Notices by Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz), page 4

[3/3] process with one that will work, it has to start with an ct of defiance like this one. Then other countries have to follow that lead lead.

[2/3] heating, but if it is to happen, the COP conferences as they are are useless window dressing. They mainly serve the planet roasters as greenwashing. They do provide funds for some useful conservation activities - useful, that is, supposing we do save civilization by preventing global disaster — but they won't help prevent global disaster. Papua New Guinea has denounced the conferences as a worthless waste of time. Bravo! If there is to be any chance of replacing this broken

[1/3] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/08/cop29-ceo-filmed-agreeing-to-facilitate-fossil-fuel-deals-at-climate-summit
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#planet
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/08/png-cop29-papua-new-guinea-un-climate-summit

*Cop29 CEO filmed agreeing to facilitate fossil fuel deals at climate summit.* I see little hope for efforts to preserve civilization and technology fro the danger of global

[2/2] and getting much wetter, much drier, getting burned to the ground, or getting flooded.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/24/biodiversity-declining-even-faster-in-protected-areas-scientists-warn-cop16-30x30-conservation-target
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating

Many "protected" nature reserves are not protected very effectively; biodiversity is declining within them, due to causes such as drilling for oil. Global heating could also be contributing to that decline. Protecting a specific area of land won't preventing from getting hotter,

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/oct/28/long-arm-russia-putin-critics-in-exile
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#trump

* Moscow is using ties with neighboring countries to deport and arrest anti-war Russians who fled after invasion of Ukraine.* Soon the fascist may help Putin do likewise to expat Russians in the US.

[3/3] US, to overcome the Republican phony populists who pretend to stand for that majority by scapegoating smaller and poorer groups.

[2/3] first name. Rep. Jayapal: *We've got to pick some big fights where people can't be in denial or question whether or not we are standing up for them or whether we're standing up to the big corporate interests," the Washington congresswoman said, adding: "It's a difficult message to send when you're trying to court money from that community." In other words, Democrats need to become what they once were: sincere populists, defending the vital interests of the poor majority of the

[1/3] https://theintercept.com/2024/11/07/briefing-podcast-harris-trump-election-results/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/11/progressive-caucus-democrats-populist-economic-policies

*[Harris's] Fruitless Pursuit of the Mythical Moderate.* The article attributes her defeat to her failure to take an overall political position that would help struggling majority of Americans. I emended the article title because it would be presumptuous to refer to a person I don't know by per

https://taxjustice.net/2014/10/08/money-taxation-isnt-theft/

*No it's not your money: why taxation isn't theft.* Refuting the claim that however much you can extract from the market is a measure of what you deserve.

[2/2] some are bad. The fallacy in those arguments is that they exaggerate the significance of the bad secondary effect, inviting the reader to assume that it will outweigh the primary benefit of the action. Sometimes that does happen, but you can't take the word of the complainers for that.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/05/rich-labour-budget-rachel-reeves-budget

The complaints from rich people and businesses, that Labour's tax increases and regulations will be have some deleterious effects, show that it would fix problems that vested interests don't want fixed. In a market-based economy, any change in one variable affects many others. Pulling on one string reshapes the rest of the network a little. Some of those secondary effects are good and

https://theonion.com/neuralink-patient-unable-to-stop-hand-from-voting-for-trump/

(satire) *Neuralink Patient Unable To Stop Hand From Voting For Trump.*

[2/3] on what sort of action would constitute "support". Would "End the siege of Gaza" be construed as "support" for terrorists? I wouldn't be surprised if the bully's followers said so, This attack on the freedom of political association in the US, this attempt to subvert the rule of law by injecting arbitrary power, illustrates the commitment of right-wing extremists to the elimination of the basic principles of human rights, such as "innocent until proven guilty." I expect the

[3/3] Senate to block this bill, for the rest of this year.

[1/3] https://theintercept.com/2024/11/10/trump-nonprofit-tax-exempt-political-enemies/
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully

Republicans are trying to create the power to strip the tax exemption from any organization that officials accuse of "supporting terrorists", with no requirement to present any reason or evidence for that accusation. The group thus attacked would get a hearing, but it is hard to refute an accusation that offers no specifics. Even worse, there may be no limits

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/nov/08/university-tuition-fees-england-who-does-it-affect

Tuition fees in UK universities are going up, and some students will need bigger loans to pay for that, The UK student loan system is fundamentally better than the US system, because in the UK system the ex-student who has a low income does not have to repay the loan.

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/08/david-lammy-dismisses-past-criticism-donald-trump-old-news

Fear of the wrecker is leading foreign political leaders to try to alter their past statements.

[2/2] carried out, it would result in a vast increase in deportations of people who never knew any country but the US, to places where they don't speak the language and can never fit in.

[1/2] https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/litigation-certainty-trumps-call-end-birthright-citizenship-face-mount-rcna162314
https://stallman.org/archives/2016-jul-oct.html#31_October_2016_(US_immigration_policy)

The wrecker said he would wreak havoc by ordering that a child of two unauthorized immigrants no longer be considered a US citizen. Even the Extreme Court might reject the validity of such an order; but if it were to be