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Its previous leader, who now becomes leader again, lost an election to Erdoğan in 2023. People hoped Özel would defeat Erdoğan next year.

According to Wikipedia, the planes were dropping leaflets "to fall on Cuba". There is some slack in the precise meaning of that, but maybe Cuba had legitimate grounds to order them to land and then force them to do so.

However, Cuba had no legitimate grounds to shoot and destroy these unarmed planes without first ordering them to land. By doing that, it committed a crime similar to the boat attacks that the bully continually orders elsewhere in the Gulf of Mexico.

The US ought to indict the people responsible for the continuing series of boat attacks, who are Americans, if it is to indict the people responsible for Cuba's airplane attack 30 years ago.

I don't see any sense in the resignation of Latvia's prime minister over this. The right thing to do is to develop a net deployer which can get a drone tangled and bring it down. (Ukraine's army has had success defending against Putin forces drones with used fishnets.)

This might make it possible to study what the Putin forces had done to take control of the drone. Suitable encryption, with redundancy and error detection, could make that impossible. It is much more difficult than mere jamming.

They shot some captives with less-lethal bullets (these are usually rubber-coated steel) from a short distance. Sometimes this broke their bones.

Cops raped some of the protesters.

These attacks caused injuries that have been confirmed by doctors from the victims' home countries; nonetheless, the Israeli government denies them, thus arrogantly legitimizing these attacks while expressing brazen contempt for the truth.

Prosecutors in some countries are investigating criminal charges over these attacks.

As in Canada and the US, indigenous groups find mining and extraction put their health in danger, and they try to resist.

Now he has trained similar abuse on foreign activists, and some countries are rebuking Israel for this. But the foreign activists are, in themselves, a secondary issue: they are campaigning to end Israel's deprivation and violence against Palestinians under occupation.

Ben-Gvir is trying to create a buffer zone around the cruelty to Palestinians, a buffer zone of cruelty to foreigners who defend the human rights of Palestinians. But it may backfire and make more of the world see the cruelty towards Palestinians more clearly.

If it doesn't happen this year, it will happen in another year. There are random fluctuations in the details, but the big picture is that the heat is producing global disaster.

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Global heating is increasing the amount of damage done by disasters, so FEMA needs to be strengthened and better funded. This in addition to strong efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions to make global heating taper off.

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I suspect that the zucker did this because the persecutor asked him to.

In the UK, even well-paid graduates can't advance very far in paying down their student debt. But does that matter? After 30 years, the debt that remains will be cancelled anyway. To explicitly "rebrand" the UK student debt as a tax on graduates sounds manipulative, but it is valid to argue that the UK's student loan system already is in fact a tax on graduates.

By contrast, in the US system you must pay even if unemployed, and the debt will be canceled only by your death (or perhaps if you are permanently disabled).

One goal of the psychological manipulation is to make the bullshitter impossible to predict. What he says about that is bogus. We need to learn not to start trusting him in any way.

Australia's part of global climate modeling is essential because it is the only major contributor that focuses on the southern hemisphere. Since the climate disaster is accelerating, and threatens to kill millions or even billions, the rational thing to do is increase funding for it.

It would be useful to investigate how this decision was made — and how pressure or corruption from planet roasters influenced it.

US government cuts in medical research and aid could kill millions of people.

For decades, the government has had a policy of settling large numbers of Javanese in islands with less human population density. This has aroused accusations of colonization from the peoples who live in those islands.

They have to do it secretively because they are on the edge of campaign finance laws against coordinating PAC-funded activity with candidates' campaigns.

Whether or not it is against the law, it is clearly against democracy. If elections can easily be bought by the rich, they can't be decided by issues.

For peace to last, Turkey needs to restore democracy enough to permit victory for opponents of Erdoğan, rather than starting a civil war as an excuse to do the election over.

In legal terms, that agreement is not a settlement of that lawsuit, but he wants us to think of it as a settlement of that lawsuit, hoping that will give it an odor of legitimacy.

I'd like to watch a few, but according to the article, they are posted on sites which require nonfree software to access.

]]> Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:37:49 -0000 Richard Stallman https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#29_May_2026_(Talk_in_Bern,_Switzerland_on_June_12) https://stallman.org/archives/2026-mar-jun.html#29_May_2026_(Talk_in_Bern,_Switzerland_on_June_12) Richard will give a talk in Bern, Switzerland on June 12 titled Freie/Libre/Libero/Liber Software, for Sovereignty and Freedom.

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I did this because my congresscritter and senators are notably progressive. If yours are Republicans, it might be better strategy to in your case to support campaign's own suggestion -- to use the tax money as a rebate to ease Americans' immediate suffering.

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In my letter I called it a step in a coup.

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