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Downtown Mpls. Becomes Black Hawk Helicopter Training Zone

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GFP Note: This is a follow-up to a video we posted on August 28th.

CBS Minnesota
August 27, 2012

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) - If you see military helicopters flying low over Minneapolis, don’t be alarmed. They’re just training in an urban environment.

The U.S. Special Operations Command will be conducting exercises until the beginning of September. This week they’re using helicopters, including Black Hawks.

To read the rest of this story and see the video, visit Minnesota.CBSLocal.com.

Ex-Navy SEAL who wrote Bin Laden book gets warning from Pentagon

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Los Angeles Times
David S. Cloud, August 31, 2012

Ex-Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette, who wrote 'No Easy Day' about the Bin Laden raid, violated an agreement not to reveal classified information, the Pentagon says.

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Bissonnette did not submit his manuscript for review by the Pentagon as he was required to do under an agreement he signed in 2007, an official says. (AP Photo/Dutton / August 30, 2012)

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon formally warned a former Navy SEAL who has written a first-person account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden last year, saying he has violated his signed agreement not to divulge classified information, and it threatened him with stiff legal action.

Switzerland pays the price for banking secrecy

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SwissInfo.ch
by Armando Mombelli, August 30, 2012

Attacks from European governments, investigations against Swiss banks in the United States and international arrest warrants against bankers - in the space of just a few years, banking secrecy has turned into a costly burden.

"Today I met several bankers in Zurich. They were all shaking their heads saying, ‘In 40 years of operations we’ve never had a crisis like this one – a war like the one being waged against the Swiss banking system. We’re in the artillery sights of every country and every day there are new attacks’,” recounted Paolo Bernasconi, a business law professor at St Gallen University and former Ticino public prosecutor.

To read the rest of this story, visit swissinfo.ch.

The Federal Bailout That Saved Mitt Romney

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Rolling Stone
By Tim Dickinson, August 29, 2012 7:00 AM ET

Government documents prove the candidate's mythology is just that

Mitt Romney (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GettyImages)
 

Mitt Romney likes to say he won't "apologize" for his success in business. But what he never says is "thank you" – to the American people – for the federal bailout of Bain & Company that made so much of his outsize wealth possible.

Ron Paul Delegates Walk Off Convention Floor In Protest – 30 August 2012

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August 30, 2012

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“It’s an embarassment to the process, it’s an embarassment to the state of Maine and to the party as a whole how things were conducted today,” said Maine National Committeewoman Ashley Ryan minutes after half the Maine delegation walked off the Republican National Convention floor in protest.

Ron Paul-supporting delegates have accused the Republican establishment of changing the rules of the seating process in order to avoid embarassment for Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Their arguments are not without merit.

The Ron Paul faction did not go out quietly, cheering loudly whenever Ron Paul delegates were announced and yelling out the running tally of Paul votes every time the convention announcer failed to do so.

Newmont mine "on back burner": Peru cabinet chief

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Reuters
LIMA | Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:31am EDT

Andean people destroy a sign of Newmont Mining during a protest against the company's proposed $4.8 billion Conga gold mine, near the Cortada lagoon, in the Andean region of Cajamarca November 24, 2011. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil

Andean people destroy a sign of Newmont Mining during a protest against the company's proposed $4.8 billion Conga gold mine, near the Cortada lagoon, in the Andean region of Cajamarca November 24, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Enrique Castro-Mendivil

(Reuters) - Newmont Mining Corp's $5 billion Conga gold project is "on the back burner," Peru's government said on Thursday - a sign that it will stop trying to overcome local opposition that has resulted in violence and two cabinet shuffles.

Prime Minister Juan Jimenez made the comments after a poll by survey firm Ipsos showed 78 percent of people in the northern Peruvian region of Cajamarca opposed the planned mine.

Protests spill over to other S African mines

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Aljazeera

Last Modified: 22 Aug 2012 18:34

Labour unrest spreads to two more mines in demand for higher wages and better living conditions.

Labour unrest has spread to at least two more platinum mines after police killed 34 strikers and wounded another 78 at the Lonmin platinum mine last week.

Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa was in Rasimone miners from the Royal Bafokeng mine have joined thousands who are protesting at the Lonmin mine.

To watch the videos and read the rest of this story, visit aljazeera.com.

Morgan Stanley to lose Russia chairman and president

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Reuters
MOSCOW | Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:40pm EDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The chairman of Morgan Stanley's (MS.N) Russian office, a former Rosneft (ROSN.MM) executive whose team led the top Russian oil producer's 2007 initial public offer, and its president are stepping down, a spokesman for the bank said on Thursday.

Rair Simonyan, who served as president of the bank for around a decade before becoming chairman, and Yelena Titova, the bank's current president, will leave the bank, spokesman Vladimir Tumarkin said, without specifying their future plans.

To read the rest of this story, visit Reuters.com.

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