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...
British hypnotist Chris Hughes will be attempting to mass hypnotize people via social networks Facebook and Twitter. This is scheduled to happen on Jan 4th and the session has just gotten over as of writing this post. You can still however be a part of the experiment by going to his site #social trance where you find a link http://bit.ly/TheSocialTranceSession The link to download the pre-recorded Socialtrance session is below. If you listened to the live webcast you'll know why we've had to change the format to this download. Do not listen to this self hypnosis audio session if you are driving a car, operating heavy machinery or doing anything that requires your full attention. So there you have it folks if you want to know what it feels like to be hypnotized go ahead but do not do so if you are in the middle of something. To be a part of the program you need an internet connection, headphones and a nice comfortable chair to sit back relax and enjoy the experience. Follow h...