Le Show; December 04, 2022

From deep inside your audio device of choice. Ladies and gentlemen, news of Nice Corp. Nice people doing nice things. You know that sound that these days sometimes comes out of your phone. I don't think you hear it anywhere else anymore, but it's two tones smushed together. You haven't done anything, but suddenly you hear them coming out of your phone. Well, it's a well-known sound that many film and television productions have been fined over. Fox stands accused of playing the emergency alert system attention tone. That's the tone I'm talking about. Fox aired it to promote an NFL show on dozens of TV channels.

The use of the sound is prohibited in case you didn't know to prevent people becoming desensitized to something you should only hear in the most dire circumstances. Quote to preserve the unique purpose and effectiveness of the emergency alert system tones. The FCC enforces laws that prohibit their use or simulation except for specific permitted uses. What kind of a dictatorship are we living in anyway, according to the FCC's notice of apparent liability. Fox admitted using a three-second clip of the tone pulled off a YouTube in a short comedic advertisement for an upcoming game. aired as part of the Fox NFL Sunday pregame show a couple of November's ago. We find Fox responsible for broadcasting the promotional segment containing the EAS tones on 18 of its own and operated broadcast stations.

Transmitting the promotional segment to 190 of its network affiliated broadcast stations and causing the transmission of the promotional segment on Fox Sports Radio and Fox Sports on XM Channel. That's according to the FCC had added the promotional segment's comedic tone also did not alter or neutralize its overall effect of falsely warning listeners and viewers of a non-existent emergency. The tones were clearly audible, cognizable, and appropriated for a non-emergency use. This manner of appropriation of the EAS tones is exactly the kind of simulation of the commission's rules seek to address and prohibit in order to avoid diluting the EAS tones real meaning over time. Unquote, the FCC therefore the FCC deemed Fox's ad to be an egregious and willful violation of the rules and proposed a fine of $504,000.

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From New Orleans, Louisiana, I'm Harry Scheer, welcome you to this edition of the show. And now some news about the crypto winner, happy crypto winner to you. Welcome you to this edition of the show. Thank you very much.

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I guess a lot of folks have been turning in their bone saws. I guess a lot of folks have been turning in their bone saws. I guess a lot of folks have been turning in their bone saws. I guess a lot of folks have been turning in their bone saws.

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I guess a lot of folks have been turning in their bone saws. I guess a lot of folks have been turning in their bone saws. As one industry source told a Hollywood reporter in just the past few months it felt as if Hollywood companies that would have been concerned about a potential PR hit are quote suddenly now much more open to doing deals with Saudi Arabia. I guess a lot of folks have been turning in their bone saws.

Now I do have to make clear at this particular moment before sharing this with you that it was published in science or at least science.org. I think that's probably the same organization or org that publishes the magazine called science. And they are quoting a federal watchdog and inspector general. So this is not from some wacky wingnut operation I don't think.

With that said a federal watchdog is waiting on problems with the US government grant that funded work in Wuhan, China on bat corona viruses. Those are the funds that grant that some onlookers in the language of science.org led to the COVID-19 pandemic the audit from the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services found oversight issues by the National Institutes of Health and reported that the grantee had misreported $90,000 in expenses but it shares little new light on issues already widely covered and discussed in the media and Congress. The report finds quote NIH the National Institutes of Health did not effectively monitor or take timely action to address compliance problems.

They involved the eco health alliance which is a New York City-based nonprofit that held the NIH grant. Eco Health had sent some of these funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the WIV, to study bat corona viruses collected in the wild and examined their potential to jump to humans. In April 2020 after then President Watt's name claimed the virus could have come from the WIV lab, NIH, the National Institutes of Health, terminated the eco health grant with little explanation. That step was widely condemned by scientists and the inspector general's report now says NIH improperly executed the termination because it did not provide a valid reason or provide eco health with required information for appealing the decision.

A few months later NIH reinstated the award but immediately suspended it, setting conditions for resumption that eco health said it could not meet than the NIH permanently terminated the WIV award as of August of last year for compliance issues, including WIV's failure to provide the National Institutes of Health with lab notebooks related to the funded experiments. The audit examined that grant and to others to eco health the total 8 million but focused largely on the $600,000 that went to WIV on Institute of Virology, including work that created hybrid bat corona viruses to study the potential of wild viruses to affect humans. NIH, National Institutes of Health, had concluded these studies did not qualify as gain of function research that requires a special health and human services review because the viruses, the hybrid viruses, weren't expected to be more dangerous to mammals than the starting viruses.

But it stipulated that eco health should immediately report any unexpected growth of the hybrid viruses to the National Institutes of Health and NIH has faulted eco health for failing to promptly report this unexpected growth in some experiments. Eco health has countered that the unexpected growth has been misinterpreted and blamed the computer glitch at NIH for a two-year delay in filing progress report containing the data. The Inspector General Faults NIH, the National Institutes of Health, for not chasing down the late report, lamenting missed opportunities to take more timely corrective actions to mitigate the inherent risks associated with this type of research. However, the audit refrains from commenting on rather the results of the WIV hybrid virus experiments

constituted enhanced growth that should have potentially triggered the special review. The Inspector General did not assess scientific results for any of the experiments or make any determination regarding the accuracy of the interpretations by eco health and the National Institutes of Health of research results. The audit did find other problems by both NIH and eco health, the non-profit billed NIH for 89,000 in unallowable costs. It concluded, including expenses such as a $5 alcoholic beverage and a staffers $3,200 trip to a conference that was miscoded and should have been billed as a non-NIH grant. The Inspector General recommends that the Wuhan Institute of Virology be debarred from receiving NIH funding in the future, and NIH supports that step, but it noted that action must be made by a debarment official of health and human services.

A recent congressional spending bill gets the job done in terms of borrowing any funding this year to the Wuhan lab. Eco Health said it welcomed the report and downplayed its conclusions, asserting in a statement that the audit quoted not find significant issues with eco health's grant oversight and compliance. The group notes the nearly 90,000 in unallowed costs constitute just 1% of its awards from the NIH and that the Inspector General routinely finds similar problems at other grantee institutions. It pointed out that the audit revealed eco health had not been paid by the National Institutes of Health for $126,000 in overhead expenses which eco health is pursuing. As I said at the outset of this, not exactly what you're hearing from the right side of the discourse at this point in time.

It is news of Inspector General ladies' gentleman copyrighted feature of this broadcast. It will feel somehow somewhere you lost your way and if you don't get a health quick you won't make it through the day. I could you call on lady day, could you call on time call train now because they're, they're watching troubles, your troubles, your troubles, your troubles away. Plastic people with plastic minds are on their way to plastic homes. And no beginning they ain't no ending just on it, on it, on it, on it, on it, on it, on it.

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Yes I will. Not quite enough said. What's that stuff on the beaches in France, for example, French prosecutors say they will investigate the appearance of vast quantities of tiny toxic plastic pellets along the Atlantic coast and a danger marine life and the human food chain. The criminal probe is going to follow several legal complaints about the pellet invasion, lodged by local authorities and the central government in Paris. That's according to Camille Mielsoni, chief prosecutor in the western city of Brest. That's what he said to Ajance Foss Press. The microscopic pellets called Nurtles. I said Nurtles are the building blocks from most of the world's plastic production from car bumpers to salad bowls. This from Ajance France press.

They are usually packed in bags of 55 pounds for transport each containing around a million Nurtles, but they can easily spill into the ocean when a cargo ship sinks or loses a container. Environmentalists also suspect that factories sometimes dump them into the sea. Fish and birds often mistake them for food and once ingested the tiny granules can make their way into the diet of humans. Experts told Ajance France press the Nurtles found along the coast of Brittany may have come from a plastic industry container that fell into the sea. On Tuesday, the French government filed a legal complaint against persons unknown and called for an international search for any containers that may have been lost at sea. The environmental crime branch of the Breast Prosecutors' Office is leading the investigation. Last week, around a hundred people took part in a cleanup campaign on a microplastic infested beach in Brittany to collect pellets and draw attention to the problem.

We think they've come up from a container that may have been out there for a while and opened up because of recent storms, said a spokesman for the NGO Surfrider Foundation. Our action is symbolic. It's not like we're going to pick up an entire container load, said a pensioner as she filled her yogurt pot with Nurtles. I'd just like to say that one more time. Her yogurt pot with Nurtles. French politicians have taken note. Senator from the region is called for a clear international designation of the pellets as being harmful. Ecological transition minister labeled the Nurtles an environmental nightmare, telling the Ozhaw's France press the government would support associations fighting against pellet pollution, ingesting plastic as harmful for human health. But Nurtles, in addition, attract chemical contaminants found in the sea to their surface, making them even more toxic, measuring less than 0.2 inches in size.

They're not always readily visible, except when they wash up in unusually huge quantities, as has been the case since late November, along the Northwestern French coast. And UCLA researchers published a study recently this month indicating that children's playgrounds contain more microplastics than other areas in urban parks. The study found that microplastic concentrations were on average five times higher within playground areas compared to non-playground areas in the urban parks tested, according to Jamie Leonard, a doctoral student and civil environmental engineering and co-author of the study. Leonard says the motivation behind the study was to help people recognize the risks microplastics could pose as many people would not want their children to be consistently exposed to pollutants with unknown risks. The researchers carried out the study by collecting sand samples from various urban parks around the LA area.

These studies findings were surprising, according to another one of the researchers, as playgrounds usually build away from major roads and highly developed areas that generate large amounts of microplastics. Leonard says the researchers determined the plastic structure of the playground may be contributing to the elevated microplastic concentration. Children playing on these structures in the playground could be causing small bits of plastic to break off. Ultraviolet radiation may also be leading to plastic break down. The researchers say the presence of microplastics in tested soil and weeds indicates children could possibly be exposed to microplastics through ingestion and inhalation. And I am proud to say I shared this study from its publication in the Daily Bruin, the newspaper of the UCLA campus, where I once worked.

And now, news of the Olympic moment. Produced by Jim Ebersold, a third. Ukraine would not rule out boycotting the Olympic Games if Russian and Bella Russian athletes are allowed to compete in the Paris 2024 Games. That's according to Ukraine Sports Minister, plans by the International Olympic Committee to look at ways for those athletes to return to international competition would be opposed, says Ukraine's. Sports Minister Vadim Goodsite.

Our position is unchanged as long as there's a war in Ukraine, Russian and Bella Russian athletes should not be in international competitions. Goodsite wrote on his Facebook page. He's got a Facebook page, quote, work is currently underway in further possible steps and first steps to continue sanctions and prevent Russians and Bella Russians from international competitions, he said, if we're not heard, I do not rule out the possibility that we will boycott and refuse to participate in the Olympics. He later wrote the talks with national sports federations would begin on a possible boycott of the Paris Olympics in case of allowing Russian and Bella Russian athletes to return to international sports arenas. Since Russian invasion of Ukraine last February, many sports organizations have moved events since suspended Russian teams' athletes, while sponsors have ended contracts to protest against the war. Russian and Bella Russian athletes have been banned in some sports, while they're allowed to compete under a neutral flag in others.

But the IOC, eager to see them back in international competitions, said this week, the Olympic Council of Asia, your OCA, had offered Russian and Bella Russian athletes the chance to compete in Asia, giving them a qualification pathway to the Paris Olympics. It's a movement, and we all need one. Every day! Now, just an item about our friend, the atom. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Koshita says the government will proactively call on municipalities to accept surveys for selecting a final disposal site for high-level radioactive waste for nuclear plants. And they haven't done that yet.

Instead of waiting for local governments to raise their hands, we will make requests in stages, including for considering or accepting surveys. He said at a meeting of the House of Representatives, the government is currently conducting the first stage of the final site selection process in a couple of towns in the northwest, northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido. In the two municipalities, however, Sutsu and Kamo and I, there are strong concerns about the safety of a disposal site. Huh! Imagine that, making it uncertain whether the government can proceed with the selection process. But Koshita's stress to government will accelerate its efforts. We'll work to get many municipalities interested in the matter he added without saying. Exactly how. And now, the apologies of the week. Earlier this week, Prof. Paul Hall of Fame Coach Tony Gdungi tweeted a reference to debunked claims that schools were putting litter boxes in school bathrooms for children who identify as cats.

He was responding to a video from the Daily Wire, which featured Minnesota representative Sandra Feist saying, not all students who menstruate or female, advocating for a bill that would require menstrual products in boys' school bathrooms in the state. He deleted his tweet shortly after. Dungi faced backlash for his tweet. As walked it back, he tweeted an initial apology and deleted it, but included it in yet another tweet. Quote this past week, I posted a tweet that I subsequently deleted, I issued an apology, but not everyone saw it. So I'm reposting my apology here. As a Christian, I want to be a force for love to everyone, a force for healing and reconciliation, not for animosity. I saw a tweet and I responded in the wrong way as a Christian. I should speak in love in the ways that are carrying and helpful. I failed to do that. And I'm deeply sorry.

Dayline Cape Town South Africa Germany apologized this week for using a leopard emoji and a jive at Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Twitter that ended up offending some Africans. German Foreign Ministry had poked fun at Russia's top diplomat during his tour of Africa when it tweeted that he wasn't there looking for leopards, but using the trip to try and justify Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. The tweet and the leopard emoji, the Foreign Ministry used on its official account, played off Germany's decision to send some advanced leopard to tanks to Ukraine. But an African Union official took offense at what she said was the continent being portrayed only as about wild animals. Foreign policies, not a joke, nor should it be used to score cheap geopolitical points by illustrating an entire continent with colonial tropes. These folks, women for the African Union, German, said the German Foreign Ministry apologize said the tweet wasn't meant to offend, but rather to call out the lies that Russia uses to justify its imperialist war of aggression against Ukraine. The society of thoracic surgeons and its newly installed president have posted an apology for a speech delivered by its outgoing president that appeared in part to disparage affirmative action as a means to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field.

This speech unleashed a cascade of tweets, some circumspect when many expressing outrage and dismay. Many of the tweets were from individual like knowledge, not hearing the speech, but who had seen at least one accompanying slide which by then had been widely circulated. It contained phrases like affirmative action is not equal opportunity. Reactions on Twitter included comments like, this is bad beyond description. The STS society of thoracic surgeons and its new president issued a statement disowning at least the controversial parts of the presentation stating they weren't consistent with STS's core values of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The STS apologizes for these remarks, we know these comments were hurtful and we regret the pain they have caused to so many valued colleagues. The speech in question by the outgoing head of the society, John Calhoun, John H. Calhoun said,

I believe that either the slide or my remarks were misinterpreted by some, I don't want to hurt anybody, I'm profoundly sorry, and I apologize. The Associated Press, the biggest news agency in the United States, says the BBC, has apologized after it was ridiculed for warning journalists against referring to, quote, the French, unquote. Orson Wells can still do it. The AP style book Twitter account had recommended writers avoid using the in phrases like the disabled, the poor, and the French. It said this could be dehumanizing. The French embassy responded by briefly changing its name to the quote, Embassy of Frenchness in the United States, unquote. We just wondered what the alternative to the French would be, said the embassy spokeswoman, continuing quote, I mean, really unquote. The original AP tweet received more than 20 million views before being deleted. It was widely mocked on social media.

The style book said its reference to French people was inappropriate, but it did not attend to offend. Writing French people, French citizens, etc., is good, but the terms for any people could sound dehumanizing and imply monolith rather than diverse individuals. That is why we recommend avoiding general the labels, such as the mentally ill, the poor, the wealthy, the disabled, the college educated. For example, it said the better term than the poor was, quote, people with incomes below the poverty line. The AP style book is considered one of the best style guides for journalists and other writers, particularly in the US. According to the BBC, although I know two novelists, neither of whom uses the AP style book. Fox News Channel host Harris Faulkner, apologized to viewers. Friday afternoon, after the network aired, police body cam video, the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband Paul.

Quo, we had no idea what it was going to look like, and that should have had a warning in a graphic before we showed it, and then on screen, unquote, Harris Faulkner. The footage released by San Francisco Court shows the scene at the Pelosi home when officers responded to a 9-11 call after an intruder with a hammer broke into the house last October. The video was aired on Fox News Channel's outnumbered show, along with a separate video from her surveillance camera that showed David Deepaep using the hammer to break his way into the home. Quo, the producers are apologizing to me, but I want to apologize to you, Faulkner said after airing the body cam video for the first time. Faulkner and co-host Kennedy, remember her, seemed stunned by just how graphic the video was. Faulkner noted that Kennedy had looked away due to the violence caption on the video to be fair. She used to look away from the MTV videos too.

I have a hard time seeing violence like that, and that was just a natural reaction. I know it's our job to look at these things and analyze them and take them in, but also the anticipation we know what's going to happen, Kennedy said. Then that works coverage, current of warning to viewers from that point on. And deadline Al Paso, Texas, Congresswoman Valoranica, Escobar's campaign team is apologizing after an email asking for donations was sent with an undignified subject line. Escobar's campaign sent an initial email on Thursday, whose subject line to recipients read, quote, we're asking you to give an expletive, unquote, the message encouraged people to contribute to the campaign of the Congresswoman or re-election campaign. Other than the subject line, no other profanities. Later in the day, a second email from the campaign was sent apologizing for the initial email, saying the message was sent without approval, quote, earlier today you received an email from Team Veronica with an undignified subject line.

We want to apologize. Our digital contractor sent this subject line without approval. I understand you may be offended and surprised not only because this campaign would never speak to our supporters like that, but because you know you do care. To suggest you don't care is as offensive as the vulgarity itself. I'm sorry for this error. Thank you for being a great supporter of Veronica's and for understanding. The apologies to the weak latest gentleman, a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Well, ladies and gentlemen, that's going to conclude this week's edition of the show back next week at the same time over the same radio stations. And at a time of your choosing on the order of advice, the order of advice of your choosing. Yes, it's redundant. And yes, it's redundant.

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