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Program Summary April 6 2015

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.

Free Speech Radio News (30 min.) 

• Framework agreement reached on Iran’s nuclear program and UN sanctions
• Nigerian presidential election results deliver historic shakeup
• Al Shabab attack kills 147 at Kenyan university
• Transparency activists want to shine a light on ‘dark money’
• Public services and budget allocations take center stage of Chicago mayoral run-off
• Mumia Abu-Jamal discharged from hospital, transferred to prison infirmary
• Protests follow Australia’s moves to cut services in remote indigenous communities

Between the Lines Radio (30 min.) This news program is broadcast and streamed at KKFI-fm 90.1 Friday 9am (CST) Descripton: "The TPP Investment Chapter contains a provision that would prevent the text from being shared even with the public until four years after the trade deal is either approved or had been rejected by the national governments, basically keeping this secret giveaway to big business on ice." – Patrick Woodall, research director and senior policy advocate with Food and Water Watch, on the hyper-secrecy surrounding the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement