want a way that will only work on books that
are printed in a special, extra expensive way.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Stealing_vote_tabulator_machines)
title: Stealing vote tabulator machines
uri: Stealing-vote-tabulator-machines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Stealing_vote_tabulator_machines)
content:
 
<p>
The probable Republican candidate for attorney general of Michigan is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/08/michigan-attorney-special-prosecutor-investigation">suspected of stealing vote tabulator machines</a>, a felony which carries
a 5-year prison sentence.
<p>
That probable Republican candidate is a supporter of the wrecker,
and his lies that the 2020 election was stolen.

 


title: Biden can still stop Trump and Trumpism
uri: Biden-can-still-stop-Trump-and-Trumpism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Biden_can_still_stop_Trump_and_Trumpism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Biden_can_still_stop_Trump_and_Trumpism)

content:
 
<p>
*Biden can <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/08/biden-trump-plan-president-republican-party">still stop Trump, and Trumpism</a> &mdash; if he can find a bold plan and moral vision.*
<p>
The law to subsidize semiconductor manufacturers in the US is an unjust
transfer from working people to rich companies and their owners.
It's an example of the bad trend in the Democratic Party
that Reich writes about further on.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Lymphoblastic_leukemia)
title: Lymphoblastic leukemia
uri: Lymphoblastic-leukemia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Lymphoblastic_leukemia)
content:
 
<p>
An empirical study found children were <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/17/kids-born-near-fracking-sites-2-3-times-more-likely-develop-leukemia-study">much more likely to develop
the most common kind of lymphoblastic leukemia</a> if they had been near
a frackwell during gestation.

 


title: Lawsuit over persistent racist harassment
uri: Lawsuit-over-persistent-racist-harassment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Lawsuit_over_persistent_racist_harassment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Lawsuit_over_persistent_racist_harassment)

content:
 
<p>
Black residents of Lexington, Mississippi, are suing the city and its <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>
for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/17/mississippi-towns-black-residents-terrorized-racist-police-seek-doj-probe">persistent racist harassment that goes as far as repeated false arrests</a>.
The former <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> chief was fired for boasting about killing blacks,
killings done by predilection and preference, not necessity or
justification.
<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-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Textile_company_hid_data)
title: Textile company hid data
uri: Textile-company-hid-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Textile_company_hid_data)
content:
 
<p>
Textile company Saint-Gobain published data about its use of PFAs, but
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/05/saint-gobain-textile-company-toxic-pfas">hid them in plain sight</a> in a stack of 90,000 documents.

 


title: Republicans support racist nationalism
uri: Republicans-support-racist-nationalism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Republicans_support_racist_nationalism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Republicans_support_racist_nationalism)

content:
 
<p>
US Republicans <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/viktor-orbans-eugenics-and-the-gop">support Orb&aacute;n's racist nationalism</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Putin_banking_on_political_failure)
title: Putin banking on political failure
uri: Putin-banking-on-political-failure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Putin_banking_on_political_failure)
content:
 
<p>
*Putin is banking on a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/05/ukraine-war-west-vladimir-putin-russia">failure of political will in the west</a> before Russia
runs out of firepower.*
<p>
The <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>' casualty rate is so high that I think Ukraine will
be able to push them out of Ukraine next summer,  We must keep supporting
Ukraine that long.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(UK_snoop-watch_plan)
title: UK snoop-watch plan
uri: UK-snoop-watch-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(UK_snoop-watch_plan)
content:
 
<p>
The UK plans to use a snoop-watch to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/05/facial-recognition-smartwatches-to-be-used-to-monitor-foreign-offenders-in-uk">track the movements of some
convicted criminals</a>,  The system includes facial recognition to verify
that the intended person is carrying the snoop-watch.
<p>
Since this system tracks and recognizes only a specific person, and is
imposed on that person as part of punishment after conviction for a
crime, it is one of the exceptional legitimate uses of facial
recognition and location tracking.
<p>
This example also highlights, by the contrast it makes, the injustice
of imposing facial recognition or location tracking on anyone other
than a convict.  They are typically imposed combinations of businesses
that are so powerful that they can shape our society.  They receive
help from various laws designed to give those companies power.
<p>
Carrying a snoop-watch is easier than wearing an ankle-chain,
and is much less painful than being in jail.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Solomon_Islands_and_tyranny)
title: Solomon Islands and tyranny
uri: Solomon-Islands-and-tyranny
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Solomon_Islands_and_tyranny)
content:
 
<p>
The Solomon Islands government is showing <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/03/outrage-as-solomon-islands-government-orders-vetting-of-stories-on-national-broadcaster">various signs of tyranny</a>.
The latest one is direct censorship of the country's public TV/radio
station.
<p>
Its secret "security" deal with China is another.

 


title: Ex-attorney general arrested over 43 students' disappearances
uri: Ex-attorney-general-arrested-over-43-students-disappearances
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Ex-attorney_general_arrested_over_43_students'_disappearances)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Ex-attorney_general_arrested_over_43_students'_disappearances)

content:
 
<p>
*Mexico's ex-attorney general arrested over <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/20/mexicos-ex-attorney-general-arrested-over-disappearance-of-43-students-in-2014">disappearance of 43
students in 2014</a>.*
<p>
Warrants have been issued to arrest 83 others, including soldiers, <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>,
and local officials, as well as gang members,
<p>
I am curious about the evidence which led to these conclusions about
the case.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Children_malnourished)
title: Children malnourished
uri: Children-malnourished
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Children_malnourished)
content:
 
<p>
*Tigray: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/20/tigray-ethiopia-almost-one-in-three-children-under-five-malnourished-un-says">almost one in three</a> children under five malnourished, UN says.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(President_Petro's_coalition)
title: President Petro's coalition
uri: President-Petro-s-coalition
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(President_Petro's_coalition)
content:
 
<p>
How President Petro's coalition seeks a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/20/colombia-president-coalition-peace-gustavo-petro">lasting civil peace in Colombia</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Jobs_program)
title: "Jobs" program
uri: Jobs-program
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Jobs_program)
content:
 
<p>
Bogus Johnson <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/20/boris-johnson-way-to-work-jobs-scheme-failure">invented a "jobs" program</a> designed to pressure unemployed people
to apply for jobs outside their careers.  Low-paid jobs, that would be.
The change led to a decrease in Britons' finding work.

 


title: Preventing nurdles from getting into ocean
uri: Preventing-nurdles-from-getting-into-ocean
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Preventing_nurdles_from_getting_into_ocean)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Preventing_nurdles_from_getting_into_ocean)

content:
 
<p>
The UN is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/20/un-seeks-plan-to-beat-plastic-nurdles-the-tiny-scourges-of-the-oceans">considering regulations</a> to prevent small plastic pellets
("nurdles") from getting into the ocean.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Fatal_defect)
title: Fatal defect
uri: Fatal-defect
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Fatal_defect)
content:
 
<p>
Nancy Davis of Louisiana is pregnant, but the fetus has a fatal
defect.  Nonetheless, Louisiana <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/20/louisiana-abortion-woman-nancy-davis-benjamin-crump">will not allow her to abort it</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_DeJoy)
title: Urgent: Stop DeJoy
uri: Urgent-Stop-DeJoy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_DeJoy)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress and President Biden to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/usps-cuts-dejoy/">stop DeJoy from
slashing USPS jobs</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Support a Green New Deal now
uri: Urgent-Support-a-Green-New-Deal-now
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Urgent:_Support_a_Green_New_Deal_now)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Urgent:_Support_a_Green_New_Deal_now)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress and the President to <a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14247">support a Green
New Deal now</a>.
<p>
To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a> from the web site, use <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">the Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Walden_Bello)
title: Walden Bello
uri: Walden-Bello
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Walden_Bello)
content:
 
<p>
Walden Bello, socialist candidate in the Philippines, has been charged
with <a href="https://globalvoices.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9307106bf78cc186e924ad999&id=66582c148f&e=3a4b986016">libel and arrested</a>, for criticizing President Marcos and running
mate Duterte.
<p>
This is a sign that they are going to be as evil as people have feared.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Google_and_antiabortion_donations)
title: Google and antiabortion donations
uri: Google-and-antiabortion-donations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Google_and_antiabortion_donations)
content:
 
<p>
Google workers are calling on Google to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/18/google-workers-push-tech-giant-stop-funding-lawmakers-destroying-abortion-rights">stop donating to antiabortion
politicians</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Intel)
title: Intel
uri: 2022-08-21-Intel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Intel)
content:
 
<p>
The US just gave Intel a pile of money, supposedly so it could manufacture
more chips in the US.  Instead it has announced a plan to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/18/sanders-blasts-rigged-economy-chipmakers-cut-investments-after-big-handout">reduce
investments and pay big dividends</a>.
<p>
Intel is famous for making processors with malicious hardware, the
Management Engine back door, that users cannot turn off.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Secret_Service)
title: Secret Service
uri: Secret-Service
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Secret_Service)
content:
 
<p>
*Watchdog: Secret Service <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/17/watchdog-secret-service-didnt-notify-capitol-police-threat-pelosi-until-after-jan-6">Didn't Notify Capitol Police of Threat to
Pelosi</a> Until After Jan. 6 Attack.*
<p>
It seems natural that it should have passed along the warning.
Whether this was just a screw-up, or criminally suspect, depends on
background information I don't know.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Tax_fraud)
title: Tax fraud
uri: Tax-fraud
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Tax_fraud)
content:
 
<p>
*Allen Weisselberg, longtime Trump Organization loyalist, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/18/allen-weisselberg-trump-organization-pleads-guilty-tax-fraud">pleads
guilty to tax fraud</a>.*
<p>
He will testify about the company, but not about the corrupter
personally other than that.

 


title: EU and some Palestinian organizations
uri: EU-and-some-Palestinian-organizations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(EU_and_some_Palestinian_organizations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(EU_and_some_Palestinian_organizations)

content:
 
<p>
EU countries <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/18/israeli-forces-raid-palestinian-human-rights-groups-offices">support the work of some of the Palestinian organizations</a>
that Israel has declared "terrorist".  They reject the accusation.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Covid_misinformation)
title: Covid misinformation
uri: 2022-08-21-Covid-misinformation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Covid_misinformation)
content:
 
<p>
*Police call for Bolsonaro to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/18/jair-bolsonaro-covid-misinformation-charge-brazil-police">be charged for spreading Covid
misinformation</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(England_chemical_pollution)
title: England chemical pollution
uri: England-chemical-pollution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(England_chemical_pollution)
content:
 
<p>
Chemical pollution is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/18/chemical-pollution-killing-off-englands-riverflies-experts-warn">wiping out the animals in England's rivers</a>, by
killing small animals that the larger ones eat.
Most of this pollution is from pesticides used in farms.

 


title: Democracy defenders plead guilty in jail
uri: Democracy-defenders-plead-guilty-in-jail
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Democracy_defenders_plead_guilty_in_jail)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Democracy_defenders_plead_guilty_in_jail)

content:
 
<p>
29 Hong Kong democracy defenders have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/18/detained-hong-kong-activists-joshua-wong-to-plead-guilty-china-style-law">plead guilty to political charges</a>
after a year in jail.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Rare_earth_metal_mining)
title: Rare earth metal mining
uri: Rare-earth-metal-mining
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Rare_earth_metal_mining)
content:
 
<p>
The west needs to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/18/the-guardian-view-on-rare-earths-mining-them-cant-cost-the-earth">mine lots more rare earth metals</a>, to end China's
domination of that market; but if it isn't careful, the mining process
will cause disastrous toxic pollution, as it did in China.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Timor_sea)
title: Timor sea
uri: Timor-sea
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Timor_sea)
content:
 
<p>
The dispute about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/19/timor-leste-warns-it-will-work-with-china-if-australia-insists-on-pumping-timor-sea-gas-to-darwin">which country gets gas from the Timor Sea</a>
is heating up again.  Australia, or East Timor?
<p>
There is only one acceptable decision: <em>nobody</em>.
There is no room in the carbon budget for that gas.
It must stay under the sea.
<p>
Other countries should support East Timor so that this
step, necessary for civilization's survival, does not cause
a bigger disaster to East Timor than is going to hit world wide.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(State_sponsored_disappearances)
title: State sponsored disappearances
uri: State-sponsored-disappearances
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(State_sponsored_disappearances)
content:
 
<p>
A Mexican government commission concluded that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/18/mexico-43-students-missing-truth-commission-report">the disappearance of 43
Mexican students in 2014 was state-sponsored</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(App_for_reporting_dissidents)
title: App for reporting dissidents
uri: App-for-reporting-dissidents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(App_for_reporting_dissidents)
content:
 
<p>
A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/17/saudi-arabia-snitching-app-jailed-leeds-student-salma-al-shehab">new app for reporting dissidents</a> has magnified the threat from Crown
Prince Bone Saw to anyone who criticizes the government.
<p>
This article doesn't mention <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/16/saudi-woman-given-34-year-prison-sentence-for-using-twitter">the most grave statement</a> that Salma
al-Shehab made while at school in the UK: she stated support for the
women's rights activist, Loujain al-Hathlou, who has been punished for that.
<p>
To imprison someone for so little shows repression carried to an almost
Chinese extreme.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Covid_and_people_over_65_years_old)
title: Covid and people over 65 years old
uri: Covid-and-people-over-65-years-old
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Covid_and_people_over_65_years_old)
content:
 
<p>
A large study of medical records shows that, for people over 65 years
old, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/17/covid-longer-term-elevated-risk-brain-fog-dementia-study">Covid-19 leads to an increase of almost 5% in the probability of
having brain fog or dementia</a> in the next two years.
<p>
That is a big risk, worth considerable effort to avoid.

The previous mayor of London &mdash; Bogus Johnson himself &mdash; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/03/sadiq-khan-faces-legal-challenge-over-traffic-camera-surveillance">gave thugs
access to license plate camera images for the inner parts of London</a>.
The current mayor wants to extend this to a much broader area.
<p>
The injustice of this is the same regardless of how big an area it
covers.  Indeed, tracking cars through their license plates is wrong
in itself.  Surveillance of everyone is <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">the soil for repression to grow</a>.

 


title: World's main powers have not signed treaty for International Criminal Court
uri: World-s-main-powers-have-not-signed-treaty-for-International-Criminal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(World's_main_powers_have_not_signed_treaty_for_International_Criminal_Court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(World's_main_powers_have_not_signed_treaty_for_International_Criminal_Court)

content:
 
<p>
The International Criminal Court is operating, but handicapped because
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/08/theirs-not-ours-no-war-criminal-should-be-immune-prosecution">the world's main powers have not signed the treaty for it</a>.  That includes the US.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Negotiating_bulk_prices)
title: Negotiating bulk prices
uri: Negotiating-bulk-prices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Negotiating_bulk_prices)
content:
 
<p>
Big Pharma's condemnation of the bill that allows Medicare to
negotiate bulk drug prices with pharma companies (for some drugs only)
shows the central bogus assumption: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/08/big-pharma-bemoans-tragic-loss-democrats-take-modest-action-curb-drug-prices">whatever increases those
companies' profit is automatically best for patients</a>.
<p>
This is the faith of the cult of the Invisible Hand: "the market knows
best," no obey it sheepishly, no matter how much big businesses use
their clout to arrange for bad results.

 


title: Israel labels civil society groups as "terrorists" without trials
uri: Israel-labels-civil-society-groups-as-terrorists-without-trials
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Israel_labels_civil_society_groups_as_terrorists_without_trials)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Israel_labels_civil_society_groups_as_terrorists_without_trials)

content:
 
<p>
Israel arbitrarily labeled six Palestinian civil society groups as
"terrorist," without a trial, by passing a law saying, "They are
terrorists."
<p>
Then <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/18/outrage-israeli-forces-raid-shutter-offices-top-palestinian-rights-groups">state agents raided the offices of those organizations</a>.
<p>
Ask yourself, if Israel stops Palestinians from organized peaceful
defense of their human rights, what alternative they would naturally
turn to.
<p>
I greatly miss Uri Avnery, who would have explained the links between
the events, and the newsletter The Other Israel, which would have
given more information.

 


title: 30-year-old graduates high school a second time
uri: 30-year-old-graduates-high-school-a-second-time
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(30-year-old_graduates_high_school_a_second_time)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(30-year-old_graduates_high_school_a_second_time)

content:
 
<p>
The story of a 30-year-old man who returned to his old high school,
pretending to be a teenager, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/aug/18/a-damaged-person-alan-cumming-on-playing-the-schoolboy-who-was-actually-30">graduated a second time</a>.
<p>
I wonder what grounds the medical school cited for expelling him after
that.  His giving a false name and age may have been irregular, but
they did not harm anyone, including the medical school.  If he was
doing well enough in his studies there, why not regularize his status
instead?

 


title: London mayor to extend thug access to license plate camera images
uri: London-mayor-to-extend-thug-access-to-license-plate-camera-images
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_August_2022_(London_mayor_to_extend_thug_access_to_license_plate_camera_images)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#21_August_2022_(London_mayor_to_extend_thug_access_to_license_plate_camera_images)

content:
 
<p>
The previous mayor of London &mdash; Bogus Johnson himself &mdash; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/03/sadiq-khan-faces-legal-challenge-over-traffic-camera-surveillance">gave thugs
access to license plate camera images for the inner parts of London</a>.
The current mayor wants to extend this to a much broader area.
<p>
The injustice of this is the same regardless of how big an area it
covers.  Indeed, tracking cars through their license plates is wrong
in itself.  Surveillance of everyone is <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">the soil for repression to grow</a>.

 


title: Use of spyware by Greek intelligence agency
uri: Use-of-spyware-by-Greek-intelligence-agency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Use_of_spyware_by_Greek_intelligence_agency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Use_of_spyware_by_Greek_intelligence_agency)

content:
 
<p>

A Greek intelligence agency <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/07/greek-pm-kyriakos-mitsotakis-under-pressure-over-tapping-of-opponents-phone">used spyware</a> on the phone of an opposition
party leader, and is under pressure to resign.
<p>
Greece should have laws and mechanisms to stop this sort of thing.
So should the US, whose laws and mechanisms seem to have been
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#17_August_2013_(FISA_court_says_it_can_not_control_NSA)">effectively negated</a>.

 


title: Government of Gujarat released 11 prisoners convicted of rape
uri: Government-of-Gujarat-released-11-prisoners-convicted-of-rape
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Government_of_Gujarat_released_11_prisoners_convicted_of_rape)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Government_of_Gujarat_released_11_prisoners_convicted_of_rape)

content:
 
<p>

The government of Gujarat <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/18/muslim-woman-raped-by-hindu-mob-shocked-by-release-of-11-jailed-men-india">released 11 prisoners</a> convicted of raping a
Muslim woman and murdering her relatives.
<p>
Gujarat is a center of powerful hatred against Muslims.  In 2002,
Hindi extremists with support from the Gujarat government carried out
major <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2004-mar-jun.html#22%20April%202004%20(Gujarat%20Massacre)">pogrom against Muslims</a> there, 
with support from Modi himself.
<p>
These rapes and murders were part of that pogrom.  One must suspect
that the release of these prisoners represents the Hindu extremists'
endorsement of support for pogroms against Muslims.

 


title: Ukrainians with social media following get kidnapped
uri: Ukrainians-with-social-media-following-get-kidnapped
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Ukrainians_with_social_media_following_get_kidnapped)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Ukrainians_with_social_media_following_get_kidnapped)

content:
 
<p>

The <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> make a point of kidnapping Ukrainians with a significant
social media following, and torturing them to get passwords to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/17/europe/abducted-ukrainians-social-media-russian-propaganda-cmd-intl/index.html">post lies
in their names</a>.

 


title: Tearing up memos that weren't liked
uri: Tearing-up-memos-that-weren-t-liked
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Tearing_up_memos_that_weren't_liked)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Tearing_up_memos_that_weren't_liked)

content:
 
<p>

The ripper made a habit of <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20220809030101/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/05/trump-ripping-documents/">tearing up memos he didn't like</a>,
disregarding the Presidential Records Act for the whole of his term as
president.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Preferring_poverty_to_inflation)
title: Preferring poverty to inflation
uri: Preferring-poverty-to-inflation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(Preferring_poverty_to_inflation)
content:
 
<p>

Minutes show that the Federal Reserve will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/18/economists-fear-fed-minutes-show-central-bank-bent-unleashing-mass-unemployment">keep on raising
interest rates</a>, preferring poverty to inflation.
<p>
Progressives warned Biden that reappointing the wrecker's chairman of
the Federal Reserve could <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#16_November_2021_(Federal_Reserve_chair)">lead to things like this</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(The_search_of_Mar-a-Lago)
title: The search of Mar-a-Lago
uri: The-search-of-Mar-a-Lago
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#20_August_2022_(The_search_of_Mar-a-Lago)
content:
 
<p>

The search of Mar-a-Lago will <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/todays-assault-on-trump">not directly interfere with the
corrupter's plans to run again for president</a>.  It could lead
to a criminal conviction, if it finds evidence to convict him.
That could &mdash; let's hope &mdash; make it harder for him to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#11_May_2021_(The_Lie-Cheat-Steal_party)">cheat his
way to victory again</a> the way he did in 2016.
On the other hand, it won't protect us from Governor Dementis.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Failings_by_autocratic_states)
title: Failings by autocratic states
uri: Failings-by-autocratic-states
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Failings_by_autocratic_states)
content:
 
<p>
Lawrence Freedman:  "[Putin's] war against Ukraine has been hampered by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/21/lawrence-freedman-autocracies-tend-to-make-catastrophic-decisions-thats-the-case-with-putin">failings experienced by autocratic states during conflict</a>* due to *the
inability of those at the top to take responsibility for mistakes."
<p>
But, he adds, "It's not that democracies always make better decisions."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(US_still_bombing_Somalia)
title: US still bombing Somalia
uri: US-still-bombing-Somalia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(US_still_bombing_Somalia)
content:
 
<p>
The US is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/19/corporate-media-mostly-mum-us-strikes-kill-least-20-somalia">still bombing Somalia</a>, after starting in 2011.

 


title: Urgent: Repeal Florida law to monitor political views of every student and professor
uri: Urgent-Repeal-Florida-law-to-monitor-political-views-of-every-student
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Urgent:_Repeal_Florida_law_to_monitor_political_views_of_every_student_and_professor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Urgent:_Repeal_Florida_law_to_monitor_political_views_of_every_student_and_professor)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call for <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-stop-desantis-student-censorship?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-fight-for-the-future&source=group-fight-for-the-future">repeal of Florida's law to monitor the political
views of every student and every professor<a>.

 


title: Court approval to overturn "Remain in Mexico" policy
uri: Court-approval-to-overturn-Remain-in-Mexico-policy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Court_approval_to_overturn_Remain_in_Mexico_policy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Court_approval_to_overturn_Remain_in_Mexico_policy)

content:
 
<p>
Biden got the court's approval to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/09/biden-ends-remain-in-mexico-trump-policy">end the persecutor's
"Remain in Mexico" policy</a> for asylum-seekers coming from Mexico.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Power_of_stories_may_be_inadequate)
title: "Power of stories" may be inadequate
uri: Power-of-stories-may-be-inadequate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Power_of_stories_may_be_inadequate)
content:
 
<p>
The "power of stories" may be inadequate to deal with problems or
injustices of global scale, such as a pandemic, or the coming global
heating disaster.
<p>
*&hellip; some of the most urgent and lethal challenges our
society is facing are too giant and unwieldy to fit into the little
patterns our human minds are used to making. Our present pandemic
response policies suggest some people don't get to be "heroes" on a
"journey", and many traditional western storytelling conventions aren't
up to the task of understanding a climate emergency that defies any
sort of conflict-resolution arc.*

 


title: Texas requires public schools to display religious poster
uri: Texas-requires-public-schools-to-display-religious-poster
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Texas_requires_public_schools_to_display_religious_poster)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Texas_requires_public_schools_to_display_religious_poster)

content:
 
<p>
Texas has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/19/us/texas-schools-in-god-we-trust/index.html">passed a law requiring every public school to display a
poster with religious statement</a> of belief in a god that intervenes in
human life.
This ought to be unconstitutional.
<p>
Perhaps the state hopes to take advantage of a previous loophole
by not spending public money on the posters.  A proper understanding
of the prohibition of "establishment of religion" would consider
that question irrelevant.

 


title: Racism affecting home appraisal values
uri: Racism-affecting-home-appraisal-values
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Racism_affecting_home_appraisal_values)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Racism_affecting_home_appraisal_values)

content:
 
<p>
A black family was denied a loan because of an apparently <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/19/us/black-couple-home-appraisal-lawsuit-reaj/index.html">racist low
appraisal of their home</a>.  They showed the home to another company,
covering up indications that the inhabitants were black, and got an
appraisal of almost three times as much.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Zaporizhzhia_nuclear_plant)
title: Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
uri: Zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Zaporizhzhia_nuclear_plant)
content:
 
<p>
A leaked video shows <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/19/europe/ukraine-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-russian-vehicles-intl-hnk/index.html">Russian military vehicles inside of a turbine building</a>
at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.

 


title: Taking control of John Deere tractors
uri: Taking-control-of-John-Deere-tractors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Taking_control_of_John_Deere_tractors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Taking_control_of_John_Deere_tractors)

content:
 
<p>
Hackers have figured out <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/john-deere-tractor-jailbreak-defcon-2022/">how a farmer can take control of the
computers in many John Deere tractors</a>.
<p>
It is true that "malicious actors" could also use these jailbreaks to
take control of the tractor.  But don't exaggerate the significance of
that danger!  These tractors have been under the control of a malicious
actor (named John Deere) ever since they left the factory.
<p>
Farmers, like motorists and other computer users, are entitled
to full control over their computers.
<p>
John Deere has done various secondary bad things that add to the basic
wrong.  This includes bad development practices and GPL violations.
In addition, its security against unknown third parties is
ineffective.

 


title: Danger on GOP's election deniers' nominations
uri: Danger-on-GOP-s-election-deniers-nominations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Danger_on_GOP's_election_deniers'_nominations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Danger_on_GOP's_election_deniers'_nominations)

content:
 
<p>
Danger: *Election deniers have <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/08/15/election-deniers-have-claimed-nearly-two-thirds-of-gop-nominations-for-positions-with-authority-over-elections.html">claimed nearly two-thirds of GOP nominations for
positions with authority over elections</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(CVS_trying_to_increase_power)
title: CVS trying to increase power
uri: CVS-trying-to-increase-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(CVS_trying_to_increase_power)
content:
 
<p>
CVS is trying to increase its power over US medical care by <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/03/cvs-says-it-plans-to-get-into-primary-care-by-year-end.html">expanding
into many other business aspects of medicine</a>.  Now it plans to buy
some medical treatment company.
<p>
I don't think we should tolerate the size of CVS.  We should make it split up
so that there are additional competing pharmacy companies.
<p>
Amazon shouldn't be allowed to acquire <em>any</em> other company.

 


title: US government wants people to pay individually for Covid-19 vaccines and drugs
uri: US-government-wants-people-to-pay-individually-for-Covid-19-vaccines-a
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(US_government_wants_people_to_pay_individually_for_Covid-19_vaccines_and_drugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(US_government_wants_people_to_pay_individually_for_Covid-19_vaccines_and_drugs)

content:
 
<p>
The US government wants to make Americans <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/19/terrible-idea-biden-preparing-shift-costs-covid-treatments-vaccines-patients">pay individually for
Covid-19 vaccines and drugs</a>.
<p>
That will make poor people much more likely to die of Covid-19, like
2020 again.

 


title: (Satire) Right-wing Americans and FBI
uri: (Satire)-Right-wing-Americans-and-FBI
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_((Satire)_Right-wing_Americans_and_FBI)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_((Satire)_Right-wing_Americans_and_FBI)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *[Right-wing Americans] Explain <a href="https://www.theonion.com/conservatives-explain-why-they-do-not-trust-the-fbi-1849425649">Why They Do Not Trust The FBI</a>.*
<p>
It is customary to describe right-wing Americans as "conservative,"
and there was some truth in that back when progressives/liberals had
powerful campaigns for changes.  Today's followers of the corrupter
are in no way "conservative."
<p>
If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScript entirely or telling LibreJS to blacklist all scripts in the page, then right-click and select item "Reveal hidden HTML". Or use a browser such as lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript and CSS.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Liz_Cheney)
title: Liz Cheney
uri: Liz-Cheney
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(Liz_Cheney)
content:
 
<p>
Liz Cheney's strong resistance to the wrecker <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/19/liz-cheney-and-donald-trump-two-faces-american-totalitarianism">crowns a long career
of supporting lies and injustice</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(P%26O_Ferries_won't_be_prosecuted)
title: P&O Ferries won't be prosecuted
uri: P-O-Ferries-won-t-be-prosecuted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(P%26O_Ferries_won't_be_prosecuted)
content:
 
<p>
P&O Ferries will not be prosecuted for <a href="ttps://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/20/po-wont-face-criminal-proceedings-for-mass-sacking">abruptly firing 800 union workers</a>
so it could replace them with unskilled offshore workers.
<p>
The owners are quite happy with the outcome.

 


title: President Ortega attacks Catholic Church
uri: President-Ortega-attacks-Catholic-Church
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(President_Ortega_attacks_Catholic_Church)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#22_August_2022_(President_Ortega_attacks_Catholic_Church)

content:
 
<p>
President Ortega of Nicaragua has crushed all political dissent, so now he
has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/19/americas/rolando-alvarez-nicaragua-bishop-arrest-intl/index.html">attacked the Catholic Church by arresting a bishop and other clerics</a>.
There are no specific charges, but it may have to do with giving
sanctuary in he past to protesters that Ortega's men were attacking.

 


title: Urgent: Call on CVS to stop blocking Medicare for all
uri: Urgent-Call-on-CVS-to-stop-blocking-Medicare-for-all
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_CVS_to_stop_blocking_Medicare_for_all)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_CVS_to_stop_blocking_Medicare_for_all)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on CVS to publicly and permanently <a href="https://act.medicare4all.org/sign/CVS-petition">stop blocking
Medicare for All</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Invest in people, not Wall Street
uri: Urgent-Invest-in-people-not-Wall-Street
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Urgent:_Invest_in_people,_not_Wall_Street)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Urgent:_Invest_in_people,_not_Wall_Street)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on airlines to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/nostockbuybacks">invest in people, not Wall Street</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Stop overdraft profiteering by Wall Street banks
uri: Urgent-Stop-overdraft-profiteering-by-Wall-Street-banks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_overdraft_profiteering_by_Wall_Street_banks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_overdraft_profiteering_by_Wall_Street_banks)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Democratic leadership in Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-democratic-leadership-stop-overdraft-profiteering-by-wall-street-banks">stop
overdraft profiteering by Wall Street banks</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Make Starbucks CEO testify about union-busting
uri: Urgent-Make-Starbucks-CEO-testify-about-union-busting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Urgent:_Make_Starbucks_CEO_testify_about_union-busting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Urgent:_Make_Starbucks_CEO_testify_about_union-busting)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to make Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-starbucks-ceo-howard-schultz-testify-before-congress-for-blatant-union-busting">testify about blatant union-busting</a>.

 


title: Starbucks ordered by court to rehire employees
uri: Starbucks-ordered-by-court-to-rehire-employees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Starbucks_ordered_by_court_to_rehire_employees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Starbucks_ordered_by_court_to_rehire_employees)

content:
 
<p>

A court ordered Starbucks to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/18/federal-judge-orders-starbucks-rehire-fired-union-organizers-memphis">rehire seven employees</a> that it fired,
apparently as punishment for union organizing.

 


title: Some Britons moving back to cash payments
uri: Some-Britons-moving-back-to-cash-payments
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Some_Britons_moving_back_to_cash_payments)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Some_Britons_moving_back_to_cash_payments)

content:
 
<p>

Some Britons are moving back to cash payments to help themselves <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/18/handing-over-cold-hard-cash-makes-you-think-twice-the-people-ditching-cards-in-the-cost-of-living-crisis">avoid
unnecessary spending</a>.
<p>
This side benefit of using cash is <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_(Financial_literacy)">well-established</a>.
But even if you don't need to economize, paying cash is a step
against mass surveillance.  This very recent trend back to cash goes
against a long-term trend of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/aug/18/uk-cashless-society-a-step-closer-as-more-than-23m-people-abandon-coins">surrender to surveillance</a>.
<p>
Please join the resistance!  While others reject surveillance
technology for the sake of valuable short-term benefits, you can
reject it for the sake of freedom, whether you need those side
benefits or not.
<p>
The first step is to make sure, when you leave the house, that you
have enough cash for what you might want to buy that day, plus some
extra.
<p>
If you don't have enough, don't identify yourself to a merchant!
Get cash from an ATM, then come back to the merchant and pay cash.
Giving a little data to your bank is not as bad as giving more
data to a store <em>as well as</em> your bank.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_((satire)_Clear_bags_in_schools)
title: (satire) Clear bags in schools
uri: (satire)-Clear-bags-in-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_((satire)_Clear_bags_in_schools)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/texas-schools-require-clear-bags-to-prevent-students-fr-1849431359">*Texas Schools Require Clear Bags To Prevent
Students From Bringing In Books.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Russian_paratrooper's_memoir)
title: Russian paratrooper's memoir
uri: Russian-paratrooper-s-memoir
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Russian_paratrooper's_memoir)
content:
 
<p>

Pavel Filatyev, Russian paratrooper, has published a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/17/i-dont-see-justice-in-this-war-russian-soldier-exposes-rot-at-core-of-ukraine-invasion">forbidden
memoir</a> about his experiences in the Putin forces.
<p>
His unit was sent to help capture Kherson.  He saw how badly the army
treated the troops.  (Paratroops are generally thought of as elite
units, which normally would get the best equipment.)
<p>
Then he figured out he had been forced into a war of conquest &mdash;
recall that Putin lied to Russia about that &mdash; and was in the Putin
forces.  After being wounded and sent home, he published his memoir.
<p>
After hiding for a couple of weeks in Russia wondering when he'd be
arrested, he decided to flee the country
<p>
I disagree with him on one point.  If he had escaped the front, and
surrendered, that would have been a step toward ending Putin's
invasion.  He could have continued by writing the memoir, and it
would have done the same good, while being less dangerous.
<p>
But I don't mean that as criticism of him.  Filatyev did a heroic
deed, and it may help end Putin's invasion.  Bravo, Filatyev!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Invasive_species_on_islands)
title: Invasive species on islands
uri: Invasive-species-on-islands
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Invasive_species_on_islands)
content:
 
<p>

*Eliminating invasive species on islands has high success rate and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/10/driving-out-invasive-species-on-islands-high-success-rate-big-benefits-aoe">big
benefits</a> [for protecting native wildlife].*

 


title: Fight to undo worst provisions in the IRA
uri: Fight-to-undo-worst-provisions-in-the-IRA
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Fight_to_undo_worst_provisions_in_the_IRA)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Fight_to_undo_worst_provisions_in_the_IRA)

content:
 
<p>

*The Climate Movement's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/21/climate-movements-fight-undo-worst-provisions-ira-begins">Fight to Undo the Worst Provisions in the IRA</a>
 Begins.*

 


title: New Orleans not cooperating with ban on abortion
uri: New-Orleans-not-cooperating-with-ban-on-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(New_Orleans_not_cooperating_with_ban_on_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(New_Orleans_not_cooperating_with_ban_on_abortion)

content:
 
<p>

Louisiana is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/20/us/louisiana-delay-flood-funding-city-abortion-stance/index.html">punishing the city of New Orleans</a> for refusing to cooperate
with the state's ban on abortions by cutting off bonds for improving
the city's flood defenses.
<p>
A flood in New Orleans could kill hundreds of human beings, even
thousands.  Anti-abortion fanatics don't particularly care about them
because they are post-birth.  However, some fraction would be
pregnant, and many of those would have brought those pregnancies to
term if they had survived.  Do the fanatics care about the survival of
those fetuses?

 


title: Call to return Afghanistan's Central Bank Reserves
uri: Call-to-return-Afghanistan-s-Central-Bank-Reserves
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Call_to_return_Afghanistan's_Central_Bank_Reserves)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Call_to_return_Afghanistan's_Central_Bank_Reserves)

content:
 
<p>

*Over 70 Economists Call for Biden Administration to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2022/08/10/over-70-economists-call-biden-administration-return-afghanistans-central-bank">Return
 Afghanistan's Central Bank Reserves</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Government_subsidises_business)
title: Government subsidises business
uri: Government-subsidises-business
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Government_subsidises_business)
content:
 
<p>

Robert Reich: *America used to regulate business. Now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/21/america-used-to-regulate-business-now-government-subsidises-it">government
subsidises it</a>.*
<p>
This is one aspect of plutcracy.  Our political system gives business
unjust power over the government, and it has used that power to reorient
the government to solve all problems by giving more to business.
<p>
I've criticized a related aspect of plutocracy by calling for
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#16_July_2022_(Congress_working_behind_closed_doors_on_$50_billion_in_corporate_welfare)">punishing companies that act in harmful ways</a>, rather than rewarding
companies that don't.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Stop_telling_gen_Z_to_relax)
title: Stop telling gen Z to relax
uri: Stop-telling-gen-Z-to-relax
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Stop_telling_gen_Z_to_relax)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/22/stop-telling-gen-z-to-relax-we-have-to-fix-the-mess-left-by-your-generation">Stop telling gen Z to relax</a> &mdash; we have to fix the mess left by your
 generation.*

 


title: Desire for revenge and how we treat criminals
uri: Desire-for-revenge-and-how-we-treat-criminals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Desire_for_revenge_and_how_we_treat_criminals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#24_August_2022_(Desire_for_revenge_and_how_we_treat_criminals)

content:
 
<p>

Arguing that we should not allow a desire for revenge to play any part in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/22/the-big-idea-should-revenge-ever-be-a-part-of-justice">how we treat criminals</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(darya_dugina)
title: Russian security service claim to have identified killer of Darya Dugina lacks credibility
uri: Russian-security-service-claim-to-have-identified-killer-of-Darya-Dugi
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(darya_dugina)
content:
 
<p>
Who set the car bomb in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/russian-security-service-fsb-claim-to-have-identified-killer-of-darya-dugina-lacks-credibility">Alexander Dugin's car?</a>
<p>
Ukraine's "false flag" accusation seems implausible to me.  A Russian
false flag operation would not target Putin's friend, or the friend's
daughter.
<p>
Russia's claims about a Ukrainian underground bomber seems implausible
to me, for the reasons stated in the article.  They make more sense as
disinformation.
<p>
That Ukraine did it in some other way is less implausible, but Ukraine
generally targets things that support Putin's war effort, and for good
reason.  Why risk inspiring disapproval by attacking a civilian?
<p>
The underground anti-Putin group possibility seems more plausible than
those.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(gretchen_whitmer_kidnap_plot)
title: Duo found guilty over plot to kidnap Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer
uri: Duo-found-guilty-over-plot-to-kidnap-Michigan-governor-Gretchen-Whitme
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(gretchen_whitmer_kidnap_plot)
content:
 
<p>
*Duo found guilty over plot to kidnap 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/23/gretchen-whitmer-kidnap-plot-two-men-guilty">Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer.</a>*
<p>
They did this because the wrecker had encouraged it.

 


title: US rejects Ukrainian call for blanket ban on visas for Russians
uri: US-rejects-Ukrainian-call-for-blanket-ban-on-visas-for-Russians
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(us_visa_rejects_russuian_visa_ban_ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(us_visa_rejects_russuian_visa_ban_ukraine)

content:
 
<p>
* [US] state department says it does not want to close off pathways
   for Russian dissidents and victims of human rights 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/22/us-rejects-russians-visa-ban-ukraine">abuses to get visas to go to the US.</a>*
<p>
I agree with this decision, but I can't tell from the article where
the US will draw the line in giving visas to Russians.  Do you have to be
an active dissident or demonstrably persecuted, or is it enough to have
no special connection with the government?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(lula_vows_protect_amazon_forest)
title: *Lula vows to protect Amazon [forest] if returned to power in Brazil elections.*
uri: Lula-vows-to-protect-Amazon-forest-if-returned-to-power-in-Brazil-e
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(lula_vows_protect_amazon_forest)
content:
 
<p>
*Lula vows to protect Amazon [forest] if returned to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/brazil-election-lula-da-silva-protect-amazon-president">power in Brazil elections.</a>*

 


title: Ben & Jerry’s lose bid to block sale of ice-cream in Israeli West Bank settlements
uri: Ben-Jerry-s-lose-bid-to-block-sale-of-ice-cream-in-Israeli-West-Ba
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(ben_jerrys_lose_israeli_settlements_palestinian)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(ben_jerrys_lose_israeli_settlements_palestinian)

content:
 
<p>
A court ruled that the Ben & Jerry's founders can't legally make Unilever
stop selling ice cream under that name in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/22/ben-jerrys-lose-israeli-settlements-palestinian">Israel's colonies in Palestine.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Protest_for_help_obtaining_food)
title: Protest for help obtaining food
uri: Protest-for-help-obtaining-food
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Protest_for_help_obtaining_food)
content:
 
<p>
Argentines are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/18/argentine-unions-lead-mass-demonstrations-higher-wages-lower-prices">protesting, demanding the government help them obtain
food</a>.
<p>
As it generally does, the International Monetary Fund is "helping"
Argentina pay its debts by limiting government spending to help people
in difficulty.  In effect, the IMF converts supposedly sovereign
countries into <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html#24%20January%202011%20(Ask%20the%20devil%20for%20help)">colonies of the foreign banks, with their governments
focused on extracting money for them</a>.
<p>
This is disappointing, since the deal with the IMF was <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/12/imfs-new-agreement-argentina-has-potential-be-game-changer">supposedly
a new form</a>, designed to avoid this result.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Oil_prospecting)
title: Oil prospecting
uri: 2022-08-26-Oil-prospecting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Oil_prospecting)
content:
 
<p>
Oil-prospecting companies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/24/biggest-seismic-testing-for-oil-and-gas-at-odds-with-australias-net-zero-push-activists-say">plan seismic testing</a> in wide areas of ocean
near Australia's coasts.
<p>
Surely there is no room in the carbon budget to actually extract oil
from any new oil fields they might discover.  So it makes no sense to
let them search.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Falsifying_warrants)
title: Falsifying warrants
uri: Falsifying-warrants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Falsifying_warrants)
content:
 
<p>
A former thug plead guilty of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/23/kelly-goodlett-breonna-taylor-guilty-plea-civil-rights-police">falsifying the search warrant</a> that led to
the shooting of Breonna Taylor by thugs.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Anti-union_companies)
title: Anti-union companies
uri: Anti-union-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Anti-union_companies)
content:
 
<p>
*Anti-Union Companies are <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/8/21/2117967/-Anti-Union-Companies-are-Anti-Worker-and-Anti-American?_=2022-08-21T16:22:14.000-07:00">Anti-Worker and Anti-American</a>.*
<p>
Examples described include Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft.
As well as  Home Depot, Ikea, Lowe's, Target and Walmart.
And Costco and Trader Joe's. Also Chipotle, Starbucks, and McDonalds.
<p>
And don't forget Tesla.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Salman_Rushdie_attack)
title: Salman Rushdie attack
uri: Salman-Rushdie-attack
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Salman_Rushdie_attack)
content:
 
<p>

The assassin that attacked Salman Rushdie was influenced by bizarre
interpretation of Islam.  Well-educated Muslims condemn such acts.
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/22/villainous-attack-salman-rushdie-and-what-it-says-and-doesnt-say-about-islam">This article explains why</a>.
<p>
I think what we can learn from this is that fanatical leaders can
distort any religion into a murderous cult.
<p>
Compare, for instance, with the Christian fanatics that murder
abortion doctors, and the Christian fanatics that want to imprison
women for abortions.  It would be wrong to conclude that Christianity
advocates killing doctors or imprisoning women.  What we should
conclude is that Christianity has the potential to be a basis for
fanaticism.
<p>
So does Islam, and so do various other religions.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Teacher_shortage)
title: Teacher shortage
uri: 2022-08-26-Teacher-shortage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Teacher_shortage)
content:
 
<p>
The US faces a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/23/four-decades-attacking-teachers-destroying-public-education">shortage of teachers</a>, partly caused by demonization of
teachers and government policies blaming them for bad outcomes.
Together with low pay.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(China_wildfires)
title: China wildfires
uri: China-wildfires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(China_wildfires)
content:
 
<p>
China is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/china/china-heat-wave-chongqing-wildfires-intl-hnk/index.html">suffering from wildfires</a>, like many other countries, and they
are sending smoke into the megacity of Chongqing.

<p>
 


title: Organizations blast baseless attacks
uri: Organizations-blast-baseless-attacks
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Organizations_blast_baseless_attacks)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Organizations_blast_baseless_attacks)

content:
 
<p>
*50+ Israeli Organizations <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/22/50-israeli-organizations-blast-baseless-attacks-palestinian-ngos">Blast 'Baseless' Attacks</a> on Palestinian
 [human rights organizations].*

<p>
 


title: Climate wrecking could wipe out 90% of sea species
uri: Climate-wrecking-could-wipe-out-90-of-sea-species
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Climate_wrecking_could_wipe_out_90%25_of_sea_species)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Climate_wrecking_could_wipe_out_90%25_of_sea_species)

content:
 
<p>
Continuing to wreck the climate as we do it now could <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/22/90-marine-species-face-extinction-under-emissions-status-quo-study">wipe out 90% of species
that live in the seas</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Biden_and_student_debt)
title: Biden and student debt
uri: 2022-08-26-Biden-and-student-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Biden_and_student_debt)
content:
 
<p>

Biden plans to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/23/cancel-it-all-say-progressives-biden-favors-10000-means-tested-student-debt-relief">cancel just a part of Americans' student loans</a> &mdash; not enough
to rescue them from debt trap.
<p>
I think the income test is ok.  People who make over $125k a year are
not trapped by their student loans.  But Biden ought to rescue
the people who are trapped.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Mick_Lynch)
title: Mick Lynch
uri: Mick-Lynch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Mick_Lynch)
content:
 
<p>
Mick Lynch, head of a rail workers' union in the UK, has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/23/mick-lynch-rmt-work-dignity-union-power">galvanized
politics</a> with his activist stance.  "You don't think strikes are the
answer?  What is?"

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Investigate Amazon-One Medical merger
uri: Urgent-Investigate-Amazon-One-Medical-merger
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Urgent:_Investigate_Amazon-One_Medical_merger)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Urgent:_Investigate_Amazon-One_Medical_merger)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the FTC to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/amazon-onemedical/">investigate the Amazon-One Medical merger</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Urgent:_AIPAC)
title: Urgent: AIPAC
uri: Urgent-AIPAC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Urgent:_AIPAC)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: tell Congress, "<a href="https://act.jstreet.org/sign/tell-congress-aipac-doesnt-speak-me-2/">AIPAC doesn't speak for me</a>."

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Urgent:_Martha_Wright_Act)
title: Urgent: Martha Wright Act
uri: Urgent-Martha-Wright-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Urgent:_Martha_Wright_Act)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.newmode.net/action/color-change/call-congress-and-tell-them-pass-martha-wright-act/?source=ef_072722_kicker_link1">pass the Martha Wright Act</a>, to
reduce the price of calls with family for prisoners.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Starbucks_strike)
title: Starbucks strike
uri: Starbucks-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Starbucks_strike)
content:
 
<p>
Starbucks workers have been <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/21/sanders-joins-striking-starbucks-workers-picket-line-boston">on strike since June at a store in Boston</a>.
Bernie Sanders visited Boston to show support for them.

<p>
 


title: Former spy accuses schools of treating daughter with hostility
uri: Former-spy-accuses-schools-of-treating-daughter-with-hostility
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Former_spy_accuses_schools_of_treating_daughter_with_hostility)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Former_spy_accuses_schools_of_treating_daughter_with_hostility)

content:
 
<p>
The UK's former spy inside al-Qa'ida accuses a British school of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/21/aimen-dean-spy-al-qaida-edinburgh-st-georges-school-daughter-discrimination">treating his daughter with hostility</a> because other students' parents
vague-mindedly associated him with danger.
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/21/aimen-dean-former-mi6-spy-scottish-dream-turned-sour">More info</a>.
<p>
Dean supported al-Qa'ida for local war, but when it turned to
terrorism, he condemned that based on Islam.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Give_a_reason_to_vote_for_them)
title: Give a reason to vote for them
uri: Give-a-reason-to-vote-for-them
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Give_a_reason_to_vote_for_them)
content:
 
<p>
Ilhan Omar calls on Democrats to *<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/20/omar-democrats-lets-give-working-folks-reason-turn-out-vote-us">Give Working Folks a Reason to Turn Out to Vote for Us</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Workers'_rights)
title: Workers' rights
uri: 2022-08-26-Workers-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Workers'_rights)
content:
 
<p>
Democrats in Congress are starting to consider <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/22/tide-turning-us-congress-finally-considers-national-domestic-workers-bill-rights">legislating workers'
rights</a> for domestic workers, following the lead of various states and cities.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Syrian_refugees_in_fear)
title: Syrian refugees in fear
uri: Syrian-refugees-in-fear
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(Syrian_refugees_in_fear)
content:
 
<p>
Syrian refugees in Turkey fear that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/23/turkeys-rapprochement-with-syria-leaves-regional-refugees-fearful">Erdo&gbreve;an will hand them over to Assad</a>.
And Rojava fears Erdoan will attack.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(abortion_rights_at_risk_italy_pm)
title: Abortion rights at risk in region led by party of Italy’s possible next PM
uri: Abortion-rights-at-risk-in-region-led-by-party-of-Italy-s-possible-n
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(abortion_rights_at_risk_italy_pm)
content:
 
<p>
Italy's right-wing party that is likely to win the next election
is sabotaging abortion 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/abortion-rights-at-risk-in-region-led-by-party-of-italys-possible-next-pm">access in the region where it has control.</a>

 


title: China drought causes Yangtze to dry up, sparking shortage of hydro power
uri: China-drought-causes-Yangtze-to-dry-up-sparking-shortage-of-hydro-pow
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(china_drought_yangtze_river_hydropower_shortage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(china_drought_yangtze_river_hydropower_shortage)

content:
 
<p>
Global heating disaster has struck China, drying up the Yangtze River
much as droughts elsewhere 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/china-drought-causes-yangtze-river-to-dry-up-sparking-shortage-of-hydropower">are drying up the Rhine and the Colorado.</a>
<p>
Can this convince the Chinese governments of the need to stop building
more 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/25/china-to-cut-fossil-fuel-use-to-below-20-by-2060">coal-fired generators?</a>

 


