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...
This is a spin-off from the hacktivist group Anonymous, who were responsible for the Bart Station protests. Their name of course is similar to wikileaks the site responsible for leaking many political sensitive documents on the internet. They also seem to own alligence to Lulz, whose last known acitivty and Twitter tweet was in July. So what is Hollywood Leaks and what do they do Hollywood leaks says that they are after scripts, gossip and taking over Twitter celebrity accounts. The group seems to be a loos knit band of internet troublemakers who have already been hard at work. Ensuring that they make celebrities sweat. In fact the script sent by Peter Shankman to his cast has been taken by the group and posted on The Pirate Bay. Cell phone numbers of a couple of famous people including Miley Cyrus, Lil Jon, and Ashley Greene have been posted on Pastebin.com. After the recently concluded MTV Video music Awards, rapper Kreayshawn had her Twitter account taken over by the group,they the...