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Program Summary date: Jan. 19, 2015 Hear Rep. Bill Otto and "the Lineball Sisters" discuss all manner of Kansas smalltown life in the second hour after these news stories.

Counterspin (30 min.) Produced by FAIR.

Description: This week on CounterSpin: Coverage of the recent state visit from Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto didn't avoid mention of violence in Mexico, including the disappearance of 43 student teachers in September. But the explanations of that violence (and of the US relationship to it) hid more than they revealed. We'll talk with Laura Carlsen from the Americas Program and the Center for International Policy about the desaparacidos and the nature of violence in Mexico.

Also on the show: Before the movie even opened, there were high-profile criticisms of the movie Selma, particularly around the well-received film's depiction of Lyndon Johnson.

Free Speech Radio News (30 min.)

• As many as two thousand feared dead after Boko Haram attack on Nigerian town
• Cross-border Boko Haram attacks displace students in Cameroon’s Far North Region
• Senate set to pass Keystone XL bill; Obama vows to veto
• Previously defeated cyber-surveillance bill is back before Congress
• New York City to reform policies on solitary confinement for prisoners
• Gaza engineer has a plan for rebuilding homes without scarce cement and steel

Co-hosted during the second hour with Rep. Bill Otto, formerly of the 9th district, in the Kansas legislature listen in to conversations with "Traditional Republicans" who have lived small town life in Kansas across the generations.