Does anyone realize the highway shutdowns/response that is not at all in the MSM? Film from Baton Rouge?

I need to get things rolling. Time to put in my ceiling fan.

there would be no math.

Going to see if Vimeo code works. If not, I'll come back in and delete:

SNL-No-Math from Dez on Vimeo.

in the reading room of the EU Commissions official "reading rooms", where they can read the details of the documents for the negotiated upcoming TTIP deal, in order to avoid more "leaks" from out of the "reading rooms".

TTIP-Leak: EU-Kommission will Abgeordnete mit versteckter Kamera überwachen (TTIP-Leak: EU commission wants to surveille EU delegates).

May be I should try a translation. This is my own, please correct me if I got something terribly wrong. I am not a professionally trained translator and my English is pretty bad, but heh, I think it's enough to "get it".

Before the important 14th round of negotiations on the proposed transatlantic trade agreement TTIP the US wants to prevent further " Leaks from reading rooms ". The EU Commission is therefore bringing hidden cameras into play.

Politicians are to be monitored secretly, if they want to find information in the official reading rooms from the negotiating documents on the planned FTA TTIP between the EU and the USA . The EU Commission proposed, according to published minutes written by "research collective corrective" of an internal meeting of the EU Council in early July a "better control of electronic devices in particular with hidden cameras.

The US had asked how the EU intends to prevent further leaks from reading rooms, it says in the confidential paper. Previously Greenpeace had posted in early May 75 percent of TTIP papers, dealing with the different positions of the negotiating sides, on the internet and had opened up a public reading room at the Brandenburg Gate, which the police closed pretty soon after. The US had initially reacted demonstratively "unconcerned", but showed behind the scenes that they were rather annoyed.

The Commission suggested to the Council of Ministers that - aside from the covert video surveillance cameras - only three documents at the same time could be given out for reading purposes.

After high pressure from elected representatives and civil society, the Commission had set up a reading room at the European Parliament in December. The Federal Ministry of Economics did soemthing comparable end of January . At both locations politicians and optionally their employees, who are allowed to have access, may see confidential documents with explanations and overviews.

It should not be given the impression that the access of MPs should be restricted, declared representatives of Germany, together with emissaries of Austria. Belgium and Lithuania agreed expressively to increased security measures though. The green EU interior ministers Jan Philipp Albrecht though tweeted his outrage with the counter-proposal to install " open cameras " in the negotiating sessions .

In Brussels the 14 - TTIP negotiations started this Monday. It's about proposals and positions on issues such as industrial goods, market access, protection of intangibles and geographical indications , services, government procurement or sustainable development . The Commission has published its own positions to the web .The USA positions have barely been posted in the reading rooms.

The EU side insists to conclude the talks by the end of 2016. That would mean to have a largely finished text actually at the end of this week , because the negotiating team meets again only in October shortly before the US election . But the differences are still quite substantial.

Ok, folks, don't leak anything out from the reading rooms. You are not supposed to know anything about the deals. The US ain't going to be happy about it. So, you better behave.

Thanks for the OT and the nice and diverse selection of music pieces.

Happy Population Day. Yeah, these darn women, who can't stop giving birth to cute babies, heh?

Let it be known that I am against any restrictions on couples or women on their reproductive rights, which includes the prevention AND the production of cute babies. All those smart academically trained folks, who think that they can "reduce" the world population by restricting women's rights to have or not to have babies, can imo go to hell. So there, I said it.

That doesn't mean that those women are responsible for what they do with their decisions, getting over their own abortions emotionally or raising their kids alone, if needed be.

Women should carry their responsibilities for the kids they give birth to. Most of them do, even under very bad circumstances. No birth control methods should ever be denied to women. The US is so fuckingly greedy and behind the times, they don't make access to birth control easy and cheap. There you have the mess you deserve. Yeah, I am angry, and rightfully so.

The police have looked ridiculous for quite some time.

Rudy Guiliani proved that he is a Complete Monster again.

The police in riot gear were more armored up than anything I had when I was in the Army. That's like some sci-fi dystopian, proto-fascist movie stuff. Suffice to say, future film makers will have plenty of stock footage to use.

It seems we're reaching some kind of peak anger in this country. The point where enough becomes enough and certain societal norms gets thrown out of the window.

With that depressing news, I'm going to go out and try to survive the hot and humid weather in Orlando.

It loaded extremely narrow on my computer's tab.

Just saw mimi's post with the Hedges interview about the criminal justice system's abuse of the plea bargaining system and wanted to post a link with something related (a Frontline piece called "Policing the Police").

Think I'll wait to see if this gets sorted out.

has been denoted as the repository of the writings of all Dalai Lamas. Guess as far away from China as possible is good. Yes, we have a Buddhist temple here, prayer flags flying.