Klepto kitty is a real cat burglar

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For the Middle East protesters. People got to be free

The Middle East protesters are heroic and inspiring. They are literally putting their lives on the line. I helped organize multiple anti-Iraq war protests. Sometimes they were huge. Sometimes it got really tense with LAPD. But I knew the authorities would not open fire on us with assault rifles and that we wouldn’t be picked [...]

Urban farming in Detroit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ptPuYtmbU

Treehugger has lots more on urban farming in Detroit, which both reclaims abandoned land and helps bring back the city while providing food in a time of high unemployment and rising food prices.

San Jose blues. Massive cutbacks coming

San Jose is a supposedly prosperous city, it’s the heart of Silicon Valley. Yet it’s already sketchy walking around downtown San Jose, what with the guys selling drugs at Marta and the gauntlet of bums to negotiate while walking home. The cutbacks will be somewhere between severe and apocalyptic, and public employees taking the brunt [...]

Polizeros Radio. Middle East protests, Pakistan, Wisconsin

Middle East protests may topple more governments but the underlying problems of poverty, rising prices, and income disparities will remain. Will the outcome for many of these countries be something like Pakistan is now? And who is Raymond Davis, supposed diplomat who killed two Pakistanis with highly accurate shots and is now jailed there? [...]

Vernon Hunter remembrance

Today at noon EST, the Internal Revenue Service will have a moment of silence in honor of Vietnam veteran and IRS agent Vernon Hunter who was killed one year ago when a pilot deliberately crashed his plane into an IRS building in Austin where he was working.

He died in what can only be [...]

Novel boat launch

That’s the owner in the stern.

Get the full story about what happened at the Big Picture’s ephemera blog!

Polizeros Radio podcast tonight. Middle East unrest and killings

And is Wisconsin the next Egypt?

The podcast is hosted on BlogTalkRadio. Call in to listen live at 626-414-3492 tonight at 8:30 PST (9:30 MST, 10:30 CST, 11:30 EST.) You can also download it or listen to the archive on BlogTalkRadio after it’s done.

With Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, Josh Mull from Rethink Afghanistan and [...]

Why isn’t Wall Street in jail? Control fraud on a massive scale

Taibbi

A veritable mountain of evidence indicates that when it comes to Wall Street, the justice system not only sucks at punishing financial criminals, it has actually evolved into a highly effective mechanism for protecting financial criminals. This institutional reality has absolutely nothing to do with politics or ideology — it takes place no [...]

Multiple Arab countries are murdering protesters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5xT-Ljepz0

Zero Hedge has many links and videos.