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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...

Here's how to hide your Facebook Friends list

Found this interesting post on cnet news . I know it is not in good taste to simply copy and paste but this information is valuable. I am also sure that users will fin this an intereting bit of Information. It is also well written, simple and clear and offers a step by step guide. To read the original article please click on the link above. With all the controversy following their release of the new privacy policies. Users would like to be more aware of how and why they would like to share what and where.  1. Click on Profile on the blue bar a the top of the screen: 2. Scroll down to the beginning of your Friends list and click on the pencil to the right of the word Friends: 3. Uncheck the box that says "Show Friend list to everyone": You can't hide your friends from your friends and applications Unchecking that box will hide your friends list when a non-Facebook friend views your public profile, but it will not hide your Facebook friends list from your friends when they ...

Judges cannot add lawyers as Facebook friends in Florida

Judges and lawyers in Florida can no longer be friends no Social Networking sites. This according to " The Legal Professional Blog ". Lawyers cannot accept or add lawyers as friends on Facebook. As it creates a sort of conflict of interest when it turns out that the same lawyers representing clients apprear the very same Judges. Stephen Gillers a legal expert from New York said that this went too far as Lawyers and Judges are friends in real life. "Judges do not “ drop out of society when they become judges ,” he said. “The people who were their friends before they went on the bench remained their friends, and many of them were lawyers.” Some lawyers on the other hand think that this could be a good idea and help to avoid any misgivings that would possibly arise. Lawyers can nonetheless take heart as they can add themselves as Fans of judges. Found on mediapostnews "At the same time, some judges have been accused of crossing an ethical line on Facebook. In June, Nor...