# articles

feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(brian_stelter_cnn_cancels_show)
title: Brian Stelter rebukes CNN on final show: ‘It’s not partisan to stand up to demagogues’
uri: Brian-Stelter-rebukes-CNN-on-final-show-It-s-not-partisan-to-sta
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(brian_stelter_cnn_cancels_show)
content:
 
<p>
CNN appears to have decided to triangulate between Republican
insurrectionists and Democratic plutocratists, and fired a long-time
show host, Brian Stelter, who made a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/aug/22/brian-stelter-cnn-cancels-show-reliable-sources">practice of denouncing right-wing
falsehoods.</a>
<p>
Robert Reich 
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-cnn-cancelled-brian-stelter">explains the reason behind this</a>
<p>
By the way, what the first article says about 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/articles/toobin.html">Toobin is a misrepresentation
of the actual events.</a>

 


title: An NY Corrections Officer shot and killed a teen for playing with a water gun
uri: An-NY-Corrections-Officer-shot-and-killed-a-teen-for-playing-with-a-wa
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(ny_officer_killed_a_teen_with_water_gun)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(ny_officer_killed_a_teen_with_water_gun)

content:
 
<p>
A New York City prison thug shot and killed a young man who was
engaging in a 
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/07/22/an-ny-corrections-officer-shot-and-killed-a-teen-for-playing-with-a-water-gun.html">watergun fight with a clearly identifiable watergun.</a>

 


title: Anglo-French oil firm threatens Amazon reserve for isolated Indigenous people
uri: Anglo-French-oil-firm-threatens-Amazon-reserve-for-isolated-Indigenous
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(anglo_french_oil_firm_threatens_amazon)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#25_August_2022_(anglo_french_oil_firm_threatens_amazon)

content:
 
<p>
A foreign oil company is suing Peru to block the creation of an 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/23/anglo-french-oil-firm-perenco-threatens-amazon-reserve-for-isolated-indigenous-people-peru">indigenous people's reservation.</a>
<p>
That would convert the reservation into a carbon bomb. 
<p>
I wonder whether the lawsuit is based on a business-supremacy treaty.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Urgent:_Non-nuclear_deal_with_Iran)
title: Urgent: Non-nuclear deal with Iran
uri: 2022-08-28-Urgent-Non-nuclear-deal-with-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Urgent:_Non-nuclear_deal_with_Iran)
content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14663">agree to the non-nuclear deal with
 Iran</a>.
<p>
<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/18/a-renewed-iran-nuclear-deal-may-be-closer-than-ever-but-problems-remain.html">More information</a> about the situation.
<p>
To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript</a> code from the web site, use the <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Combat lies Republicans tell about increased IRS funding
uri: Urgent-Combat-lies-Republicans-tell-about-increased-IRS-funding
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Urgent:_Combat_lies_Republicans_tell_about_increased_IRS_funding)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Urgent:_Combat_lies_Republicans_tell_about_increased_IRS_funding)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Democrats to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-democrats-call-out-republican-irs-enforcement-lies">combat the lies Republicans tell about increased IRS funding</a>.

 


title: US won't stand up for Palestinian human rights groups
uri: US-won-t-stand-up-for-Palestinian-human-rights-groups
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(US_won't_stand_up_for_Palestinian_human_rights_groups)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(US_won't_stand_up_for_Palestinian_human_rights_groups)

content:
 
<p>

The CIA couldn't find any connection between the Palestinian human
rights groups and terrorism, but the US <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/cia-report-israel-palestinian-rights-groups">still won't stand up for them</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Arkansas_thugs_under_investigation)
title: Arkansas thugs under investigation
uri: Arkansas-thugs-under-investigation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Arkansas_thugs_under_investigation)
content:
 
<p>

Three Arkansas thugs are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/22/arkansas-officers-suspended-video-shows-suspect-beaten">being investigated</a> after a video showed them holding
a man down and punching him.
<p>
I welcome public denunciation of non-fatal instances of violence by
uniformed <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.  If that becomes widespread, it could potentially end
official tolerance for violent <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.
<p>
They accuse the victim of having started the fight.  One can hardly
believe <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> as witnesses for such a thing, as they are accustomed to
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2003-sep-dec.html#12_September_2003_(he_started_it)">testilying</a>, but it might be true.  But that question doesn't change anything
significant.  To teach everyone not to engage in violence is too much
to hope for, but we must teach that to official <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(More_chances_to_sell_a_giant_con)
title: More chances to sell a giant con
uri: More-chances-to-sell-a-giant-con
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(More_chances_to_sell_a_giant_con)
content:
 
<p>

*Herewith the <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-6-secrets-to-becoming-a-fabulously">6 rules</a> for getting a second (or third or fourth) chance
to sell a giant con.*

 


title: Republican "tests" on voting machines
uri: Republican-tests-on-voting-machines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Republican_tests_on_voting_machines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Republican_tests_on_voting_machines)

content:
 
<p>

Some Michigan Republicans, including officials, got their hand on some voting
machines in Michigan and <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20220815145415/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/14/michigan-voting-machine-breach/">did various "tests"</a> on them.
<p>
I can't be sure what those machines actually do.  It turns out that
the term "tabulator" is used for all sorts of machines that generate
total vote counts.  It is possible that voters vote directly on those
machines, and the machines output only totals.  Using that kind of
machine with a computer in it makes the voting system <a href="evoting.html">vulnerable</a>.
If so, the state should eliminate their use.
<p>
However, those vulnerabilities don't spontaneously exploit themselves.
They can be exploited by people.  The people most likely to rig an
election through voting machines, are those who are (1) their
manufacturers (because they have opportunity), (2) given to wild
conspiracy ideation such as QAnonsense, or (3) willing to break any
law for their cause.  Each of those three groups is mainly Republican.
<p>
I would not put it past those conspirators to have inserted a back
door into the machines they got control over.  But it could also be
the common Republican play, Blow Smoke Then Cry 'Fire'.
<p>
Making things even more shocking and dangerous, one of the
conspirators is now running for Attorney General of Michigan, endorsed
by the corrupter.  I'd expect him to quash the investigation if he is
elected.
<p>
If you find any reliable information on what part of the election
these machines actually do, I would appreciate it if you send it to me
with its URL.

 


title: Autonomous self-regenerating aggressive power system
uri: Autonomous-self-regenerating-aggressive-power-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Autonomous_self-regenerating_aggressive_power_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Autonomous_self-regenerating_aggressive_power_system)

content:
 
<p>

*It’s high time the free world realised that it is not fighting a mad
dictator but an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/21/the-west-war-ukraine-vladimir-putin-russia">autonomous and self-regenerating aggressive power
system</a>.*

 


title: Dementis trying to remove Tampa prosecutor
uri: Dementis-trying-to-remove-Tampa-prosecutor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Dementis_trying_to_remove_Tampa_prosecutor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Dementis_trying_to_remove_Tampa_prosecutor)

content:
 
<p>

Dementis is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/18/politics/andrew-warren-ron-desantis-florida-senate/index.html">trying to remove the elected Tampa prosecutor</a> from office,
but he couldn't directly do this.  He had to ask the state senate to
support it.  However, the prosecutor is challenging the move in federal
court.  For the moment, he remains in office.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Illegal_adoptions_in_Siberia)
title: Illegal adoptions in Siberia
uri: Illegal-adoptions-in-Siberia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Illegal_adoptions_in_Siberia)
content:
 
<p>

*[Ukraine] says Russia has transferred more than 1,000 children
   from Mariupol for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/23/kyiv-accuses-moscow-of-mass-abduction-of-ukrainian-children">illegal adoptions in Siberia</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Future_use_of_fossil_fuels)
title: Future use of fossil fuels
uri: Future-use-of-fossil-fuels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Future_use_of_fossil_fuels)
content:
 
<p>

Studying Big Oil projections for future use of fossil fuels finds
that they <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/23/our-research-shows-big-oils-plans-combating-climate-crisis-are-bunk">expect/plan not to achieve the (weak) Paris agreement targets</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Imagine_a_repeat_of_Jan_6th)
title: Imagine a repeat of Jan 6th
uri: Imagine-a-repeat-of-Jan-6th
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Imagine_a_repeat_of_Jan_6th)
content:
 
<p>

*Imagine a repeat of Jan 6th [the coup] &mdash; but <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/23/questions-we-must-be-asking-about-second-american-civil-war">with tanks, soldiers, and guns</a>.*
<p>
I would suggest federalizing states' national guards, perhaps one
state at a time, and giving direct orders that will provoke coup
supporters to quit.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Forgiving_student_loans)
title: Forgiving student loans
uri: Forgiving-student-loans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Forgiving_student_loans)
content:
 
<p>

Why forgiving student loans should not be limited to people
with under a certain limit:
<p>
*[It] isn't that people with high incomes will be denied student debt
relief; it's that people eligible and desperate for relief will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/23/anger-mounts-over-bidens-reported-plan-means-test-student-debt-relief">get
lost in the bureaucratic maze</a> that income-based restrictions
inevitably create.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Grain_companies_are_price_gouging)
title: Grain companies are price gouging
uri: Grain-companies-are-price-gouging
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Grain_companies_are_price_gouging)
content:
 
<p>

The four big global grain companies are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/23/disaster-capitalism-its-worst-profits-grain-giants-spark-global-criticism">using the global food shortage
to gouge</a>.  This calls for a windfall profits tax.
<p>
Instead of doing this one industry at a time, how about applying it to
all businesses that are making big profits &mdash; counting bonuses and
stock buybacks and part of those profits?

 


title: Article asserting Dugin as right-wing critic of Putin
uri: Article-asserting-Dugin-as-right-wing-critic-of-Putin
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Article_asserting_Dugin_as_right-wing_critic_of_Putin)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Article_asserting_Dugin_as_right-wing_critic_of_Putin)

content:
 
<p>

This article asserts that Dugin, the apparent target of the car bomb
that instead killed his daughter, is a fierce right-wing critic of
Putin and has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/opinions/darya-dugina-alexander-dugin-putin-rutland/index.html">demanded a much harsher war against Ukraine</a>.
<p>
I can't have full confidence in what CNN reports about this, any more
than I can have full confidence in the rest of the mainstream media.
But I don't think Russian government agents would assassinate someone
for being more Putinite than Putin himself.  It does not sound like he
is Putin's enemy.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Amazon_workers_walk_out)
title: Amazon workers walk out
uri: Amazon-workers-walk-out
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Amazon_workers_walk_out)
content:
 
<p>

Amazon warehouse workers have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/14/a-sweatshop-in-the-uk-how-the-cost-of-living-crisis-triggered-walkouts-at-amazon">walked out of the job</a>, saying that the wages are too low to live on, and that management is demanding that they work
ever harder and faster, discarding safety precautions.
<p>
For more reasons to refuse to buy from Amazon, see <a href="/amazon.html">amazon.html</a>.

 


title: Bullying the FDA to approve hydroxychloroquine for Covid-19
uri: Bullying-the-FDA-to-approve-hydroxychloroquine-for-Covid-19
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Bullying_the_FDA_to_approve_hydroxychloroquine_for_Covid-19)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Bullying_the_FDA_to_approve_hydroxychloroquine_for_Covid-19)

content:
 
<p>

The corrupter's White House officials <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/24/trump-white-house-covid-fda-pandemic-hydroxychloroquine">tried to "bully" the FDA</a> to
authorize hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19, counter
to the evidence.

 


title: Solomon Islands moving towards autocracy
uri: Solomon-Islands-moving-towards-autocracy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Solomon_Islands_moving_towards_autocracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#27_August_2022_(Solomon_Islands_moving_towards_autocracy)

content:
 
<p>

The Solomon Islands is moving step by step <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/25/solomon-islands-to-ban-foreign-journalists-who-are-not-respectful-report">towards autocracy</a>.  Now it
has announced it will ban foreign journalists based on what they
write.
<p>
"Racial profiling" means applying laws to people in a prejudiced way
based on their race.  A central part of that unjust practice is that
the person acting has real, direct power over others.  To apply the
term to journalists' writing, even racist writing, is twisting its
meaning.
<p>
Racial profiling can't be seen directly in one instance; it takes a
set of instances to see such a pattern, and then it's a judgment call.
To use this as a criterion to admit or exclude a journalist makes no
sense &mdash; unless it's simply an excuse for arbitrary censorship.
<p>
The movement towards autocracy began when the government made
a "security" deal with China.  I suspect that is no coincidence.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Call on Facebook to encrypt all messages
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Facebook-to-encrypt-all-messages
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Facebook_to_encrypt_all_messages)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Facebook_to_encrypt_all_messages)

content:
 
<p>
Everyone: call on Facebook to <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-facebook-stop-spying-on-abortion-seekers">encrypt all messages end-to-end</a>.
<p>
Normally my approach to bad things done by Facebook when it uses
people is to urge people to refuse to be used by Facebook at all.
To campaign to change one of the <a href="/facebook.html">many ways it mistreats people</a> is a distraction.
<p>
However, this particular mistreatment is so dangerous that I
make an exception for it.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Limit President's ability to launch nuclear weapons
uri: Urgent-Limit-President-s-ability-to-launch-nuclear-weapons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Urgent:_Limit_President's_ability_to_launch_nuclear_weapons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Urgent:_Limit_President's_ability_to_launch_nuclear_weapons)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/limit_nuke_authority">limit the President's ability to
launch nuclear weapons</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: End disenfranchisement of people convicted of felonies
uri: Urgent-End-disenfranchisement-of-people-convicted-of-felonies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Urgent:_End_disenfranchisement_of_people_convicted_of_felonies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Urgent:_End_disenfranchisement_of_people_convicted_of_felonies)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-congress-end-felony-disenfranchisement?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-petition-everyone-deserves-a-vote">end disenfranchisement of people
convicted of felonies</a>.
<p>
I am not sure that the federal government has the power under the
constitution to do this; but if it can do this, I support it.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Human rights advocacy is not terrorism
uri: Urgent-Human-rights-advocacy-is-not-terrorism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Urgent:_Human_rights_advocacy_is_not_terrorism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Urgent:_Human_rights_advocacy_is_not_terrorism)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://act.jstreet.org/sign/human-rights-not-terrorism-biden/?t=1006&akid=312149%2E538688%2ElRHh40">insist to Israel: human rights advocacy
is <em>not</em> terrorism</a>.

<p>
 


title: Removing local election officials who would resist pressure to alter election results
uri: Removing-local-election-officials-who-would-resist-pressure-to-alter-e
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Removing_local_election_officials_who_would_resist_pressure_to_alter_election_results)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Removing_local_election_officials_who_would_resist_pressure_to_alter_election_results)

content:
 
<p>
Georgia governor Kemp has arranged to <a href="https://www.gregpalast.com/kemp-resists-grand-jury-has-reason-to-fear-indictment/">remove local election officials</a>
who he thinks would resist pressure to alter election results.
<p>
The article starts with a theory of why he is trying so hard to avoid
testifying to a grand jury.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Drones_and_distant_small_wars)
title: Drones and distant small wars
uri: Drones-and-distant-small-wars
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Drones_and_distant_small_wars)
content:
 
<p>
The use of drones, controlled from far away, means that US presidents
can <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/15/drones-help-distant-american-public-its-deadly-forever-wars">fight small wars that the public is hardly aware of</a>.  So they no
longer need to convince the public to support any given war.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Killed_by_herbal_medicine)
title: Killed by herbal "medicine"
uri: Killed-by-herbal-medicine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Killed_by_herbal_medicine)
content:
 
<p>
A herbal "medicine" seems to have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/25/lori-mcclintock-death-white-mulberry-leaf-congressman-wife">killed Lori McClintock</a>, wife of
a member of Congress.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(The_Enough_is_Enough_movement)
title: The "Enough is Enough" movement
uri: The-Enough-is-Enough-movement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(The_Enough_is_Enough_movement)
content:
 
<p>
The "Enough is Enough" movement, of and for poor people, demands that
the UK government <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/24/enough-is-enough-movement-gathers-pace-with-andy-burnham-latest-backer">do the opposite of what Tories want</a>: help the
non-rich.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(War_predictions)
title: War predictions
uri: War-predictions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(War_predictions)
content:
 
<p>
Predictions about the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/24/five-predictions-for-the-next-six-months-in-the-war-in-ukraine">next 6 months</a> of war in Ukraine.
<p>
I think Ukraine can win, with enough western arms.  And we had better
provide them, or Putin will emerge triumphant and set on preparing
another war.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Infographic_on_IRS_funding)
title: Infographic on IRS funding
uri: Infographic-on-IRS-funding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Infographic_on_IRS_funding)
content:
 
<p>
An <a href="media/e490b8cc.IRS_EMAIL.png" data-original-source="https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/data/000/693/151/original/IRS_EMAIL.png">infographic</a> to explain what the increased IRS funding will be used for,
and that non-rich Americans will not have an increased chance
of being audited.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Ghost_gun_kits)
title: Ghost gun kits
uri: Ghost-gun-kits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Ghost_gun_kits)
content:
 
<p>
Those selling "ghost gun" kits in the US will now have to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/24/us-ghost-guns-new-rules-untraceable">put serial
numbers on certain parts, and carry out background checks</a>.

<p>
 


title: Winning elections with abortion rights and democracy
uri: Winning-elections-with-abortion-rights-and-democracy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Winning_elections_with_abortion_rights_and_democracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Winning_elections_with_abortion_rights_and_democracy)

content:
 
<p>
Abortion rights and democracy are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/24/republicans-thought-they-had-midterms-in-the-bag-voters-just-rejected-them-again">winning elections for Democrats</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Atmosphere_of_extremism)
title: Atmosphere of extremism
uri: Atmosphere-of-extremism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Atmosphere_of_extremism)
content:
 
<p>
*Idaho librarian resigns over "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/24/idaho-librarian-resigns-ban-books-lgbtq">atmosphere of extremism</a>" and "intimidation
tactics"* of the right-wing Christians.
<p>
At this state of the fight, resigning in protest can be a powerful
gesture.  However, as time goes on, it will be necessary for
librarians to find ways to fight that don't involve taking themselves
out of the battle.

<p>
 


title: Identitarianism incompatible with humanism
uri: Identitarianism-incompatible-with-humanism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Identitarianism_incompatible_with_humanism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Identitarianism_incompatible_with_humanism)

content:
 
<p>
*Identitarianism is Incompatible with Humanism.* The Council for
Secular Humanism declares
<a href="https://secularhumanism.org/2022/05/identitarianism-is-incompatible-with-humanism/"opposition
to the campaign</a> to judge and treat individuals and their ideas
based on the group identities each is assigned to.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Slavery)
title: Slavery
uri: 2022-08-28-Slavery
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Slavery)
content:
 
<p>
On the importance of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/23/world-remember-slavery-britain-imperial-history">remembering slavery and commemorating its history</a>.
<p>
The article is about slavery and Britain, but even though the history in the US
is different in detail, the point is basically the same.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Unemployment_and_workers'_power)
title: Unemployment and workers' power
uri: Unemployment-and-workers-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Unemployment_and_workers'_power)
content:
 
<p>
*Real Estate CEO: Recession Could Be "Good" If "Unemployment &hellip; Puts Employers Back in the Driver Seat."*
<p>
In a purely journalistic site, "Executive will not regret suffering
for the masses if it increases rich people's power" might not count as
news.  It is too much like, "Dog wants to bite man."  But I'm
publishing political notes, not news.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Tory_on_BBC_board)
title: Tory on BBC board
uri: Tory-on-BBC-board
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Tory_on_BBC_board)
content:
 
<p>
A Tory activist is on the BBC board and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/aug/24/emily-maitlis-says-active-tory-party-agent-shaping-bbc-news-output">decides what counts as
"impartial"</a> in the news.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Swift_parrot_and_logging)
title: Swift parrot and logging
uri: Swift-parrot-and-logging
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Swift_parrot_and_logging)
content:
 
<p>
Australia has prepared a plan to save the swift parrot from extinction,
but it was designed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/25/swift-parrot-recovery-plan-changes-downplay-logging-threat-experts-say">not to protect against the biggest threat</a>,
which is logging.

<p>
 


title: New Zealand's call to world nuclear powers
uri: New-Zealand-s-call-to-world-nuclear-powers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(New_Zealand's_call_to_world_nuclear_powers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(New_Zealand's_call_to_world_nuclear_powers)

content:
 
<p>
New Zealand calls on the world's nuclear powers to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/25/the-world-stands-on-a-nuclear-precipice-we-must-avoid-catastrophe">get serious about
nuclear disarmament</a>.
<p>
It is a valid argument that, if countries have nuclear weapons, sooner
or later some country is likely to use them.  By the same argument, if
it is possible to build nuclear weapons, sooner or later some country
will build some.
<p>
Thus, abolishing nuclear weapons globally will take us one step
further away from a nuclear war, but not in an irrevocable way.  We
will be in a less acute variant of the same dilemma we are in now.
<p>
So I think global nuclear disarmament calls for a strategic plan: if
after global nuclear disarmament one country builds nuclear weapons
again, how should the rest of the world respond?

<ul>
<li>What if China is that country?
<li>What if Russia is that country?
<li>What if the US is that country?
<li>What if India is that country?
<li>What if Pakistan is that country?
<li>What if Israel is that country?
<li>What if Iran is that country?
<li>What if Saudi Arabia is that country?
<li>What if North Korea is that country?
<li>What if South Korea is that country?
<li>What if Burma is that country?
<li>What if Ethiopia is that country?
<li>What if Hungary is that country?
</ul>
<p>
Along what lines should the world respond?
<ul>
<li>Ignoring the nuclear weapons, acting as if they did not exist?
<li>Pressuring that country to get rid of them?
<li>Building nuclear weapons and making that country back down?
<li>Some other approach?
</ul>
<p>
I pose these questions but I do not have answers for them.

 


title: Americans kept out of work from long Covid
uri: Americans-kept-out-of-work-from-long-Covid
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Americans_kept_out_of_work_from_long_Covid)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Americans_kept_out_of_work_from_long_Covid)

content:
 
<p>

A new study estimates that 2 to 4 million Americans are being <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/25/long-covid-americans-workforce-brookings-report">kept
out of work</a> by long Covid.
That has a substantial economic effect, though it's not responsible
for this year's inflation.  Wage increases this year are <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#15_July_2022_(Current_causes_of_high_inflation)">not big
enough to be the cause</a>.

 


title: Blocking Maine's creation of consumer-owned utility
uri: Blocking-Maine-s-creation-of-consumer-owned-utility
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Blocking_Maine's_creation_of_consumer-owned_utility)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Blocking_Maine's_creation_of_consumer-owned_utility)

content:
 
<p>

*Energy Giants Spending Millions to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/24/energy-giants-spending-millions-block-states-effort-create-consumer-owned-utility">Block [Maine's] Effort</a> to Create
Consumer-Owned Utility.*

 


title: Investment in Russian development of carbon bombs
uri: Investment-in-Russian-development-of-carbon-bombs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Investment_in_Russian_development_of_carbon_bombs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Investment_in_Russian_development_of_carbon_bombs)

content:
 
<p>

Big US banks are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/24/us-banks-pouring-23-billion-russian-carbon-bomb-projects">investing 23 billion</a> in Russian development of carbon bombs.

 


title: History of political corruption in the US
uri: History-of-political-corruption-in-the-US
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(History_of_political_corruption_in_the_US)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(History_of_political_corruption_in_the_US)

content:
 
<p>

The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/24/march-towards-us-fascism-began-corporate-hijacking-democracy">history of political corruption</a> in the US.  Around 1900 it had
reached a level of blatant excess that spurred progressive politicians
to enact strong campaign finance limits.
<p>
Since 1980, <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> politicians have swept them away, absurdly claiming
that giving money to politicians' campaigns doesn't buy them.  Americans
need to eliminate plutocracy in order to bring back democracy.

 


title: Math education revamp in California
uri: Math-education-revamp-in-California
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Math_education_revamp_in_California)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Math_education_revamp_in_California)

content:
 
<p>

California is considering a plan to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/04/us/california-math-curriculum-guidelines.html">revamp math education</a>, whose first
draft aimed to reduce the advanced courses available now (only in some
schools) for students who were good at math.  The idea was to
prioritize equality of outcomes over helping each student to go as far
as possible.
<p>
If the goal is to help nonwhite students on the average to do better
in math, how about making sure calculus courses are taught in all high
schools?  The lack of these is one factor in holding them back, and it
has an obvious remedy in the school system.  Meanwhile, the article
suggests that San Francisco has a way of encourage more diversity of
students to advance to calculus without holding anyone back.
<p>
Another aspect of racism that contributes to the problem is that
people in disprivileged groups are more likely to be poor.  The math
curriculum can't fix that, but the government can reduce poverty.  We
did it before; it isn't hard to do, if the government spends the
requisite sum.  If we defeat the plutocrats, we can do it again.

 


title: Details of partial student loan forgiveness
uri: Details-of-partial-student-loan-forgiveness
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Details_of_partial_student_loan_forgiveness)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Details_of_partial_student_loan_forgiveness)

content:
 
<p>

Here are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/aug/24/student-loan-forgiveness-who-qualifies-pell-amount">the details</a> of what Biden announced about partial student
loan forgiveness.
Some aspects will have to wait for lawsuits to conclude, but in the mean time
nobody will have to make payments.
<p>
This describes some other <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/24/benefits-bidens-student-debt-plan-dont-stop-10k-cancellation">incrementally helpful provisions</a>.

 


title: Legal memo protecting the corrupter
uri: Legal-memo-protecting-the-corrupter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Legal_memo_protecting_the_corrupter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Legal_memo_protecting_the_corrupter)

content:
 
<p>

A <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/24/watchdog-leader-it-clear-why-barr-did-not-want-public-see-newly-released-trump-memo">formerly private 2019 legal memo</a> from the Department of Justice used
questionable arguments to protect the corrupter from charges of
obstructing justice.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(US_response_to_Covid-19_in_2022)
title: US response to Covid-19 in 2022
uri: US-response-to-Covid-19-in-2022
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(US_response_to_Covid-19_in_2022)
content:
 
<p>

A House investigation found that the wrecker's officials <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/24/house-report-shows-trump-deliberately-and-repeatedly-undermined-covid-19-response">harmed the US
response to Covid-19</a> in 2020 through pressure on the FDA.

 


title: Civil society groups excluded from Cairo climate conference
uri: Civil-society-groups-excluded-from-Cairo-climate-conference
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Civil_society_groups_excluded_from_Cairo_climate_conference)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Civil_society_groups_excluded_from_Cairo_climate_conference)

content:
 
<p>

Egypt <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/24/egyptian-ngos-complain-of-being-shut-out-of-cop27-climate-summit">excluded "undesirable" Egyptian civil society groups</a> from the
coming Cairo climate conference by not informing them about how to
apply.

 


title: (satire) Routine cleaning of Big Ben
uri: (satire)-Routine-cleaning-of-Big-Ben
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_((satire)_Routine_cleaning_of_Big_Ben)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_((satire)_Routine_cleaning_of_Big_Ben)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/big-ben-undergoes-routine-cleaning-to-remove-hapless-to-1848563666">*Big Ben Undergoes Routine Cleaning To Remove
   Hapless Tourists Dangling From Minute Hand.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Japan_to_return_to_nuclear_power)
title: Japan to return to nuclear power
uri: Japan-to-return-to-nuclear-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Japan_to_return_to_nuclear_power)
content:
 
<p>

Japan plans a <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/energy/japan-nuclear-power-push-kishida-intl-hnk/index.html">return to nuclear power</a>.
<p>
Restarting idle nuclear power plants might be reasonable, if they can
take adequate precautions against future tsunamis and earthquakes.
Building new nuclear plants is absurd even if they are safe, because
they <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-may-aug.html#24_August_2017_(Cost_of_nuclear_power)">cost too much</a> and take too long.
They are a bad strategy for decarbonization.

 


title: Video recordings of thugs in action
uri: Video-recordings-of-thugs-in-action
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Video_recordings_of_thugs_in_action)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Video_recordings_of_thugs_in_action)

content:
 
<p>

Arizona Republicans have passed a law to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/us/arizona-police-video-law-aclu-lawsuit/index.html">impede making video
recordings of thugs in action</a>, creating an imaginary presumption that
this somehow impedes them in acting lawfully.  Various defenders of
freedom of the press are suing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Twitter_whistleblower)
title: Twitter whistleblower
uri: Twitter-whistleblower
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Twitter_whistleblower)
content:
 
<p>

The Twitter whistleblower says that Chinese, Russian and Indian
government agents are getting <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/24/tech/twitter-whistleblower-takeaways/index.html">special surveillance cooperation from
Twitter</a>.
<p>
The article talks in a vague sense about "intellectual property rights"
that Twitter would need license for in order to train AI systems on
various databases.  Because that term is a misguided overgeneralization,
the statement gives us no clue about which law it is actually talking about.
None of the various laws that are foolishly lumped together under that
term would be relevant to this.  Maybe the statement is garbled, or has
been confused by the use of the misleading generalization.

 


title: Right-wing politicians rebuke Biden for partial loan-forgiveness
uri: Right-wing-politicians-rebuke-Biden-for-partial-loan-forgiveness
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Right-wing_politicians_rebuke_Biden_for_partial_loan-forgiveness)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Right-wing_politicians_rebuke_Biden_for_partial_loan-forgiveness)

content:
 
<p>

Right-wing politicians and organizations rebuke Biden's partial
loan-forgiveness, saying that it would encourage "irresponsible
behavior".  It turns out that many of them <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/aug/25/this-you-meme-biden-student-loan-forgiveness-twitter">recently benefited</a> from
forgiveness of much larger loans, or other sorts of business bailouts.
<p>
Right-wingers believe it is wrong for the government to help the poor,
because they assume that the poor are poor because they are <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-sep-dec.html#28_October_2018_(Judging_poor_people)">bad people
and therefore deserve to be poor</a>.

 


title: Gratis college would threaten the power of the rich
uri: Gratis-college-would-threaten-the-power-of-the-rich
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Gratis_college_would_threaten_the_power_of_the_rich)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(Gratis_college_would_threaten_the_power_of_the_rich)

content:
 
<p>

One of Reagan's advisors warned him in 1970 that if college were
gratis, it threatened to produce an "educated proletariat" which would
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/">endanger the power of the rich</a>.
So Reagan set about making college more expensive.

<p>
 


title: No connection between terrorism and Palestinian human rights groups
uri: No-connection-between-terrorism-and-Palestinian-human-rights-groups
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(No_connection_between_terrorism_and_Palestinian_human_rights_groups)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#28_August_2022_(No_connection_between_terrorism_and_Palestinian_human_rights_groups)

content:
 
<p>

The CIA <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/22/cia-report-israel-palestinian-rights-groups">couldn't find any connection</a> between the Palestinian human
rights groups and terrorism,
but Biden <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/22/biden-administration-offers-concern-refuses-condemn-israeli-raids">refuses to criticize Israel</a> for forcibly shutting them down.

 


title: Urgent: call on Costco to move beyond single-use plastic packaging
uri: Urgent-call-on-Costco-to-move-beyond-single-use-plastic-packaging
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Urgent:_call_on_Costco_to_move_beyond_single-use_plastic_packaging)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Urgent:_call_on_Costco_to_move_beyond_single-use_plastic_packaging)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on Costco to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=50995">move beyond single-use plastic packaging</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Biden to fire I.R.S. Commissioner Rettig
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Biden-to-fire-I-R-S-Commissioner-Rettig
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_fire_I.R.S._Commissioner_Rettig)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_fire_I.R.S._Commissioner_Rettig)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-president-biden-fire-irs-commissioner-rettig-and-replace-him-with-someone-you-trust-now">fire I.R.S. Commissioner Rettig</a>, who was
 appointed by the corrupter, and replace him with someone trustworthy.

 


title: Urgent: Support American railroad workers
uri: Urgent-Support-American-railroad-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Urgent:_Support_American_railroad_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Urgent:_Support_American_railroad_workers)

content:
 
<p>

In the US: <a href="https://act.aflcio.org/forms/support-freight-rail-workers">support American railroad workers</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Tyson foods to roll back its price increases
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Tyson-foods-to-roll-back-its-price-increases
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Tyson_foods_to_roll_back_its_price_increases)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Tyson_foods_to_roll_back_its_price_increases)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on Tyson foods to <a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/tyson_foodpricegouging/?t=1002&akid=53478%2E1242918%2EvEwITf">roll back its price increases</a>.

 


title: Rules to prevent military operations from harming civilians
uri: Rules-to-prevent-military-operations-from-harming-civilians
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Rules_to_prevent_military_operations_from_harming_civilians)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Rules_to_prevent_military_operations_from_harming_civilians)

content:
 
<p>

The Pentagon has published a sensible plan for developing new rules to
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/pentagon-civilian-harm-mitigation-plan-forever-wars/">prevent military operations from harming civilians</a>.
When the rules are finished, in 2025, they will become part of
"military doctrine", so soldiers will be required to follow them.
<p>
A crucial part of the plan is a policy of taking seriously civilians'
reports of casualties, instead of rejecting them bullheadedly.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Plan_to_prevent_a_meltdown)
title: Plan to prevent a meltdown
uri: Plan-to-prevent-a-meltdown
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Plan_to_prevent_a_meltdown)
content:
 
<p>

The plan to connect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to Russia's power grid
is supposedly a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/25/zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-disconnected-ukraine-grid-russia">backup plan to prevent a meltdown</a>, if connections to Ukraine's
grid are damaged.
<p>
Preventing a meltdown is important, But doing so that way would also
enable Putin to steal the generated power.  And the danger of a
meltdown exists only because Putin stations troops in the plant.
<p>
Putin should demilitarize the plant and let someone
repair the damaged redundant connections to Ukraine's grid.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Starbucks_firing_workers_illegally)
title: Starbucks firing workers illegally
uri: Starbucks-firing-workers-illegally
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Starbucks_firing_workers_illegally)
content:
 
<p>

Starbucks has now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/25/starbucks-union-employees-fired">fired over 80 workers illegally</a>.  In one unionized
store, it sent a new manager to harass workers over little excuses.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(US_decrease_in_rate_of_shootings)
title: US decrease in rate of shootings
uri: US-decrease-in-rate-of-shootings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(US_decrease_in_rate_of_shootings)
content:
 
<p>

The rate of shootings has decreased 4% in the US since last year.
But death threats from Republicans are <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trump-republican-violence-machine">increasing</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Neglected_tropical_disease)
title: Neglected tropical disease
uri: Neglected-tropical-disease
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Neglected_tropical_disease)
content:
 
<p>

46 countries have eradicated at least one 
"neglected tropical disease".  Togo has now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/25/togo-achieves-major-feat-of-eradicating-four-neglected-tropical-diseases">eradicated four of them</a>.
<p>
There is a long way to go, and further progress depends on donations
from rich countries.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Testing_recreational_drugs)
title: Testing recreational drugs
uri: Testing-recreational-drugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Testing_recreational_drugs)
content:
 
<p>

Canberra now allows people to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/25/first-government-backed-pill-testing-clinic-finds-40-of-cocaine-contained-no-coke">get recreational drugs tested</a> to see
what substances they really contain.  In addition to discovering
adulterants, they may find there is none of the drug they thought they
had bought.
<p>
A quarter of the people who test a sample of drug product decide not to use
the product after all.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Nostalgia_for_Yugoslavia)
title: Nostalgia for Yugoslavia
uri: Nostalgia-for-Yugoslavia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Nostalgia_for_Yugoslavia)
content:
 
<p>

Around half of the inhabitants of former Yugoslavia &mdash; or perhaps more
&mdash; are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/25/everyone-loved-each-other-rise-yugonostalgia-tito">nostalgic for that no-longer existent country</a>.
<p>
I wonder if they will decide to reunite most of that country,
this time as a democratic federation.

 


title: Heat and drought in China and Europe
uri: Heat-and-drought-in-China-and-Europe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Heat_and_drought_in_China_and_Europe)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Heat_and_drought_in_China_and_Europe)

content:
 
<p>

China and Europe are suffering from <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/24/extreme-heat-droughts-china-and-europe-signal-global-climate-emergency">persistent heat and drought</a>,
which are causing many kinds of harm to the economy.
<p>
The US drought is approaching that point.
<p>
It will be much worse ten years from now.  And afterwards it will
be disaster, unless we take <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#18_August_2022_(Drought_in_US_west)">big steps to avoid it</a>.

<p>
*Northern Australia could have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/26/northern-australia-could-have-dangerously-high-heat-most-days-of-the-year-by-2100-study-finds">dangerously high heat</a> most days of the year by
2100, study finds.*
<p>
*Southern regions of Australia may experience deadly heatwaves annually,*

 


title: UK Green Party calls for nationalizing gas and electric utilities
uri: UK-Green-Party-calls-for-nationalizing-gas-and-electric-utilities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(UK_Green_Party_calls_for_nationalizing_gas_and_electric_utilities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(UK_Green_Party_calls_for_nationalizing_gas_and_electric_utilities)

content:
 
<p>

The UK Green Party calls for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/17/green-party-calls-for-nationalisation-of-big-five-energy-firms">nationalizing the largest gas and
electric utilities</a>, and for taxing the rich to pay part of poor
people's bills.
<p>
The first step is very good.  The second is half good.  Taxing the
rich to help the poor is very important, but each poor person should get
the same amount of aid regardless of how much energy <a href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a> uses.  That way,
poor people who can reduce their energy use will have more money to spend
on other things.

 


title: Communication with refugees in Rwanda
uri: Communication-with-refugees-in-Rwanda
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Communication_with_refugees_in_Rwanda)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Communication_with_refugees_in_Rwanda)

content:
 
<p>

Rwanda does not allow journalists to meet refugees: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/17/access-denied-i-went-to-rwanda-to-talk-firsthand-to-refugees-and-the-state-wouldnt-let-me">all communication
with them is forbidden</a>.  All inquiries about their conditions are blocked.
<p>
That is not only unjust in its own right, it is also a hint that the
refugees have something really bad to criticize.
<p>
I've read <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-sep-dec.html#9_October_2018_(Release_of_political_prisoners_in_Rwanda)">reports</a> of <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-nov-feb.html#29%20January%202011%20(Rwandan%20Officials%20Sentenced)">repressive treatment of dissent</a> in Rwanda
for many years.

 


title: Stratospheric warming from increased frequency of wildfires
uri: Stratospheric-warming-from-increased-frequency-of-wildfires
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Stratospheric_warming_from_increased_frequency_of_wildfires)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Stratospheric_warming_from_increased_frequency_of_wildfires)

content:
 
<p>

*Under global [heating], the frequency and intensity of wildfires is
   expected to increase, which would lead to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/25/experts-fear-wildfire-fueled-ozone-damage-will-become-new-norm">"more stratospheric warming"</a>,
   said one expert.*

 


title: Civilians killed or wounded by cluster munitions
uri: Civilians-killed-or-wounded-by-cluster-munitions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Civilians_killed_or_wounded_by_cluster_munitions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Civilians_killed_or_wounded_by_cluster_munitions)

content:
 
<p>

*Nearly 700 Civilians <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/25/nearly-700-civilians-killed-or-wounded-cluster-munitions-so-far-ukraine-war">Killed or Wounded</a> by Cluster Munitions So Far in
Ukraine War.*
<p>
There is a treaty that prohibits use of cluster bombs, but since
Russia has not signed it, I think that is not very persuasive as a
reason to condemn the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> for using them.
<p>
The cogent reason to condemn the use of them what the article tells us
about their <em>effects</em>: they mainly hurt civilians.  Using them is one
indication that hurting Ukrainian civilians is something Putin wants.
<p>
All countries <em>should</em> sign the treaty to prohibit them;
that includes the US.

 


title: Dangerous heat waves three time as frequent
uri: Dangerous-heat-waves-three-time-as-frequent
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Dangerous_heat_waves_three_time_as_frequent)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Dangerous_heat_waves_three_time_as_frequent)

content:
 
<p>

Dangerous heat waves could be <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/25/heatwaves-rated-extremely-dangerous-could-triple-century-warns-new-climate-study">three times as frequent</a> by the end of
this century.
<p>
This will have enormous impacts on farming in tropical regions,
as it is not safe to do strenuous work in such heat.

 


title: School in Nebraska eliminates newspaper
uri: School-in-Nebraska-eliminates-newspaper
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(School_in_Nebraska_eliminates_newspaper)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(School_in_Nebraska_eliminates_newspaper)

content:
 
<p>

A school in Nebraska <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/26/nebraska-student-newspaper-shut-down-lgbtq-issue">abruptly eliminated</a> its 54-year-old student
newspaper based on objections to what the paper published about the
rights of queer people.
<p>
Publishing a newspaper no longer requires the expensive and
specialized equipment that it needed 54 years ago.  The students can,
and surely will, move it to the internet.  I hope they will make sure
people can read the newspaper without running any nonfree software, by
not sending Javascript code to run in visitors' browsers.

 


title: Biden illustrates approach of centrist Democrats
uri: Biden-illustrates-approach-of-centrist-Democrats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Biden_illustrates_approach_of_centrist_Democrats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(Biden_illustrates_approach_of_centrist_Democrats)

content:
 
<p>

Biden illustrates the default approach of "centrist" Democrats:
when trying to help the poor in some way, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/26/biden-student-debt-loans-hamilton-nolan">take a small step so as
not to be called "extreme"</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(us_labor_agency_union)
title: US labor leaders say underfunding at federal agency has ‘reached crisis stage’
uri: US-labor-leaders-say-underfunding-at-federal-agency-has-reached-cri
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(us_labor_agency_union)
content:
 
<p>
Underfunding of the National Labor Relations Board is interfering with
its ability to deal with the increased union-busting that accompanies the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/17/us-labor-agency-union-activity">increased efforts for unionization.</a>

 


title: *Louisiana[n] denied abortion despite fetus’s fatal abnormality [will] travel to North Carolina.*
uri: Louisiana-n-denied-abortion-despite-fetus-s-fatal-abnormality-wil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(woman_denied_abortion_fetus_fatal_condition)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(woman_denied_abortion_fetus_fatal_condition)

content:
 
<p>
*Louisiana[n] denied abortion despite fetus’s fatal abnormality [will] 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/26/woman-refused-abortion-fatal-abnormality-louisiana">travel to
North Carolina.*</a>

 


uri: The-affidavit-released-by-the-FBI-shows-why-some-of-the-bullshitter-s
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(redacted_trump_mar_a_lago_affidavit_fbi)

title:
 The affidavit released by the FBI shows why some of the bullshitter's supposed excuses are irrelevant 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(redacted_trump_mar_a_lago_affidavit_fbi)

content:
 
<p>
The affidavit released by the FBI shows why some of the bullshitter's 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/26/redacted-trump-mar-a-lago-affidavit-fbi-takeaways">supposed excuses are irrelevant,</a>
<p>
It also shows the broadness of the Espionage Act, and why it threatens
whistleblowers and the public's right to know.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(mexico_missing_students)
title: Six of 43 missing Mexican students were kept alive in warehouse for days
uri: Six-of-43-missing-Mexican-students-were-kept-alive-in-warehouse-for-da
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(mexico_missing_students)
content:
 
<p>
*Six of 43 missing Mexican students were 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/26/mexico-missing-students-kept-alive-warehouse">kept alive in warehouse for days.</a>*
<p>
Then executed by the army.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(jane_austen_marriage_pressures)
title: Balls, gowns, marriage pressures. Jane Austen was basically Pakistani
uri: Balls-gowns-marriage-pressures-Jane-Austen-was-basically-Pakistani
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(jane_austen_marriage_pressures)
content:
 
<p>
*Balls, gowns, marriage pressures. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/commentisfree/2022/aug/27/balls-gowns-marriage-pressures-jane-austen-was-basically-pakistan">Jane Austen was basically Pakistani.</a>*
<p>
This article helped me to truly feel the oppressiveness of woman's
social role in Britain in the 1800s, and in Pakistan today.

 


title: *How migrant workers get trapped in debt to recruiters.*
uri: How-migrant-workers-get-trapped-in-debt-to-recruiters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(how_migrant_workers_get_trapped_debt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(how_migrant_workers_get_trapped_debt)

content:
 
<p>
*How migrant workers get trapped in 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/17/how-migrant-workers-get-trapped-in-debt-to-recruiters">debt to recruiters.</a>*

 


title: He Was Arrested for Promoting Jury Nullification. A Federal Court Says That Was Illegal.
uri: He-Was-Arrested-for-Promoting-Jury-Nullification-A-Federal-Court-Says
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(jury_nullification_fed_court_says_illegal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(jury_nullification_fed_court_says_illegal)

content:
 
<p>
A federal court has defended the right to hand out information about
jury nullification: the possibility for a jury to find a defendant
not guilty because they disapprove of the 
<a href="https://reason.com/2022/08/05/he-was-arrested-for-promoting-jury-nullification-a-federal-court-says-that-was-illegal/">law that was used to charge
the defendant.</a>
<p>
As I understand it, the reason for the right to be tried by a "jury of
your peers" is so that they can protect you from prosecution under an
oppressive law.

 


title: News Outlets, Press Freedom Groups to DOJ: Don't Let GOP States Criminalize Abortion Coverage
uri: News-Outlets-Press-Freedom-Groups-to-DOJ-Don-t-Let-GOP-States-Crimin
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(dont_let_gop_states_criminalize_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(dont_let_gop_states_criminalize_abortion)

content:
 
<p>
Republican anti-abortion laws threaten to criminalize press coverage
of abortion, and nationwide publication of 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/16/news-outlets-press-freedom-groups-doj-dont-let-gop-states-criminalize-abortion">information about getting
an abortion where that is lawful.</a>

 


title: EU foreign ministers expected to suspend Russian tourist visa facilitation
uri: EU-foreign-ministers-expected-to-suspend-Russian-tourist-visa-facilita
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(eu_suspension_russian_tourist_visa_facilitation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(eu_suspension_russian_tourist_visa_facilitation)

content:
 
<p>
The EU will not ban Russian tourists; rather, it will make getting
tourist 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/28/eu-foreign-ministers-expected-to-suspend-russian-tourist-visa-facilitation">visas more effort for them, as a message.</a>
<p>
This seems like good decision.  It will avoid the closure that an outright
ban would have caused.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(energy_bill_catastrophe)
title: Desperate times need radical solutions. Even Churchill knew when it was time to tax the rich
uri: Desperate-times-need-radical-solutions-Even-Churchill-knew-when-it-wa
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#29_August_2022_(energy_bill_catastrophe)
content:
 
<p>
*Desperate times need radical solutions.  Even Churchill [a Tory] knew
when it 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/28/only-extraordinary-measures-can-save-the-poorest-from-a-winter-energy-bill-catastrophe">was time to tax the rich.</a>*

 


title: Corporate PACs lavished in 'Big Lie' Republicans
uri: Corporate-PACs-lavished-in-Big-Lie-Republicans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Corporate_PACs_lavished_in_'Big_Lie'_Republicans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Corporate_PACs_lavished_in_'Big_Lie'_Republicans)

content:
 
<p>
*Corporate PACs Have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/26/corporate-pacs-have-lavished-22-million-big-lie-republicans-jan-">Lavished $22 Million on 'Big Lie' Republicans</a>
Since Jan.  6.*

<p>
 


title: Obstacles to vaccination and treatment of Covid-19
uri: Obstacles-to-vaccination-and-treatment-of-Covid-19
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Obstacles_to_vaccination_and_treatment_of_Covid-19)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Obstacles_to_vaccination_and_treatment_of_Covid-19)

content:
 
<p>
In poor countries, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/26/global-survey-details-how-poor-nations-have-been-abandoned-during-covid-response">many practical obstacles impede vaccination and
treatment</a> of Covid-19.
<p>
Six of these obstacles are not a matter of "hesitancy".  One of the
obstacles is a historical cause of understandable distrust, and thus
hesitancy.

<p>
 


title: Republicans who won primaries with antiabortion beliefs trying to disown them now
uri: Republicans-who-won-primaries-with-antiabortion-beliefs-trying-to-diso
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Republicans_who_won_primaries_with_antiabortion_beliefs_trying_to_disown_them_now)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Republicans_who_won_primaries_with_antiabortion_beliefs_trying_to_disown_them_now)

content:
 
<p>
Republican candidates that won Republican primaries by professing
bellicose opposition to abortion are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/26/politics/blake-masters-abortion-arizona-senate/index.html">trying to disown those views</a> to
win the final election.
<p>
So, did they seriously mean the positions they took before the primaries?
Or do they seriously mean the positions they take now?
Or neither one?

<p>
 


title: Federal Reserve plans to keep increasing interest rates
uri: Federal-Reserve-plans-to-keep-increasing-interest-rates
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Federal_Reserve_plans_to_keep_increasing_interest_rates)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Federal_Reserve_plans_to_keep_increasing_interest_rates)

content:
 
<p>
The Federal Reserve plans to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/26/nuts-critics-react-fed-chair-justifies-coming-pain-working-families">keep increasing interest rates</a> until inflation goes down.
<p>
Low interest rates are not causing today's inflation, so this tactic
is not going to achieve the goal until it creates lots of unemployment.
<p>
It strikes me that Powell's real goal may be to undermine the wave
of unionization.  His business cronies will surely appreciate that.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Israel's_apartheid-like_occuoation)
title: Israel's apartheid-like occupation
uri: Israel-s-apartheid-like-occupation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Israel's_apartheid-like_occuoation)
content:
 
<p>
Recognition of the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/26/israeli-ex-diplomat-says-growing-acknowledgement-apartheid-must-be-wakeup-call">apartheid-like nature of Israels occupation</a> of Palestine
is spreading around the world, among human rights organizations, world leaders,
and even some former Israeli officials.

<p>
 


title: Sensors to determine emotional state
uri: Sensors-to-determine-emotional-state
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Sensors_to_determine_emotional_state)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Sensors_to_determine_emotional_state)

content:
 
<p>
New sensors are being developed to <a href="https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/medical-advances/3603133-new-algorithm-can-track-mental-health-through-skin/">determine a person's emotional state
from per skin</a>.
<p>
Based on recent fashion, I forecast that the sensor will connect to a
snoop-phone, and the data will all be sent to some cloudy company
from which many companies and governments will get it.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Virtual_reality_and_manipulation)
title: Virtual reality and manipulation
uri: Virtual-reality-and-manipulation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Virtual_reality_and_manipulation)
content:
 
<p>
Virtual reality, backed by high computational power, makes <a href="https://www.rand.org/blog/2022/08/facebook-misinformation-is-bad-enough-the-metaverse.html">possible
subtle forms of manipulation</a> that influences people but that they
won't notice.
<p>
For instance, a political speech can be altered slightly for each
person watching, making the speaker's face subtly resemble the
viewer's face.  This has been proven to make viewers, on the average,
have a more favorable attitude toward the speaker.
<p>
The author proposes developing systems for detecting the use of this
technique and other manipulation techniques.
<p>
I fear that nonfree software, combined with remote attestation,
will be used to make it impossible to run the software to do this.
It will be "unauthorized."

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(France_to_blame)
title: France to blame
uri: France-to-blame
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(France_to_blame)
content:
 
<p>
*France to blame for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/19/france-to-blame-for-refugees-risking-channel-crossings-say-ngos">refugees risking Channel crossings</a>, say NGOs.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Bernie_Sanders_rebukes_GOP)
title: Bernie Sanders rebukes GOP
uri: Bernie-Sanders-rebukes-GOP
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Bernie_Sanders_rebukes_GOP)
content:
 
<p>
*Bernie Sanders rebukes GOP for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/28/bernie-sanders-rebukes-republicans-corporate-tax-breaks-student-debt-relief">backing corporate tax breaks but not student
debt relief</a>.*

<p>
 


title: Drinking water extracted from sewage
uri: Drinking-water-extracted-from-sewage
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Drinking_water_extracted_from_sewage)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Drinking_water_extracted_from_sewage)

content:
 
<p>
*Britons need to be "less squeamish" about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/28/britons-need-to-be-less-squeamish-about-drinking-water-from-sewage-says-agency-head">drinking water [extracted]
from sewage [and purified]</a>, says agency head.*
<p>
Imagine you're on space station Earth &mdash; of course, sewage is recycled.
The International Space Station <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station#Food_and_personal_hygiene">recycles urine for drinking water</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Indigenous_tribe_murdered)
title: Indigenous tribe murdered
uri: Indigenous-tribe-murdered
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Indigenous_tribe_murdered)
content:
 
<p>
An uncontacted indigenous tribe in the Brazilian Amazon <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/28/amazon-activists-mourn-death-of-man-of-the-hole-last-of-his-tribe">has been
murdered one by one</a>.  None remain alive.
<p>
The massacre may have started when murderous colonizers got the tribe
used to eating gifts of sugar, then gave them poison (mixed with
sugar?).
<p>
The last survivor refused all contact.  We do not know the tribe's
language, or even its name.
<p>
*Invasions and illegal exploitation of indigenous lands in Brazil <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/28/americas/brazil-land-invasions-bolsonaro-latam-intl/index.html">tripled
under Bolsonaro</a>, says advocacy group.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Pop_star_arrested_over_joke)
title: Pop star arrested over joke
uri: Pop-star-arrested-over-joke
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Pop_star_arrested_over_joke)
content:
 
<p>
*Turkish pop star G&#xFC;lsen <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/26/turkish-pop-star-gulsen-arrested-religious-schools-joke">arrested over religious schools joke</a>.*
The joke clearly suggested religious schools have undesired effects
on some students, but is not a direct accusation of wrong,  Nonetheless,
she has been denied bail.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Sanna_Marin)
title: Sanna Marin
uri: Sanna-Marin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Sanna_Marin)
content:
 
<p>
Do female politicians have a right to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/26/sanna-marin-dancing-video-uk-mps">go to a small party with friends
and dance</a>?
<p>
"Some critics of Marin have said a leader who is drinking would be
unable to take important decisions for their country," Never mind
that Marin denies being drunk.  More important is that they never
seemed to apply that rule to male politicians.  Those could get as
drunk as a lord, in a party or a club, without criticism like this.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Flooding_in_Pakistan)
title: Flooding in Pakistan
uri: Flooding-in-Pakistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Flooding_in_Pakistan)
content:
 
<p>
Flooding disaster hits Pakistan: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/26/pakistan-declares-emergency-floods-monsoon-rains">700,000 homes severely damaged or
destroyed, 33 million people gravely affected</a>.
<p>
Pay attention!  Floods like this are coming to a place near you,
if you don't campaign to decarbonize.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(False_blame_on_vaccine_hesitancy)
title: False blame on "vaccine hesitancy"
uri: False-blame-on-vaccine-hesitancy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(False_blame_on_vaccine_hesitancy)
content:
 
<p>
*Low Covid [vaccination] rates in poorer countries <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/26/low-covid-jab-rates-in-poorer-countries-falsely-blamed-on-vaccine-hesitancy-report">falsely blamed on
"vaccine hesitancy."</a>*

 


title: (satire) Seized documents in family for generations
uri: (satire)-Seized-documents-in-family-for-generations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_((satire)_Seized_documents_in_family_for_generations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_((satire)_Seized_documents_in_family_for_generations)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/26/corporate-pacs-have-lavished-22-million-big-lie-republicans-jan-6">*[The bullshitter] Claims Seized Classified Documents Had
   Been In His Family For Generations.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Severity_of_floods_in_Pakistan)
title: Severity of floods in Pakistan
uri: Severity-of-floods-in-Pakistan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Severity_of_floods_in_Pakistan)
content:
 
<p>

1/3 of Pakistan <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/29/pakistan-floods-plea-for-help-amid-fears-monsoon-could-put-a-third-of-country-underwater">could be flooded</a> by later this year.
<p>
If India were governed by statesmen, they would offer aid to rebuild
Pakistan.  That could end the long hostility between the two countries.
Alas, instead of statesmen it has the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#26_April_2022_(BJP_pogrom)">BJP</a>.

 


title: Long-term solitary confinement prisoners
uri: Long-term-solitary-confinement-prisoners
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Long-term_solitary_confinement_prisoners)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Long-term_solitary_confinement_prisoners)

content:
 
<p>

Over 40,000 prisoners in the US are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/24/us-solitary-confinement-prisons">held in long-term solitary
confinement</a>.
That is a form of <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-sep-dec.html#17_October_2011_(BrainWashing)">brainwashing</a>.
    
 


title: Disconnecting Zaporizhzhia plant from Ukraine
uri: Disconnecting-Zaporizhzhia-plant-from-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Disconnecting_Zaporizhzhia_plant_from_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Disconnecting_Zaporizhzhia_plant_from_Ukraine)

content:
 
<p>

Putin plans to disconnect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant from
Ukraine's power grid.  This would create the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/24/revealed-russian-plan-to-disconnect-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-from-grid">risk of reactor meltdowns</a>
if anything goes wrong with local electric generation, because keeping
the reactor cores cool requires electricity.
<p>
One can see, from this, that the existence of a nuclear reactor
creates a risk whenever anything else goes wrong.  Earthquete?
Tsunami?  Air attack?
<p>
This is one of the reasons why building more nuclear power plants
is foolish.  The other reason is that for the same amount of money
you could build far <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#11_May_2022_(Saving_money_switching_from_coal)">more generating capacity</a> using renewable generation,
and power storage too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Appreciation_for_Corbyn's_policies)
title: Appreciation for Corbyn's policies
uri: Appreciation-for-Corbyn-s-policies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Appreciation_for_Corbyn's_policies)
content:
 
<p>

Britons might appreciate Corbyn's policies more now than they did in 2019,
now that those opposed to them have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/26/corporate-pacs-have-lavished-22-million-big-lie-republicans-jan-6">discredited themselves</a> at every level.
<p>
The challenge is to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#28_June_2022_(Moving_Labour_Party_to_the_center)">overcome the power of Starmer</a>, who has made it his goal
to marginalize Corbyn's supporters within the Labour Party.
If they are ever the majority, the party will ignore them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Fighting_over_vaccine_patents)
title: Fighting over vaccine patents
uri: Fighting-over-vaccine-patents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#30_August_2022_(Fighting_over_vaccine_patents)
content:
 
<p>

Would-be vaccine monopolists Moderna and Pfizer are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/26/moderna-sues-pfizer-biontech-covid-vaccine-patent-infringement">fighting over
vaccine patents</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, they are both <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#27_November_2021_(Could_have_prevented_new_Covid_variant)">using trade secrets</a> to keep most of humanity
unvaccinated. Shame on both of them!  And shame on the World Trade
Organization, that has made most of the world surrender to this deadly
regime.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(1%2F4_tree_species_endangered)
title: 1/4 tree species endangered
uri: 1-4-tree-species-endangered
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(1%2F4_tree_species_endangered)
content:
 
<p>
*Prevent tree extinctions or face global ecological catastrophe,
scientists warn.*  Over 1/4 of tree species are endangered.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Block any new fossil fuel handouts
uri: Urgent-Block-any-new-fossil-fuel-handouts
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Urgent:_Block_any_new_fossil_fuel_handouts)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Urgent:_Block_any_new_fossil_fuel_handouts)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.greennewdealnetwork.org/letter/fossil-fuel-handouts?source=em20220830-278&t=1001&akid=278%2E421439%2EMsJkoY">block any new fossil fuel handouts</a>,
including the Manchin deal.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(US_ruling_class)
title: US ruling class
uri: US-ruling-class
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(US_ruling_class)
content:
 
<p>
Bernie Sanders: *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/02/the-us-has-a-ruling-class-and-americans-must-stand-up-to-it">The US has a ruling class</a> -- and Americans must stand
up to it.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(California_heatwave)
title: California heatwave
uri: California-heatwave
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(California_heatwave)
content:
 
<p>
California's worst heatwave yet is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/02/california-wildfires-heatwave-firefighters-route-fire">making firemen collapse, even as it
sparks wildfires</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(They_are_human_beings)
title: "They are human beings"
uri: They-are-human-beings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(They_are_human_beings)
content:
 
<p>
*"They are human beings": Chicago mayor welcomes migrants bussed by Texas.*
<p>
What a delightful way to highlight Dementis's inhumanity and cruel spirit.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Canadian_PISSI_spy)
title: Canadian PISSI spy
uri: Canadian-PISSI-spy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Canadian_PISSI_spy)
content:
 
<p>
A Canadian spy inside PISSI <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/02/shamima-begum-trafficking-spy-home-office-citizenship">helped Shamima Begum and two other British
girls</a> get to Syria to join PISSI.
The British government reportedly decided to cover this up as a favor
to Canada.
<p>
The fact that the girls received assistance from a surprising source
does not reduce the gravity of the crime they had already gone to great
lengths to commit.  However, aiding volunteers for PISSI rather than
stopping them made the British and Canadian governments partially responsible
for their arrival in Syria and participation in PISSI.
<p>
To punish Shamima Begum for that crime may well be justified,
but exiling a citizen is not a legitimate punishment even as a sentence.
To do it as an administrative decision is punishment without trial,
and that is never acceptable.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(UK_long_Covid)
title: UK long Covid
uri: UK-long-Covid
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(UK_long_Covid)
content:
 
<p>
Statistics on long Covid in the UK.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/01/430000-britons-have-long-covid-two-years-after-infection-says-ons">400,000 people still have it two years</a>
after their acute infection.
<p>
I wonder how many people in the UK had been infected, by that point in time.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Hawaii_closes_only_coal_plant)
title: Hawaii closes only coal plant
uri: Hawaii-closes-only-coal-plant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Hawaii_closes_only_coal_plant)
content:
 
<p>
*Hawaii to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/31/hawaii-close-coal-power-plant-renewable-energy">close its only coal power plant</a> in a step toward renewable
 energy.*

<p>
 


title: Peltola wins Alaska special election over Palin
uri: Peltola-wins-Alaska-special-election-over-Palin
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Peltola_wins_Alaska_special_election_over_Palin)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Peltola_wins_Alaska_special_election_over_Palin)

content:
 
<p>
*Democrat Mary Peltola <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/31/alaska-special-election-mary-peltola-wins">wins Alaska special election</a> over Sarah Palin.*
<p>
Peltola will be a representative until the end of this year, and will
have to run for reelection in November along with everyone else in the
House of Representatives.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Libyans_mostly_giving_up_hope)
title: Libyans mostly giving up hope
uri: Libyans-mostly-giving-up-hope
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Libyans_mostly_giving_up_hope)
content:
 
<p>
A US diplomat says that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/01/libyans-have-lost-faith-in-political-class-us-diplomat-says-after-tripoli-clashes">Libyans have mostly given up hope that the two
factions that rule parts of Libya can ever make peace and unite the
country</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Michigan_vote_tie)
title: Michigan vote tie
uri: Michigan-vote-tie
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Michigan_vote_tie)
content:
 
<p>
Michigan has a body, with two Democrats and two Republicans, whose approval
is needed for ballot initiatives.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/01/michigan-abortion-elections-panel-ruling">The two Republicans voted against
the abortion rights initiative and the voting rights initiative, causing a tie</a>
which blocked both initiatives.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Torture_and_brainwashing)
title: Torture and brainwashing
uri: Torture-and-brainwashing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Torture_and_brainwashing)
content:
 
<p>
An official UN report describes China's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/01/the-guardian-view-on-the-un-and-xinjiang-no-one-can-say-they-dont-know">torture and brainwashing of
Uyghurs</a>.

<p>
 


title: Black pastor arrested for watering flowers
uri: Black-pastor-arrested-for-watering-flowers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Black_pastor_arrested_for_watering_flowers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Black_pastor_arrested_for_watering_flowers)

content:
 
<p>
Watering flowers while black can <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/us/black-pastor-arrested-watering-flowers-alabama-reaj/index.html">get you arrested in Alabama</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Jackson's_water_supply_failing)
title: Jackson's water supply failing
uri: Jackson-s-water-supply-failing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Jackson's_water_supply_failing)
content:
 
<p>
Jackson's water supply has been <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/politics/jackson-mississippi-water-system-what-matters/index.html">slowly failing for years because of a lack of
funds to maintain it</a>.
This was decided by the state's Republican government.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(GOP's_second_largest_big_lie)
title: GOP's second largest big lie
uri: GOP-s-second-largest-big-lie
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(GOP's_second_largest_big_lie)
content:
 
<p>
The Republican Party has been going all out to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/30/gops-second-largest-big-lie-they-care-about-working-class-people">help its [richest] backers
avoid paying taxes</a>..*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Greenland_ice)
title: Greenland ice
uri: Greenland-ice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Greenland_ice)
content:
 
<p>
Recent observations of Greenland's melting ice show that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/30/terrifying-things-i-witnessed-standing-atop-greenlands-melting-ice-sheet-and-why-i">climate models
have underestimated the rate of sea-level rise</a>.
<p>
I've been predicting for years that models underestimate the effects
of future global heating.  They forecast disaster, but the real
disaster will be worse.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_((Satire)_Free_prostate_exam_day)
title: (Satire) Free prostate exam day
uri: (Satire)-Free-prostate-exam-day
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_((Satire)_Free_prostate_exam_day)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *More MLB Teams Trying To Attract Younger
Audience With <a href="https://www.theonion.com/more-mlb-teams-trying-to-attract-younger-audience-with-1849463825">Free Prostate Exam Day</a>.*

<p>
 


title: (Satire) Abusive parents and making it in entertainment
uri: (Satire)-Abusive-parents-and-making-it-in-entertainment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_((Satire)_Abusive_parents_and_making_it_in_entertainment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_((Satire)_Abusive_parents_and_making_it_in_entertainment)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Casting Director Can Tell That Child Actor <a href="https://www.theonion.com/casting-director-can-tell-that-child-actor-doesn-t-have-1849405660">Doesn't Have The
Abusive Parents It Takes</a> To Make It In Entertainment.*

<p>
 


title: (Satire) Underground sunlight deposit
uri: (Satire)-Underground-sunlight-deposit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_((Satire)_Underground_sunlight_deposit)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_((Satire)_Underground_sunlight_deposit)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Solar Power Investment Skyrockets Upon Discovery Of <a href="https://www.theonion.com/solar-power-investment-skyrockets-upon-discovery-of-mas-1849458050">Massive
Underground Deposit Of Sunlight</a>.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Jail_building_program_blocked)
title: Jail building program blocked
uri: Jail-building-program-blocked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Jail_building_program_blocked)
content:
 
<p>
How activists in Los Angeles blocked a program to build a lot more jails,
and instead <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/31/us-city-creating-model-fighting-mass-incarceration">won programs to help people avoid committing crimes and stay
out of jail</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Political_alignment)
title: Political alignment
uri: Political-alignment
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Political_alignment)
content:
 
<p>
Bernie Sanders comments on today's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/30/people-are-tired-of-being-ignored-while-the-rich-get-richer-bernie-sanders-on-anger-and-hope-in-the-us-and-uk">alignment of unions with
progressives, and other political issues</a>.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Establish Medicare for All
uri: Urgent-Establish-Medicare-for-All
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Urgent:_Establish_Medicare_for_All)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Urgent:_Establish_Medicare_for_All)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on your congresscritter and senators to pass the
bills to <a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14199">establish Medicare for All</a>.
<p>
To sign without running
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a>
from the web site, use the
<a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Urgent:_Afghan_Adjustment_Act)
title: Urgent: Afghan Adjustment Act
uri: Urgent-Afghan-Adjustment-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Urgent:_Afghan_Adjustment_Act)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/go/34272?c0=tell-congress-pass-afghan-adjustment-act.sFzpAK&source=em20220828&t=1007&akid=8071%2E223515%2EFyt6b0">pass the Afghan Adjustment Act</a>
which will treat Afghan refugees better.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Overhaul US credit reporting system
uri: Urgent-Overhaul-US-credit-reporting-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Urgent:_Overhaul_US_credit_reporting_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Urgent:_Overhaul_US_credit_reporting_system)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-to-congress-overhaul-the-american-credit-reporting-system?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-just-strategy&source=group-just-strategy">overhaul the US credit reporting system</a>.

<p>
 


title: Google canceled account over photo sent to a doctor
uri: Google-canceled-account-over-photo-sent-to-a-doctor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Google_canceled_account_over_photo_sent_to_a_doctor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Google_canceled_account_over_photo_sent_to_a_doctor)

content:
 
<p>
Google <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-csam-account-blocked">canceled a man's account on seeing he sent a doctor photos of
his baby son' injured genitals</a>.
<p>
Despite the publicity, Google has not reinstated his account.
<p>
This highlights well-known dangers of automated detection of
<em>possible</em> child sexual abuse images.  Beyond that, it also shows that
having humans involved in making the decision is not guaranteed to
correct an erroneous automated detection.
<p>
Furthermore, it shows the danger of having various different digital
services provided by a single company, or by companies that have agreed
to work together to kick "offenders" off the services of all of them.
<p>
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/notes/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September_2019_(Sex_between_an_adult_and_a_child_is_wrong)">Child sexual abuse is a real problem</a>, but people accused of doing that
are entitled to have a trial before they are punished.  We cannot
allow online disservices to implement unofficial punishment without trial.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Declare a climate emergency
uri: 2022-09-03-Urgent-Declare-a-climate-emergency
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Urgent:_Declare_a_climate_emergency)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#3_September_2022_(Urgent:_Declare_a_climate_emergency)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-president-biden-declare-a-climate-emergency?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-just-strategy&source=group-just-strategy">declare a climate emergency</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Keep censorship of abortion advice illegal
uri: Urgent-Keep-censorship-of-abortion-advice-illegal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Urgent:_Keep_censorship_of_abortion_advice_illegal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Urgent:_Keep_censorship_of_abortion_advice_illegal)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/fight-abortion-censorship">keep censorship of abortion advice illegal.

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

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Chipotle_Union_in_Michigan)
title: Chipotle Union in Michigan
uri: Chipotle-Union-in-Michigan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Chipotle_Union_in_Michigan)
content:
 
<p>

*Chipotle Workers in Michigan Vote to Form Fastfood Chain's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/26/historic-victory-chipotle-workers-michigan-vote-form-fastfood-chains-first-union">First
Union</a>.*
<p>
Officially forming a union is just the first step.  A bigger hurdle follows:
getting the company to negotiate with the union in good faith.

 


title: Culling cows to meet climate target
uri: Culling-cows-to-meet-climate-target
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Culling_cows_to_meet_climate_target)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Culling_cows_to_meet_climate_target)

content:
 
<p>

*Irish farmers say they will be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/29/irish-farmers-cull-cows-meet-climate-targets">forced to cull cows</a> to meet climate targets.*
<p>
Most of us will have to make sacrifices in the effort to avoid total
disaster.  Would those farmers prefer collapse of civilization?
<p>
Let's just make sure that the billionaires don't dump their share of
the sacrifices onto the rest of us.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Violence_of_Republican_extremism)
title: Violence of Republican extremism
uri: Violence-of-Republican-extremism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Violence_of_Republican_extremism)
content:
 
<p>

*The <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/26/violence-heart-trumpism">Violence at the Heart</a> of [Republican extremism].*

 


title: Right-wing women won't help feminism
uri: Right-wing-women-won-t-help-feminism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Right-wing_women_won't_help_feminism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Right-wing_women_won't_help_feminism)

content:
 
<p>

A feminist recognizes that having women elected to office is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/28/rights-under-assault-we-must-create-feminism-promotes-egalitarian-values">not going
to help women's rights</a>, if the women who are elected are right-wing.

 


title: Illegal exploitation of indigenous lands in Brazil
uri: Illegal-exploitation-of-indigenous-lands-in-Brazil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Illegal_exploitation_of_indigenous_lands_in_Brazil)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Illegal_exploitation_of_indigenous_lands_in_Brazil)

content:
 
<p>

*Invasions and illegal exploitation of indigenous lands in Brazil <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/28/americas/brazil-land-invasions-bolsonaro-latam-intl/index.html">tripled
under Bolsonaro</a>, says advocacy group.*

 


title: Darya Dugina was an important figure in Russian disinformation campaigns
uri: Darya-Dugina-was-an-important-figure-in-Russian-disinformation-campaig
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Darya_Dugina_was_an_important_figure_in_Russian_disinformation_campaigns)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Darya_Dugina_was_an_important_figure_in_Russian_disinformation_campaigns)

content:
 
<p>

Darya Dugina, who was killed by a car bomb recently, was reportedly
an <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/27/europe/darya-dugina-russia-disinformation-women-intl-cmd/index.html">important figure</a> in Russian disinformation campaigns.
<p>
Perhaps the car bomb attack was aimed at her rather than her father,
but I think it would have been an unreliable plan.  I don't think
Ukraine would have burned such a capability on a propoagandist or
a philosopher.

 


title: US government cannot seize funds of Afghan central bank
uri: US-government-cannot-seize-funds-of-Afghan-central-bank
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(US_government_cannot_seize_funds_of_Afghan_central_bank)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(US_government_cannot_seize_funds_of_Afghan_central_bank)

content:
 
<p>

A US judge ruled that the US government cannot seize the funds of the
Afghan central bank, and that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/29/us-judge-says-billions-seized-central-bank-funds-belong-afghan-people">they belong to the Afghan people</a>, but
not (if I understand correctly) to the Taliban.
<p>
The arguments cited are legal arguments, not moral ones.  Nonetheless,
I'm happy with the outcome &mdash; I hope it will not be reversed.

 


title: Sea level will rise from Greenland's ice
uri: Sea-level-will-rise-from-Greenland-s-ice
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Sea_level_will_rise_from_Greenland's_ice)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Sea_level_will_rise_from_Greenland's_ice)

content:
 
<p>

Greenland's ice will melt enough to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/29/major-sea-level-rise-caused-by-melting-of-greenland-ice-cap-is-now-inevitable-27cm-climate">raise sea level about one foot</a>.
It is too late to prevent this, but we may be able to prevent further
melting in Greenland.
<p>
Ice is melting elsewhere too, so the actual rise that is now inevitable
will be more than one foot.

 


title: Bogus Johnson arranging a comeback
uri: Bogus-Johnson-arranging-a-comeback
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_arranging_a_comeback)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Bogus_Johnson_arranging_a_comeback)

content:
 
<p>

Bogus Johnson is trying to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/29/boris-johnson-wants-to-do-a-berlusconi-back-to-power-says-rory-stewart">arrange a comeback</a>, aided by the fact that
the two contenders from which Tory Party members will soon choose a
new prime minister are inclined to make poor people suffer, and likely
to lead to a big Tory defeat in the next election.

 


title: Wooden imitations of missile launchers
uri: Wooden-imitations-of-missile-launchers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Wooden_imitations_of_missile_launchers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Wooden_imitations_of_missile_launchers)

content:
 
<p>

Ukraine has built <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/30/ukraine-using-wooden-decoys-to-lure-russia-into-wasting-its-missiles-report">wooden imitations</a> of US HIMARS missile launchers, 
to use as decoys.  The <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> fire expensive missiles at them.
<p>
It was a good hack, but I'm afraid that whoever revealed it has ruined
it.  What a pity.

 


title: California gives fast-food workers more power
uri: California-gives-fast-food-workers-more-power
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(California_gives_fast-food_workers_more_power)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(California_gives_fast-food_workers_more_power)

content:
 
<p>

*California approves <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/30/california-lawmakers-fast-food-workers-bill">landmark bill</a> to give fast-food workers more
power.*
<p>
Restaurant owners argued that improving low-paid workers' pay and
treatment would increase the prices of restaurant food.  I am sure
that will happen, to some extent, but we restaurant customers can live
with that.  I also expect that the restaurant owners are exaggerating.

 


title: Water supply of Jackson, Mississippi
uri: Water-supply-of-Jackson-Mississippi
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Water_supply_of_Jackson,_Mississippi)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Water_supply_of_Jackson,_Mississippi)

content:
 
<p>

The water supply of Jackson, Mississippi, has broken down and is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/us/jackson-water-system-failing-tuesday/index.html">out
of service</a>.  The immediate cause was flooding that affected the water
purification plant.
<p>
Mississippi is a Republican-controlled state, and many of the
residents of Jackson are black.  I suspect that the state has underfunded
all civic systems in Jackson for a long time, and that this is the
underlying reason for the failure.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Excavation_in_Norwich,_England)
title: Excavation in Norwich, England
uri: Excavation-in-Norwich-England
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Excavation_in_Norwich,_England)
content:
 
<p>

An excavation in Norwich, England, found the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/30/jewish-remains-found-in-norwich-well-were-medieval-pogrom-victims-study">bodies of 17 Jews
murdered in a pogrom in 1190</a>.
Antisemitism in medieval Europe often led to murder.

 


title: Example of European Union's power sector
uri: Example-of-European-Union-s-power-sector
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Example_of_European_Union's_power_sector)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Example_of_European_Union's_power_sector)

content:
 
<p>

*   The European Union's power sector is a good example of what <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/08/29/we-need-public-utilities-and-we-need-them-now">market
   fundamentalism has done to electricity networks</a> the world over.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Teachers_of_Columbus,_Ohio)
title: Teachers of Columbus, Ohio
uri: Teachers-of-Columbus-Ohio
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(Teachers_of_Columbus,_Ohio)
content:
 
<p>

The teachers of Columbus, Ohio, went on strike and <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/29/teachers-union-ohio-went-strike-students-and-won">gained important
victories</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(FTC_suing_a_data_broker)
title: FTC suing a data broker
uri: FTC-suing-a-data-broker
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#4_September_2022_(FTC_suing_a_data_broker)
content:
 
<p>

The Federal Trade Commission is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/tech/ftc-kochava-abortion-suit/index.html">suing a data broker</a> for selling
location data and including data about visits to "sensitive"
locations.  This shows how fundamentally weak the US approach
to privacy is.
<p>
Any location data record can be sensitive for some people.  The way to
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">truly protect people's privacy</a> is to ensure that people's locations
are not tracked.

<p>
 


title: New York City is suing Starbucks for firing a union organizer.
uri: New-York-City-is-suing-Starbucks-for-firing-a-union-organizer
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(first_nyc_lawsuit_starbucks_union_busting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(first_nyc_lawsuit_starbucks_union_busting)

content:
 
<p>
New York City is suing Starbucks for firing a union organizer.
Rather than using federal labor law, which generally prohibits this too,
it is using a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/02/first-nyc-just-cause-lawsuit-targets-starbucks-union-busting">New York City law that is stronger.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(ohio_cop_donovan_lewis)
title: Outrage After Ohio Cop Kills Unarmed Black Man Donovan Lewis in Bed
uri: Outrage-After-Ohio-Cop-Kills-Unarmed-Black-Man-Donovan-Lewis-in-Bed
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(ohio_cop_donovan_lewis)
content:
 
<p>
*Columbus [thug] shot Donovan Lewis within a second of opening the door
to his room, and then, while he was dying, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/31/outrage-after-ohio-cop-kills-unarmed-black-man-donovan-lewis-bed">told him to 'stop
resisting.'"</a>*
<p>
I have a hunch that thug said "stop resisting" to a man who was not resisting
as a way of pretending that he was resisting &mdash; to create a fake excuse
to use later.

 


title: The most important battle of our lifetimes
uri: The-most-important-battle-of-our-lifetimes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(robert_reich_most_important_battle)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(robert_reich_most_important_battle)

content:
 
<p>
*There can be no middle ground in the fight between 
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-most-important-battle-of-our">democracy and
authoritarian fascism.</a>*
<p>
Right-wing extremists make threats of domestic terrorism in the hope of
intimidating the defenders of democracy.  We must not be intimidated
out of defending it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(nader_cashless_society)
title: How About a Civic Group to Oppose a Cashless Society?
uri: How-About-a-Civic-Group-to-Oppose-a-Cashless-Society
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(nader_cashless_society)
content:
 
<p>
Ralph Nader invites people to help form an organization to defend the right
(and the option) of 
<a href="https://mailchi.mp/nader/how-about-a-civic-group-to-oppose-a-cashless-society-nfomiwv54x?e=555e9be067">using cash to pay.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(ovo_energy_scheme_tax_system)
title: Ovo Energy chief calls for ‘progressive’ scheme for bills similar to tax system
uri: Ovo-Energy-chief-calls-for-progressive-scheme-for-bills-similar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(ovo_energy_scheme_tax_system)
content:
 
<p>
Proposing a progressive price system for electricity and fossil fuels,
as a way of helping the poor without 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/01/ovo-energy-chief-calls-for-progressive-scheme-for-bills-similar-to-tax-system">subsidizing fossil fuel for the rich.</a>
<p>
That would be much better than giving rich people the same subsidy as
the poor, but I've already explained that a subsidy for energy is a
terrible mistake.

 


title: (satire) *Hawaiian Travel Ad Boasts Sandy White Tourists As Far As The Eye Can See.*
uri: (satire)-Hawaiian-Travel-Ad-Boasts-Sandy-White-Tourists-As-Far-As-The
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_((Satire)_ad_boasts_sandy_white_tourists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_((Satire)_ad_boasts_sandy_white_tourists)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Hawaiian Travel Ad Boasts Sandy White Tourists 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/hawaiian-travel-ad-boasts-sandy-white-tourists-as-far-a-1849413427">As Far As The
Eye Can See.</a>*
<p>
Don't worry about the resources &mdash; tourists pay high prices for those.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(global_fossil_fuel_subsidies)
title: *Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Nearly Doubled in 2021.*
uri: Global-Fossil-Fuel-Subsidies-Nearly-Doubled-in-2021
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(global_fossil_fuel_subsidies)
content:
 
<p>
*Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/01/insanity-continues-global-fossil-fuel-subsidies-nearly-doubled-2021">Nearly Doubled in 2021.</a>*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(time_to_hold_wall_street_account)
uri: Protests-are-planned-against-the-US-banks-and-insurance-companies-that
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(time_to_hold_wall_street_account)
title:
 Protests are planned against the US banks and insurance companies that make
fossil fuel expansion possible. 

content:
 
<p>
Protests are planned against the US banks and insurance 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/01/world-floods-and-burns-its-time-hold-wall-street-account">companies that make
fossil fuel expansion possible.</a>
<p>
Here is the full list of events, 
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/event_campaigns/blame-wall-street-coordinated-actions?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=direct_link">viewable without Javascript.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(green_revolution_africa)
title: *The 'Green Revolution' Has Failed in Africa and It's Time for a New Direction.*
uri: The-Green-Revolution-Has-Failed-in-Africa-and-It-s-Time-for-a-New
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(green_revolution_africa)
content:
 
<p>
*The 'Green Revolution' Has Failed in Africa and 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/03/green-revolution-has-failed-africa-and-its-time-new-direction">It's Time for a New
 Direction.*</a>
<p>
I have no special knowledge about on this field &mdash; this seems plausible,
but I can't be sure whether it is true.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(peace_literacy)
uri: Schools-must-teach-the-history-of-strategic-non-violent-campaigns-th
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(peace_literacy)
title:
 *Schools must teach the history of strategic non-violent campaigns
 that won civil rights and women's rights.* 

content:
 
<p>
*Schools must teach the history of strategic non-violent campaigns
 that 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/03/peace-literacy-every-student-needs-it">won civil rights and women's rights.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(where_is_classified_content)
title: 'Where Did the Classified Content Go?' Dozens of Empty Folders Seized From Trump Home
uri: Where-Did-the-Classified-Content-Go-Dozens-of-Empty-Folders-Seized
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(where_is_classified_content)
content:
 
<p>
Many folders intended for secret files were found <Em>empty</Em> in the
corrupter's possession.
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/02/where-did-classified-content-go-dozens-empty-folders-seized-trump-home">in the
corrupter's possession.</a>
<p>
I wonder whether the government knows what documents were in those
folders. The article does not clearly say.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(arkansas_cop_street_beating)
title: Arkansas cops suspended after bystander films savage street beating of shoe less man
uri: Arkansas-cops-suspended-after-bystander-films-savage-street-beating-of
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(arkansas_cop_street_beating)
content:
 
<p>
*Arkansas [thugs] suspended after bystander films 
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/08/22/arkansas-cop-suspended-after-bystander-films-savage-street-beating-of-shoeless-man.html">savage street
beating of shoe less man.*</a>
<p>
I would like to suggest suspending them by the neck, but not seriously
&mdash; I oppose the death penalty, without exception.  What those thugs
deserve is a long prison sentence &mdash; longer because they betrayed the
duties of their job as police officers.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(gop_lgbtq_isolation_camps)
title: GOP operative wants LGBTQ community put in “isolation camps for their own protection”
uri: GOP-operative-wants-LGBTQ-community-put-in-isolation-camps-for-thei
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(gop_lgbtq_isolation_camps)
content:
 
<p>
*GOP operative wants LGBTQ community put in "isolation 
<a href="https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/gop-operative-wants-lgbtq-community-put-isolation-camps-protection/">camps for their own
protection".</a>*

 


uri: The-dark-money-billionaire-funded-Tea-Party-Patriots-has-an-action-gu
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(dark_money_tea_party_funded_patriots)

title:
 The dark money billionaire-funded Tea Party Patriots has an "action guide" for disrupting public health measures 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(dark_money_tea_party_funded_patriots)

content:
 
<p>
A right-wing manipulation group, the Tea Party Patriots, undertook to
sabotage the US efforts to resist Covid-19. 
<a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/08/22/the-dark-money-billionaire-funded-tea-party-patriots-has-an-action-guide-for-disrupting-public-health-measures.html">It may have been
substantially effective.</a>
<p>
I do not believe anyone is entitled to the "freedom" to go unmasked
indoors, risking spreading Covid-19, from mere preference.
<p>
500 deaths per day adds up to around 180,000 per year.  That is around
a 4% increment in the death rate.
<p>
The number of people developing long Covid per day is likely to be in
the thousands, and the number of people unable to work is estimated as
on the order of 
<a href="https://coronavirus.house.gov/news/press-releases/select-subcommittee-hearing-highlights-devastating-health-and-economic-impacts">2.5% of the entire working population.</a>

 


title: US leant on Britain to jail detainees freed from Guantánamo Bay
uri: US-leant-on-Britain-to-jail-detainees-freed-from-Guantánamo-Bay
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(us_britian_detainees_guantanamo_bay)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#5_September_2022_(us_britian_detainees_guantanamo_bay)

content:
 
<p>
When Dubya released some British prisoners from Guantánamo, his
officials asked the UK government to jail them arbitrarily or through
unjust trials. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/04/us-leant-on-britain-to-jail-detainees-freed-from-guantanamo-bay">The UK government refused to do this.</a>

 


title: Urgent: No Tax Breaks for Union Busting Act
uri: Urgent-No-Tax-Breaks-for-Union-Busting-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Urgent:_No_Tax_Breaks_for_Union_Busting_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Urgent:_No_Tax_Breaks_for_Union_Busting_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/stop-starbucks-union-busting-tell-congress-to-pass-the-no-tax-breaks-for-union-busting-act">pass the No Tax Breaks for
Union Busting Act</a>.
This would eliminate the tax deduction for the money that companies
spend on union-busting.  I think this won't be enough to eliminate
union-busting, but I think it will convince some companies to do less
of that.

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

 


title: Urgent: Action against Florida law censoring discussions in school
uri: Urgent-Action-against-Florida-law-censoring-discussions-in-school
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Urgent:_Action_against_Florida_law_censoring_discussions_in_school)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Urgent:_Action_against_Florida_law_censoring_discussions_in_school)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Department of Education to take legal action
against Florida's law that tries to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-dept-of-ed-to-step-up-and-defend-free-speech-due-process-and-the-right-to-learn-without-fear-of-a-right-wing-gestapo">censor discussion of uncomfortable
topics in school</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Make Afghanistan's fund reserves available
uri: Urgent-Make-Afghanistan-s-fund-reserves-available
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Urgent:_Make_Afghanistan's_fund_reserves_available)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Urgent:_Make_Afghanistan's_fund_reserves_available)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress and the White House to <a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14668">make
Afghanistan's fund reserves available</a> to the Afghan people.
<p>
To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a>
from the web site, use the <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Stop Florida law censoring university professors and students
uri: Urgent-Stop-Florida-law-censoring-university-professors-and-students
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_Florida_law_censoring_university_professors_and_students)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_Florida_law_censoring_university_professors_and_students)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call for stopping Florida law that is designed to
<a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-on-stop-desantis-student-censorship">intimidate and censor university professors and students</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Interest rate raise on working people
uri: Urgent-Interest-rate-raise-on-working-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Urgent:_Interest_rate_raise_on_working_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Urgent:_Interest_rate_raise_on_working_people)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Federal Reserve <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-fed-dont-raise-interest-rates-on-working-people-government-must-fight-corporate-greed-instead">not to raise interest rates on working people</a>. Government must fight corporate greed instead.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Cost_of_raising_a_child)
title: Cost of raising a child
uri: Cost-of-raising-a-child
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Cost_of_raising_a_child)
content:
 
<p>

Raising a child through high school now <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/success/child-raising-costs-rise/index.html">costs $310,000</a> in the US.
<p>
That is for a middle-income married couple's second child.
(The first would presumably cost more.)
<p>
This doesn't count the breakup of the relationship, which is a
frequent result of having a child.

 


title: Republican senate candidate claims about 2020 election
uri: Republican-senate-candidate-claims-about-2020-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Republican_senate_candidate_claims_about_2020_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Republican_senate_candidate_claims_about_2020_election)

content:
 
<p>

One Republican senate candidate used to claim on his web site
that the Democrats stole the 2020 election &mdash; for the Republican
primary.  Now that he has won that, he has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/29/politics/blake-masters-campaign-website-changes/index.html">deleted the claim</a>.
<p>
For Republicans, deceit is habitual.

 


title: UK thug departments require listing reporters each thug knows
uri: UK-thug-departments-require-listing-reporters-each-thug-knows
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(UK_thug_departments_require_listing_reporters_each_thug_knows)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(UK_thug_departments_require_listing_reporters_each_thug_knows)

content:
 
<p>

Some thug departments in the UK require each thug to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/aug/29/uk-police-asking-officers-to-disclose-any-personal-ties-with-news-reporters">list any
reporters</a> perse knows.

 


title: Litigation insurance policies for oil companies
uri: Litigation-insurance-policies-for-oil-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Litigation_insurance_policies_for_oil_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Litigation_insurance_policies_for_oil_companies)

content:
 
<p>

US court cases are considering whether litigation insurance policies
for oil companies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/30/us-fossil-fuel-firm-aloha-petroleum-sues-insurer-aig-for-refusing-to-cover-climate-lawsuit">include lawsuits for damaging the climate</a>.

 


title: Parliamentary inquiry into spy scandal
uri: Parliamentary-inquiry-into-spy-scandal
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Parliamentary_inquiry_into_spy_scandal)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Parliamentary_inquiry_into_spy_scandal)

content:
 
<p>

*Greece to launch <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/30/greece-to-launch-parliamentary-inquiry-into-spy-scandal">parliamentary inquiry into spy scandal</a>*
about government spying on political leaders.

 


title: Sudan journalists form first union in 30 years
uri: Sudan-journalists-form-first-union-in-30-years
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Sudan_journalists_form_first_union_in_30_years)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Sudan_journalists_form_first_union_in_30_years)

content:
 
<p>

*Sudan journalists defy military rule by forming <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/aug/30/sudan-journalists-defy-military-rule-by-forming-first-union-in-30-years">first union in 30 years</a>.*

 


title: Bogus trial of Mohammad el Halabi
uri: Bogus-trial-of-Mohammad-el-Halabi
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Bogus_trial_of_Mohammad_el_Halabi)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Bogus_trial_of_Mohammad_el_Halabi)

content:
 
<p>

The head of World Vision International (a charity)'s work in Gaza,
Mohammad el Halabi, has been convicted by Israel of supposedly
routing aid funds to Hamas, but the trial <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/30/israeli-court-sentences-mohammad-el-halabi-director-of-gaza-charity-to-12-years-in-prison">appears to have been bogus</a>.
<p>
Human Rights Watch, the government of Australia, and others have concluded
that the conviction is not based on evidence.

 


title: Plans to protect the natural world
uri: Plans-to-protect-the-natural-world
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Plans_to_protect_the_natural_world)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Plans_to_protect_the_natural_world)

content:
 
<p>

*   Once-in-a-decade plans to protect the natural world and halt its
   destruction will be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/30/what-is-cop15-and-why-does-it-matter-for-all-life-on-earth-aoe">decided in Canada in December</a>.*

 


title: Prison for some unstated acts for dissent
uri: Prison-for-some-unstated-acts-for-dissent
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Prison_for_some_unstated_acts_for_dissent)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Prison_for_some_unstated_acts_for_dissent)

content:
 
<p>

Salafi Arabia has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/30/saudi-woman-given-jail-sentence-for-social-media-use-says-human-rights-group">sentenced Nourah bint Saeed al-Qahtani to 45 years
in prison</a> for some unstated acts of dissent.

 


title: Americans catching on to threat of right-wing extremists
uri: Americans-catching-on-to-threat-of-right-wing-extremists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Americans_catching_on_to_threat_of_right-wing_extremists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Americans_catching_on_to_threat_of_right-wing_extremists)

content:
 
<p>

Americans are catching on to the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/30/trump-republicans-voters-midterms-democrats">threat that right-wing extremists pose</a>
with their persistent dishonesty and violence.
<p>
Advocating attacks on our system of government, or on Americans who
disagree with them, is far beyond merely holding views about policies
&mdash; even major policies &mdash; that we disagree with.  Those are citizens,
whose freedom we must respect even as we try to convince them.
<p>
The attackers hate our freedoms, and have declared their intention to
use dishonest and/or violent means to eliminate them.  We must prepare
to fight them, and we can't be nice about it.

 


title: Dangers of breathing nitrous oxide
uri: Dangers-of-breathing-nitrous-oxide
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Dangers_of_breathing_nitrous_oxide)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Dangers_of_breathing_nitrous_oxide)

content:
 
<p>

Breathing nitrous oxide too much and too often can cause <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/30/doctors-warn-of-rise-in-nerve-damage-linked-to-nitrous-oxide">grave nerve
injuries</a>, if you don't protect yourself with supplements of vitamin B12.
<p>
This is a job for &hellip; public health education!

 


title: Permitting the delivery of junk mail
uri: Permitting-the-delivery-of-junk-mail
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Permitting_the_delivery_of_junk_mail)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(Permitting_the_delivery_of_junk_mail)

content:
 
<p>

In some cities in France, people now need to put a sticker on the
mailbox if they wish to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/01/france-cracks-down-on-junk-mail-with-trial-opt-in-system">permit delivery of junk mail</a>.
This is intended to reduce waste of resources and waste to be disposed of.

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feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(US_voters_favor_climate_bills)
title: US voters favor climate bills
uri: US-voters-favor-climate-bills
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#6_September_2022_(US_voters_favor_climate_bills)
content:
 
<p>

*Polling shows that US voters favor climate bills &mdash; yet <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/01/us-voters-assume-fellow-americans-dont-favor-climate-bills">assume fellow
Americans don’t</a>.*
<p>
I suspect that the propaganda term "centrist" is part of the cause of
this.  <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">Plutocratist</a> Democratic politicians discourage firm climate
defense action to serve the plutocrats who fund them, and the
mainstream media refer to them as "centrist."  This is designed to,
and often does, convince most Americans that those <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratists</a>
represent the political "center" &mdash; but <!--<a href="">-->the real political center is
well to the left of there.
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[pol note about how many progressive positions command supermajority
support among the American people]
-->


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(fiji_democracy)
title: Coup leader v coup leader: strongman election shows cracks in Fiji’s democracy
uri: Coup-leader-v-coup-leader-strongman-election-shows-cracks-in-Fiji-s
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(fiji_democracy)
content:
 
<p>
Fiji's government has bounced from coup to coup, and the current prime
minister rules in an 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/06/coup-leader-v-coup-leader-strongman-election-shows-cracks-in-fijis-democracy">authoritarian and vengeful way.</a>
<p>
Meanwhile, competition with China for influence blocks Australia
from using its influence to promote human rights in the Pacific.
Governments would respond to that by jumping to China's side; China
does not seek to promote democracy.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(gentrification_communities)
title: It’s not all coffee shops and hipsters: what we get wrong about gentrification
uri: It-s-not-all-coffee-shops-and-hipsters-what-we-get-wrong-about-gent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(gentrification_communities)
content:
 
<p>
Gentrification is driven by powerful business forces, often supported
by the state.  If you oppose the change, focus on those forces, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/04/coffee-shops-hipsters-gentrification-communities">not on
the visible symptoms.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(heart_wrenching_puppy_scams)
title: Losses from ‘heart-wrenching’ puppy scams increase 1,000% over last two years
uri: Losses-from-heart-wrenching-puppy-scams-increase-1-000-over-las
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(heart_wrenching_puppy_scams)
content:
 
<p>
Some people are prepared to pay thousands of dollars for "just the
right" puppy, without ever actually seeing it.  Sometimes they pay
the thousands and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/05/losses-from-heart-wrenching-puppy-scams-increase-1000-over-last-two-years">never even get the puppy &mdash; it is a scam.</a>
<p>
Nothing can excuse swindling, but the victims would never have fallen
prey to this scan if they had not started with a foolish approach.  An
adult ought to know better than to believe that one specific puppy,
that perse has never met, is the one and only right one.
<p>
There is a certain tendency for people to believe that spending a lot
of money on something unusual and different in your life will make it
better.  But it doesn't usually have that effect.

 


title: A growing movement aims to disrupt violence by connecting incarcerated youth with mentors
uri: A-growing-movement-aims-to-disrupt-violence-by-connecting-incarcerated
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(credible_messenger_mentoring_movement)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(credible_messenger_mentoring_movement)

content:
 
<p>
The Credible Messenger Mentoring Movement helps teenagers from
disprivileged groups avoid the temptation of gangs and drugs by
offering them mentors: adults 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/04/us/credible-messenger-mentoring-movement/index.html">who grew up in the same community and
succeeded in meeting that challenge.</a>
<p>
The mentors are credible in that they personally experienced the situation
that they guide the teenagers in coping with.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(edmonton_pulls_bison_sculpture)
title: Canadian city pulls bison sculpture in row over representation of colonialism
uri: Canadian-city-pulls-bison-sculpture-in-row-over-representation-of-colo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(edmonton_pulls_bison_sculpture)
content:
 
<p>
Artist Ken Lum made two sculptures, a bison and a bison hunter, to
display in the city of Edmonton so as to provoke thought about the
extermination of the bison.  The city cancelled their display in the
name of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/02/edmonton-pulls-bison-sculpture-colonialism-ken-lum">hyper concern for some people's hypersensitivity.</a>
<p>
Hunters did not kill 100.000000 percent of the bison &mdash; the species still
survives in some protected places.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(starbucks_union_firings)
title: You might think Starbucks is a ‘progressive’ company. You’d be wrong
uri: You-might-think-Starbucks-is-a-progressive-company-You-d-be-w
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(starbucks_union_firings)
content:
 
<p>
Starbucks carefully cultivates a let's-be-kind-to-each-other image
while treating employees like dirt and punishing 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/05/starbucks-progressive-company-union-firings">them illegally for
organizing.</a>
<p>
I too stopped by the strike site at 874 Comm Ave, Boston, and I found out
how the workers have been able to keep the picket going 24/7 for months:
it's not just the workers!  Volunteers from the community help out.
<p>
I wish I could post a link to more information, but that site won't
show anything unless the visitor runs nonfree JavaScript code, and I
will not direct people to such a site.  Is there a web developer who
would be interested in setting up a freedom-respecting site to show
the same information?  The strikers might be happy to adopt that site
if some developers set it up.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(abortion_rights_aids_activism)
title: The abortion rights movement can learn from the Aids activism of the 80s and 90s
uri: The-abortion-rights-movement-can-learn-from-the-Aids-activism-of-the-8
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(abortion_rights_aids_activism)
content:
 
<p>
Recommending that the abortion rights movement take inspiration from
the 80s/90s organization Act Up, which campaigned for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/05/abortion-rights-movement-aids-activism">AIDS patients'
rights and medical care.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(major_study_amazon_rainforest)
title: Large parts of Amazon may never recover, major study says
uri: Large-parts-of-Amazon-may-never-recover-major-study-says
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(major_study_amazon_rainforest)
content:
 
<p>
Scientists conclude that parts of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and
Bolivia have already reached a tipping point, and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/05/large-parts-of-amazon-may-never-recover-major-study-says">will not regrow as
forest if left alone.</a>
<p>
We can't be sure just how big a disaster this will be, but it will be
big.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(doomscrolling_study)
title: Doomscrolling linked to poor physical and mental health, study finds
uri: Doomscrolling-linked-to-poor-physical-and-mental-health-study-finds
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(doomscrolling_study)
content:
 
<p>
*Doomscrolling linked to poor physical and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/06/doomscrolling-linked-to-poor-physical-and-mental-health-study-finds">mental health, study finds.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(tory_liz_truss_uks_next_pm)
title: Liz Truss to appoint cabinet of loyalists as she becomes UK’s next prime minister
uri: Liz-Truss-to-appoint-cabinet-of-loyalists-as-she-becomes-UK-s-next-p
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(tory_liz_truss_uks_next_pm)
content:
 
<p>
The Tory Party has selected a plutocratist 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/05/liz-truss-to-appoint-cabinet-of-loyalists-as-she-becomes-uks-next-pm">extremist as the new prime
minister.</a>
<p>
The nation mostly opposes her already.  As most Britons are forced
into poverty, her program is to cut taxes (a benefit for the wealthier
Britons) and 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/05/trussonomics-reckless-exercise-slashing-state-thatcherism">cut spending (more Tory cruelty).</a>
<p>
Perhaps recognizing her unpopularity, she intends to delay elections
as late as possible.  Two years in power will allow her and the Tories
to do no end of harm.
<p>
Identitarians may rejoice that, for the first time, none of the four
principal ministers in the cabinet will be a white man.  Perhaps being
forced into poverty, and allowing the government to get away with
mistreating people illegally, will hurt less this way than if white
men had done it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(biden_safer_america_plan)
title: Biden's "Safer America Plan" Should Follow the Science of Public Safety
uri: Biden-s-Safer-America-Plan-Should-Follow-the-Science-of-Public-Safet
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(biden_safer_america_plan)
content:
 
<p>
Biden proposes to spend 13 billion dollars to hire 100,000 more cops,
supposedly to reduce the danger of violent crime.  But it might not
achieve anything on that dimension, and it would 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/05/bidens-safer-america-plan-should-follow-science-public-safety">ramp up repression in
the form of arrests for drug possession.</a>
<p>
It would be more effective to put that money into social programs and
low-rent housing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(fema_climate_change_georgia)
title: US flood maps outdated thanks to climate change, FEMA director says
uri: US-flood-maps-outdated-thanks-to-climate-change-FEMA-director-says
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(fema_climate_change_georgia)
content:
 
<p>
FEMA's director acknowledges that FEMA's maps of flood danger need to
be updated to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/04/fema-flood-maps-climate-change-georgia-floods">reflect changes due to global heating.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(chile_to_reject_new_constitution)
title: Chile votes overwhelmingly to reject new, progressive constitution
uri: Chile-votes-overwhelmingly-to-reject-new-progressive-constitution
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(chile_to_reject_new_constitution)
content:
 
<p>
Chileans rejected the draft constitution written by the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/05/chile-votes-overwhelmingly-to-reject-new-progressive-constitution">constitutional
convention.</a>
<p>
Pinochet's constitution was designed for repression; it needs to be
replaced.  But with what?  I suggest asking the public to vote on
several questions about which of the major changes they like or
dislike.  Those answers might help in writing a constitution that
a substantial majority of the public will support.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(how_to_green_parched_farmlands)
title: How to Green Our Parched Farmlands and Finance Critical Infrastructure
uri: How-to-Green-Our-Parched-Farmlands-and-Finance-Critical-Infrastructure
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(how_to_green_parched_farmlands)
content:
 
<p>
New and old unusual ways to raise funds for critical infrastructure
to help farms and 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/03/how-green-our-parched-farmlands-and-finance-critical-infrastructure">people cope with drought.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(south_africa_seismic_blasting)
uri: Shell-Ruling-in-South-Africa-a-Victory-Against-Capitalist-Extraction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#7_September_2022_(south_africa_seismic_blasting)
title:
 Shell Ruling in South Africa a 'Victory Against Capitalist Extraction and Destruction of Our Future' 

content:
 
<p>
South Africa has banned seismic blasting in the ocean off the 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/01/shell-ruling-south-africa-victory-against-capitalist-extraction-and-destruction-our">Wild
Coast area.</a>
<p>
Shell was going to do the blasting to search for 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/nov/05/cambridge-accepts-6m-shell-donation-for-oil-extraction-research">fossil fuels that
humanity cannot afford to extract anyway.</a>
<p>
The blasting itself would
have 
<p>
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/08/24/seismic-blasting-pursuit-oil-puts-whales-risk-report-confirms">harmed whales and other wildlife.</a>
I celebrate the outcome of this case, but I think that the views of
people living near the proposed area of exploitation are a weak foundation
for something as important as limiting fossil fuel extraction.  The dangers
of the extraction are global, and the ban should be global too.

 


title: Urgent: End construction of new natural gas infrastructure
uri: Urgent-End-construction-of-new-natural-gas-infrastructure
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Urgent:_End_construction_of_new_natural_gas_infrastructure)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Urgent:_End_construction_of_new_natural_gas_infrastructure)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your state representative to help <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=51136">end the
construction of new natural gas infrastructure</a>.
<p>
To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a>
from the web site, use the <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Protect our economy and communities from Wall Street funded climate chaos
uri: Urgent-Protect-our-economy-and-communities-from-Wall-Street-funded-cl
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_our_economy_and_communities_from_Wall_Street_funded_climate_chaos)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_our_economy_and_communities_from_Wall_Street_funded_climate_chaos)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Federal Reserve to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/protect-our-economy-and-communities-from-wall-street-funded-climate-chaos">protect our economy and
communities</a> from Wall Street funded climate chaos.

 


title: Urgent: Stop classifying "forest biomass" as "renewable energy source"
uri: Urgent-Stop-classifying-forest-biomass-as-renewable-energy-source
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_classifying_forest_biomass_as_renewable_energy_source)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_classifying_forest_biomass_as_renewable_energy_source)

content:
 
<p>

EU citizens: call on your MEPs to vote to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2022/sep/05/burning-forests-energy-renewable-eu-wood-climate">stop classifying "forest
biomass" as a "renewable energy source"</a>.
<p>
Burning wood on a small scale is renewable, but it tends to get out of
hand and result in destruction of forests.  Lots of small-scale users
in Haiti eliminated most of the forests in that country.  Nowadays,
the EU policy encourages industrial-scale burning of wood, and the
deforestation at industrial scale.
<p>
There isn't time, before the disaster we need to try to avoid, for new
trees to grow.  We must stop the cutting and burning of the existing
trees.

 


title: South African court ban of exploration by Shell
uri: South-African-court-ban-of-exploration-by-Shell
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(South_African_court_ban_of_exploration_by_Shell)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(South_African_court_ban_of_exploration_by_Shell)

content:
 
<p>

*South African court <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/01/south-african-court-bans-offshore-oil-and-gas-exploration-by-shell">bans offshore oil and gas exploration</a> by Shell.*
This has a good chance of keeping some fossil fuels unextracted,
which is <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-jul-oct.html#17_September_2021_(Fossil_Fuel_Non-Proliferation_Treaty)">what we need to do</a> world-wide to avoid global heating disaster,
given the fact that we have used up the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-jul-oct.html#10_September_2021_(Estimating_the_carbon_budget)">carbon budget</a>.
    
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(New_York_State_gun_control_rules)
title: New York State gun control rules
uri: New-York-State-gun-control-rules
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(New_York_State_gun_control_rules)
content:
 
<p>

New York State has passed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/01/boris-johnson-takes-jibe-at-liz-truss-plans-for-fracking-and-north-sea-drilling">new gun control rules</a> to replace those
that the Supreme Court ruled against.

 


title: Delayed UN report on repression of Uyghurs
uri: Delayed-UN-report-on-repression-of-Uyghurs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Delayed_UN_report_on_repression_of_Uyghurs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Delayed_UN_report_on_repression_of_Uyghurs)

content:
 
<p>

Pressure from China &mdash; threats of noncooperation &mdash; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/01/un-report-uyghurs-china-michelle-bachelet-human-rights-abuses">delayed the UN report</a>
on repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang for a whole year.
<p>
Bad as racism, plutocracy and media bias are in the US, we must not
forget that things can get far, far worse &mdash; and China shows what that
is like.
<p>
The US bullies some Muslims to act as spies on their friends.  China
bullies all Chinese to act as spies and agents of pressure, and
bullies international institutions to serve its will.
<p>
Putin has recently reshaped Russia into a sort of quasi-China.  He
engages in cruelty massively, but in a more emotional fashion than
China's machine-like callousness; meanwhile, his grip on Russians is
still not as tight as Chairman Xi's.  There is a chance to defeat Putin
before he can reach that point.

 


title: Tory minister's acknowledgment of what makes a "good family"
uri: Tory-minister-s-acknowledgment-of-what-makes-a-good-family
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Tory_minister's_acknowledgment_of_what_makes_a_good_family)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Tory_minister's_acknowledgment_of_what_makes_a_good_family)

content:
 
<p>

A Tory minister has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/01/unconventional-children-thrive-loving-family-government">surprisingly acknowledged</a> that a good family
is any group of people that make children feel loved and supported.
<p>
I did not have a good family &mdash; after age 8 or so, I did not feel that
either parent's house was my home.  The next time that I felt I had a
home was when I lived in Currier House at Harvard.  After I was
expelled for passing too many classes (I was too grief-stricken to
attend the graduation ceremony), I felt that the MIT AI lab was my
home, for a few years.  Perhaps the support I felt there is what
enabled me to develop the strength to begin, in the late 70s, to stand
up against wrongs I saw around me.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Staff_positions_unfilled_at_NHS)
title: Staff positions unfilled at NHS
uri: Staff-positions-unfilled-at-NHS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Staff_positions_unfilled_at_NHS)
content:
 
<p>

Tory strangulation of the National Health Service has left <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/01/nhs-vacancies-in-england-at-staggering-new-high-as-almost-10-of-posts-empty">10% of
staff positions unfilled</a>.
<p>
Patients who have money are <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_March_2022_(Private_medical_treatment_in_Britain)">turning to private doctors</a>.
When they have all given up on the NHS, <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> politicians will dare to
render the NHS totally ineffective; non-rich Britons will get little
medical care, and some will die, and Tories will be satisfied.
<p>
A government ready to spend more money on making life easier for
the non-rich would find it easy to fix this problem.  Perhaps that 
would call for taxing the rich, instead of "trickle down" economics.

 


title: Deaths in Russia's fossil fuel industry
uri: Deaths-in-Russia-s-fossil-fuel-industry
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Deaths_in_Russia's_fossil_fuel_industry)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Deaths_in_Russia's_fossil_fuel_industry)

content:
 
<p>

Russia's fossil fuel industry has been hit by a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/01/russian-oil-executive-dies-in-fall-from-moscow-hospital-window">series of mysterious
deaths</a> in the past few months.
<p>
I don't have proof that any of them was murdered, but it is
implausible that they were not.  I am sure Russian repression agents,
as well as gangsters, remember the Defenestration of Prague, iteration
2, in which Soviet agents murdered Czech foreign minister Jan Masaryk.

 


title: Amazon and Starbucks not negotiating with unionized employees
uri: Amazon-and-Starbucks-not-negotiating-with-unionized-employees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Amazon_and_Starbucks_not_negotiating_with_unionized_employees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Amazon_and_Starbucks_not_negotiating_with_unionized_employees)

content:
 
<p>

Amazon and Starbucks are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/01/starbucks-amazon-trader-joes-union-contract">refusing to negotiate</a> with newly unionized
employees.
<p>
At the Starbucks at 874 Comm Ave in Boston, the company put in a new
manager who cut the hours of many of the staff so that they could no
longer make a living.  Rather than give up, they went on strike.
The store has been entirely closed for many weeks.

 


title: Ginni Thomas lobbied for overturn of 2020 election
uri: Ginni-Thomas-lobbied-for-overturn-of-2020-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Ginni_Thomas_lobbied_for_overturn_of_2020_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Ginni_Thomas_lobbied_for_overturn_of_2020_election)

content:
 
<p>

*Ginni Thomas lobbied Wisconsin lawmakers to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/01/ginni-thomas-wisconsin-arizona-2020-election-overturn">overturn 2020 election</a>.*

 


title: The corrupter's plans to pardon Capitol attack participants
uri: The-corrupter-s-plans-to-pardon-Capitol-attack-participants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(The_corrupter's_plans_to_pardon_Capitol_attack_participants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(The_corrupter's_plans_to_pardon_Capitol_attack_participants)

content:
 
<p>

*[The corrupter] says he plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/01/donald-trump-pardons-january-6-us-capitol-attack">pardon US Capitol attack
participants</a> if elected.*
<p>
Finally, one case in which he actually demonstrates loyalty to someone
who is not rich.

 


title: Guatemalan corruption prosecutor held in jail
uri: Guatemalan-corruption-prosecutor-held-in-jail
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Guatemalan_corruption_prosecutor_held_in_jail)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Guatemalan_corruption_prosecutor_held_in_jail)

content:
 
<p>

*Top [Guatemalan] corruption prosecutor <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/01/guatemala-prosecutor-jailed-virginia-laparra-corruption">held in jail</a> as Guatemalan
elite bids to purge foes.*

 


title: Carbon pumped into oil fields to get more oil
uri: Carbon-pumped-into-oil-fields-to-get-more-oil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Carbon_pumped_into_oil_fields_to_get_more_oil)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Carbon_pumped_into_oil_fields_to_get_more_oil)

content:
 
<p>

Carbon capture and storage can't be a path to ending fossil fuel
emissions if the CO2 that it captures is pumped into oil fields to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/01/carbon-capture-is-not-a-solution-to-net-zero-emissions-plans-report-says">squeeze out more oil</a>.
It becomes just another way to extract more oil.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Native_forest_wood_waste)
title: Native forest wood waste
uri: Native-forest-wood-waste
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Native_forest_wood_waste)
content:
 
<p>

*Burning native forest wood waste for electricity <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/01/burning-native-forest-wood-waste-for-electricity-shouldnt-be-classed-as-renewable-energy-senate-report-suggests">shouldn’t be classed as
renewable energy</a>, [Australia] report suggests.*
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#planet">Planet roasters</a> search constantly for excuses to bend the definition
of "renewable energy."

 


title: Rush to cut down Amazon forest as fast as possible
uri: Rush-to-cut-down-Amazon-forest-as-fast-as-possible
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Rush_to_cut_down_Amazon_forest_as_fast_as_possible)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Rush_to_cut_down_Amazon_forest_as_fast_as_possible)

content:
 
<p>

The likelihood of Bolsonaro's defeat in the next election has inspired a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/02/images-brazil-amazon-destruction-jair-bolsonaro">rush
to cut down the Amazon forest as fast as possible</a>.

 


title: Limits being placed on price paid to Russia for oil
uri: Limits-being-placed-on-price-paid-to-Russia-for-oil
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Limits_being_placed_on_price_paid_to_Russia_for_oil)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Limits_being_placed_on_price_paid_to_Russia_for_oil)

content:
 
<p>

Several major economies are planning to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/02/g7-poised-to-agree-plan-to-impose-price-cap-on-russian-oil">impose a limit</a> on the price
paid to Russia for oil, starting in December.
The price limit could apply to imports by other countries when the
shipping involves EU countries in some way.
<p>
Russia says it will refuse to sell at that low price, and that will
continue the contest of economic muscle.  So far, Putin has come out
ahead in this contest.  The question will be whether other customers
will buy all the oil Putin needs to sell.

 


title: Russian soldier charged in murder of two civilians
uri: Russian-soldier-charged-in-murder-of-two-civilians
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Russian_soldier_charged_in_murder_of_two_civilians)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Russian_soldier_charged_in_murder_of_two_civilians)

content:
 
<p>

Ukrainian prosecutors have charged a specific Russian soldier with
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/europe/russian-soldier-shoots-civilians-identified-intl-cmd/index.html">joining in the murder of two civilians</a>.
The soldiers talked with the civilians, then shot them in the back
as the latter were walking away.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(dnc_ban_dark_money_primaries)
title: 'Shouldn't Be Controversial': Calls Grow for DNC to Ban Dark Money in Primaries
uri: Shouldn-t-Be-Controversial-Calls-Grow-for-DNC-to-Ban-Dark-Money-in
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(dnc_ban_dark_money_primaries)
content:
 
<p>
Calling on the Democratic Party to ban the use of 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/06/shouldnt-be-controversial-calls-grow-dnc-ban-dark-money-primaries">SuperPAC funds in
its primary elections.</a>

 


title: Collective Self-Delusion: Let's Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy
uri: Collective-Self-Delusion-Let-s-Stop-Pretending-America-Is-a-Functioni
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(stop_pretending_functioning_democracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(stop_pretending_functioning_democracy)

content:
 
<p>
* There is a fatal disconnect between a political system that promises
democratic equality and freedom while carrying out socioeconomic
injustices that result in grotesque 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/06/collective-self-delusion-lets-stop-pretending-america-functioning-democracy">income inequality and political
stagnation.</a>*
<p>
As long as rich people can effectively manipulate elections, we
effectively have plutocracy rather than democracy. That's why I have
called so many times for Americans to 
<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2010/11/bill_moyers_howard_zinn_taught_us_that_its_ok_if_we_face_mission_impossible/">recognize plutocracy as the enemy
and fight to restore democracy.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(jan_6th_brazil_metaverse)
title: 'January 6th All Over Again': Facebook Accused of Fueling Bolsonaro's Coup-Mongering
uri: January-6th-All-Over-Again-Facebook-Accused-of-Fueling-Bolsonaro-s
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(jan_6th_brazil_metaverse)
content:
 
<p>*Facebook Accused of 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/06/january-6th-all-over-again-facebook-accused-fueling-bolsonaros-coup-mongering">Fueling Bolsonaro's Coup-Mongering.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(water_crisis_jackson)
title: The Roots of the Water Crisis in Jackson
uri: The-Roots-of-the-Water-Crisis-in-Jackson
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(water_crisis_jackson)
content:
 
<p>
Having reduced Jackson's water supply to a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/06/roots-water-crisis-jackson">fragile state by
under funding it,</a>
<p>
right-wing politicians in Mississippi now want to
use that as an 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/06/cant-be-allowed-alarm-mississippi-gov-floats-privatization-jackson-water-system">excuse to privatize the system.</a>
<p>
This is the same thing that the Tories are doing to the British 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/07/public-nhs-the-new-health-and-care-bill-alarm-bells-privatisation">National Health System.</a>
<p>
There are of course differences in detail; it is possible to
privatize the NHS a little at a time by encouraging first the wealthy,
then the not quite so wealthy, and eventually anyone not abjectly
poor, to move one by one to private medicine, but it is not so easy to
do that with the municipal water supply.  But I don't think they are
greatly important.
<p>
Basically, this is a standard right-wing plan of operation
to achieve their goal of reducing most people to poverty so that
the rich (who fund the right-wing campaigns) will get richer.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(family_separation_trump)
title: The Trump officials who took children from their parents should be prosecuted
uri: The-Trump-officials-who-took-children-from-their-parents-should-be-pro
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(family_separation_trump)
content:
 
<p>
*The [wrecker's] officials who took children from 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/06/family-separation-trump-officials-should-be-prosecuted">their parents should be prosecuted.*</a>
<p>
That includes the wrecker himself, as the one who planned those
actions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(free_energy_plan)
title: Ditch price cap for ‘free basic energy’ plan to help poorest, report says
uri: Ditch-price-cap-for-free-basic-energy-plan-to-help-poorest-repo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(free_energy_plan)
content:
 
<p>
An idea for how the government should help the poor pay for fuel and
electricity: pay for all of it up to a certain necessary level, then
tax 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/05/free-basic-energy-plan-price-cap-help-poorest-households-report">purchases beyond that much.</a>

 


uri: Bipartisan-Bicameral-Bill-reforms-Espionage-Act-to-protect-First-Amen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(bill_to_protect_whistleblowers_espinonage_act)

title:
 Bipartisan, Bicameral Bill reforms Espionage Act to protect First Amendment rights against abusive prosecutions 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(bill_to_protect_whistleblowers_espinonage_act)

content:
 
<p>
Legislators have proposed a bill to add a defense for 
<a href="https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-khanna-massie-introduce-bill-to-protect-whistleblowers-ensure-journalists-arent-targeted-for-publishing-classified-information">whistleblowers
to the Espionage Act.</a>
<p>
This could save Julian Assange, and other heroes in the future.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(iaea_report)
uri: IAEA-report-says-safety-principles-were-violated-at-Zaporizhzhia-nucle
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(iaea_report)
title:
 IAEA report says safety principles were violated at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and calls for safety zone 

content:
 
<p>
The IAEA inspectors at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant report
that the damage from shelling of the plant did not create a danger of
nuclear disaster, but this was due to luck.  They called for
establishing a "nuclear safety and security protection zone," 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-new-09-06-22/h_ab8e862768809be7f10e64a358131361">which
would demilitarize the plant.</a>

 


title: 195 Election Deniers Are on the Ballot in November—And Many Are Expected to Win
uri: 195-Election-Deniers-Are-on-the-Ballot-in-November-And-Many-Are-Expe
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(election_deniers_ballot_expected_to_win)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(election_deniers_ballot_expected_to_win)

content:
 
<p>
*195 Election Deniers [supporters of the bullshitter's Big Lie] Are on
the Ballot in November &mdash; And Many Are Expected to Win.*
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/06/195-election-deniers-are-ballot-november-and-many-are-expected-win">195 Election Deniers Are on the Ballot in November—And Many Are Expected to Win</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_((Satire)_spotted_laternflies)
title: U.S. Escalates Campaign Against Spotted Lanternflies By Arming Praying Mantises
uri: U-S-Escalates-Campaign-Against-Spotted-Lanternflies-By-Arming-Praying
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_((Satire)_spotted_laternflies)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *U.S. Escalates Campaign Against Spotted Lanternflies 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/u-s-escalates-campaign-against-spotted-lanternflies-by-1849497625">By
Arming Praying Mantises.</a>*

 


title: ‘New era’: more than 360,000 hectares of Queensland’s Cape York returned to traditional owners
uri: New-era-more-than-360-000-hectares-of-Queensland-s-Cape-York
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(queensland_cape_ny_indigenous_owners)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(queensland_cape_ny_indigenous_owners)

content:
 
<p>
Queensland, a state in Australia, states that it has "returned" several
national 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/07/new-era-more-than-360000-hectares-of-queenslands-cape-york-returned-to-traditional-owners">parks to indigenous "traditional owners".</a>
<p>
What does it mean, practically speaking, for these parks to be returned to
an owner other than Australia?
Does this mean they aren't national parks any more?
Will people from other groups face interference in visiting these parks?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(liz_truss_speech)
title: No vision, no charisma, no real plan: Labour has nothing to fear from Liz Truss
uri: No-vision-no-charisma-no-real-plan-Labour-has-nothing-to-fear-from
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(liz_truss_speech)
content:
 
<p>
Labour will almost certainly win the next UK election; Prime Minister Truss
has 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/07/labour-liz-truss-prime-minister-speech">little that can inspire voters.</a>
<p>
The doubt is whether the Labour Party, as it is now, will go beyond
just taking the harshest edge off Tory policies.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_()
title: Facebook engineers: we have no idea where we keep all your personal data.
uri: Facebook-engineers-we-have-no-idea-where-we-keep-all-your-personal-da
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_()
content:
 
<p>
Facebook engineers testifying to Congress said that nobody is capable
of saying where 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/09/07/facebook-personal-data-no-accountability/">Facebook stores its useds' data.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(sudan_protest_mass_graves)
title: Sudan accused of trying to ‘bury the truth’ with mass graves for protesters
uri: Sudan-accused-of-trying-to-bury-the-truth-with-mass-graves-for-p
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(sudan_protest_mass_graves)
content:
 
<p>
*Sudan accused of trying to ‘bury the truth’ 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/07/sudan-coup-protesters-mass-graves">with mass graves for
protesters.</a>*

 


title: Hong Kong therapists convicted of sedition over children’s books
uri: Hong-Kong-therapists-convicted-of-sedition-over-children-s-books
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(hong_kong_therapists_convicted_of_sedition)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(hong_kong_therapists_convicted_of_sedition)

content:
 
<p>
In Hong Kong, metaphors that could mean criticism of China 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/07/hong-kong-authors-of-childrens-books-sheep-wolves-convicted-of-sedition">now lead
to conviction in court.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Free_movement_agreement)
title: Free movement agreement
uri: Free-movement-agreement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Free_movement_agreement)
content:
 
<p>

*Serbia and Kosovo <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/27/serbia-and-kosovo-reach-free-movement-agreement">reach free movement agreement</a>.*
This is a first step in reducing the hostility between those two countries,

 


title: Treating truth and lies as equivalent
uri: Treating-truth-and-lies-as-equivalent
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Treating_truth_and_lies_as_equivalent)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Treating_truth_and_lies_as_equivalent)

content:
 
<p>

The mainstream media, in covering Biden's speech about the Republican attack on
America's system of government, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/04/biden-speech-democracy-attack-media-coverage-republicans">treated truth and lies as equivalent</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Trader_Joe's_broke_labor_laws)
title: Trader Joe's broke labor laws
uri: Trader-Joe-s-broke-labor-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Trader_Joe's_broke_labor_laws)
content:
 
<p>

*Trader Joe's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/04/trader-joes-union-workers-labor-law">broke labor laws</a> in effort to stop stores unionizing,
workers say.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(UK_as_a_regulatory_state)
title: UK as a regulatory state
uri: UK-as-a-regulatory-state
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(UK_as_a_regulatory_state)
content:
 
<p>

The UK as "regulatory state": government no longer believes it can, or
should, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/04/no-wonder-i-couldnt-see-a-gp-limiting-access-to-services-is-the-point">actually do anything</a>, but only regulate the procedures used by
businesses that actually do things.  And it does not try to ensure
that jobs are done right, or that they are done at all.
<p>
Once the state is seen not to be doing enough in some area, It rations
out whatever capacity happens to exist.

 


title: Bernie Sanders calls on working class Americans
uri: Bernie-Sanders-calls-on-working-class-Americans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Bernie_Sanders_calls_on_working_class_Americans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Bernie_Sanders_calls_on_working_class_Americans)

content:
 
<p>

Bernie Sanders <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/02/us-working-class-must-stand-nations-oligarchs">calls on working class Americans</a>
to stand up to <a href="/glossary.html#doohnibor">dooH niboR</a>.
<!--
[Make sure there's a glossary link on <a href="/glossary.html#doohnibor">dooH niboR</a>]
  -->

 


title: Wrecker's motive for taking home secret documents
uri: Wrecker-s-motive-for-taking-home-secret-documents
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Wrecker's_motive_for_taking_home_secret_documents)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Wrecker's_motive_for_taking_home_secret_documents)

content:
 
<p>

The wrecker's motive for taking home secret documents may have been to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/02/trump-mar-a-lago-search-doj-photos">threaten the government</a>
so it would not prosecute him for other, bigger crimes,
such as trying to falsify the election's results.
<p>
If the US charges him with the crime of taking those records home and
leaving them in an insecure place, that will appear to be a political
act.  If it does not, that too will appear to be a political act.
Faced with the choice, it should take the bold choice.
<p>
As we have seen, the Espionage Act needs to be amended to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(bill_to_protect_whistleblowers_espinonage_act)">allow
a public interest defense</a> so heroes such as Chelsea Manning and Julian
Assange will not be convicted.  That would have no effect on the
wrecker's trial; he cannot point to any public interest purpose for
taking those secret documents home.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Los_Angeles_heat_wave)
title: Los Angeles heat wave
uri: Los-Angeles-heat-wave
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Los_Angeles_heat_wave)
content:
 
<p>

Los Angeles is in a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/02/los-angeles-extreme-heatwave-emergency">heat wave worse than that of a few weeks ago</a>.
This is causing acute danger, especially to homeless people, but also
to firefighters and people who work in food trucks.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Museum_to_repatriate_artifacts)
title: Museum to "repatriate" artifacts
uri: Museum-to-repatriate-artifacts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Museum_to_repatriate_artifacts)
content:
 
<p>

A museum is going to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/us/north-dakota-native-american-bones-artifacts-repatriation-reaj/index.html">"repatriate" many artifacts</a> (and some remains)
excavated in archaeological digs.  A campaign has convinced the museum's
administration that rationally exploring humanity's past is "theft".
<p>
One advisor is quoted as citing supernatural beliefs as the basis for
that claim, asserting that "ancestors" have a "home" and can "return"
to it.  A living person can cherish a home, or miss a cherished former
home, but a former person (former because deceased) is no longer
capable of either one.  And only a living person can <em>go</em> somewhere.
Remains can only be <em>put</em> here or there.
<p>
Were those long-dead people anyone's ancestors?  Presumably, some had
descendants and some did not, but the person cited calls them all
"ancestors."  We are not dealing with rational belief here.  Can
anyone relate some of those deceased in a concrete way to anyone
living?  The article does not say so, and I think it would have said
so, if that were so.
<p>
Living people have the right to believe what they wish, and it's kind
to cater to anyone's belief when that doesn't sacrifice anything
important.  However, their belief, no matter how much certainty they
feel, is not a compelling reason for society to adopt policies that
interfere with science.
<p>
In 2020 I signed a form to donate my body to medical research and/or
teaching after I die.  The office that handles these donations was
closed in 2020, but I recently determined that it was open again, and
mailed the form.  I suppose my organs will be too old to be worth
transplanting, but I've kept that option open too.  This way, my dead
body will be able to do some good for humanity.  Too bad about those
that won't.

 


title: Minnesota Nurses Association strike
uri: Minnesota-Nurses-Association-strike
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Minnesota_Nurses_Association_strike)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Minnesota_Nurses_Association_strike)

content:
 
<p>

The Minnesota Nurses Association will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/01/largest-private-sector-nurses-strike-us-history-coming-minnesota">go on strike</a> against private
hospitals in the state.

 


title: (satire) Containing Jackson flood to black areas
uri: (satire)-Containing-Jackson-flood-to-black-areas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_((satire)_Containing_Jackson_flood_to_black_areas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_((satire)_Containing_Jackson_flood_to_black_areas)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/mississippi-governor-sends-emergency-workers-to-contain-1849485855">*Mississippi Governor Sends Emergency Workers To Contain
Jackson Flood To Black Areas.*</a>

 


title: Elections in Texas and Kentucky at risk
uri: Elections-in-Texas-and-Kentucky-at-risk
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Elections_in_Texas_and_Kentucky_at_risk)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Elections_in_Texas_and_Kentucky_at_risk)

content:
 
<p>

Elections in Texas and Kentucky are at risk as many election officials
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/01/politics/election-workers-officials-harassment-kentucky-texas/index.html">quit in response to threats of violence</a>.

 


title: Planet roaster in charge of UK's decarbonization
uri: Planet-roaster-in-charge-of-UK-s-decarbonization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Planet_roaster_in_charge_of_UK's_decarbonization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Planet_roaster_in_charge_of_UK's_decarbonization)

content:
 
<p>

An out-and-out planet roaster is now the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/sep/06/record-of-climate-denialism-indicates-how-rees-mogg-will-handle-energy-brief">minister in charge</a> of the UK's
decarbonization.

 


title: Chileans rejected constitution that was drafted
uri: Chileans-rejected-constitution-that-was-drafted
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Chileans_rejected_constitution_that_was_drafted)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Chileans_rejected_constitution_that_was_drafted)

content:
 
<p>

Chileans wanted to replace Pinochet's constitution, but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/06/chile-new-constitution-reject-pinochet">rejected the new
one</a> that was drafted.  What next?

 


title: Constitutional crisis of Kiribati's government
uri: Constitutional-crisis-of-Kiribati-s-government
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Constitutional_crisis_of_Kiribati's_government)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(Constitutional_crisis_of_Kiribati's_government)

content:
 
<p>

Kiribati's government has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/06/kiribati-left-without-high-level-court-after-president-suspends-three-appeal-court-judges">"suspended" all the judges of its appeals court</a>, causing a constitutional crisis.
<p>
On a hunch, I pose the question of whether that government is
negotiating with China.

 


title: State constitutions grant "healthful" environment
uri: State-constitutions-grant-healthful-environment
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(State_constitutions_grant_healthful_environment)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(State_constitutions_grant_healthful_environment)

content:
 
<p>

Some states have amended their constitutions to grant people the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/04/how-green-amendment-can-boost-environmental-justice">right
to a "healthful" or clean environment</a>.  Some now require regulators
to apply much stricter standards for potentially polluting activities.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(New_pun:_Making_an_extrovert)
title: New pun: Making an extrovert
uri: New-pun-Making-an-extrovert
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#8_September_2022_(New_pun:_Making_an_extrovert)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="/puns.html#extrovert">Making an extrovert</a>

Q: How can you make your child grow up to be an extrovert?
A: Feed per lots of extroversion olive oil.

 


title: Urgent: Ban use of sewage sludge, contaminated with PFAS, as fertilizer
uri: Urgent-Ban-use-of-sewage-sludge-contaminated-with-PFAS-as-fertilize
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Urgent:_Ban_use_of_sewage_sludge,_contaminated_with_PFAS,_as_fertilizer)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Urgent:_Ban_use_of_sewage_sludge,_contaminated_with_PFAS,_as_fertilizer)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your congresscritter to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=51369">ban use of sewage
sludge</a>, contaminated with PFAS, as fertilizer.

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

 


title: Urgent: Final January 6 committee hearings in prime time
uri: Urgent-Final-January-6-committee-hearings-in-prime-time
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Urgent:_Final_January_6_committee_hearings_in_prime_time)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Urgent:_Final_January_6_committee_hearings_in_prime_time)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on TV networks to show the final <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-the-final-january-6-committee-hearings-be-shown-in-prime-time-now">January 6
committee hearings in prime time</a>.

 


title: California law for minimum pay for fast food workers
uri: California-law-for-minimum-pay-for-fast-food-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(California_law_for_minimum_pay_for_fast_food_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(California_law_for_minimum_pay_for_fast_food_workers)

content:
 
<p>

California has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/05/business/fast-food-council-california/index.html">passed a law empowering the state to set minimum pay
rates</a> and working conditions for fast food workers.

 


title: Iran's repressive use of facial recognition
uri: Iran-s-repressive-use-of-facial-recognition
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Iran's_repressive_use_of_facial_recognition)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Iran's_repressive_use_of_facial_recognition)

content:
 
<p>

Iran has found a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/05/iran-government-facial-recognition-technology-hijab-law-crackdown">new repressive use for facial recognition</a>: punishing women
who violate imposed religious dress codes.

 


title: Stalkers using AirTags to track people
uri: Stalkers-using-AirTags-to-track-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Stalkers_using_AirTags_to_track_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Stalkers_using_AirTags_to_track_people)

content:
 
<p>

Stalkers are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/05/i-didnt-want-it-anywhere-near-me-how-the-apple-airtag-became-a-gift-to-stalkers">using AirTags to track people</a>.  Apple will warn you if someone is tracking you with an AirTag, but only if you allow Apple to
track you &mdash; all the time, for certain.
(Tracker Detect surely works by telling Apple where you are &mdash; and
what more data does it send?)
<p>
That does not fix the problem, it just replaces one tracking system
with another.
<p>
Making the AirTag give a sound is a step towards a real fix, but it
should also give off radio waves that allow you to find it using a
portable radio receiver nearby to get a fix on it.
<p>
A real solution would be to require AirTag-like products to emit
radio waves that one could detect with some non-computerized receiver.

 


title: Putin eliminating independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta
uri: Putin-eliminating-independent-newspaper-Novaya-Gazeta
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Putin_eliminating_independent_newspaper_Novaya_Gazeta)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Putin_eliminating_independent_newspaper_Novaya_Gazeta)

content:
 
<p>

Putin is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/05/moscow-court-revokes-novaya-gazeta-licence-to-publish-inside-russia">formally eliminating</a> the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta,
which in practice has already been forced to shut down by jailing its
reporters.

 


title: Admission that soldier shot Shireen Abu Aqleh
uri: Admission-that-soldier-shot-Shireen-Abu-Aqleh
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Admission_that_soldier_shot_Shireen_Abu_Aqleh)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Admission_that_soldier_shot_Shireen_Abu_Aqleh)

content:
 
<p>

Israel admits that a soldier <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/05/israel-soldier-killing-journalist-shireen-abu-aqleh-investigation">"probably" shot Shireen Abu Aqleh</a>, but claims
it was a mistake.  
<p>
I don't consider "mistake" an acceptable excuse for shooting an
unarmed person at a substantial distance away when no fighting is
going on.  That is not a natural mistake, it is one you'd have
to go out of your way for &mdash; meaning, not really a mistake.
<p>
So why did it happen?  Israel does not try to explain.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Chilean_thug_convicted)
title: Chilean thug convicted
uri: Chilean-thug-convicted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Chilean_thug_convicted)
content:
 
<p>

A Chilean <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> shot Fabiola Campillai in the face with a tear gas
cannister, and the resulting injuries caused brain damage: she can no
longer see, taste or smell.  He <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/02/former-chilean-police-captain-guilty-assault-for-blinding-woman">has been convicted</a> for this attack and
is now awaiting sentence.
<p>
Such attacks are not unusual in Chile (nor indeed in many other
places).  Chilean <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> blinded 400 people during the 2019 wave of
protests.  <a href="/glossary.html#thug">Thugs</a> anywhere tend to have right-wing views, and may hate
leftist protesters to the point of killing or framing them.  This <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a>
shot someone who was not even protesting.
<p>
Sra. Campillai did not let these injuries crush her.  She <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/nov/09/fabiola-campillai-chile-blinded-by-police-senate-candidate">ran for the
Chilean Senate</a>, and I've been informed that she won.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Russian_journalist_facing_jail)
title: Russian journalist facing jail
uri: Russian-journalist-facing-jail
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Russian_journalist_facing_jail)
content:
 
<p>

*Russian journalist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/04/russian-journalist-ivan-safronov-refuses-sign-treason-confession">facing 24-year jail term</a> for treason refuses to
sign "confession."*

 


title: External situations that make people depressed or anxious
uri: External-situations-that-make-people-depressed-or-anxious
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(External_situations_that_make_people_depressed_or_anxious)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(External_situations_that_make_people_depressed_or_anxious)

content:
 
<p>

Psychotherapy must <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/06/psychologist-devastating-lies-mental-health-problems-politics">consider the external situation</a> that makes
people depressed or anxious.
<p>
Can some sort of change in your mind help you cope with the external
situation?  I think it can, because different people respond
differently to the same external situation.  Some can face up to the
bad situation and try to help deal with it, while as others succumb to
counterproductive rage, despair, or jealousy.

 


title: Encouraging social conservative views
uri: Encouraging-social-conservative-views
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Encouraging_social_conservative_views)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Encouraging_social_conservative_views)

content:
 
<p>

A study found that being a parent (or even imagining being one) tends
to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/sep/07/having-children-may-make-you-more-conservative-study-finds">encourage social conservative views</a>.
Furthermore, when that effect is controlled, age does not correlate with social conservative views.

 


title: (satire) Calm police officers handling situation nonviolently
uri: (satire)-Calm-police-officers-handling-situation-nonviolently
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_((satire)_Calm_police_officers_handling_situation_nonviolently)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_((satire)_Calm_police_officers_handling_situation_nonviolently)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/shocking-video-captures-calm-police-officers-handling-s-1849481916">*Shocking Video Captures Calm Police Officers Handling
Situation Nonviolently.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Indigenous_voice_to_Parliament)
title: Indigenous voice to Parliament
uri: Indigenous-voice-to-Parliament
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Indigenous_voice_to_Parliament)
content:
 
<p>

After seeing the basic plan for Australia's proposed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/28/how-would-an-indigenous-voice-work-and-what-are-people-saying-about-it">"indigenous voice
to Parliament"</a>, I think it is ok.
<p>
The reticence about stating any specifics made me wonder what it was
they did not want to talk about.  I was concerned, specifically, that
the plan might incorporate racial distinctions into Australians'
political rights.  Australia did just that for most of the 20th
century, to the detriment of the indigenous people, but two such
wrongs would not make a right.
<p>
I'm relieved that there is none of that in the proposal.  So I'm in
favor of it.  Indigenous Australians suffer from racism and its
effects, and this may help them encourage measures to improve the
situation.

 


title: Holding rich countries liable for greenhouse emissions
uri: Holding-rich-countries-liable-for-greenhouse-emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Holding_rich_countries_liable_for_greenhouse_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Holding_rich_countries_liable_for_greenhouse_emissions)

content:
 
<p>

Rich countries (and rich businesses) are responsible for most of the
greenhouse emissions that have destroyed nearly all of the food
growing in Pakistan, as well as a large fraction of its housing.  They
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/opinions/pakistan-flooding-climate-crisis-pay-liability-us-hockenos/index.html">ought to be held liable</a>.
<p>
However, as experience with Covid-19 vaccines shows, rich businesses
don't hesitate to drive people to death for their profit, and rich
country governments mostly serve those rich businesses.  Even when it
comes to saving the lives of their own future citizens from the
consequences of <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>, those governments are paralyzed.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Biden_using_oil_reserve)
title: Biden using oil reserve
uri: Biden-using-oil-reserve
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Biden_using_oil_reserve)
content:
 
<p>

Biden has started using the US Petroleum Reserve to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/aug/27/will-joe-bidens-gamble-on-big-oil-pay-off-in-leveling-gas-prices">stabilize oil
prices</a>, which ideally ought to regulate the rate of oil drilling and
maintain a strong incentive to conserve.
<p>
This plan will do some good, but I think it will not, by itself, bring
about fast enough decarbonization.  And it certainly won't prevent
busting the carbon budget.  We need to accompany it with a carbon tax
that will increase yearly on a predefined schedule.  However, the
Republicans plus Sinema and Manchin block that, for now.
<p>
If the public has an incentive to conserve fossil fuels, that doesn't
make it practical for people to do so.  That requires investment,
and most Americans have no money to invest, in this or in anything.
We need governments, at whatever level, to make this investment.

 


title: School closures harm to education
uri: School-closures-harm-to-education
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(School_closures_harm_to_education)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(School_closures_harm_to_education)

content:
 
<p>

School closures, and "remote learning", did <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/06/opinions/covid-school-closures-problem-filipovic/index.html">considerable harm</a> to the education
of a generation of American children.
<p>
They were necessary, but they lasted longer in the US than in other
wealthy countries.  That was partly because US <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratists</a> had
eliminated the incomplete social safety net that had existed in the
1970s ("Why waste our money on those poor people?"), and partly
because of politicized sabotage of other methods of reducing disease
transmission, and only school shutdowns were available to compensate.
<p>
The damage it did was more than most people recognize &mdash; it pushed most people
into use of <a href="https://gnu.org/malware/malware-education.html ">unjust software</a>
such as Zoom.

 


title: Positive feedback in the climate system
uri: Positive-feedback-in-the-climate-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Positive_feedback_in_the_climate_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Positive_feedback_in_the_climate_system)

content:
 
<p>

A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/07/hateful-tweets-multiply-in-extreme-temperatures-us-analysis-finds">positive feedback</a> in the climate system: hot weather encourages
right-wing hatred, and right-wing politics supports more global
heating.

 


title: Body of British aid worker shows signs of torture
uri: Body-of-British-aid-worker-shows-signs-of-torture
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Body_of_British_aid_worker_shows_signs_of_torture)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Body_of_British_aid_worker_shows_signs_of_torture)

content:
 
<p>

*Body of British aid worker captured by Russian proxies <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/07/body-of-british-aid-worker-captured-by-russian-proxies-shows-signs-of-torture">shows "signs
of torture"</a>.*

 


title: Michigan's ban on abortions overturned
uri: Michigan-s-ban-on-abortions-overturned
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Michigan's_ban_on_abortions_overturned)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Michigan's_ban_on_abortions_overturned)

content:
 
<p>

Michigan's ban on abortions has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/07/michigan-1931-anti-abortion-law-judge-strikes-down">overturned</a> based on the state
constitution.

 


title: Documents that discuss US spies in foreign countries
uri: Documents-that-discuss-US-spies-in-foreign-countries
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Documents_that_discuss_US_spies_in_foreign_countries)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Documents_that_discuss_US_spies_in_foreign_countries)

content:
 
<p>

The wrecker brought documents to Mar-a-Lago that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/07/mar-a-lago-trump-nuclear-documents-spies">discuss US spies in
foreign countries</a>.
There was little security there against foreign spies
who might have sought to identify them.

 


title: Five major climate tipping points
uri: Five-major-climate-tipping-points
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Five_major_climate_tipping_points)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Five_major_climate_tipping_points)

content:
 
<p>

Earth is approaching <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/08/world-on-brink-five-climate-tipping-points-study-finds">five major climate tipping points</a>.
<p>
Research identified 11 more major climate tipping points that
are further in the future.  If we don't get our act in gear,
we will fall over them too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Bloggers_lambaste_Putin_forces)
title: Bloggers lambaste Putin forces
uri: Bloggers-lambaste-Putin-forces
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Bloggers_lambaste_Putin_forces)
content:
 
<p>

A number of right-wing Russian bloggers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/08/we-have-already-lost-far-right-russian-bloggers-slam-kremlin-over-army-response">lambaste the Putin forces as a
failure</a>.
<p>
Why, I wonder, does Putin let them continue to say these things?  He
has to have a reason.  I speculate that it is because they are
building support for Putin to declare war and start forcing lots of
Russians into fighting it.

 


title: Right-wing fanatic discovered in Army
uri: Right-wing-fanatic-discovered-in-Army
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Right-wing_fanatic_discovered_in_Army)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#9_September_2022_(Right-wing_fanatic_discovered_in_Army)

content:
 
<p>

The US Army discovered <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/08/us-military-killian-ryan-racism-social-media">one of the many rabid right-wing fanatics</a> in its ranks
in the process of investigating him for another reason.

 


title: Urgent: Stop funding candidates that promote voter suppression
uri: Urgent-Stop-funding-candidates-that-promote-voter-suppression
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_funding_candidates_that_promote_voter_suppression)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_funding_candidates_that_promote_voter_suppression)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on CEOs of GM and Ford: <a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/defendblackvoters/">stop funding candidates
that promote voter suppression</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Pass the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
uri: Urgent-Pass-the-Pregnant-Workers-Fairness-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_the_Pregnant_Workers_Fairness_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_the_Pregnant_Workers_Fairness_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on your senators to <a href="https://action.aclu.org/send-message/protect-pregnant-workers-rights">pass the Pregnant Workers
Fairness Act</a>.

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

 


title: Wrecker's efforts to replace Georgia's electors
uri: Wrecker-s-efforts-to-replace-Georgia-s-electors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Wrecker's_efforts_to_replace_Georgia's_electors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Wrecker's_efforts_to_replace_Georgia's_electors)

content:
 
<p>

The wrecker's effort to make Georgia officials arbitrarily replace
Georgia's electors could put him in prison.  It seems that prosecutors
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/27/trump-georgia-investigation-grand-jury-election">working to assemble a solid case</a>.

 


title: Subsidies for women to come to California for abortions
uri: Subsidies-for-women-to-come-to-California-for-abortions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Subsidies_for_women_to_come_to_California_for_abortions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Subsidies_for_women_to_come_to_California_for_abortions)

content:
 
<p>

California plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/27/california-budget-to-cover-some-out-of-state-abortion-travel">subsidize some women</a> from anti-abortion states to
travel to California to get an abortion.

 


title: Head of lobbying company as Prime Minister Truss' chief of staff
uri: Head-of-lobbying-company-as-Prime-Minister-Truss-chief-of-staff
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Head_of_lobbying_company_as_Prime_Minister_Truss'_chief_of_staff)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Head_of_lobbying_company_as_Prime_Minister_Truss'_chief_of_staff)

content:
 
<p>

Prime Minister Truss has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/07/liz-trusss-chief-of-staff-brings-key-figures-from-lobbying-firm-into-no-10">appointed the head of a lobbying company</a> as
her chief of staff, and he now has her office entirely trussed up.
<p>
As minister, she gave farmers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/27/liz-truss-allowed-farmers-to-pollute-englands-rivers-after-slashing-red-tape-say-campaigners">permission to dump</a> large amounts of agricultural waste, polluting the rivers.
Rules and inspections serve a crucial purpose, and deregulation can
cause disasters, sometimes permanent ones.
<p>
She plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/08/liz-truss-fracking-plans-anger-dismay-lancashire-cuadrilla">push ahead</a> with fracking in the UK.
<p>
She also plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/08/energy-companies-profits-public-renewable">rescue fossil fuel companies</a>
and cut taxes for the wealthy, while probably making working people
bear the burden.
Perhaps not by coincidence, she got a lot of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/08/liz-truss-reveals-campaign-donations-including-100k-from-wife-of-ex-bp-exec">campaign funds from
planet roasters</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(The_wrecker's_dream_wall)
title: The wrecker's dream wall
uri: The-wrecker-s-dream-wall
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(The_wrecker's_dream_wall)
content:
 
<p>

The wrecker's dream wall on the border with Mexico is the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2022/sep/09/steve-bannon-fraud-donald-trump-truth">perfect
symbol of the spirit of trumpery</a>: claiming to protect working-class
whites against notional threats, while actually screwing and cheating
them (and the other working-class Americans too).

 


title: Ginni Thomas' relationships with anti-abortion organizations
uri: Ginni-Thomas-relationships-with-anti-abortion-organizations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Ginni_Thomas'_relationships_with_anti-abortion_organizations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Ginni_Thomas'_relationships_with_anti-abortion_organizations)

content:
 
<p>

Ginni Thomas has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/09/ginni-thomas-abortion-roe-v-wade-supreme-court">close relationships</a> with various anti-abortion
organizations that called on the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v Wade.

 


title: Tajikistan's deportation of refugees
uri: Tajikistan-s-deportation-of-refugees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Tajikistan's_deportation_of_refugees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Tajikistan's_deportation_of_refugees)

content:
 
<p>

Tajikistan has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/09/tajikistan-rounding-up-and-deporting-afghan-refugees">forcibly deported</a> hundreds of the Afghan refugees that
came there a year ago after the Taliban took over Afghanistan.
It seems to be trying to deport many more.
<p>
Many will find life difficult as they have none of the identity papers
that people there are now required to have.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Famine_will_follow_superflood)
title: Famine will follow superflood
uri: Famine-will-follow-superflood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Famine_will_follow_superflood)
content:
 
<p>

After the superflood in Pakistan, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/08/pakistan-floods-climate-crisis">famine will follow</a>.
As continued <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> smashes into the increasing human
population, disasters get ever larger.  Eventually the world's
capacity to help stricken regions will prove insufficient.  Maybe that
is happening now &mdash; several drought-caused famines are <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#18_November_2017_(Drought_in_the_Congo)">happening in
Africa</a>, and they are getting insufficient aid.
<p>
Even if we do our best to decarbonize, <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> will continue
for many years.  We need to limit the human population or it will be
limited by disasters that kill millions.

 


title: Oil companies spending to appear green
uri: Oil-companies-spending-to-appear-green
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Oil_companies_spending_to_appear_green)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Oil_companies_spending_to_appear_green)

content:
 
<p>

*Big oil companies are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/energy/big-oil-green-claims-report-climate-intl/index.html">spending millions to appear 'green'</a>. Their
investments tell a different story, report shows.*

 


title: Buildings to be destroyed by sea-level rise
uri: Buildings-to-be-destroyed-by-sea-level-rise
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Buildings_to_be_destroyed_by_sea-level_rise)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#10_September_2022_(Buildings_to_be_destroyed_by_sea-level_rise)

content:
 
<p>

Sea-level rise <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/08/sea-level-rise-gobble-hundreds-thousands-us-homes-buildings-2050">will destroy 100,000 buildings</a> in the US by 2050,
and perhaps a million by 2100.

 


title: Damage to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
uri: Damage-to-Zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Damage_to_Zaporizhzhia_nuclear_plant)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Damage_to_Zaporizhzhia_nuclear_plant)

content:
 
<p>

Shelling at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/09/offsite-power-supply-to-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-destroyed">destroyed part of the
fossil-fuel power plant</a> which provided power to keep the nuclear plant
cool if it were to shut down.
This is a step closer to a nuclear disaster that would affect the
whole region.
<p>
I have seen no conclusive evidence that proves which side is doing the
shelling, but Ukraine has nothing to gain from it, whereas Putin has
made a strategy of outrageous threats.  It is plausible that he would
say, "I'll poison this land if I can't have it.  And some of my own
land at the same time."
<p>
Bluffing is also part of his strategy.  That he would say that does not
imply he would actually do it.

 


title: Boulders in sea to prevent trawling
uri: Boulders-in-sea-to-prevent-trawling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Boulders_in_sea_to_prevent_trawling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Boulders_in_sea_to_prevent_trawling)

content:
 
<p>

Greenpeace dropped boulders into a "protected" area of the sea to
physically <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/08/uk-blocks-greenpeace-boulder-drops-designed-protect-our-oceans">protect it from bottom trawling</a>.  The UK government
responded with unusual vigor to block plans to drop additional
boulders.
<p>
Most "protected" maritime areas in UK waters are <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-mar-jun.html#8_June_2022_(UK_barely_started_protecting_sea_bottom_from_trawling)">not protected from
    much</a>. But at least they are now protected from slowly falling boulders.

 


title: Debunking reasons to build Mountain Valley Pipeline
uri: Debunking-reasons-to-build-Mountain-Valley-Pipeline
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Debunking_reasons_to_build_Mountain_Valley_Pipeline)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Debunking_reasons_to_build_Mountain_Valley_Pipeline)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/08/new-report-debunks-manchins-lies-about-mountain-valley-fracked-gas-pipeline">Debunking Manchin's bogus reasons</a> to build the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

 


title: Households struggle to afford enough food
uri: Households-struggle-to-afford-enough-food
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Households_struggle_to_afford_enough_food)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Households_struggle_to_afford_enough_food)

content:
 
<p>

*One in 10 US households <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/07/us-food-insecure-families-poverty-study">struggles to afford enough food</a>, study finds.*

 


title: Pressure to stop supporting Russian oil companies
uri: Pressure-to-stop-supporting-Russian-oil-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Pressure_to_stop_supporting_Russian_oil_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Pressure_to_stop_supporting_Russian_oil_companies)

content:
 
<p>

Activists are pressuring big western banks to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/07/banks-have-ukrainian-blood-their-hands">stop supporting Russian
    oil companies</a>.

 


title: (satire) Low-speed targeted rockets
uri: (satire)-Low-speed-targeted-rockets
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_((satire)_Low-speed_targeted_rockets)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_((satire)_Low-speed_targeted_rockets)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/israel-deploys-low-speed-targeted-rockets-that-follow-i-1849506808">*Israel Deploys Low-Speed Targeted Rockets That Follow
    Individual Palestinians Around Throughout Day.*</a>

 


title: Jan 6 insurrection participant knocked off ballot
uri: Jan-6-insurrection-participant-knocked-off-ballot
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Jan_6_insurrection_participant_knocked_off_ballot)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Jan_6_insurrection_participant_knocked_off_ballot)

content:
 
<p>

After several failures, one 14th Amendment case has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/07/its-time-democrats-take-gloves-and-ban-seditious-republicans-congress">succeeded in knocking
    a participant in the Jan 6 insurrection off a ballot</a>.

 


title: Bills to defend and assure voting rights
uri: Bills-to-defend-and-assure-voting-rights
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Bills_to_defend_and_assure_voting_rights)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Bills_to_defend_and_assure_voting_rights)

content:
 
<p>

  See <a href="media/5d881328.DemocracyScorecard_2022v9.pdf" data-original-source="https://democracyscorecard.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/DemocracyScorecard_2022v9.pdf">how US representatives and senators voted on bills(PDF)</a> to defend and assure
voting rights.

 


title: Republican poll working training people to break rules
uri: Republican-poll-working-training-people-to-break-rules
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Republican_poll_working_training_people_to_break_rules)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Republican_poll_working_training_people_to_break_rules)

content:
 
<p>

Republican poll worker training in Michigan urged trainees to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/politics/michigan-gop-poll-worker-training-invs/index.html">break rules
    and hide it</a>.

 


title: Rule overturned for employer-funded medical insurance covering HIV medicine
uri: Rule-overturned-for-employer-funded-medical-insurance-covering-HIV-med
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Rule_overturned_for_employer-funded_medical_insurance_covering_HIV_medicine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Rule_overturned_for_employer-funded_medical_insurance_covering_HIV_medicine)

content:
 
<p>

  A judge <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/07/monstrous-federal-judge-rules-hiv-drug-coverage-mandate-violates-religious-freedom">overturned the rule</a> that employer-funded medical insurance 
must cover medicine to control HIV.
<p>
Requiring employers to pay for employees' medical care gets the job
done, but has bad side effects.  For instance, it gives employers an
incentive to replace workers with robots.  And people who don't have
an employer to fill this role get left out.
<p>
Instead, the state ought to pay directly for medical care, and raise
income by taxing the rich.  That would avoid all these problems,
including the issue of whether the employer's religion should govern
the employee's medical care.
<p>
However, there is no chance of passing the laws to do this unless we
elect many more progressives to Congress, and in the mean time, this
decision will be a setback for preventing further cases of HIV in the US.

 


title: Green investments fail to match promises
uri: Green-investments-fail-to-match-promises
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Green_investments_fail_to_match_promises)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Green_investments_fail_to_match_promises)

content:
 
<p>

  *Oil and gas firms’ green investments <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/08/oil-and-gas-firms-green-investments-fail-to-match-promise-of-adverts-study">fail to match promise of adverts</a>.*

 


title: Rebuke of "special master" decision
uri: Rebuke-of-special-master-decision
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Rebuke_of_special_master_decision)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Rebuke_of_special_master_decision)

content:
 
<p>

  Legal experts <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/06/chorus-legal-experts-denounce-trump-appointed-judges-ruling-seized-documents">rebuke the "special master" decision</a>.
<p>
It has never made sense to me that an ex-official could claim
"executive privilege" over the use of public documents to investigate
per for possible prosecution.  Surely the current officials are the
ones who decide whether privilege applies.
<p>
However, I've seen claims, from people it seemed ought to know, that
it is accepted that ex-presidents have a certain amount of executive
privilege over the documents from their activities.
<p>
I wish I understood how to reconcile this disagreement.

 


title: Democrats gain because Americans want jobs
uri: Democrats-gain-because-Americans-want-jobs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Democrats_gain_because_Americans_want_jobs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Democrats_gain_because_Americans_want_jobs)

content:
 
<p>

  *The Democrats are gaining because <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/06/the-democrats-are-gaining-because-americans-want-jobs-not-capitol-mobs">Americans want jobs, not Capitol mobs</a>.*

 


title: Plague of pests as soil temps rise
uri: Plague-of-pests-as-soil-temps-rise
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Plague_of_pests_as_soil_temps_rise)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Plague_of_pests_as_soil_temps_rise)

content:
 
<p>

  *US farmers face <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/06/us-farmers-face-plague-of-pests-as-global-heating-raises-soil-temperatures">plague of pests</a> as global heating raises soil temperatures.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Oath_Keepers'_list_of_members)
title: Oath Keepers' list of members
uri: Oath-Keepers-list-of-members
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Oath_Keepers'_list_of_members)
content:
 
<p>

The Oath Keepers' leaked lists of members include over <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/07/oath-keepers-membership-rolls-police-military-elected-officials">80 public
    officials and candidates, 370 thugs, and 100 soldiers</a>.
<p>
Not everyone in the lists is or was a real member.


 


title: Michigan initiative to legalize abortion
uri: Michigan-initiative-to-legalize-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Michigan_initiative_to_legalize_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Michigan_initiative_to_legalize_abortion)

content:
 
<p>

  Michigan will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/09/rebuking-gop-officials-michigan-supreme-court-puts-abortion-rights-initiative-ballot">vote on an initiative to legalize abortion</a>.

 


title: Laws could be used to move US away from fossil fuels
uri: Laws-could-be-used-to-move-US-away-from-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Laws_could_be_used_to_move_US_away_from_fossil_fuels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Laws_could_be_used_to_move_US_away_from_fossil_fuels)

content:
 
<p>

Activists have looked through federal laws and found many executive powers
that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/07/what-whole-government-climate-response-would-look">can be used to move the US away from fossil fuels</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Motorists_and_parking_in_the_UK)
title: Motorists and parking in the UK
uri: Motorists-and-parking-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#11_September_2022_(Motorists_and_parking_in_the_UK)
content:
 
<p>

In the UK, motorists that want to park are in many places forced to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/aug/27/rise-of-the-parking-app-makes-the-rich-richer-as-motorists-struggle">choose between one kind of oppression and another</a>.
<p>
In some places, they are required to pay through a snoop-phone.
That is unjust because it identifies them, and makes them run nonfree software.
<p>
In others, they are charged for parking by a system that recognizes
car license plates.  That spares them the nonfree software, but it is
unjust because it identifies them,
<p>
There should be a law requiring all charged parking spaces to allow cash
payment and not record who parked there.

 


title: Urgent: Strengthen protection of North Atlantic right whales
uri: Urgent-Strengthen-protection-of-North-Atlantic-right-whales
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Urgent:_Strengthen_protection_of_North_Atlantic_right_whales)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Urgent:_Strengthen_protection_of_North_Atlantic_right_whales)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call for <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=51567">strengthening the protection</a> of North Atlantic
right whales.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Inexpensive_new_malaria_vaccine)
title: Inexpensive new malaria vaccine
uri: Inexpensive-new-malaria-vaccine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Inexpensive_new_malaria_vaccine)
content:
 
<p>

  An inexpensive new malaria vaccine is reportedly <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/08/scientists-develop-malaria-vaccine-world-changing-potential">80% effective</a> in preventing
malaria.
<p>
Although it is comparatively inexpensive, 200 million doses will still
cost 2 billion dollars to make and administer in Africa.
<p>
Malaria can't continue to exist in a mosquito for longer than a
mosquito's short life span.  If we can prevent it in humans, we can
get rid of it entirely &mdash; if we can overcome vaccine denialism.
There is a lot of vagueness in "80% protective," so I don't know whether
this vaccine could eventually eradicate malaria over time.  Perhaps in
combination with modern genetic engineering that can <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-sep-dec.html#10_October_2018_(Eliminating_mosquito_populations)">greatly reduce the
    mosquito population</a> in an area.

 


title: Sewer system privatization rejected
uri: Sewer-system-privatization-rejected
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Sewer_system_privatization_rejected)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Sewer_system_privatization_rejected)

content:
 
<p>

  Bucks County, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/08/rallying-cry-against-privatization-pa-county-rejects-billion-dollar-sewer-system">rejected an attempt</a>
to privatize the sewer system.
<p>
Private ownership of water and sewer systems should be illegal.
No matter how much money the city or county gets for selling one,
it will always lose in the long term.

 


title: Not enforcing drug laws against psychedelic drugs
uri: Not-enforcing-drug-laws-against-psychedelic-drugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Not_enforcing_drug_laws_against_psychedelic_drugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Not_enforcing_drug_laws_against_psychedelic_drugs)

content:
 
<p>

  San Francisco has adopted a policy of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/10/us/san-francisco-decriminalization-psychedelics-trnd/index.html">not enforcing drug laws against psychedelic drugs</a> made from "plants",
which appears to include drugs made from fungi even though fungi are
<em>not</em> plants.  (The higher fungi are more closely related to animals.)

 


title: US thug departments purchase data about people's movements
uri: US-thug-departments-purchase-data-about-people-s-movements
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(US_thug_departments_purchase_data_about_people's_movements)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(US_thug_departments_purchase_data_about_people's_movements)

content:
 
<p>

Many US <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> departments systematically purchase access to the Fog
Reveal "service" which provides access to an <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/09/cops-wanted-to-keep-mass-surveillance-app-secret-privacy-advocates-refused/">enormous data base of
    people's movements</a>.

 


title: Stop big oil, tax windfall profits
uri: Stop-big-oil-tax-windfall-profits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Stop_big_oil,_tax_windfall_profits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Stop_big_oil,_tax_windfall_profits)

content:
 
<p>

  *Tell Congress to Stop Big Oil.  <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-to-stop-big-oil-tax-windfall-profits-now">Tax Windfall Profits Now</a>.*

 


title: Making results of federally-funded research available
uri: Making-results-of-federally-funded-research-available
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Making_results_of_federally-funded_research_available)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Making_results_of_federally-funded_research_available)

content:
 
<p>

Biden has proposed firmer policies for making the results of
federally-funded research, and the experimental data, <a href="media/83fb4524.08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf" data-original-source="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/08-2022-OSTP-Public-Access-Memo.pdf">available to the
    public(PDF)</a>.
<p>
This is a good step in the right direction, but we also need to do
something about the harm done by trade secrecy for science and
engineering that isn't federally funded.  This harms medicine and
denies users' right to repair hardware and program free software to
run it.
<p>
The proposal has one small problem that is potentially disastrous: the
new systems of publication don't have to take effect until 2025.  If a
right-wing government is elected in 2014, it could cancel them before
they even take effect.  Yes, that election would cause bigger
disasters &mdash; but why enable it to cause another one?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Swapping_household_roles)
title: Swapping household roles
uri: Swapping-household-roles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Swapping_household_roles)
content:
 
<p>

  A mother writes about <a href="https://trishthinks.home.blog/2022/08/">swapping household roles</a> with her three children
for five days, seriously, and how her children became more mature and
responsible and developed better relationships with her and each
other.

 


title: Environmentalists are suing US Forest Service
uri: Environmentalists-are-suing-US-Forest-Service
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Environmentalists_are_suing_US_Forest_Service)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Environmentalists_are_suing_US_Forest_Service)

content:
 
<p>

Environmentalists are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/09/climate-denial-forest-service-sued-approving-crude-oil-railway-utah">suing the US Forest Service</a> for approving a new
railroad through a protected "roadless area", for the sake of opening
up a new oil field.
The Forest Service paid no attention to the danger
of exacerbating <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> disaster.

 


title: High costs of operating nuclear power plants
uri: High-costs-of-operating-nuclear-power-plants
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(High_costs_of_operating_nuclear_power_plants)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(High_costs_of_operating_nuclear_power_plants)

content:
 
<p>

Amory Lovins argues that most existing nuclear power plants are so
<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/amorylovins/2019/11/18/does-nuclear-power-slow-or-speed-climate-change/#5f5493ee506b">expensive to operate</a> that we would be better off in just a few years
by shutting them down and investing the savings in constructing
renewable electric generation.

 


title: When British people mourn the queen
uri: When-British-people-mourn-the-queen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(When_British_people_mourn_the_queen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(When_British_people_mourn_the_queen)

content:
 
<p>

When British people mourn the queen, they may be <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/09/mourn-queen-god-save-people">mourning the safety
    of their lives</a>, as they watch Tories destroy the social welfare state
that their lives depend on.

 


title: Danger of vague state laws prohibiting abortion
uri: Danger-of-vague-state-laws-prohibiting-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Danger_of_vague_state_laws_prohibiting_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Danger_of_vague_state_laws_prohibiting_abortion)

content:
 
<p>

Vague state laws prohibiting abortion, under criteria that are not
entirely clear, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/09/medical-associations-warn-irreparable-harm-without-clear-guidance-state-abortion">can kill patients</a> who need medical care that may be
prohibited, because doctors are afraid to do it.

 


title: Wrecker's officials subpoenaed for fundraising to undermine elections
uri: Wrecker-s-officials-subpoenaed-for-fundraising-to-undermine-elections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Wrecker's_officials_subpoenaed_for_fundraising_to_undermine_elections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Wrecker's_officials_subpoenaed_for_fundraising_to_undermine_elections)

content:
 
<p>

*Two [of the wrecker's] officials <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/10/trump-officials-subpoenaed-fundraising-overturn-elections">subpoenaed for fundraising to
    undermine elections</a>.*

 


title: Ukraine captured strategic rail junction
uri: Ukraine-captured-strategic-rail-junction
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Ukraine_captured_strategic_rail_junction)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Ukraine_captured_strategic_rail_junction)

content:
 
<p>

Ukraine launched an attack to the east near Kharkiv and has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/10/ukrainian-forces-kupiansk-advances-north-east-russia-izyum">captured
    the strategic rail junction</a> of Kupiansk, which the Putin forces have
been using to send supplies to a substantial part of the front.
<p>
The <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> soldiers who are cut off may have to surrender.
That would be a very good thing &mdash; more victory with less bloodshed.
<p>
Reportedly Ukraine's army advanced 30 miles along a narrow route.
That exposes them to the danger of counterattack from the flank, but
perhaps the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> are not capable of doing such a thing.

 


title: Making Jackson, Mississippi's water drinkable again
uri: Making-Jackson-Mississippi-s-water-drinkable-again
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Making_Jackson,_Mississippi's_water_drinkable_again)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Making_Jackson,_Mississippi's_water_drinkable_again)

content:
 
<p>

Jackson, Mississippi, now has running water, but making it safe to drink
will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/10/running-water-returns-in-mississippi-capital-but-its-still-undrinkable">take lots of money, spent on decades of work</a>.

 


title: Monitoring employees minute by minute
uri: Monitoring-employees-minute-by-minute
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Monitoring_employees_minute_by_minute)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#12_September_2022_(Monitoring_employees_minute_by_minute)

content:
 
<p>

  Some employers <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/14/business/worker-productivity-tracking.html">monitor workers minute by minute</a>.  Some won't pay for
work that wasn't recorded by the monitoring software.
<p>
To prevent competitive advantage (or the belief that there is
competitive advantage) from stampeding all businesses into intrusive
monitoring of workers as if they were machines, we should legislate
rules that limit monitoring.  When a business argues that "We will be
at a disadvantage if we don't do this to our workers, we will have two
responses: (1) your competitors can't do this either, and (2) respect
for human beings is more important than how much profit you make".

 


title: Last reactor of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant shut down
uri: Last-reactor-of-Zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-shut-down
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_September_2022_(Last_reactor_of_Zaporizhzhia_nuclear_power_plant_shut_down)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_September_2022_(Last_reactor_of_Zaporizhzhia_nuclear_power_plant_shut_down)

content:
 
<p>

The Ukrainian operators of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/11/reactor-ukraine-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-shut-down-operator">shut
    down the last operating reactor</a> there, as a safety measure.
<p>
Is this actually an improvement in safety?  I have doubts.
<p>
While one reactor was operating, the plant had three options for
obtaining the electricity needed to prevent meltdowns in the shut-down
reactors: electricity generated by the one operating reactor,
electricity obtained by cable from a distance, and the diesel backup
generators.
<p>
With all reactors shut down, the first option is gone, and the other
two are no more reliable than before.

 


title: Number of people living in slavery today
uri: Number-of-people-living-in-slavery-today
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_September_2022_(Number_of_people_living_in_slavery_today)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_September_2022_(Number_of_people_living_in_slavery_today)

content:
 
<p>

The number of people living in slavery today is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/12/ten-million-more-people-now-trapped-in-slavery-report-says">estimated at 50 million</a>,
including 10 million who have been forced into slavery (including
involuntary marriage) in the past five years.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_September_2022_(Liz_Truss_suppressing_dissent)
title: Liz Truss suppressing dissent
uri: Liz-Truss-suppressing-dissent
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_September_2022_(Liz_Truss_suppressing_dissent)
content:
 
<p>

*Why is Liz Truss sacking top civil servants? Because <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/12/liz-truss-sacking-civil-servants-government">she wants to suppress
    dissent</a>.*

 


title: Alabama jailing pregnant marijuana users
uri: Alabama-jailing-pregnant-marijuana-users
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_September_2022_(Alabama_jailing_pregnant_marijuana_users)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_September_2022_(Alabama_jailing_pregnant_marijuana_users)

content:
 
<p>

  *Alabama is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/12/alabama-jailing-pregnant-marijuana-users-protect-fetuses">jailing pregnant marijuana users</a> to "protect" fetuses.*
<p>
This also has the effect of preventing them from getting an abortion,
which they ought to do if pregnant and using marijuana.
<p>
What about pregnant tobacco users?  Pregnant alcohol users?
The same logic applies to them, but tobacco and alcohol are not illegal,
so the state has no basis to arrest them.  If the US government legalizes
marijuana, it might protect the victim of this law.

 


title: Teaching thugs to be police officers
uri: Teaching-thugs-to-be-police-officers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_September_2022_(Teaching_thugs_to_be_police_officers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_September_2022_(Teaching_thugs_to_be_police_officers)

content:
 
<p>

The London <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> department has a new commissioner whose job is to
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/12/scandal-met-new-commissioner-mark-rowley-police">teach the thugs to be police officers</a>: not to be cruel or racist
towards the public, and to stop protecting elected officials who break
laws.

 


title: Won't try to restrict abortion in this state
uri: Won-t-try-to-restrict-abortion-in-this-state
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_September_2022_(Won't_try_to_restrict_abortion_in_this_state)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_September_2022_(Won't_try_to_restrict_abortion_in_this_state)

content:
 
<p>

Some Republican candidates are running on the platform of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/12/republicans-soften-staunch-anti-abortion-stance">"I won't
    try to restrict abortion in <em>this</em> state</a>."
But it's not enough to stop the advance of the anti-abortion
movement &mdash; we must liberate the states they have taken.
<p>
  The Republican Party, overall, is the party of <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-sep-dec.html#13_November_2018_(Republican_candidates_racist_lies)">lies</a> and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#3_September_2019_(Federal_Election_Commission)">cheating</a>,
  and most Republican politicians support <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#19_August_2022_(Stealing_vote_tabulator_machines)">stealing the next election</a>.

 


title: Princeton University is now gratis
uri: Princeton-University-is-now-gratis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_September_2022_(Princeton_University_is_now_gratis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_September_2022_(Princeton_University_is_now_gratis)

content:
 
<p>

  *Princeton University <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/10/us/princeton-university-financial-aid-trnd/index.html">is now [gratis]</a> for families making under $100,000.*
<p>
  The article said <a href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#ForFree">"free"</a>, but I've decided to use that word only
in regard to freedom, not in regard to price.

 


title: For Democrats to win in November
uri: For-Democrats-to-win-in-November
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_September_2022_(For_Democrats_to_win_in_November)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#13_September_2022_(For_Democrats_to_win_in_November)

content:
 
<p>

  *To Win in November, Democrats Must <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/11/win-november-democrats-must-listen-citizen-groups">Listen to Citizen Groups</a>.*

 


title: Urgent: No handouts to cryptocurrency industry
uri: Urgent-No-handouts-to-cryptocurrency-industry
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Urgent:_No_handouts_to_cryptocurrency_industry)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Urgent:_No_handouts_to_cryptocurrency_industry)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Congress <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-no-giveaways-to-the-crypto-industry">not to give any handouts</a> to the
   cryptocurrency industry.  Let regulators do their jobs and protect
   consumers now.

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

 


title: Urgent: reduce transportation emissions
uri: Urgent-reduce-transportation-emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Urgent:_reduce_transportation_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Urgent:_reduce_transportation_emissions)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: urge the DOT to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=51137">finalize a strong rule</a> requiring
states to reduce transportation emissions.

 


title: Officials in Russia calling for impeachment of Putin
uri: Officials-in-Russia-calling-for-impeachment-of-Putin
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Officials_in_Russia_calling_for_impeachment_of_Putin)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Officials_in_Russia_calling_for_impeachment_of_Putin)

content:
 
<p>

Some local officials in Russia have called for impeachment of Putin, 
and have been <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/09/europe/russia-officials-fined-for-putin-impeachment-call-intl/index.html">charged with a crime for that</a>.
<p>
It's one small addition to his long list of crimes against Russia.

 


title: Hong Kongers sentenced to prison for publishing a book
uri: Hong-Kongers-sentenced-to-prison-for-publishing-a-book
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Hong_Kongers_sentenced_to_prison_for_publishing_a_book)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Hong_Kongers_sentenced_to_prison_for_publishing_a_book)

content:
 
<p>

China has sentenced some Hong Kongers to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/10/asia/hong-kong-speech-therapists-sedition-childrens-books-intl-hnk/index.html">19 months in prison for
    publishing a book</a>.  The book can be interpreted as suggesting
criticisms of Chinese rule in Hong Kong.

 


title: Merchant codes for credit card charges
uri: Merchant-codes-for-credit-card-charges
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Merchant_codes_for_credit_card_charges)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Merchant_codes_for_credit_card_charges)

content:
 
<p>

A new merchant code for credit card charges will eventually make it easier
to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/10/business/gun-stores-merchant-code-visa-american-express-mastercard/index.html">see who is purchasing a lot of arms or ammunition</a> from firearms stores with a credit card.
<p>
It seems that a substantial fraction of people who commit a massacre
spend a substantial sum to buy weapons for it, and a credit card is
the only way they can pay.

 


title: Queen Elizabeth II blamed for evils of British Empire
uri: Queen-Elizabeth-II-blamed-for-evils-of-British-Empire
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Queen_Elizabeth_II_blamed_for_evils_of_British_Empire)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Queen_Elizabeth_II_blamed_for_evils_of_British_Empire)

content:
 
<p>

  Some Africans <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/10/africa/colonialism-africa-queen-elizabeth-intl/index.html">blame Queen Elizabeth II</a> for the evils of the British Empire.
<p>
Since the British monarchs did not make policy decisions in the 20th
century, I don't see that they were to blame for injustices that the
British Empire committed then.  It's the elected officials that we
must blame.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Payment_strikes)
title: Payment strikes
uri: Payment-strikes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Payment_strikes)
content:
 
<p>

In the US, UK, Mexico and China, non-rich people who have been shafted and
cannot possibly afford the payments they are compelled to make are <a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/08/are-payment-strikes-about-to-become-a-regular-feature-of-the-economic-landscape.html">starting
payment strikes</a>.
<p>
I am puzzled by the concept of "energy bills" used in articles about
the UK.  What is an "energy bill"?  I have never received one.  I get
bills for gas and bills for electricity.  Some people use fuel oil and
get an oil bill.  Is the term "energy bill" an oversimplified way of
generalizing about various kinds of bills?  Does the system in the UK
send people just one bill for all kinds of energy?
<p>
The term "fuel poverty"

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(The_US_Business_Roundtable)
title: The US "Business Roundtable"
uri: The-US-Business-Roundtable
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(The_US_Business_Roundtable)
content:
 
<p>

The US "Business Roundtable" represents businesses that claimed to promote
decarbonization, but secretly <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/19/top-us-business-lobby-group-climate-action-business-roundtable">lobbied against measures that would achieve it</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Food_price_increases)
title: Food price increases
uri: Food-price-increases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Food_price_increases)
content:
 
<p>

Shortages and crises trigger food price increases, then banks and
giant food companies <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/09/wall-street-giants-set-smash-profit-records-global-hunger-energy-crisis">take advantage to push the price up</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Curb_surveillance_empire)
title: Curb surveillance empire
uri: Curb-surveillance-empire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Curb_surveillance_empire)
content:
 
<p>

*Coalition Tells FTC to Curb Amazon 'Surveillance Empire' by <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/09/coalition-tells-ftc-curb-amazon-surveillance-empire-blocking-purchase-irobot">Blocking Purchase
    of iRobot</a>.*
<p>
It is a good reason to do so, but Amazon is simply too big and should
not be allowed to buy any other companies.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Monitoring_when_you_ovulate)
title: Monitoring when you ovulate
uri: Monitoring-when-you-ovulate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Monitoring_when_you_ovulate)
content:
 
<p>

  The latest Apple spy-watch uses sensors to <a href="https://mashable.com/article/apple-watch-series-8-health-fertility-tracker">monitor when you ovulate</a>;
it doesn't need to ask you.  And it will give that data to various
companies and governments.
<p>
With that data, governments can tell that you probably had a
miscarriage or an abortion.  That will provides grounds to subpoena
more data so as to decide whether to prosecute you.
<p>
The device may offer you the choice to disable the feature, but since
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html">the software is non-free</a>,
which implies it is <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">controlled by Apple rather than by the
  users</a>, it could be drawing those conclusions and showing them to
companies and governments, while pretending that it does not.

 


title: Prison for talking brashly to thugs
uri: Prison-for-talking-brashly-to-thugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Prison_for_talking_brashly_to_thugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Prison_for_talking_brashly_to_thugs)

content:
 
<p>

Brittany Martin was sentenced to four years in prison for <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/11/us/brittany-martin-south-carolina-sentence-reaj/index.html">talking back
    brashly</a> to some South Carolina thugs while she was in a Black Lives
Matter protest.

 


title: Bully insisted he had won the election
uri: Bully-insisted-he-had-won-the-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Bully_insisted_he_had_won_the_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Bully_insisted_he_had_won_the_election)

content:
 
<p>

In November 2020, the <a href="/glossary.html#bully">bully</a> insisted to his aides that he had won the
election and would <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/12/politics/trump-vowed-to-stay-in-white-house-haberman-book/index.html">refuse to leave the White House</a>.

 


title: Arrested for calling for elimination of the monarchy
uri: Arrested-for-calling-for-elimination-of-the-monarchy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Arrested_for_calling_for_elimination_of_the_monarchy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Arrested_for_calling_for_elimination_of_the_monarchy)

content:
 
<p>

Britons who call for elimination of the monarchy, even just by holding
signs, are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/12/republican-britain-why-are-people-getting-arrested">being arrested</a>.
<p>
The Tories officially eliminated many human rights this year.  This
could be the way Britons learn what has been taken from them.
<p>
I don't care much whether the UK is a monarchy or a republic
provided it is democratic and respects human rights.  But that's
precisely what Tories are destroying.

 


title: Law that restricts video recording of police
uri: Law-that-restricts-video-recording-of-police
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Law_that_restricts_video_recording_of_police)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Law_that_restricts_video_recording_of_police)

content:
 
<p>

  *A federal judge <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/12/us/judge-blocks-arizona-police-video-law/index.html">blocked an Arizona law</a> that restricts video recording
of police.*
<p>
That was obviously what ought to happen.  But we must worry whether the
Supreme Court will allow it to stand.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Low-carbon_chemical_industry)
title: Low-carbon chemical industry
uri: Low-carbon-chemical-industry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#14_September_2022_(Low-carbon_chemical_industry)
content:
 
<p>

  *A low-carbon chemical industry "could <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/13/a-low-carbon-chemical-industry-could-create-29m-jobs-and-double-turnover">create 29m jobs and double turnover</a>."*

 


title: Urgent: Funding for Covid-19 treatment and vaccination
uri: Urgent-Funding-for-Covid-19-treatment-and-vaccination
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Urgent:_Funding_for_Covid-19_treatment_and_vaccination)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Urgent:_Funding_for_Covid-19_treatment_and_vaccination)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and ask for funding for
Covid-19 treatment and vaccination, and likewise for Monkeypox, in the
annual spending authorization.
<p>
Also insist on keeping Manchin's sabotage of environmental impact
regulations for oil pipelines out of this bill.

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

 


title: Putin forces accused of war crimes
uri: Putin-forces-accused-of-war-crimes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Putin_forces_accused_of_war_crimes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Putin_forces_accused_of_war_crimes)

content:
 
<p>

People in Balakliia said that the Putin forces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/13/balakliia-residents-take-stock-after-ukraine-recaptures-frontline-town">committed some war crimes</a>,
but not massively as in places near Kyiv.
<p>
They also say that a fair number in Balakliia collaborated with the
occupation, and most of those have gone to Russia.  The supporters of
Putin, all across Ukraine, have been <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/europe/ukraine-izium-recaptured-intl-cmd/index.html">fleeing to Russia</a>, shaken by the
<a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a>' sudden collapse.
<p>
I am sure many collaborated with the occupation to a limited extent
because they were terrified of refusing, and expected the occupation
to be permanent.  Except for those who informed on others or did
considerably more than the minimum, it would be wrong to punish them.

 


title: Military-industrial complex captured US Congress
uri: Military-industrial-complex-captured-US-Congress
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Military-industrial_complex_captured_US_Congress)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Military-industrial_complex_captured_US_Congress)

content:
 
<p>

  The military-industrial complex has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/12/weapons-industry-taxpayer-scam">captured the US Congress</a>, which
hardly even tries to resist funding waste and fraud by weapons
companies.
<p>
I am all in favor of spending government funds to make jobs in the US,
but which jobs should they be?  Any job will support a worker, if its
wages are decent.  So let's choose the jobs that also produce
things that the US needs or that Americans can use.
<p>
Congress resists spending money on cancel all student debts,
but it has poured the same amount of money into the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/12/canceling-all-student-debt-would-cost-about-much-pentagons-f-35-boondoggle">failing F-35
without hesitating</a>.
<p>
Why the difference?  One can guess that Congress values the
military-industrial complex more than mere people.

 


title: Battle between humans and sulphur-crested cockatoos
uri: Battle-between-humans-and-sulphur-crested-cockatoos
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Battle_between_humans_and_sulphur-crested_cockatoos)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Battle_between_humans_and_sulphur-crested_cockatoos)

content:
 
<p>

Australia sees a battle of wits <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/13/interspecies-innovation-arms-race-cockatoos-and-humans-at-war-over-wheelie-bin-raids">between humans and sulphur-crested cockatoos</a>.
Humans currently seem to be winning.
<p>
Must the two species be adversaries?  Why not cooperate?
What people dislike about the cockatoos seems to be that they screech.
<p>
Could some hacker design a device that offers a button for cockatoos
to open the bin door so they can eat, but closes the door slowly if it
hears a nearby screech?  After closing, it could keep the door closed
for 30 seconds, responding to the button during that time with "No,
no, no."  They might learn to stop screeching in order to get at the
food.
<p>
When the 30-second closure period ends, the device could speak,
"Hello, Cockie!"
<p>
Another question is, what is a good way to minimize the scattering of
waste outside the bin while they pick through the bins?  Perhaps just
leaving a foot of empty space at the top of the bin would do the job.

 


title: Green party supports striking workers
uri: Green-party-supports-striking-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Green_party_supports_striking_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Green_party_supports_striking_workers)

content:
 
<p>

*The two main parties may not support striking workers, but the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/12/green-party-planet-climate-crisis-cost-of-living">[UK]
Green party does</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(US_hit_by_vaccine_patents)
title: US hit by vaccine patents
uri: US-hit-by-vaccine-patents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(US_hit_by_vaccine_patents)
content:
 
<p>

The US is now being <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/26/health/moderna-pfizer-mrna-patent-lawsuit/index.html">hit by the patents that endanger Covid-19 vaccines</a>
and other mRNA vaccines.

 


title: (satire) Restrictions on abusing flight crews
uri: (satire)-Restrictions-on-abusing-flight-crews
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_((satire)_Restrictions_on_abusing_flight_crews)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_((satire)_Restrictions_on_abusing_flight_crews)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/delta-lifts-pandemic-era-restrictions-on-abusing-flight-1849492159">*Delta Lifts Pandemic-Era Restrictions On
    Abusing Flight Crew.*</a>

 


title: Legal harassment against climate-defense activists
uri: Legal-harassment-against-climate-defense-activists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Legal_harassment_against_climate-defense_activists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Legal_harassment_against_climate-defense_activists)

content:
 
<p>

  Planet roasters in the US have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/12/fossil-fuel-giants-have-targeted-150-activists-judicial-harassment-report">launched 150 campaigns</a> of legal
harassment against climate-defense activists.
<p>
  The biggest culprits were Chevron and <a href="/articles/exxon.html">Exxon</a>.

 


title: Benefits for workers who don't join union
uri: Benefits-for-workers-who-don-t-join-union
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Benefits_for_workers_who_don't_join_union)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Benefits_for_workers_who_don't_join_union)

content:
 
<p>

  Starbucks is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/12/disgusting-starbucks-help-its-workers-student-debt-unless-theyre-union">offering some new benefits</a> to workers who don't join the
union.
<p>
They can't be very large benefits, because the company expects to increase
profits by fighting unionization.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Interview_with_Symon_Hill)
title: Interview with Symon Hill
uri: Interview-with-Symon-Hill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Interview_with_Symon_Hill)
content:
 
<p>

  An <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/11/republican-protesters-arrested-king-charles-proclamation-events">interview with Symon Hill</a>, who was arrested for briefly heckling at
a kingship ceremony in England.

 


title: Bullshitter's claims of "executive privilege"
uri: Bullshitter-s-claims-of-executive-privilege
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Bullshitter's_claims_of_executive_privilege)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Bullshitter's_claims_of_executive_privilege)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The bullshitter</a>'s claims of "executive privilege" over government
documents that he wrongfully took home start from something that the
Supreme Court said in a case against Nixon's claims, but <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/09/10/1122198489/what-is-executive-privilege-the-term-at-the-center-of-the-mar-a-lago-legal-battl">distort and
    exaggerate it</a>.
<p>
The court only avoided insisting that a former president could not
possibly have executive privilege in some situation regarding some
documents.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The bullshitter</a> has exaggerated this vague hypothetical possibility in
several dimensions at once.

 


title: Sanders rebuked the medical industry
uri: Sanders-rebuked-the-medical-industry
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Sanders_rebuked_the_medical_industry)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Sanders_rebuked_the_medical_industry)

content:
 
<p>

Sanders <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/13/follow-money-sanders-explains-why-medicare-all-stalled-congress">rebuked the medical industry</a> for spending billions to prevent
the US from moving to universal medical care.

 


title: Amount Russia has spent to influence foreign officials
uri: Amount-Russia-has-spent-to-influence-foreign-officials
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Amount_Russia_has_spent_to_influence_foreign_officials)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Amount_Russia_has_spent_to_influence_foreign_officials)

content:
 
<p>

  *Russia has spent $300m since 2014 to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/13/russia-foreign-election-interference-state-department">influence foreign officials</a>, US
 says.*

 


title: Australia weakened influence of planet roasters
uri: Australia-weakened-influence-of-planet-roasters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Australia_weakened_influence_of_planet_roasters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Australia_weakened_influence_of_planet_roasters)

content:
 
<p>

  Australia has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/14/labor-overhauls-climate-change-authority-to-counter-concerns-of-excessive-business-influence">weakened the influence of planet roasters</a> in its Climate
Change Authority.
<p>
Next it should change the name to Climate Defense Authority.
Defending the Earth's climate from human attack is its mission.

 


title: We need to preserve large mature trees
uri: We-need-to-preserve-large-mature-trees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(We_need_to_preserve_large_mature_trees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(We_need_to_preserve_large_mature_trees)

content:
 
<p>

To remove a lot of CO2 from the air, we need to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/13/climate-solution-standing-right-front-us-mature-and-old-growth-forests">preserve the large,
    mature trees</a> that continue to do so.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Rebuking_Palestinian_leaders)
title: Rebuking Palestinian leaders
uri: Rebuking-Palestinian-leaders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(Rebuking_Palestinian_leaders)
content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/13/peaceful-resistance-turns-military-might-weakness">Rebuking Palestinian leaders</a> for focusing on armed war against Israel, and
using their arms to just so they can say they are fighting.
<p>
  Palestinians in the West Bank have made <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-sep-dec.html#11_September_2020_(Booby_traps_against_protesters)">considerable use</a> of <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#12_January_2020_(Imprisonment_for_nonviolent_criticism)">nonviolent
    resistance</a>, but they don't have nonviolence discipline.  There tends to be a
crowd of stone-throwing youths alongside protests; Israel cites them
as an excuse for its repressive treatment of protesters.
<p>
That excuse is not truly valid, but Israel makes it seem valid.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(UK_needs_better_insulated_homes)
title: UK needs better insulated homes
uri: UK-needs-better-insulated-homes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#15_September_2022_(UK_needs_better_insulated_homes)
content:
 
<p>

  *The UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/13/uk-better-insulated-homes-putin-fossil-fuel-giants">needs better insulated homes</a> to free us from Putin and the
fossil fuel giants.*

 


title: Supreme court decisions that will kill Americans at random
uri: Supreme-court-decisions-that-will-kill-Americans-at-random
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Supreme_court_decisions_that_will_kill_Americans_at_random)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Supreme_court_decisions_that_will_kill_Americans_at_random)

content:
 
<p>

  Several recent Supreme Court decisions will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/13/right-wing-supreme-court-actual-death-panel">kill Americans at random</a>.
<p>
  This reality is not quite analogous to the mythical <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_panel">"death panels"</a>
that were not in Obama's medical insurance scheme, neither as
proposed nor as adopted.  Those were supposedly going to decide
whether individual persons were worthy of medical treatment.  The
Supreme Court decisions will lead indirectly to the death of victims
selected by circumstances at random.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Child_poverty_tax_credit)
title: Child poverty tax credit
uri: Child-poverty-tax-credit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Child_poverty_tax_credit)
content:
 
<p>

The US adopted the child poverty tax credit as a response to Covid-19.
It <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/14/us-child-poverty-rate-tax-credit-census">lifted millions of children out of poverty</a>.
Now Republicans (with Manchin's help) have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/13/it-shouldnt-take-pandemic-prove-we-could-end-child-poverty">brought it to an end</a>.
<p>
I guess they figure that sloppy-thinking voters will blame Biden for
the change, because it will happen while he is president.

 


title: Stock trades that overlap with committee work
uri: Stock-trades-that-overlap-with-committee-work
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Stock_trades_that_overlap_with_committee_work)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Stock_trades_that_overlap_with_committee_work)

content:
 
<p>

*Nearly 100 Members of Congress Reported Stock Trades That <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/13/nearly-100-members-congress-reported-stock-trades-overlap-committee-work">Overlap With
    Committee Work</a>.*

 


title: Protective order against harassment by local thugs
uri: Protective-order-against-harassment-by-local-thugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Protective_order_against_harassment_by_local_thugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Protective_order_against_harassment_by_local_thugs)

content:
 
<p>

A protest camp for resistance against the Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline
has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/13/david-beat-goliath-line-3-water-defenders-win-protective-ruling">won a protective order</a> against harassment by local thugs.
<p>
The pipeline opponents are protecting more than their local water
supply (though that is a valid reason to oppose a pipeline).  They are
fighting one of the local battles to curb <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> and prevent
the early death of billions of people.
<p>
The local <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are on the side of money.  Probably because the local
politicians are, too.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_((satire)_Emmy_for_best_profits)
title: (satire) Emmy for best profits
uri: (satire)-Emmy-for-best-profits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_((satire)_Emmy_for_best_profits)
content:
 
<p>

  (satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/disney-wins-emmy-for-best-profits-1849530964">*Disney Wins Emmy For Best Profits.*</a>
<p>
A Disney executive probably would deprecate all movies by calling them
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Content">"content"</a>.

 


title: Putinite occupiers believed they were liberating from Nazis
uri: Putinite-occupiers-believed-they-were-liberating-from-Nazis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Putinite_occupiers_believed_they_were_liberating_from_Nazis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Putinite_occupiers_believed_they_were_liberating_from_Nazis)

content:
 
<p>

The Putinite occupiers arrived in Izium believing Putin's lie that
they were liberating the people from "Nazis".  <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/europe/ukraine-izium-recaptured-intl-cmd/index.html">Civilians set them
    straight</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(DNA_samples_in_San_Francisco)
title: DNA samples in San Francisco
uri: DNA-samples-in-San-Francisco
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(DNA_samples_in_San_Francisco)
content:
 
<p>

It appears that <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> in San Francisco take DNA samples they get from
people reporting rape and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/us/san-francisco-rape-kit-dna/index.html">compare them with a large database</a> of DNA
from crime scenes, looking for a match.
<p>
I doubt that San Francisco is the only place that does this.

 


title: Subpoenas seeking communications about plotting
uri: Subpoenas-seeking-communications-about-plotting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Subpoenas_seeking_communications_about_plotting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Subpoenas_seeking_communications_about_plotting)

content:
 
<p>

The Department of Justice has sent subpoenas to many officials and associates
of the wrecker, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/politics/trump-justice-department-election-investigation/index.html">seeking communications that might be about plotting</a>.

 


title: Renaming bases ships and other things
uri: Renaming-bases-ships-and-other-things
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Renaming_bases_ships_and_other_things)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Renaming_bases_ships_and_other_things)

content:
 
<p>

The US military is finishing up the first step of renaming bases, ships and
other things <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/politics/us-navy-ships-rename-uss-chancellorsville-usns-maury/index.html">whose names honor the Confederacy</a>.  This step is to recommend
what to rename.
<p>
  It is arguable that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Fontaine_Maury">Matthew Fontaine Maury's</a> contributions to
oceanography and navigation were more significant than anything he did
for the Confederacy.  I hope that people will not seek to deny him of
civilian recognition for the former.

 


title: (satire) Shower sex limited to once per week
uri: (satire)-Shower-sex-limited-to-once-per-week
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_((satire)_Shower_sex_limited_to_once_per_week)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_((satire)_Shower_sex_limited_to_once_per_week)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/new-california-water-restrictions-limit-shower-sex-to-o-1849507593">*New California Water Restrictions Limit Shower Sex To Once
    Per Week.*</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Overloading_election_officials)
title: Overloading election officials
uri: Overloading-election-officials
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Overloading_election_officials)
content:
 
<p>

  Republican election saboteurs are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/12/trump-backers-accused-weaponizing-records-requests-destabilize-midterms">overloading election officials</a> with
requests for many kinds of records about the 2020 election.

 


title: Residents where Australia floods systematically
uri: Residents-where-Australia-floods-systematically
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Residents_where_Australia_floods_systematically)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Residents_where_Australia_floods_systematically)

content:
 
<p>

In the areas of Australia that <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a> has made flood-prone,
residents are systematically <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/15/localise-everything-after-floods-northern-rivers-residents-join-forces-to-build-disaster-resilience">learning to use sandbags to protect their
    houses</a>, stockpile food and potable water, and clear road blockages.
<p>
Can they put their houses up on stilts?  That would protect more than sandbags
could possibly do.  Especially if a house needs rebuilding, they should
not make it as vulnerable as the old one.

 


title: Indiana and West Virginia ban abortion
uri: Indiana-and-West-Virginia-ban-abortion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Indiana_and_West_Virginia_ban_abortion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Indiana_and_West_Virginia_ban_abortion)

content:
 
<p>

  Indiana and West Virginia have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/15/indiana-abortion-ban-trigger-law">banned abortion</a>.

 


title: Children that are more likely to get asthma
uri: Children-that-are-more-likely-to-get-asthma
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Children_that_are_more_likely_to_get_asthma)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Children_that_are_more_likely_to_get_asthma)

content:
 
<p>

*Children whose [fathers] breathed cigarette smoke <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/15/children-of-children-exposed-to-smokers-more-likely-to-get-asthma-study-finds">more likely to get
asthma</a> &mdash; study finds.*

 


title: Putin forces fire missiles at dam
uri: Putin-forces-fire-missiles-at-dam
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Putin_forces_fire_missiles_at_dam)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Putin_forces_fire_missiles_at_dam)

content:
 
<p>

  The Putin forces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/15/ukraine-city-of-kryvyi-rih-floods-after-russian-missile-strikes-hit-dam">fired missiles at a dam</a> protecting the city of Kryvyi
Rih, causing a river to rise 8 feet and flood part of the city.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Patagonia_company_is_donated)
title: Patagonia company is donated
uri: Patagonia-company-is-donated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Patagonia_company_is_donated)
content:
 
<p>

  The owner of Patagonia company has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/14/patagonias-billionaire-owner-gives-away-company-to-fight-climate-crisis-yvon-chouinard">donated the whole company to a foundation</a> that will use the income for curbing global heating.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Amazon_sued_by_California)
title: Amazon sued by California
uri: Amazon-sued-by-California
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Amazon_sued_by_California)
content:
 
<p>

  California has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/sep/14/california-amazon-antitrust-lawsuit-higher-prices">sued Amazon for anticompetitive practices</a>.

 


title: Put forces had list of people to capture and disappear
uri: Put-forces-had-list-of-people-to-capture-and-disappear
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Put_forces_had_list_of_people_to_capture_and_disappear)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Put_forces_had_list_of_people_to_capture_and_disappear)

content:
 
<p>

When the Putin forces captured Izium, they had a list of people to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/14/people-disappeared-iziums-residents-on-russias-occupation">arrest
    and disappear</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Blue_light_from_LED_bulbs)
title: Blue light from LED bulbs
uri: Blue-light-from-LED-bulbs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Blue_light_from_LED_bulbs)
content:
 
<p>

  LED bulbs for night illumination <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/14/increase-in-led-lighting-risks-harming-human-and-animal-health">give out more blue light</a>.  This increases
interference with sleep for humans and other animals.

 


title: European Parliament votes to reduce felling of trees
uri: European-Parliament-votes-to-reduce-felling-of-trees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(European_Parliament_votes_to_reduce_felling_of_trees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(European_Parliament_votes_to_reduce_felling_of_trees)

content:
 
<p>

  The European Parliament <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/14/eu-limits-subsidies-for-burning-trees-under-renewable-energy-directive">voted in a vague way</a> to reduce the felling of
trees to make "renewable" fuel.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Hydrogen_made_by_electrolysis)
title: Hydrogen made by electrolysis
uri: Hydrogen-made-by-electrolysis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Hydrogen_made_by_electrolysis)
content:
 
<p>

Making hydrogen by electrolysis using renewable electricity <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/14/green-hydrogen-could-counter-energy-crisis-says-british-firm">should
now be cheaper</a> than natural gas, at least in Britain.

 


title: Protests at ceremonies of the monarchy
uri: Protests-at-ceremonies-of-the-monarchy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Protests_at_ceremonies_of_the_monarchy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Protests_at_ceremonies_of_the_monarchy)

content:
 
<p>

Starmer says people have a right to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/14/keir-starmer-protesters-should-respect-those-mourning-queen">protest at the ceremonies of the
    monarchy</a> provided they do it in a way that will hardly attract any
attention.
<p>
The UK's two main parties are now the extreme wild right-wing (Tory)
and the tepid right-wing (Labour).

 


title: Putin forces had list of people to capture and disappear
uri: Putin-forces-had-list-of-people-to-capture-and-disappear
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Putin_forces_had_list_of_people_to_capture_and_disappear)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#16_September_2022_(Putin_forces_had_list_of_people_to_capture_and_disappear)

content:
 
<p>

When the Putin forces captured Izium, they had a list of people to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/14/people-disappeared-iziums-residents-on-russias-occupation">arrest
    and disappear</a>.

 


title: Pieper Lewis killed a man that she accused of raping her.
uri: Pieper-Lewis-killed-a-man-that-she-accused-of-raping-her
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(girl_who_killed_rapist_must_pay_150k)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(girl_who_killed_rapist_must_pay_150k)

content:
 
<p>
Pieper Lewis killed a man that she accused of raping her.  She has been
sentenced to 5 years' probation, with the requirement to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/14/girl-who-killed-accused-rapist-must-pay-his-family-150000">pay $150k to
the man's family.</a>
<p>
She can't possibly make that much money, because nearly good jobs are
off limits to people with criminal convictions.  So this would be an
impossible demand, and that cannot be just.  By luck, she raised
the money by asking for donations, but that doesn't excuse an impossible
demand in a sentence.
<p>
In California, Jay Jordan has won a campaign to change that policy
of 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/14/criminal-records-california-sealing-expunge-jay-jordan">excluding convicts from good jobs.</a>

 


title: Biden says US democracy is under threat. Here’s what he can do to help fix it
uri: Biden-says-US-democracy-is-under-threat-Here-s-what-he-can-do-to-he
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(biden_can_fix_right_wing_threats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(biden_can_fix_right_wing_threats)

content:
 
<p>
Biden has acknowledged the right-wing threat to US democracy, but he has
not dared to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/16/biden-says-us-democracy-is-under-threat-heres-what-he-can-do-to-help-fix-it">call for solutions that would change it.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(ca_later_school_hour_times_law)
title: Do later school start times make teens happier? California’s about to find out
uri: Do-later-school-start-times-make-teens-happier-California-s-about-t
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(ca_later_school_hour_times_law)
content:
 
<p>
California will stop high school classes from starting at the insane hour
of 7am. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/sep/14/california-later-school-start-times-law-teens-sleep">They will instead start at the painfully early hour of 8:30am.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(private_equity_dirty_energy)
title: Private equity still investing billions in dirty energy despite pledge to clean up
uri: Private-equity-still-investing-billions-in-dirty-energy-despite-pledge
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(private_equity_dirty_energy)
content:
 
<p>
Some large private equity funds are still investing billions in into 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/sep/14/private-equity-dirty-energy-carlyle-warburg-pincus-kkr-climate-risks-scorecard">increasing the use of fossil fuels.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_()
title: Down With the Corporate Bean-Counters Who Spy on Their Workers
uri: Down-With-the-Corporate-Bean-Counters-Who-Spy-on-Their-Workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_()
content:
 
<p>
* When overpaid corporate boneheads &hellip; substitute slogans and
   computer metrics for real solutions, they're admitting that they
   are the problem; they simply don't know how to motivate and manage
   a creative workforce.
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/14/down-corporate-bean-counters-who-spy-their-workers">They should resign in shame.*</a>
<p>
They have the power, so they won't resign. We should demand laws
to prohibit measuring workers moment by moment.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(eu_energy_crisis_tax)
title: *EU proposes $140 billion windfall tax on energy companies.*
uri: EU-proposes-140-billion-windfall-tax-on-energy-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(eu_energy_crisis_tax)
content:
 
<p>
*EU proposes $140 billion windfall 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/14/business/eu-energy-crisis-windfall-tax/index.html"> tax on energy companies.</a>*

 


uri: More-than-half-of-Republican-Senate-nominees-have-rejected-cast-doub
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(fact_check_republican_senate_nominees)

title:
 *More than half of Republican Senate nominees have rejected, cast
doubt tried to overturn 2020 election results.* 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(fact_check_republican_senate_nominees)

content:
 
<p>
*More than half of Republican Senate nominees have rejected, cast
doubt upon or 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/14/politics/fact-check-republican-senate-nominees-2020-election/index.html">tried to overturn the 2020 election results.</a>*

 


title: Republicans are working very hard to take workers off the voter lists.
uri: Republicans-are-working-very-hard-to-take-workers-off-the-voter-lists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(gop_midterm_effort_halt_democracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(gop_midterm_effort_halt_democracy)

content:
 
<p>
Republicans are working very hard to take workers off the voter lists.
Here are 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/14/scam-alert-beware-gops-other-midterm-effort-halt-democracy">some of the excuses they employ.</a>
<p>
You can check your voter registration to make sure it has not been
cancelled.  However, the article doesn't say how to tell whether they
are purging you by caging, or how to prevent that.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(queens_death_media_coverage)
uri: Why-did-the-Queen-s-death-receive-saturation-media-coverage-while-t
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(queens_death_media_coverage)
title:
 *Why did the Queen’s death receive saturation media coverage while the future
of the Earth goes largely ignored?*
 

content:
 
<p>
*Why did the Queen’s death receive saturation media coverage while the future
of the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2022/sep/16/why-did-the-queens-death-receive-saturation-media-coverage-while-the-future-of-the-earth-goes-largely-ignored">Earth goes largely ignored?*</a>
<p>
I conjecture that it's because global heating implies a responsibility
to try to stop it, whereas the death of the Queen does not imply any
responsibility for most people.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(ukraine_mass_grave)
title: *Ukraine mass grave with 440 bodies discovered in recaptured Izium.*
uri: Ukraine-mass-grave-with-440-bodies-discovered-in-recaptured-Izium
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(ukraine_mass_grave)
content:
 
<p>
*Ukraine mass grave with 440 bodies 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/16/ukraine-mass-grave-with-440-bodies-discovered-in-recaptured-izium-says-police-chief">discovered in recaptured Izium.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(skull_less_fetus_ny_abortion)
title: Louisiana woman carrying unviable fetus forced to travel to New York for abortion
uri: Louisiana-woman-carrying-unviable-fetus-forced-to-travel-to-New-York-f
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(skull_less_fetus_ny_abortion)
content:
 
<p>
*Louisiana woman carrying [totally unviable] skull-less fetus forced
to travel to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/14/louisiana-woman-skull-less-fetus-new-york-abortion">New York for an abortion.</a>*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(bird_flu_epidemic_dutch_farmers)
title: ‘Unstoppable’ bird flu epidemic causes growing alarm among Dutch farmers
uri: Unstoppable-bird-flu-epidemic-causes-growing-alarm-among-Dutch-f
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(bird_flu_epidemic_dutch_farmers)
content:
 
<p>
Bird flu has spread to additional bird species, so it has become
endemic 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/14/unstoppable-bird-flu-epidemic-causes-growing-alarm-among-dutch-farmers">all year in parts of Europe.</a>
<p>
It has evolved to infect some mammals too, which means infecting
humans may not be far away.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(fossil_fuel_treaty_who)
title: Health groups call for global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
uri: Health-groups-call-for-global-fossil-fuel-non-proliferation-treaty
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(fossil_fuel_treaty_who)
content:
 
<p>
*Health groups call for global fossil 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/14/fossil-fuel-non-proliferation-treaty-who-environmental-vandilism">fuel non-proliferation treaty.</a>*

 


title: Deadly flood-water ‘tsunami’ sweeps through Italian towns
uri: Deadly-flood-water-tsunami-sweeps-through-Italian-towns
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(italy_marche_deadly_flood_water_tsunami)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(italy_marche_deadly_flood_water_tsunami)

content:
 
<p>
Unusual heavy rains, and deadly floods, 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/16/italy-marche-deadly-flood-water-tsunami">have now struck Italy.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(future_sea_levels_matter)
title: Why future sea levels matter to Suffolk’s Sizewell nuclear plant
uri: Why-future-sea-levels-matter-to-Suffolk-s-Sizewell-nuclear-plant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(future_sea_levels_matter)
content:
 
<p>
The Sizewell B nuclear power plant, that the UK is paying exorbitantly
to construct by the seaside, could be dangerous in the 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/16/why-future-sea-levels-matter-to-suffolks-sizewell-nuclear-plant">future as
sea-level rise brings the sea up to it.</a>
<p>
It is a terrible waste of money that ought to be spent on efficient
decarbonization &mdash; with renewable energy.

 


title: Urgent: call on Congress to extend the Radiation Exposure and Compensation Act
uri: Urgent-call-on-Congress-to-extend-the-Radiation-Exposure-and-Compensa
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(Urgent:_radiation_exposure_compensation_act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(Urgent:_radiation_exposure_compensation_act)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to extend the 
<a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/go/34272?c0=congress-pass-reca-extension.l6-ysr&source=em20220913_2&t=1007&akid=8110%2E223515%2EER055t">Radiation Exposure and
Compensation Act for another 30 years.</a>

 


title: Urgent: call on Senator Schumer to reject Manchin's fossil fuel deregulation bill.
uri: Urgent-call-on-Senator-Schumer-to-reject-Manchin-s-fossil-fuel-deregu
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(Urgent:_reject_manchin_fossil_fuel_bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(Urgent:_reject_manchin_fossil_fuel_bill)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Senator Schumer to reject 
<a href="https://act.350.org/signup/reject-manchin-fast-track/?source=em20220913-1-subs-us&akid=218838%2E1151744%2EyJ6R1U">Manchin's fossil fuel
deregulation bill.</a>
<p>
*New UN Report Shows Fossil Fuel Addiction Is a "Recipe for 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/13/new-un-report-shows-fossil-fuel-addiction-recipe-permanent-climate-chaos">Permanent
Climate Chaos."</a>*

 


uri: Urgent-call-on-Oklahoma-district-attorneys-not-to-prosecute-females-f
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(Urgent:_prioritize_care_over_incarceration)

title:
 Urgent: call on Oklahoma district attorneys not to prosecute
females for using marijuana while pregnant. 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(Urgent:_prioritize_care_over_incarceration)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Oklahoma district attorneys not to prosecute
females for using 
<a href="https://act.colorofchange.org/sign/tell-oklahoma-das-to-prioritize-care-over-incarceration?source=ms_stage1_okc&t=1003&akid=53526%2E1242918%2EyOOagH">marijuana while pregnant.</a>

 


title: Urgent: US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Roadless Area Conservation Act.
uri: Urgent-US-citizens-call-on-Congress-to-pass-the-Roadless-Area-Conser
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(Urgent:_roadless_area_conservation_act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(Urgent:_roadless_area_conservation_act)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to pass the 
<a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=51566">Roadless Area Conservation Act.</a> 
<p>
To sign without 
<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">running nonfree JavaScript code</a>  from the web site,
use the 
<a href="https://www.stallman.org/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround.</a>

 


title: The UK media project an image of rapt devotion towards the monarchy, but this is false.
uri: The-UK-media-project-an-image-of-rapt-devotion-towards-the-monarchy-b
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(no_national_mood_britain_republicans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(no_national_mood_britain_republicans)

content:
 
<p>
The UK media project an image of rapt devotion towards the monarchy,
but this is false.  Even people who conversed outside Buckingham
Palace 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/14/there-is-no-single-national-mood-just-ask-britains-republicans">presented various attitudes and opinions.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(freight_railroads_strike)
title: The rail strike averted?
uri: The-rail-strike-averted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(freight_railroads_strike)
content:
 
<p>
US freight railroads were facing a strike because workers demanded
more control over when they would work. 
<a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-real-reason-for-a-rail-strike">At the last minute, the
railroads gave them more, and avoided the strike.</a>
<p>
In the US, a wave of unionization is being met with 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/13/unions-starbucks-trader-joes-chipotle-petco">a wave of illegal
retaliation.</a>
<p>
Ask your Democratic candidates for Congress whether they intend to
make the NLRB more powerful, so employers will fear to violate
workers' rights.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(us_labor_shortage_long_covid)
title: Covid caused huge shortages in US labor market, study shows
uri: Covid-caused-huge-shortages-in-US-labor-market-study-shows
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(us_labor_shortage_long_covid)
content:
 
<p>
An analysis indicates that long Covid has taken at least half a
million 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/13/us-labor-shortage-long-covid">people out of the US labor force.</a>
<p>
This is in addition to 250,000 working people that Covid-19 removed from
the labor force via death.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(lindsey_graham_abortion_ban)
title: Republican Lindsey Graham proposes nationwide 15-week abortion ban
uri: Republican-Lindsey-Graham-proposes-nationwide-15-week-abortion-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(lindsey_graham_abortion_ban)
content:
 
<p>
Senator Graham has proposed a federal law to 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/13/republican-national-abortion-ban-lindsey-graham">ban abortions after 15 weeks.</a>
<p>
The law promotes several noteworthy confusions, such as calling that
"late term" when the arbitrary stopping point is 
<a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/09/13/late-term-abortion-ban-federal-lindsey-graham/">less than half the
usual gestation period.</a>
<p>
He surely knows that it will not pass, so I wonder what political motive
leads him to propose something that most Americans disagree with.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(inflation_fed_reserve)
title: As Inflation Eases, It's Time for Fed to Pause on Rate Hikes
uri: As-Inflation-Eases-It-s-Time-for-Fed-to-Pause-on-Rate-Hikes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#17_September_2022_(inflation_fed_reserve)
content:
 
<p>
US inflation is going down; the Federal Reserve should understand the danger
of applying a harmful remedy to correct a 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/12/inflation-eases-it-would-be-irresponsible-fed-create-much-higher-unemployment">problem that is correcting itself.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(oil_companies_climate_crisis)
title: Criticism intensifies after big oil admits ‘gaslighting’ public over green aims
uri: Criticism-intensifies-after-big-oil-admits-gaslighting-public-ov
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(oil_companies_climate_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
Internal documents subpoenaed by congressional investigation show that
what companies publish to imply they are trying to curb global heating is
pure bullshit. 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/17/oil-companies-exxonmobil-chevron-shell-bp-climate-crisis">What employees say to each other goes directly against it.</a>

 


title: Putin’s ally stole my democratic victory in Belarus. Now the west must help us fight back
uri: Putin-s-ally-stole-my-democratic-victory-in-Belarus-Now-the-west-mu
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(election_tsikhanouskaya_lukashenko)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(election_tsikhanouskaya_lukashenko)

content:
 
<p>
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, "defeated" in Belarus's last election when
Lukashenko stole it, says that additional 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/17/election-belarus-russia-lukashenko-vladimir-putin-sviatlana-tsikhanouskaya">western sanctions on Belarus
can drive him out.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(ukraine_morale)
title: Ukraine depends on morale and Russia on mercenaries. It could decide the war
uri: Ukraine-depends-on-morale-and-Russia-on-mercenaries-It-could-decide-t
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(ukraine_morale)
content:
 
<p>
Morale is why Ukraine has a 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/17/ukraine-depends-on-morale-and-russia-on-mercenaries-it-could-decide-the-war">good chance of winning the war.</a>

 


title: Governor Newsom has signed two bills that California lawmakers claim will protect children online
uri: Governor-Newsom-has-signed-two-bills-that-California-lawmakers-claim-w
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(ca_kids_safety_transparency_bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(ca_kids_safety_transparency_bill)

content:
 
<p>
California's new "privacy" and "transparency" bills, supposedly meant
to "protect children", are likely to subject everyone to surveillance
and mysterious 
<a href="https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2022-09-15-californias-kids-safety-and-transparency-bills-wont-make-kids-safer-or-platforms-more-transparent-but-they-will-undermine-human-rights-and-free-expression">moderation/censorship policies.</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(will_us_military_learn)
title: What If Anything Will US Military Learn From Putin's Disastrous Ukraine Invasion?
uri: What-If-Anything-Will-US-Military-Learn-From-Putin-s-Disastrous-Ukrain
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(will_us_military_learn)
content:
 
<p>
The US Army sets a standard of excellence in winning battles, and its contrast
shows the incompetence of the Russian Army.  However, the US as a country
shows similar incompetence ast the level of winning wars; it can 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/13/what-if-anything-will-us-military-learn-putins-disastrous-ukraine-invasion">get stuck
in a losing war for years.</a>
<p>
The US is to quick to assume that starting a war is a good idea.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(trussonomics_liz_truss)
title: Trussonomics is a fanatical, fantastical creed, and the last thing Britain needs
uri: Trussonomics-is-a-fanatical-fantastical-creed-and-the-last-thing-Bri
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(trussonomics_liz_truss)
content:
 
<p>
Prime Minister Truss is a market ideologue, a deadly menace 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/17/trussonomics-britain-prime-minister-liz-truss-neoliberalism">like
Thatcher and Reagan.</a>
<p>
*This doctrine insists that politics submits to "the market", which
   means, when translated, that democracy must submit to the power of
   money. Any impediment to the accumulation of wealth &mdash; such as public
   ownership, tax, regulation, trade unions and political protest &mdash; should
   be torn down, either quickly and noisily or slowly and stealthily."
   
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(ukraine_izium_mass_burial)
title: Some bodies found at mass burial site in Izium show ‘signs of torture,’ Ukraine says
uri: Some-bodies-found-at-mass-burial-site-in-Izium-show-signs-of-tortur
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(ukraine_izium_mass_burial)
content:
 
<p>
Ukraine has found 440 graves in Izium made during the Putinite
occupation. Those buried included civilians and soldiers. Some of
each were 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/16/europe/ukraine-izium-mass-burial-site-intl-hnk/index.html">murdered with their hands tied.</a>

 


title: Opinion: DeSantis chose Martha’s Vineyard for a reason
uri: Opinion-DeSantis-chose-Martha-s-Vineyard-for-a-reason
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(desantis_refugees_marthas_vineyard)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(desantis_refugees_marthas_vineyard)

content:
 
<p>
Republicans thought with glee that they could lie to penniless
refugees and dump them on wealthy Liberals in Martha's Vineyard.
Instead, the people of Martha's Vineyard organized to help the migrants,
showing the 
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/15/opinions/desantis-migrants-refugees-marthas-vineyard-hemmer/index.html">contrast between good will and Republican hatred.</a>

 


title: Why Poor Neighborhoods Suffer More From Extreme Heat and Pollution
uri: Why-Poor-Neighborhoods-Suffer-More-From-Extreme-Heat-and-Pollution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(poor_neighborhoods_suffer_heat_pollution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_(poor_neighborhoods_suffer_heat_pollution)

content:
 
<p>
Why do poor people suffer more from heat and pollution?  It's not only
that rich people compete for more comfortable neighborhoods.  It's
also that they use their influence to direct municipal investment,
making parks, beaches and trees on the sidewalls, 
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/16/why-poor-neighborhoods-suffer-more-extreme-heat-and-pollution">to the areas where
they live.</a>
<p>
And direct highway construction and chemical plants into the places where poor people live.

 


title: (satire) *Apple Announces New iPhones Will No Longer Be Compatible With Human Hand.*
uri: (satire)-Apple-Announces-New-iPhones-Will-No-Longer-Be-Compatible-Wit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_((satire)_apple_new_iphone_human_hand)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#18_September_2022_((satire)_apple_new_iphone_human_hand)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Apple Announces New iPhones Will No Longer Be 
<a href="https://www.theonion.com/apple-announces-new-iphones-will-no-longer-be-compatibl-1849497620">Compatible
With Human Hand.</a>*
<p>
They have always been incompatible with natural human society.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(New_Pun)
title: New Pun
uri: 2022-09-20-New-Pun
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(New_Pun)
content:
 
<p>

John Deere puts locked-down nonfree software in its farm machines,
arousing the right-to-repair movement among farmers.
Nowadays it seems to be producing more de-tractors than tractors.

 


title: Urgent: Adopt ranked-choice voting
uri: Urgent-Adopt-ranked-choice-voting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Urgent:_Adopt_ranked-choice_voting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Urgent:_Adopt_ranked-choice_voting)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on your state legislators to <a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14691">adopt ranked-choice voting</a>.
<p>
  To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a>
  from the web site, use the <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Cancel TV program "Ring Nation"
uri: Urgent-Cancel-TV-program-Ring-Nation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Urgent:_Cancel_TV_program_Ring_Nation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Urgent:_Cancel_TV_program_Ring_Nation)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on MGM to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-mgm-cancel-ring-nation">cancel its TV program "Ring Nation"</a>, which
would glorify and promote Amazon's surveillance device.

 


title: Australia must set higher climate ambitions
uri: Australia-must-set-higher-climate-ambitions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Australia_must_set_higher_climate_ambitions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Australia_must_set_higher_climate_ambitions)

content:
 
<p>

  *Australia must <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/14/australia-must-set-higher-climate-ambitions-to-avert-impending-disaster-pacific-island-leaders-say">set higher climate ambitions</a> "to avert impending
disaster," Pacific island leaders say.*
<p>
I agree completely, but it's even more important to say this to China.
China's emissions dwarf Australia's.  These Pacific island leaders
now have influence there; I hope they use it.
<p>
The same is true of the United States, and we Americans have to keep
badgering the government about this.

 


title: Image of devotion towards the monarchy is false
uri: Image-of-devotion-towards-the-monarchy-is-false
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Image_of_devotion_towards_the_monarchy_is_false)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Image_of_devotion_towards_the_monarchy_is_false)

content:
 
<p>

The UK media project an image of rapt devotion towards the monarchy,
but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/14/there-is-no-single-national-mood-just-ask-britains-republicans">this is false</a>.  Even people who conversed outside Buckingham
Palace presented various attitudes and opinions.

 


title: Hungary is no longer a full democracy
uri: Hungary-is-no-longer-a-full-democracy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Hungary_is_no_longer_a_full_democracy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Hungary_is_no_longer_a_full_democracy)

content:
 
<p>

  *Hungary is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/15/hungary-is-no-longer-a-full-democracy-says-european-parliament">no longer a full democracy</a>, says European parliament.*
<p>
The structure of the EU gives it no way to take action against Poland
and Hungary, because each one protects the other.

 


title: DeMentis lied to migrants to get them to board plane
uri: DeMentis-lied-to-migrants-to-get-them-to-board-plane
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(DeMentis_lied_to_migrants_to_get_them_to_board_plane)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(DeMentis_lied_to_migrants_to_get_them_to_board_plane)

content:
 
<p>

  DeMentis <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/15/ron-desantis-migrants-marthas-vineyard">lied to 50 migrants</a> to convince them to board planes to
Martha's Vineyard.

 


title: Long Covid struck cooks, teachers and medical workers
uri: Long-Covid-struck-cooks-teachers-and-medical-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Long_Covid_struck_cooks,_teachers_and_medical_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Long_Covid_struck_cooks,_teachers_and_medical_workers)

content:
 
<p>

Long Covid has especially struck cooks, teachers and medical workers,
as their work made them particularly exposed.  Now that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/15/long-covid-is-keeping-millions-out-of-work-and-worsening-our-labor-shortage">echoes in the
    shortage of American workers</a> for those jobs.
<p>
Long Covid could be responsible for up to one-third of the US labor
shortage.

 


title: (satire) Higher home appraisal after displaying Klan member pictures
uri: (satire)-Higher-home-appraisal-after-displaying-Klan-member-pictures
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_((satire)_Higher_home_appraisal_after_displaying_Klan_member_pictures)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_((satire)_Higher_home_appraisal_after_displaying_Klan_member_pictures)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/black-homeowner-receives-higher-appraisal-after-display-1849466957">*Black Homeowner Receives Higher Appraisal
    After Displaying Pictures Of Klan Members.*</a>

 


title: Putin forces took away Ukrainian veterans
uri: Putin-forces-took-away-Ukrainian-veterans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Putin_forces_took_away_Ukrainian_veterans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Putin_forces_took_away_Ukrainian_veterans)

content:
 
<p>

  The Putin forces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/16/some-hanged-themselves-the-work-to-find-answers-amid-iziums-mass-grave">systematically took away Ukrainian military veterans</a>
that they found in Izium, especially veterans of previous fighting
between Ukraine and Putin's Donbas proxies,  No one in Izium knows
what happened to them.
<p>
The <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> tortured some civilians, and some of those killed
themselves afterward.

 


title: Whether to spend federal funds on ShotSpotter microphone system
uri: Whether-to-spend-federal-funds-on-ShotSpotter-microphone-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Whether_to_spend_federal_funds_on_ShotSpotter_microphone_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Whether_to_spend_federal_funds_on_ShotSpotter_microphone_system)

content:
 
<p>

  There is a <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/09/17/police-surveillance-shotspotter-detroit/">political battle in Detroit</a> over whether to spend federal
relief funds on a ShotSpotter microphone system, which purports to
detect gunshots reliably but is less reliable than advertised.
<p>
The article explains that opponents warn that each false alarm will
draw a team of <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> expecting more shorts into an area filled with
poor people, many of whom are black.  That could be fatal for the
latter.  They also say that helping poor people deal with the great
difficulty of getting through life under neoliberalism will reduce
crime.
<p>
In addition, ShotSpotter microphones listen to the conversation of
people talking on the street.  That is tyranny, and ought to be
forbidden.
<p>
We must not judge a system mainly by what it is <em>nominally intended</em>
to do; we must judge it by all the things it actually does.  If a
system were <em>only</em> capable of detecting gunshots, it might be a good
thing (supposing it worked reliably), but it might still be less
desirable than other ways of spending the money.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Plastics_plant_permit_revoked)
title: Plastics plant permit revoked
uri: Plastics-plant-permit-revoked
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Plastics_plant_permit_revoked)
content:
 
<p>

  *US court <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/16/plastics-plant-louisianas-cancer-alley">revokes permits for plastics plant</a> in Louisiana's "Cancer
Alley."*
<p>
With new technology, the harmful emissions of chemical processing can
be greatly reduced.  We should replace all the existing chemical plants
that emit pollution.

 


title: Fossil fuel industry wants to expand free speech for corporations
uri: Fossil-fuel-industry-wants-to-expand-free-speech-for-corporations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Fossil_fuel_industry_wants_to_expand_free_speech_for_corporations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Fossil_fuel_industry_wants_to_expand_free_speech_for_corporations)

content:
 
<p>

  *Fossil Fuel Industry Seeks to <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/09/16/fossil-fuel-industry-climate-free-speech/">Expand Free Speech for Corporations</a> and
 Limit It for Citizens.* (These are two separate, parallel efforts.)
<p>
  Here's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/14/house-dems-target-big-oil-weaponizing-law-against-protesters-block-climate-action">more information</a> about the latter: laws to stifle protests.

 


title: Deregulation to let businesses in Britain have their will
uri: Deregulation-to-let-businesses-in-Britain-have-their-will
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Deregulation_to_let_businesses_in_Britain_have_their_will)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Deregulation_to_let_businesses_in_Britain_have_their_will)

content:
 
<p>

  The Tories <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/15/raft-of-legislation-for-the-chop-amid-focus-on-growth-over-regulation">plan across-the-board deregulation</a>, aiming to let
businesses in Britain have their will.  Mere human beings will be
powerless to stop them.
<p>
  One <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/15/liz-truss-to-lift-fracking-ban-despite-little-progress-on-earthquake-risk">example is fracking</a>.
<p>
Is the Labour Party doing anything to stop this?  It could warn that
it will restore the eliminated rights when it takes power in two years,
and require all businesses that tried to take advantage to apply for
re-approval.  That might discourage businesses from trying to take advantage
of the gap.  It's worth a try, but will it try?

 


title: Republicans want to privatize Jackson's water system
uri: Republicans-want-to-privatize-Jackson-s-water-system
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Republicans_want_to_privatize_Jackson's_water_system)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Republicans_want_to_privatize_Jackson's_water_system)

content:
 
<p>

Mississippi Republicans have seen the chance to ruin Jackson's water system
forever &mdash; <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/16/privatization-threat-remains-advocates-warn-after-mississippi-lifts-jackson-boil">by privatizing it</a> &mdash; and they won't let go.
<p>

 


title: Schumer won't let Senate vote on antimonopoly bills before election
uri: Schumer-won-t-let-Senate-vote-on-antimonopoly-bills-before-election
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Schumer_won't_let_Senate_vote_on_antimonopoly_bills_before_election)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Schumer_won't_let_Senate_vote_on_antimonopoly_bills_before_election)

content:
 
<p>

  Schumer <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/16/about-corruption-fury-senate-poised-delay-antitrust-vote">will not allow a Senate vote on antimonopoly bills</a> before the
election.  Progressives accuse him of doing this in exchange for their
funds.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Using_migrants_as_pawns)
title: Using migrants as pawns
uri: Using-migrants-as-pawns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Using_migrants_as_pawns)
content:
 
<p>

  Conjecture: <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/16/politics/ron-desantis-migrants-marthas-vineyard-stunt/index.html">Dementis is using migrants as pawns</a> to trigger outrage
from Democrats.  That builds him up in the eyes of Republicans.
<p>
This suggests we should downplay the importance of his stunts.
I think that Martha's Vinyard's response will be helpful.
<p>
Republican officials <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/18/migrants-marthas-vineyard-repub">tricked migrants into accepting flights to
    Martha's Vineyard</a> via false promises.  The migrants' lawyers are suing
and calling for prosecution.
<p>
That's more significant than mere helpless outrage.

 


title: US ranked 41 at meeting people's basic needs
uri: US-ranked-41-at-meeting-people-s-basic-needs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(US_ranked_41_at_meeting_people's_basic_needs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(US_ranked_41_at_meeting_people's_basic_needs)

content:
 
<p>

When it comes to meeting people's basic needs, the US is not number 1.
It is now ranked <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/17/progress-obsolete-united-states-now-un-developing-country">number 41</a>, ranking between Cuba and Bulgaria.
<p>
Those two are "developing countries", but the US is an "undeveloping
country."
<p>
I suppose the reasons for specific faults are complex,
but it is clear that plutocracy is the fundamental reason the US
does so badly with so much money.

 


title: Bullshitter's investigation into Hillary Clinton
uri: Bullshitter-s-investigation-into-Hillary-Clinton
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Bullshitter's_investigation_into_Hillary_Clinton)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Bullshitter's_investigation_into_Hillary_Clinton)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The bullshitter</a> appointed a special investigator in 2020 to investigate
alleged crimes committed by Hillary Clinton with Russia.  The investigation is winding down and appears to have <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/15/politics/john-durham-russia-probe-donald-trump/index.html">found little or nothing</a> against her.
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">The bullshitter</a> may choose not to notice the facts and continue repeating
his accusations.

 


title: What will NATO do if Putin uses nuclear, biological or chemical weapons?
uri: What-will-NATO-do-if-Putin-uses-nuclear-biological-or-chemical-weapon
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(What_will_NATO_do_if_Putin_uses_nuclear,_biological_or_chemical_weapons_)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(What_will_NATO_do_if_Putin_uses_nuclear,_biological_or_chemical_weapons_)

content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2022/sep/17/putin-nuclear-ukraine-biden-russian-forces-nato-kremlin">What will NATO do if Putin uses nuclear, biological or chemical weapons?</a>
<p>
As long as Putin does not use weapons of mass destruction, even
"tactical" ones, the reasoning remains valid that we should not have
NATO troops fight in the war, so as to avoid direct fighting between
NATO and Putin, since that fighting could turn nuclear.
<p>
However, that reason will lose its validity if Putin does use them.
To deter him from using them, we should make it clear that his use of
weapons of mass destruction could trigger NATO's use of <em>conventional</em>
weapons against the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> and Russia's military power, at least
for a while.
<p>
After a week or two of that fighting, it would make sense to give him
a chance to deescalate &mdash; offering to pull the NATO troops out of the
fighting if Putin commits to ceasing use of weapons of mass
destruction.

 


title: Putin forces make children study a brainwashing curriculum
uri: Putin-forces-make-children-study-a-brainwashing-curriculum
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Putin_forces_make_children_study_a_brainwashing_curriculum)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Putin_forces_make_children_study_a_brainwashing_curriculum)

content:
 
<p>

The <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> are using many levels of pressure to force children
in occupied Ukraine to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/18/ukrainian-teachers-resist-russian-takeover-schools">study a brainwashing curriculum</a>, and force teachers
to teach it.
<p>
When people don't want the pain of resisting oppression, they tend to
justify collaborating with it by claiming that by participating they
can soften the oppression.  In principle, that can be true.  In
practice, it is usually self-delusion.  You can pretend you are
resisting in a subtle way, while actually doing exactly what the
oppressor wants.
<p>
Collaboration plus dragging your feet may seem like an opportunity to
be neutral, but the occupying forces don't stand for neutrality: they
demand that everyone give complete support and participate in the
repression.
<p>
Thus, the teachers who agreed to collaborate were compelled to do more
than just teach the Putin curriculum.  They also had to join in
measures to attack and punish teachers who did not join in.  The price
of collaborating under these circumstances is to become totally
corrupt and totally evil.  Then how can you live with yourself?
<p>
Has Putin ever organized such complete dishonesty before?  I have to
wonder if he is getting advice on <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#10_November_2021_(China_uyghurs_total_repression)">brainwashing from his Chinese
    allies</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Banning_cluster_bombs)
title: Banning cluster bombs
uri: Banning-cluster-bombs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#19_September_2022_(Banning_cluster_bombs)
content:
 
<p>

  The US is in a position to join the treaty to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/18/us-must-ban-cluster-munitions">ban cluster bombs</a>,
and it ought to do so.

 


title: Urgent: Oppose new offshore drilling
uri: Urgent-Oppose-new-offshore-drilling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Urgent:_Oppose_new_offshore_drilling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Urgent:_Oppose_new_offshore_drilling)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=51742">Oppose new offshore drilling</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Clarence Thomas to recuse himself
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Clarence-Thomas-to-recuse-himself
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Clarence_Thomas_to_recuse_himself)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Clarence_Thomas_to_recuse_himself)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Clarence Thomas to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-justice-thomas-recuse-from-moore-v-harper-now">recuse himself</a> from
he case about the "independent state legislature theory."
<p>
Here's <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#3_July_2022_(Supreme_court_laying_groundwork_to_pre-rig_2024_election)">more info</a> about that theory and why it would enable Republicans to
steal the 2024 presidential election.

 


title: Urgent: Protection from environmental carcinogens
uri: Urgent-Protection-from-environmental-carcinogens
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Urgent:_Protection_from_environmental_carcinogens)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Urgent:_Protection_from_environmental_carcinogens)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden, Congress and the EPA to protect <a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14692">Americans
    from environmental carcinogens</a>.
<p>
  To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a>
  from the web site, use the <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Reappearance_of_polio_in_the_US)
title: Reappearance of polio in the US
uri: Reappearance-of-polio-in-the-US
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Reappearance_of_polio_in_the_US)
content:
 
<p>

The reappearance of polio in the US shows that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/13/polio-comeback-autism-vaccination">vaccine refusal
    endangers everyone</a>.

 


title: Ron Johnson uses China as target for posturing
uri: Ron-Johnson-uses-China-as-target-for-posturing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Ron_Johnson_uses_China_as_target_for_posturing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Ron_Johnson_uses_China_as_target_for_posturing)

content:
 
<p>

Republican senator Ron Johnson uses China as a target for posturing,
but he has not hesitated to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/13/ron-johnson-income-china-links-pacur">make millions</a> from a company that works
closely with China.
<p>
Where Republicans are concerned, we must deactivate our usual practice
of supposing that a person at least to some extent means what person says.

 


title: Trading defense stocks while making national security policy
uri: Trading-defense-stocks-while-making-national-security-policy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Trading_defense_stocks_while_making_national_security_policy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Trading_defense_stocks_while_making_national_security_policy)

content:
 
<p>

  *Meet the Members of Congress Who <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/18/meet-members-congress-who-traded-defense-stocks-while-making-national-security">Traded Defense Stocks</a> While Making
National Security Policy.*

 


title: Plutocratist arguments against cancelling student debt
uri: Plutocratist-arguments-against-cancelling-student-debt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Plutocratist_arguments_against_cancelling_student_debt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Plutocratist_arguments_against_cancelling_student_debt)

content:
 
<p>

  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/16/corporate-media-trying-convince-people-student-debt-forgiveness-bad">Refuting plutocratist bullshit arguments</a> against cancelling student debt.

 


title: (satire) Greg Abbott sends migrants to DeMentis's house
uri: (satire)-Greg-Abbott-sends-migrants-to-DeMentis-s-house
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_((satire)_Greg_Abbott_sends_migrants_to_DeMentis's_house)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_((satire)_Greg_Abbott_sends_migrants_to_DeMentis's_house)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) <a href="https://www.theonion.com/greg-abbott-sends-hundreds-of-migrants-to-desantis-hou-1849545509">*Greg Abbott Sends Hundreds Of Migrants To
    [DeMentis's] House To Teach Him Lesson About Stealing Idea.*</a>
<p>
("DeSantis" is is not a plural, and neither is "DeMentis", so the "s"
after the apostrophe should not be elided.)

 


title: Migrants shipped to Martha's Vineyard
uri: Migrants-shipped-to-Martha-s-Vineyard
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Migrants_shipped_to_Martha's_Vineyard)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Migrants_shipped_to_Martha's_Vineyard)

content:
 
<p>

Migrants shipped to Martha's Vineyard and Washington DC from Texas
state that they were <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/18/migrants-confirm-they-were-misled-calls-prosecution-desantis-and-abbott-grow">induced to accept</a> by promises of assistance,
which the people who shipped them did not provide.
<p>
If people in the US want to travel, and you wish to give them a ride,
you should be allowed to do so.  (Ironically, Republicans are trying
to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-may-aug.html#9_August_2022_(Texas_prosecution_threats)">prohibit that</a>.)
However, luring people to travel with false promises is fraud.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(The_cult_of_positive_thinking)
title: The cult of positive thinking
uri: The-cult-of-positive-thinking
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(The_cult_of_positive_thinking)
content:
 
<p>

The Cult of Positive thinking teaches Americans whose lives are
difficult that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/15/honoring-barbara-ehrenreich-who-exposed-how-toxic-positivity-used-dismiss-economic">faith in success is all they need</a> for reaching
success.  No need to condemn your employer for firing you and hundreds
of others.

 


title: The validity of ShotSpotter's algorithms
uri: The-validity-of-ShotSpotter-s-algorithms
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(The_validity_of_ShotSpotter's_algorithms)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(The_validity_of_ShotSpotter's_algorithms)

content:
 
<p>

ShotSpotter analyzes microphone data using proprietary algorithms, and
claims to report when and where shots occurred.  Those reports <a href="https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-algorithm-technology-police-crime-7e3345485aa668c97606d4b54f9b6220">can't
    be trusted</a> because courts cannot verify the validity of those
algorithms.
<p>
In addition, <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> have the opportunity to falsify the reports later
so as to inculpate the chosen suspect.

 


title: Fossil fuel companies acting to perpetuate fossil fuels
uri: Fossil-fuel-companies-acting-to-perpetuate-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Fossil_fuel_companies_acting_to_perpetuate_fossil_fuels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Fossil_fuel_companies_acting_to_perpetuate_fossil_fuels)

content:
 
<p>

Congress published a report showing how the main US fossil fuel
companies have been talking up their "investments" in renewable electricity
while <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/15/thats-fraud-explosive-docs-reveal-depth-climate-lies-big-oil-ahead-house-hearing">acting to perpetuate fossil fuels</a>.  They refused to attend the
hearing afterwards.

 


title: Russian overseas assets as reparations for Ukraine
uri: Russian-overseas-assets-as-reparations-for-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Russian_overseas_assets_as_reparations_for_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Russian_overseas_assets_as_reparations_for_Ukraine)

content:
 
<p>

Ukraine <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/18/west-wavers-on-ukraine-proposals-to-seize-russian-assets-as-reparations">asks the UN to rule that governments can seize Russian
    overseas assets</a> to use as reparations for Ukraine.

 


title: Russian pop star speaks out against war in Ukraine
uri: Russian-pop-star-speaks-out-against-war-in-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Russian_pop_star_speaks_out_against_war_in_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Russian_pop_star_speaks_out_against_war_in_Ukraine)

content:
 
<p>

  *Russian pop star Alla Pugacheva <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/18/russian-singer-alla-pugacheva-speaks-out-against-war-in-ukraine">speaks out</a> [patriotically] against
war in Ukraine.*

 


title: Tories plan to adopt another excuse to tax business less
uri: Tories-plan-to-adopt-another-excuse-to-tax-business-less
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Tories_plan_to_adopt_another_excuse_to_tax_business_less)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Tories_plan_to_adopt_another_excuse_to_tax_business_less)

content:
 
<p>

The Tories plan to adopt another excuse to tax business less: to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/sep/18/kwasi-kwarteng-to-announce-network-of-low-tax-investment-zones">declare
    some low-tax "investment zones"</a> and encourage businesses to move operations
there from the rest of the UK.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Mahsa_Amini's_funeral)
title: Mahsa Amini's funeral
uri: Mahsa-Amini-s-funeral
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Mahsa_Amini's_funeral)
content:
 
<p>

Mahsa Amini's funeral became an opportunity for the public to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/18/mahsa-amini-dozens-injured-in-iran-protests-after-death-in-custody">show
    anger</a> at the religious "morality" thugs that killed her.  A movement
to condemn their brutal repression is growing.
<p>
The supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, seems to be ill, and he might
need to be replaced soon.  That could be a turning point for Iran.

 


title: Correlation between Facebook and depression
uri: Correlation-between-Facebook-and-depression
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Correlation_between_Facebook_and_depression)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Correlation_between_Facebook_and_depression)

content:
 
<p>

Research comparing various US universities shows a correlation between
when Facebook started operating in each and when there was an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/18/finally-we-have-evidence-that-hell-is-other-people-on-social-media">increase
    in depression</a>.
<p>
A new Texas law forbids web sites from deleting user-contributed hatred.
If this prevents Facebook from operating there, the Republicans of Texas
will, for once, have actually helped the well-being of most people in Texas.

 


title: Tying global heating to capitalism
uri: Tying-global-heating-to-capitalism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Tying_global_heating_to_capitalism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Tying_global_heating_to_capitalism)

content:
 
<p>

  Tying the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/16/its-time-call-it-what-it-capitalism-induced-ecological-crisis">ecological crisis</a> (including global heating disaster) to Capitalism.
<p>
Communism is not the solution &mdash; it is based on repression, which we
have seen in Tibet, Xinjiang and Hong Kong.  (We have seen it in
Ukraine too; Russia is not communist now, but Putin got his start in
the secret police of a communist state.)
<p>
The solution needs to include Socialism, but a state which is pure
Socialism will push everything into a uniform mold in the name of
efficiency and security.  The things that everyone depends on should
be handled in a socialist way, including public transit, public
schools, medical care, electricity, water, and some aspect of food
production (but not small farms).  However, other areas of life that
should be decentralized so that they are <em>not</em> regimented or uniform.
<p>
Would a fully socialist country permit us to make or have computers that
let us reject nonfree software?  I think it is more likely it would
legislate a requirement for a back door.

 


title: Corrupter publicly endorse QAnonsense
uri: Corrupter-publicly-endorse-QAnonsense
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Corrupter_publicly_endorse_QAnonsense)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#20_September_2022_(Corrupter_publicly_endorse_QAnonsense)

content:
 
<p>

  The corrupter <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/19/trump-qanon-song-rally-video-ohio-vance">publicly endorsed QAnonsense</a>.
Well, why wouldn't he?  He has already promoted insurrection in various ways.

 


title: Urgent: Protect the National Environmental Policy Act
uri: Urgent-Protect-the-National-Environmental-Policy-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_the_National_Environmental_Policy_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_the_National_Environmental_Policy_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=51799">protect the National Environmental
    Policy Act</a>.
<p>
  To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a>
  from the web site, use the <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.

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

 


title: Urgent: Protecting America's Wilderness and Public Lands Act
uri: Urgent-Protecting-America-s-Wilderness-and-Public-Lands-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Urgent:_Protecting_America's_Wilderness_and_Public_Lands_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Urgent:_Protecting_America's_Wilderness_and_Public_Lands_Act)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=51648">support the Protecting America's
    Wilderness and Public Lands Act</a>.
<p>
  To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a>
  from the web site, use the <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.

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

 


title: Urgent: Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes, farms, clinics, schools and businesses
uri: Urgent-Israeli-demolitions-of-Palestinian-homes-farms-clinics-scho
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Urgent:_Israeli_demolitions_of_Palestinian_homes,_farms,_clinics,_schools_and_businesses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Urgent:_Israeli_demolitions_of_Palestinian_homes,_farms,_clinics,_schools_and_businesses)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://act.jstreet.org/sign/biden-stop-west-bank-demolitions/">use US diplomatic power</a> to stop Israeli
demolitions of Palestinian homes, farms, clinics, schools and businesses
on the West Bank.

 


title: Truss's plans for policy changes
uri: Truss-s-plans-for-policy-changes
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Truss's_plans_for_policy_changes)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Truss's_plans_for_policy_changes)

content:
 
<p>

Truss's plans for policy changes amount to an across-the-board <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/19/truss-unchained-labour-new-prime-minister-unpopular-policies">attack
    on the non-rich</a>, the dreams of an antisocialist ideologue.
<p>
  I fear that they will include <a href="/business-supremacy-treaties.html">business-supremacy treaties</a>
that would be difficult for the next government to fix or escape from.
Meanwhile, I suspect that Starmer, who is rather right-wing himself,
like a US <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> Democrat, won't seek to fix more than a
fraction of them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Protests_in_Iran_continue)
title: Protests in Iran continue
uri: Protests-in-Iran-continue
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Protests_in_Iran_continue)
content:
 
<p>

Protests in many parts of Iran continue, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/19/mahsa-amini-iran-protests-enter-third-day-after-kurdish-womans-death-in-custody">triggered by the death of
    Mahsa Amini</a>, who seems to have been beaten by religious thugs on
account of her clothing.
<p>
The <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> and the state take the usual authoritarian "We never do
anything wrong, shame on you" stance, that we have seen in many
countries before, including the US.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Undersea_deposit_of_natural_gas)
title: Undersea deposit of natural gas
uri: Undersea-deposit-of-natural-gas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Undersea_deposit_of_natural_gas)
content:
 
<p>

Israel is about to extract natural gas from an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/20/israel-risks-crossing-hezbollah-red-line-as-it-prepares-to-connect-to-disputed-gas-field">undersea deposit
    claimed also by Lebanon</a>.
<p>
As with all international disputes about which country has the right
to extract certain deposits of fossil fuel, the only acceptable answer
is, "Leave it in the Earth!"

 


title: Burning all known fossil fuel reserves
uri: Burning-all-known-fossil-fuel-reserves
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Burning_all_known_fossil_fuel_reserves)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Burning_all_known_fossil_fuel_reserves)

content:
 
<p>

Burning all the currently known fossil fuel reserves would <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/19/burning-all-fossil-fuel-reserves-would-exceed-global-carbon-budget-7-times-over-new">exceed the
    carbon budget</a> by 7 times.
<p>
In the absence of some massively deployed future CO2 extraction system,
that would bring certain disaster.
<p>
On a secondary issue, the fossil fuel industry <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/19/new-analysis-destroys-fossil-fuel-industrys-misleading-us-job-claims">claims falsely to
    employ 11 million Americans</a>.  In fact, jobs numbered roughly 700,000
in 2019, and only 500,000 today.
<p>
Obviously, destroying civilization and the ecosphere in a few decades
is too high a price to pay to keep a few million people employed for a
decade or two &mdash; even if it would really achieve that.  There are lots
of other ways for the state to support workers.

 


title: Biden pandered and claimed "the pandemic is over"
uri: Biden-pandered-and-claimed-the-pandemic-is-over
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Biden_pandered_and_claimed_the_pandemic_is_over)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Biden_pandered_and_claimed_the_pandemic_is_over)

content:
 
<p>

  Biden <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/19/biden-rebuked-claiming-pandemic-over-hundreds-die-covid-each-day-us">pandered to Americans' desire to forget the danger of Covid-19</a>,
by saying that "the pandemic is over."  For proof, he cited that 
Americans have stopped taking sensible precautions.
<p>
*"What's ending here," tweeted University of Washington medical
anthropologist Nora Kenworthy, "is political commitment and funding,
not cases or deaths."*  Or, let's not forget, instances of permanent
organ damage, short of deaths.

 


title: Keeping college expensive so poor Americans would join the military
uri: Keeping-college-expensive-so-poor-Americans-would-join-the-military
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Keeping_college_expensive_so_poor_Americans_would_join_the_military)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Keeping_college_expensive_so_poor_Americans_would_join_the_military)

content:
 
<p>

Republicans called for keeping college expensive to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/19/quiet-part-out-loud-gop-warns-biden-student-debt-cancellation-will-hurt-military">pressure poor
    Americans to join the military</a>.

 


title: Republican Representative Bowers denounced trumpery
uri: Republican-Representative-Bowers-denounced-trumpery
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Republican_Representative_Bowers_denounced_trumpery)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Republican_Representative_Bowers_denounced_trumpery)

content:
 
<p>

Representative Bowers, a Republican and currently speaker of the
Arizona state house of representatives, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/18/politics/rusty-bowers-fascism-trump-election-cnntv/index.html">denounced the trumpery</a> of most
Republican candidates there as "fascism".

 


title: Handing Florida electric utility to cronies
uri: Handing-Florida-electric-utility-to-cronies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Handing_Florida_electric_utility_to_cronies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Handing_Florida_electric_utility_to_cronies)

content:
 
<p>

More Perfect Union accuses Florida Republicans, starting from Governor
Dementis, of handing control of the state's electric utility into the
hands of cronies who allow it to keep raising prices.  That was in
exchange for the company's <a href="https://invidio.us.us/watch?v=JZ0cpsAlpX8">secretly funding sound-alike candidates</a>,
whose names would confuse voters so as to defeat some Democratic
legislators.
<p>
I don't know whether any of this is illegal, but it clearly shows
Dementis's real contempt towards the residents of Florida, and his
country.

 


title: Refusal to test sewage sludge for PFAs
uri: Refusal-to-test-sewage-sludge-for-PFAs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Refusal_to_test_sewage_sludge_for_PFAs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Refusal_to_test_sewage_sludge_for_PFAs)

content:
 
<p>

  Republican-controlled states <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/19/us-states-toxic-sewage-sludge-pfas-farmers">refuse to test sewage sludge for PFAs</a> before
spreading it on farmland.

 


title: Corruption of democracy in Pakistan and Britain
uri: Corruption-of-democracy-in-Pakistan-and-Britain
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Corruption_of_democracy_in_Pakistan_and_Britain)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Corruption_of_democracy_in_Pakistan_and_Britain)

content:
 
<p>

  A British-Pakistani novelist talks about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/20/kamila-shamsie-on-the-crisis-in-british-politics-what-kind-of-democracy-is-this">corruption of democracy</a>, in
Pakistan and in Britain.

 


title: Difficult situation men and boys face
uri: Difficult-situation-men-and-boys-face
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Difficult_situation_men_and_boys_face)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Difficult_situation_men_and_boys_face)

content:
 
<p>

  Boys and men today face a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/20/modern-male-problems-men-face">difficult situation</a> &mdash; the flip side of the
difficult situation that girls and women face.
Men can no longer win respect by being the "bread winner" for a wife,
not only because that role is no longer respected, but because most
jobs don't pay enough to enable a worker to support anyone else.
<p>
It is hard for me to empathize with people who want to be the "bread
winner", since I was repelled by that idea of the male role ever since
I learned about it.  I yearned for a relationship of love, not for one
of being valued only for bringing in money.
<p>
But this problem is real enough for those in it, and the US right wing has
taken advantage of this to recruit fanatics.

 


title: Lawyers rip "special master" decision to shreds
uri: Lawyers-rip-special-master-decision-to-shreds
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Lawyers_rip_special_master_decision_to_shreds)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#21_September_2022_(Lawyers_rip_special_master_decision_to_shreds)

content:
 
<p>

  Prominent lawyers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/19/the-trump-judge-ruling-on-the-mar-a-lago-affair-is-defying-established-law">rip the "special master" decision to shreds</a>
and explain its partisan contempt for established law.

 


title: Urgent: New York Times article on Stacey Abrams' campaign
uri: Urgent-New-York-Times-article-on-Stacey-Abrams-campaign
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Urgent:_New_York_Times_article_on_Stacey_Abrams'_campaign)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Urgent:_New_York_Times_article_on_Stacey_Abrams'_campaign)

content:
 
<p>

  Everyone: call on the New York Times to <a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/nytimes-correct-the-record/">correct an article</a> that
called Stacey Abrams' campaign a example of a bad campaign, citing a
source who had in fact called it an example of a good campaign.

 


title: Urgent: Stop corporations donations to insurrectionists
uri: Urgent-Stop-corporations-donations-to-insurrectionists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_corporations_donations_to_insurrectionists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_corporations_donations_to_insurrectionists)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on corporations to keep their pledge, and <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-corporations-keep-your-pledge-stop-donations-to-insurrectionists">stop donations
    to insurrectionist members of Congress</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on General Mills to reduce plastic in its packaging
uri: Urgent-Call-on-General-Mills-to-reduce-plastic-in-its-packaging
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_General_Mills_to_reduce_plastic_in_its_packaging)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_General_Mills_to_reduce_plastic_in_its_packaging)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on General Mills to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=51828">reduce the plastic in its
    packaging</a>.

 


title: Workers that walk off the job because of disasters
uri: Workers-that-walk-off-the-job-because-of-disasters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Workers_that_walk_off_the_job_because_of_disasters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Workers_that_walk_off_the_job_because_of_disasters)

content:
 
<p>

  *New Bill Would <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/09/14/cori-bush-bill-climate-disaster-workers/">Protect Workers Who Walk Off the Job</a> Because of
&hellip; Disasters.*
<p>
It starts with the right to stop working or flee the workplace for
safety from a disaster, without being fired or punished for doing so.
<p>
The bill refers earthquakes and tornadoes as "climate disasters",
which is certainly erroneous for earthquakes and perhaps also for
tornadoes.  It is right to include those disasters in legal protection
for workers' safety, but the law should use some other name for them
all, one that isn't flat-out incorrect.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Crime_under_Texas_law)
title: Crime under Texas law
uri: Crime-under-Texas-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Crime_under_Texas_law)
content:
 
<p>

When DeMentis (more precisely, people working for him) lied to
migrants released by US immigration in Texas to convince them to
get on a plane to Martha's Vineyard, they <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/20/ron-desantis-immigrants-marthas-vineyard-treatment-prosecuted">committed a crime under
    Texas law</a>.
<p>
  Those migrants <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/19/us/migrants-marthas-vineyard-brochure/index.html">received a brochure</a> that was deceptive, and was given
out in connection with leading migrants to take the flight, but it's
not clear who published it or how it was given to those migrants.
<p>
Alas, I don't think the Republican officials of Texas will prosecute
Republicans for crimes committed while mistreating weak and powerless
people in the name of the Republican Party.  Mistreating the weak and
powerless is what the Republican Party stands for.  Closing the eye to
right-wing hate crimes, even when much worse than these, is standard
practice, hardly even denied.
<p>
Is there a Democratic prosecutor in Texas with the jurisdiction and
guts to prosecute this crime?

 


title: Don't cheer for Espionage Act being used against Donald Trump
uri: Don-t-cheer-for-Espionage-Act-being-used-against-Donald-Trump
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Don't_cheer_for_Espionage_Act_being_used_against_Donald_Trump)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Don't_cheer_for_Espionage_Act_being_used_against_Donald_Trump)

content:
 
<p>

*Don’t cheer for the Espionage Act being used against Donald Trump. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/21/dont-cheer-for-the-espionage-act-being-used-against-donald-trump-it-will-backfire">It
    will backfire</a>.  Wishing to see Trump called to account need not make
us champion a 100-year-old statute used to target whistleblowers.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(School_uniforms_with_PFAs)
title: School uniforms with PFAs
uri: School-uniforms-with-PFAs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(School_uniforms_with_PFAs)
content:
 
<p>

  More or less all stain-resistant school uniforms in the US <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/21/toxic-forever-chemicals-school-uniforms-pfas">contain PFAS</a>.

 


title: Putin declared partial mobilization
uri: Putin-declared-partial-mobilization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Putin_declared_partial_mobilization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Putin_declared_partial_mobilization)

content:
 
<p>

  Putin has declared a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/21/putin-announces-partial-mobilisation-in-russia-in-escalation-of-ukraine-war">partial mobilization</a>, that will probably enable him to
force more Russian soldiers to fight in Ukraine.  I doubt it will make
a big difference.
<p>
In addition he growled and grated his teeth.

 


title: Attorney General Letitia James of New York State sued the corrupter
uri: Attorney-General-Letitia-James-of-New-York-State-sued-the-corrupter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Attorney_General_Letitia_James_of_New_York_State_sued_the_corrupter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Attorney_General_Letitia_James_of_New_York_State_sued_the_corrupter)

content:
 
<p>

Attorney General Letitia James of New York State has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/21/trump-new-york-investigation-ivanka-donald-eric">sued the
    corrupter</a>, his family business, and some of his family for defrauding
banks by misrepresenting the organization's finances.
<p>
James stated that New York had presented information to the US government
that could lead to federal criminal charges.

 


title: Geology of UK makes it unsuitable for fracking
uri: Geology-of-UK-makes-it-unsuitable-for-fracking
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Geology_of_UK_makes_it_unsuitable_for_fracking)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Geology_of_UK_makes_it_unsuitable_for_fracking)

content:
 
<p>

  A fracker says that the geology of the UK makes it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/21/fracking-wont-work-uk-founder-chris-cornelius-cuadrilla">unsuitable for fracking</a>,
except on a small scale that would hardly be worth the trouble.
<p>
That is good news for the UK.  Experience in the US shows fracking can
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#22_September_2017_(Fracking_waste)">poison aquifers</a>, which is long-term damage that the balance sheets don't count.
<p>
Because Truss is an ideological right-winger, I could imagine
her as going all-out to push for fracking, even if it isn't profitable.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Poverty_is_a_political_choice)
title: Poverty is a political choice
uri: Poverty-is-a-political-choice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Poverty_is_a_political_choice)
content:
 
<p>

*Poverty is a political choice.* In 2021, US government interventions
to help poor Americans <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/21/data-reveals-poverty-political-choice">reduced the number in poverty by 45 million</a>,
even as millions lost their jobs.

 


title: Republicans want to ban abortion nationwide
uri: Republicans-want-to-ban-abortion-nationwide
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Republicans_want_to_ban_abortion_nationwide)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Republicans_want_to_ban_abortion_nationwide)

content:
 
<p>

  *Republicans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/15/republicans-wont-stop-until-abortion-is-banned-across-america-and-it-could-be">want to ban abortion nationwide</a>, and they have the nerve to
claim that this is a compromise.*
<p>
It may indeed be a compromise between what they really want, and what
Americans want.  But if that is so, what does it imply?  It implies
that what they really want is an absolute ban that would kill pregnant
females who have medical problems.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Russian_nuclear_sabre-rattling)
title: Russian nuclear sabre-rattling
uri: Russian-nuclear-sabre-rattling
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Russian_nuclear_sabre-rattling)
content:
 
<p>

  *Russian nuclear sabre-rattling is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/21/russian-nuclear-sabre-rattling-is-designed-to-create-fear-in-the-west">designed to create fear in the west</a>.*
<p>
  The draft is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/21/russians-react-to-vladimir-putin-military-draft-russia-partial-mobilisation">provoking opposition and protest</a> against the war.

 


title: International criminal court complaint about killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
uri: International-criminal-court-complaint-about-killing-of-Shireen-Abu-Ak
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(International_criminal_court_complaint_about_killing_of_Shireen_Abu_Akleh)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(International_criminal_court_complaint_about_killing_of_Shireen_Abu_Akleh)

content:
 
<p>

  Relatives of Shireen Abu Akleh have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/21/shireen-abu-aklehs-family-submits-complaint-to-icc">filed a complaint</a> with the
International Criminal Court about her killing (apparently
intentional) by an Israeli soldier.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(A_lagoon_designated_as_a_person)
title: A lagoon designated as a "person"
uri: A-lagoon-designated-as-a-person
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(A_lagoon_designated_as_a_person)
content:
 
<p>

  Spain has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/21/endangered-mar-menor-lagoon-in-spain-granted-legal-status-as-a-person">designated a lagoon called the Mar Menor as a "person"</a>.
<p>
It is right to protect the lagoon and its wildlife, but that does not
require proclaiming absurdities like this.  Designating a lagoon or a
river as a "person" is as absurd as <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#30_June_2012_(Corporations_United_extended)">designating a corporation as a
    "person"</a>.
<p>

 


title: UK mass forestry scheme threatened by drought
uri: UK-mass-forestry-scheme-threatened-by-drought
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(UK_mass_forestry_scheme_threatened_by_drought)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(UK_mass_forestry_scheme_threatened_by_drought)

content:
 
<p>

  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/21/drought-threatens-uk-mass-forestry-scheme-tree">Drought [caused by global heating] threatens</a> UK government’s mass
forestry scheme.*  The scheme is intended to reduce <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>.
<p>
This is an example of an unexpected positive feedback in global
heating.

 


title: The special master is not subservient
uri: The-special-master-is-not-subservient
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(The_special_master_is_not_subservient)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(The_special_master_is_not_subservient)

content:
 
<p>

The special master, specifically proposed by the <a href="/glossary.html#bullshitter">bullshitter</a>,
is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/21/trump-special-master-documents-declassified">not proving subservient</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(How_to_beat_a_book_ban)
title: How to beat a book ban
uri: How-to-beat-a-book-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(How_to_beat_a_book_ban)
content:
 
<p>

  *How to beat a book ban: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/sep/20/us-book-bans-fight-school-library">students, parents and librarians fight back</a>.*
<p>
The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white".  (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.)  I denounce bigotry, and
normally I will not link to articles that promote it.  But I make
exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important.
That article is one of the exceptions.

 


title: Relabling incinerators as "advanced recycling"
uri: Relabling-incinerators-as-advanced-recycling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Relabling_incinerators_as_advanced_recycling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#22_September_2022_(Relabling_incinerators_as_advanced_recycling)

content:
 
<p>

Plastic manufacturers seek to exempt incinerators from environmental laws
by <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/19/200-groups-decry-orwellian-industry-backed-plastic-burning-push">relabeling them as "advanced recycling"</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_the_PRESS_act)
title: Urgent: Pass the PRESS act
uri: Urgent-Pass-the-PRESS-act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Urgent:_Pass_the_PRESS_act)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/press-act/">pass the PRESS act</a>, protecting
reporters from searches to find their sources.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Stop Wall Street bank greenwashing
uri: Urgent-Stop-Wall-Street-bank-greenwashing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_Wall_Street_bank_greenwashing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_Wall_Street_bank_greenwashing)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the Federal Reserve to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-the-federal-reserve-to-release-strong-guidelines-to-stop-greenwashing-by-wall-street-banks-now?nowrapper=true">issue strong guidelines</a>
to stop greenwashing by Wall Street banks.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Disallow more offshore oil drilling
uri: Urgent-Disallow-more-offshore-oil-drilling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Urgent:_Disallow_more_offshore_oil_drilling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Urgent:_Disallow_more_offshore_oil_drilling)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden <a href="https://act.350.org/letter/sept-22-offshore-drilling-comment/?source=em20220919-1-subs-us&akid=219590%2E1151744%2EQALZVh">not to allow more offshore oil drilling</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Deforestation)
title: Deforestation
uri: 2022-09-26-Deforestation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Deforestation)
content:
 
<p>
*Deforestation is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/americas/brazil-bolsonaro-deforestation-term-intl-latam/index.html">accelerating in Brazil</a> as Bolsonaro's first term
ends, experts say.*
<p>
Forest destroyers are trying to pack in as much destruction as they can
while Bolsonaro before Lula gets a chance to try to stop them.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Imprisoning_for_abortions)
title: Imprisoning for abortions
uri: Imprisoning-for-abortions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Imprisoning_for_abortions)
content:
 
<p>
Some Louisiana Republicans want to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/politics/abortion-bans-murder-charges-invs/index.html">imprison females that get abortions</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_((Satire)_Constant_flooding_fix)
title: (Satire) Constant flooding fix
uri: (Satire)-Constant-flooding-fix
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_((Satire)_Constant_flooding_fix)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *U.S. Landlord General Announces <a href="https://www.theonion.com/u-s-landlord-general-announces-plans-to-fix-constant-f-1849435953">Plans To Fix
Constant Flooding</a> Sometime In Next Few Months.*

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(World_Bank_head)
title: World Bank head
uri: World-Bank-head
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(World_Bank_head)
content:
 
<p>
The head of the World Bank is a <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/21/al-gore-calls-it-ridiculous-have-climate-denier-lead-world-bank">global heating denialist, appointed by
the wrecker</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Christian_fascists)
title: Christian fascists
uri: Christian-fascists
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Christian_fascists)
content:
 
<p>
The wrecker is now <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/21/fascist-fingers-air-terrifying-american-nightmare-unfolds-trump-rally">the leader of the US Christian fascist movement</a>,
a sworn enemy of the flawed democracy of the United States and all the
incomplete political freedoms the country champions.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Shireen_Abu_Akleh)
title: Shireen Abu Akleh
uri: Shireen-Abu-Akleh
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Shireen_Abu_Akleh)
content:
 
<p>
The relatives of Shireen Abu Akleh have presented evidence that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/21/probe-shows-israeli-killing-journalist-deliberate-family-turns-icc">the shooting
that killed her was difficult to do by accident or by mistake</a>.
They are presenting this to the International Criminal Court.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Leonard_Glenn_Francis_arrested)
title: Leonard Glenn Francis arrested
uri: Leonard-Glenn-Francis-arrested
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Leonard_Glenn_Francis_arrested)
content:
 
<p>
Venezuela <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/fat-leonard-fugitive-contractor-in-us-navys-worst-corruption-scandal-arrested-in-venezuela">arrested fugitive Leonard Glenn Francis</a> at the request of
the US.
<p>
It is interesting to see that the two governments still cooperate to
this extent.  It gives me hope that maybe the US can stop treating
Venezuela as a monster.

<p>
 


title: Converting semiautomatic weapons to machine guns
uri: Converting-semiautomatic-weapons-to-machine-guns
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Converting_semiautomatic_weapons_to_machine_guns)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Converting_semiautomatic_weapons_to_machine_guns)

content:
 
<p>
Cheap add-ons can <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/us/automatic-machine-gun-fire-invs/index.html">convert semiautomatic weapons that are lawfully sold
into machine guns</a>.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Starmer_should_criticize_Tories)
title: Starmer should criticize Tories
uri: Starmer-should-criticize-Tories
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Starmer_should_criticize_Tories)
content:
 
<p>
Why doesn't Starmer, head of the UK Labour Party, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/22/uk-broken-12-years-starmer-tory-government-labour">criticize all the
disastrous harm Tories have done</a>?
<p>
My theory is because that would be too radical -- almost something
Corbyn might say -- and anything that hints at such thinking is now
unwelcome in Labour.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Qatar)
title: Qatar
uri: Qatar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Qatar)
content:
 
<p>
Qatar seems to have suggested to construction companies that they <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/22/migrant-workers-in-qatar-left-in-debt-after-being-ordered-home-before-world-cup-starts">send
most foreign workers home</a> before the soccer world cup tournament.
Many workers are being sent home early, denied expected earnings
and robbed of some wages already earned.
<p>
Qatar can't have it both ways.  If it did not intend to have many workers
sent home, it should tell the companies to bring those workers back and
make restitution for the costs this imposed.  Perhaps at state expense.
<p>
The practice of charging money to find someone a job should be
strictly punished with confiscation of all the agent's income,
as well as prison -- whatever it takes to end the practice.
The companies that seek the employees should directly pay the cost
of finding employees.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Rancher_water_rights)
title: Rancher water rights
uri: Rancher-water-rights
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Rancher_water_rights)
content:
 
<p>
Ranchers near the Shasta river in California believe that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/22/california-ranchers-water-rights-diversions-fish">keeping
their ranches and pets going justifies drying up the river and wiping
out the fish</a>.
<p>
Ranching near the Shasta river is doomed.  There may be occasional
periods in the future with sufficient water, but they will be few and
decreasing.
<p>
We cannot allow people to cause extra permanent damage in a futile effort
to keep their doomed businesses going a little while longer.  Such
efforts will magnify the harm done by the increasing drought.
<p>
It's not particularly those ranchers' fault that sustainable ranching
there has become impossible -- not more than it is our fault.  We
(through our governments) should help them by buying them out and converting
that land into parks.
<p>
At the same time, we should make it a crime punished by imprisonment
to draw water for ranching in that region.  Ranching sustainably there
will not be possible for decades even in an optimistic scenario, and
by that time we will have perfected vat meat and won't need much
ranching.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Lead_industry_and_corruption)
title: Lead industry and corruption
uri: Lead-industry-and-corruption
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Lead_industry_and_corruption)
content:
 
<p>
The US lead industry <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/22/us-lead-industry-history-water-crisis">pooled funds to corrupt city governments and
plumbers' unions</a> so that they would insist on the use of lead pipes.
These rules continued in Chicago through the 1980s.
<p>
I would like to know what they did to promote lead paint and lead in
gasoline.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Not_being_paranoid_enough)
title: Not being paranoid enough
uri: Not-being-paranoid-enough
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Not_being_paranoid_enough)
content:
 
<p>
A mother in Arizona was put on a 25-year blacklist which would cost
her her job because <a href="https://www.freerangekids.com/mom-found-guilty-of-not-being-paranoid-enough/">she let her child play outside a store for half
an hour with a friend</a>.
She figured that was safer than bringing them
inside the store, where they might catch Covid-19 from customers or
staff.  (This was in November 2020.)

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Nuclear_disarmament)
title: Nuclear disarmament
uri: 2022-09-26-Nuclear-disarmament
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Nuclear_disarmament)
content:
 
<p>
Some thoughts on how to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/31/is-it-time-to-abandon-the-nuclear-non-proliferation-treaty">progress towards nuclear disarmament</a>.
<p>
The recent nonproliferation conference broke down because some
countries put a phrase criticizing of Russia into the draft agreement
which Putin then refused to accept.  The criticism was valid, but
there was nothing to gain by raising the topic in that context except
to make the text unacceptable.  It appears to me that this was
intended to make the conference fail and blame Russia.

<p>
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Fossil_fuel_subsidies)
title: Fossil fuel subsidies
uri: 2022-09-26-Fossil-fuel-subsidies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#25_September_2022_(Fossil_fuel_subsidies)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/31/fossil-fuel-subsidies-almost-doubled-in-2021-analysis-finds">Global fossil fuel subsidies almost doubled in 2021</a>, analysis finds.*

 


title: Destabilization in balance between Putin's military supporters and formerly-the-KGB supporters
uri: Destabilization-in-balance-between-Putin-s-military-supporters-and-for
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Destabilization_in_balance_between_Putin's_military_supporters_and_formerly-the-KGB_supporters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Destabilization_in_balance_between_Putin's_military_supporters_and_formerly-the-KGB_supporters)

content:
 
<p>

  Putin's general mobilization <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/23/putin-miracle-avoid-devastating-defeat-ukraine-russia">threatens to destabilize</a> the balance
between his military supporters and his formerly-the-KGB supporters.

 


title: Cost of cleaning up UK's nuclear reactors
uri: Cost-of-cleaning-up-UK-s-nuclear-reactors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Cost_of_cleaning_up_UK's_nuclear_reactors)

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

content:
 
<p>

The cost of cleaning up the UK's nuclear reactors and nuclear waste
is now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/23/uk-nuclear-waste-cleanup-decommissioning-power-stations">estimated at UKP 260bn</a>.  That would be around 300 billion dollars.
<p>
There is no way to avoid these costs, for the reactors that have
already been operated.  That suggests to me that it would be worth
billions to cancel the two reactors now being build, even if that
costs billions in indemnities, just to avoid the ever-increasing
cost of cleaning them up after.

 


title: How France has protected independent book stores
uri: How-France-has-protected-independent-book-stores
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(How_France_has_protected_independent_book_stores)

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

content:
 
<p>

  France has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/23/france-minimum-book-delivery-fee-amazon">protected independent book stores</a> with a minimum delivery
fee of 3 euros.
<p>
It would be good to do this for all products.  Physical stores normally offer
the crucial right to buy anonymously (and this should be required by law).

 


title: Pressure for Levi's to protect factory employees
uri: Pressure-for-Levi-s-to-protect-factory-employees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Pressure_for_Levi's_to_protect_factory_employees)

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

content:
 
<p>

  *Pressure builds for Levi’s to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/23/levis-garment-workers-bangladesh-pakistan-international-accord-health-safety">protect factory employees</a>.*
The factories are in Bangladesh and Pakistan.
In Bangladesh, unjust treatment of employees is rife.
I wonder whether the factories in Pakistan still exist;
they may still be flooded.

 


title: Practice of having many products delivered
uri: Practice-of-having-many-products-delivered
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Practice_of_having_many_products_delivered)

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

content:
 
<p>

The practice of having many products delivered is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/23/green-parcel-home-deliveries-pollution-health-warehouses-schools">increasing urban
    air pollution</a> (as well as use of fuel).

 


title: How the UK's prime minister was chosen
uri: How-the-UK-s-prime-minister-was-chosen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(How_the_UK's_prime_minister_was_chosen)

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

content:
 
<p>

  The UK's current prime minister was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/23/liz-truss-power-extreme-neoliberal-thinktanks">chosen by the members of the Tory Party</a>.
They include foreigners who don't live in Britain and can't vote in elections.
They also include rich people who secretly buy a share in party decisions.
<p>
*The more loudly a politician proclaims [per] patriotism, the more
likely [<a href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a> is] to act on behalf of foreign money.  Every recent
Conservative prime minister has placed the interests of transnational
capital above the interests of the nation. But, to a greater
extent than any previous leader, Truss’s politics have been shaped by
organisations that call themselves thinktanks, but would be better
described as lobbyists who refuse to reveal who funds them. Now she
has brought them into the heart of government.*

 


title: Starbucks system for Covid sick leave
uri: Starbucks-system-for-Covid-sick-leave
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Starbucks_system_for_Covid_sick_leave)

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

content:
 
<p>

Starbucks plans to replace the current system for Covid sick leave
with a new one, and <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/09/19/no-regard-law-starbucks-deny-union-workers-new-paid-leave-benefits">deny the new system to union workers</a>.
<p>
Do you want your coffee to be made by someone who has a transmissible
respiratory illness?  Of course not.  The law should require paid sick
leave for all employees who, when working, can transmit a disease to
others.
<p>
In the mean time, if you do business with Starbucks, tell the managers
of the stores that you disapprove of Starbucks's exclusion of sick pay
for union workers.

<p>
 


title: Urgent: Call on ShotSpotter to stop selling surveillance
uri: Urgent-Call-on-ShotSpotter-to-stop-selling-surveillance
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_ShotSpotter_to_stop_selling_surveillance)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_ShotSpotter_to_stop_selling_surveillance)

content:
 
<p>

  US citizens: call on ShotSpotter to <a href="https://act.newmode.net/action/mpower-change/tell-shotspotter-stop-selling-surveillance/">stop selling surveillance</a> (and
consequent repression).

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(Merchant_codes_for_gun_stores)
title: Merchant codes for gun stores
uri: Merchant-codes-for-gun-stores
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(Merchant_codes_for_gun_stores)
content:
 
<p>

Republican officials are trying to stop credit card companies from
<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/20/business/gun-sales-mastercard-visa/index.html">adopting a new merchant code</a> for gun stores by threatening lawsuits.
<p>
I'd be surprised if laws say anything about the question of how
to establish categories of stores for credit cards, so I suspect
this is a way of threatening legal harassment.

 


title: Justice Department can now examine documents the wrecker took home
uri: Justice-Department-can-now-examine-documents-the-wrecker-took-home
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(Justice_Department_can_now_examine_documents_the_wrecker_took_home)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(Justice_Department_can_now_examine_documents_the_wrecker_took_home)

content:
 
<p>

The Justice Department succeeded in an appeal and can now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/21/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-records-hold-lifted">examine
    the secret government documents</a> that the wrecker took home to determine
whether that was a crime.

 


title: Russians jailed for protesting the war
uri: Russians-jailed-for-protesting-the-war
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(Russians_jailed_for_protesting_the_war)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(Russians_jailed_for_protesting_the_war)

content:
 
<p>

  1300 Russians have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/russia-protests-more-than-1300-arrested-at-anti-war-demonstrations-ukraine">jailed for protesting against the war</a>.
<p>
Some of them were punished by immediate conscription.

 


title: Thugs sent to crush protests kill six protesters
uri: Thugs-sent-to-crush-protests-kill-six-protesters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(Thugs_sent_to_crush_protests_kill_six_protesters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(Thugs_sent_to_crush_protests_kill_six_protesters)

content:
 
<p>

Iran has sent <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> to crush protests against imposed religious codes,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/21/iran-sends-police-end-protests-rights-groups-mahsa-amini">killing six protesters</a>.
<p>
The injustice of this repression &mdash; which Iran has practiced for 30
years &mdash; has no effect on my support for <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#29_April_2022_(Nonnuclear_deal)">resuming the non-nuclear
    deal</a>, if any chance of that remains.

 


title: The price of the Tories putting fossil fuel profits first
uri: The-price-of-the-Tories-putting-fossil-fuel-profits-first
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(The_price_of_the_Tories_putting_fossil_fuel_profits_first)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(The_price_of_the_Tories_putting_fossil_fuel_profits_first)

content:
 
<p>

*The Tories spent a decade putting fossil fuel profits first [in the
UK].  Now we’re all <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/09/tories-decade-fossil-fuel-profits-insulation-fracking-crisis">paying the price</a>.*

 


title: Russian men fleeing to escape draft
uri: Russian-men-fleeing-to-escape-draft
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(Russian_men_fleeing_to_escape_draft)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(Russian_men_fleeing_to_escape_draft)

content:
 
<p>

  Russian men are fleeing Russia to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/22/my-heart-sank-with-news-of-draft-russians-flee-in-droves">escape being drafted</a>.
<p>
EU countries should resume admitting Russian men as visitors.
Why help Putin by forcing them to remain in Russia and be drafted?

 


title: Deal to undermine environmental permitting requirements
uri: Deal-to-undermine-environmental-permitting-requirements
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(Deal_to_undermine_environmental_permitting_requirements)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(Deal_to_undermine_environmental_permitting_requirements)

content:
 
<p>

Schumer and Manchin's deal to undermine environmental permitting
requirements has been revealed, and it is is broader and deeper than
we knew.  It would be a disaster for the environment, including a
massive increase in future fossil fuel extraction.
<p>
  This deal was a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/22/schumer-manchin-side-deal-pipelines-backlash">dirty trick</a> by Schumer and Manchin.
<p>
It would be much safer to let Republicans shut down the government
than to pass this bill.  A shut-down is a short pain in the neck; much
better than a permanent disaster.

 


title: Artists hacking airline advertising posters
uri: Artists-hacking-airline-advertising-posters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(Artists_hacking_airline_advertising_posters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#26_September_2022_(Artists_hacking_airline_advertising_posters)

content:
 
<p>

Artists have hacked many different airline advertising posters to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/22/activists-subvert-poster-sites-aviation-ad-industries-airline-emissions-climate-crisis">highlight
    the effect of their carbon emissions</a>.

 


title: Autumn in UK not as it used to be
uri: Autumn-in-UK-not-as-it-used-to-be
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Autumn_in_UK_not_as_it_used_to_be)

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

content:
 
<p>
*Autumn has arrived in the UK -- but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/25/autumn-uk-milder-season-flora-fauna">the season is not [as] it used to be</a>.*

<p>
 


title: US must end complicity in illicit financial flows
uri: US-must-end-complicity-in-illicit-financial-flows
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(US_must_end_complicity_in_illicit_financial_flows)

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

content:
 
<p>
*The US Must <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/09/10/us-must-ends-its-complicity-illicit-financial-flows-out-africa">Ends Its Complicity in Illicit Financial Flows</a> Out of Africa.*

<p>
 


title: Climate activist held before trial
uri: Climate-activist-held-before-trial
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Climate_activist_held_before_trial)

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

content:
 
<p>
*UK climate activists <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/23/uk-climate-activists-held-in-jail-for-up-to-six-months-before-trial">held in jail for up to six months before trial</a>.*
<p>
If they are convicted, their sentences will probably not be as long as
they were in jail.  They are moved frequently from one prison to
another, and their friends can't find them.
<p>
I suspect this is an intentional practice of nonjudicial punishment.

<p>
 


title: Surveillance on US employees by employers reaching Chinese repression levels
uri: Surveillance-on-US-employees-by-employers-reaching-Chinese-repression
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Surveillance_on_US_employees_by_employers_reaching_Chinese_repression_levels)

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

content:
 
<p>
The surveillance of employees by US employers is <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/russias-and-chinas-surveillance-states">reaching levels
reminiscent of Chinese repression</a>.
<p>
We must establish the rule that by default surveillance systems are
forbidden, aside from certain limited exceptions.

<p>
 


title: Federal Reserve raising interest rates too fast
uri: Federal-Reserve-raising-interest-rates-too-fast
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Federal_Reserve_raising_interest_rates_too_fast)

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

content:
 
<p>
The Federal Reserve is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/23/federal-reserve-interest-rate-hikes-are-going-to-hit-the-most-vulnerable">raising interest rates too fast</a> -- not waiting
to see the full effects of previous increases before moving on to another
increase.
This creates a risk of overshoot -- of raising interest rates so
much that it producing a result bigger than the organisation wants.
If you keep increasing a signal again and again, faster than results
can possibly come back to you, you will overcontrol and cause a
crisis.
<p>
The governors of the Fed ought to know this, since it is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game#Bullwhip_effect">basic
business economics</a>.

<p>
 


title: Guardian view on Tory trickle up policies
uri: Guardian-view-on-Tory-trickle-up-policies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Guardian_view_on_Tory_trickle_up_policies)

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

content:
 
<p>
*The Guardian view on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/23/the-guardian-view-on-the-tory-trickle-up-policies-redistributing-to-the-rich">the Tory trickle up policies</a>: redistributing to
the rich.*

<p>
 


title: Australian mobile phone company suffered data theft
uri: Australian-mobile-phone-company-suffered-data-theft
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jul-oct.html#27_September_2022_(Australian_mobile_phone_company_suffered_data_theft)

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

content:
 
<p>
An Australian mobile phone company suffered a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/sep/24/optus-cyber-attack-company-opposed-changes-to-privacy-laws-to-give-customers-more-rights-over-their-data">data theft which took
personal data about millions of customers</a>.  The company had lobbied
against changes to laws about customers' rights over that data.
<p>
The harmful consequences of this breach are partly the Australian
government's fault, since it required the company to collect and save
various items of personal data for each customer.  The reliable way to
prevent the release of people's personal data is not to possess copies
of it, but Australia did not permit this company to use that method.

<p>
 


