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Leid Stories—Memo to Obama: The ‘Other’ America Is Still Here—09.22.16

The day before President Barack Obama delivered his arrogant speech at the Congressional Black Caucus telling black America he’ll consider it an “insult” to him and his legacy if they don’t vote at all or don’t for Hillary Clinton on Nov. 8, Terence Crutcher, a 40-year-old black man, was killed by police on a lonely stretch of Tulsa, Okla., road. Three days later, Keith Lamont Scott, a 43-year-old black man, was cut down by police in Charlotte, N.C., touching off a violent reaction that still rages.

President Obama, obsessed now with his “legacy,” is reminded that it includes a dismal record on “police reform.”

Leid Stories—Bad Medicine, Big Money: Bombshell Congressional Report Says Clinton Foundation-09.21.16

A blistering, just-concluded congressional report on the operations of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)—the highest-revenue-generating project of The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation that was spun off as its own nonprofit in 2010—charges that the former president’s much-vaunted global HIV/AIDS relief program distributed “watered down” and “adulterated” medications to patients in sub-Saharan Africa and in cash-strapped countries where the CHAI program was welcomed as a godsend for treating people with HIV/AIDS.

The 78-page report, initiated by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and endorsed by 64 members of Congress, was delivered to the inspectors general of the Health and Human Services Department and the Department of State, asking for further probes into CHAI, the Clinton foundation, and how former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the State Department helped to facilitate highly questionable business dealings to benefit the Clinton philanthropic conglomerate.

Leid Stories—Lots to Talk About? Talk About It on “Free Your Mind Friday!”—09.16.16

It’s our weekly gathering for the exchange of information, opinions and ideas. It’s “Free Your Mind Friday” on Leid Stories, and what you have to say—about the news and issues of the day or about anything—is the “star” of the show.

Call 888-874-4888 and free your mind!

Leid Stories—The Clinton Global Initiative, Under Heavy Fire, Prepares for Shutdown—Though, More Likely, A Shift—09.15.16

The Clinton Global Initiative, the jewel in the crown of The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation described as an incubator of ideas for tackling major issues and problems all over the world, officially will shut down after its last annual meeting (Sept. 19-21) in Manhattan.

Hillary Clinton, not surprisingly, will not be attending.

Charles Ortel, our expert guide on the CGI, the Clinton Foundation and several offshoot pseudophilanthropic programs, returns to explain the significance of the CGI “voluntary” shutdown and why it may just be a symbolic gesture to keep a massive gathering storm of investigation at bay.  

Leid Stories—Election 2016: What’s Shaping/Shaped Your Political Choice? (Part 3)—09.14.16

It’s the third day of “polling” listeners’ attitudes about the 2016 presidential race, the issues driving it, and the combined effect on individual political decisions on Election Day and beyond.

The topic has generated vigorous discussion and more calls than could be accommodated in a single program. Hence, Leid Stories proudly presents Day 3 of peer-to-peer political science.

Leid Stories—Election 2016: What’s Shaping/Shaped Your Political Choice? (Part 2)—09.13.16

An avalanche of calls from listeners wanting to participate in yesterday’s discussion leads to Part 2 today. Leid Stories returns to our “poll” tracking attitudes about the 2016 presidential election, the issues driving it, and the combined effect on individual political decisions on Election Day and beyond. 

Leid Stories—Election 2016: What’s Shaping/Shaped Your Political Choice?—09.12.16

The post-Labor Day campaign push customarily is an all-out effort to lock down votes in the final stretch of a presidential election. But election 2016 has been, and is, no ordinary presidential election. The duopoly’s leading candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, are intensely disliked and distrusted, but have been the mainstay of media coverage as essentially the dominant choices in the race. (They do, after all, account for the lion’s share of pay-to-play advertising dollars flowing into the media’s coffers this political season.)

Leid Stories has been tracking voters’ (and nonvoters’) attitudes about the presidential campaign, the issues driving it, and what their likely choices will be on Election Day. We get current with our “polling” today.  

Leid Stories—Free Your Mind … About the Clinton Foundation; Charles Ortel Answers Your Questions—09.09.16

Leid Stories Charles wraps up this week’s special reports on The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation and related entities with an exclusive Q&A session with Charles Ortel.

Ortel (charlesortel.com), a former Wall Street banker and investor, gained international attention when he independently investigated General Electric, insurance giant AIG and General Motors before the 2008 financial crash and found them to be engaging in “massive” fraud.

Since February last year, Ortel has been doing his own investigation of the Clinton Foundation and its affiliated offshoots and has declared the whole enterprise to be “the largest unprosecuted charity fraud in world history.”

Leid Stories—The Clinton Foundation: Outside the Law, Yet Shielded By It—09.08.16

The Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and multiple offshoots it has spawned globally in the years since the foundation’s launching in 1997, have been operating illegally and deceptively as charitable organizations, says former Wall Street financial expert, analyst and investor Charles Ortel, who has been presenting the findings of his independent study of the foundation’s operations in an ongoing series on Leid Stories.

On today’s program Ortel delves into the paradox of how the Clintons, their foundation and related “charitable” organizations have been able to operate outside the law yet seem to be shielded by it.

 

Leid Stories—Pot and Kettle: Hillary Clinton Boldly Assails Trump’s ‘Ethics’ - 9.07.16

With polls showing Donald Trump gaining ground on Hillary Clinton in the final stretch of the presidential race, Clinton is using all tactical weapons at her disposal to make him an also-ran. Her weapon of choice yesterday was ethics. Clinton boldly assailed Trump’s lack thereof in his debt-laden business operations, his still-unreleased tax returns, his lawsuit-plagued Trump University that went defunct six years ago, and the Trump Foundation’s violation of federal laws prohibiting charities from making political contributions.

The media failed to see the glaring ironies in Clinton’s attack. But Leid Stories points them out, especially in light of its ongoing series on the Clintons and their eponymous foundation.

Charles Ortel, the recognized expert on the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation and its multiple pseudophilanthropic offshoots, returns as our special guide through the labyrinth he calls “a massive fraud.”