US Senator’s Wife Denounces Constitution and The Declaration of Independence

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US Senator’s Wife Denounces Constitution and The Declaration of Independence

(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Virginia‘s U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine‘s wife denounced the United States Constitution and Declaration of Independence, following her husband’s anti-American rhetoric.

Kaine’s wife, Anne Holton, made her anti-American comments when addressing Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s new history curriculum approved by the State Board of Education  for Virginia, according to Breitbart News.

“To an audience as inclusive as our Virginia is, you cannot reference the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as ‘remarkable documents,’” she said.

Holton insisted that anyone speaking of the documents must “also acknowledg[e] that they [are] fundamental in enshrining slavery, and limiting the protections that they provided only to white property-owning men.”

Holton is simply following the lead of her husband.

In June of 2020 Kaine said that the United States “created” slavery.

“The United States didn’t inherit slavery from anybody. We created it,” Kaine falsely stated.

“[Slavery] got created by the Virginia General Assembly and the legislatures of other states,” he added. “It got created by the court systems in colonial America that enforced fugitive slave laws.”

Kaine is currently the junior Senator from Virginia, and from 2002 to 2006 he served as the governor of Virginia, according to Ballotpedia.

If anyone ought to know better than to spread falsehoods about Virginia, it ought to be Senator Kaine and his wife.

Famed Virginian, and founding father, Thomas Jefferson directly contradicted Kaine, and his wife, in his original draft of the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson listed, as a reason for revolution:

“He [The King of England] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.”

Jefferson continued to denounce the King’s use of his veto to prohibit the prohibition of slavery.

“Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.”

Kaine and Holton’s ignorance of Virginia’s history, ironically, justifies Youngkin’s new curriculum, which Holton sought to denounce.

Jillian Balow, Virginia’s superintendent of public instruction and executive officer of the Virginia Board of Education, explained the curriculum in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

“There is an increased emphasis on civics, beginning in the early elementary grades,” she wrote. “As students advance, they learn about the vision of our Founding Fathers and its relevance today.”

If only Kaine and Holton had been blessed with such an education.

Whoopi Goldberg Rants about ‘The View’ Being Called Out for Hate Speech

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Whoopi Goldberg Rants about ‘The View’ Being Called Out for Hate Speech

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) “The View” cohost Whoopi Goldberg became upset with how Fox News hosts and guests consistently criticize the show for some of the things that are said.

One of the most recent examples of the hosts saying something that people on Fox News usually mock them for is them going after Republicans for wanting to start committee hearings with the Pledge of Allegiance, according to Townhall.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., offered the amendment for the House Judiciary Committee to start meetings and hearings with the pledge. Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., said that those who supported the Jan. 6 “insurrection” should not lead the pledge. Gaetz countered that by saying that would disqualify Democrats altogether because they have objected to the electoral college votes in previous presidential elections. The debate lasted for over an hour.

“This is the Judiciary Committee, right? So wouldn’t it be better show of patriotism to be working on issues like police violence, mass shootings, prison reforms? You know, it’s you know, this,” Goldberg said.

“You know, people, I don’t know what it’s going to take for them to recognize that people don’t, they’re not them. We’re not fooling around. The people of the United States are not fooling around.”

”You wasting everybody’s time suggesting your people do what they already do! What is this wasting time?” she added.

Joy Behar even quoted famed literary figure Samuel Johnson about patriotism being the last refuge for scoundrels.

“So what is Gaetz seeking refuge from?”

After Fox News mocked The View hosts for making such comments, Goldberg responded.

“And just so we’re clear, so everybody is clear because, you know, Fox [News] loves to to come after us everyday! They don’t, they don’t do their work. They come at us for doing what we’re supposed to do, which was give you our opinion,” she said.

“That’s the beautiful thing about America. In America, we can still each give our opinion and you don’t have to like it. It’s just somebody’s opinion.”

“But I find that the people who are always saying, ‘Well, you know, they are anti–,’ we’re not anti-America. The beauty of America is you can say, hey, this is what’s wrong with America and we can fix it,” Goldberg added.

“That’s what they’re supposed to be doing. Instead of asking people to do what they already do every day, which is say the Pledge of Allegiance.”

High School Swimmer Disqualified over American Flag on His Cap

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High School Swimmer Disqualified over American Flag on His Cap

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) A high school swimmer was disqualified from a race after the American flag patch on his cap was considered too large.

Rob Miller said that his son, a 16-year-old sophomore at Morristown High School in New Jersey, decided to wear a patch with the American flag to honor his grandfather, who died in the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, according to WFIN.

His son was disqualified from the swimmer’s race after the American flag that was on his cap was considered too large. The race was between Morristown’s Senior Night against Parsippany Hills High School.

According to the father, the opposing coach waited until the 400-meter free relay race was over to have the American flag measured.

“The issue is the coached [sic] waited until after the swim to get the DQ, deciding to put the burden of a ‘loss’ on a 16-year-old, letting down all the Seniors that won their last dual meet of their HS careers,” he wrote.

“He usually wears the team cap or another colored one inside out, no logo/flag. The one time he wears this in a meet and the coach DQ’d him. Unreal luck,’ he added in another tweet.

According to the Morristown swimming team’s Instagram account, “everyone knows Motown boys were the real winners.”

The race happened during Morristown High School’s senior night.

“One American flag, not to exceed 2 inches by 3 inches, may be worn or occupy space on each item of uniform apparel,” the National Federation of State High School Associations Swimming and Diving rules stated.

“By state association adoption, to allow for special occasions, commemorative or memorial patches, not to exceed 4 square inches, may be worn on the uniform without compromising its integrity.”

In a later tweet, Miller wrote that he was “guessing it could be a ‘political statement.’”

California to Lift Covid Vaccine Mandate for School Attendance

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California to Lift Covid Vaccine Mandate for School Attendance

(Headline USA) Children in California won’t face vaccine mandates to attend schools, state public health officials confirmed Friday, ending one of the last major restrictions of the pandemic in the nation’s most populous state.

Gov. Gavin Newsom first announced the vaccine mandate in 2021, saying it would eventually apply to all of California’s 6.7 million public and private schoolchildren.

But since then, the crisis of late 2019 has mostly receded from public consciousness.

Nearly all of the pandemic restrictions put in place by Newsom have been lifted, and he won’t be able to issue any new ones after Feb. 28 when the state’s coronavirus emergency declaration officially ends.

One of the last remaining questions was what would happen to the state’s vaccine mandate for schoolchildren, a policy that came from the California Department of Public Health and was not impacted by the lifting of the emergency declaration.

Friday, the Department of Public Health confirmed it was backing off its original plan.

“CDPH is not currently exploring emergency rulemaking to add COVID-19 to the list of required school vaccinations,” the department said in a statement. “Any changes to required K-12 immunizations are properly addressed through the legislative process.”

The announcement was welcome news for Jonathan Zachreson, a father of three who lives in Roseville. Zachreson founded the group Reopen California Schools to oppose many of the state’s coronavirus policies. His activism led to him being elected to the Roseville City School District board in November.

“This is long overdue. … A lot of families have been stressed from this decision and worried about it for quite some time,” he said. “I wish CDPH would make a bigger statement publicly or Newsom would make a public statement … to let families know and school districts know that this is no longer going to be an issue for them.”

Representatives for Newsom did not respond to an email requesting comment.

California has had lots of influence over the country’s pandemic policies. It was the first state to issue a statewide stay-at-home order — and other states were swift to follow.

But most states did not follow California’s lead when it came to the vaccine mandate for public schools.

Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Kiley, a former member of the state Assembly who challenged Newsom in a failed recall attempt in 2021 over his pandemic policies, published a blog post declaring: “We won. To Gavin Newsom: You lost.”

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

Growing Number Of Doctors Say They Won’t Get COVID-19 Booster Shots

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Growing Number Of Doctors Say They Won’t Get COVID-19 Booster Shots

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) More and more doctors come out to say that they won’t get COVID-19 vaccine boosters because there is a lack of clinical trial evidence.

“I have taken my last COVID vaccine without RCT level evidence it will reduce my risk of severe disease,” Dr. Todd Lee, an infectious disease expert at McGill University, said.

Lee pointed out the lack of randomized clinical trial (RCT) results for the updated vaccine boosters, which were cleared in the U.S. and Canada in the fall of 2022 primarily based on data from experiments on mice, according to the Epoch Times.

Lee, who was vaccinated three times, said that he still was infected with the Omicron coronavirus variant — the vaccines provide little protection from getting the virus — and described himself as a healthy man in his 40s.

Dr. Vinay Prasad, a professor of epidemiology and biostatics at the University of California–San Francisco, also said he is not going to take any additional vaccine boosters until clinical trial data become available.

“I took at least 1 dose against my will. It was unethical and scientifically bankrupt,” Prasad said.

Allison Krug, an epidemiologist who co-wrote a study that found that teenage boys are more likely to suffer heart inflammation after COVID-19 vaccination rather than COVID-19 infection, said that she explained to her doctor why she doesn’t want a booster and said that the doctor agreed with her.

Krug called on people to “join the movement to demand appropriate evidence,” referring to a blog post from Prasad.

“Pay close attention to note this isn’t anti-vaccine sentiment. This is ‘provide [hard] evidence of benefit to justify ongoing use,’ which is very different. It’s only fair for a $30 billion-a-year product given to hundreds of millions,” Lee stated.

Dr. Tracy Hoeg, an epidemiologist at the University of California–San Francisco, also agreed with Lee and Prasad, at least for now.

She said that she didn’t need clinical trials to know that she isn’t getting any boosters after receiving a two-dose primary series, pointing out that, like Prasad, she took her second dose against her will.

“I also had an adverse reaction to dose 1 moderna and, if I could do it again, I would not have had any covid vaccines,” Hoeg wrote on Twitter.

“I was glad my parents in their 70s could get covid vaccinated but have yet to see non-confounded data to advise them about the bivalent booster. I would have liked to see an RCT for the bivalent for people their age and for adults with health conditions that put them at risk.”

Suicide Hotline Outage a Result of a Cyberattack

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Suicide Hotline Outage a Result of a Cyberattack

(Headline USA) A cyberattack caused a nearly daylong outage of the nation’s new 988 mental health helpline late last year, federal officials told The Associated Press Friday.

Lawmakers are now calling for the federal agency that oversees the program to prevent future attacks.

“On December 1, the voice calling functionality of the 988 Lifeline was rendered unavailable as a result of a cybersecurity incident,” Danielle Bennett, a spokeswoman for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, said in an email.

The attack occurred on the network for Intrado, the company that provides telecommunications services for the helpline. The agency did not disclose details about who it believes launched the attack or what kind of cyberattack occurred. Intrado is working with a third-party assessor to investigate the incident and law enforcement agencies have been notified of the breach, SAMHSA said.

The national 988 phone number, which can be reached by text, chat or voice calling, has become a lifeline for millions of Americans seeking help during a mental crisis, with millions of calls pouring in during the first six months since its launch in July. The system is designed to work similarly to 911 — it’s a universal, easy-to-remember number that people can call in an emergency to reach a human who is working around the clock in a local call center.

Those who tried on Dec. 1 to reach the line for help with suicidal or depressive thoughts were instead greeted with a message that said the line is “experiencing a service outage.” Text and chat services, however, remained available to those who needed help.

The Federal Communications Commission said in December it was investigating the outage. Intrado said at the time that the company was “experiencing an incident that is impacting production across numerous systems” and is “working diligently to restore service.” Intrado could not immediately be reached for comment Friday.

Last week, Democrat Rep. Tony Cárdenas and Republican Rep. Jay Obernolte, both of California, introduced a bill calling for better coordination and reporting around cyberattacks on the 988 system.

“Even a few hours’ outage of the national suicide hotline can cost American lives,” Obernolte said in a press release introducing the bill. “It’s critical that we mitigate the risks of future disruptions to the service and take steps to resolve cybersecurity vulnerabilities that could put the hotline at risk.”

The cyberattack on the suicide hotline is not the only American disaster thought to be caused by cyberterrorism this year.

A series of fires destroying America’s food processing plants may also have been the result of cyberattacks.

Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press

MURDOCK: Dems Arm Themselves with a Battalion of Lies in Gas-Stove Debate

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MURDOCK: Dems Arm Themselves with a Battalion of Lies in Gas-Stove Debate

(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) Southern Democrats attacked the U.S. Army at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861.

Having ignited the Civil War, Southerners had the chutzpah to call it the War of Northern Aggression.

Likewise, Democrats unleashed today’s War on Gas. Inspired by their Confederate ancestors, they then blame their victims who complain that the Left is stealing their natural gas and gas-powered appliances.

Democrats shot first. But when everyday Americans fight back, Democrats and their media bodyguards accuse conservatives of letting slip the dogs of culture war.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently compiled a panorama of relevant Democrat-Left lies:

  • “This is delusional drivel from the harem of the unhinged over at Fox News,” State Representative Malcom Kenyatta (D – Pennsylvania) complained.
  • MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan denounced “The imaginary ban on gas stoves they’re all getting mad about over on Fox.”
  • “You have Ron DeSantis saying, ‘I’m going to protect your gas stove,’” said Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough, “‘Gas stove. Gas stove.’ It’s so stupid.”
  • Beneath a graphic that read: “GOP distracts from unpopular agenda with culture wars,” MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin said Republicans refuse “to have gas stoves pried out of their cold, dead hands – equating it with God and country and what have you.”
  • Washington Post headline: “GOP thrusts gas stoves, Biden’s green agenda into the culture wars.”

Despite this parade of liberal lies, the Right is not hallucinating the Left’s incoming regulatory fire.

Democrats’ unhinged, unprovoked, and unwelcome volleys in the War on Gas are real. Here are just a few:

July 23, 2019: “Berkeley became first US city to ban natural gas. Here’s what that may mean for the future,” read a headline in London’s The Guardian. Susie Cagle wrote: “Natural gas, it seems, has become the new climate crisis frontline.”

February 2, 2021: “Seattle bans natural gas in new buildings,” KUOW radio reported. “The ban on appliances like gas furnaces and gas water heaters in new construction is part of a revised energy code,” John Ryan explained. “The code proposed by Mayor Jenny Durkan passed Seattle City Council 9-0 on Monday.”

December 15, 2021: “New York City Banned Gas in New Buildings. Here’s What You Need to Know,” The City posted above Samantha Madonado’s story. She explained: “The City Council on Wednesday passed a bill making New York the largest city in the United States to effectively ban the use of gas in new buildings and to turn to electricity for power.”

May 27, 2022: “L.A. is banning most gas appliances in new homes,” the Los Angeles Times observed. “Get ready for electric stoves.”

October 26, 2022: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s meeting minutes featured 15 different references to natural gas. The CPSC approved Commissioner Richard L. Trumka Jr.’s Amendment 3A: “By March 1, 2023, staff will prepare and submit to the Commission a Request for Information (RFI) to seek public input on hazards associated with gas stoves and proposed solutions to those hazards.”

January 11, 2023: “A US federal agency is considering a ban on gas stoves,” CNN declared. The White House that day distanced President Biden from CPSC’s gasophobia.

January 13, 2023: “Hochul wants gas stove ban for new homes in 2025,” reported WRGB — CBS’ Albany, New York affiliate – about the Empire State’s Democrat governor.

February 1, 2023: “Gas Stoves Are Back Under Scrutiny,” Bloomberg titled Ari Natter’s dispatch. Following CPSC’s lead, the US Energy Department “sets first-of-their-kind limits on energy consumption for the stoves.”

This relentless onslaught against human freedom and consumer choice is a devotional exercise in the Left’s Climatarian faith. Natural gas chops CO2 emissions in half, versus Democrats’ much-loathed coal.

Never mind! To those who worship Saint Albert Gore and Saint Greta Thunberg, gas is the breath of Satan.

As a daily communicant in the First Church of Song, I describe conservatives’ culpability in the Democrat-Left’s War on Gas by invoking the gospel of Saint Billy Joel: “We didn’t start the fire.”

Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor. Aaron Cichon contributed research to this opinion piece.

Leftist Virtue Signaling Takes Multiple Hits on Different Fronts

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Leftist Virtue Signaling Takes Multiple Hits on Different Fronts

(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) The sanctimoniously disingenuous practice of virtue signaling took a pair of stiff jabs when honesty and reality topped wokeness and hypocrisy.

The first roundhouse was delivered with a fierce backlash to the perplexing decision by the Associated Press to tweak its infamous stylebook, in this case by scolding itself for using “the French” in a tweet, and advising journos to avoid using such “dehumanizing” phrases. 

The Twitterverse erupted in mockery and hilarity at the AP’s pretentious and increasingly irrelevant guidelines.

Even the French Embassy jumped into the mix, informing that it had changed its moniker to “Embassy of Frenchness in the US.”

Kyle Mann cracked that he thought the story was a Babylon Bee spoof, until he remembered that he was the publication’s editor-in-chief.

The AP was just getting started, and its expanded guidance included not just “the” French.

“That is why we recommend avoiding general ‘the’ labels such as the poor, the mentally ill, the wealthy, the disabled, the college-educated. Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses or wealthy people,” the AP advised.

“Use these descriptions only when clearly relevant and that relevance is made clear in the story. Be specific when possible and relevant, such as people with incomes below the poverty line.”

“Why are you so racist against the definite article?” cracked First Things associate editor Justin Lee. “Unconscionable Anglo-centrism, if you ask me.”

It wasn’t all mirth and jocularity, though, with some taking legitimate offense at the AP’s skewed guidance.

Similarly, the fabricated term “Latinx” has received increasing backlash from Latinos offended by pathetically woke leftists infringing on the Latino culture.

“By insisting on using the incorrect term Latinx, progressives are engaging in a type of cultural Marxism, a recast of societal norms,” Virginia’s Cuban–American attorney general Jason Miyares said. “Latinos don’t use the term—only upper-educated white liberals who hardly interact with the Latino community.”

A recent poll conducted by a Democrat firm focused on Latino outreach found that “only 2 percent of those polled refer to themselves as Latinx, while 68 percent call themselves ‘Hispanic’ and 21 percent favored ‘Latino’ or ‘Latina’ to describe their ethnic background.”

More states are starting to follow the lead of Arkansas, where freshly-elected Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders banned the term “Latinx” from official government documents, calling it offensive to Spanish speakers. 

“Ethnically insensitive and pejorative language has no place in official government documents or government employee titles,” Sanders wrote in her executive order. “The government has a responsibility to respect its citizens and use ethnically appropriate language, particularly when referring to ethnic minorities.”

Sanders’s order noted that ‘The Real Academia Española, the Madrid-based institution which governs the Spanish language, has officially rejected the use of “x” as an alternative to “o” and “a” in Spanish.”

“One can no more easily remove gender from Spanish and other romance languages than one can remove vowels and verbs from English,” Sanders said and ordered that “all state offices, departments, and agencies shall revise all existing written materials by replacing the terms ‘Latinx,’ ‘latinx,’ ‘Latinxs,’ or ‘latinxs’ with ‘Hispanic,’ ‘Hispanics,’ ‘Latino,’ ‘Latinos,’ ‘Latina,’ or ‘Latinas.’”

A group of Democrat Hispanic lawmakers from Connecticut wants their state to follow the same path, proposing to ban “Latinx” from official government documents.

Rep. Geraldo Reyes, who is a primary sponsor of the bill and is Puerto Rican along with colleagues supporting the legislation, told CNN that they consider the term offensive.

“It’s a term that we believe is unnecessary because the Spanish language, which is 1,500-plus years old, already identifies male, female and neutral,” Reyes said, adding that “Latin” and “Latino” were both gender-neutral options.

That sentiment was shared by Arizona Democrat Rep. Ruben Gallego, who is 2021 directed his office staff to stop using “Latinex” in official communications.

“Look y’all. Hispanic, Latin American are gender neutral,” Gallego said at the time. “So we have already gender neutral options to describe the Latino community. Adding an x and creating a new word comes off as performative.”

Family Reeling from Father’s Incarceration in Whitmer Kidnap Case

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Family Reeling from Father’s Incarceration in Whitmer Kidnap Case

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has repeatedly referred to herself as a “victim” of a right-wing kidnapping conspiracy—despite her always being aware that the FBI was monitoring and controlling the plot as it developed in 2020.

“I now scan crowds for threats. I think carefully about the last thing I say to people when we part. I worry about the safety of everyone near me when I’m in public. And I’m reluctant to share too much because I worry it will endanger a loved one, a staff member, a police officer on my security detail. I am changed and my family is changed,” Whitmer said last December during the sentencing hearing of three men found guilty of conspiring against her.

But as Whitmer continues her career in politics—recently jetting to Davos last month for the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting—families of those ensnared in the FBI’s sting operation are still reeling.

Rosemarie Battaglia-McGuire, the mother of incarcerated plot defendant Barry Croft Jr., told Headline USA that her son had been supporting three daughters at the time of his arrest. Now, he’s lost custody of them to a mother who hadn’t been in their lives in more than a decade, she said.

To be sure, Croft was recorded saying damning things to FBI informants, such as when he said “I might kill a cop” at a June 6, 2020, militia meeting in Ohio.

However, Battaglia-McGuire said Croft received a raw deal in court. Records support her argument.

For starters, a federal jury originally declined to find Croft jury in his first trial.

In his retrial, the judge declined to compel the informant who recorded Croft from testifying—even though it turned out that the informant, Stephen Robeson, had gotten Croft drunk and high before recording his incriminating statements. Robeson had also been made an informant and contacted Croft before the FBI officially began its investigation, as Headline USA previously reported.

Additionally, the judge allowed prosecutors to present evidence of Croft’s 26-year-old gun and assault charges, even though he received a pardon from Delaware’s governor for those crimes in 2019. However, the judge disallowed defense attorneys from presenting evidence of FBI agents’ wrongdoings during the trial—one agent involved in the case savagely beat his wife and had posted anti-Trump comments on his Facebook, another was accused of perjury in an unrelated case, and a third was found to be using the Whitmer case to promote his private security company.

“He earned the pardon he got. He got custody of his children and for years was feverishly working and doing everything good—PTA, getting those kids to church, and so forth. That’s what made it so poignant that the FBI could motion and get that admissible, when what those very corrupt agents were doing was not admissible,” said Battaglia-McGuire.

Croft was convicted along with co-defendant Adam Fox last August, receiving a 235-month prison sentence in December.

Croft has an appeal pending, but Battaglia-McGuire said neither she nor her son are optimistic given their experience with the U.S. legal system so far. The mother said she’s thankful that her son has remained strong in prison.

“He’s going to church regularly, he’s helping the other men with their legal problems and their rights,” she said. “He’s studying the Bible … It’s been a joy to my heart that he’s at least turning to the Lord.”

Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.

Davos Tells Employers to Spy on Employees’ Brain Waves

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Davos Tells Employers to Spy on Employees’ Brain Waves

(Dmytro “Henry” Aleksandrov, Headline USA) In Davos, Switzerland, during the annual World Economic Forum, the globalist elites gathered to listen to a presentation about brain wave monitoring technology that would allow employers to spy on their employees by detecting how hard they are working, whether they get distracted and even if they have “amorous feelings” for coworkers.

“You can not only tell whether a person is paying attention or their mind is wandering, but you can discriminate between the kinds of things they are paying attention to,” the presenter said.

“Whether they’re doing something like central tasks, like programming, peripheral tasks like writing documentation or unrelated tasks like surfing social media or online browsing. When you combine brain-wave activity together with other forms of software and surveillance technology, the power becomes quite precise,” the presenter added.

A short video shows “Brave New World”-like future, in which an employee worries about her employers detecting “amorous feelings” she has for another coworker by reading her brain-wave data, but is pleasantly surprised that the reason why her boss was spying on her is not to fire her but give her a performance bonus for good “brain metrics” that show she is productive at work, according to Breitbart.

In the next scene, the government decides to spy on people by looking at employees’ brainwave data to find co-conspirators in a wire fraud scheme that happens in the office.

“You discover they are looking for synchronized brain activity between your coworker and the people he has been working with. While you know you’re innocent of any crime, you’ve been secretly working with him on a new start-up venture. Shaking, you remove your earbuds.”

The presentation also showed other ways to control people with this form of technology, like waking them up or highlighting a haptic scarf developed by MIT that gives them “a little buzz” if their mind starts to wander, or they doze off.

According to the presenter, the purpose of showing the dystopian mind-reading future in a positive light was to highlight the “positive use cases” of brain monitoring technology because he doesn’t want people to even think about banning it.

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