Le Show; 2022-01-02

From deep inside your audio device of choice. Well ladies and gentlemen, welcome to 2022. It's a year full of twos, we know that. Everything else is up for grabs, but year full of twos. I don't often, I don't know if I ever really come out and express like an opinion like, you know, the hackers do. But I feel constrained to start the year by giving some advice to the president of the United States. Now I choose him because I know he's not listening, but he should. But that's not the opinion. The opinion follows, thusly, get the hell off TV, sir. And I say that with the, with the, with the sir, with the respect

that is embodied in the sir. Why do I say that? Well, I got time to fill. But it seems to me a, he's not really very good at it. And that's usually a reason to get off TV, although I can name some exceptions. But, um, and there's three things that make me say he's not very good on TV. There's the, during every TV speaking appearance that I've seen him do, there's the little, little, almost imperceptible, except not scratch near the eye. I believe it's the left eye. There's the almost imperceptible, but not little scratch beside the mouth. I mean, do the scratching before you go on TV would be. Um, so that's one of those two, which is he does seem to be burdened by a almost, um, compulsion to clear his throat while he's talking to us.

Little distracting, little gets me off the, off the plot. But it's the squinting ladies and gentlemen, it's just the name squinting. You, you squinting on TV just not in the book, not in the great book of how to be on TV. Get glass, get the man glasses, get the man larger type on the teleprompter. But, you know, here's the recent, real reason, because as I say, there are people who aren't going on TV who have a lovely career there. But my theory of the 2020 election, not the one you normally hear, is that, um, the United States is made up of a, of a public, which doesn't want to spend all that much time focusing on national politics. You know, we'll pay attention between Labor Day and Election Day of an election year.

But then leave us alone for a while, please, maybe. And the previous president violated that rule flagrantly and daily. He demanded for his own psychological reasons that we pay attention to him constantly. And my theory of the case was that Joe Biden represented basically elect me and I'll leave you alone for a while. And he's not. He's on TV, you know, like two or three times a week. Put out press releases, let the Red Headed Lady explain what's going on. Just, sir, please, get off TV. Um, that's really all I've got at this opening segment of the show, except to say to, um, my lovely talented wife, Judith Owen, a very happy birthday. And to the rest of you, hello, welcome to the show.

I am not such a clever one about the latest fact I admit I was never one adored by local land. Not that I ever try to be a saint. I'm the type that they classify as queer. I'm old fashioned. I love the moonlight. I love the old fashioned flames.

The sound of rain upon a window pane. The starry song that a hero sings. This year's fatties are blessing fatties. But sign side is holding hands. My heart understands I'm old fashioned, but I don't mind it. That's how I want to be, as long as you agree. I'm old fashioned with me.

I'm old fashioned, but I don't mind it. That's how I want to be, as long as you agree. To stay old fashioned with me. Don't you stay old fashioned with me. From New Orleans, Louisiana, where it's just stop being summertime for a little bit.

I'm Harry Scherer. Welcome you to this edition of the show. Now ladies and gentlemen. We've got the ultra modern neck. The getting oil from the deepest crack. So give the boys just a bit of slack. Well now, big new earthquake. In Texas, Texas. They don't have a lot of earthquakes there. They didn't use to before fracking. This was 4.5 magnitude this past week. In the Permian Basin, where the fracking lives. It's likely according to Reuters to add pressure on oil producers in the region to slow or stop underground wastewater injections. Those injections are what regulators believe are causing the earthquakes. You know, shooting wastewater deep underground where the plates are.

Not the guy spinning them. They want to rub up against each other and cause earthquakes. This was the third largest to hit Texas this decade. It occurred near Stanton. You know where that is. No, you don't. I don't. It was laced in a surge of temblers. The current surges, don't they? It linked to the disposal of wastewater by a product of oil and gas production. See, wastewater injection can change pressures around fault lines. It comes shortly after the state railroad commission, which, for reasons I have never understood, regulates the oil industry. Hall to the injection of water to deep wells in an area northwest of Midland. Amid the jump in seismicity. You don't want your seismicity jumping. I guess this is the lesson there.

The commission, the railroad commission, which regulates oil. It's Texas. What do you want? I said it had been in contact with the disposal well operators in the affected area of the Permian Basin and is sending inspectors. That'll do. A suspension of injections of wastewater around the epicenter of the quake could impact some 18 active wells that dispose. Oh, I don't even barrels per day. The affected area has a higher utilization of deep disposal. That means shooting water deep underground. 50% higher than other areas in the Permian Basin, sorry. According to the water data and analytics firm, B3 inside could have been H2O, but you know, Permian oil operators are already looking for ways to reduce wastewater injections after the oil regulator. That is the railroad commission. It began imposing limits. Solutions include recycling the wastewater.

Well, why didn't I think of that? Or even better, trucking it elsewhere. Well, that doesn't add to carbon usage or anything like that. That's a really trucking it elsewhere. What are you going to do with it when it gets there? If they're not able to do that, but they may have to have no other choice than to shut these wells and choke production. Says the vice president of oil field services research for another consultancy. Adding that halting production is a last resort. Well, it always is for everything. That's why it's called America, isn't it? Because we hate to hold production of anything. It's just the nature of this land we live in. What the frack, so you can say really at the end of that. But now, news of our friend, the atom. Clean, safe, too cheap to meet.

Safe, too cheap to meet. Safe, too cheap to meet. Safe, too cheap to meet. Well, when you can't solve a problem, even by trucking it away, you could just redefine it. The Biden administration has affirmed a Trump administration interpretation of high level radioactive waste. That is based on the waste's radioactivity rather than how it was produced. The Associated Press reports the Department of Energy announced last week that it's reinterpreting high level radioactive waste or maintaining that reinterpretation. So some radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production stored in Idaho, Washington, and South Carolina could be reclassified and moved for permanent storage elsewhere. The elsewhere is yet to be determined, of course, because we don't have a place for permanent storage of nuclear high level waste.

But we do have a place for non-high level waste. So maybe after extensive policy and legal assessment, DOE, Department of Energy, affirmed that the interpretation is consistent with the law, guided by the best available science and data, and the views of members of the public and scientific community were considered in its adoption. That sounds like a bit of legal ease. The department said to the Associated Press this week, the affirmation of the new interpretation came after various groups offered letters of support and opposition, after Biden became president. Biden has, of course, reversed Trump policy and other areas. The policy has to do with the nuclear waste generated from the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel to build nuclear bombs. That's some big time waste. Such waste previously has been characterized as high level. The new interpretation applies to waste that includes such things as sludge, slurry,

which is your favorite, sludge or slurry. Come on, you must choose. Liquid, debris, and contaminated equipment. But again, sludge and slurry. The agencies that making disposal decisions based on radioactivity characteristics rather than how it became radioactive could allow the Energy Department to focus on other high priority cleanup projects. As well as reduce how long radioactive waste is stored at Energy Department facilities and increase safety for workers, communities, and the environment. Yeah, I'll be setting my watch for that. And I don't wear a watch. The department noted the approach is supported by the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's nuclear future. You didn't know either. It was formed during the Obama administration. The department identified three sites where waste is being stored that will be affected by the new interpretation. Idaho, part of the National Laboratory there in Washington, Hanford.

That's the decommissioned nuclear site that produced plutonium for nuclear bombs. I'm sure that they'd love that to be redefined. Not really high level. No. In South Carolina, it's stored at the Savannah River site, home of the National Laboratory. The department in its statement to the AP says it is committed to using science-driven solutions to continue to achieve success in tackling the environmental legacy of decades of nuclear weapons production and government-sponsored nuclear energy research. The agency also made public a draft environmental assessment based on the new interpretation to move some contaminated equipment from Savannah River to a commercial low-level radioactive waste disposal facility located in another state, possibly in Texas or Utah. Congratulations, Texas or Utah. We know you'll have a ball with that new lower-level waste.

The agency had, using the new interpretation to prove moving up to 10,000 gallons of waste water from Savannah River, some already going to Texas. The nation, as you know, has no permanent storage for high-level nuclear waste, the classifying some of the high-level waste under the new interpretation means it can be legally sent to commercial facilities for storing waste deemed less radioactive. The head of the Union of Concerned Scientists said his group agreed radioactive waste should be classified using technical analysis rather than a legal definition, but he also said any decision made under this new interpretation has to be backed up by solid analysis and a strong commitment to public health and safety and environmental protection. He is concerned the new interpretation could hinder development of permanent storage for high-level radioactive waste. I don't know how you can hinder it more.

We may not ever have self-driving cars, but we have self-hindering permanent nuclear waste storage. And also, on the subject of our friend, the atom, a power plant being a building in Georgia, it's called VOTAL, V-O-G-T-L-E. Crews there earlier this year were struggling to find leaks in a pool built to hold spent fuel, which itself is highly radioactive. They added air pressure under the floor of the pool, hoping air bubbles would pinpoint flawed welds. Didn't work, so an engineer doubled air pressure. Good idea, buddy. The pool's steel floor plates were damaged, rendering them unusable. New ones had to be manufactured. The fixes and re-checks of the pool have taken nearly a year and cost millions of dollars. It's been that kind of year at the plant.

The expansion project was supposed to be close to completion. A series of missteps and botched jobs in recent months have led to more cost overruns. Further delays and fresh worries about quality and oversight is all. Project has had setbacks almost since it began, but the 2021 revelations highlight how widespread the problems have become. This is according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and there are fresh contentions that Georgia power may have tried to hide the project's rising costs, so that work would be allowed to continue. The four-profit monopoly utility has consistently underestimated costs of the expansion, but that's okay because Georgia powers 2.6 million customers are already paying the utility for the costs of the financing of the project, and they're going to see their electric bills rise more for the construction and possibly be hit with additional increases because of the latest problems. So don't shed a tear for the utility.

They're okay, as is our friend, the Adam. And now... News of the Olympic Movement. Produced by Jim Embers on the third. We are so close to the Winter Olympics in Beijing, the United States has declared a diplomatic boycott on those games. Because of human rights problems in China, some other western countries have joined, I think the UK and France, but World Athletics President Sebastian Kose says he takes human rights very seriously, but that the diplomatic boycott of the Winter Games is, quote, meaningless.

Ask an ex-runner what's meaningful. Australia and Canada also. Diplomatic boycott. China dismisses it as political posturing. Code drew criticism over his comments when he said he was philosophically opposed to boycotts. Boycotts unbalance are historically illiterate and intellectually dishonest. A political boycott is, frankly, meaningless. Tell that to the South Africans, buddy. That's not to be an apologist for countries that do not conform to the basic standards around human rights, co-added. I'm not in Susiant or Cavalier about human rights, I take them very seriously. I don't think over the long-haul boycotts actually achieve a great deal. At the end of the day, the people that suffer most and all that are the athletes, unquote. So he's representing.

Bright yellow turbines are lining the slopes of the Beijing Winter Olympics, spraying out the artificial snow needed for the games to take place, according to Oswald's press. Manmade snow has been used to varying degrees since the 1980s, Winter Olympics and Lake Placid, New York, but February's Beijing games will depend almost entirely on artificial snow. Because they're happening, the games have been cited in one of the driest parts of China. That was a good idea. Organizers are racing to coat the beasts in high quality snow. It is Oswald's press after all. A vast and complex task that critics say is environmentally unsustainable. Fat by local reservoirs, about 300 turbines known as snow guns, not show guns, mix water with compressed air before propelling the droplets into the air to form snow, workers then use truck-like vehicles called snow cats to spread the snow onto the mountains

and sculpt jumps and turns. Then you must ensure the snow meets precise standards of depth, hardness, and consistency. Variations in the snow making process can cause snow quality to be too hard in some places and too soft in others, which could be dangerous for the athletes. Said the Deputy Chief of Mountain Operations at the National Alpine Scheme Center in Young Gang. He's representing too. And the Tokyo 2020 Games Organizing Committee provided financial details of their games, committee managed to save money when compared to the December 2020 version of the budget. Much of this was possible because no spectators, the Organizing Committee needed less manpower. The real result was that the eventual cost of the games was twice the original budget.

It's a movement. The costs have to move. It's a movement. And we all need one every day. Yes, just twice the original budget. Now I'm not going to connect any dots here, but I am just going to remind you of some of them that you may have not quite kept track of. These are dots in connection with a fellow by the name of Jeffrey Epstein and his gal pal. Just a guillain Maxwell. First of all, she is the daughter of a former British press lawyer, Lord Presloid, who died mysteriously in the midst of financial troubles when he fell off his yacht.

She then, some years later, took up as a first as a girlfriend and then as an aide to Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein was a financial advisor to among other people. The head of a, at one point, very successful clothing chain called the Limited. But it was never quite clear why Epstein was the beneficiary of so much looker from that former head of the Limited. He basically turned all over all his business affairs to Jeffrey Epstein to run, which Jeffrey Epstein did. But he had another thing to run. As you may remember, it was a transportation system for young girls to his various homes in New York City and New Mexico and on a private island in the Caribbean.

Now, he was brought to justice for that operation if you put the word justice in probably three sets of quotation marks. He was prosecuted for prostitution in Florida by a U.S. attorney by the name of Alex Acosta, now Mr. Acosta while he prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein. When Epstein was found guilty, Mr. Acosta gifted Jeffrey Epstein with what was called a sweetheart deal in terms of his sentence. He was sentenced to stay at home except for twelve hours a day when he could go to work. It sounds like life. And Mr. Acosta shortly afterwards, eight years afterwards, was rewarded by then President Donald Trump with the job of Secretary of Labor. If that's a reward, hard to say. Mr. Epstein was released from his sentence five months early

and started his old life again in terms of the people he hung out with. He hung out with a lot of famous and rich people, a couple of presidents or ex presidents, a Mr. Clinton and a Mr. Trump. As you probably do remember, he was later prosecuted in 2019. He was prosecuted again, or he was charged with some crimes in connection with the transporting of younger women to various locations for sexual activity. Sexual activity, voluntary or otherwise. And shortly after he was jailed, he was reported to have killed himself in jail. Yes, he was on a watch. He was on a suicide watch, you would think.

But there was a little mystery attached to that. The guards who were supposed to have been watching him on the night in question were not on duty. They falsified the reports claiming that they checked in on him when, in fact, they didn't. They were otherwise engaged. This week, in the welter of excitement and fear, you may have missed the news. US prosecutors decided to end their criminal case against those two Manhattan jail guards filing on the day before New Year's Eve. When everybody would be noticing, federal court prosecutors asked a judge to dismiss the claims after both guards complied with a six months deferred prosecution agreement they agreed to in May. Usually only big companies get those kind of agreements.

The two guards were accused of falling asleep and surfing the internet that night, rather than checking in on Epstein every 30 minutes to prevent the hanging. Both admitted to having willfully and knowingly falsified records to make it seem they were monitoring him properly. Their deferred prosecution agreements required they each perform a hundred hours of community service and cooperate with a federal probe arising from his death. That sending a message to Galein Maxwell, who was found guilty this week and is now under some kind of guard in jail. Is she drawing some kind of lesson from that other than the possibility that she's going to be called Jizz Lane for the rest of her life behind bars? She's known at this time.

Another story that you may have missed in relation to all this when Galein Maxwell was found guilty of five of the six counts that she was charged with in connection with the transport of young women to the various homes of Jeffrey Epstein. We see, covered the story, and for reaction and analysis had as, I think, their first guest, Alan Dershowitz. Alan Dershowitz had represented Jeffrey Epstein, and that fact was not made public, made known to the viewers of the BBC. It later said its interview with Dershowitz was, quote, not suitable, unquote, that it was investigating. Dershowitz has also been accused of sexual crimes by Virginia Jew free, who also claimed she was abused by Epstein, Maxwell, and Prince Andrew.

They vehemently deny any wrongdoing. The interview on the BBC News Channel introduced Dershowitz as a constitutional lawyer, made no reference to his links to those involved in the case. He used the air time to denigrate Virginia Jew free, who has accused him of some of the same, some of the Epstein-related activities. The BBC's statement said, last night's interview with Alan Dershowitz after the Galein Maxwell verdict did not meet the BBC's editorial standards. As Mr. Dershowitz was not a suitable person to interview as an impartial analyst, and we did not make the relevant background clear to our audience. We will look into how this happened. Unquote. This is BBC News Wheel. I'm Chris Albright. One man who knows Alan Dershowitz better than most, though not as well as many, served as his client two plus decades ago.

That's when Dershowitz served as part of a so-called dream team that earned OJ Simpson an acquittal in his widely viewed murder trial. Mr. Simpson is on the line now from Florida. Hey Chris, how you doing? Mr. Simpson, some, now many years later. How do you view Alan Dershowitz? Well Chris, I was around show business for years. You know, you get to know a lot of Jewish people in that line of work, and I never met a more hard-ass Jewish person that earns. I mean, he didn't just take off all their, you know, special holidays, but the day he's leading up to them, I used to tell Johnny Gargrin, Alan's got to be going to heaven with all the extra praying he's doing. At least I think it was praying. Of course, attorneys, especially successful ones, take on a wide range of clients. Did he ever talk to you about his other clients, particularly Jeffrey Epstein? Well, he did call me up once from the private island. He said, Jews, this is what you need. Some place where you do exactly what you like with who you like, or something like that.

And did he tell you what he was doing there? Well, he told me they had this slickest floor shuffleboard set up he'd ever seen. I mean, pucks it lit up as they slid up and down the board, stuff like that. He said, Jews, you could have a ball calling these games. You know, he was kidding at all. I only ever covered football. I tried covering a baseball game. I called one once on a, on a dare from how it goes so. Obviously, since he helped you get acquitted, one can assume you admire Mr. Dershowitz. Admire. I still owe him money. But do you think he would be an objective observer of the trial of Mr. Epstein's alleged partner in crime? Well, I'll tell you this. Ders will tell you exactly what he thinks. He's not a guy who shapes off the sharp edges to be nice or anything. He once told me I ought to buy the property. Kato Kellen was renting. So I could evict him. He said, Jews, even the people renting knew you need to be classy.

I mean, I saw much he cares about his clients. So if you were the BBC, you would have no problem interviewing him about the Maxwell verdict. He grids. I've known a lot of smart lawyers, you know, for contracts and other stuff. And Alan's one of the smartest. He'll turn his own self. Former footballer O.J. Simpson, I'm the line from Florida. Thank you for joining us on The News Weed. That's my problem. And I mean no pleasure. Hey, sweet Annie, don't take it so bad. You know the summer's coming soon.

Though the interstate is joking under a salt and dirty sand. And it seems the sun is hiding from me. Your daddy told you when you were a girl, the kind of things that come to those who wait. So give it a rest girl. Take a deep breath girl. Meet me at the basting tonight. This snow is coming down and I'm doing that town. It's been falling all day long. What else is known? What could I do? I wrote a valley winter song to play for you. Then late December and dragon man down. You feel it deep in your cup.

Short days and afternoon spent partying a lot in a dark house with the windows painted shut. Remember New York staring outside as reckless winter made its way. From satin island to the open west side wide and out our streets along the way. This snow is coming down and I'm doing that town. It's been falling all day long. What else is known? What could I do? I wrote a valley winter song to play for you. This snow is coming down and I'm doing that town. It's been falling all day long.

What else is known? What could I do? I wrote a valley winter song to play for you. This is Lysho from New Orleans. Let's jump in some news of the godly, a retired priest of the diocese of Arlington, Virginia. Here's his background for seven years. He oversaw the diocese's program on protecting miners from clerical sexual abuse. He's now been indicted on two counts of sexually abusing a miner.

Irony ain't dead. It's on life support, but a trial scheduled next October for father Terry Specht. No, no, just Specht. He lives in Donagle, Pennsylvania. He was the director of the diocese's author of office, not offer. Well, yeah, offer of child protection from 2004 to 2011. So he got to know you should pardon the expression, the lay of the land. And now... Well, you no doubt have been indicted like everybody else with publicity about the onset or the outbreak of 5G. Cellular telephone service, huh?

And you may have even bought a phone advertising that it was capable of receiving 5G telephone service and not aware as I wasn't that they haven't turned it on yet. They were...they, AT&T and Verizon were fixing to turn it on. Shortly, January 5th, they before insurrection day, but on trial the United States transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg and the head of the FAA have asked AT&T and Verizon to delay turning on 5G. Why? Aviation safety concerns. What? In a letter seen by Reuters, Buttigieg and the FAA administrator asked AT&T's chief executive and Verizon's chief executive for delay no more than two weeks as part of a proposal as a near term solution.

That is short term, for advancing the coexistence of 5G deployment in the C band, that's a band of frequencies, and say flight operations, unquote. The aviation industry and the FAA have raised concerns about potential interference of 5G with sensitive aircraft electronics, such as radio altimeters that could disrupt flights. They just let the plane and the pilot know...the pilot know the altitude, that's all. Quot, we ask that your companies continue to pause introducing commercial C band service for an additional short period of no more than two weeks. Verizon and AT&T both said they received the letter and are reviewing it. See, this second paragraph looks interesting here. The two companies accused the aerospace industry of seeking to hold C band spectrum deployment hostage until the wireless industry agrees to cover the cost of upgrading any obsolete altimeters, that is to say altimeters that have been in use all along, but would be rendered obsolete.

By the new setup, for those of you who aren't familiar with it, there are various bands of the radio frequency spectrum. C band was originally, I don't know, originally, but it's certainly for a long period of time, was the band of frequencies used for satellite video transmissions when people are via satellite, they were on C band. Then another band opened up and the FCC realized they could make a...well, I think they made about 84 billion, million, million, million from auctioning off that now available part of C band for 5G. As far as I understand, the lower frequency band of 5G, there are two that were auctioned off for 5G. The lower band is receivable or will be by most people in most places, but it's according to the early reports, not that much faster than 4G.

The faster band is a higher band and it's less accessible, let us to say, those signals don't always penetrate, wait for it, buildings. The FAA and the aviation industry would identify priority airports where a buffer zone would permit aviation operations to continue safely, while the FAA continues the assessments of the interference potential. That's from the letter by Buttigieg, Buttigieg, Buttigieg and the head of the FAA. The commercial C band service would begin as planned in January with certain exceptions around priority airports. The government would work to identify mitigations for all priority airports to enable most large commercial aircraft to operate safely in all conditions.

Most, eh? That would allow deployment around priority airports on a rolling basis, aiming to ensure activation by March 31st, barring unforeseen issues. The carriers, yes, and it's billion, 80 billion dollar government auction previously agreed to precautionary measures for six months to limited interference. After that, hey, we're on our own. This week, the Trade Group Airlines for America asked the FCC to halt deployment of the wireless service around many airports, warning thousands of flights could be disrupted. Quote, the potential damage to the airline industry alone is staggering. Quote Airlines for America. All right, then. It's a smart, smart, smart, smart, smart, smart world. And now, ladies and gentlemen, just a report from the inspectors general among us.

Former senior official of the US Drug Enforcement Administration improperly gave preferential treatment to a pharmaceutical company that was seeking a quota increase so it could manufacture more drugs, according to the Justice Department.