Preston James, PhD: The Beast!

It's big, it's bad, and it's claimed to be biological human super brain, interfaced with the world's most powerful 3D computer chips. At least this is what information has been leaking out from informed sources, and you thought the people running the world, were the most criminal sociopaths imaginable. The beast sets a whole new standard. Just wait until you find out "what" is really running things at the highest level of the Secret Shadow Government (SSG). Those who built it and use it refer to "it" as "The Beast". And yes, it can "it", and despite what some on the inside may claim, the Beat is not a person, but instead of it's creators being in charge of it, it is rumored to have artfully and craftily gained control over them, now using them to manipulate society, according to its own super logic. It's solutions that have been implement, and are now being implemented, are creating so many serious complications that must be relied upon, even more to help those who run American Society cope. This appears to be an ever deepening rabbit hole, a big trap, that is taking America to destruction, unless it is stopped cold. Ever wonder why recent Congressional Laws, USG policies and Executive Orders seem for foreign and un American. It's probably because they are being conceived by the SSG's huge underground computer system, the beast, which is allegedly claimed to be an artificially grown human super brain, interfaced with the world's largest arrays of "3D" computer chips ever assembled. Is the beast running all USG Policy? It has been rumored that the beast runs numerous parallel simulations of American Society, and every other society of the world, including their intel, defense, governments, and populaces. Because any information we have is all based on leaks and rumors, that are "highly possible", one cannot refer to actual evidence of its existence at this time, including any location, who may have built it, or runs it, or whether it exists as described by such rumors. The best anyone can do right now, unless they are in the inside, deep within the Secret Shadow Government, with access to this alleged project, is to create a picture from all the open sourced intell available and the various rumors. If one wanted to make an educated guess, who built it, one would want to examine all the world's top computer experts, and see who dropped off the scene in the last ten years or so, or who suddenly stopped talking.

By Juan Gonzalez and Matthew Fox: Former Catholic

Priest on "The Pope's War"and Clergy's Child Molestation. Juan Gonzalez: As Pope Benedict formally stepped down on Thursday, speculation mounts over who will become the next pope. On Wednesday, Pope Benedict bid an emotional farewell at his last general audience, saying he understood the gravity of his decision to become the first pontiff to resign in nearly 600 years. The 85 year old pope cited ill health, as the reasons for his departure. Addressing an estimated 150,000 supporters in St Peter's Square, Pope Benedict said he is resigning for the good of the church. In these past months, I have felt that my strength has decreased, and I have asked God, earnestly in prayer, to enlighten me and, with His light, make me take the right decision, not for my own good, but for the good of the church. I have taken this step in full awareness of its gravity and also its rarity. However, with a profound serenity of spirit. Loving the church also means having the courage to take difficult and anguished choices, always having in mind the good of the church and not oneself. I was deeply grateful for the understanding, support, and prayers of so many of you, not only here in Rome, but also around the world. The decision I have made, after much prayer, is the fruit of a serene trust in God's will, and a deep love of Christ's church. I will continue to accompany the church with my prayers, and I ask each of you to pray for me, and for the new pope. Pope Benedict's tenure was marked by several scandals, perhaps most notably his handling of sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, including allegations he ignored at least one case of abuse, while serving as a cardinal. Documents show in 1985, when he was known as Cardinal Ratzinger, he delayed efforts to defrock a priest convicted of molesting children. Meanwhile, last year he oversaw an assessment from the Vatican, that found the largest and most influential group of Catholic nuns in the United States had, quote, "serious doctrinal problems" because it had challenged the church's teachings on homosexuality and the male only priesthood, among other things. More recently, Italian news sources say an investigation by three cardinals, into leaked Vatican documents show rampant corruption in the Vatican ranks.   

Jim W. Dean: New Genome Study Destroys Zionist Claims to Palestine!

This article did very well on Press TV. We jumped on it at VT, because we saw it's Mid East shattering implications, regarding the Zionist myth, biblical claims to Palestine. My readers know what I have always felt about a bunch of communist atheistic Jews claiming a God given right tyo anything, but this new genome study was written from a purely scientific approach . The study was covered internationally everywhere but in the US, surprise, surprise. All geopolitical implications below, are mine and not Dr Elhait's. The militant Zionists have already politicized it, by sending arch Zionist Dore Gold out to do a hit piece on this new work. Dore has handed me his head on a platter, and I will be serving it to you all on a follow up piece platter, with all the trimmings. You might want to get a good bottle of wine, to go with it. The real holocaust deniers have exposed themselves. On December 14, 2012, Dr Eran Elhait turned almost two generations of Jewish genome research upside down. But he went even further: The young Israeli American geneticist has charged former researchers with academic fraud, and he has the research to back it up! How could those eminent Jewish scientists before him have been so wrong? Easy, says Dr Elhait, "First these researchers decided what conclusions they wanted to find, and then they set off to find evidence to support it." I was not bashing Jewish scientists, What Elhait has described is a slam dunk fraud. But why? Why would Jews, who take such pride in the academic achievement, risk exposing themselves to a group deception, which was bound to be discovered later? Dr Elhait does not delve into the quicksand of the politics, but I will gladly do so. They perpetrated the fraud solely to support the bogus biblical claim to Palestine, which was anchored in their being a separate people. This distinguished them from all others, because they claimed a land title in their blood. They bet the farm on this DNA proof of purchase, a God given bar coded passport to the Palestine. Dr Elhait just erased the bar code. It was just stamped on anyway, because it was never in the blood. Why did they do it? The second half of the answer did not reveal in his research, that you had a bunch of atheist, communist Jews shoot their way into taking over the land, with the sole moral cover that 'God gave it us only'.           

Senior Editor Gordon DUFF: Hagel Confirmation Confounds America!

The US Senate approved Chuck Hagel as the next secretary of defense. "With America involved in multiple wars, Afghanistan, now in Mali, with America moving toward intervention in Syria, will defense one outlining real national interests and, just perhaps, more realistic limitations on American power, alter America's global strategy?" Moments ago it was announced that the US Senate, voting 58/41 along party lines, confirmed Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. Four Republicans joined Democrats in supporting Hagel in a nomination battle, entirely based on the issue of American political subservience to Israel. All 12 Jewish senators voted to confirm Hagel! The two term Republican senator from Nebraska, now Secretary of Defense and first combat veteran ever to hold that position, has been outspoken in his independence from Israeli influence, at least by American standards. Earlier in the day, the Senate ended a Republican filibuster with a 71/27 vote, setting the stage for Hagel's confirmation. Among the Republican senators to cross the aisle, and support fellow Republican Hagel, was Rand Paul, son of former representative, and unsuccessful presidential candidate, Ron Paul, foremost critic of America's broken "Federal Reserve" banking system. To analysts, the confirmation process has been the most naked exposure the powerful Israeli lobby has had, exposure so blatant, that it was featured in comedy skits on network television. In particular, a powerful wedge has been driven between AIPAC, the Israeli lobby, and military and veterans organizations. Support for Hagel has been well above 90%, with these powerful groups normally closely aligned with Israel. That bond appears to be broken, temporarily at least. Though the media is trying to portray Hagel as damaged, by the endless smears he was subjected to during the confirmation hearings, President Obama remained steadfast in his support of Hagel. The initial vote on Hagel's confirmation was blocked, when 40 Republican senators walked out of congress, shutting down the government. The move was orchestrated by Las Vegas gambling boss, Sheldon Adelson, key financier behind the failed Romney campaign, who put up millions to block the Hagel nomination. Forty one Republicans chose not just to oppose a highly qualified candidate, but also to lay bare the reach of, not just the Israeli lobby but interests in the "hospitality industry," another way of saying "organized crime."  

Dr. Kevin Barrett: Seven Myths About the Iraq War!

Nafeez Ahmed was the original Muslim 9/11 truth scholar. His book, The War on Freedom, the earliest work of its kind, made a 9/11 truther of Gore Vidal. He is also a star contributor to the book I edited, 9/11 and the American Empire. Nafeez's controlled demolition of the war criminal BBC, reproduced below, nicely complements Tony Rooke's moral victory over the BBC, in Monday's court case. Seven Myths About the Iraq War: How BBC News-night failed journalism on the 10 years anniversary of the invasion. As a participant in BBC News-night special, "Iraq, 10 Years On", I found myself feeling slightly miffed at the lack of real debate on the crucial issues. On the one hand, Newsnight presented a number of narratives of the war and its aftermath as "fact", which are deeply questionable. On the other, there were no serious, factually grounded criticisms of the war, despite a diverse panel, which included people who did not support it. As author of a major book on the war and its historical context, Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq, as well as co-author of a new report, Executive Decisions: How British Intelligence was Hijacked for the Iraq War, I consider myself to be reasonably informed. Yet BBC News-night failed almost entirely to bring any of these issues to light. What follows is my Newsnight inspired Iraq War Myth Busting exercise, based on what was, and wasn't discussed on the show: Myth 1. Sectarian violence has increased in postwar Iraq, because sectarianism has always existed in Iraq, and the removal of Saddam allowed it to erupt. One of the first News-night bloopers started with a short introductory clip from John Simpson, the BBC's World Affairs Editor. Among other things, Simpson talked about the rise of sectarian Sunni Shi'a violence in postwar Iraq, and argued that, while Saddam's regime had clamped down on sectarian divisions, regime change effectively unleashed those previously suppressed divisions and allowed them to worsen. This was the first of many over simplifications about the escalation of sectarian violence in Iraq. The reality, as pointed out on the show by my colleague in the audience, anthropologist Professor Nadje al Ali, is that prior to the war, generic sectarian antagonism was unheard of in Iraqi society.

Tomgram: Kramer and Hellman, The Washington Creation

That Ate Your Lunch! To Tom Dispatch Readers: I know I'm starting to sound like the proverbial broken record, but once again, many thanks for the surge of recent $100 donations, in return for signed copies of Nick Turse's new book, Kill Anything that Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam. It's great to get this sort of help, defraying the unexpected costs of fixing and strengthening this site for the future, after its recent crash, when it simply couldn't handle a rise in traffic and popularity. The second appearance of Nick's book on the New York Times extended bestseller list has been a genuine surprise, and no less surprising, it's been a runaway "bestseller" at Tom Dispatch as well. In fact, there have been so many requests for copies, that we've once again run out. Be patient. We've ordered more, and anyone who still wants to take us up on the offer, be sure to check out the Tom Dispatch donation page. Once upon a time, "homeland" was a word of little significance in the American context. What American before 9/11 would have called the United States, his or her "homeland" rather than "country"? Who sang "My homeland, tis of thee, sweet land of liberty"? Between my birth in 1944, as World War II was drawing to a close, and September 11, 2001, I doubt I ever heard the word in reference to the US. There was a reason: "homeland" had a certain ring to it, and anyone would have known at once, just what that ring, that resonance, was. Not to put too fine a point on it, we're talking about the ring of evil. It sounded like the sort of word the Nazis or perhaps Stalin, would have used as the terrible totalitarians of the previous century mobilized their people for horrific wars and heinous crimes. It's true that, in the run up to September 11th, somewhere in the corridors of Washington, there were right wingers already pushing to homeland-ize this country. The word, along with the idea of creating a future Office of Homeland Security, was then gestating like the monster baby in the movie Alien, awaiting its moment to burst forth. Today, there's nothing alien about that most un-American of terms. It has slipped so smoothly into our lives, that "Homeland" is the name of a popular TV show, and college students looking for a good livelyhood, can now get a BA or an MA coast to coast in, yep, homeland security.  

Jonas E. Alexis: Abu Ghraib and the Jewish Century!

The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century. Modenization, in other words, is about everyone becoming Jewish, words by Jewish historian Yuri Slezkine of the University of California. This is another major article from one of our new writers that I highly recommend. Our VT readers expect us to be helpful in connecting the dots, and providing framing for the geo political brawl we seem to find ourselves in wherever we look. How much of it is forced on us, and how much we bring to ourselves, are some of the themes addressed below. A well researched piece with 144 footnotes, it is worth a good read. Rabbi Eric H Yoffie of the Union for Reform Judaism, wrote an article in the Huffington Post last month, basically saying that there is no such thing as a secular Jew. Jewish intellectual Sam Harris indirectly proves the rabbi right, by standing with Israel's crimes. In his best selling book: "The Moral Landscape", Harris argues that in many places in the United States, corporal punishment is used in public schools, and in those public schools, a teacher is allowed to beat a child with a wooden board hard enough to raise large bruises, and even to break the skin. Hundreds of thousands of children are subjected to this violence each year. It looks as though Sam Harris is interested in alleviating suffering, and eliminating torture, but the simple fact is that it is very easy to posit huge claims, but it is not easy to marshal convincing evidence for the same claims. Harris gave us no evidence for this particular claim, but he let us grant him the premise here, that he is right. How is this consistent with torture, which Harris has advocated for years, both in writing and during public appearances? Harris is very much concerned about spanking a child with a wooden board, and yet the same Harris is not concerned about torturing, raping and sodomizing grown ups. What was more interesting was that many of those who were tortured, turned out to be innocent. The brutal acts that happened in Abu Ghraib included rape, sodomy, homicide, and even urinating on detainees, and having them masturbate. Using the evidence that had blown out in the open in 2010, the Washington Post told us that "hundreds of other cases in which prisoners were subjected to electric shock, sodomized, burned, whipped or beaten by Iraqi authorities."