"Are we often weary, disheartened and sad? Do we feel weighed down by our sins? Do we think that we won’t be able to cope? Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive, if only we open ourselves to him."
Francis I, Easter Vigil, 2013
Links For Today
Bill Moyers: The Hypocrisy of 'Justice for All'
David Stockman: We've Been Lied To, Robbed, and Misled (podcast)
Afghan and Iraq Wars To Cost US From $4 to 6 Trillion
Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Shame of the Three Strikes Law - Rolling Stone
Inside the Three Strikes Project: An Inmate's Letter - Taibbi
Cyprus Depositors May Have Up to 60 Percent Seized
SAC's Steinberg Gets a Perp Walk - NYT
A Tale of Two Londons - Vanity Fair
Wall St Burden's the Public Debt - Michael Hudson
$600 Million Ponzi Scheme Collapse in North Carolina
Lesser Known Aspect of Currency War and the US Dollar - Rubino
Nation's Only State-Owned Bank the Envy of Wall Street
How G. W. Bush Won the Iraq War - Palast
Median Household Income Down 7% Since Start of Recession
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.” Marcus Tullius Cicero