Everyone who has been there is charmed by this exquisite city of great antiquity. It has survived two dozen wars and is the focal point for the two peoples – Palestinians and Jews – and the three religions, Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

Its many holy places are a magnet to the faithful of all denominations from all corners of the world, which is why Jerusalem was designated an international city under separate management in the UN’s 1947 Partition Plan.

But Israel’s ongoing military occupation and annexation mean that countless Christian and Muslim Palestinians – even those living just outside the city – have been unable to visit their holy places for many years. And travellers from outside the Holy Land have to endure the obnoxious interference of Israeli security if they wish to set foot in Palestine and the old city.

Zionists claim Jerusalem is theirs by right. Actually, it was already 2000 years old and an established, fortified city when captured by King David. It dates back 5000 years and the name is derived from Uru-Shalem, meaning “founded by Shalem (the Canaanite God of Dusk)”.

A potted history looks like this. Jerusalem, in its ‘City of David’ form, lasted only 73 years. In 928BC the Kingdom divided into Israel and Judah, and in 597BC the Babylonians conquered the city and destroyed Solomon’s temple.

The Jews recaptured it in 164BC but finally lost it to the Roman Empire in 63BC. Before the present troubles the Jews, in total, controlled Jerusalem for some 500 years compared to the 1,200+ years it was subsequently ruled by Muslims and the 2000 years, or thereabouts, it originally belonged to the Canaanites.

A burning issue today is the control of, and access to, the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, the third holiest in Islam after Mecca and Medina, and the centre of Christian belief. Here, according to Biblical tradition, Solomon built the first temple, completed in 953BC but destroyed by the Babylonians in 586BC. After years in exile the Jews built their second temple, which was destroyed by the Romans under Titus in 70AD. When the Jews rebelled against Roman occupation a second time Hadrian barred them from the city.

The 4th century, when Jerusalem became a Christian city, saw the building of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Persians came and went, leaving a trail of destruction. Then, after the Islamic conquest in 690, two major shrines were constructed over the ruins of the earlier temples, the Dome of the Rock, from which Muhammed is said to have ascended to Heaven, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Crusaders re-took Jerusalem in 1099 and The Temple Mount became the headquarters of the Knights Templar. In 1187 Saladin ended the Crusader Kingdom and restored the city to Islam while allowing Jews and Christians to remain.

Israel is glaringly racist

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…by Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

We are going to begin on Hollywood.  To a large extent, Hollywood is a closed community, largely Jewish, with censorship and controls by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Anti-Defamation League “protecting” at risk populations from, as it now turns out, freedom of expression but not rape.

What we have really found is that “watchdog” organizations, several, have blackmailed sex criminals for over $250 million in recent months only.

This is a ton of cash for people tied directly to Steve Bannon.  I love Bannon.  It has been Bannon that has long proven that the neo-Nazi haters and the Israel lobby eat at the same table, live on the same corporate cash and back the same crooked politicians.

This, of course, proves Americans “too stupid to live” but Nixon and Reagan did that long before George W. Bush made it official. Trump is just icing on the cake.

I love this idea of Russians influencing things.  We know who runs the news, the media, who censors everything we see and hear, and who pays millions to silence and smear anyone who tries to tell the truth.

When that doesn’t work, murder works, over and over.

Russia never had anything to do with it.  America is destroyed by poisoned food, air and water, by lies told in schools, by Google and Facebook, by MTV, by most reality TV (except the show where people make knives, that one is ultra-cool) and by pseudo-lefty controlled opposition.

We need full national health care, a $15 dollar minimum wage, no more doctors unions, and end to insurance and pharmaceutical companies, and the Federal Reserve closed immediately and the assets around the world of their multiple central banks seized and those involved executed and arrested, as required by applicable laws.

America needs a real constitution, unlike the one the Rothschilds bought us with their Federalist traitor friends.  We don’t need two senators for non-existent states, we don’t need an electoral college or a Supreme Court.  These are anti-democratic/royalist institutions that function under foreign control.

We need one special interest group, America.  Government is supposed to do what Trump actually promised, protect borders, end trade inequities and stop interfering in world affairs. He just hasn’t done any of it, not hardly.

We need to close the service academies, clean the garbage careerists out of the military and cut out standing army to nothing.  We need mandatory military training for all Americans like Israel does.  I like what they do, it’s smart.

Drug trade, drug use has to end including a start with the banks that work with the cartels and the CIA’s involvement.  Drug test everyone every week starting with Trump and Congress.

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by  Gordon Duff, VT Sr. Editor  … with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow

[ Editor’s Note: This made it up to number four on NEO over Christmas day. It is that time of the year to be getting Gordon’s annual SitRep before the New Year celebration. Put on your seat belt.

Those of you on depression medicine, take an extra dose and wait a couple of hours before reading this, as it ain’t pretty. Regular VT readers already know.

The question we all face is what we can really do about it. We have all been around long enough to know that our elected people don’t want to wander off the plantation they have been allowed to run as overseers.

But in no way are they ever to question those in the big house. They risk losing the good life if they do. We see this among many of the specially trained military people, where the old days of getting a nice secure job in some government organization with guaranteed security was considered the jackpot.

That is now considered the dregs. They want the big money DHS contracts, preferably overseas where they can earn the tax free money, all of which can be banked, as they have all their expenses covered on assignment.

This filters down to why some people are even going into the military, to serve themselves. They are smart enough to know that a peaceful world will see reductions in force, fewer promotions, and probably a slowed civilian job market at home, working for peanuts.

Many are on board the unipolar power play the US is on; and they don’t care much whether the threats are real or not, as long as the checks don’t bounce.

Fortunately most are not that way, but there are enough to keep the merc ranks full. I wish I could pull a genie out of a bottle to tell me how this will all work out, but that appears to be a myth, too… Jim W. Dean ]

Immediately after Donald Trump spoke those words at the Republican national convention Thursday night, the massive crowd erupted into chants of “USA…USA…USA!”

Whenever I hear crowds yelling “USA” like that it always gives me a queasy feeling, for what it suggests is blind patriotism. Trump’s speech came three days after 20 civilians died in US airstrikes on the Syrian city of Manbij; two days after the French airstrikes that killed 120 more civilians in the village of Toukhan al-Kubra, just to the north of Manbij; and also two days after the emergence of a horrendously graphic video showing US-backed “moderate rebels” of the Nour al-Din al-Zenki movement beheading a young boy from Aleppo.

While plenty of people have expressed shock over the video and made note of the fact that the boy’s murderers were backed by the US, few have bothered to report the youngster’s name. According to Al Manar, his name was Abdullah Issa. He was 12 years old. The report also mentions that he suffered from Thalassemia, a blood disorder, and was abducted from a hospital after a brother of Omar Salkho, Nour al-Din al-Zenki’s Aleppo commander, was killed. Apparently this was sufficient cause for beheading a child.

A heartbreaking exchange is said to have taken place when Salkho reportedly asked the terrified young boy if he had a last wish.

… via Press TV, Tehran

[ Editor’s Note: This was a big surprise, the realization that money was better spent helping African countries fight human smuggling at the source to cut the flow of illegal immigration.

A totally suppressed part of this story is the hoax image of impoverished people fleeing these counties. Smugglers do not move you for free. You are not provided free food along the way. Libyan boat smugglers do not take you across the Med for free.

You have to have done quite well in your impoverished country to even set off on your trip to the EU. You need to be able to bribe border guards when needed, and how hide your boat money in a tube up your butt for the times when you are robbed along the way where you have to empty your pockets.

I have always editorialized that it is always cheaper to help people where they are in these struggling countries where costs are way lower to do it, versus the high cost of doing so in the upper income industrialized countries.

It is Fake Charity to offer someone the lotto prize of open illegal immigration, at a cost where you could have helped TEN families back in their home country. None of the bleeding heart folks ever want to discuss that issue.

But despite everything said, if procreation at the present rates in Africa continues, there is nothing that can break the cycle of poverty if they continue to produce children at levels they cannot sustain them with suitable economies.

No matter how much aid goes in, it flows in and out of the country via being spent on imports, and then mega-graft that is exported to foreign bank accounts, never to be reinvested into the domestic economies … Jim W. Dean]

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…by Jonas E. Alexis

Newsweek has recently quoted Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying that there is no need for the United States to get involved into a bloody war with North Korea. Lovrov said:

“We call on partners to focus on solving specific problems of the Korean Peninsula on the basis of negotiations. And for this, it is necessary not to rupture contacts with Pyongyang, but, on the contrary, develop it.”[1]

Lavrov moved on to say that Russia “does not share the desire of some states to exert maximum pressure on North Korea, which is often interpreted by them as establishing full economic and political blockade of this country by all available means.”[2]

Isn’t that interesting? New World Order agents and Zionist outlets like Newsweek have universally compared modern Russia under Vladimir Putin with the old Soviet Union under Stalin because, we are told, Russia is aggressive, Russia is evil, Russia hacked the election, Russia did this and Russia did that. But when it comes to establishing reasonable discourse in the political universe, Russia comes right on top! In fact, Russia, as Haaretz has reported, “Wields Most Influence in Middle East; Netanyahu Least Popular Leader.”[3]

Moreover, Russia’s position here is completely opposite to what the Neocons, warmongers, and ethnic cleansers have taken. Remember John Bolton? Let’s quote him again:

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by Jim W. Dean, VT editor,  … with Press TV, Tehran

[ Editor’s Note: The hard line Syrian Jihadi opposition is playing out their hand as expected, as pawns.

Now that the war is winding down and their groups have fewer opportunities for milking money out of struggling desperate Syrians at border crossings and checkpoints, they are 100% on the tit of their US Coalition backers.

Their goal now is insulating themselves from being reduced in power to the small vote percentages they can produce at the polls if Assad is still running. They want to negotiate a deal as “equals” or to have some autonomy so they can continue their lives as parasites on the locals.

Pray that eventually the final deal has them staying in Syria, that some secret promise has not been made to bring them back to America on special visas or Congressional Act as “friends” of America.

Long forgotten is how we brought 250,000 hard core Somalis here after their war, people who never understood what the term assimilate meant, and would have laughed at being presented anything else but “my tribe first”…all of them mini-Trumps.

Their attitude toward American customs and expectations was, “shove that up your butt”. They became instant welfare scamsters, petty criminals, car thieves, ID theft, phone scams, you name it. America was the land of endless people to scam.

These people were all dumped into local communities where they not only competed with real Americans, but were given priority for benefits. Under UN treaty refugees get to jump the line on waiting lists for things like housing.

Will Americans raise the needed hell over this with their Congressmen if the State Department wants to bring terrorist refugees here? I doubt it. Trump has them distracted with his daily tweets like a carnival barker, competing with the morning news shows as to what their concerns for the day will be. I wish I were only kidding ... Jim W. Dean ]

by Preston James

Author’s Note: For many years you were never supposed to find out most of the contents of this article. But now all things have changed and there is a new sheriff. It is now okay for disclosure to proceed step-by-step. Years ago there was danger and harassment that usually always followed the author of this type of disclosure. Now the green light has been given so enjoy this information. A fair degree of major disclosure is now at hand.

The First Hijacking of America occurred in 1913 when the City of London private central Banksters passed the illegal, unconstitutional Federal Reserve Act. The second hijacking of America occurred when the Secret Shadow Government was formed as a knee-jerk reaction to the Roswell crash of an Alien ET anti-gravity craft and its recovery along with dead Alien ETs and at least one live one rescued.

This article is about the third hijacking of the USG (and the Secret Shadow Government too) by a deep-black Secret Space War faction which is now in process.

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In a recent prior article entitled, The Second Hijacking of America, it was disclosed how the Secret Shadow Government (SSG) quickly emerged as a powerful covert entity after the Roswell recovery of a crashed UFO with dead Alien ET bodies (and at least one live Alien ET survivor).

So-called “national security” was deployed to protect these secrets from the American People at all costs and resulted in a complete lock-down of all related information and numerous lethal threats accompanied by numerous murders of witnesses (including one nurse who talked and ended up buried in the desert, whacked by US Army Intel).

This demand for absolute secrecy about Alien ETs (also referred to as Extraterrestrial Biological Entities or EBEs) enabled this newSecret Shadow Government (SSG) to become the actual ruling government which slowly but surely has hijacked and replaced the visible DC government.

This process has transformed the DC visible government into a ceremonial body, allowed to exist to keep the public masses conned into thinking they have actual, real representation in government when they have very little at all.

It also provided the power necessary to covertly transform the visible DC government into a gelded ceremonial government, while maintaining the illusion that the citizen votes really mattered.

We now know for certain the the stark reality that Planet Earth has been and is now being visited by Alien ETs that are extremely advanced technologically and intellectually, some with extreme psi-powers.

Recognition of this extreme Alien ET technological superiority was burned into the Pentagon’s mindset by the recovered EBE’s anti-gravity craft and was so threatening to their need for absolute world defense supremacy that they imposed a complete security lock-down.

This complete lock-down was penetrated by President Eisenhower under threat of deploying his army and attacking Area 51, but as soon as he learned the shocking reality of Roswell, he too decided that secrecy from the public must be maintained.

Secretary of Defense James Forrestal felt otherwise and was thrown out of an upper floor of Bethesda Naval Hospital to his death by US Miltel operatives because he refused to keep the secret from the American People. He felt all Americans had the right to know the truth about Alien ETs and their anti-gravity craft.

Before Forrestal was assassinated by US Army Intel operatives, he briefed Jack Kennedy who was a member of the US House of Representatives at the time about his secret knowledge about Alien ETs and UFOs. Army Intel ops had poisoned Forrestal with a toxic drug that induced severe depression and cognitive confusion before they threw him out the window.

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…by Jonas E. Alexis

“I hope I’m wrong, but there’s a war coming,” said General Robert Neller to his US troops stationed in Norway. “You’re in a fight here, an informational fight, a political fight, by your presence.” This “big-ass war” is against Russia, Neller said.[1] Neller added:

“I think probably the focus, the intended focus is not on the Middle East. The focus is more on the Pacific and Russia.”[2]

Why Russia? Did the Neocons and New World Order agents in the United States present serious evidence that Russia hacked the US election? Did they have incontrovertible proof that Russia has conducted cyber warfare across the globe?

No. NWO agents are mad, sad, and want to be bad because they have been humiliated in Syria. They have no way to go because they cannot drink flesh blood in the region. That is why they are targeting the very country that stopped them from sucking the blood out of Syrian men, women and children.

New World Order agents have summoned one preposterous idea after another in order to delegitimize Russia, but their diabolical plan didn’t work as they hoped it would. But they continue to propound the same old and boring ideology. New World Order agents are now saying that Russians are everywhere: they are under your bedroom, in the bathroom, by your window, in your garage, in your refrigerator, on Twitter,[3] on Facebook,[4] etc., etc. NWO agents have recently forged a document which said:

“Through modernized forms of subversive tactics, Russia interferes in the domestic political affairs of countries around the world.

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Dear Mr. President:

You made us happy not because you are right, but because for once, you removed the false façade of the US as honest peace broker and maker. When I say we, I mean all those Palestinians under occupation and in the diaspora and all Arabs and Muslims who were under the “illusion” that the US is, after all committed to make a final break and conclude an ever lasting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis.

Well, I can say we were never under the “illusion” but always were hopeful and trustful, the US will live up to its principles of peace, justice, equality, liberty, self-determination and will bring about an end to the longest military and colonial occupation in modern history.

For over 50 years, the Palestinians, the Arabs, and even the Muslims were led to believe the US is doing all its best to bring about peace and reconciliation between the Palestinians and the Israelis, even though and since the days of President Johnson, the US was unbashful and shamelessly on the side of Israel “right and wrong” even at the expense of our national interests, the lives of our sailors who were murdered in cold blood by the Israeli during the 67 War with your predecessor Johnson in act of treason, not only refused to provide help to the crew of the USS Liberty but deliberately overrode the chief of staff preventing a full and open board of inquiry into the massacre that took place on the deck of the USS Liberty.

Of course the US not only did it pretend to work toward peace, but did everything to sabotage any real efforts in bringing about an end to this long festering conflict appointing and without fails, Israeli-First diplomats and special envoys to the Middle East, who made sure and consistent with their Zionism that Israel and the Palestinians will never be able to reach a credible peace agreement.

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The lunatic technocracy to introduce truth algorithms for us

by Phil Butler,  … with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow

[ Editor’s Note: Phil Butler is an angry man, particularly with Google, like many of us are for what we see going on behind the scenes with the American company that most of us were once proud of.

But Phil also brings a little more to the table besides anger. He has been involved in the search engine industry for some time, and had a front row seat on all the changes as the editor of one of the industry’s trade publications.

This article seems to be the beginning a dissection series to lay bare for the rest of us who only saw bits and pieces of Google morphing from a helping hand to a controlling one.

For those of you who remember the brilliant Rod Serling Twilight Zone TV series, you might remember the show where an alien space ship landed in a small town airport and presented a calling card book that had to be deciphered by the local geek of that day. 

The small town, cut off from the outside with all power shut down, was working through a series of “what to do” conflicts among the local citizens, a common Serling dramatic theme.

At the end of the show some citizen volunteer families are walking up the ramp of the space ship after the title of the introduction book had been translated as “How to Serve Man”.

While the town is waving goodbye to the lucky ones chosen to be the first ambassadors to the aliens, the town interpreter geek comes running down the street yelling, “Stop, stop! The rest of the brochure is a cookbook”!

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Dr. Vladslav Krasnov (also known as Wladislaw “George” Krasnow) of RAGA.org was a dissident in the former Soviet Union, where deviating from the official Communist Party line was a serious thoughtcrime. He defected to Sweden and then the United States in the 1960s, earned a doctorate in Russian Literature at the University of Washington, and has written three books and worked for many leading think tanks and government agencies. Today, he wonders whether Russia and the United States have switched places: Now it’s the USA that surveils its citizens, doesn’t tolerate dissenting voices, and insists on inflicting its mendacious official perspective on everyone, everywhere; while Russia has left Communism behind and emerged as a pluralistic nation, whose worst “crime” (according to the Masters of the Universe in Washington) is allowing Western dissidents to reach a larger audience via RT and Sputnik.

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IN ADDITION TO SAVING ISRAEL OVER $50 BILLION (THE COSTS OF ADMINISTERING THE OCCUPATION, THE PLO, NOTWITHSTANDING OVER 80,000 STRONG PALESTINIAN SECURITY FORCES, FAILED TO PROTECT THE LIVES, PROPERTIES OF ONE SINGLE PALESTINIAN AND FAILED TO PROTECT EVEN A SINGLE OLIVE TREE. THE PLO IS UNFIT TO PROTECT PALESTINIANS LET ALONE PROTECT JERUSALEM.

Over the past 50 years, the PLO leadership under Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas proved over and over it is incompetent, inept, too corrupt, self-serving and never was for liberation or ending the Israeli Occupation. Oslo proved the mission and longtime purpose of the PLO is to become manager of the Israeli army and settler occupation, providing security and funding for the Occupation, an criminal and fraudulent enterprise.

FOR OVER 25 YEARS, ARAFAT PERPETUATED THE FRAUD AND THE LIE THAT THE PLO AND FATAH ARE COMMITTED TO THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE, WHEN IN FACT, ALL ALONG HIS MISSION WAS TO BRING THE PLO WITH INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION TO ABANDON THE CAUSE OF LIBERATION AND MOVE TOWARD MANAGING THE ISRAELI JEWISH OCCUPATION AND FULL UNCONDITIONAL RECOGNITION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL.

During his tenure as Chairman of the PLO he marginalized all so called “institutions” of the PLO such as the PLO Executive Committee and the Palestine National Congress. No one in the history of Palestine could have done more damage to Palestine and the cause of liberation than Arafat and the PLO.

Editor’s note: Steve Robertson represents a move at VT, making a home for the major writers from mainstream media that simply couldn’t stand it anymore.  He now joins VT in Google’s exile department, delisted, misdirected and more.  They even froze my Gmail accounts, killed my YouTube and no longer allow me access to whatever “Google Plus” is.

Do I look like I care?  What’s their problem?  All I did was expose Google for running torture and assassination teams and staging, through “Jigsaw,” two gas attacks inside Syria.

If they can’t stand the heat, perhaps they should find another planet to subvert.  Anyway, Steve is a writer, a continual confidant, and works that spiritual side that folks like Ann Deiner and others belong on, stuff I never quite understand.

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…by Jonas E. Alexis

Yes, Virginia, there is a diabolical ideology at work in Iraq and Syria. This diabolical ideology has been supported by the Pentagon, which got their support from the Neoconservative movement, which got their support from the Israeli regime, which has vowed to oust Assad by any means necessary, including aiding and abetting terrorist organs in the region.[1]

This is not conspiracy theory. It is not even a secret. All you have to do is ask Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Oren, who said in 2013 that “The initial message about the Syrian issue was that we always wanted [President] Bashar Assad to go, we always preferred the bad guys who weren’t backed by Iran to the bad guys who were backed by Iran.”[2]

Oren said explicitly that terrorist cells like al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria “are pretty bad guys,” but Israel prefers them over Iran and the Assad government.

“Still, the greatest danger to Israel is by the strategic arc that extends from Tehran, to Damascus to Beirut. And we saw the Assad regime as the keystone in that arc. That is a position we had well before the outbreak of hostilities in Syria. With the outbreak of hostilities we continued to want Assad to go.”[3]

Since Israeli officials still want Assad gone by any means necessary, they have invented all kinds of crazy ideas as to why Assad is a bad guy: Assad used chemical weapons on his own people; Assad was deliberately liquidating civilians; Assad “is like Hitler.”[4] Blah, blah, blah.

By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor

Editor’s note:  Within an hour of posting this, we were hit with a hack. In doing so, I learned that I drew blood.  Thanks, it might have taken me an entire day to have my suspicions confirmed.  

Today we are talking about Sams Club and Direct TV and a scam that will set you rolling in the floor or piss you off, depending on how much you’ve had to drink or smoke today.  We begin with my usual politics.

Sometimes when I talk about stock or pension fund scams, it goes right over some people’s heads.  In general, the “dems” are for busting scammers who pay off GOP candidates to look the other way.  I could talk on this for hours.

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