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On this edition of Tell Somebody Ray McGovern recalls his former colleague, the late Sam Adams and the history of the Sam Adams award for truth-telling, just awarded to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

This follows a quick update from the Bradley Manning trial by Nathan Fuller, writer with the Bradley Manning Support Network.

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On April 8, 2010, the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) was signed in Prague. Very shortly after that, Alicia Dressman appeared on the show to explain some of the issues related to START and how this is related to the U.S. Nuclear weapons Complex and Kansas City's prominent role in the complex.

In June 2013, President Obama made a speech in Berlin including some remarks about nuclear weaons. Independent researcher Alicia Dressman returned for the July 2, 2013 edition of the show to talk about nuclear disarmament and Life Extension Programs (LEP's). After that, news about the Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant, talk of misdeeds by and related to Bank of America, the great PR BoA gets on public television, and finally an excerpt of Glenn Greenwald's remarks about press coverage of Edward Snowden's NSA whistleblowing.

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Former FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley returned to Tell Somebody for the June 25, 2013 show to talk about whistleblowing generally and about whistleblower Edward Snowden.

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The Bannister Federal Complex Community Advisory Panel, or CAP, met at the General Services Administration offices at the Bannister site on June 13, 2013. Tell Somebody was there and on the June 18 edition of the show we heard some audio from the meeting, and a good bit of information on beryllium, one of at least 898 toxic substances identified as having been used in the production of parts for nuclear weapons at the soon to be abandoned Kansas City Plant currently run for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) by Honeywell.

All this came came after a quick excursion into the NSA whistleblower controversy.

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Leading economics bloggers from around the country were in Kansas City on April 12, 2013, for the fifth annual Economics Bloggers Forum at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. That evening, some of them, including UMKC economics and law professor Bill Black and UMKC economics department chair Stephanie Kelton, gathered for what was billed as a coffee house with food, drink, and discussion at a nearby restaurant, one of two such events sponsored by the Jobs Now Coalition and the UMKC Economics Club.

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Bill Black came on the June 11, 2013 pledge drive edition of Tell Somebody to talk economics and regulation and to help ask for listener support of KKFI Community Radio.

Bill Black is an associate professor of economics and law. He was the executive director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005-2007. He previously taught at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and at Santa Clara University, where he was also the distinguished scholar in residence for insurance law and a visiting scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.

Professor Black was litigation director of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, deputy director of the FSLIC, SVP and general counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, and senior deputy chief counsel, Office of Thrift Supervision. He was deputy director of the National Commission on Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement.

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On June 4, 2013, Tell Somebody talked to Mike Caddell about his internet radio show, Radio Free Kansas.

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On May 25, 2013, 2 million people in over 50 countries put on over 400 anti-Monsanto events. The May 28 edition of Tell Somebody covered the March Against Monsanto event in Kansas City where a crowd of a couple hundred folks holding signs steadily built up, by some reports, at JC Nichols fountain to over 2,000 particpants.

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On the May 21, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, hear Cecile Pineda, author of Devil's Tango - How I Learned the Fukushima Step by Step.

"An astonishing anatomy of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster..." John Nichols

"Pineda's masterful framing of the urgency for readers to learn from the Japanese nuclear disaster and the machinations of its industry handlers makes Devil's Tango one of the most important and required reads this year...." Jeff Biggers, Huffington Post

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The facebook event page for a KC MoveToAmend rally said "127 Years ago, on May 10, 1886, corporations began to finagle constitutional rights through the US Supreme Court. THAT was just the beginning! This year, on the 127th "birthday" of corporate persons, Kansas City Move to Amend will join activists all over the nation with a rally at the Nichols Fountain."

After a reminder that the corporate personhood "ruling" wasn't even in Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad decision, but only in the headnotes written by the clerk of the court, the May 14, 2013 edition of the show consists of the remarks of eight speakers at the rally, including yours truly.

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