Le Show; 2009-10-18

Here it is, from deep inside your radio. In this week's cell, in Forex, the theme is attention. And, excuse me, I had a little NPR throat happening there. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, from London, England, this show, which normally has no theme except for... Now has a theme this week. Attention, attention must be paid. Attention must be paid. You know that people get into show business. To be noticed, to have attention paid, to have people, other people, watch them, listen to them. Thank you very much! How are you? To notice them, to remember them, to love them, to like them, or to hate them. That's just the way it is. That's why we get into this business. Business. And hopefully, somewhere along the line, talent is an excuse for all that. Now, of course, we're in a new age, where a reality television has told people,

you can have that whole deal, and you don't need the talent. So, you can do anything, and everything you want, just to be noticed. And we'll notice you, for a little while, and then we'll dump you on the side of the road. Which I think goes far to explain what we, in America at least, went through much of this past week. Although, the news directors at cable television stations, well, they don't have a lot of explaining to do. The ratings went up, and the story. Make me look worked. It's just that, you know, in the food business, if you adulterate your product, I think the food and drug administration has very specific rules. For every degree of adulteration, another word has to go in the name of the thing you make. So, meat, meat product, meat food product. You see what I'm saying?

Meat food product is three times as adulterated as meat. So, we are getting news food product at this point. But it's good. Is it good? So, attention must be paid, ladies and gentlemen. For example, you thought Billy Mays was dead, the guy with the beard that yells. Yes, he is. Long live Billy Mays. According to radio and music pros.com, Mark K, a morning man at Jacksonville, Florida, is auditioning to become the next Billy Mays. They're holding auditions for the next Billy Mays. Media enterprises, purveyors of mighty putty, mighty mend it, the ding-king pasta pro, and urine gone. I didn't know. Has already held auditions to replace the late Billy Mays. Media enterprises is casting its net wide.

But, of course, I didn't go. So, not that wide. Isn't this amazing? See? I could have done that. And yet, no, I couldn't. From the digital wonderland, a listener writes, Dear Harry, every night at 11.15pm. Well, every night, I would say that. My digital converter box craps out. What's up with that? Don't tell me I have to know God. I have to now go buy a new one. The thing is only a couple of months out of the box. As it is, I'm doing more reading now than ever. But is it time to just throw all of it out the window? Got any idea what's happening with the thing? Do they do something at 11.15pm every night? Is it just reacting to the 11 o'clock news? Answer. It's the digital wonderland, sir. Your task is not to wonder, but to be odd by the wonder. Buried leads for your news, diet, ladies and gentlemen, some gems right at the bottom of the stories. So Tuesday, AP ran a story about Pentagon recruiting last year was the best since 1973.

Wow. Get to the bottom of the story. One in four in the prime recruiting age of 17 to 24 are obese, raising fitness questions compared with one in 20 in the 1980s. It's an army of one, but it's the size of 20. Well, Taliban are going to be scared when they see one of those guys coming at him. Oh, no, don't shoot me, fatso. And also another buried lead from a story on the journalism website pro-publica. Why Guantanamo detainees ordered released are still stuck there? There are several detainees in Guantanamo, who have been ordered released by federal judges. For example, on September 17th, Judge Colleen Collar Kotaly ordered the release of Fawad al-Arabia.

A Kuwaiti detained at Guantanamo since 2002. She cited, oh, just the complete lack of evidence, justifying his detention. Kuwait is willing to take al-Arabia back yet nearly a month later. He's still in Guantanamo with at least 16 other detainees who have likewise been ordered released by a judge. No more than 13 of the detainees ordered released have actually left Guantanamo. The judge found that the government had no grounds to keep holding al-Arabia, a 50-year-old aviation engineer. The judge ruled the evidence against him was, quote, surprisingly bearer. Unquote, consisting almost exclusively of confessions that even al-Arabia's own interrogators didn't believe. He was also subjected to abusive techniques. She said the judge showed her the government to facilitate his release forthwith. Apparently it's forthwithout, but the buried lead. Weee, at the bottom of the story Obama administration officials are worried that even if one of these detainees was not dangerous when he was first detained, Guantanamo itself might have made him so, turning him against the United States.

Make friends wherever you go, ladies and gentlemen, and if you can't make terrorists. The annals of formaldehyde continue to grow, here at the top of the news. Select vial feeds and owner Wayne Marco have agreed to pay more than half a million dollar fine after government officials said his business broke federal laws by sending formaldehyde and another chemical across state lines to farmers raising vial calves than lied about having done so. The company shipped formaldehyde and potassium permanganate. Love me my potassium permanganate to farmers to use with feeding, said the US attorneys. The formaldehyde was to fight scours which causes diarrhea in the animals and the potassium permanganate. Well, now let's produce light colored meat. You wouldn't want dark colored vial would you?

No. People who ate the meat were never in danger, said federal and company representatives. The food and drug administration has not approved the two drugs to be used for vial. See, they have to keep the vial, these people have to keep the vial calves tightly pinned. And that's how they, and they're fed a liquid diet and that's how they get the tendency toward the diarrhea that the formaldehyde cures. It's all a system, ladies and gentlemen, don't question it. And about 30% of Beijing's malls and supermarkets have an excessively high amount of formaldehyde concentration in the air posing a potential threat to customers. According to a study released in China. So, um, don't go there for the Olympics. Oh, sorry. Hello, welcome to the show. Look up in the air. It's a six-year-old. Would you like to ride in my beautiful blue?

We could float among the stars together, you and I, for we can fly. Up and away in my beautiful blue. The love is waiting there in my beautiful blue, way up in the air in my beautiful blue. If you hold my hand, we'll chase your dream across the sky, but we can fly.

Up and away in my beautiful blue. Suspended under a twilight canopy. From Lester Square in London, England, I'm Harry Scherer, welcoming you to this edition of the show. Yes, London, in fact. If you ever been to Atlanta, you notice how they have at least six streets named Peach Tree in Atlanta. People actually will say, I'll meet you at the corner of Peach Tree and Peach Tree, but it's Atlanta. The neighborhood where I've been staying the last couple of weeks has three streets intersecting and winding around each other, and not just three streets, three names.

Lawnsdale, Leadbrook, and Landstown. There's at least six of each of them. And so that's easy to figure out. And the facility, I'm not going to name it, nor shame it, but the facility from which this broadcast is originating. I was entering on Friday to do an interview with another radio show, and I discovered what the weekday routine here is, because on the weekends, you know, like anywhere else. It's loose, baby. It's very loose. But on the weekdays, there's a whole different thing going on, because to get into the building, you have to let the guard at the front, right as you get into the front door before you come upstairs even. And then we'll let him splooge out of a little bottle, some glop, some antibacterial glop for your hands. Now, people who know me know how actually, stridently, anti-glop I am. And you have to really go very far to get some glop on me. But I, you know, the guy just was, and I said, well, I come in all the time, I come in on Sundays, and you're not getting in today.

So he glopped me. And I'm sure, you know, it's about the swine flu and everything, but people hear all the time about the nanny state in Great Britain. And it's true. I would root for the party not on power to get in just if they'd promised to take down some of the, some 4,000 of the security cameras that are peeping at us. But this is the nanny corporation at work. And it's, you know, it's no different. It's a guy in a uniform telling you you got to do it. And finally, about London, the Christmas lights are already up on Regent Street in Regent Street and Oxford Street, among others. Notice that this past Wednesday, a correspondent to my Twitter feed at Lit Twits said they've been up for three weeks near him in Australia. So following up our search for the world's most expensive banana, which I think transfixed America a couple years ago in this broadcast. Now, the earliest Christmas decorations, your submissions are always welcome.

You don't have to be submissive, but, you know, just tell me what they where they are and when they went up. I'm looking for Labor Day. That's, that's the one I think. Christmas decorations on Labor Day. Won't that be fine. And now, ladies and gentlemen, news from outside the bubble. Speaking of balloons, this from the Times of London. Storm chasers are used to thunderous reactions. Few would have predicted the raging temp of sweeping across the United States and the wake of Falcon Heney and the Phantom Balloon Ride. Furious recriminations, though, are underway among America's extreme weather chasers. Douglas Keesling, the self-proclaimed weather paparazzi from Minneapolis, caught the mood of many storm enthusiasts who feel their reputation has been besmirched by the Heney family. They are not storm chasers, he said. They're idiots.

The Heneys, of course, filmed themselves in the eye of a hurricane, as well as other stunts. Keesling said the first time I ever heard of them, though, was when people told me to keep an eye out for the show WifeSwap last year. I was told there was a storm chasing family on it and they were nuts, unquote. Most other storm chasers, as the Times of London do not seem to accept that Richard Heney is a genuine weather expert. Brian Barnes, one of the best known storm chasers in the US, was so inundated with media requests, he placed a disclaimer on his stormchase.com website. Quote, we would like to ask the media to acquire complete facts before making assumptions on the air or speculations about storm chasing or storm chasers. Please be careful when linking this family to actual storm chasers and our scientists who conduct actual peer-reviewed science. He and he did co-write an article that was published last year in the National Weather Digest.

Even this has now been queried, he apparently measured the pressure of a dust devil using a weather watch barometer, said Tony Lawback, a storm chaser from Denver. Not sure exactly what he means by that, but it doesn't sound very scientific to me. He isn't a storm chaser, just a Yahoo to took his kids on a hurricane chase, unquote. Another member of the mainstream storm chasing community in Colorado agreed that Mr. Heney was not a regular contributor. Scott Hamill said, I'm not even really sure if this guy is a storm chaser, as I'm familiar with or know most of the Colorado chasers, and I've never heard of this dude. Ever. Unquote. Who is this dude? Also, of course, as another writer to my Twitter feed said, didn't anybody in the news departments of any of these stations figure out how much helium was going to take to lift a 50 pound body of a child? Also, from the times of London, many, many pieces from the times of London, because Rupert's threatening to put it behind a paywall.

So I want to steal as much of his stuff as possible before he does that. The British Foreign Secretary is going to appeal a high court ruling that came down this week that secret US intelligence material on the former Guantanamo Bay detainee, the Benyum Muhammad should be made public since his release from Gitmo in February 31 year old Muhammad has claimed he was tortured by CIA interrogators while being held in a secret detention center in Morocco. There are apparently seven paragraphs that are in question here. The government was defeated. The material is being withheld until the appeal is heard. The head of MI5, the British intelligence agency Warns, could not have coped with a threat that Al Qaeda posed to Britain without a vital intelligence provided by the US and other foreign agents. The court was told material being released with damage Britain's relationship with the United States, but the

said there was overwhelming public interest in disclosing the seven paragraphs. As the risk to national security is not a serious one, they said we should restore the redacted paragraphs. Also, the first attempt to return failed asylum seekers to southern Iraq since the US led invasion has been a fiasco for the British home office. Ten of the 44 Iraqis being forcibly removed from Britain were allowed to enter Iraq. The remaining 34 were flown back to the UK along with 99 security guards who escorted them. The 34 are now being held in an immigration removal center near the airport while British home office officials figure out what to do next. It's unclear whether they refuse to leave the plane when it arrived in the Iraqi capital or returned back because of problems with their documentation. And finally, from outside the bubble, the US government has acknowledged this is a story that has been big all week. The French are ticked off because they had some of their soldiers in Afghanistan killed.

They then found out that the area where the French soldiers were killed by Taliban insurgents was one recently vacated by Italian troops and the Italian troops had been paying off the Taliban and had not told the French. So, the US government acknowledged now that payment of protection money to the Taliban by the Italian forces was discussed by American officials and their Italian counterparts last year. The official would neither confirm nor deny. The form of the discussion NATO officials have told the times of London such a complaint was made by the US in Rome last year. The French forces took over the district from the Italian troops but were unaware of the secret Italian payments. The Times reported a Taliban commander and two senior Afghan officials also said the Italian forces had struck deals to prevent attacks on their troops. Well, we got money. What's the problem?

Rome has angrily denied the report. The Berlusconi government has never authorized nor has it allowed any form of payment toward members of the Taliban insurgency. Except for the girls. No, they didn't say that. Except for the young girls. They didn't say that. Italy's defense minister says the allegations are absolute rubbish. Said the commander of the Canadian, no sorry, the spokesman with the Canadian command. They've heard of any type of payment that would be done by our troops in order to remain protected. With the number of casualties we've been getting, had we paid these guys they wouldn't be holding up their end of the bargain. Even though an Afghan army sars is quoted as saying Canadian soldiers had made payments to insurgents. So it's everybody but us and the French. Ladies and gentlemen, I say I say I say pay them the money. Given that $2 million check that Dave Letterman wrote, that seems to convince people.

News from outside the bubble, ladies and gentlemen, a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Now it's clean. It's cheap. It's safe. It's too clean to meet her. It's too cheap to safe. Everybody knows that when the discussion turns to nuclear power, the fingers point approvingly at France. Well France gets 80% of their power from nuclear power. They figured it all out. They figured it all out. Here's some of the figuring. Work to dismantle a nuclear plant plant in France or plant in France has been suspended after unexpectedly high levels of plutonium were discovered. The incident has raised concerns about safety and security at the French nuclear sites. Please, they figured it out. Around 22 kilograms of plutonium were found three times more than expected. France's nuclear watchdog is angry. It was only informed of the discovery last week, three months after it was made. Some watchdog. Nice. Nice boy. Nice boy. It says there was no risk of a major nuclear accident at the plant near Marseille.

The plutonium was dispersed within the facility in several different units known as club boxes. They weren't stored in the same place. So it seems there were enough safety margins to prevent an accident. It says the watchdog. There have been no repercussions from the incident. The latest to cloud the reputation of France's nuclear power industry. The watchdog rated the event as a level two on a scale of seven. So, you know, relax. But, French ecology minister Jean-Tal Jouanou says Tuesday of this week. She wants an investigation into reports that some of France's nuclear waste is being stored in open air pits in Russia. Nobody has been able to confirm or deny this information for me, so there must be an inquiry, Jouanou said. Earlier, a newspaper and a French German television station reported that about 13% of France's radioactive waste is stored in Siberia. A major French uranium producer denied the suggestion.

He says uranium is sent to Russia for reprocessing, so it could be used again. Same thing they're doing with the same thing the same kind of deal, I guess, the Iranians are agreeing to now. But the two news sources said most of the uranium cannot be used again and remains in an open field in Russia. They figured it all out. Send it to Russia. Speaking of which, ladies and gentlemen, when Iran agreed in those talks, so six party talks a couple of weeks ago, yeah, we'll send most of our low-level uranium to Russia for them to enrich for our medical work. Sure, we'll do that. That took a little of the steam out of the scare machine for a while. But during, it brought back to mind, and now the Wall Street Journal reports that there's pressure on the intelligence agencies in the United States to revisit the 2007 national intelligence estimate.

You may remember that. That was the one in which all 16 American intelligence agencies agreed that Iran had ended its nuclear weapons program in 2003. And it was hailed at the time as, you know, the new way the intelligence agencies were going to work together free from political influence. Now, as I say, the Wall Street Journal reports, somebody is asking them to revisit it. Political influence. We'll see. But it drew my attention to that year. That year, Iran stopped its nuclear program, nuclear weapons program, supposedly, according to the national intelligence estimate, in 2003. What happened in 2003? The United States deposed Iran's chief enemy in the neighborhood. Saddam Hussein. You know, it was the same Saddam Hussein who kept up the bluff of, you know, I'm not going to show my that I don't have a WMDs.

Basically, he revealed later because it's a dangerous neighborhood and he didn't want Iran to think he was that weak. We thought it was all about us. Iran stopped their nuclear program according to our own intelligence people in 2003. It wasn't about us. It's not all about us. But just pay attention to us here. What I feel got in the jungle, open up the door, get away for perfume, look at that pizza, burning up the atmosphere. When you hear me blow, you want to baby know I'm here.

I'm going down the licking town, turn your put a little head around, take the next train outward, found here in Iran over licking town. This is Lesho. And ladies and gentlemen, speaking of attention seekers, you know by now, Rush Limbaugh was dropped from the group that is attempting to buy the St. Louis Rams. Rush told the, I shouldn't call him Rush, I've never met the man. Mr. Limbaugh told the Wall Street Journal, as I explained on my radio show, this spectacle is bigger than I am. I find that hard to believe. You don't really mean that, do you Rush? Now I call them Rush again. Anyway, for some insight on this, I turned to, this just was in my email box this week from a guy named Eric Rhodes who writes for radio ink. And he was explaining to a young 22 year old, as opposed to an ancient 22 year old, how to get into the radio business like somebody would want to. Now that the buying group he was part of has dropped him, Rush can milk this for another couple of weeks Eric writes, no matter the outcome, this is great for his show.

It acts as a reminder for people to tune in to see what he'll say about it, and it'll bring new listeners and advertisers. It's not unusual to find Rush in the news with some controversy like this a few times a year. It's great for business, and it doesn't happen by accident. You, he's saying to the 22 year old, don't have the experience, audience, or name to get the media talking about you. Yet every day you see someone get their 15 minutes of fame via YouTube. I cannot advise you about the specifics of what you should do, but the goal is to get noticed, get hired, and hope that some visionary program director will see you and say this guy has guts. Let's give him a shot. You can be highly targeted like Rich Marston and Charlotte, who once had himself delivered to a card dealership in a coffin. When they opened the coffin he was holding a sign that said, I'm dying to get your business. Or you can go national. Your job is to figure out how to create some noise that will work to your benefit. If you can learn that lesson early in your career, you'll be ahead of 85% of all talk hosts. Most of those who are nationally syndicated are there because they're expert at creating buzz over what they've said. They understand how to get people talking.

Think about Michael Savage being trusted by the United Kingdom. Actually, it was now said he was turned away, never came in. And I'm here. Eat your heart out, Michael. Oh, sorry, getting back to the thing. And the second subsequent legal battle or the White House criticisms of Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. These guys are consummate masters of buzz. Make clear which we've been living through here. Anyway, coincidentally, Rush Limbaugh was being interviewed on the today program earlier this week that today show. And was asked whether Glenn Beck has eclipsed him as the leader of the conservative movement. Look what I have spawned. Glenn Beck to me is right on daddy. Oh, Glenn Beck is a result of my success. And of his post nasal drip there apparently. I'm just a little, you know, it's fine for Rush Limbaugh to take credit for Glenn Beck. Of course, he paved the way. I was a little intrigued by the way he phrased it.

It struck me as interesting to hear Rush Limbaugh say right on daddy. Oh, what could it possibly mean? While the beat-nicks were beating, I was well along with my eating building of my ever-duper. Soon the hits I was spending and rating books winning, working on my genocide hall. Oh, I was hastened far out though clearly pre-gout as I knocked out my top 40 pattern. I was wild in the most as I hit the post acting cool like it just didn't matter. Getting the chicks, not leading a fix at the big 96 on your radio. Every day at dawn I was way far gone. I was right on, Dario.

Oh, you know where that's at. Taking you up to news time and letting you off. Then top 40 got cold, the sun I was old, and they moved my act to the night side. Yes, the times they had changed being hip was deranged. I had to move to the right side. Now I taut all I like to a fake golden mic. I've got all my party mates forning. Oh, I'm still ratings king though I can't hear a thing. Now I keep busy spawning. But every once in a while through the guff in the guile my hep cat roots show through. And I'm back playing the hits. My t-shirt still fits. And I'm sending these sounds just to you.

Getting the chicks, not leading a fix at the big 96 on your radio. Oh, every day at dawn I was way far gone. I was right on, Dario. And now ladies and gentlemen time for the apologies of the week. We start out at the top top domain level of apologies I would say. The forward slashes at the beginning of internet addresses have long annoyed internet users and now the man behind them has apologized for forcing us to use them.

Tim Berners-Lee the creator of the worldwide web has confessed that the two slashes in a web address were actually unnecessary. Don't we feel like fools. He told the Times newspaper get easily designed URLs not to have the forward slashes. It seemed like a good idea at the time. He admitted that when he devised the web almost 30 years ago he had no idea that the forward slashes in every web address would cause so much hassle. People who haven't been hassled sufficiently to discourage them from using the internet include Megan McCann John McCann's daughter. Here's her tweet from this week so I took a fun picture not thinking anything about what I was wearing but apparently anything other than a pat suit I am a slut. This is why I've been considering deleting my Twitter account what was once fun now just seems like a vessel for harassment.

I'm going to take some talk to think about it but seriously I was just trying to be funny with the book and that I'm a dork staying in when I'm alone in my apartment I wear tank tops and sweatpants I had no idea this makes me a slut. I can't even tell you how hurt I am okay I'm getting the f off Twitter promise not to delete my account until I sleep on it. I do want to apologize to anyone that was offended by my pick I have clearly made a huge mistake and I'm sorry to those that are offended. And Rick Sanchez CNN's House Intellectual tweets an apology apologizing for using a quote on the air attributed to Rush Limbaugh that Limbaugh never said. He's right we didn't confirm the quote our bad Rick Sanchez is way of apologizing. I told you he was an intellectual deadline New York the head of the Southern Baptist Convention ethics and religious liberty commission is apologized for comparing democratic health care proposals to Nazi Germany. ERLC president Richard Land reportedly told a Christian coalition to Florida banquet in Orlando the night before Yom Kippur the Democratic leaders advocating reform that was other than the rationing of health care were driven by the same ideology that fueled the Holocaust.

I want to put it to you bluntly what they're attempting to do in health care particularly treating the elderly is not something like what the Nazis did it is precisely what the Nazis did. He went on to bestow an imaginary Dr. Joseph Mengele award on Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel the president's chief health care advisor. He had a defamation leak called on land to apologize. He responded October 14th saying it was never his intention to equate the Obama administration's health care reform proposals with anything related to the Holocaust. Now that I've had the opportunity to personally reflect on my words I deeply regret the reference to Dr. Joseph Mengele land wrote. I was using hyper hyperbole for effect never intended to actually equate anyone with in the Obama administration with Dr. Mengele. I will certainly refrain from making such references in the future. I apologize to anyone. Everyone who found such references hurtful. The Holocaust apology of the week.

Famed Irish tenor Ronan Tynen is apologizing for remark which he insists was not anti-Semitic. In New York City the incident has cost him his singing gig at Yankee Stadium for one of the American League Championship series. He won't be singing during the 7th ending stretch after the team canceled appearance. Because of remark he made in front of a woman looking for an apartment in Z-side building or actually took as anti-Semitic. Anti-Semitism is not in my brain I have great Jewish friends Tynen said it happened Thursday on his floor in the building a Realtor showing an apartment to a customer spoken just to Tynen. The Realtor said at least they're not Red Sox fans. The Irish tenor responded with a remark that he says was ill placed and misunderstood. I said at least they're not Jewish. Tynen said it was in part. Said in jest to the broker whom he'd seen three weeks before and was referring to a specific incident with customers. He showed it to two Jewish ladies and they were very particular. Tynen said I said that could be scary for them because I would not be the quietest neighbor because I practice and sing. That's what he was thinking about when he said it but he's sorry. Boston College representatives apologized for organizing a campus dance party that ran late into Saturday night last week causing dozens of calls to the police. Arkansas Guard Courtney Fortson I guess that's football.

It's too early for basketball players to be in the news isn't it? You'd think. I'd think. Courtney Fortson apologized for here you go again sending in an appropriate message last month via Twitter. You live in your learn you want to better things so I put that behind me. He said his teammates were being investigated for sexual assault so we sorry about that. Speaking of targets target corporation apologize this week after coming under fire from customers in some Hispanic groups for selling an illegal alien Halloween costume on its website. The 39 99 costume comes with a space alien mask and orange jail suit with illegal alien stamped on the chest and a large green card. The Minneapolis retailer said the costume was added to its website by mistake and said it would be removed. It's insensitive. It's offensive. Says Vicki Adams a California media relations consultant who complained to target.

After learning about the costume on a Facebook site. With a letter to the editorial board of the Shin-Wan news agency Chinese Premier one Zhao. Wen-jibao sorry proves himself a paragon of scientific rigor. The letter written vertically in traditional brush calligraphy. Reads in my article teachers are the pillars of our education. Which was published yesterday the categories of patrology ought to be quote sedimentary igneous and metamorphic. I wish to make this correction to express my apologies to all readers. That's the apology from the Premier of China for perspective. I offer you the words of President Obama at the lightly covered by news media because they were busy with the balloon boy. Appearance in New Orleans this week.

Good to be back in the crossing city. It's always an inspiration to spend time with men and women who have reminded the rest of America what it means to persevere in the face of tragedy. To rebuild in the face of rule. A Katrina may have swept through the city but it did not destroy this community and that is because of you the people of New Orleans. It has now been just over four years since that terrible storm struck your shores. And the days after it did this nation and all the world bore witness to the fact that the damage from Katrina was not caused just by a disaster of nature but also by a breakdown of government. The government wasn't adequately prepared and we didn't adequately respond. So when I took office as president one of the first things I did was tell my cabinet and senior staff that our Gulf Coast rebuilding efforts and our disaster response efforts. We're going to be top priorities for this whiteness.

I want to get it right and I want it to be ready. And so far I'm pleased to report that we've made good progress. Even used the same words that George W. Bush used to use could progress didn't get it right. Katrina didn't sweep through New Orleans didn't strike its shores as listeners to this program. No New Orleans was struck by the catastrophic failure of the levies and floodwalls built by the Army Corps of Engineers. He wanted to get he wanted to make sure his administration gets it right. Ladies and gentlemen Chinese premier apologizes for getting the elements of patrology wrong, you see what I'm saying. U.S. soft drink giant PepsiCo has apologized for a free iPhone application crafted to help men seduce women and keep records of conquest. Anthony University apologized one day after writing a letter to President Obama that said her crowning was not widely accepted on the campus because she is not black. Representative Ike Skelton has apologized to another congressman for an R rated barb over hate crimes legislation.

And Bill Walton returned to Portland apologizing for the way he acted when he was a trailblazer. The apologies of the week latest gentleman a copyrighted feature of this broadcast you noticed perhaps that one thing that did go sky high this week. Not the balloon boy, but the profits at Goldman Sachs and the bonuses being paid by Goldman Sachs to their employees. Now much to say about that except. Our guys have got the most between the ears said Mr. Sacks let's unhook the rains and find your ways to profit off our traders brains.

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And now ladies and gentlemen, news of the war, won't you? All right, just a couple of moments, Swiss researchers have found that alpine glaciers melting under the impact of climate change are releasing highly toxic pollutants that had been absorbed by the ice. For decades, they warned in a study abstract published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology that it could have a dire environmental impact on pristine mountain areas as global warming accelerates, much of the pollution was dumped on Europe's biggest mountain range by atmospheric currents from further afield, according to the researchers. There was study of layers of sediment revealed sharp build-ups of now banned chemical compounds from industry and farming, including dioxins and pesticides like DDT. We can confirm with the help of these layers that in the 1960s and 70s, a lot of these

persistent organic pollutants were produced in great quantities and were deposited in this alpine lake. But accelerated glacier melting due to global warming may account for enhanced release of legacy organic pollutants at historically high levels. That's a nice way of putting it, legacy organic pollutants. It's a legacy ladies and gentlemen, aided, news of the warm, award-winning, and a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. And it's in the world of magic, it's called misdirection. Watch this hand, the other hand does something else. So while we're reading about the Pakistani military's offensive in Waziristan, the high court in Pakistan has dismissed terrorism charges against the leader of Lashkar at

Taiba, Hafiz Saeed, that's the group that planned the attacks in Bombay, Mumbai, India last year. He's released. You can go hang out with AQ Khan, misdirection, there's a page that you'll never see. Ladies and gentlemen, that's going to conclude this week's edition of the show the program returns next week at the same time over the same stations over NPR worldwide throughout Europe on the U.S. and 440 cable system in Japan around the world, the facilities of the American forces network up and down the east coast of North America via the shortwave giant WBCQ, the planet on the mighty 104 in Berlin around the world by the internet at two different locations live in archive whenever you want at harryshure.com and kcrw.com. Available on your smart phones through stitcher.com, available as a free download for members of www.audible.com slash the show and available as a free podcast at kcrw.com.

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