DemocracyNow.org - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is facing new scrutiny over revelations he founded the private equity firm Bain Capital with investments from Central American elites linked to death squads in El Salvador. After initially struggling to find investors, Romney traveled to Miami in 1983 to win pledges of $9 million, 40 percent of Bain's start-up money. Some investors had extensive ties to the death squads responsible for the vast majority of the tens of thousands of deaths in El Salvador during the 1980s.
We're joined by Huffington Post reporter Ryan Grim, who connects the dots in his latest story, "Mitt Romney Started Bain Capital With Money From Families Tied To Death Squads." "There's no possible way that anybody in 1984 could check out these families -- which was the term that [Romney's campaign] used -- and come away convinced that this money was clean," Grim says.
To watch the complete weekday independent news hour, read the transcript, download the podcast, search our vast archive, or to find more information about Democracy Now! and Amy Goodman, visit http://www.democracynow.org/
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Banks Finally Allowed To Count Gold As 100% Money
GFP Note: We have recently posted articles about both gold market manipulation and the fact that central governments have been buying up tons of gold.
Off The Grid News
August 21, 2012, by Mike
This summer, a quiet change was made to the accounting rules for gold in bank vaults. It made headlines almost nowhere, but it has the potential to dramatically change how gold is viewed relative to cash in the broader economy. For informed and prepared minds, it’s also the chance to stock up up on gold at an attractive price before the mainstream masses really process the change.
Basically, for banks, gold is now 100 percent money. How is that different than it was before? Previously, banks could only count gold as 50 percent money.
To read the rest of this story, visit OffTheGridNews.com.
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US Treasury Admits It Conducted A Circular Ponzi Scheme For Years
Zero Hedge
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/17/2012
While one may wonder about the implications of the just announced "accelerated windown" of the GSEs, predicated in no small part by the surge in animosity between Tim Geithner and the FHFA's Ed DeMarco, there is one aspect of the announcement that is completely and utterly unambigious: as part of its justification to demand faster liquidation of Fannie and Freddie's "investment portfolio" Tim Geithner gave the following argument:
This will help achieve several important objectives, including... Ending the circular practice of the Treasury advancing funds to the GSEs simply to pay dividends back to Treasury
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The Vision Alignment Project A Vision for Trust
Top US Psychologist: Isolation Research Meant To Study Brainwashing
The Public Record
By Jeffrey Kaye
Aug 20th, 2012
Donald O. Hebb was a pioneer American psychologist. His paper “Drives and the CNS (Conceptual Nervous System)” was one of the most quoted academic papers of his time, garnering 232 academic citations even in a period from 14-22 years after its publication.
Hebb was elected president of the American Psychological Association in 1960. But Hebb was also a major researcher for the U.S. MK-ULTRA mind-control and coercive interrogation program. His primary interest was in the study of how isolation and sensory deprivation affects mind and behavior. An excellent essay on Hebb’s career in this regard is Alfred McCoy’s 2007 article for the Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, “Science in Dachau’s Shadow: Hebb, Beecher, and the Development of CIA Psychological Torture and Modern Medical Ethics” (PDF).
To read the rest of this story, visit PubRecord.org.
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Corporations Keep Quiet on Fraud
CFO INSIGHT.COM
By Rebecca Brace 20.8.2012
Over one-third of global financial professionals have worked in an organisation in which serious financial wrongdoing has taken place, according to a survey published by EuroFinance. But while the impact of serious fraud can be significant, the research highlights the obstacles that may be preventing companies from proactively addressing this area.
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Six CIA plans that are stranger than fiction
Current
By Stephanie Whiteside
August 9, 2012
"The Bourne Legacy" premieres this weekend, continuing the franchise's tale of genetically modified assassins created by a top-secret government agency. But although the Bourne tales may be fiction, they're not so far off from some of the plans hatched by the CIA.
Here are six real CIA ideas that are stranger than fiction:
1. Pigeon-guided missiles
During World War II, behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner experimented with training pigeons to steer missiles. The pigeons would be strapped into the nose cone and trained to peck the image of a target on a screen, which would keep the bomb on path.
Incredibly enough, there was initial support for the idea, but it was ultimately dismissed as impractical.
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Former Barclays CEO 'held back evidence'
Aljazeera
19 Aug 2012 02:37
Parliamentary committee claims Bob Diamond held back evidence during hearings on the Libor rate-rigging scandal.
British parliamentarians have accused former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond of holding back evidence during a hearing last month over the Libor rate-rigging scandal.
In a report issued on Saturday regarding the manipulation of a key inter-bank interest rate, the cross-party Treasury Select Committee claimed that Diamond offered "highly selective" evidence when he was questioned over the Libor affair.
To read the rest of this story and see the video, visit Aljazeera.com.
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New Inventions: Machine Reverts Plastic Back To Oil (English subtitles)
Uploaded by a2zme on Jul 25, 2011
A group in Japan has devised the technology to convert discarded plastics back into oil. One kilogram of plastics, if burned, can produce 3 kilograms of CO2. When reprocessed by the machine, that one kilogram of plastic can yield up to one liter of oil.
The inventor is Akinori ITO (CEO Blest.co.Ltd) -
web: http://www.blest.co.jp/seihin-english.html -
you can contact him though the site....
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Heavenletter #4289 Come from Good Will, August 22, 2012
Heavenletter #4289 Come from Good Will, August 22, 2012
God said:
Come from love. Unless you are coming from love, don't say it. Unless you are coming from love, be quiet. Even in little things, in little things that seem insignificant, unless you're coming from love, don't do it, don't say it, don't think it.
Even when it comes to deleting an email, if you are feeling resentful, let go of the resentment before you delete. If you are feeling spiteful, let go of spite. If you cannot let go of antagonism in the little things, how are you are going to manage negativity in bigger things?
You can let go of negativity. You can. You really can. Here is where you learn humility. I will tell you that nothing is worth negativity. Nothing. Have an ace up your sleeve. The ace is good will. And if the ace up your sleeve is not yet good will, then don't play that card.
You have a magic card, and it is good will. And if you do not yet have this magic card of good will, go for it. You can go for it in baby steps. The thing is that you go for it.
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NEW Crop Circle Report Tuesday 21st August 2012
Wansdyke, nr Furze Hill, Wiltshire. Reported 21st August.
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Images Gary Drake Copyright 2012
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Hackpen Hill (1), nr Broad Hinton. Wiltshire. Reported 21st August.
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Images Benjamin Chapman Copyright 2012
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Shoulder of Mutton Plantation, nr Hackpen Hill. Wiltshire. Reported 21st August.
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John Smallman ~ Jesus ~ God Loves Everything He Creates ~
22 August 2012
We in the spiritual realms are observing with joy your increasingly powerful intent to awaken. You yourselves have to make and hold that intent, and whereas in times past you were unable or unwilling to do so and allowed yourselves to be distracted from that vitally important task, now that intent is being held powerfully and constantly by sufficient numbers of you to bring you forward to the moment for your awakening. And your ongoing communications with others holding this same intent are further strengthening your collective will and bringing it more and more into alignment with God’s.
If it is your intent to awaken, then you most certainly will. As you go about your daily lives focus on that knowledge – you do have it and know it! – because by doing so you express, extend, and share with everyone the loving encouragement that will make it happen. Your individual energy fields glow with the light of your love for all of humanity and that softens and dissolves any unloving energies with which you come in contact, anywhere and anytime.
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Benjamin Fulford – Extra Update – Obiturary : Dr. Michael Van De Meer, AKA Dr. Michael Meiring, AKA??? The Real James Bond
Benjamin Fulford – Extra Update – Obiturary : Dr. Michael Van De Meer, AKA Dr. Michael Meiring, AKA??? The Real James Bond – 22 August 2012
The fictional character James Bond does not hold a candle to the real McCoy, the man I knew as Dr. Michael Van de Meer. In one of his rare moments of immodesty, Dr. Van de Meer once told me that “what James Bond does is rather tame compared to what I have done.” This man was unique and will be sorely missed by all who knew him.
When I first met him in person, he showed me an attaché case containing an Uzi and 7 passports, all real and all with his photo on them. The attaché case had a bullet proof lining. While I was visiting him in the Philippines somebody tried to kill him by dumping large amounts of insecticide into the ventilating system of his hotel room. This was apparently not an unusual sort of occurrence for him. In any case, I was privileged to get, through him, a glimpse at the reality of top of world espionage and intrigue. To him CIA stood for Christ In Action.
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Scientology's Grip on the Mind: An Ex-Sea Org Member Explains It For Us
The Village Voice
By Tony Ortega, Aug. 20 2012
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In December, we brought you the story of Melissa Paris, a former Scientologist who we got to know after her sister Valeska's stunning claims that she'd been a virtual prisoner on Scientology's private cruise ship from 1996 to 2007.
Melissa had her own shocking tales of growing up in Scientology's "Cadet Org" in the UK. (The Paris sisters were originally from Switzerland and had been brought at a young age to England by their father, who had joined Scientology's hardcore "Sea Org.")
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Lucas - The Beautiful World Of Tomorrow Is Manifested Today - 22 August 2012
A great feeling of bliss and happiness I feel when the streams of life to source where acknowledged and the world of manifesting everything in unconditional love and in all for the best of all is reaching out to me. 
It is a struggle to set aside all you know, your beliefs, your (false) thrusts and things you are confident in, to abandon all you have learned and your parents or guardians said to be right not to be needed anymore. It is truly unveiling the layers of the onion. First you get the part of crying and then get to the taste of the real thing that is pure and pleasant. (Maybe not for all of us, in this analogy).
Hasn't it always been that way! Some things you have to experience to understand what is of true beauty, bliss and joy. You look back and remember often why thinks where that difficult with the knowledge of the now and see it now as a piece of cake, because you know it is what you got in the end that made it worthwhile.
I am confident we all will get there in the end. Even if it is a struggle to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I say always: "Look at that light. See it and visualize it being in front of you. The light is not at the end of the tunnel it is right in front of you and always was." It is just the way you perceive reality that makes it you see it or not.
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Kauilapele – Galactic Missions, Soul Music, Sexuality and That ‘Other’ Spirit – The Light Agenda Tomorrow
From Stephen Cook, The Light Agenda…”Kauilapele – Galactic Missions, Soul Music, Sexuality and That ‘Other’ Spirit – The Light Agenda Tomorrow”
Here is Stephen’s highlight summary of tomorrow’s “The Light Agenda” show. I’m posting the text here and no photos, but please go to the 2012 Scenario link to see everything. And although the title might imply a bit of “Aretha Franklin” type music, and a bit of “sex talk”, that’s not what this was about. And Stephen explains what “That ‘Other’ Spirit” means.
And by the way, I have not changed my name to “Kuailapele” or my blog to “Kuailapele.wordpress.com”, but you all know what I mean (those darn u’s and a’s get mixed up all the time!). Also, the wonderful cats are technically my landlady’s cats, but neither of them know that. They love us all.
Thanks so much to Stephen for his wonderful extensive work in putting all this together.
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God’s Conversation With Me
Maureen Moss – God’s Conversation With Me – 22 August 2012
Dearest Hearts,
As always I pray you are well.
Yesterday I spent hours in my backyard in stillness. I needed it. I noticed I have been craving stillness and nature more than food or water.
Surrounded by nature (and beautiful weather) I set myself in my lounge chair, journal, and a few good books to be positioned facing the mountain in the distance, with my rose and butterfly bushes up close. I took several deep breaths of gratitude for this day as a deer sauntered through the yard, and my cat was curled up in his favorite chair.
Within about ten minutes two butterflies started dancing only a few feet in front of me. Enjoying their play and clearly appreciating and honoring their path of transformation into liberation and freedom, I turned my thoughts to humanity.
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~Space Weather Update~ Quiet Sun
QUIET SUN: With no strong flares for more than 48 hours, the sun's x-ray output has nearly flatlined. Solar activity is low, and NOAA forecasters put the odds of an X-flare today at less than 1%. Solar flare alerts: text, phone.
MARTIAN TRIANGLE: The "Martian Triangle" is back. You can see it tonight beaming through the twilight in the southwestern sky after sunset. The triangle is a triple conjunction of Mars, Saturn, and blue-giant star Spica--last seen by most people on Aug. 5th when Curiosity landed on Mars. Sky maps: Aug. 21, 22.
Last night, John Chumack photographed the trio over Yellow Springs, Ohio:
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HAARP-Chemtrails WMD: Exposing a Spiritual, Mass Mind-Control & Planetary Assault with Alfred
This is not posted to cause fear, only help give understanding of whats been going on and to show all how important our work is and why it should be of utmost importance in our lives. LOVE in Oneness. <3
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‘JP Morgan Is Finished’! JPM Silver Scandal Will Rival Libor! ~Bill Murphy
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 23:15
AltInvestors has released an EXPLOSIVE interview with GATA’s Bill Murphy. Murphy has previously stated several of his best sources have advised him gold and silver will make massive bull moves in August, and will soon set new all-time highs.
Murphy went a step further today stating that ‘JP Morgan and their silver short positions is going to be a scandal rivaling the LIBOR manipulation scandal- it’s so focused, LIBOR involves so many companies, this is JP MORGAN!
They’re in BIG TROUBLE, and when silver takes out $30 it’s probably going to go to $40 or $50 and it could do it fairly quickly‘.
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Lord Jacob Rothschild, John Paulson & George Soros Are All Betting On A Financial Collapse
Wednesday, August 22, 2012 8:21
Are you willing to bet against three of the wealthiest men in the entire world? Jacob Rothschild recently bet approximately 200 million dollars that the euro will go down. Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson made somewhere around 20 billion dollars betting against the U.S. housing market during the last financial crisis, and now he has made huge bets that the euro will go down and that the price of gold will go up. And as I wrote about in my last article, George Soros put approximately 130 million more dollars into gold last quarter. So will the euro plummet like a rock? Will the price of gold absolutely soar? Well, if a massive financial disaster does occur both of those two things are likely to happen. The European economy is becoming more unstable with each passing day, and investors all over the globe are looking for safe places to put their money. The mainstream media keeps telling us that everything is going to be okay, but the global elite are sending us a much, much different message by their actions. Certainly Rothschild, Paulson and Soros know about things happening in the financial world that the rest of us don’t. The fact that they are all behaving in a consistent manner right now should be alarming for all of us.
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Germany may be the country that brings the euro crashing down
The Telegraph
By Christopher Booker
7:00PM BST 18 Aug 2012
Though largely unnoticed in Britain, a political storm is brewing in Germany
Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel have divergent views on the eurozone's future Photo: HAMILTON-POOL/SIPA/REX
While attention in this country was focused on the delights of the Olympics, almost wholly unnoticed here has been the extraordinary drama unfolding in Germany – portending a truly seismic shift in the history of the European Union. The Germans have at last peered into the abyss that opens in front of them as a result of pouring all that money into the debts of their eurozone partners. To say that they don’t like what they see is a wild understatement.
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Cannabinoids Kill Cancer Cells: "Publius" Deciphers Update from National Cancer Institute
PR Web
August 17, 2012
In June the National Cancer Institute added text to its online resource "Cannabis and Cannabinoids" highlighting the role of herbal cannabinoids in killing cancer cells (apoptosis). Authors of The Cannabis Papers: a citizen's guide to cannabinoids, cite the 2003 US Cannabinoid Patent and 37 years of US evidence showing how the Cannabinoid System kills cancer.
We’ve known for quite some time the Cannabinoid System (CS) fights cancer,” noted Steve Young, member of Publius and author of Maximizing Harm: Winners and Losers in the Drug War (2000). “We’re happy to see NCI publicize this profound information 37 years after NCI first noted the anticancer properties of cannabis and the CS.”
To read the rest of this story, visit PRWeb.com.
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Angel Wisdom with Sharon Taphorn ~ New Beginnings Something new is coming your way
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Something new is coming your way
Be open to all possibilities, even ones that you thought had been previously closed. This is the time to follow your hearts desires. Do all you can do to make your dreams and ambitions a part of your current reality. This is the time and opportunity to make things happen, you have created some fantastic momentum upon which to build, so capitalize on that energy. Keep your focus and see how each new creation leads to another, and then another, when your thoughts are positive and you are seeing the fruits of your desires.
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Oracle Report - Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Crescent Moon Phase - Moon in Scorpio
Today's energy asks us to see the true features - the reality - of situations. Today is the last day that Mars will be in the sign of Libra. While Mars has been in Libra, we've been concerned with finding and bringing balance to how we use our energy. As Mars moves into Scorpio, we are going to change the way we use our personal power. Remember that this month things are changing form to suit the energetic changes to our bodies that took place last month with the shifting points. The outcome of the reformation is for the better - like the rainbow after the storm. There's another theme at work here and it is the idea of bounty. The photograph above was taken last night by S. Ahmad in Malaysia (posted on the spaceweather gallery). What you cannot see in this picture (because the box automatically crops it) is the triple conjunction of Mars, Saturn, and the brightest star in the Virgo constellation - Spica. You can see the full photograph here. Spica has a special association with the Goddess (and the form of Mother Mary) and with abundance and fertility. This conjunction of Mars, Saturn, and Spica is embracing us and whispering to us to let things be while they change their forms. Everything must change form now. You might get off track of "let it be" if you over-indulge in ANYTHING today (food, drink, vanity, negativity, fear, self-importance, self-pity...). There is a fast remedy for this however: the goddess Sophia. She is ready and waiting for us to stop in mid-track and surrender the need to act - to let it be. After all, there needs to be time for the rainbow to form. (Note: Many thanks to the Oracle Report facebook community for their good wishes yesterday.)
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The manuscript of survival – part 184
•August 22, 2012 •
As you have already noticed, things have certainly heated up in more ways than one, and they are not about to lessen in the next couple of days. The reason for all of this will soon be obvious to you all, but let us give you a little sneak preview as it were. For now, things will seem calm, but under the surface, much is going on. And when we refer to the surface, we actually refer to the surface of your planet. Much is getting ready to boil there too, as things have started to be affected in so many ways by the intense bombardement of energy that you have all sustained in these last few weeks. So, the pressure is building, and soon, something will have to give as they say.
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Many natural and organic brands are actually owned by huge conglomerates that don’t support sustainable, organic, non-GMO, non-toxic agriculture. In fact, their product labels are often designed to mislead consumers just so they can grab a share of the lucrative health-conscious consumer market.
