We stand for Israel – – status of Arabs in Israel

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ISRAELI ARABS – – STATUS OF ARABS IN ISRAEL

By Mitchell Bard: – – JEWISH VIRTUAL LIBRARY – – http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/arabstat.html

Roughly 21% of Israel’s more than eight million citizens are Arabs.
The vast majority of the Israeli Arabs – 81% – are Muslims.
Arabs in Israel have equal voting rights (regardless of whether they are Muslims, Christians or even Buddhists); in fact, it is one of the few places in the Middle East where Arab women may vote.
Arabs currently hold ten seats in the Knesset.
Israeli Arabs have also held various government posts.
Arabic, like Hebrew, is an official language in Israel.
At the time of Israel’s founding, only one Arab high school was operating, today, there are hundreds of Arab schools.
Most Arabs attend these schools.

The sole legal distinction between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel is that the latter are not required to serve in the Israeli army.
This was to spare Arab citizens the need to take up arms against their brethren.
Nevertheless, many Arabs have volunteered (and continue to volunteer) for military duty and the Druze and Circassian communities are subject to the draft.

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Some economic and social gaps between Israeli Jews and Arabs result from the latter not serving in the military.
Veterans qualify for many benefits and jobs not available to non-veterans.
Moreover, the army aids in the socialization process.

(Click above for enlargement – – “I stand for Israel”…a proud Arab Israeli soldier who is not ashamed to identify himself with Zionism:
“I believe in the Muslim faith, and will never abandon it, but Zionism is more than a religion. It is something that fully represents my sense of belonging to the State of Israel and to Israeli society, and the immense commitment I have to protecting and guarding the country of which I am part”)

 

On the other hand, Arabs do have an advantage obtaining some jobs during the years Israelis are in the military.
In addition, industries like construction and trucking have come to be dominated by Israeli Arabs.

While there is no institutional segregation, Jews and Arabs have chosen to live separately in all but a handful of cities.
Israelis all recognize that Arab villages have historically received less funding than Jewish areas and this has affected the quality of Arab schools, infrastructure and social services.
Arabs are also underrepresented in higher education and most industries.

Israeli Jews and Arabs have surprisingly little contact with each other.
Most young people study at different elementary and secondary schools and may not come into contact with one another until college; by then, many preconceived opinions have been formed.
This lack of interaction exacerbates tensions between the two communities.

Israeli Arabs also face their own conflicts as Palestinians in a Jewish state.
While identifying with the Palestinian people and disputing Israel’s identification as a Jewish state, they see their future tied to Israel.

They have adopted Hebrew as a second language and Israeli culture as an extra layer in their lives.
At the same time, they strive to attain a higher degree of participation in national life, greater integration into the economy and more benefits for their own towns and villages.

Although Israeli Arabs have occasionally been involved in terrorist activities, they have generally behaved as loyal citizens.

During Israel’s wars, none engaged in acts of sabotage or disloyalty.
In some instances, Arabs volunteered to take over civilian functions for reservists.
There are twenty employment centers established around Israel to help the Arab, Druze, and Circassian minorities find employment and receive assistance.

According to the Israeli Ministry of the Economy statistics for 2015, 8,000 new Arab, Druze, and Circassian participants sought help or assistance from these employment centers.

In total these centers have helped 13,600 members of Israeli minority groups find employment, and have provided assistance for more than 24,000 individuals.
Approximately 68% of candidates who have come into the employment centres since they were established in 2012 have found jobs.

The number of Israeli-Arab teachers in Israel’s state schools increased by 40% between 2013 and 2016, as reported by Israel’s Education Ministry in August 2016.
According to the Ministry, 420 Arab-Israelis taught in Israel’s state schools in 2013, compared to 588 during the 2016 school year.

The school subjects that experienced the largest jump were English, Math and Science, which all experienced a 76% increase in the number of Arab-Israeli teachers.
The number of Israeli-Arab Arabic language instructors also increased by 40% during this time span.

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WE STAND WITH ISRAEL – – ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS IN THE WEST BANK

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We stand with Israel – – Israeli settlements in the West Bank

by Mitchell Bard – – A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict, THE JEWISH VIRTUAL LIBRARY
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths3/MythsEnglish2012.pdf

MYTH
“Israeli settlements are illegal.”

FACT:

Jews have lived in Judea and Samaria—the West Bank—since ancient times.
The only time Jews have been prohibited from living in the territories in recent decades was during Jordan’s rule from 1948 to 1967.
Numerous legal authorities dispute the charge that settlements are “illegal.”
Stephen Schwebel, formerly President of the International Court of Justice, notes that a country acting in self-defense may seize and occupy territory when necessary to protect itself.
Schwebel also observes that a state may require, as a condition for its withdrawal, security measures designed to ensure its citizens are not menaced again from that territory.
According to Eugene Rostow, a former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs in the Johnson Administration, Resolution 242 gives Israel a legal right to be in the West Bank.
The resolution, Rostow noted, “Israel is entitled to administer the territories” it won in 1967 until ‘‘a just and lasting peace in the Middle East’’ is achieved.
Though critical of Israeli policy, the United States does not consider settlements illegal.

MYTH
“Settlements are an obstacle to peace.”

FACT:

Settlements have never been an obstacle to peace.
From 1949–67, when Jews were forbidden to live on the West Bank, the Arabs refused to make peace with Israel.
From 1967–77, the Labor Party established only a few strategic settlements in the territories, yet the Arabs were unwilling to negotiate peace with Israel.
In 1977, months after a Likud government committed to greater settlement activity took power, Egyptian President Sadat went to Jerusalem and later signed a peace treaty with Israel.
Incidentally, Israeli settlements existed in the Sinai and those were removed as part of the agreement with Egypt.
One year later, Israel froze settlement building for three months, hoping the gesture would entice other Arabs to join the Camp David peace process, but none would.
In 1994, Jordan signed a peace agreement with Israel and settlements were not an issue; if anything, the number of Jews living in the territories was growing.
Between June 1992 and June 1996, under Labor-led governments, the Jewish population in the territories grew by approximately 50 percent.
This rapid growth did not prevent the Palestinians from signing the Oslo accords in September 1993 or the Oslo 2 agreement in September 1995.
In 2000, Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered to dismantle dozens of settlements, but the Palestinians still would not agree to end the conflict.
In August 2005, Israel evacuated all of the settlements in the Gaza Strip and four in Northern Samaria, but terror attacks continued.
In 2008, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered to withdraw from approximately 94 percent of the West Bank, but the deal was rejected.
In 2010, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu froze settlement construction for 10 months and the Palestinians refused to engage in negotiations until the period was nearly over.
After agreeing to talk, they walked out when Netanyahu refused to prolong the freeze.
Settlement activity may be a stimulus to peace because it forced the Palestinians and other Arabs to reconsider the view that time is on their side.
References are frequently made in Arabic writings to how long it took to expel the Crusaders and how it might take a similar length of time to do the same to the Zionists.
The growth in the Jewish population in the territories forced the Arabs to question this tenet.
“The Palestinians now realize,” said Bethlehem Mayor Elias Freij, “that time is now on the side of Israel, which can build settlements and create facts, and that the only way out of this dilemma is face-to-face negotiations.”
Even though settlements are not an obstacle to peace, many Israelis still have concerns about the expansion of settlements. Some consider them provocative, others worry that the settlers are particularly vulnerable, and note they have been targets of repeated Palestinian terrorist attacks.
To defend them, large numbers of soldiers are deployed who would otherwise be training and preparing for a possible future conflict with an Arab army.
Some Israelis also object to the amount of money that goes to communities beyond the Green Line, and special subsidies that have been provided to make housing there more affordable.
Still others feel the settlers are providing a first line of defense and developing land that rightfully belongs to Israel.
The disposition of settlements is a matter for the final status negotiations.
The question of where the final border will be between Israel and a Palestinian entity will likely be influenced by the distribution of these Jewish towns in Judea and Samaria (the border with Gaza was unofficially defined following Israel’s withdrawal).
Israel wants to incorporate as many settlers as possible within its borders while the Palestinians want to expel all Jews from the territory they control.
If Israel withdraws toward the 1949 armistice line unilaterally, or as part of a political settlement, many settlers will face one or more options: remain in the territories (the disengagement from Gaza suggests this may not be possible), expulsion from their homes, or voluntary resettlement in Israel (with financial compensation).

The impediment to peace is not the existence of Jewish communities in the disputed territories, it is the Palestinians’ unwillingness to accept a state next to Israel instead of one replacing Israel.

MYTH
“The Geneva Convention prohibits the construction of Jewish settlements in occupied territories.”

FACT:

The Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits the forcible transfer of people of one state to the territory of another state that it has occupied as a result of a war.
The intention was to insure that local populations who came under occupation would not be forced to move.
This is in no way relevant to the settlement issue.
Jews are not being forced to go to the West Bank; on the contrary, they are voluntarily moving back to places where they, or their ancestors, once lived before being expelled by others.
In addition, those territories never legally belonged to either Jordan or Egypt, and certainly not to the Palestinians, who were never the sovereign authority in any part of Palestine.
“The Jewish right of settlement in the area is equivalent in every way to the right of the local population to live there,” according to Professor Eugene Rostow, former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs.
As a matter of policy, moreover, Israel does not requisition private land for the establishment of settlements.
Housing construction is allowed on private land only after determining that no private rights will be violated.
The settlements also do not displace Arabs living in the territories.
The media sometimes gives the impression that for every Jew who moves to the West Bank, several hundred Palestinians are forced to leave.
The truth is that the vast majority of settlements have been built in uninhabited areas and even the handful established in or near Arab towns did not force any Palestinians to leave.

MYTH
“The size of the Jewish population in the West Bank precludes any territorial compromise.”

FACT:

Altogether, built-up settlement area is less than two percent of the disputed territories.
An estimated 70 percent of the settlers live in what are in effect suburbs of major Israeli cities such as Jerusalem.
These are areas that virtually the entire Jewish population believes Israel must retain to ensure its security, and presidents Clinton and Bush anticipated would remain under permanent Israeli sovereignty.
Strategic concerns have led both Labor and Likud governments to establish settlements.
The objective is to secure a Jewish majority in key strategic regions of the West Bank, such as the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem corridor, the scene of heavy fighting in several Arab-Israeli wars.
Still, when Arab-Israeli peace talks began in late 1991, more than 80 percent of the West Bank contained no settlements or only sparsely populated ones.
Today, approximately 300,000 Jews live in 122 communities in the West Bank.
The overwhelming majority of these settlements have fewer than 1,000 citizens, 40 percent have fewer than 500 and several have only a few dozen residents.
Contrary to Palestinian-inspired hysteria about settlement expansion, the truth is only five settlements have been built since 1990.
Analysts have noted that 70–80 percent of the Jews could be brought within Israel’s borders with minor modifications of the “Green Line.”
Ironically, while Palestinians complain about settlements, an estimated 35,000 work in them and support a population of more than 200,000.

MYTH
“At Camp David, Begin promised to halt the construction of settlements for five years.”

FACT:

The five-year period agreed to at Camp David was the time allotted to Palestinian self-government in the territories.
The Israeli moratorium on West Bank settlements agreed to by Prime Minister Menachem Begin was only for three months.
Israel’s position on the matter received support from an unexpected source: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who said: “We agreed to put a freeze on the establishment of settlements for the coming three months, the time necessary in our estimation for signing the peace treaty.”
The Palestinians rejected the Camp David Accords and therefore the provisions related to them were never implemented.
Had they accepted the terms offered by Begin, it is very likely the self-governing authority would have developed long before now into an independent Palestinian state.
“If settlement-building is now concentrated in areas that the Palestinians themselves acknowledge will remain part of Israel in any future peace agreement, why the obsessive focus on settlements as an ‘obstacle to peace?’ ”
— Yossi Klein Halevi

MYTH
“Israel must dismantle all the settlements or peace is impossible.”

FACT:

When serious negotiations begin over the final status of the West Bank, battle lines will be drawn over which settlements should be incorporated into Israel, and which must be evacuated.
In August 2005, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon acknowledged that “not all the settlements that are today in Judea and Samaria will remain Israeli” while leaked Palestinian negotiating documents indicate the Palestinians are prepared to accept that some settlements will be incorporated into Israel.

In Gaza, Israel’s intent was to withdraw completely, and no settlements were viewed as vital to Israel for economic, security, or demographic reasons.
The situation in the West Bank is completely different because Jews have strong historic and religious connections to the area stretching back centuries.
Moreover, the West Bank is an area with strategic significance because of its proximity to Israel’s heartland and the fact that roughly one-quarter of Israel’s water resources are located there.
The disengagement from Gaza involved only 21 settlements and approximately 8,500 Jews; more than 100 settlements with a population of roughly 300,000 are located in Judea and Samaria.
Any new evacuation from the West Bank will involve another gut-wrenching decision that most settlers and their supporters will oppose with even greater ferocity than the Gaza disengagement. Most Israelis, however, favor withdrawing from all but the largest communities.
Over two-thirds of the Jews in the West Bank live in five settlement “blocs” that are all near the 1967 border.
Most Israelis believe these blocs should become part of Israel when final borders are drawn.

ISRAELI ARABS – – STATUS OF ARABS IN ISRAEL

By Mitchell Bard:

Roughly 21% of Israel’s more than eight million citizens are Arabs.
The vast majority of the Israeli Arabs – 81% – are Muslims.
Arabs in Israel have equal voting rights; in fact, it is one of the few places in the Middle East where Arab women may vote.
Arabs currently hold ten seats in the Knesset.
Israeli Arabs have also held various government posts.
Arabic, like Hebrew, is an official language in Israel.
At the time of Israel’s founding, only one Arab high school was operating, today, there are hundreds of Arab schools.
Most Arabs attend these schools.

The sole legal distinction between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel is that the latter are not required to serve in the Israeli army.
This was to spare Arab citizens the need to take up arms against their brethren.
Nevertheless, many Arabs have volunteered for military duty and the Druze and Circassian communities are subject to the draft.
Some economic and social gaps between Israeli Jews and Arabs result from the latter not serving in the military.
Veterans qualify for many benefits and jobs not available to non-veterans.
Moreover, the army aids in the socialization process.
On the other hand, Arabs do have an advantage obtaining some jobs during the years Israelis are in the military.
In addition, industries like construction and trucking have come to be dominated by Israeli Arabs.

While there is no institutional segregation, Jews and Arabs have chosen to live separately in all but a handful of cities.
Israelis all recognize that Arab villages have historically received less funding than Jewish areas and this has affected the quality of Arab schools, infrastructure and social services.
Arabs are also underrepresented in higher education and most industries.
Israeli Jews and Arabs have surprisingly little contact with each other.
Most young people study at different elementary and secondary schools and may not come into contact with one another until college; by then, many preconceived opinions have been formed.
This lack of interaction exacerbates tensions between the two communities.
Israeli Arabs also face their own conflicts as Palestinians in a Jewish state.
While identifying with the Palestinian people and disputing Israel’s identification as a Jewish state, they see their future tied to Israel.
They have adopted Hebrew as a second language and Israeli culture as an extra layer in their lives.
At the same time, they strive to attain a higher degree of participation in national life, greater integration into the economy and more benefits for their own towns and villages.
Although Israeli Arabs have occasionally been involved in terrorist activities, they have generally behaved as loyal citizens.
During Israel’s wars, none engaged in acts of sabotage or disloyalty.
In some instances, Arabs volunteered to take over civilian functions for reservists.
There are twenty employment centers established around Israel to help the Arab, Druze, and Circassian minorities find employment and receive assistance.
According to the Israeli Ministry of the Economy statistics for 2015, 8,000 new Arab, Druze, and Circassian participants sought help or assistance from these employment centers.
In total these centers have helped 13,600 members of Israeli minority groups find employment, and have provided assistance for more than 24,000 individuals.
Approximately 68% of candidates who have come into the employment centres since they were established in 2012 have found jobs.
The number of Israeli-Arab teachers in Israel’s state schools increased by 40% between 2013 and 2016, as reported by Israel’s Education Ministry in August 2016.
According to the Ministry, 420 Arab-Israelis taught in Israel’s state schools in 2013, compared to 588 during the 2016 school year.
The school subjects that experienced the largest jump were English, Math and Science, which all experienced a 76% increase in the number of Arab-Israeli teachers.
The number of Israeli-Arab Arabic language instructors also increased by 40% during this time span.

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US Air Force prepares to fight the real Star Wars – – – Albuquerque, New Mexico, December 20, 2016

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by Tim Broderick – – THE NATIONAL INTEREST
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/americas-air-force-prepares-fight-the-real-star-wars-18805

Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico – – December 20, 2016:

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The Air Force is increasing computer simulations and virtual testing for its laser-weapons program to accelerate development and prepare plans to arm fighter jets and other platforms by the early 2020s.
To help model the effects of such technologies, the service has awarded Stellar Science a five-year, $7 million contract for advanced laser modeling and simulation.

The Albuquerque-based company is expected to continue the work started in 2014, when the Air Force tapped the group to develop computer simulations and virtual testing of directed energy weapons.
Aircraft-launched laser weapons could eventually be engineered for a wide range of potential uses, including air-to-air combat, close air support, counter-UAS(drone), counter-boat, ground attack and even missile defense, officials said.

Lasers use intense heat and light energy to incinerate targets without causing a large explosion, and they operate at very high speeds, giving them a near instantaneous ability to destroy fast-moving targets and defend against incoming enemy attacks, senior Air Force leaders explained.
Low cost is another key advantage of laser weapons, as they can prevent the need for high-cost missiles in many combat scenarios.

Air Force Research Laboratory officials have said they plan to have a program of record for air-fired laser weapons in place by 2023.

Ground testing of a laser weapon called the High Energy Laser, or HEL, took place last year at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The High Energy Laser test is being conducted by the Air Force Directed Energy Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.

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The first airborne tests are expected to take place by 2021, Air Force officials said.

The developmental efforts are focused on increasing the power, precision and guidance of existing laser weapon applications with the hope of moving from 10-kilowatts up to 100 kilowatts, Air Force officials said.

Service scientists have explained that much of the needed development involves engineering the size weight and power trades on an aircraft needed to accommodate an on-board laser weapon. Developing a mobile power source small enough to integrate into a fast-moving fighter jet remains a challenge for laser technology.

Air Force leaders have said that the service plans to begin firing laser weapons from larger platforms such as C-17s and C-130s until the technological miniaturization efforts can configure the weapon to fire from fighter jets such as an F-15, F-16 or F-35.

Air Combat Command has commissioned the Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator Advanced Technology Demonstration which will be focused on developing and integrating a more compact, medium-power laser weapon system onto a fighter-compatible pod for self-defense against ground-to-air and air-to-air weapons, a service statement said.

Air Force Special Operations Command has commissioned both the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Naval Support Facility Dahlgren to examine placing a laser on an AC-130U gunship to provide an offensive capability.
Another advantage of lasers is an ability to use a much more extended magazine for weapons. Instead of flying with six or seven missiles on or in an aircraft, a directed energy weapon system could fire thousands of shots using a single gallon of jet fuel, Air Force experts said.

According to Stellar Science, “The goal of this research project was to compute the three-dimensional (3D) shape and orientation of a satellite from two-dimensional (2D) images of it.”
Stellar Science possesses expertise in scientific, computer-aided modeling and 3D-shape reconstruction, as well as radio-frequency manipulation and laser physics.

Officials throughout the Department of Defense are optimistic about beam weapons and, more generally, directed-energy technologies.
Laser weapons could be used for ballistic missile defense as well. Vice Adm. James Syring, Director of the Missile Defense Agency, said during the 2017 fiscal year budget discussion that “Laser technology maturation is critical for us.”
And the U.S. Navy recently announced that their destroyers and cruisers will possess these systems to help ships fend off drones and missiles.

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The mysterious Jason Bishop III (a.k.a, Tal Levesque, a.k.a., TAL), enigmatic personality behind the “Dulce Base” myths

Jason Bishop III (a.k.a., Tal Levesque, a.k.a., TAL), has been one of the original promoters of the “Dulce Base” myths.
This photo of him was taken in 1990 in Los Angeles when he was filmed by Nippon Television program dealing with Area 51 in Nevada and Dulce, New Mexico.
The interview took place at my residence in Gardena, California (where I was living at that time).
The two-hour program was shown only in Japan on March 24, 1990.
He requested that his face be blacked out for the program.

In the early 1990s, Jason Bishop III visited with me many times at my residence, even after I moved to Torrance, California.
Apparently, at that time, he was living in Redondo Beach, California.
It is not an exaggeration to say that more than 90% of the original information that one reads on Dulce originated from Jason Bishop III.

Until recently I was not aware of the passing.  From what I heard, he died on December 21, 2018 in California at the age of 69, presumably in Mariposa where he was thought of residing at that time.  My belated condolences.  Without him, I would never have known about the origins of the fascinating Dulce base rumors.

Jason Bishop III claimed he worked with a Thomas E. Castello when he was living in Santa Fe, New Mexico (1978, 1979) working in security for a private company.

It was there that Bishop claimed to have befriended the alleged Castello.

Jason Bishop III reportedly gave the impression that he was present at the 1988 Mount Archuleta expedition  (alongside Gabe Valdez, Edmund Gomez, Jeff and Greg Valdez, French physicist Dr. John Gille, Manuel Gomez, Jr., Elaine A. and a scientist from Los Alamos). 

Dr. John Gille refuted that Jason Bishop III was even present at that expedition.

(I had the honor of getting together with Dr. Gille in France in the spring of 2016).

I am sure that Jason Bishop III’s influence extended widely, probably affecting people such as Alan B. de Walton (BRANTON), and even Phil Schneider (who must have certainly read Jason Bishop III’s writings.)

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To know more about BRANTON (a.k.a., Alan B. deWalton), author of the DULCE BOOK and the DULCE WARS, read the article:
Who was Branton, author of the Dulce Book and the Dulce Wars?

https://noriohayakawa.wordpress.com/2016/08/29/who-was-branton-author-of-the-dulce-book-and-the-dulce-wars/

It was Jason Bishop III who devised the so-called “underground tunnels” connection map of the U.S. (centering in the American Southwest, through the so-called Dulce “hub”):

Jason Bishop III‘s extensive writings can be found at the BLUE PANET PROJECT
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/blueplanetproject/blueplanetproject.htm, a book heavily promoted by a TV program entitled: “UNSEALED ALIEN AND CONSPIRACY FILES”.

In January of 2009, Jason Bishop III became quite infuriated when I told him that I was organizing the first-time ever “underground base” conference in Dulce, New Mexico.
He warned me not to have such a conference in Dulce.

Nevertheless, I went forth with the conference, which was held on March 29, 2009 in Dulce.
The conference, open to the public, was entitled: “THE DULCE BASE: FACT? OR, FICTION?“.
It was a historic and successful conference in many sense of the word (even though nothing conclusive had come out of it) and was attended by more than 140 persons from all over, including many local residents.

Just prior to the conference date, Jason Bishop III became quite upset with me because I had not invited a John Rhodes, his protege, to speak at the conference.
John Rhodes claimed that he was an expert on “reptilians”.

Jason Bishop III was one of the many avid readers of the original SHAVER MYSTERY in the early 1950s.
He was deeply influenced by the SHAVER MYSTERY.
According to Wikipedia: “Richard Sharpe Shaver (1907 – 1975) was an American writer and artist.
He achieved notoriety in the years following World War II as the author of controversial stories which were printed in science fiction magazines (primarily AMAZING STORIES), in which he claimed that he had had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbored fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.

The controversy stemmed from the claim by Shaver, and his editor and publisher Ray Palmer, that Shaver’s writings, while presented in the guise of fiction, were fundamentally true.
Shaver’s stories were promoted by Ray Palmer as THE SHAVER MYSTERY.”
Like I said, Jason Bishop III was an avid reader of the SHAVER MYSTERIES in the early 1950’s.

A couple of years ago, I received a letter from Jason Bishop III‘s sister Carolyn LeVesque of Arroyo Grande, confirming to me about his long-term “condition”, i.e., some form of mental, “delusive” illness.

Also a few years ago, a friend of mine, C. Gilbert Wright, told me that coincidentally he had corresponded with the brother of Phil Schneider who told him that Phil was also suffering from a certain long-term “condition”, i.e., some form of mental, “delusive” illness.

Also, click and READ:

ALL ABOUT PHIL SCHNEIDER (including Tal Levesque’s own comments about Phil Schneider)

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My ultimate position on UFOs

It seems that the majority of the world’s astronomers and scientists do not discount the possibility that we are not alone in the universe, even though we still have no definite, scientific evidence for it……so far.

I was a director of the Civilian Intelligence Network, a loosely-knit citizens’ watchdog group on government accountability and network of researchers, investigators and intelligence gatherers whose primary focus was on the government’s so-called Black Budget Programs at locations such as the operating base at Groom Lake, Nevada (Area 51).

The Civilian Intelligence Network was established in 1990.

It is now a defunct group.
I now support the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) which is the nation’s largest and most well-funded citizens’ watchdog group on government accountability.

I have researched the UFO phenomenon since around 1961.

In 1990 I organized a network called the Civilian Intelligence Network and began to conduct a thorough research on Area 51 in Nevada.

I have also investigated some widespread claims about the existence of Dulce underground base in New Mexico, and have spoken in many conferences nationwide, especially in the early 1990’s.

In 1995 I was invited by a radio talk show host, Art Bell, to appear on his program called “Dreamland”. During my two-hour appearance, I brought out a theme, which was my belief then that the government already had enough technologies to simulate a fake “extraterrestrial” invasion or threat scenario in order to create a forced global unity in the future, if necessary.
That was in 1995.

My present research is on why a segment of the population keeps holding on to their beliefs in “UFOs” (as physical alien spacecraft from outer space, piloted or maneuvered by physical alien entities), despite the apparent lack of globally accepted physical, irrefutable scientific (empirical) evidence.

My focus is also on the study of how a segment of the population’s “beliefs in UFOs” have been manipulated (and in some cases, even created) and taken advantage of by the U.S. intelligence community and by the military in counter intelligence operations, even though they themselves may have given the impression of having been perplexed by this enigmatic phenomenon which they cannot explain and thus will not disclose to the public.

I fully support the organization Aerial Phenomena Investigations Team (based in Washington, D.C.) which stated:

“The serious study of UFOs has been suspended for decades.
The entire field of UFOs has become a toxic swamp of pseudoscience, puerile pranks, sophisticated hoaxes, conspiracy mongering, shoddy and often unethical research, new age claptrap, cheap entertainment and true belief.

Although we agree with the mainstream scientific consensus that the evidence for alien visitation is not persuasive, we think there are hints that something unknown may be going on, although judging whether or not that unknown is extraterrestrial is premature at best.”

PLEASE CLICK AND READ THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE:

UFO CULTURE AND BELIEFS….WHY THEY’RE SO SIGNIFICANT

https://noriohayakawa.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/ufo-culture-and-beliefs-why-theyre-so-significant-today/

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Enigmatic personalities behind the initial Dulce base rumors

(Archuleta Mesa in the background – – photo taken by Norio Hayakawa)

When it comes to the “Dulce base” topic, it is really not about the “base” itself ….(since, apparently and evidence-wise so far, it does not seem to exist), but rather about the various personalities that have initially promoted this myth.
Let’s examine some of the enigmatic personalities, how it all started (from around 1979 to 1983) , etc. and how, ultimately, deluded con artist Phil Schneider took advantage of the Dulce base myth  (Phil Schneider will appear towards the bottom of this page):

PAUL BENNEWITZ:

Owner of Thunder Scientific Corporation (contractor to Kirtland Air Force Base), located right next to the entrance of Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque, NM, presently operated by his sons.
From around 1979 Paul Bennewitz began to witness some strange lights hovering over Manzano underground nuclear storage area, not too far from his residence in the Four Hills area of Albuquerque.
Some researchers (such as Greg Bishop) theorize that he was looking at some tests of Project Starfire (laser-based optical tracking system being developed at that time by Sandia Laboratories next to the Manzano base) or possibly some tests of prototypes of remotely-controlled aerial platforms (present-day UAVs) possibly being independently developed by Sandia Laboratories at that time.

Paul Bennewitz later became convinced that those objects were somehow related to an underground base in northern New Mexico near Dulce, a suggestion seemingly pushed then by a Richard C. Doty of AFOSI at Kirtland Air Force Base.
Articles on Bennewitz soon began to appear in newspapers such as the Albuquerque Journal and Albuquerque Tribune.
Paul Bennewitz began to suffer from paranoia and was later institutionalized.
He passed away in 2003. His remains are buried in Veterans Cemetery in Santa Fe.
Paul Bennewitz’ sons refuse to be interviewed, the main reason being that Thunder Scientific Corporation still does business with Kirtland AFB.
They sell military grade humidifiers and callibration instruments, many of which were developed,modified and improved by the late Paul Bennewitz.
Paul Bennewitz’ wife, Cindy Bennewitz, still lives at the residence, which is located close to the original Manzano underground nuclear storage facility (which allegedly was closed down in 1992) in the Four Hills area of Albuquerque.

MYRNA HANSEN:

In 1980 she claimed to have been abducted near Cimarron, NM and claimed to have been taken to an unknown underground location.
She was at at that time a resident of Eagle Nest, New Mexico.
Paul Bennewitz interviewed her at his house, together with Leo Sprinkle who did a hypnotic regression.
Paul Bennewitz later on decided that she must have been taken into the Dulce base.
This was allegedly only after Bennewitz begun to suspect that there was a base in Dulce.
Later on, a Richard C. Doty (who was with AFOSI Kirtland AFB at that time) suggested to her that she might have been taken to an underground weapons storage facility in northern New Mexico.

TOM ADAMS:

He was investigating cattle mutilations in the late 1970s.
Tom Adams first heard about the Dulce base from reading Paul Bennewitz’ article in the newspaper and other sources from around 1981.
It is alleged that Tom Adams knew “Ann West”).

“ANN WEST“:

Her true identity was not initially confirmed, although it was Tal Levesque who claimed that she had been on Facebook with a different name (Cherry Hinkle, who claimed that her “half-alien” cat has lived for 29 years).
She was said to have been an acquaintance of Tom Adams.
“ANN WEST” (Cherry Hinkle) claimed to have drawn the initial pictures of the vats of the Dulce base in 1987, yet claimed to have never heard of Paul Bennewitz before.
She allegedly knew Tal Levesque.
She also claims to have known a “Thomas Edwin Castello”.
Tal Levesque claims that she visited him and his wife and also “Thomas Edwin Castello” in Santa Fe.
Tal Levesque claims that Ann West is dangerous and is part of the “invisible government”.
However, Levesque’s claim (that Ann West is part of the “invisible government”) sure sounds like lunacy.

JOHN LEAR:

Lear heard about Dulce allegedly from “Ann West”.
Lear befriended TAL through John Grace (a.k.a. Val Valerian).
According to Tal Levesque, John Lear retouched the Dulce drawings of “Ann West” that he received in 1987.
Lear first came up with his Hypothesis in 1988 about Dulce and also about Area 51.
John Lear has never been taken seriously by the UFO community.
Some people suspect that John Lear purposely throws in some ridiculous-sounding items as part of PSYOPS.
He recently claimed that there are cities on the back side of the moon.

(The enigmatic Jason Bishop, a.k.a., TAL Levesque when he appeared on a Japanese Nippon TV special two-hour program on Area 51 and Dulce in March of 1990)

TAL LEVESQUE, a.k.a., TAL or Jason Bishop:

His real name is Thomas Allen LeVesque (“Le Vesque” in French means “The Bishop”, thus his a.k.a.).
TAL Levesque claimed that he worked in Santa Fe as a security person for a private company around 1980 or 1981.
He claimed to have begun contact with “Thomas E. Castello” who, Tal Levesque claims, worked in the same company in Santa Fe.
“Thomas E. Castello” allegedly revealed his secrets to Tal
(the secret was that there was an underground U.S./alien bio-lab under Archuleta Mesa, next to Dulce and that he had worked as a security person at that facility).

But before coming out with this “Thomas Edwin Castello” story, Tal Levesque also seems to have heard initially about the Dulce base rumors from reading about Paul Bennewitz.
Tal Levesque claimed that he was visited by a tall Reptoid at his home in Santa Fe in 1979.
He currently lives in Mariposa, California.

It was Jason Bishop (a.k.a., TAL Levesque) who originally came out with the so-called underground tunnel systems map with Dulce, New Mexico as its central hub….CLICK FOR ENLARGEMENT:

(A few years ago I had corresponded with Jason Bishop’s relative Carolyn LeVesque of Arroyo Grande who told me that he has always had some type of psychological problem (i.e., a form of mental “delusion”), to put it mildly – – probably from indoctrination from reading too many SHAVER MYSTERY science fiction novels of the 1950s that dealt with underground civilizations):

Click the following for more on JASON BISHOP (a.k.a., Tal Levesque, a.k.a. TAL)

“THOMAS EDWIN CASTELLO“:

Of course, there are many persons with the same name.
However, an “alleged” retired Air Force Colonel who claimed that he was involved in Dulce, claimed that there has never been a Thomas Edwin Castello that was ever employed as security personnel in Dulce.
(The late Gabe Valdez also stated that there was never such a person connected to the alleged Dulce base).

CHRISTA TILTON:

Some researchers seem to say that she came to the scene slightly after “Ann West”.
They say that Christa Tilton and Tom Adams were initially partners and that she was in touch with Myrna Hansen.
According to Tim Beckley, Christa Tilton later on got together with Wendell Stevens.
Christa Tilton was said to have distributed her manuscript, “The Bennewitz Papers” in 1987.
She claimed that she was in touch with a Richard C. Doty (formerly with AFOSI at Kirtland AFB in Albuquerque).
Christa Tilton was featured on a Japanese TV program about the Dulce base back in 1989 and 1990.
Christa Tilton flew over the Archuleta Mesa and over Soldier Canyon with Junichi Yaoi of Nippon TV in 1989.
She appeared on Japanese TV a couple of times and claimed to have taken a photo of a circular structure over Soldier Canyon, which is slightly SW of Dulce.
Tilton, in her manuscript “The Bennewitz Papers” expressed her belief that the whole “Thomas E. Castello” story was a fabrication.
“Ann West”, in turn, reportedly claimed that Christa Tilton’s information was nothing more than disinformation of the highest degree.

BRANTON…….a.k.a., Bruce Walton, a.k.a., Alan B. de Walton:

Beginning in the early 1990s, “Branton” compiled a book called the DULCE BOOK….and aslo DULCE WARS.
Walton allegedly got most of the information from TAL…some from John Lear, some from Val Valerian (John Grace).
Tal Levesque claimed that Bruce Walton was incarcerated in 2009 in Utah for felony charges.
(Google Search – – Bruce Walton incarcerated in Utah)

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GABE VALDEZ:

The late Gabe Valdez was a retired New Mexico State Patrol Officer who was in charge of the Dulce area for many years (from the early 1970s to the late 1980s)..
He passed away on August 6, 2011 at his residence in Albuquerque.
Valdez claimed that the government was most likely responsible for the cattle mutilations which started happening from around 1975.
He claimed that the government may have begun to periodically monitor the radiation levels of certain cattle some years later, after the 1967 underground nuclear explosion (Project Gasbuggy) which took place about 22 miles southwest of Dulce.
Valdez also stated that the government “staged” several UFO incidents in the Dulce area (Archuleta Mesa, etc.) by use of high tech equipment such as prototypes of holographic image projections as well as unmanned aerial vehicles or remotely-controlled platforms that were made to resemble “flying saucers”.
Valdez believed that bio-warfare experiments were conducted at Dulce and that “UFO/alien” stories were concocted by the government as cover stories to conceal various Black Projects in the area.

Click the following for a very rare interview with Gabe Valdez, courtesy of John Gomez, during which Valdez states that “all UFOs are man-made” (to which I disagree):

A very rare and important interview with the late Gabriel Valdez

WILLIAM “BILL” MOORE:

It was Moore who first propagated (or “revived”) the story about Roswell in 1980 when he (together with Charles Berlitz) published the book INCIDENT AT ROSWELL (until this book came out, most Americans had no interest or knowledge about the Roswell incident since it was long forgotten and dismissed as misidentification by the U.S. Army in 1947).
He claimed that around the same time that he began to propagate the Roswell story, he was working with Richard C. Doty of Kirtland AFB and participated in a disinformation ploy to saturate Paul Bennewitz (who was pursuing his independent investigations on Dulce) with false information on the Dulce base.
This he claimed in a 1989 MUFON Conference that took place in Las Vegas, Nevada.
However there is no verifiable documentation whatsoever that Moore participated in such disinformation ploy in any official capacity except for his verbal “confession” that he made at a 1989 MUFON conference in Las Vegas, Nevada).

RICHARD C. DOTY:

Initially with Kirtland Air Force Base AFOSI around 1979, 1980 and 1981 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
He was not a high-ranking officer.
He claimed that he participated in disinformation in official capacity, along with Moore.
Again, there is no documentation that he participated in such disinformation ploy at Kirtland AFB AFOSI in any official capacity, even though Paul Bennewitz’ name and Doty’s name appear on one or two Kirtland OSI documents because Kirtland AFB invited Bennewitz to testify to what he allegedly was seeing over the Manzano storage areas.
Later on Richard C. Doty became a promoter of the SERPO PROJECT (which some researchers seem to describe as being a total fabrication).
Project Camelot seems to have bought Doty’s story hook, line and sinker. Presently he is working as New Mexico Highway Patrol Officer, just about to retire soon.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON RICHARD C. DOTY

PHIL SCHNEIDER:

Phil Schneider was never a part of the initial Dulce base rumors.
Apparently he must have read many articles concerning the alleged Dulce Base by the time he came out into the scene in 1995 and started giving lectures.

It was only in 1989 that Bob Lazar first came out with the story that there was an altercation between the U.S. military and “alien entities” in an underground installation. Lazar never specified any location. Phil Schneider also heard about the Bob Lazar story.

Apparently, knowing that no one had yet come up with any claim of personal involvement in the alleged 1979 “altercation”, he conveniently cast himself into the scene, claiming that he was a survivor of the Dulce “Wars”.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE ON PHIL SCHNEIDER

P.S.

The most sane persons, surprisingly, may have been Paul Bennewitz himself and Gabe Valdez.
It is quite possible that Paul Bennewitz had long only pretended that he had been “brainwashed” by some within the AFOSI, while he continued to conduct his own investigations into Dulce.
But, nevertheless, he couldn’t himself overcome his growing paranoia. Another possible scenario may have been that there was a dissension among the AFOSI and an element among the group may have accidentally provided Bennewitz with some crucial information on an alleged crash of a U.S. military’s prototype stealth aircraft near Mount Archuleta.

Here is my take on the whole Dulce matter:

THE DULCE BASE MAY NOT PHYSICALLY EXIST, BUT PARAPHYSICAL PHENOMENA SEEM TO HAUNT DULCE, NEW MEXICO

https://noriohayakawa.wordpress.com/2018/04/30/dulce-base-may-not-exist-but-the-ufo-phenomenon-itself-seems-to-exist-in-dulce-new-mexico/

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Who was Branton, author of The Dulce Book and The Dulce Wars?

Who is (was) BRANTON?

Branton, a.k.a., Bruce Walton, a.k.a. Alan B. deWalton, was a prolific compiler of conspiracy theories, particularly on alleged underground bases. He compiled quite a lot of information/misinformation on Area 51 in Nevada and Dulce, New Mexico, especially in the early 1990s.

Branton lived in Utah.

According to his own written biography:

“Branton” was born into a large family who lived near the western base of the Rocky mountains, in the year 1960.
As he grew up, he realized that his neo-masonic ‘religious’ background was somewhat restrictive, if not outright deceptive.
(Later on in life he came to realize that MOST mainline denominations of ‘church-ianity’ had also been intentionally infiltrated by this Masonic ‘virus’)
However, before this realization came to pass, he was drawn into various secret neo-masonic (and so-called ‘new age’) cults which used mind-control in order to manipulate their ‘members’, as well as perverse ‘molestation’ rituals within their deeper levels.

Being ‘infected’ with this psycho-spiritual poison caused him many mental and emotional problems later on in life.

Also, being trapped in a system of ‘legalistic’ religion merely drove him deeper into the pit of depravity and bondage to the evil one, just as the intollerant ‘religious church-ianity’ of the Pharisees led to the execution and crucifixion of Jesus the Christ… the very author of LIFE !!!

He is not proud of the fact that he was ‘used’ by the evil one at one time in his life to harm others around him. However before his ‘defection’ from this parasitical kingdom of darkness he did learn many of the ‘deep’ secrets and inner-workings of the kingdom of darkness, and now feels that it is his duty — regardless of the personal risk — to EXPOSE this darkness in the light of truth, so that others might escape the traps which almost ruined his life…
It eventually became apparent to him that his focus should NOT be placed on any particular pharasitical neo-Masonic “church”, “denomination”, or “religion”, but rather on the savior, Jesus Christ, himself.
He became aware of how he was being used and manipulated by the lord of darkness and his ‘hive’ of vampirial and parasitical followers, as a result of childhood ‘abductions’ and other factors, such as ‘alien implants’ – which the top leaders of many of these cultic Neo-Masonic organizations were aware of … and some of these secret society leaders were (and are) even reportedly in close contact with the darker ‘reptilian’ entities from beyond and within our world.

‘Branton’ was able to escape most of their hold upon his mind, with more than a little help from the Lord of LIGHT!
Jesus Christ, he realized, had many believers in many denominations. There is no one “true” denomination since in EVERY denomination in the world you have those who practice pharasitical “church-ianity” and then those who practice true apostolic “Christ-ianity”.

…….Branton began to study “paranormal” phenomena at the age of 12, after reading Frank Edwards’ book FLYING SAUCERS – SERIOUS BUSINESS, and he still lives surrounded by the beautiful Rocky Mountains,
and he continues THE fight (within and without) to ‘help’ make this world, this country, and all people FREE from ignorance and oppression of all kinds… realizing that we are all individual ‘cells’ in the ‘body’ of humanity… so in essence the ‘T-cells’ (so to speak…) must work TOGETHER to rid this ‘body’ of the ‘cancerous’ draconian ‘cells’ that would devour all light and life — like a dead star or a black hole — if given the chance.

He was an associate of Jason Bishop (a.k.a., TAL Levesque) by correspondence. Branton compiled a huge amount of information/misinformation not only from Jason Bishop but also from many many others. (In fact, I have to admit that I had also corresponded with him regularly during those years).

Jason Bishop, John Lear, and Val Valerian (a.k.a., John Grace of Las Vegas – who at one time was with Nellis AFB) were some of the folks from which Branton received information/misinformation.

Jason Bishop, a colleague of John Rhodes (a self-claimed researcher on “Reptilians”), presently lives in Mariposa, California.

It was Jason Bishop (a.k.a., TAL Levesque) who originally came out with the so-called underground tunnel systems map (with Dulce, New Mexico as its central hub…..CLICK FOR ENLARGEMENT):

(A few years ago I had corresponded with Jason Bishop’s sister who told me that he has always had some type of psychological problem, to put it mildly – – probably from indoctrination from reading too many SHAVER MYSTERY science fiction novels of the 1950s that dealt with underground civilizations).

Branton wrote two major books, THE DULCE BOOK and THE DULCE WARS.
In 2001, it was rumored that someone attempted to assassinate Branton in Utah, as was reported by the DAILY HERALD newspaper:

“BICYCLE ACCIDENT– A 40-year-old Orem man remains in critical condition after being hit by a car while riding his bicycle on Sunday.
Bruce Walton was riding his bicycle eastbound on 500 North, Provo, near the crosswalk on the south side of the intersection at Freedom Boulevard, when northbound 21-year-old Jayton Wakefield, of Provo, hit him with his 1992 Nissan 4×4 pickup.
Walton was taken to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center and was later flown by a LifeFlight helicopter to the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City.
He sustained injuries to his head and has several broken bones in his face and is in the intensive-care unit in critical conditions.
Wakefield was not injured.
No citations have been issued and the accident is still under investigation to determine fault”.
This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page A2.

Jason Bishop, however, claimed later that Bruce Walton was incarcerated in 2009 in Utah for (rather unmentionable) felony charges.
It was extremely difficult for me to accept that information, but, it sure looks like it was him.
(Google Search – Bruce Walton incarcerated in Utah):

http://www.homefacts.com/offender-detail/UT703956/Bruce-Walton.html
If it was him, it was devastating for sure.
I cannot judge anyone.
Yes, Branton had a tremendous impact on so many people who have been fascinated with the Dulce topic for all these years.

Branton is best known for his book THE DULCE BOOK which he made available for everyone to be read free of charge on the Internet:

I just really do not know what more to say.

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Two stories of the Japanese who saved the lives of Jewish refugees from the Nazis

 

(photo and information, courtesy of Wikipedia…..CLICK FOR ENLARGEMENT)

Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat who served as Vice-Consul for the Empire of Japan in Lithuania.
During World War II, he helped 6,000 Jews to leave the country by issuing transit visas so that they could travel to Japanese territory, risking his career and his family’s lives.
The Jews who escaped were refugees from German-occupied Western Poland or Russian-occupied Eastern Poland as well as residents of Lithuania.
In 1985, Israel named him to the Righteous Among The Nations for his actions, the only Japanese national to be so honored.

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Chiune Sugihara remembered by Jewish Survivors:

Second story:

The year 1938.
In the extreme cold of temperatures below 20 degrees, many Jewish refugees fleeing from Nazi persecution were held up in Otopol at the Soviet border of Manchuria.
While the Manchukuo Foreign Ministry Immigration Office refused to grant them visas due to the watchfulness of their German allies, the Harbin secret military chief at that time, Major General Kiichiro Higuchi, saved the lives of those Jewish refugees on the verge of freezing to death, estimated to be up to twenty thousand.
He rightfully declared to the Chief of Staff of the Kantou Army, Major General Hideki Tojo: “Japan is not a vassal state of Nazi Germany. Is it truly correct for us to carry Hitler’s stick to make misery on unwanted people?”
It would be two years until Chiune Sugihara was appointed as Lithuanian Consulate in Kaunas and issued “Visas for Life”.

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The miracle of General Kiichiro Higuchi:

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The unlikely struggle of the family whose neighbor was Area 51

(partial view of Groom Lake can be seen in this photo, courtesy of the Sheahan family….CLICK THE PHOTO FOR ENLARGEMENT)

by Tyler Rogoway, FOXTROT ALPHA/JALOPNIK – – November 9, 2015:

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-unlikely-struggle-of-the-family-whose-neighbor-is-a-1741346156

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“Plenty of landowners have fought the government over plans to seize their property.
But the Sheahan family of Nevada have not spent decades defending some mundane corner of farmland from being covered by a proposed interstate.
The Sheahans’ ancestral mining land was seized over its very unique next-door neighbor: America’s top secret flight test facility, known to most as Area 51.

It’s remarkable the Sheahans wanted to save this place at all.
It is a place where the family claims they were strafed by machine gun fire.
Where cancer and burns came as a likely result of nuclear detonations mere miles away. Where they have faced invasive, terrifying security measures from men in uniform.

Now, after years of trying to maintain a grasp on their beloved property, the Sheahans got the boot once and for all by the United States Air Force.
The military acted to condemn the family’s property, and they are seeking in court what they hope will be adequate compensation for their land and for their struggles.
But how do you appraise a property that exists under such strange circumstances?
How do you get the fair value of a place whose biggest resource is its bizarre view?
And how does one family prevail over a titan as big as the United States military?”

(Area 51 in the distance, by Groom Lake….photo, courtesy of the Sheahan family………..CLICK THE PHOTO FOR ENLARGEMENT)

CONTINUE READING AT:

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-unlikely-struggle-of-the-family-whose-neighbor-is-a-1741346156

Here is the only report made after the government officially took over the family’s property in October of 2015….Channel 8 News, Las Vegas, Nevada – – November 11, 2015:

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The forgotten American victims of the first atomic bomb blast……by Samuel Gilbert

(Listening to downwinders’ stories at a forum organized by the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium…photo, courtesy of Tina Cordova and Sen. Tom Udall)

by Samuel Gilbert, VICE Media LLC — July 24, 2016
http://www.vice.com/read/the-forgotten-victims-of-the-first-atomic-bomb

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July 16, 1945:

At 5:30 in the morning in the mountains of south central New Mexico, something shook Barbara Kent out of her top bunk bed.  The 12-year-old girl crashed down on the floor of the Ruidoso, New Mexico cabin where she was attending summer camp.

“It was the biggest jolt you could imagine,” says Kent, recalling to VICE the moment — 71 years ago this past Saturday — that the first atomic bomb was detonated in the nearby White Sands desert.

“We were all sitting there on the floor wondering what [was] happening.”
Kent was one of 12 girls that had arrived days before to attend summer camp organized by their dance teacher Karma Deane.  “[Ms. Deane] thought the water heater had exploded so we rushed outside.  It was just after 5:30 and it should have been dark—but it was like the sun had been turned on,” says Kent, describing the light, brighter than a dozen suns, produced by the first successful test of a nuclear weapon.

Later that afternoon, the campers were inside the cabin when they noticed a delicate white powder falling outside the windows.  “It was snowing in July,” Kent remembers from her home in California.  There was excitement and confusion as the girls ran outside to play in the unexplainable weather.  “We were catching it on our tongues like snowflakes.  Scooping the ash and putting it all over our faces.”

71 years later, Kent — now 84 years old — has suffered multiple bouts of cancer and is the sole remaining survivor of the camp (10 of the 12 of died before they turned 40).

“This is no coincidence,” she says.  Like many other Trinity Downwinders, Kent blames her health problems on the government, which did nothing to warn residents of the danger of the radiation exposure caused by Trinity.  “It was so wrong of the government not to evacuate everyone when they knew this was going to happen. They never told us so we played in the thing that killed us.”

For many years, the cries for help of New Mexico Downwinders have gone unheard, while the impacts of the radiation on these communities are still largely unknown due to a lack of data or studies on the fallout.

According to a study on radiation releases since 1943 by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment (LAHDRA), “Too much remains undetermined about the exposures from the Trinity test to put the event in perspective as a source of public radiation expose or to defensibly address the extent to which people were harmed.”  While conducting the study, the CDC and LAHDRA were given unprecedented access to previously classified and internal documents at Los Alamos National Labs.

“We were unknowing, unwilling, and uncompensated participants in the world’s largest lab test,” says Tina Cordova, founder of the Tularosa Downwinders, a consortium which has been fighting for both recognition and compensation for the dowinders in the Tularosa basin of New Mexico.

This year, the Downwinders began collecting health surveys (400 so far) on rates of cancer and other other diseases that plague Tularosa Basin communities.  “The effects to us are clear,” she says, pointing out that everyone in her community has lost someone to diseases linked to radiation exposure.

According to health physicist Joseph Shonka, the impacts described by Cordova are likely in areas near the blast.  “Trinity created more fallout than at other nuclear tests,” says Shonka, who headed up the aforementioned CDC LADHA study.  “At the Nevada site the closest people were 150 miles away.  Here you have people 15 miles away. There is no question the exposures were higher than in Nevada and Utah.”

“The people who lived in downwind of the Trinity blast were exposed to clouds of radiation that blew from the explosion,” New Mexico Senator Tom Udall states in an email; Udall is a longtime supporter of the New Mexico Downwinders.  “Radioactive debris fell from the sky, killing cattle and poisoning food and water, and generations of residents have suffered from cancer and other illnesses.”

“From the beginning, the government has refused to take responsibility,” he continues.  “We can’t undo the years of suffering, but we should make sure the victims receive similar recognition and compensation that other residents have received,” Udall’s referring to the compensation given to those effected by the Nevada Test site through the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) and denied to New Mexico Downwinders.

This past Saturday in Tularosa, community members fanned out behind the dugout of the local high-school base ball field to take part in the 7th annual Vigil commemorating the anniversary of the Trinity test.  “This year, we have 700 Luminarias,” says Tina, motioning towards the small paper lanterns that dot the outfield—each light representing a Tularosa resident that has been lost to cancer.

“We have all been affected,” says Henry Herrera, sitting with his wife Gloria along the first base line, their chairs pointed toward center field and the direction of the blast he himself witnessed at age 11.  “I remember I was helping my dad pore water in the radiator, holding the funnel.  Just as we got done with it there was was a hell of a blast and the cloud went up.”  The radioactive plume rose over 38,000 feet in just minutes.

Herrera’s father thought it was an explosion from the nearby white sands missile range; he himself recalls being mesmerized by the massive mushroom cloud.  “I watched it outside for hours. It rose up and up to the east.  The bottom half kept on going but the top half pushed back and landed right here.”  When he saw the dust from the cloud approach the house, he ran inside to tell his mom.  “I very well remember because my mom was so angry.  She had just hung up our clothes on the line—you can imagine what they looked like.”

“People around here were dying right and left,” says Herrera, who has since lost countless friends and family to cancer, himself a survivor.  “Nobody knew what was going on, they just died.”

The fallout around Trinity was, according to Shonka, potentially far worse then even Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  “The cap is the nuclear bomb, and the stem is all the dirt that was swept up into it,” he explains, describing the iconic mushroom shape produced by a ground blast like the one at Trinity.  “The bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki were detonated at 1900 and 1650 feet.  Their stems never touched their caps, so there was never much fallout.
When you have a ground level blast like Trinity a large amount of dirt is sucked into the cloud and mixed with radioactive material.  The temperatures are so hot that everything melts.  As the cloud cools off, different things condense out at different temperatures. As they solidify again, they fall out.”

When asked about the incidences of cancer and other deceases related to radioactive expose, Shonka said, “If you ask me if there is high likelihood that there are health related issues from Trinity, I can say yes.  As for why the Nevada Test downwinders have been given compensation and New Mexico hasn’t — that’s a question with a political answer.”

“If we were compensated, then the government would be admitting guilt” Gloria Herrera claims.  “The would be admitting the fact that they bombed us first.”  Her husband elaborates, “We are small. We are poor. We have no political power.”

For years, the voices of Trinity Downwinders were absent from political dialogue, newspaper coverage, or even public awareness.  Archival research done by VICE at the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico, found numerous clipping from local papers, stretching back to the 50s, reflecting on the legacy of the Trinity Test.  Yet until recently, there was no mention of the first victims of the Atomic Age.

This has begun to change.

In 2015 — some 70 years after the Trinity test — the National Cancer Institute began the first-ever official health study to quantitatively estimate the number of cancer cases in New Mexico (past and future) that may be related to the nuclear test.  That same year, Senator Udall took the senate floor and made an impassioned speech in support of the amendments to add New Mexico Downwinders to the government’s Radiation Exposure Compensation Program (RECA).

Support has grown: Both US Senators and all 3 US house members from New Mexico are co-sponsors to the RECA amendments.  But the measure has failed to advance in Congress for several years.
“Many people here have little faith in the federal government,” says Tina, noting the trepidation of NM Downwinders towards both the federally funded health study and the will of congress to included their claims.

“Many think we are just looking for compensation,” says Cordova, “Which we deserve.  “But even more than anything we want the government to acknowledge what they did. We were the first sacrifice of the atomic age. That needs to recognized and corrected.”

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