Adbusters - the organization that put out the initial call for an occupation of Wall Street back in September of last year - now has its eyes set on Chicago. The G8 and NATO are scheduled to hold a summit in Chicago during the first week of May - and Adbusters is calling on 50000 people from around the planet to set up tents and occupy the city in hopes of pulling off the "biggest multinational occupation of a summit meeting the world has ever seen." The list of demands Adbusters is promoting include a Robin Hood Tax - essentially a tax on stock trades - a ban on high frequency 'flash' trading - a binding climate change accord - and a three strikes and you're out law for corporate criminals. Adbusters is calling on demonstrators to "bring a tent." Of course the Occupy Chicago movement has been thriving for months now - without Adbusters - and plans have already been made for similar demonstrations against the G8 and NATO. So to many - Adbusters call for action in Chicago - is ruffling some feathers of others within the Occupy Movement. Joining Thom Hartmann from New York for more on this story is JA Myerson - journalist and contributor to Truthout - and participant in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The ghost of Ronald Reagan has returned to haunt Newt Gingrich. If things keep going at this rate, there won't just be four podiums and four candidates on stage at the next debate in Florida. There will be a fifth podium - with a mummified Reagan propped up against it. Because to Republicans, Ronald Reagan is a God - he is the man by which all their policies should be measured against - HE is the ultimate Conservative that all candidates should strive to be. But what's lost in all this Reagan-worshipping and idolatry is Reagan's ACTUAL record as President. And when that's examined - when we take a look at what Reagan ACTUALLY did in the White House - you REALLY have to question the wisdom of today's Republican Party and their reliance on the Reagan litmus test...Let's take a look back at what Reagan ACTUALLY did...some that puts Reagan to the left of even Barack Obama!

And in tonight's Daily Take...economic austerity and anorexia have more in common than you may think. I'll let you know how they're similar and how to cure a "recession."