Good morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music by Poco.
U.N.: Paris Climate Summit Pledges Won’t Avoid Warming
The greenhouse gas emission cuts being pledged by the world’s nations will fall short of restricting global warming to 2°C, the U.N.’s climate chief and UK government sources have warned.
Judge Carl Barbier of the Eastern District Court of Louisiana has allowed the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to intervene in Tristan Broussard's federal lawsuit against First Tower Loan, LLC.
Once upon a time various bleeding hearts tried to promote the idea that prisons weren't really merely punitive, or shouldn't be at any rate, nor mere retribution. Oh no, they expounded, they should be (and some of the more deluded claimed they actually were) rehabilitative. For a while there were efforts made to actually infuse a tiny slice of rehabilitative endeavors into our jails and prisons.
From a 1986 exchange between Bob Dylan and a Mister Jones:
Mister Jones: I was looking through your lyrics. There aren't very many political songs in there.
Bob Dylan: I don't know which of my songs was ever political.
MJ: "Masters Of War" is.
Sexual Rights? Suuuure. Once again the US is going to jump out into the global arena telling everybody else to adopt policies that it has no intention whatsoever of ever adopting itself.
Per this article: America's small change on 'sexual rights' could have big impact - CSMonitor.com we're now going to champion “sexual rights” in discussions of human rights and global development. Bwahahahaha.
For what we are telling others to do as we say and not as we do, see below.
In February 1899, British poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands."
The 2015 US Conference on AIDS was held September 10-13 in Washington, DC. On the opening day dozens of transgender and gender-nonconforming people seized the stage at the lunchtime plenary session to draw attention to HIV+ gender-variant people.
The group was chanting, We are not gay men! to protest the inclusion of trans women in gay male research and statistics.
This evening's music features The Godfather of Soul, James Brown. Enjoy!
James Brown - Papa's got a brand new bag
Autumn arrived. The last few days have been absolutely beautiful.
I look forward to the change of seasons. October is a wonderful month.
President Obama's plan to have the Pentagon create a rebel force in Syria, the “New Syrian Force”, has crashed and burned in such an spectacular way that the Administration is "rethinking" it's entire strategy.
