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Yes Brett. Being Done.
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Consider looking beyond the reporting....to the fact that space has been opened for this to be shared and talked about. What is in the news is not always the best reflection of what is actually happening.
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<p>David Osborne</p>
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On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Brett Barndt
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Can the OST community perhaps help here? It is a sad state of affairs in which we all have a stake. Even citizens of the world have a stake in this dysfunction owing to the interconnected nature of the global economies, our livelihoods, and well-being.
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<br />The appointees, and congress by association, should not be permitted to let it go on this way any longer. People are dying out there with higher poverty, food insecurity, mortality, and suicide rates as a result of this situation.
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/federal-reserve-employees-survey_n_3826165.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/28/federal-reserve-employees-survey_n_3826165.html</a>
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Discourse and dialogue are the last thing that should be stifled by culture or any other dysfunction in an institution like this one.
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<br />OST and an open process of multi-stakeholder engagement is of course part of the solution.
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<br />This seems like it should be well within our rights to insist upon at this moment in time. We are stakeholders. Albeit. we are non-consulted, unrepresented stakeholders in the current practice.
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