there will be other military domains where i don't think you can count on superiority. i think we can't count on superiority and cyber but which we can do the smart strategy to make sure they can't remove our capabilities in, let's say, the naval domain. >> you said you consider yourself a liberal. niall ferguson, professor at harvard just published an article stating the obama administration's response to egypt was a disaster. as a liberal realist how would you create the administration spots and looking forward towards how they should respond to iran and other countries? how would you look at that? >> i think actually obama's response in egypt is not a disaster. and this is, this is a good example of what i mean by needing a strategy. if you think about, should i abandon the government, should i forget the government, no, so i. governments are still the most important actors. isolate major objectives of hard power world by bouncing iranian strategy by maintain the peace between israel and egypt. to just say this when we overthrow mubarak the better, and suppose you wi

zero eminent domain of housing. so we were very sensitive to that.evelopment is a great tool and it is a tool that has been used all over the state. we just finished bloomingdale's. that was a redevelopment area. it could happen, and if you strike, it could really make a difference. we are trying to make sure that we are using it right. >> we are not anti-development. we are anti getting pushed out and killing our kids. >> a cheap way to provide opportunities for people is affordable housing. and this is affordable housing that will very from rental housing for families, rental housing for seniors, housing for people with disabilities, housing for the chronically homeless, holders of housing. >> we love redevelop it, but we are going to have to do some development ourselves. that is what we want the city to do. let the people year, starting with the people out here in bayview, to the development here. at the shipyard, whatever it is. you do not need anybody out there. you give me all about lead, i could get the money to develop it. >> first of all, w

i'm to have a monopoly over new variations on the ideas that have come from the public domain but after that create expires these ideas should as thomas jefferson talked about the constitution return to the public domain and what corporations want to do is they want to lock up these ideas in perpetuity and this creates what i've called the collective global labatt of me in that you've taken all these good ideas and you put them on the private balance sheets of corporations but talk a little bit more about you know expanding on these things that you write about on your site extensively and it really leading the charge on this very important issue which i've always thought is the linchpin issue for activists around the world because if you can't have access to your own thoughts you can't really have any activist campaign against anything else but talk a little bit more about the big picture here cory doctorow i used to be a full time sort of paid activist who had assigned leiden in the arts i wrote novels and then eventually my novel writing other writing got to the point where i could qu

and it doesn't really address the issues of eminent domain, which you know about. doesn't address the issues of the open space sun being used to buy the land that is on this triangle. it doesn't speak to prop m priority policies, which are being violated, in particular the ones about neighborhood character and the ones about preservation of historic buildings. also, they seem to try to make you believe that the current library could not be expanded or renovated. the original plan was to renovate the library and do a small expansion. and we have submitted several plans. in fact, we met with the planning people and the people who wrote this e.i.r. to discuss our plans for expansion. unfortunately, it didn't show up in the e.i.r., so we ask you, please, to deny certification. thank you. president olague: thank you. sir, she has to go to a meeting, so we took her out of -- >> i'm an architectural historian in san francisco. and i was also trained for a while in architecture and i'm really shocked that this plan could go forward, that the response is so inadequate as we

power in this domain is chaotically distributed.it makes no sense to use all your categories of you know know -- unipolarity or multipolarity to understand this. the only way you can deal with these issues that are actually creating a new and important challenge from this bottom chessboard of the three-dimensional game is like getting cooperation from other governments and that is going to require much more use of soft power as well as mixtures with hardened power. in that area what we see is a need for a new and far more sophisticated strategy which we realize we need to think of power sometimes as a zero-sum game and sometimes as a positive-sum game. we need to think of power over others for example in preserving deterrence or enabling balances. we also need to think of power owners. for example dealing with climate change were pandemics or terrorism. we have to learn to do both of those at the same time. that is just going to require much more sophisticated understanding of power and how you combine hard and soft power into effec

we do use some of the wiki leaks documents but all these documents in this book are in the public domain and sure sure after mainstream media is not going to tell you you've got to go find the stuff and that's what we did the most difficult thing about doing this book was that. these documents you could substitute the word nazi and it would work and that troubles me because that's a pretty harsh statement so well we get it's not hard do you mean what did you discover working well the cia's assassination manual. one figure i want to see all the documents are printed in the book it's not really telling you about the documents assassination is just a fair and she word for first degree murder now how can the government cover the other parent flitter a book that tells you how to commit first degree murder and who are we because there happens to be someone in another country that we don't get along with or maybe politically is opposite from us what gives us the right to go murder this person or war is different war is declared it's between militaries and all that really thing. those kinds of d

where we respond specifically to the eminent domain issue and the land use compatibility. i'd have to search through here to see where we've discussed the bond issue, but at this point there are no bond monies being used towards the demolition of the library at this point. so it's an issue that is something in the future. it's not now. and i'm sure the library is well aware of that issue. commissioner moore: i appreciate your comment. at least for the public record. it opens a question which has been posed by a number of people, and i take your answer as the answer people need to have. having said that, i would support the motion on the e.i.r. as it stands. >> commissioners, the motion on the floor is for certification of the final e.i.r. on that motion, commissioner antonini? aye. aye. aye. aye. aye. aye. thank you, commissioners. the e.i.r. has been certified. [applause] commissioners, you are now on your regular calendar with item 5 a, b, c. the north beach library -- public library and joe dimaggio playgrounds master plan at 701 lombard street and 2000 mason street. co

i pay taxes and i have every right to know would make a money for me and put it into the public domain i have every right to know what they're spending it out now i understand there are certain secret things you have to put up with but at the point when it's all over then the document should become public about the document that we discovered in the late forty's early fifty's where the united states went down to nicaragua and rounded up a bunch of people and infected them with syphilis or you know i want to see of penicillin worked real well these people were not volunteers and it's day i'm lucky that penicillin worked because if it hadn't worked these people would have died horrible deaths you say you want to know what the government is up to do you think the rest of americans want to know your i did a whole lot easier living without some of this knowledge while very few live without this knowledge and you give bad government could you give the government abusing your rights your civil rights violating the constitution violating the bill of rights and you know it's imperative you are

doctrine, domaine. love, free, open, winds, cut. did you here the euphony of the street like birds among the fluttering leaves of their books and newspapers as they addressed if not solved, defined if not created the problems and the promise of tomorrow? did you hear the explosion, the screech, the howl the scream. did you even know? >> the photograph. the photograph was of an iraqi boy on the front page of the new york times. he sat at the edge of the truck. 8 or 9 years old. surrounded by his family. his father, mother and 5 siblings were asleep. his head was buried in his hands. all the clouds of the world were waiting on the threshold of his ice. let all man wipe off the sweat and start the digging the 7th grace. >> for nearly a hundred years there was a station in the middle of san francisco. chinese were detained before being allowed to enter the u.s. in this reading, writer nancy om, takes the audience to angel island. >> palm trees faced us when we landed. they were like garred yens to pass the golden gate we told them what

but this book says -- map, border, industry, collusion, resistance, truth, spirit, faith, doctrine, domain, love, free, portal, wind, cut. did you hear the euphony of the street like a rain forest of song birds pefrpblged among the crinkle and fluttering leaves of newspapers as they addressed if not solved, defined if not created the problems and the promise of tomorrow? did you hear the explosion, the screech, the howl, the scream? did you even know of the dreams imploded inside the molten iron, splayed blood and torn guts across the narrow book-lined street as debate turned to barb's screeches, philosophy into choked smoke and a thousand years of history was buried in the rubble. or was there nothing except an inxoerable deadly silence. and the next reader is rick london. >> i'm going to read a few poems by the palestinian poet mahmud darish. i have the wisdom of one condemned to die. i possess nothing, so nothing can possess me and have written my will in my own blood. oh, inhabitant of my song, trust in water. and i sleep pierced and crowned by my tomorrow. i dream the earth's heart is

we live under a very different kind of racial domain. 50 years ago, the history that martin and about some had to encounter, it was quite different from the color blind racism of the twenty first century. in a way, jim crow was always a curse and a person blessing. -- perverse blessing. in the unity of our oppression, we felt a kinship of what a political scientist refers to as a link to fate. we were all a far -- apart of a collective thing. we talk about how important it is to document those struggles of the black freedom movement of the 1960's. and that so many of these artifacts of the civil rights are actually being lost. i talk about an example from the classic book, the autobiography of malcolm x how there will be at three chapters being removed from the text and where those chapters ended up. virtually no one has ever seen. and how his political legacy is in complete in part due to the in gentrification of black history. investors that can hold on to them and market them for their own value rather than putting them in a library or archive and making them available to school ch

the eminent domain actions will carry forward. there will be relocation assistance and other expenses associated. the other three major categories are salaries and benefits for tjpa staff, administrative costs, and also our reserve fund. the budget will come to you -- the revenue section will have two parts -- planned revenue and committed revenue, and the committed revenue will show what has actually been allocated in a grant, and planned revenue will be what we will be working with the funding partners to allocate throughout the year. then, for the second year, we will be bringing you an operating budget as well for the temporary terminal, and that will cover expenditures associated with management for the temporary terminal, security, parking control, and the bridge toll funds that we receive are expected to cover all of those costs, and we also received some rent from greyhound and have an rfp for advertising on that, so we expect some revenue from that. are there any questions? director ford: any questions? ok, so you will be

doctrine, domaine. love, free, open, winds, cut. did you here the euphony of the street like birds among the fluttering leaves of their books and newspapers as they addressed if not solved, defined if not created the problems and the promise of tomorrow? did you hear the explosion, the screech, the howl the scream. did you even know? >> the photograph. the photograph was of an iraqi boy on the front page of the new york times. he sat at the edge of the truck. 8 or 9 years old. surrounded by his family. his father, mother and 5 siblings were

the commission unanimously approved by in the triangle lot under eminent domain. there was some controversy over the acquisition of this project. because of the law, we really could not develop a vision at that time for how this piece of property was used for recreation purposes and how it was tied into park planning. but you see it here today. i think this is what the commission had in mind when we acted on this five or six years ago. it allows you to consolidate park uses and create a new library, making it up to a situation for the uses of both facilities. i think the street closure mimics what we have done throughout san francisco when we have had the opportunity to expand park property with these unusual street grids. market street during the rebuild -- during the bart metro development in the late 1960's -- we closed a number of these trials including public holiday plaza down at busch market to create larger public spaces. that hat -- that is being done at this site with little impact on traffic patterns. i urge you to improve the street vacation plan. >> a

it is a familiar domaine of the ones who came out with it's loss and structure. this, alexander, is not your tongue. your tongue is muteulated, it's gone, rotten in your mouth along with the silence of the days where you became invisible you bad copy cat. despite the rage and the disappointment of your own kin. thank you. [applause] >> this is a scene from my novel [inaudible]. it seemed like a great opportunity to get to do this here. okay. what time is the first reader anyway? i didn't like bars this crowded. someone elbode me in the back. when i turned around i didn't know who the elbow belong said. relax. i didn't expect there to be this many people i thought they would be at the bar with the travel writers. i thought they the be with the hip sters i guess we are not hip sters we can't guess who they are into. we lessened the hipster intimidation factor and picked out the smart guy. this year we selected postmen pausal writers on the meaning of life. here i was, the city never fails to surprise me much the crowd was quieting. people were pointing toward the s

that is in the public domain. we will be coming back on may 10. the eir will be getting kicked off shortly. so there will be a public scoping meeting here at the port on april 26, for anybody interested in being involved in that eir process. information can be located on the port and water mercy transit authority's web sites. i believe there are some fliers on the front table here. that concludes my report. >> thank you. wonderful news. i have a speaker card for item seven. i am not sure if it is the executive director's report or item b. >> my name is francisco decosta. first and foremost, let me inform commissioner crowley that i was at the san francisco public utilities commission meeting and they send their regards. we miss you over there. having said that, i used to come regularly to this meeting but there is so much happening at city hall, that you cannot be everywhere. i am here to state categorically that the 7.5 miles that you commissioner's control of his public trust land. you heard a lot in the director's report about the salmon, cruis

is there a way that could be considered part of the public domain as well? it is virtually public-service been provided. rate payers are paying for the service. it is something the city has condemned with the current agreement that has lasted decades. -- it is something the city has condoned with the current agreement that has lasted decades. >> i have no idea of the documents in place. that is not something we looked at. supervisor mirkarimi: i know we're facing a tight timeline. if we ask you to go back and with the question that goes to the heart of what a number of us were asking about how we're getting compares to what other jurisdictions are getting, how long would it take you to do that comparison and look at the issue that commissioner avalos brought up? >> and like to get three weeks to a month. -- i would like to get three weeks to a month. let me give you a caveat. to compare services, we will have to have cooperation from the haulers that provide services. a lot of jurisdictions including oakland and san francisco have city facilities collected e