oversight regime of governments that overspend about europe, they say that may not be balanced by the social union, a protection for people who are worried about losing their jobs, and in many cases already did lose their jobs. but that is where the social democrats think the emphasis should be. >> sociaimon young from the sbd. >> the short list for the fifa player of the year, the golden ball, down to three men. up against savi and cristiano ronaldo. he beat the other two rivals for the award for the european best player. the golden ball winner will be announced in january. stay tuned for "in? " coming up after a short break. >> welcome back. we continue with a look at afghanistan's future as the international community plans to pull their troops out by the end of 2014. even when the last foreign forces exit afghanistan, the country is still set to receive support for years to come up. at the one-day conference in bonn, they outlined things for the decade following the troop withdrawal. countries were trying to convey that they will not be left alone. they will be responsible for combating taliba

try to curb the social unrest labor unions in the u.k. are rising up in what is arguably the largest strike in decades and millions come out all in a battle over public sector pension so is it time for american protesters take a page out of the u.k. is dying to social progress we'll compare. it's wednesday november thirtieth seven pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wahl and you're watching artsy. well over the past couple of months we've seen shocking video of police brutality directed at peaceful protesters from firing pepper sprayed a beating protested protesters with the songs to launching rubber bullets we're seeing image after image of police violently cracking down on demonstrators and then there's the overwhelming police presence warmth of officers decked out in riot gear have surrounded occupy wall street site and beyond local police homeland security has gotten involved in many cases and that these images questions arise over the role of police officers today are we seeing a military is a nation of the police force are the corresponde

people often think of as one of the true socialisms was the sate socialism of the -- state socialism of the soviet union, and it was very different than other kinds of socialism. there was the socialism of yugoslavia which was, which included a radical free market and worker-owned and controlled factories that would compete on a market. so these -- none of these systems of socialism ever realized themselves. people might say that the scandinavian countries in some sense approach something like socialism, but i think many socialists would disagree and say that's just a special form of capitalism, a nicer form of capitalism, i guess. >> so when you hear the term welfare state as is applied often to norway and sweden, what does that mean to you? >> well, welfare state, i would say s a form of capitalism that seeks to reduce inequalities, and it's a form of capitalism that seeks to, um, make things, you know, create less in equality and create more fairness i guess in some sense. but we can't say that the welfare state and keynesianism is in no way socialism. it is trying to repair capitalism. people may de

decides dissolution the end of the soviet union had devastating social economic effects set of ethnic conflict and to this day stirs debate over whether it could have been averted or carried out at lesser costs yes it was illegal but there would have been no legal way to do it. deeply traumatic for a lot of people not only in russia there was lots of turmoil almost of the sort that would have occurred in the war. today many see the process of disintegration as spending over a much longer period of time and involving a range of factors including corruption detrimental reliance on energy resources stagnating khana me and the disillusionment with the socialist ideology. there are several events that constitute the breakup was in my view the most harmful blow to the framework of god is this or was dealt in the course of those political and economic reforms then there was the oldest coup and then the final blow came from the yeltsin crowd joke and trio the meeting between the three leaders of russia ukraine and belarus on december eighth brought the famous villa vision accords and establis

people knew that the infrastructure, political, economic, social, of the soviet union, was weak. i went to the soviet union for the first time in 1979 to study language. i was there for an extended period of time and was a student of the soviet military, and i had this image of the soviet military as ten fetal and i remember going into a store to buy some little thing for my family, and they were doing the computation of the prices on an an backus, and i hand seen an an cousins second agreed in alabama, and i thought this is not a very developed place. and you is that right to get a sense that something is really wrong there. so i think soviet specialists knew that the infrastructure was weak. it took, however, a true believer in kind of marxist ideology that it could triumph over the pack that people arees stonen and ukrainian, and gorbachev tried to reform and it then it collapsed. i can tell you that still in 1990, the soviet union collapses on december 25, 1991. in 1990 when we were unifying germany, i don't think anybody thought the collapse of the soviet union was a year aw

people knew that the infrastructure, political, economic, social, of the soviet union, was weak. i went to the soviet union for the first time in 1979 to study language. i was a student of the soviet military, and i remember thinking, i had this image of the soviet military as ten feet tall, and i remember going into a store to buy some little thing for my family, and they were doing the computation of the prices on an abacus and i handseep an abacus since second grade in alabama, and i thought, wow, this isn't a very developed place. you start to get a sense that something is really wrong there i think socialess -- receivess -- receivess e -- it could triumph over the fact people werees stonen and you trainan and took people who could believe you could reform the soviet union -- gorbachev tried to reform it and then it collapsed. still, in 18990, the soviet union collapses on december 25, 1991. in 1990 when we were unifying germany in me fall of 1990, i don't think anybody thought the collapse of the soviet union was a year away. >> a student wanted to make sure i asked about so

people knew that the infrastructure, political, economic, social of the soviet union was weak. i went to the soviet union for the first time in 1979 to study language. i was there for an extended period of time, and i was a student of the soviet military. and i remember thinking, you know, i had this image of the sow yet military as -- soviet military as ten feet tall. and i remember going into a store to buy some food for my family, and they were doing the computation of the prices on an abacus. and i hadn't seen an abacus since second grade in birmingham, alabama. [laughter] and i thought, well, this isn't a very developed place. and you start to get a sense that something's really wrong there. so i think soviet specialists knew that the infrastructure was weak. it took, however, a true believer in kind of marxist ideology that it could triumph over the fact that people were estonian or ukrainian, and it took somebody who believed you could reform the soviet union. gorbachev tried to reform it, and then it collapsed. but i can tell you that still in 1990 -- the soviet union c

>> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. i felt like at meridian, it could do some good. we did not even talk about price until the day before the show. of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but that was not the first consideration, so that made me very happy. >> his work is printed porcelain. he transfers images onto and spoils the surface a fragile shes of clay. each one, only one-tenth of an inch thick. >> it took about two years to get it down. i would say i lose 30% of the pieces that i made. something happens to them. they cracked, the break during the process. it is very complex. they fall apart. but it is worth it to me. there are photographs i took 1 hours

trade unions say it is an attack on the social system.nment says the current system is unsustainable. the sales tax is also set to rise. but luxury tax is being introduced on expensive yachts. ♪ >> portugal, less funding for education. 10% less funding for education. the prime minister has announced cutbacks in health care and pensions, too. public-sector workers that earn more than 1000 euros a mother will have their 13th and 14th month's salaries cut. in protest, they carried a picture of the prime minister in a coffin through the nation's capital. public holidays will also be cut. ♪ >> higher taxes, less money for education, and job cuts. governments are no longer willing to rack up public debt like in previous years. >> spain is also one of the sick ones of europe. its economy is faltering and unemployment stands at over 20%. the newly elected prime minister is determined to steer the country's economy from the brink of another recession. cutting public spending is the order of the day, but many experts say that fiscal austerity is by

people knew that the infrastructure, political, economic, social of the soviet union was weak. i went to the soviet union the first time in 1979 to study language. i was there for an extended period of time. and i was a student of the soviet military. and i remember thinking i've had this image of the military 10 feet tall and i remember going into a store to buy something for my family and they were doing the computation of the practice and i hadn't seen am about this since second grade in birmingham alabama and the football, this is a very difficult place. you start to get the sense that something's really wrong. so i think soviet specialists knew that the infrastructure was a week. it took, however, a true believer in kind of the marxist ideology that if we triumph over the fact that people were estonian or ukrainian and it took somebody who believed you could reform the soviet union, gorbachev, tried to reform it and then it collapsed. but i can tell you still that in 1990 the soviet collapse was december 25, 1991. in late tv when we were unified in germany in the fall of l

regulations on the banks toure's setting trade tariffs weaving a strong social safety net and protecting the rights of workers to unionize and organize into labor unions basically none of the stuff you heard in the republican debate those are the real solutions we need and not the nonsense you hear spewed from republicans on a daily basis with the iowa caucus caucuses next week in the primary season just now getting underway expect a lot more republican insanity and a lot more crazy fairy tales from that bunch speed of crazy between anthony weiner donald trump and the talking heads the g.o.p. t.v.'s fox so-called news we've had a lot of fodder for our nightly crazy awards but none of the folks i just mentioned came out on top for craziest crazy alert of the year instead our viewers joes a segment we did in october as the year's best crazy alert and let's just say it proves the old saying that sex sells. the alert x. rated skydiving the federal aviation administration is investigating a skydiving incident in california after a video surfaced of two people engaging in a sex act while jumping out of a plane together parents

he real state of the union essays on united states the angry american our commentary on social rage. hobbies, travel in the form of ussr, the mideast and europe. paul, jeffrey sarrabin. >> the statistics that i gave from this quite remarkable 5,500 were recapped. do you believe that the historical account as given by at least two of the gospel writers of the christmas the angels announcing to mary. >> no, i'm not a theologian. >> do you think it's not treating as historical jesus' true history? >> well, i'm a histo historian t know how much historical evidence there is for this. we don't know the historical evidence his yuns go by. >> well,, the row monocatholic church council said you don't have to accept it in it full littoral teerality. >> sure i do. these statistics are from your article. it's on the question of is religion very important to you. 60% of americans say religion is very important to them. 30% that of the irish, 30%, 27% of italians, 20% of germans, and 10% of french say that religion is very important to them. does that kiss appoint disappoi? >> it's welsh. in the n

union still. .. circumstances for social was done couldn't survive. then we tried to entail socialist in the country. and the person who took a big bet on rack in the system until he saw a it wasn't working. >> and on the what is, what is -- what if yelp than have not had that shot there be an immediate privatization piece, was there a possibility for soft landing amount rephrase that question a different way. was it if gorbachev had had the same luck with oil prices that vladimir putin had over the last decade, with the republics have the center of the center was a cashier >> i don't think so because even if oil increased, the whole system on the assist was. one can look at a lot of what is. what if yeltsin had succeeded some of the close both in the russian parliament, which enabled him to become president. what if, a year after december 25th, 1991, the russian parliament, which have been elected in the days of the soviet union could count a lot of hard-line communists. what if they succeeded in impeaching yeltsin can which they very nearly did beca

however, we did raise some of our concerns around social equity, which are the issues of good jobs and good union wages with good benefits and working conditions. i would reiterate that concern again, and i am very happy about the assurances we have from ports of about a sit-down in the new year to talk about those issues, and also, we have assurances from mr. bopp billingham, and infrastructure manager for the event sponsor. we're going to sit down with him and deal with some of these issues around waterfront were, particularly the operation of cranes. those are discussions that we look forward to, and we look forward to appearing again before the port commission in january to assess where we are at on the social equity issues. thank you very much for your consideration of our concerns, and what a great day it is for the port of san francisco. commissioner brandon: thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is jennifer, president of san francisco tomorrow. i have appreciated all the months -- i have spent about 10 months working with port staff. unfortunately, we were not able to come to agreement on

social networking sites. >> the occupy movement is pitting union against unionin with a planned shut down monday. announcing plans to hold mars from frank ogowa plaza to the port in an attempt to interrupt operations. a similar blockade planned at ports along the west coast. occupiers say they will join a protest despite opposition. >> shutting down the port we fact solidarity not only with trade unions under attack but with 89% of the working class that does not belong to a union. >> the international long shore and warehouse union supporting this shut down says this one will cause workers to lose wages. and it won't support a third party strike. >> in west oakland dozens of people occupy aid home in an attempt to prevent a foreclosure, 25 people camped outside of the town house, at times blocking the driveway a cording to some the protest reportedly forced a bank representative and a police escort to leave the scene. the group hung a manner reading "occupy our home". >> a man who climbed a tree during a occupy raid has come down, he perched himself in the tree wednesday night. the man refused t

>> meridians' stands apart from the commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophical, and spiritual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do work this summer that it can do some good.

of you who do not know, maria is a retired senior officer of union bank, retired as of june 1 as senior vice president with a corporate sociality group focusing on engaging bank employees and volunteer service in the communities in which the bank was operating and expanding financial education. she had over 30 years experience in the banking industry. we're honored that we're able to honor her tonight. on behalf of the mayor, the city and county of san francisco, thank you so much. thank you. [applause] >> our next business award goes to the ramons and the familia. [applause] please join us on the podium. ramon ramirez and his wife emigrated to san francisco in 1955. since then, they have started many businesses, 1one that was a cafe, which then started catering food when they bought another cafe on 11th street where they sold mexican food that they made at the cafe, and they brought it over. it was so popular that they decided that they needed to expand the business. more than 20 years ago now, they founded the ramons, which is on 11th street. it is a place of great mexican food and heritage. we would like to honor and say

elytra three things, labor, union, and new social contracts. anything on that regard, and i could not find a single mention of any of those. answer my question to you and this international competitive world, what does that new social contract apply? can we, they, forged things like sunday differential? can we afford things like that time before joe? can we afford things like overtime pay. >> that is a very good question. and obviously you don't detect touch every subject. but my answer would be this. cavalries something from the book that is relevant. i think we can afford all of those things in theory, provided you as a worker who are delivering unique value. if you're not we can't afford it now we come your boss. so let me just read you a section from the book. it is an insight from john j. which has had a variety of technology companies and start-ups including nba courses. he wrote this on his block, posted on a column. i thought it was compelling enough to reveal. i am in the business of killing jobs. i kill jobs in three ways, myself, kil