I have nothing to lose after I've refused to participate in CIA-FBI conspiracy which I call "Millenium Hilton" operation - I have no money, no job, no permanent place to stay. I'm telling the truth and I'm sending you a set of special questions related to the U.S. national security, or rather its absence. I want to make it clear - America is deaf and blind because CIA actually does not exist.

Después de su condena Gerardo tenía derecho de apelar ante la corte de apelaciones del circuito en Atlanta, lo cual hizo, y después buscar una revisión por parte de la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, lo cual también hizo. Ese proceso es la apelación directa. Cuando ese proceso culmina, como en el caso de Gerardo Hernández, entonces uno tiene el derecho de emprender una apelación colateral, o un ataque colateral a las condenas, que es una forma muy limitada de apelación, (solamente temas constitucionales que no se hayan litigado previamente, además de una afirmación de inocencia real), en lo que anteriormente se conocía como "habeas corpus federal". Ahora se le llama moción por la "Sección 2255". Y ahí es donde nos encontramos ahora.

I’ve finished reading an article based upon a lecture given by Paul Volker on his receipt of the inaugural prize granted by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research for his contributions to economic policy. The article, "The Time We Have Is Growing Short,” appears in the June 24, 2010 issue of The New York Review of Books. Now Volker is the grand old man of US economic policy gurus. His face appears, along with those of the other key advisors to the Administration, in newspaper photo after photo. He carries the equally grandiose title of Chairman of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board; he is a former Federal Reserve Chairman famed for his full-bore deflationary attack upon the hyper-inflation of the 1970’s.

Debt means different things to different people. For a family with two modest income jobs (if their lucky enough to have jobs), a mortgage and two kids in college, debt is the only route to having a reasonable standard of living with some guarantee of the satisfaction of health care needs or other insurances against the contingencies of life. Debt and its burdens count as a withdrawal against future income and wealth. For most people – and most people fit this profile to some extent – mortgages, credit cards, home equity loans and other forms of borrowing – are the only bridge to a level of comfort available to the previous generation of working people.

A good, old-fashioned crisis of capitalism – a disruption that rocks the whole system – produces one salutary result: wiser heads, serious students begin to re-examine widely held assumptions and popular theories of political economy. For those few, this may mean dusting off old copies of the works of Keynes, Schumpeter, or Minsky, and – only too rarely – Marx. For the honest observer, the crisis is an opportunity for a deeper understanding of the capitalist mechanism and its direction.