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Meade hace lo que puede, pero el rechazo al PRI es brutal: Crespo; sustituye logo por triángulos

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El promedio de encuestas para Presidente de México 2018, actualizado al 18 de Abril.

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Wall Street, corporate America and the diplomatic world are settling on a strategy to deal with President Donald Trump’s rapidly shifting statements on critical issues like trade deals and Russia sanctions: Just ignore him.

Trump last week shocked the world by suggesting he might rejoin the giant Trans-Pacific Partnership, an 11-nation pact among nations representing 13 percent of the global economy. He reversed himself days later.

Beyond TPP, Trump in recent weeks has declared war on Amazon then not done very much about it. He settled on Russia sanctions only to ditch them, leaving American allies and members of his own administration completely befuddled.

In ordinary times, a declaration like the one Trump made about TPP would have sent stocks soaring, thrilled exporters and sent corporate strategists scrambling to assess the impact.

But none of that really happened.

Financial markets and America’s trading partners largely ignored the comments as a throwaway line, and the market wisdom proved to be correct when Trump tweeted that he did not “like the deal for the U.S,” deflating the TPP trial balloon before it left the ground.

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Regreso inesperado

A veces uno deja de escribir porqué pierde la inspiración o simplemente porqué no hay nada que decir. Siento que me pasó eso durante éstos años. En fin, aquí estoy volviendo a refrescar éste espacio que lleva bastante tiempo y que contiene varias cosas interesantes.

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German-born father of modern physics, Albert Einstein was born 139 years ago today on March 14, 1879. He is pictured here in his study at home in Princeton, NJ in 1948. (Albert Einstein—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #AlbertEinstein

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Tesla Unveils Model 3 from Tesla, Inc on Vimeo.

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Glassons/ Made of Here from Stefan Duscio on Vimeo.

Directed by Noah Marshall at The Sweet Shop.

Shot on Phantom 4K Flex with Zeiss Mk3 Superspeeds.

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MURDER,MONEY,MEXICO from Bengala on Vimeo.

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Borrowed Time from Borrowed Time on Vimeo.

A weathered Sheriff returns to the remains of an accident he has spent a lifetime trying to forget. With each step forward, the memories come flooding back. Faced with his mistake once again, he must find the strength to carry on.

"Borrowed Time" is an animated short film, directed by Andrew Coats & Lou Hamou-Lhadj, and produced by Amanda Deering Jones. Music by Academy Award winner Gustavo Santaolalla.

Watch our featurette "Why We Made Borrowed Time:" vimeo.com/187281621

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TOWER OF BABEL

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The Tower of Babel (Hebrew: מגדל בבל‎ Migdal Bavel Arabic: برج بابل‎ Burj Babil) according to the Book of Genesis, was an enormous tower built in the plain of Shinar (Hebrew: שנער‎). The phrase “The Tower of Babel” does not actually appear in the Bible; it is always, “the city and its tower” (אֶת-הָעִיר וְאֶת-הַמִּגְדָּל) or just “the city” (הָעִיר). It is thought that the city received the name “Babel”, from the Hebrew word “balal”, meaning to jumble.

According to the biblical account, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar, where they resolved to build a city with a tower that reached the heavens. God seeing this project was affronted with the audacity of humanity thus resolved to confound their speech by creating thousands of different languages so that the people would not be able to communicate effectively to complete their goal. The result was humanity scattering itself across the world, taking their individual languages with them whilst the tower remained unfinished.

[Jacek Yerka, Marten Van Valckenborch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Ziv Qual, Jaroslaw Kukowski, Marten Van Valckenborch] [Other depictions of Babel]

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Through the Phone SamAlive

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We created Islamic extremism: Those blaming Islam for ISIS would have supported Osama bin Laden in the ’80s 

Gore Vidal famously referred to the USA as the United States of Amnesia. The late Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai put it a little more delicately, quipping, “One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.” 

 Many pundits, including liberals, have argued that the Middle East, North Africa and Muslim-majority parts of South Asia are presently going through their parallel to the West’s Dark Age, a bloody period of religious extremism. They blame the rise of extremist groups like ISIS and al-Qaida on Islam itself, or on the Middle East’s supposedly “backward” culture, yet conveniently gloss over their own countries’ sordid histories and policies. @salon

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Château de Chenonceau

France

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