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From deep inside your radio, well, first of all, lovely thank you to everybody who came to Royce Hall on Friday night and McCabes Saturday night last night to see these shows that Judith Owen and I were in the Cabaret of Souls with Richard Thompson's Cabaret of Souls Friday night and Judith Owen's own show Saturday night. And you missed them, really? Okay, come to London for the Christmas show December 3rd, early morning. If you want to fly and more about that, of course, moments from now. But first, on the subject of HD radio, dear Harry, from Robert, I am the other HD radio listener of your show. Initially, I was pleased at the reduced static in the HD signals. So the station signals have gotten worse over the past year, causing the broadcast signal to stop until it's re-acquired, sometimes taking minutes. I am listening to this week's show via podcast, cheers, Robert.

That's the future, ladies. The digital wonderland, re-acquiring in minutes for your listening pleasure. News of the godly, after decades of fierce opposition to the use of all contraception, the Pope will end the Catholic Church's absolute ban on the use of condoms. It's, you know, it's a different kind of infallible. He will say that it's acceptable to use a prophylactic when the sole intention is to reduce the risk of infection from AIDS. So check your intentions, please, before, you know, while he will restate the Catholic Church's staunch objections to contraception, he will argue that using a condom to preserve life and avoid death can be responsible, act even outside marriage, wholly macro, and hold the macro. And news of NA, NATO's plan to wind down. Now ladies and gentlemen, we've been noticing with interest here on the broadcast for pretty

much since President Obama laid down the 2011 deadline that it's more dead than deadline. But here is the most cogent and recent reaffirmation. NATO's plan to wind down its combat mission in Afghanistan by 2015, notice a little slip in years there, is not set in stone. Once according to Alliance leaders at the Lisbon Summit, this cast out on David Cameron, the British Prime Minister's fixed deadline for a British withdrawal. Alliance leaders met in Lisbon, agreed a timetable to transfer responsibility for security to Afghan forces, processed due to start next year and conclude by the end of 2014. There's your 2015 starts right after that. The NATO timetable remains conditional, dependent upon the ability of the Kabul government to

secure the country against the Taliban. And more about how that's going, later in this broadcast. As the summit began, the Obama administration made clear that 2014 was only now, dig this, quote, an aspirational goal, we're there. We are so there, unless we're out of there. And NATO's Secretary General warned the West must remain committed in Afghanistan, quote, as long as it takes, let's see, how long did it take the Russians to, oh, how long did it take the British to, okay, how long did it, a senior NATO official also warned of inevitable setbacks in the work to complete transition by the end of 2014 and said the question of whether combat operations would be over by then depends on your definition of the word combat.

Yes, we're right there again. Hello, welcome to the show. The I need a lonely name now, so please don't know my loss I'm not alone, so I'm nothing real here There is a power we all know, goodness in us all

There is a power we all know, goodness in us all I'm a star that's down your finger, yeah Every time I feel this way, I pick up my guitar Sing us all the wrong way, that's the ego I'm a star I don't feel I'm singing, but I'm raised with the boat

And other times I feel this way, I pick up my guitar Sing it in Hello Emmett, from the Edge of America, from the home of the homeless I'm Harry Scherer, welcoming you to this additional show And ladies and gentlemen, let's talk about the F-bomb, the other F-bomb for closure Just in case you really haven't been keeping track And why would you? Very little about this yet on the, you know, Yacht Shows This is from the Congressional Oversight Panel that released its report this week on the subject of the foreclosure mess The F-bomb, and here's a bit of the executive summary to sort of just tell us where we're at In the fall of 2000, in this fall reports began to surface alleging that companies servicing

Six and a half trillion dollars, think of it, in American mortgages may have bypassed Legally required steps to foreclose on a home This is the Robo Signing stuff These allegations have given rise to ongoing federal and state investigations The ultimate implications remain unclear It's possible, however, that Robo Signing may have concealed much deeper problems, says the Congressional panel In the mortgage market that could potentially threaten financial stability And undermine the government's efforts to mitigate the foreclosure crisis The panel urges Treasury and bank regulators to take immediate steps to understand and prepare for the potential risks In the best case scenario, concerns about mortgage documentation irregularities may prove overblown The worst case scenario is considerably grimmer In this view, which has been articulated by academics and homeowner advocates Robo Signing of affidavits served to cover up the fact that loans, servicers, cannot demonstrate the facts required To conduct a lawful foreclosure

In essence, banks may be unable to prove they own the mortgage loans they claim to own Letting that sink in for just a moment The risk stems from the possibility that the rapid growth of mortgage securitization outpaced the ability of the legal and financial system to track mortgage loan ownership In earlier years, under the traditional model, a homeowner borrowed money from a single bank and then paid back the same bank In the rare instances when the bank transferred its rights, the sale was recorded by hand in the county property office The ownership of any individual mortgage could be easily demonstrated Nowadays, a single mortgage loan may be sold dozens of times between various banks across the country In the view of some market participants, the sheer speed of the modern mortgage market has rendered obsolete The traditional ink and paper recordation process So, the financial industry developed an electronic transfer process that bypasses county property offices This electronic process has, however, faced legal challenges that could, in an extreme scenario, call it a question, the validity of 33 million mortgage loans

Let me just interrupt the executive summary from the congressional oversight panel to say One advantage of what the mortgage industry has done by recording these transfers electronically is, since they don't enter handwritten records in local county property offices, they don't have to pay transfer taxes each time the mortgage is sold That's a nice thing. Further, now back to the report, the financial industry now commonly bundled the rights to thousands of individual loans into a mortgage-backed security This process has complicated and requires several properly executed transfers If at any point the required legal steps are not followed to the letter, then the ownership of the mortgage loan could fall into question Homeowner advocates have alleged that frequent robos signing of ownership affidavits may have concealed extensive industry failures to document mortgage loan transfers properly

The consequences could be severe. Clear and uncontested property rights are the foundation of the housing market if these rights fall into question, that foundation could collapse Some servicers dealing with the treasuries home affordable modification program may have no legal right to initiate foreclosures which may call into question their ability to grant modifications or to demand payment from homeowners That's from the congressional oversight panel. One of the witnesses testifying in front of two congressional investigations into the F-bomb this week pointed out that mortgage servicers are owned in most cases by the large banks which either originated the crappy loans or bought the companies like Countrywide that originated the crappy loans So there are several conflicts of interest inherent in all this if there's a problem with the paperwork way back in the originating trail of the mortgage

The servicer might be put in the position of having to enforce investors rights, sue its own parent company You know how that is going to work out. And in many cases this electronic registry of homeownership that the industry developed called MERS You'll hear more about that in the coming weeks and months. I'm sure it has almost no employees. It's basically just a bunch of computers sitting somewhere. It has I think between 12 and 20 employees and yet it signs off on thousands and thousands and thousands of transfers of mortgages from one bank to another all the time. How does it do that? Simple. It just says it sells its own seal for 25 bucks on the internet and anybody in a mortgage servicing operation can style themselves a vice president of MERS

and does and signs on behalf of MERS even though they never received a check from MERS. Cool, isn't it? A little thing going on. Calling Dr. Ponzi now from the Washington Post given the fact that Congress has already dig into this and the dig and looks good. The financial services industries launched an aggressive campaign on Capitol Hill to lobby to bolster the gallery of the way the companies have turned mortgages into securities and traded them across the globe. The companies have opened wide their wallets for lobbying and are flying top executives to Washington for one-on-one meetings with lawmakers. They're holding briefings for key staffers, including an event last week to drew more than 60 aides, blanketing Congress with white papers, memos and other documents. The focal point of their efforts is the mortgage electronic registration system or MERS.

Controversial privately run electronic database that's used by practically every lending institution to track the transfer of the ownership of mortgages as they are packaged into securities. In the vast majority of mortgage documents and local courts and offices around the country, MERS is listed as the holder of the loans. That allows the financial industry to trade mortgages as much as it wishes without spending the time and money to refile the paperwork, that is to say, depriving your county of legally due property transfer fees. The industry, though, is seeking legislation that would effectively affirm MERS's legality, nothing like post facto affirmation of legality, ladies and gentlemen, and would block any bill that would call into question what MERS does. MERS has spent more than $1 million in lobbying since two years ago when lower courts around the country began to rule against it, but MERS had kept its name under the radar until recently. Now, radar blips, MERS, if successful on Capitol Hill, the industry could in one quick swoop make all lawsuits related to MERS across the country moot.

That would be some good moot and remove one of the key uncertainties dangling over the mortgage industry. The flip side lawmakers could create a new federal registry for mortgages, effectively killing MERS's business, and forcing the industry to submit to greater oversight. Well, we wouldn't want that. Oh, no, that's a good thing. That means we overlook things. In recent years, MERS has become the target of numerous legal challenges from homeowners in foreclosure who alleged that mortgage transfers made through the system are invalid because they bypass local recording laws. MERS does not have standing to foreclose say the lawsuits because it's only a database and not the actual holder of the mortgage. The liabilities could be astronomical for MERS. One lawsuit in California alone seeking recording fees costing the company between 60 and 120 billion. But the consequences for the financial industry are even greater, challenges to the validity of transfers done by MERS calling to question the entire process of how loans were securitized.

And could render the 66 million mortgages in its system for closure proof. Next step, the investors who bought mortgage-backed securities come knocking. Well, no, they send their lawyers knocking saying, hey, those securities weren't backed right real mortgages because you didn't own them. And then the banks go where? Well, to you and me, for rescue, in the wake of such controversies lobbies for Reston, Virginia-based MERS Corp, which runs MERS, have been floating the idea of legislation that would establish MERS as the national registry to track the transfer of mortgages or track the transfer. The MERS database is a powerful tool that can be harnessed by the Congress in the industry to improve the mortgage finance business, says MERS Corp's chief executive. There's a lot of validity in the idea of a national mortgage registry that is complete and unambiguous about legal title that loans across all 50 states, says Tom Deutsch, the American Securitization Forum.

States rights? Antiquated. The Forum argued that although there have been several minority decisions in the courts that have taken issue with MERS, now one of these decisions has challenged MERS ability to act as a central system to track changes in the ownership. MERS, it's on your radar now, ladies and gentlemen. It might be a wise idea to keep it there. Especially if you're a homeowner who's got a mortgage, it might be foreclosed. Who knows? But now, ladies and gentlemen, the apologies of the week. A bumper crop of apologies for your listening pleasure.

Let's get to them. Deadline Orchard Park, New York, Buffalo Bill's rookie running back CJ Spiller. Apologize this week before practice before using a derogatory term toward Gays on his Twitter account. He used the word Wednesday while exchanging tweets with former Clemson teammate Ricky Sap. The original tweet has been deleted. Spiller says he hasn't heard from the league yet. He's apologized to head coach Chan Galley and general manager Buddy Nix. That's what a great name for a sports general manager, Buddy Nix. I want that next time. Representative Charles Rangel was convicted of 11 ethics violation this week by a jury of his congressional peers. This then Thursday, he apologized. Today, he said I stood before the ethics committee to apologize for the embarrassment I've brought upon this body that I love dearly into the members of Congress into my family and constituents. There's no excuse for my acts of omission and failures to abide by the rules of Congress.

I've made many mistakes I will forever regret and I apologize for them. For my beloved colleagues, my constituents and the American people, I am sorry. Not an if in the bunch. Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg apologized for a bug that accidentally deleted accounts. On Facebook, for alleged and erroneous violations of its terms of service. And it disclosed number of users were kicked off the service this week in Zuckerberg apologized. I apologize to those users for that bug. It was not related to Facebook's new messages service. I think we were able to get them back on the site. See, he worked in a plug into the bug into the apology for the bug. Fox News Chief Roger Ailes apologized to the Anti-Defamation League for calling national public radio executives Nazis. Ailes made a comment and an interview with the Daily Beasts Howard Kurtz. Regarding recent controversies, Ailes hired Juan Williams full time after NPR fired him. Ailes also said left-wing rabbis make it difficult to use the word holocaust on the air.

On Thursday, Ailes issued an apology to the ADL. He wrote he was sorry for using the term Nazi. I was of course adlibbing and should not have chosen that word. But I was angry at the time because of NPR's willingness to censor Juan Williams for not being liberal enough. The ADL's national director Abraham Foxman accepted the apology. He said he called it as sincere as it is heartfelt. Are those synonyms? Is good as it is fine. While I wish Roger had never invoked that terminology said Abraham Foxman of ADL. I appreciate his efforts to immediately reach out and retract his words before they did any further harm. Now all we need is Jerry Seinfeld to apologize for the soup Nazi and everything is cool. An oak park illinois pastor who made sympathetic remarks about women joining the Roman Catholic priesthood as apologized to his congregation after reportedly being told to do so by his bishop.

The Reverend Larry McNally, pastor of ascension parish, caused a stir a couple months ago and he signed a petition expressing solidarity with those who support women and married men who are called to ordination. auxiliary bishop John Mann's met with McNally and told him he wanted a public apology in a pledge not to challenge church doctrine. Said an anonymous church source, fearing he would be stripped of his job. McNally decided to apologize in a letter, published in the church bulletin. Quote, I am sorry that my words and actions may have caused some upset and some inner turmoil among our parish family. Deadline Cheyenne Wyoming, governor Dave Freud and Thal is apologized for using profanity when talking about his administration's preparation for turning things over to a successor, governor-elect Matt Mead. Freud and Thal's office inadvertently released unedited recordings of the governor talking about his proposed state budget. In the recordings, he says his administration is covering Mead's ass and says he doesn't believe Mead understands that. Freud and Thal issued a statement later that day saying for the choice of words and the incredibly inappropriate language, I am deeply sorry and recognize the responsibility is entirely my own.

In the wake of an ABC news investigation to the better business bureaus, controversial grading system, the national president of the BBB has apologized to consumers and business owners for quote errors. Unquote BBB leaders met this week in a special session to discuss reforms to the system. The BBB is being accused by some of the business community as well as the Connecticut Attorney General of running a scheme in which A-plus ratings are only awarded to those who pay membership fees and low grades given to those. German software giant SAP has apologized to Oracle for the conduct of one of its subsidiaries. The apology came in court testimony of chief executive Bill McDermott about the attempt of SAP's tomorrow now unit to use unlicensed Oracle software to win maintenance clients away from Oracle. SAP has admitted wrongdoing in the case.

The courtroom apology on Monday was the first that SAP has made in the high profile case. McDermott said buying tomorrow now was a mistake and apologized to Oracle for its conduct. I believe we entered into the tomorrow now acquisition too quickly. Without enough due diligence, he was quoted as saying, I am sorry. There were SAP's. Last week two erroneous notices were emailed to a portion of U.S. Mint customers who had subscribed to automatically receive Mount Hood National Park quarter rolls and bags and the coveted 2010 single their eagle proof. The initial email indicated their product had been placed on backdoor, backorder the second email said their order was cancelled as the product had sold out. The Mint confirmed that approximately 100,000 orders were impacted by the snafu. Who knew they were that still had many coin collectors. On Thursday, a third email went out saying the backorder subscription items cancelled were an error. They sincerely apologized for the confusion and the inconvenience.

They sent out a fourth email again apologizing and reassuring customers that their 2010 silver eagle proof orders were reinstated. Screw it by gold from Gordon Litty. Data in honor with the conservative government apologized Thursday for placing government ads on websites with soft porn. No, they didn't want to be on the hard. The at least two federal agencies in Canada, the National Film Board and Canada Post, were advertising on photo sharing websites that feature sexually explicit images of women. The Department of National Defense was also advertising on questionable websites such as HollywoodTuna.com, which posts barely clothed celebrities and offers derogatory remarks about them. Kind of like that one. I mean, just the idea of it. No, I wouldn't. The National Film Board and Canada Post, which is the post office on Canada, said they had unknowingly advertised there and pledged to be more vigilant or diligent. This week's Catholic clergy apology comes from Ireland.

Father Brendan Rickson. Sorry, that's a photo caption I read. Nice photo though. Archbishop Dermott Clifford has issued an apology to a young man who was sexually abused by a priest. Archbishop Clifford issued the apology after Father Brendan Rickson was convicted of gross indecency against a teenager and received a suspended sentence. The court heard the priest committed the assault while acting as a confessor during a religious workshop. The Archbishop said he was deeply sorry. He is a administrator of the diocese of Cologne. He is deeply sorry that the trust of a young man was abused. He expressed sincere regret to the victim and his family. But was it sincere and heartfelt? That is my question to you, sir, back in Cologne. David Fleming author of a book about the legendary Potsville Maroons. Apologized in print this week for failing to inspire Hollywood to turn the football story into a feature film. You can read up on that.

Interjects sing rea to apologize to the families of Air India victims and expressed his regrets in an emotional addressing court at the end of a sentencing hearing on a conviction of perjury. He did not spell out on court what he regretted or why he was apologizing. He did not refer to the lies he spoke under oath that led to his conviction for perjury. Nor did he reveal any new information about the Air India conspiracy, the most significant unsolved criminal case in Canadian history. And one that you can read about on a soft porn site apparently. Dateline Edmonton, Alberta Health Services president Stephen Duckett has apologized for refusing to discuss emergency care because he was eating a cookie. But critics are still demanding changes and calling for his firing. Duckett wouldn't talk to reporters following a meeting this week on ways to ease hospital overcrowding and long waits for emergency treatment in the Alberta medical system. Saying repeatedly, I'm eating my cookie. Can't you see I'm eating my cookie on his blog later. He indicated he deeply regrets his poor response to the media. We're all striving to do our best, but I know we got it wrong this time.

Please accept this apology. I have this cookie. Joe Scarborough, a host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, and the namesake thereof, was briefly suspended Friday after the magazine Politico uncovered donations he had made to political candidates. Donations to friend and family members total $2,000, his suspension will keep him off Morning Joe for two days. This is the same network that suspended Keith Olberman for the same offense earlier. In a statement, Scarborough apologized to MSNBC into anyone who's been negatively affected by my actions. One of college basketball's most underrated in-state rivalries became a little more hostile this week after a student employee put up a boastful message on the post-game scoreboard. His fans filed out following BYU's hard-fort victory over visiting Utah State, message flashed, dear Utah State, enjoy the loss, your big brother BYU. BYU issued a statement the next day apologizing for the scoreboard message and insisting the student acted without the knowledge of anyone from the athletic department.

The university is extremely sorry for this message, which does not reflect the sentiment of BYU, athletics, or the university. Athletics does not operate the scoreboard in the Marriott Center. The British Prime Minister's enterprise adviser, Lord Young, was forced to issue a groveling apology this week after he claimed most Burton's quote had never had it so good during this so-called recession. He was later invited to resign, and he did so. Bristol Palin posted a brief apology on Facebook. This week after 16-year-old sister Willow used anti-gay slurs to attack a classmate who criticized the family's reality show. Ha, ha, you're so gay, Road Willow. Sorry that you guys are all jealous of my family's success and you guys aren't going to go anywhere with your lives. She's being raised, right? Bristol also weighed into the debate, but later had a change of heart.

Willow and I shouldn't have reacted to negative comments about our family. We apologize. PS, please vote for me. I'm dancing with this. No, she didn't have the PS. Sorry, the British Energy Secretary Chris Hune has apologized for 40 years' worth of clandestine illegal mutilation of the corpses of British nuclear energy workers. When these workers died, pathologists and coroners colluded with the energy authority to remove their organs without the consent or knowledge of their families and part to remove the possibility of a lawsuit for cancer caused by their work environment. But partly out of a seeming cavalier, better safe than sorry approach that had them scooping out organs that had no diagnostic value. The corpses were then stuffed with random detritus from around the shop to disguise their mutilation. For example, broomsticks were used in place of bones removed from workers who died of leukemia. Quote, the part played by these public servants should be a particular consent to us all. Because they listened to the representatives of the UK nuclear organizations rather than taking into account the concerns of the families and the interests of society as a whole.

The coroners and pathologists in particular sort of been impartial, but they not only let down these families, they sometimes deceived them, unquote, the apology of UK Energy Secretary Chris Hune. You know, it's just clean, safe, cheap thing. AirDry United Football Club's remembered state program, this was in Scotland, featured Nazi soldiers. The shocking image was used on the cover of its magazine for a division 2 clash against Livingston. They thought, said club officials, it showed Australian soldiers, the words on the photo were less we forget and supporting our heroes. And in a related matter, Paging Roger Ailes, France's state run railroad has for the first time expressed quote, sorrow and regret, unquote, for its role in the deportation of Jews during World War II. But the male culpah is confined to its English language website and part of a bid to secure a lucrative rail contract in Florida.

And one more football apology. The series is a rife with football apologies. Good on you mates. Kansas City Chiefs coach Todd Haley apologized at his news conference refusing to shake the hand of his Denver counterpart after Kansas City lost to the Broncos last week. I do believe in doing what's right and that was not right. Haley said, I probably let the motion to the situation get me too much. I apologize to the fans and to Denver and to Josh. It wasn't the right thing to do. The apologies the week ladies and gentlemen, a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. I don't know where the lines were the right time where the games were there be lovely.

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그거 When you think Frank Su nut with Jr for calling in last segment with his good wishes we didn't have time to take Nicky Runey Jr's call. back on the weekend show this Saturday night on CNN. We're just now in our Los Angeles studios, an old friend of this show is the former lead singer of the great boy band of the 90s. Boys are us. Do we go ahead and do we? Welcome back to what may be your last visit to Larry King Love. Oh, a bites your tongue, Mr. King. And of course I don't mean that. No, it sounds like it had a stroke or something. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Now, last time you won the show, your group was reunited. That's right, I shaved my head to get back into the boys or a spirit, although none of the other guys did, which was a surprise to me. Was that a stunt they were playing on you? No, I think my outgoing message was just stuck in their spam filters. So is everybody can see you're growing your hair back. Yes, sir. Which is something I, which I could do. Yes, sir. The reunion thing was a great idea. The feeling in that studio for those 75 minutes

was real, real special. But, you know, the great Mr. Nate Pendelman. He's your longtime handler. He only did that a couple. He's our longtime manager, yes, sir. And he looked over the touring concert seeing this summer. And it's been rough out there here. The great John Tess, he always plays Red Rocks. He told me they downsize the venue for his show. He only played the three rocks. Yes, sir. So anyway, after September, only person could do that material for is my wife. Please give her my love. You can do it yourself if you. Mr. Pendelman said he thought this wasn't the primo year for the reunion. Chuchi got in his cab driving slot back anyway. So we'll see what happens. But I didn't want to come on your show tonight to talk about me, Mr. King. That's a switch. Sure, and it's over too. I wanted to talk about you. Hey, I got a lot of life in me yet. Got a lot of soccer games go through, just to make sure. Daddy kicks the ball, gotcha. But you've been so special to me. Always helping out when I had a record to promote.

And they'd Pendelman and I go way back. They were all Brooklyn days. He used to fence stolen hubcaps. You know, he's told us some of those stories. Every word is true. I was there. I had bought a couple of hubcaps off it. Well, then you'll understand how I felt when he hustled me into the studio and allowed me to record a song. He'd had written for this very sad moment when we're having to look at a time when the only place we can see your TV show is in an actual museum. You didn't write this one yourself. Mr. King, let me level with you. The best songwriters in the world are only a phone call away. Not my call, of course. And there's a song about what? This show? It's about that. It's about you and so much more. It's about learning to say goodbye, really, if you stop and think about it. Well, let's just listen to it. The great Dewey Gordon, what's the name? Know that a song? Who can I talk to tonight? This is for Larry.

Who can I talk to? Where can I go when I need to be on somebody's show? Where questions have answers that you don't need to know? Who can I talk to tonight? You were aggressive. You didn't probe. You never tried to rip open the rope. Just a mic in a camera. No need for a strobe. Who can I talk to tonight? This. Queen Latifan, Queen North, Donald Trump, and Roger Moore. OJ and MJ helped your kingdom grow.

Little old me and a traspero. Didn't read her book. Didn't hear my song, just a guy from Brooklyn Free to get things wrong How could something so simple Go high for so long And who can I talk to tonight? Politics and showbiz, chatting with pals Then daily breakfast set, made an else We changed presidents, you changed wise And through it all you were part of our lives Who can replace you, why even try?

Who else could make heart attacks A reason to buy, I'm still eating garlic just so I don't cry Who can I talk to tonight? Yeah, who can I talk to tonight? Who can I talk to tonight? The great Dewey Gordon, who can I talk to tonight? You know something I'm asking myself the same question Of course, the answer is my lovely wife I love you sweetheart Thanks Mr. King But I just had to share I was talking to Sean Dewey, the song was very moving What is it on your website? You know we're talking about that Apparently we're a little behind on the upkeep details The first 140 characters of it will definitely be on my Twitter page The great Dewey Gordon, thanks so much pal He's a lot to me

Tomorrow night, Barry Shek, for the full hour And now ladies and gentlemen, it's clean, it's safe It's cheap, it's too cheap to be clean and safe to meet her Yeah, I got that right Dayline Burwick, Pennsylvania, preliminary white finding, signifying low to moderate safety concerns Is included in the most recent report for the Susquehanna nuclear power plant by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission The reports come after flooding in July, you don't mean in July, do you? Forced PPL to shut down Unit 1 at the plant for about 20 days An estimated 950,000 gallons of Susquehanna river water Flooded the basement of the plant's turbine building The water flowed from hatches that access the unit's condenser Where the river water cools steam leaving the turbine The quarterly inspection report specifically points to inadequate installation instructions For a condenser water box gasket, which caused the problem Response to the flooding was, quote, complicated and delayed

Unquote, because of an incorrect diagram that was used to find and isolate the leak And the lack of specific instructions for isolating a leak with the condenser water boxes Yeah, it's advanced technology, ladies and gentlemen, and a gasket can produce a moderate safety concern The NRC uses a color code system to indicate safety risks Green for low, followed by white With a white finding, the NRC would initiate additional oversight and inspections for the Susquehanna plant The leak was significant, and while it did not affect the plant's nuclear operations It did affect important cooling operations And if it ain't cool, it goes phew, phew, phew, phew But clean and safe and cheap and now, ladies and gentlemen, Tails of airport security, you want to strap in for this one First of all, from Richard, dear Harry, at the end of September I returned home to Austin from a brief visit to Santa Cruz

Where I hung out with a friend's wine buddies on the last day of my visit We went to a vineyard and picked grapes for several hours The next day I went to Oakland airport for my return home to Austin I have an implanted cardiac device, so I have to be hand searched rather than going through the usual machines After my pat down, I was led to a back corner of the inspection area The person who searched me had come up with a positive for explosives I've never been close to explosives in my life So it came as a surprise to me, the supervisor and the inspector ran the explosive test again Once again, it came up positive Nearly an hour later, my plane's loading time looming The airport's explosive expert finally resolved me and let me go to my gate Trouble seems to have been that I had naturally occurring nitrates This was an organic vineyard, which had been absorbed in my shoes the previous day The explosive expert suggested that I not wear any shoes that I had used for any sort of gardening Now I know

And now to other matters involving airport security Yes, the media are full of stories about groping Ladies and gentlemen, groping is, for now, radiation is forever Full body scanners are a waste of money That's why we haven't put them in our airport Said, rife, sailor, former chief security officer of the Israeli Airport Authority And a 30-year veteran in airport security and defense technology Who helped design the security at Israel's Ben-Gurian Airport Which has some of the toughest security in the world He told Canadian MPs that he wouldn't reveal how to get past the virtual strip search scanners But said he could provide briefings Canada is here bought 44 of the scanners from major Canadian airports Sailor testified it makes more sense to create a trusted traveler system So pre-approved, low-risk passengers can move through an expedited process

Leaving more resources in the screening areas where automatic sniffing technology Would detect any explosive residue on person or the baggage Behind the real profiling must also be used instead of random checks, he said Having a random search at the airport is like Russian roulette, he said And U.S. scientists warned this week according to Ajahn's France PROS That the full-body graphic image x-ray scanners may be unsafe They say the risk is minimal but statistically someone is going to get skin cancer from these x-rays Said Dr. Michael Love at Johns Hopkins Canadian scanners rely on different technology that doesn't pose a health risk to travelers Interesting, full-body x-ray scanner technology used in the U.S. is not permitted in Canada Canadian scanners use a millimeter wave technology

The security boss of Amsterdam's Schiffel Airport is calling for an end-to-end-less investment In new technology to improve airport security Martin Ornstein said if you look at all the recent terrorist incidents The bombs were detected because of human intelligence, not because of screening If even a fraction of what is spent on screening was invested in the intelligence services We would take a real step toward making air travel safer and more pleasant Only problem is X Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff doesn't work for an agency that sells intelligence services He works for a company or actually his consultancy works for a company that sells scanners Ornstein believes old-fashioned intelligence and smart screening of passengers are the way forward Much like the Israeli expert And the controversial body scanners currently being tested at Hamburg's airport are constantly malfunctioning due to folds in passengers clothing

Germany's public radio station NDR NDR, please give, said the trial of the body imaging scanners has been plagued by serious problems They are unable to tell the difference between foreign objects and such things as pleated clothing They use millimeter wave technology That's the kind that's used in Canada so that's why you don't want to see those So, you know, suck it up and dig those X-rays Tales of airport security ladies and gentlemen Copyrighted feature of this broadcast And now And I mean now News from outside the boat That's me saying now, now

A dozen men who accused British security forces of colluding in their transfer overseas for torture Are to get millions in compensation from the UK government Some of the men who were all British citizens or residents were detained at Guantanamo Bay At least six of them alleged British forces were complicit in their torture before they arrived at Guantanamo The coalition government says it wants to avoid a massive court case which would also put the British secret intelligence services under the spotlight The court of appeal had rejected the government's plea to hear secret evidence in secret And secret material from MI5 and MI6 vaults could have become a flood had the case not been settled But it does trigger the launch of a judge led inquiry into complicity and rendition And Britain says it will stick, this according to the Guardian, to its 2004-14-15 deadline for ending combat operations in Afghanistan

Despite apparent wavering from US and NATO officials over the date The British people want to see an end to our combat role, says a Downing Street spokeswoman, that would be 2015 In the past, whether UK troops would withdraw from combat by the end of 2014, whatever happens Defense Secretary Liam Fox replied, we certainly don't want to be in a combat role And he's the one who added, but it depends what you mean by combat General Sir David Richards, the head of British Armed Forces, said the deadline was, quote, very doable Okay, but as we've heard before, not set in stone News from outside the bubble latest gentleman copyrighted feature of this broadcast Now news of the Olympic movement after several weeks of tense negotiations that nearly led to an all-out legal battle

The troubled Olympic village in Vancouver has been put into receivership at the request of the city That gives Vancouver control over how the one-time Olympic village is marketed and sold The city reached an agreement with Millennium Development An agreement that prohibits each side from suing the other over the village So, Millennium pays off the city of Vancouver for an undisclosed figure Those Olympic villages, they're good business, aren't they? Yes, they are, because it's a movement And, lest we leave some general matters uninspected He's not a general, he commands no truth He's not an inspector, he speaks at no stoop season Inspector General, oh yeah A federal audit has raised concerns about clean-up delays at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation Plant

Where workers produced more than half the plutonium for the U.S. The agency's Office of Inspector General raised concerns, the Department of Energy's Inspector General raised concerns That contaminating and demolishing more than 60 billion buildings at Hanford was behind schedule The project cost was pegged at 528 million But the report says the cost has grown to 718 million A 36% increase despite receiving 330 million in federal stimulus money to speed up the work One of every seven Medicare beneficiaries who was hospitalized is harmed as a result of problems With the medical care there, according to the Office of Inspector General for Health and Human Services The study says unexpected adverse events in hospitals added at least 4 billion a year to government health costs And contributed to the deaths of about 180,000 patients a year 44% of those adverse incidents are clearly or likely preventable Says the IG hospital infections are cited as a major source of problems

Other events are even more common, the most frequent problems classified as adverse events Were those related to medication like excessive bleeding followed those related to patient care like intravenous fluid overload And those related to surgery and infection The most serious events like surgery on the wrong patient amounted to less than 1% of the events tallied According to the team leader for the Inspector General study group And security training at some federal court houses is so ineffective It took almost eight years for some security officers to learn how to turn on the X-ray machine software that would detect guns and explosives According to a justice department audit of courthouse security operations And the Inspector General for the Department of Homeland Security says the agency does not The agency being TSA does not have documented standard processes to update training based on current information TSA screener training not up to snuff Suck up some X-rays won't you news of the Inspector General?

A copyrighted feature of this broadcast By the way, when I was a kid there were machines and children's shoe stores That X-ray children's feet to show whether they had outgrown their shoes It was cool to put your feet under there Ten years later of course they were outlawed amid shocks Expostulations about what could they have been thinking And what are we thinking? I'm thinking that that's the end of this week's edition of La Show The program returns next week at the same time over these same stations over NPR Worldwide throughout Europe On the U.S. and 440 cable system in Japan around the world so the facility is the American Forces network Up and down the east coast of North America

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