The US should stop supporting Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara.

(satire) *Coronavirus Optimistic New Mutation Will Be Widely Available To Public By Early Spring.*

Georgia's Republican officials propose to block new voters from registering before the Jan 5 runoff elections unless they have registered a car in Georgia.

*Sen. Perdue of Georgia Profited From Defense Contractor's Stock While Overseeing Naval Spending.*

Congress passed a law, the STOCK Act, criminalizing that kind of corruption, but then repealed it.

The United States, European Union, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia oppose the push for the WTO to waive patent restrictions and allow all countries to make and use Covid-19 vaccines without paying for the privilege.

It is worth reminding people that the WTO is the reason why most countries allow medicines to be patented. That was a scheme to enrich big pharma companies at the expense of people who can't afford monopolistic prices for drugs. This system represents a decision to kill millions of people, and is one of the reasons why we ought to abolish the WTO.

Covid-19 vaccine developers are keeping the techniques of making them secret and have the gall to criticize people for trying to get those secrets.

This information should be made available to every would-be vaccine manufacturer.

Both of these articles used the misleading term "intellectual property." The first uses it to mean patents. The second uses it to mean trade secrets. Patents and trade secrets are totally different and have nothing whatsoever in common.

The term lumps together patents with copyrights with trade secrets with trademarks, and some other things as well. These laws are totally different, so the term is sophisticated-sounding confusion.

When someone uses the term "intellectual property", understand it to mean, "I don't know what I am talking about."