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...
The Pirate Bay a site that hosts magnet links to content around the web have something called 'The Promo Bay'. If you're wondering what this is well it is a chance web artists to promote themselves on TPB. This is done by the Swedish site as a way to help struggling musicians, film makers and cartoon artists to name few. The Pirate Bay also know an TPB has been criticized by record labels and hollywood as one of the biggest threats to this business. The shutting down on MegaUpload goes to show just how serious Hollywood is about protecting copyright and how far their reach can go. TPB however has a lot of support and comes in at about #65 most visited site on the internet. They have a lot of traffic and have launched The Promo Bay to help bring exposure to artists from around the world. From the time of its launch the promo bay has had more than 5000+ sign-ups by artists from around the world and a majority of who are male. Artists who choose to join need to have something ...