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The climate conference in Madrid only managed to make a minimal compromise, which in no way does justice to the current situation. This is mainly due to the USA, Australia and Brazil, three countries in which climate change deniers are in power. Climate researcher Mojib Latif therefore advocates a coalition of the willing. If the economic hopes placed in alternative energies are fulfilled, this could be a positive example. But we would also suggest to punish or at least limit the damage the boycotters are causing through economic and trade rules and sanctions. The principle of voluntariness does not work in the economy - and neither does it work among irresponsible heads of government.

Bolsonaro´s government helps those who plunder the Amazon and who kill everyone who defies their criminal activity including mining, logging and land grabbing by impunity. This year 27 people died from conflicts in the countryside compared to only two death in 2018. Seven were indigenous leaders. Even worse they have raided a renown NGO and arrested four volunteeer firefighters accusing them of having spawned the fires. Bolsonaro´s fascists use outright lies when fueling propaganda and ultra-nationalistic discourse. His Finance Minister Paulo Guedes, openly suggests that growing left-wing opposition may oblige them to institute the military dictatorship's notorious “A-5” law, which dissolved Congress and led to the detention, torture, and murder of the dictatorship's opponents. Also Alessandra Munduruku, fell victim to this indiscriminate assault on Earth Defenders when her house was invaded and her computer, cell phone, flash drives, and important documents stolen …

xchroot has been furnished with many new features:

• pulseaudio support
• running programs directly with xchroot without additionally specifying the chroot root directory (fetched from sudoers)
• program parameters with quotes and spaces are passed on correctly
• create desktop files for applications inside the chroot to run them with file associations and the GUI starter menu of the host system
• current working directory is preserved if it exists inside the chroot

The deblive CD has been updated for many new programs and some new features: ddrescue, gparted, smartctl (hdd health), konversation (IRC), falkon (web browser), twinkle (VoIP), telegram (chatting), kdiff3, kwrite and wine. The programs to create own installs in pydeps have also been freshened: contrib + two blue ray support, improved dependency analysis. uniq-unsorted helps in extending existing copy and install lists. When booting via Grub there is an own menu entry for Flashrom now. The default boot menu entry is booted after 8 seconds now which is especially useful when the BIOS should block USB keyboard access. The first version of this scriptset has been published together with debcheckroot.

Einmal nicht nur über Sachthemen und Analysen lesen. Hier sind ein paar Geschichten aus dem Leben von Menschen anderswo:

• Vom Feuer und vom Fieber: aus Amazonien
• Wo die Welt gerade untergeht: von den Marshallinseln