# articles

feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Senator_confesses_tactic,_Brazil)
title: Senator confesses tactic, Brazil
uri: Senator-confesses-tactic-Brazil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Senator_confesses_tactic,_Brazil)
content:
 
<p>

A Brazilian senator, formerly a supporter of Bolsonaro, said that the
two were present in a conversation where another elected official,
also a supporter,
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/02/americas/brazil-jair-bolsonaro-election-overturn-intl-latam/index.html">proposed ways to spread doubt on the election's
validity</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Unionization,_REI_employees)
title: Unionization, REI employees
uri: Unionization-REI-employees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Unionization,_REI_employees)
content:
 
<p>

Employees at some
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/rei-union-ohio-strike">REI stores have overcome union-busting</a>
to unionize.
<p>
REI is a cooperative, but it is a customed-owned cooperative,
not a worker-owned cooperative.  So it can easily mistreat workers.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Germany's_genocide)
title: Germany's genocide
uri: Germany-s-genocide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Germany's_genocide)
content:
 
<p>
Early in the 20th century, Germany colonized Namibia and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/feb/03/namibia-genocide-victims-herero-nama-germany-reparations">carried out genocide</a>
against two tribes that resisted.  Now they demand reparations,
not to the Namibian government but to the people of those two tribes.

<p>
 


title: Gun ownership for domestic violence
uri: Gun-ownership-for-domestic-violence
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Gun_ownership_for_domestic_violence)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Gun_ownership_for_domestic_violence)

content:
 
<p>

The right-wing, 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a federal
law
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/domestic-violence-gun-laws">barring people with domestic violence restraining orders from
owning firearms</a>.
<p>
That court is right-wing because the preponderance of Republican
senators from the states in that circuit have <a href="/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#14_June_2015_(Republicans)">blocked the appointment
    of any new judges there</a>.
  That makes the 5th circuit ideal for Republicans to get the results
they seek.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Public_protester_killed,_US)
title: Public protester killed, US
uri: Public-protester-killed-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Public_protester_killed,_US)
content:
 
<p>

The shooting of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán was part of an
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/02/atlanta-shooting-manuel-teran-crackdown-environmental-defenders">US crackdown
on environmental defenders</a>,
which includes charging them with
"terrorism" for nonviolent protest.

<p>
 


title: Bogus Johnson's promised hospitals
uri: Bogus-Johnson-s-promised-hospitals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Bogus_Johnson's_promised_hospitals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Bogus_Johnson's_promised_hospitals)

content:
 
<p>
Bogus Johnson promised to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/04/only-10-of-boris-johnson-promised-40-new-hospitals-have-full-planning-permission">build 40 new hospitals</a>, to win the 2019 election.
Now it's almost time for another election, and only 10 of them have approved
construction plans.
<p>
Promise them anything, but give them tax cuts for the rich.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(DNC_dark_money_ban_blocked)
title: DNC dark money ban blocked
uri: DNC-dark-money-ban-blocked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(DNC_dark_money_ban_blocked)
content:
 
<p>
*Once Again, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/dnc-blocks-dark-money-ban">DNC Panel Blocks Vote on Dark Money Ban in Democratic
Primaries</a>.*


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Misuse_of_water)
title: Misuse of water
uri: Misuse-of-water
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Misuse_of_water)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/big-ag-big-oil-water-abuse-colorado-river">Tackle "Abuse of Water" by Big Ag and Big Oil</a>,
Advocates Say Amid Colorado River Fight*
<p>
I think that "abuse" is the wrong word for this.
It should be "misuse".  But it is a very big misuse.
Fracking misuses enormous amounts of water.
So does growing feed for cattle.

<p>
 


title: ACLU sues about warrantless spying
uri: ACLU-sues-about-warrantless-spying
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(ACLU_sues_about_warrantless_spying)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(ACLU_sues_about_warrantless_spying)

content:
 
<p>
*ACLU Sues CIA, DOJ, and NSA for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/aclu-section-702-spying-americans">Records About Warrantless Spying on
 Americans</a>.*

<p>
 


title: US kangaroo courts were a "terrible mistake"
uri: US-kangaroo-courts-were-a-terrible-mistake
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(US_kangaroo_courts_were_a_terrible_mistake)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(US_kangaroo_courts_were_a_terrible_mistake)

content:
 
<p>
Dubya's solicitor-general, who argued in the Supreme Court in favor of
trying the prisoners in Guantánamo in "military commissions" (kangaroo
courts), now says that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/ted-olson">that was a terrible mistake</a>.  The US should
have brought them to a real US court for trial.
<p>
He also says it was
self-defeating to ask for the death penalty for any of them, and that
the US should offer them plea deals now.
<p>
I think that after the many years in prison and torture they have
suffered, the US should offer them a plea deal for time already
served, and let them go.

<p>
 


title: Children still not reunited with parents
uri: Children-still-not-reunited-with-parents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Children_still_not_reunited_with_parents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Children_still_not_reunited_with_parents)

content:
 
<p>
Five years ago, the wrecker's officials separated thousands of migrant
children from their parents.  Despite persistent efforts, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/1000-children-separated">1000 of them
still not been reunited with those parents</a>, because the wrecker's
officials preserved no usable information about who those parents were
and how to find them.

<p>
 


title: Iraqi dishonors himself by murdering daughter
uri: Iraqi-dishonors-himself-by-murdering-daughter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Iraqi_dishonors_himself_by_murdering_daughter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Iraqi_dishonors_himself_by_murdering_daughter)

content:
 
<p>
An Iraqi father <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/03/honour-killing-of-youtube-star-sparks-outrage-in-iraq">dishonored himself by murdering his daughter</a> for
acting as if she had rights of her own.
His country dishonored itself by not taking this murder as seriously
as other murders.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Tories_face_a_choice)
title: Tories face a choice
uri: Tories-face-a-choice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Tories_face_a_choice)
content:
 
<p>
*The Tories now face a choice: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/02/tories-lose-opposition-party">lose office with honour or burn
everything in sight</a>.*
<p>
I partly disagree with that statement.  After 13 years of lies,
bullshit, broken promises and voter suppression, all designed to help
the rich and drive the poor into hunger, cold and sickness, we must
not recognize the Tories as possessing any sort of honor merely for
putting a limit on their mayhem at a point before the bitter end.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Crisis_pregnancy_centers)
title: Crisis pregnancy centers
uri: 2023-02-06-Crisis-pregnancy-centers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Crisis_pregnancy_centers)
content:
 
<p>
Some "crisis pregnancy centers" go beyond misleading pregnant women so
they won't get abortions -- they also <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/02/kentucky-crisis-pregnancy-center-anti-abortion-malpractices">disregard proper medical
procedures</a> to avoid spreading diseases from one client to the next.
<p>
This was reported by a licensed nurse who volunteered to help in one.

<p>
 


title: Biden asked to negotiate with terrorists
uri: Biden-asked-to-negotiate-with-terrorists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Biden_asked_to_negotiate_with_terrorists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Biden_asked_to_negotiate_with_terrorists)

content:
 
<p>
Biden has asked to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/debt-ceiling-negotiations">negotiate with the Republican
terrorists</a> that use the debt ceiling as a hostage.
<p>
Negotiating with hostage takers plays into their hands
and leads to ignominious surrender.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Global_heating)
title: Global heating
uri: 2023-02-06-Global-heating
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Global_heating)
content:
 
<p>
It is probably technically possible to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/1-5c-not-plausible">avoid global heating over
1.5°C</a>, but society seems incapable of mobilizing to overcome the
obstruction.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Germant's_genocide)
title: Germant's genocide
uri: Germant-s-genocide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Germant's_genocide)
content:
 
<p>
Early in the 20th century, Germant colonized Namibia and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/feb/03/namibia-genocide-victims-herero-nama-germany-reparations">carried out genocide</a>
against two tribes that resisted.  Now they demand reparations,
not to the Namibian government but to the people of those two tribes.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Palestinian_interviews)
title: Palestinian interviews
uri: Palestinian-interviews
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Palestinian_interviews)
content:
 
<p>
<a href=""https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/01/middleeast/west-bank-ramallah-palestinians-intl-cmd/index.html>Interviews with Palestinians in Ramallah on the topic of Blinken's visit</a>
(to Israel, and to Palestine on the side).

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Texas_greenwashing)
title: Texas greenwashing
uri: Texas-greenwashing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#5_February_2023_(Texas_greenwashing)
content:
 
<p>
*Carbon capture project [in Texas] is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/03/carbon-capture-gas-exports-rio-grande-lng-nextdecade">‘Band-Aid’ to greenwash $10bn
LNG plant</a>, locals say.*
<p>
Many climate defenders and scientists say that too; I am glad the word
is spreading.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Urgent:_reintroduce_sea_otters)
title: Urgent: reintroduce sea otters
uri: Urgent-reintroduce-sea-otters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Urgent:_reintroduce_sea_otters)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the Fish and Wildlife Service to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=52750">take concrete
action to reintroduce sea otters off the California and Oregon coast</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Investigate election-winners who seem excluded from office
uri: Urgent-Investigate-election-winners-who-seem-excluded-from-office
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Urgent:_Investigate_election-winners_who_seem_excluded_from_office)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Urgent:_Investigate_election-winners_who_seem_excluded_from_office)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress and state legislatures to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-investigate-electeds-who-may-be-constitutionally-disqualified-from-holding-office?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-inequality-media-civic-action&source=group-inequality-media-civic-action">investigate
election-winners who seem to be constitutionally excluded from office</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Israel_protests_for_democracy)
title: Israel protests for democracy
uri: Israel-protests-for-democracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Israel_protests_for_democracy)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/05/israel-protests-thousands-rally-for-fifth-week-against-governments-legal-reforms">Thousands of Israelis are protesting for democracy</a>, and against
Netanyahu's plans to subordinate the Supreme Court to the government.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Republican_censorship)
title: Republican censorship
uri: Republican-censorship
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Republican_censorship)
content:
 
<p>
How Republicans <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/03/opinions/ap-african-american-studies-florida-desantis-jones-ctrp/index.html">falsified Critical Race Theory and African American Studies</a>
in the interest of political censorship.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_((Satire)_Africa_removed_from_maps)
title: (Satire) Africa removed from maps
uri: (Satire)-Africa-removed-from-maps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_((Satire)_Africa_removed_from_maps)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Florida Board Of Education <a href="https://www.theonion.com/florida-board-of-education-removes-africa-from-world-ma-1850066134">Removes Africa From World Maps</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(New_article)
title: New article
uri: 2023-02-06-New-article
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(New_article)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="/articles/hypereager-trademark-enforcement.html">Hypereager Trademark Enforcement: nasty, excessive and stupid</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Urgent:_ban_assault_weapons)
title: Urgent: ban assault weapons
uri: Urgent-ban-assault-weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Urgent:_ban_assault_weapons)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-ban-assault-weapons?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-coalition-on-human-needs&source=direct_link">ban assault weapons</a>.
<p>
That criterion for what to prohibit may not be exactly ideal, but
that's a side issue -- it would be a step in the right direction.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Urgent:_limiting_soot_exposure)
title: Urgent: limiting soot exposure
uri: Urgent-limiting-soot-exposure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Urgent:_limiting_soot_exposure)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA to <a href="https://act.evergreenaction.com/letter/EPA-strengthen-soot-standard/">make a strong standard for limiting
soot exposure</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Unionization)
title: Unionization
uri: 2023-02-06-Unionization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Unionization)
content:
 
<p>
In the UK, a whole generation is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/04/coffin-makers-sewage-attendants-work-isnt-working-unions">learning the value of unionization</a>.
Strikes are spreading, and so are victories.
<p>
The main resistance is from the Tories, who have aimed for centuries
to keep wages down and workers poor.
<p>
The US is seeing something similar, but not so many victories, as a big
company can stall concessions for years.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Fed_rate_hikes)
title: Fed rate hikes
uri: Fed-rate-hikes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Fed_rate_hikes)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich: *<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/good-jobs-report-fed-rate-hikes">Friday's Surprisingly Positive Jobs Report Does Not
Mean Fed Should Keep Raising Rates</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Corporate_director_duty)
title: Corporate director duty
uri: Corporate-director-duty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#6_February_2023_(Corporate_director_duty)
content:
 
<p>
Proposing to legislate that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corporate-charters-and-the-public-interest">corporations' directors have a duty</a> "not
to severely harm the public interest."

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Corporate secrecy on climate mayhem
uri: Urgent-Corporate-secrecy-on-climate-mayhem
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Urgent:_Corporate_secrecy_on_climate_mayhem)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Urgent:_Corporate_secrecy_on_climate_mayhem)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-denounce-exxon-for-keeping-private-climate-change-research-from-the-public?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-just-strategy&source=group-just-strategy">denounce Exxon</a>
for keeping <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#climate">climate mayhem</a> research
from the public.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Corporate secrecy on climate mahem
uri: Urgent-Corporate-secrecy-on-climate-mahem
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Urgent:_Corporate_secrecy_on_climate_mahem)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Urgent:_Corporate_secrecy_on_climate_mahem)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-denounce-exxon-for-keeping-private-climate-change-research-from-the-public?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-just-strategy&source=group-just-strategy">denounce Exxon</a>
for keeping climate mayhem research
from the public.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: National forest, oil pipeline
uri: Urgent-National-forest-oil-pipeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Urgent:_National_forest,_oil_pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Urgent:_National_forest,_oil_pipeline)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens:
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53353&supporter_KEY=229474&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:116632&utm_campaign=AME4-FCNS:SPECPLCCNS:NATIONALFOR-0123&utm_content=EM9:00C:0HH-DPP">call on the US Forest Service not to allow building an oil
pipeline through the Jefferson National Forest</a>.
  The proposed pipeline is the Mountain Valley Pipeline, <a href="/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Debunking_reasons_to_build_Mountain_Valley_Pipeline)">which is opposed
  for other reasons</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Urgent:_Afghan_women)
title: Urgent: Afghan women
uri: Urgent-Afghan-women
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Urgent:_Afghan_women)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens:
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/go/34272?c0=FIFA_Afghanistan.CG2Ksv&source=em20230202_2&t=1006&akid=8589%2E223515%2EZBYrDF">call on FIFA to recognize the Afghan women's soccer team</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Urgent:_Facebook_equality,_rules)
title: Urgent: Facebook equality, rules
uri: Urgent-Facebook-equality-rules
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Urgent:_Facebook_equality,_rules)
content:
 
<p>

Everyone:
<a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/trumpbackonfb/">call on Facebook not to give celebrities exemptions from
the rules</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Republicans plan regressive tax
uri: Urgent-Republicans-plan-regressive-tax
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Urgent:_Republicans_plan_regressive_tax)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Urgent:_Republicans_plan_regressive_tax)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-say-no-to-a-national-30-sales-tax?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-patriotic-millionaires&source=direct_link">call on Congress to reject the Republicans plan to replace
income tax with a national sales tax</a>.
<p>
The effect would be a big tax increase for the non-rich and a big tax
cut for the rich.  That's just what plutocratists would seek to do,
and the opposite of justice.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Urgent:_Ban_noncompete_clauses)
title: Urgent: Ban noncompete clauses
uri: Urgent-Ban-noncompete-clauses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Urgent:_Ban_noncompete_clauses)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens:
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/ban-noncompete-clauses?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-the-lever-action&source=group-the-lever-action">call on the FTC to ban businesses from imposing noncompete
agreements</a>
on workers.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Training_the_police)
title: Training the police
uri: Training-the-police
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Training_the_police)
content:
 
<p>

Brutality is part of
<a href="https://apnews.com/article/law-enforcement-los-angeles-george-floyd-memphis-religion-21d9b66a447798e66e4f84a6b7bc3146">the culture of many US thug departments</a>,
  which is what makes the term "thug" appropriate.  The question is,
what will succeed in changing that culture?
<p>
<a href="/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#3_February_2023_(Tyre_Nichols,_Memphis)">Lack of proper training</a>
on how to <a href="/archives/2015-jul-oct.html#12_August_2015_(Thugs_can_be_reformed)">choose not to kill</a>
is one cause.
<p>
<a href="/archives/2020-may-aug.html#9_June_2020_(How_endless_war_contributes_to_police_brutality)">Bad training</a>
is <a href="/archives/2017-jul-oct.html#17_September_2017_(Like_an_occupying_force)">also responsible</a>.

<p>
 


title: UK to deport refugees arriving in boats
uri: UK-to-deport-refugees-arriving-in-boats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(UK_to_deport_refugees_arriving_in_boats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(UK_to_deport_refugees_arriving_in_boats)

content:
 
<p>
The UK plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/04/rishi-sunak-stop-deportation-appeals-people-uk-small-boats">deport all refugees arriving in boats</a>, with no
possibility of an exception.
<p>
One country at a time, the world is eliminating the right to go to
a country and ask for asylum.
<p>
This policy would violate the European convention on human rights, so
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/05/tory-mps-to-push-for-uk-exit-from-european-convention-of-human-rights">Tories want to cancel UK's membership in that convention</a>.
In this way, cruelty towards boat people paves the way for cruelty towards
everyone else.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Bad_NHS_management)
title: Bad NHS management
uri: Bad-NHS-management
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Bad_NHS_management)
content:
 
<p>
Bad management of the NHS, including overworking staff long-term, is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/05/stress-nhs-staff-absence-than-covid-figures-show">making the staff burn out</a>.
This results in fewer staff actually working, and thus even more burn-out.
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/05/stress-nhs-staff-absence-than-covid-figures-show">Stress led to more NHS staff absences than Covid</a>, new figures show.*
<p>
This problem could be cured, with time, by changes in government
policies: paying NHS workers more, and allowing qualified foreigners
to immigrate and fill the empty posts.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Private_equity_pensions)
title: Private equity pensions
uri: Private-equity-pensions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Private_equity_pensions)
content:
 
<p>
Many US pension investments are in private equity companies, which <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/commentisfree/2023/feb/02/us-pension-funds-implosion-wall-street-private-equity">exaggerate
the worth of their investments</a>.  When those people need their pensions, they may get less than they
expect.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Pet_suffering)
title: Pet suffering
uri: Pet-suffering
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Pet_suffering)
content:
 
<p>
Many pets <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/04/want-to-truly-have-empathy-for-animals-stop-owning-pets">undergo great suffering from the way they are treated</a>.  In
addition to outright harm, many suffer boredom from being left alone
most of the day.
<p>
I think that the proposal to entirely eliminate the practice of having
pets is extreme.  It is possible to have pets and treat them well;
there are pets that are happy and not bored.  However, this may
require more time than you can or wish to devote to it.  If that is
the case, it would be wiser for you not to have a pat.
<p>
Perhaps people should get trained in how live with a pet.  Perhaps
people should have to meet certain criteria in order to have a pet.

<p>
 


title: Non-fascist Israelis should seek Palestinian support
uri: Non-fascist-Israelis-should-seek-Palestinian-support
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Non-fascist_Israelis_should_seek_Palestinian_support)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Non-fascist_Israelis_should_seek_Palestinian_support)

content:
 
<p>
Urging non-fascist Israelis to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/03/benjamin-netanyahu-palestinian-israel-prime-minister">seek support from Palestinians to
resist Netanyahu's threat to Israel's democracy</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(How_to_identify_a_fascist)
title: How to identify a fascist
uri: How-to-identify-a-fascist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(How_to_identify_a_fascist)
content:
 
<p>
The history of <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/how-to-identify-a-fascist">violent fascism in the United States</a> started
before Mussolini announced the name "fascism".
<p>
That sort of government was found in many parts of the world.
<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,
such as that one.

<p>
 


title: Job report shouldn't spook the Fed
uri: Job-report-shouldn-t-spook-the-Fed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Job_report_shouldn't_spook_the_Fed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Job_report_shouldn't_spook_the_Fed)

content:
 
<p>
*[Friday's] jobs report <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/todays-jobs-report-may-spook-the">may spook the Fed (but it shouldn't)</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Election_lies)
title: Election lies
uri: Election-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#7_February_2023_(Election_lies)
content:
 
<p>
Leaders in the corrupter's Wisconsin campaign team <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/03/trump-campaign-wisconsin-election-lie-audio-reveals">privately recognized
the 2020 victory for Biden</a> in that state, then discussed how to spread
public lies about it.
<p>
One of them is now a regional manager in the Republican National
Committee.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Call on Biden to fund Social Security
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Biden-to-fund-Social-Security
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_fund_Social_Security)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_fund_Social_Security)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Biden to fund Social Security &mdash; by <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/social-security-payroll-tax-cap/">taxing the wealthy</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Roku to drop One America News Network
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Roku-to-drop-One-America-News-Network
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Roku_to_drop_One_America_News_Network)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Roku_to_drop_One_America_News_Network)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Roku to <a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/Roku_OANN/">drop the right-wing extremist One America
    News Network</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Congress to punish Big Oil
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Congress-to-punish-Big-Oil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_punish_Big_Oil)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_punish_Big_Oil)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-congress-big-oil-profited-by-gouging-our-pockets-they-must-be-penalized-for-taking-advantage">punish Big Oil for gouging</a>.

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

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(North_Korean_Youtube_influencers)
title: North Korean Youtube influencers
uri: North-Korean-Youtube-influencers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(North_Korean_Youtube_influencers)
content:
 
<p>

  North Korea has a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/04/asia/north-korea-youtuber-yumi-intl-hnk-dst/index.html">few Youtube influencers</a>, who appear to be specially
privileged people.
  They enjoy things that are ordinary in the US or
South Korea, but which in North Korea only specially privileged people
can use.
<p>
The purpose of these channels seems to be to give people a false
picture of life in North Korea.
<p>
Hollywood did something similar for the US, and maybe still does:
TV shows set in people's homes show houses that are large and luxurious,
that typical Americans could not afford.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Blocking_nomination_of_Gigi_Sohn)
title: Blocking nomination of Gigi Sohn
uri: Blocking-nomination-of-Gigi-Sohn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Blocking_nomination_of_Gigi_Sohn)
content:
 
<p>

  Right-wing senators continue to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/gigi-sohn-fcc-homophobic-attacks">block the nomination of Gigi Sohn</a>
to the board of the FCC, using bogus excuses,
  The latest bogus excuse is that she is on the board of the EFF,
which opposed and opposes the internet censorship law, SESTA/FOSTA,
which was designed to sabotage internet advertising by sex workers, by
  making platforms fear <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#29_April_2018_(Lies_about_sex_trafficking)">false accusations</a> based on the hypothetical
possibility that those sex workers are enslaved.
<p>
We who oppose SESTA/FOSTA believe it is unjust to attack people by
provoking fear, in those people and those they cooperate with, of
being suspected of something they don't actually do.  We also believe
that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#5_February_2020_(Decriminalizing_sex_work)">sex work in itself is not evil</a>.

 


title: Path to ending for-profit corporate prisons
uri: Path-to-ending-for-profit-corporate-prisons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Path_to_ending_for-profit_corporate_prisons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Path_to_ending_for-profit_corporate_prisons)

content:
 
<p>

  *Blueprint Offers Biden Path to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/blueprint-for-profit-prisons">Ending For-Profit Corporate Prisons</a>.*

 


title: Plants and animals at risk of extinction
uri: Plants-and-animals-at-risk-of-extinction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Plants_and_animals_at_risk_of_extinction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Plants_and_animals_at_risk_of_extinction)

content:
 
<p>

1/3 of US plant species and 40% of US animal species are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/natureserve-40-animals-extinction-us">"at risk of
    extinction."</a>
  Many kinds of ecosystems are endangered as a whole.
<p>
  Greenpeace protesters have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/greenpeace-shell">occupied an oil drilling platform</a>
with which Shell is planning another act of ecocide.

 


title: Protester on trial for gluing himself to highway
uri: Protester-on-trial-for-gluing-himself-to-highway
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Protester_on_trial_for_gluing_himself_to_highway)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Protester_on_trial_for_gluing_himself_to_highway)

content:
 
<p>

An Insulate Britain protester was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/06/insulate-britain-protester-david-nixon-faces-prison-over-contempt-of-court-conviction">on trial for gluing himself to a highway.  The judge ordered him not to inform the jury that he was on
trial for protesting to save lives, but he told them anyway.
Now he is going to be jailed for telling them that.

 


title: Lula and environment minister to preserve ecosystems
uri: Lula-and-environment-minister-to-preserve-ecosystems
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Lula_and_environment_minister_to_preserve_ecosystems)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Lula_and_environment_minister_to_preserve_ecosystems)

content:
 
<p>

Lula and his environment minister, Marina Silva, are committed to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/06/investigate-bolsonaro-for-genocide-says-brazils-marina-silva">preserving all of Brazil's ecosystems</a>, not just the Amazon forest
which is tottering on the edge of drying out.

 


title: Putin forces accumulating tanks and soldiers
uri: Putin-forces-accumulating-tanks-and-soldiers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Putin_forces_accumulating_tanks_and_soldiers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Putin_forces_accumulating_tanks_and_soldiers)

content:
 
<p>

  The Putin forces seem to be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/06/russia-assembles-troops-possible-offensive-luhansk-ukraine-says">accumulating tanks and soldiers</a> for
another offensive, perhaps on the one-year anniversary of the first invasion.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Dating_apps_in_Australia)
title: Dating apps in Australia
uri: Dating-apps-in-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(Dating_apps_in_Australia)
content:
 
<p>

Australia is heading for requiring users of dating apps to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2023/feb/07/dating-apps-must-share-information-about-threatening-behaviour-says-australias-esafety-watchdog">prove their legal
    identities</a>.
<p>
I understand the importance of keeping out threats
and contempt, but just as Facebook's <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-jul-oct.html#4_July_2018_(Facebook:_fake_account)">real name
    requirement</a> is oppressive,
  so will the dating app real name requirement be.
<p>
Of course, all these sites treat their users unjustly in another way:
by requiring each user to run a nonfree program.  The internet is likely
to transform into a system for rigid repression.  I hope we can keep some
corners of it safe from repression.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(NHS_nurse_that_joins_strike)
title: NHS nurse that joins strike
uri: NHS-nurse-that-joins-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#8_February_2023_(NHS_nurse_that_joins_strike)
content:
 
<p>

  An NHS nurse <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/06/strike-nhs-nurse-pay-patient-care">writes of her decision to join the strike</a>: the NHS is too
impoverished and weakened to provide proper medical care.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_(Censorship_for_China,_Disney)
title: Censorship for China, Disney
uri: Censorship-for-China-Disney
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_(Censorship_for_China,_Disney)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/06/media/simpsons-episode-forced-labor-china-intl-hnk/index.html">Disney censors The Simpsons</a>
to kowtow to Emperor Xi. 

Other large companies censor for China.

[pol note(s) to show 2 or more examples of such companies.]

    I suppose most companies will do this rather than forego the
profits from the Chinese market.

If western companies were selling physical products, such as DVDs, the
companies would not have to carry out the censorship.  Chinese
retailers would not buy the DVDs of the banned programs; the western
company would not be required to participate in censorship.
However, because they run a streaming dis-service,

[pol note explaining the injustice of streaming dis-services]

   the dis-service itself is required to censor on China's behalf.

This is one additional reason to reject streaming dis-services.  I
condemn their injusties so strongly that I refuse to watch or listen to
anything through them.
  

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_((Satire:)_Eighteen_banned_books)
title: (Satire:) Eighteen banned books
uri: (Satire-)-Eighteen-banned-books
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_((Satire:)_Eighteen_banned_books)
content:
 
<p>

(satire)
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/books-ron-desantis-has-banned-in-florida-1850050353">*Books Ron [DeMentis] Has Banned In Florida</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_(Urgent:_Support_Ilhan_Omar)
title: Urgent: Support Ilhan Omar
uri: 2023-02-09-Urgent-Support-Ilhan-Omar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_(Urgent:_Support_Ilhan_Omar)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens:
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/thank_you_omar">state your support for Ilhan Omar</a>.
<p>
I want to make it clear that my support for Ilhan Omar is not because
she is black, nor because she is a Muslim.  For me, those are side issues.
I support her because she champions progressive values and policies.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_(Urgent:_Regulate_recycling)
title: Urgent: Regulate recycling
uri: Urgent-Regulate-recycling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_(Urgent:_Regulate_recycling)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens:
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53351&supporter_KEY=229474&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:116631&utm_campaign=AME4-FWST:RECYCLING-1022&utm_content=EM9:00C:0HH-AAP">call on the EPA to regulate the "widely recyclable" label</a>
  so it can't be used to make the public believe that plastic really
gets recycled.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_(Some_Yale,_Harvard_failures)
title: Some Yale, Harvard failures
uri: Some-Yale-Harvard-failures
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_(Some_Yale,_Harvard_failures)
content:
 
<p>

The main Republican presidential contenders, <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a> and Ted Cruz,
both graduated from Harvard Law School.  This demonstrates that
Harvard Law School
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-shame-of-harvard-and-yale-law">fails to inculcate a respect for democracy
and human rights</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_(Antiabortionists_clever_tactics)
title: Antiabortionists clever tactics
uri: Antiabortionists-clever-tactics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_(Antiabortionists_clever_tactics)
content:
 
<p>

Well-funded and well-organized Antiabortionists have set up a lawsuit
with bogus arguments, designed so to give a specific right-wing
extremist judge with a history of disregarding the legal merits of a
case an opportunity to issue
<a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/02/abortion-pill-outlawed-single-judge-real-possibility.html?via=rss</a>.">an injunction to ban abortion in the
whole US</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_((Satire)_Officer_misconduct)
title: (Satire) Officer misconduct
uri: (Satire)-Officer-misconduct
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_((Satire)_Officer_misconduct)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *[<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">Thug</a>] Chief Vows
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/police-chief-vows-officer-accused-of-misconduct-will-re-1850043004">Officer Accused Of Misconduct Will Receive Harshest
Possible Nickname</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_((Satire)_Eighteen_banned_books)
title: (Satire) Eighteen banned books
uri: (Satire)-Eighteen-banned-books
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_((Satire)_Eighteen_banned_books)
content:
 
<p>

(satire)
*<a href="https://www.theonion.com/books-ron-desantis-has-banned-in-florida-1850050353">Books Ron [DeMentis] Has Banned In Florida</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_(Censor_for_China,_Disney)
title: Censor for China, Disney
uri: Censor-for-China-Disney
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#9_February_2023_(Censor_for_China,_Disney)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/06/media/simpsons-episode-forced-labor-china-intl-hnk/index.html">Disney censors The Simpsons</a>
to kowtow to Emperor Xi. 

Other large companies censor for China.
<ul>
  <li> <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#24_September_2017_(Censorship_in_China)">Yahoo</a>  
  <li> <a href="/archives/2020-mar-jun.html#15_June_2020_(Apple_still_censors_for_China)">Apple</a>
  <li> <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#21_December_2020_(Security_of_whom)">Zoom</a>
</ul>
    I suppose most companies will do this rather than forego the
profits from the Chinese market.
<p>
If western companies were selling physical products, such as DVDs, the
companies would not have to carry out the censorship.  Chinese
retailers would not buy the DVDs of the banned programs; the western
company would not be required to participate in censorship.
However, because they run
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_((satire)_Boycotting_Disney)">a streaming dis-service</a>,
   the dis-service itself is required to censor on China's behalf.
<p>
This is one additional reason to reject streaming dis-services.  I
condemn their injustices so strongly that I refuse to watch or listen to
anything through them.
  
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#10_February_2023_(War_on_drugs,_fentanyl)
title: War on drugs, fentanyl
uri: War-on-drugs-fentanyl
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#10_February_2023_(War_on_drugs,_fentanyl)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/critics-push-back-against-biden-revival-of-failed-war-on-drugs-approach-to-fentanyl">Biden plans to escalate the War on Drugs</a>,
specifically about fentanyl and substances "related to" fentanyl.
<p>
In addition to the usual harm to society of prohibition of any drug,
this would ban a range of chemicals, whose effects (harmful or useful)
have not been tested.
<p>
Fentanyl is dangerous, but a war that's on fentanyl
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#9_March_2021_(War_on_drugs)">
is even more dangerous</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#10_February_2023_(Nord_Stream_pipeline_explosions)
title: Nord Stream pipeline explosions
uri: Nord-Stream-pipeline-explosions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#10_February_2023_(Nord_Stream_pipeline_explosions)
content:
 
<p>

Seymour Hersh reported that an insider told him that
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/seymour-hersh-nord-stream">the US used
explosives to wreck the Nord Stream pipelines</a>.
<p>
<a href="/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#29_September_2022_(Nord_stream_pipelines_sabotaged)">I did not believe that Putin did so</a>.
  He got more power by shutting the pipelines and keeping the
option to open them again, than by shutting them irrevocably.
<p>
This can be compared to burning the bridges or boats which your army
could have used to retreat.  An undamaged Nord Stream pipeline would
have offered the EU a way to retreat from its boycott of Russian
fossil fuel.

<p>
 


title: Global heating endangering sea turtles
uri: Global-heating-endangering-sea-turtles
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Global_heating_endangering_sea_turtles)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Global_heating_endangering_sea_turtles)

content:
 
<p>

  Sea turtles are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/08/sea-turtles-under-threat-from-warming-seas-and-hotter-beaches-research-suggests">in danger of extinction</a> from global heating.
  The sex of an egg is determined by the temperature, so heating make
them all develop into females.  They tend to lay eggs earlier in the
year, which will help avoid that problem, but calculations say it
won't do enough.

 


title: Quantifying CO2 emissions from hybrid cars
uri: Quantifying-CO2-emissions-from-hybrid-cars
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Quantifying_CO2_emissions_from_hybrid_cars)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Quantifying_CO2_emissions_from_hybrid_cars)

content:
 
<p>

The system for quantifying CO2 emissions from hybrid cars
substantially <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/08/major-plug-in-hybrid-cars-pollute-more-than-official-measures-suggest">underestimates the real world emissions</a> of those cars.

 


title: When the US used "weather balloons" to spy
uri: When-the-US-used-weather-balloons-to-spy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(When_the_US_used_weather_balloons_to_spy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(When_the_US_used_weather_balloons_to_spy)

content:
 
<p>

  The US <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/02/07/china-balloon-soviet-union/">used "weather balloons"</a> to spy on China and the Soviet Union
in 1956.
  If one wanted to argue that China is evil and vicious because it
sent a balloon to spy on the US, that inconvenient fact would show the
argument to be hypocrisy.
<p>
I do not think it was particularly bad of China to use balloons to
snoop on a rival, or that it was particularly bad of the US to do
likewise.  I don't condemn China for snooping.  I condemn China for
its horrible repression and brainwashing of Uygurs in Xinjiang, for
its horrible repression and crushing of the 7-8 million people of Hong
Kong, and its plans to conquer Taiwan so as to repress and crush the
23 million Taiwanese.
<p>
I also secondarily rebuke China for its blatant plans for <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#6_May_2022_(Advocacy_for_a_nonaligned_movement)">economic
    colonialism</a> around the world.
This is no better when China does it
than when the US does it.

 


title: Problem of plastic cigarette butts in Australia
uri: Problem-of-plastic-cigarette-butts-in-Australia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Problem_of_plastic_cigarette_butts_in_Australia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Problem_of_plastic_cigarette_butts_in_Australia)

content:
 
<p>

The right-wing former government of Australia promised to do something
about the problem of plastic cigarette butts, but it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/08/war-on-cigarette-butts-coalition-plan-to-reduce-pollution-never-existed-tanya-plibersek-says">never even
    started planning what to do</a>.
<p>
Evidently that was nothing more than dishonest PR.
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">Plutocratists</a> choose policies to suit the plutocrats (rich businesses
and people) they serve.  When on occasion then find it necessary to
make an appearance of concessions to popular demand, they try to
minimize the cost to the plutocrats.  Doing nothing but talk is really
cheap.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(EU_considering_banning_PFAs)
title: EU considering banning PFAs
uri: EU-considering-banning-PFAs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(EU_considering_banning_PFAs)
content:
 
<p>

  The EU is considering banning use of PFAs.  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/eu-bans-forever-chemicals">All</a>
   of them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Railroad_safety_risks)
title: Railroad safety risks
uri: Railroad-safety-risks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Railroad_safety_risks)
content:
 
<p>

Railroad unions say that the major US railroads are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/rail-workers-wall-street">intentionally
    running safety risks</a> to increase profits, and say that some of these
chosen risks contributed to the train derailment and fire in Ohio.
<p>
They warn that worse train disasters will occur in the future.
Individually, each one is an accident; collectively, the risk
is intentional.

 


title: Google running ads for "antiabortion advice" organizations
uri: Google-running-ads-for-antiabortion-advice-organizations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Google_running_ads_for_antiabortion_advice_organizations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Google_running_ads_for_antiabortion_advice_organizations)

content:
 
<p>

  Google <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/google-targets-low-income-women-fake-abortion-clinic-ads">runs misleading ads</a> for decoy "antiabortion advice"
organizations ("crisis pregnancy centers") whose purpose is 
pressure and dupe low-wealth women into not getting abortions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Treating_corporations_as_persons)
title: Treating corporations as persons
uri: Treating-corporations-as-persons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Treating_corporations_as_persons)
content:
 
<p>

  Ralph Nader: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/inequality-corporate-personhood">Put an end to treating corporations as persons in general</a>.

 


title: Republicans propose prohibiting drag shows
uri: Republicans-propose-prohibiting-drag-shows
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Republicans_propose_prohibiting_drag_shows)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Republicans_propose_prohibiting_drag_shows)

content:
 
<p>

  Republicans in many states are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/politics/drag-show-legislation/index.html">proposing to prohibit drag shows</a> or make
it difficult for schools, libraries or restaurants to present them.
<p>
Note how Republican legislators use the vague and subjective word
"appropriate" about drag shows (even nonsexual drag shows) because
there is no way to rationally argue about a purely subjective
assertion.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Tax_rate_of_billionaires)
title: Tax rate of billionaires
uri: Tax-rate-of-billionaires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Tax_rate_of_billionaires)
content:
 
<p>

  *Biden Is Right. <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/biden-billionaire-tax">No Billionaire Should Pay a Lower Tax Rate</a> Than a
 School Teacher.*
<p>
Making billionaires pay as high a tax rate as working professionals
is just the first step.  Billionaires should pay a much higher rate.

 


title: Biden should plan to expand Social Security
uri: Biden-should-plan-to-expand-Social-Security
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Biden_should_plan_to_expand_Social_Security)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Biden_should_plan_to_expand_Social_Security)

content:
 
<p>

*Biden Exposed Republican Plans to Cut Social Security. Now,
He Should Release a Plan to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/expand-social-security">Expand Social Security</a>.*

 


title: Paid sick leave for railroad workers
uri: 2023-02-12-Paid-sick-leave-for-railroad-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Paid_sick_leave_for_railroad_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Paid_sick_leave_for_railroad_workers)

content:
 
<p>

Some railroad workers' unions at one of the big US railroads won a
deal for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/how-much-paid-leave-do-railroad-workers-get">a few days of paid sick leave per year</a>.

 


title: Postponing land leases for fossil fuel drilling
uri: Postponing-land-leases-for-fossil-fuel-drilling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Postponing_land_leases_for_fossil_fuel_drilling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Postponing_land_leases_for_fossil_fuel_drilling)

content:
 
<p>

The Department of the Interior cannot entirely cancel leasing of land
for fossil fuel drilling, so it intends to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-delay-oil-gas-drilling">postpone the leasing</a> &mdash;
perhaps indefinitely.
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#planet">Planet roasters</a> are suing, demanding that it hold leases soon.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Spain_joins_in_on_covidiocy)
title: Spain joins in on covidiocy
uri: Spain-joins-in-on-covidiocy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Spain_joins_in_on_covidiocy)
content:
 
<p>

Spain has joined most of the world in covidiocy by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/08/spain-ends-compulsory-use-face-masks-public-transport-covid">eliminating the rule
    requiring passengers in public transport to wear masks</a>.
<p>
I wonder how the Covid-19 rate will change in the coming four weeks.

 


title: Fighting against defining "antisemitism"
uri: Fighting-against-defining-antisemitism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Fighting_against_defining_antisemitism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Fighting_against_defining_antisemitism)

content:
 
<p>

  Some Australian universities are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/06/australian-universities-split-on-decision-to-adopt-controversial-definition-of-antisemitism">fighting against defining "antisemitism"</a>
using the IHRA's statistical criterion.
<p>
  It labels <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#2_March_2021_(Definition_of_antisemitism)">criticism of Israel's occupation policies</a> as "antisemitism",
  which is clearly incorrect.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Masking_rules,_Spain)
title: Masking rules, Spain
uri: Masking-rules-Spain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Masking_rules,_Spain)
content:
 
<p>

Spain has joined most of the world in covidiocy by
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/08/spain-ends-compulsory-use-face-masks-public-transport-covid">eliminating the rule
requiring passengers in public transport to wear masks</a>.

<p>
I wonder how the Covid-19 rate will change in the coming four weeks.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Tyre_Nichols_photos_shared)
title: Tyre Nichols photos shared
uri: Tyre-Nichols-photos-shared
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Tyre_Nichols_photos_shared)
content:
 
<p>

One of the murderers of Tyre Nichols took
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/08/tyre-nichols-officer-shared-photos-demetrius-haley">photos of his bloody corpse
and shared copies</a>
for fun.

<p>
Some people believe that taking a photo of a corpse does wrong to
someone.  No one has ever given me a rational explanation of how it
could do that.
<p>
However, sharing such photos for enjoyment bespeaks an attitude of
reveling in violence against strangers.  We cannot tolerate such
perversion in people to whom we give special powers or license to
commit violence.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Few_male_sea_turtles)
title: Few male sea turtles
uri: Few-male-sea-turtles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Few_male_sea_turtles)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/08/sea-turtles-under-threat-from-warming-seas-and-hotter-beaches-research-suggests">Sea turtles are in danger of extinction</a>
from <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.
  The sex of an egg is determined by the temperature, so heating make
them all develop into females.  They tend to lay eggs earlier in the
year, which will help avoid that problem, but calculations say it
won't do enough.
<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Chinese_security_backlash)
title: Chinese security backlash
uri: Chinese-security-backlash
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Chinese_security_backlash)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/09/chinese-made-security-cameras-to-be-removed-from-australia-government-buildings">Chinese-made security cameras to be removed</a>
from Australian government
buildings.*
<p>
They are very wise to do this.  You too would be wise to distrust
such cameras &mdash; but not only the ones made in China!
<p>
Chances are these cameras are actually <em>surveillance</em>
cameras: they
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">transmit their video to some remote location</a>
(perhaps over the internet).
   Such cameras are always ready to spy on you for someone or other.

<p>
 


title: Killed protester maybe innocent, US
uri: Killed-protester-maybe-innocent-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Killed_protester_maybe_innocent,_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Killed_protester_maybe_innocent,_US)

content:
 
<p>

Georgia <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> accused Manuel Esteban Paez Terán of shooting a state thug,
and killed Terán apparently as revenge.  However, it appears
that that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> was
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/02/09/cop-city-body-camera-footage/">shot by another thug, not by him</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Gun_laws,_minors_in_Missouri)
title: Gun laws, minors in Missouri
uri: Gun-laws-minors-in-Missouri
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Gun_laws,_minors_in_Missouri)
content:
 
<p>

*Republican-led legislature [of Missouri] rejects
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/09/missouri-rejects-ban-children-carrying-guns-in-public">measure to [prohibit]
minors from carrying firearms</a>
in public without adult supervision.*

<p>
 


title: Publishers attempt to copyright styles
uri: Publishers-attempt-to-copyright-styles
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Publishers_attempt_to_copyright_styles)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Publishers_attempt_to_copyright_styles)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/09/ai-monkeys-paw/#bullied-schoolkids">Big Publishing companies want to distort copyright</a>
so that performing
statistical analysis of styles infringes it.
  This is absurd and unjust, and as a secondary matter, it won't
help authors and artists.
<p>
  Please don'use the term "<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Creator">creators</a>" to refer to authors and artists;
it is propaganda.




<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Baby_formula_companies)
title: Baby formula companies
uri: Baby-formula-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Baby_formula_companies)
content:
 
<p>

Companies that make milk substitutes for babies have perfected the use of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/feb/07/underhand-formula-milk-ads-stop-millions-from-breastfeeding-experts-say">advertising to spread the idea that there is something wrong with breast milk</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_((Satire)_Senator_Santos'_Aide)
title: (Satire) Senator Santos' Aide
uri: (Satire)-Senator-Santos-Aide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_((Satire)_Senator_Santos'_Aide)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *George Santos Panicking After
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/george-santos-panicking-after-prospective-aide-he-thoug-1850083748">Prospective Aide He Thought He
Made Up Accuses Him</a>
of Sexual Misconduct.*

<p>
 


title: Memphis Scorpion unit's other beating
uri: Memphis-Scorpion-unit-s-other-beating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Memphis_Scorpion_unit's_other_beating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Memphis_Scorpion_unit's_other_beating)

content:
 
<p>

*5 Memphis [thugs] charged in deadly beating of Tyre Nichols allegedly
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/us/memphis-police-scorpion-unit-arrest-lawsuit/index.html">assaulted another man just three days before</a>,
federal lawsuit says.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Police,_criminal_sketching,_AI)
title: Police, criminal sketching, AI
uri: Police-criminal-sketching-AI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Police,_criminal_sketching,_AI)
content:
 
<p>

Using
<a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjk745/ai-police-sketches">machine learning systems to convert witness descriptions
into sketches of criminals</a>
causes a risk that the sketch will
look very different from what the witness saw.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Songbird_decline,_Britain)
title: Songbird decline, Britain
uri: Songbird-decline-Britain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Songbird_decline,_Britain)
content:
 
<p>

*[At least two different]
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/06/garden-pesticides-british-songbird-decline-study">garden pesticides are contributing to
 British songbird decline</a>,
study finds.*
<p>
It is idiotic to delay prohibiting their sale.

 


title: Brazil driving illegal miners from Yanomami lands
uri: Brazil-driving-illegal-miners-from-Yanomami-lands
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Brazil_driving_illegal_miners_from_Yanomami_lands)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Brazil_driving_illegal_miners_from_Yanomami_lands)

content:
 
<p>
*Brazil launches operation to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/08/brazil-illegal-mining-indigenous-lula">drive illegal miners</a> from Yanomami lands.*
<p>
To drive them away permanently is harder than it might seem.
They will keep coming back, attracted by the profits.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Thug_puts_knee_on_girl's_neck)
title: Thug puts knee on girl's neck
uri: Thug-puts-knee-on-girl-s-neck
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Thug_puts_knee_on_girl's_neck)
content:
 
<p>
A Kenosha thug <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/08/kenosha-police-officer-knee-student-video-lawsuit">put his knee on a girl's neck</a>.  She was not killed, but 
was injured.  Her family is suing.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Blocking_incoming_sunlight)
title: Blocking incoming sunlight
uri: Blocking-incoming-sunlight
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Blocking_incoming_sunlight)
content:
 
<p>
Scientists have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/08/moon-dust-moonshot-geoengineering-climate-crisis">proposed another method of blocking a fraction of
incoming sunlight</a> from the Earth.
<p>
Like all methods of doing this, this one would depend on humans to continue
running the geoengineering system; if we ever stopped, the suppressed heating
would return soon.
<p>
And all such methods would fail to stop the <a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2018-jul-oct.html#17_August_2018_(Ocean_acidification)">ocean acidification</a> that
results from having more CO2 in the air.  That itself would cause disaster.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Right-wing_antiabortion_argument)
title: Right-wing antiabortion argument
uri: Right-wing-antiabortion-argument
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Right-wing_antiabortion_argument)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/09/abortion-pill-trump-judge-possible-ban-mifepristone">arguments that right-wing antiabortion fanatics will use with a
favorable judge</a> in seeking to ban mifepristone, and counterarguments
that the FDA will use.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Spying_on_brainwaves)
title: Spying on brainwaves
uri: Spying-on-brainwaves
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Spying_on_brainwaves)
content:
 
<p>
*A world in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/09/boss-spies-brainwaves-dystopian-future">which your boss spies on your brainwaves</a>? That future is
near.*
Employers use many systems to snoop on workers and their physical and mental state; these would essentially robotize most people.
<p>
A safety device that measures brain waves could be acceptable in some limit
circumstances: if it is illegal to use that sensor's output for anything
other than safety. and provided that if the safety system says you can't
do your work, you should get a day of sick leave that day.
<p>
The existing "bossware" should be prohibited too.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Manuel_Páez)
title: Manuel Páez
uri: Manuel-Páez
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Manuel_Páez)
content:
 
<p>
The thugs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/09/cop-city-opposition-georgia">killed forest protector Manuel Páez</a>, but the resulting
outrage has drawn many others to oppose to building the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> training
center in place of the forest he was defending.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Propaganda_in_schools)
title: Propaganda in schools
uri: Propaganda-in-schools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Propaganda_in_schools)
content:
 
<p>
Florida schools are still allowed to teach about the Rosewood massacre, in which just about a whole town of blacks was massacred, but they are now <a href="http://commonwonders.com/making-our-schools-safe-for-propaganda/">forbidden
to use the term "reparations" to describe the money that the survivors
eventually received</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Shell_directors_sued)
title: Shell directors sued
uri: Shell-directors-sued
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Shell_directors_sued)
content:
 
<p>
Activist investors have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/activist-investors-shell-board">sued the directors of Shell</a> for failing to
redirect the company's operations vigorously away from fossil fuels.
<p>
It seems to me that this lawsuit is based on speculation presented
as objective truth.
<p>
If the lawsuit accused Shell of putting human civilization in danger,
that would be easy to demonstrate.  If it accused Shell of
intentionally covering this up, then <a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2018-sep-dec.html#22_September_2018_(CO2_predictions_in_the_1980s)">provided Shell (like Exxon)
privately did research decades ago</a> which demonstrated this,
that too would be easy to  demonstrate.
<p>
If civilization does collapse, the investors will lose everything.
But I think that is too far away to prove as a certainty by the
standards of courts.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Arsenic_in_air)
title: Arsenic in air
uri: Arsenic-in-air
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Arsenic_in_air)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/09/arsenic-london-air-burning-waste-wood">Arsenic found in London air</a> raises fears over use of waste wood as fuel.*

<p>
 


title: British banks will end lending for oil and gas
uri: British-banks-will-end-lending-for-oil-and-gas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(British_banks_will_end_lending_for_oil_and_gas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(British_banks_will_end_lending_for_oil_and_gas)

content:
 
<p>
One of the big British banks will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2023/feb/09/natwest-to-end-new-business-loans-for-oil-and-gas-extraction">end lending for oil and gas</a> extraction.

<p>
 


title: Masks are better than the alternative
uri: Masks-are-better-than-the-alternative
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Masks_are_better_than_the_alternative)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Masks_are_better_than_the_alternative)

content:
 
<p>
*No one wants masks [for the sake of wearing masks], but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/09/the-inconvenience-of-covid-masks-are-better-than-the-alternative">we still need
them to keep Covid at bay</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Pelosi_pushing_for_plutocratist)
title: Pelosi pushing for plutocratist
uri: Pelosi-pushing-for-plutocratist
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Pelosi_pushing_for_plutocratist)
content:
 
<p>
Pelosi is pushing Biden to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/sean-patrick-maloney">nominate a plutocratist former</a>
congresscritter to be Secretary of Labor.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Twitter_bias)
title: Twitter bias
uri: Twitter-bias
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Twitter_bias)
content:
 
<p>
Republicans in Congress held a hearing about supposed collusion of
Twitter with the FBI to censor the story about Hunter Biden's laptop.
They <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/08/media/republicans-hearing-twitter-bias-reliable-sources/index.html">did not find evidence</a> of this, but they went on claiming they had.
<p>
They did find some evidence that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> pressured Twitter to overlook
his own violations of Twitter's rules.

<p>
 


title: Renewable energy to become biggest electricity source
uri: Renewable-energy-to-become-biggest-electricity-source
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Renewable_energy_to_become_biggest_electricity_source)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Renewable_energy_to_become_biggest_electricity_source)

content:
 
<p>
The International Energy Agency says that renewable generation will
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/renewable-energy">become the biggest source of electricity by 2025</a>.
<p>
This will indicate important progress, but it is not actually a
crucial target.  Our survival target is to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions to a point lower than the rate at which they disappear from
the atmosphere.  That entails eliminating most fossil fuels from land,
sea and air transportation, and greenhouse gas emissions from
deforestation, agriculture, and construction.
<p>
The half-measures, such as nuclear power, carbon capture and storage,
and "blue hydrogen" are not useful for this; they are at best distractions.
<p>
Once we reach the survival target, it would be wise to go further and
reduce the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.  Planting
trees could do that, provided the trees survive and thrive.  However,
given plentiful renewable electricity, using that to capture carbon
dioxide and convert it into durable goods could be worth doing.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Christian_nationalism)
title: Christian nationalism
uri: Christian-nationalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#12_February_2023_(Christian_nationalism)
content:
 
<p>
Around 2/3 of white "evangelical" Christians support "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/09/most-republicans-sympathetic-christian-nationalism">Christian
nationalism</a>,"
which means that they wish to impose Christianity on the US
and make non-Christians second-class citizens.
<p>
Over 1/4 of them state that they want an authoritarian leader "who is
willing to break some rules if that’s what it takes to set things
right."
<p>
I imagine the Christian Republic of America as resembling the Islamic
Republic of Iran, with similar <a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Protests_in_Iran_continue)">repression directed against people who
reject imposed rules for clothing</a>, similar <a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2020-sep-dec.html#3_September_2020_(Torture_and_jail_for_protesters)">repression and torture of
protesters</a>, and similar <a href="https://stallman.org/notes/2022-sep-dec.html#14_December_2022_(Protestors_executed)">execution of protesters</a>.

<p>
 


title: Killed protester maybe innocent, US
uri: 2023-02-13-Killed-protester-maybe-innocent-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Killed_protester_maybe_innocent,_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Killed_protester_maybe_innocent,_US)

content:
 
<p>

Georgia <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> accused Manuel Esteban Paez Terán of shooting a state thug,
and killed Terán apparently as revenge.  However, it appears
that that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> was
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/02/09/cop-city-body-camera-footage/">shot by another thug, not by him</a>.

<p>
 


title: Publishers attempt to copyright styles
uri: 2023-02-13-Publishers-attempt-to-copyright-styles
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Publishers_attempt_to_copyright_styles)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Publishers_attempt_to_copyright_styles)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/09/ai-monkeys-paw/#bullied-schoolkids">Big Publishing companies want to distort copyright</a>
so that performing
statistical analysis of styles infringes it.
  This is absurd and unjust, and as a secondary matter, it won't
help authors and artists.
<p>
  Please don't use the term "<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Creator">creators</a>" to refer to authors and artists;
it is propaganda.

<p>
 


title: Memphis Scorpion unit's other beating
uri: 2023-02-13-Memphis-Scorpion-unit-s-other-beating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Memphis_Scorpion_unit's_other_beating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#11_February_2023_(Memphis_Scorpion_unit's_other_beating)

content:
 
<p>

*5 Memphis [<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>] charged in deadly beating of Tyre Nichols allegedly
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/us/memphis-police-scorpion-unit-arrest-lawsuit/index.html">assaulted another man just three days before</a>,
federal lawsuit says.*

<p>
 


title: Tories want to deport anyone that arrives in boats
uri: Tories-want-to-deport-anyone-that-arrives-in-boats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Tories_want_to_deport_anyone_that_arrives_in_boats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Tories_want_to_deport_anyone_that_arrives_in_boats)

content:
 
<p>
Some Tories want to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/11/children-fleeing-danger-in-small-boats-should-be-deported-says-tory-thinktank">deport automatically any refugee that arrives in
Britain in small boat</a>, even children fleeing from danger.
<p>
Imagine this policy in the 1930s, being applied to Jewish children
from Germany -- those who in fact were saved by the Kindertransport.

<p>
 


title: Utah and gov IDs for signing up to platforms
uri: Utah-and-gov-IDs-for-signing-up-to-platforms
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Utah_and_gov_IDs_for_signing_up_to_platforms)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Utah_and_gov_IDs_for_signing_up_to_platforms)

content:
 
<p>
Utah is considering a bill that would <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/23/02/09/225236/larry-magid-utah-bill-threatens-internet-security-for-everyone">require people to show government ID</a>
to sign up for platforms where people can post things.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(AidAccess)
title: AidAccess
uri: AidAccess
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(AidAccess)
content:
 
<p>
Americans can get abortion pills <a href="https://aidaccess.org/en/">with the help AidAccess</a>.
<p>
There is a danger that a current court case will block the use of mail
order to get mifepristone.  For your own sake and your friends' sake,
get some now, just in case.

<p>
 


title: Bogus Johnson party inquiry reopened
uri: Bogus-Johnson-party-inquiry-reopened
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Bogus_Johnson_party_inquiry_reopened)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Bogus_Johnson_party_inquiry_reopened)

content:
 
<p>
There are accusations that Bogus Johnson's staff <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/11/partygate-fresh-allegations-met-urged-to-reopen-inquiry">conspired to lie to protect</a>
Johnson from being punished for violating Covid-19 rules limiting parties,
and falsified evidence, back when he was the prime minister.
<p>
I think the UK's restrictions were too rigid and repressive.  It was
right to stop dangerous gatherings, but there is no reason to
prosecute ordinary people for having participated in them.
<p>
However, it is intolerable for the head of the government to scheme to lie
about breaking the rules himself.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Arif_Sayed_Faisal)
title: Arif Sayed Faisal
uri: Arif-Sayed-Faisal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Arif_Sayed_Faisal)
content:
 
<p>
Thugs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, (where I used to live) <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/arif-sayed-faisal">shot and
killed a student, Arif Sayed Faisal</a>.  The thug department refuses to
say which <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> were involved and has given out little information.
<p>
The city's <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> commissioner said that there was a city policy not to
release names of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> who kill.  At the next city council meeting,
the mayor asked the commissioner whether that was true, and the commissioner
admitted it wasn't.
<p>
Various officials admitted they wanted to delay so that public outrage
would die down.
<p>
I've decided to add "<a href="https://www.stallman.org/antiglossary.html#officer-involved%20shooting">officer-involved shooting</a>" to my antiglossary.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(ChatGPT's_privacy_violations)
title: ChatGPT's privacy violations
uri: ChatGPT-s-privacy-violations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(ChatGPT's_privacy_violations)
content:
 
<p>
Arguing that <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/chatgpt-is-a-data-privacy-nightmare-and-you-ought-to-be-concerned/">ChatGPT violates the privacy of everyone whose writing
was used in training it</a>.
<p>
The article seems to presume that it knows, in each use, who is using it.
If that is true, that is definitely a grave violation of privacy.
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html">ChatGPT is an example of SaaSS (Service as a Software Substitute)</a>,
and that is always an unjust way to make computing capabilities available.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_((Satire)_Family_gun)
title: (Satire) Family gun
uri: (Satire)-Family-gun
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_((Satire)_Family_gun)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Mom Sick Of <a href="https://www.theonion.com/mom-sick-of-reminding-lazy-teenager-to-reload-family-gu-1850041602">Reminding Lazy Teenager To Reload Family Gun</a>
After Shooting Sprees.*
<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.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Ohio_thugs_attack_TV_reporter)
title: Ohio thugs attack TV reporter
uri: Ohio-thugs-attack-TV-reporter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Ohio_thugs_attack_TV_reporter)
content:
 
<p>
Ohio <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> ordered a TV reporter to leave a press conference, then
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/us/newsnation-reporter-arrest-evan-lambert-ohio/index.html">escalated the dispute</a> to the point of knocking him down.  Then they
filed charges against him.

<p>
 


title: Warheads for attacking infrastructure
uri: Warheads-for-attacking-infrastructure
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Warheads_for_attacking_infrastructure)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Warheads_for_attacking_infrastructure)

content:
 
<p>
The Iranian drones that the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> fire against Ukrainian power
plants have <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/politics/iranian-drones-modified-explosives-ukraine-infrastructure/index.html">warheads optimized for attacking power plants</a>, not for
attacking armored vehicles.

<p>
 


title: Discrimination and external responsibilities
uri: Discrimination-and-external-responsibilities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Discrimination_and_external_responsibilities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Discrimination_and_external_responsibilities)

content:
 
<p>
What makes it harder for black Americans to get college degrees than
for whites?  A survey reports it is because of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/us/black-student-college-degree-completion-reaj/index.html">discrimination and
external responsibilities</a>.
<p>
It also says that they are <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#15_February_2016_(Promises_from_for-profit_colleges)">gouged by for-profit colleges</a>.
Many of them defraud their students.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Deporting_to_Mexico)
title: Deporting to Mexico
uri: Deporting-to-Mexico
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Deporting_to_Mexico)
content:
 
<p>
Biden is considering a change in how the US treats migrants that cross
the border with Mexico.  Instead of telling each to wait months or
years in Mexico for the US to consider per case, he wants to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/politics/biden-administration-border-deportations-mexico/index.html">deport
them permanently and immediately to Mexico</a> without ever hearing their
cases.
<p>
This is another instance of imitating <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#13_December_2020_(Australia's_cruelty_to_refugees)">Australia's cruelty</a>.

<p>
 


title: Wagner group no longer finding convicts who will fight for them
uri: Wagner-group-no-longer-finding-convicts-who-will-fight-for-them
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Wagner_group_no_longer_finding_convicts_who_will_fight_for_them)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Wagner_group_no_longer_finding_convicts_who_will_fight_for_them)

content:
 
<p>
The Wagner mercenary group is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/europe/wagner-russia-convicts-ukraine-intl-cmd/index.html">no longer finding many convicts who will
agree to fight for Wagner</a>.
<p>
Perhaps they have figured out that their odds of surviving Wagner are low.

<p>
 


title: ChatGPT-written article full of errors
uri: ChatGPT-written-article-full-of-errors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(ChatGPT-written_article_full_of_errors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(ChatGPT-written_article_full_of_errors)

content:
 
<p>
AOA magazine tried using ChatGPT to write an article to publish.
<a href="https://futurism.com/neoscope/magazine-mens-journal-errors-ai-health-article">The result was an article full of errors</a>.
<p>
A machine learning imitation system such as ChatGPT could not avoid
those errors because it has no understanding of any subject.  It does
not know what testosterone is, or what it does in male or female
bodies.  It does not know the meaning of "low blood &lt;whatever&gt;".
<p>
Use of the term "content" for articles will not teach people to have
more appreciation or respect for them.  By adopting that misguided fashion,
the article encourages what it criticizes.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Rights_abuses_and_extremism)
title: Rights abuses and extremism
uri: Rights-abuses-and-extremism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#13_February_2023_(Rights_abuses_and_extremism)
content:
 
<p>
*Human rights abuses committed by security forces and economic
deprivation are among the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/07/rights-abuses-often-tipping-point-for-extremist-recruitment-un-study-finds">most important drivers of recruitment to
extremist groups</a> in Africa.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Blasphemy_murder)
title: Blasphemy murder
uri: Blasphemy-murder
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Blasphemy_murder)
content:
 
<p>
Muslim fanatics yet again <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/12/mob-storms-pakistan-police-station-and-lynches-man-accused-of-blasphemy">murdered someone who had been accused of
blasphemy</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(False_right-wing_accusations)
title: False right-wing accusations
uri: False-right-wing-accusations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(False_right-wing_accusations)
content:
 
<p>
A right-wing group that supports Israel's occupation policies has
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/12/george-washington-university-standwithus-lara-sheehi-complaint">accused a Lebanese professor of "discrimination", saying that she
discriminated by refusing to accept their definition of antisemitism</a>.
<p>
If her actions fit that description, that does not make them wrong.
What does or does not constitute discrimination is an objective
question and we must keep it objective.
<p>
People of any group can well tell us about the forms that
discrimination against that group takes, and what the experience feels
like to them.  The former is a matter of specific events which they
saw, and the second is a subjective matter of their feelings.
<p>
However, no group in a free socirty can have the power to decide what
does or does not constitute discrimination against that group, because
in a society which prohibits discrimination in some situations, that
power would be dictatorial power.  The specific criterion for
discrimination, where to draw the line, is a crucial moral question
which affects everyone's rights.  Setting line too far to either side
can cause injustice; indeed, setting it too far to either side can
cause injustice _to you_.  (You are part of some groups and you
interact with people in other groups.)
<p>
The positioning of that line affects everyone's rights, so everyone
must have a say in it.  We must abstract that definition from specific
groups so as to make a fair definition that is not biased towards or
against certain specific groups.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(BP_extracting_profits)
title: BP extracting profits
uri: BP-extracting-profits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(BP_extracting_profits)
content:
 
<p>
*BP <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/bp-extracts-29-billion-in-profits-out-of-american-consumers-executives-vow-to-give-2-75-billion-to-wealthy-shareholders">Extracts $29 Billion in Profits Out of American Consumers,
Executives Vow to Give $2.75 Billion to Wealthy Shareholders</a>.*
<p>
The last thing we should want is to make fossil fuel cheaper!  What we
ought to do is tax those fossil fuels something like $25 billion.
and divide that money mainly among poor Americans.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Decarbonizing)
title: Decarbonizing
uri: Decarbonizing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Decarbonizing)
content:
 
<p>
Summarizing how to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/07/climate-crisis-miracle-technology-wind-water-solar">decarbonize 95% of the world's energy needs</a> in 6
years using wind energy, water energy and solar energy.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Denialism_services)
title: Denialism services
uri: Denialism-services
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Denialism_services)
content:
 
<p>
Scientist witnesses for hire will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gas-stove-big-tobacco-playbook">deny scientific conclusions in the
service of denialism</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Pledge to never cut Social Security of Medicare
uri: Urgent-Pledge-to-never-cut-Social-Security-of-Medicare
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Urgent:_Pledge_to_never_cut_Social_Security_of_Medicare)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Urgent:_Pledge_to_never_cut_Social_Security_of_Medicare)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on members of Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/take-the-pledge-never-cut-social-security-or-medicare?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-inequality-media-civic-action&source=group-inequality-media-civic-action">pledge never to vote to
cut Social Security or Medicare</a> under any circumstances.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Allow discharging student loan debt through bankruptcy
uri: Urgent-Allow-discharging-student-loan-debt-through-bankruptcy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Urgent:_Allow_discharging_student_loan_debt_through_bankruptcy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Urgent:_Allow_discharging_student_loan_debt_through_bankruptcy)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-congress-allow-student-loan-debt-to-be-discharged-through-bankruptcy?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-just-strategy&source=group-just-strategy">allow student loan debt to be
discharged through bankruptcy</a>.
<p>
It <em>was</em> possible to escape from student loan debt via
bankruptcy until a law was passed specifically to prevent that, in the
2000s.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Cacti_in_the_Alps)
title: Cacti in the Alps
uri: Cacti-in-the-Alps
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Cacti_in_the_Alps)
content:
 
<p>
Prickly pear cacti are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/10/cacti-replacing-snow-on-swiss-mountainsides-due-to-global-heating">taking over the slopes of the Alps</a> as the
winter snow disappears.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Defeating_Hochul's_nominee)
title: Defeating Hochul's nominee
uri: Defeating-Hochul-s-nominee
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Defeating_Hochul's_nominee)
content:
 
<p>
*Why <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/kathy-hochul-right-wing-judicial-nominee">Defeating Hochul's Right-Wing Judicial Nominee Is Important
Beyond New York</a>.*
<p>
New York state voters, please help convince your state senators to
firmly resist any right-wing nominees Hochul makes to the state
supreme court.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Fungal_infections)
title: Fungal infections
uri: Fungal-infections
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Fungal_infections)
content:
 
<p>
*"A growing threat to human health": we are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/10/a-growing-threat-to-human-health-we-are-ill-equipped-for-the-dangers-of-fungal-infections">ill-equipped for the dangers of
fungal infections</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Cockatoos_can_use_tools)
title: Cockatoos can use tools
uri: Cockatoos-can-use-tools
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Cockatoos_can_use_tools)
content:
 
<p>
Goffin's cockatoos <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/10/goffins-cockatoos-use-toolset-complete-tasks">learn to use multiple tools</a> together and to anticipate
which tool or tools a given fruit requires to open it.
<p>
According to Wikipedia, they can practice self-control, keeping a
treat uneaten for over a minute in order to exchange it for an even
better treat.  They can learn to unlock a cage by watching a human do
it.

<p>
 


title: Medicare Newsletter sponsored by insurance lobby
uri: Medicare-Newsletter-sponsored-by-insurance-lobby
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Medicare_Newsletter_sponsored_by_insurance_lobby)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Medicare_Newsletter_sponsored_by_insurance_lobby)

content:
 
<p>
*Washington Post Runs Medicare Newsletter Sponsored By <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/washington-post-runs-medicare-newsletter-sponsored-by-insurance-lobby-front-group">Insurance Lobby Front
Group</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Bird_flu)
title: Bird flu
uri: 2023-02-15-Bird-flu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Bird_flu)
content:
 
<p>
Bird flu is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/10/four-dead-seals-test-positive-bird-flu-scotland-aoe">evolving to infect various kinds of mammals</a>,and those closer to infecting humans -- even millions of humans.  It
could evolve to be capable of causing a pandemic like the one in 1918/19.
<p>
Meanwhile, Republicans are pushing to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/trump-egg-prices-bird-flu">ensure that governments can't
require anyone to take precautions</a> against the spread of bird flu.
<p>
Not even requiring people who work raising chickens or packing chicken
meat to wear masks.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Hunger_cliff)
title: "Hunger cliff"
uri: Hunger-cliff
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Hunger_cliff)
content:
 
<p>
*Over 30 Million in US Face "Hunger Cliff" as <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/30-million-face-hunger-snap-cuts-loom">Food Benefit Cuts Loom</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Scaling back carbon pollution reduction plans
uri: Scaling-back-carbon-pollution-reduction-plans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Scaling_back_carbon_pollution_reduction_plans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Scaling_back_carbon_pollution_reduction_plans)

content:
 
<p>
*ExxonMobil, BP, and Shell announced that they are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/big-oil-companies-prove-their-climate-pledges-were-lies">scaling back plans
to reduce their carbon pollution</a>.*
<p>
They are making record profits but, being big corporations, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Famine_will_follow_superflood)">they are
ready to kill billions of people (over the long term)</a> to make billions
more dollars.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Phone congresscritters to never cut Social Security or Medicare
uri: Urgent-Phone-congresscritters-to-never-cut-Social-Security-or-Medicar
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Urgent:_Phone_congresscritters_to_never_cut_Social_Security_or_Medicare)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Urgent:_Phone_congresscritters_to_never_cut_Social_Security_or_Medicare)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and ask per to pledge
never to cut Social Security or Medicare.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Sedition_caucus)
title: Sedition caucus
uri: Sedition-caucus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Sedition_caucus)
content:
 
<p>
*Big Business <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/sedition-caucus">Gave Over $36 Million to GOP 'Sedition Caucus'</a> in 2022
Election Cycle.*

<p>
 


title: Biden's "scientific integrity" policy
uri: Biden-s-scientific-integrity-policy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Biden's_scientific_integrity_policy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Biden's_scientific_integrity_policy)

content:
 
<p>
Biden's proposed "scientific integrity" policy would prohibit US
government scientists from <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-gag-rule-scientists">publishing any opinion about a government
agency or a government policy</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Capitalist_deregulation,_Brexit)
title: Capitalist deregulation, Brexit
uri: Capitalist-deregulation-Brexit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Capitalist_deregulation,_Brexit)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/12/disaster-is-right-brexit-is-a-self-inflicted-wound-that-cuts-dangerously-deep">Leaving the EU has been an economic disaster for the UK</a>;
there is no
possible doubt.
<p>
But the biggest damage is to <a href="/archives/2020-nov-feb.html#17_December_2021_(UK_relaxing_toxic_chemical_regulations)">health</a>
, <a href="/archives/2019-nov-feb.html#28_November_2020_(Warlord_scheme)">safety</a>
and human rights
<a href="/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_June_2021_(Business_deregulation)">regulations</a>
in the UK.

<p>
 


title: Earthquake preparedness deceit, Turkey
uri: Earthquake-preparedness-deceit-Turkey
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Earthquake_preparedness_deceit,_Turkey)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Earthquake_preparedness_deceit,_Turkey)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/12/turkey-arrests-building-contractors-earthquake-death-toll-mounts">Turkey is arresting the builders of buildings that collapsed</a>
due to the earthquake.
<p>
It may be true that Erdoğan is trying to distract attention from how
badly he has handled emergency aid for the survivors.  However, this
is not a mere distraction.  Turkey is earthquake-prone, so any given
building has a substantial chance of suffering an earthquake sooner or
later.  Strict enforcements of building codes is crucial for public
safety.  Better late than never.
<p>
However,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/12/turkey-earthquake-death-toll-suggests-lessons-1999-not-learned">this isn't the first time that Erdoğan promised</a>
better enforcement of building codes,
   after a deadly earthquake.  The real challenge will be to carry out
the promise.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(LNG_export_costly_to_US_buyers)
title: LNG export costly to US buyers
uri: LNG-export-costly-to-US-buyers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(LNG_export_costly_to_US_buyers)
content:
 
<p>

*Radical [right-wing]
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/radical-legislation-would-eliminate-all-federal-oversight-of-natural-gas-exports-sticking-american-households-with-higher-energy-bills">Legislation Would Eliminate All Federal
Oversight</a>
of Natural Gas Exports.*
<p>
Raising the price of gas in the US is just the start of the problems
that would cause.  Big Oil will want to get that gas by fracking,
which poisons water sources.  And once Big Oil gets to build the wells
and the pipelines and the export terminals, it will demand to keep
running them for decades.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Costly_hydrogen_production)
title: Costly hydrogen production
uri: Costly-hydrogen-production
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Costly_hydrogen_production)
content:
 
<p>

One difficulty with producing large amounts of hydrogen by
electrolysis is that it needs to use
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/hydrogen-production-would-exacerbate-water-shortages">large amounts of fresh water</a>.
That won't be possible in an arid place such as the one California is
becoming.
<p>
This problem is real, but not insurmountable with abundant renewable
electric generation -- plus desalination plants powered by that
electricity.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Flood_status,_Pakistan)
title: Flood status, Pakistan
uri: Flood-status-Pakistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Flood_status,_Pakistan)
content:
 
<p>

Six months after Pakistan's great flood,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/feb/08/pakistan-families-hungry-and-homeless-floods">millions of people's homes and land
are still underwater</a>.
<p>
I suppose similar floods will happen again.  Is there any form of
engineering project that would cause floods to drain faster in the
future?

<p>
 


title: Big tech layoffs, a wealth statement
uri: Big-tech-layoffs-a-wealth-statement
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Big_tech_layoffs,_a_wealth_statement)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Big_tech_layoffs,_a_wealth_statement)

content:
 
<p>

Big tech companies are
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2023/02/01/the-self-fulfilling-prophecy-of-big-tech-layoffs.html">firing lots of people even though they are making
record profits</a>
because that is the fashion for big companies.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Abortion_as_a_religious_rite)
title: Abortion as a religious rite
uri: Abortion-as-a-religious-rite
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#15_February_2023_(Abortion_as_a_religious_rite)
content:
 
<p>

*Samuel Alito’s Mom’s
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/further/samuel-alitos-moms-satanic-abortion-clinic-welcomes-you">Satanic Abortion Clinic</a>
Welcomes You.*
 
<a href="https://thesatanictemple.com/blogs/news/the-satanic-temple-unveils-tst-health-the-worlds-first-religious-abortion-clinic">It offers prescriptions for abortion medicines</a>,
as an act of
religious devotion.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Call on FTC to investigate Amazon
uri: Urgent-Call-on-FTC-to-investigate-Amazon
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_FTC_to_investigate_Amazon)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_FTC_to_investigate_Amazon)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the FTC to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/Amazon_Rx_pass/">thoroughly investigate all aspects of
Amazon's medical treatment business</a> for illegal monopoly-building.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Congress to block Big Pharma mergers
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Congress-to-block-Big-Pharma-mergers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_block_Big_Pharma_mergers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_block_Big_Pharma_mergers)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress and enforcement agencies to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/big_pharma_antitrust/">block Big
    Pharma mergers</a>.
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

 


title: Urgent: Call on Musk to stop silencing journalists
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Musk-to-stop-silencing-journalists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Musk_to_stop_silencing_journalists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Musk_to_stop_silencing_journalists)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on Elon Musk to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-elon-musk-to-stop-silencing-journalists-on-twitter-now">stop silencing journalists on Twitter
    now</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Stop COVID-19 vaccine price gouging
uri: Urgent-Stop-COVID-19-vaccine-price-gouging
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Urgent:_Stop_COVID-19_vaccine_price_gouging)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Urgent:_Stop_COVID-19_vaccine_price_gouging)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Department of Health and Human Services to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-the-department-of-health-and-human-services-stop-covid-19-vaccine-price-gouging">stop
    COVID-19 vaccine price gouging</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Support efforts to reduce "junk fees"
uri: Urgent-Support-efforts-to-reduce-junk-fees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Urgent:_Support_efforts_to_reduce_junk_fees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Urgent:_Support_efforts_to_reduce_junk_fees)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: Support efforts to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-support-efforts-to-reduce-consumer-fees">reduce "junk fees"</a> that make things
cost more than the advertised price.

 


title: (satire) Fire-breathing reptile terrorizing Tokyo
uri: (satire)-Fire-breathing-reptile-terrorizing-Tokyo
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_((satire)_Fire-breathing_reptile_terrorizing_Tokyo)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_((satire)_Fire-breathing_reptile_terrorizing_Tokyo)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/police-stop-black-civilian-for-fitting-description-of-g-1850021696">*Police Stop Black Civilian For Fitting Description Of Giant
    Fire-Breathing Reptile Terrorizing Tokyo.*</a>

 


title: Officers escalated confrontation with TV reporter
uri: Officers-escalated-confrontation-with-TV-reporter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Officers_escalated_confrontation_with_TV_reporter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Officers_escalated_confrontation_with_TV_reporter)

content:
 
<p>

  Ohio suppression officers <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/us/newsnation-reporter-arrest-ohio-body-camera-video/index.html">escalated a confrontation</a> with TV reporter
Evan Lambert step by step, up to attacking him, arresting him, and
placing charges against him.

 


title: Trees dying in California due to global heating
uri: Trees-dying-in-California-due-to-global-heating
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Trees_dying_in_California_due_to_global_heating)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Trees_dying_in_California_due_to_global_heating)

content:
 
<p>

  Around <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/us/california-drought-millions-trees-dead/index.html">35 million trees died last year in California</a>, due to global
heating effects.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Great_Salt_Lake_is_drying_up)
title: Great Salt Lake is drying up
uri: Great-Salt-Lake-is-drying-up
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Great_Salt_Lake_is_drying_up)
content:
 
<p>

  Great Salt Lake is drying up; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/us/utah-great-salt-lake-dust-pollution-weir-wxc/index.html">in roughly 5 years it will be dry</a>, and
its ecosystem will be dead.
  Then dust full of heavy metals will blow
from the former lake bed, making people ill.

 


title: Regulation on brakes for railroads
uri: Regulation-on-brakes-for-railroads
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Regulation_on_brakes_for_railroads)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Regulation_on_brakes_for_railroads)

content:
 
<p>

Obama's administration adopted a <a href="https://www.levernews.com/there-will-be-more-derailments/">regulation requiring railroads
    to install better brakes</a>,  The corrupter eliminated it.
Transportation Secretary Buttigieg ought to reinstate that regulation,
but instead is working on weakening the regulations again.

<!-- This note is incomplete, waiting on Richard for complete note
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Subsidies_for_sports_teams)
title: Subsidies for sports teams
uri: Subsidies-for-sports-teams
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Subsidies_for_sports_teams)
content:
 
<p>

Robert Reich explains how billionaires use sports teams to <a href="https://invidio.us/watch?v=vLkyULxrWiE">strongarm
    our governments to subsidize teams</a> and the 
<p>
If your city's stadium is named after a big company, that
shows that its government was bought.  Is it still for sale nowadays?
-->

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Iran_spying_on_exiled_dissident)
title: Iran spying on exiled dissident
uri: Iran-spying-on-exiled-dissident
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Iran_spying_on_exiled_dissident)
content:
 
<p>

  Iran was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/14/australia-foils-iran-surveillance-plot-and-vows-to-bring-foreign-interference-into-the-light">spying on an exiled dissident</a> in Australia, and per family.

 


title: Canadian thugs arrested news photographer
uri: Canadian-thugs-arrested-news-photographer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Canadian_thugs_arrested_news_photographer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Canadian_thugs_arrested_news_photographer)

content:
 
<p>

  Canadian federal thugs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/13/royal-canadian-mounted-police-amber-bracken-arrest-lawsuit">arrested news photographer Amber Bracken</a> for
covering a protest.
  Now the magazine she was working for is suing the Canadian Mounted Police
for that.
<p>
  The RCMP has a <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#12_February_2020_(Arresting_everyone)">reputation for aiding repression</a>.

 


title: Climate pledges of world's largest companies
uri: Climate-pledges-of-world-s-largest-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Climate_pledges_of_world's_largest_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Climate_pledges_of_world's_largest_companies)

content:
 
<p>

*The climate pledges of some of the world's largest companies are
often <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/study-corporate-greenwashing">highly misleading, lack transparency, and fall well short</a> of
 what's necessary to avert [climate disaster].*

 


title: Forced labor and human rights abuses when sourcing tuna
uri: Forced-labor-and-human-rights-abuses-when-sourcing-tuna
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Forced_labor_and_human_rights_abuses_when_sourcing_tuna)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Forced_labor_and_human_rights_abuses_when_sourcing_tuna)

content:
 
<p>

*16 Biggest U.S. Grocery Retailers <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/new-report-16-biggest-u-s-grocery-retailers-failed-on-forced-labor-and-human-rights-abuses-when-sourcing-tuna-a-us-42-2-billion-industry">Failed on Forced Labor and Human
    Rights Abuses</a> When Sourcing Tuna.*

 


title: Bill to fund Social Security through the 21st century
uri: Bill-to-fund-Social-Security-through-the-21st-century
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Bill_to_fund_Social_Security_through_the_21st_century)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Bill_to_fund_Social_Security_through_the_21st_century)

content:
 
<p>

Sanders and some Democrats introduced a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/amid-republican-threats-to-social-security-sanders-warren-schakowsky-hoyle-and-colleagues-introduce-legislation-toincrease-benefits-and-extend-solvency-through-2096">bill to fund Social Security
    through the rest of the 21st century</a>, by taxing people with high incomes
at the same rate as the rest of Americans.

 


title: Flowers and trees blooming earlier
uri: Flowers-and-trees-blooming-earlier
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Flowers_and_trees_blooming_earlier)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Flowers_and_trees_blooming_earlier)

content:
 
<p>

  *Flowers and trees <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/13/weather/weather-news-early-spring-warm-spring-wxn/index.html">blooming up to 3 weeks earlier than normal</a> in the
Eastern US.*

 


title: March in Madrid to "Defend the Health Service"
uri: March-in-Madrid-to-Defend-the-Health-Service
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(March_in_Madrid_to_Defend_the_Health_Service)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(March_in_Madrid_to_Defend_the_Health_Service)

content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/madrid-healthcare-protest">Hundreds of Thousands March in Madrid</a> to "Defend the Health Service"
 From Privatization.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Head_of_COP28_climate_conference)
title: Head of COP28 climate conference
uri: Head-of-COP28-climate-conference
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Head_of_COP28_climate_conference)
content:
 
<p>

The head of the COP28 climate conference is, embarrassingly, the head
of the UAE's state oil company.  He plans to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/uae-state-oil-companys-expansion-plans-prove-chief-executive-is-unfit-to-lead-cop28-climate-talks">increase fossil fuel
    production</a>.
<p>
This goes beyond demonstrating that the UN climate conferences have
been corrupted to the point where they are useless &mdash; it rubs that
in our faces.

 


title: Corporations that exist to make money
uri: Corporations-that-exist-to-make-money
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Corporations_that_exist_to_make_money)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#16_February_2023_(Corporations_that_exist_to_make_money)

content:
 
<p>

  *Humanity Can <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/corporate-responsibility-reform">No Longer Tolerate Corporations That Exist Almost
    Entirely to Make Money</a>.*

<p>
 


title: EPA's new renewable fuel standard
uri: EPA-s-new-renewable-fuel-standard
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(EPA's_new_renewable_fuel_standard)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(EPA's_new_renewable_fuel_standard)

content:
 
<p>

The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> needs to take care so that its new renewable fuel standard
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/watchdog-tells-epa-renewable-fuel-standard-should-not-bolster-dirty-energy">does not backfire</a> and encourage use of certain fossil fuels.
<p>
The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a> are once again trying to encourage investment in
more use of certain fuels which are only partly renewable, and doing
so by exaggeration.

China is provoking skirmishes
China is using its naval and air power as a basis for threats of skirmishes.
Just recently it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/13/chinese-ship-military-grade-laser-philippine-vessel">provoked a small skirmish with a Philippine transport ship</a>.
<p>
For some decades, China has been building bases on islands in the
South Chine Sea, which various countries claim.  The Philippines
replies in kind by building an artificial base on a reef.
That set the scene for the skirmish.
<p>
I expect China calculates that it can attack Philippine ships with
lasers.  and the Philippines won't dare retaliate because China's navy
is more powerful.  The article does not mention that any one was
permanently injured, but it creates a strategic quandary.

 


title: Russia accused of plot to oust pro-EU Moldova government
uri: Russia-accused-of-plot-to-oust-pro-EU-Moldova-government
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Russia_accused_of_plot_to_oust_pro-EU_Moldova_government)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Russia_accused_of_plot_to_oust_pro-EU_Moldova_government)

content:
 
<p>

  *Moldova president accuses Russia of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/13/moldova-president-maia-sandu-accuses-russia-of-plotting-to-oust-pro-eu-government">plotting to oust pro-EU government</a>.*

 


title: Government of Israel moves to subordinate Supreme Court of Parliament
uri: Government-of-Israel-moves-to-subordinate-Supreme-Court-of-Parliament
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Government_of_Israel_moves_to_subordinate_Supreme_Court_of_Parliament)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Government_of_Israel_moves_to_subordinate_Supreme_Court_of_Parliament)

content:
 
<p>

There are protests again in Israel as the government moves to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/13/protests-and-strikes-in-israel-as-plans-for-judicial-overhaul-move-forward">subordinate
    the Supreme Court to Parliament</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Violent_traffic_stops_in_Memphis)
title: Violent traffic stops in Memphis
uri: Violent-traffic-stops-in-Memphis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Violent_traffic_stops_in_Memphis)
content:
 
<p>

*One month before Tyre Nichols arrest, activists made city council
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/us/tyre-nichols-memphis-friday/index.html">presentation over fears of violent traffic stops in Memphis</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(HSBC_serving_China's_repression)
title: HSBC serving China's repression
uri: HSBC-serving-China-s-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(HSBC_serving_China's_repression)
content:
 
<p>

  HSBC is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/08/uk-mps-and-peers-find-hsbc-complicit-in-hong-kong-human-rights-abuses">serving China's repression</a> by refusing refugees from Hong Kong
access to the money they deposited in that bank.
<p>
The article claims that HDBC fabricates excuses to refuse to acknowledge
that they are the owners of their accounts.  HSBC says it is obeying a
Chinese law.  Either way, the UK (and potentially also the US) can punish it
for this, since it operates in those countries.

 


title: Missing a way to express disagreement
uri: Missing-a-way-to-express-disagreement
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Missing_a_way_to_express_disagreement)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Missing_a_way_to_express_disagreement)

content:
 
<p>

Generations of Chinese, living all their lives under strict censorship,
have <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20230214085405/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/opinion/china-politics-language.html">not formulated a language with which to express disagreement</a>
with an official position.

 


title: Putin forces sent Ukrainian children to brainwashing camps
uri: Putin-forces-sent-Ukrainian-children-to-brainwashing-camps
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Putin_forces_sent_Ukrainian_children_to_brainwashing_camps)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Putin_forces_sent_Ukrainian_children_to_brainwashing_camps)

content:
 
<p>

The Putin forces sent thousands of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/ukraine-children-sent-russia-re-education-camps">Ukrainian children (at least 6000)
    to brainwashing camps</a> to inculcate Russian identity and loyalty to
Russia.
<p>
Some of them left with their parents' permission.
Others were given no other way to leave the battlefield.
Some were cut off from all further contact with their families.
Some never came back.
<p>
I cannot tell whether this literally includes only children, or minors
of all ages up to 18.

 


title: NHS willing to pay to cure metachromatic leukodystrophy
uri: NHS-willing-to-pay-to-cure-metachromatic-leukodystrophy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(NHS_willing_to_pay_to_cure_metachromatic_leukodystrophy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(NHS_willing_to_pay_to_cure_metachromatic_leukodystrophy)

content:
 
<p>

The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/15/girl-with-deadly-inherited-condition-mld-cured-gene-therapy-libmeldy-nhs">NHS will pay a large sum to cure any British child of
    metachromatic leukodystrophy</a>, a fatal genetic disorder, if the diagnosis
is early enough for the cure to be effective.

 


title: Government intervention to eliminate antisemitism
uri: Government-intervention-to-eliminate-antisemitism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Government_intervention_to_eliminate_antisemitism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Government_intervention_to_eliminate_antisemitism)

content:
 
<p>

Government intervention to eliminate antisemitism (both real and
misidentified) from the Labour party <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/15/labour-out-of-ehrc-special-measures-after-progress-on-tackling-antisemitism">has ended</a>.
<p>
I am sure there were real antisemites in the Labour party.  But since
this intervention was based on the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#2_March_2021_(Definition_of_antisemitism)">incorrect IRHC statistical
    classification criterion</a>, the denunciations also included critics of
Israel's occupation who were not antisemites.  This will eliminate
many non-racist progressives from the party.  The party's <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Moving_Labour_Party_to_the_center)">unofficial
    policy</a> of imposing non-progressive candidates 
will ensure that a Labour
victory will make only an incremental difference.  Sure, it won't
be as bad as Tories, but how will Britain do the rest of what it needs to do?
The Labour Party will never help.

 


title: Nikki Haley as radical as the corruptor
uri: Nikki-Haley-as-radical-as-the-corruptor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Nikki_Haley_as_radical_as_the_corruptor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Nikki_Haley_as_radical_as_the_corruptor)

content:
 
<p>

Nikki Haley doesn't talk as brashly as <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a>, but progressives
point to her record on policies and say she is as <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/nikki-haley-moderate">radical as the
    corruptor</a>.

 


title: Arrests of suspects planning murder of Haiti's President
uri: Arrests-of-suspects-planning-murder-of-Haiti-s-President
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Arrests_of_suspects_planning_murder_of_Haiti's_President)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Arrests_of_suspects_planning_murder_of_Haiti's_President)

content:
 
<p>

  The US has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/14/haiti-president-assassination-arrests-us">arrested more suspects</a> in planning the murder of Haiti's
President Moïse.
<p>
  Moïse was effectively <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jan-apr.html#1_April_2019_(Jovenel_Moise)">imposed by the US</a>,
  but it is nonetheless proper to prosecute those who murdered him.

 


title: Proof Pablo Neruda was murdered with poison
uri: Proof-Pablo-Neruda-was-murdered-with-poison
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Proof_Pablo_Neruda_was_murdered_with_poison)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Proof_Pablo_Neruda_was_murdered_with_poison)

content:
 
<p>

Proof that Pablo Neruda was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/14/forensic-study-finds-chilean-poet-pablo-neruda-was-poisoned-says-nephew">murdered with poison</a>.
<p>
There is no information about who poisoned him, but we can presume
this was under the orders of dictator Pinochet, who overthrew the
government of Chile <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-sep-dec.html#11_September_2012_(Today_we_commemorate_the_September_11_attacks)">in association with the US government</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Militarism's_new_mega-mergers)
title: Militarism's new mega-mergers
uri: Militarism-s-new-mega-mergers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Militarism's_new_mega-mergers)
content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/mega-mergers-on-the-military-industrial-complex">Beware Militarism's New Mega-Mergers.</a>*

 


title: Australia negotiating business-supremacy treaties
uri: Australia-negotiating-business-supremacy-treaties
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Australia_negotiating_business-supremacy_treaties)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Australia_negotiating_business-supremacy_treaties)

content:
 
<p>

Australia is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/15/australia-closer-to-a-free-trade-agreement-with-eu-but-minister-warns-there-wont-be-a-deal-for-the-sake-of-it">negotiating business-supremacy treaties with the EU,
    India, and China</a>.  Doing so is always dangerous, since these
treaties can subordinate the country's democracy to foreign
businesses.
<p>
ISTR that Australia's previous government, which was right-wing, signed
the <a href="media/9c6b4f96.trance-pacific-partnership.en.jpg" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/archives/trance-pacific-partnership.en.jpg">Trance-Pacific Partnership</a>
which includes a <a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">noxious ISDS clause</a>.
<p>
Australia (and every country) must cancel the treaties that make
the country vulnerable to extortion by foreign businesses,

 


title: Regulate neonic-coated seeds as pesticides
uri: Regulate-neonic-coated-seeds-as-pesticides
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Regulate_neonic-coated_seeds_as_pesticides)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Regulate_neonic-coated_seeds_as_pesticides)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53268&supporter_KEY=229474&uid=80194c17d0fbbc71ce12626b1b44954e&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:116845&utm_campaign=AME4-FCNS:WILDLIFE:BEES-1222&utm_content=EM9:03C:0HH-AAP">regulate neonic-coated seeds as pesticides</a>.

<p>
 


title: Corporate weaponization of government
uri: Corporate-weaponization-of-government
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Corporate_weaponization_of_government)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Corporate_weaponization_of_government)

content:
 
<p>
The Corporate Weaponization of Government:
it <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/we-the-people-amendment">starts from the idea that corporations have the rights of people</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Capping_prison_sentences)
title: Capping prison sentences
uri: Capping-prison-sentences
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Capping_prison_sentences)
content:
 
<p>
*Report Urges <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/sentencing-reform">Capping US Prison Sentences at 20 Years</a> to End Mass
Incarceration.*
<p>
Long sentences are not the only cause of excessive imprisonment in the
US, but it's an angle to try.

<p>
 


title: Lobbyists to oversee bank regulations
uri: Lobbyists-to-oversee-bank-regulations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Lobbyists_to_oversee_bank_regulations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Lobbyists_to_oversee_bank_regulations)

content:
 
<p>
*Bank Lobbyists Hired by Congress to <a href="*Bank Lobbyists Hired by Congress to Oversee Banking Regulations.*
">Oversee Banking Regulations</a>.*
<p>
If those ex-lobbyists are honorable and loyal to their new employer,
they might use their inside knowledge to do a very good job.  But
I think that is too much to hope for.

<p>
 


title: Big tech's fossil fuel greenwashing
uri: Big-tech-s-fossil-fuel-greenwashing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Big_tech's_fossil_fuel_greenwashing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Big_tech's_fossil_fuel_greenwashing)

content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#planet">Planet roasters</a> spend lots of money on advertising in antisocial media
platforms, campaigning to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/big-tech-profiting-from-fossil-fuel-greenwashing">delay decarbonization</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Musk's_tweets)
title: Musk's tweets
uri: Musk-s-tweets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Musk's_tweets)
content:
 
<p>
Musk <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/15/elon-musk-changes-twitter-algorithm-super-bowl-slump-report">reportedly told engineers</a> to modify the Twitter software so that
more people would actually look at his tweets.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Profits_and_deaths)
title: Profits and deaths
uri: Profits-and-deaths
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Profits_and_deaths)
content:
 
<p>
Senator Sanders asked if it is "morally acceptable that tens of
thousands of people die each year in this country because they <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-moderna-2659422623">cannot
afford the medicine</a> their doctors prescribe, while at the same time,
the drug companies make billions of dollars in profits."

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Ohio_train_derailment)
title: Ohio train derailment
uri: Ohio-train-derailment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Ohio_train_derailment)
content:
 
<p>
*Ohio residents <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/16/ohio-train-disaster-derailment-toxic-chemicals-leak-east-palestine-open-house-public-meeting">demand answers</a> two weeks after toxic chemical train
derailment.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_((Satire)_Crib_bugged)
title: (Satire) Crib bugged
uri: (Satire)-Crib-bugged
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_((Satire)_Crib_bugged)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Baby Paranoid After Discovering Parents <a href="https://www.theonion.com/baby-paranoid-after-discovering-parents-bugged-his-crib-1850072374">Bugged His Crib</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.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Flowers_and_trees_blooming_early)
title: Flowers and trees blooming early
uri: Flowers-and-trees-blooming-early
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Flowers_and_trees_blooming_early)
content:
 
<p>
*Flowers and trees <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/13/weather/weather-news-early-spring-warm-spring-wxn/index.html">blooming up to 3 weeks earlier than normal</a> in the
Eastern US.*
<p>
February is normally the depths of winter, but for two days it has been
60&deg; outside my home in Boston.  This is very dangerous.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Netanyahu)
title: Netanyahu
uri: 2023-02-18-Netanyahu
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Netanyahu)
content:
 
<p>
More about <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/world/middleeast/israel-judicial-protests-netanyahu.html">Netanyahu's threat to Israel's democracy, and the protests that aim
to resist</a>.

<p>
 


title: (Satire) Figments of untethered mind
uri: (Satire)-Figments-of-untethered-mind
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_((Satire)_Figments_of_untethered_mind)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_((Satire)_Figments_of_untethered_mind)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *No One Has Heart To Tell Man That <a href="https://www.theonion.com/no-one-has-heart-to-tell-man-that-they-are-all-figments-1850072372">They Are All Figments Of
His Untethered Mind</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.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Repression_that_queer_women_face)
title: Repression that queer women face
uri: Repression-that-queer-women-face
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Repression_that_queer_women_face)
content:
 
<p>
A report describes the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/lesbian-bisexual-queer-violence-discrimination">range of repression that queer women face</a> as
human rights defendants, all around the world.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Gigi_Sohn)
title: Gigi Sohn
uri: Gigi-Sohn
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Gigi_Sohn)
content:
 
<p>
*Public-Interest Champion Gigi Sohn <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/public-interest-champion-gigi-sohn-faces-more-false-attacks-as-her-long-overdue-fcc-confirmation-moves-through-the-senate">Faces More False Attacks as Her
Long-Overdue FCC Confirmation Moves Through the Senate</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Sea-level_rise)
title: Sea-level rise
uri: 2023-02-18-Sea-level-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Sea-level_rise)
content:
 
<p>
Guterres warns the world that a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/14/rising-seas-threaten-mass-exodus-on-a-biblical-scale-un-chief-warns">billion people are threatened by
sea-level rise</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Paris_population_drain)
title: Paris population drain
uri: Paris-population-drain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Paris_population_drain)
content:
 
<p>
Paris is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/14/paris-proposes-upping-second-home-tax-tackle-population-drain-france">pushing very hard</a> to increase the number of apartments for residents,
taking steps to convert office buildings into residences, to tax second homes,
and to restrict short-term rentals of apartments.

 


title: Urgent: Regulate neonic-coated seeds as pesticides
uri: Urgent-Regulate-neonic-coated-seeds-as-pesticides
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Urgent:_Regulate_neonic-coated_seeds_as_pesticides)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(Urgent:_Regulate_neonic-coated_seeds_as_pesticides)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53268&supporter_KEY=229474&uid=80194c17d0fbbc71ce12626b1b44954e&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:116845&utm_campaign=AME4-FCNS:WILDLIFE:BEES-1222&utm_content=EM9:03C:0HH-AAP">regulate neonic-coated seeds as pesticides</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(China_is_provoking_skirmishes)
title: China is provoking skirmishes
uri: China-is-provoking-skirmishes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(China_is_provoking_skirmishes)
content:
 
<p>

China is using its naval and air power as a basis for threats of skirmishes.
Just recently it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/13/chinese-ship-military-grade-laser-philippine-vessel">provoked a small skirmish with a Philippine transport ship</a>.
<p>
For some decades, China has been building bases on islands in the
South Chine Sea, which various countries claim.  The Philippines
replies in kind by building an artificial base on a reef.
That set the scene for the skirmish.
<p>
I expect China calculates that it can attack Philippine ships with
lasers.  and the Philippines won't dare retaliate because China's navy
is more powerful.  The article does not mention that any one was
permanently injured, but it creates a strategic quandary.

 


title: Nikki Haley as radical as the corrupter
uri: Nikki-Haley-as-radical-as-the-corrupter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Nikki_Haley_as_radical_as_the_corrupter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#17_February_2023_(Nikki_Haley_as_radical_as_the_corrupter)

content:
 
<p>

Nikki Haley doesn't talk as brashly as <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a>, but progressives
point to her record on policies and say she is as <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/nikki-haley-moderate">radical as the
    corrupter</a>.

 


title: EPA's new renewable fuel standard
uri: 2023-02-19-EPA-s-new-renewable-fuel-standard
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(EPA's_new_renewable_fuel_standard)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_February_2023_(EPA's_new_renewable_fuel_standard)

content:
 
<p>

The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> needs to take care so that its new renewable fuel standard
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/watchdog-tells-epa-renewable-fuel-standard-should-not-bolster-dirty-energy">does not backfire</a> and encourage use of certain fossil fuels.
<p>
The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a> are once again trying to encourage investment in
more use of certain fuels which are only partly renewable, and doing
so by exaggeration.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(bbc_tax_evasion)
title: India accuses BBC of tax evasion amid Modi documentary row
uri: India-accuses-BBC-of-tax-evasion-amid-Modi-documentary-row
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(bbc_tax_evasion)
content:
 
<p>
*India accuses BBC of tax evasion amid 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/17/india-accuses-bbc-of-tax-evasion-amid-modi-documentary-row">Modi documentary row.*</a>
<p>
I won't argue that a large corporation such as the BBC is beyond suspicion,
but the fact that the accusation is being made now leads me to suspect
that Modi is using this to repress criticism of his regime.
<p>
Even if the accusation is true, Modi is probably using it for
political motives rather than for legitimate motives.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(rail_worker_alliance)
title: Amid Ohio Nightmare, Rail Worker Alliance Urges All of Labor to Back Railroad Nationalization
uri: Amid-Ohio-Nightmare-Rail-Worker-Alliance-Urges-All-of-Labor-to-Back-R
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(rail_worker_alliance)
content:
 
<p>
US railroad workers call for nationalization of 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/rail-worker-alliance-nationalization">the US railroads,</a>
<p>
to end the mismanagement of the few major railroad corporations.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(biden_doj_norfolk)
title: Biden DOJ Supporting Rail Giant Norfolk Southern's Effort to Block Future Lawsuits
uri: Biden-DOJ-Supporting-Rail-Giant-Norfolk-Southern-s-Effort-to-Block-Fut
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(biden_doj_norfolk)
content:
 
<p>
The Department of Justice is arguing in the Supreme Court to
invalidate old state laws that allow a corporation to be sued in
Pennsylvania (for example) if it 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-doj-norfolk-southern-lawsuit">does business in Pennsylvania.</a>
<p>
A few weeks ago, Biden protected the railroads from giving workers
sick leave.  He seems too close to railroads.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(bagley_lawsuit)
title: Shreveport, Louisiana, police officer arrested in fatal shooting of Alonzo Bagley, police say
uri: Shreveport-Louisiana-police-officer-arrested-in-fatal-shooting-of-Al
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(bagley_lawsuit)
content:
 
<p>
Alonzo Bagley was maimed by Louisiana thugs who arrested in 2018, and
sued them.  This year a thug shot him and killed him, 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/16/us/shreveport-louisiana-police-shooting-alonzo-bagley-lawsuit/index.html">gratuitously.</a>
The thug is being prosecuted.  I wonder why he is accused of
"negligent" homicide &mdash; can firing a gun at a person be mere
"negligence"?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(immunity_debt)
title: Claims of an Immunity Debt in Children Owe Us Evidence
uri: Claims-of-an-Immunity-Debt-in-Children-Owe-Us-Evidence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(immunity_debt)
content:
 
<p>
There is no such thing as "immunity debt" for an individual.  The immune system
does not 
<a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/covid-19-medical-critical-thinking/claims-immunity-debt-children-owe-us-evidence">require "exercise" to keep functioning.</a>
<p>
For society, there is a kind of infection backlog.  Normally every
baby gets infected by RSV before age two.  So there is a normal rate
of first infections of RSV, some fraction of which require treatment.
<p>
When babies are kept more isolated, many of them don't catch RSV at
the usual age.  That creates a backlog of babies who are yet to
experience that infection.
<p>
When the isolation ends, basically all those babies catch it in a
short time.  The infection causes the same results as usual, but the
number who get infected per month is higher than usual.
<p>
After a while, all those babies have had RSV and the temporary
isolation has no lasting effects.  At least, not due to RSV.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(High_tax_millionaires)
title: High tax millionaires
uri: High-tax-millionaires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(High_tax_millionaires)
content:
 
<p>

In California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota, New York,
Maryland, and Washington,
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/state-campaigns-to-tax-the-rich">state legislators are pushing to tax
millionaires more</a>.
 The campaign is looking for legislators who want
to do this in other states.
  I am curious about their target for the highest tax bracket,
which is not stated in the article.
<p>
Massachusetts voters (including me) voted for a higher tax on high
incomes in the November 2022 election.

<p>
 


title: Millions of children are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage starting in April
uri: Millions-of-children-are-at-risk-of-losing-Medicaid-coverage-starting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(children_medicaid_health_insurance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(children_medicaid_health_insurance)

content:
 
<p>
*Millions of [US] children are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/15/politics/children-medicaid-health-insurance/index.html">starting in April.*</a>
<p>
And millions of US adults as well.
<p>
Extension of Medicaid was started in 2020 with bipartisan support
because Covid-19 alarmed the Republicans into feeling they had to help
people.  Now they want to undo that as part of their War on [people
in] Poverty.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(thwaites_doomsday)
uri: So-called-Doomsday-Glacier-is-in-trouble-scientists-say-after-f
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(thwaites_doomsday)
title:
 So-called Doomsday Glacier is ‘in trouble,’ scientists say after finding surprising formations under ice shelf 

content:
 
<p>
The Thwaites glacier is melting from below &mdash; the water under it is 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/15/world/thwaites-doomsday-glacier-sea-level-climate-intl/index.html">hotter than freezing.</a>
<p>
If it melts, that will raise sea level by two feet.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(oregon_paramilitary)
title: Oregon, a hotbed of extremism, seeks to curb paramilitaries
uri: Oregon-a-hotbed-of-extremism-seeks-to-curb-paramilitaries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(oregon_paramilitary)
content:
 
<p>
Oregon is considering a bill to allow victims of organized
intimidation to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/17/oregon-legislature-paramilitary-civil-suit-bill">sue the intimidators.</a>
<p>
The idea is to discourage right-wing bullying.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_((satire)_blundering_us)
title: Blundering U.S. Accidentally Stabilizes Foreign Country
uri: Blundering-U-S-Accidentally-Stabilizes-Foreign-Country
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_((satire)_blundering_us)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Blundering U.S. Accidentally 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/blundering-u-s-accidentally-stabilizes-foreign-country-1850072098">Stabilizes Foreign Country.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(grozev_alexei_navalny)
title: Journalist who exposed plot to kill Alexei Navalny claims family banned from Baftas
uri: Journalist-who-exposed-plot-to-kill-Alexei-Navalny-claims-family-banne
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(grozev_alexei_navalny)
content:
 
<p>
Journalist Christo Grozev wrote about Putin's plot to poison Alexei Navalny.
A documentary about this is up for an award in London, but he cannot attend:
he and his 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/17/journalist-who-exposed-plot-to-kill-alexei-navalny-claims-family-banned-from-baftas">family have been banned from attending.</a>
<p>
In effect, they are being treated as terrorists.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: EPA to regulate neonicotinoid
uri: Urgent-EPA-to-regulate-neonicotinoid
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Urgent:_EPA_to_regulate_neonicotinoid)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Urgent:_EPA_to_regulate_neonicotinoid)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the EPA to regulate
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53268&supporter_KEY=229474&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:116845&utm_campaign=AME4-FCNS:WILDLIFE:BEES-1222&utm_content=EM9:03C:0HH-AAP</a>">neonic-coated seeds as
pesticides</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: EPA to regulate neonicotinoids
uri: Urgent-EPA-to-regulate-neonicotinoids
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Urgent:_EPA_to_regulate_neonicotinoids)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Urgent:_EPA_to_regulate_neonicotinoids)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the EPA to regulate
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53268&supporter_KEY=229474&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:116845&utm_campaign=AME4-FCNS:WILDLIFE:BEES-1222&utm_content=EM9:03C:0HH-AAP</a>">neonic-coated seeds as
pesticides</a>,

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(High_tax_estates,_Sanders)
title: High tax estates, Sanders
uri: High-tax-estates-Sanders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(High_tax_estates,_Sanders)
content:
 
<p>

*Sanders Says His
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-teacher-pay-rich-estates">New Bill to Raise Teacher Pay</a>
Could Be Fully Funded by
 Taxing Rich Estates.*

<p>
 


title: Censured, James Cavallaro, Human rights
uri: Censured-James-Cavallaro-Human-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Censured,_James_Cavallaro,_Human_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Censured,_James_Cavallaro,_Human_rights)

content:
 
<p>

Biden nominated James Cavallaro for the Inter-American Commission on
Human Rights,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/14/biden-withdraws-nominee-human-rights-post-israel-remarks">then withdrew the nomination after seeing how Cavallaro
criticized Israel's human rights record</a>.
<p>
That position has nothing to do with Israel, but
<a href="/archives/2006-sep-dec.html#28 December 2006 (Apartheid in the Holy Land)">what Professor Cavallaro said about Israel is valid</a>.
<p>
As for Jeffries, <a href="/archives/2018-sep-dec.html#26_December_2018_(Hakeem_Jeffries_charter_schools)">what Cavallaro said about Jeffries seems plausible</a>
and I suppose Cavallaro spoke based on his knowledge.
<p>
It was posted before he was selected as the House Democrats' leader.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(norfolk_train)
title: 'Very Disturbing': Amid Ohio Disaster, Another Norfolk Southern Train Derails in Michigan
uri: Very-Disturbing-Amid-Ohio-Disaster-Another-Norfolk-Southern-Train
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(norfolk_train)
content:
 
<p>
Another Norfolk Southern train has had a derailment and some .
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/another-norfolk-southern-train-michigan">cars were
overturned</a>
<p>
US railroads have prioritized profit over safety; it the government
has the responsibility to make them stop.  Specifically,
Transportation Secretary Buttigieg had better get moving.
<p>
Proper safety precautions would require giving workers time to think,
rather than making them rush, and giving them sick pay so they won't
be doing safety checks while not quite up to it.
<p>
Perhaps the US should establish a legal requirement for railroad
workers to report certain sorts safety flaws in trains directly to the
NTSB.  It would be harder for railroad bosses to pressure workers to
keep quiet if keeping quiet is a criminal offense.  Indeed, asking
staff to keep quiet should be a criminal offense too.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(gop_educational_gag_orders)
title: 'Race to the Bottom': GOP Has Introduced 84 Educational Gag Orders So Far in 2023
uri: Race-to-the-Bottom-GOP-Has-Introduced-84-Educational-Gag-Orders-So
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(gop_educational_gag_orders)
content:
 
<p>
Republicans are introducing many state bills to 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-educational-gag-orders-2023">restrict what teachers
can teach.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(fetterman_depression)
title: Fetterman Applauded for 'Courage' of Being Open About Clinical Depression
uri: Fetterman-Applauded-for-Courage-of-Being-Open-About-Clinical-Depress
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(fetterman_depression)
content:
 
<p>
*Fetterman Applauded for "Courage" of Being Open 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/fetterman-depression"> About Clinical Depression.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(gop_trump_tax_cuts)
title: 'Absolute Hypocrisy': GOP Unveils Bill to Make Trump Tax Cuts Permanent While Howling About Debt
uri: Absolute-Hypocrisy-GOP-Unveils-Bill-to-Make-Trump-Tax-Cuts-Permanen
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(gop_trump_tax_cuts)
content:
 
<p>
Republicans in Congress want to continue the wrecker's tax cuts for the rich,
which currently 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-trump-tax-cuts-permanent">are supposed to last only until 2025.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(hobby_clubs_missing_balloon)
title: Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down By USAF
uri: Hobby-Club-s-Missing-Balloon-Feared-Shot-Down-By-USAF
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(hobby_clubs_missing_balloon)
content:
 
<p>
Many hobbyists launch very small "pico balloons" (smaller than a nano
balloon would be) which carry a GPS receiver plus a 
<a href="https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf">radio transmitter
to say "here I am".</a>
<p>
But only in daylight, because batteries would be too heavy to carry.
<p>
It is plausible that the balloons that the US recently shot down were
pico balloons.  Some of them have drifted around the Earth several
times.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(trump_georgia)
title: Findings in Georgia Trump report could be enough to bring criminal charges
uri: Findings-in-Georgia-Trump-report-could-be-enough-to-bring-criminal-cha
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(trump_georgia)
content:
 
<p>
*Findings in Georgia Trump report could be enough to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/16/grand-jury-trump-report-georgia">bring criminal charges.*</a>
<p>
And it looks like the DA of Fulton County is investigating
state-level charges of perjury.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(wall_street_nursing_care_greed)
title: Yes, Wall Street Would Kill Your Granny for a Few Extra Bucks
uri: Yes-Wall-Street-Would-Kill-Your-Granny-for-a-Few-Extra-Bucks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(wall_street_nursing_care_greed)
content:
 
<p>
*Yes, Wall Street Would Kill Your Granny for a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/wall-street-nursing-care-industry-greed">Few Extra Bucks.*</a>
<p>
That may be an exaggeration.  I don't think a big company's CEO
would bother killing one granny even for a thousand dollars.
Perse would call that "small potatoes" and look for ways
kill thousands of grannies for millions of dollars.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(sanders_big_pharma)
title: Now Is the Time to Defeat the Insatiable Greed of the Prescription Drug Industry
uri: Now-Is-the-Time-to-Defeat-the-Insatiable-Greed-of-the-Prescription-Dru
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(sanders_big_pharma)
content:
 
<p>
Bernie Sanders: *Now Is the Time to Defeat the Insatiable Greed of the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/bernie-sanders-on-big-pharma-greed">Prescription Drug Industry.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(hochul_lasalle_ny_senate)
title: 'Extraordinary Repudiation': NY Senate Rejects Hochul's Right-Wing Judicial Nominee
uri: Extraordinary-Repudiation-NY-Senate-Rejects-Hochul-s-Right-Wing-Jud
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(hochul_lasalle_ny_senate)
content:
 
<p>
Democrats in the New York State senate rejected Governor Hochul's
right-wing nominee to the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/hochul-lasalle-new-york-senate">state supreme court.</a>
<p>
I applaud this decision, but does not erase the wrong she did by
nominating such a person.  If she runs for reelection, voters should
demand that she come clean about this.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(biden_spy_ballon)
title: Biden says latest objects shot down over US not linked to China spy program
uri: Biden-says-latest-objects-shot-down-over-US-not-linked-to-China-spy-pr
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(biden_spy_ballon)
content:
 
<p>
Biden acknowledged that the three balloons shot down most recently were
not surveillance balloons 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/16/biden-objects-china-spy-balloon-surveillance">and were not Chinese.</a>
<p>
One of them seems to have been launched by an 
<a href="https://www.rtl-sdr.com/the-us-airforce-may-have-shot-down-an-amateur-radio-pico-balloon-over-canada/">American group of hobbyists.</a>
<p>
I recommend a system for high-altitude balloons to carry radio transmitters to
identify themselves and who owns them.

<p>
 


title: EU bans using lead shot for hunting birds
uri: EU-bans-using-lead-shot-for-hunting-birds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(EU_bans_using_lead_shot_for_hunting_birds)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(EU_bans_using_lead_shot_for_hunting_birds)

content:
 
<p>

The EU has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/15/ban-on-hunting-birds-with-lead-shot-in-eu-wetlands-hailed-as-huge-milestone-aoe">banned using lead shot to hunt birds</a>.  The lead was
poisoning large numbers of other birds that were not being hunted.

 


title: Allegations corrupter profited from dealings with Crown Prince Bone Saw
uri: Allegations-corrupter-profited-from-dealings-with-Crown-Prince-Bone-Sa
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Allegations_corrupter_profited_from_dealings_with_Crown_Prince_Bone_Saw)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Allegations_corrupter_profited_from_dealings_with_Crown_Prince_Bone_Saw)

content:
 
<p>

Allegations that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> and his relatives <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/13/opinions/house-gop-kushner-trump-ivanka-obeidallah/index.html">profited directly
    from corrupt dealings</a> with Crown Prince Bone Saw.
<p>
This corruption, if proven, would justify putting them in jail.
But it is not as bad as the damage caused by the political chaos
and dishonesty that <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#corrupter">the corrupter</a> unleashed on the US.

 


title: (satire) Amazon Echo is taking the kids
uri: (satire)-Amazon-Echo-is-taking-the-kids
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_((satire)_Amazon_Echo_is_taking_the_kids)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_((satire)_Amazon_Echo_is_taking_the_kids)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/amazon-echo-declares-it-heard-everything-and-it-s-takin-1850071685">*Amazon Echo Declares It Heard Everything And
    It’s Taking The Kids.*</a>

 


title: EU Tax Haven Blacklist called a "Joke List"
uri: EU-Tax-Haven-Blacklist-called-a-Joke-List
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(EU_Tax_Haven_Blacklist_called_a_Joke_List)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(EU_Tax_Haven_Blacklist_called_a_Joke_List)

content:
 
<p>

  *Oxfam Calls Updated EU Tax Haven Blacklist <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/oxfam-eu-tax-havens">Nothing But a "Joke List"</a>.
   *"Zero- and low-tax-rate countries should be automatically blacklisted,"
said one tax expert. "E.U. countries should not get a free pass."*

 


title: (satire) Passive income streams for landlords
uri: (satire)-Passive-income-streams-for-landlords
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_((satire)_Passive_income_streams_for_landlords)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_((satire)_Passive_income_streams_for_landlords)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/archaeologists-discover-early-humans-developed-shelter-1850041985">*Archaeologists Discover Early Humans Developed Shelter To
    Provide Passive Income Stream For Landlords.*</a>

 


title: Mississippi's special court for prosecution of crimes
uri: Mississippi-s-special-court-for-prosecution-of-crimes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Mississippi's_special_court_for_prosecution_of_crimes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Mississippi's_special_court_for_prosecution_of_crimes)

content:
 
<p>

Mississippi's Republican government has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/14/us/mississippi-jackson-unelected-court-system-vote-reaj/index.html">created a special court for
    prosecution of crimes</a> in part of the capital, Jackson, which will have
no accountability to the (majority black) inhabitants of that area.
<p>
This could be a plan to institute racist "justice."

 


title: Labour ordered to refuse to let Corbyn to run again
uri: Labour-ordered-to-refuse-to-let-Corbyn-to-run-again
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Labour_ordered_to_refuse_to_let_Corbyn_to_run_again)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Labour_ordered_to_refuse_to_let_Corbyn_to_run_again)

content:
 
<p>

  Starmer ordered the Labour Party to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/jeremy-corbyn-starmer-labour-election">refuse to let Corbyn run again</a>
in the next general election.
  His supporters are not going to yield
meekly.

 


title: Gentrification is effect of building Obama Center
uri: Gentrification-is-effect-of-building-Obama-Center
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Gentrification_is_effect_of_building_Obama_Center)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Gentrification_is_effect_of_building_Obama_Center)

content:
 
<p>

Constructing the Obama Center in a black neighborhood of Chicago is
supposed to benefit people there, but the actual effect (even before
the center is built) is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/15/obama-center-chicago-south-side-residents-fear-displacement">rapid gentrification</a> -- they are compelled to
move away.

 


title: Peru permitted "excessive and lethal use of force" against indigenous groups
uri: Peru-permitted-excessive-and-lethal-use-of-force-against-indigenous
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Peru_permitted_excessive_and_lethal_use_of_force_against_indigenous_groups)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Peru_permitted_excessive_and_lethal_use_of_force_against_indigenous_groups)

content:
 
<p>

*Peru’s ‘racist bias’ drove lethal police response to protests,
Amnesty says.  [The state] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/16/peru-protests-indigenous-racism-police-violence-amnesty-international">permitted "excessive and lethal use of
    force" against indigenous groups</a>.*

 


title: Fox News supported Trump's claims while knowing they were lies
uri: Fox-News-supported-Trump-s-claims-while-knowing-they-were-lies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Fox_News_supported_Trump's_claims_while_knowing_they_were_lies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Fox_News_supported_Trump's_claims_while_knowing_they_were_lies)

content:
 
<p>

*Fox News hosts thought Trump’s election fraud claims were ‘total BS’, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/feb/17/fox-news-hosts-dominion-lawsuit-trump-election-fraud-tucker-carlson-sean-hannity-laura-ingraham">court
    filings show</a>,* while endorsing those same lies while on the air.

 


title: President of Tunisia arresting opposition leaders
uri: President-of-Tunisia-arresting-opposition-leaders
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(President_of_Tunisia_arresting_opposition_leaders)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(President_of_Tunisia_arresting_opposition_leaders)

content:
 
<p>

  The president/tyrant of Tunisia has started <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/17/tunisia-crackdown-on-opposition-and-media-figures-alarms-rights-groups">arresting opposition leaders</a>
and people who can influence the public.

 


title: Google gave publicity to software project
uri: Google-gave-publicity-to-software-project
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Google_gave_publicity_to_software_project)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Google_gave_publicity_to_software_project)

content:
 
<p>

Google <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/02/17/google-cloud-saudi-aramco-oil/">gave publicity to a software project designed by Aramco
    employees</a> to use Google servers to find and repair methane leaks.
Did Google do good, or harm?
<p>
Repairing the leaks is good but small.  Helping Aramco distract
attention from its far bigger activities, which accelerate global
heating, is harmful.  Which one is more important?
<p>
The fact that Google specifically acted to get publicity for Aramco's
token emissions reductions, which don't compensate for its emissions
increases, suggests that this is misleading greenwashing, for Google
as well as Aramco.
<p>
The article linked to describes other ways in which Google's
misrepresents its assistance to Aramco and other <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a>
to deny that they exacerbate <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.

 


title: Sanders' suggestions for secretary of labor
uri: Sanders-suggestions-for-secretary-of-labor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Sanders'_suggestions_for_secretary_of_labor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Sanders'_suggestions_for_secretary_of_labor)

content:
 
<p>

  Sanders proposes <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-nelson-reich-labor">Robert Reich, or union leader Sara Nelson</a>, for
secretary of labor.

 


title: Taliban ban contraceptives in Afghanistan
uri: Taliban-ban-contraceptives-in-Afghanistan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Taliban_ban_contraceptives_in_Afghanistan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Taliban_ban_contraceptives_in_Afghanistan)

content:
 
<p>

  The Taliban have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/feb/17/taliban-ban-contraception-western-conspiracy">banned contraceptives in Afghanistan</a> &mdash; perhaps some
kinds and not all.
<p>
The Christian Taliban that threaten the US have similar goals, and sooner
or later will try to impose similar laws in the states they control.

 


title: Tesla fired 30 workers in response to union drive
uri: Tesla-fired-30-workers-in-response-to-union-drive
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Tesla_fired_30_workers_in_response_to_union_drive)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Tesla_fired_30_workers_in_response_to_union_drive)

content:
 
<p>

  Tesla union busting: the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/17/tesla-fires-workers-union-buffalo">company fired 30 workers</a> in response to a
union drive.
<p>
One thing the workers demand is a decrease in surveillance.  I wish the
customers would demand the same thing.

 


title: Treatment of asylum seekers from Venezuela
uri: Treatment-of-asylum-seekers-from-Venezuela
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Treatment_of_asylum_seekers_from_Venezuela)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Treatment_of_asylum_seekers_from_Venezuela)

content:
 
<p>

The US used to put asylum seekers from Venezuela in a private
(unaccountable) immigration prison and tortured them with sleep
deprivation and other sadisms, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/16/venezuela-refugee-immigration-us">hoping they will break and agree
    to be deported</a>.
<p>
The new system is to deport them immediately to Mexico, so they don't
get a hearing.  The only way they can ask for asylum in the US is to
request it at a distance &mdash; probably running nonfree software &mdash; and
be prepared to pay the cost of a commercial flight to the US.

 


title: Protests in Iran continue despite killing of protesters
uri: Protests-in-Iran-continue-despite-killing-of-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Protests_in_Iran_continue_despite_killing_of_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Protests_in_Iran_continue_despite_killing_of_protesters)

content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/17/iran-protests-flare-in-several-cities-amid-continuing-unrest">Protests calling for "death to the dictator" continue</a> in Iran
despite the killing of over 500 protesters.

 


title: DC thug fed info to suspected criminal groups
uri: DC-thug-fed-info-to-suspected-criminal-groups
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(DC_thug_fed_info_to_suspected_criminal_groups)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(DC_thug_fed_info_to_suspected_criminal_groups)

content:
 
<p>

A DC <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> whose job included monitoring suspected criminal groups such
as the Proud Boys <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/16/us-police-officer-proud-boys-leader-enrique-tarrio">gave them information</a> about the suspicions against
them, shortly before Jan 6.

 


title: Political donations for right-wing billionaires
uri: Political-donations-for-right-wing-billionaires
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Political_donations_for_right-wing_billionaires)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Political_donations_for_right-wing_billionaires)

content:
 
<p>

A right-wing billionaire donates to Republican candidates first of all,
but <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/02/16/israel-jeff-yass-kohelet/">as a forward line of defense he donates to plutocratist Democrats</a>
also.
<p>
He also supports fascists in Israel.

 


title: Protests at Raytheon's office in Arlington, Virginia
uri: Protests-at-Raytheon-s-office-in-Arlington-Virginia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Protests_at_Raytheon's_office_in_Arlington,_Virginia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(Protests_at_Raytheon's_office_in_Arlington,_Virginia)

content:
 
<p>

<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> repressing protesters at Raytheon's office in Arlington, Virginia, told
the protesters that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/raytheon-protest">Raytheon owns the sidewalk so no one can protest there</a>.
<p>
In the meeting that they protested, all elements of the
military-industrial-media complex with so thoroughly mixed up that the
distinction becomes artificial.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(salvaged_remnants_balloon)
title: FBI lab will get to the ‘guts’ of Chinese balloon – White House
uri: FBI-lab-will-get-to-the-guts-of-Chinese-balloon-White-House
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(salvaged_remnants_balloon)
content:
 
<p>
The Chinese balloon was 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/18/us-says-salvaged-sunken-remnants-of-downed-chinese-balloon-reinforce-it-was-for-spying">definitely built for spying.</a>

<p>
 


title: Civil Society Calls On African Union to Foster Fossil-Free Future for Continent
uri: Civil-Society-Calls-On-African-Union-to-Foster-Fossil-Free-Future-for
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(african_union_summit_fossil_fuels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(african_union_summit_fossil_fuels)

content:
 
<p>
*Civil Society Calls On African Union to Foster Fossil-Free 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/african-union-summit-fossil-fuels">Future for
 Continent.*</a>
 
 <p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(pesticides_climate_crisis)
title: Pesticide Use and Climate Crisis Locked in 'Vicious Cycle' Backed by Polluting Industries
uri: Pesticide-Use-and-Climate-Crisis-Locked-in-Vicious-Cycle-Backed-by-P
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(pesticides_climate_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
*Pesticide Use and Climate Crisis Locked in 'Vicious Cycle' Backed by 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/pesticides-climate-crisis-vicious-cycle">Polluting Industries.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(peru_logging_murder)
title: Peruvian loggers given 28 years in jail for murder of four Indigenous leaders
uri: Peruvian-loggers-given-28-years-in-jail-for-murder-of-four-Indigenous
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(peru_logging_murder)
content:
 
<p>
*Peruvian loggers given 28 years in jail for murder of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/17/peru-illegal-logging-murder-indigenous-leaders">four indigenous
 leaders.*</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(science_musem_sponsorship_deal)
title: Science Museum sponsorship deal with oil firm included gag clause
uri: Science-Museum-sponsorship-deal-with-oil-firm-included-gag-clause
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(science_musem_sponsorship_deal)
content:
 
<p>
London's Science Museum has signed contracts with large oil companies
(to mount exhibits) in which the museum promises not to say anything that
would make those companies look bad.  For instance, not 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/feb/16/science-museum-sponsorship-deal-with-oil-firm-included-gag-clause">to talk about
their global heating.</a>
<p>
The museum's management now says it "has decided" not to sign such
clauses any more, but that doesn't tell us how many such contracts are
still in force, nor prevent it from making an exception next month or
next year.
<p>
It should be a crime for a museum presenting factual subjects to agree
to let any other organization decide what it can or cannot say,
unless those decisions are published.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(met_police_iranian_plots)
title: Met police and MI5 foil 15 plots by Iran against British or UK-based ‘enemies’
uri: 2023-02-21-
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(met_police_iranian_plots)
content:
 
<p>
Iran is trying to mount terrorist attacks against Iranian journalists
in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/18/met-police-mi5-foil-15-iranian-plots-against-british-or-uk-based-enemies">exile in the UK.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(DeSantis_law_exploitative)
title: THE VILLAGES CRUSH A GRASSROOTS REVOLT
uri: THE-VILLAGES-CRUSH-A-GRASSROOTS-REVOLT
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(DeSantis_law_exploitative)
content:
 
<p>
DeMentis passed a law to negate local democracy in Florida
to help an exploitative 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/02/18/deconstructed-podcast-the-villages-florida/">local scheme succeed.</a>
<p>
I consider this a kind of corruption.

<p>
 


title: Opinion: A ‘slam dunk’ bill to prevent a repeat of an ugly chapter of American history
uri: Opinion-A-slam-dunk-bill-to-prevent-a-repeat-of-an-ugly-chapter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(congress_bill_prohibit_demographic)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(congress_bill_prohibit_demographic)

content:
 
<p>
Congress is considering a bill to prohibit the US from ever again
imprisoning people because of the 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/18/opinions/japanese-internment-anniversary-wwii-congress-bill-grigsby-ctpr/index.html">demographic groups they belong to.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(climate_doom_loop)
title: Researchers Warn of Climate 'Doom Loop' as Impacts Forestall Green Energy Transition
uri: Researchers-Warn-of-Climate-Doom-Loop-as-Impacts-Forestall-Green-Ene
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(climate_doom_loop)
content:
 
<p>
The climate "doom loop": the cost of coping with today's damage from
the early stages of climate breakdown is interfering 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-doom-loop">with the steps to
prevent</a>
<p>
If it is too late to save everyone, and all the things important to
save, the long term must take precedence.
<p>
Taxing the rich more might make it possible to save everyone and
everything.  If so, we had better push hard to do that while the
possibility still exists.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(nz_cyclone)
title: After Cyclone Gabrielle, New Zealand wonders how – and if – to rebuild
uri: After-Cyclone-Gabrielle-New-Zealand-wonders-how-and-if-to-reb
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(nz_cyclone)
content:
 
<p>
New Zealand suffered widespread destruction from a cyclone's heavy rain,
which destroyed many homes, roads and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/20/after-cyclone-gabrielle-new-zealand-wonders-how-and-if-to-rebuild">civic infrastructure.</a>
<p>
It will have to rebuild very differently.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(roald_dahl_rewrites)
title: Roald Dahl rewrites: edited language in books criticised as ‘absurd censorship’
uri: Roald-Dahl-rewrites-edited-language-in-books-criticised-as-absurd
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(roald_dahl_rewrites)
content:
 
<p>
Salman Rushdie and others have condemned the changes that the
publisher has recently made in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/20/roald-dahl-books-rewrites-criticism-language-altered">Roald Dahl's books.</a>
The publisher says that the changes are so that Dahl's books "continue
to be enjoyed by all children today," but I think it is more a matter
of what some believe children are supposed to think.
<p>
The actual changes I have seen appear to be minor, and I don't think
they ruin the books.  What arouses my ire is the idea of revising the
writings of the past to expunge all ideas that have been declared
++ungood.  It reminds me of when students demanded to do in George
Washington High School in San Francisco.
<p>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/technology/china-technology-censorship-borders-expansion.html?partner=rss&emc=rss">It also reminds me of Chinese censorship.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(eliminalia_leaked_files)
title: Leaked files reveal reputation-management firm’s deceptive tactics
uri: Leaked-files-reveal-reputation-management-firm-s-deceptive-tactics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(eliminalia_leaked_files)
content:
 
<p>
Leaked files from the reputation-whitewashing company Eliminalia
showed that it made fraudulent copyright complaints to get negative
stories taken down, and used fake accounts to flood the net with
fake positive stories, 
<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230217155227/https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2023/eliminalia-fake-news-misinformation/">drowning out the criicism.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(asylum_seekers)
title: Asylum seekers ‘living in fear’ as more UK anti-migrant protests planned
uri: Asylum-seekers-living-in-fear-as-more-UK-anti-migrant-protests-p
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(asylum_seekers)
content:
 
<p>
A hate movement in the UK is stirring up hatred against asylum
seekers.  Those under its influence respond to any inconvenience or
problem by assuming asylum seekers are to blame.  Often this is false, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/17/asylum-seekers-living-in-fear-far-right-uk-anti-migrant-protests-planned">but they don't bother to check.</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(anthony_mitchell_lawsuit)
title: An inmate froze to death while detained at an Alabama jail last month, family alleges in suit
uri: An-inmate-froze-to-death-while-detained-at-an-Alabama-jail-last-month
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(anthony_mitchell_lawsuit)
content:
 
<p>
Anthony Mitchell died in an Alabama jail of hypothermia.  His
relatives accuse jail thugs of punishing him by locking him in 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/17/us/anthony-mitchell-alabama-jail-family-lawsuit/index.html">the
freezer, which killed him.</a>

 


title: Oil spill misinformation, whistleblower
uri: Oil-spill-misinformation-whistleblower
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Oil_spill_misinformation,_whistleblower)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Oil_spill_misinformation,_whistleblower)

content:
 
<p>

*Santos whistleblower accuses company of covering up extent of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/16/santos-whistleblower-accuses-company-of-covering-up-extent-of-australian-oil-spill-that-killed-dolphins">Australian oil spill that killed dolphins</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Republican_budget_cut_effects)
title: Republican budget cut effects
uri: Republican-budget-cut-effects
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Republican_budget_cut_effects)
content:
 
<p>

Senate Democrats estimate that Republican budget cuts, if they shield
military spending, "would amount to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/senate-democrats-gop-budget-cuts">a 30% cut to all other federal
programs</a>.
 That's a 30% cut to the [National Institutes of Health],
opioid addiction and mental health treatment, housing assistance,
child care and child nutrition, law enforcement and public safety,
science and innovation, and veteran assistance programs."

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Republicans_are_not_patriotic)
title: Republicans are not patriotic
uri: Republicans-are-not-patriotic
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Republicans_are_not_patriotic)
content:
 
<p>

Robert Reich: *Don’t let
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/dont-let-republicans-claim-the-mantle">Republicans claim the mantle of patriotism</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Fishing_to_extinction)
title: Fishing to extinction
uri: Fishing-to-extinction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Fishing_to_extinction)
content:
 
<p>

An article begs us to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/16/they-became-overnight-colombias-shark-fishing-ban-turns-locals-into-criminals">sympathize with the artisanal fishers</a>
of Colombia,
who catch endangered sharks.

I do not sympathize.  Preventing extinction must take precedence over
jobs.  The opposite conclusion, combined with human population growth,
leads certainly to ecological disaster.
<p>
Of course, putting and end to larger-scale fishing of protected
species has higher priority.  With that achieved, will there be room
for a little artisanal fishing of tollo sharks while still enabling
their population to recover?  That is a factual question and Colombia
should act according to the answer.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Spy_balloons_are_normal)
title: Spy balloons are normal
uri: Spy-balloons-are-normal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Spy_balloons_are_normal)
content:
 
<p>

Spying on other countries, not limited to potential enemies, is normal
practice.  The Chinese spy balloon was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/16/china-spy-balloon-states-standoff-international">not a reason to go postal</a>.

I think it is unfortunate that the US does not have a way to force
down a balloon without damaging it.

<p>
 


title: Citizenship revocation as punishment
uri: Citizenship-revocation-as-punishment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Citizenship_revocation_as_punishment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Citizenship_revocation_as_punishment)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/16/israel-votes-to-strip-citizenship-from-arabs-convicted-of-terrorism">Israel revokes citizenship for Palestinians convicted</a>
of certain crimes,
making them stateless.
<p>
Some Arabs say that Israel should do the same thing to Jews who commit
those crimes.  I think that is backwards: it is wrong to make loss of
citizenship a punishment.
<p>
The tyrant of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/16/ortega-regime-strips-nicaraguans-citizenship">Nicaragua has revoked the citizenship of dissidents</a>
and
political opponents.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Keeping_protests_nonviolent)
title: Keeping protests nonviolent
uri: Keeping-protests-nonviolent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Keeping_protests_nonviolent)
content:
 
<p>
The prosecutor in Memphis was elected for criminal justice reform.  He
decided to release the video of Tyre Nichols's killing quickly, and to
charge the killers before that, so as to keep protests nonviolent.
That succeeded.  Here is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/17/steve-mulroy-district-attorney-interview-memphis-tyre-nichols">an interview with him</a>.
<p>
He has set an example to judge other prosecutors against.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Virtual_coup,_UK)
title: Virtual coup, UK
uri: Virtual-coup-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Virtual_coup,_UK)
content:
 
<p>

Starmer's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/17/keir-starmer-jeremy-corbyn-left-labour-party">exclusion of the left from running for parliament</a>
is
effectively a coup, as well as the direct contradiction of commitments
he made when he ran for leader of Labour.

In the US, progressive can win election via the (generally
plutocratist) Democratic Party because it can't simply veto them from
running in Democratic primaries.  The plutocratists push <a href="/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#1_August_2016_(Personal_details_in_leaked_emails)">hard against
    them</a>, even dishonestly;
nonetheless, in each election, the number of progressive Democrats in
Congress increases.  In the UK, apparently, such an approach inside
the Labour Party is impossible now because its leaders have the
centralized power to exclude them.
<p>
I can't judge the election strategy questions, but in terms of the the
competition between parties, it is clear that Corbyn should move to
the Green Party if it will accept him.  Appealing for Starmer to
relent would be a dead end; as long as they lock out any new left
candidates, Corbyn would be nothing but an aging token, with no chance
of inspiring anyone else.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Trans_rapist_scare)
title: Trans rapist scare
uri: Trans-rapist-scare
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Trans_rapist_scare)
content:
 
<p>

One example of a male trans-woman convicted of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/17/transgender-prison-row-heightens-safety-fears-in-scotlands-lgbtq-community">rape has inspired
disproportionate fear</a>
among women, and licensed hatred by
antitransists, which in turn provokes fear among trans people.
<p>
It is an unfortunate social breakdown; is there any way to unbreak this egg?

 


title: Urgent: Call on Amazon to eliminate plastic packaging
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Amazon-to-eliminate-plastic-packaging
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Amazon_to_eliminate_plastic_packaging)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Amazon_to_eliminate_plastic_packaging)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Amazon to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53464">eliminate plastic packaging</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Insist that incineration is not recycling
uri: Urgent-Insist-that-incineration-is-not-recycling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Urgent:_Insist_that_incineration_is_not_recycling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Urgent:_Insist_that_incineration_is_not_recycling)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: <a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=52265">insist that incineration is not recycling</a>.
<p>
Here is the message I entered:

<blockquote>
The plastics industry and the American Chemistry Council are pushing
legislation to reclassify incineration as "advanced recycling."

That a dishonest statement to excuse a dishonest policy -- specifically
to evade the Clean Air Act laws that regulate incinerators.  It would
not avoid the air pollution, only close the law's eyes to it.

Please reject denial-ism and adopt policies to reduce the production of
plastic.
</blockquote>

 


title: Urgent: Call on Congress to pass the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Congress-to-pass-the-Billionaire-Minimum-Income-Tax
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_pass_the_Billionaire_Minimum_Income_Tax)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_pass_the_Billionaire_Minimum_Income_Tax)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-congress-act-to-pass-the-billionaire-minimum-income-tax">pass the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax</a>.

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


 


title: Urgent: Call on Senate to reject plan to defund IRS
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Senate-to-reject-plan-to-defund-IRS
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Senate_to_reject_plan_to_defund_IRS)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Senate_to_reject_plan_to_defund_IRS)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-senate-reject-house-republicans-plan-to-defund-the-irs-and-protect-wealthy-and-corporate-tax-cheats">reject the Republican plan to defund the IRS and protect wealthy and corporate tax cheats</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Amazon to negotiate with workers' union
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Amazon-to-negotiate-with-workers-union
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Amazon_to_negotiate_with_workers'_union)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Amazon_to_negotiate_with_workers'_union)

content:
 
<p>

  Everyone, call on Amazon to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-amazon-come-to-the-table-with-amazon-labor-union-2">negotiate with its workers' labor union</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(The_collateral_murder_video)
title: The "collateral murder" video
uri: The-collateral-murder-video
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(The_collateral_murder_video)
content:
 
<p>

The "collateral murder" video is important not only because it shows
US soldiers cheerfully shooting Iraqi civilians, but because <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/collateral-murder-julian-assange">it showed
    that the Pentagon's description of the events was false</a>.
<p>
The US wants to imprison Julian Assange for showing the public that
video along with other facts about what the US did in its wars.
Please show your support for him.
<p>
Preventing Assange's extradition will not by itself eliminate the
long-term danger to freedom of the press in the US.  That calls for
overturning or amending the Espionage Act so that it recognizes that
publishing secrets about government crimes is not "spying", because
the American public is not a foreign power.  But defending Assange
will be a step towards that vital change.

 


title: Questionnaires filled out by students for a for-profit company
uri: Questionnaires-filled-out-by-students-for-a-for-profit-company
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Questionnaires_filled_out_by_students_for_a_for-profit_company)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Questionnaires_filled_out_by_students_for_a_for-profit_company)

content:
 
<p>

Seattle (and nearby towns)' school systems <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/king-county-program-to-help-at-risk-students-could-jeopardize-privacy/">asked thousands of students
    age 10 to 12 to fill out intimate questionnaires</a>, collected from the
students by a for-profit company.
<p>
The article disregards, of course, the injustice of leading students
to run nonfree software.  The author is not aware of that underlying
issue which affects all school computing.  See <a href="https://gnu.org/education">https://gnu.org/education/</a>.
<p>
The US government criterion for whether anonymized data that is
"identifiable" is too lax.  Even if a "a reasonable person in the
school community" could not determine who a record is about, very
likely Google or Palantir could.
<p>
There is another side to this issue.  Students entered information
about important personal problems such as using drugs and bullying.
Offering the students no help wouldn't be a good alternative.
What is the right way to offer such students help with proper
confidentiality?

 


title: Protests against Netanyahu's authoritarian plans
uri: Protests-against-Netanyahu-s-authoritarian-plans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Protests_against_Netanyahu's_authoritarian_plans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Protests_against_Netanyahu's_authoritarian_plans)

content:
 
<p>

The protests against Netanyahu's authoritarian plans for Israel have
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/18/israeli-spring-protests-netanyahu-leave-palestinian-citizens-in-the-cold">not made a compromise</a> with Arab citizens, so those are staying away.

 


title: Reusing medical implants taken from corpses
uri: Reusing-medical-implants-taken-from-corpses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Reusing_medical_implants_taken_from_corpses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Reusing_medical_implants_taken_from_corpses)

content:
 
<p>

  There is a foofaraw about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/18/romanian-doctors-face-investigation-over-reuse-of-implants-from-corpses">reusing medical implants taken from corpses</a>.
<p>
What are the important issues here?

<ul>
<li> Is it safe to reuse medical implants from a corpse?
Might it carry germs?  What criteria should be tested?>

<li> Can doctors verify that the implant is in good condition
and will last long enough?

<li> Does it contain a computer <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">running nonfree software</a>?
(That would be an injustice.)

</ul>
<p>
However, the issue of "permission" should not arise &mdash; no more for the
deceased's implants than for per organs.  Their only important use
(aside from studying them for research) is to be put into another
person and help that person stay alive.  No one should have the power
to veto that life-saving use.

 


title: Senator Scott modified drastic proposal to cancel federal law after 5 years
uri: Senator-Scott-modified-drastic-proposal-to-cancel-federal-law-after-5
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Senator_Scott_modified_drastic_proposal_to_cancel_federal_law_after_5_years)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Senator_Scott_modified_drastic_proposal_to_cancel_federal_law_after_5_years)

content:
 
<p>

  Senator Scott has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/17/politics/rick-scott-medicare-social-security-plan/index.html">modified his drastic proposal</a> to cancel each federal
law after 5 years, exempting Social Security, Medicare, and the whole
military budget.
  It would still cancel many other crucial federal programs if the
Republicans could block them from being passed again, so it would
still be a disaster.  Consider the Voting Rights Act (what the Supreme
Court has not gutted).

 


title: Student data on requests for gender expression medical treatments
uri: Student-data-on-requests-for-gender-expression-medical-treatments
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Student_data_on_requests_for_gender_expression_medical_treatments)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Student_data_on_requests_for_gender_expression_medical_treatments)

content:
 
<p>

  Many Florida universities have <a href="https://www.insider.com/ron-desantis-trans-college-students-medical-records-florida-medical-care-2023-2">sent Governor DeMentis data</a> on
students' requests for gender expression medical treatments.  Students
are campaigning to demand that the other universities not send any.
<p>
I use the term "gender expression medical treatments" as a name which
describes the treatments in question without presupposing any opinion
or judgment about them.

 


title: March in Dublin to support refugees
uri: March-in-Dublin-to-support-refugees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(March_in_Dublin_to_support_refugees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(March_in_Dublin_to_support_refugees)

content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/ireland-refugees-march">Tens of Thousands March in Dublin to Support Refugees.</a>*

 


title: Federal order bars Starbucks from firing for Union activity
uri: Federal-order-bars-Starbucks-from-firing-for-Union-activity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Federal_order_bars_Starbucks_from_firing_for_Union_activity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Federal_order_bars_Starbucks_from_firing_for_Union_activity)

content:
 
<p>

*Nationwide Federal Order <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/starbucks-firing-union-workers">Bars Starbucks From Firing Workers for Union
    Activity</a>.*
<p>
I wonder what this order will do to Starbucks to stop it from
disregarding the order and firing workers for union activity
just as it has done until now.

 


title: Treatment of China's arrested protesters and human rights lawyers
uri: Treatment-of-China-s-arrested-protesters-and-human-rights-lawyers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Treatment_of_China's_arrested_protesters_and_human_rights_lawyers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Treatment_of_China's_arrested_protesters_and_human_rights_lawyers)

content:
 
<p>

  How China's arrested <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/18/detained-activist-fears-missing-zero-covid-protesters-china-ding-jiaxi">protesters and human rights lawyers are treated</a>.

 


title: Ohio spill is much bigger disaster than people realize
uri: Ohio-spill-is-much-bigger-disaster-than-people-realize
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Ohio_spill_is_much_bigger_disaster_than_people_realize)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Ohio_spill_is_much_bigger_disaster_than_people_realize)

content:
 
<p>

Steven Donziger: The Ohio spill of carcinogenic, toxic vinyl chloride
is a much <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/18/ohio-train-derailment-biden-east-palestine">bigger disaster than people realize</a>; the gas will spread,
and due to the fire, we don't know what chemicals it contains.
The <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> is doing more to cover up the nature of the problem than to
protect people.  He urges everyone to keep away from the area.
<p>
He points to the need to give the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> the power to punish large companies
enough that it hurts, so that it can take charge and protect public safety
rather than a company's profits.
<p>
*East Palestine Residents Told Water Was Safe After <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/east-palestine-ohio-water">"Sloppy" Testing
    Paid for by Rail Company</a>.*
<p>
We should take the response to train accidents out of the railroads'
hands, and have the NTSB do it &mdash; then tax the railroads to pay the
costs.

 


title: Modi's model of violent Hindu nationalism
uri: Modi-s-model-of-violent-Hindu-nationalism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Modi's_model_of_violent_Hindu_nationalism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Modi's_model_of_violent_Hindu_nationalism)

content:
 
<p>

Arundhati Roy: *Modi's model is at last revealed for what it is:
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/18/narendra-modi-hindu-nationalism-india-gautam-adani">violent Hindu nationalism underwritten by big business</a>.*

 


title: Price increases of US egg producers
uri: Price-increases-of-US-egg-producers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Price_increases_of_US_egg_producers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Price_increases_of_US_egg_producers)

content:
 
<p>

Elizabeth Warren and Katie Porter accuse the big US egg producers of
using the price increase caused by bird flu as a smokescreen for
an additional raise in prices just because <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/warren-porter-egg-prices">they want to gouge</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: EPA to regulate neonicotinoid
uri: 2023-02-22-Urgent-EPA-to-regulate-neonicotinoid
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(Urgent:_EPA_to_regulate_neonicotinoid)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#19_February_2023_(Urgent:_EPA_to_regulate_neonicotinoid)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> to regulate
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53268&supporter_KEY=229474&utm_source=salsa&utm_medium=email&tag=email_blast:116845&utm_campaign=AME4-FCNS:WILDLIFE:BEES-1222&utm_content=EM9:03C:0HH-AAP">neonic-coated seeds as pesticides</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(New_article)
title: New article
uri: 2023-02-23-New-article
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(New_article)
content:
 
<p>
Political article: <a href="/how-us-can-close-guantanamo-prison.html">How the US Can Close Guantanamo Prison</a>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: sick leave pay for rail workers
uri: Urgent-sick-leave-pay-for-rail-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Urgent:_sick_leave_pay_for_rail_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Urgent:_sick_leave_pay_for_rail_workers)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to issue an executive order that
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/rail_workers_sick_leave_2023/?t=1001&akid=30380%2E96703%2Elh-vjn">guarantees the rail workers the sick leave pay they deserve</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Urgent:_No_transit_asylum_ban)
title: Urgent: No transit asylum ban
uri: Urgent-No-transit-asylum-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Urgent:_No_transit_asylum_ban)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-president-biden-no-transit-asylum-ban-2?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-coalition-on-human-needs&source=2023TransitBan_CHN">not to try to reimpose the wrecker's ban on
giving asylum to people who migrated through some other country</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(False_tax_fraud_accusations)
title: False tax fraud accusations
uri: False-tax-fraud-accusations
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(False_tax_fraud_accusations)
content:
 
<p>
Modi's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/16/the-guardian-view-on-indias-tax-raid-on-the-bbc-modi-v-the-media">tax fraud accusations against the BBC</a> are likely to be a fabrication.
<p>
He has a history of using accusations of tax fraud to <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/22/india-raids-media-companies-critical-of-government">crush news media
that criticize him</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Homelessness_from_earthquakes)
title: Homelessness from earthquakes
uri: Homelessness-from-earthquakes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Homelessness_from_earthquakes)
content:
 
<p>
In Syria and Turkey, the earthquakes have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/20/thousands-dead-millions-displaced-the-earthquake-fallout-in-turkey-and-syria">left millions of people homeless</a>.
I would expect most of them have no food.  How can the world provide food
for them?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Plutocracy)
title: Plutocracy
uri: 2023-02-23-Plutocracy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Plutocracy)
content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich comments on how <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/jimmy-carter-democratic-capitalism">plutocracy defeated Jimmy Carter</a>.
<p>
We should not forget <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#18_September_2015_(Reagan's_deal_with_Iran)">Reagan's scheming with Iran to keep
make Carter fail in making a deal to free the US embassy hostages</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Tar_sands_railroad)
title: Tar sands railroad
uri: Tar-sands-railroad
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Tar_sands_railroad)
content:
 
<p>
A planned merger of two giant railroads would <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/13/canadian-pacific-kansas-city-southern-merger-tar-sands-texas">facilitate moving tar
sands oil by train</a>.
<p>
Tar sands oil is <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#27_September_2016_(Tar_sands_mining)">highly polluting</a>
and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#07_May_2015_(Keystone_1_pipeline_corrosion)">corrosive</a>;
we must not allow it to be transported in any fashion.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Israel_colonies)
title: Israel colonies
uri: 2023-02-23-Israel-colonies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Israel_colonies)
content:
 
<p>
Israel's government "legalized" several <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/settlements-in-israel">colonies in Palestinian
territory, that were made in violation of Israel's laws</a>.  In effect,
it says that Palestinians have no rights -- Israelis can steal land
and the government will say "Well done."

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Pakistan_on_edge_of_collapse)
title: Pakistan on edge of collapse
uri: Pakistan-on-edge-of-collapse
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Pakistan_on_edge_of_collapse)
content:
 
<p>
Pakistan is <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/02/12/pakistan-economy-crisis-imf/">on the edge of collapse</a> -- economic collapse, political
collapse, and climate collapse.  Since it has nuclear weapons, it is hard
to tell what would happen in the event of such a collapse.

<p>
 


title: Menstruation questions removed from medical form
uri: Menstruation-questions-removed-from-medical-form
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Menstruation_questions_removed_from_medical_form)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Menstruation_questions_removed_from_medical_form)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/health/florida-high-school-sports-menstruation-questions-meeting/index.html">Florida High School Athletic Association removes all questions about
menstruation</a> from required medical evaluation form.*
<p>
People suspect that the requirement for women athletes to answer those
questions was part of a Republican scheme to cause trouble for women:
either for those who are trans, or for those who get pregnant, or
for those who have abortions.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Climate_feedback_loops)
title: Climate feedback loops
uri: Climate-feedback-loops
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Climate_feedback_loops)
content:
 
<p>
*Scientists warn of <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/979326">many dangerous climate feedback loops</a>.
Current plans to mitigate climate change may be inadequate.*
<p>
In total, the researchers identified 27 amplifying (positive)
feedbacks, 7 dampening (negative) feedbacks, and 7 uncertain
feedbacks.
<p>
Only fools would depend on precisely how far we are from the climate
cliff.  The wise thing to do is to work harder to stop us before we
find out the hard way.

<p>
 


title: Ancient stolen jewels sent to Cambodia
uri: Ancient-stolen-jewels-sent-to-Cambodia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Ancient_stolen_jewels_sent_to_Cambodia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Ancient_stolen_jewels_sent_to_Cambodia)

content:
 
<p>
Ancient Khmer jewelry from the Angkor period still exists, and was
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/21/stolen-trove-of-angkor-crown-jewels-returned-to-cambodia-after-resurfacing-in-london">stolen in Cambodia</a>.  The US has sent it back to Cambodia.
<p>
I hope that those returning these objects will photograph them first
and post the photos for all to see.  It would be an outrageous
wrong to treat works a thousand years old as copyrighted.

<p>
 


title: (Satire) Deregulation success story
uri: (Satire)-Deregulation-success-story
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_((Satire)_Deregulation_success_story)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_((Satire)_Deregulation_success_story)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Officials Champion Ohio Train Derailment As <a href="https://www.theonion.com/officials-champion-ohio-train-derailment-as-deregulatio-1850119896">Deregulation
Success Story</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.

<p>
 


title: Buttigieg pretending to be powerless
uri: Buttigieg-pretending-to-be-powerless
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Buttigieg_pretending_to_be_powerless)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Buttigieg_pretending_to_be_powerless)

content:
 
<p>
*Buttigieg <a href="https://www.levernews.com/email/b8a6c665-a455-4faa-bcec-d7b2db00e906/?ref=lever-daily-newsletter&attribution_id=63ed6d91f00de8003ddf307c&attribution_type=post">Pretends He's Powerless</a> To Reduce Derailment Risks.*
<p>
The article explains that there are some wrinkles, but there are ways
around them for some cases.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Wage_theft_on_the_rise)
title: Wage theft on the rise
uri: Wage-theft-on-the-rise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Wage_theft_on_the_rise)
content:
 
<p>
*Wage theft, security issues and health problems on the rise after AT&T,
Verizon and T-Mobile <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/16/labor-conditions-wireless-carriers-att-verizon-tmobile">outsource retail stores</a>.*
<p>
There should be strict limits on outsourcing jobs to a subcontractor
in the absence of real competition.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Adopt stronger safety rules
uri: Urgent-Adopt-stronger-safety-rules
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Urgent:_Adopt_stronger_safety_rules)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Urgent:_Adopt_stronger_safety_rules)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Transportation Secretary Buttigieg to <a href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/petition_2023_rail_safety/?source=e230215_2019-fin-rest&amount=10&tandembox=show&t=1001&akid=84564%2E636740%2EAH-vEK">adopt
stronger safety rules</a>.

<p>
 


title: Republicans and initiative petitions
uri: Republicans-and-initiative-petitions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Republicans_and_initiative_petitions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Republicans_and_initiative_petitions)

content:
 
<p>
Republicans in many US states are proposing bills to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/ballot-initiatives-republicans">restrict citizens'
ability to pass initiative petitions</a>.
<p>
Once they have seized the power to rig a state's elections of officials,
initiative petitions are the citizens only way to take back control from
the Republican tyranny and restore some democracy.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Social Security Expansion Act of 2023
uri: Urgent-Social-Security-Expansion-Act-of-2023
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Urgent:_Social_Security_Expansion_Act_of_2023)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Urgent:_Social_Security_Expansion_Act_of_2023)

content:
 
<p>
Endorse the <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/become-a-grassroots-co-sponsor-of-the-social-security-expansion-act-of-2023?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-social-security-works&source=group-social-security-works">Social Security Expansion Act of 2023</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(India's_former_vibrant_media)
title: India's former vibrant media
uri: India-s-former-vibrant-media
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(India's_former_vibrant_media)
content:
 
<p>
*India enjoyed a free and vibrant media. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/19/india-enjoyed-a-free-and-vibrant-media-narendra-modis-brazen-attacks-are-a-catastrophe">Narendra Modi's brazen
attacks are a catastrophe</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Machine_learning_for_injustices)
title: Machine learning for injustices
uri: Machine-learning-for-injustices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Machine_learning_for_injustices)
content:
 
<p>
Here's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/18/from-retail-to-transport-how-ai-is-changing-every-corner-of-the-economy">a cheery list of possible commercial applications for machine
learning systems</a> (referred to in the article as "AI").  How many
injustices, real or probable, can you spot
<p>
Here's a hint: <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#18_January_2023_(Right_to_repair,_John_Deere)">John Deere tractors</a>, famous for being designed to make
their "owners" helpless to fix them independently, collect data about
parts of the field, and can use them to improve efficiency of
production.  John Deere keeps that data, so this becomes yet another
way of subjugating users (farmers, in the case).
<p
As this illustrates, all the moral issues of subjugating users that
apply in general to nonfree software and to online dis-services apply
to machine learning systems as they apply to other technology.
<p>
Professor Sussman, who works on artificial intelligence at MIT,
reminds us that machine learning systems are no smarter than
Dissociated Press.  He reserves the term "artificial intelligence"
for systems that understand what they are talking about and know what
the facts are.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Race-based_society,_Australia)
title: Race-based society, Australia
uri: Race-based-society-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#23_February_2023_(Race-based_society,_Australia)
content:
 
<p>

Australia once again has a legal system which makes
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/19/all-i-know-is-australia-indigenous-man-left-in-immigration-detention-for-more-than-three-years">distinctions
between people based on race</a>.
 Ironically, those of indigenous descent
are first-class Australians this time, and the descendants of
immigrants from the past 250 years are the second-class Australians.
<p>
Australia, and the people who defend this policy, do not use those
terms, of course.  But that shoe fits the policy.  The practice of
capitalizing the words "indigenous" and "aboriginal" underlines the
kind of distinction between these classes.
<p>
The British colonists (mainly convicts who were sent there as
punishment) took the land by force, and killed many aboriginals in the
process.  Then they set up a society in which indigenous people were
systematically denied most or all of the rights of citizenship.  This
persisted until the late 20th century.
<p>
Justice calls for compensation for those wrongs &mdash; but not by creating
inequality of rights once again.
<p>
I agree that the way Kuster is being treated is unjust.  However,
dividing Australians into first and second class is not the only way
Australia can change its legal system to correct that.
<p>
One possible solution would be to generalize this new right so as to
be applcable to all people whose background is associated with
Australia &mdash; not solely to people whose background is indigenous.
<p>
Another solution that would apply to Kuster is suggested by the issue
that the US DACA program partially addresses: people who were brought
t the US as children and grew up there but are not citizens.  They
should have a way to become citizens.  Australia should have such a
policy too, and that would make Kuster a citizen.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#22_February_2023_(Race-based_society,_Australia)
title: Race-based society, Australia
uri: 2023-02-23-Race-based-society-Australia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#22_February_2023_(Race-based_society,_Australia)
content:
 
<p>

Australia once again has a legal system which makes
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/19/all-i-know-is-australia-indigenous-man-left-in-immigration-detention-for-more-than-three-years">distinctions
between people based on race</a>.
 Ironically, those of indigenous descent
are first-class Australians this time, and the descendants of
immigrants from the past 250 years are the second-class Australians.
<p>
Australia, and the people who defend this policy, do not use those
terms, of course.  But that shoe fits the policy.  The practice of
capitalizing the words "indigenous" and "aboriginal" underlines the
kind of distinction between these classes.
<p>
The British colonists (mainly convicts who were sent there as
punishment) took the land by force, and killed many aboriginals in the
process.  Then they set up a society in which indigenous people were
systematically denied most or all of the rights of citizenship.  This
persisted until the late 20th century.
<p>
Justice calls for compensation for those wrongs &mdash; but not by creating
inequality of rights once again.
<p>
I agree that the way Kuster is being treated is unjust.  However,
dividing Australians into first and second class is not the only way
Australia can change its legal system to correct that.
<p>
One possible solution would be to generalize this new right so as to
be applicable to all people whose background is associated with
Australia &mdash; not solely to people whose background is indigenous.
<p>
Another solution that would apply to Kuster is suggested by the issue
that the US DACA program partially addresses: people who were brought
t the US as children and grew up there but are not citizens.  They
should have a way to become citizens.  Australia should have such a
policy too, and that would make Kuster a citizen.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#22_February_2023_(Economics_of_machine_learning)
title: Economics of machine learning
uri: Economics-of-machine-learning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#22_February_2023_(Economics_of_machine_learning)
content:
 
<p>

The Guardian's economics editor can see that
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/18/the-ai-industrial-revolution-puts-middle-class-workers-under-threat-this-time">machine learning systems
can eliminate millions of fairly good jobs</a>,
forcing millions to join
other millions in dead-end poverty.
<p>
But he won't look for solutions outside the narrow capitalist system.
Trying to train people for better jobs won't do any good if the better
jobs are disappearing too.
<p>
For the next few decades, we might make a lot more good jobs:
construction work to replace our carbon-dependent systems, and medical
jobs to care for increasing numbers of old and infirm.  Those jobs
need to be funded by the public &mdash; which implies adding more socialism
to our society.
<p>
In the long term, to quote a man who spoke at a meeting in Cambridge
decades ago, "If the robots make it, we gotta take it!"  We must tax
the rich and give every person a decent life.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#22_February_2023_(Justice_for_the_masses)
title: Justice for the masses
uri: Justice-for-the-masses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#22_February_2023_(Justice_for_the_masses)
content:
 
<p>

People who are frantic will propose widepread mistreatment to deal
with occasional injustices.  Here is an example:
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/17/fiance-killed-bolt-car-gig-economy-workers-rights">to protect gig ride
drivers from robberies</a>
(which occasionally escalate into killings) by
requiring every passenger to prove per identity with an official
document.
<p>
A person whose SO has been killed by criminals can easily demand a
massive system of injustice to reduce such crimes.  Even, as in this
example, to demand it as an afterthought added to other measures that
ought to be sufficient by themselves.
<p>
A person in that situation can lose sight of the enormity of the
demand <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a> is making on millions of others.
<p>
One of the main injustices of gig ride dis-services as they are today
&mdash; one of the reasons that they merit the term "dis-services" &mdash; is
tracking passengers: they require passengers to identify themselves by
using cell phones and payment cards.  Apparently robbers have a way to
avoid being tracked; what can it be?  Perhaps they steal phones and
payment cards to use for this.  That is not an option for a
law-abiding person; our only way to protect ourselvss from tracking
dis-services is to <em>reject them entirely</em>.
<p>
But even though these dis-services are unjust already, changes in
practices that make the tracking more strict and pervasive are
important to fight against.  Please join in.

<p>
 


title: Billionaires' playbook, sports stadiums
uri: Billionaires-playbook-sports-stadiums
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#22_February_2023_(Billionaires'_playbook,_sports_stadiums)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#22_February_2023_(Billionaires'_playbook,_sports_stadiums)

content:
 
<p>

Robert Reich explains how
<a href="https://invidio.us/watch?v=vLkyULxrWiE">billionaires use sports teams</a>
to strongarm
our governments to subsidize teams and dump the cost on the public.
<p>
If your city's stadium is named after a big company, that shows that
its government was bought.  Is your government still for sale
nowadays?

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Sound_pollution,_sea_mining)
title: Sound pollution, sea mining
uri: Sound-pollution-sea-mining
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Sound_pollution,_sea_mining)
content:
 
<p>

*Paper calls for assessment of impact of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/14/deep-sea-mining-noise-poses-harm-blue-whales-scientists-warn">sound pollution on cetaceans</a>
 before firms allowed to mine sea bed.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Overfishing_tactic,_UK)
title: Overfishing tactic, UK
uri: Overfishing-tactic-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Overfishing_tactic,_UK)
content:
 
<p>

*London ship insurers accused of enabling fishing vessels to "go
dark",* turning off their tracking devices,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/14/london-ship-insurers-accused-of-enabling-fishing-vessels-to-go-dark">probably to fish</a>
in
territorial waters or in protected zones.

<p>
 


title: US Culture war, a facade for Fascism
uri: US-Culture-war-a-facade-for-Fascism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(US_culture_war,_a_facade_for_Fascism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(US_culture_war,_a_facade_for_Fascism)

content:
 
<p>

*Banning ideas and authors is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/13/african-american-studies-republican-ban-florida">not a "culture war" &mdash; it's fascism</a>.*
<p>
This explains the purpose and operation of DeMentis's censorship law
in a way I have not seen before.  I did not know the work of the
authors that were removed from the AP African American studies course;
this article explains the significance of their work and the
systematic purpose of censoring them.
<p>
In the past, we could count on the Supreme Court to reject censorship
laws.  I have no confidence in the right-wingers who have captured it
to reject the new ones.
<p>
Nonetheless, to teach that a person is guilty of past crimes committed
by others due to sharing their demographic characteristics is itself
an injustice, a form of oppression.  It is also unnecessary, if the
goal is to teach people to recognize the wrong and reject it.  Young
Americans are not guilty of the crimes of previous generations, but
could easily fall into a life of similar crimes.
<p>
We should teach about those past crimes, not to inculcate a feeling of
guilt into those who "look like" those who committed them, but to show
them what they _might_ become if they are not careful.  Instead of
teaching, "You were born guilty of that," we should teach, "Watch out
&mdash; you could become guilty of that.  Right-wing extremists such as
DeMentis would be glad to get you started."
<p>
I wish the artlcle were not marred by showing the fashionable symbol
of left-wing bigotry: capitalizing the word "black" and not "white".

<p>
 


title: US Culture war, facade for Fascism
uri: US-Culture-war-facade-for-Fascism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(US_Culture_war,_facade_for_Fascism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(US_Culture_war,_facade_for_Fascism)

content:
 
<p>

*Banning ideas and authors is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/13/african-american-studies-republican-ban-florida">not a "culture war" &mdash; it's fascism</a>.*
<p>
This explains the purpose and operation of DeMentis's censorship law
in a way I have not seen before.  I did not know the work of the
authors that were removed from the AP African American studies course;
this article explains the significance of their work and the
systematic purpose of censoring them.
<p>
In the past, we could count on the Supreme Court to reject censorship
laws.  I have no confidence in the right-wingers who have captured it
to reject the new ones.
<p>
Nonetheless, to teach that a person is guilty of past crimes committed
by others due to sharing their demographic characteristics is itself
an injustice, a form of oppression.  It is also unnecessary, if the
goal is to teach people to recognize the wrong and reject it.  Young
Americans are not guilty of the crimes of previous generations, but
could easily fall into a life of similar crimes.
<p>
We should teach about those past crimes, not to inculcate a feeling of
guilt into those who "look like" those who committed them, but to show
them what they _might_ become if they are not careful.  Instead of
teaching, "You were born guilty of that," we should teach, "Watch out
-- you could become guilty of that.  Right-wing extremists such as
DeMentis would be glad to get you started."
<p>
I wish the artlcle were not marred by showing the fashionable symbol
of left-wing bigotry: capitalizing the word "black" and not "white".

<p>
 


title: March in Madrid to "Defend the Health Service"
uri: 2023-02-25-March-in-Madrid-to-Defend-the-Health-Service
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(March_in_Madrid_to_Defend_the_Health_Service)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(March_in_Madrid_to_Defend_the_Health_Service)

content:
 
<p>

  *Hundreds of Thousands <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/madrid-healthcare-protest">March in Madrid to 'Defend the Health Service'</a>
 From Privatization.*
<p>
The Spanish medical system is national in scope, and the government of
Madrid can't change its structure, but seems to be running it into the
ground much as the Tories do in the UK.

 


title: Rail workers new train in derailment was dangerous
uri: Rail-workers-new-train-in-derailment-was-dangerous
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Rail_workers_new_train_in_derailment_was_dangerous)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Rail_workers_new_train_in_derailment_was_dangerous)

content:
 
<p>

*Rail Workers Say They <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/88qze4/32-nasty-rail-workers-say-they-knew-the-train-that-derailed-in-east-palestine-was-dangerous">Knew the Train That Derailed in East
    Palestine[, Ohio,] Was Dangerous</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Test_of_4_day_work_week_in_UK)
title: Test of 4 day work week in UK
uri: Test-of-4-day-work-week-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Test_of_4_day_work_week_in_UK)
content:
 
<p>

  A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/feb/21/four-day-week-uk-trial-success-pattern">test of a 4-day work week</a> in the UK: out of 61 companies that tried it,
56 decided to continue it.

 


title: Biden to try imposing same restrictions on asylum seekers that the bully did
uri: Biden-to-try-imposing-same-restrictions-on-asylum-seekers-that-the-bul
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Biden_to_try_imposing_same_restrictions_on_asylum_seekers_that_the_bully_did)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Biden_to_try_imposing_same_restrictions_on_asylum_seekers_that_the_bully_did)

content:
 
<p>

  Biden will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/21/us-mexico-border-immigration-joe-biden-donald-trump">try to impose the same extreme restrictions</a> on asylum seekers that
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a> tried to impose.
<p>
Lawsuits blocked the policy before, but that doesn't mean it will
happen again.  The case could go to the Supreme Court, which now has
more members appointed by <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bully">the bully</a>.

 


title: Seattle banned discrimination based on caste
uri: Seattle-banned-discrimination-based-on-caste
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Seattle_banned_discrimination_based_on_caste)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Seattle_banned_discrimination_based_on_caste)

content:
 
<p>

  Seattle has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/21/seattle-ban-caste-based-discrimination">banned discrimination on the basis of caste</a>.
<p>
This is important.  As the population of Indians in the US increases,
their traditional bigotry, and their modern organized bigotry (led by
India's ruling party, the Hindu nationalist party), have been gaining in
influence.


 


title: Biden implored to block new Texas gulf oil terminals
uri: Biden-implored-to-block-new-Texas-gulf-oil-terminals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Biden_implored_to_block_new_Texas_gulf_oil_terminals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Biden_implored_to_block_new_Texas_gulf_oil_terminals)

content:
 
<p>

*Biden Implored to Avert "Carbon Bomb" by <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/sea-port-oil-terminal">Blocking [construction of
    new] Texas Gulf Oil Terminals</a>.*

 


title: EPA orders Norfolk Southern to clean up contamination from train crash
uri: EPA-orders-Norfolk-Southern-to-clean-up-contamination-from-train-crash
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(EPA_orders_Norfolk_Southern_to_clean_up_contamination_from_train_crash)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(EPA_orders_Norfolk_Southern_to_clean_up_contamination_from_train_crash)

content:
 
<p>

  *<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> Orders Norfolk Southern to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/epa-norfolk-southern-cleanup">Clean Up Contamination</a> From Ohio Train
 Crash.*

 


title: Lobbyists persuaded senators to allow old brakes instead of modern brakes
uri: Lobbyists-persuaded-senators-to-allow-old-brakes-instead-of-modern-bra
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Lobbyists_persuaded_senators_to_allow_old_brakes_instead_of_modern_brakes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Lobbyists_persuaded_senators_to_allow_old_brakes_instead_of_modern_brakes)

content:
 
<p>

  How railroad lobbyists <a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/02/21/east-palestine-rail-safety-congress/">persuaded senators</a> to let the railroads keep
using old-fashioned brakes instead of superior modern breaks.

 


title: Sanders proposed to block US aid to Israel
uri: Sanders-proposed-to-block-US-aid-to-Israel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Sanders_proposed_to_block_US_aid_to_Israel)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Sanders_proposed_to_block_US_aid_to_Israel)

content:
 
<p>

  Sanders proposed to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/sanders-withhold-aid-israel">block US aid to Israel</a> because of its
anti-democratic moves and its increasing repression of Palestinians.

 


title: Biden urged not to approve oil terminals
uri: Biden-urged-not-to-approve-oil-terminals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Biden_urged_not_to_approve_oil_terminals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Biden_urged_not_to_approve_oil_terminals)

content:
 
<p>

  *Biden urged <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/21/joe-biden-oil-terminals-texas-carbon-bombs-fossil-fuels">not to approve oil terminals</a> that could create ‘carbon bombs’.*

 


title: Extra food benefits in US set to expire
uri: Extra-food-benefits-in-US-set-to-expire
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Extra_food_benefits_in_US_set_to_expire)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Extra_food_benefits_in_US_set_to_expire)

content:
 
<p>

  *Hunger Cliffs Looms in US With <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/food-snap-benefits-expire-covid">Extra Food Benefits Set to Expire</a>.*

 


title: Supreme court justices to Congress on abortion views
uri: Supreme-court-justices-to-Congress-on-abortion-views
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Supreme_court_justices_to_Congress_on_abortion_views)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Supreme_court_justices_to_Congress_on_abortion_views)

content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/supreme-court-justices-lie-abortion">Did Five Supreme Court Justices Lie to Congress About Abortion Views?</a>*
It looks that way.

 


title: UN torture prevention body cancel visit to Australia
uri: UN-torture-prevention-body-cancel-visit-to-Australia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(UN_torture_prevention_body_cancel_visit_to_Australia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(UN_torture_prevention_body_cancel_visit_to_Australia)

content:
 
<p>

  *UN torture prevention body <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/21/un-torture-prevention-body-cancels-visit-to-australia-after-access-to-facilities-blocked">cancels visit to Australia</a> after access to
facilities blocked.*

 


title: Stronger El Niño events may speed up melting of Antarctic ice
uri: Stronger-El-Niño-events-may-speed-up-melting-of-Antarctic-ice
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Stronger_El_Niño_events_may_speed_up_melting_of_Antarctic_ice)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#24_February_2023_(Stronger_El_Niño_events_may_speed_up_melting_of_Antarctic_ice)

content:
 
<p>

  *Stronger El Niño events may <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/21/stronger-el-nino-events-may-speed-up-irreversible-melting-of-antarctic-ice-research-finds">speed up irreversible melting</a> of Antarctic ice,
research finds.*

<p>
 


title: Urgent: US citizens: call for Windfall Profit Tax
uri: Urgent-US-citizens-call-for-Windfall-Profit-Tax
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Urgent:_US_citizens:_call_for_Windfall_Profit_Tax)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Urgent:_US_citizens:_call_for_Windfall_Profit_Tax)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call for the US to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/record-breaking-profits-big-oil-shows-we-need-windfall-profit-tax/?t=1010">adopt a Windfall Profit Tax</a>
to respond to record-breaking profits for Big Oil.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Congress to fund universal school meals
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Congress-to-fund-universal-school-meals
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_fund_universal_school_meals)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_fund_universal_school_meals)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-congress-fund-universal-school-meals-now">fund universal school meals</a>.

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

 


title: Turkey fines broadcasters for coverage critical of earthquake response
uri: Turkey-fines-broadcasters-for-coverage-critical-of-earthquake-response
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Turkey_fines_broadcasters_for_coverage_critical_of_earthquake_response)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Turkey_fines_broadcasters_for_coverage_critical_of_earthquake_response)

content:
 
<p>

  *Turkey <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/23/turkey-fines-broadcasters-for-coverage-critical-of-earthquake-response">fines broadcasters</a> for coverage critical of earthquake response
[by Turkey's government].*

 


title: Former Arizona attorney general withheld evidence debunking 2020 election fraud
uri: Former-Arizona-attorney-general-withheld-evidence-debunking-2020-elect
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Former_Arizona_attorney_general_withheld_evidence_debunking_2020_election_fraud)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Former_Arizona_attorney_general_withheld_evidence_debunking_2020_election_fraud)

content:
 
<p>

  *Former attorney general in [Arizona] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/22/arizona-attorney-general-2020-election-vote-fraud-maricopa-county">withheld evidence</a> debunking 2020
election fraud [claims by <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter's</a> followers].*

 


title: Methane from Australian coal and gas higher than estimated
uri: Methane-from-Australian-coal-and-gas-higher-than-estimated
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Methane_from_Australian_coal_and_gas_higher_than_estimated)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Methane_from_Australian_coal_and_gas_higher_than_estimated)

content:
 
<p>

  *Methane from Australian coal and gas could be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/23/methane-from-australian-coal-and-gas-could-be-60-higher-than-estimated">60% higher than estimated</a>.*

 


title: Extremist killing last year linked to rightwing extremism
uri: Extremist-killing-last-year-linked-to-rightwing-extremism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Extremist_killing_last_year_linked_to_rightwing_extremism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Extremist_killing_last_year_linked_to_rightwing_extremism)

content:
 
<p>

*   Anti-Defamation League says all extremist killings last year <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/23/us-mass-killings-extremism-anti-defamation-league">linked to
    rightwing extremism</a> and a high number to white supremacy.*

 


title: Corpse fetishism spreading to Europe
uri: Corpse-fetishism-spreading-to-Europe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Corpse_fetishism_spreading_to_Europe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Corpse_fetishism_spreading_to_Europe)

content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/23/trinity-college-dublin-to-return-skulls-stolen-from-inishbofin">Corpse fetishism is spreading to Europe</a>.  The inhabitants of an island
demanded "return" of skulls of medieval monks, which they claimed had
been "stolen" by academics doing research.
<p>
The worst part is, the university which had them gave in to the
demand.
<p>
If this sort of fetishism were applied to older remains &mdash; as some
wish to do &mdash; all our remnants of Neanderthal humans would be lost to
science, each bone "returned" to someone or other.
<p>
Imagine if that had happened 30 years ago.  We would have been denied
the chance to determine that the Neanderthals were among our ancestors
and were the same species as we.
<p>
The only way human remains can contribute to the world, to the good of
present and future humans, is by being studied scientifically.  The
old bones have more to teach us.  We should not let anyone's fetishism
interfere.

 


title: Norfolk Southern railroad negotiating about paid sick leave
uri: Norfolk-Southern-railroad-negotiating-about-paid-sick-leave
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Norfolk_Southern_railroad_negotiating_about_paid_sick_leave)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Norfolk_Southern_railroad_negotiating_about_paid_sick_leave)

content:
 
<p>

Norfolk Southern railroad has yielded to public criticism for its
avoidable derailment by <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/norfolk-southern-paid-sick-leave">starting to negotiate about paid sick leave</a>.
<p>
The workers deserve that, but meanwhile, the rest of the country
deserves safe trains.

 


title: Americans moving due to early stages of climate breakdown
uri: Americans-moving-due-to-early-stages-of-climate-breakdown
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Americans_moving_due_to_early_stages_of_climate_breakdown)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Americans_moving_due_to_early_stages_of_climate_breakdown)

content:
 
<p>

Millions of Americans have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/23/us-climate-crisis-housing-migration-natural-disasters">compelled to move by the early stages of
    climate breakdown</a>.
  In the future it is likely to be tens of millions, and many of them will
die early as a result.
<p>
But most of them will desperately seek housing in places they can
survive, and they will find shortages everywhere, because of bad planning
of housing construction.
<p>
A few weeks ago I passed through the "Seaport District" in Boston,
where expensive new skyscrapers are being built at an absurdly low
altitude above sea level.  You can see this for yourself since you can
look at the buildings and the sea together.  What public funds will
the owners demand for protection against the danger they brought on
themselves?

 


title: Lawyer argues fetus victim of "unlawful and illegal detention"
uri: Lawyer-argues-fetus-victim-of-unlawful-and-illegal-detention
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Lawyer_argues_fetus_victim_of_unlawful_and_illegal_detention)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Lawyer_argues_fetus_victim_of_unlawful_and_illegal_detention)

content:
 
<p>

A lawyer argues in a Florida court that a fetus is the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/23/florida-lawyer-jailed-pregnant-woman-fetal-personhood-reproductive-rights">victim of
    "unlawful and illegal detention"</a> because the pregnant mother-to-be
is in jail.
<p>
I think the lawyer aims to demonstrate that it is absurd to treat a
fetus as a person.
<p>
To continue the absurdity, the same argument could be applied to
confining a fetus to a single womb.

 


title: Making spreading of election misinformation a crime
uri: Making-spreading-of-election-misinformation-a-crime
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Making_spreading_of_election_misinformation_a_crime)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Making_spreading_of_election_misinformation_a_crime)

content:
 
<p>

Some US officials propose to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/23/us-spreading-election-misinformation-illegal">make it a crime to spread election
    misinformation</a>.
<p>
In an abstract sense, that could be legitimate and useful, but I can
easily envision Republicans' using this law against people who tell
the truth.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Recycling_plastic_into_fuel)
title: Recycling plastic into fuel
uri: Recycling-plastic-into-fuel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Recycling_plastic_into_fuel)
content:
 
<p>

Recycling plastic into fuel makes sense in principle, but it can
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/23/climate-friendly-us-program-plastics-fuel-cancer">release highly carcinogenic pollution</a>.
<p>
If the recycled fuel is safe, I would not criticize it for failing to
be "biofuel."  In fact, much real biofuel does not actually reduce
emissions, because of the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/frozen-afghan-funds">fertilizer used to grow the plants</a>.

 


title: "Forever chemicals found at high levels across UK and Europe
uri: Forever-chemicals-found-at-high-levels-across-UK-and-Europe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Forever_chemicals_found_at_high_levels_across_UK_and_Europe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Forever_chemicals_found_at_high_levels_across_UK_and_Europe)

content:
 
<p>

*   Pollutants known as "forever chemicals"&hellip; have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/23/revealed-scale-of-forever-chemical-pollution-across-uk-and-europe">found at
    high levels</a> at thousands of sites across the UK and Europe,*

 


title: UK undercover cops that infiltrated nonviolent left-wing protest groups
uri: UK-undercover-cops-that-infiltrated-nonviolent-left-wing-protest-group
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(UK_undercover_cops_that_infiltrated_nonviolent_left-wing_protest_groups)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(UK_undercover_cops_that_infiltrated_nonviolent_left-wing_protest_groups)

content:
 
<p>

The UK undercover cops that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/21/endemic-sexism-in-met-police-led-to-undercover-deception-inquiry-told">infiltrated nonviolent left-wing protest
    groups</a> by forming phony couples acted from an ingrained and systemic
attitude of sexism.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Cambridge_University_eateries)
title: Cambridge University eateries
uri: Cambridge-University-eateries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Cambridge_University_eateries)
content:
 
<p>

Cambridge University students <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/feb/21/cambridge-university-students-vote-for-completely-vegan-menus">voted in favor of making all eateries on campus
    vegan</a>.
<p>
They did not request more support for vegan students.  On the
contrary, the request is to make it difficult for other students not
to be vegan.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Revisions_in_Roald_Dahl's_books)
title: Revisions in Roald Dahl's books
uri: Revisions-in-Roald-Dahl-s-books
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Revisions_in_Roald_Dahl's_books)
content:
 
<p>

The revisions in Roald Dahl's books go much further than removing
insults.  They seem to try to impose <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/21/opinions/roald-dahl-revisions-reinforce-prejudice-thomas-ctrp/index.html">new taboos on some words and
    some ideas</a>.

 


title: Funds seized from Bank of Afghanistan
uri: Funds-seized-from-Bank-of-Afghanistan
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Funds_seized_from_Bank_of_Afghanistan)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#25_February_2023_(Funds_seized_from_Bank_of_Afghanistan)

content:
 
<p>

A US court ruled that the relatives of people killed by the September
2001 terrorist attacks <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/frozen-afghan-funds">cannot take the funds that were seized from the
    Bank of Afghanistan</a>.  Those funds belong to the Afghan people.

 


title: Nuclear treaty pullout tactic, US
uri: Nuclear-treaty-pullout-tactic-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Nuclear_treaty_pullout_tactic,_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Nuclear_treaty_pullout_tactic,_US)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/22/putin-biden-us-nuclear-new-start-treaty-russia-ukraine">Putin aiming to divide US</a>
public opinion with nuclear treaty pullout,
experts say.*
<p>
It's more of what we've seen several times: "I'm a lunatic with
nuclear weapons, so do whatever I say!"

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Caste_system_digs_commedians)
title: Caste system digs commedians
uri: Caste-system-digs-commedians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Caste_system_digs_commedians)
content:
 
<p>

Indian Dalits are becoming successful in India as
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/feb/22/whos-laughing-now-the-dalit-comedians-punching-up-against-indias-caste-system">comedians in the teeth</a>
of caste prejudice.
<p>
I watched a few minutes of Manaal Patil's show on invidio.us (a proxy
for Youtube, which I cannot access directly because it requires users
to run nonfree software).  He made me laugh.  I would have watched the
rest but I have to work.

<p>
 


title: Environmental protesters charged, UK
uri: Environmental-protesters-charged-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Environmental_protesters_charged,_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Environmental_protesters_charged,_UK)

content:
 
<p>

The UK charges environmental protesters with "causing a public nuisance",
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/22/climate-activist-criminals-heroes-truth">then forbids them in court from explaining</a>
why this "crime" was necessary
for the public good.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Jail_deaths_probe)
title: Jail deaths probe
uri: Jail-deaths-probe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Jail_deaths_probe)
content:
 
<p>

*Poor People's Campaign, Families Demand DOJ Probe of
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/southern-regional-jail">Over 100 West
Virginia Jail Deaths</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Unjust_wars,_US)
title: Unjust wars, US
uri: Unjust-wars-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Unjust_wars,_US)
content:
 
<p>

The US has done nothing to hold Dubya accountable for using lies to start
<a href="https://mailchi.mp/nader/the-20th-anniversary-of-the-sociocide-of-iraq-u5ipl4lszo?e=555e9be067">an unjust war</a>
by attacking Iraq.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Immigration_obstacles,_US)
title: Immigration obstacles, US
uri: Immigration-obstacles-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Immigration_obstacles,_US)
content:
 
<p>

Biden's new
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2023/feb/23/joe-biden-immigration-policy-trump">rules for asylum</a>
&mdash; which directly contradict US law &mdash; seem
like they were inspired by the wrecker.

People have noticed the hardship imposed by requiring each applicant
to carry a snoop-phone that can run a special nonfree app.  They have
noticed the monetary hardship caused by the price of getting such a
phone plus internet access.  I have nothing to add to those valid
points.  But I do notice other injustices, which are common in the form
of computing that the US demands of them.
<p>
Such a phone is full of unjust nonfree software, and the app is
nonfree also.  Any nonfree program is inherently an injustice to
whoever runs it, and is likely to be malware.  That app does facial
recognition.  I wonder what other malicious functionalities it
implements.
<p>
I conjecture that there is no need at all for that facial recognition.
If a migrant gets an appointment to meet with a human agent, the agent
can check the migrant's identity against <a href="/glossary.html#perse">per</a>
papers then.
<p>
It would not be terribly hard for the US to set up kiosks in various
parts of Mexico where people can do the required communication knowing
that a kiosk has no ability to snoop on them through their own
computers, or mess with them in any other way.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Ohio_toxic_train_wreck,_blame)
title: Ohio toxic train wreck, blame
uri: Ohio-toxic-train-wreck-blame
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Ohio_toxic_train_wreck,_blame)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/22/donald-trump-toxic-train-derailment-east-palestine-ohio">Trump’s environmental rollbacks</a>
in focus on visit to Ohio toxic train site.*
<p>
That's because some of them contributed directly to this accident.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(US_support_for_Israel)
title: US support for Israel
uri: US-support-for-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(US_support_for_Israel)
content:
 
<p>

Biden said that he gives Israel total support in its confrontation
with Iran.  Since Israel is on the brink of war with Iran, in effect
this says
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-biden-war-iran">the US is willing to join</a>
in that war.
<p>
That risks disaster.  It could even start a nuclear war.
<p>
I doubt that Iranians who have protested since last fall will declare
themselves enemies of their country; I think it is more likely to
unite them with the regime.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Israeli_forces_raid_Nablus)
title: Israeli forces raid Nablus
uri: Israeli-forces-raid-Nablus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Israeli_forces_raid_Nablus)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/10-palestinians-killed-nablus">An Israeli raid on Nablus</a>
killed 10 Palestinians and injured over 100.
Many were noncombattants.
<p>
The occasion for this bloody attack was that two Palestinians accused
of belonging to a real terrorist group were at that location.
That can't justify attacking so many.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Lawsuit_against_FBI)
title: Lawsuit against FBI
uri: Lawsuit-against-FBI
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Lawsuit_against_FBI)
content:
 
<p>

Malcolm X’s family to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/22/malcolm-x-sue-fbi-nypd-assassination">sue FBI, NYPD and other agencies</a>
for covering up
information about his assassination.

 


title: Grassroots revolt crushed, Florida
uri: Grassroots-revolt-crushed-Florida
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Grassroots_revolt_crushed,_Florida)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#21_February_2023_(Grassroots_revolt_crushed,_Florida)

content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#dementis">DeMentis</a> passed a law to negate local democracy in Florida
to help an exploitative 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/02/18/deconstructed-podcast-the-villages-florida/">local scheme succeed.</a>
<p>
I consider this a kind of corruption.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Programs
uri: Urgent-Medicaid-and-the-Children-s-Health-Insurance-Programs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Urgent:_Medicaid_and_the_Children's_Health_Insurance_Programs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Urgent:_Medicaid_and_the_Children's_Health_Insurance_Programs)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and call on per to continue
full support for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Ohio train derailment was preventable
uri: Ohio-train-derailment-was-preventable
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Ohio_train_derailment_was_preventable)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Ohio_train_derailment_was_preventable)

content:
 
<p>
The NTSB said that the Ohio train derailment was "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/24/ohio-toxic-train-derailment-preventable-biden-criticism-east-palestine">100% preventable</a>"
and that it was the fault of company practices and policies.
<p>
Railroad workers <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/rail-workers-demand-reforms-to-prevent-derailments">propose several precautions for the US to require for
railroads</a>.
<p>
They include

<ul>

<li>Ensure sufficient staffing to do the job properly, efficiently,
and safely, with all trains operating with a minimum of a two-person
crew;

<li>Cap train length and weight at a reasonable level to mitigate the
increased likelihood of breakdowns, train separations, and
derailments;

<li>Implement adequate and proper maintenance and inspections of
locomotives and rail cars, tracks and signals, wayside detectors, and
other infrastructure; and

<li>Standardize ample training and time off without the harassment of
draconian attendance policies.

</ul>

Perhaps we should require a safety inspection for each train car
after a certain number of hours of operation.

<p>
 


title: Italy arrests refugee rescue ship
uri: Italy-arrests-refugee-rescue-ship
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Italy_arrests_refugee_rescue_ship)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Italy_arrests_refugee_rescue_ship)

content:
 
<p>
Italy has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/rescue-ship-detained-italy">arrested a refugee rescue ship</a> operated by M&eacute;decins Sans
Frontiers, trying to impose artificial requirements that make it
essentially impossible to operate such ships.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Michigan_rivers_fish_not_safe)
title: Michigan rivers fish not safe
uri: Michigan-rivers-fish-not-safe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Michigan_rivers_fish_not_safe)
content:
 
<p>
Fish caught in Michigan rivers are not safe to eat, due to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/24/pfas-michigan-rivers-fish-study">the levels
of PFAS contamination</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(DeWine's_railroad_ties)
title: DeWine's railroad ties
uri: DeWine-s-railroad-ties
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(DeWine's_railroad_ties)
content:
 
<p>
Ohio governor DeWine has <a href="https://www.levernews.com/r/5a03285e?m=a1296444-4385-46f7-b56f-c5acabd34844">so much ties to the railroads</a> that one must
wonder whether he is serious when he talks about holding them responsible
for the vinyl chloride leak.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Roald_Dhal_books)
title: Roald Dhal books
uri: Roald-Dhal-books
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Roald_Dhal_books)
content:
 
<p>
The original versions of Roald Dahl's books <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/24/roald-dahl-publisher-announces-unaltered-16-book-classics-collection">will continue to be published</a>,
alongside the new supersensitive versions.
<p>
I think this is a good compromise.

<p>
 


title: Ex-Wall Street executive to lead World Bank
uri: Ex-Wall-Street-executive-to-lead-World-Bank
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Ex-Wall_Street_executive_to_lead_World_Bank)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Ex-Wall_Street_executive_to_lead_World_Bank)

content:
 
<p>
*'Biden and Yellen Should Be Ashamed': <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-wall-street-world-bank">US Picks Ex-Wall Street
Executive to Lead World Bank</a>.*
<p>
Biden seems to be moving further into the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> camp.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Earliest_spring_on_record)
title: Earliest spring on record
uri: Earliest-spring-on-record
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Earliest_spring_on_record)
content:
 
<p>
*Parts of US see earliest spring conditions on record: '<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/24/early-spring-us-climate-change-record">Climate
[disaster] playing out in real time</a>'.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(State-wide_medical_database)
title: State-wide medical database
uri: State-wide-medical-database
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(State-wide_medical_database)
content:
 
<p>
Australians: demand to be allowed to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/23/victorian-ama-seeks-to-allay-privacy-concerns-as-lower-house-passes-contentious-health-database-bill">refuse to have your personal
medical records stored in a state-wide database</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Military_budget_cut_proposal)
title: Military budget cut proposal
uri: Military-budget-cut-proposal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Military_budget_cut_proposal)
content:
 
<p>
*Reps. Barbara Lee and Mark Pocan proposed a bill to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/lee-pocan-people-over-pentagon">cut the military
budget by $100 Billion</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Climate_lawsuit)
title: Climate lawsuit
uri: 2023-02-27-Climate-lawsuit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Climate_lawsuit)
content:
 
<p>
*Groups Launch <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/climate-lawsuit-commercial-bank">World's First-Ever Climate Lawsuit</a> Against a Commercial
Bank [for funding fossil fuel projects].*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Factionalism_in_Labour)
title: Factionalism in Labour
uri: Factionalism-in-Labour
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Factionalism_in_Labour)
content:
 
<p>
A Jewish member of the Labour Party <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/feb/23/a-plea-against-factionalism-in-labour">objects to Labour's propensity to
brand Jews as "antisemitic."</a>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Putin_and_Twitter)
title: Putin and Twitter
uri: Putin-and-Twitter
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Putin_and_Twitter)
content:
 
<p>
Putin's fake news machine is <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/22/2154365/-Twitter-s-sale-of-blue-checks-is-enabling-spread-of-Kremlin-aligned-disinformation">buying special promotion on Twitter</a>.
<p>
Musk has made his support for Putin clear enough already.

<p>
 


title: Pay to find out you can't have an appointment
uri: Pay-to-find-out-you-can-t-have-an-appointment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Pay_to_find_out_you_can't_have_an_appointment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Pay_to_find_out_you_can't_have_an_appointment)

content:
 
<p>
The US cheats would-be visitors by making them pay to schedule a visa
appointment, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/feb/23/a-bonkers-us-rule-brands-me-a-terrorist-because-of-a-cuba-passport-stamp">only then showing them that no appointments are
available and that they can't get a refund for the useless payment</a>.
<p>
The article describes various other absurd restrictions that the
author encountered when he sought to go to the US to join a boat race
to Cuba.  But proving that those restrictions are absurd is a subtler
question.  To show that "Pay to find out that you can't have an
appointment" is viciously absurd is open-and-shut.

<p>
 


title: Twitter gave two-factor authentication numbers for targeted ads
uri: Twitter-gave-two-factor-authentication-numbers-for-targeted-ads
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Twitter_gave_two-factor_authentication_numbers_for_targeted_ads)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Twitter_gave_two-factor_authentication_numbers_for_targeted_ads)

content:
 
<p>
Twitter gave advertisers the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/twitter-says-it-mistakenly-used-phone-numbers-for-security-for-targeted-ads/">phone numbers users had specified for two-factor
authentication</a>, and advertisers used them to identify the users.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Tories_and_asylum_applications)
title: Tories and asylum applications
uri: Tories-and-asylum-applications
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Tories_and_asylum_applications)
content:
 
<p>
The Tories' plan to handle the growing backlog in asylum applications
is to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/23/questionnaires-for-uk-asylum-seekers-could-have-devastating-impact">give applicants 20 days to answer a questionnaire in legal
English</a>, without legal advice or translation help, and no chance of
clarifying errors.
<p>
I'm tempted to joke that this seems designed to fail.  Alas, with
Tories involved, I have a feeling it is precisely true.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Cr...app_car)
title: Cr...app car
uri: Cr-app-car
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Cr...app_car)
content:
 
<p>
A new "luxury" car will <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/22/business/mercedes-e-class-zoom-tiktok/index.html">come equipped to load various nonfree software
cr&hellip;apps</a>.
<p>
Some of them will distract the driver by showing video.  Don't use that
while the car is moving!
<p>
Since the car has a camera that faces the people in the car, and it is
controlled by nonfree software, I expect that sooner or later the
car's delivered software will make use of that against those people's
interests and will, and they will be unable to stop it.

<p>
 


title: Google's response to a Canadian bill
uri: Google-s-response-to-a-Canadian-bill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Google's_response_to_a_Canadian_bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Google's_response_to_a_Canadian_bill)

content:
 
<p>
Google is considering how to respond to a Canadian bill that would
require Google and other platforms to <a href="https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/google-tests-blocking-news-content-for-some-canadians-in-response-to-government-bill/article_de5307dc-b498-585e-a762-535ac0757d13.html">negotiate deals with Canadian
publishers for permission to retransmit their articles</a>.  One possible
approach would be to refuse to carry the articles covered by this law.
Google has decided to show Canadians what that would feel like, by
making all those articles unavailable to some Canadian users.
<p>
I have no opinion on whether this law would do good or harm.  If it
only restricts giant companies such as Google, I don't see anything
outrageous about it.
<p>
Ms Scaffidi's comment uses misleading words.  The law does not require
Google to do anything for the <em>journalists</em> who write news articles
Google retransmits.  Rather, it requires Google to make a deal with
the <em>news publishers</em> that the journalists submit articles to.  That
may wall entail paying those publishers more money, but how much of
that would trickle down to human journalists is a question to be
investigated.
<p>
If Canada dropped the trickle-down plans and changed this law to
directly support individual journalists, not only news businesses,
I would support it more.
<p>
Please don't refer to these news articles as "<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content">content</a>" -- that term
disparages all works of writing and art.

<p>
 


title: Car pollution kills more than crashes
uri: Car-pollution-kills-more-than-crashes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Car_pollution_kills_more_than_crashes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#26_February_2023_(Car_pollution_kills_more_than_crashes)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/24/car-pollution-kills-more-australians-than-crashes-do-new-research-finds">Car pollution kills more Australians than crashes</a>, new research finds.*  Indeed, pollution seems to kill 10 times as many as crashes.
<p>
It would be interesting to see a comparison based on the total number
of years of life lost to each cause.
<p>
I am also curious about similar comparisons for other countries, in
particular the US.

<p>
 


title: TV and literature, monetizing stunts
uri: TV-and-literature-monetizing-stunts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(TV_and_literature,_monetizing_stunts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(TV_and_literature,_monetizing_stunts)

content:
 
<p>
The endless round of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/26/updating-roald-dahl-same-old-story-david-mitchell">sequels, offshoots, remakes</a>
and "modernizations"
is a system for magecorporations to keep on extracting money with old
"properties" whose authors died many years ago.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal and Transparency Act
uri: Urgent-Supreme-Court-Ethics-Recusal-and-Transparency-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Urgent:_Supreme_Court_Ethics,_Recusal_and_Transparency_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Urgent:_Supreme_Court_Ethics,_Recusal_and_Transparency_Act)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/scotus-ethics-act-john-roberts/?t=1001&akid=30394%2E96703%2EFjQUNj">pass the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal
and Transparency Act</a>.
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>
<p>
  That's to put an end to <a href="/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#19_March_2022_(US_Supreme_Court_is_corrupt)">corruption</a>
  that we have <a href="/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#9_April_2022_(Right-wing_radicals_on_US_Supreme_Court)">plenty of evidence</a>
  of.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
uri: Urgent-John-R-Lewis-Voting-Rights-Advancement-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Urgent:_John_R._Lewis_Voting_Rights_Advancement_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Urgent:_John_R._Lewis_Voting_Rights_Advancement_Act)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-congress-pass-the-john-lewis-voting-rights-advancement-act?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-coalition-on-human-needs&source=direct_link">pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights
Advancement Act</a>.
<p>
This bill by itself is not enough to protect voting rights.
A few years ago there was <a href="/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#26_June_2021_(Voting_rights_bill)">another voting rights bill</a>
to do the rest.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Ban partisan gerrymandering
uri: Urgent-Ban-partisan-gerrymandering
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Urgent:_Ban_partisan_gerrymandering)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Urgent:_Ban_partisan_gerrymandering)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-ban-partisan-gerrymandering?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-the-people-united&source=group-the-people-united">Ban Partisan Gerrymandering</a>.

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

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Public_funds_abuse,_Moderna)
title: Public funds abuse, Moderna
uri: Public-funds-abuse-Moderna
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Public_funds_abuse,_Moderna)
content:
 
<p>
The US government accepted
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/moderna-nih-agreement-vaccine">a lump sum payment</a>
from Moderna for use
of US-government-funded technology.
  That's a tiny fraction of Moderna's
increased price for the Covid-19 vaccine.
<p>
For the government to accept this was dereliction of duty.  The US
government had the <a href="/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#13_November_2021_(Patent_Obstacles)">duty to make Moderna</a>
allow vaccine production
world-wide,
  and it didn't try.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Mass_extinction,_a_study)
title: Mass extinction, a study
uri: Mass-extinction-a-study
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Mass_extinction,_a_study)
content:
 
<p>
An ecosystem can collapse abruptly when the last species fulfilling
some crucial role disappears from it.  This is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/24/ecosystem-collapse-wildlife-losses-permian-triassic-mass-extinction-study">likely to happen</a>
in
many places during this century.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Israeli_schemes,_US_ambassador)
title: Israeli schemes, US ambassador
uri: Israeli-schemes-US-ambassador
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Israeli_schemes,_US_ambassador)
content:
 
<p>
*Former US
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/24/former-us-ambassador-accuses-israel-creeping-annexation-west-bank-israel-palestinians">ambassador accuses Israel</a>
of "creeping annexation" of the
 West Bank.*
  Plus breaking a former agreement with the US.

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/israeli-annexation">More</a>
about this.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Official_censorship,_coverups)
title: Official censorship, coverups
uri: Official-censorship-coverups
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Official_censorship,_coverups)
content:
 
<p>
India had an opposition politician arrested for "insulting the prime
minister" (Modi).  The "insult" was
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/24/india/modi-comment-opposition-politician-arrest-reactions-intl-hnk/index.html">a quip that suggested</a>
that Modi and
the coal magnate Gautam Adani were somehow the same person.
<p>
Prosecuting people for insulting officials is an attack on human
rights, whether in India, in France, or any other country.  <a href="/archives/2012-mar-jun.html#04_March_2012_(Censorship)">Modi, je
te vois!</a>
<!--[pol note about the prosecution of the Frenchman who said, "Sarkozi,  je te vois !"]-->

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Public_funding_justice)
title: Public funding justice
uri: Public-funding-justice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Public_funding_justice)
content:
 
<p>
*Moderna's "Deadly" Profits Show Public Funding
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/moderna-profits-public-funding">Must Have Strings Attached</a>.*
<p>
The US used to attach strings to research funding -- all discoveries
made by university research done with government funding had to be
made available for the government to use as it saw fit.  This was
eliminated by the Bayh-Dole bill, which sought to convince universities
to be aggressive about licensing whatever they can get control over.
<p>
That's why nowadays writing software for a university is usually
almost as bad as working writing software for a company.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Inflation_and_class_division)
title: Inflation and class division
uri: Inflation-and-class-division
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Inflation_and_class_division)
content:
 
<p>
Wage increases account for 18% of Australia's inflation.  Increases in
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/24/an-economic-fairytale-australias-inflation-being-driven-by-company-profits-and-not-wages-analysis-finds">business profits</a>
account for 69% of it.
<p>
In Australia as in the US and Britain, the central bank is run by
neoliberals who refuse to recognize these facts.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Surveillance_as_desperation)
title: Surveillance as desperation
uri: Surveillance-as-desperation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Surveillance_as_desperation)
content:
 
<p>
Someone's sweetheart was killed by robbers while driving a gig taxi.
To prevent such things from happening again, perse calls for imposing
surveillance on millions of customers,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/17/fiance-killed-bolt-car-gig-economy-workers-rights">in case one might be a thief</a>.
<p>
Of course we would like to stop these robberies, but massive
surveillance is itself a bigger injustice.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(GMO_corn,_glyphosate,_and_Mexico)
title: GMO corn, glyphosate, and Mexico
uri: GMO-corn-glyphosate-and-Mexico
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(GMO_corn,_glyphosate,_and_Mexico)
content:
 
<p>
Mexico is trying to end the use of genetically modified corn and
the the weedkiller glyphosate.  The US is applying
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/statement-on-u-s-intervention-in-mexicos-phaseout-of-genetically-engineered-corn">harsh pressure
to prevent this</a>.
<p>
In effect, the US is once again acting as
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/mexico-gmo-corn-ban">the tool of specific big
businesses</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Ohio_toxic_train_wreck,_blame)
title: Ohio toxic train wreck, blame
uri: 2023-02-28-Ohio-toxic-train-wreck-blame
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Ohio_toxic_train_wreck,_blame)
content:
 
<p>
The vinyl chloride spill from Norfolk Southern's preventable train
wreck is part of the consequences of our massive
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/our-reliance-on-fossil-fuels-and-plastic-caused-the-east-palestine-disaster">use of plastic</a>.
  Its costs &mdash; in lives and hundreds of millions of dollars -- are part
of the cost of plastic, which the plastic manufacturers don't have to pay.
Instead, we all pay.

<p>
 


title: TV and literature, monitizing stunts
uri: TV-and-literature-monitizing-stunts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(TV_and_literature,_monitizing_stunts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(TV_and_literature,_monitizing_stunts)

content:
 
<p>
The endless round of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/26/updating-roald-dahl-same-old-story-david-mitchell">sequels, offshoots, remakes</a>
and "modernizations"
is a system for magecorporations to keep on extracting money with old
"properties" whose authors died many years ago.

<p>
 


title: Antisemitism about Lehman Brothers
uri: Antisemitism-about-Lehman-Brothers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Antisemitism_about_Lehman_Brothers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Antisemitism_about_Lehman_Brothers)

content:
 
<p>
A play about the history and
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/26/antisemitic-tropes-are-back-on-stage-again">failure of the Lehman Brothers bank</a>
harps on their Jewish religion in a way that fuels antisemitism.
<p>
The fundamental falsehood which introduces the antisemitism into this
story is the idea that grasping for money and disregarding the harm you
do is specifically a Jewish practice.  If we look around today, we
find many billionaires who crush large numbers of people to get more
money.  In the US, a fraction are Jews, but most are Christians.
<p>
For a while in medieval Europe, bankers were mainly Jews &mdash; simply
because Christian churches called it a sin to led money at interest.
European rulers wanted bankers, and with Christians self-excluded,
only Jews could take up the trade.  But churches dropped that rule a
few hundred years ago.  The association between banking and Jews is a
thing of the past.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Feral_pigs,_US)
title: Feral pigs, US
uri: Feral-pigs-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Feral_pigs,_US)
content:
 
<p>
Feral hybrid pigs that are hard to track, and kill wild animals,
threaten
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/20/us-threat-canada-super-pig-boar">ecological harm in the US</a>.

<p>
 


title: Journalistic repression, Bangladesh
uri: Journalistic-repression-Bangladesh
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Journalistic_repression,_Bangladesh)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Journalistic_repression,_Bangladesh)

content:
 
<p>
*Bangladesh shuts down
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/20/bangladesh-shuts-down-main-opposition-newspaper-sheikh-hasina">main opposition newspaper</a>.*
<p>
The world has been suffering from a rash of repression in the past few
years.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Gang_activity,_El_Salvador)
title: Gang activity, El Salvador
uri: Gang-activity-El-Salvador
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#27_February_2023_(Gang_activity,_El_Salvador)
content:
 
<p>

*El Salvador crackdown breaks the gangs &mdash; at
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/20/bukele-el-salvador-gangs-crackdown">huge cost</a>
to human rights.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Urgent:_Julian_Assange_rally)
title: Urgent: Julian Assange rally
uri: 2023-03-01-Urgent-Julian-Assange-rally
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Urgent:_Julian_Assange_rally)
content:
 
  <p>

    Our next rally for Julian Assange is Saturday, March 4 at 11:30 to
12:30pm.  We will gather at Park St. Station on the Boston Common to
<a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2023/03/alternative-facts-how-the-media-failed-julian-assange/">speak
out for Assange</a>
and gather signatures on our petition to our senators.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Ukrainian civil society invitation
uri: Urgent-Ukrainian-civil-society-invitation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Urgent:_Ukrainian_civil_society_invitation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Urgent:_Ukrainian_civil_society_invitation)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/go/34272?c0=biden-include-ukrainian-voices.qUiqq-&source=em20230224&t=1006&akid=8645%2E223515%2EmaZlVx">invite Ukrainian civil society to the
next steering committee meeting</a>.
<p>The White House comments lines are 
<a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.</p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Urgent:_New_Start_treaty)
title: Urgent: New Start treaty
uri: Urgent-New-Start-treaty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Urgent:_New_Start_treaty)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden not to pull out of the
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/go/34272?c0=biden-stay-in-new-start.tslys0&source=em20230222_2&t=1006&akid=8640%2E223515%2ExXbga4">New START arms
limitation treaty</a>,
   even though Putin has "suspended" it.
<p>The White House comments lines are 
<a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.</p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: East African Crud Oil Pipeline
uri: Urgent-East-African-Crud-Oil-Pipeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Urgent:_East_African_Crud_Oil_Pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Urgent:_East_African_Crud_Oil_Pipeline)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Standard Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking
Corporation
<a href="https://act.350.org/sign/smbc-stop-eacop-usa/?source=em20230222-1-30-us&akid=237213%2E1151744%2EPfPazn">not to finance the East African Crude Oil Pipeline</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Save the Bees from neonicotinoid-based pesticides
uri: Urgent-Save-the-Bees-from-neonicotinoid-based-pesticides
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Urgent:_Save_the_Bees_from_neonicotinoid-based_pesticides)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Urgent:_Save_the_Bees_from_neonicotinoid-based_pesticides)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on your U.S. senators to
<a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=5346">save the bees from
neonicotinoids</a>.
<p>The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(NPR_funding_cutbacks)
title: NPR funding cutbacks
uri: NPR-funding-cutbacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(NPR_funding_cutbacks)
content:
 
<p>
National Public Radio runs mostly on funds from corporations rather
than public funds.  Lately corporations have preferred to put their
money into stock buybacks, so they are donating less and buying less
advertising, which is causing
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/npr-layoffs-funding-public-media">big cutbacks at NPR</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Anti-mask,_NYT_piece)
title: Anti-mask, NYT piece
uri: Anti-mask-NYT-piece
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Anti-mask,_NYT_piece)
content:
 
<p>
The New York Times published an
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/new-york-times-masks-covid">"opinion" article that attacks masks</a>
by misrepresenting the conclusions of a medical study.
  Apparently the Times skipped the fact-checking on that article.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Putin_war_tactic,_disinformation)
title: Putin war tactic, disinformation
uri: Putin-war-tactic-disinformation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Putin_war_tactic,_disinformation)
content:
 
<p>
Putin put children and teenagers from Mariupol on TV so they
could thank a <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> soldier for
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/25/thats-my-neighbour-mariupol-residents-shock-at-putins-parade-line-up">"rescuing them"</a>
&hellip; from
the devastating shelling by the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>.
<p>
They didn't put 2 and 2 together in the TV presentation, and didn't
mention the relatives that were killed by the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> in
Mariupol.
<p>
It is possible that they were speaking honesty when on TV &mdash; that they had
been taught to forget how their "saviors" intentionally caused the danger
they were "saved" from.
<p>
Putin's disinformationists persistently misrepresent the situation.  I
expect that some will refer to the "gratitude" of Ukrainians "saved"
from Mariupol, citing this TV program as "proof".


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_((Satire)_US-Mexico_border_wall)
title: (Satire) US-Mexico border wall
uri: (Satire)-US-Mexico-border-wall
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_((Satire)_US-Mexico_border_wall)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *[The US] Installs
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/nation-installs-2-000-mile-long-privacy-curtain-after-m-1850101683">2,000-Mile-Long Privacy Curtain</a>
After Mexico
Sees It Naked.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Saving_on_rent)
title: Saving on rent
uri: Saving-on-rent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Saving_on_rent)
content:
 
<p>
A pro football player saved money by
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/24/sport/chad-johnson-nfl-cincinnati-bengals-spt-intl/index.html">living in his workplace</a>.
  I'm not the only one.

<p>
 


title: US Constitutional amendment to end Corporations United
uri: US-Constitutional-amendment-to-end-Corporations-United
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(US_Constitutional_amendment_to_end_Corporations_United)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(US_Constitutional_amendment_to_end_Corporations_United)

content:
 
<p>
A proposed constitutional amendment would
<a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3819814-democrats-introduce-constitutional-amendment-to-reverse-citizens-united-campaign-finance-ruling/">reverse the Corporations United
decision</a>
that allowed corporations to donate ad lib to political campaigns.
<p>
I hope to see a fuller description so I can see <a href="/archives/2017-may-aug.html#4_August_2019_(Reversing_the_Corporations_United_decision)">how this compares</a>
to the amendments previously proposed.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Abortion_rights,_mifepristone)
title: Abortion rights, mifepristone
uri: Abortion-rights-mifepristone
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Abortion_rights,_mifepristone)
content:
 
<p>
Several Democratic states have sued the FDA demanding an end to the
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/24/politics/mifepristone-abortion-lawsuit-blue-states-texas/index.html">restrictions on buying mifepristone</a>.

I basically agree, but all depends on the bizarre Republican lawsuit
that they filed before a <a href="/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#12_February_2023_(Right-wing_antiabortion_argument)">judge who is a trumpet</a>, 
in a state in the <a href="/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#5_February_2023_(Gun_ownership_for_domestic_violence)">5th circuit</a>
which is full of biased right-wing judges too.
  The suit offers that judge a chance to try to ban mifepristone nationwide,
To fix this could require massive civil disobedience.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Extreme_capitalism,_US)
title: Extreme capitalism, US
uri: Extreme-capitalism-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Extreme_capitalism,_US)
content:
 
<p>
Bernie Sanders condemns the US economic system of <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#extreme-capitalism">extreme capitalism</a>
as little better than indentured servitude, saying that many US
workers can hardly considered to have any freedom except to
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/24/opinions/bernie-sanders-capitalism-freedom-powers/index.html">choose a
different master</a>.

<p>
 


title: Battling disinformation, Royal Society
uri: Battling-disinformation-Royal-Society
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Battling_disinformation,_Royal_Society)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Battling_disinformation,_Royal_Society)

content:
 
<p>
*Covid disinformation prompts Royal Society to consider ways of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/25/from-piltdown-man-to-anti-vaxxers-what-sciences-worst-hoaxes-can-teach-us">countering forgeries and falsehoods</a>
[in science].*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Roald_Dahl_warning)
title: Roald Dahl warning
uri: Roald-Dahl-warning
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Roald_Dahl_warning)
content:
 
<p>
Roald Dahl threatened
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/25/roald-dahl-threatened-publisher-with-enormous-crocodile-if-they-changed-his-words">those who would "correct" his writing</a>
after his death
with attack by the "Enormous Crocodile".

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Jimmy_Carter_on_Israeli_apartheid)
title: Jimmy Carter on Israeli apartheid
uri: Jimmy-Carter-on-Israeli-apartheid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Jimmy_Carter_on_Israeli_apartheid)
content:
 
<p>
Jimmy Carter wrote about the injustice of
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/jimmy-carter-israeli-apartheid">Israeli apartheid in 2006</a>,
when Americans were hardly used to the idea.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Call on Congress to protect Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Congress-to-protect-Consumer-Financial-Protection-Bure
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_protect_Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_protect_Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and call on per to protect the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

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

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Crafting_an_illusion)
title: Crafting an illusion
uri: Crafting-an-illusion
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Crafting_an_illusion)
content:
 
<p>

  *"Crafting an illusion": US rail firms' <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/27/ohio-train-east-palestine-norfolk-southern-pr-push">multimillion-dollar PR push</a>.*
  The goal of the PR is to convince officials that it's good for railroads
to shift to smaller crews and that safety improvements are not needed.

 


title: UK's cancellation of citizenship as punishment
uri: UK-s-cancellation-of-citizenship-as-punishment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(UK's_cancellation_of_citizenship_as_punishment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(UK's_cancellation_of_citizenship_as_punishment)

content:
 
<p>

  The UK's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/26/the-real-scandal-of-the-shamima-begum-citizenship-case">cancellation of citizenship as a punishment for crimes</a> is an
injustice.  Doing it without even a trial to determine guilt for those
crimes is flat-out contempt for justice.
<p>
In some cases, this has the added consequence of making the
condemned-in-advance person stateless as well.  This extra affliction
and extra injustice must not distract us from the broader injustice of
cancellation of citizenship.  That is the heart of the matter; that is
what the UK must change.

 


title: Mexico considering change in policy towards asylum seekers
uri: Mexico-considering-change-in-policy-towards-asylum-seekers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Mexico_considering_change_in_policy_towards_asylum_seekers_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Mexico_considering_change_in_policy_towards_asylum_seekers_)

content:
 
<p>

  Mexico is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/24/americas/mexico-asylum-policy-intl-latam/index.html">considering a change in its policy towards asylum seekers</a>
so that they will get hit by Biden's proposed new restrictions.

 


title: Norfolk Southern's system to detect failing bearings
uri: Norfolk-Southern-s-system-to-detect-failing-bearings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Norfolk_Southern's_system_to_detect_failing_bearings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Norfolk_Southern's_system_to_detect_failing_bearings)

content:
 
<p>

Norfolk Southern's system to detect bearings in the process of failing
was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/25/us/ohio-train-derailment-bearing-vibration/index.html">set to too high a threshold</a>, so it didn't warn the crew of the
train until it was about to derail.
<p>
One could suggest that the government require railroads to generate
these warnings at a lower threshold, but the company has a response
for that: the other major US railroads are even worse.
<p>
The article talks about a possible improved detector that would detect
such problems at an earlier stage.  Perhaps that should be adopted,
once it is ready for use.  But we should require safe practices now,
and we should not accept the possibility of a technical advance as an
excuse not to do so.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Age_limits_in_Libraries_in_Texas)
title: Age limits in Libraries in Texas
uri: Age-limits-in-Libraries-in-Texas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Age_limits_in_Libraries_in_Texas)
content:
 
<p>

Libraries in Texas <a href="https://www.freerangekids.com/library-sign-police-may-be-called-if-a-child-under-15-is-not-accompanied-by-an-adult/">cannot allow children and teenagers under 15 years old
    to enter without someone older</a>.  And they threaten to call the thugs.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Visas_for_touring_UK_musicians)
title: Visas for touring UK musicians
uri: Visas-for-touring-UK-musicians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Visas_for_touring_UK_musicians)
content:
 
<p>

  The US is making visas for touring UK musicians much <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/26/bye-bye-american-pie-high-price-of-visas-keeps-british-musicians-off-us-tours">harder to get</a>.
  Most of the musicians can't afford it.

 


title: State-controlled "local government" over Disney World
uri: State-controlled-local-government-over-Disney-World
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(State-controlled_local_government_over_Disney_World)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(State-controlled_local_government_over_Disney_World)

content:
 
<p>

DeMentis's law that sets up a special state-controlled "local
government" over Disney World <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/27/florida-desantis-walt-disney-world-self-governing-district">has taken effect</a>.
<p>
At its most basic level, that law the right thing.  A company should
not have the powers of a local government.  Disney used its economic
clout to squeeze that concession from the state, and now that has been
undone.  However, normally a local government is democratic.  The
officials of this "local government" seem to be chosen by the state.
<p>
I don't believe that DeMentis seriously believes the state must not
"treat all the other theme parks differently."  On the contrary, what
he wants is arbitrary power to treat them differently, power that he
can use to bully each one for his own political purposes.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Planned_carbon_bombs_in_South_Wales)
title: Planned carbon bombs in South Wales
uri: Planned-carbon-bombs-in-South-Wales
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Planned_carbon_bombs_in_South_Wales)
content:
 
<p>

  New South Wales (a state in Australia) is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/28/eight-coal-projects-to-be-considered-by-nsw-forecast-to-add-15bn-tonnes-to-global-emissions">planning carbon bombs</a> that would
emit 1.5bn metric tons of CO2.

 


title: Infrared lights to defeat infrared cameras
uri: Infrared-lights-to-defeat-infrared-cameras
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Infrared_lights_to_defeat_infrared_cameras)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Infrared_lights_to_defeat_infrared_cameras)

content:
 
<p>

Infrared lights attached to a hoodie can <a href="https://www.macpierce.com/the-camera-shy-hoodie">reportedly defeat infrared
    cameras</a> used for tracking people on the street at night, so that they
can't follow the person that wears the hoodie.
<p>
Tracking people's movements threatens human rights, so it is good to
thwart tracking and surveillance cameras; it would be even better to
prohibit them.  By contrast, security cameras, which record their
images locally in case a crime occurs there but do not allow remote
examination, are acceptable because they do not make it feasible
to track all the non-criminals.
<p>
We should require all cameras that watch public places to be the
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">record-locally security camera type</a>.

 


title: Disagreement on whether SARS-CoV-2 spread from animals or leaked from lab
uri: Disagreement-on-whether-SARS-CoV-2-spread-from-animals-or-leaked-from
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Disagreement_on_whether_SARS-CoV-2_spread_from_animals_or_leaked_from_lab)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Disagreement_on_whether_SARS-CoV-2_spread_from_animals_or_leaked_from_lab)

content:
 
<p>

  US agencies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/27/how-seriously-should-we-take-the-us-does-covid-lab-leak-theory">disagree</a> about whether they believe that SARS-CoV-2 spread from
animals or leaked from a lab.
<p>
I don't think it makes much difference.
<p>
It is agreed that deadly viruses can spread from animals; we should
take stricter precautions to ensure that does not happen.
<p>
Since it is agreed that deadly viruses <em>can</em> leak from labs doing
research on them, then we should take stricter precautions to ensure
that does not happen.
<p>
Which of the two happened this time changes nothing.

 


title: Republicans continue proposing bills to hamper voting
uri: Republicans-continue-proposing-bills-to-hamper-voting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Republicans_continue_proposing_bills_to_hamper_voting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Republicans_continue_proposing_bills_to_hamper_voting)

content:
 
<p>

  Republicans continue feverishly <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/22/politics/restrict-voting-bills-introduced-us/index.html">proposing bills</a> to hamper voting or rig
elections.

 


title: DeMentis's latest bill to impose right-wing ideology
uri: DeMentis-s-latest-bill-to-impose-right-wing-ideology
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(DeMentis's_latest_bill_to_impose_right-wing_ideology)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(DeMentis's_latest_bill_to_impose_right-wing_ideology)

content:
 
<p>

  DeMentis's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/new-college-florida-protest-desantis-attack">latest bill</a> to impose right-wing ideology on Florida's
public universities not only prohibits teaching certain subjects, it also
eliminates tenure and will allow fascist state-controlled boards to
fire any professor for political reasons at any time.

 


title: Owner of Faux News told presenters to endorse the bullshitter's lies
uri: Owner-of-Faux-News-told-presenters-to-endorse-the-bullshitter-s-lies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Owner_of_Faux_News_told_presenters_to_endorse_the_bullshitter's_lies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Owner_of_Faux_News_told_presenters_to_endorse_the_bullshitter's_lies)

content:
 
<p>

The owner of Faux News admitted in court that he told presenters to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/feb/28/rupert-murdoch-deposition-fox-news-dominion-voting-systems">endorse
    the bullshitter's lies</a> claiming the Democrats stole the election.
<p>
This is likely to enable Dominion, a company that makes voting machines,
to win its libel suit and collect enormous damages.  Whether Faux News 
could continue to operate after that, I can't determine.  Maybe Dominion
will end up owning Faux News.

 


title: US Jewish organizations condemn pogrom carried out by fanatical Israeli racists
uri: US-Jewish-organizations-condemn-pogrom-carried-out-by-fanatical-Israel
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(US_Jewish_organizations_condemn_pogrom_carried_out_by_fanatical_Israeli_racists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(US_Jewish_organizations_condemn_pogrom_carried_out_by_fanatical_Israeli_racists)

content:
 
<p>

  Jewish organizations in the US <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/settler-violence">condemned the pogrom</a> carried out by the
fanatical Israeli racists that now control Israel's government.
<p>
In Israel, B'tselem said that the state and the army supported the
pogrom, as they have done before.  "The [fanatics] carry out the
attack, the military secures it, the politicians back it," the group
said. "It's a synergy."

 


title: Senator Scott seeks policies that attack basic human and constitutional rights
uri: Senator-Scott-seeks-policies-that-attack-basic-human-and-constitutiona
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Senator_Scott_seeks_policies_that_attack_basic_human_and_constitutional_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Senator_Scott_seeks_policies_that_attack_basic_human_and_constitutional_rights)

content:
 
<p>

*[Senator] Scott seeks to impose highly divisive and unpopular social,
 economic, and fiscal policies that would <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/rick-scott-s-gop-agenda">attack the basic human and
    constitutional rights</a> along with the well-being of millions of
 U.S. residents.*  The Republican Party agrees with him.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: East African Crude Oil Pipeline
uri: Urgent-East-African-Crude-Oil-Pipeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Urgent:_East_African_Crude_Oil_Pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#1_March_2023_(Urgent:_East_African_Crude_Oil_Pipeline)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Standard Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking
Corporation
<a href="https://act.350.org/sign/smbc-stop-eacop-usa/?source=em20230222-1-30-us&akid=237213%2E1151744%2EPfPazn">not to finance the East African Crude Oil Pipeline</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Call on Sysco to stop using single-use plastic packaging
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Sysco-to-stop-using-single-use-plastic-packaging
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Sysco_to_stop_using_single-use_plastic_packaging)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Sysco_to_stop_using_single-use_plastic_packaging)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Sysco to <a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53468">stop using single-use plastic
    packaging</a>.
<p>
If you don't run the Javascript code, the response in your browser may
be invisible unless you disable the CSS in the page.

 


title: Urgent: Put people over rail and airline corporations
uri: Urgent-Put-people-over-rail-and-airline-corporations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Urgent:_Put_people_over_rail_and_airline_corporations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Urgent:_Put_people_over_rail_and_airline_corporations)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Buttigieg to <a href="https://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/petition_2023_trains_airlines/">put people over rail and airline
    corporations</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Congress to pass the Justice In Policing Act
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Congress-to-pass-the-Justice-In-Policing-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_pass_the_Justice_In_Policing_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_pass_the_Justice_In_Policing_Act)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/justice-policing-act-2023/">pass the Justice In Policing Act</a>.

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

 


title: Urgent: Urge Senators to oppose the Willow oil drilling project
uri: Urgent-Urge-Senators-to-oppose-the-Willow-oil-drilling-project
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Urgent:_Urge_Senators_to_oppose_the_Willow_oil_drilling_project)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Urgent:_Urge_Senators_to_oppose_the_Willow_oil_drilling_project)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your senators and urge them to oppose the Willow oil drilling project in Alaska.

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

 


title: Urgent: Call on Biden to protect voting rights
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Biden-to-protect-voting-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_protect_voting_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_protect_voting_rights)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-president-biden-help-protect-democracy-and-voter-access-right-now">protect voting rights by executive order</a>.

 


title: China spends billions on pro-Russia disinformation
uri: China-spends-billions-on-pro-Russia-disinformation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(China_spends_billions_on_pro-Russia_disinformation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(China_spends_billions_on_pro-Russia_disinformation)

content:
 
<p>

  *China <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/28/china-spends-billions-on-pro-russia-disinformation-us-special-envoy-says">spends billions on pro-Russia disinformation</a>, US special envoy says.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Tennessee_thugs_sued_for_arrests)
title: Tennessee thugs sued for arrests
uri: Tennessee-thugs-sued-for-arrests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Tennessee_thugs_sued_for_arrests)
content:
 
<p>

Deportation <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> raided a factory in Tennessee and violently arrested
any non-citizens who were working there.  Those arrested <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/immigration-raid-settlement">sued and won</a>,
because the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> had no order to arrest anyone. 
<p>
It seems they exceeded their orders from sheer sadism.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(The_Derail_Act)
title: The "Derail Act"
uri: The-Derail-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(The_Derail_Act)
content:
 
<p>

  The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/derail-act-east-palestine">"Derail Act"</a> would require the US to classify trains carrying
vinyl chloride, or any other flammable gas or liquid, as
"high-hazard flammable trains".
  They would be required to have to have modern brakes, and other
precautions to avoid dangerous spills.

 


title: SUVs increase danger of being on a street
uri: SUVs-increase-danger-of-being-on-a-street
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(SUVs_increase_danger_of_being_on_a_street)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(SUVs_increase_danger_of_being_on_a_street)

content:
 
<p>

  SUVs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/28/carbon-emissions-global-suv-sport-utility-vehicles-oil-climate">increase the danger of being on a street</a>, even as they increase
greenhouse gas emissions.
<p>
ISTR reading that SUVs are built to be even more harmful because
various regulations classify SUVs as trucks rather than as cars.
<p>
I support policies to reduce the number of SUVs manufactured.
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/28/fossil-fuels-kill-more-people-than-covid-why-are-we-so-blind-to-the-harms-of-oil-and-gas">Fossil fuels kill more people than Covid</a>. Why are we so blind to the harms of
oil and gas?

 


title: Law eliminating requirement for review of potentially dangerous products
uri: Law-eliminating-requirement-for-review-of-potentially-dangerous-produc
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Law_eliminating_requirement_for_review_of_potentially_dangerous_products)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Law_eliminating_requirement_for_review_of_potentially_dangerous_products)

content:
 
<p>

  Republicans <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/house-republican-bill-would-upend-bedrock-environmental-review-law">continue to work on a law</a> to eliminate the requirement for
environmental review of potentially dangerous products.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Rise_in_human-wildlife_conflicts)
title: Rise in human-wildlife conflicts
uri: Rise-in-human-wildlife-conflicts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Rise_in_human-wildlife_conflicts)
content:
 
<p>

*Research reveals climate crisis is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/27/research-reveals-climate-crisis-is-driving-a-rise-in-human-wildlife-conflicts-aoe">driving a rise in human-wildlife conflicts</a>.*

 


title: Information about past changes in climate
uri: Information-about-past-changes-in-climate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Information_about_past_changes_in_climate)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Information_about_past_changes_in_climate)

content:
 
<p>

Information about past changes in climate is now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/27/the-big-idea-why-you-cant-leave-climate-out-of-history">revolutionizing the
    study of history</a>.

 


title: Feminism's lessons about men like the wrecker
uri: Feminism-s-lessons-about-men-like-the-wrecker
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Feminism's_lessons_about_men_like_the_wrecker)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Feminism's_lessons_about_men_like_the_wrecker)

content:
 
<p>

Rebecca Solnit: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/25/feminism-men-putin-trump-abusive-men-dictators">*Feminism taught me all I need to know about men like
    [the wrecker] and Putin.*</a>
<p>
The article shows that the violence and lies of political
authoritarians follow the same tactics as the violence and lies of
abusive husbands.

 


title: Holding conditions of US pilot in Australia
uri: Holding-conditions-of-US-pilot-in-Australia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Holding_conditions_of_US_pilot_in_Australia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Holding_conditions_of_US_pilot_in_Australia)

content:
 
<p>

Australia arrested a former US marine pilot whom the US has accused of
training Chinese pilots, who faces an extradition hearing.  While
awaiting that hearing, he is being held in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/26/daniel-duggan-wife-of-australian-pilot-accused-of-breaking-us-arms-controls-lodges-complaint-with-un-over-inhumane-conditions">cruel conditions</a> of
isolation that call to mind the imprisonment of Julian Assange.
<p>
I don't understand how training Chinese pilots, if he did that, can be
considered "arms trafficking" or "money laundering".  Either that
information is garbled, or it is some sort of newspeak.  I also don't
see how training them constitutes a crime.  It behooves the US to
explain.
<p>
It would be legitimate for the US, Australia and other countries to
prohibit their ex-pilots from training Chinese pilots, but it is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/nov/09/security-agencies-probe-chinese-approach-to-ex-australian-defence-personnel">unconstitutional in the US</a> to make that an ex-post-facto law.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Medal_for_shooting_and_killing)
title: Medal for shooting and killing
uri: Medal-for-shooting-and-killing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Medal_for_shooting_and_killing)
content:
 
<p>

  A Colorado sheriff's deputy was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/25/colorado-sheriff-office-purple-heart-officer-shot-richard-ward">given a medal</a> for shooting and killing
Richard Ward, who had done nothing harmful or threatening to anyone.
<p>
Perhaps it was a medal for creativity in imagining an excuse for
killing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(India's_free_and_vibrant_media)
title: India's free and vibrant media
uri: India-s-free-and-vibrant-media
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(India's_free_and_vibrant_media)
content:
 
<p>

*India enjoyed a free and vibrant media.  Narendra Modi's brazen
attacks <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/19/india-enjoyed-a-free-and-vibrant-media-narendra-modis-brazen-attacks-are-a-catastrophe">are a catastrophe</a>.*
<p>
The article lists a long series of persecutions of journalists
on absurd charges.

 


title: Policies undermine public schools and teachers get blame
uri: Policies-undermine-public-schools-and-teachers-get-blame
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Policies_undermine_public_schools_and_teachers_get_blame)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Policies_undermine_public_schools_and_teachers_get_blame)

content:
 
<p>

US society and government policies undermine public schools; then people
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/why-america-demonizes-its-public-school-teachers">put all the blame for the bad results on the teachers</a>.

 


title: Loan forgiveness for Germany after World War II
uri: Loan-forgiveness-for-Germany-after-World-War-II
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Loan_forgiveness_for_Germany_after_World_War_II)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Loan_forgiveness_for_Germany_after_World_War_II)

content:
 
<p>

  Forgiveness of loans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/26/the-guardian-view-on-germanys-economic-miracle-it-was-built-on-debt-relief">enabled Germany to recover economically</a> after
World War II.  Now other countries need the same help.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Blind_to_the_harms_of_oil_and_gas)
title: Blind to the harms of oil and gas
uri: Blind-to-the-harms-of-oil-and-gas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Blind_to_the_harms_of_oil_and_gas)
content:
 
<p>

Rebecca Solnit: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/28/fossil-fuels-kill-more-people-than-covid-why-are-we-so-blind-to-the-harms-of-oil-and-gas">*Fossil fuels kill more people than Covid. Why are we
    so blind to the harms of oil and gas?*</a>
<p>
WHO's estimate of the number of deaths from Covid is surely far too low,
since many countries such as India did <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_April_2022_(who_india_death_toll)">not try to count them all</a>.
  Nonetheless, I expect her statement is still true.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Texas_prisoner's_hunger_strike)
title: Texas prisoner's hunger strike
uri: Texas-prisoner-s-hunger-strike
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Texas_prisoner's_hunger_strike)
content:
 
<p>

  Texas prisoners <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/texas-inmates-call-solitary-confinement-torture">started a hunger strike</a> to protest solitary
confinement lasting years, sometimes even decades.
<p>
The pretext for this is anything the authorities take to be a sign of
association with a gang, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#22_June_2021_(Supposed_gang_members)">as in California</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Food_regulations,_US)
title: Food regulations, US
uri: Food-regulations-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Food_regulations,_US)
content:
 
<p>
Breakfast cereal manufacturers are threatening to sue if new US
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2023/03/01/fda-healthy-food-label-cereal-brands/">regulations limit how much added sugar</a>
a "healthy" cereal can contain,
  Due to the lunatic Supreme Court decision that said corporations
are entitled to human rights, they might even win.
<p>
Thus they use their political power to prevent the US government
from reducing childhood obesity.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Mass_layoffs,_stock_buybacks)
title: Mass layoffs, stock buybacks
uri: Mass-layoffs-stock-buybacks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Mass_layoffs,_stock_buybacks)
content:
 
<p>
Relating mass layoffs to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/capitalism-mass-layoffs">stock buybacks</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Deforestation_reduces_rainfall)
title: Deforestation reduces rainfall
uri: Deforestation-reduces-rainfall
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Deforestation_reduces_rainfall)
content:
 
<p>
*Scientists prove clear link between
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/01/scientists-prove-clear-correlation-between-deforestation-and-rainfall-levels">deforestation and local drop in
 rainfall</a>*.
The *study adds to fears Amazon is approaching tipping point after which it
   will not be able to generate its own rainfall*.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Protester_vindication)
title: Protester vindication
uri: Protester-vindication
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Protester_vindication)
content:
 
<p>
*NYC to Pay Millions to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/bronx-protest">Police Brutality Protesters</a>
Violently Arrested
 by NYPD.*
  The article describes the damage done to some of the protesters
by this cruelty.
<p>
Compensating the victims is only a start.  We need to make sure
that uniformed <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> don't do this again.  What plan does the
current night-mayor offer to achieve that?  None, I would expect.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Climate_destruction_business)
title: Climate destruction business
uri: Climate-destruction-business
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Climate_destruction_business)
content:
 
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#planet">Planet roasters</a> have provided hundreds of millions of dollars to
prestigious universities in fields that relate to <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>,
apparently with the aim of
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/fossil-fuel-funding-universities">shaping research results</a>.
<p>
In some cases, the projects funded by the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a>
directly promoted <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> denialism.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Right_to_repair,_Nokia)
title: Right to repair, Nokia
uri: Right-to-repair-Nokia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Right_to_repair,_Nokia)
content:
 
<p>
Nokia has advanced the Right to Repair campaign by making an Android
phone in which it is
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/25/nokia-launches-diy-repairable-budget-android-phone">easier than usual to repair</a>
<em>the hardware</em>.
<p>
If they make <em>the software</em>
easier to repair, by replacing the nonfree
parts with free software, that would be a step forward in freedom as
well.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Labor_praise)
title: Labor praise
uri: Labor-praise
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Labor_praise)
content:
 
<p>
The AFL-CIO praises Biden's nomination of
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/julie-su-labor-secretary">Julie Su as Secretary of Labor</a>.
  Her past career included championing enforcement of labor law
against <a href="/archives/2018-may-aug.html#13_June_2018_(Systematic_wage_theft)">businesses that cheat workers</a> (which many businesses try to do).
<p>
It sounds like she is just the person for the job.  However, I am
disappointed with the journalist who thought that the most newsworthy
thing about her is her racial background.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Polluters_sued,_LA)
title: Polluters sued, LA
uri: Polluters-sued-LA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Polluters_sued,_LA)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/28/us-justice-department-lawsuit-cancer-alley-louisiana-dupont-denka">US justice department sues two companies</a>
over pollution in Louisiana's
"Cancer Alley."*
<p>
At long last, an attempt to enforce the law against toxic pollution!

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Protester_vindicated,_AU)
title: Protester vindicated, AU
uri: Protester-vindicated-AU
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Protester_vindicated,_AU)
content:
 
<p>
Sydney <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> admitted in court that their onerous bail conditions on
Cherish Kuehlmann, accused of trespassing in a protest, were intended
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/01/court-throws-out-inappropriate-bail-conditions-on-student-arrested-after-sydney-protest-at-reserve-bank">to prevent her from protesting</a>
again.
<p>
The magistrate rebuked them for the wrong of that idea.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Antarctic_melt_rate)
title: Antarctic melt rate
uri: Antarctic-melt-rate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Antarctic_melt_rate)
content:
 
<p>
*90% of
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2023/03/01/antarctic-sea-ice-record-climate-change-weir-vpx.cnn">ice around Antarctica</a>
has disappeared in less than a decade.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Police_power,_UK)
title: Police power, UK
uri: Police-power-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Police_power,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
UK <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> want the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/27/police-should-be-given-power-to-charge-suspects-say-senior-officers-cps">power to place criminal charges</a>
directly.
  With that power, they could do as US <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> to &mdash; charge witnesses
with "obstruction" for making a video, and charge people being questioned with
"resistance" for any delay or strange gesture.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Beaked_redfish_protection)
title: Beaked redfish protection
uri: Beaked-redfish-protection
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Beaked_redfish_protection)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/27/russia-international-anger-redfish-overfishing">Russia is refusing</a>
to cooperate with protection of the beaked redfish,
which is being driven to extinction.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(New_coal-fired_plants)
title: New coal-fired plants
uri: New-coal-fired-plants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(New_coal-fired_plants)
content:
 
<p>
China built 100 new
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/27/energy/china-new-coal-plants-climate-report-intl-hnk/index.html">coal-fired electric plants in 2022</a>.

<p>
 


title: (Satire) Legality of improving American lives
uri: (Satire)-Legality-of-improving-American-lives
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_((Satire)_Legality_of_improving_American_lives)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_((Satire)_Legality_of_improving_American_lives)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Supreme Court Questions Whether President
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/supreme-court-questions-whether-president-legally-allow-1850168743">Legally Allowed To Improve
Americans’ Lives</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Right-wing_schemes,_US)
title: Right-wing schemes, US
uri: Right-wing-schemes-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Right-wing_schemes,_US)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/moderate-pac-democrats-israel">A new PAC</a>
says it supports right-wing Democrats, and policies like
what mainstream Republicans used to stand for in the 1980s.
<p>
It is funded by Jeffrey Yass, who also funded the right-wing 
takeover in Israel.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Fascist_schemes,_US)
title: Fascist schemes, US
uri: Fascist-schemes-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Fascist_schemes,_US)
content:
 
<p>
US fascists, where they get power, are
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gop-book-burning-dictatorship">moving to teach fascism</a>
in
schools following a path that fascists have used in other countries.
The persecution covers books, teachers, and curricula.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Parenting_assistance,_US)
title: Parenting assistance, US
uri: Parenting-assistance-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Parenting_assistance,_US)
content:
 
<p>
A half-baked policy proposal would fail to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-childcare-chips-act">help US parents support
their children</a>,
due various problems it does not address.
<p>
To be fair, Biden is looking for things he can do with an executive
order, since Republicans block any bill that would give money to
non-rich Americans.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Yanomami_reserve)
title: Yanomami reserve
uri: Yanomami-reserve
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#2_March_2023_(Yanomami_reserve)
content:
 
<p>
Bolsonaro encouraged illegal mining in the Yanomami reserve.  The
miners destroy patches of the forest where they work, and poison the
rivers and thus
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/28/brazilian-force-driving-out-mining-gangs-indigenous-yanomami-territory-bolsonaro">indirectly the Yanomami</a>.
 Now the Brazilian government
has gone back to work driving them out.
<p>
Lula says that Bolsonaro's plan was for mining to wipe out the
Yanomami &mdash; that is, genocide.
<p>
Since the US cannot stop the importation of illegal drugs, we have to
wonder whether Brazil can stop the extraction of various metals.  It
may not be quite as difficult, since there are other sources for those
metals, which puts a limit on what anyone will pay for them.  But indeed
miners will keep coming back.
<p>
I suppose they are driven by poverty.  Poverty results from (1)
continuing population growth and (2) the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#doohnibor">dooH niboR</a> economy.  Lula is
trying to change both of those; I hope he succeeds, but that sort of thing
takes time.

 


title: How Republicans have politicized Covid19
uri: How-Republicans-have-politicized-Covid19
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(How_Republicans_have_politicized_Covid19)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(How_Republicans_have_politicized_Covid19)

content:
 
<p>
Due to the bullshitter, right-wing Americans are torn between various
kinds of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/28/lab-leak-natural-spillover-how-origins-covid-us-political-debate">bullshit about Covid-19</a>.
Should they claim it leaked from a <a href="/archives/2021-sep-dec.html#6_November_2021_(Nih_evade_restrictions_covid)">US-funded lab in China</a>
?  Or that
it is a <a href="/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#28_April_2020_(Evidence_SARS-CoV-2_did_not_escape_from_a_virology_lab.)">Chinese bioweapon</a>?
Should they support <a href="/archives/2020-may-aug.html#27_August_2020_(Republicans_are_promoting_another_quack_treatment)">quack treatments</a>,
                                                                  or
claim that it was <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#23_March_2020_(Secret_Covid-19_meetings)">never a real danger</a>
at all?

Or that it has become <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#21_December_2020_(Florida_governor">harmless</a>?
<p>
What they have in common is that they (1) smear the medical establishment
fools, (2) attack the government, and (3) create hostility within society.
They come from right-wing disinformationists.
<p>
Whatever the facts turn out to be, on whatever question, we can't get
them from those people.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: oppose annexation of the West Bank
uri: Urgent-oppose-annexation-of-the-West-Bank
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Urgent:_oppose_annexation_of_the_West_Bank)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Urgent:_oppose_annexation_of_the_West_Bank)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and
<a href="https://act.jstreet.org/call/Call-rep-delauro-schakowsky-mcgovern-letter/?t=1007&akid=325788%2E538688%2EixQ1Op">ask per to sign the letter</a>
by  Rep. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), and
Rep. Jim McGovern (MA-02), which calls on Biden to tell Israel
the US will oppose annexation of the West Bank, and to respect
its liberal and democratic traditions.

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

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Protection_of_Ouse_river)
title: Protection of Ouse river
uri: Protection-of-Ouse-river
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Protection_of_Ouse_river)
content:
 
<p>

People living near the River Ouse in England want to protect it from
pollution.  That's a good thing to do, but their method is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/01/sussex-river-ouse-first-in-england-legal-rights-aoe">based on a
    philosophical absurdity</a>: to assert that the river itself is a person
and has rights.
<p>
Giving corporations the same rights as people has worked out badly.
Attempts to give fetuses the same rights as people causes grave
injustice.
<p>
I forecast that the attempt to treat rivers as if they were people
will cause no end of bad consequences as people (and as well as
corporations, fetuses and rivers) deduce other absurdities from that
absurd premise.
<p>
Furthermore, the more entities that are not people are treated by our
legal system as if they were people, the harder it will be to stop
treating corporations as if they were people.

 


title: Unidentified malady possibly from glyphosate exposure
uri: Unidentified-malady-possibly-from-glyphosate-exposure
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Unidentified_malady_possibly_from_glyphosate_exposure)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Unidentified_malady_possibly_from_glyphosate_exposure)

content:
 
<p>

  A neurologist has found patients suffering from some <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/01/canadian-government-urged-to-test-sick-patients-for-herbicide">unidentified malady</a>
and suspects it is due to exposure to glyphosate.
<p>
There is also evidence that glyphosate in farm runoff water is causing
toxic algae blooms in the ocean and even in reservoirs.

 


title: How Lobbyists lobotomized NY's Right to Repair law
uri: How-Lobbyists-lobotomized-NY-s-Right-to-Repair-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(How_Lobbyists_lobotomized_NY's_Right_to_Repair_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(How_Lobbyists_lobotomized_NY's_Right_to_Repair_law)

content:
 
<p>

  *On How Tech Lobbyists <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/17/more-details-on-how-tech-lobbyists-lobotomized-nys-right-to-repair-law-with-governor-kathy-hochuls-help/">Lobotomized NY’s Right To Repair Law</a> With
Governor Kathy Hochul’s Help.*
<p>
Hochul seems to be quite a <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a>; she tried to put
a right-wing judge on the state supreme court,
and Democrats <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(hochul_lasalle_ny_senate)">rejected the nominee</a>.

 


title: Valuable data on supermarket customers
uri: Valuable-data-on-supermarket-customers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Valuable_data_on_supermarket_customers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Valuable_data_on_supermarket_customers)

content:
 
<p>

  How US supermarkets <a href="https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/02/16/forget-milk-and-eggs-supermarkets-are-having-a-fire-sale-on-data-about-you">collect lots of valuable data about customers</a>.
<p>
They can track you if
<ul>
  <li> You use a frequent buyer card which identifies you.</li>
  <li> You identify yourself to the store's web site.</li>
  <li> You carry a snoop-phone with the store's app.</li>
</ul>
I don't do any of those things, so I think I am safe,
but I can't be entirely sure.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_((satire)_Poisoned_food_for_homeless)
title: (satire) Poisoned food for homeless
uri: (satire)-Poisoned-food-for-homeless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_((satire)_Poisoned_food_for_homeless)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/los-angeles-warns-residents-not-to-touch-poisoned-food-1850129245">*Los Angeles Warns Residents Not To Touch Poisoned Food Left
    Out To Deal With Homeless Infestation.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Gratis_contraceptive_products)
title: Gratis contraceptive products
uri: Gratis-contraceptive-products
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Gratis_contraceptive_products)
content:
 
<p>

British Columbia will provide <a href="https://rock101.com/news/9518052/bc-budget-free-prescription-contraception/">gratis prescriptions of various
    contraceptive products</a> to female residents.
  I fully support this policy.
<p>
It is amusing how the article struggles to describe which residents
the offer applies to.  It faced a struggle because it has accepted a
limited version of English in which there are no words for an
individual's physiological sex, only words for gender.  Contraception
knows nothing of gender roles; it is concerned only with physiological
sex.
<p>
The article does not entirely succeed in specifying who the offer is
meant for.  Does the offer include <em>all</em> transpeople (even
trans-women)?  Does it include <em>all</em> people who identify as
non-binary?  My guess is no, because that would be absurd in practice,
but I can't be entirely sure.  Maybe trans-women will be offered
female contraception that they don't have a natural way to use.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(No_Russian_energy_weapon)
title: No Russian "energy weapon"
uri: No-Russian-energy-weapon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(No_Russian_energy_weapon)
content:
 
<p>

  The US government says there is <a href="https://www.engadget.com/us-intelligence-report-says-havana-syndrome-probably-wasnt-caused-by-energy-weapons-194301622.html?src=rss">no Russian "energy weapon"</a> that could make
embassy staff sick.
<p>
There are energy weapons &mdash; for instance, the laser that a Chinese
warship pointed at a Philippine supply ship &mdash; but when those are used
there is little doubt.

 


title: Iran ready to refine uranium for atomic bombs
uri: Iran-ready-to-refine-uranium-for-atomic-bombs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Iran_ready_to_refine_uranium_for_atomic_bombs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Iran_ready_to_refine_uranium_for_atomic_bombs)

content:
 
<p>

Iran is basically <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/28/politics/kahl-iran-nuclear-deal/index.html">ready to refine uranium sufficiently to make
    atomic bombs</a>.
<p>
We can thank <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">the bullshitter</a> for canceling the non-nuclear deal with Iran,
followed by Biden who gave low priority to restoring the deal.

 


title: President of Mexico undermining election authority
uri: President-of-Mexico-undermining-election-authority
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(President_of_Mexico_undermining_election_authority)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(President_of_Mexico_undermining_election_authority)

content:
 
<p>

AMLO, the president of Mexico, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/27/americas/mexico-protest-ine-amlo-intl-latam/index.html">seems to be trying to undermine the
    election authority</a>.  Mexicans fear this is a scheme to bring back the rigging of elections, which was standard practice until after 2000.

 


title: Judge finds Starbucks guilty of union busting
uri: Judge-finds-Starbucks-guilty-of-union-busting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Judge_finds_Starbucks_guilty_of_union_busting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Judge_finds_Starbucks_guilty_of_union_busting)

content:
 
<p>

  A federal judge found Starbucks <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/starbucks-labor-union-violations-nlrb">guilty of systematic illegal union busting</a>,
and ordered Starbucks too undo numerous actions.
<p>
I expect that Starbucks will appeal, refuse, appeal, refuse, and so
on.  It can afford to pay lawyers to do this forever.  We need to give
the NLRB enough power to give big companies big punishments for
spitting on workers' rights.

 


title: Russian torture centres were not "random"
uri: Russian-torture-centres-were-not-random
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Russian_torture_centres_were_not_random)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Russian_torture_centres_were_not_random)

content:
 
<p>

*   Evidence collected from Kherson &hellip; shows Russian
   torture centres were not "random" but instead <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/02/kherson-torture-centres-were-planned-by-russian-state-say-lawyers">planned and directly
    financed by the Russian state</a>, according to a team of Ukrainian and
   international lawyers headed by a UK barrister.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Biden_to_veto_pernicious_bill)
title: Biden to veto pernicious bill
uri: Biden-to-veto-pernicious-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Biden_to_veto_pernicious_bill)
content:
 
<p>

  Biden is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/esg-biden-veto">expected to veto a pernicious bill</a>
that would prohibit retirement investment plans from
taking account of probable future investment losses
likely to be caused by environmental damage, and whether
the company respects the well being of workers and customers.
<p>
<a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">Plutocratist</a> politicians apparently want to steer us into investing in
dishonest companies, even those that are on course to kill us in a few
decades.

 


title: Quantifying growth of autocracy around the world
uri: Quantifying-growth-of-autocracy-around-the-world
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Quantifying_growth_of_autocracy_around_the_world)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Quantifying_growth_of_autocracy_around_the_world)

content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/varieties-of-democracy-institute-2023">Quantifying the growth of autocracy around the world</a>: 72% of humans now live
under autocratic regimes.
  Only 13% live in liberal democracies which respect, more or less,
human rights.

 


title: Progressives called on Biden not to make Indo-Pacific "trade deal"
uri: Progressives-called-on-Biden-not-to-make-Indo-Pacific-trade-deal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Progressives_called_on_Biden_not_to_make_Indo-Pacific_trade_deal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Progressives_called_on_Biden_not_to_make_Indo-Pacific_trade_deal)

content:
 
<p>

Progressives called on Biden <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-indo-pacific-trade-deal">not to make the proposed Indo-Pacific
    "trade deal"</a> a <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#business-supremacy">business-supremacy treaty</a>.
<p>
It is good news that negotiations have rejected having an <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#isds">ISDS</a> clause
like the ones that do so much injustice on other <a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">business-supremacy
    treaties</a>.

 


title: Jewish groups call to bar Israeli Finance Minister from entering U.S.
uri: Jewish-groups-call-to-bar-Israeli-Finance-Minister-from-entering-U-S
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Jewish_groups_call_to_bar_Israeli_Finance_Minister_from_entering_U.S.)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Jewish_groups_call_to_bar_Israeli_Finance_Minister_from_entering_U.S.)

content:
 
<p>

Jewish peace groups called on the Biden administration to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/smotrich-us-entry">bar
    Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich from entering the U.S.</a>
<p>
  Smotrich calls for <a href="ttps://www.commondreams.org/newswire/israels-smotrich-is-calling-for-genocide-biden-must-refuse-to-allow-him-entry-and-withdraw-u-s-military-funding">wiping out the Arab town</a> where the recent
pogrom took place.
<p>
The statement describes that as "genocide", but that is an
exaggeration.  When he did was to advocate an <em>atrocity</em>.  I think
that is a sufficient reason to refuse to admit him to the US &mdash; we
don't need to exaggerate it, no need to weaken the term "genocide".

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Futile_to_treat_UK_poor_people_well)
title: Futile to treat UK poor people well
uri: Futile-to-treat-UK-poor-people-well
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Futile_to_treat_UK_poor_people_well)
content:
 
<p>

Starmer says it is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/27/labour-britain-change-hope">futile to aim to make the UK treat poor people once
    again as well</a> as it did before the Tories got into power.

 


title: Call on EPA to test East Palestine soil
uri: Call-on-EPA-to-test-East-Palestine-soil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Call_on_EPA_to_test_East_Palestine_soil)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Call_on_EPA_to_test_East_Palestine_soil)

content:
 
<p>

  Calling on the <a class=glossary href="/glossary.html#epa">EPA</a> to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/02/epa-toxins-test-east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment-dioxins">test soil for dioxins</a> in and around the town of
East Palestine, where the vinyl chloride derailment occurred.

 


title: Moderna gouging US government on vaccines
uri: Moderna-gouging-US-government-on-vaccines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Moderna_gouging_US_government_on_vaccines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Moderna_gouging_US_government_on_vaccines)

content:
 
<p>

The US government spent $31.9 billion on mRNA vaccines, including
research, and buying millions of doses.  Despite this, Moderna
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/us-government-invested-31-9-billion-in-mrna-vaccines-research-reveals">gouges the US government on vaccines</a> and Biden lets it.
<p>
However, the reason that other companies should be allowed to make
these vaccines is deeper than that.  Live-saving medicines should
never be monopolies.

<p>
 


title: Russian torture centers were not "random"
uri: Russian-torture-centers-were-not-random
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Russian_torture_centers_were_not_random)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#3_March_2023_(Russian_torture_centers_were_not_random)

content:
 
<p>

*   Evidence collected from Kherson &hellip; shows Russian
   torture centers were not "random" but instead <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/02/kherson-torture-centres-were-planned-by-russian-state-say-lawyers">planned and directly
    financed by the Russian state</a>, according to a team of Ukrainian and
   international lawyers headed by a UK barrister.*

 


title: Forever chemicals found at high levels across UK and Europe
uri: 2023-03-04-Forever-chemicals-found-at-high-levels-across-UK-and-Europe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_February_2023_(Forever_chemicals_found_at_high_levels_across_UK_and_Europe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#25_February_2023_(Forever_chemicals_found_at_high_levels_across_UK_and_Europe)

content:
 
<p>

*Pollutants known as "forever chemicals"&hellip; have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/23/revealed-scale-of-forever-chemical-pollution-across-uk-and-europe">found at
    high levels</a> at thousands of sites across the UK and Europe,*

 


title: Urgent: New amendment to the US constitution
uri: Urgent-New-amendment-to-the-US-constitution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_March_2023_(Urgent:_New_amendment_to_the_US_constitution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_March_2023_(Urgent:_New_amendment_to_the_US_constitution)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: organize to support the constitutional amendment
to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/democracy-for-all-amendment">deny human rights to corporations</a>.
<p>
This is complementary to the <a href="/archives/2019-may-aug.html#29_May_2019_(Urgent:_Democracy_For_All_amendment)">Democracy for All amendment</a>,
now reintroduced in Congress.
  That would reestablish the power to regulate campaign
contributions by rich human beings as well as by corporations.
But the idea that corporations are entitled to human rights
does harm in many areas.  We need to erase that too.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_March_2023_(Urgent:_Tax_wealth)
title: Urgent: Tax wealth
uri: Urgent-Tax-wealth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_March_2023_(Urgent:_Tax_wealth)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress not to continue
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-oppose-renewing-trumps-tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-americans-for-tax-fairness&source=group-americans-for-tax-fairness">the tax cuts
for the wealthy</a>
that were adopted under the corrupter.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_March_2023_(High-containment_lab_accidents)
title: High-containment lab accidents
uri: High-containment-lab-accidents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_March_2023_(High-containment_lab_accidents)
content:
 
<p>
Lab accidents that can cause leaks are
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/02/covid-19-pandemic-origin-answers-political-feud">more common than politicians
suppose</a>.
 Whatever may have happened with SARS-CoV-2, we need to take care
to avoid some future leak that could start a pandemic.
<p>
We also need to take care to avoid future contact with wild animals
that could start a pandemic.  I disagree therefore with the article's
final sentence.  Given that both dangers are real, which one actually happened
in 2019 makes little difference.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_March_2023_(OSHA_at_Amazon)
title: OSHA at Amazon
uri: OSHA-at-Amazon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_March_2023_(OSHA_at_Amazon)
content:
 
<p>
OSHA is investigating the
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/02/amazon-safety-citations-osha-department-of-justice">high accident rate</a>
at Amazon warehouses.
<p>
  You can reduce it by boycotting Amazon as I do.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_March_2023_(Ideal_candidate_blocked,_UK)
title: Ideal candidate blocked, UK
uri: Ideal-candidate-blocked-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#4_March_2023_(Ideal_candidate_blocked,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
Starmer's
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/02/starmer-urged-to-act-after-councillor-greg-marshall-barred-from-contesting-red-wall-broxtowe-seat">systematic ban on leftist candidates</a>
rejected the only
plausible candate.  In response, the whole of the local Labour Party
organization has resigned in protest.

 


title: Urgent: The Stock Buyback Accountability Act of 2023
uri: Urgent-The-Stock-Buyback-Accountability-Act-of-2023
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#5_March_2023_(Urgent:_The_Stock_Buyback_Accountability_Act_of_2023)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#5_March_2023_(Urgent:_The_Stock_Buyback_Accountability_Act_of_2023)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your senators and ask them to co-sponsor the Stock
Buyback Accountability Act of 2023.
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#5_March_2023_(Urgent:_RR_capitalism)
title: Urgent: RR capitalism
uri: Urgent-RR-capitalism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#5_March_2023_(Urgent:_RR_capitalism)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-now-protect-communities-from-corporate-railroad-greed?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-acttv&source=group-acttv">protect communities</a>
from the effects of
of railroad companies' greed.
<p>The White House comments lines are 
<a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.</p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#5_March_2023_(Urgent:_IRS_funding)
title: Urgent: IRS funding
uri: Urgent-IRS-funding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#5_March_2023_(Urgent:_IRS_funding)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and senators to urge them to
protect the added funding given to the IRS &mdash; which it uses to
audit rich people instead of poor people.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
  If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: White House press pool, Faux news
uri: Urgent-White-House-press-pool-Faux-news
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Urgent:_White_House_press_pool,_Faux_news)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Urgent:_White_House_press_pool,_Faux_news)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to
<a href="https://act.boldprogressives.org/survey/petition_2023_kick_fox_out_of_press_pool/?source=e230301_1837-fin-rest-tp1&amount=10&tandembox=show&t=1001&akid=84647%2E636740%2E4fo07F">kick Faux News out</a>
of the White House
press pool, for knowingly spreading misinformation.
<p>The White House comments lines are 
<a href="tel:+12024561111">+1-202-456-1111</a>
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.</p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: unsustainable logging worldwide
uri: Urgent-unsustainable-logging-worldwide
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Urgent:_unsustainable_logging_worldwide)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Urgent:_unsustainable_logging_worldwide)

content:
 
<p>
Everyone:
<a href="https://environmental-action.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=53465">support a worldwide end to unsustainable logging</a>.
<p>
To see the acknowledgment page, you will need to eliminate all the CSS
in the page.  Icecat has a menu command to do that: click right
on the page.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Plastic_pollution,_birds)
title: Plastic pollution, birds
uri: Plastic-pollution-birds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Plastic_pollution,_birds)
content:
 
<p>
Some bird species are injured in the stomach by the small pieces of
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/plasticosis">plastic
they eat</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Abortion_pills,_lawsuits)
title: Abortion pills, lawsuits
uri: Abortion-pills-lawsuits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Abortion_pills,_lawsuits)
content:
 
<p>

*Call to "Boycott Walgreens" Erupts After
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/walgreens-abortion-pill">Company Caves to Right-Wing</a>
 on Abortion Pills.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Cities_lead_in_health_care_reform)
title: Cities lead in health care reform
uri: Cities-lead-in-health-care-reform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Cities_lead_in_health_care_reform)
content:
 
<p>
Various US cities are taking a stand in favor of a
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/newark-medicare-for-all">universal gratis
medical system</a>.

<p>
 


title: Makeup as addictive, a UK intermediate school
uri: Makeup-as-addictive-a-UK-intermediate-school
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Makeup_as_addictive,_a_UK_intermediate_school)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Makeup_as_addictive,_a_UK_intermediate_school)

content:
 
<p>
A school in England replaced a temporarily removed mirror
with
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/mar/02/worcester-school-criticised-for-makeup-is-a-harmful-drug-posters">posters suggesting that makeup is an addiction</a>
and you're
better off not learning to feel dependent on it.
<p>
This led to various misunderstandings which I think are not very interesting,
since they were responses to incorrect surmises about intentions.  However,
that provocative statement is interesting to think about.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_((Satire)_Salvation_attempt_of_a_city)
title: (Satire) Salvation attempt of a city
uri: (Satire)-Salvation-attempt-of-a-city
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_((Satire)_Salvation_attempt_of_a_city)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *[Chicago]
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/city-finally-safe-after-every-single-resident-hired-as-1850150793">Finally Safe After</a>
Every Single Resident Hired As Police.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Carbon-dense_Boreal_fires)
title: Carbon-dense Boreal fires
uri: Carbon-dense-Boreal-fires
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Carbon-dense_Boreal_fires)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/02/world/boreal-forest-fires-study-climate-scn-intl/index.html">Increasing wildfires</a>
in northern hemisphere forests could start a
chain reaction of increasing release of CO2.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Urgent:_Afghan_Adjustment_Act)
title: Urgent: Afghan Adjustment Act
uri: 2023-03-07-Urgent-Afghan-Adjustment-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Urgent:_Afghan_Adjustment_Act)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to pass the
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/go/34272?c0=time-to-pass-AAA.0nBr7_&source=em20230302_2&t=1006&akid=8658%2E223515%2E3FBKaO">Afghan Adjustment Act</a>,
so Afghan refugees can become citizens instead of being expelled.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Reject Republicans' Maximally Unfair Tax Act
uri: Urgent-Reject-Republicans-Maximally-Unfair-Tax-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Urgent:_Reject_Republicans'_Maximally_Unfair_Tax_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Urgent:_Reject_Republicans'_Maximally_Unfair_Tax_Act)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to reject the
<a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/republicans-crazy-tax-plan/?t=1001&akid=30449%2E96703%2EYnDAUa">Republicans' Maximally
Unfair Tax Act</a>.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Dominion_Voting_vs._Rupert_Murdoch)
title: Dominion Voting vs. Rupert Murdoch
uri: Dominion-Voting-vs-Rupert-Murdoch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Dominion_Voting_vs._Rupert_Murdoch)
content:
 
<p>
*"Fair and Balanced"? 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/02/media/rupert-murdoch-fox-news-reliable-sources/index.html">Murdoch’s private messages</a>
show Faux News was
instructed to help Republicans.*

<p>
 


title: Human rights activist imprisoned, Belarus
uri: Human-rights-activist-imprisoned-Belarus
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Human_rights_activist_imprisoned,_Belarus)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Human_rights_activist_imprisoned,_Belarus)

content:
 
<p>
Lukashenko has imprisoned the most prominent human rights activist of
Belarus,
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/europe/ales-bialiatski-sentenced-intl/index.html">Ales Bialiatski</a>,
supposedly for smuggling.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_((Satire)_Child_Care_Costs)
title: (Satire) Child Care Costs
uri: (Satire)-Child-Care-Costs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_((Satire)_Child_Care_Costs)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *High
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/high-cost-of-child-care-forcing-more-toddlers-to-work-t-1850181153">Cost Of Child Care</a>
Forcing More Toddlers To Work Their
Way Through Preschool.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(New_labor_law,_NYC)
title: New labor law, NYC
uri: New-labor-law-NYC
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(New_labor_law,_NYC)
content:
 
<p>
New York City now has a law requiring fast food employers to give cause
to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/03/starbucks-unions-fired-workers-new-york-city-labor-law">justify firing anyone</a>.
 It has already hit Starbucks' union busting.

<p>
 


title: Blackstone's Schwarzman, an American story
uri: Blackstone-s-Schwarzman-an-American-story
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Blackstone's_Schwarzman,_an_American_story)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Blackstone's_Schwarzman,_an_American_story)

content:
 
<p>
Blackstone's strategy is to
<a href="https://invidio.us/watch?v=z-XH_l-c30k">profit based on events</a>
that make Americans
suffer.
  The current instance of that strategy is buying millions of family homes
at the height of Covid-19, and now raise the rents and evict the families.
<p>
Various proposed laws would increase the taxes Blackstone pays and
reduce the pain it can cause.  One is to eliminate the
<a href="/archives/2021-jul-oct.html#22_October_2021_(Urgent:_Carried_interest_loophole)">carried interest</a> deduction.
<p>
Another is the <a href="/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_July_2022_(Urgent:_Tax_billionaires'_wealth)">Billionaire's Income Tax</a>.
<p>
I advocate prohibiting any one business or alliance of businesses from
<a href="/there-ought-to-be-a-law.hmtl#real-estate-tax">owning more than one residential building</a>.  That would make a lot more competition for rentals.
<p>
MIT named its "College of Computing" after Schwarzman, the founder of
Blackstone.  If you are at MIT, that is an appropriate place to
protest him.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Putin_admirers_against_Ukraine)
title: Putin admirers against Ukraine
uri: Putin-admirers-against-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Putin_admirers_against_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/04/cpac-rightwing-republicans-ukraine-support-marjorie-taylor-greene">Some Republicans admire Putin</a>
and say so.  Now the shock jocks among them
are arguing  against support for Ukraine as a way to appear audacious.

<p>
 


title: Aboriginals make their own amends, AU
uri: Aboriginals-make-their-own-amends-AU
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Aboriginals_make_their_own_amends,_AU)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Aboriginals_make_their_own_amends,_AU)

content:
 
<p>
Modern day indigenous Australians say that Captain Cook's men "stole"
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/02/spears-stolen-by-captain-cook-from-kamaybotany-bay-in-1770-to-be-returned-to-traditional-owners">spears from the aboriginals</a>
they met at Kamay.
<p>
Wikipedia (I don't have access to a better reference) transmits a
report from the other side: that the aboriginals at Kamay fought with
the British sailors each time those landed.  The term "steal" does not
fit that sort of situation.
<p>
Either or both accounts may be distorted, but I see no reason in the
article to endorse the indigenous interpretation of "stealing", and no
obligation to "return" the spears.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Repo_power_increasing,_Ford_Motors)
title: Repo power increasing, Ford Motors
uri: Repo-power-increasing-Ford-Motors
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Repo_power_increasing,_Ford_Motors)
content:
 
<p>
Ford envisions making
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/mar/03/ford-reposses-patent-remote-lock">cars harass the driver</a>
if the company wants to
repossess the car.  It expressed this by filing a patent application
for the malicious idea.
<p>
Whether this idea is patented or not, or by which company, is just a
detail.  What is significant is that "connected" cars make this
possible and easy for any company to use on people.  The car could
even refuse to start at all &mdash; or start spontaneously and drive
itself.  And the manufacturer will always know where the car is
located at any time.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(RR_disasters:_actively_encouraged)
title: RR disasters: actively encouraged
uri: RR-disasters-actively-encouraged
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(RR_disasters:_actively_encouraged)
content:
 
<p>
A railroad
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/03/us-rail-workers-east-palestine-ohio-train-crash">manager was recorded</a>
telling workers not to report
broken railroad cars for repair &mdash; lest it cause delays.
  This seems to reflect general industry practice.
<p> 
Such outright disrespect for safety doesn't surprise me.  Is it
punished as a crime?  It ought to be.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(NY_Gov._Hochul,_a_Plutocrat)
title: NY Gov. Hochul, a Plutocrat
uri: NY-Gov-Hochul-a-Plutocrat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(NY_Gov._Hochul,_a_Plutocrat)
content:
 
<p>
*New York Gov. Kathy Hochul calls for new
<a href="https://www.levernews.com/r/39dffe2b?m=a1296444-4385-46f7-b56f-c5acabd34844">rail safety regulations</a>
&mdash;
after rejecting [New York State] safety legislation requiring trains
to be staffed with at least two crew members.*
<p>
More confirmation that <a href="/archives/2022-nov-feb.html#20_February_2023_(hochul_lasalle_ny_senate)">her actual political alignment</a>
is "plutocratist."

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Oil_spill,_Philippines)
title: Oil spill, Philippines
uri: Oil-spill-Philippines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Oil_spill,_Philippines)
content:
 
<p>
An
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/03/philippines-oil-tanker-spill-prompts-fears-for-protected-marine-areas">oil tanger sank in the Philippines</a>
and now threatens to pollute
protected marine areas &mdash; meaning it causes danger of extinction.
<p>
The world's approach to this sort of disaster is not systematic.  A
systematic approach would design ships and sailing rules to provide
redundant protection so that there will be no such leaks.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Abortion_access,_college_campuses)
title: Abortion access, college campuses
uri: Abortion-access-college-campuses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#6_March_2023_(Abortion_access,_college_campuses)
content:
 
<p>
* Mobile billboards on how to get
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/03/abortion-pill-billboards-us-states-bans">access to [abortion] pills</a>
by mail are being driven through college campuses in 14 states.*
<p>
This is a brilliant move &mdash; both helping the enemy's victims and
building up the movement against them.
<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Urgent:_PRO_Act_for_unionization)
title: Urgent: PRO Act for unionization
uri: Urgent-PRO-Act-for-unionization
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Urgent:_PRO_Act_for_unionization)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="https://act.aflcio.org/forms/trumka-pro-act?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=022823-email">pass the PRO Act</a>,
which will facilitate
unionization.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Urgent:_Equal_Rights_Amendment)
title: Urgent: Equal Rights Amendment
uri: 2023-03-07-Urgent-Equal-Rights-Amendment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Urgent:_Equal_Rights_Amendment)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to
<a href="https://act.ayannapressley.com/signup/apem-20230303-era/?source=em20230303-2903&t=1001&akid=2903%2E324449%2E5195Ca">affirm the ratification</a>
of the Equal
Rights Amendment.
<p>
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Urgent:_Reform_blue-slip_process)
title: Urgent: Reform blue-slip process
uri: Urgent-Reform-blue-slip-process
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Urgent:_Reform_blue-slip_process)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the Senate to stop the practice of allowing the
senators from a state to
<a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/senate-blue-slip-reform/?utm_source=aa&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blueslipreform&t=1009&akid=35733%2E660322%2EseXXTm">veto anyone appointed to be a federal judge</a>
in that state.
<p>
  The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
<a href="tel:+12022243121">+1-202-224-3121</a>,
<a href="tel:+18888186641">+1-888-818-6641</a> and
<a href="tel:+18883553588">+1-888-355-3588</a>.
<p>
If you phone, please spread the word!<p>

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Plea_of_a_world)
title: Plea of a world
uri: Plea-of-a-world
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Plea_of_a_world)
content:
 
<p>
*Stop Rewarding Destroyers
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/stop-defending-planet-destroyers">of Our World</a>
and Punishing Those Defending
It.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Protester_repression,_UK)
title: Protester repression, UK
uri: Protester-repression-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Protester_repression,_UK)
content:
 
<p>
One proposed
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/05/suella-braverman-public-order-bill-amended-protect-journalists-covering-protests">repression has been removed</a>
from the Tories' bill for
repression of protests: it won't allow arrest of journalists for
covering protests.
<p>
That protecting journalists from arrest had to be done with a special
exclusion &mdash; roughtly "journalists covering a protest have an
exemption" &mdash; demonstrates that this law threatens the rights people
in the vicinity of a protest even if they are not joining in the
protest.
<p>
Jailing protesters is bad enough; jailing people for being near
a protest is an additional step towards repression.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Car_loan,_car_tracker)
title: Car loan, car tracker
uri: Car-loan-car-tracker
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Car_loan,_car_tracker)
content:
 
<p>
Some companies, when making a car loan, require drivers to use a
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/business/dealbook/gps-devices-car-loans.html">machine that tracks</a>
all the car's movements.
<p>
This demonstrates the uselessness of a "consent" requirement as
protection for our privacy.  If companies say, "If you don't consent
to total tracking, you don't get a car," your "choice" is a fiction.



<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Big-oil_CEO,_President_of_COP28)
title: Big-oil CEO, President of COP28
uri: Big-oil-CEO-President-of-COP28
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Big-oil_CEO,_President_of_COP28)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/sultan-ahmed-al-jaber">Oil CEOs Should Be Barred</a>
From Global Climate Summits, Not Running Them.*
<p>
Efforts to solve critical world problems, including coming climate
disaster, are hamstrung by their fundamental structural organization:
"<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/what-if-the-world-cannot-save-the-world">multistakeholderism</a>",
which means the corporations doing the worst harm
have the power to thwart all progress.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Norfolk_Southern_derails_again)
title: Norfolk Southern derails again
uri: Norfolk-Southern-derails-again
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Norfolk_Southern_derails_again)
content:
 
<p>
*Second
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/05/cargo-train-derails-ohio">train derails in Ohio</a>
but carried no hazardous materials,
 company says.*
<p>
This second derailment demonstrates that train disaster is not a rare,
freak accident, and thus supports the insistence on safety
improvements: better brakes, larger crews, sick pay, etc.

<p>
 


title: Global biodiversity win, High Seas Treaty
uri: Global-biodiversity-win-High-Seas-Treaty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Global_biodiversity_win,_High_Seas_Treaty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(Global_biodiversity_win,_High_Seas_Treaty)

content:
 
<p>
There was a last-minute breakthrough in negotiations for a
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/global-ocean-treaty-2659502274">global
ocean conservation treaty</a>.
  With organizations such as Greenpeace praising it, I expect I
would be pretty happy with it.
<p>
One issue where I might have expected bad decisions was that of control
over "genetic resources" &mdash; scientific discoveries that could be made
by studying the genes of ocean life.  There have been demands for harmful
policies that would declare countries to be the
<a href="/articles/biopiracy.html">"owners" of genomes</a> found
  in species found in those countries.  That would be unjust.
<p>
I can't be sure from this article, but I think this treaty chooses a
better approach, that would distribute some of the income from some
sorts of activities to some poor countries.  I see nothing wrong with
that.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(One_supply_route_left,_Bakhmut)
title: One supply route left, Bakhmut
uri: One-supply-route-left-Bakhmut
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#7_March_2023_(One_supply_route_left,_Bakhmut)
content:
 
<p>
Ukraine is reinforcing the defenders of Bakhmut with "elite units" as
the Putin forces get
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/04/bakhmut-ukraine-russia-donetsk-severe-pressure">closer to encircling</a>
that town.
  I have to wonder, is it tactically wise to send the best units into
a town that may soon be cut off?  That risks losing them for no gain.
<p>
There is nothing important about Bakhmut except that the Putin forces
keep trying to capture it.  I think it may be more efficient to pull
out of Bakhmut now and defend the next town.  If it takes the Putin forces
6 months to capture each town, it will take them decades to conquer
all of the Donetsk region.  The war won't last that long.


<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Democracy_in_peril,_Israel)
title: Democracy in peril, Israel
uri: Democracy-in-peril-Israel
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Democracy_in_peril,_Israel)
content:
 
<p>
*Israel is at
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/05/benjamin-netanyahus-government-has-quickly-transformed-into-the-countrys-gravest-threat">a crucial crossroads</a>:
it can save itself or slide into
 despotism.*
<p>
Alas, one can say the same thing about <a href="/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_July_2022_(Democracy_vs._Plutocracy)">the UK</a>,
and <a href="/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_August_2022_(state_us_democracy_grim)">the US</a>,
as well as
some <a href="/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_March_2022_(Poland)">other countries</a>
with a history of democracy.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Iran_agreable_to_nuclear_monitoring)
title: Iran agreable to nuclear monitoring
uri: Iran-agreable-to-nuclear-monitoring
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Iran_agreable_to_nuclear_monitoring)
content:
 
<p>
*Iran pledges to restore
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/04/iran-pledges-to-restore-monitoring-equipment-at-nuclear-sites-says-iaea">monitoring equipment at nuclear sites</a>,
says IAEA.*
<p>
So there may indeed be hope of avoiding Iran as a nuclear power,
if Biden wants to make the effort.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Evangelicals_as_Progressives)
title: Evangelicals as Progressives
uri: Evangelicals-as-Progressives
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Evangelicals_as_Progressives)
content:
 
<p>
Jimmy Carter is
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/05/us/jimmy-carter-evangelicals-blake-cec/index.html">an evangelical Christian with progressive political views</a>.
Back when he was young, most evangelicals championed progressive politics.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Weaponizing_brainwave_measurability)
title: Weaponizing brainwave measurability
uri: Weaponizing-brainwave-measurability
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Weaponizing_brainwave_measurability)
content:
 
<p>
Monitoring of people's mental states by measuring their brainwaves is
close to the point of threatening cognitive liberty. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/mar/04/prof-nita-farahany-we-need-a-new-human-right-to-cognitive-liberty">We need to defend it</a>.
<p>
The threat to cognitive liberty is not new.  Brainwashing systems,
such as applied in China (and especially to the Uygurs in Xinjiang)
attack cognitive liberty.  <a href="/archives/2016-nov-feb.html#21_February_2017_(Suffering_caused_to_indigenous_children_in_Canada)">The US, Canada</a>
and some other countries set
up brainwashing systems to apply to indigenous children.
  Disinformation campaigns existed before computers.
<p>
However, supporting brainwashing with monitoring of subjugated
people's individual mental states makes the threat harder to resist.
<p>
These systems depend inherently on makng them use nonfree
<a href="https://gnu.org/malware/">malware</a>
or else devices that are imposed on them.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Legalizing_abortion,_Ohio)
title: Legalizing abortion, Ohio
uri: Legalizing-abortion-Ohio
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2023-jan-apr.html#8_March_2023_(Legalizing_abortion,_Ohio)
content:
 
<p>
The
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/02/ohio-abortion-ballot-initiative-petition-approved">ballot initiative</a>
to legalize abortion in Ohio has been approved
for a vote.

<p>
 


