Summary: It all comes down to working together! This week on Talking Left, we tried our best to get to all of the important news of the week. Thankfully, we had some great guests to help us sort it all out. First, we spoke with Desi Doyen of The Green News Report about the 1,000-year flooding in Colorado. Desi helped us understand the connection between the flooding and global climate change - and the likelihood that we'll see more of these destructive storms. In addition to dealing with more than $2 billion dollars of property damage, and at least 8 deaths from the storm, Colorado also faces the difficult task of cleaning up oil, fracking chemicals, and other toxic products that have been spread by the flooding. Our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Colorado, and we must be sure to learn from this event, and prepare for more like it. After that, we heard from Justin Duckham, the congressional reporter for Talk Radio News Service. Justin helped us break down the craziness that is Congress, and the likelihood of a full government shut down. Considering that House Republicans thought it was acceptable to cut $40 billion dollars from food stamp funding, it's difficult to believe that they won't push our nation over the economic brink. Justin shared his insight and predictions about what may happen in the coming days, and whether Congress will ever get their act together - and start doing something to actually help the American people. Next, we spoke with Eric Hunsader of Nanex.net. Eric and the fine folks at Nanex just broke a huge story - that someone at the Fed is feeding Wall Street inside information. In Eric's article, "Einstein and the Great Fed Robbery", he lays out the data to show how New York and Chicago made trades on the Fed's announcement before they could have possibly received the news about more quantitative easing. Essentially, unless Wall Street gets information faster than the speed of light - which is NOT possible - someone at the Fed leaked the information. That means our tax dollars are being spent to help Wall Street gamblers make billions! Before the show was over, we also heard from Kymone Freeman of We Act Radio, who helped us tie the whole show together. Kymone joined us to explain and promote the Black Luv Festival in Anacostia, but his message applies to much, much more - when we work as a community, we can achieve anything. All the problems we face - poverty, government spying, corporate power, and more - can be solved when we realize that we do have all the power. Take part in your community... get active... get involved...Do Something! Thanks to Rocky Mountain Mike for writing and producing our incredible theme music! Please check out his amazing Sound Cloud! Thanks to We Act Radio - 1480AM WPWC, Radio or Not, and SoFlo Radio - for helping to ensure all listeners have corporate-free, independent radio! And, of course, thanks to you, our listeners, friends, and family - for supporting us through all of our crazy shows, dreams, and political addictions!! You can also follow all of the news about upcoming topics and guests on our Facebook page and on Twitter @TalkingLeft. And you can subscribe to Talking Left free on iTunes and to our awesome new YouTube Channel! As always, thanks for listening!
