New Media Roundup From Across the Administration

WHITEHOUSE.gov ^ | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1ST, 2009 AT 1:59 PM | Posted by Katie Stanton

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1ST, 2009 AT 1:59 PM New Media Roundup From Across the Administration Posted by Katie Stanton

Over the past few weeks, our colleagues from across the Administration have been busy leveraging social media tools to help make government more open and transparent. Here's a quick roundup of new ways to connect and get the latest updates from across the Administration: Today, the Department of Justice announced the launch of the new Justice.gov and new profiles on Twitter, YouTube , MySpace and Facebook.

Yesterday, Secretary Salazar from the Department of Interior launched new profiles on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and even a great Flickr page that offers photos from the U.S. Geological Survey, National Park Service and other bureaus.

On Facebook, you can now become a fan of Education Secretary Duncan. You can now follow Transportation Secretary LaHood and Commerce Secretary Locke on Twitter.

[boatbums]

Yawn...like I don’t have better things to do?

[Cindy]

Not social networking, but interesting.

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“If It Wasn’t So Scary, It Just Might Be Funny”

BY SUSAN BRINKMANN, FOR THE BULLETIN
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

SNIPPET: “While on the campaign trail in 2008, President Barack Obama said “Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself.”

Is he kidding?

Let’s start with the most recent addition to his circle of friends, Cass Sunstein, a Harvard Law Professor and former colleague from the University of Chicago who was just confirmed as head of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. In a book Sunstein co-authored in 2004, he wrote “[We] could even grant animals a right to bring suit . . . Congress will grant standing to animals to protect their own rights and interests.” Sunstein also advocates for the automatic donation of organs upon a person’s death and, as recently as a 2007 speech at Harvard, called for a ban on hunting and encouraging the public to eat less meat.

Sunstein becomes even more interesting when we consider his better half, the lovely anti-Israel Samantha Powers, author of the America-bashing book, “The Problem from Hell,” who thinks the U.S. brought the 9/11 terrorist attack upon itself by aping the human rights abuses of Israel.

Then there’s John Holdren, the president’s chief science advisor, who co-authored a book in 1977 suggesting radical population control measures such as forcing single women to abort their babies, implanting capsules in people when they reach puberty and/or spiking water reserves with a chemical in order to sterilize them. To achieve these goals, the book suggests setting up an armed “Planetary Regime” to oversee human population levels and control the environment.

However, Harold Hongju Koh, the State Department’s top lawyer, is the staffer who deserves the vaunted title of “Most Radical” member of the Obama Administration. A “transnationalist,” Koh believes the U.S. needs to diminish its “distinctive rights culture” and complains about how the First Amendment places too much emphasis on protecting the speech and religious rights of Americans compared to European and Asian nations. Aside from believing that abortion should be an international human right, Koh also sees no reason why Islam’s Sharia Law should not be applied to select cases in the U.S.

Another pro-global-everything employee of the Obama Administration is our new U.N. Ambassador, Susan Rice. A close associate of Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbott who advocates for a world government, Rice also supports “a rapidly deployable international civilian police force,” presumably under the control of the hopelessly dysfunctional U.N.

Our list would not be complete without mentioning the various card-carrying members of the Communist party and socialist organizations that have joined Obama’s ever-widening circle of questionable friends.”