My life is like my soup: an attempt to mesh seemingly disparate flavours into something palatable. I hope you enjoy this kooking show :-P

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Forget hybrid cars, where's the flying saucers ?

An interesting fact: the US military since the 1950s have been using and developing fully operational "Alien Reproduction Vehicles", flying saucers that use anti-gravity technology and zero-point energy devices (that produce more energy than they consume). As the name suggests, they were modeled after extraterrestrial vehicles. Yes, sounds like something out of a movie (i.e. Independence Day), but I feel convinced that this is true. The person who convinced me of this is Dr. Steven Greer, who is an expert at the military cover-up of information about extraterrestrial encounters and technology. He established the Disclosure Project, who have presented quite a case to support this hard-to-believe story:

On Wednesday, May 9th, 2001, over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses came forward at the National Press Club in Washington, DC to establish the reality of UFOs or extraterrestrial vehicles, extraterrestrial life forms, and resulting advanced energy and propulsion technologies. The weight of this first-hand testimony, along with supporting government documentation and other evidence, will establish without any doubt the reality of these phenomena.

I mentioned this to my room mate, who is interested in solutions to environmental problems such as global warming. I noted that zero-point energy is not being considered by large-scale organizations who are working on environmental sustainability, and it seems this is because they all have ties to government and/or corporate interests that will do everything in their power to suppress this information. Zero-point energy solutions would loosen the powerhold of the oil companies, and completely decentralize energy production. This is the agenda of AERO

Advanced Energy Research Organization (AERO), Inc. is a new research and development group formed to develop and strategically protect new energy and propulsion technologies. It is our goal, utilizing a unique strategic approach, to bring forth these new environmentally sound technologies to replace virtually all fossil fuel, internal combustion and ionizing nuclear technologies within 20-30 years.

The Orion Project has responded to this proposal as such:
We are a non-profit 501c3 foundation dedicated to transforming the world's energy/social crisis into a world of healthy, sustainable abundance. Our goal is to inform, educate, and help supply all peoples of our planet with sustainable, non-polluting power. To accomplish this task we are searching out and supporting the development of new, clean energy technologies that can bring this vision forward in our world now!

I wasn't able to articulate this information very well to my room mate, but he made a stretch and assumed it was true. From this assumption, he made a very interesting point: providing the world with free energy in our current economic climate would likely accelerate the consumption of other resources such as water. This is because it allows us to more readily extract and process those resources for consumption. Although I don't feel capable of defending this position, it makes complete sense to me. It became clear to me that zero-point energy solutions, unless paired with economic regulations, would be a bane to our planet's health, and not a boon.

....but just imagine, a world without cars, a world without roads... it's all within reach...

Community grocery store update

Well, it has been many many months since I've written anything on this here blog, and I thought I good way to break the ice would be a completely impersonal but important note about the possibility of a community grocery store that has been in discussion and investigation since the close of the Loeb on Booth St. I have been doing a bit of volunteering for these folks and I look forward to opportunities to get further involved. Particularly, I think the experience of helping to set up a co-op (one discussed possibility) would be a valuable one. If you're interested in food security in the Chinatown region, I recommend getting in touch with Heather, who's contacts are listed below.

Hello Somerset West Community Grocery Store Supporters!
Many of you have been inquiring as to the status of the Somerset West Community Grocery Store and we would like to provide an update, as many things have been happening.
Firstly, the feasibility study is complete (thank you very much to all volunteers!) and the Executive Summary of the report is available at www.swchc.on.ca. If you would like to review the entire study please email heather@justfood.ca or ewilliams@swchc.on.ca. The feasibility study concludes that a small grocery store (between 4,500sq ft - 6,000 sq ft) is financially viable in the community. To understand the methodology please read through the feasibility study document.
As a result of the positive feasibility study, the community grocery store Advisory Committee met with a number of potential community partners in March. The objective of the meeting was to explore opportunities to partner and use the old Loeb building space for a community grocery store, plus additional community programs and small businesses. Those in attendance took a tour of the old Loeb building, spoke with the realtor and got a sense of the work required to make the building safe and useable.
Currently, the potential partners are reviewing their interest in partnering on the project, and the advisory committee are reviewing the opportunities and challenges presented by the old Loeb building location and structure. The potential partners and advisory committee members will be meeting again in the coming months to propose the next steps.
We thank you for your continued support and interest. We will continue to send out updates as we progress through this work. We will also plan a community meeting in the coming months and will let you know when and where it will be held.
Just so you all know ... my role as a consultant on this project has ended, however Just Food has kindly provided me some time to work on this project until the next project phase is reached. Therefore, I will be able to continue communicating with you all. If you have any questions please let me know - and please use this email address as opposed to my previous yahoo account.
If you would like to be removed from this email distribution list please reply with your desire to removed.
Sincerely,
Heather & the Community Grocery Store Advisory Committee

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Heather Hossie
Just Food/Alimentation Juste &
Savour Ottawa/Savourez Ottawa
613-236-9300 ext./poste 305
heather@justfood.ca
www.justfood.ca & www.savourottawa.ca

 
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