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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...

Is Facebook going to start charging

This is one of the biggest rumors spreading across status updates on Facebook 'Facebook Charging'. The main reason being given is that now that there is a the New Facebook, you are going to be charged for using the service. The rumor is absolutely false but it is amazing as to how quick and how fast it has spread. You can find the rumor or status updates no news feed across Facebook and also on Twitter. With a lot of news sites reporting that it is completely false the rumor has started to die down. But if you have come here to find out if it is true , you know know that it is absolutely false.  Please find below some of the messages that have been spreading across Facebook “THIS IS OFFICIAL… IT WAS EVEN ON THE NEWS… FACEBOOK WILL START CHARGING DUE TO THE NEW PROFILE CHANGES… IF YOU COPY THIS ON YOUR WALL YOUR ICON WILL TURN BLUE AND FACEBOOK WILL BE FREE FOR YOU. PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON, IF NOT YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DELETED IF YOU DO NOT PAY!!” Another one: “FACEBOOK JUST ...

Free flights to Haiti were only rumors and a big hoax on Twitter and Facebook.

CNN reported that the American Airlines rumor on Twitter is untrue. Well the rumor goes like this " American Airlines is taking doctors and nurses to Haiti for free. Please call.......". This has been denied by CNN and "Last night's hoax on Twitter about American and JetBlue flying doctors and nurses to Haiti for free was just that -- a hoax. We don't know who is responsible, but it's a very low thing to do," airline spokesman Tim Smith said in e-mails sent Thursday. Twitter users also circulated a rumor that UPS would ship for free any package under 50 lbs. to Haiti. In a blog post Wednesday on UPS's Web site, a spokeswoman debunked the rumor and said that destruction of Haiti's roads and communications networks "means our own shipping services to Haiti are on hold." UPS is donating $1 million to help the people of Haiti through relief agencies, she said. This rumor spreading on Facebook is also untue "UPS is shipping anything un...