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Leid Stories—Election 2016: Debating the ‘Debate’ and Other Sordid Political Matters—10.20.16

The Q&A sessions with the duopoly’s presidential contenders mercifully came to an end last night at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. The third and final joust was a big show, playing to a packed auditorium and a record-setting 84 million people who watched it live.

Moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News coursed the combatants, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, through six areas of inquiry: debt and entitlements, immigration, the economy, the Supreme Court, foreign policy, and fitness to be president.

Leid Stories listeners decipher the Q&A session, focusing on the candidates’ responses and what they portend for the immediate future.

Leid Stories—Busted! Leaked Docs Show Clinton Foundation Confessing to Fraud; Post-Hurricane Matthew, Haitians Suspicious About What Comes with ‘Aid’—10.19.16

Charles Ortel, the acknowledged expert on the shady operations and financial dealings of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation and its multiple offshoots, discusses documents released yesterday by WikiLeaks that appear to confirm that Clinton Foundation executives, including the Clintons, were well aware they were committing fraud.

Ortel, a former Wall Street financial expert and adviser who has spent two years investigating and analyzing the financial records of the foundation and its affiliated entities, has been detailing in an ongoing series on Leid Stories what he alleges is “the largest unprosecuted charity fraud in history.”

Dady Chery, a Haitian-born journalist, author (most recently, We Have Dared to Be Free: Haiti’s Struggle Against Occupation), biology professor and co-editor in chief of the news site newsjunkiepost.com, discusses growing concern in Haiti, still reeling from the disastrous impact of Hurricane Matthew, about particular kinds of international aid.

Leid Stories—As Election 2016 Nears End, A Listener ‘Poll’ About the Political Process and the Future —10.18.16

No matter who wins the big prize—the presidency of the United States—20 days from now, wide swaths of America will be tallying incalculable losses that will go far beyond who the 45^th occupant of the White House will be. A “stunning” victory will be declared for one, bitter defeat for the rest, and America will have concluded the hallowed quadrennial ritual that is a “benchmark of our democracy.”

This year, muffled discontent with the electoral process has given way to perhaps the loudest and most pointed criticisms we’ve seen and heard since the tumultuous ’60s of the system and candidates vying for the nation’s highest office. But there’s little evidence that the people’s feelings and views have been high on the list of priorities in this self-centered, personality-driven race.

Leid Stories “polls” listeners’ views about Election 2016, which, after tomorrow’s final “debate” will mercifully soon come to an end—only to begin a new chapter of political mayhem and misfortune?

Leid Stories—WikiLeaks Docs Confirm Clinton Foundation Crimes—10.17.16

Charles Ortel, former Wall Street financial analyst and leading expert on the Clinton Foundation—which he calls “the largest unprosecuted charity fraud in U.S. history”—has been reporting on the Clinton Foundation’s epic law-breaking as it amassed billions of dollars from high-powered “donors” all over the world looking for favors from the Clintons.

Ortel discusses what the trove of WikLeaks documents released over the past several days reveals and confirms about the illegal inner workings of the Clinton Foundation. 

Leid Stories—Good to You, Good for You, It’s “Free Your Mind Friday!—10.14.16

Another week of mayhem that has brought us ever closer to a political apocalypse. Yet, we’re still standing and relatively sane. Polls are showing that “Free Your Mind Friday” is the single most effective defense against the system’s nefarious mind-control plans. (Actually, there’ve been no such polls, but it’s lying season, and the intent was to hype the program.)

Gather your thoughts—about the week’s news issues and events, Leid Stories programs or any subject you consider worthy of further discussion and debate—and bring them to the best open forum in Radioland (now, that’s true!)

Call 888-874-4888 and give us your take on the political hell we’re living in.

Leid Stories—Election 2016: Things Are Going to Hell, and We’re In the Handbasket—10.13.16

Leid Stories listeners dissect the political situation in the United States, how they are reckoning with it, and what they see as the role and future for progressive politics and independent movements.

Leid Stories—Election 2016: We’ve Been Warned. Will We Heed the Warnings? (Part 2)—10.12.16

Leid Stories continues yesterday’s discussion on a “reckoning” about U.S. politics that is long overdue. What does the political process mean to and for us? What is the nature of the relationship between systems of power and individual/group power? What is democracy? Does is really exist? These are some of the issues up for discussion today.

Leid Stories—Election 2016: We’ve Been Warned. Will We Heed the Warnings?—10.11.16

It’s hard to imagine our political situation getting worse, but it seems certain that it will. No matter who wins this dreadful presidential race, the people will lose. We won’t be able to say  we didn’t see it coming; there’ve been plenty of warning signs. But there’ll be lots and lots of analysis around two key questions: “How did this happen to us?” and “What do we do now?”

Of course, by then the duopoly would have chalked up another victory, and such questions would largely be innocuous, having little to no effect on the realities of life in the nation’s “new” political order.

Leid Stories—Merchants of Misery: The Clinton Foundation Is Back ‘Helping’ Haiti; Election 2016: The ‘Debate’ A Point of No Return’—10.10.16

You’d think that Bill and Hillary Clinton would be gun shy about seeking donations for their foundation’s “charitable” efforts in Haiti. But you’d be wrong.

In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Matthew’s Oct. 3 devastation in Haiti, they’ve cranked up the Clinton Foundation’s cash-collecting machine, asking donors to give generously to the “Clinton Foundation Community” while they keep suffering Haitians in their thoughts and prayers. It’s how the Clintons and their foundation amassed billions of dollars in “emergency aid” that was to help rebuild Haiti after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated the country in 2010. Haitians are still demanding to know where the money went.

Financial analyst Charles Ortel, considered the leading expert on the Clinton Foundation—which he calls “the largest unprosecuted charity fraud in U.S. history”—discusses troubling signs that the Clintons and their foundation are continuing to operate illegally.

Really? That was a “debate” last night? No, it wasn’t, says Leid Stories. Rather, it was yet more proof that, politically speaking, we are at a point of no return.

Leid Stories—Good to You, Good for You, It’s “Free Your Mind Friday!—10.07.16

It’s the best open forum on the planet—a free-form, unscripted hour dedicated to your thoughts, opinions and ideas. Whether on what’s in the news or what ought to be, choose your subject and opine away. But don’t be surprised if someone picks up the gauntlet you throw down.

Call 888-874-4888 and free your mind.