A G20 summit will be happening in London Thursday, but Brad says we're not doing anything connected to it. Awwww. In the meantime, have a LOLcat: ( cut for image )

The G8 summit is taking place in Hokkaido, Japan, July 7-9, but Brad hasn't mentioned anything. Sad. Protests are already going on!

::The whites of Schuldig's eyes are reddened from exposure to tear gas, and he has faint blue streaks in his ginger hair. He looks tired yet jazzed.::

"Marauding clowns and squabbles embarrass organisers"
Even some of the nonviolent protesters were kind of my people: As a black column of bulky riot police approached along a picturesque tree- ( Read more... )

"Police, Protesters Clash Outside G-8 Summit." You wouldn't believe the high I have during all this. Sticking it to the Man the violent way while surrounding by likeminded souls is a powerful thing. Chancellor Merkin says violence isn't the way to go--she would, wouldn't she?--but what's the G8 the world remembers? Seattle. (And I was there for ( Read more... )

"Riots prompt tight security at G8 summit of major powers in northern Germany"

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"MySpace Outage Leaves Millions Friendless"

All Onion kidding aside, I hear that wangst occurred in torrents over LiveJournal while I was in Germany doing my real life. Fortunately, my profile interests are so clean they squeak!

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I also missed Sweet bringing ( Read more... )

"G-8 Protests Turn Violent in Germany"

I have to remember to see things and people as they are, not as I wish they are or they used to be. I'm aware that I've been particularly blind there on personal matters lately. I guess I'm just as human as anybody else is when it comes to people I care about, but it's past time for me to be more ruthless with myself.

Brad will be hired on to help provide security for the G8 summit again this year. It'll be Heiligendamm, Germany, this time. I love G8 season. I hate the summit itself, you know, the sekrit cabal including the leaders of the world's seven richest nations, plus Russia, plus the head of the European community, accountable to no one, making plans to ( Read more... )