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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

How mindfulness plays havoc with memory

The practice can disrupt the brain’s ability to tell the difference between real and false memories, scientists findOriginal enclosures:

Source: How mindfulness plays havoc with memory

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Bridgegate Ensnares Another Big Figure: The CEO Of United Airlines

Bridgegate Ensnares Another Big Figure: The CEO Of United Airlines Yesterday, Jeff Smisek resigned from his position as CEO of United Airlines because he basically kept alive an unprofitable airline route, from Newark to South Carolina, in hopes that a top Port Authority executive—and Chris Christie appointee—would give him a break on the rent at Newark Airport. In other words, Bridgegate forever!!! [ more › ]

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62-Year-Old Man Arrested For Spray-Painting ‘NO MORE CHINESE’ All Over Bayview: SFist

The SFPD is thanking the public for their help after an arrest was made Tuesday in a vandalism case that is being considered a hate crime. 62-year-old John Schenone of San Francisco has been charged with five counts of felony vandalism and five counts of felony hate crime after it is believed he’s the person responsible for spray-painting the words ‘NO MORE CHINESE’ in multiple locations Monday in the Portola and Bayview districts.

Source: 62-Year-Old Man Arrested For Spray-Painting ‘NO MORE CHINESE’ All Over Bayview: SFist

What Donald Trump learned from his German grandpa Friedrich Drumpf | World | DW.COM | 09.09.2015

 whether on purpose or not, he had managed to miss military service – when he left he was too young and after he came back he was just a couple of months too old, which he said was absolutely coincidental. Gwenda Blair wrote two books about Trump and his familyGerman authorities however thought this was not coincidental at all and refused to let him repatriate. They said he was a draft-dodger, expelled and deported him to the place he came from – the United States – which is how the Trumps ended up as Americans after all instead of simply being a family in Germany that had a grandfather who had spent some years in the United States.

Source: What Donald Trump learned from his German grandpa Friedrich Drumpf | World | DW.COM | 09.09.2015

European Official Calls for Continent to Take In 160,000 Migrants – The New York Times

The European Union’s top executive proposed a plan on Wednesday to distribute 160,000 people throughout the member nations, even while acknowledging that the plan was inadequate to the depth of the crisis.Citing history, morality and economics, the official, Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, urged the bloc to put aside deep divisions over welcoming refugees from war-torn and poverty-stricken nations in the Middle East and Africa and forge a stronger and more unified response.

Source: European Official Calls for Continent to Take In 160,000 Migrants – The New York Times

(This is some sort of bad joke? Little Lebanon has taken in more refugees. They are not migrants – they are refugees. More people than this move back and forth within Europe Union each year. Spin, bad spin.)