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To: Lazamataz
This plan to ‘nudge’ Americans to make healthier food choices includes high-tech, $30,000 grocery carts,

And here is Obamas Czarina of NUDGE......

Maya Shankar, a White House adviser cultivating a team tasked with subtly influencing Americans’ behavior, previously worked closely with the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress, WND has learned.

Shankar has discussed utilizing cognitive science for social activism and is a champion of so-called social justice.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/07/no-joke-meet-obamas-new-nudge-czar/#I8B3JZOPvETmkDUW.99

Maya Shankar is a former violin prodigy who performed with Itzhak Perlman at Juilliard. Inflamed tendons caused her to put down her fiddle, and now the United States is her instrument. So get ready to be played.

According to her LinkedIn profile, Shankar went on to Yale (where she studied cognitive science), Oxford and Stanford.

It would appear that she has never had an actual job unless you count “post-doctoral fellow.”

Shankar is not without accomplishments, though. She is a Rhodes scholar with a killer sense for publicity. She’s been featured on NPR three times and in Glamour and USA Today roundups of the nation’s most promising college students.

In Glamour, in 2006, she said her dream job would be presidential science adviser. So it has come to pass: For her first job, she is now “senior policy advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.” That’s right. Senior. This person was a senior at Yale as of 2007, but now she gets to tell you how to live your life. Sorry: encourage you to make choices that will make you happier.

101 posted on 09/20/2014 4:31:37 PM PDT by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: spokeshave
FR thread here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3049867/posts

Enjoy your Nudge.

102 posted on 09/20/2014 4:37:42 PM PDT by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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