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...
Occupy has definitely become a Meme and each person is using it in their own ways to convey their message. The central them running through the occupy meme is to go someplace and protest by occupying it. The occupy meme is closely linked to Occupy Wall Street but it has meaning that can cross over boundaries and meanings. There has been religious memes on the net saying Jesus was the first occupy wall street protester in history. Now with Occupy The URL you can occupy any website you want on the internet. A silent way of showing your support to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Plus it is also a fun thing to do. You can try it out now and see how you it occupies a website and says finally 'we are the 99%'. Nothing happens to the website you are occupying and it is just a collage of pics that mashup on the site to create an occupation. It is just a harmless bit of fun and can potentially become a huge internet meme. An original post by Sociolatte