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Kansas City is home to an existing and a new replacement nuclear weapons parts plant that have been and will be responsible for 85% of the components of US nuclear weapons. The new plant is owned by the Kansas City Planned Industrial Expansion Authority (PIEA), described in a 2010 Missouri Court of Appeals decision as "a statutory agency that was created by a vote of the City Council of Kansas City, Missouri (“the City”) under section 100.320.1," and whose members are appointed by the Kansas City mayor. The plant will be operated by Honeywell for the National Nuclear Security Administration in a complicated leasing scheme, involving the General Services Administration and private developer Centerpoint Properties, that was criticized by the GAO in a 2009 report

Rachel MacNair is the Campaign Coordinator for KC Peace Planters, a group responsible for getting a measure on the ballot on April 2, 2013 in Kansas City, Missouri, that would preclude the city from engaging in any such nuclear weapons involvement in the future.

Willie Jackson worked in the old Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant in the 1970's, 80's and 90's, where he was exposed to hundreds of identified toxic substances. He filed claims for health problems, and they have been denied.

Rachel MacNair and Willie Jackson spoke on the January 29, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody. The podcast includes a few minutes of audio that had to be edited due to broadcast time constraints.

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On the day after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and the second inaugural of President Obama, Tell Somebody talked to Black Agenda Report executive editor Glen Ford about his piece Don't You Dare Conflate MLK and Obama.

In the second half of the show, we talk to Wayne Knox, president and CEO of Cold War Soldiers, advocates whose mission is "to help obtain fair compensation and treatment of workers and claimants impacted by the building, testing and maintenance of nuclear weapons.

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William Black is a former federal bank regulator, current professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, and is the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One - How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry. He appeared extensively in Michael Moore’s dcoumentary: “Capitalism: A Love Story.”

Professor Black recorded a conversation with Tell Somebody on Saturday January 12, 2013, shortly before the Treasury Department announced it would not be minting the much talked about trillion dollar platinum coin.

Black talks about how the platinum coin idea could have worked, why austerity is a bad idea, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, and a little bit about the movie Blazing Saddles. His writings and those of some of his colleagues can be found at www.neweconomicperspectives.org.

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Kansas City Move To Amend and other groups held a mock wedding of a corporate person and a human person in January 2012, marking the second anniversary of the infamous Citizens United v FEC decision.. The January 8, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody took a look back at the wedding as the third anniversary approaches.

This came after some thoughts about torture and the new film, Zero Dark Thirty.

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Happy New Year. On January 1, 2013 on Tell Somebody, a Kansas City attorney, former county prosecutor and Missouri judge Albert Riederer is remembered with a 2007 interview when he was running for mayor of Kansas City, MO.

Then, a bit of a look back at 2012 on the show starting with an Occupy KC-sponsored New Orleans style funeral march for the social safety net.

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On Christmas Day 2012, Tell Somebody revisited the Nativity and then wondered what it would have been like if border patrol agents had been on the scene during the flight into Egypt.

It has been a while since the Collateral Murder video was released by Wikileaks, but with the Bradley Manning case proceeding, maybe it's worthy of a little more attention. Tell Somebody contemplates the events in that video in relationship to the biblical story of the Good Samaritan.

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Although it has a Community Advisory Panel (for window dressing?) for the severely contaminated Kansas City Bannister Federal Complex, the NNSA has a preferred planning partner, Centerpoint Properties, when it comes to communication and making decisions about what to do with the soon to be abandoned Kansas City nuclear weapons parts plant. Centerpoint is the same corporation developing the new nuke plant in Kansas City.

In a November 30, 2012 posting to their website, the NNSA wrote: "In August 2012, the NNSA identified a preferred planning partner to discuss future reuse opportunities. Through discussions with the preferred planning partner, NNSA has determined that only land uses consistent with current zoning constraints are feasible. This change eliminates the need to study options outside those zoning restrictions such as residential use. Therefore, NNSA has also decided to withdraw its earlier NOI published in January 2012."

The December 18 edition of Tell Somebody includes audio from a public information session at the IBEW Local 124 Union Hall in south Kansas City where the NNSA tried to explain why they withdrew plans for an Environmental Impact Statement. This followed thoughts on the show about the apparent Presidential cave-in on Social Security in fiscal cliff negotiations, Zero Dark Thirty's false glorification of torture, truly heroic teachers, and America's very selective concern about slaughtered children.

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On December 3, 2012, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern posted a link at his website to a piece about why he thinks Rice is not qualified to be Secretary of State. Most of the mainstream media coverage has centered on Republican criticism of her handling of the Benghazi, Libya incident. Former CIA analyst and presidential briefer Ray McGovern has some other reasons to criticise her, and he shared them on the December 11 edition of Tell Somebody. This podcast edition includes about 15 minutes of additional audio that we didn't have time for on the broadcast edition of the show.

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The December 4, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody featured good news and bad news from the FCC.

The bad news? The FCC is apparently planning to end a rule preventing companies from owning a newspaper and radio and TV stations in the same city. This show aired part of a press conference put on by Free Press on November 28 with Wade Henderson of The Leadership Conference of Civil and Human Rights, the Rev. Jesse Jackson of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, Bernie Lunzer of The Newspaper Guild-CWA, Mee Moua of the Asian American Justice Center, Alex Nogales of the National Hispanic Media Coalition and Rashad Robinson of ColorofChange.org speaking in opposition to the FCC's plans to gut media ownership rules.

The good news? After years of groundwork, on November 30, The FCC will held an Open Meeting in Washington, DC on "Creation of a Low Power Radio Service", aka LPFM. This show aired part of that meeting.

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Josh Stearns is the Journalism and Public Media Campaign Director at Free Press, www.freepress.net. Josh came on the November 27, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody to talk about the apparent plans of the Obama FCC under Julius Genachowski to push the same relaxation of media cross-ownership restrictions as Bush's FCC chair Keven Martin pushed in 2007.

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