Clinton has been in Africa campaigning for stronger drone surveillance capabilities to aid the capture of fabled African warlord Joseph Kony.

In 1983, Bill Bain asked Mitt Romney to launch Bain Capital, a private equity offshoot of the successful consulting firm Bain & Company. After some initial reluctance, Romney agreed. The new job came with a stipulation: Romney couldn't raise money from any current clients, Bain said, because if the private equity venture failed, he didn't want it taking the consulting firm down with it. When Romney struggled to raise funds from other traditional sources, he and his partners started thinking outside the box. Bain executive Harry Strachan suggested that Romney meet with a group of Central American oligarchs who were looking for new investment vehicles as turmoil engulfed their region.

Romney was worried that the oligarchs might be tied to "illegal drug money, right-wing death squads, or left-wing terrorism," Strachan later told a Boston Globe reporter, as quoted in the 2012 book "The Real Romney." But, pressed for capital, Romney pushed his concerns aside and flew to Miami in mid-1984 to meet with the Salvadorans at a local bank. It was a lucrative trip. The Central Americans provided roughly $9 million -- 40 percent -- of Bain Capital's initial outside funding, the Los Angeles Times reported recently. And they became valued clients.

An American author and historian says the secret army of the CIA has a goal of destroying the Syrian state.

“It’s a secret army of the CIA if you will and the goal… is to destroy the Syrian state,” [said Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday, referring to efforts made by the anti-Syria regimes.]

“Recent news reports indicate that the so-called Free Syrian Army, the death squads are focusing on killing government officials even if they’re in the civil service; the government is targeted.”

“They’re also attempting to kill scientists because these people are also considered to be the supporters of [President Bashar] Assad and as we’ve seen on July 18 a huge terrorist attack on the Syrian government killing the defense minister and other top personnel.”

“So there is no doubt this is terrorism. Al-Qaeda has always been ... the CIA-Arab legion and it continues to do this and the Saudi role of course is absolutely critical.”

Hundreds of people took to the streets on Wednesday in protest at the death of 21-year old Chavis Carter who was shot in the head while handcuffed in the back of a police car. - Chavis Carter was detained late last month after police found a small bag of drugs on him. He was handcuffed and put in a patrol car. Minutes later Carter was found slumped in the back of the police car with a bullet wound to the head. He later died in hospital. Police say Carter committed suicide with a gun he had concealed. But, his family has dismissed that claim saying he couldn’t have shot himself with his hands cuffed and that the bullet hole was in his right temple while he was left-handed, making it unlikely for him his right hand to pull the trigger. His mother said "I think they killed him, I mean, my son was not suicidal."

An eyewitness to the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin says that a team of four men, "four white males dressed darkly" carried out the massacre, contradicting the official narrative that a lone gunman was the culprit.

At :39 he states that one gunman was down and there are three left.
At :43 he states "these gunmen," as in plural gunmen.

Photographer Robert Stolarik claims officer 'slammed' camera into his face before he was dragged to floor, kicked and arrested. - Stolarik was on assignment with two other reporters in the Bronx when he was stopped by police on Saturday evening. Police ordered Stolarik to stop taking pictures of a teenage girl being arrested. When he refused, an officer reputedly grabbed Stolarik's camera and dragged him to the ground. Stolarik claimed he was then kicked in the back and received scrapes and bruises on his face, legs and arms as a result of the arrest. He was charged with obstructing government administration and of resisting arrest. The New York Times reported that a video of the arrest taken by another journalist showed Stolarik face down on the pavement beneath a huddle of about six police officers. A spokeswoman for the New York Times told MediaGuardian: "In our view, Robert Stolarik, a freelance photographer working on behalf of The New York Times, was doing nothing more than his job when he was roughed up and arrested.

The London Olympics logo, as well as its designer, has been at the center of controversy since its creation and not the least for the fact that it keeps reminding people of the racial imagery of Nazi Germany or of Zionism rather than British culture or history. - Iran said a few months ago that the logo design spells out the word “Zion” (biblical term for Bait-ul-Muqaddas) that is the perceived promise land in the Bible and the basis upon which Zionists justify their illegal occupation of the Palestinian lands. The country sent a letter to president of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge in which it threatened to boycott the Games over the “revolting” politicized logo. The move came as internet users started seeing “Zion” in the logo almost immediately after its launch. Iran’s objection is the latest in a long list of controversies that the logo has triggered since it was unveiled in 2007.

AWIP: Iran [correctly] claims London 2012 Olympics logo spells the word 'Zion'
New York Times: Olympic medal count can be daily source of discontent worldwide

On the one-year anniversary of the riots that advanced across London and other English cities, a 15-minute documentary video Voices of the Unheard reflects on the poor community relations and distrust that led to them.

A spectator seeks an exoneration after he claims he was arrested for “not smiling” during the 2012 London Olympic Men’s Cycling Road Race. - Mark Worsfold, 54, a martial-arts trainer who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, wants a “letter of exoneration” after what he claims was a gross over-reaction on the part of Surrey Police. Worsfold explains, “I was sitting minding my own business…Before I knew anything the police grabbed me off this seven-foot wall, threw me to the floor and cuffed me so all I saw of the cycle race was between the feet of people from the pavement.” Due to his degenerative disorder, Worsfold says his face can seem expressionless. According to the Guardian, Worsfold says Surrey police “questioned him about his demeanor and why he had not been seen to be visibly enjoying the event.” They arrested him on charges of “breach of the peace” saying Worsfold’s behavior posed a “caused concern.”

Interpol has issued an international notice for the arrest of fugitive eco-warrior Paul Watson, famed for his high-seas clashes with Japanese whalers, after he skipped bail in Germany. - Watson's Sea Shepherd organisation was two years ago also involved in clashes with tuna fishermen based in Malta and later faced court action by a Maltese company. It today denounced Interpol's move as part of a "politically motivated" campaign led by Japan to put an end to his efforts against whaling. Watson, a 61-year-old Canadian, was arrested in May in Frankfurt on a warrant from Costa Rica, where he is wanted on charges stemming from a high-seas confrontation over shark finning in 2002.

The FBI reports that the suspected shooter in the Sikh temple shooting outside of Milwaukee died due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Authorities believe Wade Michael Page killed himself after being shot by police. - Preliminary reports filed after the Sunday morning shooting in Oak Creek, Wisconsin suggested that Mr. Page was killed by responding police officers in the midst of a standoff after he opened fire at a Sikh temple and killed six others. On Wednesday, however, FBI agents revealed during a press conference that they believe Page fired the bullet that took his life. Teresa Carlson, FBI special agent in charge in Milwaukee, adds that the Federal Bureau of Investigation have yet to find a specific cause that could explain why Page, a 40-year-old military vet, went on a rampage over the weekend. "We have not identified anyone else responsible for the shooting and we have not identified a motive," Carlson tells the press.