A non-Uighur teacher in Xinjiang was ordered to teach shackled Uighurs and saw them get weaker and sicker as time went by.

Secretary General Guterres warned that humanity needs to end its "war with nature."

I am concerned, however, that use of the term "natural capital" will backfire, leading people to accept the practice of selling off natural systems as long as the price is high enough. The capitalist will sell the ladder he is standing on, and won't even climb down before it is taken away.

Privatized deportation prison thugs use the current freezing cold to torture prisoners. When they complain of the cold in their unheated cells, the thugs turn on fans to make it worse.

That is but the most shocking of many forms of cruelty and neglect, just as one must expect from any privatized government function.

*Malcolm X family says letter shows NYPD and FBI conspired in his murder.*

I would not be very surprised if they did.

Ideologically imposed Republican deregulation is the cause of Texas's power failure and the cause of the bankruptcies caused by gouging on natural gas.

Some Texans have been bankrupted by the thousands of dollars that the gas companies charged while their electricity was out. Republicans now aim to use them as hostages to protect the windfall profits for the future. They want the federal government to ransom the hostages by paying what pay the utility gouging.

It is good to rescue the hostages, but what will happen next time there is a global heating disaster or a natural disaster in Texas? Should the utilities be able to gouge again, and the federal government ransom their hostages again? We must not throw our money down the toilet from which utilities feed.

The deal to ransom the hostages this time must include regulating utility prices in Texas so that,next time, the utilities can't gouge again.

Paying ransom for hostages to the enemies of the American people was Reagan's policy. It must not be ours today.