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Correction to 2 posts ago

I’m a newbie at blogging and I’ll have to find out how to correct a date. Somehow a post I wrote in draft form in June is finally posted. Don’t ask what took so long. Anyway it’s dated September. Fact is, the interview with Dr. Nick Begich was back on June 12th. No big deal, but I just want to set the record straight until I figure out how to go in here and make changes.

The Granite Man’s liftoff

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I’m sorry to say that David Hamel passed away from us a week ago. He was the subject of the book The Granite Man and the Butterfly: The David Hamel Story, which Pierre Sinclaire researched and I finished writing in 1995. Pierre published it through his Project Magnet, which was named for the Project Magnet of the distinguished Canadian Wilbert Smith.

David Hamel was a fiercely independent, obstinate, rough-edged, generous, tough and brave man. He spent the past three decades building models of an advanced technology he was shown in 1976 or so, but the only time he achieved “lift-off” was many years ago in Maple Ridge, BC. At that time an unmanned disk that he had built — and set into oscillation — suddenly built up an ionized glow around itself and shot up into the sky, never to be seen again. David was ticked off because there went all his savings — all the magnets he had bought and the careful machining work…

He so very much wanted to give humankind a source of truly clean energy technology and propulsion. Will anyone carry on his experiments? As far as I can find out, no one in his family is particularly interested in what he was doing. An all-too-common situation. The papers and prototypes just get tossed aside.

I’ll be sending flowers to McConnell Funeral Home in Medoc, Ontario (ph 613-473-2833 if you want to do the same), but I won’t be able to attend the memorial at the cemetery at Gilmore, Ontario, on Saturday October 6.

Happy journeys, dear David, and give your Nora our love as you two souls reunite.

Dr. Nick Begich changing the way we live

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On Tuesday I was the guest on Nick Begich’s radio program http://www.gcnlive.com/listenlive.htm. He’s a courageous relentless researcher — and by the way it’s not 100 per cent heavy seriousness when you dialogue with Nick. He has the wide-angle view that sees how bizarre some aspects of our world are, yet also sees that wallowing in negativity would be an ineffective response.

In short, Nick and his wife Shelagh are great to work with; when Nick and I co-authored Angels Don’t Play This HAARP in 1995, the brilliant flashes of humor sustained me with a generous daily quota of laughs, the best way to keep our spirits up for the task.

Now he’s the executive director of a Texas-based foundation funded by Dorothy Lay (yes as in Frito-Lay munchies). It allows him to continue researching, writing books, bringing independent scientists together in thinktanks — and have time to do an internet-based radio show about Changing The Way We Live. He believes in empowering the citizens of our planet with information about new technologies — before those technologies can be mis-used by whomever wants to control humankind.