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Late in 2005, I got an email with a link to an Orlando Sentinel article reprinted on Truthout.org with the headline “Orlando holds hope for young war victim,” about a beautiful 2 year old girl name Alaa. In May, 2005, her two brothers and three of her cousins were killed and she and her mother were injured when an American tank shell hit their home in western Iraq. Tiny bits of shrapnel lodged in her eyes, and, in December 2005, she was in Orlando with her father in hopes of saving one of her eyes. A number of people, notably Alan Pogue and Cole Miller of www.nomorevictims.org and Ashley Severance, then a law student in Orlando, brought Alaa and her father to the U.S. and arranged lodging and medical care.

For the Thanksgiving 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, I re-aired my 2005 conversations with Alan Pogue and Ashley Severance, and gave a little bit of an update.

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Emmy Award-winning journalist, television producer, blogger and author Danny Schechter the News Dissector made his first appearance on Tell Somebody on the November 21, 2013 edition of the show.

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Nuclear Watch New Mexico Executive Director Jay Coghlan, in Kansas City for a couple of speaking engagements about the new and old nuclear weapons parts production plants in Kansas City, stopped by to talk to Tell Somebody right after a three hour meeting with representatives of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and right before his second speaking engagement. Coghlan has some doubts as to whether the feds will live up to their responsibility to clean up the highly contaminated Bannister Federal Complex, and some suggestions as to how Kansas Citians can pressure them to do the right thing.

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On the November 7, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, former FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley talked about her recent trip to Moscow with Ray McGovern, Jesselyn Radack, and Thomas Drake to present NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden with the Sam Adams award.

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Nuclear Watch New Mexico executive director Jay Coghlan returned to Tell Somebody on October 31, 2013 ahead of a couple of speaking engagements in Kansas City about the Kansas City Nuclear weapons parts plants, old and new, billed “KC: Linchpin in Nuclear Weapons Production, or 50 Ways to Leave Your Nukes!”

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On the evening of October 21, 2013, there was a preview screening of the film "Money for Nothing, Inside the Federal Reserve" at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). After the film, there was a panel discussion about the film with the filmmaker, Jim Bruce, and UMKC professors Dr. Stephanie Kelton, chair of the UMKC department of economics, economics professor Dr. L. Randall Wray, and Dr. William Black, former financial regulator and associate professor of law and economics.

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On the October 24, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, Richard Tripp, Executive Director of Care of Poor People, Inc. returned and brought Duane Skjervem, executive director of Hope Faith Ministries along with him to talk about Coppinc’s Survival 13 event for the homeless on November 30.

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The IPCC Fifth Amendment Report (AR5) on climate change was released in Stockholm on September 27th. The New York Times reported on what it called the report’s “near certainty” that humans are responsible for the rising temperatures of recent decades. On this week’s Tell Somebody, one of its contributing authors, Michael J. Prather, will be on hand to talk about it. Prather is a professor of earth system science at the University of California-Irvine.

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Hendrik (Hank) van den Berg is a professor of economics at the University of Nebraska, visiting the UMKC economics department for a year. Professor van den Berg got on the phone with Tell Somebody to talk about the September 30, 2013 government shutdown, the looming debt ceiling situation, and other issues.

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On the September 26, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, we hear from Lonnie Scott, executive director of Progress Michigan about Michigan's democracy-slashing emergency manager law, and then, just a day ahead of the release of a major Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, we hear from Geoffrey Feinberg, research director for the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication.

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