he calls for an alert citizenry. that is, he's calling on the political branches of government as well as all of us in the our daily lives to follow these events and be aware of it. -- and to understand that a military industrial complex will acquire a certain momentum in national affairs but they must justify themselves as we justify other things as well. and i believe that your book highlights some stories that i am aware of, the fitzgerald story in the pentagon, william who's a senator from wisconsin i remember well and so forth, other clashes between the military industrial complex and the political branches of government. to give you a little pit of background -- bit of background on the speech, my own book picks up about 65 hours after it was given, and i would stress a somewhat different aspect of it by way of background, and this has to do with alert citizenry. going home to glory opens shortly after the speech is given and the eisenhowers are driving back 50 years ago on the day that john kennedy was inaugur

supervisor mirkarimi: -- without compromising the values we hold near and dear to our hearts of our citizenry -- since september 11th, 2001, numerous public debates have centered on security and civil rights. these debates have played out in the form of public conversations and controversies, including remarks made by then early on chief gas donor regarding persons of middle eastern and afghani dissent. the chief's comments caused concern among san francisco community members including the arab, middle eastern and south asian citizens, there referred to acronym is amemsa. we sought to address these concerns by the police department and addressing concerns about the perspective news that there would be an intel unit created with regard to the san francisco police department wanting to upgrade its surveillance and intelligence policies and working with both state and federal organizations, and denounced to many organizations that have been working on these issues for a long, long time. that particular need was manifested, facilitated through a number of hearings, in particular, one that took pl

nondiscrimination including the amemsa community: while upholding its obligation in protecting our citizenryhuman-rights committee unanimously passed this report. relative to this, i submitted a resolution earlier this month, simply endorsing the work of the hrc and the larger community at hand. that resolution, offered by myself and co-sponsored by a number of supervisors, including share avalos and supervisor mar have brought us to this conclusion. i think these deliberations are not unfamiliar to just san francisco but of course around the united states. what has made some headline news recently is that congressman team of new york, peter keane, chairman of the house homeland's security committee -- congressman peter king plans to hold hearings on this very question. what he has titled his hearings is the radicalization of muslim americans. many leading up to the first hearing were quite concerned, from the general public and the media to sensationalize a lot of that hearing leading up to the first one as a reincarnation, if you will, of the kind of red baiting that was done in the 1950's

obligations that the board and the mayor and the city have already read and promise both to our citizenry as well as our businesses, as well as the agencies. we have a lot of regulatory and land use approvals that have to be done, and that office will be leading that effort as well. developing all of the event logistics with the authority and in coordination with all the different agencies. we will be partnering through that office with the america's cup organizing committee on all the private fund raising that has to get done and also the obligations. we will also be working on a plan that promotes this city and the best we have been able to do. i know we have done a great defense in the city from the world series two super bowls and so forth. as i said earlier, this event will be a combination of all of those great events put together for literally the year -- the next two years leading up to it. so, of course, we will be promoting all of our great benefits and local restaurants, hotels, retailers, manufacturers, big businesses, but also small businesses. they are really a backbone. onc

muslim world just like they're afraid of the public opinion that is represented by the american citizenry which wants health care for its people which once the dismantlement of empire which wants a president that really represents change they can believe then instead of rhetorical corrodes they want a real sense of change and as a consequence of this false rhetorical change absent real practice you can see the disintegration of the empire but they are still capable of utilizing immense chords and immense ideological mechanisms of retaining control and that's what we see playing out is the beginning of a war ideological war in the muslim world for the sake of advocating you know where will policies which are it can to the neo imperialism you talk about imbedding be really scary industrial complex and if i was that it remain at war but also in propping up the dollar as the global reserve currency and making sure that the regimes that replaced mubarak the regime badly grace may not be the regime that really replaced apparently a year or two neo liberal no one can go to the i.m.f. for a bailo

if we do not have an educated citizenry, then the greedy and powerful can stay in power. going after the public school system, our teachers -- this is a menace in our society. we are in a big crisis right now. we have to understand we are the only ones who will be able to solve the crisis. we have to get out there and recommit ourselves. we have to understand. we have to go to the source of information we need. we need to listen to rachel madoff. [laughter] even colbert and jon stewart to get these sources of information. i do not know how many of you subscribe to "ms."magazine. it is an important source of information for women. it was started by gloria steinem. it is now owned by the feminist majority. you can get it on the web. subscribe. you see who is on the cover of this. nancy pelosi. "ms." magazine is the only magazine to put nancy pelosi on the cover even though she is the first woman speaker in the united states. this shows the discrimination against women is so deep that they would not put her on the cover, but "ms." did. we have a feminist majority table out t

his legacy impacted the minds of the citizenry of this date and this nation that we move to enact a chinese exclusion act prohibiting chinese people from emigrating to this nation. and he would not stop. he kept on being mean. he issued public statements that the native americans should be exterminated from this state and from this nation. now, my friends, as a gospel preacher, i would have to embrace the notion that human nature can be changed. people do change. hugo black was once a member of the ku klux klan, he got religion and he changed. when he changed, he was considered to sit on the high court of this nation. he never according to a history changed his mind -- peter burnett, according to history, never changed his mind about black folk, chinese people. therefore, it appears to me that we are doing the right thing since he would not changed his mind, we have changed the name of the school to be -- to the leola havard early education school. [applause] i hope that this symbolic and substantive change will sell impact the minds of all of us that we will make sure that in the city of s

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and the citizenry to ask us to do our do diligence to make sure that we are doing our best on the behalf of ratepayers in the city. there seemed to be ample reason for us to continue this discussion, deliver live even for a number of reasons that have emerged even in this discourse today. i will suggest a postponement date, realizing very much that we are about ready to get into the thick of our budget process, which does not give us a window of time to be as thoughtful as we would like to be over the next couple months. i would suggest that we return back to this issue in july. there is no meeting on july 6. but there is a meeting on july 13. if that comports with madam chairs the agenda about how you want to orchestrate us between now and the conclusion of the budgetary process, that is simply an initial suggestion. supervisor chu: i do not anticipate that we will be able to bring this item up before the budget process. we will get the position in the month of may. if i could ask for flexibility to continue that to the call of the chair, we will likely see that in july, but, i would im

supervisor mirkarimi: -- without compromising the values we hold near and dear to our hearts of our citizenry11th, 2001, numerous public debates have centered on security and civil rights. these debates have played out in the form of public conversations and controversies, including remarks made by then early on chief gas donor regarding persons of middle eastern and afghani dissent. the chief's comments caused concern among san francisco community members including the arab, middle eastern and south asian citizens, there referred to acronym is amemsa. we sought

unfortunately, our public places are becoming more like private space than the playground of a healthy citizenry. rachel carson wrote to warn about the dangers of pesticides. now, our public -- [bell rings] supervisor chu: thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon. i am the executive director of the hunters point family. we are a nonprofit organization in bayview/hunters point, and i am in support of continuing nonresident fees for the botanical gardens, primarily because i think any revenue generating effort that is done at this time is preferable to the cuts we have seen, specifically in our community, and i know throughout the city, where the most vulnerable among us -- our club houses have been closed. there has been less staff for state recreation and in richmond for families and young people -- and in the richmond for families and young people. while i know it is not ideal, at this time, i believe is important to have sustainable funding. i know what it is like to try to balance the budget, so i think a one-time grant for my organization, while that would be something that i would appreciate

yes, we had more challenges than anticipated, but we had to move forward and protect the citizenry from the crisis and defend every accomplishment in the sphere of education and health care, and step by step restore, recover and increase the potential for growth. i can say with full responsibility this was a successful dash force. now we are making a large scale plan for economic growth. the government will do everything possible to make sure the economy is following positive growth and the well-being of russian families will grow. we will be guided by principle and listen to people. we are not willing to step away from this general principle line. support of citizens always helped us, and we have used it as a support in making very important decisions, and well do everything to earn this trust. thank you very much for your patience and attention. thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> thank you. recent political events both in our country and in the world proofed that the internet plays an important

make videotape of our operations and the presidential libraries available to the press and to the citizenry? >> short answer, yes -- >> see, d.v.d.'s. >> let me explain, we're doing will already. i'll send you over to the new materials we have. we have a wonderful partner, a public private partnership called the foundation for the national archives. when you come you'll discover not only this beautiful rotunda you'll discover and exhibit on american history called the public vaults' exhibit which is the best exhibit of its kind in the world. we have at least we have evidence of people discovering it because the lines outside the archives are extraordinary. >> you get students, journalis, historians, some of them only want to engage in gene loaning cal research -- >> the geneiologiologists, this is the largest single contingent of folks use the archivists, they're wonderful people, they come from many different aspects, but, yes, they are. >> you have interactive exhibits? >> the entire public vaults exhibit is interaction itch -- interactive. >> getting the -- all of this material on the we

definition of tyranny is that which is lawful for government but is illegal or unlawful for the citizenry the government has jet fighter planes they have machine guns they have howitzers they have tanks they have nuclear aircraft carriers of the militia today. we are left with semi-automatic handguns and semi-automatic rifles back as part of the three percent a militia with its own flag plenty of guns and a manifesto that proclaims it only takes three percent of gun owners to overthrow the government. they gathered last year on the banks of the potomac with a warning to those in power quote attempts to further oppress us by your own paranoia people here to send you will then begin. where you are. it failure to comprehend the real situation that we are all in and sent a message that they won't back down americans are. increasingly. free citizens. more what subjects. more and more of america's eighty four million gun owners say they're tired of compromising on their right to bear arms three percent refuse to follow any new gun control laws we all have. every president we've lived here recen

and so i don't want to participate in that, in the de-intellectualization of our citizenry, you know? the book you wrote with ben stiller, feel this book, which is largely kind of a parody of self-help books, also had nuggets like this: is that--it also kind of drives your career, doesn't it? you're not doing the predictable. well, see, here's the thing, though. thank you for saying that i'm not doing something predictable, because i take it as a compliment, but true radicals probably see me as the biggest, like, sellout. like, "oh, my god, that's why she's on the show, because she's the most palatable radical." do you know what i'm saying? sure. and, really, what is so radical about me? because i'm fat, you know what i mean, like, and i'm trying to be in tv? like, you know what i mean? like, or i have corduroys and sneakers on when i went to the emmys, you know what i mean? like that makes me a radical. and true radicals and true activists and true people that are out there in the trenches probably see me as, like, "that is so infuriating "that you're holding her up as some kind of l

and i think over this roughly thirty year period we have seen the citizenry in this country utterly disempowered. it doesn't matter what we want nobody wanted the first bailout bill a constituent calls were a hundred to one against that seven hundred billion dollars bailout and it passes anybody way nobody supports the pfizer reform act. which retroactively made legal but was illegal under our constitution the warrantless wiretapping and eavesdropping on tens of millions of americans but it passes anyway because the telecommunications companies that had illegally turned over these records to the government wanted to be protected and got it passed the so-called health care bill two thousand pages all of it written by health care lobbyists it becomes the equivalent of the bank bailout bill four hundred billion dollars in subsidies to a for profit health care industry. and now we're watching the obama administration grant exemptions because these corporations don't want to insure chronically ill children issue after issue after issue the rights the needs of citizens are ignored for corporations and

i really do think now that there's a much more educated citizenry about debt and deficit that is what people are talking up in washington which i think frankly is good for conservatives. we are not talking about health care or some other thing. we're talking about what is the fiscal plight of america. and that's good. we are talking about issues on our turf and that gives me some hope that we will solve it. >> this idea that given the deficits in the last years that we are kind of a different public mindset, paul ryan and republicans i think that you are right on that, and president obama and the democrats are betting you are wrong. and there are a number of polls that show people so they want to see the deficit come down. they would love to see the budget balanced, but they do not want cuts in medicare. they do not want cuts in social security. and those who receive medicaid do not want cuts in that either. there are a majority opposing cuts in all of those things. so, why do you think you're right on the? >> because it's a math problem. it just doesn't add up. you can't have both. y

apart from augusting social capital in general, sustaining a democratic citizenry. a vare right of studies have found that active involvement in church service serves as the kind of training center for important siic skills and all of these relationships hold true after controlling for various demographic and socio economic variables. beyond these kinds of claims you started to hear other evidence in the 1970s and 1980s that religious faith is impirkically associated with good things. social scientists who have no personal interest in vindicating religion and in fact who themselves are usually secular, have been building a rigorous literature on these issues and it turns out that most of the claims are true. and that includes a wide variety of benefits for the socialization of children. so i suggest that whatever your personal religious beliefs may be, full disclosure i am an agnostic who occasionally attends quaker meetings with my wife, you are on weak evidentiary ground if you think that the health of the american project is not affected by secularization. the ma

commanders seemed to declare war against all americans and that provoked almost the entire massachusetts citizenry into open rebellion. lexington followed, but americans discovering the importance of the individual's right to bear arms. then came bunker hill and that was followed by a declaration of independence by the massachusetts legislature. virginia followed suit after patrick henry's starting call for liberty or death and the declaration of war against britain. his call echoed across the continent and roused so many americans that on july 4th, 1776, all 13 states declared independence from britain. and who were those original tea party years, who were the men on the ships, who head off the explosion that sparked the revolution and helped bring down one entire and create another? , who boarded the ships and dumped devotee in boston harbor, sam adams, hancock at the time they swore never to reveal each other's names to prevent their arrest for treason and immediate death on the gallows. while the names remain secret for decades after the two-party but now the in my new book. i believe the list

this is the king bestowing the benefits of the country's wealth on a deserving citizenry, and why not? now, you could say this is essentially bribe money. well, that's a cynical way of looking at it, but, in fact, that's the way the saudi state has operated since 1938; right? the central government, ie, the king collects money and gives it out; right? that's why electricity and water are almost free even though they are short of both; right? that's why gasoline is 40 cents a gallon in saudi arabia. that's why health care and education such as they are are free. that's the way the system works. what you just saw was one big fat manifestation of the way the country has worked, and by the way, largely to the material well being of the population for 70 years. that's what they do there, and, in fact, of course, the worldwide increase in oil prices prompted by all these other troubles has enabled the saudis to hand out all these goodies without busting the budget. i believe this year they balanced the budget at $80 oil even with the new expenditures, so $110 oil, they are in fat city; righ

a new lower class whose members are increasingly unsuited for citizenry in a free society, a new upper class that is increasingly isolated from ignorant of, and some that haven't gone into but is also true, increasingly hostile toward a larger mainstream culture. given that kind of portrait, what does the future look like? that's another four chapters of the book that are not going to say much about except a few things. you can find lots of reasons to think that all is lost for the american project. the parallel that keeps nagging at me is a row. in terms of wealth and military mind and territorial reach, rome reached its apathy. i've given authority in saying this, reached its apathy under the emperors and remain powerful for two centuries beyond that. so was the end of the roman republic way back in 49 b.c. a big deal or not? in terms of the wealth and power and territorial reach of rome, rome was not a big deal. but the romans who treasured the republic, it was a tragedy. it was a tragedy that no amount of imperial splendor could redeem. the united states faces a similar prospect. c

he require the engaged citizenry and require the political movement that's better organized and smarter and more disciplined than the one we have. i think we deserve kind of a break for taking our eye off of the ball after we elected barack obama president. it was very exciting electing that many president, particularly after the horror that we lived under for eight years under bush and cheney. it turns out not to have been enough. it turns out to be an beginning, not an end. it's a little hok >> i ask that you keep your comments and questions brief. here we go. >> thank you for a great talk, but roosevelt, as you know, was hated by the dominant media of the day. most of them anyway. 2/3 of the nation's newspapers landed in 1936. there was father and the popular demagogue that was against him. yet, he still triumphed. i wonder in some ways, media is not the problem. maybe this is -- at least on economic issues and issues of big government, this is just a conservative country, at least those who vote and are active. perhaps you are putting too much emphasis on the media. >> well, dr. kas

i mean, and engaged citizenry is powerful, and looking at the opportunity of social media to try to bring viewers into a more proactive role in information is important, but also professional journalism is important and i think the to operate side-by-side. and we have over the course of the last few years spent a fair amount of time thinking about and experimenting and doing work in this space, and i'm glad harry is a because i think on the new site is by doing so the most interesting work in public media. and he has done everything i know about twitter, and i'm trying really hard, i hope you're proud of me, but it is fascinating to me. and had a discussion with a friend, not that long ago, about the fact that i think for a lot of people, there is the feeling that social media is somehow frivolous and it's about where i had lunch yesterday. and if you really look at some of the work, and even outside uphold journalistic space, people who have worked with us on a series coming he uses social media as a way to really try to get a handle on subjects and topics and really engage discussion be

capital in general, the churches serve specifically as the resource for sustaining a democratic citizenrykind of training centers for the importance of the skills and all of these relationships hold true after controlling various demographic and socio-economic variables. beyond these claims, you started to hear other evidence in the 1970's and 90's the religious faith is empirical the associated with good things such as better physical health, mental health and longevity. social scientists who have no personal interest in vindicating religion and in fact themselves are usually secular has been building a rigorous literature on these issues and it turns out most of the claims are true, and that includes a wide variety of benefits for the socialization of children. so i suggest whatever your personal religious beliefs may be, full disclosure, an agnostic who occasionally attends meetings with my wife, you are on a week evident jiri grout if you think that the health of the american project is not affected by secularization, the main story line here is that the secularization has occurred ac

we at the same time had to move forward and fight the crisis and protect citizenry from the conflicts of the crisis and defend every accomplishment in the sphere of education and health care. and step-by-step restore and recover and increase potential for growth. i can say with full responsibility that this was a successful dash forward and now we're making large scale plan for economic and strategic growth. the government will do everything possible to make sure that the economy is following the traecktory of growth and the families will grow. we are guided by the principle by listening toe people and we're stepping away from this general principle line. support of citizens always helped us. and we used it as a support in making very important decisions and we'll do everything to earn this trust. for patience and attention, thank you. [applause] >> thank you. recent political events both in our country and in the world proved the internet played an important role in the marbleizing people. today you have the opportunity wide formal and free communication between people. and the users

this was the king in the stilling the benefits of the country's wealth on a deserving citizenry, andy not? now, you can say that this is essentially bribe money. well, that's a cynical way of looking at it. but, in fact, that's the way the saudi state has operated since 1938. right? the central government, i.e. faking, collects money and gives it out. that's what electricity and water are almost free even though they are short of both. right? that's why gasoline is like 40 cents a gallon in saudi arabia. that's why health care and education such as they are our free. that's the way the system works, what you just saw was one big fat manifestation of the way the country has words. and by the way, largely to the material well being of the population. for 70 years. that's what they do there. and, in fact, of course, the worldwide increase in oil prices prompted by all these other troubles has enabled the saudis to hand out all these goodies without busting the budget. i believe this year they balanced the budget and $80 oil. even with the new expenditures. so $110 oil, they are in that

have an allegiance to their shareholders nations are the department of state has the legions to the citizenry of united states and iran not separating whose policies take precedence who is the decision maker when all parties don't agree? put that out more i would appreciate it what does anyone actors year get precedence over another? what is the americans solution to do with the situation? to be prioritized over another actor's you? take the millennium development goals as a good example ratified by all member states by 2015 we should achieve xyz targets to curb incidence of hunger and poverty by half. goals that we are nowhere near etchy being to the extent that we are it has to do with economic growth in india and china but nothing to do with the prior day's that may or may not have been set through the world bank meeting or the general assembly. those who were the main advisor on the millennium declaration for a decade at the time over 10 years ago said now that we have a dead -- deadline for the world, it doesn't matter who you are any more. if you are a government contributing with morta

apart from on any social capital in general, churches serve as a source for sustaining democratic citizenry. a variety of studies have found that active involvement in church service serves as a training center for important civic skills and all of these relationships hold true after controlling various demographic is to economic variables. beyond these kinds of claims come you started your evidence for the 1970s and 1980s that religious faith is empirically associate with good such as better physical health, mental health and longevity. social scientists who have no personal interest in vindicating religion and in fact they themselves are usually secular have been building a rigorous literature on these issues and it turns out most of the claims are true and that includes a wide variety of benefits for the socialization of children. so i suggest that whatever your personal religious beliefs may be, full disclosure, i'm an gnostic who attends quaker meetings with my wife, you are on weak evidentiary ground if you think that the health of the american project does not affect the secularizati

this is what you ought to aspire to in a modern state that's more responsive to the citizenry and wheree is some accountability. they don't believe it's going to happen tomorrow, but there is no sense of what the conservative political action would look like in saudi arabia because it's been prohibited for so long and in that sense it is similar to libya. and the reason there were furious arguments in saudi arabia all the time intense debates about really obscure matters of religion this is the how long should your beard be argument. the government encourages those arguments because the substitute for politics. so you don't have even with all the people that educated outside saudi arabia a politically sophisticated citizen. now, all of this is what happened or didn't happen inside saudi arabia. it's related to what happened in bahrain only in the sense that the shia minority in saudi arabia misread the situation that overplayed their hand, and i think there's pretty good evidence that the saudi shia who always insist they are not to dish the two stooges, they just want to be treated fai

what does that foster and the citizenry and lessons does that teach about the thrift and savings? >> guest: host could then get back to the republican virtue as opposed to just money and making a higher. we have two minutes left but i want to get to other subjects on as foreign policy people are very familiar with the position you've taken. you said you and he were like a similar line on the foreign policy? >> guest: the neoconservatives and bush administration we thought were right of course and improvise the sort of democracy promotion side of the strong american foreign policy a little more than he did but he says the great powers to remain a great power and it's partly a great power standing up for your principals not just your interest and we have an interest in democracy being stronger around the world so i don't think there is as much difference as some try to say. it is a judgment obviously people differ on this or that but he was a reliever and he said this in the essay of american greatness and people that thought americans were going to -- a great essay in the 70's wher

i really do think now that there's a much more educated citizenry about debt and deficit that is what people are talking up in washington which i think frankly is good for conservatives. we are not talking about health care or some other thing. we're talking about what is the fiscal plight of america. and that's good. we are talking about issues on our turf and that gives me some hope that we will solve it. >> this idea that given the deficits in the last years that we are kind of a different public mindset, paul ryan and republicans i think that you are right on that, and president obama and the democrats are betting you are wrong. and there are a number of polls that show people so they want to see the deficit come down. they would love to see the budget balanced, but they do not want cuts in medicare. they do not want cuts in social security. and those who receive medicaid do not want cuts in that either. there are a majority opposing cuts in all of those things. so, why do you think you're right on the? >> because it's a math problem. it just doesn't add up. you can't have both. y

our national government under either party is capable or even desirous of actually educating the citizenry about the islamist threat confronting america. today americans simply do not have what washington called a right understanding of the threats from the persian gulf region. in my writings i've sought to acquaint americans with the nature of these threats, whether from iran in its religious in iraq and lebanon, the vicious martial, anti-christian, anti-jewish and anti-western brand of islamic theology exported under saudi arabia's official, or the forces of osama bin laden, al qaeda and other sunni islamists lead and inside. i also argued the united states government under both parties is fighting an islamist enemy that does not exist. and, therefore, it is in policies that run counter to america's historical traditions come and so to its best interests. official washington's islamic enemy is the stuff of hollywood farce. be they shia or sunni, the islamist are a limited band of fanatical is ready to kill widely and indiscriminately for the pure joy of murdering. and ready to sacrifice