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Charles Deemer

Editor,
Oregon Literary Review

MFA, Playwriting, University of Oregon

Writing faculty, Portland State University (part-time)

Retired playwright and screenwriter.
Active novelist, librettist and teacher.

Email: cdeemer(at)yahoo(dot)com

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Ron Silliman, contemporary poetry and poetics

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(Posts archived here are from 01/10/03 - 10/31/06)

 
Sunday, December 14, 2003  
Alternative energy
THE DISCLOSURE PROJECT ANNOUNCES NEW ENERGY DISCLOSURE INITIATIVE

The Disclosure Project has announced that it will be pursuing a
disclosure on the existence of new and alternate energy systems that
have been deliberately and illegally suppressed.

The Disclosure Project, in cooperation with Space Energy Access Systems
Inc., has discovered that over the past 75 years a number of important
breakthroughs in energy efficiency, alternate forms of energy generation
and propulsion have been deliberately withheld from the public to prop
up the oil, gas, coal, public utility and nuclear power industries.

These significant technological breakthroughs that have been suppressed
range from modifications of the internal combustion engine to get
significantly higher miles per gallon to new electromagnetic generating
systems that extract energy from the so-called Quantum vacuum.

Current intelligence gathered by The Disclosure Project and SEAS
indicates that a shadowy operation connected to covert government and
intelligence programs but run primarily by US and foreign corporate
interests have resulted in this suppression.

Actions taken to effect secrecy and to neutralize the public
availability of these technologies - which by now could have completely
replaced the need for fossil fuels - include:

> Threats, intimidation and on occasion the murder of scientists and
inventors originating these energy breakthroughs;

> Corporate acquisition of technologies with subsequent 'black shelving'
- that is the deliberate suppression of the technology by owning the
rights and then refusing to release the technology to the public;

> The illegal application of section 181 and related sections of the
Patent Law to force inventors to keep the technology secret or face
substantial fines and jail time;

> The bogus and illegal use of other so-called national security
provisions to intimidate inventors and suppress technologies;

> Sabotage of inventor labs, prototypes and facilities in order to cause
the loss of the technology or to intimidate inventors and colleagues.


It is clear that human society will continue to be harmed by the
deliberate and illegal withholding of such technologies and that a
thoroughly documented and sourced Disclosure of the matter is urgently
needed. The widening gap between poor and rich nations, the worsening
situation in the Middle East and elsewhere, the relentless decay in the
environment, global warming, intractable world poverty and many other
pressing problems facing humanity are directly related to the
suppression of these energy breakthroughs.

We call on all concerned citizens to assist us in identifying and
securing the cooperation of the following:

> Scientists and Inventors of high credentialed credibility who have
been the target or victim of such suppression;

> Corporate Whistleblowers who have observed or been part of the
acquisition or suppression of such technologies;

> Government, military and intelligence whistleblowers who have
witnessed or been part of such actions. These include current or past
whistleblower witnesses from the Patent Office, Department of Defense,
CIA, NASA, NRO, NSA, Executive Branch/White House, Congress or any
other branch of the military and government;

> Non-US whistleblowers associated with foreign governments,
particularly western Europe, Great Britain, Russia/former USSR, and
Japan;

> Foreign corporate or institutional whistleblowers

> Whistleblowers associated with government labs or para-governmental
institutes, universities and research centers.

> Any person who has or can acquire documentation, whether government or
private/corporate of such suppression and acquisition of technologies
and who can establish the authenticity of said documents.

The Disclosure Project will coordinate an international release of such
whistleblower testimony and documents once there is sufficient credible
named sources and evidence to establish beyond any doubt the reality of
the existence and suppression of such technological developments.

Please help us identify such witnesses and evidence. It is time the
world knew the truth about energy, oil and why humanity continues to be
held down by our artificial addiction to oil and fossil fuels. The time
for change is now.

For more information: http://www.disclosureproject.org
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