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President Obama on the Necessity of Science

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nullproperty (1 week ago) Show Hide
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he does a good job keeping his reading face on at all times so when he is reading the prompt you cannot tell. that promt ruined this speach lol
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This demagogue pisses me off he talks about science yet his science "czar" Holdren HATES SCIENCE he calls for "dedevelopment" what a joke!
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OBAMA WILL DESTROY AMERICA AND SOON

Did you know there's a secret worldwide aerosol spraying program? Our air is not clean. Search for "chemtrails", "Dont talk about the weather", "Endgame HQ". Check my chan, I filmed it! We all need to wake up and wake others to stop this.
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God is it refreshing to listen to such a well spoken, knowledgeable, insightful, far sighted and inspirational man.

What a change! :)

He may be speaking as a Nationalist, but as the president of America Obama and his administration act as a role model to other nations.

Obama: "Under my administration, the days of science taking a backseat to ideology are over"
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Obama the first Nigerian, Closet Atheist, materialist, Rationalist, Latino president in America!
lecatie (1 month ago) Show Hide
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Does anybody know if there is a transcript of this discourse?
Nades129 (3 weeks ago) Show Hide
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Yeah, can anyone PM me the transcript too.
@lecatie
if you receive a link for the transcript can you share it too.
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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

It would be ideal if member of the Academy step forward and reflect on the history of Swine Flu, namely that in 1976 the government had another scare campaign highlighted in "60 Minutes Mike Wallace 1976 Swine Flu scam" where CDC right here on youtube makes an ass of itself and the US Government by using scare tactics similar to the ones you have today.

Now it would reason that those in the Sciences come out and say something, than the cowardice Grant$ approach.
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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES:

Science would be a good idea, especially where your mission is to help society better itself.

One of those would be to look at H1N1 numbers, according to CDC, you have 36,000 deaths / year from the flu. Now we are not even at 10% that level but we have a national panic on our hands. SCIENCE is a measure of numbers. It would be ideal to use logic in statements of a national emergency when the numbers dont add up.

60 Minutes 1976 Swine Flu Scare DejaVu GOVCON
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President Barack Obama, the winner of the Peace Nobel Prize: Congratulations!
All nations need your help to align this ideology and strategy. Although this require before a common ethical-moral system with strongest universal values, where the nations work to achieve United Nations Millennium Development Goals.
I believe that only the healthy tension to global competition between nations allows ongoing development of the world.

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