lead and combine that into one larger unit and have a second unit the second legal unit relocated to the require of the garage basement. and it was occupied and deemed to be the illegal unit. and that was following the requirements and we amoved that and there was an appeal that was filed on that permit. and however, it was subsequently withdrawn a few days after the appeal had been filed. and i think that was the same as the jurisdiction requestor. >> and so that was last year in 2012, and in june of this year, the department and the planning and building received complaints that the building had illegally been converted into a single family dwelling and they had a permit to remove the third unit and to reconfigure the units but not to merge it down to a single family. and the dbi investigated and found out that there was a valid complaint and the permit holder sought a permit to correct that and comply with the plans that were for last year. and subsequent to that, i received a call from the person who had the party before who had been in the requestor and the appellant and wrote t

a parking space for that unit. and again we have the cfc and the 3 r report and that is what we base our decision on thank you. >> >> there are a couple of references that ened up as a single family dwelling that was allege and what is the out come. >> they filed it and that was kind of restarted in early june. and dbi, i think that we received, like the complaint on june fifth and they investigated on june 6th and determined that they had done the work beyond the scope of the per permit and they submited in late june and then maybe, that was basically to bring it back to what was my understanding to what was authorized under the previous permit that reconfigured so that there were two units in the building that the upper two units and the two flats were merged and the lower one of those was essentially relocated to the basement level and so that was my understanding to the out come of the investigation. >> it was not a violation and it did appeared that they had merged it into one? >> yes. that was again another f

the end of the cold war the united states was a strong ad. god well we got to get rid of all of those and not just socialism but the social democracies in europe we've got to get rid of that euro sclerosis all of the you know welfare lack of job mobility you know we got to be like the united states you know this is that where we have this really dynamic capitalism well we've seen this dynamic as we've seen it you know we had the collapse of the internet bubble in the early two thousand and then we have this of the almighty collapse of the housing bubble we're building up in all the bubble now so you know this this you know known wealth a kind of you know primitive pyramid scheme tabel ism is the last thing anyone in the world would want to emulate ok before we could sort of the programs are going to if i could go you're going to talk about the perceptions of the united states in the middle east but go ahead bruce and i just want to jump in there look i mean george is right if you look at the public opinion surveys we've done in thirty nine co

removed the illegal unit. and ub consequently more than a year later after all worse being compared and the recommendation to revoke the permits which we understand why it came out and i want to emphasize that it will be unjust to act on that suggestion. they have to be able to rely on the information that the city gives out just like all of the residents of the city have to rely on that i know that you have received a number of support letters, and from people in the community and emphasizing that point that i will not belabor it. >> no one was actually life ng this unit that was removed and there were no beds there and the tenants who i believe who is here tonight was utesing it as a man cave and an extension of his office and at his request hearing, the members of the planning department set up and explained that that would be an inconist ent use of the zoning of the building and so there has not been a loss of someone's tenantcy and so we believe that this gentleman rents a residential house in the procidi

optimistic future what do you think the proposition is china is the same military strength of the united states go ahead well i would disagree with something you said in your introduction which is that the united states is a unilateral power today i think we live today in a world of multilateral power i think we're in a kind of pre-one nine hundred fourteen moment where you have several great powers certainly the united states is that has been the dominant superpower but if you look right now at any place in the world you can see for example that russia can be a check to u.s. power in one place. in other areas and what about alan what about iran states look what about iraq that's very unilateralist. well i don't think so at all i think that we're seeing that there are other powers in the region that are i mean look at the whole you can't just look at a lone you have one of the day but it's less going to glenn and in iraq everybody little child everybody rather great powers and from the people of the middle east which is most important a great challenge coming from below in society i'm so

states as well and this is still an economic model that the united states. control globally yes no that's absolutely right. and so you know what this this particular brand of capitalism than america is champion which is woman and we call the end of the pyramid scheme capitalism whereby you know you just build up a mountain of debt while your. earning yourself huge fees and then when the whole economy goes belly up you go to the government and the government bails you out while all of the victims of the loans the small borrowers get thrown out of their homes and out onto the street so this kind of pyramid scheme capitalism. is has really been championed by the united states and the and this is been very much you know again since the end of the cold war the united states was of a strong advocate what we got to get rid of all of those and not just socialism but the social democracies in europe we got to get rid of that euro sclerosis all of the you know welfare lack of job mobility you know we got to be like the united states you know this is that where we have

between the united states and the european union is that the united states isn't trying to pass our domestic laws for us it isn't subverting democracy it isn't intervening in essentially home affairs for us the european union sees virtually all aspects of policy as within its sphere of of jurisdiction why you know what's the problem with that well there's there's two arguments one is economic europe is the only continent in the world now that is in economic decline the other one is a political one we want to be able to hire and fire the people. and here in the european parliament we've lost that right ok i let us focus on their economic side for a few moments it is true that the significance for britain as a trading partner has been on the decline but obviously it's not maggie legible and the european union still remains the favorite destination for many of the u.k. aspirants and in particular for those products that are produced by small and medium sized businesses who cannot afford to despise their representatives still china india and other countries now since you are a very strong suppor

and so there is not a shortage of units and in fact we are building more units unfortunately we are often across purposes because we get caught between a situation with rent stabilization ordinance where there is a fear to eliminate them even with the merger of a single unit which goes against a very lotable projects such as this where a family is going to live there, and they are trying to accommodate their needs and create one functional unit. and a lot of this really has to do with the ordinance more than this particular situation. and so i would hope that we are able to look at this individually, and in the context of just this, because hopefully, some day in the future, the supervisors and the city family will be able to address that in a more equitable way so that it applies to all units not just older units and you know the ones before 1978 which actually need more expensive work and are harder for the people to keep the rents that are level and to be able to do the improvements that are necessary. and the other thing that i did get a report from sharon young and i was very h

>> excuse me. >> is the concern that if it was 3 unit it would be rent controlled? >> yes. >> i mean that is my indication based on the zoning administrator requests yes. >> so i have several questions and one is based on procedure and protocol. and so, if i was a person that wanted a 3 r report and i walked into the building department, could you walk me through the procedure of how that works and how the information is physically obtained. >> yes. so it is a walk in off the first floor, 1660, and there will be a form that will be requested and i am not exactly sure on the time line now and we have been generating some of them on-line but there is a little delay to generate that report. and it is not a standard document that someone just goes to a file and pulls out. our division requires when that is going to be generated but the staff actually review all relevant record documents to prepare an immediate report based on everything that they have and so that it is current. >> and i mean, because, this is not the first time that a 3 r report has been changed without

go ahead well i would agree that in large part the the united states because. sort of bogged down in the middle east because the largely because of the impact of the israeli lobby has not been able to counter china in the way it would like but i'd like to i'd like to go to henry kissinger here for a second. henry kissinger in his account china which is not a bad book actually talks about a fundamentally different culture in china from that of the west and i think we should listen to him on this point because for example if you look at the fifteenth century when china was the most powerful nation in the world it sent out ships bigger than anything columbus would dream of one hundred years later traded. it it traded it explored but unlike the west it did not conquer it did not in slaves that is the western tradition and if you think we've escaped that history. and i mean the way things look british empire is really i mean but the united states and hired i mean this was a neil going it's plain as the nose on your face. you know quite out of the little way the seco

it in different well the term is sort of something that is very recognizable particularly in the united states many of us remember in the one nine hundred eighty s. you know mcdonald's had become sort of emblematic of what low wage jobs were that the mcdonald's work was essentially the lowest one could possibly imagine of course this is a mythology but that was sort of implanted in the popular culture in the united states at that time and i think that recently we've seen symbols such as wal-mart sort of take over that mantle of the low wage exploitation of employers but certainly the term mcdonald the zation i think people get the idea that in the united states what we're seeing is a conversion of the economy from what was traditionally a middle and high wage economy to a low wage one recent statistics from the bureau of labor statistics showed that most of the jobs i believe it was something like sixty percent of the jobs that have been lost in this depression are recession whatever want to call it have been not regained and instead have been replaced. by low wage jobs that more than t

the united states actually does matter. and i don't agree with 100% of the things that the previous speakers said, and they're not going to agree with 100% of the things i said. but the great thing that unites us is that we have the first amendment that allows us to have that disagreement and to have an active discussion so that our nation can move forward. now, we don't always move forward. sometimes we move backwards as we've discussed. but each time we do that, we find a way to move forward. this can't happen in a country we're going to talk about now, china, because despite anything else they might be doing, they are not allowing freedom of speech. so i've got a display over on the side. who here knows what 61398 is? okay. you've probably seen the news story about the chinese government hacking american corporations, right? anybody? so 61398 is a signal core unit in the people's liberation army in china. this is a division of the chinese military run and financed by the chinese government. a company put out a really bri

world look like today if china where the same military strike had the same military strength of the united states you know on par. it won't be a cold war i think it will be a series of wars by proxies because both countries need. quite a bit of energy quite a bit oil natural gas to survive and we are past the point of cheap oil and cheap energy these countries will have to jocky each other out of the way and they will fight each other frankly it is already happening and it will only intensify in the future and this is not necessarily a china's fault because it has to do this to survive. you know it needs to. import have of its food for example. is the pentagon so much from the outside to survive. so it must fight for survival so and the u.s. will also be found a status so it won't be a cold war it will be a series of hot wars if not. the right confrontation between these two powers ok dan not a very optimistic future what do you think the proposition is china is the same military strength of the united states go ahead well i would disagree with something you said in your introduction which

offices and now even the united nations headquarters a new d.v.d. documentary deals another front in the n.s.a.'s all out to spying asset. says libya malts two years this is the fall of gadhafi a report on how the government deserve urgent to the colonel savage methods to crush the scent while the country slides into economic turmoil.

you need the united nations with you. and of course, the president's cynicism and skepticism about the iraq war was part of his political calculation as he became president of the united states. so, imagine this national security team and again, a lot of them are new to this job. kerry, new, hagel, new, for example. sitting there and deciding whether they in fact are going to go it alone without the security counsel. and without great britain, without the allies they would like to have and you know, a president at this time has to seem resolute, absolutely sure of what he is about to do. it seems to me in watching them over this past week, they've been spending an awful lot of time talking about i understand how you're border weary, your concerns because they've been there, but if the president comes out today and gives the american people an update on where we are, i think he has to seem resolute and assured in what he's about to do. >> what could he could do now and i have no idea if he's going to do this, but just base

was a fairly small living unit and the lower unit was probably a commercial up to a few decades ago and i lived in one of those kind of places in dental school when i wondered why they rented to us because of the way that it was put together and it really did not work for a family and i think that some day a family did buy it and they put the thing together and made it into a fairly nice unit. but those are my feelings on this particular project. >> commissioner hillis? >> so, i was not at the last hearing but i was able to view the tape and it was an interesting discussion and thank you for the information on it. and i believe by the fact that there has not been a lot of these in you know, in recent years, xh is good, and i think that there is a place in the city and i think that this is a some what unique situation where the owner occupies both units. and there are definitely are a mix of the building around the single family homes as wem as multiunit. and you know, it was hard to tell by that kind of the layout of the building what it was. at one point. but i think that it could

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united states is trying to stop the united nations. because we have there's absolutely no legal jake to how they're using the word who or the n.s.a. spying revelations are taking a toll on germany's upcoming election angela merkel's main rival says that if you wins he'll freeze trade talks with the u.s. until there is clarification of the surveillance program argues peter oliver has more. what peer steinbrück the head of the leader of the s.t.p. and the only real candidate who has a chance of challenging angle of merkel in the in the upcoming elections what he said is that should he become chancellor well he'll put the brakes on ongoing talks on a a free trade agreement between the us and the e.u. now these are trade talks that have moved at a pretty pace at the best of times and they are potentially worth multiple billions of dollars worth of money to both sides but there are sticking points and it's what he said during an interview on german television was that how can we trust our american allies and colleagues when it comes to talk

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter logo is the united states of america a force for good in the world with the largest economy and an unmatched military critics claim washington's defined geopolitical interests always trump its loudly proclaimed values friends of washington are given a free pass and it means real or imagined to be destroyed and replaced. to process whether the united states is a force for good i'm joined by george samuel in new york he is a fellow at the global policy institute of london metropolitan university and in washington we cross to bruce stokes he is the director of global economic attitudes at the pew research center all right gentlemen it's just the three of us crosstalk rules in effect i mean you can jump in anytime you want and i really encourage it george the broad question is the united states a force for good in the world today. no i don't really think so. if we think of the post cold warrior of the began since one thousand eight hundred nine which would also call the uni polar air of american global headroom an a

a parking space for that unit. and again we have the cfc and the 3 r report and that is what we base our decision on thank you. >> >> there are a couple of references that ened up as a single family dwelling that was allege and what is the out come. >> they filed it and that was kind of restarted in early june. and dbi, i think that we received, like the complaint on june fifth and they investigated on june 6th and determined that they had done the work beyond the scope of the per permit and they submited in late june and then maybe, that was basically to bring it back to what was my understanding to what wa

radio four s today programme and he said that the united nations security council has not been united on syria and has not shouldered its responsibilities on syria and on the question of whether it was possible to act without complete unity on the united nations security council he replies oh dulcie yes it is now no firm decision has been taken on what the response will be or indeed when it will be but the timetable if you like for the next couple of days is this prime minister david cameron has cut short his holiday and he'll be returning to london and then on wednesday he's going to be chairing the national security council meeting and it's going to be there that you'll have all the key decision makers and after that meeting on wednesday you can expect that we'll have perhaps a clearer idea of exactly what those plans will be moving forward now we're still not talking about direct intervention here so no boots on the ground in syria what is being discussed a is a more limited form of military action in the form of its thought pinpoint tomahawk missile strikes now by no means has the

course were he to go to the united states one just doesn't know what might happen but at the moment the charges against noton are under the espionage act and for theft three charges under the espionage act one for theft because finally the predicaments facing manning and mail snowden is suggesting perhaps the law is really going to crack down on these people and other whistle blows in the future is that it will whistleblowers now shut up because the law is going to really be very severe. well the united well they're not they're not shutting up for the moment i mean we've already seen what's happened to manning we've already seen what's happened to a sanj and yet here is mr snowden nonetheless in spite of all of that going ahead and being a whistleblower the simple fact is the u.s. authorities are taking very vigorous steps against whistleblowers. there are concerns about the way they're going about doing that but at the moment that doesn't seem to be preventing people from coming forward and just briefly how exactly will we ever see snowden in the public eye do you think would be ve

offices and now even the united nations headquarters a newly leaked document reveals another front in the n.s.a.'s all out spying effort . plus as libya since the fall of gadhafi we report on how the government is reverting to the colonel's methods to crush to send while the country slides into economic turmoil. that's just composite may day here in of the russian capital you live with us on r.t. with me to say. syria's president has responded furiously to allegations that his army was behind the chemical massacre outside damascus last week branding them nonsense u.n. inspectors head into the site to prove some point powell's seemed reluctant to wait for their findings now the united states which says it's confident that bashar assad was responsible for the deadly attack is moving its washin screws into the syrian border the u.k.'s royal navy is also making preparations for a possible strike while the nato part that turkey says in will join a mil she coalition and to both claim they don't need un approval but other jumping the gun is maria for national find. united nations experts are

are low wage jobs and this conversion of the economy and particularly the wages of workers in the united states this is really underpinning many. of these economic problems that we're seeing so in answer to the question mcdonald the zation i think gets the point across we are moving to a low wage economy and this is of course tremendously devastating austin weigh in do you agree or disagree with the new york. of. a low wage or a low wage economy is much better than a no wage economy and what happens is when you're trying to raise the minimum wage across the board you're hurting the people who are unemployed who are unskilled who are unable to get jobs when you raise a minimum wage what you're doing is you're saying that only the certain group of people are going to be benefiting from this program and it's a politically motivated issue it's not an economic issue politicians don't care about economics they don't care about small business owners they don't care about helping the economy all they do is they try and pander to votes for people that think that they're going to get their rate wa

for the last twelve years the united states has been fighting. a war of choice in iraq it war of choice in afghanistan that turned out to be longer battle that a longer fought war than then the vietnam war which also was a war of choice the american people are war weary we know that what's going on inside syria americans even the average american know it's a proxy war we know we're not going to get the correct information from our government and we know that our government officials are only interested in continuing what would be a fear tactic of a continuation of war after war after work to keep the american public in check but warner going to buy into it. a mess of flooded russia's fly isa's schatz's a community says thousands of forces say goodbye to their own party beats of the determined to stay at this and bridge houses to the bitter end. of the us national security agency has been spying on the united nations the headquarters in new york that's according to newly pumping published information leaked by edward snowden i just learned up and

imagine of course this is a mythology but that was sort of implanted in the popular culture in the united states at that time and i think that recently we've seen symbols such as wal-mart sort of take over that mantle of the low wage exploitation of employer but certainly the term mcdonald the zation i think people get the idea that in the united states what we're seeing is a conversion of the economy from what was traditionally a middle and high wage economy to a low wage one recent statistics from the bureau of labor statistics showed that most of the jobs i believe it was something like sixty percent of the jobs that have been lost in this depression are recession whatever want to call it have been not regained and instead have been replaced by low wage jobs that more than. two thirds of the jobs that are being added are low wage jobs and this conversion of the economy and particularly the wages of workers in the united states this is really underpinning many of these economic problems that we're seeing so in answer to the question mcdonald ization i think gets the point across we are

to process whether the united states is a force for good i'm joined by george samuel e. in new york he is a fellow at the global policy institute of london metropolitan university and in washington we cross to bruce stokes he is the director of global economic attitudes at the pew research center all right gentlemen it's just the three of us crosstalk rules in effect i mean you can jump in anytime you want and i really encourage it george the broad question is the united states a force for good in the world today. no i don't really think so. if we think of the post cold warrior of the began since one nine hundred eighty nine which would also call the uni polar air of american global headroom an a i think the record of this is is really very poor. economically and financially i mean we've had from one financial crisis to another and politically it's been an air of extraordinary instability and an extraordinary number of military interventions and attacks led by the united states sometimes alone sometimes with its various satellites so i just thought the record all of the

i think it would be best to say that the behavior of the united states and the allies is the greatest threat to the treaty because the united states and western powers have been treating iran only not only unfairly but also. in a very disturbing manner the sanctions that have been imposed upon ordinary iranians and their attempts to make ordinary iranians suffer in order for iran to put aside its nuclear program are really pathological if you look at it objectively the iranian nuclear program from the very beginning was supported by western powers billions of dollars were invested after the revolution the iranians felt that they cannot throw that investment out the window and to this state there's been no evidence whatsoever that iran's nuclear program has been anything but peaceful so iran is working within the framework of international law the n.p.t. and the united states and its allies are violating fundamental human rights of the iranian people by trying to wreck the iranian economy and by trying to make ordinary iranians suffer ok tom would you like to reply to that in washingto

is to separate the united states from its allies to isolate the united states making it difficult for us to bring power to bear. tomahawk or dual capable aircraft, which is better for that problem? which is better for signaling the resolve of an ally or of the shared commitment of allies opposed to just the united states alone? our conclusion was dual capable aircraft which can be operated from the territory of an ally or near the territory of an ally, but are visible signals of deployment and not simply the employment of strategic systems from the american homeland. this is 5 way to signal resolve. we took the steps following dialogue with many different allies to retire the tomahawk nuclear cruise missile and ensure the fleet of dual capable aircraft and associated nuclear bombs with them are capable of being globally deployed in a time of crisis. >> thank you, sir? >> ken. as i understand it, it was left murk ky under the terms of the mutual defense pack with japan so it seems like we could have told the japanese we don't take a position over the sovereignty, you have to work that