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That's what I said. I said two minutes from Mark. Well, we got that straight. This is Global Radio in London, England. Still, after all this time, once the show originates in one whole minute from Mark. From deep inside your radio. Well, from a... I would be tempted to say a

jittery London, ladies and gentlemen. There was a security thing on the big peripheral highway outside London this week, the M25. It hasn't been explained to you yet. And then walking over here this evening in London, and Burr, by the way. Burr! Summers over. I saw a little police situation in the park. Just a few dozen officers stopped going through the belongings of some perp. So anyway, no jitters here. Just the very good news that it's time for news of the Olympic movement. Oh, you knew that, didn't you? Produced by Jim Embersold Jr. Well, all the news media. Carrying the word

around the world that Tokyo is celebrating. Because they got the Summer Olympics in 2020. I say, now how'd they do it? Volume, of course. Japanese Prime Minister Abe told the International Olympic Committee that leaks of radioactive water at the food plant will pose no problem in hosting the Olympics. And that you can take to the bank like object. Tokyo's bid committee said hosting the games in the Japanese capital would help the country

throw off the gloom of the food disaster. It's a gloom thrower offer. The government will take the lead in achieving a complete resolution to the problem. Abe said, I will explain carefully to the Olympic Committee that we are doing our utmost with the firm resolve. And then in 2020, there will be absolutely no problem. Unquote. Absolutely no problem. That's how hard you have to bite the tongue to bite your tongue to win the Olympics. But while they're celebrating this from an academic paper coming from the Hoss School of Business Administration of the University of California, Berkeley called the Olympic Effect, quoting now, economists are skeptical about the economic benefits of hosting mega events such as the Olympic Games since such activities have considerable cost and seem

to yield few tangible benefits. These doubts are rarely shared by policymakers in the population who are typically quite enthusiastic about such spectacles. In this paper, we reconcile these positions by examining the economic impact of hosting mega events like the Olympics. We focus on trade. Using a variety of trade models, we show that hosting a mega event like the Olympics has a positive impact on national exports. The effect is statistically robust, permanent and large. Trade is around 30 percent higher for countries that have hosted the Olympics. Interestingly, however, we also find that unsuccessful bids to host the Olympics have a similar positive effect on exports. We conclude that the Olympic Effect on Trade is attributable to the signal the country sends when bidding to host the Games rather than the act of actually holding the event. And from another academic paper, should cities go for the gold, the long-term impacts of hosting the Olympics by Stephen Billings in the journal Economic Inquiry published

a couple years ago. In order to host the visitors and sporting events, cities must make sizable investments in infrastructure such as airports, arminas and highways. Additionally, the publicity and international exposure of a host city may benefit international trade and capital flows. Proponents argue that this investment will pay off through increased economic growth but research confirming these claims is lacking. There's more, this paper examines whether hosting an Olympiad improves a city's long-term growth. In order to control for the self-selection of cities that host the Olympic Games, this paper matches Olympic host cities with cities that were finalists for the Olympic Games but were not selected by the International Olympics Committee. A difference in difference estimator examines post-elympic impacts for host cities between 1950 and 2005 and regression

results provide no long-term impacts of hosting an Olympics. On two measures of population, real gross domestic product per capita and trade openness. No long-term impacts. And the anti-doping laboratory in the 2016 Olympics host city of Rio de Janeiro has had its accreditation revoked because of, quote, repeated failures. Beats those one-time failures every time, hello. Oh, by the way, the Olympics, it's a movement. We all need one every day. Hello, welcome. Welcome to the show. But if you're not careful, think about the pain it didn't bring, it makes you feel so

bad, it makes your heart feel sad, it makes your days go wrong, it makes your nights so long, you've got to keep in mind, love is here, today is gone, don't know it's here and gone so bad, right now you think that she's perfection, this time is really an exception, will you know I hate to be a downer, but I'm the guy you listen for, you found her, well I'm not saying you won't have a pin of the throne, but I keep all I remember of things like the world, she made me use it, she made my heart feel sad, she made my days go wrong,

and made my nights so long, you've got to keep in mind, love is here, today is gone, don't know it's here and gone so bad, it makes your nights so long, you've got to keep in mind, love is here, today is gone, don't know it's here and gone so bad, it makes your nights so long, you've got to keep in mind, love is here, today is gone, don't know it's here and gone so bad,

love is here, today is gone, don't know it's here and gone, from Lester Square in London, England, home of the greatest Alfresco dining like nowhere else is what it says on all the sad little, I mean the wonderful little cafes bordering it, I'm Harry Sherer welcoming you to this edition of the show. Ladies gentlemen, the new F-bomb for closure, it keeps on giving for most Americans, the real estate crash is according to Bloomberg, finally behind them, that's Bloomberg news, not Bloomberg the mayor. But for blacks in the United States, 18 years of economic progress has vanished with the rebound and housing slipping further out of reach and the unemployment rate almost twice that of whites. The home ownership for African Americans fell from 50% during the housing bubble to 43% in the second quarter of this year, the lowest since 1995.

The rate for whites stopped falling two years ago, settling it up only three percentage points below the bubble peak. If bubbles can have peaks, I didn't know that they can. But now, ladies and gentlemen, news of the war, won't you? And I think you will. Humanity has pushed the world's climate system to the brink, leaving itself only scant time to act. That's from the head of the UN's group of climate scientists on Monday. But hey, we're ignoring their weapons inspectors. Why don't we ignore those two? We have five minutes before midnight warned, Rajendra Pachauri, whose organization will this month release the first volume of a new assessment of global warming and its impacts.

Quote, we may utilize the gifts of nature just as we choose, but in our books, the debits are always equal to the credits. He said, May I submit that humanity is completely ignored, disregarded, and been totally indifferent to the debits? The IPCC is made up of several hundred climate scientists worldwide, as you may know. A leaked draft two weeks ago said human activity is almost certainly the cause of climate change. The draft also forecasts that sea levels could rise by 90 centimeters, three feet by the end of the century. And all but dismissed recent claims of a slowdown in the pace of warming, upon which climate change's skeptics have seized. We cannot isolate ourselves from anything that happens in any part of this planet. It will affect all of us in somewhere here, the other Pachauri said. Raining in greenhouse gas emissions is still possible if countries, including in the developing world, rethought their approach to economic growth, he said. Oh, just that then. That would boost energy security, cut pollution, and improve health,

and also offer new job opportunities, he added. Or we could all buy Teslas. A slowing and global warming that climate skeptics say undermines the greenhouse theory is simply a hiatus from higher temperatures scientists said last month. Grasping one of the thorniest issues in climate politics, the researchers said the recent slowdown lies in a natural but temporary cooling in the tropical Pacific Ocean. The current hiatus is part of natural climate viability they said. Similar events may occur again, but when assessed on a time scale of decades, the warming trend is very likely to continue with greenhouse gas increase. The question touches on an anomaly in science, the science of climate, according to Fizz.org. Contrary to earlier predictions warming of Earth's surface in recent years has not occurred in lockstep with rising levels of heat-dropping gas in the atmosphere. Over the last 50 years, temperatures have risen by an average of 0.21 degrees Fahrenheit per decade, but over the last 15 years, the increase has slowed to a rate of 0.09 degrees per decade. Even though fossil fuel carbon emissions continue to break new records,

skeptics have seized on the discrepancy as proof that if warming exists, it is not man-made, but as natural causes, such as fluctuations in solar heat or not enough people buying Teslas. The new study published in the journal Nature uses a climate model, not observed data, which is generally considered stronger, to say the riddle is explained by ocean circulation. The cooling matches an unusually long but natural trend that is similar to La Niña. They say, under El Niño, a build above exceptionally warm water moves across from the west to the eastern Pacific under La Niña. Things go into reverse, and the ocean and the eastern Pacific becomes cooler. In both cases, extreme droughts or rainfall can occur. By carefully analyzing a 150-year-old moss bank on the Antarctic Peninsula research is reporting in current biology. My subscription is lapsed, unfortunately. Describe an unprecedented rate of ecological change since the 1960s,

driven by warming temperatures, while moss and amoebae may not be the first organisms that come to mind when considering Antarctica, they are dominant components of the year-round terrestrial ecosystem in the small ice-free zones during the summer down there, says one of the researchers from the British Antarctic Survey and the University of Cambridge. We know from meteorological measurements and from the interpretation of signals preserved within ice and sediment cores that the climate of the Antarctic Peninsula has undergone substantial and rapid change, she says, Jessica Royals. Our evidence from the southernmost known moss bank exploits an unusual biological archive and shows that the flora and fauna of the Antarctic Peninsula are very sensitive and having the past responded and continued respond to these changes in climate. They look to the Antarctic Peninsula of these researchers because it is one of the most rapidly warming regions on Earth. Average annual temperatures there have increased by up to half a degree per decade since the 1950s.

They were able to characterize the growth and activity of moss and microbes over that time. Growth rates and microbial activity have risen rapidly since the 1960s in a manner that is unprecedented in the last 150 years, consistent with climate change, although recently it may have stalled. Well, who hasn't? And when enough raindrops fall over land instead of the ocean, they begin to add up new research led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR, a big NCAR fan. They go to all the races, shows that when three atmospheric patterns came together over the Indian Pacific Ocean, they drove so much precipitation over Australia in 2010 and 2011 that the world's ocean levels dropped measurably. Unlike other continents, the soils and topography of Australia prevent almost all of its precipitation from running off into the ocean. So, let's just get it to rain more over Australia, I say. Don't you?

News of the warm, ladies and gentlemen, it is a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. And no, that wasn't a product placement. It was just a joke. Now, I swear. And now it's time for me to read the trades for you. Once again, this week for the second consecutive week, I am reading from Current Trade Magazine of Public Broadcasting. Something's going on there, I'll read it for you. At the end of August, with little fanfare, NPR News ended its long tradition of on-air end-of-programmed credits for employees behind the curtain, the producers, editors,

engineers, librarians and others who help create NPR's signature programs, and signature reporting. The network's executive editor for news programming, Ellen McDonald, told personnel at Morning Edition that vast amounts of recent research indicates with clarity that on-air credits are a turn-off for listeners. Borders, it's all over for you, baby. It's mentioning your name as a turn-off. So a decision has been reached to end all forms of on-air thank-us, because research says it's a turn-off. And in the end, all forms of thank-us are never enough. And says the writer of this piece, I think I'm okay with all this.

It still doesn't mean that the decision sits well. It was, or it was, a perk, however small. And to be honest, on-air credit fans, they all too tempting flames of vanity. It's true, though, that I'm not jealous that my host colleagues in Morning Edition, and then he names his colleagues. Our well-named throughout our program each day, radio is an intimate medium. When hosts say, this is Morning Edition from NPR News, and I'm so-and-so, it means, good morning, I'm still here. We've had your back during the night. Here's a story I've got for you. intimacy is part of what makes NPR so good, and why so many of us do what we do. We don't do our work each day for the periodic on-air thank-us. We do it because we're all storytellers. And good stories often begin with, good morning.

I'm still here. Here's a story I've got for you. So I dedicate these words to those who've gone before me at NPR. These are the storytellers now in my blood. Thank you for your stories, however known or nameless you are. And that's written by a senior producer in Morning Edition. Name is, well I tell you, but it's a turn off. I guess they research everything in NPR, something you realize when I read the trades for you copyrighted feature of this broadcast.

And now ladies and gentlemen, news of our friend, the Adam. Am I a turn off? No, you're not, Eddie. I'm not a turn off. You've done research. You don't do research, Eddie, they Adam. Getting a little self-conscious here. Scared. Scared, really interesting. Japan's nuclear regulator has harshly criticized the operator of the damaged nuclear power plant this week, saying TePco released misleading data about recent leaks of radioactive water. Because they didn't scare people enough? No, because they fanned fears excessively. Nuclear regulation authority chairman Shunichi Tanaka said TePco's inadequate expertise caused it to misrepresent key radiation data about the leaks.

I suggested it needed more hands-on guidance. I've come to think they need to be spoon-fed, Tanaka said. Who doesn't? I hate forks. It is regrettable that TePco has caused confusion and fear in the international community by spreading misleading information. Tanaka was particularly concerned about reports in the foreign media that described the recent leaks as a new catastrophe. It's the same old catastrophe, isn't it? The government announced plans Tuesday to fund some measures to contain the leaks. A recent rush of remarks and actions by Japanese officials were widely seen as an attempt to stress Tokyo's safety ahead of autumn. The vote by the International Olympic Committee. TePco has previously been criticized for numerous delays in releasing information and responding to problems at the damage plant. Tanaka said TePco improperly described the radioactivity of hotspots recently found your water storage tanks using a unit that measures potential human exposure levels instead of one that measures the level of radioactivity of the water itself. Nobody in the world does that, he said.

It's scientifically nonsense. You do that. I do do that, but it is. I don't know what I'm doing. TePco found more radiation hotspots among its above ground tanks, one of which recently leaked 300 metric tons of contaminated water. On Saturday, workers on patrol detected contamination, measuring 230 millisieverts per hour in a pipe connecting two tanks, workers wrapped the pipe with an absorbent and placed a pan underneath it, after seeing water fall from the pipe's insulation and discoloration on the floor. I do that in my own home. The same patrol also revealed locations on three tanks, with doses between 70 and 1800 millisieverts per hour. While that dose says nuclearstreet.com is extremely high, the head of Japan's nuclear regulation authority emphasized that the doses near the tanks can consist of beta radiation and drop by an order of magnitude within a foot or two of the contaminated areas. That's reassuring.

I think that's his job. On Thursday, TePco also said it found potential evidence that earlier leaks from a storage tank had reached the water table. So we're not sitting in there at that table, is that anything? No, we're not. You try to be humorous, didn't you? Yes. Finland is pushing to ensure that complacency does not threaten its nuclear safety record, as it builds new reactors despite the folk disaster, which has made some other European states think twice about nuclear energy. Thinking once is on your knee, really. The head of Finland's nuclear safety body. Petere Tipana said cultural, as well as technical lessons, have to be learned from the crisis in Japan. It was said in a report in Japan that the underlying causes of the accident had to do with the Japanese culture. How they work. What is their relationship with safety? And the mindset in general for nuclear safety, Tipana told Reuters. Finland is also not safe from cultivating a false sense of security because its four nuclear reactors have operated safely and reliably so far. Said Tipana, Director General of the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, STUK.

Yes, it's spelled stuck. He didn't need to point that out. Yes, I did. We would be very narrow-minded if we just focused on external threats, he said. National traditions, cultures, can have a significant impact on how people feel about safety. Japan's nuclear regulator has said that raising the country's safety culture to international standards would take a long time. Safety culture, when you sink carbon near the plant? It is not. Shunichi Tanaka, again, quoted that who said it would take a long time, the safety culture, Tipana, the Finnish regulator said Finland had to avoid anything like the mindset in Japan that accidents do not happen. The severe accident is impossible and one does not have to get prepared for that. So Finland is adjusting its mindset. Tipana said his agency has launched a study of cultural attitudes towards safety

aiming to identify ways of improving safety beyond technical preparedness. This research will be carried out with the University of... University, I can't pronounce. Which will interview people working in safety-related organizations. One of the interesting conclusions would be to see if internationally agreed definitions of safety culture and safety culture attributes fit well with the Finnish culture. Tipana said, well, that won't cost anything. No, it's cheap. The deterioration of the Fook nuclear plant in Japan, meanwhile continues to raise fresh fears according to Euro news. The latest bad news is more radioactive water, the groundwater, running down from surrounding mountains. Tepko's released video taken a few days ago underneath reactor 1, which shows water streaming along pipes and walls which are contaminated. An estimated 106,000 gallons per day has been mixing with water used in the cooling system. Water has ultimately been leaking into the buildings in understructure, after being in contact with the partly melted down reactors.

Fook now has some 106 million gallons of water inadequately in storage containing cesium, cesium, I never knew them, stradium and tridium. Testing on a system to prevent the entry of groundwater is to begin this October. The center is on metal tubing, which would be sunk 30 meters into the ground with sodium chloride pumped through at below 40 degrees Celsius, below 40 degrees Celsius. That's not going to freeze anything, to try to freeze the soil around it. That's summer winter. It is, that's how hot it isn't bagged at. I don't think sodium chloride is salt, right? Last time I looked, freezing salt, ladies and gentlemen, that's where they're going to be doing. Japan's industry minister, Motege, said tests would take until March 2015 that an ice wall could be built underground to insulate the plant from runoff water and prevent leakage into the Pacific Ocean.

This will cost about half a billion dollars, cheap. The sum approved this week by Tokyo. The government says going forward where there's a sense of urgency, the country will take the lead and not leave it in Teppko's hands. We hope to speed up the work that needs to be done. The New York Times reports that some critics have dismissed the ice wall as a costly technology that would be vulnerable at the blackout prone food plant. Why? Because it relies on electricity. The way a freezer does. And even more so because it has never been tried on the vast scale. The Japan is envisioning. It was always considered a temporary measure, while it would have to endure for possibly decades. Only if everything's temporary in the years for decades. It's true. That is the way of the world. But it depends on electricity. Well, they got plenty there from the nuclear industry experts said the technology had been used frequently to stabilize ground in big construction projects.

Sighting. This is reassuring, ladies and gentlemen. Sighting, for example, the big dig in Boston. Look it up. Yeah, it'll be just as good as the big dig. It wasn't big. It was big. It wasn't a dig. It was a dig. I like that. The reactor pressure vessels in every European nuclear power plant should be subjected to a standardized review to check for manufacturing flaws, hydrogen-induced forging defects. I thought that forging was illegal. The recommendation was issued by the Western European Nuclear Regulatory Association to its members after discovery of indications for manufacturing flaws affecting the reactor pressure vessel at the Belgian nuclear plants. Doyle III and T-102, exhaustive investigations were carried out at the affected plants. We consider it important and necessary to be aware of this issue and that appropriate measures will be taken at every European plant.

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And first, just to evaluate the state of the debate, the state of the conversation. Hey, join the conversation. No, don't. A listener pointed this out to me and collected a couple of these. The tendency of people talking about this mainly on the side of supporting American intervention. But at some point in the conversation, get a little confused about who it is that they're talking about. We start with Paul Bremer. Yeah, we haven't heard enough from Paul Bremer lately. He was the vice-warry in Iraq, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, CPA, just like an accountant.

And then the British defense minister and another member of the British parliament for your listening pleasure. We should target the Air Force, which is after all the way in which Saddam has done a lot of his indiscriminate killing of his own citizens with the Air Force. The fact that the British parliament has clearly voted that Britain should not take part in any action against, sadly, say, doesn't mean that the international community will not do so. We have to deal with what we face today. And we have seen strong evidence that Saddam is saying has used chemical weapons on his own people. I've just come back from the Syrian border where many opposition fighters just to prove that he's talking about now. Saddam Hussein lives, gentlemen, he lives. He's back. And he's bad. And now. Time to follow them. So Senators, oh, yeah, I started a sentence with so it's not an answer to a question. Senators voting Wednesday to authorize the serious strike received on average 83% more campaign

financing from defense contractors than senators who voted against striking Syria, this from wired overall political action committees and employees from defense and intelligence firms such as Lockheed, Boeing, Honeywell and others pointed up a million 800 million six thousand to the 17 members of the Foreign Relations Committee who voted yes or no on the authorization. According to analysis by map light, a Berkeley-based nonprofit that performed the inquiry at wires request committee members who voted to authorize the strike average $72,000 in defense campaign funding committee members who voted against the resolution averaged only 39,000. The top three defense campaign earners who voted yes were Senator John McCain go figure Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois McCain got 176,000 from defense contractors. Durbin 127,000 and Senator Tim Kane of Virginia at 101,000.

The top three defense campaign earners who voted no, well, topped out at 86,000 so follow the dollar. Speaking of which, who is going to pay, how are we going to pay for this thing? Depends what day you're looking at and who you're listening to. On the fourth of this week, a limited United States intervention in Syria would not require a supplemental appropriations bill from Congress and Obama administration official told the huffing to post on Wednesday. The official's assessment that a narrowly tailored operation could be paid with, paid for with quote, existing Department of Defense resources was seconded by two high ranking aids on Capitol Hill. Other Hill staffer argued that without a greater understanding of the operation would be impossible to settle in an exact price tag, who the F knows what it will cost. It depends entirely on what happens to the staffer.

But same day Senator sorry, Secretary of State Kerry said at the Foreign Relations Committee hearing that Arab countries have offered to pay for the entirety of unseeding President Assad if the United States took the lead. With respect to Arab countries offering to bear costs and to assess the answer is profoundly yes, they have that offer is on the table. Unquote Kerry asked by Representative Iliana Ross Layton in a floor to how much those countries would contribute. Kerry said they've offered to pay for all of it, a full invasion. In fact, quote, if some of some of them said if the United States is prepared to go do the whole thing, the way we've done it previously in other places, quoting Kerry, they'll carry that cost. That's how dedicated they are at this. That's not in the cards and nobody's talking about it, but they're talking in serious ways about getting this done. So nobody's talking about it, but they're talking about it. Unquote Secretary of State Kerry. A year ago, August 20th, 2012, President Obama.

We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground that a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. That would change my calculus. This week, President Obama, first of all, I didn't set a red line. The world set a red line. The world set a red line when governments representing 98 percent of the world's population said the use of chemical weapons are born and passed a treaty forbidding their use even when countries are engaged in war. Congress set a red line when it ratified that treaty. That's point number one. Point number two, my credibility is not on the line. The international community's credibility is on the line, and America and Congress is

credibility is on the line because we give lip service to the notion that these international norms are important. International norms, I get there just the other day, had a quiche, a fast food quiche, but still, yeah, the international norms, like the one, the convention against torture about which the same president said, we're looking forward, not backward. I'm confused now. Whose red line is it anyway? You know, you know, you know, I'm the prize, what I lead, you know, you've been let fine. You probably heard someone say, I drew a red line, it was a headline, they were up against the deadline, but it makes as much sense as saying on standing in a bread line, I'm far from broke, my financial state is oak, and getting ochre, the bank sent me a broker. We'll be well fed, and that line is surely red, but it's not mine.

It's an international line, and it's not my credibility that's a stake, that's an error you could make, like a daisicle mistake, but my cred's prime. If you miss the boldly hurled, that line belongs to the Congress and the world, and in case behavior threatens to get worse, that red line belongs to the universe, violating norms as what it bars, and it's not my line, you can trace it straight back to Mars. There's no way it's my red line, I was sailing through them back nine, and like all lines in the sand, sand will shift, and lines will slide, and lines look different when you see them from the inside. I'm John from Arizona, I'm sort of a loner, used to be Mr. Straight Talk, now I'm Mr.

Don't Wait Talk, I was tortured in a war, in fact my shoulders are still sore, but I think bombing is just a bore, we need lots more, change the regime, and the begin, keep redrawing that old map, anything less is Democrat crap. I met the rebels, they had caught and I had coffee, I used to hang out with Kadafi till the tables turned. If you play with fire, you get burned, unless your bunkers led lined, but look, it's not my red line. There's no way it's my red line, I was in the meat depressed green room at nine, and like all lines in the sand, sands will shift, and lines will slide, and lines look different when you see them from the inside. I'm a different John, and Vietnam I was in it, then I testified to this Senate, said

you don't want to be the last American to die for a mistake, that was my big break. I'm Secretary of State, and I testify these days a lot more as it's stake, since they are lied when I testify that the rebels aren't al-Qaeda, but I'm not a fact provider, my job is to add moral weight. When you take over in state you're not captain of your fate, I'll make the case and save my face. It's the younger me who would have chosen to resign, but it's not my red line. There's no way it's my red line, I was win sailing the whole time, like all lines in the sand, sands will shift, and lines will slide, and lines look different when you see them from the inside. It's international norms we're protecting, no matter what yours is, but this is nothing like Iraq, where the backstory was rife with ancient ethnic strife.

This time we're not sticking around, no books on the ground, just some in the air, as precise as my hair, we're only there to show we have some spine, but it's not my red line. So ladies and gentlemen, I've been on the Twitter this week talking about talking, writing, tweeting about this, and because whenever you wax, critical or satirical, lyrical or musical, people will say, what would you do? As if because you find fault with the fact that the chief of staff of the president said, we want every member of Congress to watch this video before they vote. It's a video of children suffering, and you know, that's, it's an emotionally wrenching video, but it's not evidence.

And that's what they want the Congress to watch before they vote. Suggesting that maybe it's an emotional appeal. Anyway, if you point at this stuff out, well, what would you do? So do it worked in Iraq, and it's working in Afghanistan. We don't have to fly over a bunch of troops, let's just fly over a lot of money. But arriving in Iraq had a little problem, tough not to crack, had the 86th Army, till the bureaucrats goodbye, he's running the whole country, as he's going to get by. And aircraft back with hours, bills filling every seat, no need for in-flight movies,

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Jet plane full of loot Jet plane full of loot Jet plane full of loot And now ladies and gentlemen the apologies of the week Boston Mayor Tom Manino admitted Wednesday he used a poor choice of words to describe what he would do with the city of Detroit in a recent interview Manino was asked where he would live if he could live in any other U.S. City He said Detroit is a place he'd love to go and ask what he would do in Detroit He said I'd blow the place up and start over To Tuesday Detroit Mayor Dave Bing accused Manino of insensitivity Manino said I made a mistake I apologize I use a poor choice of words Athletic apparel company Pearl Izumi has pulled an ad that insinuated a new shoe design would enable dog owners to run their companions to death They have apologized for the ad but in case you don't know how to perform CPR on a dog company's website

Still has a video Turkish Daily Yeni Safak has apologized for mistakes made in a controversial interview with American linguist Noam Chomsky removing the interview from its website Late beginning this month The Daily released a statement saying that mistakes had been spotted in the interview which did not coincide with the principles of journalism And thus apologized to Chomsky and the newspapers readers They actually wrote some sentences that he never said In response to widespread outage in Mount Pleasant Text is over the sudden unexpected demolition of the historic cotton belt ring rolled depot in downtown Mount Pleasant A railroad spokesman said We apologize for the way this project was handled and we'll use this as a learning opportunity We'll help us avoid having something like this happen in the future That's going into Union Pacific director of corporate relations and media Raquel Espinoza Noting the railroad didn't actually do the demolition That was a contractor

Anyway, Mount Pleasant A little less pleasant Australian rules football player Clinton Jones has apologized for setting fire to a dwarf entertainer's clothes during his club's Mad Monday celebrations this week Mad Monday is a traditional traditional celebration for Australian athletes At the end of the season Often involving heavy consumption of alcohol and frequently damaging the image of teams and leagues Saint Kilda, the Saints, the Saints, ladies and gentlemen, hired dwarf entertainers for their celebration at a Melbourne bar And Clinton, the player, Clinton Jones set fire to the clothing of Blake Johnston According to the dwarf's colleague, Arthur Serevitas A player went behind my friend with one of those gas lighters that you light up a stove and basically lit him up Part of his shirt and pants caught on fire After that, someone put it out and he got ticked off and we left The player was fine $2,700 Australian And has offered his sincere apologies to Johnston who performs under the name Mr. Big I sincerely apologize to Mr. Johnson that had done so personally today, said the player

We were engaged in end of season activities which in hindsight were quite childish Made an error of judgment, including Mr. Johnston and the activity First dwarf throwing, now this The Sri Lankan government has apologized for the marriage proposal made by the controversial minister of public relations and public affairs Mervin Silva to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights It wasn't a real proposal Couriers and electronics and appliance retailer in the United Kingdom apologize this week after admitting candidates for sales assistant positions One of its stores had been forced to dance during their interview Yes, for a new TV series called Dancing with Human Relations, Human Resources No, just because they did it I think everyone initially thought it was a joke but they were serious at one of the applicants I ended up dancing to around the world by a daft punk doing rubbish robotics in my suit in front of a group of strangers Couriers said the incident should not have happened, it was carrying out an internal investigation

Extremely sorry to those interviews impacted all of being asked to attend another interview Will they be given a proper opportunity to demonstrate how they can contribute to our business Perhaps by doing some skateboarding A Chilean Association of Judges issued a long awaited apology this week for abuses committed During the regime of dictator Augusto Pinochet to those who were victims of state abuse The time has come to ask for the forgiveness of victims and of Chilean society So the Chilean Judges Association, the apology came 40 years after the September coup That ousted socialist leader, democratically elected leader Salvador Allende And installed Pinochet, Pinochet's rule for 17 years was marked by allegations Allegations of abuse, disappearances and torture Chile's court system is considered to have been complicit in the human rights violations Drugging off victims complaints and denying it had information about the fate of those who disappeared Pinochet, of course, was supported by the United States

And police chief of Durham, North Carolina, Jose Lopez, apologize for allegedly saying a public defender deserved to be shot But said he does not remember saying it So that's an amnesia polity, apology for you ladies and gentlemen Apologies a week, a copyrighted feature of this broadcast Amnesia polity is a copyrighted trademark of the San Diego desk Oh, it's just time for one more apology The Archbishop of Santiago and the Dominican Republic apologize to the victims, their families and society For the reported cases of children abused by members of the Catholic Church

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