Good Morning 99%'ers!
I have been battling a very ill computer for several days and while it is still working, I am drafting an Open Thread diary. I often draft up the skeleton in advance and then try to add a little meat after I have the skeleton complete. However, depending on what transpires with my computer in the next two days, this may be all you see.
Good Morning, 99%'ers! 
I was getting ready to do my first walk in ten days and noticed we had no Open Thread this morning. Please use this Open Thread for your news and views.
I will be back later after my walk to check and post on it too.
Monday Morning Open Thread, 10-05-2015
When this posts I will be camping on an island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. I will worry, but not too much, about how this is being received. Once I wake up and get up and have coffee and let the cats out, that is. I could assign topics, like "Aleister Crowley and Anton La Vey - compare and contrast" or "You are the eyes of the world - discuss among yourselves", but that would defeat the purpose of an open thread. I might even get to check in via 'phone, but that remains to be seen.
Good morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music from Steve Earle.
10 Million at Risk of Hunger Due to Climate Change and El Niño, Oxfam Warns
At least ten million of the poorest people face food insecurity in 2015 and 2016 due to extreme weather conditions and the onset of El Niño, Oxfam has reported.
Good Morning, 99%'ers! 
Good morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music by the Doug Kershaw, The Ragin' Cajun.
Will TTIP Get Terminated? Negotiations Falter as Europe Balks
As EU-US trade talks flounder, France doesn't rule out 'an outright termination of negotiations'While public opposition to the TransAtlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)—the massive proposed "trade" deal between the European Union and the United States—has grown steadily since negotiations started two years ago, new signs suggest that official government backing is also faltering across Europe.
Monday morning open thread 09/28/2015 (possibly the last evah)
Agenda:
1) Watch world end, or maybe not. Check am talk radio to see.
special birthdays
Ben E. King, Koko Taylor
Monday morning open thread 09/29/2015 (possibly the last evah)
Agenda:
1) Watch world end, or maybe not. Check am talk radio to see.
special birthdays
Ben E. King, Koko Taylor
Good morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music by Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings.
Reversing Climate Change: What Will It Take?
On the weekend of September 21, 2014, people in 162 countries joined 2,646 events to demand global reductions in the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are generating climate catastrophe. An estimated forty thousand marched in London; thirty thousand in Melbourne; and twenty-five thousand in Paris. Some four hundred thousand joined the People's Climate March through the center of New York City. The climate protection movement had come a long way since 2006, when a march of one thousand through Burlington, Vermont proved to be the largest climate protest in American history. Yet, despite its exponential growth, whether and how the climate protection movement could realize its goals remained an open question.
Unfortunately, I may not have much time to interact with comments on today's Open Thread as the first of my back to back company will be arriving today. When it rains, it pours. My MIL and SIL are coming today and leaving on Thursday. That gives me just enough time to wash sheets and towels for company that is arriving on Friday. I feel like I am running a bed and breakfast. The two visits are unrelated, but just happened to come back to back.
