Kill Bill's No Bull Zone

Program Summary April 10, 2016

Hear Rep. Bill Otto and "the Lineball Sisters" discuss during the 2nd hour all manner of Kansas small town life after these news stories.

Counterspin (30 min.)  

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This week on CounterSpin: When Massey Energy, the biggest coal company in Appalachia, polluted the groundwater of the community Massey CEO Don Blankenship lived in, he had employees run a private water line direct to his mansion, while fighting off the lawsuit from his poisoned neighbors. That’s just the kind of guy he is, and it’s decades of that behavior, as much as the 2010 explosion that killed 29 people at Massey’s Upper Big Branch mine, that led to Blankenship’s sentencing this week to a year in prison on a charge of conspiracy to violate mine safety standards.

Free Speech Radio News (30 min.)  

See: http://fsrn.org/

• Panama Papers open a window of opportunity to reform shady business as usual
• EU starts deporting migrants and refugees to Turkey; first Syrians arrive in Germany under deal
• “Nuit debout” movement grows in France to push back against labor reforms
• UK junior doctors walk out over proposed NHS contract they say is unsafe and unsustainable
• State legislatures move to restrict abortion access, providers document spike in threats
• Mississippi enacts law to permit discrimination on basis of sexual preference or gender identity
• LGBT activists in Turkey fight for constitutional protections and social acceptance