9:05 – 9:22 (15mins) Gerard Daniel Scimeca  
Vice President of Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE)
“AFGE Sides with GOP — Even Unions Are Rejecting Democrats’ Shutdown Tactics”
As the government shutdown fight intensifies, 
Democrats are losing the argument badly — pointing out that today even AFGE, the nation’s largest government employees union, broke ranks and sided with Republicans, calling for a clean funding bill.

Gerard can discuss:

• Why Democrats’ shutdown strategy is backfiring politically.
• The real economic and consumer impacts if the standoff continues.
• What this showdown means for working families, the military, and federal employees.
• How CASE is mobilizing consumer advocates to push for fiscal sanity and accountability in Washington.

9:25 – 9:37 (12mins) Weekly Feature:  “FAKE NEWS!!”

9:41 – 9:56 (15mins) Bonner Cohen CFACT.org  @CFACT
Tropical Forests in Indonesia Ravaged by Push for EV Batteries

The wanton destruction of tropical rainforests in Indonesia by predominantly Chinese mining companies eager to extract nickel for EV batteries is the price the world must pay in the transition to “clean energy.”
“Indonesia is the world’s biggest nickel producer, and has the largest reserves on earth, most of which are in Sulawesi and Halmahera islands,” Climate Home News noted last December.