The Neoliberal “IMF Structural Adjustment Talking Points Summit” of the Year!!!!

Everyone Come Quick!!! Its Time to Learn All the Talking Points Which Will Help Sell The Ideas of Privatizing Social Security, Eliminating Medicare/Medicaid, Dropping Minimum Wage Laws, Privatizing Public Education, and all the other IMF Structural Reforms We Need to Use to Pay for Wall Street’s Act of Economic Terrorism and Abject Theft!!!! Come One Come All, DailyKos, ThinkProgress, Huffington Post, and All You Free-Market Libertarians (that means you Alex Jones and the Ron Paul Revolution)!!! You Too Can Help Spin Up The Lies That Will Make a Few Rich and a COUPLE HUNDRED MILLION “Eating Garbage and Turning Tricks Level, Dirt Poor!!!!  Obama’s RACE TO THE BOTTOM Can Work if You All Convince Your Readers That Its For Their Own Good!!!!  Its The Miracle of America, People So Jump Up and Support the UBER-WEALTHY Now Before Its Too Late. The HOUSE SLAVE Spots are Filling FAST!!!!!  

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Top Leaders from Across Political Spectrum to Convene in
Washington April 28th to Discuss Nation’s Rising Deficits and Debt

Range of Voices to Include President Clinton, OMB Dir. Peter Orszag, CAP CEO John Podesta, Sen. Judd Gregg, Rep. Paul Ryan, CBPP Dir. Robert Greenstein, fmr Treasury Sec. Robert Rubin, EPI President Lawrence Mishel, and fmr Federal Reserve Chairmen Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan in First-Ever “National Fiscal Summit”

Co-Chairs Bowles & Simpson of President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal
Responsibility and Reform to Participate

NEW YORK (APRIL 15, 2010) – On Wednesday, April 28th, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation (PGPF) will convene a broad range of senior officials, policy-makers, elected leaders, and experts at the first-ever “2010 Fiscal Summit: America’s Crisis and A Way Forward” to launch a national bipartisan dialogue on America’s fiscal challenges. The Fiscal Summit will bring together hundreds of stakeholders from across the political spectrum with diverse ideas on how to address critical fiscal issues while continuing to meet the priorities of the American people.

Participants include keynote speaker President Bill Clinton, Director of the Office of Management and Budget Peter Orszag, Co-Chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, and Members of the Congress.

Judge tosses arrest of cop accused in fatal DUI crash

(Two videos of the cop drinking heavily right before crashing his SUV into someone’s car killing two men… the report from one of his supervisers that he smelled alcohol on him and he had bloodshot eyes… and that still isn’t enough in Chicago to convict (or even try) a cop. No wonder so many politicians want the National Guard to be brought into Chicago… its already a fascist totalitarian state)

by D. Burnette, Breaking News Chicago

For more than two years, the families of two young men killed in a Thanksgiving Day collision with an off-duty Chicago police officer have fought to prove the officer was drunk and responsible for the deaths.

But Tuesday, a Cook County judge handed them their latest setback, saying the officer was arrested and detained without probable cause, a ruling the families fear guts the prosecution’s case.

Several relatives of one victim erupted in anger at the decision, shouting obscenities and scuffling with court deputies, creating a scene that revealed the raw emotions behind the long and controversial case.

Wake The President

by simon Johnson, The Baseline Scenario

Most days we can coast along, confident that tomorrow will be much like yesterday.  On a very few days we need to look hard at the news headlines, click through to read the whole story, and then completely change a large chunk of how we thought the world worked.  Today is such a day.

Everything you knew or thought you believed about the European economy – and the eurozone, which lies at its heart – was just ripped up by financial markets and thrown out of the proverbial window.