Le Show; May 21, 2023

From deep inside your audio device of choice and first news of nice corp nice people doing nice things you know who owes Rupert Murdoch a lot of money Elizabeth Holmes remember her the Theranos Theranos founder fraudster she owes Rupert Murdoch 125 million dollars Hollywood reporter says he may not have much luck getting much of his money back a federal judge ordered Holmes this week to pay four hundred fifty two million dollars to investors she duped to build her hoax blood testing business called Theranos among the investors she built was Rupert yes it's it's a dupe of Rupert he was one of Theranos Theranos Theranos largest investors but Holmes says she's essentially essentially broke

not really broke but essentially broke Murdoch brought roughly 7.3 million shares of Theranos as I say was a fake blood testing company 17 bucks a share coordinated court filings the judge in the case found that investors losses are tied to Holmes's fraud quote for each of these investors the court's identified specific reliable evidence indicating they were induced to invest in Theranos by defendant's misrepresentations as part of the fraud conspiracy so wrote the judge the representations were that the the thing actually did what she's claimed it did which was identify all sorts of problems with the blood being tested Natalie Ravitz who was chief of staff to Rupert in 2014 and 2015 and manager of his personal investments testified to

the Securities and Exchange Commission at Holmes personally provided binders containing financial materials about her company to Rupert she also stated that knowledge that blood tests were not actually being performed on Theranos's proprietary devices quote would have changed how we thought about certainly the financial aspects of it if there wasn't an actual piece of technology that they developed on quote miss Ravitz Murdoch told the Wall Street Journal which he owns back in November that he should have vetted the company better quote of course it wasn't fraud but I only have myself to blame for not asking a lot more questions one of a bunch of old men taken in by a seemingly great young woman total embarrassment unquote Holmes has to start making restitution payments after her release as I say she's sentenced to 11 years in the

polkae so Rupert may not be planning on seeing any of that money if she chooses a percentage of her wages in prison will be applied to her debt so there's that but the Department of Justice says quote realistically the chance of full recovery is very low unquote the restitution order will act as a link against any property owned by Holmes it's enforceable for 20 years plus the incarceration period which is 11 years as there's your total of 31 years right there she was convicted was Holmes on four counts of fraud and conspiracy and appeals court this week rejected her bid to remain free while she's appealing her conviction so she's going to have to surrender herself soon that starts the clock Rupert wasn't the only high profile person to

invest in Theronos the co-founder of the Silicon Valley company Oracle Larry Ellison former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and some venture capitalists sank millions of dollars into the company I'm I'm thinking of starting a go fund me for Rupert victim of a Dupor Rupert try and talk me out of it won't you hello welcome to let's show anybody ask what you need me with a kid a fight you will only complimenting

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in the ocean in the ocean in the ocean in the ocean in the ocean from New Orleans I'm Harry Shayer will walk in you to this very addition of the show and now ladies and gentlemen news of the warm won't you right here right now and it's good news of the warm yeah you can take that to the bank or just take

the bank researchers have found that emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas methane or methane if you British drop for several years right near LA of all places LA go for the sun stay for the lack of methane two recent studies by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena I remember Pasadena they used contrasting approaches to measure drops in human-caused emotion emissions of methane it's a potent greenhouse gas and these are drops in methane in recent years in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in the first study published a couple months ago in environmental research letters scientists analyzed data from

ground-based sensors scatter around four counties in densely populated soCal LA Orange San Bernardino and Riverside counties that is they found emissions fell by about 7 percent between 2015 and 2020 that's a reduction of 33 million pounds of methane not released per year the second study published in March in environmental research communications compared emissions from a belt of oil refineries across the South Bay area of LA during the first summer of the COVID pandemic to emissions observed three years earlier using NASA data researchers saw that most of the facilities they identified as methane sources in the early study were no longer emitting the greenhouse gas leading to a 73 percent reduction in measured emissions while such a

reduction around COVID disruptions was not necessarily surprising everything stopped in it the result was important for demonstrating scientists ability to track point sources of methane methane as you may know has a much shorter life in the atmosphere than does carbon dioxide 12 years from methane compared to centuries for CO2 but it absorbs much more energy while it exists in the atmosphere therefore reducing human caused emissions of methane is a particularly effective way to make significant short-term impacts on global climate change it's according to JPL environmental research letters these papers demonstrate that methane reductions are not only possible they're measurable through persistent monitoring says lead author of the COVID period study and a JPL research technologist the two studies could use different techniques to identify and quantify emissions trends is crucial for generating

confidence in the conclusions drawn from observations of methane that's according to a lead author of the first paper quote the important thing is to determine whether emissions are increasing or declining and for that it's very helpful to have more than one approach if you're turning the information over to decision-makers he says you have to be sure no mention of Westinghouse news to warm a copyrighted feature this broadcast and now let us gentlemen some news of the crypto winner they were going to I know it feels like spring but it's crypto winner Tissera that's a protocol that enables collective ownership and governments sorry governance of non-fungible tokens your NFTs it's winding down its operations over the next few weeks that's according to co-founder and the Chorlion has reported in coin desk which covers crypto and it's

associated winteriness after a lot of deliberation we've made the incredibly hard decision to wind down all of our operations at Tessera over the next few weeks and the Chorlion tweeted he co-founded the company alongside Nedsk yes and EJC Krajnik in 2021 he said the decision was made after carefully analyzing possible market scenarios our company structure and our financial situation unquote I bet financial situation came in first in your analysis structure curated digital fine art math a marketplace Escher one of the projects in the Tessera portfolio also going to be shutting down according to Chorlion quote as we really dug into the economic model for Escher we saw

that the targets we needed to hit a profitability compared to the time and resource costs to scale there just didn't add up or make good business sense he wrote other Tessera projects include nounlets a fractional ownership platform for nouns NFTs and a podcast hosted by Chorlion and an NFT influencer called we do a little the news of Tessera shutdown comes just after a year after it rebranded from its original name fractional and announced a $20 million funding round led by crypto investment giant paradigm other investors in that round of funding included focus labs uluswap labs ventures e-girl capital and yunt capital I said yunt fractionalizing NFTs involves creating fungible tokens tied to an underlying digital asset your board

ape or crypto punk the NFT is locked away in a vault and fractional tokens can be traded on secondary marketplaces it all sounds so legit doesn't it as the NFT market continues to struggle through an extended crypto winter according to coin desk marketplaces have embraced ways to allowed users to invest in digital collectibles with smaller upfront costs hence fractional earlier this month popular NFT marketplace blur launched appear to appear lending network called blend which allows traders to put up a percentage of the NFTs price up front and finance the remaining balance NFT X another fractionalizing platform allows traders to pool NFTs of equal value into index funds and mint fungible tokens tied to underlying NFTs this creates increased liquidity liquidity supposedly last month US Department of Justice revealed

that Chorlion along with four other individuals had been charged for allegedly participating in a securities manipulation scheme and may have had something to do with their decision to shut the thing down and mecca fight club an NFT game from irreverent labs is halting development indefinitely its makers believe that crypto's future in the United States is too uncertain right now amid regulatory challenges this is reported by decrypt not the crypt decrypt quote we don't see a clear path forward to launch the economy from the US said the irreverent lab CEO and co-founder Rahul sued moving into other jurisdictions would require much of the senior team to move out of the USA for a period of time he said mecca fight club MFT was a planned cock fighting video game I said cock fighting video game that leveraged artificial intelligence and would see

mechanical roosters battle it out in the cock de gone sued told decrypt the shutdown was irreverent's own decision but it will not sell the MFC brand mecca fight club mecca me CHA because it is quote too close to the soul of our company unquote he added the game had reached alpha status which typically means it's playable and feature complete but may still be missing considerable content and polish from the planned cock fighting video game sued said that mecca fight club may resurface in the future in a different form the team hasn't decided that yet irreverent labs claimed in an open letter that the game was quote trapped in regulatory limbo unquote in recent months the US Securities and Exchange Commission has ramped up its enforcement actions against crypto startups and platforms here in the United States alleging broad violations of

securities laws quote the regulatory and operations environment around blockchain within the US has drastically changed in the last two years said irreverent labs in its letter quote we're an American company and a lack of clarity is making it difficult for blockchain companies to operate here they said in the current regulatory confusion we simply couldn't create an in-game economy without concern about the regulatory ramifications unquote on irreverence podcasts this week just days before the news of the shutdown suit said he believes that they head of the Securities and Exchange Commission Gary Gensler owes his job to Elizabeth Warren and he said that Gensler and Warren want to kill crypto because they think it's all a scam unquote imagine that now that MFC is shutting down suit is pivoting irreverent labs towards artificial

intelligence instead because that's the hot thing this year suit told decrypt in a direct message irreverent has made a significant breakthrough in its AI model which he said can create short form videos from images maybe videos of cockfights studio plans to release it later this year under new branding hope for MFC that was mecha fight club or mecha maybe it's pronounced it Spanishly hope for it with short libba fervent just one year ago the firm announced a hefty forty million dollar funding round led by venture capitalists and recent Horowitz with some contributions from CAA founder Michael Ovitz remember him Bollywood actress Sonum Kapoor and others investing the general partner of Andreessen Horowitz the venture capital firm wrote last

year that at first she thought the game quote sounded weird unquote but then invested because she believed the team was serious and capable and had a good sense of humor along with a thriving discord server community and that's really what you need to get a digital cock fight game off the ground it's crypto winner everybody bundle up and now news of the godly and investigation by the Spanish newspaper L peace has revealed the Spanish Jesuit priest Alfonso Pedro Cas Moreno who died in 2009 well before he died he sexually abused as many as eighty five boys and adolescents in the 70s and 80s and recorded the incidents in a secret diary as quote blunders and that the Jesuits covered it

up this corny of the cast like news agency they should know an effu of pedra has found found the diary and contracted the society of jesus in Bolivia to finally complaint then went to the Spanish prosecutors office which dismissed the case for having passed the statute of limitations according to alpais the journalistic investigation also compiled testimonies from alleged victims and relatives according to a report by the newspaper the priest is closed the alleged abuses to at least seven provincial superiors and some ten Bolivian and Spanish clergy members the Bolivian attorney general's office announced this week it will investigate the incidents linked to the Spanish Jesuit the attorney general announced on social media the background information will be requested so that this very serious occurrence can be investigated in Bolivia unquote the Jesuits in Bolivia assured their willingness

to cooperate and collaborate with the authorities in the investigations quote the abuses have caused a deep wound in the victims and the complaints cannot be ignored even though the priest involved in the incidents has died unquote the Jesuits they began an investigation to determine if several of the Jesuit members who served as superiors at the time of abuse had in fact covered it up they were removed from their positions in addition the order will also suspend other Jesuits who served as provincials in the years following the death of Pedrajas they will investigate whether there were public complaints not addressed at that time the society Jesus expressed its repudiation of the acts committed by the priest and reiterated its policy of zero tolerance for the abuse the old the order the Jesuits also announced a commission of experts working since 2022 will investigate the cases quote which can create hope for

justice for the victims who situation has shamed us and caused indignation and sadness unquote the Jesuits also asked forgiveness for the pain caused news of the godly ladies jump it is copyrighted now I think he will think about it removing trash from the ocean may not be as harmless as it seems that's the conclusion of new research corny to science magazine it finds that marine dumps known as garbage patches are home to countless delicate creatures that could perish when people scoop debris from the sea the oceans are home to five

major garbage patches they form far from land where strong currents swirled together ferrying trash of all sizes some of it turns into tiny debris which we call microplastics the largest of these debris fields the great Pacific garbage patch six hundred twenty thousand square miles midway between Hawaii and California it escaped notice for so long because most of its contents aren't easily spotted from a far to see whether it's harboring a cluster of floating creatures in addition to floating waste a crew sailed through the patch for eighty days collecting samples from Hawaii to the coast of San Francisco these mysterious regions are largely unexplored says a biologist at Georgetown working on the thing the samples revealed a high concentration of three species that hover at the ocean surface blue button jellies they're kind of like jellyfish one point two inches wide by the wind

sailors four inch long creatures with translucent translucent natural sails that helped them drift in the wind I know the feeling and violet snails which float using bubbles and live in golf ball sized shells the bet jellies and by the wind sailors feed on plankton and serve as food for the violet snails so it's kind of like a system scientists match the locations of these creatures with high concentrations of plastic debris that hints the ocean currents shepherd all these floating objects life and trash in the same way this is reported in PLOS biology the presence of these creatures implies a complex ecosystem in which they service food for predators like sea turtles and sea breeds these animals don't exist in isolation says the researcher they're part of a food web that affects the whole ocean that could

complicate efforts to clean up these patches some environmental organizations aimed to remove the waste by skimming the surface with nets that works so well with fishing which leads to bycatch creatures like dolphins getting caught accidentally in the nets while targeting commercial species such as shrimp such cleanup efforts would likely scoop up surface dwellers along with a debris indeed a modeling study published in a aquatic biology found such efforts could potentially threaten the survival of species that have flourished for millions of years many features found in the patch are delicate because they're used to calm conditions human activity could upset the balance though one researcher says the influx of plastic waste is already doing so in march nearly 200 countries agreed to a new high seas treaty it'll eventually allow

the creation of protected areas in international waters if garbage patches are so designated the treaty treaty could guard them against even well-intended human impacts an effort led by the government of Bermuda is advocating for the Atlantic Ocean's Sargothos Sea which also contains a garbage patch to be named a marine protected area doing so for other garbage patches could pause cleanup efforts long enough for scientists to better understand potential impacts says one of the researchers groups may still decide to proceed with cleanup plastic is an invasive species sometimes you have to kill invasive species to protect biodiversity single-use plastic is the low-hanging fruit that should be the first to go says the researcher sounds tasty doesn't it low-hanging fruit mm-hmm just one word ladies and gentlemen microplastics

when I was young I lived in a world of dreams of moods and myths and illusionary schemes though now I'm much more grown up I fear that I must own up to the fact that I'm in doubt of what the modern cynic shout of they say it's spring this feeling light as a feather they say this thing this magic we share together came with the weather to they say it's made that's made me daft as a daisy it's made they say that gave the whole world this crazy

heavenly hazy you I'm a lark on the wing I'm the spark of a fireflies fling yet to me this must be something more than a seasonal thing could it be spring those bells that I can you ringing it may be spring but when the robin stop singing you're what I'm clinging to though they say it's spring it's you if poets sing that when a heart sympathetic it's merely spring then poets plights are pathetic though I'm poetic too they say it's spring for lovers

there's where the lures that evil thing for which September the curious this they are sure is true though I know that it's so that my fancy may turn in the spring with a right one inside one can find a perpetual thing did I need spring to bring the ring that you bought me though it was spring that one dress day that you caught me darling I thought we knew that it was in spring was you

from New Orleans this is the show ladies gentlemen once or twice on this broadcast I've shared with you the thoughts of a personal friend who happens to be a prominent scientist in the field of artificial intelligence you wrote a book with a co-author in 2019 called rebooting AI which argued that AI would never live up to its potential or its hype unless the way it was trained was expanded to include a a much different much broader variety of inputs put it way too short and for a long time his major critique of AI was that it was being overhyped

given what it actually could do his name is Gary Marcus and the advent of chat bots starting in a belief last November with chat gp23 gpt3 and now advanced to gpt4 has changed the playing field somewhat and Gary Marcus professor Gary Marcus has a I think much much more dire critique of the field lately this week he was one of three people to testify before a Senate committee chaired by Senator Richard Blumenthal of a Democrat of Connecticut on the subject of chat bots and as I say Gary Marcus at this point is delivering a what sounds to me

at least like a much more dire set of possibilities here's the opening statement that he delivered this week before a Senate committee I'm profoundly grateful to be here I come as a scientist someone who's founded AI companies and as someone who genuinely loves AI but who is increasingly worried there are benefits but we don't yet know whether they will outweigh the risks fundamentally these new systems are going to be destabilizing they can and will create persuasive lies at a scale humanity has never seen before outsiders will use them to affect our elections insiders to manipulate our markets in our political systems democracy itself is threatened chat bots will also clandestinely shape our opinions potentially exceeding what social media can do choices about data sets that AI companies use will have enormous unseen influence those who choose the data will make the rules shaping society and subtle but powerful ways there are other risks too many stemming

from the from the inherent unreliability of current systems a law professor for example was accused by a chat bot of sexual harassment untrue and it pointed to a Washington Post article that didn't even exist the more that happens the more that anybody can deny anything is one prominent lawyer told me on Friday defendants are starting to claim that plaintiffs are making up legitimate evidence these sorts of allegations undermine the abilities of juries to decide what or who to believe and contribute to the undermining of democracy poor medical advice could have serious consequences to an open source large language model recently seems to have played a role in a person's decision to take their own life the large language model asked the human if you wanted to die why didn't you do it earlier then followed up with were you thinking of me when you overdosed without ever referring the patient to the human health that was obviously needed another system rushed out and made available to millions of children told a person posing as a 13-year-old how to lie to her parents about a trip with a 31-year-old man further threats continue

to emerge regularly a month after GPT-4 was released open AI released chat GPT plugins which quickly led others to develop something called auto GPT with direct access to the internet the ability to write source code and increased powers of automation this may well have drastic and difficult to predict security consequences what criminals are going to do here is to create counterfeit people it's hard to even envision the consequences of that we have built machines that are like bulls in a china shop powerful reckless and difficult to control we all more or less agrees on the values we would like for our AI systems to honor we want for example for our systems to be transparent to protect our privacy to be free of bias and above all else to be safe but current systems are not in line with these values current systems are not transparent they do not adequately protect our privacy and they continue to perpetuate bias and even their makers don't entirely understand how they work most of all we cannot remotely guarantee that they're safe and hope here is

not enough the big tech companies preferred plan boils down to trust us but why should we the sums of money at stake are mind-boggling emissions drift open AI's original mission statement proclaimed our goal is to advance AI and the way that most is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole unconstrained by a need to generate financial return seven years later they're largely beholden to Microsoft embroiled in part in epic battle of search engines that routinely make things up and that's forced alphabet to rush out products and de-emphasize safety humanity has taken a backseat AI is moving incredibly fast with lots of potential but also lots of risks we obviously need government involved and we need the tech companies involved both big and small but we also need independent scientists not just so that we scientists can have a voice but so that we can participate directly in addressing the problems and evaluating solutions and not just after products are released but before and I'm glad that Sam mentioned that we need tight collaboration between independent scientists and governments in order to hold the company's feet to the fire

allowing independent access to these system independent scientists allowing independent scientists access to these systems before they are widely released as part of a clinical trial like safety evaluation is a vital first step ultimately we may need something like CERN global international and neutral but focused on AI safety rather than high energy physics we have unprecedented opportunities here but we are also facing a perfect storm of corporate responsibility widespread deployment lack of adequate regulation and inherent unreliability AI is among the most world-changing technologies ever already changing things more rapidly than almost any technology in history we acted too slowly with social media many unfortunate decisions got locked in with lasting consequence the choices we make now will have lasting effects for decades maybe even centuries the very fact that we are here today in bipartisan fashion to discuss these matters gives me some hope thank you Mr. Chairman I'm not really chairman but thank you Professor Gurren Marcus ladies and gentlemen and

now the apologies of the week the English water industry it is private industry used to be public publicly owned and they sold it off the English water industry you should an unprecedented apology this week a mid-growing public anger over the increasingly widespread release of untreated sewage into waterways in England well to come visit industry body water UK accepted that water companies were quote not acting quickly enough on sewage spills unquote and pledged to invest twelve point four billion American dollars over the next five years to upgrade pipes capacity and treatment works they claim this would represent the biggest modernization of sewers since the Victorian era

unquote the apology follows more than three hundred thousand incidents of reported sewage dumping last year more than one point eight million hours of waste pouring into rivers along the coastline usually in violation of UK law not all incidents of dumping are recorded making the actual figures likely to be higher recent investigation by Britain's channel four found them more than one point five million spills twelve hundred years worth of raw sewage has been dumped by water companies since 2016 alone well to come visit the scale of sewage dumping has increased dramatically over the past decade a parliamentary report last year found not a single river in England was free from contamination and only fourteen percent of rivers had a good ecological status numerous seaside resorts across England such as Toe Bay and Devon have been forced to discourage swimmers from entering the sea due to persistent sewage discharge and a number of English rivers including the river

lime and lime regions and the river Devon and Suffolk have been found to harbor levels of E. coli which greatly exceed legal limits extensive discharge has led to English water quality being branded among the worst in Europe the European Environment Agency found the UK had the worst water quality for bathing in the EU in 2020 the final year Britain was included in statistics before leaving the EU in English water quality stands in contrast to other parts of the UK such as Wales and Scotland which have both recorded record levels of good water quality over the last year the mayor of Missouri town has apologized for saying a local trash company is quote not trying to Jew anybody unquote at a recent public meaning writing in an open letter the remark was quote not in keeping with the beliefs and values of the town Stephen Wright the mayor of Odessa

Missouri made the remark at a meeting of the local board of alderman amid a discussion of changes to trash pickup in the town of 5,500 on Wednesday right posted an open letter on the city government's Facebook page addressed to our Jewish community and apologizing for the statement quote those statements were not in keeping with the beliefs and values of the city of Odessa Wright wrote it was not in my intent to degrade or marginalize anyone or any group of people nor to further any negative stereotypes based upon their heritage or belief unquote Odessa located 30 30 miles east of Kansas City does not appear to have any organized Jewish presence Joe Spar the co-publisher of a local paper told the Jewish telegraph agency quote I've lived here my whole life I haven't met one Jewish person unquote

there's no Jewish community since spar there's no Jewish church or anything around here unquote they'd line Chester County South Carolina a bracelet that was meant to inspire fifth graders at a local elementary school ended up causing backlash for school administrators because of one of the words on it the bracelets were inside gift bags or given out at great falls elementary school they say quote be strong be brave be badass it's that three letter word at the end the cost some parents to raise an eyebrow district leaders in the county told local tv station that an administrator brought the bracelets on amazon but didn't notice the bad language the district has since apologized to parents and a spokesperson said they're taking steps to ensure the mistake done happen again dayline lexington can talk a

fan dual television host can't rule off apologize this week for his tweet that appeared to excuse equine deaths as part of a sport he compared to professional wrestling this according to the lexington herald leader formerly known as tvg fan dual tv is a sports betting oriented digital cable and satellite tv network that primarily airs live coverage of horse racing in the tweet Rudolph compared horse racing to wwe and reality shows quote horse racing just needs to stop pretending and just be what it is said Rudolph in a tweet it's a great combo of wwe reality tv sports with a healthy dose of bs on the side it's a great game cheating is a part of it death is part of it losing is a part of it winning makes it all worthwhile and quote after an outcry over the tweet

Rudolph apologized quote Monday evening i'm at a mistake and used a very poor choice of words to make what i hope would be a compelling thought regarding horse racing i apologize to my colleagues in the industry for my lack of proper forethought i truly felt you all would have would have the open dialogue with me i will find a better way in the future at no point in my advocating for or supporting horse fatalities i don't even know how that became a part of this unquote the founder the toronto marathon sorry the toronto marathon is apologizing to the events participants and supporters for challenges they faced during the race earlier this month jay glassman said event organizers received complaints about inadequate road closures and water stations and about pandemonium at the finish line that made it difficult for some participants to collect their medals or food and beverages glassman says barriers were

knocked down and pushed aside some people walked out with cases of water and food which reduced what was available for other participants doesn't sound very canadian to me he says race organizers organizers are still investigating what happened during the event collecting more information and reviewing finish line videos he says the event team deeply apologizes to those who experienced challenges says they'll create a plan to avoid such issues in the future including installing more barriers and additional security the irish time says apologized after publishing an opinion piece claiming that irish women's obsession with fake tan is problematic that opinion piece was submitted by a hoaxer using artificial intelligence the piece was the second most read story on the irish times website after it was published on Thursday

it was removed on friday on the basis that it quote may not have been genuine unquote the article which provoked significant comment and controversy before it's removal was supposedly written by a woman named Adriana Acosta Cortez she claimed to be a 29-year-old Ecuadorian health care worker living in Dublin readers complained that the image of Acosta Cortez was an AI-generated image and there were concerns that the article was also written by AI the irish times has since confirmed that the article was submitted by a hoaxe account in a quote deliberate and coordinated deception it was a breach of the trust between the irish times and its readers and we are genuinely sorry the incident has highlighted a gap in our pre-publication procedures said the editor of the paper quote we need to make them those procedures more robust and we will it is also underlined one of the

challenges raised by AI for news organizations we like others will learn and adapt unquote and now deleted article claimed irish women's widespread use of fake tanning products amounted to cultural appropriation and was at odds with Ireland's quote progressive image unquote and they couldn't tell if that was fake deadline Suva Fiji Fiji's prime minister Sidavani Robuka has apologized to the Indo Fiji in community for the coup of 1987 never too late department Robuka made the confession at the reconciliation service between the Methodist Church and the Germatias in Suva held at the Votafonerita and is asked for forgiveness I admit our wrongdoings you have very right to blame us for the difficulties you went through he's talking to the Indo Fiji in community we do not blame you for being angry with us or even

hate us you are justified in your anger and your hate I stand here to confess and to ask for your forgiveness tweeted the prime minister Robuka he admitted he had wronged the Cermatias descendants and all Fiji in 1987 and said I'm not making this confession as the prime minister for Fiji because I do not hold the government accountable for my actions of 1987 I make this confession on my own behalf and on behalf of all those that took part with me in the military coup of May 1987 we confess our wrongdoings we confess we have heard so many of our people in Fiji unquote ethnic Indians were a majority in Fiji until the aftermath of a military coup of that year forced tens of thousands of them to leave the country staged by Robuka it overthrew the elected government who was the country's first ethnic inbian

prime minister the current president of johnny and associates possibly Japan's most fearsome talent agency that's the description in the trade paper variety has formerly apologized for sexual abuse is allegedly committed by her uncle and agency founder johnny kittigawa against young male talents kittigawa died four years ago but an expose aired by the BBC in march this year and personal testimony by a former talent of the agency okamoto kanan kawan and a Tokyo press conference last month brought matters into the public eye okamoto alleged that kittigawa had repeatedly abused him and other talents Japanese media which had maintained a general if not universal silence about kittigawa's alleged abuses for decades has recently been stirred up

by the accusations the president of the agency julie fuji shima kako said published in a had published a video statement and posted it to the agency website quote we sincerely apologize for the disappointment and anxiety this has caused and quote she said the agency has been conducting its own investigation consulting with lawyers and other experts and studying countermeasures including an anonymous hotline for reporting abuses and briefing sessions with minors and their guardians if the accusations are true we have to question even the existence of our agency fuji shima said i'm simply ashamed of it and deeply regret it she said with the beginning of hurricane season less than two weeks away the u.s. army corps of engineers and its contractors are rushing to complete temporary repairs of a corrosion damaged pump

at a key new Orleans site core again pledged this week have more than enough pumping capacity in place to handle the upcoming hurricane season but it remains stumped on what caused the corrosion in the first place and that investigation is continuing core employees have delivered information about the installation of temporary pumps door to door to residents near the canal in question quote we want to send out our apologies to the residents in the immediate area as we install and maintain these temporary pumps said colonel cullen jones commander of the corps new Orleans district office he says it's important to be on the side of caution rather than do not have this additional capacity unquote but they're stumped about the corrosion an agency that's spent more than a century

dealing primarily with metallic objects and water star Memphis grizzlies guard john marante apologize late Tuesday of this week after receiving days of backlash for a social media video that appeared to show him brandishing a gun in public for the second time in just over two months i know i've disappointed a lot of people who've supported me morant said in a statement this is a journey and i recognize there's more work to do my words may not mean much right now oh no journey always but i take full accountability for my actions i'm committed to continuing to work on myself the NBA commissioner said he was shocked by the video which morant's friend reported the stream live an instagram but morant said he takes full accountability for my actions and new Orleans mayor latoya control said this week she apologized for her recent comment concerning a spate of

violent incidents targeting women over the past month five murders included she remarked that what we have to understand is women also play a role in violent activity in our city as to clarify can trail stress that cases weren't random some of the victims families and friends took offense at those comments saying they were hurtful and unfairly blamed victims can trail said that her comments had been absolutely misconstrued and the cheetah politized directly to the families she said the families had forgiven her it was really just a respect thing and humbling myself just a little bit more relative to grieving families and how right is in those moments it wasn't me walking anything back she said her comment about women playing a role in violence was meant from an investigative standpoint though she did not say how the comment linked to the cases so my heart just remains very heavy and i'm very sorry for that i'm quote the mayor of new Orleans

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