NKS #2: Put this in your files, Regina Hagen!

Today's topics:
#1) Letter from the Editor
#2) Correspondence with Regina Hagen, apparently the secretary for "Global Net" (includes correspondence with David F. Doody, NASA)
#3) Letter to the Editor: Apathy and dullness reign (from a subscriber in England)
#4) Subscription/distribution information

>>>>> NKS #2 ITEM #1: LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: >>>>>

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WELCOME ALL (WELL, MOST) NEW SUBSCRIBERS!
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As of this issue, there 16 subscribers to this newsletter (not including relatives of the editor). The last person to ask to subscribe was Regina Hagen. My answer appears below.

Apparently -- and I did not know this at the time I wrote the item shown below -- Regina Hagen is the secretary of the Global Network Against Nukes And Weapons in Space organization -- that is, Bruce Gagnon's group. Gagnon himself was, of course, the subject of NKS issue #1, April 15th, 2000. Global Net, as it's known, is a non-profit organization, therefore governed by certain rules and laws in the United States, including not being party to crimes of all manners and sorts, in order to keep democracy flowing. Maybe it's legal to be exclusionary, but not if you are legally a non-profit organization -- in that case, you have to do the right thing, the morally and constitutionally and legally etc. etc. etc. right thing.

For example, I find it surprising and not the least bit honest that Ms. Hagen did not herself mention to me that she was secretary of Gagnon's organization in her "subscribe letter", and indicate that it was thus simply "for her files" that she was subscribing. Nope, she didn't mention it was "just for the record". But my subscribers are all supposed to be honest activists this time, with no exceptions. Others are not welcome, because we don't need any time-wasting infighting about what is going on. Constructive criticism, honest observation, and creative commentaries are all welcome, but we are not debating in this newsletter, whether any of the people this newsletter names as infiltrators and purposeful destroyers of the anti-nuclear movement are, in fact, such. We have assumed they are, and wish only to observe and comment upon their extraordinarily deadly and subtly vicious behavior.

We would, of course, welcome any qualified defense of their positions, which is to say, witness reports (see below for an example of what appears to be a very honest "witness" report from a subscriber in England) and if the parties wish to defend themselves in these newsletters, we'll be more than happy to publish said defense (but we will not waste time with all the other rambling garbage some of them are able to generate from time to time).

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WE LOVE HONEST PEOPLE EVERYWHERE, AND HONOR ALL HONEST ACTIVISTS AS ONE OF US:
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Subscribers to the NKS newsletter are surely on a search for truth -- why else dig so deep down these painful mine shafts of intrigue and deceit, where things are not as they seem, and the players punch you around as if nothing you could ever do would matter to anyone -- all activists are nobodies compared to the leaders who shut them out -- why hurt ourselves, digging into this mess?

To stop a crime -- yes, to stop the poisoning of planet Earth, but more specifically, simply because this is where the search for the truth has led us. If it had led us elsewhere, we would be there, not here. But upon asking the question, three years ago, "why is the space nuclear issue a non-issue around the world?", our search, however long and painful, has led to the excitement of NKS, simply because that is where the truth lies.

The activist movement is dead because spies and infiltrators kill it day by day, month after month, year after year, and millions after millions die along the way.

We have found much truth, and wish to find the rest of all truths there are to be known, before we die (we know that's a bit much to achieve). I think that is everyone's goal -- everyone who has discovered that the world around you is not always what the powers-that-be present it as. We each must live in our own Truman show, in a sense.

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HOW TO BECOME A SUBJECT OF THIS NEWSLETTER:
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It's easy. Violate my civil rights. Nothing else is guaranteed to work.

We are not interested in what level of the government someone works at. If someone works for the government, they should say so, and we will be happy to listen to anything they say (on advisement).

We are not interested in attacking honest activists, no matter how terrible their own activist-methods might be. We see deplorable activism left, right and center. Poorly organized marches, ugly meetings, futile methods, and silly mandates. We love all these activists, regardless. No protest against nukes in space has ever been a failure, in that sense -- not even one organized by Gagnon himself.

And we love the government too. It's our government -- it's MY government!

But we don't appreciate people like NASA employee and Cassini expert David F. Doody, correspondence with whom is included below. He claimed to have read "85%" of the Stop Cassini newsletters. That's over half a million words. Fine, let's say he did it. Well, the flyby is over and the Mars flyby proved how risky the Cassini Earth flyby really was. What's his defense?

See below for Doody's complete list of arguments against my newsletter (and for Cassini), including all recent correspondence between us (this is being written May 7th, 2000).

Oh, wait. Perhaps it's not a complete list. I suspect he is the source of Andrejs Jansons' information. I could be totally wrong on that, but I've always wondered, and if what Doody claims is true (that he's managed to read 85% of the SC newsletters without wanting to leave his cushy job pushing Cassini around with his computer), then it's a good bet he's the source. If so, he is hereby asked to so state. "His" answers, by the way, could be described as trite, imprecise, indefinite and circuitous. See SC issue #218, and reader comments in issues #219, and #221.

The purpose of Nukes, Kooks and Spooks is to identify any and all leaders in the anti-nuclear movement, and especially the anti-nukes-and-weapons-in-space movement, who are serving the public DISHONESTLY, so that the public can make HONEST decisions about the hazards of nuclear waste (and it's ALL waste). So if an activist is honest, and their methods are poor, we assume that their contribution is still a positive one, and thus, they can't become subjects of this newsletter.

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NEXT NKS ISSUES' HOT TOPIC:
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I found out that Hagen was Global Net's secretary (or something like that) from Carol Rosin, who is a reliable witness when she wants to be, and this appeared to be one of those times.

Carol Rosin will be the subject of the next newsletter. I understand she (with the "help" of Gagnon and Hagen and perhaps others incited against her by those just mentioned) put on quite a show in Washington at the meeting. Quite a show indeed.

Here's the subject, title, and topic of the next newsletter:

CAROL ROSIN: A MAD HATTER, OR AMERICA'S MATA HARI?

But that's the next issue. This issue, we are exposing Regina Hagen.

Carol Rosin told me all sorts of things I'm apparently supposed to broadcast for some reason (I don't know why). For example, she told me (by phone, of all things) that Bruce Gagnon's pay was raised at the meeting from $200 a month to $400 a month. I wonder, if I were to offer him $500 a month and promise honest work only, if he will FINALLY switch sides and actually serve the activists!!!

I would guess I'm supposed to publish this fact to prove I truly do have inside information, because the ledger for that organization is apparently "hard to get" -- I've never bothered to try, knowing it would be fruitless for me to ask, since they won't even send me their newsletters. (Even NASA has more class than that.)

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WHO SUBSCRIBES TO NKS?
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Sara Shannon is a subscriber to the NKS newsletter. She is the author of Diet for an Atomic Age and has a well-known and highly respected web site, the Mother's Alert web page: www.geocities.com/mothersalert/

Jack Shannon (no relation) is also. He has a web site as well, and his credentials are too long to list again, but please visit SC newsletter #156 to find out more about this remarkable gentleman. His web page is here: http://www.mindspring.com/~kapl/reactors.html

Both Jack and Sara are (or should be) highly respected (anti-)nuclear thinkers and doers. Both are easily approachable by anyone, and appear to this author to be utterly wonderful and honest, and I am honored by their presence here on the NKS subscriber list. (Jack and I are also planning to co-author a book together, along the lines of the study of the lies that have propped up the nuclear industry).

I am equally happy to welcome Bill Smirnow again, a subscriber to the SC newsletter, and (also from that list) Maggie Mandzuk in Canada, Richard Wilcox in Japan (a U.S. citizen) and Patricia Bracey in England, to name a few. Apologies to those subscribers not named: please write and say you want to be listed because you certainly are appreciated!

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BUT WHERE ARE THE ANTI-CASSINI SCIENTISTS AND EXPERTS?
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A number of respected scientists and Cassini experts attended Gagnon's meeting. Most of them were either subscribers to the STOP CASSINI newsletter or were sent it "gratis" and they did not ask me to ever stop sending it, but (so far) none of them have chosen to subscribe to the NKS newsletter. As can be seen from the "cc" list, they are sent it anyway, because I think they need to know what I am saying.

But I don't blame them for not subscribing, or even for doubting me about Gagnon. Gagnon doesn't treat them the way he treats activists.

You see, they aren't a threat to his (illegally held and obtained-) leadership position. Activists are. But not scientists, journalists, or other infiltrators. His dreary picayune T.V. time is what he mustn't give out to any effective activists. He has good control of his Caldicott's and Kaku's, who will obediently beat their drums in Gagnon's kangaroo court, testifying repeatedly for the defense, not knowing that no one "out there" is listening, and not realizing that one day a year of concentrated protest and its accompanying smattering of media attention to this issue isn't going to cause a revolution.

Yes, I am saying that I belive Drs. Michio Kaku and Helen Caldicott are utterly innocent victims of a hoax, and I have always said it, and I have always believed it, and am only reiterating this, because one reader misunderstood an earlier comment in NKS #1.

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GAGNON'S GROUP STILL ON TOP OF THE SITUATION (or so it would appear):
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For some reason, in some way, somehow, as all media people who become the least bit interested in the Nukes in Space issue somehow seem to know, Gagnon's group is the "OFFICIAL" public policy forming, non-profit "NGO" (non-government organization) of the anti-nukes-in-space movement.

Yet Senator Harkin, who was scheduled to attend, did not attend the Washington D. C. meeting last month.

Why not?

We have a theory, namely that we told him it would be a crime for him to go if he knew that Gagnon were a plant, and that we are telling him we are absolutely positive Gagnon is, and furthermore, we are absolutely positive he (Senator Harkin) can find out with one phone call.

We will present the entire letter in issue #3 of NKS, where it will fit right in with the other material planned for that newsletter.

In ten years, Gagnon's group has accomplished virtually nothing to actually stop the disaster in space their name would imply they worry about. Yes, activists within the group are hoodwinked into believing they are in the right place, at the right time. But they aren't.

By the way, Senator Harkin committed an even bigger crime by NOT showing up -- and telling whatever he knows! The good activists who were there deserved to be heard!

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Here's something Gagnon's group was misled about:
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Cassini, with it's 72.3 pounds of deadly Pu 238 (and some Pu 239) dioxide, could have been stopped. There were 406,000 Curies of plutonium on board Cassini at launch time -- an amount any reasonable health practitioner -- even radiologists (perhaps especially radiologists) -- should be able to recognize as a terrible risk. So it could have been stopped. And so can the next dozen nuclear launches being planned. All are terrible health risks.

But Global Net has never stopped anything, nor changed the laws governing the launches -- we still, despite numerous advances in terrestrial concerns about the environment, are protected worldwide by puny and ineffective International Treaties written by some of the first professional corporate environmental lawyers. These criminals stepped forward and designed treaties with more holes in them than -- well, than Earth's protective layer above our heads that protects us from vaporized plutonium and its consequences!

In other words, these treaties hold back nothing.

Pu 238 is far more deadly than Pu 239, for the simple reason that it is about 280 times "hotter" than Pu 239 (decays 280 times faster, so it is sending out (at first) 280 times as many little electron "bullets" as it decays, per unit of time.

But it is the far-more commonly used Pu 239 isotope of plutonium which is often referred to as "the deadliest substance on earth"! Hardly anyone even knows that Pu 238 exists! (Go set up a table outside any grocery store, bring a clipboard, and ask the next 100 people that come in, if you don't believe me.)

Plutonium is in its most deadly form, whether Pu 238 or Pu 239, is when it is vaporized. That is exactly what form Cassini plutonium would be in right now, scattered all around us, if an Earth flyby reentry accident had occurred last August (1999).

Last August, NASA successfully flew Cassini by Earth, refusing to even take pictures of the frightening event to test and warm up their cameras for the upcoming Jupiter flyby which precedes the eventual gravitational entrapment (we hope!) of Cassini around Saturn and/or its moons and/or its rings and/or all three. Instead they took a few sideways shots of the moon, claiming it was a "unique view" of that dead hunk of rock. The incoming shot of Cassini passing by Earth at 43,000 miles per hour was not something NASA wanted to public to see. So they aimed the camera at the Moon (and missed much of it, by the way, because their aim was off, or to be more precise, they weren't quite where they thought they were or weren't quite in the orientation they expected to find themselves in, when they took the picture. It was, in hindsight, an ominous indicator for the the Mars flyby failure a month later, no doubt.).

Anyway, without further talk, here is the correspondence with Regina Hagen, who will get all the issues that the "Cassini Leaders" will get. I wonder if she'll save them on her computer, doing off-site backups and all the other proper things, so they can never be lost and their testimony will stand for time to unravel the veracity thereof, let alone read them?

Russell Hoffman
Carlsbad, California

<<<<< END OF NKS #2, ITEM #1 <<<<<

>>>>> NKS #2 ITEM #2: CORRESPONDENCE WITH REGINA HAGEN, APPARENTLY THE SECRETARY FOR "GLOBAL NET" (INCLUDES CORRESPONDENCE WITH DAVID F. DOODY, NASA): >>>>>

To: Regina Hagen regina.hagen@jugendstil.da.shuttle.de
From: Russell D. Hoffman rhoffman@animatedsoftware.com
Re: Your subscription request (shown below) Date: May 2nd, 2000
cc: NKS subscriber list, Karl Grossman, Carol Rosin, President Clinton, NASA/government email addresses shown below, others

Dear Ms. Hagen,

This letter is in response to your request for a subscription to my new newsletter, Nukes, Kooks and Spooks, which currently has about 15 subscribers, not including lists of media or government/government contractors/subcontractors whom it might also be sent to, at least sometimes.

Government employees such as I believe you to be (or their contractors or subcontractors, whatever your role) are not automatically welcome to "subscribe" to the new newsletter. (It is a part of the right of free speech that one not be required to speak to anybody one doesn't wish to speak to.) In a very small number of instances (compared to the total number of government employees (and their contractors and subcontractors) working on the subject) they are sent the newsletter because of some prior indication on their part of an interest in the topics (for example, because they have authored "responses" and such to the nuclear activists (or those who misrepresent themselves as such)), or because they have stated things publicly which are in unfair support of the "demon hot atom" or the "Nuclear Mafia", or because they are known to work directly in the area of concern.

As I said, government employees (any government, and their contractors/subcontractors) cannot simply "subscribe" to the NKS newsletter. The reason for this is simple: If they are allowed to "subscribe", then they would have to be allowed to "unsubscribe" as well! But I do not see any reason to allow people such as David F. Doody, who was the last to try, to unsubscribe. (He works on the Cassini project, as I'm sure you are aware if you've been paying any attention to anything regarding that mission. He has recently made the incredible claim to have read "85%" of the newsletters I've sent him -- around half a million words! Yet he has never sent in a correction of any sort, or explained anything for our readers, or made any specific comment to me about where I have misdiagnosed the information, or made any report or comment to anyone else (such as media), anywhere that we know of (see attachment, below, containing the entire recent communication with him).)

It is the most basic, most fundamental principal of democracy, that no employee of government (or their contractors or subcontractors) ever, for any reason or supposed "higher purpose", lie to the public. And that no one else do so either. Honesty, up and down the ladder. Lies destroy democracy right from the start, for democracy is founded on the idea that the people can decide what is best for them (lack of education because of improper public funding notwithstanding). But they cannot decide what is best for them unless they know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Science is in the same predicament, needing honest research to progress in any way. Only at the point of invasion of one's right to privacy does the public lose its right to truth.

Indeed, it is for the sake of the people (at least in America, which I dare say learned a thing or two about democracy a bit sooner than Germany), that government agents warn those they are taking prisoner, that they "have the right to remain silent" and that anything they say "can and will be used against them in a court of law". It is in that "court of law" where "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" is expected to come out, if it doesn't reveal itself sooner (science, likewise, is nothing more than a search for the whole truth, in as small steps as necessary, and as big steps as possible).

Some people are set free by the courts, while others, society (through the courts) deems to punish for one thing or another (or, as in the cases of political prisoners, for nothing at all). But the root of it all is a search for the truth. Society attempts, at all levels, to find the truth and to function based on the truth that it uncovers. There are an infinite number of other ways society could behave, I suppose, but I believe society has chosen, and wisely, a search for truth, which has yielded the greatest results over the centuries of struggle, including the discovering of the principal (hopefully some day soon to actually be put into practice somewhere on Earth) of democracy.

You are the author of what I believe is the seminal work, a few years ago, on what nuclear garbage is up there right now circling above our heads, a report which I often recommend to others to download from my web site (URL given below), even though, as you may recall, you never bothered to fix the list of minor typos and grammatical errors I gave you after you requested I review the document prior to its publication.

I believe it would certainly be nice if you and I were part of the same movement -- a movement to expose to the whole world the truth about what a few countries have been putting into space, which will rain down upon us some time in the future.

However, unfortunately, as far as I have been able to determine from the sum total of your actions that I am aware of (and your inaction at vital times), you have actually worked to thwart the efforts of the legitimate movement(s) against nukes and weapons in space. You have ignored for example every vital issue that came up in the Stop Cassini newsletter, and have lent me or those that work with me no helping hand whatsoever, such as with the international petition last year, or for that matter, in my fight to expose Bruce Gagnon (whom it is obvious and well known you work closely with (as in Washington last month)), nor (save your weak and imprecise defense of Bruce Gagnon's outrageous actions some years ago) have you had any words of either encouragement OR correction for anything in my SC newsletter, nor did you make any comments for the edification others, nor have you made any substantial effort to send me news, schedules, etc. for my readers. So please tell me precisely why should you be added to the list? What kind of activist are you? What good would it serve my readers or any legitimate movement against nukes and weapons in space?

Sometimes a movement can benefit greatly from any lead time it can manufacture, keeping its plans and ideas away from those who would work to make them ineffective, and away from those who have plenty of contacts and money with which to thwart the activist's best efforts. That indeed, is the other reason government employees (and their contractors and subcontractors) are not permitted to become "subscribers" to my newsletter. In short, sometimes, it's none of their business what we are planning, and those newsletters, I simply won't send them. I say: Let them have to get a court order to spy -- at least then there might be a record of their decision, and the reasons they used to violate my civil rights and thus, learn whatever it might be that they needed to know in advance to negate my efforts at activism. (Even if the attempt is symbolic only, since they can and probably do read my emails as I type them, using any of the readily-available advanced surveillance techniques.) But each of us must do what we can to make the movement more powerful than the military we fight against, and every little bit helps. In any event, it does not make any sense to make it easy for them to know what we are thinking, planning, or doing. If only to cost them more time and money to figure it out, but mainly so that our plans are not impeded unnecessarily.

This Nukes, Kooks, and Spooks newsletter is for real, 100% legitimate activists who wish to discover a way to beat what I believe to be the real reason that the anti-nuclear movement has been thwarted so many times, and so many places, when we should have had victories, either because science was on our side, or the economics was, or the public will was (or could have been if they had been properly informed of the facts), or (as is usually the case, in fact), all three. In short, this new newsletter is not for you; rather, it's about you and people like you. Your request is insulting and disingenuous. You will be put on the "NASA/Government employees (and their contractors/subcontractors/yahoos)" list, and will receive whatever issues I choose to include that list in. But you can neither subscribe nor "unsubscribe" from my newsletter lists, as I am utterly convinced you work with Gagnon not because you doubt me, but rather because I am right about him and you know it. Obviously, his exclusionary tactics work well for you, too, tactics which have stopped dozens of would-be activists over the three+ years since I became involved in the movement. For I do not exclude anyone except those who have by their own repeated efforts, thwarted what I personally am trying to accomplish -- namely, exposing the truth. Some people, Regina Hagen, are obviously government subversives, such as yourself, and they prove themselves to be such by their odd, disruptive, uncooperative and unfruitful behavior. And as for your "seminal" work, I -- the public -- thank you greatly for it, and compliment you on it, and hope it is as accurate as I believe it to be. But the production of such a document should not, in and of itself, convince any activist of another activists' honesty and forthrightness. The picture must be taken in whole. Indeed, at this moment, it is time once again for you to defend either Gagnon, or your awkward decision to request a subscription to my newsletter. After all, it's dedicated to dethroning him *and* you, on the grounds that you work for or with the government to disrupt and destroy all other legitimate attempts at activism on the issue of space pollution. If learning about what I am doing in order to thwart my efforts is your reason for subscribing, then you are not welcome. This newsletter is for activists who want to solve specific problems relating to infiltration of activist movements. It's really pathetic to have those very infiltrators be among the first few dozen would-be subscribers, and totally inappropriate. However we will weed them out whenever their behavior proves them to be a destructive force.

You ignored the outrageous and immoral behavior of Woody Smith against me, and of David Grinspoon, and of Jeff Nyquist, and of Richard Greenberg, and of many others, not once coming in with a word of support, yet you wish to subscribe to my newsletter again -- to help me? Unlikely.

On what grounds do you wish to waste more of my time -- all this botheration, just so you can go to Gagnon & Company in Washington and pretend I and all those willing to write in my journal simply don't exist? We do, and we are truly outraged (see sample letters from Jack Shannon, and others, attached.).

If your request to subscribe is to honestly help us solve these problems, and if, in fact, you are merely misguided by Gagnon (if he's the spook I believe him to be and whom he acts perfectly like), and/or misunderstood by me (if pigs can fly, for I could be wrong about a great many things, but this is unlikely to be one of them) -- that is, if you are an earnest and honest activist, do not lose hope -- prove it, undo the damage you've already committed towards this movement, and I'll welcome you as a subscriber. Here is a brief list of questions I would like to see your answers to. I'm sure that every one of my current subscribers could answer these three simple questions with "quality numbers":

1) Recalling that you subscribed voluntarily to the STOP CASSINI newsletter very early on (probably when there were less than a dozen issues, and it ended at issue #253), what percentage of each issue, on the average, did you actually read?

2) Approximately how many issues did you forward to other people?

3) Approximately how many people received these issues from you?

Now, these next questions are really the most vital ones, but they are not appropriate questions to ask my subscribers. They are formulated after a series of questions I asked David F. Doody (see attachment), although he has not, as yet, answered them:

4) Did anyone tell you to subscribe to the SC or NKS newsletter? If so, who?

5) Have you produced any reports for anyone regarding the information in the SC or NKS newsletters? (If so, please forward them to me immediately.)

6) In all the articles and issues you read from the SC/NKS newsletters, can you point out any factual errors (which I have not already corrected) anywhere in the newsletters? (Take your time, accuracy is important.)

Note that like David F. Doody's, your answers can probably be used against you in a court of law, so please answer honestly.

Democracy starts the minute the public insists on honesty from everyone, and I insist on it from you, and I do not feel I have gotten it. You have twisted facts, fervently followed red herrings, missed golden opportunities, and misinformed me in the past, and I see no reason for continued contact with such destructive forces. There is no longer any time left for cooperation with those who support, underhandedly or openly, the "demon hot atom" and the "Nuclear Mafia".

We are planning a revolution here. A peaceful (we hope and pray and expect) but nonetheless an utterly forceful and unstoppable one. You've proven your lack of will to help. Step aside.

Sincerely,

Russell Hoffman
Carlsbad, CA

A number of attachments (with comments) are included which cover the relevant issues discussed above, and a final comment is also included:

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Attachment: URL of your "seminal" article:
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/zips/rh9810fp.zip ================================================

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Attachment: Three meetings in Germany (minutes taken and translated to English by you):
Draft Minutes of Meeting with Dr. Strobl, ASE on August 12, 1997
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/ase_1en1.htm

Draft Minutes of Meeting with ESOC on August 13, 1997
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/esoc1en1.htm

Minutes of Meeting with the BMB+F on August 14, 1997
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/bmft2en1.htm ================================================

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Attachment: Your most recent correspondence with me: http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/nltrs/nltr0092.htm
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Attachment: Also see newsletter #103 and #104, where I explain how it is that I realized you are probably the one responsible for NASA's accusing the anti-Cassini activists of following Nostradamus (even though virtually none of them actually do so):
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/nltrs/nltr0103.htm
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/nltrs/nltr0104.htm ================================================

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Attachment: Additional defense of Bruce by you (in this one, you take the interesting tack that I am "fighting other groups", when in fact, my "targets" have always merely been my specific oppressors, not the random attacks you imply occur):
http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/nltrs/nltr0088.htm

And I believe that's all the email you've sent me as editor of the Stop Cassini newsletter since subscribing nearly 250 issues ago (and stating your paltry defense of Bruce back then, too). Not a whole lot. In three years you've defended Bruce a couple of times (weakly), you've produced one document attempting to collect the facts about what exactly has been launched, and you monitored one three-day meeting. In sum, more than anything else, you appear to be part of the "black hole of information", not part of the solution. One star does not a galaxy make.
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Attachment: NASA email list I currently use. These addresses are sent nearly every issue of my newsletters, but they are not subscribers. Do you know of any other names I should add? Perhaps government officials in Germany whom you know speak English and who work on these issues in some capacity or other? Thanks in advance (as if you would ever share such a list with me or any other legitimate activist).

"Daniel Goldin" dgoldin@hq.nasa.gov
"Roger Launius" roger.launius@hq.nasa.gov
"Steve Garber" steve.garber@hq.nasa.gov
"Fred Gregory" fgregory@hq.nasa.gov
whill@hq.nasa.gov
prutledg@hq.nasa.gov
"Brian Welch, NASA HQ PAO" bwelch@mail.hq.nasa.gov
"Douglas Isbell" disbell@hq.nasa.gov
"Sandra M. Dawson" sandra.m.dawson@jpl.nasa.gov
Cassini@jpl.nasa.gov
"Charles S. Morris" csm@encke.jpl.nasa.gov
"David F. Doody" david.f.doody@jpl.nasa.gov
Historian@mail.arc.nasa.gov
history@lists.hq.nasa.gov
"Leslie J. Deutsch" leslie.j.deutsch@jpl.nasa.gov
"Office of Public Affairs/NRC" opa@nrc.gov
"Europa Orbiter comments" osseuropa@hq.nasa.gov
"Pluto-Kuiper Express comments" osspluto@hq.nasa.gov
"NASA comments" comments@www.hq.nasa.gov
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Attachment: Previous recent correspondence with D. F. Doody: ================================================

To: David F. Doody, NASA Cassini Mission Support & Service Office From: Russell D. Hoffman, Concerned Citizen, Carlsbad, California Re: Your claim of having read 85% of my newsletters -- extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof Date: April 19th, 2000 cc: your boss, perhaps a few others

Dear Sir,

I am delighted to hear you confirm that you have read "85%" of my Stop Cassini and Nukes, Kooks and Spooks newsletters. Great! But was it for sport or did you do so professionally?

That is something in the neighborhood of half a million words -- even if you are a relatively fast reader, that would be a significant portion of your time. It is, in fact, really a rather extraordinary claim that you have done so. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

Did you do this on company time or on your own time?

If you did it on company time, did anyone tell you to read them?

If so, who?

Did you tell anyone else at NASA that you were reading them?

If so, who?

Did you write any reports, memos, emails, or other documents regarding the newsletters, summarizing them or describing them in any way, or did you verbally describe the newsletters or their contents to anyone else at NASA, at any time? If verbally, were any written reports made at the time about what you said, or were recordings made?

If you produced any information whatsoever regarding the newsletters, who was such information submitted to?

(Please forward all such documents to me immediately. I'll be fascinated to read them, I'm sure.)

Did you fill out any time-slips or other documentation showing which hours of which days you spent reading my newsletters, and which newsletters, specifically, you read?

How many other NASA employees do you know of that have heard of the STOP CASSINI newsletter, or the Nukes, Kooks and Spooks newsletter?

How many do you know who have read any of it?

Did you find any errors whatsoever, anywhere, in any newsletter? If so, I am curious as to why didn't you correct it at the time, since you surely knew that "many" (whatever that means!) people were thus being misinformed (if, that is, I was indeed wrong about something and you were right)?

Thank you in advance for your cooperation in this matter, and by the way, congratulations. No one has ever claimed to have read a greater percentage of my newsletters (besides some close family members).

It's nice to have such a claim come from a reliable source such as a NASA employee, especially one involved so closely in the very issue the newsletters are about. I thank you again -- both for reading the newsletters, and for telling me you did so. Amazing. (Most people don't think anyone in government listens at all. Imagine people's delight to find that you've read so much of one citizen's complaints! I realize they'll probably be disappointed that you have not acted to stop any of the horrors I wrote about, but at least you looked at the evidence -- maybe they can get a government employee to do the same, some day. Maybe another government employee, one WITH the proper formal training, will read it some day, and act properly upon the information, instead of remaining silent (but undoubtedly, keeping their job).)

Sincerely,
Russell D. Hoffman
Carlsbad, California

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What is your medical training, especially in radiological health issues? Also, how many issues, and which articles, of either the STOP CASSINI newsletter, or the new NKS newsletter, have you actually read?

Thank you in advance.

Sincerely,

Russell Hoffman
Carlsbad CA

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>What is your medical training, especially in radiological health
>issues?

No formal training

Also, how many issues, and which articles, of either the STOP
>CASSINI newsletter, or the new NKS newsletter, have you actually read?

85%

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>Thank you in advance.
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>Sincerely,
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>Russell Hoffman
>Carlsbad CA
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To: David F. Doody, NASA
From: Russell D. Hoffman, Carlsbad, CA
Re: Your email to me (shown below)
Date: April 18th, 2000

Dear Sir,

85%! I'm impressed (and frankly, a bit suspicious of such a high number -- 85% of 253 (+1) issues of anything, even something you like (not saying you liked it) is mighty, might good.)

Surely with so much attention, you could sum up what you find inaccurate in my conclusions, statements, inferences, and so forth (if anything).

It would *hardly* be a waste of your time.

Also, I can suggest some texts and web sites which you can use to clear up the missing "formal training" in your own experience. After all, if you're going to fly 72.3 pounds of the worlds most deadly substance (most people are referring to Pu 239 when they say that, but of course, yours is mostly Pu 238, far deadlier) around and about the Earth and off into space a 43,000 miles per hour, it only makes sense that you should fully grasp the known and speculated (by reputable scientists) dangers from 400,000 Curies of alpha-emitting particles -- enough to kill, it is well known -- and as I hope you are aware (or do I?) -- all the world's humans, hundreds of times over.

Probably the best place to start would be at this URL, where many of Dr. Gofman's works appear, and loads of stuff by other people as well: http://www.ratical.org/radiation/

I can give you more suggested reading if you like, where you can get the training your lack of formal training obviously overlooked. If you have specific technical questions as you research the matter, you can probably contact Dr. Michio Kaku, for instance, or Dr. Helen Caldicott, directly,a nd I'm sure either would be happy to assist. Their email addresses, respectively, are:

"Michio Kaku"
"Helen Caldicott"

I'll alert them that you might be contacting them.

Sincerely,

Russell Hoffman
Carlsbad, CA

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>a bit suspicious of such a high number

it's true.

>Also, I can suggest some texts and web sites

thoroughly familiar with those you list.

unsubscribe.

bye.

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Your answers do NOT warrant "unsubscribing" you in any way.

I remain suspicious of such a high number as you gave. Surely you could critique, refute, or otherwise answer at least some of my charges against your corrupt and despicable agency, if it be true.

Sincerely,

Russell Hoffman
Carlsbad, CA

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To: David F. Doody, NASA
From: Russell D. Hoffman, citizen
Re: Your claim to have read "85%" of my newsletters Subject: Who do you trust?
Date May 2nd, 2000

Dear Sir,

Regarding your extraordinary claim that you have read "85%" of my Stop Cassini newsletters, yet (obviously, since you still support the Cassini project and are paid by it) don't believe I have honestly and correctly assessed the dangers from (and stupidity of) that mission. But as I shall explain the logic of, it is impossible for you to not believe me, unless you believe someone else. This is because you also claimed to have "no formal training" in the necessary medical fields that would give you (possibly, if you're smart enough) your own ability to assess the situation -- and you also said you were familiar with the work of the anti-nuclear movement, and you obviously don't trust them either, or you would have quit your job long ago.

Now given that you don't trust any of us, and have no formal training yourself, therefore, you must trust someone else.

And given that you are a government employee, and thus are bound by both honor and duty, to serve the people (who pay you) faithfully, and thus to honestly answer any fair questions put to you by a member of the public.

I have asked you a series of very fair questions. You have not (yet, and it's been about two weeks) answered them. But now I am asking you a more fundamental question, which, given the facts just stated, you should ask yourself, and tell the rest of us:

Who do you trust? Who told you, specifically, that the 72.3 pounds of plutonium dioxide on board Cassini was safe enough for the planned mission's use? There must have been someone, some time in your life and your career, who convinced you that such a vast quantity of Pu 238 and Pu 239 -- over 400,000 Curies -- of two of the most deadly substances in the known universe, was safe enough for your skills as a Cassini trajectory controller to handle. How many lives did you think were in your hands? Because you can't respond "whatever it says in the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)" for two simple reasons:

1) You KNEW there were/are a lot of people (not just me; scientists and thousands of activists) who believed the EIS was totally bogus and misstated the true dangers, and;

2) You KNEW (if you actually read the EIS, or my newsletters) that the figure they presented was an average of many, many different accident scenarios. But the accident scenarios were under YOUR control! If you (accidentally, or on purpose) misprogrammed Cassini such that it came in faster, deadlier, spinning, tumbling, etc., more directly (or even "skipped" along the top of the atmosphere, probably the worst (deadliest) reentry scenario), ending up dumping its Pu payload over a major city on a rainy rush-hour -- if YOU got your vital numbers wrong, transposed a digit or whatever, you must have known that you could THROW OUT the EIS completely for the trash that it was -- because it wasn't going to be the "gentle" accident the EIS's averaged-out numbers are based on. Where and how Cassini could crash was (among other possibilities) under your direct control, so the EIS was meaningless to use to assess the magnitude of YOUR responsibilities. But do you have any idea, really, of the magnitude of those responsibilities? And do you claim to be more perfect (more God-like, and less human) than the programmers for the Mars mission? On what grounds?

(Of note, today's newspaper (San Diego Union-Tribune) reports that the weight of the Earth is has been "recalculated" as "5.972 sextillion metric tons, or 5,972 followed by 18 zeros. Textbooks list the mass as 5.978 sextillion metric tons". That's a difference of 6,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons in the mass of the Earth. If you ever do another flyby calculation, you probably will need to know this. The article says the error is apparently a matter of great embarrassment to, well, people like you I suppose. And it is a matter of great importance to the rest of us when someone like you uses the wrong value to calculate a plutonium flyby at -- what was that first figure Cassini was going to buzz us at, 120 miles or less above Earth? Is there enough room for error there for a 6,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric ton error, let alone a improper translation from metric to Standard, or, say, a transposed digit, leaky valve, collision with space debris, or some other error? No, of course there isn't.)

So, had something gone wrong, and your or someone else on your team improperly translated a number like what caused the first of last year's two Mars accidents just a month later, and the worst possible Cassini flyby accident actually happened, how many lives do you think you were responsible for? And did you enjoy playing the potential executioner for however many people that was?

You are obligated to honestly answer fair questions from the public. You are a government employee who has stated publicly (on the Internet, for instance, at NASA's web site) that you will answer the public's questions. You must do so without prejudice or favoritism. These are perfectly fair questions, and it is not my fault that they are gruesome when one considers the cancers, leukemias and birth defects we are talking about. Those are what your poisons do to people. You claim you don't have the formal training regarding the health effects. You claim you're familiar with, but reject, the opposition arguments. So for the record, how many people's lives do you believe you willingly risked last August? Also, what is your engineering background regarding understanding of the physical components of the containment system itself (the RTGs, GPHSs, GISs and so forth)? My understanding is you are involved in the trajectory for Cassini -- so what do you know about the physical strengths of the containment system -- or do you simply trust some other "expert" on that one, too?

I have presented numerous experts to you in my newsletters, who disagree with your "experts" (and I will also challenge you to actually present your "experts" for public examination of their own credentials and whatever other influences there might be upon their opinions). It all comes down to willingness to risk other people's lives. I think you are arrogant to do so because legitimate alternatives exist, and your failure to answer my questions about what leads you to risk such a terrible thing as 72.3 pounds of plutonium (400,000+ Curies) vaporized above the heads and into the biosphere of 6 billion humans, is a violation of my rights as a citizen, and your duties as a government employee. It has not gone unnoticed, and will not go unnoticed. I will continue to demand answers from you, because I am owed them, regardless of whether you read the "85%" while you should have been double-checking your (and others') programming for the flyby (in other words, while at work) or even if you did it off-hours, and for so much as a microsecond, thought about it while at work, when you should have been double-checking your (and others') programming for the flyby. Because nobody, not even you (I'm sure) or me (I know), is perfect. And if I have planted any seeds of doubt in your mind, it is your duty to explore that line of reasoning. And if I have not, it is your duty to express to me where my logic is wrong -- where you can PROVE it's wrong, because I am not the one who threatened Earth with 400,000+ Curies of plutonium, you are, and you need to justify -- that is, PROVE -- that that was safe and is safe now. You cannot do that, but I can certainly prove it was very, very risky during the flyby, the launch, and even now there is a lot of risk to generations' hence on Earth and in space. In short, it has already been proven, especially after the Mars flyby and other failures, that what you did was wrong. Yet you refuse to even attempt to publicly justify or apologize for your actions, while claiming to have read "85%" of my newsletters. Such behavior is rude -- indeed insolent, because you serve the public (any and all citizens) when you work for the government, as you do. Your behavior is, however, somewhat understandable, for I suspect that in fact, you know of NO significant errors in my logic, and cannot in fact, logically and scientifically defend your actions against my charges. But apparently, you know very well what those charges are, having read "85%" of the 200+ newsletters I've sent you.

Indeed, since you say you have "no formal training" and since you clearly don't trust any of the other sources of antinuclear information, you are in fact, claiming that you do not trust me -- and if that is your claim, then you should back it up with facts as to why not, or you should resign your position at NASA for your crimes against humanity which you've committed as an employee of the government. Saying "bye" to me when the going gets tough is not nearly enough. You owe me -- and the general public -- more explanation than that.

How many other nuclear missions have you worked on or written documents in support of? Are you working on any others right now?

I'm sure you know as well as I do that if anything had gone wrong with Cassini, NASA would have blamed the pressure from the activists as having caused nervousness to you and your coworkers, and thus we caused somehow an inability for you to function correctly, similar to the way the Mars team that screwed up got excused by Dan Goldin and the contractor's CEO "taking the blame" (since there were no (significant) protesters). But in that case, all that was lost when the Mars probes were lost was money and pride. In the case of Cassini, at launch, during the flyby, and even now, millions of lives were/are at stake. No executive or senior manager can take the blame for that. Human deaths and the destruction of Earth's ecosystem caused by 400,000+ Curies of plutonium spread about, completely changes how the buck can be passed and how the responsibilities can be passed off on others.

Since you say you read "85%" of my newsletters, you are clearly guilty of reckless endangerment at least, because you knew of the great degree of public doubt about the safety of what you were doing, yet you went ahead and did it anyway, with no formal training in the dangers of what you were risking. Even Dan Goldin has a better excuse than you, since he quite probably (or possibly, anyway) hasn't even been told of my newsletter's specific existence or ever actually read an issue, despite his email address having been sent nearly every issue (along with you and a smattering of others who have worked for the disgraceful and dangerous Cassini project).

I expect you to resign, be fired for lying to the public or for insolence to them, or to begin now to engage in honest debate, or to correct to the best of your ability any and all errors you found in your reading of "85%" of my newsletters. The public deserves to know what you think, and so do I.

Sincerely,

Russell Hoffman
U.S. Citizen
Carlsbad, California

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From: Jacksha1@aol.com
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:23:29 EDT
Subject: Nukes Kooks and Spooks
To: rhoffman@animatedsoftware.com

Welcome back Russ, I've missed your well written and insightful arguments on all of the subjects.
I agree with your comments about the government interfering with efforts to clean up the nuclear mess as well as the DOE/NRC.
I think it is about time that the American public start rethinking the role of government in our lives.
In the name of preserving our freedom we are becoming a fascist state capable of doing everything that Hitler thought possible. We have furthermore allowed the Courts to become instruments of big government and big business.
The FBI, CIA, IRS, DEA, NSA, NSC, DOE, NRC, Military, etc., are no longer our servants but have become our inquisitors all in the name of "National Security" and our "Compelling National Interests" [i.e. we can steal Arab oil whenever we want to if our cars are going to run out of gas].
We should look very strong and hard at the real reason for the second Amendment. The founding Fathers made it clear that the purpose of weapons in the hands of the Citizenry was/is to keep the government under control and to throw it out if it became obtrusive to the point of destroying our fundamental liberties. The Government has now done that and it is time that all thoughtful people start taking steps to correct our government agencies and officials or we will all soon [are] be in trouble Keep up the good work.
Jack Shannon Major USMC [Retired]
Nuclear Physicist/Nuclear Engineer
262 Jones Road
Saratoga Springs, NY
12866
518-587-3245
jacksha1@aol.com

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At 08:57 PM 5/1/00 +0200, Regina Hagen wrote:

Please add me to your distribution list of your new newsletter "Nukes, Kooks, and Spooks".
Regina

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Regina, you don't have to like me or trust me, although I think I've been both honest and fair to you. You knew when you sent in this absurd "subscribe" request that you have so far been nothing but a complete waste of my time, because you know exactly how you have behaved towards me, and you know that you have not once lifted a finger to help me at any time, whether it's to get Gagnon to accept me and other new activists as members, or (more properly, I'm sure), to oust him for his consistent refusal to democratize the anti-nukes-and-weapons-in-space movement, or in any other way -- you have leached information from me, and provided nothing in return, save for insults and unfounded accusations of paranoia on my part when I described a real and continuous destructive force in the movement. Now I've dedicated my life to exposing such frauds, and you want to come bother me and pretend you are not one of them? Hah! Go away! You humor me no longer! I'm trying to inform the world about an acute danger, the exposure of millions to cancer-causing, leukemia-causing, and birth-defect causing plutonium and other radioactive substances, permitted through a strategy of purposeful public deceit, and I'm quite tired of you and your cohorts getting in my way.

Continued emails from you will be considered abusive, unless they are part of your regular mailing list, which you should have put me on long ago so that I could more easily inform my subscribers of whatever was happening in Germany and Internationally.

I have proposed NKS, as the name implies, to work exclusively on the infiltration problem, until justice prevails and the "demon hot atom" is condemned by all right-thinking humans, and the "Nuclear Mafia" is defunct, debt-ridden, demolished, demoralized and finally destroyed. You are no activist, and your request to subscribe has not been done in the spirit of cooperation or to help me solve these vital problems which the world faces. I know this from your behavior, and unless you change your behavior, you are part of the problem, and have no right to be attempting to infiltrate yet another legitimate movement and yet another of my efforts to alert the world to what is happening around us and above us and to us.

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[[[ At 10:31 PM 4/17/00 +0100, Trish Bracey wrote: ]]]

Hi ! I was surprised but pleased to see you back. I hope you are feeling rejuvenated.

I have been thinking about the Gagnon business but frankly I still don't know what to think. I've not met him and apparently missed him [at] Menwith Hill recently. (The mikes didn't work but I don't think that was his fault.) I think, and I speak from very limited experience, I find his newsletters incredibly dull, pedestrian, lacking in original thought being as they generally are extracts from media articles, speeches, interviews and so on. On reflection this is strange for such an informed activist.

But I have a problem with conspiracy theories. Really there is just so much apathy about nukes in space. No one gives a damn. Complacency rules in the UK and I think this applies worldwide. Here people take more interest in say BNFL cover ups and falsification of documents than in nuclear - powered space missions or US plans vis a vis NMD.

The resistance to GM crops or animal rights (anti blood sports) is far more successful here than the anti - nuclear movement. I think more big names, real celebrities are needed to get things moving.

Meantime I'm rambling but I would like to subscribe to Nukes, Kooks and Spooks.

In peace

Trish Bracey

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Hi

Thanks for your letter [shown above]. What kind of world would it be if people acted as if someone were guilty of something, on the least bit of suspicion? Frankly, aside from the government itself, I don't want anyone to do anything significant regarding Gagnon, except to watch, and learn. When you see for yourself, then learn from what you are seeing. I would say your description of his newsletters matches the things I've seen -- he does not send me them, and people seldom forward them to me any more, but Haber puts them in his newsletter for example, so I see stuff that way. It's very dry, and no wonder? (Expect to see a brief dramatic change in that style soon, on account of these comments which he (or his bosses) will surely read, probably sooner even than you do.)

In my mind, such crimes are incredibly brazen, and it takes nerves of steel to pull it off. I salute Gagnon for having such nerves.

Some people say a good activist "picks their battles carefully". I say a good activist picks but one battle, and sticks with it through thick and thin. The space/nuclear issue and related nuclear issues will remain my battle, and any crimes I feel I am seeing along the way, I plan to report about. What I claim Gagnon is, is a crime, in a democracy. What he has done is an outrage.

If you multiply the Gagnon's of the world by even just a hundred, let alone a thousand, you could pretty much kill every legitimate environmental movement on the planet.

And that, indeed, is what has been done.

It's going on all over. Today's local paper had a long article about the containment buildings at our local nuclear power plant. Why? Why today? The article was total malarky, it could have been a nuke industry publicity piece -- and this in the better of the two local papers! [I did; it wasn't published. -- rdh] I hope to energize myself enough to write a paragraph or two about it. But what is writing? Nothing. Writing is nothing more than an attempt to persuade others to do something. By its very nature it does not seek a leadership position, but a position of advocacy for or against something.

Is Gagnon a born leader, a made leader, or a false leader? He's certainly not a writer, and he's achieved the leadership position, and in something like 13 or 14 years in that position, there has never been significant publicity for any of his causes, except a little bit during Cassini, when he had to keep up with the Joneses. (I'm "the Joneses", as is also people like Mark Elsis of LOVEARTH and dozens of other people who have tried to achieve concrete improvements in NASA behavior or international law, or publicity for the cause, and so forth.) I just bought a great book ("Killing Hope" by William Blum) on the subject of how the CIA influenced elections and everything else in various other countries (that is, outside the USA). It's enlightening. (Has a quote from Caldicott, a frequent victim of such crimes, on the back.)

Who does that sort of thing here, I don't know. CIA, NSA, FBI, private PR firms such as SAIC -- I don't know. I don't investigate these people (they investigate me). I simply refuse to be abused by them without documenting what is happening. That's my lot in life. I cannot be a silent witness.

Perhaps it is my lot, because unlike most activists, I don't hate these people and I strongly suspect that their top bosses don't hate me. Sure, I'm disgusted with them, but I have not felt significant anger -- let alone hatred -- for Gagnon at any time that I can recall. It's just a job for him. It's just a job for me too, in a way. (At least I try to pretend it's just a job, although sometimes it gets to me.)

I believe a vicious campaign to destroy the morale and the continuity of the anti-nuclear voice is what has really destroyed the anti-nuclear position around the world and especially in America ("especially" meaning I more strongly believe it is true here because I've seen it here with my own two eyes).

Without such shenanigans, the entire world would by now have closed every nuclear power plant everywhere and dismantled every nuclear weapon. That is my view -- that the people of the world want peace and a clean environment, and money to build schools instead of weapons. But a small but powerful cadre of people on all sides of the political spectrum want to waste all of humanity's wealth on global war preparations. Putin is an equal partner in this global crime with Clinton. They are not opponents at all, but both are riding a gravy train of oppression and both are poisoning the environment for every nation, in the name of national defense for their own.

As to people taking more interest over there in BNFL, I'm not at all sure that isn't an even worse crime that what NASA does and threatens to do. In fact, I suspect what happens there is vastly worse for humanity that what is happening in outer space, on a day-to-day and year-to-year basis.

There are so many important causes, and so little time. I hope you become a leader, because we need good ones, and lots of them.

Gagnon's meeting dragged everyone who went away from Earth Day events where they belonged, I'll note in closing.

They never miss a chance to intertwine various crimes to get more bang for their buck.

Sincerely,

Russell Hoffman

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