PREFACE
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Thomas Merton with His Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India where he was living in exile. |
Ascends to Heaven by electromagnetic waves in Thailand |
His Holiness the Dalai Lama ties a Khata to Thomas Merton in Heaven at his grave marker |
ABOUT MY FAMILY’S FEDERAL SERVICE FOR OUR COUNTRY
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This website is about my family’s work for social justice and civil rights on the House Judiciary Committee and throughout the world, and about my work for thirty-two years as a federal research engineer with the United States Department of Energy and as a civil rights activist in Pittsburgh. |
THE SHAFFER FAMILY
In German our name means Sheperd or Servant
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Dr. Douglas Shaffer, MD; Jennie M. Shaffer, Vice President of the WV Education Association; Reverand. Dr. Dallas B. Shaffer, PhD; Vera Lynne Shaffer PharmD; and Franklin D,Master of Science. |
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For his education in the sciences, Doug earned a Pharmacy Degree and a Medical Degree from WVU, then a Master of Hospital Administration Degree from Duke University. He entered federal service with National Institute of Health, then joined the Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. In 2003, Doug helped Dr. Anthony Fauci start President George W. Bush’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Program. We the People gave $110 billion dollars to PEPFAR. It is the largest funding commitment by any nation in the history of the world to address a single disease. To implement the PEPFAR Program, Doug lived in Kenya and Rwanda for 20 years with some of the poorest people in the world suffering from HIV/AIDS. The PEPFAR program has now saved 25 million lives. They all love us, We the People,of the United States |
Dr. Douglas N. Shaffer, MD Deputy Director of Global Affairs, International Vaccine Institute
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After 27 years of federal service, Doug retired in 2024 as the Associate Director
of the US Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Global Policy and Strategy.
The FDA is the largest and most powerful regulatory agency in the world.
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DOUG’S NEW JOB IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR The International Vaccine Institute appoints Dr. Douglas N. Shaffer, MD as Deputy Director General of Global Affairs and Communications |
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July 24, 2024 – SEOUL, Republic of Korea – The International Vaccine Institute is pleased to announce that Dr. Douglas Shaffer will join as IVI’s Deputy Director General of Global Affairs & Communications on August 26, 2024. The International Vaccine Institute accelerates the development of vaccines for poverty-associated infectious diseases that sicken or kill millions of people every year, primarily in low- and middle-income countries. Though they have limited commercial potential, these vaccines are vital to global health. Through training and the transfer of knowledge, technology, and resources, we work with countries to achieve vaccine security and protect their people. |
“Doug Shaffer, a public health leader whose heart is as big as Africa itself.
We at the FDA Office of Global Strategy & Policy are honored
to have had the opportunity to know him as a colleague.”
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Doug also served as an Attending Physician treating our military personnel
at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
ABOUT MY FATHER’S FEDERAL SERVICE FOR OUR COUNTRY
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Reverend Dr. Dallas B. Shaffer Father, US Army Veteran Professor of US History and Political Science, Episcopal Priest |
My father, Dr. Dallas B. Shaffer, was an honorable US Army Veteran who served on foreign soil (Guam and Korea), a Professor of US History and Political Science, Chair of the Social Sciences Department at Potomac State College, and an Episcopal Priest. For ten years he was the Campaign Manager and Senior Advisor for Attorney Congressman Harley O. Staggers Jr. when he was a member of the House Judiciary Committee and House Committee for Veterans Affairs. |
Franklin D. Cleckley US Navy JAG in Vietnam. First African American WV Supreme Court Justice and Professor of Law at WVU |
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My father and his friend Franklin D. Cleckley were raised in McDowell County, WV one of the poorest counties in the United States. In 1997, Potomac State College of WVU honored my father with a Lifetime Award for Social Justice. Justice Cleckley presented the Award “In recognition of courage and dedication in promoting the ideals of social justice in the community, region and state.” |
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CAMPAIGN MANAGER AND SENIOR ADVISOR FOR ATTORNEY CONGRESSMAN HARLEY O. “BUCKEY’ STAGGERS JR Dad was the Campaign Manager for Attorney Congressman Harley O. “Buckey” Staggers Jr when he ran for Congress in 1992. After Dad helped him get elected, Buckey asked him to serve as his Senior Advisor. For ten years Dad worked with the Honorable Attorney Congressman Staggers Jr as he while he served on the House Judiciary Committee and the House Committee for Veterans Affairs. When Dad passed in 2016, I left his papers for me.. Click here to see some of his “papers”
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Attorney Congressman Harley O. Staggers Jr. House Committees on the Judiciary and Veterans Affairs |
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Peter Rodino standing beside Martin Luther King as LBJ signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964. |
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ABOUT MY MOTHER’S STATE SERVICE FOR OUR COUNTRY
My mother, Jennie M. Shaffer, was a WV coal miner’s daughter. Mom was a high school teacher at Keyser High School; Vice President of the West Virginia Education Association (WVEA), and a civil rights activist. In 1990, she and the President of the WVEA Kyetta Meadows had 20,000 K-12 teachers walk out of their classrooms in solidarity and into the streets to shut down the WV state school system with an “illegal” strike. WV teachers were the lowest paid in the United States. After 11 days in the streets, WV teachers returned to their classrooms with a 15% pay raise. The photo above shows my mother on the steps of the West Virginia State Capitol during the WV Teachers Strike of 1990. She is leading 5000 teachers in Pete Seeger’s song “This Land is Your Land” .
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ABOUT MY FEDERAL SERVICE FOR OUR COUNTRY
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For my education in the sciences, I earned a Bachelor of Science Degree and a Master of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from WVU. On August 6, 1986, I entered federal service with the US Department of Energy’s Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center. In 1990, I invented, and in 1994 patented ( US Patent 5,333,044 “Fluorescent Image Tracking Velocimetry” ), a flow imaging technology to see and measure the flow of inorganic particles through power plants and the flow of blood cells in artificial hearts and lungs. My US Patent 5,333,044 and 8,391,552 were made possible by my access to nuclear weapons technologies from the US’s and UK’s premier nuclear weapons labs. |
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Jimmy Carter
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In 1973, I was a 12-year-old student at Keyser Jr High School. Suddenly everyone in Keyser was filled with fear. Something called OPEC cut-off our gas supply. Gas prices skyrocketed and stayed in the sky five years. In 1977 I watched my hometown hero Congressman Harley O. Staggers Sr and a USS Navy Seawolf Officer, Jimmy Carter, create the United States Department of Energy. In 1978, President Carter and Congressman Harley O. Staggers Sr ended the Energy Crisis of the 1970’s at the Camp David Peace Accords. |
Harley Staggers US Navy Air Navigator, WWII, Pacific and Atlantic
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This is what inspired me to become an engineer, then to serve our country in the United States Department of Energy. |
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SOME OF THE GREAT DOE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES I WORKED WITH
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Our Sixth Secretary of Energy Four Star Admiral James D. Watkins
Harvey was showing The Admiral an artificial heart we were working on. It was in clinical trials at Pittsburgh Presbyterian Hospital, St Louis Medical Center and Stanford Medical Research Institute. Admiral Watkins was Commander of the Pacific Fleet and a protégé of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Rickover is known as the “Father of the Nuclear Navy” |
Our Twelfth Secretary of Energy Nobel Laureate Dr. Steven Chu
In the center is Secretary of Energy Nobel Laureate Dr Steven Chu. He is levitating atoms in his hand to show us how he won a Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing a technology to capture and levitate atoms with coherent electromagnetic waves.
Dr. Chu did his Nobel winning research at the
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ABOUT MY WORK ON THE INSTITUTIONAL STATEGIC PLANNING TEAM TO CREATE THE 15TH DOE NATIONAL LABORATORY THE NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY I was a member of the Institutional Strategic Planning Team that created the 15th National Laboratory of the United States, the USDOE National Energy Technology Laboratory. Click here or on the images below to see my name on the original charter for the DOE NETL, and a letter from Senator Robert C. Byrd (Senate Majority Leader, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senate Pro Tempore) to a junior WV State Senator, Attorney Harley O. “Buckey” Staggers Jr . My family and the family of Congressman Staggers Sr were close and still. We’re all from a small railroad town, Keyser, WV. In 1982 his son, Attorney Harley O. Staggers Jr ran for a seat in the United States Congress, my father was his Campaign Manager. In 1983 when he took his seat in Congress he made my father his Senior Advisor. For ten years my father was Buckey’s Senior Advisor when he was on the House Committees for the Judiciary and for Veterans Affairs. |
ABOUT MY WORK ON THE LEAD TEAM RESPONDING
TO THE DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL LEAK CRISIS
Click here or on the video above to watch President Obama’s
first Oval Office Address to the Nation
The topics of his Oval Office Address were the BP Oil Spill crisis
and the Energy we use to power our country.
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I was one of those engineers. |
THE PLUME TEAM OF THE NATIONAL INCIDENT COMMAND
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US Coast Guard Admiral Thad W. Allen, National Incident Commander of the Unified Command for the DWH crisis |
I was on the lead team responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil leak crisis: the Plume Team of the Flow Rate Technical Group of the National Incident Command . Our team was led by Dr. Marcia McNutt. At that time, she was the first woman to serve as the Director of the US Geological Survey since it was founded in 1879. She is now the first woman to serve as the President of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The NAS was founded by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 to serve as pro bono “Advisers to the Nation” on all scientific matters. |
Dr. Marcia McNutt then Director of the US Geological Survey, now President of the National Academy of Sciences |
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The Plume Team of the National Incident Command at the
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An award from the Director of the US Geological Survey for my
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MY JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
We published our paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
It is the scientific basis for the $20.8 billion fine.
UPDATED: Hall of Fame Lawyers, and Pittsburgh Hall of Shame Lawyers.
FUN FACT: British Petroleum started out as The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
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Those funds went to the fifty million people of five Gulf states to recover and rebuild from the damage done by British Petroleum. The technology of my US Patent 8,391,552 was a critically important tool I used. On April 22, 2010, two days after the DWH rig exploded, I asked DOE Patent Attorney Jay Potts to submit the patent application, under the watchful eye of DOE Attorney James T. Lucas, the DOE Deputy Director of Intellectual Property and Business Transactions and former General Counsel of the DOE. We were prepared to give the US taxpayers the recognition they deserve for funding the development of US Patent 8,391,552 and return some of their hard earned money to them.
SOMETHING THE PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY
For three years, 2009, 2010, and 2011, I presented my work te independent experts at Merit Reviews. They reviewed my application of the technology of my US Patent 8,391,552 to petrochemical processing reactors and found it to be “a huge breakthrough” and “something the petrochemical industry had sought for 50 years.” The breakthrough was that I invented technologies to see and measure particle flows inside petrochemical processing reactors. These reactors convert crude oil into consumer end-products like gasoline, diesel fuel and plastics. The annual profits of the petrochemical processing industry is around one trillion dollars
THE ATTACKS BY “ENEMIES, DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN” TO STEAL THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY |
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THE SNAKE ATTACKS : I was attacked with fabricated false charges and violent coercion at the USDOE NETL by Dr. Ronald Breault and others. He forced me to flee from federal service to protect my life. This was done so Trump could give the technology of my US Patent 8,391,552 as a free gift to The Saudi Royal Family.
On March 20, 2018, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (MBS), de facto leader of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, met in The Oval Office with convicted felon Donald Trump. Six months later, on October 2, 2018, MBS had Washington Post journalist Jamal Kashoggi murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. His body was chopped into small pieces and flushed down a sewer drain. Why? Because MBS did not like words Kashoggi wrote in the Washington Post. This is the investigative finding of the CIA.
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About my work with experts in the development, detonation, proliferation, proposed use and actual use of nuclear weapons. |
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Thomas Merton |
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Hall of Fame Lawyers and Pittsburgh Hall of Shame Lawyers
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MEDICAL AND MILITARY APPLICATIONS
OF MY UNITED STATES PATENT 8,391,552
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FUN FACT: Ken was an engineer on the team at Aerojet Rocketdyne that developed the main engine for the Saturn V rocket that sent the first three astronauts to the moon. |
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THE KILLING BY SUICIDE OF THE FIRST DIRECTOR
OF THE DOE NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY
DR. ANTHONY V. CUGINI
This website is dedicated to the honor and memory of
my colleague and friend for 25 years, Dr. Anthony V. Cugini.
He was the first Director of the DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory.
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Anthony with wife Julianne
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Anthony with granddaughter |
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Anthony was a devout Roman Catholic. On January 8, 2014, Anthony commited suicide in a barren woodland near the Pittsburgh site of the DOE NETL. I believe this to be the work of the NETL Law Department. Click here to read Anthony’s obituary
Organizational Psychologists refer to this phenomenon as
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NETL Chief Counsel Susan E. Malie, Magistrate Ronald Arnoni, Dr. Ronald W. Breault, and Allegheny County Solicitor Luke C. Kelly and the subordinates under their control did the same thing to me. After 41 months of their attacks, including the desecration of my father’s funeral in the Episcopal Church where he was a Priest 142 days after the $20.8 billion fine, and being attacked immediately after the worst hate crime against Jewish people of the history of the United States, the mass murder at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, on October 27, 2018 ,
I tried to end my life on April 7, 2019 to escape their attacks.
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If you are having thoughts of ending your life, there is help available. Please call or text 988 or just
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FDShaffer@Gmail.com 412-320-0510
