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tell us tell us more shearers so you know i work for an organization now called united republic or basically a nonprofit we're trying to organize left right and center to get money big money out of politics you know we don't care if you're a card carrying republican earlier in the green party we want you to stand with us in fighting the corrupting influence of big money and we've launched this blog a republican dot org basically we're trying to investigate all money in politics and expose you know politicians democrats and republicans nonprofits lobbying shops the media anyone who's on the take a big money is sort of distorting our democratic process with what's happening with corporate dollars especially so for a move onto another story i want to show us another ad that was on the super bowl last night and this is i mean it's actually a car commercial and but let's take a look for there's definitely some political. behind it. i've seen a lot of stuff a lot of downturns of my life times when we didn't understand each other seems we've lost our good times the smaller version the discord and b

he's also a writer for united republic's new blog report thanks so much for joining us tonight what do you think of this plan i mean it's kind of an interesting development right it's just one guy that's doing it just like the one guy that decided to run for congress but an occupy wall street pac i think it's really interesting it seems like this occupier down alabama is trying to do is trying to use the campaign finance system short sort of i guess you say then mr super pac i'm going to raise all this money we're going to support candidates who want to reform the campaign finances those that are kind of sort of trying to utilize sort of the weapons of the system against itself now it's sort of interesting in this is that they want to support people like elizabeth warren who actually sworn off super pacs were saying along with their opponent scott brown that they don't want to protect supporting them so i think this will be a dilemma the occupiers faces you know should we be using the sort of tools of the system against it or should we just be staying away from this sort of trying t

for being on the show that was the jilani he is the communications and outreach coordinator for united republic. so sticking to this topic kind of u.s. president barack obama was just north of seattle today visiting the commercial aviation hub of boeing to announce his big manufacturing initiatives as part of his goal to double exports and five years now the plans he talked about in his beach include the reauthorizing of an export import bank to help finance u.s. companies according to him then a new program to ease access to credit for small business acts orders along with matching funds to compete with the funding of foreign companies now that is a whole other part of the story for us to break down another time what exactly he's proposing but boeing this is what i want to focus on a boeing is the biggest u.s. exporter according to business week and remember it was at the center of a big regulatory clash last year the company was targeted by the national labor relations board in a complaint republicans love this they said it was evidence of the administration's hostility to business anyway it

. >> and as you know through the work we have done here with the e united republic, there's probablyt the two of you are talking about. my hope would be that they will be able to enroll and align with you. i can't think of two better people to spear head it quite honestly. dylan ratigan, some people love me. some hate me. you guys don't have that issue. everybody loves ben and jerry. you don't come off at lefties or righties. you can assume the patriotic position you have earned for yourselves in our country as the proprietors of this ice cream. >> another thing people can do is work in their own municipalities and states. new mexico was now the second state that passed a resolution. there's a resolution proposed in the vermont state senate. we have about 30 towns in vermont that will be voting on a resolution at town meeting day, which is march 6th. we need people in every town and every city to get their local municipalities to get on board. >> and i think there's a tremendous opportunity now with the occupy wall street movement. i think, you know, the people that are interested in

i'm glad that groups like united republic and others are organ e organizing grass roots effort for thet got it wrong in citizens united. another case with money for speech. at long last, we must amend the constitution. let's look at the republican primary where private corporations coined as super pacs are having a bigger impact than the candidate's campaigns themselves. or the obama campaign saying they need a bigger pushback to fight the mud slingers. while it's off to an amazing start, i don't think the grass roots effort to pass a constitutional amendment will be enough by itself. i'm a street fighter who thinks results. when you're up against these and is look bied against every reform effort ever, it's time to fight fire with fire. here's a modest proposal to get money out with gusto. let's create our own super pac in support of our constitutional amendment to get money out it's sole purpose will be to carpet bomb with negative ads any elected official who does not vote for the constitutional amendment. get a few wealthy individuals to put up big dough for the super pac. then we

. >>> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america into the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. thank you. please be seated. mayor lee was scheduled to attend but was not able to make it. he sent his congratulations to our medal of valor recipients. we're joined by the police commissioners and the commission president, vice-president, commissioners. also on the stage this evening we have the chief of police gregory surh. we have the deputy chief of special operations and the deputy chief of the operations bureau. we have the deputy chief from the airport bureau. we have commander in the operations bureau, the commander from the sfmta, the commander in chief of staff, and the commander from the operations bureau. this evening we are going to start with a few words from the chief of police gregory suhr. >> good evening. i want to thank everybody for being here. we are a very proud police department, rich in tradition. this week, we had a promotion ceremony on monday where we promoted sergeants, lieutenant

the united nations says the democratic republic of congo is the worst place to be a woman. one place where you get an idea of what that mean s a refuge called heal africa. women work to shake you have unspeakable atrocities they have faced. the trauma have left most with injuries that render them incontinent. this woman wears a mask to conceal her maiming at a hand of militia men. >> my older daughter escaped from them. they told me to go get her and i said she escaped from you, how can i catch her. they hit me in the head with a matchete after i fell down they cut off my lips. >> reporter: a volunteer help worker brought who are to heal africa. it's the only specialty care hospital in all of eastern congo. it was started 12 years ago by lyn lusi, devote christians who served years before that as medical missionaries. >> my husband was a surgeon. he finished in belgium in '84, and to this day he's still the only one. the only surgeon in the east of the country. >> reporter: dr. jo lusi has performed,000s of surgical operations fixing everything from club feet and cleft pala

. >> i pledge allegiance to the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands onen under god with liberty and justice for all. supervisor chiu: colleagues, i understand that supervisor," -- campos is not here. he is excused without objection. are there any communications? >> no. supervisor chiu: please read consent agenda. >> items numbers one through nine, acted upon with a roll call vote, unless it is discussed by request. supervisor chiu: would anyone like to sever these items? roll-call vote. >> items #139. -- one through nine. [calls roll call vote] there are ten ayes. supervisor chiu: those ordinances are approved on final reading. item number 10. >> item #10. ordinance amending the san francisco environment code by: 1) amending section 1702 to extend the restrictions on checkout bags from supermarkets and chain pharmacies to all retail establishments and food establishments in the city and county of san francisco, an. supervisor avalos: this was extended to allow for outreach to the community. our office had done significant outreach on this issue. i want to

[laughter] [laughter] [applause] >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america. and into the republicfor which it stands, one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. ♪ [chorus singing] [chorus singing] [chorus singing "star spangled banner"] [applause] forward. halt. forward march. [applause] >> you may be seated. i moved a little bit ahead of schedule by introducing all of you. i was supposed to do that at the end of that. and understand if you have been in my position, i would have wanted you to introduce me first. in [laughter] you understand why that happens, mr. mayor. ibm, of course, delighted to have so many of my yearayor le' good friends from throughout san francisco and the bay area and the country. mayor lee had some special things he really wanted done on this occasion, and the girl's chorus was one of them, and the boys' chorus would be another of the special activities that he would like to see occur. his emphasis is obviously on including everyone in the city, so from early morning to day until the present time and on through another part of the d

grain of salt because we know that since nine hundred seventy nine the united states refuses to have relations with the islamic republic of iran why is it because iran is a dictatorship well it's actually a democratic government it has democratic features far beyond some of america's most foremost their allies in the middle east such as saudi arabia for instance since one thousand nine hundred nine iran became in independent government before that between one nine hundred fifty three and one thousand nine hundred seventy nine when the shah was there. the shah acted basically as a proxy or a puppet or a client of the american power and so the u.s. says they're not carrying out regime change but in fact everyone who's watching knows that indeed is the u.s. policy to create pressure on iran carry out overt operate covert operations economic sanctions and now these new sanctions are not really even a like the old saying they are same to the rest of the world if you dare do business with iran central bank if you buy iranian oil which constitutes half of iran's g.n.p. if you have any business with iran whatsoever you will no

europe and in the last days we need to show china that we are really united we have a united kingdom and the czech republic still not exactly being a hall of far part of the european union as partners so farand is waiting kind of the same time to say this why should we it's a board this region or if we are still having a lot so for problems i. in the end we understand the same time. you know i was. in. august a professor at the assad a business school in barcelona thank you for coming on r t today thank you. still to come on the program here on our whistle blowers final appeal it is the last chance for julian assange is to win over the u.k. supremes court to stop things of extradition to sweden where he's wanted on allegations of sexual assault also ahead for you. for it was a country on the brink on the brink of complete meltdown and chaos find out why the careless comments of u.s. politicians could be costing america credibility on the international stage. the un's nuclear watchdog says it's on track to breaking the deadlock over iran's atomic program atomic agency monitors plan another trip later this m

like this is brock obama newt gingrich alec i haven't this is a representative democratic republic here the united states or at least is supposed to be it's a government where we the people elect legislators to represent our interests and a corporatocracy that's a government where the legislators are own or run by corporations and there's an organization out there it's called the american legislative exchange council that appears to be taking america down the road toward corporatocracy a few times a year alec gathers together lawmakers corporate c.e.o.'s and lobbyists all together in the same high end resort hotel ballrooms to present to the elected officials model legislation written by the lawyers of alec and voted on by the corporations if the corporations approve that legislation and gets carried back to the state legislatures or even the u.s. congress by the obedient lawmakers in attendance who submitted his new laws and it's long been speculated because he identified laws keep popping up in state after state republican lawmakers who attend alec conferences are taking their orders directly fr

i pledge of allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. i apologize for start willing -- starting a little late. we just came out of a closed session meeting, so we're going to move this along real quickly. item a, approval of board minutes of the regular meeting of january 24, 2012. is there a motion? >> so move. >> i second. president yee: any corrections? roll call, please. >> thank you, commissioner. [roll call taken] >> that's five ayes. president yee: item b, presentation to the board of education superintendent's report. >> good evening, everybody, and happy valentine's day. i want to remind the president here that it is valentine's day, so in the spirit of love, this meeting can't go on forever, ok? [laughter] anyway, what the heck. you know, i just wanted to thank everybody for last saturday. we had our annual school planning summit, and i want to thank all the parents, students, teachers, administrators and staff that came to the summit ready to roll up