UPDATE: If only I could have figured out how to include Rush Limbaugh, maybe this would be at least interesting?...Okay... Rush sucks! There y'a go.
Squirrel?
I've been looking for someone to cover this. So, okay, I'll do it.
G-8 is pulled from Chicago — but NATO, security concerns and global spotlight stay
It's going down in Chicago. Seems the powers are spooked.
More beyond the squiggle.
From the Tribune.
Chicago's star turn on the world stage was cut in half Monday after President Barack Obama made a surprise shift of the May G-8 international summit from his hometown to Camp David.
After the announcement Monday, the mayor's office insisted that nothing had really changed. And no one was talking publicly about the miscalculation that Chicago would make a great place for G-8 leaders to hash out a broad range of economic, political and security issues.
In the past, G-8 summits have mostly been held in remote locales, and National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said there was a desire to keep it that way. "This was really about the president looking for a more informal setting with these close partners," she said. "It's not about Chicago being able to handle logistics."
And this:
G-8 summit to be held at Camp David, not Chicago
Chicago police estimated that 2,000 to 10,000 demonstrators were expected to show up for the overlapping G-8 and NATO summits. At least two major demonstrations were already planned for downtown during the summit, and organizers said they wanted to send crowds of marchers down Michigan Avenue in the middle of the day.
Police sources said the department has already sent about 8,400 of its roughly 12,000 sworn officers through some form of crowd-control training.
To date, about 2,400 officers drawn mostly from tactical and gang units have completed the training designed to prepare them for the front lines of crowd control. Those officers were expected to be outfitted in the black body armor that police call "turtle suits."
Rahm...
The mayor had also sought tough changes in ordinances governing public demonstrations. But in the face of criticism from aldermen and civil rights groups, he was forced to scale them back.
As reported elsewhere, OWS and others are/were planning major events in Chicago.
What to say about the move to Camp David? Rahm seeking controls on constitutional dissent? Is Nato protest enough?
F' Rush. This is what is important.
And where has Ray Pensador gone?
Just asking'.