"When UC students presented the university's Regents with evidence that big banks were robbing the school with manipulated interest rates, the Regents laughed. A year later, the Regents are suing Bank of America for manipulated interest rates."

www.mcclatchydc.com Insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades opened fire on the Kabul offices of the CIA early Tuesday in a coordinated attack in one of the capital’s most heavily fortified neighborhoods, which is also home to Afghanistan’s presidential...

wagingnonviolence.org Every desk in the newsroom is taken. The long, fluorescent-lit room is buzzing with the audio from the wall of television screens monitoring different news networks and from journalists shouting in Greek, taking phone calls, preparing...

www.alternet.org MSNBC's anchor Chris Hayes pins Iraq, the economy, Katrina and more on elites — says we all must get radicalized now.

“Mr. President, parliamentary inquiry,” Van De Putte said. “At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over the male colleagues in the room?” The chamber gallery, full of hundreds of pro-choice demonstrators wearing...

hey mike http://inhabitat.com/nyc/could-citi-bike-spin-classes-be-used-to-generate-pedal-powered-energy-for-nyc/ inhabitat.com Could the popular Citi Bike spin classes be used to generate pedal-powered energy for NYC?

hey mike: "Since people are using parked Citi Bikes as exercise bikes anyway, why not tap the pedal power to charge phones, emergency blackout lights or even the Citi Bike system itself?"

www.ft.com The Emir of Qatar’s decision to abdicate voluntarily in favour of his 33-year-old son may well be a first in Arab dynastic politics. Although unlikely to presage a bicycling monarchy for the fabulously gas-rich Gulf emirate, Sheikh Hamad bin...

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