Le Show; 2022-03-20

From deep inside your audio device of choice, ladies and gentlemen, the new often seems scary, especially to those of us who've been around for a while. The new is disturbing, potentially. It threatens our sense of continuity and familiarity. But it doesn't have to. I'm in Southern California this week, and in this place, 70 years ago, there were writers and actors working in show business in this community who were suddenly unemployable. They were suspected of sympathies with the communists in the Soviet Union and elsewhere. And the industry imposed upon them something called a blacklist.

You were on this list, you could not get employed by a studio or a network in Hollywood or in the business generally. And as I say, it was called a blacklist. Well now we're 70 years later and everything's changed. Russia isn't communist anymore. Nobody's communist anymore. But there are people in the media today who seem to be aligned with the positions of Putin's Russia, Tucker Carlson, other people on Fox News. And there are calls to shut them down. It's something part of a larger thing going on these days called cancel culture. And a lot of folks find that disturbing, as I say, new, unfamiliar.

You can all relax. It's not new. It's just a modern blacklist. You're welcome. Hello, welcome to the show. We'll hear YOU in the next video. in our roads of hell. Out into the world, you're salient and too light for upon a glass, see, see. Flags and sails and pearls,

you would must be to be so young and whole and free. This could be us, but where the graves at which your father is now, you're done to be a Kennedy when you could have been a Roosevelt. And we're glad we can see in the inversions of a life that we almost have. Out into the world, we're certain things will always be beyond our scope. Just to be a girl, we're doing the day in pink and may and your early soul. This could be us, but there was just a trust we never found. It's hard to be a Kennedy when you could have been a Roosevelt. It's hard to be a Kennedy

when you could have been a Roosevelt. From the home of the homeless, I'm Harry Scherer. Welcome you to this edition of the show in the great privacy battle, waging now in our smart, smart, smart world. This development this week, Facebook and Google, find by the French watchdog on information and liberties, liberties, civil liberties, I guess. Why? Well, there's a button on both Google and Facebook's interface, visual interface, that allows you to permit immediate acceptance of cookies. Those are those things that they slap on the websites so that you can be tracked on your paragraph nations around the internet.

But they don't offer the user equivalent button to refuse cookies that easily. So if they've sort of, yeah, they sort of put the thumb on the scale of cookie-dom. Google was find $150 million dollar, sorry, million euro. Facebook got a 60 million euro penalty. So, yes, yes, is it slapped on the wrist? And the problem is, of course, they've got about 150 million wrists. And now, I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Yes, sir. I can listen to you. Yes, sir, you. Microplastics. Think about it. What do you think about it? Yes, I will. I'll say it. I don't know how much it takes

to frighten a Brazilian biologist. But they're frightened. Biologists in Rio de Janeiro, studying the presence of microplastics in marine life off the coast of Brazil's capital. Not, no, not the capital. It's the most famous city. I found the impact of plastic pollution is far worse than they'd feared. Reuters reports this. The team of biologists put on wetsuits and oxygen canisters to dive into the tropical waters around Rio and sample marine life from the ocean. They then measure the quantity of microplastics found inside the organisms in a lab. Best place to do it, I think. Plastic objects which end up in the ocean break down into smaller pieces can eventually end up inside fish and other creatures. Quote, I was frightened. I knew I would find some microplastics but I thought it would be that much. Unquote, Raquel Neves, a marine biologist at Rio de Janeiro's Federal University, who finds the microplastics under a microscope.

Even sea urchins extracted from what was thought to be a clean area designated a natural, national monument. It says natural here. Places of plastic on the inside, the researchers said. Our role as researchers in academia is to show this to raise a warning sign saying, this is wrong wake up said Neves. There's still ways to turn this around, but soon there could be none. Unquote. Single use plastic consumption increased during the pandemic so far. They write as do so many as if the pandemic is over. A 2020 study by scientists found three experts for the Pew Charitable Trusts and System IQ predicts the amount of plastic pouring into the sea every year could rise from 11 million tons to 29 million tons. This could mean a potential total of 600 million tons

plastic in the ocean by 2040, equivalent to the weight of 3 million blue whales. The report said. That would frighten me. Three million blue whales. And now a story of particular interest to those of us in New Orleans, although it takes place in Bangor. Bangor, pardon me, in Maine. It is about blue tarpollons, blue tarps. They serve totally different purposes in Maine than they do in Louisiana. They become ubiquitous after hurricanes when they replace roofs a lot of houses, depending on the replacement of the roof. But the Bangor Daily News reports that blue tarps are as much a part of the main landscape as pine trees and chickadees.

Well, that's the writing in the Bangor Daily News. Use for everything from covering stacks of firewood to protecting seasonal machinery and sight on farms and in yards. Across Maine, it turns out those sheets of colored plastic could be contributing to the presence of microplastics in the soil. They're the most abundant form of solid waste pollution on the planet. According to the Shaw Institute in Blue Hill, Maine, no studies have focused specifically on the impact of blue tarps on the problem. There's anecdotal evidence that many blue plastic pieces from tarps are ending up in the environment. In Maine, Maine Department of Environmental Protection didn't respond, but repeated requests for comment. One of the indications blue plastic tarp microplastics are affecting Maine was discovered by chance during a University of Maine student research study. Rachel White, a PhD student in ecology

and environmental sciences were looking at gastropods, snails, and slugs, and the role they play as vectors of parasites on Maine farms. Her research showed that the gastropods stomachs contain more than parasites. She created a synthetic stomach, acid, that dissolves the gastropods, but left any parasites on scale that turns out the gastropods also contained microplastics. Much of the microplastic materials she found was blue. Her advisor at the University's veterinary diagnostic lab said the presence of the plastics was an unpleasant discovery. Quote, the vet lab advisor, Dr. Ann Lichtenwalner, I was surprised and horrified the process of seeing the plastics involved surviving an artificial stomach acid, which suggests they go through the digestive system. Unquote,

it also means that whatever reads the gastropods are also ingesting the microplastics they contain along with any parasites. Quote will work its way up the food chain, says the PhD candidate. If the parasites are going into an animal's body, so are the plastics. Unquote. Microplastics pose a risk of the environment even if they're not broken down, once in the soil studies of shown microplastics can potentially alter soil density, water holding capacity, populations of microbes and influence plant development. As the blue tarps eventually degrade and start to fall apart, as they're exposed to the elements, the more afraid it becomes, the bits of it breaking off and blowing away. White to the PhD students that she saw a lot of blue tarps and plastics on the farm she visited as part of her study, and included questions about them in research. My main farmers are aware microplastics can be an issue, say they research assistant

on the study. They want to do something about it. Farmers indicated they're open to learning about alternatives to plastics that they use on their property, including corn or soy based products. Edible blue tarps, ladies and gentlemen, coming our way soon, perhaps. The torrent of man-made chemical and plastic waste worldwide has massively exceeded safe limits for humanity or the planet, according to Ajance France Press. And scientists have concluded for the first time that production caps are needed. They're an estimated 350,000 different manufactured chemicals on the market and large volumes of them end up in the environment. The impact that we're starting to see today are large enough to be impacting crucial functions of planet Earth and its systems. They co-author of a new study by the Stockholm

Resilience Center. Chemicals and plastics are affecting biodiversity, piling additional stress on already stressed ecosystems. In a new study by Tel Aviv University, researchers found that in a marine environment, microplastics absorb and concentrate toxic organic substances. They thus increase their toxicity by a factor of 10. That may lead to a severe impact on human health. In this study, says the chief researcher, we showed that even very low concentrations of environmental pollutants, which are non-toxic to humans, once absorbed to the microplastic, result in significant increase in toxicity. Microplastics are kind of magnet for environmental pollutants, concentrating them on its surfaces, fairing them through our digestive tract, and releasing them in a concentrated form in certain areas, thus causing increased

toxicity. So their poison magnifiers are our friends, the microplastics. Nice to know. And now, the apologies of the week. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Arma, Ireland, at the belated St. Patrick's Day everybody, he's the most reverend Aiman Martin has reiterated his unreserved apology to victims of abuse at institutions run by the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, this according to church times. Made a statement after the storm on December, in Northern Ireland issued a public apology last Friday to victims of abuse in 22 Northern Irish children's homes run by churches, charities, and the state. Review, chaired by the late Sir Anthony Hart recommended the apology.

Archbishop Martin said in his statement, looking back, there's no doubt that many in positions of leadership within the church did not live up to the gospel message by their failure to intervene, such as the Sanctus which led to physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, of the little ones so beloved of Christ. In this use of the power and status in the church, the valing culture of judgment, guilt, and shame surrounding sexuality, and a lack of Christian empathy and compassion towards the poor, and those less fortunate, blinded many in the church to the shocking neglect, sins, and crimes, being perpetrated in their midst. Shame on us. Unquote. Archbishop Martin. A North Carolina school superintendent is apologized for a mock slave auction in which white middle schoolers pretended to sell their black classmates. Quote actions, such as these, they just do not reflect

who we are as a school system. Said Superintendent Anthony Jackson after parents raised an outcry, and I say unapologetically, will not be tolerated in the school system. Unquote him, a coalition of local groups called on the board to address the situation at the J.S. Waters School in Goldston, North Carolina. School board adopted some policy changes and reviewed the student code of conduct and discipline policies involving acts of racism. Some parents complained several students involved were given just a one-day suspension. The mock auction happened in the presence of staff and faculty and was recorded on video. The school has 195 students, 68 percent white. Quote, these students were emboldened to not only commit brazen and overt acts of racism, but to retaliate further and continue their aggression

after serving a perfunctory one-day suspension. A coalition of parents said, it wants the district to raise the penalties for school employees who engage in racist behaviors, including making it a fireball offense. One of the parents said, quote, more should be done around addressing racism schools. No parents would have to stand here after hearing their son was sold in a slave trade at school. Unquote. A black schoolgirl was stripped searched by police in Hackney, neighborhood in London, after being wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis. The traumatic search by Metropolitan Police Officers took place without another adult present, whoops, at the girl's secondary school in Hackney, this morning at the BBC, a safeguarding report on the incident concluded it was unjustified and racism was, quote, likely,

unquote, to be a factor. Scotland yards of the officers' regrettable and should never have happened. The impact to the pupil, known as child Q, was profound and the repercussions obvious and ongoing. Faculty members described her as changing from a happy-go-like girl to a timid recluse that hardly speaks, who now self-harmes and needs therapy. Police recalled to the school that she had been concerned by teachers who told investigators they had been concerned the teenager had drugs in her possession because she smelt of cannabis. She was taken in the medical room and stripped, searched by two female officers. Teachers remained outside. During the ordeal her intimate body parts were exposed, she was made to take off her sanitary napkin, according to the review, no drugs were found. Her family strongly believed the racist incident and the

review found her experiences are, quote, unlikely to have been the same had she not been black. The review said it was highly likely that, quote, adultification bias, unquote, was a factor, where adults perceive black children as being older than they are, because they see them as more, quote, streetwise, unquote. The girl in a written statement to the review said she wanted everyone to allow the strip search to happen to be held responsible. I need to know that the people who have done this to me can't do it to anyone else ever again. Unquote. School staff deferred to the police's authority and, quote, according to the investigators, quote, should have been more challenging. Unquote. At Katouk, a culture-centered кругed in Nuk. Nuk. In

Jojuk für Greenland, the Danish Prime Minister." Frederiksson delivery to a final apology this week for Denmark's in which 22 Inuit children aged forty-nine were taken away from their families to be raised in Denmark. Sermony, ranged by a Danish prime minister, was fully attended by The public had greenlandic musicians, authors, and speeches from both the prime minister and the chairman of Greenland's government in the program. Today's an important day for Greenland and Denmark, Friedrichsen told the audience. I hope from the bottom of my heart, we can put an ending remark to the injustice you have experienced in our common past. On behalf of Denmark, once again, we apologize, she received a standing ovation for that. Greenland's chairman welcomed the apology and thanked Denmark for admitting the nation's past mistake. That will be the foundation for the reconciliation of those things that happened, but shouldn't

have happened in our lives. What happened is, together with humanitarian organizations, saved the children, the Red Cross, and the then National Council of Denmark, of Greenland, Denmark engaged in an experiment to remove 22 Greenlandic children from their homes and raise them in Denmark. The plan was to create a new Greenlandic elite by raising the children with a Danish mindset and then returning to Greenland to act as role models for the natives who remained. The experiment failed, the children forgot their mother tongue and the distance from their families alienated them from the native communities. Six of the children were eventually adopted by Danish families. The other 16 were placed in the children's home in Nuke. Many of the children suffered trauma from the experiment. Some even took their own lives. This was, of course, when Danish colonialism was still in practice in effect in Greenland. The Greenland leader said Greenland had a responsibility, according to why the apologies came this

late. Now we know our history and that is why we apologize for not pressuring the Danish straight enough to make them admit their mistakes. MSNBC guest and former US ambassador to Russia Michael McFall apologized this week for comparing Russian President Putin to Adolf Hitler. Quote, I made a mistake, I apologize, I will never make comparisons to Hitler again without historical analogizing. I will keep my analysis and my comments focused on the present evil Putin, he said. In a long Twitter thread, he's a Stanford University professor. His comments came last week during a segment on the Rachel Maddow show when he told the Philin host, one difference between Putin and Hitler is that Hitler killed ethnic Germans, German speaking people. Putin slaughters the very people he said he has come to liberate.

That comment was reiterated in the show's blog, setting off a firestorm of criticism, including from the Auschwitz Memorial. On a factual note, they said, Hitler did kill ethnic Germans and German speaking people, those who opposed the Nazi regime, those who resisted those who did not fit into the Veltan show. He ordered the murder of people with different disabilities, and finally the murder of German Jewry, it wrote in a tweet. McFall's apology continued to be clear I was of course mistaken. When I implied that Hitler did not kill ethnic Germans, I understand making any comment and directly implying that Jews are in any way, others was the last thing I wanted. That of course was not my intention. I deeply regret my comments and I sincerely apologize, and now I'm moving forward. The show's blog also deleted their tweet and issued a new one with an apology, a tweet

apology. And finally our only show business apology this week, it turns out Amy Mann didn't look like a perfect fit to open for Steely Dan on the band's twice postponed summer tour, according to the Los Angeles Times. Not for the reason she initially suspected, man suggested it was sexism at work, but Steely Dan's Donald Fagan took the blame apologizing and saying in a statement it was a matter of miscommunication and a perceived mismatch. Quote, I was supposed to open for Steely Dan this summer. I just found out that they took me off the bill. Mann wrote this week in Instagram post, quote, again, man, no one is entirely sure why, but it seems they thought their audience wouldn't like a female singer songwriter. Question mark. As it happens, she continued, steely Dan is the one band I hundred percent love with no reservation.

So it really sucks, but you know what? People are allowed to not like you for whatever reason, unquote, Amy Mann. Then Fagan issued a statement the next morning apologizing to the singer after choosing the mainly instrumental band snarky puppy as the opening act for Steely Dan. Well first of all, the idea that I would make any decision based on gender of a performer is ridiculous. That's something that would never even occur to me, Fagan said. He blamed the communication problem on the Steely Dan side of the equation, quote, I was misinformed as to how firm the commitment was to any particular opening act. And although I have the greatest respect for Amy as a writer and performer, I thought it might not be the best matchup in terms of musical style, but I can't pass the buck. I'll take the blame for the screw up. I apologize for any distress. This is caused Amy and her fans, unquote, Donald Fagan. As a history to this tour, Steve, when would was supposed to open her Dan back in 2020?

The tour was postponed twice because of the pandemic. Then he packed out as the opener early February of this year, citing unforeseen circumstances. His website said the shows will still take place with Amy Mann and snarky puppy appearing as special guests, but a post that day on Steely Dan's Facebook page cited only snarky puppy. Amy Mann's original post drew support from musician Jason Isbel and actor comedian Rob Delaney, the latter, uh, called Fagan's side stupid idiots. At least it's not Steely Dan anymore. He said, referring to the fact that the Fagan's longtime partner passed away a few years ago, Amy Mann said the night of Fagan's apology, there's one way he could smooth out the wrinkles in their relationship, quote, Amy Mann, all is given if Donald just tells me what

Brooklyn is about. She tweeted, referring to the Steely Dan song, Brooklyn owes the trauma under me. Well, if that's all it takes, that's all it takes. The apologies of the weekladers jump on a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. A dish of dollars played out for all to see. A tower room at Eden Rock is called Fad Noodle for Free. Brooklyn knows the trauma under me.

His lady's aching to bring a body down. She deadly breaches on where she wants to be. God evening with a movie queen, a face we all have seen. Brooklyn knows the trauma under me. Brooklyn knows the trauma under me.

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Brooklyn knows the trauma under me. Brooklyn knows the trauma under me. Seems obvious to me. From Santa Monica, California, this is Liz Show and now ladies and gentlemen, news of Inspector's General.

He's not a general, he commands no truth. He's not an inspector, he picks up no stoop season. Oh yeah. Okay, you better sit down for this, ladies and gentlemen. The LA Police Commission in Los Angeles is going to review a report from the Police Department's Inspector General. It says 41% of LAPD officers who shot at people in violation of Police Department's own policy were not disciplined. I know, hard to believe, isn't it? 27 of the 66 officers found to have violated the rules on shootings by a civilian oversight board, escaped punishment, 13 were reprimanded, one was fired, 20 received unpaid suspensions. Oh, Ouch.

Cases for three other officers were pending, this covers the years between 2015 and 2020. The mayor ordered the report a couple months ago over concerns the Department's system for disciplining officers to often results in officers escaping accountability for their actions involving potentially deadly force. Spokesman for the mayor told the LA Times, there's still an LA Times that the mayor will review these findings closely and is committed to engaging in a robust discussion about learning from them after the Police Commission takes up the report. The head of the Police Commission as well as the Inspector General for the Police Department didn't comment. Police chief Michael Moore, not the one you're thinking of, also declined a comment on the report. The board of directors of the Police Union said the Commission makes more than it share bad decisions that it ended and that independent discipline panels sometimes reach different conclusions than the Commission. The Union continued, LAPD officers are held accountable through one of most rigorous, transparent and extensive review processes in the nation to apply otherwise would be disingenuous.

The Inspector General's report cited 45 shooting incidents involving 66 officers which resulted in the deaths of 20 people, of 301 rounds fired during the shootings, 228 were ruled out of policy by the Police Commission according to the report. You know, if you grew up in Los Angeles as I did, you never knew that the Police Commission had a policy on shootings. And now, users are friendly at them. Clean, safe, too cheap to meet. Safe, too cheap to meet. Safe, too cheap to meet. Safe, too cheap to meet.

Well, what's happening at Fukushima? 11 years after the thing, the Japanese government has set a decommissioning roadmap, meaning for completion of the cleanup of the mess in 29 years is all. The challenge of removing melted fuel from the reactors is so daunting according to the Associated Press. Some experts now say that setting a completion target is impossible since officials still don't have any idea about where to store the waste. That's simple. You just, you just, you, you, you. Nuclear Regulation Authority Chairman Toyoshi Fukata said recently extra time would be needed to determine where and how the highly radioactive waste removed from the reactors should be stored. Japan, it turns out, you better sit down for this, has no final storage plans even for the highly radioactive waste that comes out of normal reactors. Nor do we. 24 of the country's 60 reactors are set for decommissioning mainly because of the high cost needed to meet safety standards set up in the wake of the Fuk disaster.

Blame Fuk. For the first time in the 66 year history of commercial nuclear power, operators must manage the exacting safety systems of a massive reactor plant under the guns of an occupying army that's killing their fellow citizens. You know where that is. The strain on the staffs of Ukraine's offline Chernobyl reactor facility and the operating operating Zaporizia nuclear plant, both under Russian control, is a serious growing issue, according to the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. Quote, I remain gravely concerned about the extremely difficult circumstances for the Ukrainian staff there said Maureano, Rafael Maureano-Grosi, the IAEA is receiving status reports from Ukraine's nuclear regulator. It continues to oversee three of that country's four operating nuke plants. Two of the six reactors at Zaporizia were running most recently under the direction of Russian operatives.

Russia's state nuclear agency sent representatives, according to reports from Ukrainian officials. The plant's operators faced new challenges when the site lost access to a third high voltage line connection to Ukraine's power grid. This thing of supplying electricity to the plants that provide electricity keeps happening. One line in a backup remained connected and plant safety is not threatened the IAEA says, however the plant had to reduce power to adjust to the outages. And if all outside powers lost the reactor cooling processes depend on emergency diesel generators. In Chernobyl, 211 Ukrainian technicians and guards there are virtual prisoners inside the plant working without relief under enormous stress without the necessary rest, according to the IAEA.

The plant wrecked by a 1986 explosion is now encased in a steel dome as workers dismantle it and safeguard its spent fuel. Report this week in the Wall Street Journal based on text messages with Chernobyl staff and other accounts described a tense hostage situation that is deteriorated since Russian troops took over a couple weeks ago. Newspaper reported that workers during brief calls told family members of headaches, dizziness, nausea and extreme fatigue. Says Adam Stein who works for the Breakthrough Institute which advocates for nuclear power. I'm very concerned about the operator's health and well-being. I consider that to be the primary risk at these plants at the moment. What happens if nuclear reactor operators decide they're not going to work because of the conditions at the plant? That's speculative, he says, but it's a concern. He said there's concerns about workers' ability to maintain facilities and make repairs.

Former Chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says you want nuclear plant operators to be at their best, not tired, not distracted. If they're worried about their families or in Chernobyl's case not allowed to leave and reduced to eating dried porridge and canned food, they may miss things and make mistakes. There's no way of knowing if cost increases and missed construction deadlines are going to continue at the only U.S. underground nuclear waste repository. Hey, that's our solution. The report is quoting independent federal investigators. Federal Watchdog report was made public this week, according to the AP. The government accountability office outlined its concerns in its report, saying the Energy Department is not required to develop a corrective action plan for addressing the root causes of challenges at New Mexico's waste isolation pilot plant, the WIPP. A multi-million dollar project is underway at the facility to install a new ventilation system so that full operations can resume as follows a radiation leak seven years ago that closed the place for three years.

Operations after it reopened had to be throttled back because parts of the facility were contaminated and air flow was reduced. Federal officials have said the construction project will ensure the repository can meet the energy department's needs for disposing of tons of Cold War era waste left behind by decades of bomb making a nuclear research. But the GAO reports state of the Energy Department faces construction and regulatory risks that might delay its plans. Imagine that a nuclear project delayed. According to Energy Department documents, the ventilation project as of last fall was projected to cost about $486 million, nearly 70% more than originally planned. The project is about three years behind schedule, new completion date estimated January 2026. Want to write that down somewhere in the kitchen?

The Energy Department had blamed significant cost overruns and delays on the contractors inexperience and difficulty in attracting workers to the area. This is in New Mexico, an expansive desert that is also home to one of the most productive oil fields in the world. I bet they can attract workers to that. Some corrective measures were taken, but Department officials told the government accountability office they have not updated an internal system. The system is designed to track risks and mitigation measures. Without those updates, Energy Department officials may not be able to meet their waste disposal schedule, which could in turn create shipping delays and cost increases for the sites that are generating the waste. According to the Accountability Office report, the report reiterated the repository is running out of permitted space for waste. In the desert, ladies and gentlemen, they're running out of space for waste.

The Energy Department has a large amount of trans-uranic waste, that's lab coats, rubber gloves, tools and debris contaminated with plutonium and other radioactive elements. At sites around the country, that still needs to be disposed of somewhere. The repository was carved out of an ancient salt formation. I love that ancient salt. But up to date, Pepper, about a half mile below the surface with the idea that the shifting salt would eventually entomb the radioactive waste. We're depending on you. The current footprint of the site includes eight panels. The Energy Department estimates those will be full up in 2025. There are plans for two new panels in the short term. But the report noted it's unclear whether the new space will be ready in time to prevent an interruption of disposal operations. Can you just hold out waste a little while longer? We're working on it.

In Mexico, regulators have also yet to approve permit changes and other requests from the Energy Department. It's unclear how long that'll take. Department officials in response to the report agreed with recommendations aimed at addressing the root causes of the cost increases and construction delays, so that the DOE projects benefit taxpayers, well, reducing the risk to human health and the environment. Clean, cheap, too safe to meet our friend. And now, news of the godly. One of the former seminarians who was the victim of sexual abuse by the Argentine Bishop Emeritus, Gustavo Zanchetta, says the powerful pros and argentina. Says the powerful prelate manipulated young man under his authority with clothing, computers and other gifts, discriminated against darker skined seminarians, and bragged about being friends with Pope Francis. According to the Catholic news agency, the truth is we had a bad time.

He says this one of the former seminarians, although we all entered with the illusion of being priests of serving people in the name of God, we lived through very hard times of a lot of discrimination of a lot of mistreatment and pain because the church tried to hide everything that happened. He's identified only as MC. He and another one-time seminarian identified in court documents as G.G.F.L. claimed that Zanchetta had made enormous, sorry, amorous proposals and asked them to give him massages. An Argentine court earlier this month found him guilty of sexual abuse against the two men, so he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. The victim, now 28, entered the seminary when he was 19. He said, Zanchetta had a select group of young people to whom we offer jacket, sweatshirts, computers and money. In same way, I belonged to that group, but I didn't want to get carried away by everything he did. He said, many came from poor families. He said, I also came from a family that sometimes didn't have enough to eat. And with that knowledge, he manipulated a lot. He would push you where you were most fragile.

The diocese was located in Northern Argentina, and he was up the prelate for four years in the teens of this century. Spoyment was done, one of the first done by Pope Francis in his native Argentina. Zanchetta stepped down in 2017, claiming health reasons, subsequently appointed as an assassin at the Vatican's administration on the patrimony of the Holy See. A position created especially for him, that APSA, the administration, oversees the Vatican's real estate holdings and other sovereign assets. He was later suspended, and then controversially reinstated to that role amid a canonical investigation into his conduct. In the interview, MC said Zanchetta used his close relationship with Pope Francis, as another means of manipulation. He always bragged about being a friend of the Pope, and that he talked to him about us, that put pressure on us because he said, I can close this seminary and don't contradict me because I'm the bishop.

We were practically nothing to him, MC said. He discriminated against seminarians for being dark skin, or for being fat or being old. He began to more fully understand Zanchetta's abusive behavior after conversation with a priest toward the end of his time in the seminary. I opened my eyes and realized everything we had lived through. We were very manipulated. We did not understand that I mentioned everything he had done, and how his process of manipulation began. Sometimes the priests told me I was exaggerating, and today I realize they tried to cover up and minimize. At one point I thought I was crazy, there was so much pressure because they drilled these ideas into my head. As of this week the Vatican had yet to release any statement on Zanchetta's conviction.

News of the godly, ladies and gentlemen, it's kind of inspirational. And now, news of the warm, won't you? Warm is nice, right? A new study shows a smoke from wildfires destroys the ozone layer. Researchers cautioned that if major fires become more frequent with a changing climate, more damaging ultraviolet radiation from the sun will reach the ground. Atmospheric scientists, chemists, as a matter of fact, in the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada, well it smoked from the Australian wildfires a couple years ago, destroyed atmospheric ozone in this other hemisphere for months. The ozone shield is part of the stratosphere layer of the Earth's atmosphere that absorbs UV rays from the sun.

Similar to the holes over polar regions, this damage is a temporary effect. The ozone levels return to pre-wildfire levels once the smoke disappeared from the stratosphere. But an increase in the prevalence of wildfires would mean the destruction happens. More often. Researchers warned that permafrost, peatlands in Europe and Western Siberia are much closer to a climatic tipping point than previously believed. The frozen peatlands in these areas store up to 39 billion tons of carbon, twice that stored in the whole of European forests. A new study led by the University of Leeds used the latest generation of climate models to examine possible future climates of these regions, and they likely impact on their permafrost peatlands. Projections indicate that even with the strongest efforts to reduce global climate emissions, and therefore limit global warming, by 2040 the climates of Northern Europe will no longer be cold and dry enough to sustain peat permafrost. You remember him?

However, strong action to reduce emissions could help preserve suitable climates for permafrost peatlands in Northern parts of Western Siberia. That's got about 13.9 billion tons of the stuff. The study published a Nature Climate Change emphasizes the importance of policies aimed at reducing emissions and mitigating climate change in their role in determining the right and extent of peatland fall. We don't want that, apparently. The Great Barrier Reef has been hit by a widespread bleaching event. Sounds like something that happened in Beverly Hills. Attributed to heat stress, authorities say, days ahead of a UNESCO trip that will inspect the site's health to review whether the reef should be listed as in danger. Australia was able to avoid a danger listing for the site last year by lobbying to push the decision to later this year. Bleaching has been detected across the marine park part of the reef. It's widespread variable across multiple regions, ranging in impact from minor to severe, said the park authority.

Surveillance flights over the 1200 mile network of corals revealed minor to severe bleaching caused by significant heat stress over the summer. And the coldest location on the planet has experienced an episode of very warm weather this week, unlike any ever observed, according to the Washington Post. Temperatures over the eastern Antarctic ice sheet, soared 50 to 90 degrees above normal. The warmth has smashed records and shocked scientists. And they're hard to shock. Quote, this event is completely unexpected and upended our expectations about the Antarctic climate system, says Jonathan Willie. A researcher studying polar meteorology at the University of Tegrin Noble, Alp in France, and Arctic climateology has been rewritten, tweeted another researcher. He added such temperature anomalies would have been considered impossible and unthinkable until they occurred.

Parts of eastern Antarctic have seen temperatures hover 70 degrees Fahrenheit above normal for more than three days. He likened the event to Willie to the June heat wave in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, which scientists concluded would have been virtually impossible without human cause climate change. What is considered warm over the frozen barren confines of eastern Antarctic, of course, is relative. Instead of temperatures being minus 50 or 60 degrees Fahrenheit, they've been closer to 0 or 10 degrees Fahrenheit. A massive heat wave by Antarctic standards. Willie said the warm conditions over Antarctica were spurred by an extreme atmospheric river, a narrow corridor of water vapor in the sky on its east coast. The moisture diffused and spread over the interior of Antarctica, a strong blocking high pressure system or heat dome moved in over the east of the continent, preventing the moisture from escaping the heat. The heat dome was exceptionally intense.

Five standard deviations above normal. They have normally high temperatures of cause, some melting in the region according to models, which is unusual as this part of Antarctica doesn't provide a lot of work for models. No, it doesn't experience much melt often. A couple of other researchers suggest more studies needed as to whether this phenomenon is connected to climate change. We can't tell whether this is going to be a new trend or is just an oddity that occurs occasionally on a most fascinating continent. They write. News of the warm latest in gentlemanly copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Ladies and gentlemen, that concludes this week's edition and we'll show back next week at the same time with these same radio stations.

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