In what should chill the marrow of our bones, this latest Executive order should have the GOP Presidential candidates rocking on their feet. Where are the headlines? Where is the Media, the GOP? Anyone out there? Am I the only one in this echo chamber? Good ole Cass Sunstein is getting his earlier wishes. (Married to Samantha Power of the Arab Spring fame.)
President Obama announced a new executive order on Tuesday which authorizes federal agencies to conduct behavioral experiments on U.S. citizens in order to advance government initiatives.
“A growing body of evidence demonstrates that behavioral science insights — research findings from fields such as behavioral economics and psychology about how people make decisions and act on them — can be used to design government policies to better serve the American people,” reads the executive order, released on Tuesday.
The initiative draws on research from University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler and Harvard law school professor Cass Sunstein, who was also dubbed Obama’s regulatory czar. The two behavioral scientists argued in their 2008 book “Nudge” that government policies can be designed in a way that “nudges” citizens towards certain behaviors and choices.
The desired choices almost always advance the goals of the federal government, though they are often couched as ways to cut overall program spending.
Read more: Daily Caller
Earlier post: Cass Sunstein behind monitoring of websites
Just prior to his appointment as President Obama’s so-called regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein wrote alengthy academic paper suggesting the government should “infiltrate” social network websites, chat rooms and message boards.
In a rare public appearance, The Obama Administration’s Information Czar Cass Sunstein gave a lecture at the NYU Law School in NYC yesterday, prompting Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange to attend. Watch as Luke confronts Sunstein multiple times on an academic paper he co-authored back in 2008 entitled “Conspiracy Theories” in which he called for cognitive infiltration of conspiracy groups by the government.
You can download the paper for free here: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1084585
SALON article that appears in video: http://www.salon.com/2010/01/15/sunst…
*UPDATE* Infowars Article on Confrontation: http://www.infowars.com/obama-informa…
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September 23, 2015 at 7:33 am
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September 17, 2015 at 7:42 am
Cass Sunstein is a snake. Period.
Yet, few Americans even know his name — in the Information Age.
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September 17, 2015 at 10:34 am
Few know about his wife Samantha Power another Commie.
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September 17, 2015 at 7:03 am
Great find on this one! This slipped under the radar for sure and I had not heard of it until now!
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September 17, 2015 at 10:33 am
I just wish Fox would spend an hour or two each week carrying “News from the blogs”
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September 16, 2015 at 7:46 pm
Nobel Prize Committee abandons sinking ship:
http://punditfromanotherplanet.com/2015/09/16/nobel-panel-obama-peace-prize-as-mistake/
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September 16, 2015 at 9:44 pm
What in the world were they thinking? Right, is was raised outside the USA and a Muslim probably
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September 16, 2015 at 12:57 pm
Thanks for sharing this information.
I am pleased to report that a broad-based group has formed to try to understand the implications of lock-step, politically-correct, worldwide, Orwellian thought control.
http://www.mindingthecampus.org/2015/09/heterodox-academy-a-new-site/
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September 16, 2015 at 1:35 pm
Thanks for stopping by and sending the link. A great blog roll.
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September 16, 2015 at 4:06 pm
Climategate emails raised too many questions and official responses contain too few answers.
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September 16, 2015 at 12:36 pm
“I might agree with some of the things I’ve written? I focus on what my boss wants me to do?” Is Sunstein BREATHING? THINKING? “I don’t remember the article (I WROTE!?”)” ???!! ‘I hope I didn’t say either of those things”…..”but you DID say that…..”… “I’m focused on my job”
This man is a WORM!!! I wonder if he knows who Goebbels WAS!
Good for that kid!
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September 16, 2015 at 1:33 pm
He and his nasty wife Samantha Power. Why doesn’t the media cover this nonsense? Oh we are the vast right wing conspirators of which he speaks.
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September 16, 2015 at 12:36 pm
Reblogged this on Brittius.
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September 16, 2015 at 3:39 pm
Thanks again.
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September 16, 2015 at 6:31 pm
You’re welcome.
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September 16, 2015 at 12:32 pm
Seems to me like ‘infiltrate’ is never a positive thinng, but “government should “infiltrate” social network websites, chat rooms and message boards.” Are we SURE this is America anymore?
Brother, Bunkerville, were you and I on the same beam today, huh?
And Alec is right….if they’re actually TELLING us this much, I’d hate to see what the Obama thugs/Sunstein, etc., are REALLY doing….
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September 16, 2015 at 3:41 pm
The truth is they have no shame. He did say he was going to transform our country. That he did. I don’t recognize anything. That this could go down is something I don’t know recognize as American.
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September 16, 2015 at 4:09 pm
and what are all of us DOING but blogging, right? Very frustrating to see this happen……..wish we could do much more. Voting, apparently, isn’t enough. In fact, it’s probably a detriment, considering the fraud and uninformed, unAmerican people voting.
And believe me, I do NOT consider all Democrats unAmerican…….am not suggesting that.
But I believe voting for entitlements and other goodies is not American,. nor is voting for other things that are not healthy for America…like illegals, the nuke deal, etc etc!
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September 16, 2015 at 7:22 pm
100,000 Syrians will soon be here. What possibly could go wrong?
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September 16, 2015 at 7:42 pm
Ya, Mustang just sent me this: SURPRISE!!!! Right? (NOT)
http://toprightnews.com/breaking-stunning-arrest-in-germany-reveals-isis-plot-to-infiltrate-europe-is-succeeding/
The fun never stops lately, does it 😦
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September 16, 2015 at 9:45 pm
Who hooo.. What could go wrong.
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September 16, 2015 at 12:03 pm
I’m with alec – it’s the what they are not saying part that is of concern.
“government policies can be designed in a way that ‘nudges’ citizens toward certain behaviors and choices,”
At this point it looks like more propaganda. OK. We get it every blankety blank day in media and every frickin time he opens his mouth.
The question is – when do they start working with individuals/groups – real people – not ads and mail – to test whatever the fack they want to test?
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September 16, 2015 at 12:18 pm
After they start moving into the chat rooms, blogs perhaps. Cass always wanted to outlaw so called conspiracy theories – anything anti government. Just the first step.
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September 16, 2015 at 9:35 am
These are the kinds of laws and orders intended to exonerate and remove from possible prosecution those who acted illegally in the past. It’s a cynical view, but doesn’t it make you wonder what they’re not saying?
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September 16, 2015 at 12:16 pm
I am sure we are probably only getting half of what they are planning.
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September 16, 2015 at 4:50 pm
Google “Stalin’s Science“.
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September 16, 2015 at 9:28 am
So puppet strings for everyone.
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September 16, 2015 at 12:15 pm
And we won’t even recognize it.
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September 16, 2015 at 12:23 pm
Oh yeah – some of us will. A lot of us actually. The question, always, the big question – but what will we do about it?
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September 16, 2015 at 12:27 pm
Yours is a much better point. Obama really wants to control the internet, and before he is gone I am sure he will make a move. This may be the start.
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September 16, 2015 at 12:36 pm
That’s true. But I’ve noticed some commenters asking trolls…are you paid to be trolling here?
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September 16, 2015 at 3:08 pm
At least people are starting to realise that real trolls are not losers sitting in their parents’ basement.
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September 16, 2015 at 3:17 pm
Yes sir.
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September 16, 2015 at 4:08 pm
EXCELLENT point!
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