Episodes
Wednesday Jun 29, 2016
Leid Stories - The Clinton Foundation: Where Have All the Millions Gone? - 06.29.16
Wednesday Jun 29, 2016
Wednesday Jun 29, 2016
Charles Ortel, a former Wall Street banker and investor whose digging into the financials of General Electric in 2007-2008 revealed that the conglomerate had fraudulently overvalued its stock by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Since February last year, Ortel has been looking closely at the finances and operations of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Foundation. In a five-part series on Leid Stories, he detailed his stunning findings that the foundation is engaging in “massive fraud” through highly questionable, and downright illegal, practices that purport to be in line with the foundation’s philanthropic work but really are designed to enrich the Clintons.
With the same zeal he pursued GE and exposed its financial crimes, Ortel is untangling the global labyrinth within which the foundation functions and how it has managed to evade the law as a renegade “charitable” institution.
Today Ortel reveals the foundation’s shady operations involving hundreds of millions of dollars solicited and received from foreign governments—ostensibly to support HIV/AIDS programs in the developing world—but have yet to be accounted for.
Tuesday Jun 28, 2016
Tuesday Jun 28, 2016
The duopoly’s national conventions are just weeks away—the Republicans meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, July 18-21; the Democrats, in Philadelphia, Pa., July 25-28. Political and party fireworks leading up to the nominating conventions are likely not to change the predetermined outcomes: Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee; Hillary Clinton, the Democratic candidate, in the general election.
Hence, our discussion today: Which way forward for those who find both candidates, and the parties and process that have produced them, detestable?
Monday Jun 27, 2016
Monday Jun 27, 2016
He continues to make speeches and statements attesting the viability of the “political revolution” he ignited with his presidential bid and vows to bring it to fruition at next month’s nominating convention in Philadelphia (and beyond?), but the Independent senator from Vermont is feeling the Clinton/Democratic Party burn. Big time.
He’s already announced he’ll “vote for Hillary” in November in the interest of “party unity,” but Sanders still has not definitively declared what he will do with the 13-million-plus votes he won—except that “the people” should take things from here.
Leid Stories pointed out early the troubling similarities between Sanders’ and other “progressive” Democrats’ false-flag presidential campaigns that looked and sounded like popular movements but served only to bolster the political fortunes of Democratic Party’s power elite.
Friday Jun 24, 2016
Leid Stories - Something to Say? Get It Said!’ - 06.24.16
Friday Jun 24, 2016
Friday Jun 24, 2016
What a week it’s been. Calamity. Treachery. Conspiracy. Intrigue. And that’s just Congress!
You’ve got a lot to say about this week’s news issues and events, and about other things, too. Well, get them said on Leid Stories’ “Free Your Mind Friday,” the world’s best open forum.
Call 888-874-4888 and tell it like it is.
Thursday Jun 23, 2016
Thursday Jun 23, 2016
Caesar Goodson, the third officer, and “star” defendant, tried in connection with the brutal death of Freddie Gray today was cleared of all charges—including second-degree depraved-heart murder; three counts of manslaughter; assault; reckless endangerment; and misconduct in office.
Noted attorney Alton H. Maddox Jr., who predicted the outcome of the case, deciphers the verdict.
In the immediate aftermath of the June 12 massacre of 49 people and the wounding of 53 others at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., President Barack Obama told the nation that the alleged lone gunman, Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old security guard, had committed “an act of terror” and “an act of hate.”
Various other officials in his administration—including Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, FBI Director James Comey and their boss U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch—have echoed the president’s characterization of the tragedy, and it appears to be the legal definition that is informing the government’s ongoing investigations.
Monday Jun 20, 2016
Monday Jun 20, 2016
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, the nation’s highest-level law-enforcement official, followed quickly on the heels of President Obama’s declaration of outrage about the June 12 massacre at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., and his promise to the nation to “seek justice.” Lynch was a featured guest on major weekend newsmaker shows discussing the progress the DOJ was making in pursuing leads in the case, with the alleged gunman, Omar Mateen, 29, and others believed connected to him at the center of the investigation. Forty-nine people were killed and 53 wounded in the mass shooting. Mateen died was killed in as gun battle with police.
Leid Stories discusses a troublesome—and recurring—theme in the DOJ’s investigations, raised once again in Lynch’s probe of the Orlando massacre
Friday Jun 17, 2016
Leid Stories - Talk All About It on ‘Free Your Mind Friday!’ - 06.17.16
Friday Jun 17, 2016
Friday Jun 17, 2016
Join us at “the gathering place for the exchange of information, opinions and ideas.” It's “Free Your Mind Friday” on Leid Stories, and listeners call is as they see it. Call 888-874-4888 and free your mind!
Thursday Jun 16, 2016
Leid Stories - Mass Murder, Mass Media and Race Politics (Part 4) - 06.16.16
Thursday Jun 16, 2016
Thursday Jun 16, 2016
It took 15 hours of pleading by Senate Democrats yesterday before Republicans agreed to consider two gun-control measures that would add controls on licenses and background checks for people buying guns. Sen. Chris Murphy, the junior senator from Connecticut, noting that almost four years after the massacre of 20 schoolchildren and six staff members at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in his home state, “we have done nothing, nothing at all to reduce the likelihood that that will happen again to another family.”
But it did, just three days before Murphy’s filibuster. Forty-nine people were killed, and 53 others wounded, in a mass shooting on June 12 at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. Omar Mateen, 29, the alleged lone gunman, mowed down his victims with a military-style assault rifle and a high-powered handgun, even though he had been, at one point, on two federal “watch” lists.
Leid Stories discusses the quandary that plagues gun-control legislative efforts in the United States.
Wednesday Jun 15, 2016
Wednesday Jun 15, 2016
As more is learned about Omar Mateen, the alleged lone gunman responsible for the June 12 massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., and about other related developments, we see a shift in how the story is being reported and how officials are continuing to manage the mass killing as “an act of terrorism.” Leid Stories continues the discussion of the previous two days.
Yesterday’s
Democratic primary in Washington, D.C., the last hurrah of the primary
season, predictably handed an easy victory to Hillary Clinton over
Bernie Sanders—78.7 percent of the vote and 16 additional delegates to
supercharge her nomination. The D.C. primary, however, was not just a
ceremonious end to the faceoffs between the two candidates, says Leid
Stories; it pointedly brought home the necessity to part ways with the
established political order and the failure of third parties and
political movements to make inroads with constituencies that are looking
for alternatives.
Tuesday Jun 14, 2016
Leid Stories - Mass Murder, Mass Media and Race Politics (Part 2) - 06.14.16
Tuesday Jun 14, 2016
Tuesday Jun 14, 2016
President Obama, expected to hit the campaign trail to support Hillary Clinton, instead will be in Orlando today, paying his respects to the victims of the June 12 mass shooting by a lone gunman at a gay club there. Fifty people—including the gunman, Omar Mateen, 29—died in the carnage, and 53 others were wounded, many of them sustaining multiple wounds.
Leid Stories continues yesterday’s discussion on the politicization of the tragedy.