Le Show; 2015-07-26

From deep inside your radio. We learned ladies and gentlemen a couple weeks ago that it's not just the bees, it's the birds, the birds. Now it's not just the birds and the bees, it's us. Deadline Boston, more than 70% of pollen and honey samples collected from foraging bees and Massachusetts contain at least one neonicotinoid. As you may know by now, that's a class of pesticide that has been implicated in colony collapse disorder in which the bees abandoned their hives during winter, according to a new study from the Harvard Chen Chan School of Public Health, published in the Journal of Environmental Chemistry. My favorite journal. No, I'm not just saying that, they're panning. Data from this study clearly demonstrated the ubiquity of neonicotinoids in pollen and honey samples that bees are exposed to during the seasons when they're actively foraging across Massachusetts, according to the leader of the study.

Levels of neonicotinoids that we found in this study, following the ranges that could lead to detrimental health effects in bees, including colony collapse disorder, he's added. Alex Lu is the man's name. Since 2006, there have been significant losses of honey bee colonies. Bees, prime pollinators of roughly one-third of all crops worldwide. I gave a larger number recently on the broadcast. I was mistaken. Previous studies analyzed either stored pollen collected from hives or pollen samples collected from bees at a single point in time. But this study looked at pollen samples collected over time during spring and summer months when bees foraged from the same set of hives across Massachusetts. This enabled researchers to determine variations in the levels of eight neonicotinoids and to identify high-risk locations or bad months for exposure to bees over the pesticides. They found neonicotinoids in pollen and honey for each month collected in each location.

So they could have saved their time. Just done a couple. Bees are at risk of exposure anytime they're foraging anywhere in Massachusetts. If I'm a bee, I'm moving to do a Hampshire pronto. The new findings suggest new neonicotinoids are being used throughout Massachusetts. Not only do they pose a significant risk for the survival of honey bees, they also may pose health risks for people inhaling pollen contaminated with neonicotinoids. How would that work? Neonicotinoid pesticides, ladies and gentlemen, as you may know, are administered to the seeds of crop plants. Therefore they're expressed in every part of the plant as the plant matures, the leaves, the flowers. La pollen. Thank you, Tom.

It's not just the birds and bees. It's us, hello, welcome to Lysho. What are the sounds? And when I'm through it's gonna look and run better than you So baby, don't make them wild because I'm coming for you I'm coming for you You better make way because I'm coming through And I'm glad I did too, baby, through And when I'm through it's gonna look and run better than you

My cousin Carrick's taking a look at the transmission Putting in the lime green plasma screen television Seats feel like leather, you can't even tell their their fate Now only got a couple of easy paydates left to make Still alcohol in the broken apartment in the bar Open up the moment so we can sit back and watch the stars Oh yes, and the GPS, so I always know where you are So baby, don't go too far because I'm coming for you I'm coming for you Better make way because I'm coming through And I'm glad I did too, baby, through And when I'm through it's gonna look and run So baby, don't go too far because I'm coming through

And when I'm through it's gonna look and run better than you My cousin Carrick's taking a look at the transmission Seats feel like leather, you can't even tell their their fate Now only got a couple of easy paydates left to make Still alcohol in the bar Open up the moment so we can sit back and watch the stars Oh yes, and the GPS, so I always know where you are So baby, don't go too far because I'm coming through And when I'm through it's gonna look and run So baby, don't go too far because I'm coming through And when I'm through it's gonna look and run So baby, don't go too far because I'm coming through From the edge of America from the home of the homeless I'm Harry Sheerer welcoming you to this edition of La Show, and now, ladies and gentlemen...

News of the Olympic movements... Produced by Jim Reversal, Jr. First to London, you know, they had the Olympics there three years ago, and according to the government of the time, the two major reasons for having the Olympics in London were the regeneration of the neighborhood of East Stratford and getting English people, especially young people, to participate more in sports. The Guardian newspaper of London now reports by any measure the figures for sports

participation since the games do not make pretty reading. Longstanding issues remain from a lack of coordination between schools, local authorities and sports clubs, to a lack of recognition and remuneration for coaches and PE teachers. Cuts and confusion in schools, sports and local authority cuts have hit facilities budgets and adult participation numbers have fallen since the games. They suggested increasingly Britain is becoming a two-tier sporting nation, with least progress being made among those in the lowest socio-economic groups. Sport England, the Equaisie government agency that invests about half a billion dollars in grassroots sport every year, last month published participation figures among adults that were damned as very disappointing by the new government's sports minister. They have a sports minister.

Her labor opposite number called them disastrous. The figures showed that the number of people playing sports at least once a week in England had declined. Sorry, and Britain had declined by 222,000 in six months. The percentage of those unlowest incomes, participating in sports, hit the lowest level since records began way back in 2005. Meanwhile, deadline Tokyo. Exactly five years before the 2020 Summer Olympics opened. Hundreds gathered in a downtown Tokyo Plaza Friday to weigh flags and cheer as organizers pledged to overcome a long string of troubles and make the games a success. Last week, the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had decided to take plans for the centerpiece new stadium back to zero in the phase of growing outrage over ballooning costs. This was the latest in the string of broken promises related to the games, which Tokyo won based largely on its reputation for efficiency. The stadium decision which left the 2019 Rugby World Cup without venues,

risk, jam, damaging Japan in the eyes of the sporting world, and could cost it future sporting events, on which it could expand even more money. Organizers put this behind them on Friday telling hundreds, hundreds, back into a square, that everything could be overcome. Officials have said the original design for the stadium helped them win the games. However, with the estimated cost climbing to $2.1 billion, almost twice that was expected, there's been a backlash in a country still rebuilding from the earthquake and tsunami. Olympics Minister Toshiyaki Endu told the news conference Friday the plans are indeed back at zero. Best place to start, ladies and gentlemen, when you're running the Olympics, it's a movement, and we all need one, every day.

Ladies and gentlemen, drug enforcement administration informants, some paid, others working to stay out of jail, can sell large quantities of drugs without much supervision. Sometimes they set up busts for years, while simultaneously collecting federal workers' compensation, this according to a scathing report issued this week by the Inspector General of the Department of Justice. The report, a year in the making, described one informant who was injured in 1997, from then on, got $500 a week in workers' comp, even while continuing to serve as a paid source. Inspectors estimate that between 1997 and 2012, the DEA paid this individual a total of $2,186,813,

including $353,000 in workers' comp, a million dollar reward for a bust, plus other payments and housing expense checks. It's a good job being a DEA informant. Quote, this kind of compensation could be corrupting, and we don't get to explore it, nobody gets to explore it. That's the comment from Jane Ann Murray, a federal criminal defense lawyer. The judges aren't questioning these informants, she says, even though their information may be at the heart of a search warrant or an arrest warrant, they are rarely put under oath at trial. The DEA system does not require that agents get upper level approval before allowing informants to do drug deals, as long as they involve less than 90 kilograms of heroin or 450 kilograms of cocaine. This, according to the IG, defies the Department of Justice guidelines regarding authorization of otherwise illegal activity.

But this is your brain on the war on drugs, ladies and gentlemen, and a prominent Democrat is joining Republicans in their rebuke of a Justice Department memo that restricts watchdogs, like inspectors general, from accessing certain documents during an investigation. The 68-page opinion by the Office of Legal Counsel, hey, that's the same one that John U used to be in, isn't it? Yes, it is. The opinion allows the Department to forbid disclosures that have either an attenuated or no connection with the conduct of the Department's criminal law enforcement programs or operations. This applies to other inspectors general, at other federal agencies, as well as to the Inspector General with the Department of Justice. Lawyers within the Department, not an Inspector General, would ultimately make the determination about whether typically confidential documents meet the appropriate law enforcement or counterintelligence threshold needed to release them for an investigation.

This seemingly goes against congressional intent laid out in statutes, all those things, which say that inspectors general may access all documents necessary to conduct oversight. Congress went even further, last year, with language intending to improve the reach and access of inspectors general, but the Office of Legal Counsel refuted these assertions. Because they could, I guess, or maybe not. Congress meant what it said when it authorized inspectors general to independently access all documents necessary to conduct effective oversight. That's a statement from the Inspector General of the Justice Department. He continued, without such access or office's ability to conduct his work will be significantly impaired. Hey, man, that's a feature, not a bug. He continues, it will be more difficult for us to detect and deter waste, fraud and abuse and to protect taxpayer dollars. The project on government oversight said the memo makes a mockery of our government's internal watchdog system.

The lapdog system, however, is in great shape. News of inspectors general, ladies and gentlemen, a copyrighted feature. Well, by the way, of this broadcast and the inspectors general have clarified that they did find that classified inspectors general from the Department of Homeland Security and the Justice Department of Clarified, they did find that classified information was sent to Hillary Clinton's private email server. Concluding that that was not supposed to be the classified information is not supposed to be sent to private servers only to government servers that are, you know, protected unless the Chinese hack them. Use of inspectors general, ladies and gentlemen, for your listening pleasure. For every woman I know is crazy by automobile.

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And when I get some money, I just got to get me some kind of automobile. You know, seem like the women in this town just don't pay no attention to you, but you're driving. And yeah, I am standing with nothing but love of years. And yeah, I am standing with nothing but love of years. Ladies and gentlemen, we are proud to present Let Us Try, a ballad of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Let us try to stand the tide to beautify our countryside. We offer you our hand. Let us try. Yeah, kind of. Ladies and gentlemen, the United States Army Corps of Engineers paid $4 million in June to years ago to one of four losing bidders for the contract to build permanent pump stations at the New Orleans Outfall canals, the canals whose flood walls failed disastrously 10 years ago next month. This was a public expense. Corps officials didn't mention in the announcement of the new pump station project. The payment was intended in part to get the company back to drop a new challenge to the selection of winning contractor.

Design and build permanent pump stations and canal closures at these three canals key upgrades to the revamping of the areas flood control infrastructure since Maria Garzino told you on this program that the first pumps installed after Katrina were defective had design defects. The final approval to award the contract. The course press release two years ago noted only that the order to proceed to construction came after the end of an appeal period. Non-mentioned was the fact that Bechtel had filed a challenge to the decision to award the contract that year. The company challenged the award because of lingering concerns about the bid process said spokesman for Bechtel.

The government accountability office in 2011 had recommended such a settlement as one of the recommendations along with recommending the Corps throw out its first decision to award a $675 million contract to another outfit CBY. We also recommend the PCCP and Bechtel be reimbursed for the reasonable costs of filing and pursuing the protests including reasonable attorney fees said the GAO. And that was the Corps explanation this week for the $4 million payment to Bechtel. For submitting a satisfactorily related proposal in order to settle dynamically resolve all differences to avoid the uncertainties and expenses of litigation. And for and consideration of the assignment of all data rights in and to its proposed submissions. Three other companies that bid on the project also receive $500,000 stipends from the Corps for submitting responsive bids.

Those payments also weren't mentioned in the press release of the contract award. This final followed a three-year struggle between the Corps and several contractors bidding on the last major project in the rebuilding of the New Orleans area, Hurricane Risk Reduction System, including an abortive 2011 federal lawsuit against the Corps. In August 2011, the Corps ordered the, sorry, the GAO ordered the Corps to revise its bid and obtain new proposals for the project citing several flaws in the process the Corps had used. Among them, the Corps had failed to properly evaluate CBY's technical proposal for operating the pump station. Said the bidders may have been misled about the role of price in the evaluation. They'd also found that the Corps failed to properly investigate and mitigate an unfair competitive advantage of a conflict of interest arising from the original bidders, successful bidders, hiring of the Corps's chief of program execution of the Hurricane Protection Office, the office responsible for this project and this procurement. The Corps spokesman said the stipends were offered because the pump stations were planned as a designed build project, which is an unusual type of contract that calls for much more work on the part of the bidders.

stipends, he said, are common with designed build competitions because it is extremely costly for a competitor to participate. A stipend is a way of to encourage competition by assisting principal offerers with the costs to participate, unquote, another good reason for having the Corps contract out all its work to private companies rather than do the work itself as it used to. stipends, ladies and gentlemen, let us try to make sure everybody gets paid some stipends. Would you like a $4 million stipend? I sure would. I'd make out the best looking bid on the planet. And now it's time for me to read the trades for you. We're going deep into the dark, a trade publication called Dark Daily, a concise briefing on timely topics in clinical laboratory and anatomic pathology group management. The story. National Academy of Sciences confirms formaldehyde can cause cancer. I'll read it for you.

Pathologists bio, sorry, histotechnologists and other medical laboratory professionals who regularly work with formal and other chemicals used in histology laboratories know they're dangerous to the health of those who work with them daily. Last summer, the National Academy of Sciences issued a statement declaring that the academy concurs with a report of carcinogens listing formaldehyde as a known cause of cancer in humans. This was last August. The report concluded there was positive correlation between exposure to formaldehyde and three types of cancer, myeloid leukemia, nasal lymph, pharynginal cancer, and spinal nasal cancer. Formalin is a form of formaldehyde. This would mean that this finding would be particularly interest to pathologists and clinical laboratory managers who are responsible for health and safety in laboratories. Pathology laboratory technicians are among specific types of workers at greater risk of exposure to formaldehyde, according to the National Cancer Institute website.

As early as its 1981 report, formaldehyde had been classified as reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen. The chemical industry balked at the upgrade to known to be a human carcinogen because of the chemical's wide use. For years, the chemical industry has been winning a political battle to keep formaldehyde from being declared a known carcinogen, according to the Center for Public Integrity. Formaldehyde is considered a building block chemical. It's needed in many consumer products, pressed wood, paper product coatings, permanent press fabrics, glues and adhesives, and fiberglass. In response to the industry's opposition congress directed the Department of Health and Human Services to enlist the National Academy of Sciences to critique the report on carcinogens and to conduct an independent assessment regarding the carcinogenicity of formaldehyde.

The National Toxicology Program is run by Health and Human Services, charged with coordinating and reporting on toxicology within public agencies. The National Research Council reviewed the toxicology panel's assessment to determine whether its conclusion was sufficiently supported by existing scientific data. The committee concludes that the NTP comprehensively considered available evidence applied the criteria appropriately in reaching its conclusion, the committee agrees with the conclusion. In addition, the NRC performed a congressionally mandated independent assessment of EPA's assessment of formaldehyde and the National Research Council agreed with the EPA. It's important to note that formaldehyde can continue to be safely used as the president of the American Chemistry Council.

The ACC represents major US chemical manufacturers. Well, that's reassuring. The ACC's formaldehyde panel includes producers and users of formaldehyde. Said the president of the American Chemistry Council, Calvin Dooley, much more information is needed to understand risk. Some scientists responded strongly to the continued opposition of the ACC. This formaldehyde report is the strongest possible statement from the scientific community, said Jennifer Sass, a senior scientist with a natural resources defense council. A limited number of studies have been conducted and published about the risk of exposure to these chemicals by medical lab workers. One such was conducted in New Zealand and was reported by Dark Daily. The published study involved staff exposure to certain chemical researchers determined that medical lab technicians who handle common solvents develop autoimmune connective tissue diseases and increase numbers. Those findings were published in the Journal of Roomatology.

It also offered credible evidence that clinical laboratory technicians, pathologists and scientists who work with toguine and xylene, other toxic chemicals, often found with formaldehyde, they hang. Those folks doubled their chances of developing a vascular condition known as Ray Nose Phenomenon. I find that interesting, ladies and gentlemen, because I have Renose Phenomenon and I've never worked in a lab of any kind. Let's spend a mission of mine. Nuddy coincidence, time. When I read the trades for you, copyrighted feature of this broadcast. And now, ladies and gentlemen, the apologies of the week. Twitter may be fighting gender inequality claims, but one of the company's internal teams showed little sensitivity to the issue this week. It hosted an internal frat party featuring red solo cups, beer kegs, and a sign reading Twitter frat house in full Greek lettering.

That's cute. While the company apologized for the event after it drew a wave of criticism on its own social networking site, the party highlights a serious problem in Silicon Valley that it's a male-dominated workplace culture in which women are often paid less to do the same jobs as men. A picture of the event held at Twitter's San Francisco headquarters was initially posted to Facebook by female Twitter employee. Well, that's the unkindest cut of all, isn't it? Posted to Twitter, babe. And by babe, I mean, ma'am. Special trucks were hard at work, vacuuming up an oil emulsion spill the size of three football fields this week. As next-sen energy apologides for the pipeline rupture, that's at 1.3 million gallons of mixed sand by two-minute and water into an Indian reservation or first nation's reservation, as they call it up there, in Alberta, Canada. The spill, discovered by a contractor, did not register in what the company had thought was a fail, safe, high-tech detection system.

Nor did the state-of-the-art construction, the brand-new pipeline was installed only last year, stand up to whatever, cost it to burst, and let loose the volume of two Olympic-sized swimming pools of muck. This is a modern pipeline, said next-sen senior vice president of Canadian operations. We have some very good equipment. Our investigation is looking through exactly why that wasn't alerting us earlier, the company apologized for the breakage. We're deeply concerned with this, said Bailey. We sincerely apologize for the impact this has caused. Dave on Los Angeles construction company Mitsubishi Materials Corporation became the first major Japanese company to apologize for using captured American soldiers as slave laborers during World War II. They're the real heroes, they were captured, offering remorse for the tragic events in our past. Today we apologize remorsefully for the tragic events in our past, said senior executive officer Hikaru Kimura, in all about 12,000 American prisoners of war were put into forced labor by the Japanese government and private companies seeking to fill a wartime labor shortage.

Six POW camps in Japan were leaked to the Mitsubishi conglomerate during the war, holding more than 2,000 prisoners, more than 1,000 of whom were American. Mitsubishi's predecessor ran four sites, that at the time of liberation held about 876 American POWs, 27 Americans died in those camps. While previous Japanese prime ministers have apologized for Japan's role during World War II private corporations have been less contrite, because freedom. Taylor Swift has apologized to Nicki Minaj after accusing the rapper of trying to pit women against each other, following Minaj's criticism of the MTV Video Music Awards. That's all you need to know about that, and here's all you need to know about this, World Wrestling Federation has fired Hulk Hogan after several recordings emerged in which he supposedly made racist comments by a wrestler. Are you kidding me? That is out, that is shocking. A story shared by the National Inquirer and Radar Online claimed to have five independent sources sharing details about the contents of a sex tape of the wrestler and reality TV star.

Really? Seems such a classy guy. Hogan is preparing to fight a $100-minute lawsuit with Gawker Media over their publishing of a different sex tape, with the same woman Heather Klem, the then wife of his friend, DJ Bubba the Love Spunge Klem. It just gets better and better, doesn't it? The story claims sources told him the transcripts of the video, which they say are under seal as evidence in the trial, show Hogan repeatedly using the N word and saying, I guess we're all a little racist. In a statement to People Magazine, Hogan apologized for his comments, quote, eight years ago, I used offensive language during a conversation. It was unacceptable for me to have used that offensive language. There is no excuse for it, and I apologize for having done it. This is not who I am. His statement went on. I believe very strongly that every person in the world is important and should be not between a differently based on race, gender, orientation, religious belief, or otherwise.

I am disappointed with myself that I used language that is offensive and inconsistent with my own beliefs, unquote, wrestler Hulk Hogan. He doesn't talk like that on the ring, but almost every reference to Hogan has been removed from the world wrestling website. From last week, Planned Parenthood responded to the furore over a hidden video alleging the sale of fetal parts with an explanatory video of its own and an apology to seal Richards. Explained into video, the group's fetal tissue donations and apologized for a staffer videotape by an anti-abortion group, saying the videos were heavily edited. I want to be really clear, said Richards, the allegation that Planned Parenthood profits in any way from these tissue donations is not true. Our donation programs follow all laws and ethical guidelines. And the American Psychological Association has announced an initial series of policy and procedural steps in response to findings of individual collusion by psychologists and organizational failures in the group's activities related to enhanced interrogation sessions during the war on terror.

Those were the days the APA released a 542 page report produced by attorney David Hoffman detailing the relationship between various activities of the APA and the Bush administration policies on interrogation techniques. The Hoffman report contains deeply disturbing findings that reveal previously unknown and troubling instances of collusion, said Dr. Susan McDaniel, a member of the Independent Reviews Special Committee. The Hoffman report states the intent of the individuals who participated in the collusion was to curry favor with the Defense Department and that may have enabled the government's use of abusive interrogation techniques. Our internal checks and balances failed to detect the collusion or properly acknowledge a significant conflict of interest nor did they provide meaningful field guidance for psychologists, said Dr. Nadine Caslow of the Independent Reviews Special Committee.

The organization's intent was not to enable abusive interrogation techniques or contributed violations of human rights, but that may have been the result. We profoundly regret and apologize for the behavior and the consequences that ensued. Our members are profession and our organization expected and deserved better. Unquote, the Board of the APA recommended that it adopt a policy prohibiting psychologists from participating in interrogation of persons held in custody, my military and intelligence authorities, whether in the U.S. or elsewhere. Better late than ever department, the apologies the week. But who better to solve all this than this guy? Today on an all new Dr. Bill, he advised CIA interrogators. They asked me what would be effective and I told them end of story.

And he blew the whistle. He was helping them torture. Is it good for psychology? Is this show? Let's do this. I've got a meeting with my new agent. Five, four. Let's make this the day you're on TV. Have a good show, Dr. Bill. Dr. Bill. Dr. Bill. Dr. Bill. Thank you. Hey guys, this is maybe the most troubling show I've done this whole season, not counting reruns of the INSAS shows. You're going to meet a man who says he was practicing psychology at the most secret presence on Earth. And another man who says he's been smirching the profession I left when I got my SAG card. Please welcome Dr. X and Dr. Y. Sit down here. Now, Dr. X, you asked not to be identified into where headgear that obscures your face because you're receiving death threats. Isn't that a little melodramatic?

No, Dr. Bill. I consulted on the interrogations of some very dangerous people. I'm sure they'd be upset to know that I'm here today. They'd even be upset to think that I was on with Dr. Oz. Well, Dr. Y, we're not identifying you because why? Well, A, because this sort of appearance is usually regarded as unethical advertising for professional services. And two, because I think he has associates in the CIA and the military, and I think they'd like to wish me ill. And finally, because Dr. X was already taken. All right, Dr. X, since he did mention your name. It's not really my name. We've got that. But we're here to get two things, solutions and ratings. So tell me and tell all of the Dr. Bill of files here in the studio, did you help torture people?

It's a fair question. Well, my writers, thank you. But it's not as easy as that. Oh, yes. I used my expertise as a psychologist involved in turning our troops. I said our troops. Thank you. Turning them to resist the kinds of fiendish and barfabric treatments that they could expect if they were ever captured by anybody that we ever declared to be an enemy. That was my job. And then you turned around and treat our interrogators to use those very same treatments. Well, my partner, Dr. X 2.0, and I did, was adapt these behaviors to meet the requirements of our war fighters who were trying to get real-time information. Now, see, well, I'm looking at it. We might have to torture Dr. X to get a straight answer here. But Dr. Bill, it's well established in the psychological literature.

In fairness, I haven't read the psychological literature since I turned in my license. Well, just having had time. Well, in any case, it's well established that torture makes people talk to end the torture, but they're just as likely to say things that aren't true. All right, see, now we're getting to the heart of the matter. If we could just all be honest with each other, we wouldn't be dealing with these kind of problems. I talk about that a lot in my new book, Dr. Bill. It's hard of the matter. Well, thank you. Yeah, but it's war time, Dr. Bill. People don't tend to be honest when they're trying to kill each other. Well, maybe that's something a real psychologist could tackle, don't you think? I have to go back to what he was saying. Okay, I'm not sure we were meeting. We don't waterboard people to get them to tell us the truth. We waterboard them so that the next time we walk into their room, they're so afraid that we'll waterboard them again, that they're motivated to tell us the truth.

Which is why, Dr. Bill, if they want so-called real-time intelligence, they have to waterboard some of these individuals as many as 180 times. Just so the hundred and eighty first time they might learn something useful. Now, Dr. X. Is that what psychologists are supposed to be doing and stealing fear into people? Would you just like to sit here right now and look in that camera and tell this audience and the millions of people watching at home and around the world that your professional mission is to frighten and intimidate? Well, here's what I would like to say. It's all very easy to be an expert on this stuff when you're sitting in your office, writing op ads and admiring your diplomas. It's very different when you're in a country very far away and some very highly motivated members of an agency.

I can't even name or telling you they need stronger measures to deal with these individuals who were trained to resist normal interrogation techniques. Well, but they're trained to resist your techniques. We know that they had stolen copies of your manuals on resistance. Well, not Dr. X. I don't think we're going to get anywhere. If you can't even tell us the name of this supposed country or the supposed agency. Matter of fact, I'm getting the feeling you don't really want help here. Oh, but not Dr. Bell. If I reveal classified material to you on this show and you broadcast it, you and your whole crew could be arrested and charged under the espionage act. You know, let's leave my crew out of this. It's 10 minutes into what should be their lunch break already. And not Dr. Y. I think that rather than trying to help Dr. X, you're just trying to get free of the tank that his work has brought to what once was my profession before I was. No.

You know, Dr. Bell, I'm hearing projection in what you're saying to me and maybe a little bit of defensiveness about giving up that license. Well, you know, it seems to me that neither of you wants to solve this. Oh, it seems to me that you don't want to prevent the next 9-11. It seems to me, Dr. Bell, you don't want to understand your own highly mixed motivation. Or yours. Or yours. All right. You know, normally I'd say this kind of problem really does need to be handled by a two-week stay in the Dr. Bell house. But the life coaches are attending a workshop in Bali. So let me just say that maybe the best thing we can do right now is end this torture here on this stage right now. Tomorrow, a woman tells us how her in-laws became outlawed. Still then, remember hope is a door to a world full of windows. Bye-bye. The Dr. Bell show is a Dr. Bell worldwide enterprises production incorporated in Panama. Let's fair it up, cause I'm in love with my old Cortina.

She's wide and blue, she's outside why she looks, maybe you should see her. I need no girl or a better world to cut my old Cortina. She takes me everywhere, making all the sense you can't beat her. She's not pretty but I don't care, it always will be me and my old Cortina. I feel the light, it's such a crack, it's just a little smaller. Straight light, well inside, that's what I'm gonna go for. She's wide and blue, she's outside why she looks, maybe you should see her. She's wide and blue, she's outside why she looks, maybe you should see her. She takes me everywhere, making all the sense you can't beat her.

She's not pretty but I don't care, it always will be me and my old Cortina. I feel the light, it's such a crack, it's just a little smaller. She takes me everywhere, making all the sense you can't beat her. She's not pretty but I don't care, it always will be me and my old Cortina. She takes me everywhere, making all the sense you can't beat her.

She's not pretty but I don't care, it always will be me and my old Cortina. I feel the light, it's such a crack, it's just a little smaller. She takes me everywhere, making all the sense you can't beat her. We've got the ultra modern neck, the getting oil from the deepest crack. So give the boys just a bit of slack and say, I hearty what the crack. Well you know, one of the major defenses of fracking against charges that it may be endangering water supplies is they crack so deep, they're digging way down there, way beneath the aquifers and where we get our drinking water.

Well sir, the nation's first survey of fracking well depths shows shallow fracking is more widespread than previously thought. It's like television, it's shallower than you think, occurring at 16% of publicly recorded sites in 27 states posing a potential threat to underground sources of drinking water. Stanford University scientist Robert Jackson and his colleagues reviewed about 44,000 wells found that nearly 7,000 of the sites were fracked less than a mile below the surface. According to the work published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, hey that's est. You'll hear from industry all the time that fracking only occurs a mile or two underground. It's something they push really hard, says a University of Colorado Geography professor who was not involved with the study. While most fracking is occurring way down deep, this paper reveals a surprising number of shallow wells and that's a concern, he says. Jackson told Inside Climate News the analysis definitely underestimates the practice

because of limited reporting on the industry-backed database where companies post drilling information in most states that disclosure is voluntary. Not all shallow wells pose the same threat to ground water. The riskiest fracked wells are both shallow and use high levels of water, says Jackson. When these high pressure wells fracture, the bedrock the cracks can extend as much as 2,000 feet upward. This provides an opportunity for the chemical-laced water using fracking to migrate to the shallower depths of the water table. What's the shape of the table? Let's argue about that, shall we? And the smaller the gap between drilling and surface water, the greater chance of interaction. The researchers identified about 2,000 of the shallow high-volume fracking wells nationwide. The state that sticks out, said Jackson, is Arkansas. I think he's referring to the number of shallow wells. Although there could be other reasons. And one of three earthquakes that gently rocked a small northern Alberta town this year may have been the strongest seismic event ever caused by fracking anywhere on Earth.

We don't know about Kepler 542b, but on Earth we do. The shell fields around Fox Creek used to get one, maybe two small earthquakes a year, since 2003 when fracking began. The number is shot way up. A 2015 study said 160 minor earthquakes have been detected since then. Nearly all of them clustered around fracking operations. Isn't that nutty? Still local residents aren't revolting against fracking. Because money. In January, there was a quake that reached 4.4 on the Richter scale. There was another such quake in June. Based on the depth of the location of the time, it seems very possible it's related to these fracking operations. Says a seismologist with the geological survey of Canada. The seismologist says he's not heard of any stronger earthquakes connected to fracking anywhere.

These are the largest hydraulic fracturing related earthquakes. It's the new world record. Canada is number one. What the frack? And now, briefly some news of the war. The 11% decrease in climate change, causing carbon dioxide emissions in the US between 2007 and 2013 was caused by the recession, not the reduced use of coal. That's going to research from the University of California Irvine, the University of Maryland, and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Mangrove forests could play a crucial role in protecting coastal areas from sea level rise caused by climate change, according to new research involving the University of Southampton. Taking New Zealand Mangrove data as the basis of a modeling system, the team were able to predict what happens to different types of estuaries and river deltas when sea levels rise. Areas without mangroves are likely to widen from erosion, more water will encroach inwards. Mangrove regions prevent this effect. And the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released temperature data for June, ranking it as the warmest June in the books.

The month was nearly 1.6 degrees above the 26th century average for June, and beat the previous hottest June by 0.22 degrees. That was last June. Unless humans slow the destruction of Earth's declining supply of plant life civilization as it is now may become completely unsustainable. That's according to a paper published by the University of Georgia in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. You can think of the Earth as a battery that has been charged very slowly over billions of years as a study-leaded author. The Sun's energy is stored in plants and fossil fuels, but humans are draining energy much faster than it can be replenished. These studies calculations are grounded in the fundamental principles of thermodynamics, such as estimate the Earth contained approximately 1,000 billion tons of carbon in living biomass 2000 years ago. Humans have reduced that amount by almost half.

Over 10% of that biomass was destroyed in just the last century. If we don't reverse this trend, we'll eventually reach a point where the biomass battery discharges to a level at which Earth can no longer sustain us. Said the lead author. News of the warm, ladies and gentlemen, a copyrighted feature of this broadcast. Let's conclude this week's edition of the Show the Program interns next week at the same time over these same stations over NPR, Worldwide, Europe, U.S.M. 440, cable systems in the Tramp, up and down the east coast of North America via the shortwave giant WBCQ, the PLAN, 7.490, megahertz shortwave, around the world via the American Forces Network and via the Internet at two different locations, live and archive whenever you want at harryshear.com and kcsn.org, on the Mighty 104 in Berlin.

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