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The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotá

The Mixed-Up Brothers of Bogotá
Leer en español The Beginning They were two pretty young women in search of pork ribs for a barbecue later that day, a Saturday in the summer of 2013. Janeth Páez suggested that they stop by a grocery store not far from where her friend Laura Vega Garzón lived in northern Bogotá. As Laura walked into the grocery store, catching up with Janeth, she was surprised to spot someone she knew. ‘‘Oh, no, that’s William,’’ Janeth said. ‘‘No, it’s Jorge — I know him,’’ Laura said. Laura was baffled: Why was Jorge pretending to be someone else? The following Monday at Strycon, Laura told Jorge about her funny misunderstanding with his double at the butcher counter. At that moment, Jorge had before him sufficient evidence to suggest that his life was not what he thought it was, that his family was not what he thought it was. Continue reading the main story Slide Show The Photo, The Truth Laura went upstairs to piping to get Jorge’s reaction to the photo. You look fine, the friend said. Jorge And Carlos Related:  robwisehand

Brennende Asylheime, rechter Mob, Hassposts: Warum sich Deutschland diesen Sommer radikal verändern wird | Sebastian Matthes Es ist nicht lange her, da schaute die Welt mit Bewunderung auf unser Land. Zur Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 2006 wirkte Deutschland wie eine fröhliche Studenten-WG; ein Ort, an dem Fremde Willkommen sind, wo jeder ausgelassen feiern kann. In den Jahren darauf wurde Deutschland sogar zu einem Vorbild. Während unsere europäischen Nachbarn in die Rezession rutschten, entstanden bei uns Jobs. Junge Menschen aus der ganzen Welt kamen, weil sie bei uns eine bessere Zukunft sahen. Dann kam der Sommer 2015. Auf einmal fliegen Molotowcocktails in Asylbewerberunterkünfte. Nazi-Beschimpfungen gegen die Kanzlerin Dazu kommen immer mehr kleine Schubsereien, Pöbeleien gegen Fremde in U-Bahnen, und in einem besonders krassen Fall Nazis, die in aller Öffentlichkeit auf Kinder einer Flüchtlingsfamilie urinieren. Es ist erschütternd, dass so etwas in Deutschland möglich ist. National befreite Dörfer Doch auch im Süden und Westen Deutschlands verüben Ausländerhasser Anschläge auf Unterkünfte für Asylbewerber.

Photos du journal - Captain Paul Watson Hemp-Based Batteries Could Change The Way We Store Energy Forever Source: www.preventdisease.com | Original Post Date: August 18, 2014 – As hemp makes a comeback in the U.S. after a decades-long ban on its cultivation, scientists are reporting that fibers from the plant can pack as much energy and power as graphene, long-touted as the model material for supercapacitors. They’re presenting their research, which a Canadian start-up company is working on scaling up, at the 248th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society. Although hemp (cannabis sativa) and marijuana (cannabis sativa var. indica) come from a similar species of plant, they are very different and confusion has been caused by deliberate misinformation with far reaching effects on socioeconomics as well as on environmental matters. Hemp is the most universally useful plant we have at our disposal. The history of mankind’s use of hemp can be traced way back in time to between about 5000 – 7000 BC. Agricultural Benefits of Hemp

I Had No Idea That THIS Could Cause Back Pain, But Now My Whole Life Has Changed! Life can sometimes be an emotional roller coaster. Some days you’re up and some days you’re down. But I was shocked to discover that the emotions you feel and the thoughts you think can have a direct impact on your physical health. According to Dr. Susanne Babbel, a psychologist specializing in trauma and depression writes in Psychology Today, “Studies have shown that chronic pain might not only be caused by physical injury but also by stress and emotional issues.” She goes on, “Often, physical pain functions to warn a person that there is still emotional work to be done.” I have never stopped to think that maybe my sore back might be the result of something going on elsewhere in my life. It’s pretty great to know that I might actually have some control over my pain levels. We spoke to some experts in order to find out more about the relationship between emotions and pain in specific areas of the body. Special thanks to Maya Borenstein of Little Things for these amazing images. Dr. Dr.

The end of capitalism has begun The red flags and marching songs of Syriza during the Greek crisis, plus the expectation that the banks would be nationalised, revived briefly a 20th-century dream: the forced destruction of the market from above. For much of the 20th century this was how the left conceived the first stage of an economy beyond capitalism. The force would be applied by the working class, either at the ballot box or on the barricades. The lever would be the state. The opportunity would come through frequent episodes of economic collapse. Instead over the past 25 years it has been the left’s project that has collapsed. If you lived through all this, and disliked capitalism, it was traumatic. As with the end of feudalism 500 years ago, capitalism’s replacement by postcapitalism will be accelerated by external shocks and shaped by the emergence of a new kind of human being. Postcapitalism is possible because of three major changes information technology has brought about in the past 25 years.

Sacred Economics | Charles Eisenstein | Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition. In Italia in 10 anni le rinnovabili non programmabili fino al 90% della domanda oraria Quasi tutta la nuova potenza che si installerà da qui al 2025 in Europa verrà da fotovoltaico ed eolico, in crescita rispettivamente del 60 e 80%. Lo prevede Entso-E, l'associazione europea degli operatori di rete. In calo fossili e nucleare. Gli operatori delle reti europee vedono un futuro prossimo con una sempre maggiore penetrazione delle energie rinnovabili, che impone di rendere i sistemi elettrici più interconnessi e flessibili. È quanto emerge dall'edizione 2015 dello "Scenario Outlook & Adequacy Forecast" dell'associazione degli operatori dei sistemi di trasporto elettrico europeo, Entso-E (allegato in basso). Un outlook basato su una domanda prevista in crescita dello 0,8% l'anno nel periodo considerato grazie ad una graduale elettrificazione dei settori riscaldamento e trasporti e alla ipotizzata ripresa economica. Il report Entso-E (pdf, 13,4 MB)

Will Your Job Be Done By A Machine? : Planet Money Machines can do some surprising things. But what you really want to know is this: Will your job be around in the future? We have the "definitive" guide. What job is hardest for a robot to do? The researchers admit that these estimates are rough and likely to be wrong. Chapter 9 – The Vatican Rules the World | Michael Toups The Vatican Rules the World: The Rothschild Connection For anyone not to believe that this 2,000 year old body with vast holdings in gold, art, real estate, multinational corporations and most importantly, knowledge, is not the most powerful institution in the world, cannot be thinking straight. The following article sheds light on the power of the Vatican, and the influential rankings of the Rothschild family and the Windsor queen. You should be aware that the current head of the Rothschild dynasty is Baron David Rene James de Rothschild. He is married to the reclusive Princess Olimpia Anna Aldobrandini. Ironically coined by the Romans, the phrase “All roads lead to Rome”. They are and were all funded, controlled and implemented by the ruling Rothschild elite via the Vatican. They want to destroy everyone not in there bloodline. Their bankster puppets, the Rothschilds (originally of German origin, born Bauer, then changed their name to Rothschild) are prime suspects here. Superior: Mrs.

Where the Five-Day Workweek Came From “Seven days,” wrote Witold Rybczynski in the August 1991 issue of The Atlantic, “is not natural because no natural phenomenon occurs every seven days.” The year marks one revolution of the Earth around the sun. Months, supposedly, mark the time between full moons. If it’s man-made, can’t man unmake it? The roots of the seven-day week can be traced back about 4,000 years, to Babylon. The earliest recorded use of the word “weekend,” Rybczynski notes, occurred in 1879 in an English magazine called Notes and Queries: In Staffordshire, if a person leaves home at the end of his week’s work on the Saturday afternoon to spend the evening of Saturday and the following Sunday with friends at a distance, he is said to be spending his week-end at So-and-so. Some 19th-century Britons used the week's seventh day for merriment rather than for the rest prescribed by scripture. It took decades for Saturday to change from a half-day to a full day’s rest. But there’s a creative solution to this problem.

The Industries Plagued by the Most Uncertainty It’s a cliché to say that the world is more uncertain than ever before, but few realize just how much uncertainty has increased over the past 50 years. To illustrate this, consider that patent applications in the U.S. have increased by 6x (from 100k to 600k annually) and, worldwide, start-ups have increased from 10 million to almost 100 million per year. That means new technologies and new competitors are hitting the market at an unprecedented rate. Although uncertainty is accelerating, it isn’t affecting all industries the same way. That’s because there are two primary types of uncertainty — demand uncertainty (will customers buy your product?) and technological uncertainty (can we make a desirable solution?) Demand uncertainty arises from the unknowns associated with solving any problem, such as hidden customer preferences. Technological uncertainty results from unknowns regarding the technologies that might emerge or be combined to create a new solution.

Hundreds of mental health experts issue rallying call against austerity | Society Austerity cuts are having a “profoundly disturbing” impact on people’s psychological wellbeing and the emotional state of the nation, hundreds of counsellors, psychotherapists and mental health experts have said in a letter to the Guardian. They said an “intimidatory disciplinary regime” facing benefits claimants would be made worse by further “unacceptable” proposals outlined in the budget. These amounted to state “get to work” therapy and were both damaging and professionally unethical, they said. Increasing inequality and poverty, families being moved out of their homes and new systems determining benefit levels were part of “a wider reality of a society thrown completely off balance by the emotional toxicity of neoliberal thinking”, according to more than 400 signatories to the letter. The consequences were “most visible in the therapist’s consulting room”. Labour first introduced work capability assessments but the coalition introduced a much more stringent regime.

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