Housing, transportation, food and clothing—that’s what eats up about 65 percent the average American consumer’s money. The remaining 35 percent? Well, we tend to blow much of it on nonessential stuff—which means we’re not saving for a rainy day. It’s way past time to fix this.

Leid Stories discusses the small things we can do to save money. 

Listeners discuss how, since Election 2016, their views of politics and the political process itself have changed. 

He didn’t know where he was going when he left, didn’t know where he was when he got there, and didn’t know where he’d been when he got back. Not quite a strong resume for an explorer, but America has been observing Columbus Day since 1937, marking Christopher Columbus’s “discovery” of the Americas on Oct. 12, 1492.

World-renowned scholar Dr. Ivan van Sertimer lays bare glaring incongruities and outright lies that have propped up many myths of Columbus’s exploits while denying early and beneficial African contacts and relationships with ancient Olmec civilizations. 

It’s “Free Your Mind Friday” on Leid Stories, and so we gather for our weekly open forum to discuss the most significant news issues and developments or topics of our own choosing. It’s a great way to sharpen one’s debating skills.

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We complete yesterday’s discussion about the various ways in which law enforcement, politicians and the media are wrestling with how to characterize the Oct. 1 mass killing—allegedly by 64-year-old retired accountant and avid gambler Stephen Paddock—in Las Vegas.

Leid Stories discusses the various ways in which law enforcement, politicians and the media are wrestling with just how to characterize the Oct. 1 killing—allegedly by 64-year-old retired accountant Stephen Paddock—of 59 people and the wounding of more than 500 others attending an open-air concert in Las Vegas.

Thirteen days after Hurricane Maria roared through the Caribbean ripping two U.S. territories to shreds, President Donald Trump today finally meets in person with Gov. Ricardo Roselló of Puerto Rico and Gov. Kenneth Mapp of the U.S. Virgin Islands to discuss recovery efforts.

Carmen Yulin Cruz, mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico’s capital city and one of Trump’s fiercest critics about the U.S.’s slow response to the dire conditions on the island, has not been invited to the meeting.                

Police have identified 64-year-old retired accountant Stephen Paddock as the person who rained hell down on thousands of people attending an open-air concert Sunday night in Las Vegas. From a hotel room across from the concert venue, Paddock allegedly sprayed the crowd with a high-powered automatic rifle, pausing several times to reload. Police located him and shot him dead after forcing open the door to his room, reports said. The shooting left 59 dead and more than 500 wounded.

Horrific as it is, this is not just a “crime,” says Leid Stories.

The response by the United States and Britain, principally, to current or former territories in the Caribbean that have been devastated by the recent spate of hurricanes tells a story that goes far beyond the matter of humanitarian aid.

It’s “Free Your Mind Friday.” Listener calls.

When disaster or tragedy strikes, the natural, human reaction is to help—no questions asked, no means tests, no prequalifiers. The only concern is helping to improve or solve a dire situation as quickly as possible so that those affected can resume a somewhat normal life.

That’s not what we’re seeing in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, U.S. territories torn to shreds and left practically inoperable by Hurricane Maria. They are not the only islands ravaged by the hurricane, but as U.S. territories they surely should be assured of the help they need by now.

Leid Stories likens the relationship between imperialist countries and their satellites in the Caribbean to being in the claws of dragons.