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From Syria to 9/11: Saudi spymaster Bandar 'Bush' bin Sultan - Prince of Terrorists

Bandar bin Sultan
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Bandar bin Sultan is the director general of the Saudi Intelligence Agency. In that capacity, he has earned a well-deserved reputation as the "Prince of Terrorists."

According to the Wall Street Journal, Bandar is leading the rebel forces trying to overthrow the Syrian government. Many analysts consider Bandar a prime suspect in the apparent false-flag chemical weapons attack in al-Ghouta.

Adam Entous of the Wall Street Journal says that Prince Bandar and his Saudi Intelligence Agency manufactured "evidence" that the Syrian government had used sarin gas prior to the al-Ghouta attack.

Entous stated during a Democracy Now interview: "Bandar's intelligence agency concluded that chemical weapons were being used on a small scale by the regime. Followed by that, the Brits and the French were convinced of the same conclusion. It took US intelligence agencies really until June to reach that conclusion."

In other words, Bandar used his money, clout, and connections to make sure that "the intelligence would be fixed around the policy" - just like Bush did with the alleged Iraqi WMDs in 2003.

Chess

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister blasts U.N. report on Syria chemical weapons attack as "politicized, preconceived and one-sided"

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© GettySyrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, right, meets Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov in Damascus, Sept. 17, 2013.
Russia all but dismissed Wednesday a report by United Nations weapons inspectors who visited the Damascus suburbs to investigate the facts surrounding an Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack, and said Syria had handed over evidence allegedly showing it was rebel forces who carried out the attack.

The U.S., Britain, and France, along with many other nations and global organizations, concluded even before the U.N. report was published on Monday that Syrian President Bashar Assad's military fired the rockets containing sarin gas into the Ghouta suburbs early that morning.

Snakes in Suits

Teenager becomes first person arrested under China's new anti-gossip law

A 16-year-old pupil at a school in west China has become the first person arrested under the country's draconian new anti-gossip law.

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© Unknown'Why do we allow venom on the internet and believe ourselves powerless to stop it?’
Last week, China's Supreme Court warned that anyone spreading a rumour on the internet faces three years in prison if more than 5,000 people see it, or if it gets reposted more than 500 times.

"Society has demanded serious punishment for [...] using the internet to spread rumours and defame people," said Sun Jungong, the court spokesman. "No country would consider libel to be 'freedom of speech'," he added.

The new measure was widely criticised as an expansion of the police state onto the internet, which until now has been censored far less stringently than the traditional media. Critics warned that the law gives government officials another tool to arrest their opponents and that it would spread fear over the web.

"I am really scared now that any whistleblowing might lead to an arrest," said Zhou Ze, a rights lawyer with more than 165,000 followers on Sina Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. "We all have to talk less, and more carefully," he added, to Reuters.

However the first person to fall foul of the law was not an activist or a whistleblower, but an outspoken teenager.

Bad Guys

Flashback Ridiculous DHS list: You might be a domestic terrorist if...

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An 18-year veteran in law enforcement warned to beware of Homeland Security training that is being pushed to local law enforcement. "You might be a Domestic Terrorist If" you believe in civil liberties, or if you actually believe in your Constitutional rights. Sadly, this is NOT a joke.

We've all heard the "You might be a Redneck If" jokes, but in this series "You might be a Domestic Terrorist If" you believe in civil liberties, or if you actually believe in your Constitutional rights. Sadly, this is not a joke. You might also be a terrorist if you have ever expressed concerns of Big Brother. Are you a Christian who has ever discussed the anti-Christ, the apocalypse, or even mentioned the book of Revelation? Guess what, according to DHS then you too qualify as a potential domestic terrorist.

An 18-year veteran in law enforcement warned to beware of Homeland Security training that is being pushed to local law enforcement. James Wesley Rawles recently posted on AxXiom for Liberty some very disturbing trends in law enforcement training. He reports a shift in focus in the last 18 years from local community to a "federally dominated model of complete social control" coming out of, not surprisingly, Homeland Security. More specifically, the long-reaching DHS arms of TSA and FEMA have been pushed heavily in the last two years to local law enforcement.

Dollars

Whale of a fine: After blowing $6bn, JP Morgan's trader costs another $920m

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© Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesJP Morgan chairman Jamie Dimon: 'We have accepted responsibility and acknowledged our mistakes from the start.'
Chairman Jamie Dimon sends letter to staff warning of 'more to come' after regulators hit bank with fine

Last spring the City of London was rife with rumours about a trader at the vast JP Morgan investment bank who was making such huge bets on the highly complex - and deeply risky - derivatives markets that he was known as "the London Whale" or "Voldemort". After racking up losses of $6bn (£3.7bn) from his reckless trading, the London Whale blew another hole in the bank on Thursday - landing the Wall Street firm with one of the largest fines ever levied against a single bank.

The Whale was a French-born trader, Bruno Iksil. When stories of his dangerous dealings and the scale of the potential black hole first surfaced, JP Morgan's chairman Jamie Dimon, then Wall Street's most respected banker, shrugged off the losses off with a phrase that will haunt his career: "It's a complete tempest in a teapot," he insisted.

On Thursday, however, the bank agreed to pay some $920m in penalties to US and UK regulators over the "unsafe and unsound practices" that had allowed the bank's losses to balloon to $6.2bn. The near record fine comes as former JP Morgan bankers face criminal action in the US and it has all but sunk Dimon's once promising political career. It is also just one of a series of costly and damaging scandals that are rocking the financial institution.

Snakes in Suits

Shock claim by Clinton mistress on Hillary's sexuality

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© Daily MailGennifer Flowers told the Daily Mail in an interview that Bill Clinton told her that wife Hillary Clinton was bisexual.
Gennifer Flowers, the woman who claimed to have had a years-long sexual relationship Bill Clinton, has said in a new interview that he told her his wife Hillary was bisexual.

Flowers told the Daily Mail that she wasn't surprised about the rumors of an affair between Hillary Clinton and longtime aide Huma Abedin, the wife of ex-congressman and failed New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner.

"I don't know Huma or the Weiners. I just know what Bill told me and that was that he was aware that Hillary was bisexual and he didn't care. He should know," Flowers said, according to the Daily Mail.

Stormtrooper

Navy Yard: Swat team 'stood down' at mass shooting scene

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On Wednesday, investigators continued to process the scene
One of the first teams of heavily armed police to respond to Monday's shooting in Washington DC was ordered to stand down by superiors, the BBC can reveal.

A tactical response team of the Capitol Police, a force that guards the US Capitol complex, was told to leave the scene by a supervisor instead of aiding municipal officers.

The Capitol Police department has launched a review into the matter.

Aaron Alexis, 34, killed 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard.

"I don't think it's a far stretch to say that some lives may have been saved if we were allowed to intervene," a Capitol Police source familiar with the incident told the BBC.

Take 2

Navy Yard shooting: Capitol Police tactical team called back to Hill

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© Drew Angerer/Getty ImagesPolice cars sit parked at the entrance to the Washington Navy Yard September 17, 2013 in Washington, DC
WUSA9 has learned that a Capitol Police tactical team was prepared to enter the Navy Yard to stop Aaron Alexis -- and was ordered back to the Capitol by a watch commander.

The team was in contact with Metropolitan Police, who were pleading for help, but was turned around by a Capitol Police inspector.

Two MPD officers went in without the team, and one of the officers was shot.

The Capitol Police Board has now launched an independent investigation following our story. Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine released a statement:

Megaphone

Letter from a United States Army officer to the people of the United States

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The United States Army is here to support and defend the People of the United States. The Army is not supposed to be a tool used by the Executive Branch to wage proxy wars against Nations with different views or to impose the will of institutionalized businesses on the rest of the world as it has over the last 12 years.

We, the United States, have been part of a never ending series of proxy wars and illegal unecessary wars that really began over 65 years ago. It is time to stop. It is time for the people to take back control of our government and stop the useless killing of thousands based on the greed of a few profitable organizations.

All Soldiers have taken a sworn oath to defend the Constitution against its enemies both domestic and foreign and remain loyal to the American way of life. There are two different oaths that are taken. One is for Soldiers and one is for Officers. Both swear to support and defend the Constitution. The key difference is the omission of the promise to obey in the Officer's oath. Officers are legally bound by the same Uniform Code of Military Justice as all Soldiers are, but they are not morally bound. Officers are trusted by the American People, through their congressional representatives who approve commissions, with the enormous moral responsibility of knowing when not to obey.

Evil Rays

42 days after "microwave mind control" complaint, Alexis (allegedly) kills 12. Coincidence?

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There was a Newport, Rhode Island police report summarizing an early morning complaint in August by Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis.

Alexis complained that an individual he had an altercation with in an airport had "sent 3 people to follow him and keep him awake by talking to him...using 'some sort of microwave device.'"

Was this a first red flag leading to an alarming portrait of a defense contractor suffering from mental illness? Or fact?

What caused Alexis to voice this complaint on August 7, 2013, 42 days prior to embarking on a shooting rampage at the Navy Yard, leaving 13 workers dead and more questions than answers?

Law enforcement officials close to the investigation have reported to the press that the stock of Alexis' shotgun had been carved with "Better off this way" and "My ELF weapon."

Comment: If all or any of this sounds bizarre, then y'all would not believe the stuff 'Pentagon types' get up to regularly.

The ONI was making ships (and their crews) disappear in the late '40s.

The CIA had "perfected" mind-controlled assassins by the early '50s.

That's 60-70 years ago!