Why does Republican Todd Kincannon still have a state job?

February 25-2014

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Todd Kincannon is the Chairman of the Simpsonville Election Commission and a former GOP state leader, last year tweeted that transgender people should be put in camps, tweeted the super bowl sucked worse than Trayvon Martin trying to score some crack and allegedly tweeted someone a picture of his Anthony Wiener. Tune in Live at Five today to Occupy The Microphone as they try to make sense of the senseless.

Governor Nikki Haley says its her job to keep jobs out of South Carolina

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February 21, 2014 - 5:00PM EST

Governor Nikki Haley says American car companies are not welcome in the state, A State Senator from Beaufort says he wants to legalize cannabis oil in South Carolina and a former U.S. Lieutenant General said Jesus will be armed with a AR-15 during the second coming. This news and more live at five on Occupy The Microphone!

Diapers, Jobs and Brazilian Nazis and enslavers

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Softee Supreme Diaper Corporation does not know if it will be able to meet a deadline to create 262 jobs or face repayment of a million dollar grant it got from South Carolina. Complicating things is a federal criminal case against a partner in the company.

The BBC recently published an article about racist Nazis in Brazil who openly enslaved people on a farm where the Nazi Swastika was branded on bricks and live stock and the enslaved where forced to salute pictures of Adolph Hitler. Tune in today to Occupy The Microphone live at five as they discuss this and more. Sponsored in part by Yellow Mama Music.

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Faith and LGBT forum held in Greenville, SC

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Year of Altruism, The Warehouse Theatre, Gender Benders and AID Upstate presented a conversation last night entitled, RELIGION -- A Discussion of the Impact on the Spirit, Advocacy and Vision of the LGBT Community. Tune in Today, Live at Five on Occupy The Microphone as they discuss that and much more. Sponsored in part by Yellow Mama Music.

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Gov. Nikki Haley unveils South Carolina budget

Governor Nikki Haley rolled out her state budget yesterday but most of her time has spent talking about what is not in the budget. Tune in as we discuss the Governor's budget for the state. Today's program is sponsored in part by Yellow Mama Music.

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Radioactive Plume detected in South Carolina

A Radioactive Nuclear plume is coming from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and a toxic liquid spill in West Virginia leaves hundreds of thousands without safe tap water. Tune in to learn about these two environmental disasters and more today as we Occupy The Mic on Occupy The Microphone Live at Five Sponsored in part by Yellow Mama Music!

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Stopping violence in the upstate of South Carolina

Occupy The Microphone will continue its community discussion on violence in the Upstate of South Carolina. Traci Fant will be back in studio along with those who have been on sides of the issue and those looking to solve the problem.  Tune in to Occupy The Microphone today live at five!

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Putting the brakes on violence in South Carolina with Traci Young Fant

Violence appears to have a grip on the Upstate of South Carolina with shootings and killings happening way too often. Today's guest host Traci Fant joins Daisy and Double A to talk about solutions today on Occupy The Microphone live at five!

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Dead body lien bill proposed in South Carolina

Can't pay the funeral tab for a loved one? If South Carolina Representative John King has his way the funeral home will just hold on to the body. Would the body accumulate storage fees until the bill is paid like a towed car. Representative King is the man behind SC bill H 4370. Tune in to Occupy The Microphone as they discuss this and more live at five!

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Medicaid rolls jump twenty percent in South Carolina without Medicaid Expansion

South Carolina Republicans led by Governor Nikki Haley rejected Federal money to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act but South Carolina is still experiencing a huge jump in its Medicaid rolls. What is behind the new growth? Are there more people becoming poor in South Carolina? Tune in for this news and more on Occupy The Microphone!

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Blocking Obamacare in South Carolina

Last night a committee of state senators in South Carolina gathered at the public library to talk about a proposal to nullify the Affordable Care Act. Both Gorgeous Gregg and Mrs Gorgeous spoke, and Daisy Deadhead was there in all her glory. Friend of the show Tony was there as well to have his say. We'll talk about this and more today on Occupy the Microphone!

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Sen. Lindsey Graham's stock takes a nose dive in polls

With the Republican Primary for US Senate only a few months away, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is slipping in the polls and at least three Republican upstarts are chomping at the bit to take his job. Graham has been beating on the Obama administration, using the Benghazi tragedy as a club. Will that be enough to hold on to his cushy job in Congress?

Also, in May 2013 after protesting a sting operation targeting sex workers in Phoenix known as "Project ROSE," transgender rights activist Monica Jones was falsely arrested for "manifestation of prostitution" as part of the sting. Is this tactic something we can expect to happen again as the powers that be continue to crack down on protest of any sort?

First Nation tribes in Canada fight to save land from fracking

Canadian Mounties clash with Indians over fracking, whistle blower Edward Snowden says he did not give Russia and China secrets, Fukishima water 6500 times more radioactive than before, and South Carolina spends 47 million dollars to build an "Inland port" in Spartanburg County. A lot to cover today on Occupy The Microphone!

Standing Your Ground in SC now covers killing bystanders

Has the Boeing Dreamliner turned into a nightmare for South Carolina? Seduced into locating in South Carolina by low taxes and government giveaways, the new plane continues to have serious problems and now the man behind the Dreamliner has resigned. The plant was temporarily shutdown because of the government shutdown but after “key” FCC personnel were called back to the job, the plant has resumed work.

A Columbia, South Carolina man who shot and killed an unarmed teen escaped prosecution and given immunity under the state’s "Stand Your Ground" law. In 2010, 17 yr-old Darrell Niles was shot and killed while travelling in his vehicle by Shannon Scott. Scott claimed that he afraid for his life after several women followed his 15 yr-old daughter from a nightclub and allegedly fired shots at the Scott family home from the SUV they were travelling in. Niles was travelling in a separate vehicle and not involved in the alleged attack by the women after Scott’s daughter. Circuit Judge Maite Murphy ruled this week that Scott be granted immunity because “When the defendant fired the shot, he reasonably believed he was being attacked with deadly force directed at his home,”.

Racist trolls attack the new Miss America Nina Davuluri

Racist suspects are singing the same old “Take America Back” tune after a young woman of Indian descent won the Miss America pageant. Miss New York Nina Davuluri being crowned as Miss America 2014 caused social media to light up with racist rants and one tweet collected by Buzz Feed stated “Man our president nor our new Miss America isn't even American I'm sorry but Miss Kansas I salute you your the real American”. Todd Starnes, a radio host of Fox News & Commentary took a page out of Sarah Palin’s book when he tweeted “The liberal Miss America judges won’t say this – but Miss Kansas lost because she actually represented American values,” During a campaign stop in North Carolina during John McCain’s run for President in 2008, Palin implied that certain parts of the nation were “Pro-American” implying that others were not. Of course, Starnes is in full spin mode with the same old Palin talking points blaming the “mainstream media” for misreporting his implied derogatory comments about the crowning of Nina Davuluri.

A fourth sewage treatment plant in South Carolina has tested positive for the dangerous polychlorinated biphenyls chemicals also known as PCBs. It is believed that someone is engaged in illegal dumping in the Upstate area. Jeff Bailey, city of Inman wastewater treatment manager, said he notified the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control after detecting small amounts of the chemical were detected in septic sludge.

A Charlotte Mecklenburg Police officer is facing manslaughter charges after his shot at an unarmed man seeking help twelve times hitting him ten times and killing him. Jonathan Ferrell, a former Florida A&M football player who moved to Charlotte to be with his fiancée had a car accident and sought help from a nearby home. The woman who answered the door thinking it was her husband was startled when it was not, shut the door, and called police apparently reporting a breaking and entering. When police arrived to investigate, Ferrell approached the three officers when one tried to tazer him before CMPD Officer Randall Kerrick open fire on the unarmed man killing him. Kerrick was quickly charged with manslaughter after an investigation by homicide detectives. Lawyers representing Officer Randall Kerrick told the local new media that the shooting was justified but declined to take questions.

US Navy Yard Attacker identified as Aaron Alexis

The US Naval Yard shooter has been identified as a civilian contractor from Texas named Aaron Alexis. At least 12 have been killed according to reports.

Did the Detroit emergency manager intentionally cause a partial power outage in Detroit to facilitate privatizing the cities power grid? Several people were injured and many more trapped in elevators when electrical power was purposely cut to certain sectors of the city. Bill Nowling of Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's office and City of Detroit-Chief Compliance Officer, Gary Brown both admitted that the power outages were intentional but tried to blame it on potential problems with the entire grid ad Brown said if they did not shut off the power DTE would have. However, DTE offcials say that Brown is lying and they supply the power but don’t choose where the power goes.

Lawrence Summers, a former U.S. Treasury secretary, has withdrawn his name from consideration to become the next Federal Reserve Chair. Many progressives, including Elizabeth Warren were vocal critics of Summers attempts to deregulate the financial sector when he was Treasury secretary under President Clinton.

In local news, last week South Carolina electrical cooperatives are backing the first large-scale solar farm which will be built in the countryside near Walterboro.

Will Folks on how the SC Republican Party is falling apart

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Today is the twelfth anniversary of the 911 attacks.

We caught up with FITSNews’ editor and blogger Will Folks for a candid conversation. Folks revealed that he had engaged in an “inappropriate physical relationship” with then Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley who would go on to become South Carolina’s Governor. We will get his thoughts on why he believes the South Carolina Republican Party is falling apart.

Occupy The Microphone has provided in depth coverage of the adoption case involving a Cherokee child by the name of Veronica Brown whose father Dusten Brown contends was illegally adopted by a South Carolina couple. On September 9, NBC News and Reuters published and broadcast the first in a series of reports on the underground adoption networks operating in the United States where adoptive parents who want to give up their adoptive children, hand them over to other people without any government oversight.

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Possible diplomatic solution on Syrian chemical weapons in the works

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*Breaking News: Russia says the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) has confirmed that the videos and photos purporting to show the victims of a chemical attack near the Syrian capital, Damascus, were fabricated.

Secretary of State John Kerry seemed to offer an opening to Syrian President Assad when he said that the US would not attack his nation if he put any chemical weapons they have under international control. After apparently being pressured by Russian President Putin, the Syrian government seems ready to do just that. That doesn't mean the end of the story. Who used these weapons? Will there be a price to pay for those who used them?

Brandon Hilton, Spartanburg's own pop star in the making, joins us on air today. He'll talk about this weekend's Upstate Pride Parade and Festival and whatever else comes to mind.

A reference to AIPAC, renown as a major Israeli pressure group, was deleted from a New York Times report recently. The article, about the march to attacking Syria, reported that the political action committee was pressuring the Obama administration to attack Syria.

Finally, both Washington and Colorado are cashing in on the financial boom they are experiencing as they legalized pot use. When more freedom also means a stronger economy, what's holding us back?

That and more today on Occupy The Microphone.

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Putin says that Russia will help Syria if US attacks

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Speaking from the G20 summit, Russian president Vladimir Putin said that the recent alleged chemical attacks in Syria is a provocation carried out by the rebels to attract a foreign-led strike. He also said in the event of military strike, Russia would help Syria. “Will we help Syria? We will. And we are already helping, we send arms, we cooperate in the economics sphere, we hope to expand our cooperation in the humanitarian sphere, which includes sending humanitarian aid to support those people – the civilians – who have found themselves in a very dire situation in this country,” Putin said.

In related news, McClatchy news service reported today that Russia delivered a 100-page report to the United Nations laying out evidence that the Syrian opposition carried out the sarin gas chemical attacks earlier this year in March that killed 26 people. Russia said its investigation of the March attacks was carried out under the strict protocols established by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and that samples collected by Russian technicians were sent to OPCW-certified laboratories. The OPCW is the international agency that governs adherence to treaties that prohibit the use of chemical weapons.

Carl Romanelli of the Pennsylvania Green Party will call in today to discuss the challenge of third party ballot access in the United States and weigh in on some of the national issues facing America.

In SC news, a South Carolina student and his parent sued the Charleston County School District in the Charleston County Court of Common Pleas. In the complaint, it is alleged that one of the student’s teachers at West Ashley High School in Charleston, Alan Ingram, bullied the teen so much that he attempted suicide. The lawsuit states, "In early April 2013, Ingram began bullying plaintiff in class, in front of plaintiff's classmates, by telling plaintiff's classmates that plaintiff was 'gay,' and by calling plaintiff names and belittling him in the presence of his classmates. This continued on a daily basis for an extended period of time,”

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Another massive domestic spying program revealed dwarfs NSA program

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The Office of National Drug Control Policy has been coordinating a massive domestic spying program involving the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and the telecomm giant AT&T. In 1987 AT&T made a decision to store massive amounts of communication data not just on its customers but all calls that pass through their switches. In 2007, former President George W. Bush activated “Project Hemisphere” and the DEA and AT&T have been working together ever since to mine the data.

According to Daily Tech, “an estimated 4 billion records (one call sometimes generates multiple records) are estimated to be added to the federally funded AT&T databases a day; over a trillion records are estimated to be added yearly. And possibly tens of trillions of records --- mostly from law-abiding Americans -- may reside in the agency's carefully maintained databases.”

South Carolina received $295 million dollars in 2010 to help keep struggling homeowners from losing their homes in foreclosure. However, it has only used about $98 million of the money it got from the federal government due mostly to those who qualify for assistance not knowing the program even exists. To apply, you can call 1-855-435-7472 or go to www.SCHELP.gov.

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