b corporations include stakeholder value and community benefits. corporations use the power of business to help solve social and environmental problems. late last year, california became the sixth state to charger this kind of corporation, which jerry brown signing it into law in california. today, on introducing legislation that would provide city contract in incentives. to receive this bid preference, a business would have to be legally recognized as a b corporation. at the end of the day, i think it is important to our city, which has been home to many entrepreneurial ventures, to state that we are open for business to these types of companies. i think it is important that we continue to be a leader of those countries -- companies. i hope that this legislation goes through the process that you will agree with that and that we will move it forward. the rest of items i will submit. secretary: thank you. supervisor campos? supervisor campos: thank you. i have a number of items, but i have won the i am submitting with others. this is for the very im

. >> commissioners, i will call item nine, presentation of b lab on b corporations in the staete of california. in due to a scheduling error, they were not able to make it today and made a request to present at the next meeting which i will discuss with the director and the president. for procedural reasons, it puts us on items 10 and 11. the director would like to go through the procedures for the election of officers. >> can we take a couple minute recess and check on the commissioners that had to step out for a moment? mr. president, can we please take -- president o'brien: i would like to take a recess for five minutes. we will reconvene again. >> very well, we'll take a five-minute recess. gosh we are back at the small business commission meeting. we are about to call items 10 and 11. i believe the director would like to review the election procedures with the commission? >> we call each position separately, so we do the president first, the vice president. for each position, an individual may nominate themselves are have another individual nominate them. and in the order of nominations,

b. corporations democracy of course inside the state and we promoting this idea and we now. really make platforms for which are using pirates are going to explode internet platform and now our civil societies are rooting for their civil salvi serial console it's going as in moscow by this are you working on the platforms you working on technologies that will allow citizens to effectively control the government you know you me you me not doing the internet is really closing the gap between the government governors and the government is their right to control go what second thought really to vote for lor's ordinary people must want followers not deported this is why do we need a pirate party to fight for these principles are the existing parties enough to include the don't in memphis they are very old for this they are very old no communist party annoy you do you know what i see nor. do they know it is interesting and these are there for all forms they are like feudal parties in terms of revolution they are for yet ok so then how would you explain the success of the pirate par

b. corporations and by the authorities and the whole already have been. several examples of that this document actually has a striking resemblance to this sopa bill in the united states so clearly the warsaw protests are the only ones in europe so far but we could be seeing more and more rallies and more protest actions across europe as the parliament's face the rich a fixation of actor in the nearest several weeks. european correspondent there bring you some today was how there was so let's talk now to dominik dominica. the coordinator of the media freedom project in poland the helsinki foundation for human rights i got all that right dominica good to see on the program thanks for being with us it looks like it may be a bit of a dodgy line but we'll all go and see how we get on now if media is allowed to be swapped freely where does the money come from i guess is a basic question to make the new stuff to make the new media coming along. well i believe we should be aware. of market research. people are. feeling that they were cheated by the government and

b. corporations and by the authorities and the whole already have been said. all examples of that this document actually has a striking resemblance to this so to a bill in the united states so clearly the warsaw protests are the only ones in europe so far but we could be seeing more and more rallies and more protest actions across europe as the parliament's face the rich a vacation of actor in the nearest several weeks. eastern europe correspondent now a few minutes from now on the program tonight the euro undergoes financial forensics in switzerland. alps at the davos world economic forum to try to sort out the highs and lows of the global economy deeply in trouble and the future of the eurozone we'll have more coming up here so i can tell you not a word we missed later libya's new government speaking accused of torture and abuse in detention centers made from cheers suspending its mission right now in misrata saying it's repeatedly treating patients for injuries sustained during interrogation with thousands of gadhafi loyalists ill behind bars raising key qu

b. corporations and we only have four states and so far. so far so what is a big corporation why only four states and how many states even allow things like just basic genuine work are owned and run cooperators i don't have the answer to last question but i do know that people have wrinkles in the law where you can change the corporate charter and do it as a business or as a nice and find democratic participation democratic control and there are ways to develop within the law legal structure and in some states change the co-op laws but so a big car is that in that example we have a deer in them and just over here in maryland senator jamie raskin was behind doing that very bright young senator it's a very simple idea if you are a corporate chief or you're on the board your legal responsibility is to make profits for the shareholders and if you deviate too far from that and try to do good things for the community spending too much corporate money you are legally subject to a challenge by the stockholders to talk about dodgy ford back in the th

b of a's corporate headquarters. >> the federal reserve went further in assuring us that we will haveow interest rates well into the future. and this today saying it would probably remain at near zero until late 2014. and said low interest rates are still needed and says it's the best guess. >> we're obviously hoping that this strength will continue into 2012. about we're gooding to continue to monday thaer situation. i don't think we're ready to declare that we've entered a stronger phase at this point. >> wall street likes those rates and dow clogsing with an 83 point gain today. apple up $26 a share. >> coming up a tearful goodbye as gabrielle giffords quits congress. >> regulations that should allow your child [ male announcer ] get ready for some deli-style delic-ious-ity: the subway big hot pastrami melt. dive into piled-high pastrami, spicy mustard, pickles and melt-a-licious cheese. treat your taste buds to a fresh toasted subway big hot pastrami melt. subway. eat fresh. >> first lady turned lunch lady today and michelle obama shared a lunch with students near washington, d.c.

agree well look it's an absurd dispute actually obviously romney doesn't think that corporations have a heartbeat a and b. obviously all money that goes to a corporation that is public goes to people because they own shares and it's distributed the i mean. it's just math romney destroyed himself in that quote he said there are people in corporations oh well that's true as good as one that a corporation is a person that we were talking about personally right all. of this is there you know this is the one percent this is the old example of the republican establishment pitching for. a certain sense it's absolutely true that right in front of them most of it already. is there and we don't which are which republican do you agree with i agree with. the only republican that you just showed i don't consider jon huntsman to be much of a republican senator but no and he's clearly out to just get mitt romney and go after him he's a mitt romney who clearly hates mitt romney the way. he's to the right of eisenhower in the u.s. eisenhower the rationed it was he i mean this guy served in the obama administration he was

the group calls itself the 99% and said it's taking this action because it feels corporations such as b of a aren't paying its fair share of taxes. members say they know their contribution may be small but it's necessary. >> it's symbolic. bank of america is not investing in our children, we're not going to invest our money in them. also i think that we want to contribute. we're mothers, mothers of young families, we're super-busy, we want to show people that even as busy as we are we are willing to stand up for what we see our children need. >> the action was planned to coordinate with the lunar new year. >>> in south carolina today, republican voters did something they have never done before. newt gingrich won the primary and in so doing made history. never before have there been three different winners of iowa, new hampshire and south carolina. nbc's steve handelsman has a look at what newt gingrich has to say about his win tonight. >> reporter: the triumphant peak in a roller coaster ride. >> we want to run an american campaign. >> reporter: newt gingrich polled 20 points ahead in s

raise taxes and of course they are everything corporations are and also that it goes to people so what do you think you are right so according to the r. and b. citizens united didn't go far enough because corporations can now spend freely on elections but it all goes to these super pacs these other organizations they can't give directly to the candidate so the r. and c. is now suing again to make it so that you can directly contribute to the candidate what are your thoughts i mean i just think that this is so insane given that right now people are taking to the streets across the nation to fight money in politics and yet we're trying to find out easier ways to let the money in the poll it never stop the never stop trying to find the easy only that while it's kind of the air of the nascar candidate you know you kind of look for ad space on the suit maybe that's not just like see who's sponsoring you all around but that's the weird thing about this and we were discussing this in our editorial meeting this one is i don't support either one of these things but it's almost like this is better than citizens united because there nothing is disclos

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b beck. they never addressed the corporations selling our infrastructure out to the communists.ch party votes completely in line with giving these companies tax breaks and write-offs and having no basic principle of maybe taxing these profits that are being brought over from these companies? it is the republican party, the party of communism -- sporting communism. host: let's take a look at the latest polling data. it says the tracking of the republican primary in florida wraps up with mitt romney at 39% and newt gingrich at 31%. rick santorum at 15% and ron paul at 11%. liz smith writes in on twitter and says -- let's take a listen now to newt gingrich on the campaign trail in florida yesterday. [video clip] >> with your help, we are really going to change things. this is a major difference between me and romney. the fact is, a brand new article came as of europe last night where george soros, the left- wing billionaire, was talking to europeans. this is on tape. i am not making this up. george soros says to a group of europeans, "you know, there's really no difference between

reporter: many corporate executives have donated to super-pacs, but the only donation we could find from a publicly traded company so far in this election cycle is a $50,000 check from b/e aerospace to a super-pac supporting mitt romney. some conservatives argue there is nothing wrong with companies, public or private, funding the kind of ad campaign being run by backers of newt gingrich in south carolina. >> that seems to me classic political speech, and if you're saying that he should not be able... people should not be able to fund that kind of speech, then what does the first amendment mean, what does it protect? >> reporter: super-pacs that have reported spending almost $13 million so far in this election have not released any information about where they got the money. we are going to get more information on super-pac donors by the end of the month, but by then, the fight for the republican nomination may be all but over. darren gersh, "nightly business report," washington. >> susie: picture this-- the legendary eastman kodak company landed in bankruptcy court today. the filing was expected-- the 131-year-old company has been running low on cash for some time as

b >>> a wounded marine was critically injured in arlington. it happened in the early morning hours of january 22nd. the victim, lance corporal jake aaron hill was in a 7-eleven in crystal city. he got into an argument with another customer. the argument spilled outside, police say that cook's boyfriend hit hill in the head with a metal club. cook and dawkins are charged with malicious wounding. the suspects accuse hill with a racial remark. he was nominated for a silver star for his valor in combat after losing his leg. >>> a moosing in fairfax county will have to rebuild after the new house of worship was able to open. the mosque was vandalized last night. someone threw rocks and other debris through dozens of custom made windows. the mosque was scheduled to open at the end of the february. >> it's very sad. but at the same time our community is very resilient. we have asked our community members to fervently pray that we're able to overcome this hurdle. >> police believe young people could be responsible, beer and liquor containers were found in the woods nearby. there's no indication this was a hate crime. damage is estim

b smith, tobin smith. is jonas max ferris, and christian, and amelia. toby, you say we need to do something right now to stave off the threat. what is it? >> read my lips, cut corporate taxes and every one of the republican candidates, agreed on one thing. cut corporate taxes and let's go to the history books. look at my old country. 15% went to a flat rate 15% versus the euro at 30, 35% and they grew their economy four times faster and their gdp kicked butt for 22, 23 years, we've seen it in every other country that's done this, astona, blah, blah, blah, it's time to do it now and get ahead of this thing. if we don't we will have job issues here because europe is going to be negative for the next six months. >> brenda: in fact, we have the second highest corporate tax rate in the world, second only to japan. christian, is that the way to go? >> look, if all you're interested in it increasing corporate profits, sure, cut the tax rates and if you're interested in creating jobs. >> brenda: let him talk. >> you need to do more. the reason that businesses are not hiring right now is less to do with their tax rates, but more to do with the lack of aggregate demand out the

b it because that would mean you're somehow anti-capitalist. that's nonsense. >> i think it sounds like the language of the left. talking about corporate raiders and talking about looters -- look, we all know some of these deals go sour, we know most -- >> it's not a question of they go sour. >> but when you use that language, you sound like, pardon the phrase, president obama or the left wing of the democratic party. that's what's disappointed many of your conservative supporters during this campaign. >> okay. let's say that i said to you i really believe deeply in honest corporations. i suspect obama would say he believes deep any in honest corporations pi whi corporations. which of us is mimicking which one? somehow the idea of looking at something becomes radioactive, i'm really, truly puzzled by it, larry. i raise serious questions. there are at least three or four cases where as a matter of judgment and you mentioned teddy forsman, you remember when teddy went into gulfstream, he found a company in much deeper trouble than they thought. it would have been easy to have just cashed out. instead he found an extra billion dollar, mov

b. upton sinclair air and the jungle, the workers are getting desperate. and you had the teddy roosevelt might have to go, i love corporations and i love big businesses, but this is a moment when we have to take action. like the antitrust act and other things to begin to regulate, to modulate the concentration of wealth and power. so when we look at moments in time where we're increasing government participation, we are increasing social safety nets. arafat hangs about it, but there could things. you don't overdo it be at the bureaucracy are handing out checks, but understand that stability, economic opportunity, the ability to earn a paycheck and of course by the consumer in this country, all of these things are necessary for capitalism to flourish. for small, medium businesses, entrepreneurs, innovation, all of that must have that kind of social setting. so again, it's back to balance. james madison going, got to have both the liberal voice in the conservative voice to keep his balance. so as i was working on the book, one of the things that hit me as we are looking at our current predicament was that what has gone wrong,

b and everybody there was action at p.o.v. that we first got the idea to do food inc. i also want to thank them for their uncompromising manner in showing it despite certain food corporationst wanted it done differently. and also want to thank my co-filmmakers for their insights, their brilliance and the kindest. unless i want to thank my wife whose love and support i could make films without. thank you very much. [applause] >> and the nominees for outstanding research are -- >> and the winner is explorer, chemical to survive? national geographic channel. [applause] >> accepting the emmy, chesapeake sacks. researcher. >> national geographic cameras have gotten access to a place almost no outsiders have been permitted. >> and to be peace command for capping the well. from this 800 square-foot room known as the hive, engineers monitor over a dozen life feeds, streaming from the ocean floor 5000 feet beneath the surface. >> welcome it's looking like a national geographic researchers didn't get tickets. oh, here they come. [applause] >> thank you. in a field where we still don't know how much oil came out, find information with an incredible challenge, and it would have been p