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.

I might not be here when this posts, but I'll get here eventually

Last week's instalment reminded me of a long deferred project to write a series at the GOS about "Power to the People". Not just a slogan, that was a real goal, and while a goal, also a means to an end, or to many ends, which, taken together, would attain power for the people, adhering in the people, and serving the people. Circular, but in a meaningful way.

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.

Attributed to Benjamin Franklin:

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

At the rate we are going, we could add in US hegemony

It's hard to fight against taxes, and no one ever gets out of life alive. All my life I have been very fortunate. My health has been good. I am not rich, but I am secure. I live most of the year in a beautiful place. Compared to most people, my life is good and it is stable.

Hey, good Morning. This Monday Morning Open Thread is due to be published by 6:00 am Pacitic Time. Johnny says it must be up by 5:00 am Pacific time to meet that deadline (the server must be running Windows). Hence, it is being drafted and queued Sunday evening and I will show up as soon as I get up and get going. (As a retiree, I have a lot of flexibility in that regard.)