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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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Deer has a basketball stuck in his antlers

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This is why punctuation is important.

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Wrongful treatment of dinosaurs.

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Have you ever seen a one man food cart before?

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Stephen King standing at the gate of his house in Bangor, Maine.

Please click on image to expand. [ Image source ] Fans have since stolen all the bats. 
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Haast eagle street art in Dunedin, NZ

Please click on image to expand. This is the Haast eagle done in street art. The bird has apparently gone extinct in New Zealand because of poaching. [Image source here , read more here ]
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Heartbreaking: Syrian girl thought the photojournalist was holding a weapon and surrenders

Please click on image to expand. Gut wrenching to know a child so young knows what this is. She must have been thought by her parents to surrender at such a tender age. [ Image source ]
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Phone being a jerk

Please click on image to expand. Phones really know how to make their human toys work to their whims and fancies. [ Image source ]
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Someone in England is trying to motivate people to run

Now as if that was not enough. Here's another one for motivation. Found on a running rout near leads. [ Image source ]
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UPS guy dosen't care

Sometimes delivery people just show up and leave. Well, why didn't you at least knock? [ Image source ]
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This adult pillow fort

This guy made this for his girlfriend. Hope the ventilation system is proper, and please don't ask why. [ Image source ]
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How Australian Newspaper mX differentiates between North Korea and South Korea

Well this is a free news paper given out to commuters. Not really journalism at its high point but definitely eye-catching and funny. [ Image source ] 
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International Space Station with the lights off

Please click on image to expand. With zero gravity you might be wondering why they need a floor, but they've got one. [ Image source ]
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This Orangutan Goes Spear Fishing

He was introduced back into the wild in Borneo after living in a Zoo. He picked up this skill after watching local fisherman. Image what else he might be capable of learning and doing. 
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Greatest bro save of all time.

Please click on image to expand. The 859 people who like it, we think are husbands' agreeing. [ Image source ]
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Best kiss ever...

Please click on image to expand. This picture of a puppy and fish kissing sure looks cute. The harsh reality though is quite different. The fish is definitely checking if the puppy is edible and the puppy's brain might also register and nice taste of the fish. [ Image source ]
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Steve Jobs giving IBM the Finger

Please click on image to expand. Taken in 1983. [ Image source ]
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Didn't you always want to see a stained glass water tower?

Please click on image to expand. Location: Brooklyn. [ Image source ]
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Meet Jess Smith, the real sun baby from Teletubbies

Over the last 19 years there have been a lot of people claiming to be the sun baby in the hit kids show 'Tetetubbies'. Jess Smith was the real sun baby, this secret she kept with her for so long and finally decided to go public and tell everyone she's the Sun Baby on Teletubbies. She also says she hasn't changed much from that giggly lil' baby she used to be. [ Read more here ]
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Nothing much here, just a bunch of guys playing video games

Please click on image to expand. If you're looking for some bright ideas for the holidays, here's one. Something peaceful about this situation. [ Image source ]
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