U.S. Again Playing Hierarchical Role with G20 on Climate Change

Donald Trump in November began the yearlong process of withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, making the U.S. the only country in the world excluded from the global climate change agreement. By withdrawing, the allies of Trump who make fortunes on exploiting the environment can continue to be justified in doing so. 

The United States, under Donald Trump, is reluctant to accept language that diplomats claim that the U.S. is opposed to the mention of climate change among global financial leaders after a joint statement revealed the G20 could include the U.S. administration's position on the issue as a risk factor for economic growth.

Some G20 ministers said the U.S. was reluctant to accept language on climate change as a real danger to the economy.

"Usually China blocks as well, but as they are represented at [the] lower level," a G20 diplomat said, according to the news outlet. "It's mainly the U.S."

Socialism - Pulling Together

Hierarchies means that only a few have the control the power and the resources. Non-hierarchy ideas come when we share our resources and look after each other. Is that socialism? Could be by some definitions.

Everybody Join Together

Everyone join together, what ever group you're in, to defeat those whose goal is to build and maintain hierarchies. 

Conditions at Border Typical of Lower on Republican Hierarchy

Those lowest on the hierarchy, as usual, get the worst of what is desirable.  This situation is particularly obvious when we look at people who Trump and the Republican party put on the bottom of their hierarchies.

A federal judge in Arizona has ruled that conditions at U.S. border holding cells operated by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency violated the Constitution. The ruling states that the conditions that migrants and asylum seekers have had to face have been "substantially worse than detainees face upon commitment to either a civil immigration detention facility or even a criminal detention facility, like a jail or prison.

https://www.newsweek.com/judge-says-conditions-us-border-holding-cells-violated-constitution-monumental-ruling-1488281?amp=1&fbclid=IwAR0LLOT0KGIiqQzW1WIGLxneW-8I3dZq5qctpceUXViLh4mIXudd1n3BPgs

Girl Expelled from Christian School after Picture with a Rainbow Birthday Cake

A Kentucky high school student was expelled from a Christian school after administrators saw a photo of the girl from her 15th birthday wearing a rainbow sweater posing next to a rainbow cake, according to the girl’s mother.

From the school: “On occasion, the atmosphere or conduct within a particular home may be counter or in opposition to the Biblical lifestyle the school teaches,” the handbooks states. “This includes, but is not limited to, sexual immorality, homosexual orientation, or the inability to support Biblical standards of right and wrong.”

Evangelical Christians like those in this school support Donald Trump. Supposedly Trump is their idea of Biblical standards of right and wrong. People on top of hierarchies are clueless and judgemental about anyone they want to force down their hierarchies on which they place themselves on top.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/diversity-inclusion/478382-student-expelled-from-christian-school-after?fbclid=IwAR0mkqp_y6w8wvMGOPKZeqnkk8szkdnaUc1K5p5CSwvXhroTT1L1_cS7rDs

Tennessee Passes Bill to Discriminate Against LGBT Couples in Adoption

In a measure endorsed by the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission,  Tennessee lawmakers on Tuesday passed legislation allowing Volunteer State adoption agencies to refuse to place children with same-sex parents.

The bill was opposed by LGBTQ rights groups, including the Tennessee Equality Project and the national group Lambda Legal.

“This bill would give a special license to faith-based child welfare agencies funded with taxpayers dollars to discriminate in foster care and adoption against parents who are trying to provide a loving home to children in need,” Currey Cook, counsel and director for Lambda Legal’s Youth in Out-of-Home Care Project said.

“This bill would children in foster care in Tennessee a much-needed family simply because agencies want to put their beliefs above the best of interests of the children,” Cook added.

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/478295-tennessee-lawmakers-pass-bill-allowing-adoption-agencies-to-refuse-to?fbclid=IwAR0P6-duxfCeBvHTslTt5xpHKUYNVGR1rEuYZOIQ2vGaTg7tRENhH6tIzx8

Teacher of the Year Kneels at College Football Championship Game

Minnesota’s top teacher said her students were on her mind when she decided to kneel during the national anthem while being honored at Monday night’s college football championship game.

The state’s 2019 “Teacher of the Year” Kelly Holstine took a knee while being recognized on the Louisiana State University field along with the other honored teachers. 

Standing with them was Donald Trump.

“I just decided that it felt like the right thing to do, to have a very respectful protest,” Holstine told The Hill. “It’s really Martin Luther King Jr. says it best: ‘Nobody's free until we're all free.’”

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/478520-minnesota-teacher-of-the-year-kneels-during-college-football?fbclid=IwAR1pOsYCCDkotINc40z9uSNRlxN1g5jHbGqBlxnmo_2BTJxU0YAMgk65XVA