{"id":1590,"date":"2005-11-26T17:53:23","date_gmt":"2005-11-26T17:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/2005\/11\/26\/edmonton_sun_se\/"},"modified":"2005-11-26T17:53:23","modified_gmt":"2005-11-26T17:53:23","slug":"edmonton_sun_se","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omniversity.us\/exopolitics\/edmonton_sun_se\/","title":{"rendered":"EDMONTON SUN: &#8220;Senate pressured to hold hearings on ET&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=179,height=104,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/logo_sun.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"179\" height=\"104\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/exopolitics.blogs.com\/exopolitics\/images\/logo_sun.gif\" title=\"Logo_sun\" alt=\"Logo_sun\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a>November 26, 2005<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonsun.com\/News\/Canada\/2005\/11\/26\/pf-1324951.html\"><strong>Senate pressured to hold hearings on ET<\/strong><\/a><br \/>By SUN NEWS SERVICES<\/p>\n<p>A number of groups have joined forces with former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer in urging Parliament to hold public hearings on &#8216;exopolitics&#8217; &#8211; or relations with extraterrestrials (ETs).<\/p>\n<p>Three non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were reacting to a speech made by Hellyer in September in Toronto in which he warned that &quot;UFOs are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hellyer said he is concerned the United States is preparing weapons for use against the aliens and could get the whole world into an &quot;intergalactic war.&#8221; According to Hellyer, the Americans&#8217; interest in returning to the moon is in part based on the desire to build a forward military base there.<\/p>\n<p>The three organizations backing Hellyer&#8217;s request for hearings are the Institute for Co-operation in Space (ICIS), the Toronto Exopolitics Symposium and the Disclosure Project, a U.S.-based organization that has assembled high-level military-intelligence witnesses of a possible ET presence.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Senate replied to the ICIS that their full agenda precluded any hearings in the near future on ET issues.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That does not deter us,&quot; one spokesman for the NGOs said, &quot;We are going ahead with our request to Prime Minister Paul Martin and the official Opposition leaders in the House of Commons now, and we will re-apply to the Senate of Canada in early 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Time is on the side of open disclosure that there are ethical extraterrestrial civilizations visiting Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>NOTE:STAR DREAMS INITIATIVE (SDI)<\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peaceinspace.net\">http:\/\/www.peaceinspace.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonsun.com\/News\/Canada\/2005\/11\/26\/pf-1324951.html\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edmontonsun.com\/News\/Canada\/2005\/11\/26\/pf-1324951.html\"><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\">http:\/\/www.edmontonsun.com\/News\/Canada\/2005\/11\/26\/pf-1324951.html<\/span><\/a> <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 26, 2005Senate pressured to hold hearings on ETBy SUN NEWS SERVICES A number of groups have joined forces with former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer in urging Parliament to hold public hearings on &#8216;exopolitics&#8217; &#8211; or relations with extraterrestrials (ETs). 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