officials or personnel on the issue of blackwater specifically the owner of blackwater erik prince has fled the united states has relocated in a muslim country in the united arab emirates where he lives under the protection of the. monarchs there and has been a centrally trying to get himself contracts in really old fashioned mercenary business on the continent of africa recently a source of mine in mogadishu told me that he saw erik prince in the v.i.p. lounge at the mogadishu airport and that was then subsequently confirmed in the new york times that prince had been doing business in somalia with a french mercenary company called seris and that was going to was being investigated by the u.n. for violating the arms embargo there the company blackwater which was renamed z. and then renamed again u.s. training center has a new sort of management that's been brought in to give it a different kind of a public face and a former admiral is now going to be. bobby ray inman who actually president clinton nominated him to take over as defense secretary after les aspin passed away he now is off

the forward operating bases on their own inside of afghanistan so the legacy of blackwater and what erik prince himself is going to be doing going forward i think are really the fascinating part of that story but what they did time in short is they really change the way that the u.s. wages its wars and turn the u.s. from a country that thought against mercenaries the hessians into the greatest employer of mercenaries on the globe. and this is quite an experience is a time for for a. second edition of your book or a perhaps an add on to follow on both of. you have so put your finger on those that had literally all of this changed and it seems also that to a certain extent some of it came out of the bush reagan theory that government can do no good used to be except for the military but now it's even the military and so therefore we've got to privatized much as possible. right and i think you know it's been interesting under the obama administration because there's been a lot of rhetoric about transparency and a lot of rhetoric about accountability but obama is just as a dictator to using

host: to erik wasson now. point about the tea party -- bring this back to the current year funding, 2011. there's a picture of harry reid on the front page of the "washington post." regarding the 2011 plan, harry reid is seemingly not missing opportunities to mention the tea party and what he thinks is the influence they are having on speaker boehner in this short term process. guest: certainly the tea party plays a major role in american politics right now. we saw a big rally last week, and another tea party-related rally tomorrow on the hill. they are certainly calling for this hard-line. the republican h.r. 1 spending bill passed in february cut $61 billion in spending from this year's budget. the tea party caucus people, representatives michele bachmann, mike pence, for example, they are calling for a hard-line. behind closed doors, speaker boehner has encouraged freshmen and those on the right side of his party to really keep up the rhetoric. the idea did here -- there is a lot written about john boehner

. >> reporter: erik vadalma served in baghdad,eft the air force in 2008. all he could find-- a part-time gig at ikea. >> i didn't have enough money to make ends meet. >> reporter: debra bain did a six-year hitch. >> you feel like you've lost who you are as a person, your value. >> reporter: just three of more than two million iraq and afghanistan vets. despite incentives to hire them, 11% were jobless last month; for those aged 18 to 34, 14%. paul rieckhoff founded and runs i.a.v.a., iraq and afghanistan veterans of america. >> they're coming back from serving our country, sometimes multiple tours, and their welcome home is an unemployment check. >> reporter: this week, rieckhoff led the now-annual charge on washington dubbed "storm the hill." this year, vets urged congress to help thin the jobless ranks with hiring inducements like employer tax breaks. >> so if folks want to support the troops, want to support veterans, hire them.

new at 10:00 ktvu's erik rasmussen is live at the ports to tell us about the sudden surgery in exports of bottled water. >> reporter: some bottled water plants in japan are now running 24/7 and it's still not enough. port officials couldn't give us an exact number, but we do know water like this is filling more and more of those giant containers headed for japan. cargo ships leaving the port of oakland are now carrying more of a precious commodity people in japan can't live without. exporters are scrambling to ship out bottled water of various brands as quickly as possible in response to concerns about contaminated tap water after last month's earthquake and nuclear disasters. >> it's going to be demand for commodities of bottled water increased by 10-fold. it's impacted a large volume in a very short period of time. >> reporter: last year $3.4 billion in u.s. exports passed through the port of oakland on

welcome back to mosaic i'm rabbi erik. we're having a marvelous conversation about interface activity. we finished the last segment we were talking about how both social justice issues and personal fifth journal knee form a particular bond of support of fabric in the community and how that yields a lot of benefit for the quality of life in san francisco. >> absolutely. and we consider ourselves or the of the facilitators of that conversation. we give people the opportunity and we inform, invite, and convene. i think we would not be telling the whole story if we had not mentioned the role of convener goes even beyond the congregations. it includes the social faith based social agencies. we are convening them and collectively if you can appreciate what they do here to serve the most vulnerable in our city. serving over three million meals a year. and their budgets are at risk of being cut severely and so we are helping to bring them together to help tell the story collectively of what they do in light of the california budge

new at 10:00 ktvu's erik rasmussen is live at the ports to tell us about the sudden surgery in exports of bottled water. >> reporter: some bottled water plants in japan are now running 24/7 and it's still not enough. port officials couldn't give us an exact number, but we do know water like this is filling more and more of those giant containers headed for japan. cargo ships leaving the port of oakland are now carrying more of a precious commodity people in japan can't live without. exporters are scrambling to ship out bottled water of various brands as quickly as possible in response to concerns about contaminated tap water after last month's earthquake and nuclear disasters. >> it's going to be demand for commodities of bottled water increased by 10-fold. it's impacted a large volume in a very short period of time. >> reporter: last year $3.4 billion in u.s. exports passed through the port of oakland on their way to japan. bottled water could push those numbers even higher. >> when you think about water here in northern california, our water is getting bottled in areas like mount sha

her co-author we hope will and as at some point, erik conway is stuck in traffic at this point. she is a professor of history and science studies at the university of san diego. it was cited by al gore in an inconvenience truth as the seminal book on climate change denial. more general terms where research focused on historical developments of scientific knowledge. continental drift and the invisibility of women in science. provocative. hopefully we will get eric conway in here after this. what we will do at first is have each of your panel's godown and give a quick summation about what your book tells us and what is the gee whiz moment when you talk about your previously, what is the thing that really grips them that they never knew before about your topic? take the full thirty-second. >> what are have been hearing about the science of liberty that it is ruining people's lives. they stopped everything else in order to not just read the book but the biographies of the people in it. i hadn't expected that but i have been receiving angry calls. acting concentrate on the symbiosis

yes maybe erik can eat. meat in. a friendly way to feel and he likes to piece it. so. we wonder if it's possible. if it is possible and to give your partner her or her. us air force care to offer us of. oh it appears to profit. if spirits can be employed for a specific regarding these it's a. case yes we have quite a quarter we go. to go out every wednesday. and there are two great whites. from puerto rico to guantanamo the flights are three. you be required to pay four dollars a night for a person. watching. whatever it is you are her for coward or area. you'll be able to see the care for which they are contained and. you'll see if some of it. and you'll be able to photograph the right this is very good if the issue yeah i thank you very much if you saw it carry more prosser question can be hard. to take care. i think when i leave here what tanabe one most interesting spirit is that i've had is actually have the opportunity to ask the media around it's interesting talking to people from all around the world from korea from sweden from the middle east from north americ

currency war but i want to move on to quantitative easing for a second because you spoke recently with erik kang i'm a smith stinko and so i wanted to get into this a little bit in other words people are saying is there going to be more quantitative easing once this round q.e. two expires in june july or not your point is that the fed's balance sheet is so huge at this point just monetizing the interest on the current debt equals perpetual quantitative easing so can you break that down for us to explain that a little bit sure i know your first point i actually did say that the federal law in the first round but i didn't say as a compliment either i'm a huge critic of the fed i don't like the fact that they're destroying the dollar but they did sort of win around against china big kind of your point i'm purely that's exactly right this gets so tied up in the jargon of the fed you have to sort of translate from fed speak to english they talk about stocks and flows when they talk about stocks they mean the size of the balance sheet when they talk about flows they need to sort of buying new sec

erik rasmussen, ktvu channel 2 news. >> you can find out how likely you are to get pulled over where you live by going to www.ktvu.com. we posted cell phone citation statistics for 47 different bay area jurisdictions. look for the right now section. >>> the scandal involving some law enforcement officers in contra costa county is growing. former sheriff's department steven canobi has been added to the complaint of former drug task force commander norman welsh and private investigator christopher butler and a scheme to sell confiscated drugs. the welsh butler case led to the dismissal of several criminal cases, a total of 15 pending cases tossed out and prosecutors declined to file charges in five others. they involve drug and prostitution indications. welsh and butler immediated not guilty to the allegations. >>> -- pleaded not guilty to the allegations. >>> some bay area residents got a crash course today with a focus on veterans. >> we have workshops available on topics like networking, communications, resumes, linked in. we also have a workshop for the mature workers and strategie

erik rasmussen, ktvu channel 2 news. >> you can find out how likely you are to get pulled over where you live by going to www.ktvu.com. we posted cell phone citation statistics for 47 different bay area jurisdictions. look for the right now section. >>> the scandal involving some law enforcement officers in contra costa county is growing. former sheriff's department steven canobi has been added to the complaint of former drug task force commander norman welsh and private investigator christopher butler and a scheme to sell confiscated drugs. the welsh butler case led to the dismissal of several criminal cases, a total of 15 pending cases tossed out and prosecutors declined to file charges in five others. they involve drug and prostitution indications. welsh and butler immediated not guilty to the allegations. >>> -- pleaded not guilty to the allegations. >>> some bay area residents got a crash course today with a focus on veterans. >> we have workshops available on topics like networking, communications, resumes, linked in. we also have a workshop for the mature workers and strategie

there were no north erik downes.hink in the end, we were pretty much better off than we were before, because we no longer had to worry about getting into college -- there were no nervous breakdowns. >> there were times when i just would not want to see him because i knew that every time i saw him he would bug me about doing my essay or doing some work on my application, or why was i doing it at that time. >> it was hard to judge his direction because he would just be pacing around in circles behind me the entire time. >> he could never tell what direction i was moving because it was circular the whole time. the other thing is when i've would not what by and harass them. >> this book closed in march of 2010, so it is a year ago. when did your son go to his school? >> the previous september. he matriculated in september of 2009, so this was all taking place in 2008 and 2009. >> what does the word matriculate mean? >> i cannot explain it, sorry. i still remember from school, they said i was matriculating on a certain da

louisa will be up with a look at your brother, erik is tracking to see that the fog is slowing you down>> justine: president obama is expected to meet with troops today expected to announce the commander in chief trophy. the falcons run the trophy last member by beating was 0.42-22. we're expecting this week for president barack obama to visit the bay area is supposed to be here on wednesday. >> james: the giants went into extra innings in arizona the wind. final score 6-5 it was only their third loss in the past 19 games. earlier in the day the giants placed barry 0 on the 15th game disabled wrist. the oakland a's much better story, they're closing in on the texas rangers for the division lead. they got another when yesterday, he held the tigers to four hits, eight innings the a's won easily 5-1. >> justine: coming up a change in the condition of a giants fan, brian stowe, who was attacked at dodger stadium on opening day. we'll up to you in a minute. >> james: don't mess kron46 as of coverage of the bay- breakers we will have our cameras there all along that course capturing every min

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. >> let's go over there, erik? >> the central thesis you raise seems very similar to another colleague of yours at harvard, michael porter, in an article wrote in 1990, the competitive avenge of nations, and it seems he spoke about industries and clusters and innovation, competition, and the like. it's similar. i wonder if you had any areas where you part company with michael in your thesis? >> well, i don't disagree with that. in fact, my first work on cities was done in 1990 as well, and we were influenced at that point in time by his work. one of the facts that came out of the study was the correlation between small average establishment sizes and subsequent urban success. i think that's, you know, seeing the virtues of idea flows in cities, and this is no ideas, al fred marshall was high on the notion 120 years ago is not something that separates us. i think i'm probably less optimistic about the -- his vision for competitiveness in the inner city, and i think actually there was probably too much of an emphasis