Le Show; 2020-07-19

From deep inside your audio device of choice I'm undergoing self-isolation It's the only way to be Just for the lack of stimulation Who's who come self-isolate with me? Well, to be honest, I have been self-isolating but I've left the residents to come here to the Louisiana Luchodom today for this broadcast You're welcome! And then I'll self-isolate again, so don't worry about me But how is...oh, before or anything else We have just or are just observing The 75th anniversary of the first test of an atomic bomb

It was called Trinity And it happened 75 years ago right about now And within weeks we will be celebrating Not that many weeks, the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the first two atom bombs One on Hiroshima, the other on Nagasaki Both in Japan, with whom we were at war at the time And those bombs and the development thereof Thereof will be the subject of much of this program coming up But first, how's your jaw? Has it dropped yet? BBC says we're going to have a jaw-dropping global crash in children, not on children No, it is a population thing, not a child-crushing thing But it's supposed to have a jaw-dropping impact on societies

According researchers saying that Falling fertility rates mean nearly every country could have shrinking populations by the end of the century And they're not calling this good news Researchers at the University of Washington's Institute for Health, Metrics and Evaluation Said the global fertility rate nearly cut in half to 2.4 in 2017 And their study published in the Lancet, which is British Medical Journal Projectual fall below 1.7 by 2100 23 nations, including Spain and Japan, are expected to cut their populations in half by 2100 If the number, the fertility rate falls below 2.1, the size of the population starts to fall In 1950, women were having an average of 4.7 children in their lifetime Different number, different women Researchers expect the number of the people on the planet to peak at 9.7 billion In the middle, right around the middle of this century, before falling down to 8.8 billion by the end of the century

We have been hearing 9 to 11 billion by the end of the century for much of a century Most of the world is transitioning into natural population decline, says Professor Christopher Murray I think he says it's incredibly hard to think this through and recognize how big a thing this is We'll have to reorganize societies We'll get to that in a minute Why are the fertility rates falling? It's not sperm counts It's more women in education and work and greater access to contraception It's the gals! The gals are running the place Japan's population, I mentioned, will fall from a peak about in half Italy, equally dramatic crash from 61 million to 28 million Who's gonna eat all that pasta?

There are two or 23 countries, Spain, Portugal, Thailand, and South Korea expected to see their population more than half That's where Dr. Murray says it's jaw-dropping China, China It's expected to peak at 1.4 billion, just a few years before then going back down by half to 732 million India will take its place 183 out of 195 countries will have a fertility rate below the replacement level Now here's the BBC's take You might think this is great for the environment This smaller population would reduce carbon emissions as well as deforestation for farmland You might think that, but here comes Professor Murray to say Except for the inverted age structure, more old people and young people, and all the uniformly negative consequences of an inverted age structure He's worried because he has an age-year-old daughter

Who pays tax in a massively aged world as the BBC? Who pays for health care for the elderly? Who looks after the elderly? The professor, Professor Murray, says countries have used migration to boost their population and compensate for falling fertility rates We will go from the period where it's a choice to open borders and not to frank competition for migrants as there won't be enough, he says Now, let's just stop for a moment If we're not going to celebrate this, let's think about it for a moment We've been told up till right about the start of the pandemic that our future is increasingly one without jobs Thanks to automation Now, it looks like humanity is shrinking to fit Where, who will be paying the taxes? If not the workers? Jean, maybe the companies that develop and run and own the automated processes that do the work?

Yes I'm saying, if we're supposed to look to a future where the humans can migrate more Maybe we should also look to a future where the taxable income migrates less But when you look at the causes of all this, it's clear that the economic and social structure of the world we're living in was created by the repression of women And that nutty, hello, welcome to the show They're going to put me in the movies They're going to make a big star out of me We will make a film about a man that's sad and lonely

And all I got to do is act naturally Well, I'll bet you I'm not going to be a big star I'm not willing to ask if you can never tell The movie's going to make me a big star Cause I can play the part so well Well, I hope you come to see me in the movie Then I know that you will plainly see Biggest fool that's ever hit the big time And all I got to do is act naturally We will make the scene about a man that's sad and lonely And baking down upon his splendid knees

I'll play the part when I won't need to hurt him All I have to do is act naturally Well, I'll bet you I'm not going to be a big star I'm not willing to ask if you can never tell The movie's going to make me a big star Cause I can play the part so well Well, I hope you come to see me in the movie But then I know that you will plainly see Biggest fool that's ever hit the big time And all I got to do is act naturally Ladies and gentlemen, one of the things we're not talking about a lot these days Is something that was predicted to overhang all of our futures

When it broke upon the scene Living in the nuclear age We have other problems these days, it appears But my guess today on the program is bringing that Some would fear some fact back to our attention with his new book The beginning or the end, Greg Mitchell Who I was just reminded was the editor of Craw Daddy That was the unrolling stone back in the day He's written for the nation, covered wiki leaks for the nation Written 12 books of nonfiction work Including a book with Robert J. Lichten on the subject of the nuclear thing Called Hiroshima in America And a second book on the subject of this would be his third And the beginning or the end is about the making of a movie called the beginning or the end Greg Mitchell, welcome to the show

This is a fascinating book And it's about this subject that I'm actually kind of hooked on Which is the relationship between government and the media And this was a film about the making or the process of the making of the world's first atomic bomb When did all this start? Well, this was the first movie on this subject They started about three months after the bomb was dropped Which will remind people is 75 years ago this August So we're a major anniversary here And it actually did to put it forth briefly It all came about because of Donna Reed I'm sure you remember Donna Reed very well I never watched the show, but I always watch the opening Not even from here to eternity Oh, not from here

Anyway, she got a letter from her former high school chemistry teacher Who was embedded with the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, Tennessee And he wrote to her saying, could she help get a big budget Hollywood movie She made warning the world about the dangers of continuing down the nuclear path Don't build bigger weapons, don't build more of them control the bomb And the sort of urgent frantic letters to her She was a starlit at the time, I guess we would say Yeah, she was actually about to appear with Jimmy Stewart and it's a wonderful life She then won her Oscar for from here to eternity a few years later But in any case her husband was an agent so he was able to go with a producer to Louis B. Mayer at MGM Louis B. Mayer said, this sounds fantastic This is going to be the most important movie I've ever made And let's get going So they got going

And I was able to trace all the scripts at the Motion Picture Academy out there And letters and outlines and everything else And was able to trace how from that very hopeful beginning And it was kind of be kind of you want if you want to say anti-nuclear start The movie was slowly transformed into pro bomb propaganda over the following year And it came about largely because MGM gave script approval to General Leslie Groves Who was the head of the Manhattan Project and to President Truman himself So the movie ended up when it was released being quite the opposite of what it was Supposed to be at the beginning what it was inspired by so the book is really about How that happened and in a way it's this is symbolic of what happened in America at large Where we thanks to media suppression and government to cover up and so on and so forth We went down this you know 60 years of the nuclear arms race based on hidden information and propaganda

I have to say as a denizen of the show business industry Movies that end up 180 degrees away from the way they started out Doesn't absolutely shock me Yeah, it seems to be part of the process But this as you make clear in the book this was a matter about which the scientists particularly felt Very passionately and very deeply this I'm I think you set out in the book is is the result of They're having glimpsed the results of the bombs being dropped on here in Nagasaki They lived in a I guess in a kind of Costeted world where they're focused on the physics of the matter and the human results of the matter Really weren't apparent to them until that time is that right sense of it Yeah, well they were you know many of them didn't know they were working on a music munitions project

They were thought they were splitting the atom and developing what you know has become nuclear energy ever since So they were many of them were surprised when they they found out that they really was a bomb and that it was dropped over You know two Japanese cities the secrecy wasn't the tip off to them. Yeah, you know So in that level some of them were just shocked that they they'd been helping to develop this others were not others were cool with it and as you know Certainly a majority of Americans supported the use of the bomb and they were they were told that it ended the war It was the only thing that could have ended the war and had to be done and you know don't think about the civilians who died too much So it was all part of that that could call a herosha herosha my narrative the use of the bomb was was really what saved us And and so the movie you know like like I said it sort of started out Raising questions about that and in the end went you know went in the complete other direction

That I'm not a total historic film buff that that role would be filled by my lovely and talented wife But I really had never heard of the existence of this movie until I read the book is that is that just me No, no Many are in that in that same position. However, it is it is shown on Turner classics fairly often I think I'd be surprised if it's not shown the next couple weeks are you arranging it for to be sure No, I should yeah, I've not been invited to introduce it so it's not a good sign for me And it's called I'm as clear it is called the beginning or the end that's the same title as my book but the movie is called the beginning or the end The other kind of amazing thing was was that the as the the book lays out in a quite quite good link I think is that there was a competing movie Being developed by Paramount by how Wallace the famous producer and he hired I ran to write the screenplay

And most people don't even know that I ran was a screenwriter she wrote several movies during the early 40s mid 40s And so that that that alone would surprise people anyway, she was hired to write the screenplay and I trace again as with the beginning or the end How it was developed her outlines she actually got to sit down and interview Robert Oppenheimer twice which is extraordinary And and she developed she wrote the first 50 60 pages of the script and how Wallace was so appalled but that he then sold out to MGM So this battle of the Titans to be the first to make a movie on the atomic bomb which was very much hyped in the trades and the New York Times and so forth Ended ended suddenly with Wallace getting the hell out of it I ran then with some free time on her hand sat down and wrote a little book called Atlas Shrugged

And she based one of the key characters on Oppenheimer so she I guess she made out okay in the end Yeah, Oppenheimer is a major character in the book and he seems to have been someone who either couldn't or wouldn't publicly divulge that he had made up his mind about the morality and ethics of all this Is that yeah, yeah, well he was a famous famously conflicted and sometimes morally conflicted and and so sometimes people see clips of him speaking or hear something about him And they think oh he was he became really anti bomb Then you can see other things him speaking where it seems like he was completely pro bomb so so he kind of kind of wanted to have it both ways And what the book shows is that he was the same way with this movie he made fun of it He didn't want to be involved he put them off and then suddenly he sat down with the producer and eventually caved in and signed a release which allowed them to portray him in the movie

And then he talked to friends and made fun made fun of the movie and thought it was awful and everything else And actually it's a similar similar thing was going on with even the great Albert Einstein He even wrote Louis B. Mayer and twice rejecting any attempt to involve him in the movie or have him be portrayed And then they kind of warmed down and eventually he signed the release So again, that's one of the subplots in the book is this continuing desperate effort to get the real life people to To sign releases to MGM and get and then get to not taken seriously in the movie itself MGM wanted to release it so they could use the scientists names and as attached to the characters that they created for these people Yeah, well one of it is actually a funny a funny moment where MGM got so frustrated with Oppenheimer Dithering that they changed his name and the script from Oppenheimer to Whittier

So I guess they thought about the most wasp name imaginable with distance to character the most from Oppenheimer And then they changed it back And they changed it back after they got his from Enrico Fermi, the famous Italian immigrant scientist Fermi had his name changed to Ramsey So you know, but you know, you're a Hollywood veteran so I'm sure this all rings plausible to you Yeah, it rings more than plausible One of the themes that really runs through the book is to my reading of it, the naïve of scientists about Hollywood and the movie industry Yeah, they were shocked that cheesy romance would be inserted into this drama about the creation of the world's first atomic bomb And you know, well, how many movies had they seen in the previous ten years?

Yeah, right, that's right Well, it was this movie for whatever else it may be was an early example of the docky drama, you know, which became quite a hallowed genre to this day And so they did try to make it follow the events if they could But they did, as you mentioned, they did inject a couple of love stories in there totally made up characters and sappy love stories as part of it But you know, that's, I mean, that's a different criticism, you know, my criticism or what I follow is the changes that general grows and the White House ordered Which is quite unprecedented at the time ordered in the script and in the shooting so I mean that the changes in the message of the movie, the changes in the facts, falsification And it was all in the direction of not just justifying having nuclear weapons but using them against Japan So they acted, it was kind of odd because public support was strong, but yet they acted completely defensive

They just terrified that the movie would raise any questions about the use of the bomb So they went to extraordinary details to make sure the message was totally, you know, totally backing Truman and even if it meant falsifying history You point out that there was a version of the script that called for actually seeing some of the effects of the bomb in Hiroshima in terms of seeing the effects on humans there I know that, of course, was taken out at the government's insistence And another cross-current that you deal with in the book that certainly impacts on the thinking of a lot of the scientists involved, most particularly Oppenheimer, was the red scare that was going on at the time Right, right, yeah, this overlap with the coming of the black list, in fact there's a little section in the book that just, you know, in the same summer that this movie was getting revised, let's say

was the very beginning of the Hollywood black list, Billy Wilkerson, who was the owner of the Hollywood Reporter, published the first list of alleged commies in the Hollywood Reporter And then six months later or a year later, it really exploded so to speak So there was this incredible fear of a direction that Hollywood might be going But the interventions in this movie started before then, I can't really say that even though the FBI thought Oppenheimer might have been a red and Einstein and Leo Zalard and other scientists And they were wiretapping Oppenheimer Yeah, they were opening Einstein's mail, they were following Leo Zalard in the street, you know And they were following Oppenheimer and tapping his phone and so that there's actually a scene in the book where we have Oppenheimer talking to his wife from across the country about this movie

And kind of making fun of the movie and so forth, all from an FBI transcript How did you get access to FBI transcripts, by the way? I mean, they're at the Library of Congress, it's very extensive, there's four or five I quote from in the book So it's pretty extensive, but of course this was not the focus of the FBI probe And as you know, what began that year led to Oppenheimer's eventually losing his security clearance and all the famous fall from grace The terrible final years of his life, so it was all started in this period It is, as I mentioned earlier, fascinating to me the nexus between the entertainment business and the government business as depicted in the frequent back and forths of individuals connected with this Mr. Marx Is he the producer of Sam Marx?

His frequent shuttling back and forth with new versions of the script to consult with General Groves and then as you say President Truman, I have to say this is about the most unimpressive portrait I've ever read of Harry S. Truman I guess I just say thank you, but the book itself seriously looks at the use of the bomb and what happened after word and government you might call it cover up and so forth So I do go back and author what I think I think is a very powerful and fresh look at the decision to use the bomb and what Truman did, how he made the decision, how General Groves manipulated him, General Groves called him Of course Truman had just come to the White House because FDR had just died So in Truman, people thought was not really equipped for the office

He had been a haberdasher until he was elected to the Senate So he was not an impressive figure, not a particularly confident figure and so far so Groves compared him to like a little boy on a toboggan So Groves and the other aides were able to deeply influence his decision to use the bomb, even the information that was given to him So I do go through that, the book is not mainly about the decision to use the bomb, there's been a hundred books and not that But I think the using this movie and the changes in the script and all these documents, you know, I have all kinds of letters, White House letters and scripts they marked up And of course Groves hundreds of pages of memo letters and script revisions from Groves and so on and so forth able to use this unique research through a Hollywood entertainment to tell what has been kind of one of the obsessive interests of my career which is the use of the bomb against Japan and how America then dealt with it

So to me this is a great way to get at that without hitting people over the head with a 600 page academic study Yeah, so I think in 280 pages you can get I think I think one of the best portrayals of how the why the bomb was used and why it was covered up afterwards along with this Hollywood nonsense And Donna Reed and you know all the others You go through in a toward the end of the book the the saga of how Hollywood dealt in later years how the the the winds blew one way and then the other is Hollywood Belatedly grappled with this subject again fail safe seven days in May of course Dr. Strangelove which was the first the other two were sort of just like let's get scared movies but Dr. Strangelove was the first one I think that really said

Holy crap yeah in a really amazingly funny and smart way how would you compare the movie government nexus that you depict in your book the beginning or the end with what we know and think went on during the making of zero dark 30 much more But that was one of the better recent fairly recent examples of where the movie came out and you know people thought it was a you know terrific movie and director you know I think one the academy award for best director and so forth And then it started to filter out that they had had you know tremendous back and forth let's say with the CIA and guidance guidance in the making yeah in the making of the movie And you know I came out belatedly I think and so it was the movie was already kind of established as well this is a good movie and all that and you know I know I wrote stuff at the time a lot of other people did after after this really came out

It was quite a pause but you know the media tended the mainstream media tended to just say well this is interesting but it doesn't you know it's nothing to get that alarmed about It was kind of relatively high profile and we don't we still don't know really how many dozens of other examples there are like this because it takes a lot to come out I know the one of the biggest concerns that people have always raised is that to make most of these war movies You know you have to deal with the Pentagon and get permission to use equipment and airfields and bombers and everything else that if it's just the usual ra ra war movie Or if it's tremendously pro-American type of movie no one cares you know but if it's a movie that raises questions or is meant to raise questions And then you have to deal with the military for permissions to use stuff it gets very dicey and I think it's one reason why there are relatively few real what you want to call honest anti war or questioning type movies

The other amazing thing is that in the 75 years Hollywood is only made three movies on this subject of the making in the bomb and using the bomb first one was the beginning of the end which we're talking about About five years later they made a MGM made a second movie that's very similar in outlook focusing on politics the pilot of the in oligay which dropped the bomb over Hiroshima was almost a remake really And then took another 40 years rolling rolling jaffee who directed the killing fields and other movies to make a movie called fat man and little boy which also did not do well at the box office But his the mistake he made was that he cast Paul Newman as general grows and a guy named Dwight Schultz as Oppenheimer so his little little imbalance even though jaffee told me that you know he meant this to be kind of a anti bomb movie

Like just the casting of Newman alone through that out of whack so yeah, but my point is that 75 years three movies on the subject on one of the you know most important events certainly in our our history and with tremendous echoes today because you know I understand why they're you know pandemic is Getting all the attention and black lives matter and and and climate change but people forget or they they're maybe some young people are not aware you know that we still have 5,000 nuclear weapons that on alert Even a handful could destroy the world and and the US still has a first use policy most people are surprised to hear that it's official US policy to use nuclear weapons first not just retaliating if the president fears that were we're under threat or there's a conventional war and we want to end it And of course with Trump as president one has some additional concerns about that but that's why this subject to me even though it's you could say 75 years ago who cares about an old movie who cares you can't change the fact that we killed you know 200,000 people in these two cities

But the fact is this is a precedent for today this is what the media is still the vast majority the media vast majority of officials and politicians and everyone else every summer ring their hands and say we know what we we shouldn't use nuclear weapons again but hey you know the two times we use them or we're we're swell and you know we're seeing it again this year already And you mean as the anniversary of yeah and so it's so it's sort of like saying we can't use nuclear weapons but here's two exceptions and they are and we're okay with that Yeah and that's the message to the world I mean we're we're although we're not really aware of it in this country we're at a moment right now we're to adjacent nuclear powers are having a border right it's kerfuffle let's call it China and India India has also been involved in continuing military conflict with another nuclear power that it's bordered with Pakistan

right and and AQ Khan of course was the great nuclear proliferator of the late 20th century the reason why Colonel Gaddafi had nuclear capability as well as arguably North Korea every once in a while it kind of rears its head and scares the pants off you one more time I have to say I had the opportunity a couple years ago to visit Nagasaki and to go to the Nagasaki a bomb museum as I believe is the correct name of it and you as you point out in the book Nagasaki is really the forgotten story of all this because no matter what you think about dropping the bomb on Hiroshima Nagasaki was really the bomb that didn't have to be dropped right the most revealing thing of all is that the movie as it went along they cut every mention of Nagasaki out of the script so you can watch watch this movie tonight if you if you dare and you will you wouldn't even know that we used a second bomb so it shows how sensitive this is or as you as you say many people accept the bombing of Hiroshima

and they feel Nagasaki was a work run and I think the book lays that out pretty well yeah it's interesting to see that done at the museum from the Japanese point of view it is done with great delicacy delicacy and sensitivity and honesty and and those three don't often go together anywhere in public but it's it's remarkable to see that as it is to have read the book Greg Mitchell it's a fascinating book and and and yet because of the Hollywood shenanigans also weirdly fun if if I could say that about that subject but I want to excuse myself by saying I did at my age Donna Reed was basically the woman who pranced through a doorway at the beginning of her own eponymous TV show every every week that's what I didn't watch but to be fair it wasn't made for me Greg Mitchell author of the beginning or the end and we still don't know the answer to that question right

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河河河河 From New Orleans, this is Lucho, and now on a related subject. Well, here's news from California, which is a hot spot for more than the COVID thing.

The Coastal Commission out there, they have jurisdiction over the coast. Hence the name. This week, they approved an inspection and maintenance program. It's part of a permit that will allow Southern California Edison to place canisters in a storage site on the beach. What kind of canisters? Well, Edison used to operate the Santa Nofrey nuclear generating station. That's a nuclear power plant. It's shuttered some years ago, and then they got to deal with the waste they created there. Why would you have to deal with your waste? That sounds grown up to me. But anyway, the Commission okay to program it, starting in about four years, will inspect to spent fuel storage canisters every five years.

That should make him feel safer, doesn't it? And inspect the test canister at Santa Nofrey. Every two and a half years. The program also calls for Edison to put a metallic overlay on the canisters using robotic devices in case canisters get scratched, even if it's by the robotic devices, I guess. The Commission reluctantly okayed this storage plan, the canisters on the beach. The plant was built by the beach, so why not store the waste there? This is in 2015. That was part of that decision, because Santa Nofrey stores its waste on its premises. The federal government has not yet opened a repository where you could send the fuel. Like that's the federal government's job. Okay, but they didn't do it because they'd picked a site in Yucca Valley in Nevada, and the Nevada politicians and the people in Nevada didn't want that there.

This permit includes a special condition that allows the Commission to revisit whether the storage site should be moved to another location in case of rising sea levels, earthquake risks, potential canister damage or other scenarios. They can revisit the whole, should we have this here? By 2035. The Commission had told Edison to pay for an independent third-party review of its inspector program for canister storage. A consulting firm was hired, made recommendations that included enhancements in inspections for any flaws and scratches on the canisters. Edison agreed, coastal commission staff remitted approving the new plan, making sure the canisters will remain in physical condition sufficient to allow them to be sent elsewhere once there's an elsewhere. Many of the Commissioners, though, they voted for this thing, so they aren't happy about it.

Quote this top of material has no business being the coastal zone of California, said one, it isn't no win, I think for all of us, but I think under the circumstances, voting yes is the right step. It's good, sir, good hot surfing. Commissioner Dane Botchko said, I think we're all trying to push as hard as possible to get the federal government to step up and do what they should have done 40 or 50 years ago. Sound familiar? Edison plans to eventually dismantle the two spent storage pools where highly radioactive fuel rods go to be cooled before being placed into the canisters. Opponents of Edison say the 40-foot deep pools should stay in case anything goes wrong with the canisters. Edison's officials have said returning a damaged canister to a pool poses more risks in terms of increased radiation dose to workers, potential radiation releases are damaged to fuel rods, than repairing a canister through remote welding or nesting the canister into another when it's larger. Russian nesting canisters. Some medicine critics said the outside report amounted to wishful

thinking. Others called for more frequent inspections to make sure the stainless steel canisters don't corrode or crack. Edison rep says stress corrosion cracking is unlikely, especially given the fabrication materials in our canister, and it's a very slow-growing process for a crack to initiate and a crack to propagate. So should something occurs as the Edison spokesman, there's more than enough time to identify it. The Edison plant is home to about 3.5 million pounds of used up nuclear fuel, just a portion of the 80,000 metric tons of waste at commercial reactors across the country. So there's plenty of waste to go around. Should we need it? Now, this is your brain on the war on drugs. A state Supreme Court Chief Justice in South Carolina has ordered state judges and magistrates

to stop issuing no-knock search warrants to police. So with those kinds of warrants, a squad of police can show up at a house without any warning, use a battering ram to smash in a door if they suspect that potentially violent suspect might destroy evidence or start a gunfight, if given even a few seconds warning. But the March killing of an unarmed Kentucky woman, Breonna Taylor, shot to death in her bed by police who used a no-knock warrant has attracted natural attention. Police learned only after shooting her eight times that the information used to enter the house was outdated. They were seeking drugs. There were no drugs in the house. This is your brain on the war on drugs. And now, the Apologies of the Week. Deadline Douglas County, Colorado, the chairman of the Douglas County Republican

Committee has issued an apology after the Facebook page for the party posted an offensive cartoon. However, a couple days later, the apology was removed or taken down from the Facebook page. The cartoon depicts what looks like law enforcement labeled this, polis, it's the name of the Colorado governor, stepping on the neck of a man wearing a mask labeled Colorado with the caption, we can't breathe. The original post was deleted shortly after publication but quickly gained attention beginning of this week. The one of the county commissioners publicly condemned the cartoon beginning of the week. The county sheriff said the leadership of the Douglas County Republican Party responsible for this posting should resign immediately. The Republican chairman said, as chairman, I'm responsible for the content of our social media and I apologize to anyone that was offended by the post. We're currently reviewing our editorial policies with regard to

content and access to our social media platforms. Alan, the chairman of the Republican committee, and who posted it, did not say anything about resigning. Yet, in a lengthy Facebook message posted this week, Nick Cannon apologized to the Jewish community for his recent inflammatory anti-Semitic remarks. That's the description of the remarks by Vanity Fair magazine. He also stood firm against Viacom CBS, which terminated its relationship with him over Cannon's comments and he insisted that the corporation give him the rights to his lucrative long-running comedy series Wild and Out. You've heard of it, right? Wild and Out. You've heard of it, right? Somebody has because it's lucrative. I demand full ownership of my billion dollar Wild and Out brand that I created and they will continue to misuse and destroy without

my leadership, he wrote. This is Nick Cannon. You've heard of him, right? He also pushed back on Viacom CBS as a parent claim he didn't attempt to make amends after his remarks went viral, saying he even tried to reach out to the chair of the company but didn't hear back from her. That's when I realized they didn't want a conversation or growth. They wanted to put the young knee-growing his place, Cannon Road. He came in under fire after an episode of his podcast went viral in it. He said black people are the true Hebrews. You can't be anti-Semitic when we are the Semitic people he said. When we are the same people they want to be, that's our birthright. He also discussed conspiracy theories about the Rothschild family and espoused the teachings of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. After the remarks began circulating Cannon, issued a statement, I have no hate in my heart nor malice intentions. I do not condone hate speech nor the spread of hateful rhetoric. Viacom CBS terminated its relationship with him. He's been involved in network projects since the late 90s when he got on a Nickelodeon series.

The company issued a statement. Cannon now demands an apology from the company. But he said, I must apologize to my Jewish brothers and sisters for putting them in such a painful position, which was never my intention, but I know this whole situation has hurt many people, and together we will make it right. He's announcing he will soon be making a trip to Israel to receive teachings, lessons, and truths about the Jewish history. Hang with me and I, not Netanyahu for a while, Nick. And on the same subject, you taught jazz two-way guard, just in right form and apologize this week for week tweeting a post that supported Nick Cannon's recent anti-Semitic remarks. I wasn't educated enough on the topic right form and said, I apologize, I did not mean to offend anybody. Those are not my beliefs and values. I just want to say once again, I apologize. The original retweet that he posted said, Nick Cannon's another

wrong. Everyone just sensitive and hates the truth. A BBC presenter has, and I'm just checking my reference here, a BBC presenter has apologized over comments he made during the Welsh government's daily press conference. You know what, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to share this one with you if you would be so appreciative next week. And I have more information on it. We'll move along to ABC Australia, not ABC America. It's a different thing. It's a different ABC. There's more than one, when you learn your ABCs, there's a reason it's plural. And on air apology over an anti-Semitic salir made by Talkback caller on an episode of an ABC radio program in Australia has been welcomed by the Australian Jewish Affairs Council. In the broadcast

in May, the caller said she managed to factor in the 80s, which employed so many people when I was working. They were worried sick that this big Jew was going to buy it out, buy us out and blow me down eventually he did and he broke and he sold all her machinery and everything went over to. He sold it over to China. Following an investigation, ABC audience and consumer affairs accepted that the committee was justifying and complaining over the comments. The slur was heard by the presenter. Ian McNamara, he'd made a non-air apology in June. But the ABC apologize for the oversight that let this remark go to air. It has been removed from our podcast of that program. You will not hear the reference to the big Jew. Dateline National North Carolina in an extraordinary move, the Asheville City Council has apologized for that city's historic role in slavery, discrimination and denial of basic liberties to black residents. And the Asheville City Council has voted to provide reparations to them and their descendants. The vote was seven to nothing. Hundreds of years of black blood spilled. It basically fills the cup we drink from today. He said

one councilman, one of the two African-American members of the body and the chief proponent of the measure. It's simply not enough to remove statues, black people in this country are dealing with issues that are systemic in nature. He says the unanimously passed resolution does not mandate direct payments. Instead, it will make investments in areas where black residents face disparities. Just for historical perspective, reparations have been paid in this country. They were paid to former slave owners for the loss of their property. I now have the information I was lacking a moment ago on the story of the BBC presenter. I apologize over a comment she made during the Welsh government's daily press conference. Carrie Gracie sparked fury from some viewers when they heard her say she hoped they don't do more Welsh ahead of the first minister's statement. He's the prime minister. Others claimed she laughed when he spoke Welsh during the conference. Miss Gracie then took to Twitter saying she should have chosen the words more carefully,

writing her apology in Welsh. I've watched that clip back now. While broadcasting live, yesterday, I made some unscripted comments on air. Having watched the program again, I realized I should have chosen my words more carefully. There was no intention to offend anyone, and I apologized that that happened. And that she wrote in Welsh and a machine replied in Welsh. The union representing Cambridge, Massachusetts Police Patrolman, removed part of a Facebook post that threatened to purge and then apologise, not wearing the post did not refer to violence. And it has been misconstrued as such, so let's reconstruct it. In a shocking never before video, L.A. Dodger, Tommy LaSorta, is seen telling a fan, go back where you came from. I think this needs the appropriate fake Facebook crowd.

Do we have the fake Facebook crowd? No, we don't. All right. I can deal with that. Tommy LaSorta, then 90, said to your from where the fan responds to Korea, LaSorta asked, then why don't you go back there? Video was taken in April 2018 in Dodger Stadium. He's a living legend to Dodger fans. You know who isn't. We really don't have the Facebook crowd. That's such a disappointment. Anyway, he's been part of the Dodger's organization forever. The anonymous videographer Dodger fans since the 60s had initially felt conflicted about releasing the video to the public. I was blown off my Dodger office. A spokesperson for the Dodgers said, We were deeply disturied by Tommy's comments from this 2018 incident and his comments have no place in our society and the Dodgers do not condone and support them in any way. Tommy's actions in this video do not reflect our values. Dodger values.

The Sorta also sent out an apology himself which stated, I'm sorry for my actions, which don't represent who I am. Well, who are you? And who represents that? Who elected your representative? The apologies of the week, ladies and gentlemen, a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Who runs this place? Oh, that's right. How do you do?

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