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Leid Stories—The Clinton Foundation: FBI Probe Deepens, Noose Tightens—01.09.18

A wide-ranging FBI probe into the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation (The Clinton Foundation), reportedly launched months before formal confirmation last week, is raising new questions about whether it initially was impeded by Clinton and Obama loyalists within the Trump administration. Even so, it appears that the   investigation into foundation has reached a critical point, and the public may soon know whether the Clintons and/or other officers of the foundation are to be charged with operating the charity as a criminal enterprise.

Charles Ortel, a retired Wall Street banker turned financial investigator and a sworn enemy of charity fraud, has been forensically examining the foundation’s operations and records for two years and has been reporting his findings on Leid Stories. He declared early on that the evidence he uncovered suggested that the foundation was “the largest unprosecuted fraud in U.S. history.” He files his latest report.

Leid Stories—A Conversation with ‘The People’s Attorney General,’ Alton Maddox—01.08.18

The appellation “The People’s Attorney General” befits Alton H. Maddox Jr., who for more than a half-century has been engaged in vigorous struggle against American apartheid, battling an inherently uneven, unfair and immoral system engineered to throttle the well-being, opportunities and progress of people of color while assuring rights, privileges and social, political and economic control to whites.

Long before the Newnan, Ga.-born Maddox became a lawyer, he had placed himself in service to distressed communities. But it was in the bantustans of the North, most notably in New York City, that Maddox came into the fullness of big-city apartheid and his role in battling it, both inside and outside the courts. He has paid a big price, but continues the struggle.

Leid Stories begins the first of an extended conversation with Maddox, a treasure in our midst. 

Leid Stories—Don’t Let the ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Freeze Your Brain! Enjoy A Blizzard of Opinions and Ideas on ‘Free Your Mind Friday!’—01.05.18

It’s paralyzingly cold. But you can warm up your brain and heart and soul a bit by joining us on “Free Your Mind Friday” in our first open forum for the year. It’s a wonderful blizzard of information, opinions and ideas—people telling it as they see it.

Call 888-874-4888 and enjoy the warmth.

Leid Stories—‘Your Mama’: Trump’s Next Diplomatic Tweet to Kim Jong Un?; Psychiatrists Warn of ‘Dangerous’ President—01.03.18

Lots of rumbling about President Trump’s bizarre behavior and excessive vitriol, but not much evidence that he can be compelled to quit embarrassing himself, his office and the country with his vituperative talk and outrageous actions. Case in point: Pushing both the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the brink of war.

Bucking the admonitions of the American Psychological Association against “diagnosing” people, especially public officials, who aren’t their patients (specifically Donald Trump), many mental-health professionals are saying they have a “duty to warn” when they see “signs or risk or danger” to the public in a public official’s erratic behavior. Three mental-health experts explained in an article published yesterday in the Boston Globe why “professionals should further engage in educating the public” about a “dangerous president.”

Leid Stories—Commit to Making 2018 A Purposeful Year—01.02.18

It’s a brand-new year, and while we look to it with an abundance or optimism and hope, we know that many of the troubles of 2017 will be with us in 2018. But let us not despair, says Leid Stories. Let us instead move into the new year purposefully, committed individually and collectively to transformative change.

Leid Stories—The Year It’s Been: Looking Back At 2017—12.29.17

Leid Stories listeners close out the year with wide-ranging discussions on the issues and events they believe were most significant or had the greatest impact this year.

It’s our last “Free Your Mind Friday” for 2017. Call 888-874-4888 and help us adjust our rear-view mirrors.

Leid Stories—2017 Ends Badly for the Clintons and Their Fraudulent ‘Charity’ Empire; Worse Yet to Come in 2018—12.28.17

When Leid Stories reported earlier this month on a trove of thousands of files the FBI released from its electronic vault on its ongoing probe of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation (The Clinton Foundation), we predicted there should be much more coming, based on the labyrinthine nature of the foundation and its operations.

Charles Ortel, a retired Wall Street banker turned financial investigator, has been probing the innards of the foundation for two years as an expert in charity fraud. He declared early on that the evidence he uncovered suggested the foundation was “the largest unprosecuted fraud in U.S. history.”

Ortel finishes off the year with new information he has uncovered that adds even more fuel to the prosecutorial fire engulfing the Clintons, their foundation and a coterie of key players in their scheme.

Leid Stories—The Biggest Lesson of This Tumultuous Year—12.27.17

As a tumultuous 2017 nears its end and a new year soon begins, Leid Stories encourages all to undertake a recap—not the standard chronological review of the “big stories” of the year, but a sober reckoning of how, individually and collectively, we have been changed by them. 

 

 

Leid Stories—What’s Kwanzaa?: Dr. Maulana Karenga, the Originator of Kwanzaa, Explains the Meaning, Purpose, Principles and Practices of the Now-Global Celebration—12.26.17

It’s the first day of Kwanzaa, a weeklong period (Dec. 26-Jan.1) of education, reflection and celebration of African-derived core principles the pan-African world is encouraged to observe in the spirit of collective struggle and progress.

Forged in the crucible of mass social, political, economic, and even moral oppression in the United States in the 1960s, Kwanzaa was designed as a comprehensive system of correctives. But many Americans do not know what the Kwanzaa is all about.

Dr. Maulana Karenga, a major figure in the U.S. black-nationalist movement in the ’60s and ’70s and now author, scholar and chair of the Africana Studies Department at California State University, Long Beach, created Kwanzaa. In this panoramic address (2008) to the Philadelphia chapter of the National Association of Kawaida Organizations Karenga explains the meaning, purpose, principles and practices of the now-global celebration of Kwanzaa.

Leid Stories—Trump’s Big Con; Minding Our Own Business—12.21.17

Knowing the president’s penchant for lying and gratuitous overstatements about his business acumen and success (which is also lying), we should be very skeptical about his “Christmas gift” of a $1.5-trillion budget that will cause a rising tide of prosperity that will lift all boats. The rosy picture he paints doesn’t square with reality. Rather, it’s another of his tall tales, told to distract and buy time before the economic tsunami hits, says Leid Stories.

 

In a related commentary, Leid Stories repeats its warning that we all should mind our own business, preparing ourselves for the economic calamities that are much closer than we think.