The Regional Assembly of Tuscany (Toscana) yesterday approved a resolution calling for a "Banking and Legal Reform According To the Glass-Steagall Act." The resolution was introduced on May 10, 2013, by Gabriele Chiurli and was approved by all ayes, with only one abstention.

Included below is the full speech delivered on May 16th by Pope Francis, on the occasion of receiving several ambassadors to the Holy See.

Click here for marching orders to restore Glass-Steagall.

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The scandal surrounding the IRS's targetting of anti-Obama organizations is expanding so rapidly that the White House's lies can't keep up with it. Some of the past 24 hours' new developments:

The establishment news media — some of Obama's biggest defenders over the years — is finally lashing out at the Administration, over the sweeping Justice Department subpoenas for records of more than 20 telephone lines used by Associated Press and its reporters. The DOJ was supposedly trying to track down a leak about a CIA terrorism investigation.

The Senate and House are preparing a new round of crippling, genocidal sanctions against Iran, even as U.S. P5+1 negotiator Wendy Sherman admitted that progress had been made at the April round of meetings with Iran on the nuclear question.

"The dam of solid Democratic solidarity has collapsed," Politico announces today, citing Benghazi, the IRS scandal, and the DOJ's sweeping subpoening of Associated Press phone records. "Democrats are privately befuddled by the White House's flat-footed handling of this P.R. and legal mess, blaming a combination of bad timing, hubris and communications ineptitude."

In an interview with the Salt Lake Tribune, Rep. Jason Chaffetz was asked if impeachment of Barack Obama for Benghazi was within the realm of possibility. Chaffetz answered: