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Wow. That's so funny, because it's an over-the-top exaggeration of what McCain/Palin said Obama would do.
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OMG this is top-notch work. Priceless. "The take-away-white-people's-guns-and-give-them-to-black-people program." "The new flag will be white, but will have a picture of a burning American flag on it."
OH NO!!! DAMN YOU OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mulling Reversals Of Bush Exec Orders In another sign that Barack Obama is moving quickly to put his own stamp on the transition process, transition chair John Podesta just rolled out a series of new and reformist transition initiatives on a conference call with reporters. Some highlights: • There will be strong restrictions against lobbyist involvement in the transition: Lobbyists can't contribute or raise money to fund the transition; anybody who has worked as a lobbyist over the last 12 months can't shape policy and will have to cease all lobbying during the transition; and any transition staffers who become lobbyists afterwards won't be able to lobby the White House for 12 months. • The Obama transition team is also launching a broad review of federal agencies -- over 100 of them -- so that the president and cabinet officers will have all the information they need to make decisions about those offices next year. • The cabinet will have not just Democrats, but also Republicans and independents, "not just at a token level." • Cabinet appointments will be put through faster than the usual process of only two dozen or so secretaries or sub-cabinet appointees being confirmed by March. "We expect that we can accelerate the process of confirmation in the Senate," Podesta said. • Podesta confirmed that Obama is actively reviewing President Bush's executive orders, to see which ones he will reverse upon taking office: "We'll review all the executive orders that the president [Bush] has issued, and that process is going on." http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/
Regardless of what you think about Obama, the fact that his campaign is on top of this stuff, this early is a nice sign. Proactive responses to government only engender confidence. I'm happy to see it.
Sexing to WW3 ... Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society | WIRED More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking. A directory in the website's code was first revealed by the Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew. Known for exposing the US government’s No Fly List and breaching the surveillance-camera company Verkada, crimew tells WIRED the directory surfaced via an anonymous tip. WIRED independently verified its contents. Together, alongside the mundane fare of a typical thought leadership conference, the documents show an extraordinary convergence of power. The registration records list General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe and the head of US European Command, who took the post in July 2025 and is recorded on the leaked list as having attended Dialog gatherings since 2021. The website directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States, along with the founders and directors of many of the country's largest surveillance, data-broker, and advertising-data companies. Those executives appear side by side with senior US officials overseeing their industries. Auren Hoffman, Dialog’s chairman, founded the location-data broker SafeGraph and the identity-resolution firm LiveRamp, two of the most important suppliers in the consumer data economy. He appears in the directory alongside Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, whose department writes the rules on financial data, and Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and its data-privacy authority. Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, whose software runs case management for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and data fusion for the Pentagon and intelligence community, is listed in the same society as Army secretary Dan Driscoll and Representative Jim Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees agencies Palantir contracts with. It also lists a cluster of Google and Google DeepMind executives, among them Tom Lue, who leads global affairs for the company's frontier AI division, and one working journalist, Souad Mekhennet, a national security correspondent for The Washington Post. (She is listed as running an event called “Ulysses Book Club.”) The rest of the membership spans hedge fund and private equity billionaires, current and former foreign officials, network television actors, best-selling authors, and religious leaders. One of several internal documents Dialog left exposed on the same online database that held its registration records is a guide for event moderators, urging them to remind participants that everything is “off the record” and that comments should be concise and “nonobvious.” It also coaches them to model brief introductions to “avoid status signaling” in a room full of senators, dignitaries, and tycoons.
