I had to laugh deeply at your responses. The economic "reality check" you gave each of the patently absurd paragraphs was almost word for word what my response was when I read the same email forwarded to me by Steve Hathaway.
Dreamland continues... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This means finding at least one major builder nationally and one > for each state who will sign on at Maharishi's terms to putting up > Marble Peace Colonies (housing developments of vastu residences), > Peace Palaces, hospitals, schools, or whatever is in line with > Sthapatya Veda. The builders find the land and locate the funding, > [and] build ... > > This is what builders generally do and they take 100% of the pie. > > > [built] according to our requirements, and then take 1/3 of the > profit while the International Peace Government gets another third and > the National Peace Government the rest. > > So the Global Peace Gov'ts take 2/3 of the profits while taking no > risk -- simply by supplying building plans. And presumably such plans, > being so magnificent, will provide the new "demand" for such > facilities (that is, buyers will shift from purchasing regular housing > and facilities that the builders could build on their own and opt for > living in a peace community. With other peace people, some of whom > wear funny hats and gowns.). Any marketing studies to support that > premise? > > > > And the amazing thing is that > > it's happening, and everywhere! > > Uh huh. And where exactly is everywhere? Can a list of builders who > sigened on and who have committed funds be supplied? > > > It turns out that builders now really take > > to the idea as the latest direction in building and want to be involved. > > Yes, I guess the builers' trade journals all have front page stories > on this. Well maybe in the next issue, because I find nothing so far. > > > > * A second major push is to expand the pilot projects in Vedic > agriculture to a global scale. The 1-acre greenhouse in Vedic City, > even in its first year, yielded $200,000 in revenues, > > And what were the costs? $300,000. With volunteer labor? > > > and will easily double that in the next > > year or two, and demand in the US market is such that they can sell > > as much produce as they can produce. > > And this extensive demand for very high-priced organics was determined > how? And assuming the M. Greenhouses are an innovation, and such > greenhouses are actually profitable, what prevents other players from > entering the market to soak up that demand? Why would an investor > partner up with the TMO and give away 1/2 or 2/3's of thier profits? > What propriatory knowledge does the TMO bring to the table here? > > >The Brazilian Maharishi Vedic Organic Honey > > project is also going very well. A Japanese firm that specializes in > testing > > honey and other fine products said that this is the best honey, in > terms of nutrients, anti-oxidents, and their own measure of > orderliness, that they > > have ever tested. > > A marginal increase in nutrients for 5 times the price. Sounds attractive. > > > > The upshot is that market experts like Harris Kaplan and > > Rajas Bob LoPinto and Bob Wynne have been hatching a huge roll-out > plan to fund Vedic organic agriculture projects on millions of > hectares world-wide, > > Can this be ramped up quickly by a factor of 2.5 million? > Particularly give that the VC greenhouse is probably largely run by > volunteer or very low cost labor. > > >The interesting thing again is that it not only looks possible, but > is positively attractive to underwriters and investors. > > And how many have signed up, and committed real funds? > > > I wish them the best, but things seem a pie-in-the-sky, pipe-dream > thinking at this point. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
