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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
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RIP Justine Bieber

Well we all know Justin Bieber is not dead, but bieber haters on Twitter have started this new tag. It sounds quiet funny actually and there are all his fans out there who are really angry with the whole thing that Justin Bieber has been relegated to the land of the dead. Some tweets from twitter to make you laugh or angry, depends!! RIP justin bieber . you were our favorite canadian girl singer. you shall be missed on the youtubes. Just got on twitter and all I see is RIP JUSTIN BIEBER ?!?! My heart dropped! Who ever started that Is stupid! Its not even funny! Grow up!! That awkward moment when RIP Justin Bieber is trending, then Justin tweets 'Im feeling so alive'... RIP Justin Bieber , I'm going to miss her! Whoever started the RIP Justin Bieber rumour is sick. It's not right to get people's hopes up like that. An original post by Sociolatte
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Did Wikileaks, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube bring about Tunisia's revolution

Story so far: Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, the Tunisian leader who fled the country after more than 23 years of dictatorship rule, may have fallen because of WikiLeaks and Facebook and the whole social media revolution.  This is what the Telegraph has to say " Mr Ben Ali may also have been the first victim of Wikileaks. Cables by an American ambassador giving colourful descriptions of the lives of luxury pursued by his family, and the business empire it controlled, were eagerly emailed around the country, despite a repressive system of censorship. Descriptions by other ambassadors of other leaders' political and personal attitudes have not been much less graphic. On the plus side, protesters also seemed to understand that despite the deaths of scores of rioters, there were limits to how far modern leaders could go in maintaining their rule by force. Maybe that was also a lesson of the crushing of Saddam Hussein, who knew no such limits, by George Bush and Tony Blair. " Prote...
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Video: Motorola Xoom tablet

The world of tablets spawned by Apple now have a new player, the Motorola Xoom. This new Andriod Touch tablet comes with a 10.1 inch display built for true high definition video with 16.9 widescreen format. It has the NVIDIA Tegra dual core chipset, making sure speed increases for web browsing, videos and gaming. Comes with Andriod 3.0 Honeycomb, powerful software from Google. This is the first tablet to get the HOneycome, Andriod 3.0. The Xoom is headed for Verizon and currently only 3G capable, but stated to be 4G LTE capable with a hardware upgrade by sending the tablet in. Available in the US. An original post by Sociolatte
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Read your Facebook news feed like a newspaper

PostPost is your Facebook newspaper, what this little App does is allows you to login using FB and then pulls all your wall content shared by your friends and you and arranges it for you to read like a newspaper. See what your friends want you to read. Once everything has been arranged you can still use the like and comment button and not have to leave the page at all. Kind of interesting to read you wall posts like this. Anyways your wall is called a news feed and it is fitting to read it like a news paper. The application also arranges everything very well and you do feel as though you are reading a real newspaper, especially the way stories, pics and videos are arranged. It also helps bring clarity to your news feed and you can see what is most happening among all your friends. Check it out now . An original post by Sociolatte
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How to delete photos I've been tagged in on Facebook

Remember the saying what happens on vacation stays on Facebook . Well many disasters can be avoided by timely action. There have been many photos and videos people have been tagged in that has actually cost them their jobs. People we are connected with are from all walks of life. Some people on your friend list might by you co-workers while one of them might be your boss, your connected with family and pretty much everyone you know in life. While a friend of yours might tag you for fun in a an embarrassing photo or video, it might be watched by your co-workers and your boss and actually land you in trouble. By now I think you get the point. How to remove a a tag from a photo or video you've been tagged in 1. Find the photo or video you wish to remove the tag from 2. Below the photo you find a link (Remove Tag) 3. Click that 4. Your done. How to hide/Remove a photo or video you have been tagged in. 1. Hover the tagged photo you wish to hide or remove. 2. A small 'X' should a...
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