Sunday, January 31, 2010
Remembering Howard Zinn up next on Tell Somebody - and here's some links
Howard Zinn 1922 -2010
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting noted the FOX-like 'unfair and unbalanced' approach NPR took in marking the passing of Howard Zinn - NPR Finds Right-Wing Crank to Spit on Zinn's Grave.
The FAIR action urges you to contact the NPR ombudsman to ask why All Things Considered brought on a right-wing crank to trash the late Howard Zinn. Read more at
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4009
Here are a couple links to proposed legislation on payday lending in Missouri:
House Bill No. 1508
House Bill No. 1509
Here are some links to more information on the Kansas City nuclear weapons plant:
http://tellsomebodyradio.blogspot.com/2010/01/kansas-city-mo-city-council-committee.html
http://www.nbcactionnews.com/content/investigative/bannister/story/EPA-Joins-Probe-in-Bannister-Investigation/o_Wjs1CvEE6zuQyz7ecptg.cspx
http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2010/01/epa_publishes_fact_sheet_on_testing_at_bannister_federal_complex.php
http://www.nukewatch.org/watchblog/?p=135
http://kcnukeswatch.wordpress.com/
And, just because, check these out:
http://www.kcactive.com/
http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/
Friday, January 29, 2010
David Barsamian now on line - Next on Tell Somebody - Howard Zinn, Payday Loans in MO, & TBA
The January 27, 2010 edition of Tell Somebody, Alternative Radio's David Barsamian back from India and Nepal plus SCOTUS hyperactivity and unilateral foolishness in Kansas City is now online. Barsamian talks of running into his friend Vandana Shiva at a protest on an overpass in India and shares his thoughts on comments on the Kansas City WMD plant made at a recent KCMO city council committee meeting. Link to a download here: Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Web Exclusive on Supreme Court Decision
Public Citizen held a phone-in press conference right after the Supreme Court issued its decision on Citizens United v FEC, giving a bizarre gift of First Amendment rights to for-profit corporations. Click on the link above for audio of the conference.
More information at http://www.tellsomebody.us/ - put "citizens united" in the search box, and at http://www.dontgetrolled.org/
More on the UMKC National Healthcare Conversation can be found HERE
Monday, January 25, 2010
David Barsamian of Alternative Radio next up on Tell Somebody

Sunday, January 24, 2010
"Never Fear - Never Quit" -Richard Tripp Wants Your Help -

Friday, January 15, 2010
Nukewatch's Jay Coghlan on Kansas City and the Nuclear Weapons Complex
Click on pic for larger view
According to an email from a south Kansas City resident, the picture at left is one of two full-page shots in the "60th Anniversary Book of the Kansas City Plant" published by the DOE/NNSA/Honeywell in October, 2009 in a section called "Our Future."
('Urban Blight' caption added by yours truly - photo in booklet has small caption: "Future site of the Kansas City Plant approximately 7 miles south of the existing plant.")
The photo on the right (again, caption added by Tell Somebody) comes from a study by Belke Appraisal and Consulting Services, Inc., paid for by Kansas City, Missouri taxpayers. The photo is a tight shot taken at the same site as the other photo, and was intended to help justify a finding of "blight" to help grease the skids for a tax abatement deal to finance over $40 million in infrastrucure improvements including two new highway interchanges that would benefit both the new nuclear weapons plant and an industrial park and intermodal hub for Kansas City Southern Railway under develpment by CenterPoint Realty Services of Chicago. A city staff report dated September 2, 2008, "respectfully submitted" by city planner Larry Stice recommends that a finding of "Blight" and "Insanitary" conditions be approved by the Kansas City, Missouri city council.
A July 11, 2008 article in the Kansas City Star said
"The General Services Adminsitration wants to pick a developer for the new facility August 21. The land is owned by Hugh Zimmer, a Kansas City real estate magnate, and the estimated acquisition cost is $4.8 million."
In a more perfect world, one might imagine the city demanding that Zimmer clean up the 'blight' on his property, perhaps even paying a fine for not keeping it up better. Not so in this imperfect world. The city council has rubberstamped approval at every stage of the new Kansas City WMD plant project, and in a General Services Administration press release dated April 7, 2009, GSA's Acting Regional Administrator Michael T. Brincks wrote "The U.S. General Services Administration, through a competitive bidding process, has selected CenterPoint Zimmer, LLC to design and construct a new facility to house the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration's Kansas City Plant. CenterPoint Zimmer, LLC is an entity formed between CenterPoint Property Trust of Oak Brook IL, and Zimmer Real Estate Services of Kansas City, MO."
On January 14, 2009, a KC city council committee rubberstamped yet another approval for the project, expected to go again to the full council on Thursday, January 21.
Jay Coghlan, Executive Director of Nuclear Watch of New Mexico was in Kansas City for the Breaking the Silence Conference in Kansas City, Kansas, and sat down with Tell Somebody on January 8, 2009 to talk about Kansas City and the Nuclear Weapons Complex. Click here for a link to audio of that show.
More links:
PDF of Jay Coghlan's presentation at the Breaking the Silence Conference.
Kansas City NNSA/Honeywell Watch
Breaking the Silence in KCK & News From Iran
And don't miss Tellsomebody's look back at 2009
Tom Klammer
email: mail@tellsomebody.us
Monday, January 4, 2010
Now Online: Breaking the Silence in KCK - & News From Iran
link to audio: Breaking the Silence in KCK & News From Iran
On the January 5, 2009 edition of Tell Somebody, Nilufar Movahedi of KKFI's Sunday afternoon show, Saba: The Wind of Love guest hosted. Saba is a show of Persian music and an insightful review of headlines from Iran.
Nilufar played a couple of conversations I recorded earlier, and then talked about the news coming out of Iran.
Richard Mabion talked about the Breaking the Silence conference in Kansas City Kansas January 8th and 9th at the Reardon Center in downtown Kansas City, Kansas. More information at
http://www.breakingthesilence.us/
Then Ann Suellentrop of Physicians for Social Responsibility talked about one part of the Breaking the Silence conference that dealt with the Kansas City Plant that makes 85% of the components of nuclear weapons in the United States. In addition to Suellentrop, Maurice Copeland and other local activists, Jay Coghlan of Nuclear Watch New Mexico came to town to speak.
Breaking the Silence in KCK & News From Iran
Browse through http://www.tellsomebody.us/ and http://www.tellsomebody.libsyn.com/ for links to past shows, including last week's look back at 2009.
Tom Klammer
mail@tellsomebody.us
