Le Show; 2009-04-12

Here it is! From deep inside your radio. Well, this is going to be the last... The last one of these... Don't get excited. From the Lachodome for a while. Because fixing to go on the road, ladies and gentlemen, to first of all, Vancouver, because that's warm up country. You know? It's where people go to warm up. And the giant Unwig tour starts Thursday night in Vancouver. Gets to Portland and Seattle. And Vince... Samford's Oakland, actually. Los Angeles, you know, Unwig.com. Anyway, ladies and gentlemen... He's not a general. He commands no truth. He's not an inspector. He peace at no stoop season. Inspector general. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission project. Now, you'd think they'd be kind of busy at this point. The Securities and Exchange Commission, what with... You know, the thing... That they... weren't really paying attention to. But, no. They have a project to rearrange desks at their Washington office, literally. Not a joke. And it's going to cost 3.9 million. The project has been deemed unnecessary by a majority of the employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission, according to the SEC's Inspector General. It's engaging in the SEC as in a so-called re-stacking of offices to make sure employees who work in the same division all sit with each other at headquarters. 57% of workers surveyed said they were very satisfied with their existing location. It's a silo configuration. A cost-benefit analysis required before such work was approved wasn't recorded

and the agency denatalized whether the desk configuration impeded communication, according to the Inspector General. The re-stacking project will move about 1750 employees and require 40,000 square feet of construction. Your Inspector General, it worked ladies and gentlemen. And since this is going to be a potentially fairly newsworthy broadcast, another special feature here at the outset. News actually tails. Pardon me, I'm packing. No, I mean, I'm packing for the trip. The tails of airport security. Zach writes, dear Harry, love your show. Well, that always gets your tail red. Excuse me? A few weeks ago, I flew back into Idaho from a trip to Southern California in Arizona, Zach writes, because liquor is so expensive in Idaho. Well, that's another story.

We stocked up on some staples for the liquor cabinet, or some liquor for the staples. No, sorry. While in Arizona, I purchased a bottle of Everclear, 190-proof grain alcohol for use in making some homemade lemon cello. Everclear is not sold in Idaho. No one in any of the states located near where I live. Zach continues, I put the Everclear and some other bottles of liquor in my checked luggage without a second thought. This morning, while preparing for a flight, I looked at the TSA website to see if razors used for shaving are permitted for carry-on. And I noticed there that any liquor over 150-proof is considered an explosive and is prohibited from being brought aboard. Oops. But everything on the flight to Idaho arrived with me safe and sound, including the Everclear.

There was even one of those pamphlets that the TSA leaves in your suitcase to indicate that it had been searched. Tales of airport security latest gentleman, a copyrighted feature of... Hello, welcome to the show. You always make driving here just right, so that's where I want you to stay.

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And baby, I will tell you when. Keep it coming. And baby, I will tell you when. And baby, I will tell you when. And baby, I will tell you when. From the edge of America, from the home of the homeless. I'm Harry Scherer welcoming you to this edition of Lucho. As I say, won't be saying those words for a while. About the geographic origination point of this broadcast going on the road. Gonna be plugging in all over the country. That's so much fun. It's always fun to do that.

Anyway, now ladies and gentlemen, speaking of fun, news from outside the bubble. And it's bubble-ishess today. Couple stories on our newly expanded enterprise in Afghanistan. From the times of London owned by Rupert Murdock. A teacher to girls school, run by the British Charity Care International, was killed along with her three children and her brother-in-law. During a U.S. Special Forces raid on a nearby house in the eastern Afghan province of Coast, the U.S. military has conceded that the forces killed civilians in error during the nighttime raid that targeted the neighboring compound of a suspected militant. The father of the dead family is a lieutenant colonel in the Afghan army. According to the police chief for the province, U.S. soldiers climbed onto the wall of the family's compound in the early hours seeking better vantage points for the raid on the compound of the suspected insurgent. The occupants mistook the U.S. soldiers for thieves breaking into their home and opened fire on them.

Most Afghan family store weapons in their homes. Just like us. The Americans shot them thinking they were insurgents. The police chief said. A relative of the dead family told reporters that the dead infant was a boy born last week. This was a terrible tragedy, said a U.S. spokesman, Colonel Greg Julian. The dead woman had been trained as a secondary school teacher under a plan developed by carer to national to put small secondary schools for girls inside the homes of respected local families. Her daughter, who was also killed, was a pupil in her class. The international aid agency have repeatedly criticized the night raids carried out by U.S. special forces as has the Afghan government, which is a roading support in Afghanistan for foreign forces. And as you may know, if you've read your history, the Afghans never really have been that fond of foreign forces.

But wait, there's more from the news of Pakistan, a newspaper from Pakistan called the news of the 60 cross-border predator strikes carried out by the Afghanistan-based American drones in Pakistan between January and April of this year. Only 10 of the 60 were able to hit their actual targets, killing 14 wanted al-Qaeda leaders and 687 innocent Pakistani civilians. The success rate of the predator drones thus comes to not more according to the Pakistani newspaper than 6%. That's got to make us popular. The remaining 50 drone attacks went wrong due to faulty intelligence information, killing hundreds of innocent civilians, including women and children. Of the 14 strikes carried out in the first days of April of this year, only one proved successful according to this Pakistani newspaper. But there's more cheerful news from outside the bubble as well, ladies and gentlemen, in a way.

In a sense that it helps to spotlight the differences between the French and the United States. Now you may have, I'm pausing here in the sharing of the news from outside the bubble for just a moment to point out that you may have heard in the welter of news about the piracy incident in the Gulf of Aden involving an American merchant ship. This captain is still being held hostage. You may have heard that the French had a piracy incident this week in which they attacked the pirates. Now one hostage did die, but they killed a pirate and captured the others. The French, ladies and gentlemen. And this, from the, again, the Rupert Murdoch owned Sunday Times of London. Several French business executives have been locked in their offices by workers in protest against layoffs.

This is how the French deal with the economic crisis. The French is in a rebellious mood and an outbreak of boss-napping. Boss-napping is just one symptom. Angry manifestos and anti-establishments, screeds are proliferating in bookshops. They still have bookshops in France. Call and gland back and tell them. This one such book advocates the sabotage of Internet and electricity networks. It has sold 15,000 copies. Police have been trying to determine if cuts in the gas applied parts of Paris to loose and Montpellier were the work of union militants hoping to put pressure on bosses over pay. There have already been attempts to sabotage trains. The finance director for a British adhesive factory in France spoke of disappointment at seeing the technique of boss-napping being used by militant workers against three British executives held in the firm's plant for 18 hours on Wednesday.

The head of Gucci, François Henri Pino, was held captive for an hour by workers protesting job cuts. Several other bosses, including the French director of Sony and Nicolas Polotnik, head of the caterpillar bulldozer plant in Grenoble, have been held in their offices. Sometimes the kidnapping seemed like punishment workers at the US-owned full-man battery factory in Burgundy forced allow Roy A, their boss to accompany them in a march wearing a t-shirt in blazing with the number of people he had fired. It was humiliating, he said. So that is the way the French are dealing with the economic crisis and that is news from outside the bubble of copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Here's how we are dealing with the economic crisis.

Fox Television has fast-tracked a new reality quote unquote show called Someone's Gotta Go, in which employees of small offices are told to choose a colleague to fire. Despite some protests that have erupted since the news of this pilot has been leaked, a lot of pilot leaking going on. Productions said to be underway on the program, devised by Endomall. Yes, Endomall, known for big brother and dealer no deal. Fox has always pushed the envelope or actually destroyed the envelope. Fox has always pushed the envelope says Brad Edgate, senior vice president for research at Horizon Media. Mike Darnell, the head of alternative programming for Fox granted interviews about the premise of Someone's Gotta Go early this week,

but he declined to comment on the negative reactions that have spread over the internet on Friday. Darnell described its premise in his earlier interviews as a combination of survivor and the office. As he told the Washington Post, I'm sure you've been through a situation where someone at your company gets fired and you think, why did that guy get fired and that idiot is still here? Not referring to himself, apparently. In Someone's Gotta Go, the firing decisions will be made by the employees who will have access to each person's job reviews and salary figures. The late off worker is according to variety may receive a small severance. The detail left out of the New York Times coverage of the pilot is fairly crucial. In the Washington Post account, Darnell was asked whether the workers could in fact decide to fire the boss and he was adamant the boss stays.

As I say, just a little idea of how differently the French do it. They go after the pirates and they go after the bosses. The news from outside the bubble. Still copyright, after all these years. And now, ladies and gentlemen, news of the warm, won't you? Did you know that the warm had such vibrato? Now, that's one danger sign right there of the vibrato. The North Atlantic Ocean is one of Earth's tools to offset natural carbon dioxide emissions. In fact, the carbon sink in the North Atlantic is the primary gate for carbon dioxide to enter the global ocean and to be stored there for about 1500 years.

The oceans have removed nearly 30% of man-made emissions over the last 250 years. But several recent studies show a dramatic decline in the North Atlantic's ability to absorb carbon, to be a carbon sink. Concerned by this decline, a group of international scientists, including Helmuth Thomas Professor of Oceanography at Dau Housi University, spent the last two years investigating the world's largest carbon sink. They weren't sure what was causing the decrease whether man-made or natural causes. There were massive changes in the coastal carbon cycle and it was similar throughout the ocean. It says Dr. Thomas wrote about the study in global biogeochemical cycles. Recent observational studies found that the North American carbon uptake has decreased by 50% over the last 10 years. Well, many are quick to blame anthropogenic man-made climate change. Dr. Thomas and his colleagues found different results.

They believe the decrease is a natural phenomenon as a result of the North Atlantic solution, which causes weather patterns to change. The next phase, he says, should once again increase carbon uptake. These natural phenomena have the potential to mask the effects of anthropogenic climate change, so they say. From Science Daily, the latest data from NASA and the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center, so the continuation of a decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice in the Arctic, including new evidence that the ice is thinning as well. Did they make Rogaine for ice? The researchers who have been tracking Arctic sea ice cover with satellites since 1979 found that the winner of 2008-2009 was the fifth lowest maximum ice extent on record. The sixth lowest have all occurred in the past six years. The new measurements by the center at CU Boulder, so that maximum sea ice extent for 2008-2008 is measurements that reached 5.85 million square miles. That's 278,000 square miles below the average extent for 1979-2000.

In addition, the team of CU Boulder researchers has found that younger thinner ice has replaced older, thicker ice, as the dominant type over the past five years, making it more prone to summer ice melt. Ice extent is an important measure of the health of the Arctic, but it gives us only a two-dimensional view of the ice cover, said one of the researcher's thickness is important, especially in the winner because it is the best overall indicator of the health of the ice. As the ice cover grows thinner, it becomes more vulnerable to summer melt. Scientists believe Arctic sea ice functions like an air conditioner for the global climate system by naturally cooling air and water masses, playing a key role in ocean circulation and reflecting solar radiation back into space, where it belongs. Meanwhile, researchers at the University of Lester and Oxford have made a discovery about plant growth, which could potentially have an enormous impact on crop production in the era of a warmer or a climatically changed Earth. Dr. Kerry Franklin from the University of Lester, Department of Biology, led this study.

It's identified a single gene responsible for controlling plant growth that responds to elevated temperature. Franklin, Dr. Franklin says exposure of plants to high temperature results in the rapid elongation of stems, you're listening guys, and a dramatic upwards elevation of leaves. These responses are accompanied by a significant reduction in plant biomass, thereby severely reducing the actual harvest yield. Our study reveals that a single gene, or single gene product, regulates all these architectural adaptations in the plant. He added this study provides the first major advance in understanding how plants regulate growth responses to elevated temperature. This discovery will prove fundamental in understanding the effects of global climate change on crop productivity, and of course we'll open the door to probably genetic modification to keep those stems down. And finally, deadline Fresno, California, new reports as rising temperatures could make pears, pears, pears, peaches, pistachios, and other crops that begin with pee that need winter chill, unsuitable for California farms, and others will suffer lower yields.

The current issue of California agriculture, male to subscribers this week, is devoted to peer reviewed articles by researchers at UC University of California who paint a dire picture of climate on food production in the environment. They say California temperatures are predicted to increase by seven degrees Fahrenheit by 2095. I'm out of here. As global temperatures rise, winter rain in the mountains instead of snow could mean overburdened reservoirs that could force water managers to release runoff into rivers long before farmers need it. Means maybe we'll even stop growing the two thirstiest crops on the planet, cotton and rice in a central valley that's near desert except for the imported water. Or may not.

You never know. News of the warm, ladies and gentlemen, a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. I think we're all aware that there's still a lot of chewing and throwing about the financial meltdown. The administration says they see glimmers of hope. There are varying reports about what's happening with the stress test being conducted on banks. Apparently the administration is telling the banks to dummy up if they know how they did on the reports because of course every bank that said they did well. Casts and at least an implied stigma at a bank that doesn't say that and the administration itself is withholding the result of the stress tests until hell freezes. I'm sorry until later. And although some recipients of bonuses paid by putatively insolvent firms that have received government bailouts, some recipients have paid the bonuses back. Many others are not and some financial institutions are actually threatening to pay back the government bailout money so that they don't have to cut executive pay or pay back the bonuses. It's almost as if these bonuses are like really important.

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This company was too big to fail. Now it's worth less than a bag full of mail. Baby's new life has gone through in itself from the deck he will fallness and break on his bonus. Bonus was paid to keep him around so the value of the feds could somehow be found and he's fabulous. This company was too big to pay back the bonuses back to putatively insolvent firms. The country goes crazy, bonus baby, pulling the chain, protecting his daisy.

He keeps me in diamonds that three kinds of make. Crystal is the only thing he'll let me drink. I'm in the green and he's in the pink to the moon he's flown us thanks to his bonus. They've been that is from just to keep it on track that someone upstairs was a blatant smoking crack and they want baby to give his bucks back but it's both that he's shown us he's keeping his bonus. He's fine, bonus baby, getting it got out while we're getting what's good, bonus baby, don't look for us in your neighborhood.

Lady Madonna, children at your feet wonder how you manage to make ends meet who finds the money when you pay the rent. Do you think the money was heaven said Friday night arrives without a suitcase Sunday morning creeping like a nun. When these toddlers learn to tie his boom place see how they run Lady Madonna, baby at your right wonder how you manage to feed the way.

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A familiar name and a familiar voice to listeners of this broadcast and to viewers of mydampchannel.com where he recently took us on a tour of the Chafunk Deriver to show us the possibilities and the dangers of the wetland situation around New Orleans. Dr. Ivor van Herden is back in the news not for the best of reasons. He is now formally deputy director of the LSU Hurricane Center and he's considered to talk with us for a few minutes today. Dr. van Herden, hi. Hi Harry, thanks for giving me a call.

When we first talked on this broadcast a couple years ago in New Orleans you already had received very clear indications that the people at LSU which were housing your hurricane center and where you were a research professor were not happy with your publishing some of your findings and discussing them with the media. Now this seems to have come to a head. Just in November 2005 just after I had just fired before a Senate panel I got hauled into a meeting with two vice-Chaflers at LSU to tell me that my speaking to the media was hurting the university's chances of getting federal dollars and they would prefer that I stopped and then reminded me that you know that I didn't have ten years and therefore they controlled my money purse. Unfortunately it didn't stop there. This has gone on and on and on for years and I think in desperation and possibly because of an upcoming federal trial related to the core of engineers' culpability for the levies failures they decided to push me out completely.

Now just for listeners who have come to this fresh you were one of the heads of a group called Team Louisiana which did an independent study of the reasons for the flooding of New Orleans the event that's widely known as Katrina in 2005 and then the basic basic finding of that study was what? The team Louisiana was the official state of Louisiana for enter investigation. It was funded by the state as a contract through LSU so while we were doing this research we were LSU employees funded by the state. And what we found was that the levies failures reflected per design a misinterpretation of the science really shotty were engineering in terms of looking at the geology of the soil, the geotechnical aspects.

And then a huge contributor was the Mississippi River Gulf outlet navigation channel that the core themselves knew about and had ignored for years. And your team was not the only one to have reached somewhat similar conclusions was I mean you were out there in the wilderness all by yourself. Now I mean obviously because we were on the ground we also because of our computer models and direct access to the sites we realized the day after the storm that these levies couldn't have failed because it was an act of God has been claimed by the federal government at the time. So we hit the ground first subsequently there was a team funded by the National Science Foundation headed by Ray Seed and Bob B from from University of California Berkeley then there's been the iPad team and then there's been an ongoing review of what the iPad did and the other teams have done.

And everybody has come to exactly the same conclusion. We pride ourselves not only because we were a team of academics we also included three retired geotechnical engineers who had 150 years experience between them. But we part of ourselves in putting out data that we knew was was justifiable and it's we've been totally vindicated by everybody. So what did LSU tell you I guess Thursday when they told you that you were no longer deputy director of the hurricane center. Well I learned about the not being deputy director through the news media they basically didn't have the guts to tell me that to my face.

What what they told me was that I was being terminated that basically I had a one years notice they told me that it had nothing to do with my performance that my performance was was not an issue at all but they couldn't tell me why and they wouldn't tell me why and just told me they had the right to fire me. And that I was actually lucky that they were giving me this one year notice. Were they asking you to thank them at that point? I don't know. I really don't think I think there's a couple of things going on. I honestly don't believe that the Chancellor of LSU knew any of this was happening. I think this is the three characters who behind this because our folk who have some ulterior motives obviously and the poor fellow had to give me my notice. I don't believe had anything to do with it. He was just the guy who was pushed into that position.

Have you been planning to testify in the lawsuit that's coming to trial April 20th against the Corps of Engineers? Yes I had. When this first got going in the spring of 2007 the attorneys approached me who were filing the suit if I'd be an expert witness. It had been my understanding right from the beginning that part of the reason for doing team Louisiana was in case any suit got filed. I naturally agreed but to be an expert witness you have to get permission from the university and when I tried to get permission they dragged their feet. One of the plaintiff attorneys went and met with then Chancellor Sean O'Keefe, good friends with the Bushes, former NASA administrator who happened to be Chancellor. He told them straight up that if I just fired I would be fired and he didn't care if I sued them or what the governor said or anything.

He also told them that normally from our issue was going to embarrass the Bush administration or upset the major Republican companies that benefit from the Corps of Engineers contracts. So what I had to do was to withdraw as an expert witness. However there's the potential that I will be called forward in the trial as a fact witness which is a little different. I might end up testifying but certainly not as an expert because that right was denied me by LSU. But as a fact witness you could be subpoenaed. Yes I actually got subpoenaed in a trial another trial and at the time I had to notify the university that I was being subpoenaed and that I would be testifying against the Corps of Engineers and I did that to try at that stage to protect my job.

Sean O'Keefe is no longer Chancellor of LSU is that right? No he's long gone but unfortunately we the three characters that one's in the Provost's office to are related to the Office of Research are Sean O'Keefe appointees. They were people brought into their positions by Sean O'Keefe. I believe they all three have strong ties to the Corps of Engineers and in my opinion they are the ones who behind this. What's very interesting is even before I'd been laid off a sign appeared in another building across campus announcing that that was the new location and essence of the LSU Hurricane Center. So this is a pretty well planned affair.

So they were moving the center out from under you? Well what they did is they pushed Mark Leverton who along with myself co-founded the Hurricane Center and was the director. They pushed him out about a month ago and I think that when they did that that's when I suspected that it wouldn't be long and something like this would happen. Now as I understand it from the paper he is resigned in protest of what they've done to you? Well they pushed him out but so he had actually resigned beforehand but his resignation was in protest to a large extent of in about 2007 Mark took it upon himself to go and speak to one of the vice-chancellors, one of those who had first harassed me in 2005. And speak to him and sort of point out that what I'm doing is funded by the state that's been demanded. I'm just doing my duty as a state employee and what they told him was basically if you fire Iver, use a golden boy, the Hurricane Center will flourish.

If you don't fire him you're going to go down the tube and he obviously didn't fire me he walked out of the meeting and quite honestly ever since then the Hurricane Center has suffered from a total lack of any support from upper administration and I think part of his resignation was expressing his disgust at the university especially. Right now there isn't a Hurricane Center at LSU no matter what they say it's a rattleship with a sign on a door no people, no resources. I haven't talked to you in a while and in the recent and it seems to me you've been kind of out of the public eye a bit but in the past month or so the core of engineers was in the New Orleans newspaper saying that they were choosing and this was a nicely delicately phrased way of putting it.

The technically not superior option for one of the pieces of the of the repaired so supposedly repaired a levy and flood wall system and that they were choosing the technically not superior option because according to them they didn't have the money to choose the technically superior option. This rank kind of an alarm bell with me the the blandness of the phrase technically not superior what did it say to you. Well I think that particular event also the fact that they released a plan after spending millions of dollars that was a plan in name only and also they are now saying they're not in the levy. They're not in the hurricane protection business they're in the storm reduction process there in the risk reduction is what they see that they're doing and that's telling me that we're not going to get anything like what we believe we deserve in terms of protection and we're not going to see any serious coastal restoration at least not until we get the core of engineers out of the way. Who is suing the core of engineers in the suit that's coming to trial April 20th and this in federal court by the way right.

Yeah it's in federal court in judge devils court there there are two basic suits one of them the first one I'll explain to us from all in the East and St. Bernard who filed a suit for damages obviously and it's a number of lawyers from Louisiana New Orleans New York California and other areas who've got together and who quite honestly spent a fair amount of money they brought the Dutch in so they actually have some of the best modeling brains that you could ever find doing their models and so that that suit goes to trial in on the 20th of April for about three weeks. And then a little while after that the class action suit goes trial and the class action suit is the biggest that's ever been filed it's against the federal government it's $600 billion the state of Louisiana as I understand it is in there for $200 billion and I believe that the plaintiffs are going to win I think they've got far superior science and also I think they're going to be able to show very conclusively. That the Mississippi River Gulf outlet which is what suits about I contribute to very very significantly to all the flooding in New Orleans.

What are your plans personally aside from testifying in that trial you have a year are you going to stay at LSU. Yeah I'll stay at LSU. Quite honestly I think these three middle managers have jumped the gun because as we review my paperwork we realize that in fact I should have been given tenure about three years ago so that I'd met all the requirements for somebody in my position. So my first approach is to see if they rethink what they've done but you know I'm not that worried about the future I definitely wanted to write some more books so I'll write out the year and then see what comes up. Speaking of books people who heard our original discussion this program might have taken the recommendation I'll renew it the your book the storm is probably the definitive piece of scientific reportage on what exactly happened to New Orleans in 2005.

You do not want to name the three individuals I gather from the from the delegate way you've described them in this in this discussion is that correct. Yeah I prefer right now they know who they are they know that we know exactly what's going on universities are not places that keep secrets it's amazing how far emails can fought can travel. But I think it's it's going to be up to the chancellor it's going to be up to the LSU board of supervisors. The big tragedy here you know whatever for me is very small the real tragedy is that LSU has sent a very very strong signal to future students to future faculty to to alumni and others who made their money wanted the night money to the university and to the legislature and to the federal government that academic freedom at LSU is dead it doesn't exist and I think that's the absolute sad truth of what has occurred.

Okay I will will reserve a moment of silence for academic freedom at LSU but I'm I'm hoping that we'll be able to hear from you on a fairly consistent basis because as I say when I when I see that the core is is preceding a pace with not technically superior solutions. It seems to me we need to hear from people like you and Dr. C Dr. B to remind us that we've been down this road before perhaps. We've been we went down the road before Betsy we flooded after Betsy a number of people lost their lives Katrina was the big wake up call Hurricane Gustaf we nearly lost a levy section on the industrial canal that was never made the media. Hurricane Gustaf was very very very close to another major flooding fortunately the predictions are right now for our foreign average season but that actually means nothing.

You know hurricane's come and hurricanes go and they have a mind of their own which is hope that they're not looking at Louisiana this season. All right I've over on here and thanks for sharing some of your weekend to bring us up today and on what happened with you and LSU and good luck to you. Well thank you very much I do appreciate it. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Maybe the walls were just built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and now ladies and gentlemen the apologies of the week.

Deadline Provo Utah was a bad day for Brigham Young University student run newspaper Monday's edition of the Daily Universe ran a photo of several leaders of the Mormon Church at the weekend's general conference a caption below the photo read in part the quorum of the 12 apostates instead of apostles the paper apologize for mistake and gathered up as many of the 18,000 copies that it could. It attributes the mistake to a spell check error made by a copy editor who was under deadline pressure because that never happens at newspapers normally. Number 10 Downing Street in London has apologized for email sent by one of Prime Minister Gordon Brown senior officials which reportedly discussed smearing top members of the conservative party. The Daily Telegraph says the emails found their way to the writer of a blog who described them as obscene.

The emails included unfounded allegations about the conservative leader David Cameron as well as other shadow members of the cabinet. Conservatives are now demanding an apology from Prime Minister Gordon Brown himself the Pentagon here in this country is apologized to CBS for the lengthy delay in turning over network footage. Pool footage of President Obama's visit to Iraq this week television executives waited for much of the day on Tuesday for CBS the pool network to provide the tape the handoff was bungled when soldiers could not find the CBS representative outside camp victory. And the video was not transmitted in time for the evening news. This was an important mission and that apparently didn't translate to those given the task of providing them to use as a spokesman for general Ray Odie Erno the US commander in Iraq. The right thing to do would have been to wait at the gate until you showed that didn't happen. Please accept my humble apologies for this unfortunate mishap. But Pentagon spokesman Brian Whitman said CBS made this a lot harder than it had to be by declining an offer for the military to transmit the tape by satellite from sedan Hussein's former palace requiring a hand delivery of CBS executives to the network considered that method unreliable.

The news of a cop apologies Philadelphia police commissioner Charles Ramsey says he's issued an apology to a state representative in connection with allegations that the legislator was roughed up by police. Ramsey says the department's internal affairs division was investigating it wasn't supposed to happen that way Ramsey said of a March 28 incident in which the state representative jewel Williams a former police officer temple university city was handcuffed and thrown into the back of a police car after asking questions at a police car stop involving to other men. And date line Vancouver where I'll be Thursday with the unwig tour. Be nice to me Vancouver police when you but Vancouver police chief Jim true apologize this week for the seizure of Vancouver province photographer's cameras he took pictures at the scene of a police shooting last week. I want to apologize for this unfortunate answer and sure you we are taking steps to ensure that such an incident doesn't happen again she says.

This is after a police officer confiscated the camera of Jason pain was taking pictures of the scene of a police shooting of a man driving a stolen pickup truck at about five twenty p.m. Sunday. This police officers we know or should know the media personnel have special protections in law. Also guys on an acoustic music tour Heidi Montag you tell me has apologized to fans for the release of a curse filled track more is more on the internet they reality TV star turned singer. It's this the inappropriate tune was never meant to be released much like her career. A Texas lawmaker under fire for saying that Asian American voters should adopt names that are easier for Americans as apologized for her remarks state represented Betty Brown. You should an apology for the comments made during a committee hearing. Dateline soul South Korea former South Korean president no young says he accepted money from an indicted businessman and will cooperate with a bribery investigation in a web post entitled I apologize he said his wife received money from a scandal plagued shoe manufacturer. It was scandal plagued shoe manufacturers ladies and gentlemen they'll get you in trouble every time and carry underwood another TV star is apologized to Matthew McConaughey after making a sexual joke about the actor during her acceptance speech at the Academy of Country Music Awards.

Matthew McConaughey introduced her giving the prize saying his brother used to pick up women by telling them they made boots for country star George straight when underwood joined McConaughey on the podium she equipped I want to see those boots Matthew. The singer now says she regrets her choice of words and says she didn't mean to be rude I'm so embarrassed I'm totally embarrassed myself I just blanked you want to say something eloquent at a moment like that. Speaking of which after getting trashed in the press for coming off like a complete jerk during interview on Canadian radio Billy Bob Thornton has finally shown his nicer side he is apologized. And said I love Canada absolutely hey I'm going to Vancouver this week so why the apologies of the week ladies and gentlemen a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. And that's going to put the finger in the dike of this week's edition of the show the program returns next week at the same time over these same stations over NPR Worldwide throughout Europe the USN 440 cable system in Japan around the world of the facilities and the American forces network up and down the east coast of North America by the shortwave giant WBC to planet on mighty 104 in Berlin around the world by the Internet at two different locations live on archive whenever you want at harryshear.com and kcrw.com available as a free.

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