Radioactive Fracking waste discovered in Pennsylvania

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A truck delivering waste from a hydraulic fracking well in Pennsylvania sets off radiation alarms at a landfill. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection began testing and analyzing wastewater for radioactivity from fracking sites and their investigation is ongoing. DEP spokesperson Jon Poister told The Tribune-Review that the cuttings emitted “low-level radiation, but we don’t want any radiation in South Huntingdon.” The chemicals used in this type of means to extract natural gas have been ruled by a Wyoming judge to be "trade secrets".

Could sloppy reporting and law enforcement leaks of the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing be putting innocent people at risk? Law enforcement sources told CNN that female DNA was found on bomb fragments leading to speculation that the wife of one of the suspects was involved although they say they don't know whose DNA it is or how it got there. People on social media posted messages declaring that an American Indian Brown University student, Sunil Tripathi, was guilty of the bombing based on FBI publishing photos of possible suspects. Tripathi was found dead two days before the bombing. CNN's Peter King was also  blasted for erroneously reporting that a law enforcement source told him a suspect was found and that it was a "dark skinned male". This turned out to not be true.

Congress recently and quietly repealed a law to prevent its members from insider trading based on knowledge they receive as legislators. The Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, a law passed last year designed to prevent insider trading among lawmakers and government officials by requiring them to post disclosures of their financial transactions online reports NYU Local. ProPublica is now reporting that House Finance Chair Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, went on a ski vacation with Wall Street bankers.

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Is Bob Jones University's production of Macbeth racist?

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From the creators of racist school curriculum used by schools across the south, comes a production of "Macbeth" that some are deeming racist. Bob Jones University is being called out for giving the three witches in Shakespeare’s play dreadlocks in their production. The original story on which Shakespeare is thought to base Macbeth on in part is the "The Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland" by Raphael Holinshed. Holinshed described the witches as members of noble families or "1 percenters" although Shakespeare portrayed them as "hags" with beards in Macbeth.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation" and called on the FBI to confront people in America who have committed no crime for visiting "Islamist" websites. He did state that those who should get a visit from the FBI would be those already in a database maintained by the US government, which has "watch lists" in addition to the "no fly list". In relation to the suspected Boston Marathon bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, media reports and his mother who lives in Russia, state that he was already on one of those watch lists and was visited by the FBI.
According to a Saturday news report by Fox News, a teenager in Chicago was arrested on terrorism charges for attempting to join, an Al Qaeda affiliated group through a website to fight against the Syrian government. This raises several issues and one is the FBI is reportedly behind the "Islamic" website to radicalize and lure would be jihadist into a trap. The other is the fact that the Al Qaeda group in question, Jabhat al-Nusrah, is being assisted by the US government allied Arab Gulf States according to the Christian Science Monitor.

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Senate moves to fund FAA

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Perhaps personally affected by the air traffic controller’s furloughs that went into effect due to sequestration, law makers in the Senate unanimously approved a bill on Thursday that gives the Department of Transportation flexibility to use unspent funds to cover the costs of air traffic controllers and other essential employees at the Federal Aviation Administration. The House is expected to approve the measure.

Conservatives budget hawks have cited the work of Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart to justify austerity measures in Europe and here in the United States. However, the work was seriously flawed and was caught by Thomas Herndon, a 28-year-old economics graduate student at UMass Amherst who pointed out Rogoff and Rienhart made an error in their use of an Excel spreadsheet. Thomas Herndon was a featured guest of South Carolina's native son Stephen Colbert on the popular political comedy show The Colbert Report.

In a tragic story out of Hartsville, SC, four children died from smoke inhalation while hiding in a closet when the mobile home they lived in caught fire. Their mother Hope Hawkins has been charged with four counts of unlawful conduct toward a child and four counts of homicide by child abuse because she allegedly left the four children alone in the home that ranged from the ages of 10 months old to 4 years old. In related news, a Charlotte teenager, Sharon Reene Cuthbertson was charged with misdemeanor child neglect after a 2-year-old left in her care was found wandering a busy road not far from his home. According to the Charlotte Observer, Good Samaritan Bernice Thomas was on her way to work before dawn Wednesday when her roommate spotted a 2-year-old boy walking into the street ahead of their car.

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Could the Carolinas be hit with swarms of earthquakes?

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 With fracking picking up in South Carolina and a moratorium about to end in North Carolina, the Carolinas could be looking at possible earthquakes after research links the controversial method of obtaining natural gas to seismic activity in New Mexico. Researchers released findings at the Seismological Society of America's annual meeting in Salt Lake City, Utah this month and said ongoing earthquakes in New Mexico and Colorado is due to underground wastewater injection.


States like North Carolina, which has a Republican super majority are discussing eliminating "earned income tax credits" for tax payers while giving corporations multi-million dollar "incentives" to lure them to their states. We reported yesterday on the incentives given to the Boeing company to expand in South Carolina. The issue of corporations and the wealthiest Americans not paying their fair share of taxes was hotly debated during the last Presidential election highlighted by Mitt Romney's offshore bank accounts. In some cases, corporations are not only avoiding taxes through overshore schemes but a few have received multi-million dollar refunds!

Customers of Spartanburg Water System have seen rate hikes the last five years and now looking at a possible sixth straight year they have seen their water bills go up even though water usage is down.

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Fast food and retail workers strike in Chicago

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Fast food and retail service workers are striking in Chicago in one of its busiest business districts. The Nation reports, "Chicago’s downtown Loop area is the heart of commerce in the city. But beginning at 5:30 A.M. today, fast food and retail workers there have gone on strike, following New York City fast food workers who walked off the job in November and again earlier this month demanding higher wages and better working conditions."

Governor Nikki Haley signed a bill yesterday giving Boeing Co. $120 million dollars in incentives to entice them to expand in South Carolina. Boeing the biggest U.S. maker of commercial jets and military aircraft, is expected to report a 6 percent profit increase for the first quarter as increased deliveries of high-margin commercial jets offset the effects of the 787 Dreamliner grounding and reduced sales to the Pentagon according to reports.

Violence breaks out in France after the government legalized "gay marriage". Huge demonstrations broke out and protestors got into battles with riot police who were being attack with Molotov cocktails. Reports of attacks on gay couples were increasing as well as a report that legislators were being threatened.

Yesterday Daisy talked about the rape of men by women and if it is possible. We will pick up on that conversation and whether statutory rape against males is as harmful to them as when it happens to young girls. 

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Nuclear facility allegedly attacked on Sunday

 
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Allegedly a US Nuclear facility was attacked on Sunday but the report raises more questions than it answers. The FBI has yet to discover the identity of a suspect who was found in a "restricted area" by a security guard. The man allegedly fired two shots at the security officer who was unharmed but no details have been released to the public as to what the suspect looked like. Two days before this alleged attack on April 19, Reuters reported that "The first simulated test of a terrorist attack on a U.S. nuclear power plant was a success, federal officials said on Friday of the event that was coincidentally scheduled a day after the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday".

President Obama is being accused of yet again betraying a pledge. The administration is reportedly planning to spend billions upgrading nuclear weapons stored in Europe to make them more accurate. According to the Guardian, "Under the plan, nearly 200 B61 gravity bombs stockpiled in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and Turkey would be given new tail fins that would turn them into guided weapons that could be delivered by stealth F35 fighter-bombers." President Obama stated in 2010 that his administration would not deploy new weapons.

According to a report by Alternet, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect told investigators that US Foreign policy is the reason for the attack. "19-year-old suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told U.S. interrogators that the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were a main motivation for the attack." The deceased suspect Tamerlan Dzhokhar was quoted by an acquaintance that he believed many U.S. wars are based on the Bible, which is used as "an excuse for invading other countries."

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Republicans blocking Healthcare Reform Act

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Republicans lawmakers are accused of sabotaging the Healthcare Reform Act by rejecting Medicaid expansion at the state level which could result in a loss of coverage for the nation's poor and IRS penalties for businesses.

First Baptist Church senior pastor Mac Brunson in a sermon preached against the election of former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford to Congress stating, “Why do you think that a man who deals treacherously with his wife won’t deal treacherously with you in business?” Last week we reported that The National Republican Congressional Committee announced it would not give any funding to Sanford's campaign but last week John McCain's Political Action Committee gave the disgraced governor $2,500.

Of course, it's Earth Day, so Daisy, Double A and Gregg will talk about that, and we will be joined by a friend from Massachusetts who will talk about the Boston Marathon attack from a closer perspective. This news and more from your source for the 99%.

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Food Deserts and Homeless Dumping

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Food deserts is a term used to describe usually low income urban areas where residents without transportation struggle to obtain food. Grocery chain operator and consultant Jeffrey Brown said that with careful planning and appropriate subsidies, grocery stores can thrive in these struggling areas. Brown operates 11 ShopRite stores in Philadelphia and southern New Jersey. It appears that what Brown is proposing is not unlike the tax breaks, land grants and other breaks given to NFL franchise owners to attract or keep an NFL team in a city.

In disturbing news out of Detroit, Michigan, city managers and the Detroit Police department have figured out how to handle the large homeless population in a city hit hard by the foreclosure crisis. The ACLU of Michigan says that the Detroit Police are picking up homeless people and removing them from popular economic districts of the city and driving them miles away and "dumping" them.

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National Republican Committee dumps former Gov Mark Sanford

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A day after OTM brings up ethics questions about the Republican Party and the campaign of former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford who allegedly trespassed on his ex-wife's home, The National Republican Congressional Committee announced that it was no longer "financially" backing former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) as he runs for Congress.

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and military strongman, allegedly fled a court pursued by lawyers on Thursday after a judge ordered his arrest on treason charges. Musharraf's lawyer Qamar Afzal insisted Musharraf "did not flee" the court. "He came and left with the same security detail attached to him by the government, which is his right as a former president."

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Boston Bomb Blasts Day 3

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Alex Jones may be another media "personality tuning in to Occupy the Microphone. The OTM crew yesterday discussed Chris Mathews repeating news brought up by Daisy first on the show that is the news source for the 99%. 
Yesterday Daisy speculated on all possible scenarios and suspects and pointed out that Boston was where the first Tea Party took place in 1773. Alex Jones more recently was known for his battle on CNN with Piers Morgan over gun control. Alex Jones has allegedly said the attack was a "false-flag" that would be blamed on the "Tea Party".  
While not going as far as to label the attacks on Boston as an deliberate act of terror by the government, questions do arise from a news report published by NBC affiliate in a piece done by staff member John Dzenitis. The report features an interview with a college track coach who says he was told by an officer not to worry about the bombing, it was part of a "training exercise .  There were also reports of a bomb going off at a library in Boston on the same day.
In a bizarre case out of Humble, Texas, a teacher defended herself against allegations of inappropriately touching a seven-year old student by stating she, 61-year-old Esther Irene Stokes, is a racist and never touches black children.
South Carolina laws make it near impossible to make public the personal income of elected public officials. At least one former Republican South Carolina legislator stands accused of owning stock in a company that received public funds totalling thirty-million dollars.

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Bomb Blasts in Boston?

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At least two explosions occurred at the Boston Marathon and reports cite a bloody scene, other than that, not much details are known. Some reports cite bomb explosions but as some social media commentators have pointed out that it could have been a gas leak so there is no need to blame anyone or groups at this point.

There is an expected record high of poppy cultivation in Afghanistan this year and some reports cite NATO troop withdrawal. It should be pointed out that record crops have been reported during the height of NATO's presence in the region.

The Obama administration is pushing for greater drone use in Africa and "collateral damage" from drone strikes is still occurring in Pakistan. The ANSWER Coalition organized a march calling for an end to drone strikes on foreign soil.

Sad news to report from Greenville, SC where it is being reported that a man allegedly sexually assaulted a 4 month old baby girl. 

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President's budget throwing people under the bus

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Guest: Dr. Jill Stein, 2012 Green Party Presidential Candidate

Dr. Jill Stein joins us today to discuss the issues of the 2014 Budget put forth by the Obama administration. She says the budget "throws American people under the bus, gives the rich a free ride" In a press release, she also says,



"Despite his campaign promises to protect Social Security and make the economy fair, Obama's budget throws the American people under the bus. And it gives the economic elite a free ride on that same bus that's running us over."

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Human Rights for all w/ Efia Nwangaza

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Guest: Efia Nwangaza, veteran civil and human rights activist

Veteran civil and human rights activist Efia Nwangaza joins us today to discuss her recent trip to Geneva, Switzerland where she attended a conference on human rights and political prisoners.

The prosecution of Bradley Manning continues with the US Government asserting that the private "aided" the enemy when he leaked files to Wikileaks. Manning said he leaked the files trying to expose the American military’s "bloodlust" and disregard for human life in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The G8 group, which is comprised of rich countries and heaving protested by activist over the years, have condemned "in the strongest possible terms" North Korea's development of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile technology. As Occupy The Microphone reported yesterday, the United States announced it was "upgrading" its nuclear arsenal and building a new uranium enrichment facility in the state of Tennessee.

A Kentucky Democratic said two members of Progress Kentucky told him that they recorded the conversation of Mitch McConnell's conversation with staffers that allegedly violated ethics rules. It is illegal to record a conversation in Kentucky without the consent of at least one party of the conversation. Due to the possible unethical nature of the conversation, it is doubtful they would have obtained consent from anyone in the room. While McConnell screams about Nixonian "bugging", the individuals allegedly recorded the conversation standing in the hallway with where they could clearly hear the meeting and record it with an iPhone.

However, you do not have to go back to the Watergate for the most recent political "bugging" scandal.  Conservative operative James O’Keefe and three others were arrested back in 2010 for attempting to allegedly wiretap the telephone lines in the office of Democratic U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu.

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Medicare for all w/ Dr. Margaret Flowers

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Guest: Dr. Margaret Flowers and Medicare for All!

Dr. Margaret Flowers joins us today to discuss healthcare issues. In 2010 she penned an open letter to President Obama hoping for real healthcare reform.

Yesterday President Obama proposed a budget for 2014 that would require millionaires to pay more in taxes.

The United States is looking to "upgrade" its nuclear arsenal while reducing funding for nuclear non-proliferation efforts. Some of the money would go towards helping to fund construction of a uranium processing plant in Tennessee. Will the Iranians and/or North Koreans look at this as hypocrisy? How does this move make the world a safer place to live?

A Spartanburg man gets robbed and pistol whipped after he went to meet a person who answered his ad about buying furniture  The man went to a house to look at the furniture but said when he was being led to the back of the house, "something did not feel right". He began to reach for his legally owned handgun but the robber pulled his own gun and started assaulting him with it knocking him to the ground.

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Margret Thatcher Remembered

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Guest: David Gillespie will talk about the special election in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District.

Yesterday we briefly discussed recently deceased former British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher. As conservatives look to lionize her, others simply want to tell the truth about her politics. Yesterday we told you a story about SunTrust bank throwing away baby formula from a grocery store it had foreclosed upon, well reports are out that Margret Thatcher deprived little children of their milk.

Newly appointed Secretary of State Jon Kerry has agreed to work with Israel and Palestinians leaders to boost economic growth in the West Bank but not the embargoed Gaza Strip. Is the US and Israel still punishing the people of the Gaza Strip for democratically electing Hamas after the US encouraged Democracy and elections?

Ajinomoto, maker of aspartame, is renaming the artificial sweetener and trying to pass it off as a "natural sweetener  by rebranding it "AminoSweet". According to Natural News, "Aspartame was an accidental discovery by James Schlatter, a chemist who had been trying to produce an anti-ulcer pharmaceutical drug for G.D. Searle & Company back in 1965. Upon mixing aspartic acid and phenylalanine, two naturally-occurring amino acids, he discovered that the new compound had a sweet taste. The company merely changed its FDA approval application from drug to food additive and, voila, aspartame was born."

A 2 year old girl found wondering barefoot in Spartanburg was found by a woman who called deputies. The little girl was then tested for drugs and tested positive for marijuana. Biological parents, Laura Jane Rogers, 25, and John Calvin Hyder, 30, who live on Windy River Road were arrested and charged with unlawful neglect of a child.


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The Arms Trade Treaty w/ Cynthia McKinney

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Guest: Former Representative and Green Party candidate for President Cynthia McKinney.
The United Nations recently passed The Arms Trade Treaty which is being accused of being toothless, weak and is nonbinding. Critics charge that it will do nothing to stop or even slow the global arms trade which the United States, since the last six administrations, has led the world in arming unelected governments and dictators. U.S. advocacy groups 20 years ago started working on a similar treaty because they wanted to reduce the devastation of civil wars in developing nations. Cynthia McKinney was part of a Congressional effort along with late Senator Mark Hatfield but the Code of Conduct was rejected by Congress in the 1990s.
Laney Walker Supermarket in Augusta, Ga. closed it doors, but the owner agreed to turn over remaining food stock to a local pastor for distribution to the poor, needy and hungry. The pastor for unknown reasons did not pick up the food and the hundred or so people who showed up had to watch as the food was ordered by the new owners, SunTrust Bank, to be put into dumpsters and sent to the local landfill. Some people followed the trucks carrying the food to the landfill were law enforcement turned them away. Margaret Thatcher, a conservative and Britain's first female prime minister has died. She was 87 years old.

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Activist Dick Gregory goes on hunger strike

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Activist and well known comedian Dick Gregory goes on a fast (hunger strike) until Attorney Lynne Stewart is released on a compassionate release from prison as cancer is spreading and raving her body. Lynne Stewart is a well known attorney who has represented and stood of for the rights of poor people and represented defendants caught up in the war on terror. 

Last month, with little media fanfare, The New Hampshire House voted to prohibit private prisons in the Granite State. Instead of privatization, house members believe the state should be focusing on rehabilitation of prisoners.

Still in the middle of the Stop & Frisk civil trial, a NYPD officer has been charged with running a gang of thieves who robbed alleged drug dealers. He is accused of supply them with badges and weapons to pose as cops.

A "lesbian African-American/Latina beauty queen" is trying to become the next Miss South Carolina.

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Bipartisanship undoing Wall St reforms?

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Some people believe the answer to solving problems in Washington, DC is bi-partisanship cooperation on legislation. Others say it depends on the legislation because Mother Jones is reporting that there is bi-partisanship cooperation in undermining Wall St. reforms.

President Obama has pledged to return 5% of his government pay in a move to show solidarity with federal workers facing furloughs due to automatic spending cuts. Reports say the President made this move after it was revealed that the new Sec. of Defense, Chuck Hagel would return 14 days worth of his salary. Breaking, Atty General Eric Holder and Sec. of State john Kerry pledge to return some of their salaries.

Organizers predicted that hundreds of fast food employees would strike against low wages today.

Allegedly, members of Anonymous have hacked websites and accounts belonging to North Korea.

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Has a Fox been appointed to oversee the SEC Hen House?

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Critics are questioning the recent appointment of former US attorney Mary Jo White to head the SEC. She also worked at the law firm Debevoise and Plimpton defending Wall Street banksters and was involved in past scandals at the SEC. Others are looking at the appointment as par for course for the Obama administration, which just like Mitt Romney's campaign, was funded by Wall Street.

The state of Washington has issued a press release announcing a "Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Bureau of Land Management". What does it mean?

Speaking of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a town hall meeting was held in Plymouth, Massachusetts over concerns about the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, which sits very near to the coast on the Atlantic Ocean. A federal appeals court in February rejected state Attorney General Martha Coakley's legal challenge to the relicensing the facility noting and Coakley said the NRC has not considered the disaster that occurred at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in Japan. Waste and Debris escaped into the ocean from the plant after it suffered damage resulting from an earthquake in 2011.


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Former governor Mark Sanford making political comeback?

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Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican will be visiting the Palmetto state soon and just like first term Sen. Obama, Cruz is getting attention as a possible 2016 presidential candidate.

Former Governor and adulterer Mark Sanford was the top vote getter from the Family Values crowd in the GOP primary for South Carolina's 1st District seat in Congress. He will now face off with Charles County councilman Curtis Bostic in a GOP runoff.

None should be surprised that China has put it military on high alert along the border region it shares with North Korea. As the US sends a navy destroyer to the region, it is speculated that if the Korean cold war turns hot again, they will side with the North Koreans.

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Exxon pipeline oil spill

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While the recent major oil spill from the Exxon pipeline in Arkansas is disappearing from the headlines, Occupy The Microphone will continue to update you on this environmental disaster.

Saluda Mayor Frank E. Addy, Jr. committed suicide and it appears to be related to an investigation into his claimed travel reimbursements that had tripled from the previous year.

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