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Chris OConnor  Rhodes Scholar BookTalk.org Owner

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Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:00 am Post subject: Former Canadian defense minister saw a UFO!
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UFO science key to halting climate change: former Canadian defense minister
OTTAWA (AFP) - A former Canadian defense minister is demanding governments worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO crashes to stem climate change, a local paper said Wednesday.
"I would like to see what (alien) technology there might be that could eliminate the burning of fossil fuels within a generation ... that could be a way to save our planet," Paul Hellyer, 83, told the Ottawa Citizen.
Alien spacecrafts would have traveled vast distances to reach Earth, and so must be equipped with advanced propulsion systems or used exceptional fuels, he told the newspaper.
Such alien technologies could offer humanity alternatives to fossil fuels, he said, pointing to the enigmatic 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico -- which has become a shrine for UFO believers -- as an example of alien contact.
"We need to persuade governments to come clean on what they know. Some of us suspect they know quite a lot, and it might be enough to save our planet if applied quickly enough," he said.
Hellyer became defense minister in former prime minister Lester Pearson's cabinet in 1963, and oversaw the controversial integration and unification of Canada's army, air force and navy into the Canadian Forces.
He shocked Canadians in September 2005 by announcing he once saw a UFO. |
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:55 pm Post subject: Re: Former Canadian defense minister saw a UFO!
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Quote: Hellyer became defense minister in former prime minister Lester Pearson's cabinet in 1963, and oversaw the controversial integration and unification of Canada's army, air force and navy into the Canadian Forces.
arguably the most loathed defense minister ever...He was a nutbag then, and seems he still is...
Regards, M. Graham Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger. -- Gordon R.Dickson
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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:46 am Post subject: Re: Former Canadian defense minister saw a UFO!
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So Canada has one armed forces now?
Murray, are you Canadian? |
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: Former Canadian defense minister saw a UFO!
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Yes I AM Canadian, to quote the beer commercial...
Our armed Forces are theoretically all one, with common uniforms, etc, etc. There is no seperate Navy or Aor Force, certainly no parallel organization like the US Marines.
In reality, the branches, in the minds of those that serve in them, are distinct. Which is where it matters as far as espirit des corps goes.
Regards, M. Graham Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger. -- Gordon R.Dickson
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