Notices by Richard Stallman (rms@mastodon.xyz)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/countries-nature-cheat-net-zero-targets-paris-agreement-cop29

* By relying on natural carbon sinks such as forests and peat lands to offset emissions, governments can appear closer to greenhouse gas goals than they actually are.*

https://stallman.org/glossary.html#bully
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/18/matt-gaetz-donald-trump-department-of-justice

*Gaetz pick raises fears that [the bully] will seek "retribution" on political foes.*

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/18/letting-ukraine-fire-missiles-into-russia-unlikely-to-have-decisive-effect

It is not clear whether Ukraine's use of long-range US missiles will make a big difference to the outcome of the war. Biden has authorized them only in relation to the Kursk salient. It would make sense to use them in whatever ways would most impair Putin's war effort.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/18/iran-canada-irwin-cotler-assassination-plot

*Canada reportedly foils Iranian plot to kill former justice minister Irwin Cotler,* who was campaigning to have the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps designated as "terrorist". I can well believe that it merits that determination, but such decisions should be made by trial, not by administrative fiat.

[2/2] and threatened with punishment. It is democratic participation, pure and simple, and trying to punish people for that is vicious opposition to democracy. For a university administration even to consider such intimidation shows a lack of respect for democracy and academic freedom. I expect this repression to get far worse when America's highest officials are overt enemies of democracy, acting on administrators who have no sense of loyalty to freedom of speech. Others expect it too.

[1/2] https://theintercept.com/2024/11/18/gaza-protest-campus-palestine-exception/
https://captimes.com/opinion/guest-columns/opinion-uw-madison-not-acting-in-good-faith-with-student-protesters/article_e4867ce6-0e19-11ef-95e1-bba73476bbef.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/18/trump-universities-antisemitism

*From Campus to the Courts, the "Palestine Exception" Rules University Crackdowns.* I looked at the article for which Dahlia Saba and Vignesh Ramachandran were accused

[2/3] [Hong Kong's] once-vibrant civil society.* *Information about some of those activists.* *Starmer twice declines to directly condemn jailing of Hong Kong pro-democracy figures.* The UK economy, as that is normally understood surely benefits from trade with China. Whether poor Britons participate in that benefit, I am not sure. But if the price of that trade is to legitimize repression, in the long run he world loses. The US may be next. Those who don't dare to criticize Chairman Xi

[3/3] won't dare to criticize the wrecker either.

[1/3] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/19/the-guardian-view-on-a-showtrial-in-hong-kong-a-new-authoritarian-low
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/19/who-are-the-hong-kong-47-hk47-trial-pro-democracy-activists
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/nov/19/keir-starmer-declines-to-directly-condemn-jailing-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#wrecker

* The jailing of 45 pro-democracy activists testifies to the ruthless suppression of

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/19/alfredo-cristiani-el-salvador-trial

*El Salvador ex-president among 11 to face trial for 1989 murder of Jesuits.* That murder was an international scandal for the right-wing government of the time, and boosted support by Americans for the resistance.

[2/2] heating, but have chiefly promoted excuses rather than solutions.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/18/climate-crisis-world-temperature-target
https://stallman.org/glossary.html#global%20heating
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-jul-oct.html#15_October_2024_(Carbon_offset_fraud)
https://stallman.org/archives/2024-jul-oct.html#8_September_2024_(Battery_storage_vs_nuclear_power_plants)

*World's 1.5°C climate target "deader than a doornail", experts say.* Indeed, the world's governments have talked for years about curbing global

[2/2] dating.) They could tell the boys were to look at the ratings, but not give them accounts to alter anything in the site.

[1/2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/15/the-boys-in-our-liberal-school-are-different-now-that-trump-has-won

Teenage boys in the US are now venting misogyny in school. Girls in one school have noticed this and are wondering what can be done about it. An idea occurs to me: the girls in a school could set up a web site where they anonymously rate the boys on how misogynist they are in everyday interactions in school. (It would not be focused on dating or anything like

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/02/china-russia-team-up-krill-fishing-restrictions-antarctica

*China and Russia team up to undermine krill fishing restrictions in Antarctica.* These restrictions are designed to protect whales, penguins and seals.

https://theonion.com/new-indiana-law-requires-women-voters-to-show-husbands-id/

(satire) *New Indiana Law Requires Women Voters To Show Husband’s ID.*

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/31/amazon-doordash-cvs-fund-anti-abortion-republican

Amazon, DoorDash and CVS donate *to group backing hardline anti-abortion Republican.*

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/18/trump-mass-deportation-aclu-lawsuit

*ACLU files lawsuit to gain information about Trump mass deportation plans.*

https://act.ran.org/page/74162/petition/1

US citizens: call on world leaders to reduce deforestation and environmental degradation, so as to preserve biodiversity.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/01/israel-ban-on-unrwa-will-annihilate-healthcare-for-palestinians

*Israel's ban on UNRWA will annihilate healthcare for Palestinians.*