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Founding Signatories, Alphabetical
| Ellen Brown | Joel Garbon | Dr. Tom Hansen | Jeane Manning |
| Dr. Brian O’Leary | Ken Rauen | Robert David Steele | Sacha Stone |
| Paul Von Ward | James Wallerstedt | David Yurth |
James Wallerstedt
James is the founder of the New Energy Declaration project. He got involved with Breakthrough Energy topics after meeting Dr. Brian O’Leary in Costa Rica in 2004, where James was working at the UN’s University for Peace. Upon returning to the US after losing his UPeace job – for leading this project to eject a CIA sponsored program from the university – James served as a public spokesperson for the non-profit New Energy Movement project founded by Dr. O’Leary.
In 2006, James developed what became the largest collection of online resources anywhere documenting the suppression of revolutionary clean breakthrough energy and transportation technologies involving unlawful application of US national security law (ie: Section 181, Title 35 of the 1951 US Invention Secrecy Act). While those topics have become more broadly discussed over recent decades, when these initiatives were undertaken, the topics were little known even within leading alt energy circles. James is an advocate for “a better world for all,” including distribution of suppressed revolutionary energy, transportation and health and wellness technologies.
James is an activist and educator who holds a masters degree in international affairs from the University of California’s School of Global Policy and Strategy. Since 2006, he has collaborated with others on plans to revoke most of the US WWII era national security legislation and transition US foreign policy back to the vision of the Kennedy brothers. IE: constructive engagement versus endless false flag fiascoes. A current working title for this project is the Global Restoration Plan.
Dr. Brian O’Leary
Dr. Brian O’Leary, who passed in 2011, is widely recognized as the primary “founding father” of the increasingly active and successful global “breakthrough energy” public education and activism project, now achieving major milestones as even some Deep State elements within the US “intel community” are showing support for distribution of Section 181 suppressed E&T technologies and information. The inaugural Breakthrough Energy Movement conference (Amsterdam, 2012) was dedicated to Brian’s memory.
Brian was an exceptional scientist, humanitarian and activist who understood the pivotal global importance of bringing clean, safe, suppressed revolutionary (“free”) energy and transportation technologies into large-scale distribution, along with debunking the official “climate crisis” narrative, which intentionally avoids mention of the primary driver of climate change – our solar system currently crossing the Galactic Equator, “supplemented by weather warfare tech.” Brian spoke of his disillusionment with Al Gore and others to whom he had personally communicated the true alt energy and climate change landscapes, distorting narratives due to undisclosed personal agendas and club affiliations.
Brian was a former NASA astronaut, astro-physicist and tenure-track professor of physics at both Cornell and Princeton. The video at the top of the right of this page is Brian’s cameo from the original Thrive documentary. From Brian’s Wikipedia page –
Dr. Tom Hansen

Dr. Hansen is a retired educator and technology expert who lives with his wife in Charlottesville, Virginia near the University of Virginia. As many know, Charlottesville was the home of Thomas Jefferson and UVA was founded by him. Tom’s interests and spirit are very much aligned with the legacy of Jefferson and revolve around realigning the US federal government with “founding principles” – truth, integrity, justice, freedom for all – while devolving greater power to local communities.
Tom strenously objects to the current and historic levels of US federal government secrecy – esp. vis the “military-industrial complex,” and corruption, including topics related to suppressed revolutionary energy & transportation technologies, ET topics and “false flag” events. He believes that an open and accountable government “Of, by and for the people” is fundamentally at odds with the “Secret Government” we’ve been stuck with during the post-WWII era.
Tom’s novel approach toward educating the public about such topics includes music that he composes and performs in the Charlottesville area. The following three tracks are written and sung by him, the first two from his UFO Oil collection.
Green Machine
Constitution Blowin’ in the Wind
America, Give Us Your Dream
Jeane Manning
Jeane has long been an influential author and networker in the Breakthrough Energy field. Jeane’s primary motives are environmental protection, planetary healing and the humane treatment of children and animals. Jeane and other NED founding signatories have not appreciated that certain high-profile actors in our world (shout-out to Al Gore) have long been intentionally falsifying critically important information about humanity’s true dangers and options.
As a counter-move, Jeane has been an active indy journalist since the late 1980s, chronicling the true alt energy, climate change and environmental landscapes. She has been associated with the New Energy Movement project since its inception and spoke at its initial 2012 Amsterdam conference. The emcee introduced her presentation by noting that Jeane has been “One of the pioneer ladies in this field, and there are not many.”
With Joel Garbon, Jeane authored Breakthrough Power, a book about humanity’s true energy and transportation sector options. With Nick Begich – member of Alaska’s most well-known political family – Jeane authored a seminal book about the clandestine use of classified weather warfare tech, Angels Don’t Play This HAARP which alerted the public to dangers related to the use of HAARP and maser technology. Many have appreciated Jeane’s ability to convey the New Energy landscape in commonsense terminology.
Sacha Stone
Sacha, widely recognized as one of our world’s foremost grassroots activism leadership powerhouses, was at one point Director General of the UN’s Global Renewable Energy Initiative. Experiencing first-hand corruption within the UN system and observing how the alt energy and climate change narratives were being intentionally fictionalized, Sacha quit in disgust and instead helped organize several major “breakthrough energy” conferences, including an inaugural event held in Amsterdam in 2012.
In 1999, Sacha established the Humanitad project to serve as an umbrella organization advocating reinvention of our world’s government, media, educational and international relations sectors. Key offshoots include the International Tribunal for Natural Justice, which has held tribunals on child trafficking and the use of weather warfare tech both at The Hague in Holland and Westminster in London.
Other Humanitad projects include New Earth Nation and New Earth University. During COVID, Sacha chaired “Reclaim Your Lives” and “Line in the Sand” projects, exposing the true COVID landscape. Related to that, in 2021, he led an Arise USA tour along with New Energy Declaration founding signatory Robert David Steele.
Sacha’s main website is SachaStone.com. Check out Sacha’s Youtube channel, which include ongoing updates re: his new sovereign micro-nations and New Earth projects.
Ellen Brown 
Ellen Brown is an attorney, prolific author, public educator, independent journalist and activist extraordinaire. Ellen is founder of the Public Banking Institute, one of our world’s most important initiatives per providing superior models to replace our diseased national and international central bank network. IE: with something that will serve honest and constructive vs. “Deep State” priorities.
Ellen is the author of twelve-plus books, including one widely recognized as the best book ever written about the establishment of the US Fed and IRS and their subsequent cancerous growth, Web of Debt, praised by G. Edward Griffin (who wrote “the other best book” about the Fed and IRS). Ellen’s book, The Public Bank Solution: From Austerity to Prosperity, explores successful public banking models throughout history. Many consider Ellen our world’s foremost thought leader on these pivotal topics.
Ellen also wrote Forbidden Medicine, about suppressed cancer cures, and is the author of ongoing research articles, often by Global Research and other popular online news outlets. It’s an honor to have Ellen on board as a New Energy Declaration founding signatory.
Robert David Steele 
Robert David Steele – who passed in 2021 amid suspicious circumstances, while amid an Arise USA tour along with Sacha Stone –
was a former high-level CIA and Marine Corps officer, until recently known as the most courageous and outspoken individual in our world exposing the high crimes of the CIA and their international “Deep State” partners.
Robert understood those topics well, having for years – before being ejected from the CIA per his preference for integrity – given morning briefings to the Commandant of the US Marine Corps. Robert’s CIA exposes are today being continued to degree by former agent Kevin Shipp, including long-running CIA involvement in the international human trafficking and narcotics trade, the bribery and blackmail of elected officials, routine election rigging, technology suppression, “color revolutions” and more.
Before passing, Robert was a prolific author and activist of international importance, often interviewing thought leaders from around the world. His work was considered so threatening to certain powers-that-be that Youtube deleted his channel in 2021, something that happened to some of our world’s most important truth-tellers especially during the COVID Great Reset push.
Robert wrote and published The Open Source Everything Manifesto and was a persistent advocate of electoral reform, government de-centralization and the deconstruction of America’s problematic and parasitic Military-Industrial Complex. NED co-signatory James Wallerstedt and Robert used to often argue over whether the CIA deserved a 100% or 51% immediate budget haircut (:
Joel Garbon
Joel has made great contributions toward increased public awareness of the key importance of breakthrough energy and the historic unwarranted suppression of same. He was involved in helping establish the New Energy Movement, a non-profit initiative founded by Dr. Brian O’Leary and Alden Bryant and served as NEM’s President for about a decade. Along with Jeane Manning, Joel is the co-author of Breakthrough Power, which outlines the potential for Breakthrough Energy and transportation technology solutions.
Joel has given presentations at several Breakthrough Energy Movement conferences – including the inaugural BEM conference in Amsterdam in 2012 and their 2014 Boulder conference – and has also given several interviews on Coast to Coast radio, hosted by George Noory. He has also spoken at the disclosure theme Contact in the Desert conference and emceed an Architects of the New Paradigm conference.
Paul Von Ward
Paul Von Ward (who passed in 2017) was a former US State Department and US Navy officer who held a masters degree in Public Affairs from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Paul was a highly active and influential independent scholar and researcher, philosopher and renaissance man. From his former website –
“An interdisciplinary cosmologist and independent scholar, Paul is internationally known for his hypotheses regarding AB (advanced beings) intervention in human development during ancient times, his theory of natural spirituality in a self-learning universe and research on survival of a ‘personal soul-genome’ via reincarnation.
Paul’s books on such topics include Children of a Living Universe, We’ve Never Been Alone and The Soul Genome. Paul’s academic background, his military, diplomatic and international executive career, and his research on five continents keep his provocative publications grounded in emerging science and human experience. He assumes that our universe is multi-dimensional and part of a living multiverse, ‘With an evolutionary imperative to self-actualize, its inherent processes require struggle, experimentation and adaptation.'”
David Yurth
There’s a saying about pioneers…you can spot them by the arrows in their back. That’s certainly true of David Yurth, who’s been a remarkable and determined pioneer, inventor, scientist and entrepreneur in the revolutionary energy field for decades. David has been both attacked and praised for his theoretical work involving torsion fields, a field historically led by Russian scientists. David is co-author of the noted academic paper, “The Y-Bias and Angularity Model of Fine-Scale Physical Interactions.” He’s also a humanitarian, convinced that the distribution of suppressed breakthrough energy technologies will dramatically improve life on Earth.
Now in his 7th decade, he remains extremely active in trying to get out several exceptional BE technologies. One such involves the Nova Neal Engine, a miraculous technology originally developed in the 1930s, that could provide off-grid power without purchased fuel or operating costs. David was interviewed about the Nova Neal technology in 2013. He’s also been interviewed by Lisa Harrison per his views regarding institutions and disruptive technology.
Ken Rauen
Ken has contributed many important insights to the global breakthrough energy community and remains active as an inventor and change agent. Ken’s volunteer contributions have involved the Pure Energy Systems News reporting service and New Energy Systems Trust initiatives. Ken has also been on the New Energy Movement Board of Advisors.
This PESN page outlines Heat Engine technology Ken has been developing for years, now being taken forward in conjunction with AESOP Institute. Ken worked closely with the late Dr. Eugene Mallove, writing and reviewing articles for Infinite Energy magazine. Dr. Mallove, who was respected and admired for his advocacy of Cold Fusion (LENR) technology, resigned his position at MIT in protest of MIT’s misrepresentation of Cold Fusion results. Tragically, Dr. Mallove was murdered shortly thereafter, just before scheduled to give testimony to the US Congress regarding the transformative potential of Cold Fusion technology.
An article co-written by Ken, “The Ultraviolet Catastrophes of Quantum Mechanics,” was published in the August, 2014 issue of Infinite Energy magazine. We’re proud to have Ken onboard the New Energy Declaration campaign.








