May 9, 2001
Media compilation #9: Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications: Press Conference this morning; MILITARY, GOVERNMENT WITNESSES TO PROVIDE TESTIMONY ON UFO/EXTRATERRESTRIAL PRESENCE + Israeli Citizens and Other Jews Initiate Appeal to Boycott Israeli Goods + U.S. Scientists See Big Power Savings From Conservation + The Earth's Ten Commandments
Dear media person
You may want to listen to the webcast of the ET/UFO Disclosure Project this morning May 9, 9am to 11 am (Eastern Time) at http://www.connectlive.com/events/disclosureproject where it will be archived afterwards. More details below...
Hopefully, you'll be "allowed" to cover this very significant event...
I've also included a couple other items that also deserve to be reported...
Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
http://www.cybernaute.com/earthconcert2000
Two excerpts from Disclosure Project's 'Executive Summary':
Dr Steven Greer on the ET/UFO Cover-up:
".... the greatest scandal in recorded history... how would the public react to the fact that the degradation of the entire earth's ecosystem and the irretrievable loss of thousands of species of plants and animals now extinct due to pollution, has been utterly unnecessary - and could have been avoided if only an honest release of this information had occurred in the 1950s?"
[Copyright 2001 Disclosure Project]
"Master Sergeant PPP US Air Force/NRO Operative (ret.), Sept 2000:
.... In his testimony, he talks of assassinations committed by the NSA; he tells how our military deliberately caused the 1947 ET craft crashes near Roswell, and captured one of the ETs, which they kept at Los Alamos for 3 years, until he died. He talks about the intelligence teams that were charged with intimidating, discrediting, and even eliminating witnesses to ET/UFO events. He talks about Germany's re-engineering of UFOs, even prior to WWII. He talks about our current energy crisis - and the fact that we haven't needed fossil fuels since the 1940s, when free energy technologies were developed - but have been kept from humanity. This is the real reason for the secrecy of the ET/UFO subject. "What the people in power right now don‚t want us to know is that this free energy is available to everybody."
[Copyright 2001 Disclosure Project]
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MORE WITNESS ACCOUNTS AND INFORMATION AT THIS SITE: http://www.disclosureproject.org
LIVE WEBCAST of Disclosure Press Briefing on May 9th, from 9 to 11am EDT (and in the archives until Nov 9th) at http://www.connectlive.com/events/disclosureproject
Note: Software requirements and installation information is now available on that web site
To find out what is really going on in our skies read the following weekly reports:
FILER'S FILES
http://www.ufoinfo.com/filer
UFO ROUNDUP
http://www.ufoinfo.com/roundup
ECONEWS: EXTRATERRESTRIALS & THE ENVIRONMENT
Related news story: http://www.ecologynews.com/cuenews21.html
Subject: Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications
On May 9, 2001, a historic event at the National Press Conference will take place: Nearly two dozen military, intelligence, government and other witnesses to UFO and extraterrestrial events and projects will for the first time come forward as a group to disclose the truth to the world.
Dr. Steven Greer is founder of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, a worldwide organization dedicated to establishing peaceful and sustainable relations with extraterrestrial life forms. He teaches us to open our minds and our eyes to the extraordinary opportunity that hovers right in front of us. For most of what is, exists beyond the veil˜through the crossing point of light. A lifetime member of Alpha Omega Alpha, the nation's most prestigious medical honor society, Dr. Greer is an emergency physician and former chairman of the department of emergency medicine at Caldwell Memorial Hospital in North Carolina.
Recommended reading: Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications
Dear Friends and Supporters of The Disclosure Project,
On May 9, 2001, a historic event at the National Press Conference will take place: Nearly two dozen military, intelligence, government and other witnesses to UFO and extraterrestrial events and projects will for the first time come forward as a group to disclose the truth to the world. This is the kickoff for The Campaign for Disclosure, a campaign to get open hearings in the Congress, ban weapons from space and get the earth-saving technologies related to UFO energy and propulsion systems out to benefit an ailing world. This Campaign will continue until its goals are met.
You can be part of history by becoming involved in this event by:
Contacting your member of Congress and your two Senators and asking them to meet with me and some of these heroic witness May 10 and 11 and by asking them to support open congressional hearings and legislation on the matter;
Contacting your local TV stations and newspapers and encouraging them to attend the National Press Club press conference and to cover the matter seriously and responsibly; they may also view the news conference on the Internet since it will be WEBCAST LIVE at http://www.connectlive.com/events/disclosureproject
Contact any mainstream news reporters you personally know and invite them on our behalf to the National Press Club to cover the event;
Let us know if you have personal contacts to any VIPs, opinion leaders, etc., who should be briefed; there is a special VIP briefing on May 10 in the evening in Washington, DC for such people.
Contact us at:
Disclosure2001@cs.com or at 540 456 8302 to arrange for such VIPs to come to this special meeting with the witnesses.
You and your honored guests are invited to a day long Disclosure Symposium in Washington, DC on Saturday, May 12 at the Washington Hilton at 1919 Connecticut Avenue. Registration is from 9 am -10 am; the program begins at 10 am and will go until around 9:30 pm that night. Numerous government witnesses will present their testimony. There is no charge for this Disclosure Symposium but you MUST preregister at Disclosure2001@cs.com. Seating is very limited. Also, let any VIPs know of this event and invite them to attend.
I would like to thank each one of you for your help, support and hard work over the years that has made this Campaign for Disclosure a reality. Without you, none of this would be possible!
Wishing you the best of all worlds,
Steven M. Greer MD Director of The Disclosure Project attachments, below
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Alfred Webre 604-733-8134 Dr. Steven Greer 540-456-8302
Wednesday, May 9th, 2001 8 - 9 AM - Continental Breakfast/ 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM - Press conference
The National Press Club Ballroom; 529 14th Street NW - DC
MILITARY, GOVERNMENT WITNESSES TO PROVIDE TESTIMONY ON UFO/EXTRATERRESTRIAL PRESENCE; CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION SOUGHT
On Wednesday, May 9th, over twenty military, intelligence, government, corporate and scientific witnesses will come 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, according to Dr. Steven M. Greer, director of the Disclosure Project which is hosting the event.
The Disclosure Project, a non-profit research organization, is calling for open Congressional hearings on the UFO/Extraterrestrial presence, and for legislation that will ban space-based weapons. Congressional hearings were last held in 1968 by the House Science and Astronautics Committee (90th Congress, 2nd Session, Committee Print No. 7. "Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects.")
The Project has identified several hundred witnesses throughout the world and spanning every branch of the armed services, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), DIA, CIA, NASA, Russia. UK, and other agencies and countries. Over 100 have been videotaped; 70 have been transcribed into edited testimony. Videotaped summary of the testimony and an in-depth briefing document with witness transcripts will be available at the press conference.
Among the witnesses attending the event are: John Callahan, former Division Chief of the Accidents and Investigations Branch, FAA; Master Sergeant Dan Morris, former US Air Force and NRO operative with cosmic top secret clearance; Dr. Carol Rosin, space missile defense consultant and former spokesperson for Wernher Von Braun; Major George A. Filer III, former Air Force Intelligence; Graham Bethune, retired Navy commander pilot with a top-secret clearance; Michael Smith, former Air Traffic Controller, US Air Force; Sergeant Clifford Stone, United States Army; Lt. Col. Robert Salas, former SAC Launch Controller, US Air Force and FAA.
Participants in this phase of the disclosure effort are asking for Congressional, White House and UN action to allow witnesses to testify under oath in open hearings. The group is requesting a Presidential Executive Order to protect witnesses afraid of violating security oaths and to declassify documents and secret projects for the benefit of all world citizens.
"These testimonies establish once and for all that we are not alone. Technologies related to extraterrestrial phenomena are capable of providing solutions to the global energy crisis, and other environmental and security challenges," says Dr. Greer.
The Disclosure team and selected witnesses will be meeting with members of Congress and conducting briefings to address these issues and call for legislation.
Wednesday, May 9th 8 - 9 AM Continental Breakfast 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM - Overview by Dr. Greer; Witness Presentations; Release of Statement for Congress; Questions Ballroom -
The National Press Club 529 14th Street NW - 13th Floor Washington, D.C
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Contact: Alfred Webre 604-733-8134 Dr. Steven Greer 540-456-8302
DISCLOSURE PROJECT CALLS ON U.S. CONGRESS FOR HEARINGS & LEGISLATION:
To hold open, secrecy-free hearings on the UFO/Extraterrestrial presence on and around Earth.
To hold open hearings on advanced energy and propulsion systems that, when publicly released, will provide solutions to global environmental challenges.
To enact legislation which will ban all space-based weapons.
To enact comprehensive legislation to research, develop and explore space peacefully and cooperatively with all cultures on Earth and in space.
The recorded testimony of scores of military, government and other witnesses to Unidentified Flying Objects and Extraterrestrial events and projects from around the world establishes the existence of a UFO/Extraterrestrial presence on and around Earth. This recorded testimony consists of dozens of first-hand, often top-secret witnesses to UFO and Extraterrestrial events, internal UFO-related government projects and covert activities, space-based weapons programs, Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and covert, reverse-engineered energy and propulsion system projects. The technologies that are of an Extraterrestrial origin, when publicly released within a planned transition period, will provide solutions to global environmental and security challenges.
These numerous recorded witnesses constitute only a small portion of a vast pool of identified present or former military, intelligence, corporate, aviator, flight control, law enforcement officers, scientists and other witnesses, who will come forward when subpoenaed to testify at Congressional hearings. Without a grant of immunity releasing them from their security oaths, many such unimpeachable witnesses fear to speak out.
The legislation to ban space-based weapons will prohibit acts of war against Extraterrestrial civilizations. The comprehensive legislation will transform the terrestrial war industry into a world cooperative space industry. This will provide unprecedented benefits and opportunities to all on Earth and in space.
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Contact: Alfred Webre 604-733-8134 Dr. Steven Greer 540-456-8302
BACKGROUND BRIEFING POINTS FOR CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS & LEGISLATION
* The Disclosure Project is a non-profit research effort that has, since 1993, been identifying top-secret military, government and other witnesses to UFO and Extraterrestrial events.
* To date, several hundred such witnesses have been identified throughout the world and spanning every branch of the armed services, the NRO, DIA, CIA, NASA, the former USSR, and other agencies and countries. Over 100 have been videotaped, thus far; 70 have been transcribed into edited testimony. A four hour videotape summary of testimony and an over 500 page briefing document is available that contains excerpts of this historic testimony.
* The weight of this testimony, along with supporting government documents and other evidence, establishes beyond any doubt the reality of extraterrestrial life forms, UFOs, or extraterrestrial vehicles, and advanced energy and propulsion technologies resulting from the study of these vehicles.
* The testimony and evidence proves that these vehicles have been tracked on radar on many occasion, have landed and/or crashed on terra firma, and have been retrieved and studied by specialized and compartmentalized projects. Advanced technologies which have been identified from the study of these vehicles, once disclosed, will replace currently used forms of energy generation and propulsion. These technologies will enable the earth to attain a sustainable civilization without pollution, energy shortages, or global warming. These technologies are already fully operational. They have been developed within super-secret, unacknowledged special access projects. In short, the definitive solution to the world's energy, pollution, and poverty problems exists within compartmentalized projects that need planned disclosure and relevant legislation.
* The programs controlling this issue are operating outside of legally required Congressional oversight. Even Presidents have been left out of the loop, deliberately deceived, and denied access. Therefore, urgent action is needed on the part of Congress, the White House, and other institutions to obtain the necessary oversight and control of these operations to ensure that these now-classified technologies are prepared for disclosure and the eventual near-term application for world cooperative energy generation and propulsion.
* A clear and on-going threat to the national security and world peace has arisen because of unauthorized covert actions that have led to the targeting and downing of these extraterrestrial vehicles and to related covert plans to weaponize space. Since it can be proven that we are sharing space with other civilizations, it is critical that a full disclosure of this long suppressed information take place, and that the National Missile Defense System (NMD/BMD/SDI.) be re-evaluated by policy makers in light of these revelations.
* There is no evidence that these extraterrestrial civilizations are hostile to humanity or the earth. Rather, the testimony shows that they are very concerned about nuclear and space-based weapons systems, and human warfare. Therefore, a cooperative world policy and law must be immediately established to prohibit the targeting and striking of these vehicles.
* Urgent Congressional, White House and UN action is needed to allow any and all witnesses to testify under oath so that a full, honest and open disclosure may occur this year, 2001, including witnesses with high level security clearances.
* A US Presidential Executive Order is needed to protect these military, government, and other witnesses, and to declassify secret projects and their related technologies.
* The world community needs to research and develop diplomatic programs and protocols, laws and treaties to address this issue and to interface with these civilizations in a manner that is peaceful, non- violent and mutually beneficial.
* WE, THE PEOPLE, CALL ON THE U.S. CONGRESS;
* To hold open, secrecy-free hearings on the UFO/Extraterrestrial presence on and around Earth.
* To hold open hearings on advanced energy and propulsion systems related to the subject that, when publicly released, will provide solutions to global environmental and other challenges.
* To enact legislation which will ban all space-based weapons.
* To enact comprehensive legislation to research, develop and explore space peacefully and cooperatively with all cultures on Earth and in space.
From: "Boudewijn Wegerif" <bw@jak.se>
Subject: Israeli Citizens and Other Jews Initiate Appeal to Boycott Israeli Goods
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001
Dear friends,
I have joined in the appeal to boycott Israeli goods. The appeal was initiated by Israeli citizens and other Jews. Anyone can join by signing at the "Matzpun" website http://www.matzpun.com (matzpun =conscience in hebrew).
I received the request, and text of the appeal below, from Robert Rodvik (robrod@uniserve.com).
In friendship,
Boudewijn (Wegerif)
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The authors of this appeal are Israeli citizens and Jews of other nationalities whose families have been victims of racism and genocide in past generations, and who feel they cannot remain silent.
After six months of relentless military oppression of Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories, the government of Israel has made daily life even more intolerable for the Palestinians by imposing a physical siege on their villages and towns. This siege has brought upon the Palestinians a complete cessation of "normal" life. For the majority of them there is no going to work, no shopping for food and other necessities, no medical services, and in many cases no water or electricity.
In 1948 the state of Israel dispossessed the Palestinians, evicted hundreds of thousands of them from their homes into refugee camps and did not allow them to return when the war ended. The same state is now preventing the victims of 1948 from having even the most basic services in their refugee camps and remaining villages and towns.
The inhumane oppressor hopes that starving will help force the Palestinians to surrender, without having any "negative public opinion problems" that live ammunition may have had in Western media. Indeed, public opinion in the West has largely relaxed any protest against the Israeli government's policies of killing civilians -- men, women and children-- since much of the killing is now being done away from the TV cameras. Human rights violations by the Palestinian Authority have also helped Israel to falsely portray itself again as the righteous victim.
We call on the world community to organize and boycott Israeli industrial and agricultural exports and goods, as well as leisure tourism, in the hope that it will have the same positive result that the boycott of South Africa had on Apartheid.
This boycott should remain in force as long as Israel controls any part of the territories it occupied in 1967. Those who squash the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinians must be made to feel the consequences of their own bitter medicine.
We urge every recipient of this appeal, irrespective of origin and nationality, to:
1. Start practicing the boycott on a personal level immediately, and make sure that the steps taken are known in the community (for example: tell your shopkeeper why you will not buy Israeli products; avoid leisure travel to Israel).
2. Add your name to the appeal, circulate it to your friends, and do whatever you can to have it endorsed by groups concerned about human rights.
3. Organize activities to put pressure on your government to cut economic and commercial ties with Israel and to rescind preferential economic treaties with Israel.
FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT http://www.matzpun.com
IN GREAT CONTRAST TO THE FOLLOWING, MAKE SURE ALSO TO GO READ "COAL IS BACK" A special energy panel headed by the U.S. Vice president revives consideration of energy sources long out of fashion -- billions for oil drilling in environmentally sensitive areas, 1,400 new electric-power plants (many of them fired with dirty coal) over the next 20 years, new nuclear power plants (none has been built in the U.S. since the Three Mile Island disaster 22 years ago), more pipelines, more powerlines, easier environmental regulations to refurbish old coal plants, mere tax credits for the development of renewable fuels such as solar, geothermal and wind mill and NOTHING for conservation! -- a real environmental nightmare!! -- AT
From: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/06/national/06CONS.html
May 6, 2001
U.S. Scientists See Big Power Savings From Conservation
By JOSEPH KAHN
WASHINGTON, May 5 — Scientists at the country's national laboratories have projected enormous energy savings if the government takes aggressive steps to encourage energy conservation in homes, factories, offices, appliances, cars and power plants.
Their studies, completed just before the Bush administration took office, are at odds with the administration's repeated assertions in recent weeks that the nation needs to build a big new power plant every week for the next 20 years to keep up with the demand for electricity, and that big increases in production of coal and natural gas are needed to fuel those plants.
A lengthy and detailed report based on three years of work by five national laboratories said that a government-led efficiency program emphasizing research and incentives to adopt new technologies could reduce the growth in electricity demand by 20 percent to 47 percent.
That would be the equivalent of between 265 and 610 big 300-megawatt power plants, a steep reduction from the 1,300 new plants that the administration predicts will be needed. The range depends on how aggressively the government encourages efficiency in buildings, factories and appliances, as well as on the price of energy, which affects whether new technologies are economically attractive.
Another laboratory study found that government office buildings could cut their own use of power by one-fifth at no net cost to the taxpayers by adopting widespread energy conservation measures, paying for the estimated $5 billion investment with the energy savings.
But the Bush administration, which is in the final stages of preparing a strategy to deal with what it calls an energy crisis, has not publicized these findings, relying instead primarily on advice from economists at the Energy Department's Energy Information Agency, who often take a skeptical view of projected efficiency gains and predict a much greater need for fossil fuel supplies.
Administration officials said that some of the national laboratories' studies were based on theoretical assumptions that do not translate well into policy.
"We are looking for practical solutions here," said Jeanne Lopatto, a spokeswoman for the Energy Department. "Whatever works, we're interested in. But some of these ideas have been funded over many years and they have a very small impact on energy needs."
The once obscure debate between scientists at the national laboratories and economists at the information agency, both sides working for the Department of Energy, reflects a raging dispute between President Bush and many Democrats and environmentalists. While both sides agree that the United States faces energy problems, Mr. Bush's team has emphasized the quest for new supplies, while his critics emphasize untapped potential to reduce demand.
Vice President Dick Cheney, speaking publicly last week on the energy plan he is in charge of drafting, used the information agency's projections when he said that the nation would need at least 1,300 new power plants by 2020. Mr. Cheney used the figure to dramatize the need to mobilize public and private resources to close a supply gap.
Mr. Cheney has not publicly noted that other Energy Department studies show ways to trim that number. The conservation measures that the scientists consider feasible would save future energy costs and prevent air pollution from hundreds of power plants.
The laboratories' estimates assume widespread application of some time-tested efficiency standards and the success of some newer inventions that scientists love but many bottom-line economists tend to distrust as expensive or unrealistic.
Their work was reviewed by outside experts from industry, government and universities.
Some of the proposed conservation steps are neither costly nor complex. Just this week, researchers at the Energy Department's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory announced that they had developed a fluorescent table lamp that reduces the need for overhead lighting. The laboratory says the lamp matches the combined output of a 300-watt halogen lamp and a 150-watt bulb, but uses a quarter of the energy.
"Widespread use of this lighting system in offices and homes could greatly reduce the current power problems we have in California," said Michael Siminovitch, a scientist at the laboratory.
Other technologies have been proved in field tests. At Fort Polk, an Army base in Louisiana, electricity use during peak hours fell by 43 percent after base managers installed fluorescent lights, low-flow shower heads, new attic insulation and new home heating and cooling systems.
Most of the savings came from installing geothermal heat pumps, an efficient home heating and cooling system that circulates fluids through underground coils but otherwise uses conventional technologies. Hundreds of homes on the base were equipped with the systems, generating immediate cost savings for electricity and totally eliminating the homes' use of natural gas for water heating. The entire installation cost was covered by a private contractor that makes a profit by sharing in the government's cost savings for the first 20 years.
The heat pumps, though still something of a novelty, are completely proven and save so much money that President Bush installed a system at his new ranch home in Crawford, Tex., Mr. Cheney's official home, the Naval Observatory in Washington, also uses geothermal heat pumps to cut down on its energy bill.
A study prepared by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory last year contended that striving to make such savings often made sound economic sense.
The study found that the federal government, the largest energy user in the United States with some 500,000 buildings, could reduce its own energy consumption by one-fifth. The investment necessary to realize those gains would be $5.2 billion, the study said, but the energy savings would knock nearly $1 billion annually off the government's energy bill, an attractive rate of return.
Some private companies have already made significant advances in what are known as combined heat and generation plants, which could become industry standards, energy department experts say. Chevron has estimated that it saved $100 million a year after it withdrew a refinery from the Texas electricity grid and relied on an on-site generator, which allowed it to recycle waste heat from the generation process for refining.
New efficiency standards for clothes washers, water heaters and air-conditioners adopted by the Clinton administration were projected by the Clinton Energy Department to reduce electricity demand by the equivalent of 170 300-megawatt power plants over 20 years if fully enforced.
President Bush's fiscal 2002 budget slashed the department's spending on researching and developing energy-efficient buildings and factories, more fuel-efficient automobiles, new appliance standards and more efficient lighting. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said some of that work was better left to the private sector.
Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, both former oil industry executives, seem to have assigned a tertiary role to efficiency improvements, behind new drilling for oil and gas and new construction of energy infrastructure, like pipelines and power plants. Neither the president nor the vice president has promoted his own energy-saving home as a model.
In fact, Mr. Cheney said last week, "Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy."
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DAILY GRIST
04 May 2001
http://www.gristmagazine.com
PREZ AND THE NEW POWER GENERATION
President Bush launched a two-week campaign yesterday to prepare the country for the recommendations of the secretive White House energy task force. Bush said, "What people need to hear loud and clear is that we're running out of energy in America." Building on a comment made by Vice President Cheney earlier this week that conservation is little more than a "personal virtue," Bush said, "[W]e can't conserve our way to energy independence, nor can we conserve our way to having enough energy available. So we've got to do both." Got it? The Natural Resources Defense Council began an ad campaign yesterday that describes Bush's energy plans as the "more pollution solution."
Washington Post, Eric Pianin and Dana
Milbank, 04 May 2001
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39513-2001May3.html
Take action and ask the White House for a conservation-based energy policy
http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/dogood/climate.stm#cheney
From: mountainsrme@webtv.net (Mark Quire)
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001
Subject: The Earth's Ten Commandments
Jean
The following are THE EARTH'S TEN COMMANDMENTS by Ernest Callenbach author of Ecotopia. I hope you find it of interest.
1. Thou shalt love and honor the earth for it blesses thy life and governs thy survival.
2. hou shall keep each day sacred to the earth and celebrate the turning of its seasons.
3. Thy shalt not hold thyself above other living things nor drive them to extinction.
4. Thou shalt give thanks for thy food to the creatures and plants that nourish thee.
5. Thou shalt limit thy offspring for multitudes of people are burden unto the earth.
6. Thou shalt not kill nor waste earth's resources upon weapons of war.
7. Thou salt not pursue profit at the earth's expense but strive to restore its damaged majesty.
8. Thou shalt not hide from thyself or others the consequences of thy actions upon the earth.
9. Thou shalt not steal from future generations by impoverishing or poisoning the earth.
10. Thou shalt consume material goods in moderation so all may share earth's bounty.
