FBI, Burning Man, Area 51, Land Theft, & KFC From Space

EXTRACT "A cultural and artisan event" FBI files on Burning Man "The greatest known threat in this event is crowd control issues and the use of illegal drugs by participants."   by JPat Brown |  edited by Michael Morisy September 1, 2015 The 29th annual Burning Man festival kicks off this week in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. Among those paying close attention to the festivities will be the FBI's Special Events Management unit, who have kept files on "burners" since at least 2010. https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2015/sep/01/burning-man-fbi-file/ ---------------------- ꕤ ---------------------- Posted August 31, 2015 - 9:23pmUpdated August 31, 2015 - 11:08pm Family rejects Air Force's $5.2 million bid for land near Area 51 By Keith RogersLas Vegas Review-Journal Members of the Sheahan family said Monday they have rejected the Air Force's $5.2 million offer to buy their land and mining claims near Groom Mine, next to the secret Area 51 installation where the U.S. military and CIA have tested spy planes and stealth aircraft for six decades. [...] ... stake in the combined 400 acres of property and unpatented mining claims is worth considerably more, not counting the reparations they say they are owed by the Air Force and Department of Energy for "abuses and atrocities" that date back to the early 1950s. That's when they said their ore processing mill was fire-bombed by a military jet and their property was showered by radioactive fallout from numerous above-ground nuclear weapons tests. Most recently, when some family members visited the property in the restricted area 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas — as the Air Force has allowed them to do about once a month — guards held them at gunpoint, including a 7-year-old girl who was "traumatized" by the show of force, Danny Sheahan said. "It seems like machine guns solve anything on the property out there. That's not the American way," he said. A Nellis Air Force Base spokesman said in an email Monday that the Air Force "is unaware of any evidence to support this claim." The Air Force claims the family's activities over the past several years have impeded its efforts to use the range for flight tests like those that have spawned the nation's stealth aircraft at Area 51. The airstrip on the Groom Dry Lake bed, known as Watertown, began operation in 1955 to test the U-2 spy plane. Nellis officials have said the presence of civilians in the restricted area poses safety and security risks and results in costly delays of flight operations. "We're interrupting their operations? Really?" Joe Sheahan said. "We didn't parachute into their backyard. They parachuted into our backyard." The Sheahan's ancestors established mining for silver, lead, copper, zinc and small amounts of gold dating back to 1889. Manning said the family owns six patented claims in addition to 15 unpatented claims that are leased to the Bureau of Land Management. She said the family's ore processing mill exploded and burned in June 1954 when a jet's wing fuel tank was dropped on it. The Air Force said the incident was adjudicated in the United States Court of Claims. Manning said, however, "Our grandparents ran out of money trying to fight it." http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/military/family-rejects-air-forces-52-million-bid-land-near-area-51 ꕤ COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. COMMENT Wondering why FBI were at some hippy festival had me wondering if it had anything to do with whatever military testing they do out there in the desert, or whether they simply monitor groups of gathered people as a matter of course. Burning Man Festival  Black Rock Desert, about 177km north of Reno "Our community values creative cooperation and collaboration. ..." Well, that's me out.  I didn't inherit the collaboration gene. Area 51 aka Homey Airport Groom Lake Dreamland Paradise Ranch Base Watertown Area 51  134 km north-northwest of Las Vegas  southern shore of Groom Lake, is a large military airfield  acquired by the United States Air Force in 1955 ...   ... area around Area 51  incl. the small town of Rachel (pop. 54, 2010 census) on "Extraterrestrial Highway" (Nevada Highway 375) = popular tourist destination. 2006 KFC installed a giant company logo on the ground north edge of Rachel claims it is first logo visible from space [here] [memo written in 1974 to CIA director William Colby by an unknown CIA official] ... the CIA considered no other spot on Earth to be as sensitive as Groom Lake Theories for secrecy:  alien craft reverse engineering & alien viruses work.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51 Well, that was an interesting diversion. The desert looks beautiful.  The record high temperature doesn't seem all that high, but the lows look really low. I still haven't figured out why the FBI is conducting surveillance ops, but I feel sorry for the family in the above story. Look how long the US government has screwed that family over.  They're still waiting on reparations from the 1950s.  And this is a family that settled there in the late 1800s. The government could easily cut this family a fair deal if they want their land, but they're screwing this family and have done so for decades, while using American taxpayer money to fund wars on behalf of corporate interests and using taxpayer money to bail out corporations and financial institutions. Disgusting.  Oh, and so is that tacky KFC graffiti that can be seen from space. ꕤ