if, for example, this is a partisan issue, it would be bad communications policy. if there are positive things that, for example, the tea party or the republicans come in, and i think looking really hard at things like universal service reform, there's an $8 billion entitlement. it makes no sense to me. no economist can look at this for this to be an entitlement program for telephone service. the idea you need to access people's information for telephone, you don't need to do that. people will buy phones by taking food out of their kids' mouths. if they do that, it's a different problem. there are poor people out there. you need to think what the nature of the program is. if you take the program and up vest in broadband and basic infrastructure, move that over, does it need to be $8 billion? i seriously question that. certainly, should i refocus? yes. i hope like the tea party would help us think about those questions hard and say, that, no, no, just doing business as it's been, here's a opportunity to take a big fat cow and justify itself or cut it up and sell it

supporting them all along whether another strongman comes into power to replace mubarak in egypt for example or feeling libya we can't really say at this point it looks like a civil war in libya and that's very difficult to predict what will happen so i think a power shift maybe is not necessarily in the works and definitely great changes and it's very difficult i think to predict well some speculate that the arab middle east awakening was orchestrated by washington itself what are your thoughts about that i certainly am not a believer in conspiracy theories but i think it's funny when you listen to people who believe in these theories it makes the united states sound like the most effective global actor in history and i just frankly don't believe that that's possible what i will say is i think it is probably the case as in many changes of power throughout history that the united states and others have helped to create an environment in which you know those who are coming out on the streets in libya and egypt and tunisia you know feel that they have some international support to be totally h

so, for example, the standard bodies, other sorts of quasimarket-based organizations all have a role to play as well as international bodies. in the u.s. if i look at a regulatory authority and say who is the one that's the most up to speed and in the best position to do this, i think it has to be the federal communications commission. i certainly wouldn't want to create something else. that having been said, i think we need to think about, you know, what is the right role for the federal communications commission, and, you know, what authority should it be operating under. >> host: what about international regulation given the worldwideness of the net? >> guest: well, i mean, we don't do a particularly great job of international regulation of anything from, you know, international slave trafficking in humans -- all that sort of stuff. i don't think most of the people on the technical side are comfortable, for example, with like the u.n. regulating the internet. i think a lot of the people sort of old internet hands are pretty happy with the sort of nongovernmental organizations that

for example -- the 24-hour hot line. we have an example of our emergency card. we have the letterhead. san francisco water, power, sewer. the icon is in the corner, and the general manager of listed in the right hand. instead of highlighting the services -- we move to the bottom for the services of the san francisco public utilities. this is really a low-cost transition. that was a big concern. all this was done in-house by our communications staff. it is great we got them on board. i want to thank our graphics design team for all their hard work. you see, we are not only talking about an electronic template change. the business cards, the letterhead. we intend this to be a gradual transition. we are, in effect, still the san francisco public utilities commission. if we run out of those cards, we will transition over. and the other cost would be the gradual replacement. and again, we are talking about a gradual replacement over a long period of time. that is when the new decal would be added. our implementation plan would be reaching alex to staff. we want to co

i mean for example we want them to put it that way to stop the war in iraq right but they're stopping the war in bahrain by effect to be intervening on the side of the government where is there in the case of libya they want to quote stop the war by intervening on the side of the rebels i mean the hope the whole position seems from a completely untenable. and full of holes. we have been following the latest developments in libya so let's get a recap of our top story a multinational force has carried out a series of attacks against targets around the libyan city of benghazi since the u.n. security council adopted a resolution allowing the use of all the means necessary to protect the civilian population in libya french fighter jets destroyed several armored vehicles and tanks belonging to colonel gadhafi troops the u.s. claims that libya's air defenses have been severely disabled u.k. forces are also in action over libya turkey is the latest country making the necessary preparations to implement the no. earlier troops loyal to colonel gadhafi violated a cease fire and reportedly carrie

translation does this help iran for example does this help you know turkey i think the answer is probably yes this is helpful to you know any regime which has managed to stay in power despite this kind of disorder in the streets. at the same time it is possible you can you can imagine a scenario where egypt for example despite having endured a transition period it is a very big it is economically significant it is a historical leader in the arab world you could imagine it coming out of this scenario actually strengthened in some ways maybe being a leader of a new block within the middle east a sort of new organization of you know more popular democracies or just more popular you know government so i can see that happening where will this leave us and israel policy in the region well you know israel has played a very careful hand certainly and with the events in egypt they're very concerned about the durability of the peace treaty which is really. central to who has real security so that they don't have to fight you know multiple fronts at once and he united states of course is fully suppo

for example stayed very largely out of it and then suddenly when the resolution was passed yesterday makes very specific demands which clearly were not in the resolution the demands that for example the government forces pull back from a series of towns that kind of thing so you have a clear intention to of different parties to make of it what they will and i think that will say that professor what you have is a very similar situation going on in in bahrain is in many ways exactly the opposite features are in bahrain you have for example robert gates united states defense secretary goes through. a week ago as talks leave and two days later the. gulf cooperation council especially saudi forces go in and they go in and they intervene on the side of those who are sick or a similar of what we are broadly sympathetic to the whole revolt in the in the region in general. we. i mean for example we want to put it that way to stop the war in bahrain but they're stopping the war in iraq or. i mean by face to be intervening on the side of the government whereas in the case of libya they want to

israel for example it had been bombing the civilian population of the gaza for three weeks in a row in two thousand and eight western powers are now so often armed so trying to protect civilians in libya did nothing literally nothing to stop the massacre of palestinians in gaza so we can take a look at the recent developments in bahrain the leadership there is cracking down on protesters in a terrible way scores are dead and there is no tangible international effort to stop it yemen same story yemen troops protesters there on a daily basis and nothing for pakistan just this fight a u.s. drone kills thirty eight civilians the question many ask is who's going to be held responsible for that and only say as things are now it looks like the international community is very selective when it comes to protecting severely as a lever they protect them in dozens of other places they turn a blind eye or g. is going to change hands comments from washington d.c. now earlier we spoke with a doctor you know from a columbia university in new york who believes it's vital that arab powers are involved i

for example the hybrid coast where president where presidents were on. board badly in the game is doesn't want to to to concede with defeat and keeps us keep so they're clinging to power russia may russia support international actions initiated for example by france in nigeria against well results as for as for what what is happening in called the war now i think the best mechanism which can and should be used his neck and has more consultations in the united nations when the situation goes out of control of the united nations we all know that bad things usually happen in africa and of the mechanism of consultations in the united nations should be really very professional and should not be emotional of course there are good days and bad guys in every country but we have to think about the future of the people and we know that any military clashes in african could countries very often grow into the civil war and the total. and. you know uncontrolled bloodshed and ethnic cleansings we should not repeat the mistakes of the past well you know the good guys a

here is an example. radio telescopes largely operating at centimeter wavelengths if you could imagine a radio wave of the distance of centimeters for these telescopes, they can be separated as far as 25 miles per cry forget the exact -- exact numbers. it is in the book. [laughter] who remembers anything anymore. [laughter] harris is how the telescopes have been used to probe distances for being planets. those have been involved with european and japanese collaborators to develop an array of telescopes in chile called the and a kind of large millimeter array. it operates at millimeter wave length and could resolve distances around young stars 300 light-years away. here is what we think what happened when the plan conforms with such a bad disk on the left-hand side is a picture of a gap and the right hand side gives higher resolution images of those disks. you can detect the gaps, other regions of the diagrams where the planets are forming. the sizes of the gaps tell something about the mass of the planet,

example the difference between i don't know a terrorist and a freedom fighter is really just p.r. right and in this world of mass media image is everything image becomes perception becomes reality and we've seen with corporations for example constantly being able to really shift their image regardless of what sorts of crimes are committed and so i guess the question is should we really be surprised at the end of the day you know p.r. and lobbying and these efforts to rejig someone's the image take place and often incorporate governments that we may not be. perfectly friendly but well i don't suppose you should be surprised that governments that have a bad image do come to the united states and they look for lawyers who will take their case but as i've said before those of us who are serious about the business are in it for the long term and so we're not going to associate ourselves with people who have records which just can't be explained there are other countries which have mixed records and some of them are coming to the united states to understand how to get out of trouble was

this is a country where for example they're telling an occupation in the past the last thing they want is a new kind of occupation. aware of what happened in iraq and afghanistan they do not want to see a no fly zone which is where you start in your operation. for years it's not going to stand in the possibility of creating a scenario where you can have. ok for an hour to. the latest from maybe a thank you. for the coalition decision to take military action in libya is being made under the premise of a humanitarian mission that's globalization amnesty show says the use of heavy artillery suggests a very different agenda. it is not the humanitarian operation it is they believe will it using military material and just say that this is to save the lives of civilians since when do these fighter bombers and save the lives of civilians. a war which has the chance of regime change this of course was not mentioned of the security council resolution but prime minister stephen harper health canada and i'm following the canadian responses has stated that the jet to this operation is to unseat kha

demands which clearly went off in the resolution that demands that for example the government forces pull back from a series of town. back kind of things so you have you have clear intentions through . different parties to make of it what they will and i think that we will see. what you have is a very similar situation going on in in bahrain which is in many ways exactly the opposite features are in bahrain you have for example robert gates united states defense secretary goes to the train we can go talks leaves and two days later the. gulf cooperation council especially saudi forces go in and they go in and they intervene on the side of those who are suppressing the about broad least sympathetic to the whole revolt in the in the region in general. we. i mean for example we want to put it that way to start the war in march right but they're stopping the war in bahrain by faith to be intervening on the side of the government workers or in the case of libya they want to quote stop the war by intervening on the side of the rebels i mean the hope the opposition seems to me completely unt

example here most take this is all to see the critical new fears situation in japan kids from bouts of was the sudden spike in radiation levels being stung all the trouble. she must say. i'm all the japanese government insists there is no immediate danger of a questionable track record of telling the truth about possibly the problems means that not everyone's going to hit. such a pounce nuclear concerns because the whole agency the regional the lab the financial fallout that could reach father and wife and even small begins to come. about the world and maybe alderman take the evidence out of the rebels while most wealth power as i guess imposing a no fly zone across the country the un is still set to discuss. next all these cost all program debates whether the arab countries currently protesting against they regimes or when they get what they want. really new the latest in some instance or some of. the few jerks. can. follow in the welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the arab world the power of people's hopes and the deadly reactions of tyrants what are the prospects for progress t

so with more disclosures on that, for example, would be helpful. then just talking to senator hagan about the qrn, the called residential mortgage, which would set standards for high quality mortgages, and mortgages that didn't meet that would have to have a skin in the game credit risk retention element. that's provided by dodd-frank. i thk that supervisors will be paying more attention to this in the future and we should pay more attention to it. and finally one thing that the fed reserve is very interested in and we have been talking about this with congress and other agencies is to have national servicing standards. that turns out to be an important part of the process of making sure that people who do run into trouble are able to get restructured mortgages and our chance to keep our home. so there are a number of things in the bill, but i -- i think as we go forward, we want to make sure that we have sufficient oversight that we can assure that the mortgages are of good ality. i think that as the gses begin to pull back, as they will, we will

exalted means evolve into some kind of long term trend operation this is a country where for example you tell me an occupation and also name one kind of occupation. what happens in afghanistan and iraq and i certainly just start and it's not rationed eckstein. it's not going to also it seems less ability . you could have. possibly reporting there whether coalition decision to take military action in libya is being made under the premise of a humanitarian mission but globalization and this. as a heavy artillery suggests a very different agenda. because no humanitarian operation. is a deadly wall it using a military material and just say that this is to save the lives of civilians since when do these fighter bombers and save the lives of civilians. a war which has the jets of regime change this of course was not mentioned in the security council resolution but prime minister stephen harper of canada and i'm following the canadian responses has stated that the objective of this operation is to unseat capacity so that the whole humanitarian underpinnings of this war becoming entirely cle

production for example grows that. ok victoria if i can go to you i mean you you work with investment banking you're an investment banker yourself what is attractive about the russian market for foreign investors when it comes to agriculture well of course the land and the prospects are extremely attractive for russia but as you understand the sector is hugely fragmented in fact top twenty companies that have one hundred thousand hectares or more of land they make up less than five percent of the total arable land now these companies naturally can grow in the future and present at the majority of the companies that will be developing going forward however there's a plethora of other agricultural companies that don't get enough investment and that's a big problem and what we really do need is a clear strategy for agriculture a strategy that you know that can predict future cash flows and can see. certain returns that investors do. demand what kind of strategy is necessary then to get the investment to the companies that

here's another example of a long weir structure. this is sort of south of monster park along the bay. on the lower left you can see sort of the weir arrangement as it currently exists. one of our concepts would be -- it's a little hard to see, but you can sort of wall off those existing weirs and put some sort of a duck bill type of back flow prevention in there. so we see this as a near term solution to a current problem we have, something we can start doing right away, and i think my engineers suggest that this would probably protect us i'd say for the next 30 to 50 years. if this is all we did, we could probably avoid serious problems with salt water intrusion. start looking at the longer term, i don't really know what you do other than install more pumps. will talked about this is a problem we have to stop. we might have to build seawalls around the city, we might have to firm up large areas, we're just going to have to pump a lot more. and i guess sort of a discussion point i have about more pumping is conceptually that's simpl

by western powers and we're also seeing other nations coming out and saying they support this for example norway netherlands here in belgium we've also seen canada saying it's five digits already in the region and ready to be deployed within two days they just need to sit up there and western leaders e.u. leaders say they do support this campaign david cameron of the u.k. also i'm going to merkel of germany despite germany's abstention of the u.n. vote for a no fly zone she says she does back military intervention now they just won't be sending forces themselves germany won't be sending forces but it does support this . kind of reporting there are several british members of parliament are skeptical about why their country is being dragged into conflict with russian. selective choosing where intervention is necessary. i think the tactic yes he was to call a ceasefire in order to hope one hope to bring about a peaceful resolution of this conflict but it was beginning to look as though he was just trying to buy time for himself i must say i absolutely regret the lack of the ceasefire and reg

that means example, in the next slide, shows especially in coast areas. next. that means there is about lot of good news with regard to climate change if your a water manager. but a little good news is these are tools that we think will perform better in the future from a water manager's perspective. the next slide show s tools that will not be reduced in performance by climate change. waist management, local shower heads, ground water clean up. those are important tools that are relatively climate insensitive and will be an important part of the water management portfolio going forward. it's important to note, and there has not been a lot of discussion about this. the range of tools performing on high drolg, if you invest in this you should expect it will perform more poorly in the future than today. that's not just a matter of looking that vulnerability of your existing system but it helps drive water manager's choices going forward. because - if you look at the next slide, the question of water manager's impact starts with snow,pack, storage loss, but if you

let me give you a few more examples. the number of times in an average presidential term since ronald reagan came to office that the president would go out and speak to a religious of the -- audience roughly tripled from presidents that precede reagan. the number of ties presidents would issue a proclamation of roughly triple as well. in terms of looking at christmas communications retract just the number of references to jesus christ, not caught in general, but specifically jesus christ because certain members of the public have had a concern that christ has been taken out of christmas and we wondered if presidents had responded to this. it turns out that since reagan presidents have. they roughly quadrupled the number of times and christmas communication that they reference priced specifically. we saw this pattern again and again. what helped us make sense with some of the changes in the electorate that were happening just before ronald reagan took office, and those changes were largely driven by a group in society tha

to discern on the ground who are civilians and who are legitimate duffey targets if you look for example at a pickup truck it's very hard for a pilot to know whether the people on the truck are actually soldiers or whether they are people fleeing from being guards even know that so far as many as three hundred thousand people have fled libya many thousands again today making their way out of the game darzi city because there are afraid of the developing violence on the ground and so what we seeing is an increase in violence an increase in is trying to send and what we expect is there was a growing response from the gadhafi regime itself. we're reporting from tripoli the capital of libya now world powers decided to enforce the no fly zone at a summit in paris where they were meeting to work out a course of action in libya our europe correspondent daniel bushell has been following what happened there. reports have confirmed that some twenty warplanes already on libyan airspace from the french side which has been most active in this starting with the summit are now in military action they'v

that is an example of the ever- that is an example of the ever- expanding range of laws th

watching and we're only aware of you know oftentimes just small aspects and i'll just give you one example and i'm in touch with people in egypt and many people and in different parts of egypt and they give me their taken a lot of them are intimately related to what's going on and speaking to these people you'll find that each one of them has a different take and one of them will tell you that what's really going on is primarily the youth of egypt and that this is a good thing and that this will ultimately hopefully evolve into a comedy and a democracy and you have another person who lives a few miles away who's convinced that the muslim brotherhood is ultimately behind this employing the strings then you have other people talk about the egyptian military which in the media in america is in a way ironically has been touted as this great substitute for mubarak and then other more sober thinkers who are there are telling you that in many ways they're actually worse and not much has changed and if you really do go on the ground in egypt you'll find that there's a lot of of the same exact sort

for example stayed very knowledge out of it and then suddenly when the refrigerator. he makes very specific demands which clearly were nothing in the resolution that demands that for example the government forces pull back from a series of town was that kind of thing so you have a clear intention through. different parties to make of it what they will and i think that we will see that process roll around what you have is a very similar situation going on in in bahrain part ways in many ways exactly the opposite features are enough rain for example robert gates united states to find a secretary goes through. a week ago as talks leave and two days later the. corporation council especially saudi forces go in and they go in and they intervene on the side of those who are suppressing the revolt brody's sympathetic to the whole revolt in that in the region in general. we. i mean for example we want to put it that way to start the war in march right but they're stopping the war in basra. invite folks to be intervening on the side of the government in the case of libya they w

for example stay very out of it and then suddenly when a resolution is passed you make very specific demands which clearly were nothing in the resolution that demands for example the government forces pull back from a series of towns. that kind of thing so you have you have clear intentions through of different parties to make of it what they will and i think that we will see that process. very similar situation going on in in bahrain proper ways in many ways exactly the opposite feature so in bahrain for example robert gates united states different secretary goes through. we can go as talks leave and two days later the. gulf cooperation council especially saudi forces go in and they go in and they intervene on the side of those who are some person who are out there stopping the war in bahrain by effect to be intervening on the side of the government whereas in the case of libya they want to quote stop the war by intervening on the side of the rebels i mean the whole the whole position seems to me completely untenable and full of holes. uprisings in the arab people take the no longer

we might satisfy -- i gave the example before of why we look for example at other vessels in the gulf. it is possible to take about because the real world risk was too great. the risk may change. iran may become a benign paradise but may continue to threaten vital interests in which case we need ships in the gulf. >> my question is about your thoughts on the main driving force is behind our alliances with other countries? is it primarily diplomacy or getting access to military capability? could you also described to us or clarify which one of your departments takes the lead on establishing those alliances? >> the driving factor behind allianzs of national prosperity and national security. a different combination and different alliances talking about the nato alliance and national security alliance. the european union is more direct to national prosperity the personal relationship with the united states is a powerful mixture of the two. the elevation of our relation to countries of latin america or southeast asia is more directed at prosperity but it can lead to defense cooperation. el

i'll give you an example. one of the strategies we are looking at in the uk for the more extreme frequent events is to start to design highways as flood channels. interestingly, a lot of the design guidance we are picking up is from the u.s. so we are picking up your experiences and trying to adapt them to uk applications. our highway engineers said no way, we're never going to do this. the concept of using highways as flood channels is a complete no-no until we started to bring out examples like the glasgow flooding and said for most of this event, the highways acted as flood channels. the interesting thing when you start to look at urban flooding, you start to learn some very important lessons. first is that water flows downhill. secondly, it accumulates in low spots. in the uk, it's very interesting what you find in those low spots. first of all, you find that's where the low income houses, that's where the poor people live, the people who have no say really in what goes on in the community. so i was really

that is one example of how we use that as a lens. second is to minimize production to services that use out said revenues. we at the human services agencies -- we leverage significant amounts of federal and state money. we do not want to cut in areas where we will be leaving state and federal money on the table. our food stamp program, which dropped 85% federal and state dollars. it seems silly to cut one position to save 15 cents on the dollar. at the same time, that limits fortresses. you will see later among our discretionary general fund, there are very few areas that do not leverage dollars. it produces hard choices. the third is to maintain client services. there are mandates to go with federal and state money. we do not want to cut in areas that would jeopardize us meeting those mandates. the fourth is to develop business process improvements and efficiency. we have done this significantly and are processing of applications for public assistance. i can talk about that a little more later. the last is considering program effect

i'm an example. i said no to take my chief editor making the front page and really making the paper, and that's because my husband is traveling and i have two young children at home. it was too tough for me. i'm an example of that. that we are struggling hard. it's that we will make the paper and this pictures and say why do you only have male sources? we are struggling with that. that's our main challenge. >> we are obviously struggling with the same problem. there's a strict rule that has to be one picture of the women of our front page. and we have big fights talking about it. even in our newsroom, you should hear the women and men colleagues if i say we have the rule. we have the picture. it's possible. it's not only from theater or, you know, actors. >> as i look at the front pages. >> i think it is very important rule. but it really changes. then the front page editor we would call it like that. he could go and say, hey, i need a story from the women. otherwise he could come and say where's the

for example, in the embarcadero, did the sendero, those are our gold standard examples. they cost a lot of money and the funding is always the issue. they take time. they take a lot of time and there are many community issues that need to be resolved when giving these streetscape projects. in our traffic calming tool kit, we have an existing tool kit with a set of menus that we can apply to specific streets, including things like speed humps to median island refuges, to larger and brighter crosswalk designs, anything we can do to reduce the crossing distance and exposure. the toolkit is, frankly, limited by state and federal design standards. anything that deviates away from these does need to have more analysis. we have to apply for an exemption. it is time consuming, but that is not a reason for us not to look at an expanded tool kit. we are looking at various innovative measures. one measure that we have taken as an international best practices from europe is the concept of home zones. that takes traffic calming to a sub-neighborhood level. an area that is bounded by

and you know these examples they portray the tea party is this research organization research group if they find a sign you know this is a to do it are you going to have a little bit of the tea party has like four years into the multi million dollars but what i want is that and it's still it's a social forum doesn't appear for new job and because he portrayed the tea party as this research forum because they found a few bigoted people but it was constant they're comparing i mean more loudly compared the governor to mubarak so many mubarak's i mean that's ridiculous there is compared comparisons to hitler but there was no similar coverage of those wackos to what we found a few wackos in the tea party so if anybody had any ideas or any there's been a lot of it hasn't actually to be a big war but it's only one source and this was covered everywhere so that the tea party has a press person and did a pretty damn bad job because they're for some reason they're getting the bad press while while the professor is great for you you're certainly seeing that right and corporate media is having mor

i do i do i do know these examples they portray the tea party as this research organization research group except find a sign now it is a to do it anymore it was going to the tea party has a. multimillion dollar bill of what is it and existence of social forum doesn't get here from new good job that because they portrayed the tea party as this racist forum because they found a few bigoted people but it was constant they're comparing i mean michael board loudly compared the governor to mubarak so many mubarak's i mean that's ridiculous there is comparing comparisons to hitler where there was no similar coverage of those wackos so what the founding if you wackos of the tea party so if they do very well and anybody is there i mean there's been a lot of it hasn't actually to david moore but it's only one source and this was covered everywhere so the tea party has a tech press person who did a pretty damn bad job because the sole reason they're getting the bad press while while the protesters are a pretty good radio station i mean you're certainly seeing that corporation and you write tha

so that's an example of access. we neededcation, we need access, but we also need time prove consumer protection. in an environment of weak and ineffective regulation, the tendency of some consumer financial markets to end up in races to the bottom as we saw so badly in the housing market is not likely to be overcome solely by informed consumers or better access. and let me give you some examples of what can be done in this area. as you know, the cart act which president obama championed and signed into law in may 2009, is an example of regulation written for a market in which providers have strong incentives to usher consumers into suboptimal choices, to rack up lots of late fees and to make up only the minimum payment each month. and most of you know that nearly 80% of american families have a credit card, and a large portion of families carry a balance of on their cards. before the act, americans were paying roughly 15 billion annually in penalty fees. the cart act in my view was well-crafted legislation that com

and i give you an example. the reason why i recommended cutting and the congress recommended cutting most of the airport labor defense. this is a 7047 with the laser capability to go after missiles. the trouble is nobody stopped to think about the fact it was going after missiles on launch pads and had to be within 62 miles of the launch site for it to work. so if you're looking at an arena so, the idea of finding 740 event and cannot set up around but have not been shot down is pretty remote. so we went to a technology only program. we are going to be out to salvage some technology engineering test and design out of the ef 80 and so we will have -- that would not have been for nothing. but discipline in the requirements i would say also discipline and management, and being willing to hold program managers accountable. i fired the head of the joint strike fighter program last year. there needs to be accountability when things are out of control. we have put in some procedures that among other things the first o