# articles

feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Protest_against_war)
title: Protest against war
uri: Protest-against-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Protest_against_war)
content:
 
<p>
4,300 more Russians held a coordinated nationwide protest <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/06/4300-people-arrested-anti-war-protests-across-russia-decounce-vladimir-putin-war-ukraine">against Putin's
invasion of Ukraine</a>.
  That makes almost 12,000 antiwar protesters in prison.

<p>
I hope that people planning to protest inform their friends, so that their
disappearance will be understood for what it actually was, rather than
giving rise to mere curiosity.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Resentment_against_dish)
title: Resentment against dish
uri: Resentment-against-dish
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Resentment_against_dish)
content:
 
<p>
In France, people are expressing their resentment against Putin's
invasion of Ukraine by condemning the dish, poutine, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/06/poutine-not-putin-classic-quebec-dish-under-fire-in-france">which is
pronounced the same</a>.

<p>
What I've said for years is that poutine is such a disgusting
combination of foods that pronouncing a person's name like that is an
unforgivable insult.  It is unacceptable to do that to a foreign head
of state.  We should rather pronounce the name "Putin" in French just
as it is written.
 

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Contempt_for_refugee)
title: Contempt for refugee
uri: Contempt-for-refugee
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Contempt_for_refugee)
content:
 
<p>
A prominent right-wing Brazilian congressman expressed contempt for
Ukrainian refugee women, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/06/brazilian-politician-arthur-do-val-sexist-remarks-ukraine-refugees-outrage">regarding them as objects to take advantage
of</a>.

That attitude towards other people seems quintessentially right-wing to me.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Evidence_of_crimes_to_steal_election)
title: Evidence of crimes to steal election
uri: Evidence-of-crimes-to-steal-election
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Evidence_of_crimes_to_steal_election)
content:
 
<p>
The House investigation reported evidence to suspect that the
corrupter committed crimes in trying to steal the 2020 election.
<a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-investigate-this-critical-new-evidence-against-donald-trump?nowrapper=true">Call on the DOJ to investigate these crimes</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Thug_sentenced_to_prison)
title: Thug sentenced to prison
uri: 2022-03-07-Thug-sentenced-to-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Thug_sentenced_to_prison)
content:
 
<p>
A Kansas City <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> has been sentenced to 6 years in prison
for killing Cameron Lamb, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/05/us/kansas-city-officer-sentenced-black-man-killed/index.html">who was backing his truck into the
garage of his home</a>.

<p>
It looks like someone tried to plant a gun at the scene to
substantiate a claim that Lamb was armed.  It's too bad the <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> are
getting away with that crime.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Withdrawing_US_from_NATO)
title: Withdrawing US from NATO
uri: Withdrawing-US-from-NATO
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Withdrawing_US_from_NATO)
content:
 
<p>
*Former National Security Advisor John Bolton says 'Putin was waiting' for
Trump <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220307011810/https://news.yahoo.com/former-national-security-advisor-john-203811337.html">to withdraw the United States from NATO in his second term</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(SLAPP_lawsuits)
title: SLAPP lawsuits
uri: SLAPP-lawsuits
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(SLAPP_lawsuits)
content:
 
<p>
The UK has failed to deal with the problem of SLAPP lawsuits, in which
rich people and businesses sue people for libel (or threaten to sue)
to stop them from accusing wrongdoing.  Even if the person sued is
telling the truth, <a href="/glossary.html#perse">perse</a> may not have the money to pay to defend the
lawsuit.

<p>
Now Russian billionaires are using this to stop the UK from putting
sanctions on them until they have time to sell their UK assets.
So the UK <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2022/03/04/uk-ukraine-crisis-britain-raab-court">is finally looking into how to block SLAPP lawsuits</a>.
  That would be a change for the better, in general, as it would
eliminate part of the unjust power of the rich.

<p>
Some US states adopted anti-SLAPP laws a few decades ago, but some
have not done so.

<p>
More generally, the cost of defending a libel suit in the UK is
enormous, so they are used to protect criminals <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/26/putin-british-rich-mans-law-avoid-scrutiny-crippling-cost">as well as to deter
criticism of tyrants such as Putin</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Deregulated_lending)
title: Deregulated lending
uri: Deregulated-lending
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Deregulated_lending)
content:
 
<p>
Deregulated lending causes a danger of financial crashes.  That
happened in 2008, and it can happen again.  The results could hurt
everyone.  This illustrates a danger to freedom from the use of
programs that are run jointly by various parties -- a danger that can
happen even if the programs are free.

<p>
First, to explain the danger of deregulated lending.
It comes from "leverage" -- the practice of borrowing to invest.
I refer to <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/02/shadow-banking-2-point-oh/#leverage">Cory Doctorow's article for this topic</a>.

<p>
Leverage is dangerous when it goes beyond a certain amount.  When the
market goes down, those who have invested with leverage are forced to
put in more money, and that compels them to sell other property, which
often accelerates the crash.  This is what happened in 1929 to cause
the great crash, and the worldwide great depression.

<p>
After the crash, the US assured this would never happen again by
placing regulations on banks, designed to limit the amount level of
leverage.  What brought this vulnerability back, decades later, was
the growth of lending that bypassed bank loans and thus evaded the
regulations.  That caused the financial crisis of 2008.

<p>
Due to the political power of finance (as distinguished to business in
general), the US has not adopted new regulations to stop that from
happening again.  Meanwhile, "distributed finance" using smart
contracts is pretty much equivalent and creates the same kind of
danger of a crash.

<p>
Instead of a loan contract written in English but so complex you have
no real chance of understanding it, you'd be asked to agree to an
Ethereum smart contract so complex that you have no real chance of
understanding it, even supposing you can read the language it's
written in.

<p>
Now let's return to the issue of software and freedom.

<p>
Using a nonfree program is automatically an injustice, because someone
else controls it and you can't change it.  There are no exceptions to that.

<p>
A free program can't be unjust in that way.  That doesn't mean a free
program can't ever be unjust.  In the simple case where you run it by
yourself, it would be very difficult for the free program to be unjust.
But other scenarios are not so simple.  The use of a program jointly
by multiple parties creates other ethical issues, other threats.

<p>
For instance, if you want to borrow money, and each lender insists
that you must run, jointly, a particular Ethereum program which you
can't change and which can make you owe thousands of dollars, that is
dangerous.  If that Ethereum program is free, that means a different
lender can modify it and offer to lend using another version.  But
that does not directly give the borrowers (who have less power to
start with than the lender) any freedom.

<p>
How does this differ from the classic case of a client program that
talks to a server program on someone else's server?  If the client
program is free, you can use a modified version to talk to the same
server.  If the server wants some information about you, you control
what information to send.  You can lie, if you choose, and in some cases
lying might be morally and/or legally legitimate.

<p>
When the program is part of a system that makes it impossible or
ineffective to lie, that changes things.  Such a program could be part
of a web of social control, and there is no limit in principle to how
much control it can exercise.  Mostly we see this in nonfree programs
for "test proctoring", but we also see the beginnings of it in free
programs such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.


 


title: Using financial instrument to exploit workers
uri: Using-financial-instrument-to-exploit-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Using_financial_instrument_to_exploit_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Using_financial_instrument_to_exploit_workers)

content:
 
<p>
US hotel owners have figured out how to use a financial instrument, REITs,
<a href="https://prospect.org/labor/predatory-hotel-investment-trusts-decimating-workers-rights-democrats-loyal-unions/">as an excuse to exploit workers</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Expelling_asylum_seekers)
title: Expelling asylum seekers
uri: Expelling-asylum-seekers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Expelling_asylum_seekers)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a>'s practice of immediately expelling asylum seekers, which
Biden has inexplicably continued, has been limited by an appeals
court.  It ruled that the US <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/04/court-limits-bidens-use-covid-policy-expel-families-fleeing-danger">cannot expel them to places whey they are
likely to face persecution</a>.

<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a> instituted this policy in the name of Covid-19, claiming
that the immigrants might carry it.  That was true, but since they are
no more likely to have Covid-19 than the people already on the US side
of the border, it is no justification for expelling them.  <a href="/glossary.html#bully">The bully</a>'s
real reason was probably as a way to demonize immigrants, for
political motives.

<p>
Why Biden did not simply end the practice, I don't know.
Some Democrats <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/05/dems-biden-after-court-ruling-end-covid-border-policy-once-and-all">push him to end it now</a>.

<p>
Two further levels of appeal are possible.
Will Biden continue appeals?


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Battlefield_successes)
title: Battlefield successes
uri: Battlefield-successes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Battlefield_successes)
content:
 
<p>
*Ukraine claims battlefield successes <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/05/ukraine-claims-battlefield-successes-as-mariupol-evacuation-falls-apart-russia">as Mariupol evacuation falls apart</a>.*

<p>
The US is planning <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/05/ukraine-us-congress-zelenskiy-video-call">to send Ukraine more airplanes</a>.
  It takes time to get accustomed to flying a new kind of plane.
Thus, the US need to send Russian-made planes that Ukrainian air force
pilots are thoroughly accustomed to flying.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Where_to_keep_fossils)
title: Where to keep fossils
uri: Where-to-keep-fossils
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Where_to_keep_fossils)
content:
 
<p>
A fringe movement among paleontologists demands to use present-day
human countries to determine where to keep fossils of organisms that
lived long before humans, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/02/paleontology-a-hotbed-of-unethical-practices-rooted-in-colonialism-say-scientists">and long before any human countries</a>.

<p>
I think these fossils should be made available to science in the way
that is best for their scientific study.  I'm not a paleontologist, so
I don't know what that way would be, but I am sure it is not a matter
of nationalism.

<p>
If these fossils go to a museum <em>somewhere</em>, at least they will be
available somehow for scientific study.  What's most outrageous is
<a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-sep-dec.html#27_December_2011_(Unburied_Skeleton)">when people demand to "rebury" human remains that were found near
where they live</a>.  That makes the remains totally unavailable for
scientific study by newer methods -- such as, through their DNA.


 


title: Blocking psychologists from testifying on torture
uri: Blocking-psychologists-from-testifying-on-torture
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Blocking_psychologists_from_testifying_on_torture)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Blocking_psychologists_from_testifying_on_torture)

content:
 
<p>
*Supreme court blocks [psychologists] behind CIA’s "enhanced
interrogation" <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/mar/03/supreme-court-cia-enhanced-interrogation-block-testifying">from testifying [in a Polish court]</a>.*

<p>
They were summoned to confirm that Abu Zubaydah had been tortured in a
CIA "black site" in Poland.  This would not have revealed any secrets,
only confirmed what the US did to him.

<p>
It is shameful that US officials set out to block that testimony.  The
duty of any US official <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#1_November_2021_(Khan_prisoner_testified)">is to punish torture</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Crack_down_on_oligarchs)
title: Crack down on oligarchs
uri: Crack-down-on-oligarchs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Crack_down_on_oligarchs)
content:
 
<p>
*Where to Crack Down on Russia Oligarchs? <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/03/where-crack-down-russia-oligarchs-try-north-dakota">Try South Dakota</a>.*

<p>
South Dakota plays a significant role in some methods rich people use
for hiding their wealth.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Female_judges_in_Egypt)
title: Female judges in Egypt
uri: Female-judges-in-Egypt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Female_judges_in_Egypt)
content:
 
<p>
There are actually <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/05/first-female-judge-presides-over-hearing-at-top-court-in-egypt">female judges in Egypt</a>.

<p>
What is not clear is whether an Egyptian trial presided over by a female
judge is going to pay more attention to law, justice and evidence
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/04/mohamed-morsi-egypt-trial-chaos-muslim-brotherhood">than an Egyptian trial presided over by a male judge</a>.




 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Sackler_family_and_oxycotin_harm)
title: Sackler family and oxycotin harm
uri: Sackler-family-and-oxycotin-harm
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Sackler_family_and_oxycotin_harm)
content:
 
<p>
  The Sackler family agreed to pay 6 billion dollars in settlement
  of <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60610707">claims over harm done by oxycontin</a>.

 


title: US won't ban weapon it cricized Russia for using
uri: US-won-t-ban-weapon-it-cricized-Russia-for-using
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(US_won't_ban_weapon_it_cricized_Russia_for_using)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(US_won't_ban_weapon_it_cricized_Russia_for_using)

content:
 
<p>
  The US condemned Putin for using cluster bombs on Ukraine, but <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/05/us-wont-ban-same-lethal-weapons-its-criticizing-russia-using">the US
  has refused (like Russia) to sign the treaty to ban cluster bombs</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Hold_politicians_responsible)
title: Hold politicians responsible
uri: Hold-politicians-responsible
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Hold_politicians_responsible)
content:
 
<p>
  We should hold politicians of various countries <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/05/hold-all-politicians-accountable-waging-war-not-just-putin">responsible for
  starting wars of aggression</a>.  1.5 million Russians have said they
  oppose Putin's war.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(UK_employment_rate)
title: UK employment rate
uri: UK-employment-rate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(UK_employment_rate)
content:
 
<p>
  Bogus Johnson got an official rebuke for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/05/downing-st-was-repeatedly-warned-over-boris-johnsons-misleading-jobs-claims">misleading the public about the UK employment rate</a>.

 


title: US right-wing politicians supporting Putin
uri: US-right-wing-politicians-supporting-Putin
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(US_right-wing_politicians_supporting_Putin)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(US_right-wing_politicians_supporting_Putin)

content:
 
<p>
  The most <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/04/americas-culture-war-is-spilling-into-actual-war-war">right-wing US politicians support Putin</a>.
  This makes sense to me.  They, like Putin, are enemies of freedom
  for people who don't agree with them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Criminal_conspiracy_to_defraud)
title: Criminal conspiracy to defraud
uri: Criminal-conspiracy-to-defraud
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Criminal_conspiracy_to_defraud)
content:
 
<p>
*House January 6 Panel Accuses Trump of '<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/03/house-january-6-panel-accuses-trump-criminal-conspiracy-defraud-us">Criminal Conspiracy to Defraud</a>' US.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_((Satire)_Drano_shampoo)
title: (Satire) Drano shampoo
uri: (Satire)-Drano-shampoo
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_((Satire)_Drano_shampoo)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Drano Introduces New Shampoo For <a href="https://www.theonion.com/drano-introduces-new-shampoo-for-eliminating-drain-clog-1848473636">Eliminating Drain-Clogging
  Hair At Source</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Lawsuit_against_big_oil_companies)
title: Lawsuit against big oil companies
uri: Lawsuit-against-big-oil-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Lawsuit_against_big_oil_companies)
content:
 
<p>
Hawaii state court has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/03/historic-first-hawaii-court-oks-lawsuit-against-big-oil">allowed a climate lawsuit by Honolulu against big oil companies to proceed</a>.

 


title: US plans to transfer Covid vaccine tech to World Health Organization
uri: US-plans-to-transfer-Covid-vaccine-tech-to-World-Health-Organization
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(US_plans_to_transfer_Covid_vaccine_tech_to_World_Health_Organization)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(US_plans_to_transfer_Covid_vaccine_tech_to_World_Health_Organization)

content:
 
<p>
*US Praised for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/03/us-praised-plan-transfer-covid-tech-who">Plan to Transfer Covid [vaccine] Tech to WHO</a>.*

 


title: Florida high school students strike against anti-gay bills
uri: Florida-high-school-students-strike-against-anti-gay-bills
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Florida_high_school_students_strike_against_anti-gay_bills)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Florida_high_school_students_strike_against_anti-gay_bills)

content:
 
<p>
Florida high school students <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/03/florida-students-stage-walkouts-over-dont-say-gay-bill">went on strike against Republican anti-gay bills</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(End_fossil_fuel_use)
title: End fossil fuel use
uri: End-fossil-fuel-use
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(End_fossil_fuel_use)
content:
 
<p>
*Russian Invasion Bolsters Case for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/03/russian-invasion-bolsters-case-ending-use-fossil-fuels">Ending Use of Fossil Fuels</a>.*

 


title: Bar insurrectionists from public office
uri: Bar-insurrectionists-from-public-office
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Bar_insurrectionists_from_public_office)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Bar_insurrectionists_from_public_office)

content:
 
<p>
*DOJ Must <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/03/doj-must-permanently-bar-insurrectionists-public-office-ethics-group">Permanently Bar Insurrectionists From Public Office</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_((Satire)_New_York_City_Borough)
title: (Satire) New York City Borough
uri: (Satire)-New-York-City-Borough
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_((Satire)_New_York_City_Borough)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *U.S. <a href="https://www.theonion.com/u-s-seizes-new-york-city-borough-belonging-to-russian-1848611882">Seizes New York City Borough Belonging To Russian Oligarch</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Drilling_free-for-all)
title: Drilling free-for-all
uri: Drilling-free-for-all
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Drilling_free-for-all)
content:
 
<p>
*Oil and gas lobbyists are using Ukraine to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/04/oil-gas-lobbyists-us-ukraine-drilling">push for a drilling
free-for-all</a> in the US.*

 


title: Britons suffering from long-term illness
uri: Britons-suffering-from-long-term-illness
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Britons_suffering_from_long-term_illness)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#7_March_2022_(Britons_suffering_from_long-term_illness)

content:
 
<p>

1/3 of Britons age 16 to 64 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/05/covid-pandemic-sparks-steep-rise-in-number-of-people-in-uk-with-long-term-illness">suffer from a long-term illness</a>. That is shocking.
<p>
The number has increased due to Covid, but what's even more shocking
is that almost all of these cases existed before Covid.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Finding_leaks_of_methane)
title: Finding leaks of methane
uri: Finding-leaks-of-methane
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Finding_leaks_of_methane)
content:
 
<p>
New satellites will give <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/06/how-satellites-may-hold-the-key-to-the-methane-crisis">a much better capability to find leaks of methane</a>.

<p>
However, unless we follow detection with correction, finding the leaks
will be useless.  I don't see any real effort to stop these emissions.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Monitoring_violent_men)
title: Monitoring violent men
uri: Monitoring-violent-men
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Monitoring_violent_men)
content:
 
<p>
Programs that monitor violent men and interrupt their violence can be very
effective <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/06/male-violence-against-women-much-more-than-toxic-masculinity">at making other people safe from them</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Waste_from_processing_rice)
title: Waste from processing rice
uri: Waste-from-processing-rice
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Waste_from_processing_rice)
content:
 
<p>
An experiment will see if waste from processing rice <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/06/the-squit-and-the-whale-can-artificial-faeces-revive-the-ocean-ecosystem">can serve as food
in the ocean for more fish</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Dangerous_wildfire)
title: Dangerous wildfire
uri: Dangerous-wildfire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Dangerous_wildfire)
content:
 
<p>
It's still officially winter, but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/06/florida-panhandle-wildfires-evacuations">there is a dangerous wildfire in Florida</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Protests_in_conquered_cities)
title: Protests in conquered cities
uri: Protests-in-conquered-cities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Protests_in_conquered_cities)
content:
 
<p>
Civilians in conquered cities in Ukraine are courageously holding
unarmed protests, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/06/europe/civil-disobedience-ukraine-russian-occupation-cmd-intl/index.html">telling the Putin forces to get out</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Not_believing_it's_a_war)
title: Not believing it's a war
uri: Not-believing-it-s-a-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Not_believing_it's_a_war)
content:
 
<p>
*Ukrainians Find That Relatives in Russia <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220308113825/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/world/europe/ukraine-russia-families.html">Don't Believe It's a War</a>.*
  They have been fooled by Putin's enormous range of disinformation sites.

<p>
Investigators have discovered that when enough "independent" sources
repeat the same disinformation, many people have trouble
distinguishing disinformation from sincere reports.  Russia, the US
extreme right-wing, and fossil fuel companies, have set up large enough
networks of sites to "corroborate" each other.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Electronic_tracking_for_immigrants)
title: Electronic tracking for immigrants
uri: Electronic-tracking-for-immigrants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Electronic_tracking_for_immigrants)
content:
 
<p>
Almost 200,000 immigrants being considered for deportation from the US
are subject to a system of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/07/us-immigration-surveillance-ice-bi-isap">electronic tracking whose operation is
outsourced to a company</a>.

<p>
Outsourcing government activities to a private company normally leads
to lower pay, worse working conditions, and doing a hurried, lousy job.
This activity is no exception.

<p>
All such outsourcing should be prohibited.

<p>
A separate issue is whether tracking people like this is justified.
It can be legitimate to place special rules on people present in the
US without authorization, but there is still the question of whether
it is <em>necessary</em>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Fighting_for_their_freedom_and_ours)
title: Fighting for their freedom and ours
uri: Fighting-for-their-freedom-and-ours
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Fighting_for_their_freedom_and_ours)
content:
 
<p>
Mikhail Shishkin: *My dear Russians –- the Ukrainians <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/07/russians-ukrainians-putin-army-freedom-mikhail-shishkin">are fighting
Putin’s army for their freedom, and ours</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Our_climate_solutions_are_failing)
title: Our climate solutions are failing
uri: Our-climate-solutions-are-failing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Our_climate_solutions_are_failing)
content:
 
<p>
*Our climate solutions are failing - and Big Oil’s fingerprints are all over
them.*  Oil companies are big participants and sponsors of the work <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/07/climate-solutions-big-oil-ipcc-report">that
is supposed to stop them from destroying our ecosystems</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Allowing_to_flee_to_the_enemy)
title: Allowing to flee to the enemy
uri: Allowing-to-flee-to-the-enemy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Allowing_to_flee_to_the_enemy)
content:
 
<p>
Putin has proposed to allow civilians to flee from some Ukrainian cities
that his army is bombarding; but those fleeing certain cities
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/07/russia-humanitarian-corridors-ukraine-war-mariupol-kyiv">would be allowed only to go to Russia or Belarus</a>.

<p>
Inside Putin's prison is hardly a place of safety.

<p>
This offer not serious.  It is meant only to carry a message -- but
what message?  To Ukrainians, it will display contempt, but it will
take more than that to demoralize Ukrainians.

<p>
It carries a different message to the Putin's supporters around the
world.  They will take it at face value and present it as the deepest
magnanimity.

<p>
That could offer us an opportunity to identify some disinformation
sites.  Anyone who presents this offer of "safety" seriously is one of
Putin's disinformation repeaters.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Hostility_towards_immigrants)
title: Hostility towards immigrants
uri: Hostility-towards-immigrants
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Hostility_towards_immigrants)
content:
 
<p>
The UK's intentional hostility towards immigrants <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/07/ukrainian-refugees-britain-hostile-environment-europe">is keeping out
Ukrainians refugees like everyone else</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Damaged_brain_tissue_from_Covid-19)
title: Damaged brain tissue from Covid-19
uri: Damaged-brain-tissue-from-Covid-19
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Damaged_brain_tissue_from_Covid-19)
content:
 
<p>
Brain scans show that even mild Covid-19 infections <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/07/covid-can-shrink-brain-and-damage-its-tissue-finds-research">damaged brain tissue
and reduced some mental abilities</a>.
  The damage was measured months later.

<p>
This data is from infections before Delta and Omicron.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Mandatory_lies)
title: Mandatory lies
uri: Mandatory-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Mandatory_lies)
content:
 
<p>
A Russian journalist talks about Putin's imposition on Russia of
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/07/russias-past-future-under-putin-soviet-repression">Soviet-style mandatory lies that change from day to day</a>.
  Russians can now understand what life was like for their great-grandparents.

<p>
Americans, this is what Trumputin sought (and still seeks) to impose on the US.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Tourism)
title: Tourism
uri: Tourism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Tourism)
content:
 
<p>
Tourism nowadays no longer brings people into deep contact with
foreign cultures.  Is it good for the world, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/07/the-big-idea-is-tourism-bad-for-us-globalisation-flight-holiday">or is it merely a deeply
unsustainable form of entertainment</a>?


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Triangulating_between_US_and_China)
title: Triangulating between US and China
uri: Triangulating-between-US-and-China
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Triangulating_between_US_and_China)
content:
 
<p>
South Korea has been trying to triangulate <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/07/south-koreas-presidential-candidates-face-balancing-act-amid-rising-anti-china-sentiment">between ties to the US and
commercial interests in China</a>.
  But the people are wisely rejecting China.

<p>
It has been 70 years since China invaded South Korea.  During much of
the intervening time, China was not a potential immediate enemy.
Peace must have seemed possible.  But with the new, aggressive China, peace
is at most temporary.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Zaporizhzhia_nuclear_power_plant)
title: Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
uri: Zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Zaporizhzhia_nuclear_power_plant)
content:
 
<p>
  The Putin forces are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/06/ukraine-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-staff-under-russian-orders">endangering operations at the Zaporizhzhia
  nuclear power plant</a> by requiring the staff to get permission for
  everything they do to it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Future_Covid_outbreaks)
title: Future Covid outbreaks
uri: Future-Covid-outbreaks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Future_Covid_outbreaks)
content:
 
<p>
  *The US should <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/07/us-covid-future-variants-outbreaks-omicron">continue investing in masks, tests, ventilation,
  vaccination campaigns, wastewater monitoring and other measures</a> to
  prevent and respond to the next surge, experts said. And when the next
  wave begins rising, communities should pay careful attention to
  changing levels of risk.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Russia_and_Iran_non-nuclear_deal)
title: Russia and Iran non-nuclear deal
uri: Russia-and-Iran-non-nuclear-deal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Russia_and_Iran_non-nuclear_deal)
content:
 
<p>
  Russia has thrown a monkey wrench into <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/06/iran-nuclear-talks-rocked-by-russian-demand-for-sanctions-exemption">negotiations on resuming the
  non-nuclear deal with Iran</a>.
  Putin demanded an exemption to the sanctions on Russia for Russia's
  trade with Iran.  The west won't go along with that.
<p>
  Iran criticized the Russian demand, If Iran and western countries are
  ready to make a deal, I think they could do so without Russia's
  participation.

 


title: The people of Ukraine needs our solidarity
uri: The-people-of-Ukraine-needs-our-solidarity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(The_people_of_Ukraine_needs_our_solidarity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(The_people_of_Ukraine_needs_our_solidarity)

content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/06/people-of-ukraine-need-our-solidarity-not-just-because-theyre-like-us">The people of Ukraine need our solidarity</a>.  But not just because
  they're "like us".*

 


title: Lawyers, PR forms, and Russian billionaires
uri: Lawyers-PR-forms-and-Russian-billionaires
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Lawyers,_PR_forms,_and_Russian_billionaires)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Lawyers,_PR_forms,_and_Russian_billionaires)

content:
 
<p>
  *The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/06/oligarchs-russia-london-web-lawyers-pr-firms-oil-wheels-for-billionaires">tight web of lawyers and PR firms</a> who oil the wheels for
   [Russian] billionaires.*

 


title: Lukashenko no longer controls Belarusian army
uri: Lukashenko-no-longer-controls-Belarusian-army
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Lukashenko_no_longer_controls_Belarusian_army)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Lukashenko_no_longer_controls_Belarusian_army)

content:
 
<p>
  Belarusian opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya says that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/06/belarus-has-effectively-ceded-control-to-kremlin-says-opposition-leader-sviatlana-tsikhanouskaya">Lukashenko no
  longer controls the Belarusian army</a> &ndash; it takes orders from Putin now.
  The opposition is urging Belarusian soldiers to switch sides if they
  are sent to Ukraine.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Biden to admit more Ukrainian refugees
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Biden-to-admit-more-Ukrainian-refugees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_admit_more_Ukrainian_refugees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_admit_more_Ukrainian_refugees)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/biden-ukraine-refugees?source=em20220305&t=1006&akid=7617%2E223515%2Ef3Ud6v">admit more Ukrainian refugees</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Congress to pass the Green New Deal for public schools
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Congress-to-pass-the-Green-New-Deal-for-public-schools
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_pass_the_Green_New_Deal_for_public_schools)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_pass_the_Green_New_Deal_for_public_schools)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14293">Pass the Green New Deal for Public Schools</a>.
<p>
  To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a> from the web site, use <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">the Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Justice Thomas to recuse himself from insurrection cases
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Justice-Thomas-to-recuse-himself-from-insurrection-cas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Justice_Thomas_to_recuse_himself_from_insurrection_cases)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Justice_Thomas_to_recuse_himself_from_insurrection_cases)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Justice Thomas to <a href="https://act.pfaw.org/sign/scotus-thomas-recuse-january6/?utm_source=aa&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=thomasinsurrection&t=1008&akid=25018%2E660322%2ExjWEYr">recuse himself from insurrection-related cases</a>, because <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#25_February_2022_(Clarence_Thomas's_wife)">his wife is part of an organization that promotes insurrection</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Biden to cancel student loan debt
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Biden-to-cancel-student-loan-debt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_cancel_student_loan_debt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_cancel_student_loan_debt)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://act.ayannapressley.com/signup/apem-20220303-cancel-student-debt/?source=em20220303-2110&t=1002&akid=2110%2E324449%2EtpYFCy">cancel student loan debt</a>.

 


uri: Urgent-Call-on-US-states-to-make-sure-people-subject-to-felony-disenf
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_US_states_to_make_sure_people_subject_to_felony_disenfranchisement_know_their_status)

title:
 Urgent: Call on US states to make sure people subject to felony disenfranchisement know their status 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_US_states_to_make_sure_people_subject_to_felony_disenfranchisement_know_their_status)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on US states to make sure <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/forms/stop-letting-broken-systems-fail-formerly-incarcerated-americans?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=">people subject to felony disenfranchisement know their status, so that they are not imprisoned for mistakenly trying to register to vote</a>.
<p>
  Beyond this, we should abolish felony disenfranchisement &mdash; it is an injustice, and when combined with systemic racism that puts lots of blacks in jail, results in <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#28_August_2015_(Disenfranchisement_of_black_voters)">disenfranchising a substantial fraction of blacks</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Congress to fight inflation by taking on corporate greed and concentrated power
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Congress-to-fight-inflation-by-taking-on-corporate-gre
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_fight_inflation_by_taking_on_corporate_greed_and_concentrated_power)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_fight_inflation_by_taking_on_corporate_greed_and_concentrated_power)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-to-fight-inflation-you-must-take-on-corporate-greed-and-concentrated-power?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-democracy-for-america&source=group-democracy-for-america">fight inflation by taking on corporate greed and concentrated power</a>.

 


uri: Urgent-Call-on-Secretary-Buttigieg-to-release-the-national-highway-sy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Secretary_Buttigieg_to_release_the_national_highway_system's_greenhouse_gas_emission_measuring_rules)

title:
 Urgent: Call on Secretary Buttigieg to release the national highway system's greenhouse gas emission measuring rules 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Secretary_Buttigieg_to_release_the_national_highway_system's_greenhouse_gas_emission_measuring_rules)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Secretary Buttigieg to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-secretary-buttigieg-release-the-rule-and-measure-greenhouse-gas-emissions-created-by-the-national-highway-system-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-re-tell-secretary-buttigieg-release-the-rule">release the rule to measure greenhouse gas emissions created by the national highway system</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Congress to make insulin available to everyone for no more than $35 per month
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Congress-to-make-insulin-available-to-everyone-for-no
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_make_insulin_available_to_everyone_for_no_more_than_$35_per_month)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_make_insulin_available_to_everyone_for_no_more_than_$35_per_month)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Congress to make sure <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-no-one-should-pay-more-than-35-for-insulin?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-biden-is-right-cap-the-cost-of-insulin-at-35-period-3">insulin is available to everyone anyone in the US for no more than $35 per month</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Rebuke DeSantis for claiming masks are "theater"
uri: Urgent-Rebuke-DeSantis-for-claiming-masks-are-theater
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Rebuke_DeSantis_for_claiming_masks_are_theater)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Rebuke_DeSantis_for_claiming_masks_are_theater)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: rebuke DeSantis for <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/tell-gov-desantis-stop-lying-about-masks-2?link_id=1&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-sign-the-petition-stop-lying-about-masks-2&email_referrer=email_1467614&email_subject=sign-the-petition-stop-lying-about-masks">claiming that masks are "theater."</a>

 


title: Urgent: Call on Biden to admit more Ukranian refugees
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Biden-to-admit-more-Ukranian-refugees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_admit_more_Ukranian_refugees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#8_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_admit_more_Ukranian_refugees)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/biden-ukraine-refugees?source=em20220305&t=1006&akid=7617%2E223515%2Ef3Ud6v">admit more Ukrainian refugees</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Opportunity_to_evacuate)
title: Opportunity to evacuate
uri: Opportunity-to-evacuate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Opportunity_to_evacuate)
content:
 
<p>
Putin has given civilians in Sumy and Irpin <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/08/ukraine-war-civilians-sumy-irpin-refugees-russia">a real opportunity to
evacuate, deeper into Ukraine</a>.

<p>
This replaces the previous mockery of an evacuation plan, inviting
Ukrainian civilians to flee to "safety" in Russia.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Orwellian_Democracy_Project)
title: Orwellian Democracy Project
uri: Orwellian-Democracy-Project
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Orwellian_Democracy_Project)
content:
 
<p>
Holly Sklar and Chip Berlet: *NED, CIA, <a href="https://powerbase.info/index.php/NED,_CIA,_and_the_Orwellian_Democracy_Project">and the Orwellian Democracy
Project</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Seegrass)
title: Seegrass
uri: Seegrass
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Seegrass)
content:
 
<p>
Australian floodwaters will destroy seagrass <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/08/thousands-of-dugong-and-turtle-deaths-to-follow-queensland-floods-experts-predict">and cause dugongs and
turtles to starve</a>.

<p>
Dugongs are related to manatees, which are starving now in Florida due to
the loss of most of the seagrass there.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Clean_up)
title: Clean up
uri: Clean-up
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Clean_up)
content:
 
<p>
Urging the BBC not to "clean up" old programs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/08/libby-purves-criticises-bbc-clean-up-old-shows">to make them
politically correct</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Urgent:_SESTA/FOSTA)
title: Urgent: SESTA/FOSTA
uri: Urgent-SESTA-FOSTA
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Urgent:_SESTA/FOSTA)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-congress-investigate-the-harm-caused-by-sestafosta?nowrapper=true">call on Congress</a> to investigate the harm caused by SESTA/FOSTA.

<p>
I supported the campaign against that law.  It prevents voluntary sex
workers from advertising <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#12_March_2018_(Urgent:_oppose_SESTA%2FFOSTA)">by punishing any site that will publish their
ads, and does so in a dishonest way</a>.


 


title: Urgent: retaliation against injured workers
uri: Urgent-retaliation-against-injured-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Urgent:_retaliation_against_injured_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Urgent:_retaliation_against_injured_workers)

content:
 
<p>
Everyone: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-ups-stop-retaliating-against-injured-workers-and-delaying-their-care?nowrapper=true">call on UPS</a> to stop retaliating against injured workers
and delaying their medical care.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Occupation)
title: Occupation
uri: Occupation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Occupation)
content:
 
<p>
Comparing the Israeli occupation of Palestine <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/07/west-right-hold-moscow-responsible-its-war-crimes-what-about-israel">with Putin's attempt to
conquer Ukraine</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Book_bans)
title: Book bans
uri: Book-bans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Book_bans)
content:
 
<p>
On fighting <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/07/opinions/books-ban-in-the-us-meltzer/index.html">right-wing book bans in US schools</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(No_strong_evidence)
title: No strong evidence
uri: No-strong-evidence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(No_strong_evidence)
content:
 
<p>
The Manhattan District Attorney concluded that the evidence for fraud
in the Trump Organization <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/06/politics/trump-manhattan-district-attorney-investigation/index.html">was not strong enough to bring charges
against the wrecker personally</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(High_energy_prices)
title: High energy prices
uri: High-energy-prices
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(High_energy_prices)
content:
 
<p>
*Don't let high energy prices <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/07/dont-let-high-energy-prices-derail-uk-green-agenda-say-climate-experts">derail UK green agenda</a>, say climate experts.*

<p>
The same conclusion applies world-wide.  Global heaing effects will
cause disaster on an unprecedentd scale -- perhaps a hundred times the
casualties of World War II, Predictions of numbers harmed tend to work
bny adding the various forms of harm we can project into the future.
They do not take account of the still-unknown ways these harms will
interact.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Amazon_forest_is_losing_stability)
title: Amazon forest is losing stability
uri: Amazon-forest-is-losing-stability
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Amazon_forest_is_losing_stability)
content:
 
<p>
* Analysis of satellite observations show [Amazon] forest is losing
   stability, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/07/climate-crisis-amazon-rainforest-tipping-point">with "profound" [I'd say disastrous] global
   implications</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Oil_and_Gas_Giants_Under_Fire)
title: Oil and Gas Giants Under Fire
uri: Oil-and-Gas-Giants-Under-Fire
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Oil_and_Gas_Giants_Under_Fire)
content:
 
<p>
*Oil and Gas Giants Under Fire <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/06/oil-and-gas-giants-under-fire-fueling-russian-war-ukraine">for Fueling Russian War on Ukraine</a>.*

<p>
The fact that Russia's economic power (and thus, its military power)
are due to selling fossil fuels is not what makes its invasion of
Ukraine evil.  But it is the cause of Europe's weak position
vis-a-vis Russia.

<p>
But the power of the fossil fuel companies is much bigger than that of
Russia.  It is like ten Russias, all allied in war against the
survival of civilization.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Progressive_laws)
title: Progressive laws
uri: Progressive-laws
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Progressive_laws)
content:
 
<p>
Ralph Nader: Biden once again failed to try to mobilize the people <a href="https://mailchi.mp/nader/biden-neglects-to-make-the-crucial-request-to-the-citizenry-for-his-program-4duov5f625?e=555e9be067">to
make Congress pass the progressive laws he has asked for</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Psilocybin)
title: Psilocybin
uri: 2022-03-09-Psilocybin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Psilocybin)
content:
 
<p>
*Demand grows for UK ministers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/mar/08/demand-grows-for-uk-ministers-to-reclassify-psilocybin-for-medical-research">to reclassify psilocybin for medical
 research</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Leaded_brains)
title: Leaded brains
uri: Leaded-brains
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Leaded_brains)
content:
 
<p>
During the era of leaded gasoline, many American children's brain
development was damaged by lead that they breathed in.  A study
estimates <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/07/lead-exposure-us-children-cognitive">that half the adults in the US as of 2015 had been affected
by this</a>.

<p>
The high street crime level that began in the 60s and ended in the 90s
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead">has been meticulously traced to lead in the air</a>.
  Although tetraethyllead was added to gasoline starting in the 1920s,
the amount of automobile traffic was much lower then; lead poisoning
of the populace did not become a significant problem in the US until
after World War II.

<p>
Fortunately, we are not spreading lead through gasoline any more.
But other sources of lead poisoning, such as lead pipes for water
and lead paint, are still being gradually removed.

<p>
Last year, Boston was subsidizing the replacement of lead water supply
pipes running from the water mains to individual buildings.

<p>
The impact of lead fell most heavily on disprivileged groups, for the
usual reason: people with more money can afford to live in places
where they are safe from these problems.  I can't blame anyone for
trying to do that, but the state's responsibility includes <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">protecting
everyone from such problems, once the problems are known</a>.




 


title: Global heating and risks to Australia's food supply chain
uri: Global-heating-and-risks-to-Australia-s-food-supply-chain
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Global_heating_and_risks_to_Australia's_food_supply_chain)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Global_heating_and_risks_to_Australia's_food_supply_chain)

content:
 
<p>
  Global heating "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/09/farmers-report-warns-climate-crisis-puts-australias-food-supply-at-increasing-risk">amplifies risks all the way through [Australia's
  food] supply chain</a>, from farm to warehouse to supermarket
  shelves."*

 


title: The Putin forces and Russians learning about their loved ones' death or capture
uri: The-Putin-forces-and-Russians-learning-about-their-loved-ones-death-o
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(The_Putin_forces_and_Russians_learning_about_their_loved_ones'_death_or_capture)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(The_Putin_forces_and_Russians_learning_about_their_loved_ones'_death_or_capture)

content:
 
<p>
Russians are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/08/they-were-sent-as-cannon-fodder-siberian-governor-confronted-by-relatives-of-russian-unit">learning how Putin took the Russian army for his own use,
and about the death or capture of their loved ones as a result</a>.

 


title: Neonicotinoid pesticides about to get approved nationally
uri: Neonicotinoid-pesticides-about-to-get-approved-nationally
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Neonicotinoid_pesticides_about_to_get_approved_nationally)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#9_March_2022_(Neonicotinoid_pesticides_about_to_get_approved_nationally)

content:
 
<p>
  The EPA is about to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/08/us-epa-toxic-pesticides-paralyse-bees-insects">approve use of neonicotinoid pesticides nationally</a>.
<p>
  The effects on bees and other non-pest insects could be disastrous.

 


title: Very Urgent: Repeater site for Match 25 Climate Strike Needed
uri: Very-Urgent-Repeater-site-for-Match-25-Climate-Strike-Needed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Very_Urgent:_Repeater_site_for_Match_25_Climate_Strike_Needed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Very_Urgent:_Repeater_site_for_Match_25_Climate_Strike_Needed)

content:
 
<p>A climate strike has been announced for March 25.  Past experience
  suggests that the site that gives information about strike events will
  require nonfree Javascript even to find them.  If so, that
  will impede people who defend their own software freedom from
  participating in the climate strike.  I won't be able in good
  conscience to post a link to their site, and I won't know where
  there is an event near me.
<p>I can't believe that the people who organize the climate strike are
  intentionally working against the free software movement.  Why would
  they do that, given that nonfree software promotes extra e-waste in
  addition to its <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">direct injustice to every user</a>?
<p>More likely they simply don't see the problem in the usual "solutions"
  that mistreat them every day in other web sites.
<p>Perhaps they make the assumption that since "everybody" uses these
  online dis-services, such must be acceptable.  However, they know how
  to doubt that assumption when it's a matter of greenhouse gas
  emissions or other pollution.  If only they recognized nonfree
  software as a kind of systemic pollution, they might choose solutions
  for their own sites that avoid creating yet one more problem of that
  kind.
<p>Given the situation as it is, a natural workaround for us is to set
  up to scrape their site and post the information in another site which
  is accessible with no techno-ethical obstacle.  I wanted to ask the
  person who has done this in the past, but perse has become unreachable.
<p>Would anyone reading this like to do the job, in time for people to
  find strike events and participate?  Please write to me if you
  are ready, willing and able to do it.
<p>I hope the repeater site will be up and running by March 19 and
  announced by March 20.  I know that's a bit fast, but that's the
  situation we are in.
<p>I don't know the URL of the site where the organizers post this
  information.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Fracking_as_the_way_to_fight_Putin)
title: Fracking as the way to fight Putin
uri: Fracking-as-the-way-to-fight-Putin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Fracking_as_the_way_to_fight_Putin)
content:
 
<p>
Although the IPCC has reported that heat itself is starting to kill
people (and other living things), the planet roasters <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/07/fossil-fuels-are-not-answer-war-they-are-its-cause">are proposing
that fracking is the way to fight Putin</a>.

<p>
Australia's planet-roaster government <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/09/angus-taylor-attacks-beetaloo-basin-activists-and-says-australia-right-to-expand-fossil-fuels">is likewise trying to kill you</a>.

<p>
In one of Australia's flooded, ruined towns, families now homeless
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/09/scott-morrison-circus-fails-to-impress-lismore-a-town-that-has-lost-everything">know that the planet-roaster politicians did this to them</a>.

<p>
Geg Palast suggests crushing Russia economically <a href="https://www.gregpalast.com/how-to-stop-putins-war-windfall-by-ending-our-embargo-of-venezuelan-oil/">by allowing Venezuela
to export oil again</a>.

<p>
Cheap gasoline has an immediate appeal, but it will destroy
civilization.  Making fuel expensive is an inherent part of making
transport decarbonize.  But that should be a steady and gradual
process -- price shocks are not good for progress.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Offsetting_destruction_of_habitat)
title: Offsetting destruction of habitat
uri: Offsetting-destruction-of-habitat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Offsetting_destruction_of_habitat)
content:
 
<p>
Is it valid to "offset" destruction an area of habitat <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/09/ambatovy-the-madagascan-mine-that-might-prove-carbon-offsetting-works-aoe">by declaring
another equal area legally protected</a>?
  I don't believe so.

<p>
The reasoning for it seems to be based on the assumption that every
area of forest that isn't protected <em>now</em> will <em>certainly</em> be
destroyed later.  Only thus would it follow that protecting one square
mile now increases by one square mile the area of habitat that will
ultimately survive.

<p>
That assumption is terribly pessimistic.  If it were valid, disaster
would be assured.  But it clearly can't be valid in general, because
any forest that isn't protected this year will probably still exist
next year and could be protected then.

<p>
There is a questionable assumption on the other side, too.
Declaring a square mile of forest "protected" won't assure
it survives.  It could be burnt in a wildfire 300 years from now,
or next week.

<p>
I think the only valid way to offset the destruction of some habitat
is to create a new area of substitute habitat -- and that more easily
said than done.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Bombarding_museums_and_cathedrals)
title: Bombarding museums and cathedrals
uri: Bombarding-museums-and-cathedrals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Bombarding_museums_and_cathedrals)
content:
 
<p>
Putin is bombarding museums and cathedrals <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/09/ukrainians-in-race-to-save-a-nations-cultural-heritage">as well as living civilians</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Final_attack)
title: Final attack
uri: Final-attack
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Final_attack)
content:
 
<p>
Bolsonaro is making <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/09/brazil-protest-environment-indigenous-bolsonaro">a final attack against the environment, the forest,
and indigenous people</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Catching_Covid-19_make_people_poor)
title: Catching Covid-19 make people poor
uri: Catching-Covid-19-make-people-poor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Catching_Covid-19_make_people_poor)
content:
 
<p>
In the UK, catching Covid-19 <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/09/covid-19-risk-economic-hardship-poverty-study-suggests">tends to make people poor</a>.

<p>
That's a sure sign of a society that doesn't do enough to help
sick and disabled people.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(New_era_of_greedy_fight)
title: New era of greedy fight
uri: New-era-of-greedy-fight
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(New_era_of_greedy_fight)
content:
 
<p>
What is starting is not a "new cold war", it's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/08/geopolitics-hell">a new era of greedy
fight for geopolitical supremacy</a>.

<p>
I fear that that is exactly the thing to get in the way of cooperation
in decarbonization.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Reducing_electricity_use)
title: Reducing electricity use
uri: Reducing-electricity-use
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Reducing_electricity_use)
content:
 
<p>
After the Fukushima meltdowns, Japan needed <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/08/uk-energy-crisis-mps-fukushima">to reduce its electricity
use quickly</a>.
  Its methods may be useful now.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Covid_vaccine_patents)
title: Covid vaccine patents
uri: Covid-vaccine-patents
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Covid_vaccine_patents)
content:
 
<p>
Moderna is narrowing its temporary pledge not to enforce some Covid vaccine patents.  In the latest version, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/08/appalling-moderna-rebuked-over-latest-covid-19-vaccine-patent-strategy">it applies only to half of the world's countries</a>.

<ul>
  <li>Please do not lump together patents and secrets.  They are
  fundamentally different.

  <li>In particular, please don't use <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">the term "intellectual property"</a>,
     which lumps together those two kinds of monopolies with various
  unrelated laws.

  <li>And p;ease don't use the word "protect" to refer to imposing an
  unjust monopoly, which in some cases can kill or impoverish people.
</ul>

To waive some of those monopolies temporarily would be a step forward,
but when it's time to state our goals, we should demand to <em>eliminate</em>
them.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(State_electoral_districts)
title: State electoral districts
uri: State-electoral-districts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(State_electoral_districts)
content:
 
<p>
Decisions about state electoral districts <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/08/momentous-ruling-supreme-court-rejects-gop-voting-maps-0">seem to be splitting the US Supreme Court along nonpartisan lines</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Doing_both_at_once)
title: Doing both at once
uri: Doing-both-at-once
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Doing_both_at_once)
content:
 
<p>
George Monbiot: * Starving Putin’s military machine of funds and
preventing the collapse of life on Earth: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/09/addiction-russian-gas-putin-military">we can do both at once</a>.*

<p>
Amazing that many of Europe's reserve gas storage facilities are owned
by Russia, which emptied them in preparation for this crisis.
European countries put their faith in "the market"; Putin was too
clever to make that mistake.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Green_investment_and_oil_industry)
title: Green investment and oil industry
uri: Green-investment-and-oil-industry
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Green_investment_and_oil_industry)
content:
 
<p>
*   BlackRock is performing a high-wire act <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/09/blackrock-privately-soothes-oil-industry-fears-over-its-new-green-credentials">between its public support for
   green investment and oil industry clients</a>, private emails suggest.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Not_starting_third_world_war)
title: Not starting third world war
uri: Not-starting-third-world-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Not_starting_third_world_war)
content:
 
<p>
*   The US president is facing demands for America to do more for Ukraine –-
   but he’s also determined <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/08/joe-biden-ukraine-russia">to avoid being the US president who started a
   third world war</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Accusing_customers_of_stealing)
title: Accusing customers of stealing
uri: Accusing-customers-of-stealing
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Accusing_customers_of_stealing)
content:
 
<p>
Hertz has a pattern of accusing its customers of stealing cars,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/09/a-car-rental-company-has-banned-my-wife-but-compared-with-some-hertz-customers-she-may-have-got-off-lightly">apparently based on erroneous information in its computer system</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Urging_to_not_vaccinate)
title: Urging to not vaccinate
uri: Urging-to-not-vaccinate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Urging_to_not_vaccinate)
content:
 
<p>
Florida's government has decided to urge most adolescents not to get
vaccinated, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/08/florida-children-vaccination-coronavirus">and parents not to vaccinate most children</a>.

<p>
Its surgeon general had given no medical specifics to justify this
position, perhaps because there are none.  It is surely bad advice.
Vaccinating a child protects that child.  It also helps protect other
children in the same school, and helps protect adults in their family.

<p>
I suspect that the reasons for this policy are political and derived
from Republican ideology.

<p>
The Republican Party, with few exceptions, has opposed measures that
reduce the spread of Covid.  That includes <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jul-oct.html#4_August_2020_(Republican_Herman_Cain_supported_the_wrecker_by_rejecting_the_use_of_masks)">masks</a>
  and (since 2021) <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#7_December_2021_(Undermining_enforcement_of_federal_vaccine_mandates)">vaccination</a>.
  Republican leaders started this when they discovered,
                 in April 2020, that deaths from Covid-19 were
concentrated among mainly Democratic demographic groups, such as
blacks.

<p>
As the US commits the folly of unilateral tactical disarmament against
Covid-19, by encouraging people to abandon masks, and fails to help
people who work in a plant or office to stay home when sick,
  reducing Covid-19 to a low level rests on vaccination.  The
prevalence of the disease has been decreasing for around 6 weeks, but
we cannot count on that to continue if we cease pushing it along.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Sanctions_strategy)
title: Sanctions strategy
uri: Sanctions-strategy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Sanctions_strategy)
content:
 
<p>
*The sanctions strategy is flawed. To defeat Putin, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/08/sanctions-vladimir-putin-kremlin-russian-oligarchy">you have to know how the
Kremlin works</a>.*

<p>
Another article suggested that Putin's main subordinates have some influence
on him and suggests putting personal sanctions on them.

<p>
Robert Reich suggests sanctions <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/09/russian-oligarchs-sanctions-more-amibtious-approach">that would hit 10,000 Russians that
own property in the US</a>.



 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(American_Oligarchs)
title: American Oligarchs
uri: American-Oligarchs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(American_Oligarchs)
content:
 
<p>
  *Now Let's Do <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/08/now-lets-do-american-oligarchs">the American Oligarchs</a>.*
<p>
  The Russian billionaires grabbed big pieces of Russian industry in the
  90s, but they do not dominate Russia as the word "oilgarch" implies.
  (As a result, punishing them may not do much to influence Putin.)
  They are parasites on Russia.
<p>
  By contrast, the US plutocrats (billionaires and US big businesses)
  have real power over the US through the elected officials that they
  buy.  We see that in the power of the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-may-aug.html#16_August_2015_(Republican_candidates)">Republican Party, which is
  funded by some of them</a>,
  and in <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#28_December_2017_(Poverty_in_America)">the poverty of most Americans</a>.
  They are worse than merely parasites.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Cold_and_hunger)
title: Cold and hunger
uri: Cold-and-hunger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Cold_and_hunger)
content:
 
<p>
*To those who wish to penalise poor people, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/09/poor-cold-hunger-media-benefits-claimants">cold and hunger are signs of a
perfect system</a>.*
<p>
Why might you wish to do that?  If you have entered the service of a
greedy billionaire who wants every penny that the poor have, there's
not much difference between getting the most for your boss and leaving
most people with the least.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Chernobyl)
title: Chernobyl
uri: 2022-03-10-Chernobyl
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Chernobyl)
content:
 
<p>
  Putin's forces have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/09/chernobyl-power-supply-cut-completely-after-russian-seizure-warns-ukaine">cut off the electric power to Chernobyl</a>.
  This risks damage which could lead to radiation leaks.  Also, the
  International Atomic Energy Agency can no longer monitor the plant.
<p>
  Seeing as this has happened in Chernobyl and in Zaporizhzhiya,
  it is surely no accident.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Racist_discrimination)
title: Racist discrimination
uri: Racist-discrimination
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Racist_discrimination)
content:
 
<p>
US cities today are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/09/redlining-air-pollution-us-cities">still shaped by the racist discrimination</a> of city
planners of 100 years ago.

 


title: China considering making "fake news" a crime
uri: China-considering-making-fake-news-a-crime
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(China_considering_making_fake_news_a_crime)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(China_considering_making_fake_news_a_crime)

content:
 
<p>
China is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/08/chinese-government-adviser-calls-for-law-to-ban-fake-news">considering making "fake news" a crime</a>, as Putin recently
did in Russia.
Like Russia, China will surely accuse reporting not in accord with
the state's assertions as "fake".

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(The_clear_and_present_danger)
title: The clear and present danger
uri: The-clear-and-present-danger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(The_clear_and_present_danger)
content:
 
<p>
  Rebecca Solnit: *[The wrecker's] power is fading: Trumpism [sic] is
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/08/donald-trump-power-trumpism-danger-now">the clear and present danger now</a>.*
<p>
  We should call the dishonesty he spreads "trumpery" -- that describes
  it better.

 


title: Urgent: Urge your senators to support a new non-nuclear deal with Iran
uri: Urgent-Urge-your-senators-to-support-a-new-non-nuclear-deal-with-Iran
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Urgent:_Urge_your_senators_to_support_a_new_non-nuclear_deal_with_Iran)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Urgent:_Urge_your_senators_to_support_a_new_non-nuclear_deal_with_Iran)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: phone your senators and urge them to support a new non-nuclear deal with Iran.
<p>
  The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.
<p>
  If you call, please spread the word!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Putin_forces_and_Mariupol)
title: Putin forces and Mariupol
uri: Putin-forces-and-Mariupol
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Putin_forces_and_Mariupol)
content:
 
<p>
Putin forces are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/09/pure-genocide-civilian-targets-in-mariupol-annihilated-by-russian-attacks">bombarding civilian targets in Mariupol constantly</a>.
The intentionally destroyed electric cables and gas pipelines.
Civilians have no water supply.
<p>
The <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> destroyed a maternity hospital without warning; both
adults and children are trapped in the rubble.  They invited civilians
to evacuate, then shelled them when they tried to.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Putin_forces_and_chemical_weapons)
title: Putin forces and chemical weapons
uri: Putin-forces-and-chemical-weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Putin_forces_and_chemical_weapons)
content:
 
<p>
Russia claimed that Ukrainian right-wing extremists are planning to
carry out an attack against Ukrainians and blame it on Russia.  The UK
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/09/britain-fears-russia-could-be-setting-stage-to-use-chemical-weapons">warns this could be preparation for the Putin forces to use chemical
weapons and blame it on Ukrainian nationalists</a>.
<p>
Nazis lean towards cruel violence and dishonesty, so I won't say that
Putin's claim about their plans is utterly absurd.  But I don't
believe it.  I am skeptical that they would want to use chemical
weapons against Ukrainians, and skeptical that they would have the
capacity to obtain them or make them, or the capacity to use them.
<p>
By contrast, Russia had a history of being involved with chemical
weapons, and Putin has a history of poisoning a enemies -- <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-jul-oct.html#23_September_2021_(Litvinenko_murder)">Alexander Litvinenko</a>, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-sep-dec.html#14_September_2018_(The_Skripals)">the Skripals</a>, and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-nov-feb.html#18_February_2022_(More_prison_years_for_Navalny)">Alexei Navalni</a>.
<p>
Russian claims about US bioweapons labs in Ukraine seem so unlikely
that I can't take them seriously.  If the US wanted to do this,
Ukraine would have been totally unsuitable.  The US would not have
chosen a country that is not its ally, which has a recent history of
governmental instability, and where Russia was waging a low-intensity
war.  Stupider decisions have been made, but Russian disinformation is
a more plausible explanation than that there is any truth in this.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Russia_and_GPS_signals)
title: Russia and GPS signals
uri: Russia-and-GPS-signals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Russia_and_GPS_signals)
content:
 
<p>
  It seems that Russia is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/09/finland-gps-disturbances-aircrafts-russia">interfering with GPS signals near its western borders in Europe</a>.
<p>
  I was in Moscow in 2019, and while in a car driving around in an area
  fairly near the Kremlin, the driver told me that navigation was
  leading him astray.  He said that that was common in that area.
  I supposed it was a precaution to interfere with air attacks.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Putin's_repression)
title: Putin's repression
uri: Putin-s-repression
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Putin's_repression)
content:
 
<p>
  Putin's repression in Russia <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/03/09/russia-dissidents-ukraine-invasion-navalny/">started over ten years ago and gradually intensified</a>.

 


title: Amazon acting to influence the investigation into online market competition
uri: Amazon-acting-to-influence-the-investigation-into-online-market-compet
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Amazon_acting_to_influence_the_investigation_into_online_market_competition)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Amazon_acting_to_influence_the_investigation_into_online_market_competition)

content:
 
<p>
  The House Judiciary Committee has urged prosecution of Amazon for
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/09/amazon-attorney-general-potentially-criminal-conduct-house-judiciary-committee">a "pattern and practice of misleading conduct that suggests” it was
  acting to influence the committee’s investigation into online market
  competition</a>.*

 


title: Getting round the UK's economic crime bill
uri: Getting-round-the-UK-s-economic-crime-bill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Getting_round_the_UK's_economic_crime_bill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Getting_round_the_UK's_economic_crime_bill)

content:
 
<p>
  *The [sanction-evader's] guide to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/09/oligarch-economic-crime-bill-law-uk">getting round the UK’s economic crime bill</a>.*
<p>
  The original says "oligarch" but <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(American_Oligarchs)">that word is misleading for these Russian
  billionaires</a> since it means that a few rule together.  These few are rich but
  have little political power.

 


title: The bully admired Putin's power to kill
uri: The-bully-admired-Putin-s-power-to-kill
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(The_bully_admired_Putin's_power_to_kill)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(The_bully_admired_Putin's_power_to_kill)

content:
 
<p>
  [The bully] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/09/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-stephanie-grisham">"admired" Vladimir Putin's [power] to kill anyone he
  wanted</a>, according to his former White House press secretary Stephanie
  Grisham.*
<p>
  "In my experience with him, he loved the dictators, he loved the
  people who could kill anyone, including the press," she also said.

 


title: Suing companies for plastic pollution
uri: Suing-companies-for-plastic-pollution
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Suing_companies_for_plastic_pollution)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Suing_companies_for_plastic_pollution)

content:
 
<p>
  The new plastic pollution treaty could make it possible to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/09/lawsuits-plastic-waste-expected-historic-deal">sue companies
  for their disposable plastic packaging</a>.
<p>
  This would vary from country to country, according to the country's
  legal system.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Ghost_guns)
title: Ghost guns
uri: Ghost-guns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Ghost_guns)
content:
 
<p>
  Regulation-evading "ghost guns" are now <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/08/a-father-used-a-ghost-gun-to-kill-his-three-daughters-its-a-sign-of-a-growing-crisis">the easiest to obtain, for
  those who have crime or murder in mind</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Last_foreign_journalist_in_Burma)
title: Last foreign journalist in Burma
uri: Last-foreign-journalist-in-Burma
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Last_foreign_journalist_in_Burma)
content:
 
<p>
  A <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/commentisfree/2022/mar/09/after-a-year-of-reporting-on-myanmars-military-coup-i-knew-my-luck-would-eventually-run-out">report from the last foreign journalist in Burma</a>, after fleeing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Global_food_shortage)
title: Global food shortage
uri: Global-food-shortage
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Global_food_shortage)
content:
 
<p>
  Putin's invasion of Ukraine is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/07/war-ukraine-sparks-fears-global-food-crisis-beyond-anything-weve-seen">causing a global food shortage</a>.
<p>
  This shows that humanity is already too close to the edge.  We must
  <a href="/articles/children.html">urgently curb world population growth</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_((Satire)_Nuclear_codes)
title: (Satire) Nuclear codes
uri: (Satire)-Nuclear-codes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_((Satire)_Nuclear_codes)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Biden <a href="https://www.theonion.com/biden-provides-nuclear-codes-to-scammer-pretending-to-b-1848595909">Provides Nuclear Codes To Scammer Pretending To Be Pentagon</a>.*

 


title: Perl Harbor underground fuel storage site that poisoned the local water supply
uri: Perl-Harbor-underground-fuel-storage-site-that-poisoned-the-local-wate
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Perl_Harbor_underground_fuel_storage_site_that_poisoned_the_local_water_supply)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Perl_Harbor_underground_fuel_storage_site_that_poisoned_the_local_water_supply)

content:
 
<p>
  The US Navy will <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/07/us/hawaii-pearl-harbor-water-navy-red-hill/index.html">close the underground fuel storage site in Pearl Harbor</a> that has been poisoning local water supply.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Proposed_cop_training_and_licenses)
title: Proposed cop training and licenses
uri: Proposed-cop-training-and-licenses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(Proposed_cop_training_and_licenses)
content:
 
<p>
  A special investigation has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/07/police-officers-should-work-under-licence-to-restore-trust-report-for-england-and-wales">proposed a nationwide training system for cops</a>.
  They would be retrained and tested every five years, to get or renew
  a license.
<p>
  This would be a good idea in the US, too.
<p>
  A deputy police chief acknowledged that the job of cop <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/07/policing-attracts-men-who-want-to-coerce-vulnerable-people-says-female-police-chief">attracts men
  who want to "coerce" vulnerable people</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(High_speed_chases)
title: High speed chases
uri: High-speed-chases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#11_March_2022_(High_speed_chases)
content:
 
<p>
Some US cities are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/08/us/police-restricting-pursuits/index.html">ordering thugs not to do high speed chases
over minor crimes or offenses</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(New_pun)
title: New pun
uri: 2022-03-12-New-pun
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(New_pun)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://stallman.org/puns.html#soup-bond">What kind of social bond is forged over soup</a>?

 


title: Kentucky Republicans showing patterns of antisemitism
uri: Kentucky-Republicans-showing-patterns-of-antisemitism
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Kentucky_Republicans_showing_patterns_of_antisemitism)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Kentucky_Republicans_showing_patterns_of_antisemitism)

content:
 
<p>
  Repubicans in Kentucky <a href="https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/ky-general-assembly/2022/03/02/kentucky-lawmaker-danny-bentley-invokes-holocaust-jewish-women-sex-life-floor-speech/9350236002/">show a pattern of antisemitism</a>.
<p>
  The IHRA's criterion for antisemitism has a serious flaw, of labeling
  criticism of Israel's occupation of Palestine as "antisemitism", but
  that flaw has nothing to do with what those Repubiicans are saying.
  That's real antisemitism.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Los_Angeles_Atheist_Street_Pirates)
title: Los Angeles Atheist Street Pirates
uri: Los-Angeles-Atheist-Street-Pirates
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Los_Angeles_Atheist_Street_Pirates)
content:
 
<p>
  The Atheist Street Pirates in Los Angeles <a href="https://religionnews.com/2022/03/03/in-l-a-atheist-lookouts-remove-religious-signage-from-streets-and-freeway-overpasses/">remove signs that promote
  religion from public land and property</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Law_to_jail_librarians)
title: Law to jail librarians
uri: Law-to-jail-librarians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Law_to_jail_librarians)
content:
 
<p>
  Idaho is planning a law to <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/idaho-bill-fine-jail-librarians_n_6227104ae4b004e4e38518fb?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Morning%20Email%203-8-22&ut%5C">jail librarians (along with anyone else)
  for lending minors books that talk about masturbation, or anything
  else that could "harm" those minors</a>.
<p>
  Masturbation is normal, but in our twisted society, the influence from
  Christianity are likely to make people anxious about it, and about sex
  generally.  Those right-wing legislators are trying to deny people help
  in overcoming the anxiety.

 


title: Companies lobbying against food workers' right to unionize
uri: Companies-lobbying-against-food-workers-right-to-unionize
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Companies_lobbying_against_food_workers'_right_to_unionize)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Companies_lobbying_against_food_workers'_right_to_unionize)

content:
 
<p>
  Uber, Lyft and Doordash have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/08/uber-lyft-doordash-panned-new-lobby-group-fight-worker-rights">set up a lobbying group against workers'
  right to unionize</a>.
<p>
  This is one more among many reasons to refuse to do business with
  <a href="https://www.stallman.org/uber.html">those</a> <a href="https://www.stallman.org/lyft.html">companies</a> &mdash; starting with making customers run nonfree software
  and identify themselves.
  The <a href="https://www.stallman.org/food-delivery.html">food-delivery companies exploit restaurants,
too</a>.

 


title: US not on track to keeping it's Covid-19 vaccine donation pledge
uri: US-not-on-track-to-keeping-it-s-Covid-19-vaccine-donation-pledge
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(US_not_on_track_to_keeping_it's_Covid-19_vaccine_donation_pledge)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(US_not_on_track_to_keeping_it's_Covid-19_vaccine_donation_pledge)

content:
 
<p>
  The US said it would donate 1.2 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses this
  year, which is an inadequate substitute for freeing up vaccine
  production.  But <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/09/shocking-report-warns-us-likely-miss-modest-vaccine-donation-goal">it is not on track to keep the pledge</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Russian_oil_ban)
title: Russian oil ban
uri: Russian-oil-ban
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Russian_oil_ban)
content:
 
<p>
  *US in "very active discussion" with allies to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/06/us-allies-discuss-russian-oil-imports-ban">ban import of Russian oil</a>.*
<p>
  Oil is a commodity.  Won't some other country buy whatever Russian oil
  and gas Europe stops buying?  To lastingly reduce Russia's fossil fuel
  exports, it will help greatly to reduce the total consumption of
  fossil fuels -- and we know that the way to do that is to build up
  renewable generation fast.  Which is exactly what our survival depends
  on, Russia or no Russia.

 


title: On the idea giving Ukraine fighter planes is closer to entering the war than giving missiles
uri: On-the-idea-giving-Ukraine-fighter-planes-is-closer-to-entering-the-wa
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(On_the_idea_giving_Ukraine_fighter_planes_is_closer_to_entering_the_war_than_giving_missiles)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(On_the_idea_giving_Ukraine_fighter_planes_is_closer_to_entering_the_war_than_giving_missiles)

content:
 
<p>
  I am surprised by the idea that giving Ukraine fighter planes is
  somehow closer to actually entering the war than giving Ukraine
  missiles to shoot airplanes or tanks.  The people who presume that
  that is so do not explain why.
<p>
  There are three ways to get a fighter plane into Ukraine, starting
  from a place outside Ukraine, given that shipping the plane is
  not feasible:
</p>
<ul>
  <li>A Ukrainian pilot can fly it across the border.</li>
  <li>A non-Ukrainian pilot can fly it across the border.</li>
  <li>A non-Ukrainian pilot can land it on a highway (temporarily
    closed to ground vehicles) approaching the border.  A pilot (Ukrainian
    or not) can taxi it across the border (it will be necessary to remove
    enough border control structures as preparation), then a Ukrainian
    pilot can take off in it.  It should not take more than 30 minutes to
    get 20 planes across.</li>
</ul>
<p>
  An Su-25 is under 15 meters wide.  A good four-lane highway on level
  ground should be wide enough, even assuming the wings must stay inside
  the area where cars would normally drive &mdash; which isn't strictly
  necessary if shoulders and roadsides are clear.
<p>
  A Mig-29 is under 12 meters wide.  A three-lane highway might even suffice.
<p>
  The US should choose its preferred method and stop dithering.

 


title: (Satire) 40 steadfast years of being unable to retire
uri: (Satire)-40-steadfast-years-of-being-unable-to-retire
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_((Satire)_40_steadfast_years_of_being_unable_to_retire)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_((Satire)_40_steadfast_years_of_being_unable_to_retire)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Company Celebrates Employee's <a href="https://www.theonion.com/company-celebrates-employee-s-40-steadfast-years-of-bei-1848601481">40 Steadfast Years Of Being
Unable To Retire</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Pull_plug_on_US_gas_exports)
title: Pull plug on US gas exports
uri: Pull-plug-on-US-gas-exports
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Pull_plug_on_US_gas_exports)
content:
 
<p>
*Climate Coalition Urges Big Banks to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/08/climate-coalition-urges-big-banks-pull-plug-us-gas-exports">Pull Plug on US Gas Exports</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Russian_antiwar_protesters)
title: Russian antiwar protesters
uri: Russian-antiwar-protesters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Russian_antiwar_protesters)
content:
 
<p>
It appears that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/08/un-human-rights-chief-condemns-detention-thousands-russian-anti-war-protesters">antiwar protesters arrested in Russia are not all
being kept in jail, but they may be sentenced to 15 years in prison
later</a>.

 


title: New vaccine production project must be publicly owned
uri: New-vaccine-production-project-must-be-publicly-owned
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(New_vaccine_production_project_must_be_publicly_owned)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(New_vaccine_production_project_must_be_publicly_owned)

content:
 
<p>
*Advocates Say Biden's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/08/advocates-say-bidens-new-vaccine-production-project-must-be-publicly-owned">New Vaccine Production Project Must Be Publicly Owned</a>.*

 


title: Sotrovimab and drug resistant mutations
uri: Sotrovimab-and-drug-resistant-mutations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Sotrovimab_and_drug_resistant_mutations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Sotrovimab_and_drug_resistant_mutations)

content:
 
<p>
In a few of the Covid-19 patients given the monoclonal antibody
sotrovimab, it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/10/covid-treatment-sotrovimab-can-cause-drug-resistant-mutation-study-finds">provokes the virus to evolve resistance</a>.
<p>
The researchers call for monitoring the progress of patients that
take sotrovimab, and isolating them if this resistance develops.

 


title: The plan to delay Biden's certification was unlawful
uri: The-plan-to-delay-Biden-s-certification-was-unlawful
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(The_plan_to_delay_Biden's_certification_was_unlawful)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(The_plan_to_delay_Biden's_certification_was_unlawful)

content:
 
<p>
*[One of the wrecker's lawyers] <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/10/trump-lawyer-plan-john-eastman-mike-pence">knew plan to delay Biden certification
 was unlawful</a>, emails show.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Covid-19_infection_rate)
title: Covid-19 infection rate
uri: Covid-19-infection-rate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Covid-19_infection_rate)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/10/uk-covid-cases-rising-among-those-aged-55-and-over">rate of Covid-19 infections among people age 55 or over in Britain
is increasing</a>, even as it decreases among younger people.
<p>
Various causes may be combining to do this.  It could be that a
substantial fraction of them are now socializing more.  It could be
that they have been convinced there is no need to take precautions
(masks, distance, ventilation, avoiding large groups).  It could be
that their booster doses are losing effectiveness as the months go by.
It could be the new variant BA.2, which is like Omicron by transmits
more easily.
<p>
This result lumps together all ages 55 and up.  I wonder what we would
see if the statistics were broken down into 10-year age groups, and
into the specially vulnerable and others.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Excess_Covid-19_deaths)
title: "Excess" Covid-19 deaths
uri: Excess-Covid-19-deaths
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Excess_Covid-19_deaths)
content:
 
<p>
  *Researchers studying "excess deaths" estimate that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/10/global-covid-19-death-toll-may-be-three-times-higher-than-official-figures">more than 18 million
  people died of Covid-19 by the end of 2021</a>.*
  That is 3 times the sum of the official figures for deaths
  attributed to Covid-19.
<p>
  The "excess deaths" figure surely includes some people who died of
  other causes due to practical consequences of the pandemic.  For
  instance, people who could not get treatment for some other disease
  because the hospitals were too full, or too dangerous to visit.  This
  distinction is interesting for understanding what happened, but I
  don't see that it makes a crucial difference.  Those people were
  killed by regional-level effects of the pandemic.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Poor_Britons_going_hungry_even_more)
title: Poor Britons going hungry even more
uri: Poor-Britons-going-hungry-even-more
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Poor_Britons_going_hungry_even_more)
content:
 
<p>
  Inflation in food prices, combined with extreme pressure to reduce
  benefits, is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/09/cost-of-living-crisis-fatal-some-uk-children-jack-monroe-food-writer-tells-mps">making poor Britons go hungry even more</a>.

 


title: Florida Republicans' latest attack on fair elections
uri: Florida-Republicans-latest-attack-on-fair-elections
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Florida_Republicans'_latest_attack_on_fair_elections)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Florida_Republicans'_latest_attack_on_fair_elections)

content:
 
<p>
  Florida Republicans' latest attack on fair elections includes <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/09/politics/florida-election-police-force-bill-explainer/index.html">an
  "election investigation agency" that could harass any voter alleged to
  have violated some rule</a>.
<p>
  The law will also make it easier to prosecute voter registration
  organizations for any technical mistake.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Defense_Production_Act)
title: Defense Production Act
uri: Defense-Production-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Defense_Production_Act)
content:
 
<p>
  *Groups Urge Biden to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/09/groups-urge-biden-invoke-defense-production-act-counter-putin-accelerate-green">Invoke Defense Production Act to Counter Putin, Accelerate Green Transition</a>.*

 


title: EPA proposed heavy truck regulation falls short
uri: EPA-proposed-heavy-truck-regulation-falls-short
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(EPA_proposed_heavy_truck_regulation_falls_short)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(EPA_proposed_heavy_truck_regulation_falls_short)

content:
 
<p>
  The EPA has decided to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/09/epa-recognizes-problem-truck-pollution-falls-short-solution">reduce toxic pollution from heavy trucks,
  but its proposed regulation is not strong enough</a>,
  and it does nothing to promote a shift to electric trucks.

 


title: British American Tobacco and selling in Russia
uri: British-American-Tobacco-and-selling-in-Russia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(British_American_Tobacco_and_selling_in_Russia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(British_American_Tobacco_and_selling_in_Russia)

content:
 
<p>
  *British American Tobacco will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/09/british-american-tobacco-continue-selling-cigarettes-russia-rothmans-sanctions">continue selling cigarettes in Russia</a>.*
<p>
  (Irony) If you blame the Russian people in bulk for Putin's war, it
  could seem admirable to continue providing them with poison that
  causes heart attacks, cancer and emphysema.  But I don't think
  Russians deserve that on Putin's account.
<p>
  Hmm, how about putting warnings on the packs.  For instance, "Warning:
  Putin can be hazardous to the health of people in neighboring
  countries," and "Warning: believing state-controlled Russian media can
  lead to crimes against humanity."
<p>
  (Later) British American Tobacco <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/11/british-american-tobacco-halts-russia-sales-after-u-turn">changed plans and will not continue selling in Russia</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Trans_Mountain_Pipeline)
title: Trans Mountain Pipeline
uri: 2022-03-13-Trans-Mountain-Pipeline
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Trans_Mountain_Pipeline)
content:
 
<p>
  Canada <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/09/oil-pipeline-canada-bought-will-cost-over-25-billion-and-never-turn-profit">bought the unfinished Trans Mountain Pipeline,
  and now plans to spend 9 billion more dollars to finish it</a>,
  not to mention the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#23_November_2021_(Canadian_pipeline_protesters_and_journalists_arrested)">repression required to crush protests</a>.
<p>
  Then Canada it would struggle to export more oil so as to recoup
  some of those losses.

 


title: Teachers on strike for smaller class sizes, improved student supports, and better pay
uri: Teachers-on-strike-for-smaller-class-sizes-improved-student-supports
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Teachers_on_strike_for_smaller_class_sizes,_improved_student_supports,_and_better_pay)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Teachers_on_strike_for_smaller_class_sizes,_improved_student_supports,_and_better_pay)

content:
 
<p>
  Minneapolis teachers are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/09/release-dough-minneapolis-teachers-strike-first-time-more-50-years">on strike, demanding smaller class sizes,
  improved student supports, and better pay</a>.

 


title: EPA restores California's power to curb vehicle emissions.
uri: EPA-restores-California-s-power-to-curb-vehicle-emissions
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(EPA_restores_California's_power_to_curb_vehicle_emissions.)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(EPA_restores_California's_power_to_curb_vehicle_emissions.)

content:
 
<p>
  *Green Groups Cheer as <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/09/green-groups-cheer-epa-restores-californias-power-curb-vehicle-emissions">EPA Restores California's Power to Curb Vehicle
  Emissions</a>.*
<p>
  California has often pioneered pollution controls that were then adopted
  by the whole US.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Russian_anti-war_movement)
title: Russian anti-war movement
uri: Russian-anti-war-movement
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Russian_anti-war_movement)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/10/vladimir-putin-regime-anti-war-protests-russia-russian">Russian anti-war movement</a> faces a long uphill climb.

 


title: Oil and gas companies and lobby groups presenting themselves as Indigenous defenders
uri: Oil-and-gas-companies-and-lobby-groups-presenting-themselves-as-Indige
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Oil_and_gas_companies_and_lobby_groups_presenting_themselves_as_Indigenous_defenders)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Oil_and_gas_companies_and_lobby_groups_presenting_themselves_as_Indigenous_defenders)

content:
 
<p>
  *Oil and gas companies and lobby groups in Canada are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/10/canadian-pipeline-groups-spend-big-to-pose-as-indigenous-champions">heavily investing
  in campaigns to present themselves as defenders of Indigenous interests</a>.*
<p>
  Since the truth is against them, they must reach for falsehood.

 


title: Assets of western companies in Russia
uri: Assets-of-western-companies-in-Russia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Assets_of_western_companies_in_Russia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Assets_of_western_companies_in_Russia)

content:
 
<p>
  *Russia plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/10/russia-plans-to-seize-assets-of-western-companies-exiting-country">seize assets of western companies exiting country</a>.*
  I don't think that this sort of retaliation. in and of itself, is an
  outrage.  It is basically turnabout.  However, all moral questions
  about Russia are under the shadow of the crime of aggression that
  Putin is committing, and the crimes against humanity.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Endangered_Species_Act)
title: Endangered Species Act
uri: 2022-03-13-Endangered-Species-Act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Endangered_Species_Act)
content:
 
<p>
  *The Center for Biological Diversity on Tuesday laid out a comprehensive
  case for the Biden administration to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/08/petition-calls-biden-go-beyond-reversing-trump-policies-save-life-earth">go far beyond simply mending the
  damage done by President Donald Trump to the Endangered Species Act,
  calling on officials to strengthen the law "to save life on Earth from
  the extinction crisis</a>."*

 


title: Urgent: Resuming non-nuclear deal with Iran
uri: Urgent-Resuming-non-nuclear-deal-with-Iran
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Urgent:_Resuming_non-nuclear_deal_with_Iran)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Urgent:_Resuming_non-nuclear_deal_with_Iran)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress not to spoil <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/congress-dont-spoil-diplomacy-with-iran">resuming the non-nuclear
deal with Iran</a>.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: End Whole Foods single-use plastic
uri: Urgent-End-Whole-Foods-single-use-plastic
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Urgent:_End_Whole_Foods_single-use_plastic)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Urgent:_End_Whole_Foods_single-use_plastic)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on Whole Foods to push to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/index.sjs?action_KEY=48507">end single-use plastic
packaging</a>.
<p>
To sign <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">without running nonfree JavaScript</a> code
from the web site, use the <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">Salsalabs workaround</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(US-supported_labs_in_Ukraine)
title: US-supported labs in Ukraine
uri: US-supported-labs-in-Ukraine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(US-supported_labs_in_Ukraine)
content:
 
<p>

Ukraine has US-supported labs which study disease germs for medical
purposes.  They were set up in the early 90s to give useful work to
the unemployed ex-Soviet scientists, so they wouldn't accept harmful
work out of desperation.
<p>
Putin's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/11/russia-biological-weapon-claim-us-un-ukraine-bio-labs-explainer">disinformation</a> claims repeatedly that these labs are developing
germ warfare.
<p>
This offers us the opportunity to determine which people and sites spread
disinformation for Putin.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Amazon_deforestation)
title: Amazon deforestation
uri: 2022-03-13-Amazon-deforestation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Amazon_deforestation)
content:
 
<p>

*Amazon Deforestation Hit <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/11/amazon-deforestation-hit-record-high-february-62-2021">Record High</a> in February—Up 62% From 2021.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Removing_ancient_rock_art)
title: Removing ancient rock art
uri: Removing-ancient-rock-art
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Removing_ancient_rock_art)
content:
 
<p>

An Australian fertilizer company wants to build another plant, which involves
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/12/fertiliser-company-urged-to-halt-plans-to-remove-burrup-peninsula-indigenous-rock-art">"removing" ancient rock art</a>.
It seems that "remove" is a euphemism for "destroy".
<p>
Aboriginals say the company misled their community about the plan.  It
wouldn't surprise me &mdash; companies large and small deceive.
<p>
Could the company build the plant differently so as to avoid damage to
the rock art?  Perhaps the chemical emissions would destroy it slowly.
Is it possible to cut the rock art off the hill and move it away
without damaging it?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Ammunition_store_owner)
title: Ammunition store owner
uri: Ammunition-store-owner
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Ammunition_store_owner)
content:
 
<p>

Tennessee Republicans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/11/ammunition-company-owner-jordan-mollenhour-education-board-tennessee">show their values</a> by putting an ammunition store
owner on the state education board.
The store takes little precaution
against selling bullets for massacres.
<p>
That's Republican family values for you.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Pressure_to_condemn_Russia)
title: Pressure to condemn Russia
uri: Pressure-to-condemn-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Pressure_to_condemn_Russia)
content:
 
<p>

*China is squirming under <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/12/china-is-squirming-under-pressure-to-condemn-russia-it-cant-hold-out-forever">pressure to condemn Russia</a>. It can’t hold out
forever.*
<p>
China's difficulty results from the fact that it is threatening to do
the same thing to Taiwan.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Raif_Badawi_released_from_prison)
title: Raif Badawi released from prison
uri: Raif-Badawi-released-from-prison
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Raif_Badawi_released_from_prison)
content:
 
<p>

Raif Badawi, champion in <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a> of secularism and separation of
church and state, has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/11/raif-badawi-saudi-blogger-freed">released from prison</a>
into the larger prison which is <a href="/glossary.html#salafi">Salafi Arabia</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Roads_damaged_by_floods)
title: Roads damaged by floods
uri: Roads-damaged-by-floods
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Roads_damaged_by_floods)
content:
 
<p>

*Roads ripped apart by NSW and Queensland floods &hellip; shouldn’t just
be rebuilt but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/12/roads-ripped-apart-by-nsw-and-queensland-floods-must-be-rebuilt-stronger-councils-say">"rebuilt to withstand future disasters"</a>.*
<p>
Of course, they should be.  But there is no known limit to how bad
future disasters will become, if we keep emitting more greenhouse gases
and making them worse.  The first priority must be to put a cap on how
bad future disasters will be, by <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#25_November_2017_(Campaigning_against_disasters)">bringing global heating to a halt</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Putin's_war_of_conquest)
title: Putin's war of conquest
uri: Putin-s-war-of-conquest
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Putin's_war_of_conquest)
content:
 
<p>

Putin's naked war of conquest will change the world <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/11/vladimir-putin-war-ukraine-9-11-al-qaida-russia">more than the
September 2001 terrorist attacks</a>.
<p>
I disagree with the author on some specific points.

<li> The attackers of September 2001 were not nihilists; they were
religious fanatics.  Religious fanatics are a terrible threat;
Christianitists in the US are still trying to seize power and impose
repressive and cruel tyranny.

<li> Putting an end to al-Qa'ida in Afghanistan did not require any
direct action by the US.  The Taliban, then rulers of Afghanistan,
were ready to make a deal to take care of it.  If we had made that
deal in August 2001, it might possibly have prevented the September
2001 attacks.  A few months earlier and it probably would have done
so.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Iran_nuclear_talks_on_hold)
title: Iran nuclear talks on hold
uri: Iran-nuclear-talks-on-hold
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Iran_nuclear_talks_on_hold)
content:
 
<p>

*Iran <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/11/iran-nuclear-talks-on-hold-over-last-minute-russian-demands">nuclear talks on hold</a> over last-minute Russian demands.*
<p>
I think everything will depend on how much Iran wants a deal with the
US and its allies.  It looks like there would be a way to work around
Russia's refusal, if the other countries want this.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Brandt's_vole_engineer_ecosystem)
title: Brandt's vole engineer ecosystem
uri: Brandt-s-vole-engineer-ecosystem
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Brandt's_vole_engineer_ecosystem)
content:
 
<p>

*   Brandt's vole found to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/mar/11/mongolian-rodent-brandts-vole-trims-tall-grass-to-foil-predators-study-finds">engineer ecosystem</a> to scan skies for shrikes and deny them perches.* 

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Georgia_gender_identity_law)
title: Georgia gender identity law
uri: Georgia-gender-identity-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Georgia_gender_identity_law)
content:
 
<p>

Georgia proposes to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/11/georgia-florida-dont-say-gill-bill-legislation">follow Florida</a> in passing a law to restrict
discussion in school about sex or gender identity.
<p>
Education about those topics is important, so prohibit it is wrong,
but we should describe clear what we are criticizing.
<p>
The label "don't say gay" misrepresents what these bills do.  They do
not order students not to talk about their own gender identities or
sexual orientations, nor do they explicitly punish students for what
they might say about those things.
<p>
Rather, they try to make schools and teachers discourage discussions
about those topics, except for older students in a way considered
"appropriate" for their age.  ("Appropriate" is a subjective concept,
and whenever it is used in connection with a contentious issue, it
invites a subsequent power struggle over whose subjective
interpretation will prevail.)
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feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Covid-19_increasing_in_UK)
title: Covid-19 increasing in UK
uri: Covid-19-increasing-in-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Covid-19_increasing_in_UK)
content:
 
<p>

Covid-19 is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/11/covid-cases-england-omicron-levels-ons-data">increasing again in the UK</a>.  In England, 4% of the
population had Covid-19 last week.
<p>
England is showing us what can happen when all transmission-reducing
measures are made optional: most people conclude, "These measures are
not needed any more."  Not legally required is one thing, not needed
is another.
<p>
Just after reporting the increase, the lab which measures the
prevalence of Covid-19 in Britain reported its <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/12/dismay-as-funding-for-uks-world-beating-covid-trackers-is-axed">funding has been
terminated</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Accountability_from_Salafi_Arabia)
title: Accountability from Salafi Arabia
uri: Accountability-from-Salafi-Arabia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Accountability_from_Salafi_Arabia)
content:
 
<p>

An organization of relatives of people killed by the September 2001
terrorist attacks called on Biden to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/11/911-families-biden-no-detente-saudis-without-accountability-2001-attacks">demand accountability from Salafi
Arabia</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Captive_audience_meetings)
title: Captive audience meetings
uri: Captive-audience-meetings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Captive_audience_meetings)
content:
 
<p>

*   Workers are calling for the National Labor Relations Board to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/11/first-thing-russian-forces-have-killed-more-civilians-than-soldiers">ban
   captive audience meetings</a> and make organizing easier.*

 


title: Reduction in Europe's fossil fuel use
uri: Reduction-in-Europe-s-fossil-fuel-use
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Reduction_in_Europe's_fossil_fuel_use)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Reduction_in_Europe's_fossil_fuel_use)

content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/11/down-to-earth-radiators-vladimir-putin-russia-ukraine">Suggestions</a> for how Europe can make a substantial reduction in its
fossil fuel use, rather quickly.

 


title: Actions criminalized by fanatical Christians
uri: Actions-criminalized-by-fanatical-Christians
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Actions_criminalized_by_fanatical_Christians)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Actions_criminalized_by_fanatical_Christians)

content:
 
<p>

Fanatical Christianitists are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/09/furthering-attacks-trans-kids-and-abortion-rights-gop-targets-those-who-leave-state">criminalizing</a> such actions as traveling
to get an abortion, letting your child do so, or letting your child
have sex-change treatments.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Selling_assets_to_rich_foreigners)
title: Selling assets to rich foreigners
uri: Selling-assets-to-rich-foreigners
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Selling_assets_to_rich_foreigners)
content:
 
<p>

Britain subsists by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/10/sanction-oligarchs-britain-foreign-finance-trade-deficit-russia-abramovich">selling the country's assets</a> to rich foreigners. Naturally that included Russian billionaires.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Nuclear_near-misses)
title: Nuclear near-misses
uri: Nuclear-near-misses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Nuclear_near-misses)
content:
 
<p>

A former US nuclear missile operator says, "There have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/10/i-was-a-nuclear-missile-operator-there-have-been-more-near-misses-than-the-world-knows">more
near-misses than the world knows</a>.*
<p>
I've read that these soldiers have a low morale, generally, and that makes
them careless.

 


title: Investigations of parents of transgender children
uri: Investigations-of-parents-of-transgender-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Investigations_of_parents_of_transgender_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(Investigations_of_parents_of_transgender_children)

content:
 
<p>

*Judge <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/11/texas-judge-blocks-investigations-transgender-rights">[temporarily] blocks</a> Texas from investigating parents of
 transgender children.*

 


title: El Salvador seeks to arrest ex-president
uri: El-Salvador-seeks-to-arrest-ex-president
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(El_Salvador_seeks_to_arrest_ex-president)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#12_March_2022_(El_Salvador_seeks_to_arrest_ex-president)

content:
 
<p>

El Salvador seeks to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/12/el-salvador-court-orders-arrest-of-former-president-over-1989-priest-massacre">arrest an ex-president</a> and officers accused of
involvement in the 1989 political murder of Jesuit priests.

 


title: Urgent: Tax on reported domestic and offshore profits
uri: Urgent-Tax-on-reported-domestic-and-offshore-profits
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Urgent:_Tax_on_reported_domestic_and_offshore_profits)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Urgent:_Tax_on_reported_domestic_and_offshore_profits)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to make billion-dollar corporations <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-make-billion-dollar-corporations-pay-minimum-15-tax-on-reported-domestic-profits-and-on-offshore-profits">pay
minimum 15%</a> tax on reported domestic profits and on offshore profits.
<p>
Really we should stop taxing international businesses based on their
profits.  It is too easy to <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/progressive-tax-on-business-gross-income.html">hide profits</a> through clever accounting.


<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Biden's nominees to the USPS board
uri: Urgent-Biden-s-nominees-to-the-USPS-board
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Urgent:_Biden's_nominees_to_the_USPS_board)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Urgent:_Biden's_nominees_to_the_USPS_board)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the Senate to confirm Biden's two nominees to
the USPS board, so they  can <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/fire-corrupt-usps-head-louis-dejoy">fire Postmaster/Saboteur DeJoy</a>.
<p>
I was wondering why he had not been fired yet.

 


title: Urgent: Extend food program for school children
uri: Urgent-Extend-food-program-for-school-children
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Urgent:_Extend_food_program_for_school_children)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Urgent:_Extend_food_program_for_school_children)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://secure.feedingamerica.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=00000000.app206b?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=596">extend the food program for
school children</a>.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Reasons_for_caution_with_Russia)
title: Reasons for caution with Russia
uri: Reasons-for-caution-with-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Reasons_for_caution_with_Russia)
content:
 
<p>

*   While everything suggests Russia may now be in serious trouble, there
   are still <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/11/how-ukraine-invasion-ends-may-depend-resistance-russian-mothers-and-china">reasons for caution</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Republican_Party's_Senate_platform)
title: Republican Party's Senate platform
uri: Republican-Party-s-Senate-platform
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Republican_Party's_Senate_platform)
content:
 
<p>

The Republican Party's <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/11/gop-actually-running-raising-taxes-poor-and-destroying-medicare-and-social-security">Senate platform</a>: (1) to make every low-paid
worker pay at least a dollar in income tax and (2) make programs such
as Social Security and Medicare disappear automatically after five
years.
<p>
Many low-paid workers, particularly those with dependents, get aid
money through the income tax system &mdash; their tax amount is negative.
If this change replaces that with paying one dollar, it would cost them
a lot of money.
<p>
For those that now owe no tax but would instead owe one dollar, it
would impose the burden of filing a tax return.  This may not be easy for
people who are not used to it.  Many Americans can't do it themselves,
and pay for a tax professional' services.  The poor can't afford that.
This could put many workers in legal trouble.
<p>
Republicans might continue Social Security and Medicare, but they will
surely find ways to shaft the poor with the changes.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Tracking_Russia's_oil_tankers)
title: Tracking Russia's oil tankers
uri: Tracking-Russia-s-oil-tankers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Tracking_Russia's_oil_tankers)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/11/inspired-oligarch-plane-tracker-greenpeace-follows-russian-oil-tankers-funding">Tracking Russia's oil tankers</a> around the world.
<p>
To look at the results, which are posted on Twitter, without making
your browser run nonfree JavaScript code, use nitter.org instead
of twitter.com.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Way_for_Russians_to_fly_to_Europe)
title: Way for Russians to fly to Europe
uri: Way-for-Russians-to-fly-to-Europe
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Way_for_Russians_to_fly_to_Europe)
content:
 
<p>

There remains <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/11/wealthy-russians-using-air-serbia-loophole-to-avoid-eu-flights-ban">one way for Russians to fly to Europe now</a>: to take Air
Serbia to Belgrade and transfer there.
<p>
Would it be better for Europe to block that route?  I tend to think it
is good to have some way for people to go back and forth between the
EU and Russia.  It facilitates communication.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Ontario_private_hospitals)
title: Ontario private hospitals
uri: Ontario-private-hospitals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Ontario_private_hospitals)
content:
 
<p>

Plutocratist politicians in Ontario will try to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/11/long-banned-private-hospitals-ontario-could-soon-return">bring back private
hospitals</a>, to create an opening for more expensive private medical
care as in the US.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_((satire)_Texas_bans_consensual_sex)
title: (satire) Texas bans consensual sex
uri: (satire)-Texas-bans-consensual-sex
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_((satire)_Texas_bans_consensual_sex)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Texas <a href="https://www.theonion.com/texas-bans-consensual-sex-1848631845">Bans Consensual Sex</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Covid_response_dropped_from_a_bill)
title: Covid response dropped from a bill
uri: Covid-response-dropped-from-a-bill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Covid_response_dropped_from_a_bill)
content:
 
<p>

Democrats <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/choice-extend-pandemic-experts-slam-congress-dropping-covid-aid">dropped Covid response from a bill</a> to keep the government
operating.  This includes testing, vaccination, treatment, and more.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Republican_agreements_with_Iran)
title: Republican agreements with Iran
uri: Republican-agreements-with-Iran
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Republican_agreements_with_Iran)
content:
 
<p>

Pence said that Republicans will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/10/mike-pence-says-gop-will-rip-any-nuclear-deal-iran">cancel any agreement with Iran</a> and push
once again to the brink of war.
<p>
There is no rational reason why the US should insist on keeping Iran
as an enemy.  In its conduct, it is nowhere near as bad as Salafi
Arabia.  Meanwhile, the US has far too many enemies already.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_((satire)_Hyper-specific_drinks)
title: (satire) Hyper-specific drinks
uri: (satire)-Hyper-specific-drinks
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_((satire)_Hyper-specific_drinks)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Starbucks Fights Unionization Effort By <a href="https://www.theonion.com/starbucks-fights-unionization-effort-by-hiring-pinkerto-1848596675">Hiring Pinkertons</a> To Order
Exhausting, Hyper-Specific Drinks.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_((satire)_Haunted_Talisman)
title: (satire) Haunted Talisman
uri: (satire)-Haunted-Talisman
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_((satire)_Haunted_Talisman)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Consumer [Financial] Protection Bureau <a href="https://www.theonion.com/consumer-protection-bureau-fines-curio-shop-that-disapp-1848596082">Fines Curio Shop</a> That
Disappeared Hours After Unloading Haunted Talisman.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Violent_extremists_employed_at_DHS)
title: Violent extremists employed at DHS
uri: Violent-extremists-employed-at-DHS
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Violent_extremists_employed_at_DHS)
content:
 
<p>

The Department of Hatred and Sadism is having trouble keeping <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/11/politics/dhs-internal-report-domestic-violent-extremism/index.html">violent
extremists out of its employ</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Crucial_lesson_for_the_IMF)
title: Crucial lesson for the IMF
uri: Crucial-lesson-for-the-IMF
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Crucial_lesson_for_the_IMF)
content:
 
<p>

Joseph Stiglitz: the IMF may have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/12/imfs-new-agreement-argentina-has-potential-be-game-changer">learned a crucial lesson</a>.  Instead
of the usual futile attempt to squeezing money out of Argentina, and
causing a recession, it is adopting a gentler policy that will let
Argentina have some economic growth so it can afford to pay its debt.
<p>
For the long term, the world needs a way to stop frivolous spendthrift
governments that borrow and spend on unimportant things from saddling
a country's populace with burdensome debt.  One idea I have thought
about is a way for a country to declare bankruptcy.  Another is a way
to punish the leaders of the frivolous government.

 


title: Avoiding escalation of war in Ukraine
uri: Avoiding-escalation-of-war-in-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Avoiding_escalation_of_war_in_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Avoiding_escalation_of_war_in_Ukraine)

content:
 
<p>

A suggestion for <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/10/being-close-nuclear-war-should-not-be-possible">how to avoid escalation</a> of the war in Ukraine into a
nuclear war.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Climate_protests_across_France)
title: Climate protests across France
uri: Climate-protests-across-France
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Climate_protests_across_France)
content:
 
<p>

*Tens of thousands take part in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/12/tens-of-thousands-take-part-in-climate-protests-across-france">climate protests across France</a>.*

 


title: Republican requirements on voting by mail
uri: Republican-requirements-on-voting-by-mail
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Republican_requirements_on_voting_by_mail)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#14_March_2022_(Republican_requirements_on_voting_by_mail)

content:
 
<p>

Republican requirements on voting by mail have been <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/texas-mail-ballot-rejection-rate-skyrockets-under-gop-voter-suppression-law">effective at
rejecting some voters' ballots</a>.
<p>
We don't know how many people gave up on even trying to vote because of other
obstacles to voting by mail or dropping off ballots.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Congress to refuse to cut the gasoline tax
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Congress-to-refuse-to-cut-the-gasoline-tax
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_refuse_to_cut_the_gasoline_tax)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_refuse_to_cut_the_gasoline_tax)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-cutting-the-gas-tax-is-a-gimmick-not-a-solution-dont-gut-funding-for-public-transit-and-infrastructure-for-short-term-political-gain?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-its-a-gimmick-not-a-solution-3">refuse to cut the gasoline tax</a>.
<p>
  The way to help poor Americans who can't afford the current high cost of gasoline is <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html#13%20March%202011%20(Gas%20price%20increase%20necessary)">to give them extra money which they can spend as they wish</a>.  If they must buy gasoline, this money will help them pay for it.  But if they can reduce their gasoline usage, they can spend the money on something else.  Thus, they will feel pressure to conserve.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Windfall_tax_on_oil)
title: Windfall tax on oil
uri: Windfall-tax-on-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Windfall_tax_on_oil)
content:
 
<p>
  Congressional Democrats have <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/dems-introduce-windfall-tax-big-oil-so-companies-pay-price-when-they-price-gouge">proposed a bill for a windfall tax on oil</a>.
  But it applies only to oil extracted or imported by big companies.
<p>
  That exception is misguided.  The increased price is a windfall for
  small companies as well as large.
<p>
  There is no particular benefit for society in encouraging small oil
  extraction companies.  It is not an incentive for anything useful,
  except perhaps <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-mar-jun.html#1_June_2020_(Bigger_and_bigger_riots)">to foment war globally</a> (which they do, by contributing
  to global heating).
<p>
  The exception covers 70% of domestic oil extraction, and that is a lot
of money.  <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/why-we-need-a-state.html">We need that money for the treasury</a>.

 


title: Israeli law bars naturalization of Palestinian spouses
uri: Israeli-law-bars-naturalization-of-Palestinian-spouses
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Israeli_law_bars_naturalization_of_Palestinian_spouses)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Israeli_law_bars_naturalization_of_Palestinian_spouses)

content:
 
<p>
  *New Israeli Law <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/racist-new-israeli-law-bars-naturalization-palestinian-spouses">Bars Naturalization of Palestinian Spouses</a>.*
  Some Israelis call for murdering the Israeli women that even go on a
  date with an Arab man.
<p>
  It resembles Pakistan's custom of patriarchal murder.

 


title: 2020 census feared to have significantly undercounted minorities
uri: 2020-census-feared-to-have-significantly-undercounted-minorities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(2020_census_feared_to_have_significantly_undercounted_minorities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(2020_census_feared_to_have_significantly_undercounted_minorities)

content:
 
<p>
  The saboteur-in-chief succeeded in <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/feared-2020-census-significantly-undercounted-minorities">his efforts to manipulate the 2020
  census to underestimate the number of Latins, blacks, and indigenous</a>.
  This will bias elections in the US until the 2030 census.

 


title: Florida laws regulating the teaching of gender and sexuality issues in school
uri: Florida-laws-regulating-the-teaching-of-gender-and-sexuality-issues-in
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Florida_laws_regulating_the_teaching_of_gender_and_sexuality_issues_in_school)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Florida_laws_regulating_the_teaching_of_gender_and_sexuality_issues_in_school)

content:
 
<p>
  A Florida Republican <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/10/politics/florida-senate-crt-schools-businesses/index.html">gave a nuanced explanation of new and proposed laws
  regulating the teaching of gender and sexuality issues in school</a>.
  If we could count on the law to be followed in that nuanced way,
  I would have no objection.
<p>
  I expect that, in practice, zealously repressive Republicans will
  apply a very strict interpretation.  Other officials will try to stay
  far away from the line, fearing lawsuits if the school comes anywhere
  near it.
<p>
  Likewise, the law doesn't <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/10/politics/florida-dont-say-gay-bill-what-matters/index.html">prohibit students from bringing up these
  issues, let alone require punishing them</a>, but in practice teachers may
  punish those students, whether from having a vague idea of the law,
  from right-wing zeal, or from fear of being punished themselves.

 


title: Urgent: Call on Biden to take action for climate defense
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Biden-to-take-action-for-climate-defense
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_take_action_for_climate_defense)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Biden_to_take_action_for_climate_defense)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://act.greennewdealnetwork.org/signup/Biden-Must-Act-Climate?source=em20220310-150&t=1001&akid=150%2E421439%2E5AMCpi">take action now for climate defense</a>.
  
 


title: Urgent: Call on Congress to bring the MORE act up for a vote
uri: Urgent-Call-on-Congress-to-bring-the-MORE-act-up-for-a-vote
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_bring_the_MORE_act_up_for_a_vote)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_on_Congress_to_bring_the_MORE_act_up_for_a_vote)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://civicshout.com/p/petition-bring-the-more-act-up-for-a-vote?link_id=1&can_id=8b24519448cbedadde1c8a966f94caad&source=email-legalize-it-19&email_referrer=email_1474682&email_subject=legalize-it">bring the MORE act up for a vote</a>.
<p>
  This bill would legalize marijuana.

 


title: Urgent: Call for businesses to stop funding insurrectionist Republican candidates
uri: Urgent-Call-for-businesses-to-stop-funding-insurrectionist-Republican
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_for_businesses_to_stop_funding_insurrectionist_Republican_candidates)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_for_businesses_to_stop_funding_insurrectionist_Republican_candidates)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on AT&amp;T and other big businesses to <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-att-stop-funding-trumps-insurrectionists?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-new-att-funds-2020-election-objectors-2">stop funding insurrectionist Republican candidates</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Don't_play_with_your_kids)
title: Don't play with your kids
uri: Don-t-play-with-your-kids
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Don't_play_with_your_kids)
content:
 
<p>
  Let Grow: Children <a href="https://letgrow.org/dont-play-with-your-kids/">don't need adults to play with them or teach them</a>.
  They can play with each other, and learn by watching adults do adult
  things and sometimes helping out.
<p>
  Today's computer systems don't seem to be designed to allow kids
  to watch the adult things that adults do on line.

 


title: Al-Jazeera accuses Russia of repression
uri: Al-Jazeera-accuses-Russia-of-repression
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Al-Jazeera_accuses_Russia_of_repression)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Al-Jazeera_accuses_Russia_of_repression)

content:
 
<p>
Al-Jazeera accuses Russia of <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/12/russia-ukraine-crimean-tatars-dissent-repression">severe repression of Crimean Tatars</a>, in
Crimea before, and now it parts of Ukraine that the Putin forces have
captured.

 


title: Apple and Google bowed to Putin's threats
uri: Apple-and-Google-bowed-to-Putin-s-threats
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Apple_and_Google_bowed_to_Putin's_threats)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Apple_and_Google_bowed_to_Putin's_threats)

content:
 
<p>
  Apple and Google have repeatedly <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/12/russia-putin-google-apple-navalny/">bowed to Putin's threats by using
  their power over users on Putin's behalf</a>.
<p>
  In particular, Apple made use of the fact that the iMonster is a jail
  (users can't install applications without Apple's approval) to deny
  Russians the ability to install apps designed to express criticism of
  Putin.
<p>
  Apple has already done such things on China's behalf.
<p>
  Any company that has power to restrict what users can use a computer
  to do will be compelled to use that power on behalf of evil regimes.
<p>
  The US should prevent this from happening again,
  by prohibiting the sale of a computer that's a jail.

 


title: Tell stores you can only pay in cash
uri: Tell-stores-you-can-only-pay-in-cash
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Tell_stores_you_can_only_pay_in_cash)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Tell_stores_you_can_only_pay_in_cash)

content:
 
<p>
  If you're in the UK, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/mar/12/cashs-reign-fades-as-covid-accelerates-high-street-switch-to-card-only">tell stores you can only pay cash</a>!
  If you go to a store, ask the staff if they accept cash, and get no
  for an answer, it is perfectly reasonable to ask to speak to the
  manager, then state your unwillingness to identify yourself by using
  one of today's digital payment system.  Then you can say that you
  disapprove of the store's policy and you will not buy there.
<p>
  Don't curse at them or revile them -- that would only lead them to
  regard you as vicious.  If you keep a civil but disapproving tone,
  you will inform them that yes, there are people who feel mistreated
  by what they are doing.
<p>
  The store won't know that there are people who object to surveillance
  capitalism enough to refuse, if we don't tell them!

 


title: Cattle farmers making rapid progress on eliminating the endangered koala's habitat
uri: Cattle-farmers-making-rapid-progress-on-eliminating-the-endangered-koa
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Cattle_farmers_making_rapid_progress_on_eliminating_the_endangered_koala's_habitat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Cattle_farmers_making_rapid_progress_on_eliminating_the_endangered_koala's_habitat)

content:
 
<p>
  Cattle farmers in Queensland are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/14/land-clearing-destroyed-90000-hectares-of-queensland-koala-habitat-in-single-year-analysis-finds">making rapid progress on eliminating
  the habitat of the endangered koala</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Russian_takeover_of_villages)
title: Russian takeover of villages
uri: Russian-takeover-of-villages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Russian_takeover_of_villages)
content:
 
<p>
  Ukrainians report that Russian troops <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/13/tanks-bombs-shootings-ukrainians-describe-russian-takeover-of-villages">kill civilians, sometimes
  randomly, when they capture a village</a>.  Sometimes they shell the
  village persistently afterwards.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Copyright_laws_need_to_change)
title: Copyright laws need to change
uri: Copyright-laws-need-to-change
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Copyright_laws_need_to_change)
content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/13/music-is-so-different-now-copyright-laws-need-to-change-says-legal-expert">Copyright law does not fit the way musicians write music nowadays</a>,
  and the result is a big danger of lawsuits over marginal accusations.
<p>
  Please don't speak of "consuming" music -- listening to music
  does not use it up, especially if it is a digital copy that is not
  <a href="https://defectivebydesign.org">shackled with Digital Restrictions Management</a>.
<p>
  Also, please join me in rejecting the misleading overgeneralization,
  "<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">intellectual property</a>."  I not only refuse ever to use that term,
  I also denounce its confusing ideas whenever they are pertinent.

 


title: Cattle farmers making rapid progress on elimating the endangered koala's habitat
uri: Cattle-farmers-making-rapid-progress-on-elimating-the-endangered-koala
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Cattle_farmers_making_rapid_progress_on_elimating_the_endangered_koala's_habitat)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Cattle_farmers_making_rapid_progress_on_elimating_the_endangered_koala's_habitat)

content:
 
<p>
  Cattle farmers in Queensland are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/14/land-clearing-destroyed-90000-hectares-of-queensland-koala-habitat-in-single-year-analysis-finds">making rapid progress on eliminating
  the habitat of the endangered koala</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Opposing_Russia)
title: Opposing Russia
uri: Opposing-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Opposing_Russia)
content:
 
<p>
  *First, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/13/first-we-did-too-little-to-oppose-russia-now-do-we-risk-going-too-far-the-other-way">we did too little to oppose Russia. Now do we risk going too far the
  other way</a>?*

 


title: "Lost" records from 37 former British empire colonies reveal its barbarity
uri: Lost-records-from-37-former-British-empire-colonies-reveal-its-barba
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Lost_records_from_37_former_British_empire_colonies_reveal_its_barbarity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Lost_records_from_37_former_British_empire_colonies_reveal_its_barbarity)

content:
 
<p>
  In shocking, meticulous detail, [Caroline Elkins (acclaimed American
  historian)] uses "lost" records from 37 former colonies to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/13/legacy-of-violence-a-history-of-the-british-empire-by-caroline-elkins-review-the-brutal-truth-about-britains-past">reveal
  the barbarity of the British empire and the hubris that fuelled it</a>.*

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title: Teacher fired for "inappropriate" book
uri: Teacher-fired-for-inappropriate-book
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Teacher_fired_for_inappropriate_book)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Teacher_fired_for_inappropriate_book)

content:
 
<p>
  Repressive school board administrators fired a teacher for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/12/i-need-a-new-butt-teacher-fired-mississippi">reading to
  children from an "inappropriate" book</a>.
<p>
  I've never seen that book, but it seems to be made of humor that is
  somewhat "dirty" and very childish.  One might say that it is
  completely appropriate for children.  Others say no.
<p>
  This substantiates my point that "appropriate" is a subjective
  judgment.  You can argue against a choice by saying it is
  "inappropriate" in your judgment, but no one should ever be criticized
  or punished for something so subjective and vague.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Tasmania's_kelp_forests)
title: Tasmania's kelp forests
uri: Tasmania-s-kelp-forests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Tasmania's_kelp_forests)
content:
 
<p>
  Tasmania's kelp forests receded so fast that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/13/really-worth-a-crack-bringing-tasmanias-giant-kelp-forests-back-from-the-brink">people didn't notice until
  they were almost gone</a>.  Now there is a project to reseed them.
<p>
  In addition, volunteer divers will take away the sea urchins that
  would otherwise eat every last piece of kelp.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(More_criticism_of_DAOs)
title: More criticism of DAOs
uri: More-criticism-of-DAOs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(More_criticism_of_DAOs)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/12/dont-get-carried-away-in-the-rush-of-dao-idealism-blockchain-cryptofed">More criticism of DAOs</a>.

 


title: One of Putin's propaganda broadcasters is UK citizen
uri: One-of-Putin-s-propaganda-broadcasters-is-UK-citizen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(One_of_Putin's_propaganda_broadcasters_is_UK_citizen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(One_of_Putin's_propaganda_broadcasters_is_UK_citizen)

content:
 
<p>
  One of Putin's main propaganda broadcasters is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/12/putin-propagandist-news-host-has-british-home-and-citizenship">a UK citizen</a>.
  A politician has proposed to revoke his UK citizenship.
<p>
  The UK has been exiling citizens without trial for years now
  (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/12/uk-government-hypocrisy-keeping-jack-letts-and-mother-in-purgatory">here's an example</a>),
  and it an injustice even when the target is the worst of criminals.
  Situations like this, where a dual citizen is hated for a blatant
  crime, help normalize undermining human rights for everyone else.
<p>
  Propaganda in support of an enormous crime should be grounds to
  prosecute him.  It would be legitimate to charge the broadcaster
  in case he ever comes to the UK again, and freeze his assets now on
  the strength of those charges.

 


title: Walt Disney Company suspends Florida political donations
uri: Walt-Disney-Company-suspends-Florida-political-donations
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Walt_Disney_Company_suspends_Florida_political_donations)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Walt_Disney_Company_suspends_Florida_political_donations)

content:
 
<p>
  *The Walt Disney Company is suspending political donations in Florida
  after its chief executive suffered huge blowback for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/12/dont-say-gay-disney-desantis-florida-bill">not using the
  company's vast influence in the state to try to quash a Republican bill
  that would stop teachers instructing early grades on LGBTQ+ issues</a>.*
<p>
  That is a small step towards a very important goal.  To throw off
  plutocracy and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-jan-apr.html#23_January_2021_(Democracy_for_All_Amendment)">restore democracy</a>, we must make Disney, and every other
  company, stop political donations everywhere in the US, permanently,
  and stop rich people too from donating enough to buy elections.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(UK_Covid-19_level)
title: UK Covid-19 level
uri: UK-Covid-19-level
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(UK_Covid-19_level)
content:
 
<p>
  Why the increasing Covid-19 level in the UK is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/12/covid-restrictions-eased-cases-coronavirus-precautionary-peasures">probably caused mainly
  by the elimination of the measures to stop it from spreading</a>.
<p>
  Politicians have talked about moving from the "pandemic" stage to
  the "endemic" stage, as if that would end the danger.  But that's
  not what it means.
<p>
  A disease is endemic if its prevalence is roughly stable and
  continuing.  Whether it leaves some people lastingly harmed (perhaps
  dead) after catching it is another question.  It is good that Covid-19
  is no longer increasing rapidly, but increasing slowly will bring
  society to the same disaster after time.
<p>
  Our actions, as a society, can increase Covid-19 or decrease it.  Have
  we got sufficient wisdom and leadership to protect each other?

 


title: Internet backbone companies cutting off Russia
uri: Internet-backbone-companies-cutting-off-Russia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Internet_backbone_companies_cutting_off_Russia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Internet_backbone_companies_cutting_off_Russia)

content:
 
<p>
  Some internet backbone companies are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/11/tech/russia-internet-backbone-cogent-lumen/index.html">cutting off service to Russian
  businesses</a>. I think that will backfire.
<p>
  The Russian state will get internet access somehow -- perhaps via
  China -- so in practice the question is whether to help Putin cut Russians
  off from news that corrects his lies to them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Facebook_prosecuted_in_Russia)
title: Facebook prosecuted in Russia
uri: Facebook-prosecuted-in-Russia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Facebook_prosecuted_in_Russia)
content:
 
<p>
  Facebook is being prosecuted in Russia because <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/11/tech/meta-policy-change-russia-investigation/index.html">it permits Ukrainians
  to post bellicose statements such as "Death to the Russian invaders!</a>"
  The Facebook and Instagram sites are also blocked.
<p>
  I suggest referring to the invaders as "the Putin forces", rather than
  as "Russians".   I don't think that would affect Putin's censorship decision.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Species_protection_underfunded)
title: Species protection underfunded
uri: Species-protection-underfunded
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Species_protection_underfunded)
content:
 
<p>
  *Conservationists Say Congress <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/10/conservationists-say-congress-underfunding-species-protection-hundreds-millions">Underfunding Species Protection by Hundreds of
    Millions Despite Biodiversity Crisis</a>.*
<p>
  For the long term, the crucial actions to prevent the extinction of
  hundreds of thousands of species are <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-nov-feb.html#10_February_2018_(Greenhouse_gas_emissions)">to reduce greenhouse gas
  emissions</a>
  and <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/children.html">the human birth rate</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Julian_Assange_appeal)
title: Julian Assange appeal
uri: Julian-Assange-appeal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Julian_Assange_appeal)
content:
 
<p>
The UK's supreme court <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/14/julian-assange-denied-permission-to-appeal-against-us-extradition">brushed aside Julian Assange's appeal against
extradition</a>,
   but appeals can still be made on more important issues.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Living_prop)
title: Living prop
uri: Living-prop
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Living_prop)
content:
 
<p>
*   A [prisoner] at a secret CIA detention site in Afghanistan was used
   as a living prop to teach trainee interrogators, who lined up to take
   turns at knocking his head against a plywood wall, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/mar/14/cia-black-site-detainee-training-prop-torture-techniques">leaving him with
   brain damage</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(On_edge_of_starvation)
title: On edge of starvation
uri: On-edge-of-starvation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(On_edge_of_starvation)
content:
 
<p>
Yemen is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/14/countdown-catastrophe-un-agencies-warn-hunger-emergency-overlooked-nation">on the edge of starvation</a>.


 


title: Carbon emissions from felling of tropical forest
uri: Carbon-emissions-from-felling-of-tropical-forest
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Carbon_emissions_from_felling_of_tropical_forest)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Carbon_emissions_from_felling_of_tropical_forest)

content:
 
<p>
*   Carbon emissions from felling of tropical forest <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/28/deforestation-emissions-far-higher-than-previously-thought-study-finds-aoe">doubled in just two
   decades and are accelerating</a>, research says.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Reaching_capacity)
title: Reaching capacity
uri: Reaching-capacity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Reaching_capacity)
content:
 
<p>
*Polish mayors warn <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/14/ukrainian-refugees-polish-mayors-warn">cities reaching capacity as Ukrainian arrivals rise</a>.*

<p>
Other countries will need to accept a substantial fraction of the
refugees.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Hong_Kong_Watch)
title: Hong Kong Watch
uri: Hong-Kong-Watch
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Hong_Kong_Watch)
content:
 
<p>
Hong Kong threatens to attack the human rights group Hong Kong Watch,
which is based in the UK, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/14/hong-kong-watch-rights-group-website-national-security-law-china-benedict-rogers">unless it shuts its web site (which is
blocked in Hong Kong)</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Luxury_estate_for_refugees)
title: Luxury estate for refugees
uri: Luxury-estate-for-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Luxury_estate_for_refugees)
content:
 
<p>
Two Russian activists broke into a luxury estate in France, said to be
owned by Putin's "ex-son-in-law", <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/14/activists-occupy-villa-biarritz-france-vladimir-putin-ex-son-in-law">to invite Ukrainian refugees to stay
there</a>.

<p>
Instead of trying to kick them out, France could put sanctions on the owner
and offer the estate to refugees legally.

<p>
A similar occupation <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/14/squatters-occupy-russian-billionaire-oleg-deripaska-london-mansion">is occurring in London</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Test-to-treat_initiative)
title: Test-to-treat initiative
uri: Test-to-treat-initiative
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Test-to-treat_initiative)
content:
 
<p>
The "test-to-treat" initiative won't work, because pharmacists <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/14/covid-biden-new-covid-initiative-wont-work-pharmacists">can't
prescribe the two drugs to treat Covid-19</a>.

<p>
I've read that molnupiravir is not very effective against Omicron.
If that is true, including it is basically a waste.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Murder_of_prisoner)
title: Murder of prisoner
uri: Murder-of-prisoner
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Murder_of_prisoner)
content:
 
<p>
Newspapers reported than an Australian soldier murdered a prisoner,
and he sued them for libel.  Now witnesses are testifying <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/14/former-sas-soldier-tells-court-he-watched-ben-roberts-smith-kill-unarmed-disabled-afghan-man">to
demonstrate that the accusation was true</a>.

<p>
Why is there no criminal trial?


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(MH_17)
title: MH 17
uri: MH-17
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(MH_17)
content:
 
<p>
Australia and the Netherlands are suing Russia for shooting down
flight MH 17 as it passed near the regions <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/14/australia-and-the-netherlands-launch-legal-action-against-russia-over-mh17-disaster">where Russia had armed
rebellious Ukrainians</a>.

<p>
The Buk missile system seems to be a combination of three vehicles:
missile launched, radar, and control.  You can't just hand such a
system to volunteers and expect them to operate it.  It was, as it had
to be, operated by specially trained Russian troops.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Eating_away_at_the_beaches)
title: Eating away at the beaches
uri: Eating-away-at-the-beaches
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Eating_away_at_the_beaches)
content:
 
<p>
<a href="/glossary.html#global heating">Global heating</a> is eating away at the beaches of Cancún and the rest of
Quintana Roo, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/14/mexico-cancun-beaches-tourism-sea-levels-climate-crisis-quintana-roo">while building on dunes is attacking from the inland
side</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Banning_outsourcing_of_workers)
title: Banning outsourcing of workers
uri: Banning-outsourcing-of-workers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Banning_outsourcing_of_workers)
content:
 
<p>
British unions <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/mar/14/government-plans-let-dodgy-umbrella-companies-off-the-hook-warns-tuc">call for banning outsourcing of workers</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Trust)
title: Trust
uri: Trust
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Trust)
content:
 
<p>
The factor that most helps a country respond effectively to an epidemic
is trust -- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/14/america-coronavirus-covid-pandemic-vaccines-public-health">that the citizens trust each other and trust their leaders</a>.

<p>
As long as we have <a href="/glossary.html#faux">Faux News</a> and politicians that use disinformation as their
way to win power, the US is likely to fare worst.


 


title: Forcing Middle Eastern refugees into Ukraine
uri: Forcing-Middle-Eastern-refugees-into-Ukraine
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Forcing_Middle_Eastern_refugees_into_Ukraine)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Forcing_Middle_Eastern_refugees_into_Ukraine)

content:
 
<p>
The Belarus army <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/14/fears-grow-of-new-crisis-as-refugees-in-belarus-driven-into-ukraine">is forcing Middle Eastern refugees into Ukraine</a>. 



 


title: Pro-Putin disinformation thrives in anti-vax groups
uri: Pro-Putin-disinformation-thrives-in-anti-vax-groups
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Pro-Putin_disinformation_thrives_in_anti-vax_groups)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Pro-Putin_disinformation_thrives_in_anti-vax_groups)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/03/pro-putin-disinformation-on-ukraine-is-thriving-in-online-anti-vax-groups/">Pro-Putin Disinformation on Ukraine Is Thriving in Online Anti-Vax Groups</a>.
All the usual themes: Secret government alliances, anti-Semitic tropes, and
nefarious scientists.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(UAE_dirty_money)
title: UAE dirty money
uri: UAE-dirty-money
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(UAE_dirty_money)
content:
 
<p>
*Washington Needs to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/13/washington-needs-do-something-about-uae-dirty-money">Do Something About UAE Dirty Money</a>.* The US needs
to make sure that its own states, and its allies, are not helping
robber barons hide the loot they have stolen from their own countries.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(US_no_longer_dominates_the_world)
title: US no longer dominates the world
uri: US-no-longer-dominates-the-world
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(US_no_longer_dominates_the_world)
content:
 
<p>
The <a href="https://peterbeinart.substack.com/p/between-iraq-and-ukraine-progressive">US no longer dominates the world</a>.  How should progressives confront
the new situation?  This article proposes a way.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Marina_Ovsyannikova)
title: Marina Ovsyannikova
uri: Marina-Ovsyannikova
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Marina_Ovsyannikova)
content:
 
<p>
TV editor Marina Ovsyannikova <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/14/russian-tv-employee-interrupts-news-broadcast-marina-ovsyannikova">ran onto a live broadcast and denounced
Putin, his war and his propaganda</a>.
<p>
She will be prosecuted and imprisoned, or perhaps murdered, if protests
don't balloon quickly.

 


title: Urgent: Cut greenhouse has pollution from the meat and dairy industry
uri: Urgent-Cut-greenhouse-has-pollution-from-the-meat-and-dairy-industry
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Urgent:_Cut_greenhouse_has_pollution_from_the_meat_and_dairy_industry)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Urgent:_Cut_greenhouse_has_pollution_from_the_meat_and_dairy_industry)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cut-climate-warming-emissions-from-the-meat-and-dairy-industry?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.actblue.com%2Fdonate%2Fepa_climate&refcode=g-EPA0313.d-20220313.m-28172.s-300841&referrer=group-democracy-for-america&source=group-democracy-for-america">cut greenhouse gas pollution from the meat and dairy industry</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Biometrics_for_tickets)
title: Biometrics for tickets
uri: Biometrics-for-tickets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Biometrics_for_tickets)
content:
 
<p>
  A <a href="https://www.biometricupdate.com/202112/biometrics-could-make-attending-large-event-venues-a-whole-new-ballgame">gung-ho report discusses using biometrics for tickets to large events</a>.
<p>
  Look at the silly distraction arguments some of these companies.  "We
  don't keep track of who you are -- we just help some other company
  keep track."  What difference does it make?  Once any one company
  knows, some comoanies and government agencies will know all.
<p>
  If I can't attend anonymously, I won't go.
<p>
  However, I see positive potential in palm scanning if it is a substitute
  for identification,  Palm prints are safer than fingerprints, because
  you don't leave your palm print on most things that you touch,
<p>
  An inside-of-the-elbow print might be even better.  You never touch
  anything with the inside of your elbow, and you can keep it covered
  all the time from cameras if you like.  (Surely you do that in the
  winter.)  If you give your inside-of-the-elbow print when buying a
  ticket anonymously, it would identify you as the owner of the ticket
  without giving any idea of who you are.

 


title: Robert Reich recognizes he was mistaken
uri: Robert-Reich-recognizes-he-was-mistaken
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Robert_Reich_recognizes_he_was_mistaken)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Robert_Reich_recognizes_he_was_mistaken)

content:
 
<p>
Robert Reich believed that democracy was inevitable, people around the
world would be well-informed thanks to the internet, and nationalism was
sure to decrease.  Now <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/14/trump-and-putin-proved-me-wrong-democracy-not-inevitable">he recognizes he was mistaken in these and other
optimistic expectations about national and international governance</a>.

 


title: Destroying democracy with the democratic process
uri: Destroying-democracy-with-the-democratic-process
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Destroying_democracy_with_the_democratic_process)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Destroying_democracy_with_the_democratic_process)

content:
 
<p>
*Trump is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/14/war-democracy-here">using America's democratic process to destroy democracy from
within</a>.*  He has admitted this in a slightly veiled way.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Traitor_for_mayor)
title: Traitor for mayor
uri: Traitor-for-mayor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Traitor_for_mayor)
content:
 
<p>
In Melitopol, an occupied town, the Putin forces <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/14/were-living-a-nightmare-life-in-russian-occupied-southern-ukraine">grabbed the elected
mayor and installed a traitor as mayor</a>.  In another town, the elected
officials have fled but are still running the town, communicating by
internet.
<p>
The city council of Melitopol have <a href="https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-13-22/h_38e38946a6d8425903a4e2709803e3dd">called for prosecution of the traitor
that claims to be mayor of Melitopol</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Stop advertising on Faux News
uri: 2022-03-16-Urgent-Stop-advertising-on-Faux-News
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_advertising_on_Faux_News)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_advertising_on_Faux_News)

content:
 
<p>
Everyone: call on US companies to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-us-companies-stop-advertising-on-fox-news?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-inequality-media-civic-action&source=group-inequality-media-civic-action">stop advertising on Faux News</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Restore the non-nuclear deal with Iran
uri: Urgent-Restore-the-non-nuclear-deal-with-Iran
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Urgent:_Restore_the_non-nuclear_deal_with_Iran)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Urgent:_Restore_the_non-nuclear_deal_with_Iran)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-president-biden-restore-the-iran-deal-2?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-progress-america&source=2022IranDeal_PA">restore the non-nuclear deal wqith Iran</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Cut greenhouse has pollution from the meat and dary industry
uri: Urgent-Cut-greenhouse-has-pollution-from-the-meat-and-dary-industry
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Urgent:_Cut_greenhouse_has_pollution_from_the_meat_and_dary_industry)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#16_March_2022_(Urgent:_Cut_greenhouse_has_pollution_from_the_meat_and_dary_industry)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the EPA to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cut-climate-warming-emissions-from-the-meat-and-dairy-industry?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.actblue.com%2Fdonate%2Fepa_climate&refcode=g-EPA0313.d-20220313.m-28172.s-300841&referrer=group-democracy-for-america&source=group-democracy-for-america">cut greenhouse gas pollution from the meat and dairy industry</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Tories_and_their_energy_crisis)
title: Tories and their energy crisis
uri: Tories-and-their-energy-crisis
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Tories_and_their_energy_crisis)
content:
 
<p>
*The Tories railed against "green crap."  Why <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/15/tories-green-crap-david-cameron-boris-johnson">trust them to solve the
energy crisis now</a>?*
<p>
The same can be said of most US elected officials, Republicans and
<a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> Democrats.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Ukraine's_internet_army)
title: Ukraine's internet army
uri: Ukraine-s-internet-army
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Ukraine's_internet_army)
content:
 
<p>
Volunteers, both experienced crackers and nontechnical people, are <a href="Volunteers, both experienced crackers and nontechnical people, are supporting
Ukraine's internet army.">supporting
Ukraine's internet army</a>.
<p>
The article says "<a href="https://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html">hackers</a>" but it's referring to crackers.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(CIA_torture)
title: CIA torture
uri: 2022-03-17-CIA-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(CIA_torture)
content:
 
<p>
*The Guardian view on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/15/the-guardian-view-on-cia-torture-two-decades-on-we-need-the-truth">CIA torture</a>, two decades on: we need the truth.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Alexei_Navalny)
title: Alexei Navalny
uri: 2022-03-17-Alexei-Navalny
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Alexei_Navalny)
content:
 
<p>
Russian prosecutors asked to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/15/russian-prosecutors-call-for-alexei-navalny-to-serve-13-years-in-prison">sentence Alexei Navalny to 13 more years in prison</a>.

 


title: Exempting some projects from environmental protection law
uri: Exempting-some-projects-from-environmental-protection-law
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Exempting_some_projects_from_environmental_protection_law)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Exempting_some_projects_from_environmental_protection_law)

content:
 
<p>
The Australian government is <a href="The Australian government is considering a plan to streamline attacks
on the environment by exempting some projects from environmental
protection law.">considering a plan to streamline attacks
on the environment by exempting some projects from environmental
protection law</a>.
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/16/environment-groups-say-coalition-plan-to-bypass-federal-approvals-a-step-towards-industry-free-for-all">More information</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Ukraine_needs_arms)
title: Ukraine needs arms
uri: Ukraine-needs-arms
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Ukraine_needs_arms)
content:
 
<p>
Ukraine <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/14/grisly-urban-warfare-looms-unless-west-beefs-up-ukraine-arms-supply-russia">needs arms with which to attack the Russian artillery</a> that is
turning to bombarding civilian areas of cities.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Global_heating_danger)
title: Global heating danger
uri: 2022-03-17-Global-heating-danger
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Global_heating_danger)
content:
 
<p>
We <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/3/13/2085659/-Climate-Death-Wish">must not neglect the bigger but slower danger of global heating</a>
while preoccupied by the shorter-term danger of Putin's war.

 


title: Urgent: Stop cracking down on striking workers
uri: Urgent-Stop-cracking-down-on-striking-workers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_cracking_down_on_striking_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_cracking_down_on_striking_workers)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on cops and judges to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/watch-sign-demand-police-officers-and-judges-stop-cracking-down-on-striking-workers?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-tell-the-cfpb-stop-junk-fees-costing-working-families-billions-every-year-3">stop cracking down on striking workers</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Stop funding fossil fuel expansion
uri: Urgent-Stop-funding-fossil-fuel-expansion
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_funding_fossil_fuel_expansion)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_funding_fossil_fuel_expansion)

content:
 
<p>
Everyone: call on U.S. banks and insurers to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-demand-us-banks-and-insurers-stop-funding-fossil-fuel-expansion?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-stop-the-money-pipeline&source=direct_link">stop funding fossil fuel expansion</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_bank_mergers)
title: Urgent: Stop bank mergers
uri: Urgent-Stop-bank-mergers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_bank_mergers)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on US regulators to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-federal-regulators-stop-bank-mergers-until-guidelines-are-strengthened-to-protect-consumers-and-communities?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-afr-advocacy-fund-c4&source=direct_link">stop bank mergers</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Seizing_hospital)
title: Seizing hospital
uri: Seizing-hospital
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Seizing_hospital)
content:
 
<p>
Reports from Mariupol say that the <a href="/glossary.html#putinforces">Putin forces</a> have seized a hospital
and are holding 500 people prisoner in it, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/16/mariupol-ukraine-russia-seized-hospital">without food access to food</a>.

<p>
One side of the city has fallen entirely.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Collect_of_immigrants_data)
title: Collect of immigrants data
uri: Collect-of-immigrants-data
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Collect_of_immigrants_data)
content:
 
<p>
*A US surveillance program tracks nearly 200,000 immigrants.* It
collects a lot of data, including their locations all the time, and
the data <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/14/us-immigration-surveillance-isap">can be abused by the government or the company that runs the
surveillance system</a>.

<p>
No company should ever be <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/government-free-software.html#state-control.">in practical control doing the state's
computing</a>.
            Privatizing any government activity makes it
unaccountable, and that's part of what we are seeing here.
The extra level of indirection in control of the procedures
(and the software used) has the effect of thwarting the people's
control of the state.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Record_Covid-19_numbers)
title: Record Covid-19 numbers
uri: Record-Covid-19-numbers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Record_Covid-19_numbers)
content:
 
<p>
In Germany, a record 1.6% of the population tested positive for
Covid-19 last week, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/16/germany-hits-record-covid-infection-rate-since-start-of-pandemic">but that's just the maximum PCR testing capacity</a>.
  No one knows how many other people caught it too and did not get
tested.

<p>
Berlin is about to eliminate mask requirements as well as gratis
testing.  Perhaps it aims to break the record again.

<p>
The policy seems to be to encourage people to ignore Covid
and its danger.  "What, we worry?"

<p>
I have still seen no reports on the prevalence of long Covid among
vaccinated people that catch the Omicron variant.  How big is the risk
that vaccinated people will now be exposed to whenever they leave the
house?


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Blue_corridor)
title: Blue corridor
uri: Blue-corridor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Blue_corridor)
content:
 
<p>
*Calls for "blue corridor" <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/16/ukraine-russia-war-black-sea-azov-blue-corridor-stranded-seafarers">to let stranded seafarers leave Ukraine war zone</a>.*
  Putin has threatened to attack any vessel that moves.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Imprisoning_hostages)
title: Imprisoning hostages
uri: Imprisoning-hostages
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Imprisoning_hostages)
content:
 
<p>
Iran imprisoned Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori as
hostages <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/16/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-free-anoosheh-ashoori-iran-uk">to get the UK to pay the UKP 400 million that it owned to
Iran</a>.

<p>
That money was a refund of the price of an arms sale that the UK
cancelled.  It was right for the UK to pay that money, but not
acceptable for Iran to take innocent people hostage to get it.
Foreigners thinking of visiting Iran should beware, for they too may
be taken hostage for years.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Permafrost_melting)
title: Permafrost melting
uri: Permafrost-melting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Permafrost_melting)
content:
 
<p>
Areas of permafrost under the Arctic Ocean floor <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/14/world/arctic-seafloor-holes-permafrost-scn/index.html">are melting and creating
huge sinkholes</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Defending_planet_roasters)
title: Defending planet roasters
uri: Defending-planet-roasters
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Defending_planet_roasters)
content:
 
<p>
Manchin vetoed the appointment of Sarah Bloom Raskin to the Federal
Reserve board <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/14/latest-climate-obstruction-manchin-refuses-support-sarah-bloom-raskin-fed">because she wants banks to move away from investing in
destroying Earth's climate</a>.

<p>
This is very bad, since we can expect Manchin to do veto any other nominee
who would create obstacles to the <a href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Presidential_election_in_Colombia)
title: Presidential election in Colombia
uri: Presidential-election-in-Colombia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Presidential_election_in_Colombia)
content:
 
<p>
A leftist is favored <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/14/leftist-petros-huge-colombian-primary-win-seen-latest-wave-new-pink-tide">to win Colombia's presidential election</a>.

<p>
Colombia's recent presidents have been repressively associated with
the army, in some case <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-mar-jun.html#13_May_2018_(Colombias_army)">with army massacres of civilians</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(List_of_massacres)
title: List of massacres
uri: List-of-massacres
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(List_of_massacres)
content:
 
<p>
Australian historians have made a list of over 400 instances 
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/16/almost-half-the-massacres-of-aboriginal-people-were-by-police-research-finds">where colonists in Australia massacred indigenous people</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Plan_to_storm_government_buildings)
title: Plan to storm government buildings
uri: Plan-to-storm-government-buildings
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Plan_to_storm_government_buildings)
content:
 
<p>
*Proud Boys leader had [written] plans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/15/proud-boys-leader-enrique-tarrio-document-january-6">to "storm" government buildings
 on 6 January</a>.*


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Harassment_calls)
title: Harassment calls
uri: Harassment-calls
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Harassment_calls)
content:
 
<p>
Uyghur exiles in Norway say that even there they get harassment calls from
Chinese agents <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/15/uyghur-refugee-arctic-circle-norway-harassed-by-china">that threaten their relatives in China</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Planned_burst)
title: Planned burst
uri: Planned-burst
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Planned_burst)
content:
 
<p>
TV editor Marina Ovsyannikova told a friend in advance about her plan
to burst in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/15/russia-tv-protest-marina-ovsyannikova-ukraine-war">on a Russian live TV program to denounce Putin's war</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Heritage_under_threat)
title: Heritage under threat
uri: Heritage-under-threat
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Heritage_under_threat)
content:
 
<p>
*Ukrainian heritage is under threat [from Putin's invasion] -– and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/15/ukrainian-heritage-under-threat-truth-soviet-era-russia">so
is the truth about Soviet-era Russia</a>.*

<p>
Putin has been working in Russia <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2007-jul-oct.html#23 August 2007 (Rehabilitating Stalin)">to praise Stalin's regime</a>
  as well as <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-sep-dec.html#30_December_2021_(Freedom_to_investigate)">to block dissemination of facts about his vicious repression</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Endangered_high_seas_life)
title: Endangered high seas life
uri: Endangered-high-seas-life
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Endangered_high_seas_life)
content:
 
<p>
A rapid expansion in fishing, farming, mining and power generation
endangers life in the high seas.  We urgently need a treaty <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/15/as-the-ocean-industrial-revolution-gains-pace-the-need-for-protection-is-urgent">to
regulate those practices</a>.

<p>
Many governments, in thrall to big money, will fight to maintain
the vulnerability until most ocean life is wiped out.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Food_system)
title: Food system
uri: Food-system
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#17_March_2022_(Food_system)
content:
 
<p>
Many parts of the US food system are concentrated in the hands of a
few companies.  This reduces resilience, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/15/covid-coronavirus-us-food-system-pandemic-cracks">led to shortages when
Covid-19 started</a>.

<p>
The shortage of competition is also causing price increases, in food
and other fields.


 


title: Urgent: Stop advertising on Fox News
uri: Urgent-Stop-advertising-on-Fox-News
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_advertising_on_Fox_News)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_advertising_on_Fox_News)

content:
 
<p>
Everyone: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-us-companies-stop-advertising-on-fox-news?nowrapper=true">call on US companies</a> to stop advertising on Fox News.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Oligarchs)
title: Oligarchs
uri: Oligarchs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Oligarchs)
content:
 
<p>
*We claim Britain is an ethical democracy -- <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/16/russia-oligarchs-democracy-britain-london-politics">but oligarchs know that’s
 not true</a>.*

<p>
We should not understand the term "oligarchs" as limited to rich
Russians (who may have little political power in Russia); it certainly
applies to rich Westerners (who are likely to have far too much
political power in western countries).


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Urgent:_Shift_to_renewable_energy)
title: Urgent: Shift to renewable energy
uri: Urgent-Shift-to-renewable-energy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Urgent:_Shift_to_renewable_energy)
content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/russia_drilling">call on Congress</a> to shift the US to renewable energy
instead of increasing extraction of fossil fuels.


 


title: Urgent: Save the monarch butterflies
uri: Urgent-Save-the-monarch-butterflies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Urgent:_Save_the_monarch_butterflies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Urgent:_Save_the_monarch_butterflies)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=49212">call on the EPA</a> to save the monarch [butterflies] by providing
critical protections for the endangered prostrate milkweed.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Time_to_prosecute)
title: Time to prosecute
uri: Time-to-prosecute
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Time_to_prosecute)
content:
 
<p>
Laurence Tribe, a distinguished jurist, says, "The evidence is clear:
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/16/donald-trump-criminal-charges-january-6-capitol-attack">it's time to prosecute Donald Trump</a>."
  Let's join in urging prompt prosecution.

<p>
I wonder about one thing: will it be difficult to find a jury?  Surely
most Americans knew little about what Guy Reffitt did on Jan 6, 2021,
so even though they had general opinions about the insurrection, they
could give him a fair trial based on the facts about him that they
would learn while on the jury.  But could we find a jury of people
who can do the same for the wrecker?

<p>
I would like to see what a lawyer says about this question.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Unions)
title: Unions
uri: 2022-03-18-Unions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Unions)
content:
 
<p>
The situation facing US unions: they need more capacity <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/16/us-union-victories-wave-labor-strategists">to reach out
to organize more workplaces</a>.

<p>
Our right-wing anti-union laws are against workers.  In order for
unions to win, they need to build up solidarity that extends to
election campaigns.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Punishing_rich_Russians)
title: Punishing rich Russians
uri: Punishing-rich-Russians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Punishing_rich_Russians)
content:
 
<p>
The biggest obstacle to punishing the rich Russians who uphold Putin's
unjust power over Russia is that this might enable to punish the rich
Americans and Europeans <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/16/russia-rich-wealthy-western-elites-thomas-piketty">that maintain unjust power over the US and
Europe</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Breaking_the_propaganda_machine)
title: Breaking the propaganda machine
uri: Breaking-the-propaganda-machine
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Breaking_the_propaganda_machine)
content:
 
<p>
*Marina Ovsyannikova <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/16/marina-ovsyannikova-russia-propaganda-putin">broke the state propaganda machine</a> –- others will follow.*

<p>
I hesitate to predict chain reactions of victories before they happen.
It is too easy to to be disappointed.  But it could happen.  Each chink
in the wall is a step towards pulling it down.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Creator_economy)
title: Creator economy
uri: Creator-economy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Creator_economy)
content:
 
<p>
The "creator economy" is the latest marketing term encouraging artists
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/16/want-to-be-your-own-boss-online-heres-why-its-not-so-simple">to yield to the clouded manipulation of online dis-services</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Abuse_of_power)
title: Abuse of power
uri: Abuse-of-power
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Abuse_of_power)
content:
 
<p>
Abuse of power, most often against black adults and adolescents,
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/16/police-strip-search-black-girl-school-east-london-racism-misogyny">is normal among British thugs</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Smearing_democratic_candidate)
title: Smearing democratic candidate
uri: Smearing-democratic-candidate
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Smearing_democratic_candidate)
content:
 
<p>
*China accused of plotting <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/16/china-smear-democratic-candidate-us-congress">to smear Democratic candidate for US Congress</a>*.
  This refers to Xiong Yan, Chinese dissident become US citizen.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Interviews_with_refugees)
title: Interviews with refugees
uri: Interviews-with-refugees
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Interviews_with_refugees)
content:
 
<p>
Interviews with refugees fleeing to Mykolaiv from villages, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/16/mykolaiv-ukraine-bombarded-port-city">and fleeing from
Mykolaiv to the west</a>.


 


title: Complaints to Human Rights Commission
uri: Complaints-to-Human-Rights-Commission
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Complaints_to_Human_Rights_Commission)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Complaints_to_Human_Rights_Commission)

content:
 
<p>
The rate of complaints to the Australian Human Rights Commission has
almost doubled since 2020.  Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/17/australian-human-rights-commission-to-slash-staff-after-budget-cuts-and-surge-in-workload">it has to reduce its staff</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Displaced_people)
title: Displaced people
uri: Displaced-people
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Displaced_people)
content:
 
<p>
A prediction of 200 million people <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/16/prepare-for-mass-migration-to-cities-in-climate-crisis-uk-mayors-warn">displaced by climate mayhem by 2050
and moving to cities</a>.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Suing_torture)
title: Suing torture
uri: Suing-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Suing_torture)
content:
 
<p>
A UK court ruled that Abu Zubaydah can sue the UK agents who
collaborated <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/mar/16/abu-zubaydah-uk-spies-cia-torture-english-law">in his illegal imprisonment and his torture</a>.




 


title: Neoliberal approach to regional disasters
uri: Neoliberal-approach-to-regional-disasters
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Neoliberal_approach_to_regional_disasters)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Neoliberal_approach_to_regional_disasters)

content:
 
<p>
  Neoliberalism's approach to regional disasters: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/17/money-might-save-your-property-but-who-wants-to-live-in-a-country-where-the-poor-drown-and-the-rich-are-saved">the rich pay for their
  own rescue, and starve the state's treasury so it can't afford to rescue you</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Uselessness_of_economic_sanctions)
title: Uselessness of economic sanctions
uri: Uselessness-of-economic-sanctions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Uselessness_of_economic_sanctions)
content:
 
<p>
  *Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s ordeal shows <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/17/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-economic-sanctions">the uselessness of economic sanctions</a>.*
  They usually <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-nov-feb.html#17_January_2022_(Negotiation)">fail to achieve their goal</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Fake_news_law)
title: Fake news law
uri: Fake-news-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Fake_news_law)
content:
 
<p>
Veronika Belotserkovskaya, one of the first three victims of Putin's
new law against "fake news", says she has been "<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/17/veronika-belotserkovskaya-putin-fake-news-law-first-victim-russia-ukraine">officially declared a
decent person</a>." She does not feel threatened because she is not in Russia.
But everyone in Russia faces mounting repression.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Ukraine_and_nuclear_missiles)
title: Ukraine and nuclear missiles
uri: Ukraine-and-nuclear-missiles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Ukraine_and_nuclear_missiles)
content:
 
<p>
  If Ukraine had kept its nuclear missiles, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/15/no-ukraine-was-not-wrong-give-its-nukes">don't assume that would have
  made it safe from Russian attack</a>.  It could instead have put the world
  in danger of nuclear war.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Covid_rate_rising_fast)
title: Covid rate rising fast
uri: Covid-rate-rising-fast
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Covid_rate_rising_fast)
content:
 
<p>
  The Covid rate is rising fast in some European countries that have
  <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/15/health/covid-rising-uk-us/index.html">eliminated Covid mask and distancing rules</a>.
  The US is likely to experience this too in a month or two, and it
  could be avoided if we had had good leaders, instead of weak Democrats
  facing Republican saboteurs.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Incels)
title: Incels
uri: Incels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Incels)
content:
 
<p>
  The US government is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/15/politics/tallahassee-hot-yoga-shooting-misogynistic-extremism-report/index.html">waking up to the danger of violence from incels</a>.
<p>
  I understand the misery of being rejected over and over.  I passed
  many years in that despair.  But, unlike incels, I recognize that a
  woman's feelings are hers, just as my feelings are mine.  No one has
  an obligation to love me, and if she doesn't, I simply have to accept
  it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(War_crimes_in_a_town_north_of_Kyiv)
title: War crimes in a town north of Kyiv
uri: War-crimes-in-a-town-north-of-Kyiv
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(War_crimes_in_a_town_north_of_Kyiv)
content:
 
<p>
  Documenting <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/17/i-saw-a-rocket-hit-an-orphanage-the-ukrainians-recording-possible-war-crimes">apparent war crimes in a town north of Kyiv</a>.
<p>
  How <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/15/opinions/war-crimes-russia-invasion-ukraine-newton/index.html">the definition of war crimes applies</a> to the Putin forces' attacks on
  civilians in Ukraine.
<p>
  Stopping civilians from sending information about military activities
  seems legitimate to me.  Killing them to prevent it, I expect is a
  war crime.
<p>
  The reason why most of the world's countries do not belong to the
  International Criminal Court is that <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2010-jul-oct.html#17%20July%202010%20(Charged%20with%20genocide)">Dubya pressured them to refuse</a>.
  Why do that?  We suspect it was to avoid prosecution of American
  soldiers, commanders or leaders for war crimes -- including perhaps
  Dubya himself.
  
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Rewilding)
title: Rewilding
uri: Rewilding
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Rewilding)
content:
 
<p>
George Monbiot: the temporary drop in food production from Putin's war
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/16/food-crisis-britain-prices-russia-ukraine-rewilding">must not prevent rewilding</a>, which we need for the ecosphere's
long-term security.

 


title: UK could eliminate need for Russian gas
uri: UK-could-eliminate-need-for-Russian-gas
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(UK_could_eliminate_need_for_Russian_gas)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(UK_could_eliminate_need_for_Russian_gas)

content:
 
<p>
*The UK could <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/16/uk-can-eliminate-need-for-russian-gas-this-year-research-shows">eliminate all need for imports of Russian gas this year
through a combination of energy efficiency, expanding renewable power
generation and a campaign to help people change their behavior</a>,*
according to an environmentalist think tank.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Mayor_Adams)
title: Mayor Adams
uri: Mayor-Adams
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Mayor_Adams)
content:
 
<p>
  New York Mayor Adams is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/16/eric-adams-new-york-city-crime-police">bringing back thug department practices and subunits
  that were known for a racist prediliction for unjustified violence</a>.
  At the same time, he is cutting the support for the homeless.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Myanmar_coup_and_war_crimes)
title: Myanmar coup and war crimes
uri: Myanmar-coup-and-war-crimes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#18_March_2022_(Myanmar_coup_and_war_crimes)
content:
 
<p>
  *Widespread abuses since Myanmar coup <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/16/widespread-abuses-since-myanmar-coup-may-amount-to-war-crimes-says-un-report">may amount to war crimes</a>, says UN report.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Ukrainian_bioweapons_labs_myth)
title: Ukrainian bioweapons labs myth
uri: Ukrainian-bioweapons-labs-myth
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Ukrainian_bioweapons_labs_myth)
content:
 
<p>
  *How <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/18/ukrainian-bioweapons-labs-qanon-fox-news">"Ukrainian bioweapons labs" myth went from QAnon fringe to Fox News</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(SUVs_getting_their_tires_deflated)
title: SUVs getting their tires deflated
uri: SUVs-getting-their-tires-deflated
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(SUVs_getting_their_tires_deflated)
content:
 
<p>
  Climate activists in Britain are pointing out how SUVs increase
  greenhouse gas emissions with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/18/tyre-extinguishers-deflating-suv-tyres-as-a-form-of-climate-action">a campaign of deflating the tires of SUVs</a>.
<p>
  The action lets the air out of the tires by opening the valves; it
  does not damage the tires.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(US_child_tax_credit)
title: US child tax credit
uri: US-child-tax-credit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(US_child_tax_credit)
content:
 
<p>
*The uphill battle to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/18/us-child-tax-credit-lapsed">resurrect the US child tax credit</a> that lifted
millions from poverty.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Covid-10_variant_BA.2)
title: Covid-10 variant BA.2
uri: Covid-10-variant-BA-2
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Covid-10_variant_BA.2)
content:
 
<p>
  The modified Omicron variant BA.2 is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/18/covid-resurgence-uk-infections-record-older-people-vaccinations">causing a wave of Covid-19 in the
  UK and has already caused one in other European countries</a>.
<p>
  I expect the number of new cases to rise in the US very soon
  if it has not already done so.

 


title: Rapid test and vaccine production readiness
uri: Rapid-test-and-vaccine-production-readiness
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Rapid_test_and_vaccine_production_readiness)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Rapid_test_and_vaccine_production_readiness)

content:
 
<p>
The world <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/18/professor-sarah-gilbert-on-the-legacy-of-lockdown-we-must-ensure-we-are-better-prepared-for-future-outbreaks">must maintain readiness for rapid test and vaccine
production</a>, for future pandemics.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Global_heating_at_work)
title: Global heating at work
uri: Global-heating-at-work
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Global_heating_at_work)
content:
 
<p>
Texans can look out their windows and see <a href="/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a> at work.
An unlucky few no longer have windows to look out of.
It's not even spring in Texas, but <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/18/texas-wildfires-eastland-complex-latest">there are already many wildfires</a>,
stimulated by a drought that has continued since last year.
<p>
In 2050, this week's "bad fire weather" will be "the good old days."
<p>
Texans need to kick out officials that oppose efforts to slow down
<a href="/glossary.html#global heating">global heating</a>.  Those officials are working for planet roasters,
and more generally for rich business against the rest of us.
<p>
Many of them, Republicans, are working also for racism, for sexism,
for Putin, and for Trumputin.  The <a href="/glossary.html#plutocratist">plutocratist</a> Democrats don't
support those things, but still do support the <a href="/glossary.html#planet">planet roasters</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Release medically vulnerable prisoners from federal prisons
uri: Urgent-Release-medically-vulnerable-prisoners-from-federal-prisons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Urgent:_Release_medically_vulnerable_prisoners_from_federal_prisons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Urgent:_Release_medically_vulnerable_prisoners_from_federal_prisons)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on the Bureau of Prisons to <a href="https://act.newmode.net/action/color-change/demand-medically-vulnerable-people-are-released-federal-prison?source=pm_stage1_random_letteraction_53079_button3">release medically vulnerable prisoners from federal prisons</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Restore the Child Tax Credit
uri: Urgent-Restore-the-Child-Tax-Credit
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Urgent:_Restore_the_Child_Tax_Credit)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Urgent:_Restore_the_Child_Tax_Credit)

content:
 
<p>
US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.demandprogress.org/sign/tax-credit/?t=1001&akid=28953%2E96703%2EJkEaCH">restore the Child Tax Credit</a>.
<p>
  The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.
<p>
  If you call, please spread the word!

 


title: Urgent: Oppose proposals for war with Russia
uri: Urgent-Oppose-proposals-for-war-with-Russia
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Urgent:_Oppose_proposals_for_war_with_Russia)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Urgent:_Oppose_proposals_for_war_with_Russia)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14561">Oppose proposals for war with Russia, including the proposal to declare a "no-fly" zone in Ukraine</a>.
<p>
  It would be satisfying justice to rescue Ukraine, but the resulting war between Russia and the US could easily escalate to become nuclear.

 


title: Urgent: Stop funding the climate crisis with our money
uri: Urgent-Stop-funding-the-climate-crisis-with-our-money
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_funding_the_climate_crisis_with_our_money)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_funding_the_climate_crisis_with_our_money)

content:
 
<p>
Everyone: call on the big banks to <a href="https://act.350.org/sign/banks-cut-off-fossil-fuels/?source=em20220315-30&akid=195005%2E1151744%2Eoji2h4">stop funding the climate crisis with our money</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Anoosheh_Ashoori)
title: Anoosheh Ashoori
uri: Anoosheh-Ashoori
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Anoosheh_Ashoori)
content:
 
<p>
At the last minute, Iran <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/18/iran-made-ashoori-family-raise-27000-in-12-hours-to-secure-his-release">demanded a ransom from
Anoosheh Ashoori's family in order to release him</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Hunter_Brittain's_killer_sentenced)
title: Hunter Brittain's killer sentenced
uri: Hunter-Brittain-s-killer-sentenced
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Hunter_Brittain's_killer_sentenced)
content:
 
<p>
  An Arkansas thug has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/18/arkansas-police-officer-negligent-homicide">sentenced to a year in jail for killing unarmed Hunter Brittain</a>.
  Brittain apparently didn't hear the <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> tell him to show his hands.
  Others on the scene did not hear it either.  Such incidents are frequent,
  and we cannot accept them as making it legitimate to kill someone.

 


title: Starbucks retaliated against workers for supporting a union
uri: Starbucks-retaliated-against-workers-for-supporting-a-union
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Starbucks_retaliated_against_workers_for_supporting_a_union)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Starbucks_retaliated_against_workers_for_supporting_a_union)

content:
 
<p>
  *The National Labor Relations Board <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/15/nlrb-complaint-accuses-starbucks-retaliating-against-union-leaders">accused Starbucks of retaliating against workers for supporting a union</a>.*

 


title: New York City cop harassed by thug supervisor
uri: New-York-City-cop-harassed-by-thug-supervisor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(New_York_City_cop_harassed_by_thug_supervisor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(New_York_City_cop_harassed_by_thug_supervisor)

content:
 
<p>
A New York City cop behaved kindly when a proper <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> would have seen
an opportunity to deal out cruelty.  This <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/17/nypd-officer-harassed-good-deed-lawsuit">brought him persistent
harassment by his superior</a>.  He is suing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Biology_research_lies)
title: Biology research lies
uri: Biology-research-lies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Biology_research_lies)
content:
 
<p>
  Russian biologists <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/03/17/russia-ukraine-bioweapons-misinformation/">explain the truth behind Russia's lies about
  Ukrainian biology research</a>.
  Generals showed totally irrelevant "evidence" and fabricated fake news
  about what it was.
<p>
  Dr Lewitin: *"The Ministry of Defense made a false, unfounded
  statement — and now, if I talk to people, 90 percent of them will say:
  ‘Bioweapons were made in Ukraine.’ No one has read the attached
  documents. And those who have read it will say: ‘Well, yes, maybe
  there are no dangerous pathogens in these documents. But they don’t
  tell us about it for nothing. Maybe there are dangerous strains in
  other documents that cannot be published openly.* In other words, blow
  enough smoke and people will assume there must be some fire.
<p>
  Faux News personalities are supporting Putin on Russian TV as well as
  on Faux itself.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Amazon_worker_walkout)
title: Amazon worker walkout
uri: Amazon-worker-walkout
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Amazon_worker_walkout)
content:
 
<p>
  *Sanders Vows <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/16/sanders-vows-strong-solidarity-multi-state-amazon-worker-walkout">'Strong Solidarity' for Multi-State Amazon Worker Walkout</a>.* As he said, "Amazon can afford to give its employees a $3 raise."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Indian_farmers_committing_suicide)
title: Indian farmers committing suicide
uri: Indian-farmers-committing-suicide
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Indian_farmers_committing_suicide)
content:
 
<p>
  Once again, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/17/opinions/india-farmer-suicide-agriculture-reform-kaur/index.html">many Indian farmers are committing suicide</a>.
<p>
  When this happened some years ago, it was because <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2009-jan-apr.html#16 February 2009 (200 thousand Indian farmers commit suicide)">government policies were driving farm families to penury</a>. I expect that is true again now.
<p>
  Offering psychotherapy to help them bear up to penury is treating a
  secondary symptom of the problem.  What's needed is effective laws to
  ensure farmers can get by.  The US instituted some in the New Deal.
<p>
  Also, India to reduce the birth rate so that things stop getting worse.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Fake_carbon_offsets)
title: Fake carbon offsets
uri: Fake-carbon-offsets
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Fake_carbon_offsets)
content:
 
<p>
*The SEC must not legitimize <a href="media/b168c833.Industry-Agenda_-Carbon-Offsets.pdf" data-original-source="https://therevolvingdoorproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Industry-Agenda_-Carbon-Offsets.pdf">fake "carbon offsets"</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(UK_thugs_and_domestic_violence)
title: UK thugs and domestic violence
uri: UK-thugs-and-domestic-violence
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(UK_thugs_and_domestic_violence)
content:
 
<p>
  When UK thugs are accused of domestic violence, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/17/80-percent-of-uk-police-accused-of-domestic-abuse-kept-jobs-figures-show">80% of them are allowed to keep their jobs</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_((Satire)_Newman's_own)
title: (Satire) Newman's own
uri: (Satire)-Newman-s-own
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_((Satire)_Newman's_own)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Watchdog Warns Nearly Every Food Brand In U.S. Owned By
  Handful Of Companies, Which In Turn Are Controlled By Newman’s Own.*

 


title: Executive actions to help low-paid Americans
uri: Executive-actions-to-help-low-paid-Americans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Executive_actions_to_help_low-paid_Americans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Executive_actions_to_help_low-paid_Americans)

content:
 
<p>
  Progressives gave Biden a list of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/17/democrats-progressives-executive-orders-list-biden">55 executive actions he ought to take
  to help low-paid Americans</a>.*

 


title: Urgent: Disqualify insurrectionist candidates
uri: Urgent-Disqualify-insurrectionist-candidates
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Urgent:_Disqualify_insurrectionist_candidates)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Urgent:_Disqualify_insurrectionist_candidates)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on the states' secretaries of state to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/secretaries-of-state-must-disqualify-all-insurrectionists-from-serving-in-office-including-as-poll-workers-and-election-officials">disqualify
insurrectionist candidates</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Centralized surveillance of college students
uri: Urgent-Centralized-surveillance-of-college-students
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Urgent:_Centralized_surveillance_of_college_students)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Urgent:_Centralized_surveillance_of_college_students)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: phone your congresscritter and senators.
A US bill, just a step away from passing, would set up <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/02/almost-law-college-transparency-act-would-build-another-national-surveillance-system/">centralized
surveillance of every college student</a>, and it would continue for all
per life.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Putin's forces bombed where civilians took refuge
uri: Putin-s-forces-bombed-where-civilians-took-refuge
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Putin's_forces_bombed_where_civilians_took_refuge)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Putin's_forces_bombed_where_civilians_took_refuge)

content:
 
<p>

In Mariupol, Putin's forces bombed a theater and a municipal swimming
pool building where <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/17/mariupol-theatre-ukraine-civilians-russia-war">civilians had taken refuge</a>.
<p>
They continue to block convoys of food and medicine and efforts to
transport civilians out of the city.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Toxic_waste_on_coastlines)
title: Toxic waste on coastlines
uri: Toxic-waste-on-coastlines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Toxic_waste_on_coastlines)
content:
 
<p>

*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/17/toxic-waste-revealed-as-eroding-coastlines-expose-old-landfills">Toxic waste revealed</a> as eroding coastlines expose old landfills.*
<p>
For most outright poisons, I would guess that they won't do much harm
once dispersed in the volume of the ocean.  Endocrine disruptors such
as PFAs may be an exception, as they can cause harm to sea life even
at very low concentrations.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(UK_libel_law)
title: UK libel law
uri: 2022-03-20-UK-libel-law
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(UK_libel_law)
content:
 
<p>

The UK will consider changing its libel law, which is often used by
rich people to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/mar/17/libel-lawfare-english-courts-slapps">ruin those that publish unpleasant statements about
them</a>, even if the statements are true.
<p>
UK libel law was even more useful for censorship before a <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#22_September_2015_(Threats_to_freedom_of_speech_in_the_UK)">previous
reform</a>, a few years ago.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Texas_voter_suppression_rules)
title: Texas voter suppression rules
uri: Texas-voter-suppression-rules
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Texas_voter_suppression_rules)
content:
 
<p>

Texas voter suppression rules caused <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/17/texas-ballots-mail-march-primary">rejection of 13% of the mail-in
ballots</a> in the recent primary election.
<p>
The ratio was clearly higher (15%) in Democratic counties than in
Republican counties (9%).  Those same percentages in a final election
would give Republicans a 10,000-vote unfair advantage in a state-wide
race.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Increased_rain_in_Kenya)
title: Increased rain in Kenya
uri: Increased-rain-in-Kenya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Increased_rain_in_Kenya)
content:
 
<p>

Global heating has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/17/kenya-quiet-slide-underwater-great-rift-valley-lakes-east-africa-flooding">increased the rain in Kenya</a>.  For over a decade, its great
lakes have been rising and spreading.  In 2019 it started going faster.

 


title: Progressive measures that lifted children out of poverty
uri: Progressive-measures-that-lifted-children-out-of-poverty
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Progressive_measures_that_lifted_children_out_of_poverty)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Progressive_measures_that_lifted_children_out_of_poverty)

content:
 
<p>

Progressive measures such as the Child Tax Credit <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/17/us-child-poverty-rate-welfare-measures-expire-experts">lifted 9% of US children
out of poverty</a>.  Now they are sinking back into poverty.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_((satire)_Body_language_expert)
title: (satire) Body language expert
uri: (satire)-Body-language-expert
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_((satire)_Body_language_expert)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Body Language Expert Can Tell With <a href="https://www.theonion.com/body-language-expert-can-tell-with-90-accuracy-if-pers-1848612154">90% Accuracy</a> If Person Sitting.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Russian_billionaire's_disused_house)
title: Russian billionaire's disused house
uri: Russian-billionaire-s-disused-house
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Russian_billionaire's_disused_house)
content:
 
<p>

London thugs mounted a huge operation to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/16/four-released-occupying-russia-oligarch-oleg-deripaska-london-mansion">remove four people</a> who had
occupied a Russian billionaire's disused house.  They wanted to invite
Ukrainian refugees to live there.
<p>
It's unusual for squatting in a rich person's empty house to have such
a sharp political motive.  The usual reason, in a city where the rich
are making people homeless, is <em>to have a place to live</em>.  I believe
that it is even more important to support people who do that.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(US_Supreme_Court_is_corrupt)
title: US Supreme Court is corrupt
uri: US-Supreme-Court-is-corrupt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(US_Supreme_Court_is_corrupt)
content:
 
<p>

*Let's Just Say It Very Clearly: <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/16/lets-just-say-it-very-clearly-us-supreme-court-corrupt">The US Supreme Court Is Corrupt</a>.*

 


title: Covid-19 tests, treatment and vaccines
uri: Covid-19-tests-treatment-and-vaccines
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Covid-19_tests,_treatment_and_vaccines)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Covid-19_tests,_treatment_and_vaccines)

content:
 
<p>

After April, Americans without good medical insurance will have to pay
for Covid-19 tests, treatment, and vaccines.  Congress has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/16/covid-cases-surge-china-and-europe-us-defunds-pandemic-response">eliminated
the funding for this</a>.
<p>
Meanwhile, the rash abandonment of mask and distance rules could
soon result in increasing case numbers.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Insider_threats)
title: Insider threats
uri: Insider-threats
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Insider_threats)
content:
 
<p>

*House Democrats call on Justice Department to address <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/16/politics/justice-department-insider-threats-election-claim/index.html">'insider threats'</a> posed
by candidates who believe false election fraud claims.*

 


title: (satire) Spouses of Supreme Court Justices
uri: (satire)-Spouses-of-Supreme-Court-Justices
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_((satire)_Spouses_of_Supreme_Court_Justices)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_((satire)_Spouses_of_Supreme_Court_Justices)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Supreme Court Justices Sheepishly Admit All Of <a href="https://www.theonion.com/supreme-court-justices-sheepishly-admit-all-of-their-sp-1848656367">Their Spouses
Attended Jan. 6 Riot</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(About_Phil_Goldberg)
title: About Phil Goldberg
uri: About-Phil-Goldberg
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(About_Phil_Goldberg)
content:
 
<p>

About Phil Goldberg, who campaigns to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/17/the-stealth-operative-for-big-oil-whos-out-to-derail-americas-climate-fight">convince us to trust Big Oil
companies</a> to protect the climate.

 


title: Hungarians condemn Orbán's support for Putin
uri: Hungarians-condemn-Orbán-s-support-for-Putin
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Hungarians_condemn_Orbán's_support_for_Putin)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Hungarians_condemn_Orbán's_support_for_Putin)

content:
 
<p>

Hungarians are starting to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/17/orban-treads-fine-line-as-hungarian-opinion-swings-against-russia">condemn Orbán's support for Putin</a>.

 


title: Excuses to extract more fossil fuels
uri: Excuses-to-extract-more-fossil-fuels
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Excuses_to_extract_more_fossil_fuels)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#19_March_2022_(Excuses_to_extract_more_fossil_fuels)

content:
 
<p>

After so many human-caused climate disasters in Australia,
planet-roaster politicians are citing them as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/15/is-battling-back-to-back-disasters-distracting-us-from-fighting-the-climate-crisis">excuses to extract more fossil fuels</a>.
*Reliant on coal to pay for the damage coal brings.*
<p>
*Biden's Climate Action <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/15/bidens-climate-action-woefully-inadequate-meet-escalating-crisis">Woefully Inadequate</a> to Meet Escalating Crisis.*

 


title: IRS more likely to audit poor people
uri: IRS-more-likely-to-audit-poor-people
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(IRS_more_likely_to_audit_poor_people)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(IRS_more_likely_to_audit_poor_people)

content:
 
<p>
  Why the IRS is much <a href="https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-03-14/who-does-the-irs-audit">more likely to audit poor people than rich people</a>.
  The underlying reason is that rich people want it that way and they
  corrupt Congress to give it to them.

 


title: Beat up and arrested for filming thugs
uri: Beat-up-and-arrested-for-filming-thugs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Beat_up_and_arrested_for_filming_thugs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Beat_up_and_arrested_for_filming_thugs)

content:
 
<p>
  California thugs <a href="https://reason.com/2022/03/08/video-shows-california-cops-arresting-mom-and-grandma-for-filming-them/">beat up and arrested women who were making videos
  of those thugs arresting the fiancé of one of them</a>.
<p>
  There was apparently no real grounds to arrest him in the first place.
<p>
  A lawsuit that the city would have to pay is not enough for those <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a>.
  They belong in prison.

 


title: (Satire) 4th consecutive victory over Covid
uri: (Satire)-4th-consecutive-victory-over-Covid
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_((Satire)_4th_consecutive_victory_over_Covid)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_((Satire)_4th_consecutive_victory_over_Covid)

content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Americans Celebrate <a href="https://www.theonion.com/americans-celebrate-4th-consecutive-victory-over-covid-1848667874">4th Consecutive Victory Over Covid</a>.*

 


title: Abortion restrictions in several states
uri: Abortion-restrictions-in-several-states
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Abortion_restrictions_in_several_states)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Abortion_restrictions_in_several_states)

content:
 
<p>
  Several US states are now considering <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/17/worse-texas-extreme-anti-choice-bills-advance-multiple-states">laws that would restrict abortion
  very strictly</a>.
<p>
  Women who have miscarriages are likely to face criminal investigation,
  one official admits.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Nonfree_email_monitoring)
title: Nonfree email monitoring
uri: Nonfree-email-monitoring
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Nonfree_email_monitoring)
content:
 
<p>
  Nonfree software used in schools <a href="https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article259436694.html">monitors students' email looking
  and notices various patterns that suggest "something is wrong</a>."
<p>
  This is a step towards a paternalistic tyranny that monitors everyone
  "for your own good."
<p>
  I can envision a system which achieves the good part of this goal
  while respecting privacy and freedom.  It would run on your own
  computer, in free software, and reports the problems it notices to you
  alone.  You could then ask for help, if you think it is useful and
  safe to do so.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Destructive_deep_sea_mining)
title: Destructive deep sea mining
uri: Destructive-deep-sea-mining
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Destructive_deep_sea_mining)
content:
 
<p>
  *Mining the deep sea is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/18/ocean-defenders-reject-deep-sea-mining-effort-lockheed-martin">as destructive as strip mining the mountains of Appalachia</a>, extinguishing whole ecosystems with a single blow.*
<p>
  Can people design a way of mining the bottom without destroying
  ecosystems?  It would be more expensive, but perhaps still profitable.

 


title: Bill prohibiting recommendation algorithms for minors
uri: Bill-prohibiting-recommendation-algorithms-for-minors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Bill_prohibiting_recommendation_algorithms_for_minors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Bill_prohibiting_recommendation_algorithms_for_minors)

content:
 
<p>
  Minnesota is considering a bill to <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/proposed-law-in-minnesota-would-ban-algorithms-to-protect-the-children/">prohibit large social media companies
  from using recommendation algorithms for users that are minors</a>.
<p>
  (The article misleadingly says "children," which calls adolescents "children.")
<p>
  Perhaps this should apply to users of all ages.  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-jan-apr.html#11_January_2021_(Bullying_Facebook)">Algorithms to control
  what each user sees give Facebook its power</a>,
  and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-jul-oct.html#9_October_2021_(Facebook's_amplification_of_hate_and_disinformation)">disinformationists have learned how to game them</a>.
  
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Governor_Whitmer)
title: Governor Whitmer
uri: Governor-Whitmer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Governor_Whitmer)
content:
 
<p>
  Some of the right-wingers accused of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/19/michigan-governor-kidnap-case-terrorists-fbi-dupes-gretchen-whitmer">plotting to kidnap Michigan
  governor Whitmer</a> are arguing that the FBI entrapped them into a
  plot that the FBI planned.
<p>
  The sad thing is, this is not implausible.  The FBI has a history of
  doing such things.
<p>
  I hope there will be enough facts in this case to determine what the
  truth is.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Mark_Meadows)
title: Mark Meadows
uri: 2022-03-21-Mark-Meadows
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Mark_Meadows)
content:
 
<p>
  Mark Meadows, who tried to fake a wave of voter fraud for the cheater,
  is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/18/doanld-trump-chief-of-staff-mark-meadows-voter-fraud">now being investigated for voter fraud himself</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Recycled_PET_bottles_and_chemicals)
title: Recycled PET bottles and chemicals
uri: Recycled-PET-bottles-and-chemicals
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Recycled_PET_bottles_and_chemicals)
content:
 
<p>
  Recycled PET bottles <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/18/recycled-plastic-bottles-leach-more-chemicals-into-drinks-review-finds">release more of some dangerous chemicals than bottles
  made from new plastic</a>.
<p>
  It may be possible to correct this with more care in the recycling process.

 


title: Smoking and vaping rates have dropped
uri: Smoking-and-vaping-rates-have-dropped
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Smoking_and_vaping_rates_have_dropped)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Smoking_and_vaping_rates_have_dropped)

content:
 
<p>
  Cigarette smoking <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/18/fewer-americans-smoked-pandemic-study">has dropped to 12.5% of US adults</a>.  Vaping by adults
  has dropped too.
<p>
  I am against criminalizing drugs, but reducing use of tobacco is a
  very good thing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Oligarchs_and_the_Chechen_war)
title: Oligarchs and the Chechen war
uri: Oligarchs-and-the-Chechen-war
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Oligarchs_and_the_Chechen_war)
content:
 
<p>
  Greg Palast asserts that Putin was <a href="https://gregpalast.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33e4ec877eed6a43863a4a92e&id=28f90c285d&e=8283eff9b8">chosen by the oligarchs, then
  winning public support (while he needed it) through the Chechen war</a>
  that killed lots of civilians and lots of Russian soldiers.
<p>
  I think Palast can be trusted, but I would be more certain of the
  claims if they came with references to demonstrate some of the cited
  points.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Violence_against_Russians)
title: Violence against Russians
uri: Violence-against-Russians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Violence_against_Russians)
content:
 
<p>
  Some Americans are <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/18/anger-towards-russians-us-reminder-post-911-insanity">attacking anything in the US associated with Russia &mdash; even Russian restaurants</a>.
<p>
  Since 2020 some have associated the Chinese people with Covid-19, and
  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#4_March_2021_(Powerful_current_of_racism)">take it out violently at random on people in the US that might be of
  Chinese ethnicity</a>.
  Now some are doing likewise with people that might be of Russian
  ethnicity.
<p>
  They should reserve their rage for <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jul-oct.html#18_August_2020_(Dishonest_deals_Michael_Cohen_arranged_for_the_wrecker)">Trumputin</a> -- he's Putin's biggest
  and most persistent supporter in the US.  He even directly hampered
  military support for Ukraine
  and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#3_March_2022_(Corrupter_trying_to_abolish_NATO)">threatened to eliminate NATO</a>.
<p>
  I more or less agree with the article in regard to Russian sports and
  art stars, those who would prefer to be apolitical.  Those who actively
  support Putin can be held responsible for that.
<p>
  Russians who criticize the war, or the government, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/18/its-an-attack-on-everyone-russian-activists-under-increasing-pressure-for-opposing-war-on-ukraine">face repression,
  and their friends and coworkers pressure them to hush up</a>.


 


title: Judge the US and Russia by the same standards
uri: Judge-the-US-and-Russia-by-the-same-standards
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Judge_the_US_and_Russia_by_the_same_standards)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Judge_the_US_and_Russia_by_the_same_standards)

content:
 
<p>
  Whether it's killing civilians, using cluster bombs, or launching
  a war of aggression based on lies, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/18/all-war-criminals-must-be-held-accountable-russia-us-and-elsewhere">the US and Russia must be judged
  by the same standards</a>.
<p>
  The article does not distinguish between war crimes properly speaking
  and the crime of aggressive war, which is even more grave.  In the
  conquest of Iraq, there were few war crimes or crimes against
  humanity.  There were plenty of them later, during the long occupation
  of Iraq.  But the decision to invade was, as we now know, a crime of
  aggressive war.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Afghan_woman)
title: Afghan woman
uri: Afghan-woman
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#20_March_2022_(Afghan_woman)
content:
 
<p>
  Women in Afghanistan still <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/19/the-media-spotlight-on-afghanistan-is-fading-fast-but-the-agony-of-its-people-is-far-from-over">face repression from many sides</a>.
<p>
  The women imprisoned by the Taliban for trying to leave the country,
  raped in prison, then murdered by their relatives, provide a clear
  illustration of how ingrained this injustice is in Afghan society.
<p>
  Is there anything we foreigners could do which we could expect
  confidently to make Afghanistan respect women's rights more, even over
  decades?  Not that I have heard of.  Certainly not trying to occupy
  Afghanistan again.  Not <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-sep-dec.html#01_December_2015_(Nation_building)">"nation-building"</a> either.  A just society requires more than peace, but peace in
  Afghanistan is a step forward from a year ago.
<p>
  Perhaps we could offer a nonviolent deal to convince the Taliban to
  allow women to flee the country without permission from a male owner.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Heatwaves_at_both_of_Earth's_poles)
title: Heatwaves at both of Earth's poles
uri: Heatwaves-at-both-of-Earth-s-poles
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Heatwaves_at_both_of_Earth's_poles)
content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/20/heatwaves-at-both-of-earth-poles-alarm-climate-scientists">Heatwaves at both of Earth’s poles</a> alarm climate scientists.*

 


title: Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation sensor
uri: Global-Ecosystem-Dynamics-Investigation-sensor
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Global_Ecosystem_Dynamics_Investigation_sensor)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Global_Ecosystem_Dynamics_Investigation_sensor)

content:
 
<p>
  Experts call for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/20/nasa-urged-to-extend-life-of-key-climate-sensor-that-maps-worlds-forests-gedi-aoe">continuing the operation of the Global Ecosystem
  Dynamics Investigation sensor</a>, which measures forests and their carbon
  storage.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Repressing_disprivileged_minorities)
title: Repressing disprivileged minorities
uri: Repressing-disprivileged-minorities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Repressing_disprivileged_minorities)
content:
 
<p>
  A British teacher says she and all teachers have been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/20/child-q-school-failed-teachers-extension-police">conscripted into
  repression of students from disprivileged minorities, and serving the
  thug department</a>.
<p>
  This is comparable to the <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-mar-jun.html#7_June_2020_(City_thugs_inside_schools)">school-to-prison pipeline</a> in the US.

 


title: Ukraine suspends 11 political parties
uri: Ukraine-suspends-11-political-parties
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Ukraine_suspends_11_political_parties)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Ukraine_suspends_11_political_parties)

content:
 
<p>
  *Ukraine <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/ukraine-suspends-11-political-parties-with-links-to-russia">suspends 11 political parties</a> with links to Russia.*
<p>
  "Suspending" means that they have not been banned, but they are not
  allowed to take any political actions until the war is over and
  normal conditions have returned.
<p>
  This is rather restrained as a way to deal with organized treason.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Enslaved_civilians)
title: Enslaved civilians
uri: Enslaved-civilians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Enslaved_civilians)
content:
 
<p>
  Ukraine's human rights speaker says <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/russia-bombed-mariupol-art-school-sheltering-400-people-says-ukraine">Putin's forces are kidnaping
  Ukrainian civilians and enslaving them in Russia</a>.
<p>
  ISTR that forcibly removing civilians from their country violates the
  Geneva conventions.  ISTR that this came up in connection with Dubya's
  capturing people in various countries and taking them by force to
  CIA prisons and ultimately to Guantanamo.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Mass_deaths_of_salmon)
title: Mass deaths of salmon
uri: Mass-deaths-of-salmon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Mass_deaths_of_salmon)
content:
 
<p>
  As vehicles travel, their tires wear down.  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/21/chemical-from-tyres-linked-to-mass-salmon-deaths-in-us-found-in-australia-for-first-time">The resulting detritus is
    poisonous to salmon</a> &mdash; so poisonous that it can explain the mass
    deaths of salmon after storm runoff washes debris from roads into rivers.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Home_Health_and_Hospice_Industries)
title: Home Health and Hospice Industries
uri: Home-Health-and-Hospice-Industries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Home_Health_and_Hospice_Industries)
content:
 
<p>
  *Report Rings Alarm Over <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/18/report-rings-alarm-over-private-equitys-grip-home-health-hospice-industries">Private Equity's Grip on Home Health, Hospice Industries</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(GOP_sabotage_and_new_Covid_wave)
title: GOP sabotage and new Covid wave
uri: GOP-sabotage-and-new-Covid-wave
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(GOP_sabotage_and_new_Covid_wave)
content:
 
<p>
  *Fears of New Covid Wave Grow as GOP Is <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/18/fears-new-covid-wave-grow-gop-actively-sabotaging-aid-effort">'Actively Sabotaging' Aid Effort</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_((Satire)_Filter-top_hot_dogs)
title: (Satire) Filter-top hot dogs
uri: (Satire)-Filter-top-hot-dogs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_((Satire)_Filter-top_hot_dogs)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Oscar Mayer <a href="https://www.theonion.com/oscar-mayer-introduces-new-filter-tip-hot-dogs-for-heal-1848562510">Introduces New Filter-Tip Hot Dogs</a> For Healthier
  Meat-Eating Experience.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Federal_support_for_Covid-19_tests)
title: Federal support for Covid-19 tests
uri: Federal-support-for-Covid-19-tests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Federal_support_for_Covid-19_tests)
content:
 
<p>
  Republicans <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/18/expendable-americans-pandemic">killed federal support for Covid-19 tests, vaccination and treatment</a>.  That means vulnerable Americans who aren't wealthy are consigned to death, or to solitary confinement in their homes.

 


title: Windfall profit tax on oil companies
uri: Windfall-profit-tax-on-oil-companies
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Windfall_profit_tax_on_oil_companies)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Windfall_profit_tax_on_oil_companies)

content:
 
<p>
  80% of US voters want to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/18/poll-shows-incredible-80-us-voters-support-windfall-tax-big-oil">place a windfall profits tax on oil
  companies</a>.
<p>
  *If members of Congress refuse to act, it'll be concrete evidence that
  they’re in the pockets of the industry.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Fair_share_of_taxes)
title: Fair share of taxes
uri: Fair-share-of-taxes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Fair_share_of_taxes)
content:
 
<p>
  Rich people's fraction of total US wealth in incrasing -- arguably
  that proves <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/18/how-fix-americas-badly-broken-system-taxing-ultra-rich">they don't pay their fair share of taxes</a>.
<p>
  I wouldn't consider it unfair if most rich people had a decreasing share
  of the total wealth, as long as that didn't take them into poverty.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Murderous_former_president_released)
title: Murderous former president released
uri: Murderous-former-president-released
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Murderous_former_president_released)
content:
 
<p>
  Peru's supreme court has <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/18/protests-after-peru-court-approves-release-ex-dictator-alberto-fujimori">released murderous former president Alberto
  Fujimori</a>.
    Relatives of his victims have appealed to an international tribunal
  to reverse the decision.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(James_Noble)
title: James Noble
uri: James-Noble
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(James_Noble)
content:
 
<p>
  Australian mass-murderers (of aboriginals, that is) used to make an
  improvised oven to burn up the evidence (dead bodies).  James Noble, a
  famous tracker, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/20/they-thought-they-could-hide-the-aboriginal-tracker-who-brought-massacre-perpetrators-to-trial">found several and identified the thugs that led the
  massacres</a>.
<p>
  They were tried, but not convicted.  The article refers to some sort
  of sleazy scheme to prevent conviction, but I don't entirely
  understand the sketchy description of that aspect.
  
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Flooded_out_of_their_homes)
title: Flooded out of their homes
uri: Flooded-out-of-their-homes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Flooded_out_of_their_homes)
content:
 
<p>
  Thousands of Australians were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/20/flood-affected-lismore-residents-with-nowhere-to-go-return-to-homes-deemed-uninhabitable">flooded out of their homes by global heating</a>.
  Many have been unable to find anywhere to live except in their homes,
  which have been condemned.  Many are condemned because of mold.
<p>
  The policy of condemning those houses is wise.  Living for weeks in a
  moldy building may not bother you just then, but it can cause you a
  long-term illness that could kill you.  But that policy must be
  accompanied by making sure there is enough housing for everyone.  It
  is no use to tell people to sleep outside.
<p>
  New South Wales must throw up some housing immediately.  Then it must
  build a lot of dense housing in places near train lines that won't be
  flooded -- at least, not in the next decade or two.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Media_pushing_for_US_escalation)
title: Media pushing for US escalation
uri: Media-pushing-for-US-escalation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Media_pushing_for_US_escalation)
content:
 
<p>
  US mainstream reporters <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/18/corporate-media-accused-cheerleading-us-escalation-ukraine">ask questions that seem to push Biden to bring
  the US into the war against Russia</a>.
  Biden <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(Not_starting_third_world_war)">wisely recognizes that that would be a very bad idea</a>.
  Why don't they?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Social_cost_of_carbon_emissions)
title: Social cost of carbon emissions
uri: Social-cost-of-carbon-emissions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Social_cost_of_carbon_emissions)
content:
 
<p>
  An appeals court <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/17/common-sense-decision-court-allows-biden-weigh-social-cost-carbon">authorized the EPA to take account of the "social
    cost of carbon emissions"</a> &mdash; effectively an estimate of the amount of
  damage that much more global heating would cause -- when regulating
  emissions.
<p>
  Eventually this decision will go to the Supreme Court, and I expect
  the worst there.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Spirit_of_unity)
title: Spirit of unity
uri: Spirit-of-unity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Spirit_of_unity)
content:
 
<p>
  Disgust for Putin's atrocities in Ukraine seems to be <a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/could-putins-war">creating a narrow spirit of unity between the Republican and Democratic parties</a>.
<p>
  Whether that is a change for the better is something that remains to
  be seen.  If Republicans can unite with Democrats in measures against
  Putin, would this spirit of unity reduce their intention to impose
  permanent Chritianitist plutocracy on the US, through unfair
  elections?  Or would they instead hide their hostility behind the
  apparent "unity", to undermine our resistance?

 


title: Workers for most UK ferries fired and replaced with low-wage subcontracted workers
uri: Workers-for-most-UK-ferries-fired-and-replaced-with-low-wage-subcontra
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Workers_for_most_UK_ferries_fired_and_replaced_with_low-wage_subcontracted_workers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Workers_for_most_UK_ferries_fired_and_replaced_with_low-wage_subcontracted_workers)

content:
 
<p>
  A Dubai company which owns most of the ferries in the UK has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/17/po-ferries-halts-sailings-before-major-announcement">fired all
  the workers and plans to replace them all with low-wage subcontracted
  workers</a>.
  Some are refusing to leave the ferries that they were working on.
<p>
  A Tory minister <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/19/uk-government-reviewing-its-po-ferries-contracts-after-staff-sackings">wrote a letter in support of the firing before
  the public found out about it</a>.  That's the plutocratist position:
  bow down to the Invisible hand when it hurts the poor; override it
  when it hurts the rich.
  Replacing workers to cut pay ought to land those in charge in prison.
<p>
  In this case, those in charge are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/18/dp-world-p-and-o-ownership-dubai">the royal family of Dubai</a>, responsible for <a href="https://stallman.org/stay-away-countries.html#uae">terrible injustices</a>.
<p>
  A good government would set a minimum wage and working conditions for
  scheduled ferries operating in its ports, even if they to go other
  countries, so that the companies would have nothing to gain by
  preferring foreign crew and no opportunity to do this.
<p>
  This is the sort of thing I believe Jeremy Corbyn would have done, and
  that's why I'd support him if I were British.  I would be favorably
  surprised if Starmer took such a stand.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Wealth-hiding_facilities)
title: Wealth-hiding facilities
uri: Wealth-hiding-facilities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Wealth-hiding_facilities)
content:
 
<p>
  US wealth-hiding facilities, available from certain states to anyone
  rich enough to find them useful, helps <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/17/business/putin-wealth-sanctions-invs/index.html">hide Putin's untraceable hidden
  wealth</a>.
<p>
  Thousands of lesser crooks must use them too, to the great detriment
  of various countries.  We must abolish them, in the US as well as
  other countries.

  
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(30_years_in_prison_for_protesting)
title: 30 years in prison for protesting
uri: 30-years-in-prison-for-protesting
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(30_years_in_prison_for_protesting)
content:
 
<p>
  Cuba has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/17/americas/cuba-protest-sentencing-intl/index.html">sentenced protesters to prison for as much as 30 years</a>.
<p>
  Throwing stones is violence; overturning cars can damage them.  But
  people would never ordinarily be sentenced to 4 years in prison, let
  alone 30, for crimes like that.  Those long sentences can only be
  understood as repression of dissent.
<p>
  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#11_August_2012_(Investigation_of_Oswaldo_Payas_death)">It isn't the first time in this century</a> that Cuba did that.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Terrorist_tactics)
title: Terrorist tactics
uri: Terrorist-tactics
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Terrorist_tactics)
content:
 
<p>
  The Putin forces are applying against Mariupol <a href="https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-17-22/index.html">the terrorist tactics that they
  used against Syrian cities such as Aleppo</a>.
<p>
  I say "terrorist" because their essence is to make <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-mar-jun.html#30_May_2017_(War_on_civilians)">war against the
  civilians</a>, and that's what terrorism means.

 


uri: Urgent-Call-for-the-Small-Business-Administration-to-reveal-how-many
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_for_the_Small_Business_Administration_to_reveal_how_many_Covid_Paycheck_Protection_Program_dollars_went_to_saving_jobs)

title:
 Urgent: Call for the Small Business Administration to reveal how many Covid Paycheck Protection Program dollars went to saving jobs 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Urgent:_Call_for_the_Small_Business_Administration_to_reveal_how_many_Covid_Paycheck_Protection_Program_dollars_went_to_saving_jobs)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on the Small Business Administration to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/become-a-grassroots-co-sponsor-demand-the-small-business-administration-reveal-how-many-covid-paycheck-protection-program-dollars-actually-went-to-saving-jobs-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-afr-advocacy-fund-c4&source=group-afr-advocacy-fund-c4">reveal how many Covid Paycheck Protection Program dollars actually went to saving jobs</a>.


 


uri: Urgent-Oppose-the-College-Transparency-Act-and-its-broad-and-almost
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Urgent:_Oppose_the_College_Transparency_Act_and_its_broad_and_almost_unlimited_lifelong_surveillance_of_everyone_who_has_been_a_college_student)

title:
 Urgent: Oppose the "College Transparency Act" and its broad and almost unlimited lifelong surveillance of everyone who has been a college student 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#21_March_2022_(Urgent:_Oppose_the_College_Transparency_Act_and_its_broad_and_almost_unlimited_lifelong_surveillance_of_everyone_who_has_been_a_college_student)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: phone your congrescritter and your senators to oppose a system of broad and almost unlimited lifelong surveillance of everyone who has been a college student.  <a href="media/c8741bcf.CTA-letter-3.14.22-final.pdf" data-original-source="https://stallman.org/CTA-letter-3.14.22-final.pdf">Here's what the ACLU and other organizations say about it</a>.
<p>
  (I could not link to the URL that was sent to me, because it was on Google Drive, and I could't see that page.)
<p>
  This bill is in the last stage of consideration by Congress; it got there quickly and quietly.  This is the sort of thing Bill Gates wants, so I wonder if Bill Gates's money greased the wheels for it.
<p>
  The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.
<p>
  If you call, please spread the word!

 


title: Urgent: Stop blocking lower drug prices
uri: Urgent-Stop-blocking-lower-drug-prices
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_blocking_lower_drug_prices)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Stop_blocking_lower_drug_prices)

content:
 
<p>US citizens: call on Senator Sinema to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-sinema-stop-blocking-lower-drug-prices">stop blocking lower drug prices</a>.</p>

 


title: Urgent: Investigate civilian casualties in Yemen
uri: Urgent-Investigate-civilian-casualties-in-Yemen
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Investigate_civilian_casualties_in_Yemen)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Investigate_civilian_casualties_in_Yemen)

content:
 
<p>US citizens: call on the Pentagon to <a href="https://act.winwithoutwar.org/act/civilian_casualties_Yemen?source=20220317&t=1006&akid=7654%2E223515%2EUHOWU0">investigate civilian casualties in Yemen</a>.</p>

 


title: Urgent: Confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court
uri: Urgent-Confirm-Ketanji-Brown-Jackson-for-the-Supreme-Court
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Confirm_Ketanji_Brown_Jackson_for_the_Supreme_Court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Confirm_Ketanji_Brown_Jackson_for_the_Supreme_Court)

content:
 
<p>US citizens: call on the Senate to <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/confirm-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-to-the-supreme-court?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-petition-confirm-judge-ketanji-brown-jackson-2">confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court</a>.</p>

 


title: Urgent: Direct transit aid into public transit, electric vehicles and charging infrastructure
uri: Urgent-Direct-transit-aid-into-public-transit-electric-vehicles-and
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Direct_transit_aid_into_public_transit,_electric_vehicles_and_charging_infrastructure)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Direct_transit_aid_into_public_transit,_electric_vehicles_and_charging_infrastructure)

content:
 
<p>US citizens: call on state and local governments to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/demand-state-and-local-dots-prioritize-public-transportation-spending-on-climate-and-equity-over-new-roads-and-highways-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-re-congress-did-it-now-departments-of-transportation-across-the-country-need-to-follow-through">direct transit aid into public transit, electric vehicles and charging infrastructure</a>.</p>

 


title: Urgent: Don't support anti-election Republicans
uri: Urgent-Don-t-support-anti-election-Republicans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Don't_support_anti-election_Republicans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Don't_support_anti-election_Republicans)

content:
 
<p>Everyone: call on AT&ampT <a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/letter/ATT_letter_campaign/">not to support anti-election Republicans</a>.</p>

 


title: Urgent: Eliminate for-profit deportation prisons
uri: Urgent-Eliminate-for-profit-deportation-prisons
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Eliminate_for-profit_deportation_prisons)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Eliminate_for-profit_deportation_prisons)

content:
 
<p>US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://act.pramilaforcongress.com/signup/end-for-profit-immigration-detention/?source=em20220319-1115&t=1003&akid=1115%2E528974%2EUiY3oC">eliminate for-profit deportation prisons</a>.</p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_AIPAC_doesn't_speak_for_you)
title: Urgent: AIPAC doesn't speak for you
uri: Urgent-AIPAC-doesn-t-speak-for-you
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_AIPAC_doesn't_speak_for_you)
content:
 
<p>
<p>US citizens: tell Congress that <a href="https://act.jstreet.org/sign/tell-congress-aipac-doesnt-speak-me/?akid=309894.538688.QCzCrn&rd=1&t=1006">AIPAC doesn't speak for you</a>.</p>

 


title: Urgent: Ban neonicotinoid pesticides to save bees
uri: Urgent-Ban-neonicotinoid-pesticides-to-save-bees
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Ban_neonicotinoid_pesticides_to_save_bees)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Ban_neonicotinoid_pesticides_to_save_bees)

content:
 
<p>US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=48668">ban neonicotinoid pesticides to save bees</a>.</p>
<p>To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a> from the web site, use <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">the Salsalabs workaround</a>.</p>
 
 


title: Urgent: Protect the area around Chaco Canyon from fossil fuel drilling
uri: Urgent-Protect-the-area-around-Chaco-Canyon-from-fossil-fuel-drilling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_the_area_around_Chaco_Canyon_from_fossil_fuel_drilling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Protect_the_area_around_Chaco_Canyon_from_fossil_fuel_drilling)

content:
 
<p>US citizens: call for <a href="https://environmentamerica.webaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=48735">protecting the area around Chaco Canyon from fossil fuel drilling</a>.</p>
<p>To sign without running <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html">nonfree JavaScript code</a> from the web site, use <a href="/salsalabs-method.html">the Salsalabs workaround</a>.</p>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Cancel_Ukraine's_debt)
title: Cancel Ukraine's debt
uri: Cancel-Ukraine-s-debt
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Cancel_Ukraine's_debt)
content:
 
<p>
  *There’s an easy way to help Ukraine without military escalation: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/21/help-ukraine-without-military-escalation-cancel-foreign-debt-russia">cancel its foreign debt</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(2020_election)
title: 2020 election
uri: 2020-election
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(2020_election)
content:
 
<p>
  *Many conservatives <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/21/republicans-biden-trump-election-democracy">don’t think the 2020 election was stolen. But they
  believe democracy itself has betrayed America, by allowing the "wrong"
  people to take charge</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Historic_parallels)
title: Historic parallels
uri: Historic-parallels
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Historic_parallels)
content:
 
<p>
  *In war, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/21/beware-boris-johnson-drawing-historical-parallels-dangerous-ukraine">drawing historical parallels is a dangerous game</a>.*

 


title: Mother wounded shielding baby from missile strike
uri: Mother-wounded-shielding-baby-from-missile-strike
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Mother_wounded_shielding_baby_from_missile_strike)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Mother_wounded_shielding_baby_from_missile_strike)

content:
 
<p>
  Putin's forces fired a missile at a hospital.  This report describes
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/21/ukrainian-mother-seriously-wounded-while-shielding-baby-from-missile-strike">a mother who was wounded shielding her baby</a>.
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/21/the-russians-were-hunting-us-down-the-war-on-journalism-in-mariupol">Testimony to Putin's bombardment of Mariupol</a>, by the last journalists
  there.
<p>
  The tank crew that shot at the apartment building could not have done
  it by mistake.  They saw what they were shooting at, and they knew
  what they were doing.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Great_Barrier_Reef)
title: Great Barrier Reef
uri: 2022-03-23-Great-Barrier-Reef
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Great_Barrier_Reef)
content:
 
<p>
  Much of the Great Barrier Reef is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/22/its-not-supposed-to-be-white-one-of-the-great-barrier-reefs-healthiest-reefs-succumbs-to-bleaching">sick from heat and hunger</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Main_supporters_of_Putin)
title: Main supporters of Putin
uri: Main-supporters-of-Putin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Main_supporters_of_Putin)
content:
 
<p>
  Investigators have identified <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/21/global-assets-russians-alleged-ties-putin-wealth-oligarchs-navalny">billions of dollars of foreign assets
  belonging to people that Alexei Navalny identified as the main
  supporters of Putin</a>.

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title: Australia suspended internet-based system for blind people to vote
uri: Australia-suspended-internet-based-system-for-blind-people-to-vote
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Australia_suspended_internet-based_system_for_blind_people_to_vote)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Australia_suspended_internet-based_system_for_blind_people_to_vote)

content:
 
<p>
  Australia has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/22/unacceptable-suspension-of-ivote-system-undermines-rights-of-low-vision-australians-expert-says">suspended use of an internet-based system for blind
  people to vote with</a>.
<p>
  It is supposed to enable them to vote securely and anonymously.  That
  is a worthy goal, but <a href="https://stallman.org/evoting.html">I strongly doubt that it can really achieve that</a>.
  I'd rather trust a friend than trust network communication with my vote.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(High_seas_and_exploitation)
title: High seas and exploitation
uri: High-seas-and-exploitation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(High_seas_and_exploitation)
content:
 
<p>
  Some countries were unwilling to protect the high seas from exploitation,
  so <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/21/un-ocean-treaty-summit-collapses-as-states-accused-of-dragging-out-talks">treaty negotiations have collapsed</a>.
<p>
  I suspect that those governments have been bought by companies that
  plan to plunder the sea bottom.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Shokrollah_Jebeli)
title: Shokrollah Jebeli
uri: Shokrollah-Jebeli
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Shokrollah_Jebeli)
content:
 
<p>
  Iran killed prisoner Shokrollah Jebeli by denying him medical care.
<p>
  This sort of conduct is not unique to Iran -- I've read about <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jan-apr.html#28_February_2016_(Thugs_kill_emergency_room_patient)">similar</a>
  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#19_December_2019_(Lousy_medical_care_in_US_immigration_prisons)">things</a> happening in the US too.

 


title: Universities must reject fossil fuel cash for climate research
uri: Universities-must-reject-fossil-fuel-cash-for-climate-research
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Universities_must_reject_fossil_fuel_cash_for_climate_research)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Universities_must_reject_fossil_fuel_cash_for_climate_research)

content:
 
<p>
*Open letter from 500 academics <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/mar/21/universities-must-reject-fossil-fuel-cash-for-climate-research-say-academics">likens fossil-energy funding of climate
solutions to tobacco industry disinformation</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(China_military_bases)
title: China military bases
uri: China-military-bases
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(China_military_bases)
content:
 
<p>
  China has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/21/china-has-fully-militarized-three-islands-in-south-china-sea-us-admiral-says">converted some disputed islands in the South China Sea into strong military bases</a>.
<p>
  Merely flying or sailing close to these islands every few months
  will have no effect on the military situation that China is altering.
  The US needs to pay to build similar bases for Taiwan, or perhaps
  the Philippines, if <a href="/glossary.html#dodirty">President Do-dirty</a> is replaced with someone that
  is not murderous and could be an ally.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Downplaying_the_danger_of_asbestos)
title: Downplaying the danger of asbestos
uri: Downplaying-the-danger-of-asbestos
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Downplaying_the_danger_of_asbestos)
content:
 
<p>
  A UK asbestos company started in 1958 to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/20/uk-asbestos-maker-withheld-information-on-material-risks-court-papers-show">downplay the known danger of
  asbestos, while lobbying to allow continued use of it</a>.
  It continued this through the 70s, also concealing some of its research.
<p>
  Although the company was sold in 2017, some of the people who managed
  it in 1980 may still be alive.  And some of those who managed it in
  2000 and 2010 may be culpable for concealing the danger.
<p>
  The possibility of being sued many years later is clearly not enough
  to deter companies from doing it in field after field.  I think it
  should be a felony to aid such a plot.

 


title: Covid infections and hospital admissions rising across the UK
uri: Covid-infections-and-hospital-admissions-rising-across-the-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Covid_infections_and_hospital_admissions_rising_across_the_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Covid_infections_and_hospital_admissions_rising_across_the_UK)

content:
 
<p>
  *With <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/public-health-measures-are-key-to-curbing-covid-in-uk-say-scientists">Covid infections and hospital admissions rising across the UK</a>, measures such as masks, social distancing and ventilation are key.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Polar_temperatures_above_normal)
title: Polar temperatures above normal
uri: Polar-temperatures-above-normal
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Polar_temperatures_above_normal)
content:
 
<p>
  *Scientists Shocked as <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/20/unthinkable-scientists-shocked-polar-temperatures-soar-50-90-degrees-above-normal">Polar Temperatures Soar 50 to 90 Degrees
  Above Normal</a>.*
<p>
  This is weather, and in a few days it will change.  But the fact that it
  could happen is climate, and it's a harbinger of megadeaths.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(AI_Drones)
title: AI Drones
uri: AI-Drones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(AI_Drones)
content:
 
<p>
  The drones in use by Ukraine and the Putin forces don't try to choose
  targets without human help.  But <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/ai-drones-russia-ukraine/">that may not be many steps away</a>.
<p>
  The time for a treaty to ban such weapons is now.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Chernobyl_electricity_reconnected)
title: Chernobyl electricity reconnected
uri: Chernobyl-electricity-reconnected
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Chernobyl_electricity_reconnected)
content:
 
<p>
  Russia has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-news-03-20-22/h_b605d238a4a9260952bb655d99fdd521">reconnected the electricity supply to Chernobyl,
  and allowed half the staff to leave and be replaced by other staff
  personnel</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Genocide_against_the_Rohingya)
title: Genocide against the Rohingya
uri: Genocide-against-the-Rohingya
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Genocide_against_the_Rohingya)
content:
 
<p>
The US government stated the conclusion that <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/20/politics/biden-administration-myanmar-military-genocide/index.html">the Burmese army
committed genocide against the Rohingya</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(P%26O_Ferries)
title: P&O Ferries
uri: P-O-Ferries
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(P%26O_Ferries)
content:
 
<p>
*Government ministers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/19/ministers-told-in-advance-about-po-mass-sackings">knew about P&O Ferries's plan to slash 800 jobs
before staff were informed</a> but were told by officials it would
ensure the firm remained "a key player in the UK market for years
to come", it was claimed on Saturday.*

 


title: Fund managers control the bulk of the capitalist economy
uri: Fund-managers-control-the-bulk-of-the-capitalist-economy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Fund_managers_control_the_bulk_of_the_capitalist_economy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Fund_managers_control_the_bulk_of_the_capitalist_economy)

content:
 
<p>
  Contending that <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/how-asset-managers-have-upended-how-modern-capitalism-works.html">fund manager companies now control the bulk of the
  capitalist economy</a>, and proposing certain consequences.
<p>
  If there is going to be a concentrated power in society, it should be
  a democratic power, not a power of the rich only.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Carbon_offset_business)
title: "Carbon offset" business
uri: Carbon-offset-business
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Carbon_offset_business)
content:
 
<p>
  The "carbon offset" business <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/18/greshams-carbon-law/#papal-indulgences">has a systematic preference for scams</a>.
  Scams will always be cheaper to implement than really reducing or
  preventing emissions, so they will prevail in the market for offsets.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(EPA_shutting_down_its_web_archive)
title: EPA shutting down its web archive
uri: EPA-shutting-down-its-web-archive
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(EPA_shutting_down_its_web_archive)
content:
 
<p>
  Union of Concerned Scientists: if <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/19/shuttering-epas-online-archive-grave-disservice-public">the EPA shuts its web archive</a>,
  that will harm science and accountability.
<p>
  Can anyone find a petition campaign to change the EPA's decision?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Trauma_to_trust)
title: Trauma to trust
uri: Trauma-to-trust
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Trauma_to_trust)
content:
 
<p>
  "<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/19/trauma-trust-healing-communities-beset-violence">Trauma to Trust</a>" is a program that brings cops (some of them,
  presumably, thugs) and people from the communities they work in,
  to establish empathy.
<p>
  The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by
  capitalizing "black" but not "white".  (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
  capitalize both words or neither one.)  I object to bigotry, and
  normally I decline to link to articles which promote it.  But I make
  exceptions for some articles which give important information about
  racism or the fight to eliminate racism.  That article is one of the
  exceptions.
<p>
  Despite my disapproval of that practice, I find the article very
  humane in spirit.  

 


title: Tories and renewable electricity projects
uri: Tories-and-renewable-electricity-projects
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Tories_and_renewable_electricity_projects)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Tories_and_renewable_electricity_projects)

content:
 
<p>
  In 2013, the Tories decided to "get rid of the green crap" and
  cancelled many renewable electricity projects.  The lack of those
  investments <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/mar/19/david-cameron-green-crap-energy-prices">is now costing everyone in Britain</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Peace_framework)
title: Peace framework
uri: Peace-framework
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Peace_framework)
content:
 
<p>
  Arguing for a proposed <a href="Arguing for a proposed framework for peace between Russia and Ukraine.">framework for peace between Russia and Ukraine</a>.
<p>
  If the issue at stake were limited to Ukraine's immediate future, it
  would be a fairly good deal.  But if Putin gains territory and suffers
  no losses except arms and soldiers, he may well conclude that he
  should try this again later, in Ukraine or elsewhere.  The deal must
  impose some permanent loss on him, to discourage this.
<p>
  If the deal will include "autonomy" for parts of Luhansk and Donetsk,
  that "autonomy" should depend on a plebiscite of the legitimate
  residents from before 2014, wherever they live now.  And it should
  be done county by county, not presuming the border in advance.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Generic_Covid-19_vaccines)
title: Generic Covid-19 vaccines
uri: Generic-Covid-19-vaccines
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Generic_Covid-19_vaccines)
content:
 
<p>
  The wealthy countries seem to be <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/19/activists-say-new-compromise-ip-waiver-covid-vaccines-worse-no-deal">converging on agreement to
  temporarily waive patent obstacles to producing and distributing
  generic Covid-19 vaccines, but not the trade secrecy</a>.  And this
  excludes tests and treatments.
<p>
  Not making an exception to the trade secrecy would mean that the
  would-be generic producers would have to repeat the development of
  production processes.
<p>
  As long as we respect and tolerate the propaganda and confusion term
  "<a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html">intellectual property</a>",
  the world will continue to bow down to the
  Big Pharma companies.  We should fund medical research and development
  in a way that doesn't leave us stuck with monopolies that interfere
  with use of the results.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Distracting_ourselves_from_death)
title: Distracting ourselves from death
uri: Distracting-ourselves-from-death
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Distracting_ourselves_from_death)
content:
 
<p>
  A forensic pathologist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/20/a-forensic-pathologist-on-the-legacy-of-lockdown-i-look-at-death-every-day-lets-change-the-way-we-talk-about-it">criticizes the practice of distracting ourselves from the fact of death</a>,
  including the euphemism "<a href="/antiglossary.html#pass">passing</a>".

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Problem_like_Putin)
title: Problem like Putin
uri: Problem-like-Putin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Problem_like_Putin)
content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/solve-problem-like-putin-writers-russia-ukraine-oliver-bullough-peter-pomerantsev">How do we solve a problem like Putin</a>? Five leading writers on Russia have their say.*

 


title: Covid infestions and hospital admissions rising across the UK
uri: Covid-infestions-and-hospital-admissions-rising-across-the-UK
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Covid_infestions_and_hospital_admissions_rising_across_the_UK)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Covid_infestions_and_hospital_admissions_rising_across_the_UK)

content:
 
<p>
  *With <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/20/public-health-measures-are-key-to-curbing-covid-in-uk-say-scientists">Covid infections and hospital admissions rising across the UK</a>, measures such as masks, social distancing and ventilation are key.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Governor_of_Wisconsin)
title: Governor of Wisconsin
uri: Governor-of-Wisconsin
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Governor_of_Wisconsin)
content:
 
<p>
  The governor of Wisconsin is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/20/wisconsin-governor-tony-evers-election-american-democracy">running for reelection</a> based on
  overcoming the Republican-dominated legislature's efforts to stop his
  supporters from voting.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(CD_sales_rising_again)
title: CD sales rising again
uri: CD-sales-rising-again
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(CD_sales_rising_again)
content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/20/physical-media-is-a-gift-that-keeps-being-given">People are returning to buying CDs again</a> -- sales are increasing.
<p>
  Now all we need is to bring back the large record stores which offer a
  great variety of CDs that you can <em>buy anonymously with cash</em>.
<p>
  CDs don't have to be sold in plastic "jewel boxes" that break.
  Some are sold in cardboard boxes which are more robust and probably
  better for the environment.
<p>
  If this is driven by the obligatory giving of copies to people who
  don't actually want them, that's sad, but it means more used copies
  to be sold to people who really do want them.
<p>
  The author displays a fundamental shallowness by describing listening
  to music or reading books as "consuming" them.  Perhaps that's valid
  when applied to streaming music, because the stream will disappear
  after listening to it.  That's one aspect of what makes streaming
  evil.  But digital files of books or music don't have to be evil &mdash; I
  have many which are simple files on my computer, not under the control
  of anyone but me.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Negotiate_peace)
title: Negotiate peace
uri: Negotiate-peace
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Negotiate_peace)
content:
 
<p>
  Arguing that somewhat more arms for Ukraine could <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/03/20/ukraine-russia-weapons-sanctions/">encourage Putin
  to negotiate peace</a>. It is necessary to wipe away his hopes of real victory.
<p>
  With some additional arms, they might make him withdraw his forces.
  How about some air-launched anti-ship cruise missiles?  They could
  prevent a landing near Odessa, and by attacking naval ships coming and
  going at Novorissiisk, also Russia's main oil port, they could make
  most shippers decide not to risk going there.

 


title: Urgent: Create sustainable options now
uri: Urgent-Create-sustainable-options-now
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Urgent:_Create_sustainable_options_now)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Urgent:_Create_sustainable_options_now)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on asset managers (companies like Vanguard, Fidelity, and BlackRock) to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/asset-managers-must-create-sustainable-options-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=20220316_ORG_PR_stmp_petition_1">create sustainable options now</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Risk of prosecution on all activities that receive payments digitally
uri: Urgent-Risk-of-prosecution-on-all-activities-that-receive-payments-di
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Urgent:_Risk_of_prosecution_on_all_activities_that_receive_payments_digitally)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#22_March_2022_(Urgent:_Risk_of_prosecution_on_all_activities_that_receive_payments_digitally)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Congress <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-congress-dont-target-ordinary-crypto-users-with-felonies?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=">not to impose a risk of prosecution on all activities that receive payments digitally</a>.
<p>
  This law would threaten a wide variety of projects.  Surely some of them would have various ethical flaws, while others would be morally acceptable.  A law to attack them all has to be bad.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Aggravating_extinction)
title: Aggravating extinction
uri: Aggravating-extinction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Aggravating_extinction)
content:
 
<p>
  *Australian government <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/22/australian-government-aggravating-extinction-through-land-clearing-approvals-analysis-finds">"aggravating extinction" through land-clearing
  approvals</a>, analysis finds.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_((satire)_SEO-optimized_obituary)
title: (satire) SEO-optimized obituary
uri: (satire)-SEO-optimized-obituary
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_((satire)_SEO-optimized_obituary)
content:
 
<p>
(satire) *Executive On Deathbed <a href="https://www.theonion.com/executive-on-deathbed-requests-obituary-be-optimized-fo-1848642973">Requests Obituary Be Optimized For SEO</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Democracy_converted_to_oligarchy)
title: Democracy converted to oligarchy
uri: Democracy-converted-to-oligarchy
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Democracy_converted_to_oligarchy)
content:
 
<p>
  Philosophers in the 18th century wrote about <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/21/doom-loop-american-oligarchy">the danger that a group
  of rich people would corrupt a democracy and convert it into an
  oligarchy</a>.  The US constitution was designed to try to prevent this
  process, but it is has been happening for 40 years in the US -- and in
  many other countries, including Russia.
<p>
  Russia illustrates that such an oligarchy can easily convert into an
  autocracy ruled by an empire.  The cheater demonstrates it in the US.

  In ancient Rome, Julius Caesar was one of a group of three oligarchs,
  and when he had defeated the others and was making himself emperor,
  even killing him did not prevent the fall of the republic.  I suspect
  that that was because property ownership had become too concentrated,
  making it very easy for a rich few (we could loosely call them
  "billionaires") to dominate everyone.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_((Satire)_Mounted_insect_heads)
title: (Satire) Mounted insect heads
uri: (Satire)-Mounted-insect-heads
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_((Satire)_Mounted_insect_heads)
content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Exterminator Shows Off <a href="https://www.theonion.com/exterminator-shows-off-trophy-room-filled-with-mounted-1848613342">Trophy Room Filled With Mounted Heads
  Of Insects</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Publishing_climate_effects)
title: Publishing climate effects
uri: Publishing-climate-effects
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Publishing_climate_effects)
content:
 
<p>
  The SEC has announced <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/21/long-overdue-step-sec-unveils-historic-climate-risk-disclosure-proposal">new requirements for public companies to publish
  their climate effects</a>, and it includes some reporting on "offsets".

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Childcare_and_universal_pre-K)
title: Childcare and universal pre-K
uri: Childcare-and-universal-pre-K
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Childcare_and_universal_pre-K)
content:
 
<p>
  *The childcare and universal pre-K provisions included in [the
  Build Back Better bill] passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in
  November would <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/21/win-win-win-analysis-shows-sweeping-benefits-bbbs-childcare-and-pre-k-proposals">hugely benefit not only families but also the American
  economy, businesses, and state governments</a>.*

 


title: Don't assume the blockchain will empower the non-rich
uri: Don-t-assume-the-blockchain-will-empower-the-non-rich
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Don't_assume_the_blockchain_will_empower_the_non-rich)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Don't_assume_the_blockchain_will_empower_the_non-rich)

content:
 
<p>
  We should not assume that blockchain, which is a technological
  mechanism, will empower the non-rich.  It could equally well <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/20/riding-blockchain-can-tech-be-revolutionary">be used
  by the rich to escape from taxation, and condenm the rest of humanity
  to serfdom or sucking up to the barons</a>.  Or various possibilities in
  between.

 


title: The London thug department and its history of strip-searching minors
uri: The-London-thug-department-and-its-history-of-strip-searching-minors
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(The_London_thug_department_and_its_history_of_strip-searching_minors)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(The_London_thug_department_and_its_history_of_strip-searching_minors)

content:
 
<p>
  The London thug department has a history of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/20/met-rebuked-for-strip-searches-two-years-before-child-q-case-in-hackney">strip-searching minors who
  it arrests, and being reproached for the practice</a>.
<p>
  The word "children" here seems to mean "minor", under 18.
<p>
  Strip-searches about marijuana are just part of the gratuitous harm
  done by prohibition of marijuana.  The solution is to legalize it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Vitol)
title: Vitol
uri: Vitol
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Vitol)
content:
 
<p>
  *[Ex-minister] Alan Duncan's employer Vitol has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/20/ex-minister-alan-duncan-who-warned-on-sanctions-works-for-oil-trader-linked-to-russia">stake in vast Arctic
    exploration project backed by the Putin regime</a>.*
<p>
  Under UK rules, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/mar/22/former-minister-takes-second-job-as-no-10-drops-plan-to-cap-mps-earnings">even present members of Parliament are allowed to have
  "second jobs"</a>.
  Officially, the job can't include "vote the way we want",
  but that could be implicitly understood.


 


title: Rich countries must stop extracting oil and gas by 2034
uri: Rich-countries-must-stop-extracting-oil-and-gas-by-2034
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Rich_countries_must_stop_extracting_oil_and_gas_by_2034)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Rich_countries_must_stop_extracting_oil_and_gas_by_2034)

content:
 
<p>
*<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/22/rich-countries-must-stop-producing-oil-and-gas-by-2034-says-study">Rich countries must stop [extracting] oil and gas by 2034</a>, says study.
Poorest states should be given until 2050, says research aiming to set
out fair way of ending fossil fuel economy.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Increased_fossil_fuels_use)
title: Increased fossil fuels use
uri: Increased-fossil-fuels-use
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Increased_fossil_fuels_use)
content:
 
<p>
  *António Guterres says countries seeking alternatives to Russian energy
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/21/ukraine-war-threatens-global-heating-goals-warns-un-chief">may increase use of fossil fuels</a>.*

 


title: Preventing poor families from attending university
uri: Preventing-poor-families-from-attending-university
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Preventing_poor_families_from_attending_university)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Preventing_poor_families_from_attending_university)

content:
 
<p>
  The Tories
  have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/21/government-education-innovation-poorer-students-university">a
  two-pronged plan to prevent most students from poor families from
  attending a university</a>.
<p>
  Those who don't get high grades on certain tests will be unable to
  afford to go.  Those who do get high grades will get loans and will
  be crushed by debt.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Sensible_shoes)
title: Sensible shoes
uri: Sensible-shoes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Sensible_shoes)
content:
 
<p>
  Although many businesses require female staff to wear high-heeled
  shoes, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/21/are-the-days-of-high-heels-at-work-finally-over">people tend to perceive women as more competent when they wear
  sensible shoes</a>.
<p>
  This perception may be grounded on valid reasons.  A woman wearing
  sensible shoes demonstrates something about how sensible she is, and
  how willing to reject bullshit.  Those qualities may correlate with
  competence.


 


title: Trumped-up charges for policies making it easy for immigrants to settle
uri: Trumped-up-charges-for-policies-making-it-easy-for-immigrants-to-settl
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Trumped-up_charges_for_policies_making_it_easy_for_immigrants_to_settle)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Trumped-up_charges_for_policies_making_it_easy_for_immigrants_to_settle)

content:
 
<p>
  The mayor of Riace, Italy, has been convicted on trumped-up charges
  for <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/03/21/ukraine-refugees-europe-italy-domenico-lucano/">publicly adopting policies make it easy for
  immigrants to settle there</a>.

 


title: Westerners' disgust and the world's powerful rich
uri: Westerners-disgust-and-the-world-s-powerful-rich
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Westerners'_disgust_and_the_world's_powerful_rich)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Westerners'_disgust_and_the_world's_powerful_rich)

content:
 
<p>
  Westerners' disgust <a href="https://braveneweurope.com/james-foley-abramovich-anatomy-of-a-moral-panic">doesn't tackle all the world's powerful rich equally</a>.
  Russian billionaires are targeted now, but not the murderous rulers of
  Salafi Arabia and the UAE.
  Nor do all attacked countries get equal support.
<p>
  To some extent, the differences in US response reflect the difference
  in what options the situations offer.
<p>
  In Syria, the US tried <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-jul-oct.html#27_September_2021_(Syria's_dictator_Assad)">supporting the rebels against Assad</a>, but they
  were inseparable from the intolerant Islamists, <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2012-may-aug.html#7_August_2012_(Syria)">eager to persecute
  non-Muslims and non-Sunnis</a>.
  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2015-mar-jun.html#15_June_2015_(Western_volunteers_helping_Syrian_Kurds)">Only the secularist, socialist Kurds deserved and deserve
  support</a>, but they could not offer a potential government for all of Syria,
  including those who are not Kurds.
<p>
  By contrast, in Ukraine it is clear who to support, and that makes it
  easy to do so.
<p>
  The US can stop drone bombings in Yemen, and perhaps take a neutral
  stance there, but that won't make its civil war go away.
<p>
  The US could give less support to the regimes of Salafi Arabia and the
  UAE, but barring trying to impose regime change there, which we should
  know would cause disaster, it can't deal with those countries except
  through those regimes.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Wildfires_near_Chernobyl)
title: Wildfires near Chernobyl
uri: 2022-03-24-Wildfires-near-Chernobyl
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Wildfires_near_Chernobyl)
content:
 
<p>
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/22/chernobyl-forest-fires-ukraine-nuclear-plant">Wildfires have started near Chernobyl</a>.  Whether or not the fighting
  started them, the war is preventing any effort to put them out.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Covid_curbs_lifted_too_soon)
title: Covid curbs lifted too soon
uri: Covid-curbs-lifted-too-soon
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Covid_curbs_lifted_too_soon)
content:
 
<p>
*WHO blames rising Covid cases in Europe on <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/22/rising-covid-cases-europe-curbs-lifted-too-soon-world-health-organisation">curbs lifted too soon</a>.*

 


title: Chris Mullin does not need to report identity
uri: Chris-Mullin-does-not-need-to-report-identity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Chris_Mullin_does_not_need_to_report_identity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Chris_Mullin_does_not_need_to_report_identity)

content:
 
<p>
  British journalist Chris Mullin has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/mar/22/birmingham-pub-bombings-chris-mullin-wins-fight-to-protect-source">won his case not to have to report
  the identity of the person who told him about participating in IRA
  terrorism</a>.
<p>
  Mullin got the story by promising confidentiality, and it's against the
  public interest to make such promises worthless.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Locked_out_of_work)
title: Locked out of work
uri: Locked-out-of-work
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Locked_out_of_work)
content:
 
<p>
  An Amazon store worker who supports unionization has been <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/22/amazon-fresh-retaliation-union-unionization">locked out
  of work by closing her account in an app</a>.
<p>
  I think this store is one of those where customers pay automatically
  and cash is not accepted.  Please don't ever do business with stores
  like that.

 


title: (satire) Landlord raises rent for building code violation
uri: (satire)-Landlord-raises-rent-for-building-code-violation
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_((satire)_Landlord_raises_rent_for_building_code_violation)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_((satire)_Landlord_raises_rent_for_building_code_violation)

content:
 
<p>
  (satire) *Building Code Violation Fines <a href="https://www.theonion.com/building-code-violation-fines-leave-landlord-with-no-ch-1848636678">Leave Landlord With No Choice But To Raise Rent</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Shell_companies)
title: Shell companies
uri: 2022-03-24-Shell-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Shell_companies)
content:
 
<p>
  *Syria using maze of shell companies to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/22/syria-using-maze-of-shell-companies-to-avoid-sanctions-on-assad-regimes-elite">avoid sanctions on Assad regime's elite</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Suppressing_protests)
title: Suppressing protests
uri: Suppressing-protests
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Suppressing_protests)
content:
 
<p>
  *Sudan's military is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/mar/22/sudan-military-brutally-suppressing-protests-global-action-needed">brutally suppressing protests</a>.*

 


title: Urgent: Hold Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene accountable
uri: Urgent-Hold-Paul-Gosar-and-Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-accountable
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Hold_Paul_Gosar_and_Marjorie_Taylor_Greene_accountable)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Hold_Paul_Gosar_and_Marjorie_Taylor_Greene_accountable)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Congress to hold Paul Gosar and Marjorie Taylor
Greene accountable for <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-fight-white-supremacy-and-anti-semitism-in-congress-strip-paul-gosar-and-majorie-taylor-greene-of-committee-assignments">speaking at AFPAC</a>, a white-supremacist and
Nazi meeting.

<p>The Capitol Switchboard number is 202-224-3121.</p>
<p>If you call, please spread the word!</p>

 


title: Urgent: Make massive investments in clean energy
uri: Urgent-Make-massive-investments-in-clean-energy
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Make_massive_investments_in_clean_energy)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Make_massive_investments_in_clean_energy)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/fight-climate-change-and-authoritarianism-tell-biden-to-make-massive-investments-in-clean-energy">Make Massive Investments in Clean Energy</a>, so as to fight global heating _and_ authoritarianism.

 


title: Urgent: Block extradition of Julian Assange
uri: Urgent-Block-extradition-of-Julian-Assange
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Block_extradition_of_Julian_Assange)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Urgent:_Block_extradition_of_Julian_Assange)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on Home Secretary Patel to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#15_March_2022_(Julian_Assange_appeal)">block extradition of Julian Assange</a>
by sending email to <a href="mailto:Public.Enquiries@homeoffice.gov.uk">Public.Enquiries@homeoffice.gov.uk</a>.
<p>
(Priti Patel, Home Secretary, Home Office, 2 Marsham St Westminster,
London SW1P 4DF, UK; <a href="tel:+44 20 7035-4848">+44 20 7035-4848)

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Reintroduction_of_Medicare_for_all)
title: Reintroduction of Medicare for all
uri: Reintroduction-of-Medicare-for-all
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Reintroduction_of_Medicare_for_all)
content:
 
<p>

*As Biden Continues [Medicare] Privatization Ploy, Sanders Vows to
<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/21/biden-continues-privatization-ploy-sanders-vows-reintroduce-medicare-all">Reintroduce Medicare for All</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Food_aid_convoy_near_Mariupol)
title: Food aid convoy near Mariupol
uri: Food-aid-convoy-near-Mariupol
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Food_aid_convoy_near_Mariupol)
content:
 
<p>

Ukraine accused Putin of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/23/russia-ukraine-war-what-we-know-on-day-28-of-the-invasion">seizing a food aid convoy</a> near Mariupol
and taking the drivers and aid workers prisoner.
<p>
We don't have confirmation of this, but since it would fit Putin's
modus operandi, I find it plausible.
<p>
Putin is also accused of starving the people in the occupied city of
Kherson.  A country that has occupied territory has the legal
responsibility to provide the occupied people with food and medicine.
<p>
Putin is bombarding Mariupol from warships in the Sea of Azov.  A few
antiship cruise missiles could put an end to that.  The Ukrainians
don't have to be fully trained in how to launch them &mdash; they can get
remote guidance over the internet.

 


title: Funds to study "long Covid" disabilities
uri: Funds-to-study-long-Covid-disabilities
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Funds_to_study_long_Covid_disabilities)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Funds_to_study_long_Covid_disabilities)

content:
 
<p>

US agencies are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/22/health/long-covid-chronic-illness-autoimmune-wellness/index.html">dedicating more funds</a> to study "long Covid" disabilities,
now that tens of millions of Americans may have them.
<p>
The easiest way to deal with the problem of these disabilities is to
prevent them.  Effective measures to prevent transmission of Covid-19
will mean that fewer people catch it, and fewer people get disabled in
this way.
<p>
One thing I have not seen is reports about what fraction of people
that catch Delta get long Covid.  What about Omicron?  What about
fully vaccinated people?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Washington_DC_suing_Grubhub)
title: Washington DC suing Grubhub
uri: Washington-DC-suing-Grubhub
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Washington_DC_suing_Grubhub)
content:
 
<p>

Washington DC is suing Grubhub for <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/22/tech/grubhub-lawsuit-dc/index.html">charging hidden fees</a> and using dark
patterns to get customers to pay them.

For other reasons to reject Grubhub and the other <a href="food-delivery.html">food delivery
surveillance companies</a>, see here.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Chance_to_prevent_oil_spill)
title: Chance to prevent oil spill
uri: Chance-to-prevent-oil-spill
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Chance_to_prevent_oil_spill)
content:
 
<p>

There is now a chance to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/22/opinions/oil-spill-fso-safer-yemen-reddy/index.html">prevent a giant oil spill</a> in the Red Sea,
but that chance could blow up any day.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Resisting_book_banning_campaigns)
title: Resisting book banning campaigns
uri: Resisting-book-banning-campaigns
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Resisting_book_banning_campaigns)
content:
 
<p>

*Progressives are resisting rightwing book banning campaigns &mdash; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/mar/22/educators-resisting-rightwing-book-banning">and
 are winning [sometimes]</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_((satire)_TurboTax_upgrade)
title: (satire) TurboTax upgrade
uri: (satire)-TurboTax-upgrade
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_((satire)_TurboTax_upgrade)
content:
 
<p>

(satire) *TurboTax <a href="https://www.theonion.com/turbotax-threatens-to-tell-irs-customer-cheated-on-taxe-1848638340">Threatens To Tell IRS Customer Cheated On Taxes</a>
Unless [<a href="/glossary.html#perse">Perse</a> Upgrades] To Deluxe Version.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Ferry_workers_evicted)
title: Ferry workers evicted
uri: Ferry-workers-evicted
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Ferry_workers_evicted)
content:
 
<p>

P&O ferry workers live on the ship.  The 800 ferry workers who were
abruptly fired were, ipso facto, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/22/it-wasnt-just-a-sacking-it-was-an-eviction-a-po-seafarer-tells-his-story">evicted with one day's notice</a>.

 


title: (satire) Josh Hawley Slams Ketanji Brown Jackson
uri: (satire)-Josh-Hawley-Slams-Ketanji-Brown-Jackson
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_((satire)_Josh_Hawley_Slams_Ketanji_Brown_Jackson)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_((satire)_Josh_Hawley_Slams_Ketanji_Brown_Jackson)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *[Senator] Josh Hawley <a href="https://www.theonion.com/josh-hawley-slams-ketanji-brown-jackson-for-letting-ped-1848687154">Slams Ketanji Brown Jackson</a> For
Letting Pedophiles Like Himself Walk Free.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(How_Fidelity_funnels_millions)
title: How Fidelity funnels millions
uri: How-Fidelity-funnels-millions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(How_Fidelity_funnels_millions)
content:
 
<p>

How Fidelity <a href="media/6b6300a3.Unmasking-Fidelity-The-People-Disclose-Report-FINAL.pdf" data-original-source="https://unmaskingfidelity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Unmasking-Fidelity-The-People-Disclose-Report-FINAL.pdf">funnels millions of dollars</a> to right-wing advocacy groups.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Positive_Effects_of_Imperialism)
title: Positive Effects of Imperialism
uri: Positive-Effects-of-Imperialism
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Positive_Effects_of_Imperialism)
content:
 
<p>

*US High Schooler's Answer Listing Zero "Positive Effects of
Imperialism" <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/23/us-high-schoolers-answer-listing-zero-positive-effects-imperialism-goes-viral">Goes Viral</a>.*

 


title: Force capable of resisting Russian attack
uri: Force-capable-of-resisting-Russian-attack
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Force_capable_of_resisting_Russian_attack)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Force_capable_of_resisting_Russian_attack)

content:
 
<p>

NATO needs a large force in Eastern Europe, capable of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/23/estonia-nato-tripwire-eastern-europe-ukraine-russia">actually
resisting a Russian attack</a> &mdash; not merely a sign saying "Putin, invasion here would mean war with the US."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Generation_affected_by_disability)
title: Generation affected by disability
uri: Generation-affected-by-disability
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Generation_affected_by_disability)
content:
 
<p>

*Long Covid could create a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/23/long-covid-could-create-a-generation-affected-by-disability-expert-warns">generation affected by disability</a>,*
according to Professor Altmann, immunologists.
<p>
Over 1% of the UK's population have had symptoms for a year now.  If
the US is similar, that would mean 3 million people disabled, who
probably will not recover.  Another 3 million, whose lasting symptoms
started more recently, may or may not remain disabled for a long time.
<p>
That is up to six times the number of Americans who have died from Covid-19.
<p>
It seems from the data in this article that Omicron can cause lasting
symptoms, at least for some time.  The data do not indicate whether
vaccinated people are safe, or whether their risk of being disabled is
less.  We really need to see this!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Australia's_carbon_credit_scheme)
title: Australia's carbon credit scheme
uri: Australia-s-carbon-credit-scheme
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(Australia's_carbon_credit_scheme)
content:
 
<p>

*Australia’s carbon credit [i.e., offset] scheme <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/23/australias-carbon-credit-scheme-largely-a-sham-says-whistleblower-who-tried-to-rein-it-in">"largely a sham,"</a>
says whistleblower who tried to rein it in.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(LA_homeless)
title: LA homeless
uri: 2022-03-24-LA-homeless
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#23_March_2022_(LA_homeless)
content:
 
<p>

*One year after LA evicted [180 homeless people] from a park, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/los-angeles-echo-park-unhoused-residents-homelessness">few are
 in stable housing</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Pegasus_spyware)
title: Pegasus spyware
uri: 2022-03-24-Pegasus-spyware
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Pegasus_spyware)
content:
 
<p>
  Israel <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/23/israel-ukraine-pegasus-spyware-russia">refused to sell Pegasus spyware to Ukraine</a>.
<p>
  Now if only Israel had refused to sell it to all other clients&hellip;

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Long_Covid_disabilities)
title: "Long Covid" disabilities
uri: 2022-03-24-Long-Covid-disabilities
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Long_Covid_disabilities)
content:
 
<p>
  US agencies are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/22/health/long-covid-chronic-illness-autoimmune-wellness/index.html">dedicating more funds to study "long Covid" disabilities</a>,
  now that tens of millions of Americans may have them.
<p>
  The easiest way to deal with the problem of these disabilities is to
  prevent them.  Effective measures to prevent transmission of Covid-19
  will mean that fewer people catch it, and fewer people get disabled in
  this way.
<p>
  One thing I have not seen is reports about what fraction of people
  that catch Delta get long Covid.  What about Omicron?  What about
  fully vaccinated people?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Chernihiv)
title: Chernihiv
uri: Chernihiv
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Chernihiv)
content:
 
<p>
  The Putin forces have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/23/chernihiv-running-out-of-water-as-russia-accused-of-taking-city-hostage">cut off Chernihiv from supplies of water (and food)</a>.
  They say they plan to grab specific civilians and take them by force
  to Russia.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Oligarchs)
title: Oligarchs
uri: 2022-03-24-Oligarchs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Oligarchs)
content:
 
<p>
  Don't assume "oligarchs" means we're talking about Russia.
  Yanis Varoufakis explains <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/23/lets-not-stop-russian-oligarchy">the harm they do, world wide</a>.
<p>
  I've read that <a href="https://www.stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#10_March_2022_(American_Oligarchs)">the concept of "oligarchs" is obsolete in regard to Russia</a>.
  They used to have political power, but Putin took it away from them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Endangered_panthers)
title: Endangered panthers
uri: Endangered-panthers
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Endangered_panthers)
content:
 
<p>
  *What Florida's endangered panthers <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/23/florida-panthers-endangered-need-to-survive">need to survive</a>.*
<p>
  My "<a href="/articles/childhood-sweetheart.html">childhood sweetheart</a>", that I fell in love with when she and I
  were both 40 years old, campaigned very cleverly against development
  that threatened their habitat.

 


title: Taliban rejects girls above 11 from going to school
uri: Taliban-rejects-girls-above-11-from-going-to-school
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Taliban_rejects_girls_above_11_from_going_to_school)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Taliban_rejects_girls_above_11_from_going_to_school)

content:
 
<p>
The Taliban have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/23/girls-in-afghanistan-school-taliban">rejected letting girls above age 11 go to school</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Keep right-wing OAN off DirecTV
uri: Urgent-Keep-right-wing-OAN-off-DirecTV
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Urgent:_Keep_right-wing_OAN_off_DirecTV)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Urgent:_Keep_right-wing_OAN_off_DirecTV)

content:
 
<p>

Everyone: call on AT&T to <a href="https://act.commoncause.org/petitions/tell-att-keep-election-disinformation-off-of-directv?nowrapper=true">keep right-wing channel OAN off DirecTV</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Peace_in_the_Balkans)
title: Peace in the Balkans
uri: Peace-in-the-Balkans
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Peace_in_the_Balkans)
content:
 
<p>

*Peace in the Balkans is again under threat. EU governments must
   <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2022/mar/22/horrors-mariupol-new-danger-sarajevo-balkans-eu-serbia">confront the Serb government</a> before it is too late.*
<p>
It is surely no coincidence that Serbia maintains friendly relations
with Russia.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Sewage_sludge_for_fertilizer)
title: Sewage sludge for fertilizer
uri: Sewage-sludge-for-fertilizer
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Sewage_sludge_for_fertilizer)
content:
 
<p>

Use of sewage sludge for fertilizer has rendered farmland in Maine <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/22/i-dont-know-how-well-survive-the-farmers-facing-ruin-in-americas-forever-chemicals-crisis">too
poisonous to use</a> &mdash; ever &mdash; because of PFAS that contaminates anything
grown there.
<p>
If technological civilization lasts through the <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>
disaster, maybe we will eventually be able to develop ways to destroy
the most used PFAS.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Homelessness_in_California)
title: Homelessness in California
uri: Homelessness-in-California
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Homelessness_in_California)
content:
 
<p>

The number of homeless people in California <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/22/california-homelessness-crisis-unhoused-and-unequal">keeps growing</a>, inevitably,
because the state has a growing shortage of available housing.
<p>
The full solution is to unblock construction of dense housing in the
cities with public transportation.  That will make housing affordable,
<p>
However, lockable tiny rooms could also help.

 


title: (satire) Lack of experience on Supreme Court
uri: (satire)-Lack-of-experience-on-Supreme-Court
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_((satire)_Lack_of_experience_on_Supreme_Court)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_((satire)_Lack_of_experience_on_Supreme_Court)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Senate Republicans Attack Ketanji Brown Jackson’s <a href="https://www.theonion.com/senate-republicans-attack-ketanji-brown-jackson-s-lack-1848687093">Lack Of
Experience On U.S. Supreme Court</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Paid_not_to_criticize)
title: Paid not to criticize
uri: Paid-not-to-criticize
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Paid_not_to_criticize)
content:
 
<p>

P&O ferries is offering to pay workers around 6 months' salary (more
for some workers) in exchange for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/22/po-to-pay-365m-in-compensation-to-800-sacked-workers">not criticizing the company</a>.
<p>
This stingy offer would only slightly soften the harm done to workers.
<p>
Ferry workers at that company, and any competitors that follow the
switch to temporary workers, will lose a large fraction of that amount
(let's guess half of it) <em>every</em> six months for the rest of their
lives.  Perhaps for decades.  This "compensation" compensates only for
the transient harm, not for the lasting harm.
<p>
The change will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/23/boris-johnson-po-ferries-sackings-mps">harm passengers too</a>, with bad service and increased
risk of accidents that would result from the frequent turnover.
<p>
The company may be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/23/boris-johnson-po-ferries-sackings-mps">fined millions of pounds</a> if convicted of illegal
dismissal, but even that wouldn't undo the damage.
<p>
The only way to correct the damage is to make the company back down.
Of course, Bogus Johnson doesn't want to do that.
<p>
Prime Minister Corbyn would have kept his eye on the ball.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Profiteering_on_water_scarcity)
title: Profiteering on water scarcity
uri: Profiteering-on-water-scarcity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Profiteering_on_water_scarcity)
content:
 
<p>

*Khanna-Warren Bill Would <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/khanna-warren-bill-would-ban-wall-street-profiteering-water-scarcity">Ban Wall Street Profiteering</a> on Water Scarcity.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Texas_wind_and_solar)
title: Texas wind and solar
uri: Texas-wind-and-solar
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Texas_wind_and_solar)
content:
 
<p>

*   New research out of Texas reveals how wind and solar can <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/can-texas-ditch-coal-easily-study-says-wind-and-solar">replace coal
   power</a> across the state and serve as a "model for the nation".*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Tennessee_town_of_Mason)
title: Tennessee town of Mason
uri: Tennessee-town-of-Mason
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Tennessee_town_of_Mason)
content:
 
<p>

The Republican state government of Tennessee wants to abolish the town
of Mason, with its mainly-black population and black (and Democratic)
elected officials, so it will be <a href="https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/03/14/this-is-akin-to-a-hostile-takeover/">controlled by the mainly white county
government</a>.

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feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Tactical_nuclear_weapons)
title: Tactical nuclear weapons
uri: Tactical-nuclear-weapons
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Tactical_nuclear_weapons)
content:
 
<p>

The smallest "tactical nuclear weapons" today are about the <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/23/nobel-winner-chastises-normalization-small-nuclear-weapons-pathetic">same power
as the Hiroshima bomb</a>, which killed about 150,000 people soon and more
later.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Cost_of_boiling_potatoes)
title: Cost of boiling potatoes
uri: Cost-of-boiling-potatoes
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Cost_of_boiling_potatoes)
content:
 
<p>

Britons who visit food banks say "no thanks" to potatoes because they <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/23/food-bank-users-declining-potatoes-as-cooking-costs-too-high-says-iceland-boss">can't
afford the cost</a> of the fuel or electricity needed to boil them.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(The_Covid_party)
title: The Covid party
uri: The-Covid-party
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(The_Covid_party)
content:
 
<p>

The Republican Party is now <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/23/gop-blocks-funds-federal-agency-ends-covid-coverage-uninsured">completely the Covid Party</a>.  Beyond
organizing supporters to reject masks and vaccination, and lying to
dissuade others, it has now eliminated federal funds to pay for them.
<p>
It has also eliminated federal funds to pay for treatment for
uninsured poor people who catch Covid-19.  This will kill tens of
thousands of additional Americans &mdash; killed by the Republican Party.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Smearing_Ketanji_Brown_Jackson)
title: Smearing Ketanji Brown Jackson
uri: Smearing-Ketanji-Brown-Jackson
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Smearing_Ketanji_Brown_Jackson)
content:
 
<p>

Republican senators tried to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/politics/gop-criticism-ketanji-brown-jackson/index.html">smear Ketanji Brown Jackson</a> by
associating her with the principle of human rights, justice,
and the US Constitution.
<p>
I have a hunch that <a href="/glossary.html#faux">Faux News</a> broadcast what the senators said and not
her replies.  Does anyone know?  (If you don't normally watch <a href="/glossary.html#faux">Faux News</a>,
please don't let this lead you to start now!)

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Dead_soldiers_of_the_Putin_forces)
title: Dead soldiers of the Putin forces
uri: Dead-soldiers-of-the-Putin-forces
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Dead_soldiers_of_the_Putin_forces)
content:
 
<p>

Ukraine is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/europe/ukraine-war-russian-soldiers-deaths-cmd-intl/index.html">unable to identify the dead soldiers</a> of the Putin forces.
They carry nothing that states their names.
They carry dog tags which show only a serial number.
<p>
Russia refuses to accept the corpses from Ukraine &mdash; a very strange
thing for an army to do.
<p>
Putin is evidently set on supporting his denial that there is a war by
preventing Russian families from finding out that their sons are dead.
<p>
Their absence can't be concealed forever.  What will happen when the
families find out?

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(America_competes_act)
title: America competes act
uri: America-competes-act
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(America_competes_act)
content:
 
<p>

<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/sanders-opposes-america-competes-act-over-billions-corporate-welfare">Sanders opposes the "America Competes Act"</a> for big giveaways to big
businesses.
<p>
I've been saying for years that when companies want help from the government,
they should sell the government stock at a fair price.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Tennessee_thug_fired_stun_gun)
title: Tennessee thug fired stun gun
uri: Tennessee-thug-fired-stun-gun
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Tennessee_thug_fired_stun_gun)
content:
 
<p>

* A Tennessee [<a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a>] fired his stun gun
   at a food delivery man who had begun <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/delane-gordon-doordash-delivery-driver-tasered-police_n_623874f0e4b0d39357ca5274">recording his traffic stop</a> for
   speeding and asked to see the officer’s supervisor.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Asylum_in_Belarus)
title: Asylum in Belarus
uri: Asylum-in-Belarus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Asylum_in_Belarus)
content:
 
<p>

*US man charged in Capitol attack gets <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/us-capitol-riot-belarus-asylum-evan-neumann">asylum in Belarus</a>.*
This further demonstrates the alliance between the wrecker and Putin.
<p>
Edward Snowden must be extremely embarrassed to be stuck in Russia.
He isn't there by choice.  He never intended to stop there &mdash; he
simply had a flight connection <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#25_June_2013_(Edward_Snowden_seeks_asylum)">through Moscow</a>.
He was blocked from boarding his next flight because the US had revoked his passport.
<p>
The US contrived to block his later efforts to travel onward; the US
had its allies violate the diplomatic rights of Bolivia by <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2013-may-aug.html#05_July_2013_(Vienna_forced_Morales_to_submit_his_plane_to_a_search_for_Snowden)">forcing a
search</a> of the president's plane to look for Snowden.
(He wasn't in it.)
<p>
This was just one step less nasty than what Lukashenko did
to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2021-mar-jun.html#25_May_2021_(Belarus_forced_down_an_airliner)">seize a Belarusian dissident from an airliner</a> that was crossing
Belarus.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Cubans_seeking_asylum)
title: Cubans seeking asylum
uri: Cubans-seeking-asylum
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Cubans_seeking_asylum)
content:
 
<p>

Thousands of Cubans are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/24/cubans-exile-political-crackdown-mexico-migrants">seeking asylum</a> in the US, or in Mexico.
  
 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Rishi_Sunak's_giveaways)
title: Rishi Sunak's giveaways
uri: Rishi-Sunak-s-giveaways
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Rishi_Sunak's_giveaways)
content:
 
<p>

*"Surely a chancellor <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/24/tory-budgets-rishi-sunak-cost-of-living-crisis">wouldn’t choose to do the wrong things</a>, knowingly,
   when he has the power to set the country in a better direction?"*
Oops, he's a Tory.

 


title: Increase in electric vehicle production
uri: Increase-in-electric-vehicle-production
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Increase_in_electric_vehicle_production)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Increase_in_electric_vehicle_production)

content:
 
<p>

Biden is planning to use the Defense Production Act to order
an <a href="https://theintercept.com/2022/03/24/biden-defense-production-act-green-energy/">increase in electric vehicle production</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Pride_week_in_school)
title: Pride week in school
uri: Pride-week-in-school
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Pride_week_in_school)
content:
 
<p>

Persecutor Paxton has arbitrarily declared that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/24/texas-attorney-general-pride-week-breaking-state-law">Pride Week in a school
is illegal</a> "sex education".
<p>
In general, parents should not have the power to insist that their
children remain ignorant.  Everyone has the right to good sex
education.  But Pride Week is education about kinds of relationships,
not about sex.

 


title: UK following US and Australia in making asking for asylum a crime
uri: UK-following-US-and-Australia-in-making-asking-for-asylum-a-crime
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(UK_following_US_and_Australia_in_making_asking_for_asylum_a_crime)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(UK_following_US_and_Australia_in_making_asking_for_asylum_a_crime)

content:
 
<p>
  The UK is planning to follow the US and Australia in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/22/uk-set-to-criminalise-illicit-refugee-crossings-after-commons-rebellion-averted">making it a crime
  for refugees to go there and ask for asylum</a>.

 


title: AIPAC lobbying for insurrectionist Republicans
uri: AIPAC-lobbying-for-insurrectionist-Republicans
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(AIPAC_lobbying_for_insurrectionist_Republicans)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(AIPAC_lobbying_for_insurrectionist_Republicans)

content:
 
<p>
  AIPAC, the lobbying group for continuing Israel's occupation of
  Palestine (the west bank, and Gaza), is lobbying for insurrectionist
  Republicans.

 


title: Right-wing Indian bigots freaking out at rubber penis
uri: Right-wing-Indian-bigots-freaking-out-at-rubber-penis
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Right-wing_Indian_bigots_freaking_out_at_rubber_penis)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Right-wing_Indian_bigots_freaking_out_at_rubber_penis)

content:
 
<p>
  Rigidly prudish right-wing Indian bigots are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/23/backlash-india-rubber-penis-family-planning-kit">freaking out at the use
  of a rubber penis model to demonstrate how to put a condom on</a>.
<p>
  Rigidly prudish right-wing American bigots are not very different, with their
  repression campaigns about everything that relates to sex.
  
George Monbiot: *The latest wave of climate deniers claim green
schemes are "unaffordable."  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/23/european-countries-climate-crisis-deniers-green-schemes">Success stories from around Europe prove
that’s not true</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Bomber_anonymity)
title: Bomber anonymity
uri: Bomber-anonymity
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(Bomber_anonymity)
content:
 
<p>
  Journalist Chris Mullin reports that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/23/birmingham-six-chris-mullin-press-freedom">he protected the anonymity of the
  bombers that he interviewed so as to prove the innocence of people who
  were falsely convicted of that crime</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(George_Monbiot)
title: George Monbiot
uri: 2022-03-25-George-Monbiot
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#24_March_2022_(George_Monbiot)
content:
 
<p>
George Monbiot: *The latest wave of climate deniers claim green
schemes are "unaffordable."  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/23/european-countries-climate-crisis-deniers-green-schemes">Success stories from around Europe prove
that’s not true</a>.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Covid-19_in_the_UK)
title: Covid-19 in the UK
uri: Covid-19-in-the-UK
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Covid-19_in_the_UK)
content:
 
<p>
  Since the UK threw off all precautions against the spread of Covid-19,
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/25/weekly-covid-cases-uk-rise-ons-data-figures">the disease has spread quickly</a>.  Last week, 6% of the people in England
  had Covid-19.
<p>
  Such worrisome news will not repeat, because the UK's policy of
  charging for testing will discourage people from getting tested.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Decide_who_you_are_with)
title: Decide who you are with
uri: Decide-who-you-are-with
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Decide_who_you_are_with)
content:
 
<p>
*"Decide who you are with," <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/25/ukraine-leader-volodymyr-zelenskiy-hungary-viktor-orban">Ukrainian leader tells Viktor Orbán</a>.*
<p>
  Actually it's the Hungarian people who will soon choose who they are
  with: either <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-may-aug.html#14_June_2019_(Regime_in_Hungary)">authoritarian Orbán</a>,
  or the opposition coalition that wants to return
  to <a href="https://stallman.org/archives//2021-jul-oct.html#22_October_2021_(Hungary's_opposition_alliance)">substantive democracy</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Climate_reminders)
title: Climate reminders
uri: Climate-reminders
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Climate_reminders)
content:
 
<p>
  A heatwave at the north pole and collapsed Antarctic ice shelf are
  <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/25/the-guardian-view-on-record-breaking-arctic-temperatures-do-look-up">reminders to redouble our efforts, and focus on climate</a>.*

 


title: 300 killed in Mariupol theatre bombing
uri: 300-killed-in-Mariupol-theatre-bombing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(300_killed_in_Mariupol_theatre_bombing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(300_killed_in_Mariupol_theatre_bombing)

content:
 
<p>
  *<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/25/mariupol-theatre-bombing-killed-300-ukrainian-officials-say">Mariupol theatre bombing killed 300</a>, Ukrainian officials say.*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Bureaucratic_conditions)
title: Bureaucratic conditions
uri: Bureaucratic-conditions
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Bureaucratic_conditions)
content:
 
<p>
Bureaucratic conditions added to the proposed vaccines-only temporary
patent waiver would <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/24/millions-lives-could-be-saved-ex-un-chief-demands-better-patent-waiver-deal">make it very difficult to use the deal</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Biodiversity_crises)
title: Biodiversity crises
uri: Biodiversity-crises
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Biodiversity_crises)
content:
 
<p>
*[A] new paper shows that the climate and biodiversity crises "<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/24/biodiversity-crisis-threatens-global-economic-and-social-stability-report-warns">need to
be tackled in a joined-up way by central banks and supervisors to build
 a nature-positive financial system</a>."*

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Questioning_of_Judge_Jackson)
title: "Questioning" of Judge Jackson
uri: Questioning-of-Judge-Jackson
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Questioning_of_Judge_Jackson)
content:
 
<p>
  Republican senators used their "questioning" of Judge Jackson as <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/24/senators-attacks-judge-jackson-expose-total-bankruptcy-gop">an
  opportunity to spread bullshit and racism to their supporters</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Compulsory_patent_licenses)
title: Compulsory patent licenses
uri: Compulsory-patent-licenses
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Compulsory_patent_licenses)
content:
 
<p>
  US law <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/24/march-opponents-are-wrong-us-government-can-protect-public-unreasonably-high-drug">gives the government the power to issue compulsory patent
    licenses for a product (including a medicine)</a> if government funds paid
  for part of its development, unless the patent holder makes it available
  "in reasonable terms."

 


title: Arizona voters given 30 days to dig up citizenship proof
uri: Arizona-voters-given-30-days-to-dig-up-citizenship-proof
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Arizona_voters_given_30_days_to_dig_up_citizenship_proof)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Arizona_voters_given_30_days_to_dig_up_citizenship_proof)

content:
 
<p>
  Arizona Republicans are passing a law that would <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/24/arizona-senate-passes-gop-bill-could-spark-most-extreme-voter-purge-us">give
  already-registered voters just 30 days to dig up proof of citizenship
  or be removed from the voting list</a>.
<p>
  If they need to apply for copies of papers, it could be impossible to
  accomplish the task in so little time.

 


title: US has used up more than its share of allowable greenhouse gas emissions
uri: US-has-used-up-more-than-its-share-of-allowable-greenhouse-gas-emissio
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(US_has_used_up_more_than_its_share_of_allowable_greenhouse_gas_emissions)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(US_has_used_up_more_than_its_share_of_allowable_greenhouse_gas_emissions)

content:
 
<p>
  Arguing that <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/24/emissions-exceptionalism-and-inequality-world-fire">the US has already used up more than its share
  of the total allowable greenhouse gas emissions</a>, and therefore
  has an obligation to decarbonize on the double.
<p>
  I am not convinced that that is the right way to look at the question,
  but the conclusion may be valid anyway.  If we choose a more pragmatic
  goal -- to avoid climate disaster that could destroy civilization
  globally, and most of humanity -- it still follows that the US must
  decarbonize on the double.

 


title: Special Assistant District Attorney's resignation letter
uri: Special-Assistant-District-Attorney-s-resignation-letter
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Special_Assistant_District_Attorney's_resignation_letter)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Special_Assistant_District_Attorney's_resignation_letter)

content:
 
<p>
  *Special Assistant District Attorney Pomerantz <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/nyregion/mark-pomerantz-resignation-letter.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article">explains in his letter
    of resignation that he believed the case of financial crimes against
    the cheater was ready for prosecution</a>.*
<p>
  <a href="/glossary.html#cheater">The cheater</a> actively threatens free elections and human rights in the
  US.  If there is evidence to prosecute him for a serious crime, I
  agree with Pomerantz that we should do so without delay.

 


title: Trading corpses for living prisoners of war
uri: Trading-corpses-for-living-prisoners-of-war
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Trading_corpses_for_living_prisoners_of_war)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Trading_corpses_for_living_prisoners_of_war)

content:
 
<p>
  Reportedly Ukraine is <a href="https://kyivindependent.com/national/how-%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Bukraine-swaps-living-soldiers-for-dead-russians/">trading corpses of Putin forces soldiers for living Ukrainian prisoners of war</a>.
<p>
  That makes no sense to me.  If I commanded an army, I wouldn't release
  a captured enemy in exchange for a corpse.  Doing so would not bring
  the soldier who died back to life, and the corpse would be of no help
  in a fight.
<p>
  In general, I don't understand why people care so much about corpses.
  Even the corpse of someone you loved is not a person, just a keepsake,
  and other keepsakes would serve better to remember per by.
<p>
  I have a file where I put the names of the deceased who meant
  something to me.  Sometimes I go through it and remember them one by
  one.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Ginni_Thomas)
title: Ginni Thomas
uri: Ginni-Thomas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Ginni_Thomas)
content:
 
<p>
  Ginni Thomas (insurrectionist wife of Justice Thomas) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/24/ginni-thomas-donald-trump-mark-meadows-texts-election">sent text
    messages to <a href="/glossary.html#cheater">the cheater</a>'s staff (including Mark Meadows, the White
    House chief of staff) calling for overturning the election</a>.
<p>
  We don't have evidence that the couple explicitly conspired together
  for this strange coup, but I suspect that they did.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Fuel_price_compensation)
title: Fuel price compensation
uri: Fuel-price-compensation
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Fuel_price_compensation)
content:
 
<p>
  California plans to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/24/california-gas-prices-rebate-public-transit">give $400 to each car owner in the state</a>,
  to help compensate for high fuel prices.
<p>
  This is much better than the Republican proposal to make fuel cheaper.
  In the long term, the high price is good, as it will encourage people
  to use less of it.  Thus, it is wise that the $400 aid payments are
  independent of how much a person actually drives the car; this way, they
  will not encourage more driving.
<p>
  the plan has one flaw: it is limited to car owners.  It follows that
  people will not have an incentive to sell the car and start taking the
  bus or a bicycle instead.  The aid payments should go to every adult
  in the state.
<p>
  If you get one of these debit cards <em>do not use it to buy anything</em>.
  Convert the money into cash, and pay cash!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Interpol_torture)
title: Interpol torture
uri: Interpol-torture
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Interpol_torture)
content:
 
<p>
*France opens inquiry into <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/24/france-opens-inquiry-into-alleged-torture-by-interpols-emirati-head">alleged torture by Interpol’s Emirati head</a>.*

 


title: Facial recognition to identify killed soldiers
uri: Facial-recognition-to-identify-killed-soldiers
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Facial_recognition_to_identify_killed_soldiers)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Facial_recognition_to_identify_killed_soldiers)

content:
 
<p>
  *Ukraine <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/mar/24/ukraine-facial-recognition-identify-russian-soldiers">uses facial recognition software to identify Russian soldiers killed
  in combat</a>.*
<p>
  This is one of the few uses of facial recognition that isn't an injustice.
  I don't think that the dead are entitled to privacy rights.
<p>
  The existence of exceptions where facial recognition does no wrong is
  no grounds to legitimize the repression that massive use of facial
  recognition tends to imposes on living people.  <a href="https://gnu.org/philosophy/surveillance-vs-democracy.html">We need laws to make
  it impossible for any company to do what Clearview AI does</a>.

 


title: Forests keep the Earth at least half a degree cooler
uri: Forests-keep-the-Earth-at-least-half-a-degree-cooler
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Forests_keep_the_Earth_at_least_half_a_degree_cooler)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Forests_keep_the_Earth_at_least_half_a_degree_cooler)

content:
 
<p>
*New data suggests <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/23/forests-climate-crisis-carbon-cooling-effect">forests help keep the Earth at least half of a
degree cooler, protecting us from the effects of climate crisis</a>.*

 


title: P&O Ferries and the new wave of trade unionists
uri: P-O-Ferries-and-the-new-wave-of-trade-unionists
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(P%26O_Ferries_and_the_new_wave_of_trade_unionists)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(P%26O_Ferries_and_the_new_wave_of_trade_unionists)

content:
 
<p>
  Tories voted to allow businesses to fire workers and rehire them (or
  replacements) for half the wage.  That's what permitted P&O Ferries to
  do that.  But <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/24/p-and-o-travesty-recognise-unions-tougher">the worst damage to workers is that many unions
  have lost their focus on fighting</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Microplastics_in_blood)
title: Microplastics in blood
uri: Microplastics-in-blood
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Microplastics_in_blood)
content:
 
<p>
  Researchers looked at blood from 22 donors and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/24/microplastics-found-in-human-blood-for-first-time">found microplastics in
    the blood of 17 of them</a>.
<p>
  There is a lot more research to do in this field.

 


title: General trust and effectiveness in reducing Covid-19
uri: General-trust-and-effectiveness-in-reducing-Covid-19
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(General_trust_and_effectiveness_in_reducing_Covid-19)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(General_trust_and_effectiveness_in_reducing_Covid-19)

content:
 
<p>
  A study found <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/24/countries-covid-trust-damage-pandemic">a general tendency for countries in which people
  generally trust each other more to be more effective in reducing
  Covid-19</a>.

 


uri: Urgent-Oppose-the-College-Transparency-Act-which-would-set-up-central
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Urgent:_Oppose_the_College_Transparency_Act_which_would_set_up_centralized_surveillance_of_all_US_college_students_for_their_whole_life)

title:
 Urgent: Oppose the College Transparency Act which would set up centralized surveillance of all US college students for their whole life 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Urgent:_Oppose_the_College_Transparency_Act_which_would_set_up_centralized_surveillance_of_all_US_college_students_for_their_whole_life)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: phone your congresscritter and senators to <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2022/03/02/almost-law-college-transparency-act-would-build-another-national-surveillance-system/">oppose the
  "College Transparency Act" or "CTA".  This bill would set up
  centralized surveillance of all US college students, continuing for
  the student's whole life</a>.
<p>
  The Capitol Switchboard number is <a href="tel:+12022243121">202-224-3121</a>.
<p>
  If you call, please spread the word!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Urgent:_Invest_in_mass_transit)
title: Urgent: Invest in mass transit
uri: Urgent-Invest-in-mass-transit
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Urgent:_Invest_in_mass_transit)
content:
 
<p>
  US residents: call on US mayors to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-americas-mayors-immediately-invest-in-public-transit-including-expanding-routes-increasing-frequency-and-lowering-fares-to-reduce-our-countrys-dependence-on-foreign-sources-of-oil-now?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-tell-americas-mayors-invest-in-public-transit-now-2">invest in mass transit now</a>,
  so as to reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

 


title: Urgent: Support the striking workers at Maximus call center
uri: Urgent-Support-the-striking-workers-at-Maximus-call-center
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Urgent:_Support_the_striking_workers_at_Maximus_call_center)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Urgent:_Support_the_striking_workers_at_Maximus_call_center)

content:
 
<p>
  Everyone: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/maximusstrike?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-action-needed-protect-essential-cdc-call-center-workers-4">state your support for the striking workers at Maximus call
  center</a>.
<p>
  We should move beyond supporting each group of
  outsourced workers and put an end to the outsourcing.
  The US government should put narrow limits on outsourcing
  so that it can happen only to limited quantities of jobs.

 


title: Urgent: Strip Greene and Gozar of their committee assignments
uri: Urgent-Strip-Greene-and-Gozar-of-their-committee-assignments
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Urgent:_Strip_Greene_and_Gozar_of_their_committee_assignments)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#25_March_2022_(Urgent:_Strip_Greene_and_Gozar_of_their_committee_assignments)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on the House of Representatives to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-fight-white-supremacy-and-anti-semitism-in-congress-strip-paul-gosar-and-majorie-taylor-greene-of-committee-assignments?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-takeitbackorg&source=group-takeitbackorg">strip Greene and
  Gozar of their committee assignments for participating in a meeting of
  white supremacists and Nazis</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Birds_laying_eggs_earlier)
title: Birds laying eggs earlier
uri: Birds-laying-eggs-earlier
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Birds_laying_eggs_earlier)
content:
 
<p>

Many bird species in the UK are laying eggs <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/25/birds-nesting-laying-eggs-early-climate-crisis-study">a month earlier</a> than they
did 100 years ago.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Republicans_in_Colorado)
title: Republicans in Colorado
uri: Republicans-in-Colorado
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Republicans_in_Colorado)
content:
 
<p>

Republicans in Colorado have organized to send groups of armed whites
to <a href="https://www.salon.com/2022/03/21/pro-group-sent-armed-members-door-to-door-in-colorado-to-intimidate-voters/">intimidate black voters</a> at their homes.
<p>
Gangs of armed whites in the US have <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2018-sep-dec.html#5_October_2018_(Aristocracy_and_lynching)">committed violence</a> against blacks
thousands of times, so it's plausible that this might terrorize some
blacks so much that they won't vote.  The attempt reflects the
arrogance of white supremacism, nowadays endorsed by the Republican
Party.
<p>
The article linked to at the start of this note displays symbolic
bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white".  (To avoid endorsing
bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.)  I object to bigotry,
and normally I decline to link to articles which promote it.  But I
make exceptions for some articles which give important information
about racism or the fight to eliminate racism.  That article is one of
the exceptions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(UK_railroad_operating_contract)
title: UK railroad operating contract
uri: UK-railroad-operating-contract
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(UK_railroad_operating_contract)
content:
 
<p>

The UK government renewed a big railroad operating contract with a
company that 6 months ago it fined and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/25/new-rail-contract-award-go-ahead-branded-sick-joke-thameslink-southern-great-northern-">terminated another contract</a> because it acted in "bad faith."

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Seizing_asylum_seekers'_phones)
title: Seizing asylum seekers' phones
uri: Seizing-asylum-seekers-phones
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Seizing_asylum_seekers'_phones)
content:
 
<p>

UK immigration bullied 2,000 asylum seekers into giving "voluntary"
permission to seize and keep their phones, then look through them.  A court
ruled that it <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/25/home-office-illegally-seized-asylum-seekers-phones">broke the law</a> by doing that.
<p>
When they tried to apply for asylum, they were stymied because UK
immigration demanded information they couldn't provide because they
were unable to get it out of their phones.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(UK_transport_minister)
title: UK transport minister
uri: UK-transport-minister
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(UK_transport_minister)
content:
 
<p>

The UK transport minister, a Tory evidently, privately told P&O
ferries in November that it was ok to fire all the crews and outsource
the work to low-wage workers.  Then, last week, he <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/mar/25/po-ferries-questions-raised-over-grant-shapps-meeting-with-dp-world">pretended that it came
as a surprise</a> to him.
<p>
With a serial bullshitter as prime minister, who makes incredible
claims to avoid admitting that he lied, it has become hard to demand
that Tories follow even the most basic standards of honesty.
<p>
P&O seems to have one valid point: that it had a competitor, Irish
Ferries, that was already outsourcing the same job to low-wage
workers.  There were two possible ways for the UK to deal with that:
(1) let P&O pay low wages too, or (2) impose better wages on all
ferries through a new law.  The former fit with the natural
inclination of Tories.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Investment_in_Russian_oil)
title: Investment in Russian oil
uri: Investment-in-Russian-oil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Investment_in_Russian_oil)
content:
 
<p>

Big Oil's investment in Russian oil companies gave Putin <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/25/ukrainian-blood-their-hands-analysis-details-how-big-oil-funded-putins-war-chest">100 billion
dollars of investment and income</a>, which paid for much of the weapons
he is using for attacks and massacres in Ukraine.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Wind-power_in_Oklahoma)
title: Wind-power in Oklahoma
uri: Wind-power-in-Oklahoma
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Wind-power_in_Oklahoma)
content:
 
<p>

Even in oil- and gas- extracting Oklahoma, enormous wind-power
developments are being built, <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/25/largest-built-all-once-wind-farm-opens-oklahoma-saves-customers-1-billion">purely to save costs</a>.
This may not go fast enough to save humanity, but with a sensible
amount of attention to the goal of saving technological civilization
we might succeed.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Covid_cases_in_Massachusetts)
title: Covid cases in Massachusetts
uri: Covid-cases-in-Massachusetts
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Covid_cases_in_Massachusetts)
content:
 
<p>

Two weeks after Massachusetts eliminated regulations to slow
transmission of Covid-19, the new case rate increased almost 30%
compared with the previous week, 5735 compared with 4459.  If this
continues, the new case rate will double every 2.5 weeks or so.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Injustice_and_climate_destruction)
title: Injustice and climate destruction
uri: Injustice-and-climate-destruction
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Injustice_and_climate_destruction)
content:
 
<p>

Vanguard funds <a href="https://acrecampaigns.org/research_post/vanguards-empty-promises/">invest in injustice and climate destruction</a>.

 


title: (satire) Ginni Thomas' text messages
uri: (satire)-Ginni-Thomas-text-messages
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_((satire)_Ginni_Thomas'_text_messages)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_((satire)_Ginni_Thomas'_text_messages)

content:
 
<p>

(satire) *Ginni Thomas <a href="https://www.theonion.com/ginni-thomas-dismisses-text-messages-to-mark-meadows-as-1848704513">Dismisses Text Messages</a> To Mark Meadows As
Regular, Run-Of-The-Mill Infidelity.*

 


title: Rules for unbiased judicial proceedings
uri: Rules-for-unbiased-judicial-proceedings
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Rules_for_unbiased_judicial_proceedings)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Rules_for_unbiased_judicial_proceedings)

content:
 
<p>

Clarence Thomas has already <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/25/citing-new-whiff-corruption-wyden-calls-thomas-recuse-all-jan-6-cases">flagrantly disregarded</a> the basic rule for
unbiased judicial proceedings, by ruling on a case involving his
wife's political activities.
<p>
They just happen to be activities directed at overthrowing the US
government.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Tigray_and_Ethiopia)
title: Tigray and Ethiopia
uri: Tigray-and-Ethiopia
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Tigray_and_Ethiopia)
content:
 
<p>

Tigray and Ethiopia have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/25/ethiopia-tigray-rebels-agree-cessation-of-hostilities-after-government-truce">agreed to "cessation of hostilities"</a>
which could mean an end to their war.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Permanent_lockdown)
title: Permanent lockdown
uri: Permanent-lockdown
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Permanent_lockdown)
content:
 
<p>

*Australians with the most to fear from Omicron living in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/mar/26/australians-with-the-most-to-fear-from-omicron-living-in-permanent-lockdown">"permanent
 lockdown"</a>.*
<p>
That could happen in many European countries, and the US.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Inviting_for_rich_Russians)
title: Inviting for rich Russians
uri: Inviting-for-rich-Russians
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Inviting_for_rich_Russians)
content:
 
<p>

Dubai is an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/26/dubai-throws-open-the-doors-for-the-rich-russians-escaping-sanctions">inviting home for rich Russians</a> facing sanctions elsewhere.
All the luxury goods they can no longer buy in Russia, they can buy
in Dubai.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Judge_Jackson's_views)
title: Judge Jackson's views
uri: Judge-Jackson-s-views
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#27_March_2022_(Judge_Jackson's_views)
content:
 
<p>

The Senate judiciary committee showed absolutely <a href="https://mailchi.mp/nader/no-corporate-law-and-power-questions-for-judge-jackson-fk3jtvv06k?e=555e9be067">no interest in Judge
Jackson's views</a>, or her knowledge, about the power of big business and
the laws that were meant to restrain it.

 


title: Urgent: Do not declare a no-fly zone
uri: Urgent-Do-not-declare-a-no-fly-zone
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Urgent:_Do_not_declare_a_no-fly_zone)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Urgent:_Do_not_declare_a_no-fly_zone)

content:
 
<p>

US citizens: Tell your representative, senators and president <a href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/?action_KEY=14561">not to
declare a no-fly zone</a>, and to avoid war between the US and Russia.

 


title: Taliban reversal on girls' education
uri: Taliban-reversal-on-girls-education
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Taliban_reversal_on_girls'_education)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Taliban_reversal_on_girls'_education)

content:
 
<p>

*Taliban reversal on girls’ education <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/27/taliban-bar-girls-education-us-plan-diplomatic-recognition">derails US plan for diplomatic
recognition</a>.*
<p>
I think this is the right sort of way to exert suasion on Afghanistan
about women's rights.  It can potentially influence the outcome but
won't backfire by arousing resistance.  It is not certain to succeed,
but no other method would be either.

 


title: False confessions of the Birmingham Six
uri: False-confessions-of-the-Birmingham-Six
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(False_confessions_of_the_Birmingham_Six)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(False_confessions_of_the_Birmingham_Six)

content:
 
<p>

The false confessions of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/26/why-the-birmingham-six-story-must-not-be-forgotten">Birmingham Six</a> &mdash; beaten out of them by
<a href="/glossary.html#thug">thugs</a> &mdash; show that Britain shares the pattern of injustice which in the US
is typically applied to blacks.  In the US, 100 years ago, it was applied
to the Italians <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacco_and_Vanzetti">Sacco and Vanzetti</a>.

 


title: Problems that cause avoidable deaths
uri: Problems-that-cause-avoidable-deaths
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Problems_that_cause_avoidable_deaths)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Problems_that_cause_avoidable_deaths)

content:
 
<p>

The US tolerates problems that cause many avoidable deaths, partly due
to <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/03/27/grim-consequences-sidelining-science-nearly-one-million-us-covid-deaths-and-climate">distrust of science</a>.
Covid-19 has been one of them, and is likely to be tolerated on a permanent basis.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Students_from_poor_families)
title: Students from poor families
uri: Students-from-poor-families
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Students_from_poor_families)
content:
 
<p>

US students from poor families can't afford to go to college because
they <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/27/us/uc-berkeley-lawsuit-student-enrollment-housing-costs-cec/index.html">can't afford to live anywhere near it</a>.
That's in addition to the cost of the university itself, which is also prohibitive.

 


title: Advertising based on behavioral profiling
uri: Advertising-based-on-behavioral-profiling
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Advertising_based_on_behavioral_profiling)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Advertising_based_on_behavioral_profiling)

content:
 
<p>

The EFF proposes <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/ban-online-behavioral-advertising">prohibiting advertising</a> based on behavioral
profiling.
<p>
This might substantially reduce the <em>extent</em> of tracking, but won't
eliminate the danger from tracking.  Only part of the danger comes
from online advertising as such.  Profiling can be used in other ways
than online advertising, including offline political activity,
"predictive policing", and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2017-sep-dec.html#28_October_2017_(China_loyalty_rating)">state repression</a>.
Personal data can be used for other things than profiling in the
usual sense.
<p>
In particular, the proposed exception to allow advertising based on
the user's current location will give companies an excuse to collect
the user's current location.  This location history will be useful
for finding whistleblowers and dissidents.
<p>
I fear that the EFF has found a compromise plan that would eliminate a
lot of the tracking that annoys individuals, but won't protect society
politically at all,

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Miami_state_of_emergency)
title: Miami state of emergency
uri: Miami-state-of-emergency
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Miami_state_of_emergency)
content:
 
<p>

Miami <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/03/23/miami-declares-state-of-emergency-because-black-people-are-on-the-beach.html">declared a state of emergency</a> because of students coming for
spring break.
<p>
Some suspect that this is because many of the students are black.
That might indeed be the motive.  But there is a good reason to do
this, one that has nothing to do with their skin color.  Those people
on he beach threaten to spread Covid-19!

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Law_against_making_videos_of_thugs)
title: Law against making videos of thugs
uri: Law-against-making-videos-of-thugs
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Law_against_making_videos_of_thugs)
content:
 
<p>

Arizona legislators from the Repressive Party passed a law <a href="https://boingboing.net/2022/03/24/arizona-legislators-approve-ban-on-filming-police.html">against
making videos</a> of what uniformed thugs do.
<p>
We used to have confidence that the Supreme Court would stand by the
right to do this.  I feel less confidence nowadays.

 


title: Peace needs to weaken Putin but not ruin him
uri: Peace-needs-to-weaken-Putin-but-not-ruin-him
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Peace_needs_to_weaken_Putin_but_not_ruin_him)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Peace_needs_to_weaken_Putin_but_not_ruin_him)

content:
 
<p>
  To Endure, <a href="https://stallman.org/articles/lasting-peace-weaken-putin-not-ruin.html">Peace Needs to Weaken Putin But Not Ruin Him</a>

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Belarus)
title: Belarus
uri: Belarus
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Belarus)
content:
 
<p>
  Belarus has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/27/ukraine-war-deals-massive-blow-to-nature-as-belarus-largest-wildlife-ngo-shut-down-aoe">shut down nearly all nature conservation organizations, and
  has jailed some of the activists</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Taxing_profiteering_companies)
title: Taxing profiteering companies
uri: Taxing-profiteering-companies
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Taxing_profiteering_companies)
content:
 
<p>
  Sanders proposes to enact again the law which in World War II
  <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/25/sanders-intros-revival-95-windfall-profits-tax-wwii-curb-corporate-greed">taxed profiteering companies up to 95%</a>.

 


title: Regulating how internet tracking servers use their data
uri: Regulating-how-internet-tracking-servers-use-their-data
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Regulating_how_internet_tracking_servers_use_their_data)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Regulating_how_internet_tracking_servers_use_their_data)

content:
 
<p>
  An EU directive will <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/25/consumer-rights-groups-applaud-eu-passage-law-rein-tech-titans">regulate how internet tracking servers use their data</a>.
<p>
  This directive may boost competition, and limit somewhat the harm that
  surveillance companies do to the public.  But as long as data are
  collected, they _will_ be misused, and misused by various entities
  that get the data.  This law is inadequate; what we really need to do
  is make sure people have the right to as much anonymity as we had 30
  years ago.

 


title: Fossil fuel extraction limit regulations got reversed
uri: Fossil-fuel-extraction-limit-regulations-got-reversed
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Fossil_fuel_extraction_limit_regulations_got_reversed)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Fossil_fuel_extraction_limit_regulations_got_reversed)

content:
 
<p>
  The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/25/green-groups-decry-us-energy-panels-reversal-gas-pipeline-climate-reviews">reversed its new regulations gently limiting fossil fuel extraction, and approved new projects</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Increased_efficiency_of_energy_use)
title: Increased efficiency of energy use
uri: Increased-efficiency-of-energy-use
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Increased_efficiency_of_energy_use)
content:
 
<p>
  Amory Lovins still <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/26/amory-lovins-energy-efficiency-interview-cheapest-safest-cleanest-crisis">enlightens the world about the way increased
  efficiency of energy use can eliminate most energy use for heating</a>,
  cooling and transportation.

 


title: 7000-year-old Chinchorro mummies rotting from humidity
uri: 7000-year-old-Chinchorro-mummies-rotting-from-humidity
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(7000-year-old_Chinchorro_mummies_rotting_from_humidity)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(7000-year-old_Chinchorro_mummies_rotting_from_humidity)

content:
 
<p>
  Increasing humidity in the Atacama desert is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/mar/26/mummies-chile-archaeologists-save-climate-change">causing the 7000-year-old
  Chinchorro mummies to rot</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Nonexistent_Covid-19_victory)
title: Nonexistent Covid-19 victory
uri: Nonexistent-Covid-19-victory
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Nonexistent_Covid-19_victory)
content:
 
<p>
  Reportedly US Democrats have <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/26/covid-precautions-fall-away-experts-advise-against-wishful-thinking">got political advice to declare that
  Covid-19 is no longer a problem</a> so that Americans will relax, give
  them credit for a nonexistent victory, and spread Covid-19.
<p>
  This is almost as callous as what the Republicans have done for two
  years, intentionally spreading Covid-19.


 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Night_mayor)
title: Night mayor
uri: Night-mayor
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Night_mayor)
content:
 
<p>
  New York's new mayor is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/26/new-york-mayor-homeless-camps-eric-adams">a night mayor for the homeless</a>.  He ordered
  the <a href="/glossary.html#thug">thug</a> department to break up all homeless people's encampments
  within two weeks.
<p>
  It's that living in an improvised house of cardboard on the street is
  an inhumane situation.  But this reasoning from that starting point is
  screwy.  Is it more humane to make someone live on the street without
  even a cardboard house?  Yes, there are dangers to living in subway
  tunnels -- but are they more dangerous than living on the street?
  Thieves and killers can go in the tunnels, but they can go on the
  street too.
<p>
  If you want to see whether your effort to help the homeless is doing
  any good, one way is to see whether homeless people move there from
  the street voluntarily.  If you want to make success more likely, you
  could give homeless people more say.  If you want them to stay
  somewhere that isn't a street, you could make some other space
  available that they can get to.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Axis_of_Evil)
title: Axis of Evil
uri: Axis-of-Evil
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Axis_of_Evil)
content:
 
<p>
  Putin's war is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/26/russia-invasion-ukraine-divide-between-west-and-rest-of-world">building up around him a coterie of repressive and unjust regimes</a> &mdash; a real life Axis of Evil.
<p>
  Its not quite a coherent alliance.  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-may-aug.html#26_July_2019_(War_between_India_and_China)">India and China</a>, which are
  permanently at the edge of war with each other,
  are both part of it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Slavutych)
title: Slavutych
uri: Slavutych
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Slavutych)
content:
 
<p>
  Unarmed protesters who wouldn't stop protesting convinced the Putin
  forces to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/26/russian-soldiers-release-ukraine-towns-mayor-and-agree-to-leave-after-protests">pull out of the town of Slavutych</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Sri_Lanka)
title: Sri Lanka
uri: 2022-03-29-Sri-Lanka
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Sri_Lanka)
content:
 
<p>
  25 years after the civil war ended, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/26/tamils-fear-prison-and-torture-in-sri-lanka-13-years-after-civil-war-ended">Sri Lanka continues torturing
  Tamils to get false confessions</a>.
<p>
  Some victims are suspected of "terrorism" because they are human
  rights lawyers.  For other victims, it simply isn't clear.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(War_plan)
title: War plan
uri: War-plan
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(War_plan)
content:
 
<p>
  Russia had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/26/putin-has-a-21st-century-digital-battle-plan-so-why-is-he-fighting-like-its-1939">a sophisticated plan for a war based on cracking and
  disinformation</a>, but strangely Putin is not using it.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Great_Barrier_Reef)
title: Great Barrier Reef
uri: 2022-03-29-Great-Barrier-Reef
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Great_Barrier_Reef)
content:
 
<p>
  The whole length of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/25/we-need-action-immediately-great-barrier-reef-authority-confirms-sixth-mass-coral-bleaching-event">the Great Barrier Reef is suffering severe
  bleaching of corals</a>.
  In some places, deaths of coral organisms have already started.
<p>
  This is no surprise at all.  The <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2020-jan-apr.html#15_April_2020_(Ecosystem_disasters_are_just_a_step_away)">main causes of coral bleaching are
  heat and water pollution</a>.  The Australian government stubbornly
  promotes both <a href="/glossary.html#global%20heating">global heating</a>
  and <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2016-sep-dec.html#7_December_2016_(Saving_Great_Barrier_Reef)">pollution in the region near the reef</a>.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Damaged_bridges)
title: Damaged bridges
uri: Damaged-bridges
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Damaged_bridges)
content:
 
<p>
  The UK is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/25/more-than-3200-uk-bridges-need-repair-local-authorities-say">not giving local governments enough money to repair 3000 damaged bridges</a>.
  They also struggle to provide housing and welfare benefits for the
  people of their district.

 


title: US turning schoolteachers into low-wage jobs
uri: US-turning-schoolteachers-into-low-wage-jobs
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(US_turning_schoolteachers_into_low-wage_jobs)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(US_turning_schoolteachers_into_low-wage_jobs)

content:
 
<p>
  The US is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/25/teachers-strikes-us-low-pay-covid">turning the job of schoolteacher into a low-wage job</a>; many
  teachers are planning strikes.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Poland)
title: Poland
uri: 2022-03-29-Poland
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Poland)
content:
 
<p>
  Poland's partly-authoritarian government hopes that its strong
  opposition to Putin will shield it from EU pressure.
<p>
  The two partly-authoritarian governments in the EU, Poland and Hungary,
  have protected each other from pressure through EU rules that
  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#28_October_2019_(European_Commission_sues_Poland)">require standards of democracy, and independence of the judiciary</a>
  (often referred to in this context as "rule of law").
  If Orbán is defeated in Hungary, the EU will be able to
  pressure Poland much more effectively.

 


title: British royal family invested directly in slave transporting
uri: British-royal-family-invested-directly-in-slave-transporting
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(British_royal_family_invested_directly_in_slave_transporting)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(British_royal_family_invested_directly_in_slave_transporting)

content:
 
<p>
  The British royal family <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/25/slavery-royal-family-jamaica-ducke-duchess-cambridge-caribbean-slave-trade">invested directly in transporting slaves to Jamaica</a>.
  I would expect the same is true for other British colonies,
  including the ones that rebelled and became the United States.
<p>
  I believe that Britain owes reparations to the descendants of those
  slaves.
<p>
  The article linked to above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing
  "black" but not "white".  (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both
  words or neither one.)  I object to bigotry, and normally I decline to
  link to articles which promote it.  But I make exceptions for some
  articles which give important information about racism or the fight to
  eliminate racism.  That article is one of the exceptions.

 


feed_id: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(US_natural_gas)
title: US natural gas
uri: US-natural-gas
url: https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(US_natural_gas)
content:
 
<p>
  The US will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/25/biden-and-eu-agree-landmark-gas-deal-to-break-kremlin-hold">export more natural gas to Europe so that it can stop
  buying natural gas from Putin</a>.
<p>
  Whether this hurts Putin depends on whether some other country will
  buy the gas he would have sold to Europe.  I don't know, but I would
  not assume it is impossible.

 


title: Urgent: Eliminate "Title 42", which is used to expel asylum-seekers without a hearing
uri: Urgent-Eliminate-Title-42-which-is-used-to-expel-asylum-seekers-wi
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Urgent:_Eliminate_Title_42,_which_is_used_to_expel_asylum-seekers_without_a_hearing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Urgent:_Eliminate_Title_42,_which_is_used_to_expel_asylum-seekers_without_a_hearing)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on the CDC to <a href="https://action.aclu.org/send-message/cdc-save-lives-and-end-title-42?utm_campaign=&utm_medium=eml&utm_source=akt&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=eml&utm_source=akt&initms_aff=nat&initms_chan=eml&utm_medium=eml&initms=220325_akt&utm_source=akt&utm_campaign=&utm_content=220325&ms_aff=nat&ms_chan=eml&ms=220325_akt">eliminate "Title 42", which is used to expel asylum-seekers without a hearing</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Every refugee deserves an asylum hearing
uri: Urgent-Every-refugee-deserves-an-asylum-hearing
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Urgent:_Every_refugee_deserves_an_asylum_hearing)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Urgent:_Every_refugee_deserves_an_asylum_hearing)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: tell Biden that <a href="https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/border_refugees/">every refugee deserves an asylum hearing</a>.

 


title: Urgent: Pick up a pen and cancel student debt
uri: Urgent-Pick-up-a-pen-and-cancel-student-debt
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Urgent:_Pick_up_a_pen_and_cancel_student_debt)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Urgent:_Pick_up_a_pen_and_cancel_student_debt)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Biden to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/send-biden-cancel-student-debt-pen?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=email-last-chance-tell-biden-to-cancel-student-debt-plus-pens">pick up a pen and cancel student debt</a>.

 


uri: Urgent-Investigate-critical-new-evidence-that-the-wrecker-committed-c
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Urgent:_Investigate_critical_new_evidence_that_the_wrecker_committed_crimes_trying_to_overturn_the_election)

title:
 Urgent: Investigate critical new evidence that the wrecker committed crimes trying to overturn the election 

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Urgent:_Investigate_critical_new_evidence_that_the_wrecker_committed_crimes_trying_to_overturn_the_election)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: call on Congress to <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/investigate-this-critical-new-evidence-against-donald-trump?nowrapper=true&referrer=group-common-cause&source=030822swap-cc">Investigate critical new evidence that the wrecker committed crimes trying to overturn the election</a>.
	 
 


title: Urgent: Support the Stop Gas Price Gouging Tax and Rebate Act
uri: Urgent-Support-the-Stop-Gas-Price-Gouging-Tax-and-Rebate-Act
feed_id:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Urgent:_Support_the_Stop_Gas_Price_Gouging_Tax_and_Rebate_Act)

url:
https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Urgent:_Support_the_Stop_Gas_Price_Gouging_Tax_and_Rebate_Act)

content:
 
<p>
  US citizens: <a href="https://actionnetwork.org/forms/tell-congress-pass-the-stop-gas-price-gouging-tax-and-rebate-act-to-protect-the-american-people-from-big-oils-price-gouging?nowrapper=true&referrer=&source=direct_link">support the Stop Gas Price Gouging Tax and Rebate Act</a>.
<p>
  <a href="https://stallman.org/archives/2022-jan-apr.html#28_March_2022_(Taxing_profiteering_companies)">Sanders's bill</a> might be better, but this one would would do some good.

 


