Video of Obama’s press conference on environmental directives 2

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   stevenearlsalmony Posted 5:06 am
   26 Jan 2009

   GLOBAL GAG RULE finally rescinded... 
   Somehow, we have got to keep talking about the colossal, human-induced problems the "Global Gag Rule" was designed and implemented to hide. It is not possible for me even to imagine a way real challenges to human wellbeing and environmental health can be addressed and overcome if people are effectively "gagged" and otherwise dissuaded from speaking openly about such potentially calamitous events as the human overpopulation of Earth in these early years of Century XXI.  It is not a good idea to timidly yield to widely shared and consensually validated appeals from the promulgators of gag rules and other devices designed to silence people, deny what could somehow be real, and conceal the truth.
   The socially agreeable inclination of many too many leaders in our time to discuss only those selected issues that meet standards of political correctness, economic expediency and religious dogma is behavior I would go so far as to label pernicious.
   Silence has to be replaced by speech; scientific evidence needs to replace ideological factoids; moral courage needs to show itself more powerfully than cowardly conformity; and intellectual honesty needs to be substituted for selfish thought, judgment and action.
   Always,
   Steve  
   Steven Earl Salmony
   
   AWAREness Campaign on The Human Population,
   
   established 2001

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   rckoegel Posted 9:32 pm
   26 Jan 2009

   I totally agree...by that i mean: selfish thought, judgment, and action, or Capitalistic behaviors need to be replaced by selfless Cooperation and truly Democratic governments and organizations.
   
   Cooperatism > Capitalism: with Capitalism a few people control the means to produce goods and accrue wealth, Cooperatism is precisely the opposite.

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