we always do rely on the geo technical reports and the ddi requirements for structural. and for during construction, and therefore, we did not find that we needed a mitigation measure further. any further mitigation measures. >> i think that is what she means that the eir with the eastern neighborhoods does not identify the construction or the damage as a significant impact requiring a mitigation. >> that is correct. and this happens all over the city, we do have construction in-fill, for at least adjacent to the historic buildings and non-historic buildings, and we have to apply the same geo technical >> but this is not a geo technical issue. >> it is a building code issue, >> then why does, why does she dismiss two examples that i gave of the environmental impact reports which specifically identify the construction impacts to adjacent historic resources as not being amrikible. >> the two documents that you cited were for puc projects and the first one was a well, project, and by needing adjacent, they actually they were on site, the historic resources were on the same

you know it could be argued that one of the reasons for so much geo political bickering that we've seen over the past year or so is simply because the two countries don't have that much to lose. very profound point the better the trade relations and the more commerce the risk between each country the more they have to lose if they get into geo political spats and that's why i believe the u.s. administration is its strategy is to focus on trade and investment because quite frankly i'm a i'm not a government person not speaking for the government but russia is russia the us is us this history i think there's always going to be different perceptions of how the world should be so we're going to have these up and down spats but the more business there is the less chance there is that this geo political arguments will effectiveness i think again over the past year or so over seen several very profound examples of geopolitics of the acting business in a very significant way and i think the mcg. need to act in the preceding discussions in congress was. a very fair revealing point in the bilater

russia making a lot of money and expanding their operations this is a completely different world in the geo political world that we read about and business is focusing on making money but whether we look at the trade between the two countries and last year it was just under forty billion dollars it's not so impressive and if you compare that to the trade with china for example which was more than ten times larger. you know it could be argued that one of the reasons for so much geo political bickering that we've seen over the past year or so is simply because the two countries don't have that much to lose. well i think you care on a very profound point the better the trade relations and the more commerce the risk between each country the more they have to lose if they get into a geo political spats and that's where i believe the u.s. administration is its strategy is to focus on trade and investment because quite frankly i'm a i'm not a government person not speaking for the government but russia is russia the us is us this history i think there's always going to be different perceptions of

you know it could be argued that one of the reasons for so much geo political bickering that we've seen over the past year or so is simply because the two countries don't have that much to lose. well i think you hit on a very profound point the better the trade relations and the more commerce the risk between each country the more they have to lose if they get into geo political spats and that's why i believe the u.s. administration is its strategy is to focus on trade and investment.

>> the geo plit colitical risk s interesting listening to secretary kerry.hought it was a weak statement. we're going to go back and have discussions with our allies and have meetings and i thought this was a weak statement. as soon as he stepped down from the podium, gold which had been trading at 1396 quickly went to 1400, 1405 and right now is trading at 1408. i think it's geo political risk is putting a bid into it plus the fact that the economic data has been weaker than i thought we were going to see. that's taken accomodation off the table certainly for september and probably through the end of the october of the it's probably going to -- we're probably going to have the fed being come day tif at the same level we have had thus far through the end of the september. >> i think the market would probably take issue with your characterization there of a weak statement, right? i mean, we saw stocks sell off, finish at the lows of the day and treasuries rallied. clearly the market took it seriously. >> the market took it very seriously. it took it seriously

and i think the asylum given to snowden just adds to the syria issue and a number of other sort of geo strategic linchpins where the two sides disagree so i think certainly this will continue in the snowden issue to degrade relations between the two countries particularly since the united states congress and the republican party which have such a bellicose attitude towards russia continue to push and push and push on the obama administration to demonize and isolate russia or attempt to at least i think the situation is really hard for a lot of people who look at syria and say oh my god it's a humanitarian crisis it's horrifying how many people have died how many people lost their lives for this geo political chess game what can people do to help the people of syria without investing in either side. this military battle well certainly people and i'm sure they're already doing it to invest in humanitarian efforts within the independent groups but i think by and large people here in the united states in particular need to start standing up and standing up aggressively against these attemp

has been you know certainly well you know it is geo strategic i mean what we basically see in syria and what you have to take the long view i mean the united states is targeted iraq iran which they have not overthrown and now syria and so clearly the united states is trying to target any sort of independent nationalistic regime that isn't totally pliant and compliant with the united states in the western nations in this crucial region of the world which obviously contains a significant amount of oil it's the world's crossroads a very important area of the united states doesn't want any government in there that they basically can control or at least at key moments pressure to do the things they want them to do so starting with the war in iraq the united states has been marching on in the middle east attempting to eliminate these independent nationalist regimes and they were hoping to do so in syria just by fomenting a civil war and that strategy has been unsuccessful raid and of course that using that chemical weapons even as a justification is a bizarre considering how we use chemical w

some of the procurement the utilities do now are from geo thermal plants that have been around for a long time and it does count when those contracts come up. in order for the utilities to continue to have a balanced portfolio, they're going to need to continue to buy some of those geo thermal resources. we don't want to create a system where a plant that's 10 years old that falls out of contract can't get a new contract. so, you do need to as we buy more and more renewables, have someplace for the old resources to sell. given california's ambitious goals, i'm not afraid that we're going to stop building new resources any time soon. we're at 33% goal now. there is talk on a statewide level of 40 or 50% goal. i don't think that's a concern with a rec only transaction. i think with the city and county of san francisco needs to look at is what are the local impacts of a rec only transaction. ~ what >> the next question about unbundled recs, rec stuff isn't intuitive to me. so, rooftop solar generates unbundled recs and that -- in california rooftop solar generates some unbundled recs. [

of so-called missile defense as it is termed in the united states these issues these strategic and geo political issues are of great importance the snowden saga i think really takes a backseat where snowden and this entire story comes in is on the broader diplomatic level for public consumption but behind closed doors i think these diplomats will continue doing what it is that they do and that is discussing these issues and hopefully coming to some kind of a resolution though using my example of syria i'm not so hopeful while the snowden case is forcing the white house into mentioning the cold war the whistleblowers father has come out with some fresh comments he hopes that the move by the u.s. won't distract the public from the massive spy programs his son revealed so check out the rest of what law and snowden have to say in his statement at r.t. dot com and just ahead for you brining the wrongs of a stair at a cash strapped greeks are cut off from the power grid as unemployment leaves them barely able to pay for food right after a short break we'll report on those tournaments to help

and that the project, and that the project would require a geo technical analysis due to its slope which the dr requestor believes is greater than 20 percent. the residential design team followed it and made the following comments. more than 100 feet of the mid block open space would separate the proposed rear addition in the dr requestor's rear law and so the project would not create any exceptional or extraordinary effects to the dr requestor's privatecy or the mid block open space. they noted that there is an existing pattern of real additions on the subject block including at the rear of the dr requestor's house. and the project does include large window and sliding glass doors on the rear addition and the residential design guidelines allow a lot of flexibility with respect to the design of the administration details of the building not visible from the public right-of-way, and it is understood that the home owners wish to maximize the light and view from the windows into the open space. found that the windows were appropriate. and the subject properties rear property line appears t

or let's discuss this a bit further now here on the program and join william geo political analyst and author of myth lies and oil wars as well thanks very much for joining us here at our today confirmed yet this story about a so-called possible chemical attack though as we know an international team of investigators is in the country right now one would be sure to expect they will go and investigate the alleged attack. well i would think so but the report from arabia which your correspondent just quite rightly noted is a highly biased source it's a saudi news outlet and what's interesting is the the source for information about this attack that they quote is a well known propaganda front sitting in london called the syrian observatory for human rights a one man paper hanging operation that's been repeatedly exposed for biased reporting that supports. terrorists al qaeda. free syrian army whatever against the regime so this is hardly a serious piece of journalistic reporting i think we have to wait until the u.n. investigating team thoroughly examine just what this is that they don't e

to tell the american line in all major issues of you know current geo politics you know that's simply not true because the two countries have a similar political system which began from the same root and developed in power when they are presented with the same problem they often react in similar ways that's really not the same thing and subordination there's no mechanism for the united states to require any other country to do anything and in fact the united states is as jealous of its sovereignty and as hostile to supernaturalism is any country on earth and that's the fundamental difference between the us and the e.u. now this is a very interesting point but i would like to pursue just after a short break. this is the media lead us so we leave that maybe. this in the bush and secure. your party there's a good. news that no one is as good with the game that you deserve answers from. politic only on our team. victims multiply here each day. it's very profitable to invest in colombia. and there's a very high return on investment. you'll know me and he said that i've been working in this

question over who would benefit from the alleged attack though that's what we've been hearing from geo political analyst patrick and ngs. of course if we look at the history of this particular region to go to a region where the attack it's said to take place is very active with the front and they've also been implicated in using makeshift chlorine bombs in aleppo back in march so there is a track record there the evidence unfortunately does not stack up with these present claims of the syrian government perpetrating these attacks or who benefits from a chemical attack in syria will the opposition benefits it's quite obvious the syrian government does not benefit the opposition benefits because this will be the key to unlock the. airstrikes and bombing campaign over syria. libya is a little the opposition would like a libyan style coalition with nato in order to force the regime out of power in damascus so they clearly benefit from any reports of a chemical attack in syria. and we've been following this latest escalation of the syrian crisis online and dot com you can get the latest upd

they say geo politics is a lot like a schoolyard and while obama snubbing a meeting with the president of russia to in theory punish him for the stone incident sounds kind of amateur that is the kind of stuff the girl you did when you're sixteen would do cancel a date just to show you how much your feelings are hurt let's not mistake this canceled meeting with cutting off diplomatic relations which is the total rejection of any form of discussion with another country which really isn't a bold and possibly dangerous but a call message but obama did was more like a minor annoyance he knows that he will talk to putin again in the near future i mean how are they not going to talk at the next g. eight summit what is he just going to have to hide behind merkel the whole time and hope it works out or ducked behind the shrimp cocktail whatever here's a russian accent one could argue that to appease republicans he had to do something to look strong after the stone debacle but this grandstanding just comes across as silly passing something like a new jackson vet a commandment yeah that is how yo

how certain are geo technical engineering that the actual proximity of the fault is in fact going to affect how strong the ground motion is? does a mile make a difference? >> it came out in kobe earthquake. >> i was actually there. >> the roof came off. it was hard to stand up. i was 6, 7 miles away. in the city, people couldn't stand up. >> they determined using excellerateom ters. you will have near field effect, the easy way to explain it, if you were standing next to a rail road track. the train makes sound and generates and the sound waves tumble. the same thing happens with an earthquake. those /tkpwraupbd waves tumble upon themselves and increase the intensity of the shaking. it's called near field effect. we probably won't get that on the haward fault, but on the san andreas fault. they will have very pronounced shaking. we will also have more interaction because of poor soils that interact with earthquake waves. you can have a moderately distant waves and it will be higher in the bay area and people don't realize how much of the city has been filled. there's a tremendous amo

he is now a professor of geo sciences at princeton university. in 007 he was part of a group of scientists that won the nobel peace price for their work on climate control. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> if we say, we are heading to 2 degrees, 3 degrees, 4 degrees of warming. if i sit in the room and change the thermostat from 68 to 7 2, i take off my jacket, and that's not a huge amount. >> what hurts us and makes us vulnerable to climate is not the average, it is. treems and the extremes that change a lot when the average just changees a little. so even if earth only warns about 5 degrees fahrenheit, which is the average prediction for this sent century, we will see sea level rising by the amount of 2, 3, 4 feet. on a typical east coach beach that takes away 200, 300, 400 feet of beach horizontally inland. we are likely to see increase in the intensity of frequency of heat waves. you have to remember, heat waves kill. we had one in europe a few years ago that killed about 40,000 people. we've had heat waves in the unit

i think the momentum favors the upside. >> can health food help ease geo political tensions. next guest created all natural products and went to start kind healthy snacks, one of the fastest growing knack brands in america. let's welcome in dan lubetzky founder and ceo of kind healthy snacks. thank you for joining us. the product is fantastic. no endorsement. i eat them every day, delicious. >> thank you. >> i'm going to call this peace through pea ta. tell us what you are doing and how you're doing it. >> the first company you're referring to is called peace works. i've been bring in israelis and palestinians to trade with one another to break stereo types and cement relationships and work over the last 20 years together. this is a separate company that i founded after learning how to do the food business called kind. it focuses on first and foremost making delicious healthful products but trying to create relations among us, not just in the middle east. >> i have had the fortune to travel there myself but it was always amazing to me, you read the papers and you think everyb