Le Show; 2020-07-12

Here it is! From deep inside your audio device of choice. Who so come self-isolate with me? Summer is a sizzler. Sweat pouring down your face. Your armpits are a fountain. Your shirt's a wet disgrace. And it's hard to sleep that night time.

Can't walk the streets by day. Four months in a hot box. Just one thing I can say. You ain't seen me no man slowly. But you won't hear me moan. Because heat on the skin deep. Cold is to the bone. Cold is to the bone. Winter's clean and brittle. You meditate all gone. You can ski. You can snowboard. Weather's got it going on.

But to keep blood circulating. You wear 50 pounds of stuff. Forget your gloves or layers. You're a dead man soon enough. I can see my breath before me. Got to be a Roman stone. Because heat is only skin deep. A cold is to the bone. You're a dead man soon enough.

You're a dead man soon enough. You're a dead man soon enough. Sunscreen's not a bother. And I love those longer days. Clean air makes me shiver. Some muggy hay.

Oh, winter lasts forever. Summer's over in a flash. I hear tea bleep talk of freezing. I got to make a dash. Snowbirds all in my way. So I'm not alone. The heat is only skin deep. A cold is to the bone. A cold is to the bone. A cold is to the bone. A cold is to the bone. A cold is to the bone. From very hot New Orleans, Louisiana.

Ladies and gentlemen, not so bad is it? Well, maybe. Not for me. I'm Harry Scherer, welcome you to this edition of La Show. And now news of bad banks. Sounds redundant, doesn't it? Doesn't it? Oh, I'm sure there are good banks on every river. Accused of... Now you know about Deutsche Bank, right? It's a bank based in Germany. Yeah, you could have told me that. Which has been... I think the generous way of putting it is... They've been a little aggressive in trying to become one of the top international banks. They are, for example.

I think the last bank on earth to have actually lent money to Donald Trump. Anyway, now they've been accused of turning a blind eye to suspicious cash withdrawals and legal settlements conducted on behalf of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Why, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump did business with the same bank? The bank reached a $150 million settlement with New York regulators a few days ago. Whether or to what extent those payments or that cash was used by Mr. Epstein to cover up old crimes to facilitate new ones or for some other purpose, are questions that must be left to the criminal authorities. And they're doing such a darn good job. But the fact that they were suspicious should have been obvious to bank personnel at various levels. That's the verbiage of the consent order filed with the New York Department of Financial Services. Quote, the bank's failure to recognize this risk constitutes a major compliance failure.

Unquote, they say that like that's a bad thing. Regulators claim that while Deutsche Bank properly classified Epstein as high risk, it failed to adequately scrutinize his accounts for the kinds of activity that were markedly implicated by Epstein's past. You know what the girls in the thing. Under a 2007 non-prostitution deal with Epstein, federal prosecutors, although in this case, they agreed not to prosecute an underage prostitution case against them. If he pleaded guilty to state charges in Florida, which he did, and then had that very lenient kind of stay at home, but go to the office most of the day, house arrest kind of sentence. The plea deal included a key clause that protected Epstein's assistance, Sarah Kellen, Nadia Marcincova, and others who allegedly helped bring underage girls to Epstein's Palm Beach Mansion. For massage sessions, you know, massage sessions.

Quote, the bank was well aware not only that Mr. Epstein had plead guilty and served prison time for engaging in sex with a minor, but also that there were public allegations that his conduct was facilitated by several named co-conspirators, the settlement states, despite this knowledge the bank did little or nothing to inquire into, or block numerous payments to named co-conspirators. And two or on behalf of numerous young women, nothing says, or to inquire how Mr. Epstein was using on average more than $200,000 per year in cash, cash money. Although Deutsche Bank did not designate Epstein, a politically exposed person, a PEP. He's on the PEP squad. It did label him an honorary PEP because of his proximity to the powerful, the document explains. You're Clinton, you're Trump, you're Dershowitz. The settlement marks the first enforcement action by a regulator against a financial institution for dealings with Epstein.

Will it be more? State, I'd love to say stay tuned. And so I did. Deutsche Bank is worth keeping an eye on because, as I say, when no American bank would do business with Donald Trump following the first bankruptcy and the third bankruptcy and the 17th bankruptcy, there was Deutsche Bank stepping up. And now. Well, now it's time for me to read the trades for you. This won't take long. From WWD, formerly Women's Wear Daily, Trade Magazine of the Schmata Trade, ask your Jewish friend. I'm going to read it for you, whatever it is. Well, we just missed the timing of this world social media day has just passed us by.

And you can imagine how it was treated on Twitter. But now we learn through WWD, Kiana Smith Brunto has teamed with a cadre of social media influencers. Yes, they form a cadre. I thought it was a copy, but it's a cadre to create the American Influencer Council. Haven't you said to yourself, where's an American Influencer Council in my life? Well, the answer is, now it's here. The non-profit membership trade association made its debut on World Social Media Day. You can't fool these kids. They got it all going on.

Kristi Lim, sorry, Kristell Lim, Danielle Bernstein and Kat Irland are among the founding members of the American Influencer Council. Their game plan, they have a game plan. Thank you for asking, has five key points, consumer transparency, standardization and professional ethics, data science and influence for economy, learning and development, and public goodwill. I like those transparent consumers. You can see right through them. The group's creation comes at a time when some are predicting the demise of influencers and the rise of micro influencers. Maybe those are microsome. Just thinking. No, but I should be reading. Before the pandemic struck, brands were expected to spend $15 billion on influencer marketing by a couple years from now, according to business insider intelligence estimates based on media kicks data. I get all my data from media kicks. I may not trust it, but I enjoy it.

Consumer transparency efforts will involve lobbying the Federal Trade Commission to adhere to, promote and improve the endorsement guides. There are also plans to create market relevant operating standards to support innovation. And ethical conduct supporters will also be trying to enhance the co branded content experience on all social media platforms. Like my Twitter account brought to you by Mercedes in my dreams. In terms of data science and the influencer economy, the council will foster and analyze research on the digital economy because nobody's doing that. As well as career influencers contributions to the gross domestic product. Yes, people are doing this as a career. There will also be efforts to further digital marketing learning at the university level.

And to offer mentoring support for the next generation of influencers. Yes, I'm enjoying it. Lastly, the group plans to create an innovation lab, public service announcements, and to host events to promote the influencer trade. Do I smell gala's? Or at least bounty? The AIC aims to have influencers recognized by the business world. Because they know what's what. The council represents creatives from all backgrounds and content verticals. 15 members will be recruited this year. Applications are not available.

Smith Brunto is the founder and limous char woman of the by invitation nonprofit. The American influencer council has three types of members, career influencers, organizations, and professional advisors. Those were the three you thought, right? You're good at this. Some more gala's in our future. And by all right, I don't mean any of us. Just one conclusion I reach, having read the trades for you. Copyrighted features broadcast. And now news of the godly. A Russian Orthodox church court has expelled a coronavirus denying cleric from the priesthood after he seized control of a convent.

That's a lead. That is a lead sentence if ever I've heard one. It's got it's got everything. Father Sirgley, whose actual name is Nikolai Romanov, you've heard of that family. He took over Sredneralsk convent in the yearals on June 16th. He posted armed guards there. I'm guiding the nuns. Father Sirgley has condemned the closure of churches in the coronavirus breakdown. That's I guess the bone he has to pick with the gals. Sorry, the nuns. The church court found he had broken monastic rules. Father Sirgley is condemned, as I say, the closure of churches. He called the COVID-19 crisis a pseudo-pandemic and cursed those who ordered the church services be stopped on health grounds or on church grounds.

There have been complaints of child abuse at the convent under his leadership. Imagine that. And the church court called for a thorough investigation of the allegations by Russian authorities. Church is also carrying out its own investigation and those are good. BBC Russian has interviewed several witnesses who stayed at the convent between 2009 and this year who described physical and psychological violence towards children as routine there. The former residents said children were slapped or beaten for minor misdemeanors. Punishment was meted out, for example, if a girl took off her headscarf while hauling a sack of potatoes early in the morning or if a child ran through the woods into town to get some chocolate. You can't have that. Really. God. God. God frowns on that. I don't know if it's the running part of the chocolate part. But I don't have a Bible in the studio. The former residents. Oh, that was what I just said. Some of the nuns considered administering beatings to be as routine as tending the horses or working in the refectory. They alleged.

The refectory is not the best place in the world to work. Let me know. I have no idea. Father, certainly a state of the church authorities will have to storm the monastery if they want him to leave. Controversial cleric was barred from preaching in April. He refused to attend the court sessions. So if you ask him, he's not guilty. So don't ask him. He's not a general. He commands no truth. He's not an inspector. He picks up no stoops. He's an inspector general. Oh, yeah. The head of Noah, which in this country is the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, felt that his job and the jobs of others would be in jeopardy. Why? If he and his agency did not rebuke the forecasters who contradicted President Trump's inaccurate claim last year about the path of hurricane Dorian. That's according to the inspector general of the department. And I'll tell you the name of the department moments from now. The inspector general's report examined the aftermath of Trump's insistent that Hurricane Dorian was headed towards Alabama, national weather service forecasters in Alabama contradicted that because it wasn't being predicted by any of their data.

It found a politicized process did the inspector general's report that investigators described as having significant flaws in which late night demands from White House led to urgent intercontinental telephone calls. Remember when they used to cost money, text messages and emails that culminated in a controversial Noah statement criticizing the forecasters. A lot of stuff happens late at night, like curtailing the sentence for Roger Stone. That's a late night thing. He must not like the daylight. The inspector general Peggy Gustiveson placed blame largely with top aides to Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross. Yes, he's still around. Didn't say he was awake, but he's around his agency overseas Noah. So that would be the department in which the inspector general is located for now. And those top aides to Ross were cast with coordinating the unsigned statement suggesting that the president was right and that the Alabama forecasters had acted improperly by suggesting otherwise.

Because what a forecasters know for casts. That's it. The name tells you. She called the statement in question, quote, contrary to the A political mission, unquote of the science agency. He described it as quote, the end result of events triggered by an external demand placed on Secretary Ross, specifically a request from the White House to in Secretary Ross's words, close the gap between President Trump's statement and the National Weather Service, Birmingham, Birmingham tweet. Sorry, I went British on you from moment there. She, the inspector general did not find credible evidence. The top Commerce Department officials explicitly threatened to fire Neil Jacobs, then the acting administrator of Noah. But Dr. Jacobs told investigators that he quote, definitely felt like our jobs were on the line. If he refused to counter his own weather forecasters.

At a minimum, minimum, minimum, miscommunication or lack of clarity surrounded the key issues of whether anyone's job was at risk, according to the inspector general's report news of inspectors generalist. It's a copyright feature of this here broadcast. Bumblebees and many other species have been declining, you know, over a recent decades, finding the driver of these declines. Oh, no, no, sorry. I went bees on you. I went bees on you. We still have another inspector general reporting of the majority of public school districts in the US are focusing their budgets on security to prevent shootings instead of wildly, widely needed building repairs, that's according to the government accountability office. Independent federal agency that monitors how tax dollars have spent.

Its report said the school districts highest priorities for their facilities were improving security, expanding technology and addressing health hazards. Well, the latter is not a bad idea. A roof leak in a Rhode Island school gym and a bin underneath used to catch the water or some of the things it found. As it reported on the problems with upkeep, the report was based on a survey of hundreds of districts and it shows that about half the school districts in the United States need to update or replace multiple systems like your heating, your ventilation, your air conditioning, or your plumbing. Over one third of schools need HVAC system upgrades, which could result in air quality or mold problems if not addressed, according to the watchdog. One quarter of the districts reported a need to repair or replace lighting fixtures in at least half their schools. Where's my book? Oh, a similar number of districts need repairs to roofing, security, plumbing, or windows in most of their schools.

The report shows images of crumbling schools around the country, including some that hold standing water, or full of sbestos, or required bottled drinking water. That reminds me. Now, that's news of inspectors general, and now we get to the bees. It was the water that did it. Bumblebees and many other species, as you know, have been declining, finding the cause of these declines is especially important for a group of pollinators that performs irreplaceable ecosystem and agricultural services. Three researchers report in the conversation. They found strong evidence that climate change has played a role in the declines of bumblebees across North America and Europe. And now they found a mechanism that links climate change to these declines, climate chaos. As the progressive rise in temperatures observed over decades, that's climate change. Following the growth in atmospheric carbon concentrations, mostly due to human activities,

gradual temperature changes can pose deadly threats, but the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events seems to be rising sharply as the greenhouse effect grows. Heat waves are longer and hotter, they say, although cold is to the bone. Wildlife can tolerate some degree of warning, either by finding ways to move away from risky weather or evolutionary adaptation. It's much more difficult to tolerate increasingly chaotic extremes in weather, such as prolonged drought, heat waves, or tropical storms. For bumblebee species, the scientists predict local extinction and colonization of new areas by estimating whether recent climate change had subjected species to temperatures beyond any they are known to have tolerated. In the past, they found that species have disappeared in places where temperatures spiked above what they could tolerate, species across North American Europe constantly being pushed to the edges of these limits during the year, much more often than they ever were for most of the 20th century.

Increasing intensity of land use, including increased pesticide use, also harms bees, but these effects are distinct. From the effects of climate chaos, which brings up, believe it brings up news of the warm, it does indeed. That was EG to the spot. It's EG for me to say. It's all EG, sorry Glenn. It's EG to talk over Glenn. It's really the point of the exercise. Scientists have discovered a surprising shift in the Arctic Ocean exploding blooms of phytoplankton, the blooms of phytoplankton have drastically altered the Arctic's ability to transform atmospheric carbon into living matter. Over the past decade, the surge has replaced sea ice loss as the biggest driver of changes in uptake of carbon dioxide by phytoplankton.

The lead author said the growing influence of phytoplankton biomass may represent a significant regime shift for the Arctic. The study centers on night net primary production, a measure of how quickly plants and algae convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into sugars that other creatures can eat. The rates are really important in terms of how much food there is for the rest of the ecosystem. The lead author is also important because this is one of the main ways CO2 is pulled out of the atmosphere and into the ocean. They found that this measure net primary production in the Arctic increased 57% between 1998 and two years ago and unprecedented jump in productivity for the entire ocean basin more surprising is that while NPP increases were initially linked to retreating sea ice productivity continued to climb even after melting slowed down around the 2009. I didn't even know that it slowed down. I got to listen to my show. The increases in NPP over the past decade is almost exclusively to a recent increase in phytoplankton biomass.

More phytoplankton were able to grow each year in a given volume of water. Phytoplankton require light and nutrients to grow who doesn't? Well, there's a conclusion. There are going to be winners and losers. A more productive Arctic means more food for lots of animals but many animals that have adapted to live in a polar environment or finding life more difficult. As the ice retreats, the Arctic is simply too small to take much of a bite out of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. It's taking in a lot more carbon than it used to but it's not something we're going to be able to rely on to help us out of our climate problem. It's like the other regime changes. They just don't work. Social and cultural changes are occurring as a result of environmental damage according to the same publication but a different research study.

The climate crisis is linked to a marriage crisis. In a place where over a billion of the world's population still have arranged marriages. The vast majority, for example of Indian, as in India, farmers are male and earn low to medium wage incomes. They typically have between one to five acres of farming land. In India, as you may know, many, if not most marriages, are arranged and because of the increasing uncertainty of farmers' incomes due to the climate change, most parents no longer want farmers as their son-in-law. Employees who have a stable monthly income are preferred, particularly those with government jobs which are perceived as stable and secure. This means many young farmers are becoming middle-aged bachelors, a farmer from South India, Srinivas. In his early 40s, still unmarried, has not found a bride despite offering a financial incentive.

This is a kind of reverse dowry. Farmers are becoming ever less attractive grooms, the authors of the study estimate that just over half of the state of Andhra Pradesh's farmers are facing some level of barrier to marriage. They say the long-term consequences of this on a personal level, well-being and happiness, I guess they're not married, are being negatively impacted, but on a wider level the population of farming communities will be reduced, will lead to a reduction in farming capacity. Traditional agricultural experience and farming knowledge will be lost. Many cultural practices will be affected as well as a little thing called global food production. And finally, in the news of the war, pink ice. Mochup, scientists in Italy are investigating a mysterious appearance of pink glacial ice in the Alps, caused by algae, again, that accelerate the effects of climate change. There's debate about where the algae comes from, according to Alstros, but one of the researchers said the pink snow observed on parts of a glacier is likely caused by the same plant.

Found in Greenland, it's a natural phenomenon that occurs during the spring and summer periods in the middle of the attitudes, but also with the poles, he says. The plant is present in Greenland, so-called dark zone, where the ice is also melting. Normally, as you know, ice reflects more than 80% of sun's radiation back, but as algae appear, they darken the ice, so it absorbs the heat and keeps the cycle going as it melts. Every more quickly. That was news of the war, really was. It was so copyrighted. Now ladies and gentlemen, we got this virus thing going on, despite what the Russian priest says. This was a remarkable week for a number of reasons. For one, President Trump wore a mask, a face mask for the first time in public, and I have to say, he's been right all along and makes him look weak. Almost feminine, but there was much more in terms of ugly numbers, not the pretty ones, the really ugly ones with the sharp angles, as more and more states report record numbers of cases and hospitalizations and now deaths are rising again in the big picture.

Well, you know, again, credit to President Trump, he promised to make us number one again, and we are in coronavirus, but you know, he didn't say in what to be fair. Now, we're number one. Who's number two? I can tell you Russia, Russia, Russia, not China, Russia is number two, and number three. So, you know, next time Trump and Putin get together, we know what they're going to be talking about. The thing that isn't the thing, and number two in the world in coronavirus is Brazil. I don't know if you know much about Zhao Bolsonaro. I don't know how to pronounce his name clearly, but he's the president of Brazil. He is a populist in the Trump mold. I know we thought when they made him, they threw the mold away.

Oh, Bolsonaro is very much in that tradition. He is pushed for clearing the Amazon rainforest, you know, to because business, business got to go there. But more on this topic, he has been consistently underplaying the virus and the disease that it causes, called it just a little flu, and again, like his mentor, disdained mass squaring in public. And this week, it was announced, he's tested positive for coronavirus, and he's isolating at home, and he is self-medicating, like his mentor, with a medication, which is used for malaria for years. This week, supporters of both presidents have been touting a report from a research outfit in Detroit, I'm not insulting them by calling them an outfit, which reported in an observational study that this medication seemed to have some positive effects in reducing the death rate.

And other scientists quickly jumped on that report saying it was an observational report, meaning it did not control for other things. And one of the other things that didn't control for is that the patients who experienced lower death rates were also at the same time being given a steroid, and there was no way to separate the effects of the two medications, the steroid and this other one. And there was no control group, and you know the deal. And so, as I say, like his mentor, the president of Brazil is now taking high-droxychloroquine. Hi, high-droxychloroquine, you know the mess I need, lend me the hand.

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