affairs tell you about that. >> i'm the assistant general manager for external affairs. our presentation for our bureau is different from last year when we were coming forward with the new program. our theme this year is a flat budgthis sly describes what the budget looks like for the upcoming two years. the minimal is to no increase is happening except a small increase -- [inaudible] not much to share with you -- we are not asking for any additional staff position. >> this is not only a question for you but other presenters -- are we having some kind of 1 pager suggesting the fact that not only are we saving money but how we are increasing the workload on current employes because we're not hiring new positions? that is an important point to make. not that we are saving money in new hires, we are creating an extra burden on current employees. is there a way to do that in terms of responsibilities pound-wide here? >> the fact that people are taking on more work with less positions. we have been living that as well. >> we are in negotiations right now. >> noted. this provi

for a little bit there catesby three some distinct blocks that the free syrian army has a kind of external opposition that's been through in the streets do you think they'll be able to form any kind of case well that's one of the objections a lot of people are having against any kind of external military action which is where is the legitimacy in libya you had a opposition movement which despite being consisting of different groups secular religious et cetera indigenous those outside the country they did for a you noted opposition for the purposes of getting rid of gadhafi and they controlled territory that's what prompted the intervention to begin with in syria they don't control any territory they don't control any cities or towns and there is this division between the external opposition figures like the leader of the syrian national council is based in paris and those who are on the on the streets who have said again and again to western reporters to human rights groups that we don't want military intervention we are opposed to both syrian president were opposed to the assad regime and

none of those externality costs, which is not a very reasonable assumption. but, in fact, coal generation is not 100% of conventional generation, it's about 45% of total generation. we use the highest estimates by fuel type and a couple slides ago the weighted average externality costs per conventional kilowatt hour is not 26 1/2 cents, but 15.5 cents. if we use the midpoint of those ranges, it's 7.8 cents per kilowatt hour. those numbers, i think, are sufficiently low to cast very heavy doubt on the externality rationale for subsidizing wind and solar power. current environmental policies must be the case that environmental policies internalize some nontrivial part of the adverse environmental effects of conventional generation. and there are state subsidies and mandated market shares and the system average cost rate making by utilities that have the effect of subsidizing renewables even more and reducing any -- any artificial cost advantage further. then there's the sustainability argument, which is that without policy intervention, market forces will lead

. >> let's look at internal and external. internal first.ically pro-choice all my life until i ran for congress. hard cases abortion hard cases cannot be criminalized. a spokesman said that he always ran as a pro-life candidate. denial denial, denial. this could deflate that about a balloon. >> i'm willing to give the republicans the benefit of the doesn't that they get crazier as they get older. rick santorum gets nuttier by the day. the denial, as we know rick santorum is as religious as he says he is that there is actually a commandment that addresses that sort of thing. >> the external problem. sexual freedom which he seems to be totally against in all forms. is that what the g.o.p. fear when they worry about santorum winning the nomination, there will be something so off-putting that there be no chance of a democrat or independent running for a republican candidate and you literally have to have satan running as a third party to bring anybody over to your side? >> yeah, absolutely. rick santorum really bottom line is uncollect electable

facilitated by external intelligence is that as you mentioned in your report the attack took place in very sensitive areas outside military buildings and law enforcement agencies well obviously there will be a very high level of security so. i'm terribly sorry to interrupt you for me just jump in just for a moment here it's simply very very interesting how you discuss are there external players here that are creating a spawn or call of a backbone to help the opposition against the assad regime but as you talk about so these two enormous bomb is going off in aleppo the u.s. and its allies are looking into supporting the syrian opposition including arming the rebels and creating a quote humanitarian corridor which you serious some might say this sounds suspiciously like the no fly zone over libya according to u.n. resolution one hundred seventy three. yes well absolutely i mean they can't they able to get your new united nations security council resolutions that have a libya style. view and fig leaf for the in so for the intervention so as we know they are doing it through other means a

that to the fore i have to say one of the other aspects that you really see here are other kind of external agents kind of brought in like the international atomic energy agency which are all to syria which no one thinks realistically has nuclear weapons but is brought in in a way to get people on the ground and to meddle and put the pressure on and to meddle in a sovereign countries affairs now that's not something america would ever tolerate america would never tolerate another country going in and saying oh well you know we want to crack down on fact you have the death penalty you know there's no respect for national sovereignty in this region a tool ok i think to that extent. neo colonialism where the west is basically saying that these countries are unable to govern their own people we need to come in and teach them how to do democracy ok occurring problem i mean what occurred it why i tend to agree with you patrick because the more there is these creeping in interventions into into syria and we know that from from lebanon there are arms going. to syria right now that's been establishe

russia says external players are encouraging opposition groups to stay out of dialogue with the feeling government and therefore bear large responsibility for the ongoing violence and while president assad has announced a referendum on a new constitution. and that rallies knocking one against the pro-democracy uprising in bahrain protests thank you nothing to clamp down with me seizing tactics and weapons from the u.k. . international news live from moscow this is our she was me here thanks for joining us for us to iran has reportedly warned sixty you countries that might stop supplying them with oil in response to a series of sanctions which include an embargoed until iran ski export and iranian official has added to the only reason they're not stopping cruise sales immediately is europe's extremely cold current temperatures jake agrees reports now from greece one of the countries believed to be subject to the oil by tehran. because the latest report said all we hear is the arabian foreign ministry has cooled up these are bastards of the six nations concerned and told them that cuts wi

brush aside external blair is that encouraging opposition groups to stay out of dialogue with the syrian government and that will bear large responsibility but i'll gladly violence and while president assad has announced a referendum on a new constitution. and at rallies marking the one year end of the pro-democracy uprising in bahrain because the stakes here in the other country down with police he's in tactics and what happens from the u.k. . and a very warm welcome from all of us here in moscow this is all she with me our thanks for joining us first iran has reportedly warned six you countries it might stop supplying them with oil in response to a series of sanctions which include an embargo on tehran's key export and iranian official has added the only reason they're not stopping crude sales immediately is europe's extremely cold current temperatures are she's drake agrees reports now from greece one of the countries believed to be subject to that oil could bite her on. the latest reports here what we hear is the iranian foreign ministry has cooled up these impasses of these six nati

the explosions so let's look at the evidence for the fact that this attack was actually directed externally of course that was carried out by so-called free syrian army insurgents but first of all i'd just like to say that this is clearly a response to the russian and chinese veto is a message from the west that if we don't get our way through the united nations security council we are going to go ahead with these stabilizing the country syria by any means possible so first of all we've had. in the first minutes after the explosion an hour and a half an hour ago we had the western. media meeting the claims that the syrian government was responsible for the attacks but of course it was from phone student twenty four who broke the news that the. claims of responsibility for the attack so of course we had william hague just a few days ago in the british media promising that britain would support the free syrian army by any means that they could and of course that means political support financial support and military support and is no coincidence i would say that it seems to be always the fren

europe in the 19th century, the external balance and the external source of intervention and influence to mitigate conflicts, reconciled, japan and china began with a partnership with the chinese. a self evident military edge to it. trying to operate on the assumption that they and we share a common interest in accommodation and will suffer very badly, each of us, if we get into real hostility. >> we have to accommodate them, in a way? accommodation? new say that they want status and their role in the world. they also want to be an economic and military player, right? >> military power, if one sided, can threaten the other. we have to be sensitive of their concerns as well. we patrol by air and sea, right up to the territories. they did this to us in san francisco. >> if you were the national security adviser now, and i certainly hope that from time to time the people in the administration reach out to get your thinking on subjects, what scares you most? what concerns you most? what would be your number one priority? >> the number one issues are the longer-range historical issues. in t

affairs tell you about that. >> i'm the assistant general manager for external affairs. our presentation for our bureau is different from last year when we were coming forward with the new program. our theme this year is a flat budgthis sly describes what the budget looks like for the upcoming two years. the minimal is to no increase is happening except a small increase -- [inaudible] not much to share with you -- we are not asking for any additional staff position. >> this is not only a question for you but other presenters -- are we having some kind of 1 pager suggesting the fact that not only are we saving money but how we are increasing the workload on current employes because we're not hiring new p

to external free. this always comes from abroad that are very very. the total u.s. money for afghanistan is going to the women to do this you have to add also the rule of international cooperation and i'm sure there is a study by oxfam from about two years ago that said that all of the money meant for reconstruction forty percent of its returns to send through the expenses for personnel would prove that. unless there are most of the money ends up in the pockets of those who sent the money in the first place. this is upsetting for us because this money comes from people who live in foreign countries money that these people have worked hard to earn and they have given money to their governments with the aim of helping poor countries. capacity building would be built for the local population like the one the pangea foundation built for its women who then ran the project rather than forgot about it i think our lady of it's shows that that money is spent and shark attempts project money afterward design out of the country copy and paste it to the country with no sustaina

it has helped us externally and internally. the board has been very active through the marketing committee, being part of the process with the staff's and with the leadership of nick in defining the scale of the project, raising the necessary funds for it. also, key decision making points such as the visual logo, which you see here today. i have to share a story about the logo. after the meeting when i came home, i had a bunch of different ideas that we had been discussing at home. jerry said to me, do you realize this is the symbol in math for all? apparently he was the only one who had been paying attention in math class. i said, is that true? it just felt right. that is when the going really hit the mark. we thought that this was really the right logo for us. today, i want to again invite everybody to our new asian. we promised it will be all- inclusive plan and offer you something to be awakened and inspired about. >> thank you. first, it has been a real pleasure and privilege to work with the museum, with such a clear visi

. >> i think it is in face of whether it is internal or extern all. . invasiv-- invasive rather it is internal or external. >> i am definitely not pro abortion but i would also not think the government has a right to say whether they need to be checked first. >> senators did approve an amendment to exclude members of race or -- rape or incest from undergoing the ultrasound. >> thank you very much. meanwhile we are following breaking developments in the race to face president obama this fall. it is shaping up to be a strong night for mitt romney taking a pair of wins in arizona and michigan. he took aim at the president within the past half hour. >> the fix the economy? know. did he tackled the housing crisis? nope. did he get america back to work? he put us on a path toward debt and deficits and a decline. it is time to get off of the path and back on the path of american prosperity. >> seconds after the polls closed, mitt romney was projected as the winner easily defeating rick santorum. and in michigan he started to pull away from santorum late this e

. >> the priority in external affairs -- i appreciate the general manager framed with how you think about the work of the bureau. we take that seriously as to our counterparts in other bureaus. the count -- the priority [inaudible] we are in conversations with lots of other enterprises to see how well we're doing as far as providing legislative support and how is that keeping things up for the different enterprises as they do their operation and the strategic plan, how the enterprises using that as a tool. the second priority is around education and engagement. there has been a lot of thinking this past year about how we bolster our capacity to provide education and engagement of the public in difference takeovers on what the puc does. we talk about as a cradle to grave approach as far as wanting to go after the next generation of white -- of ratepayers and water users to folks in the public to elected officials so when you turn on your tap, you understand it is hetch hetchy water and an asset we need to protect and value. as you think about the power enterprise, when you are in the airpo

if you have never seen the movie the corporation and you have learned about the idea of externalizingcosts of the corporation does not have to pay for if we had a municipal bank that was doing direct financing, we could avoid some of that tax increment financing and even if we felt we had to do some of the tax increment financing of the municipal bank would get some financial benefit from that instead of big private wall street banks. i would also second what others said about this idea of giving extra credit for answering the questions in a positive way. it sounds like good faith efforts. we need to aim toward requirements on these things so that we know we're getting a bank that will do what is right for our community. thank you. supervisor kim: are there other members of the public who have not spoken on these items would like to speak? seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor? -- supervisor avalos? supervisor avalos: thank you for all who commented. i agree. i think that it will be wonderful if we could make the requirement to provide information, we could make in the rfp

it's externally. i think we need the external aid. i think the persecuted people will be greatly encouraged and their moral would be greatly boosted if they hear from the president of the united states of america and tell the chinese dictators that clearly, and unwaivering, we're with you. we're with the persecuted instead of the persecutors. >> i just want to make three brief closing comments. the first is to emphasize the point mr. chairman you made earlier. it needs to be emphasized. this is not a partisan issue. this is something that there's bipartisan smort to skeep pressure on the chinese government to improve the human rights

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justin, the china fdi data showing they are not immune to external events. do you think they can avoid a hard landing? >> we talked about monetary policy that could be used. it has deep pockets. we've seen that with the eu. it has capped reserves there. it's dipped into the market in a domestic scene there by talking and saying we have cash at our disposal if you are suffering interest europe there. i think it's got tools at its disposal. it has high gdp growth slipping. it's been coming down but it's still at very healthy levels. i think it's in a good position 30 ride out this. >> you're comfortable with growth at 8 to 10? >> it's being maneuvered there, engineered to slow down from the double digit we've seen. that's a high by anybody's standards. >> what about you, growth is one thing but there's inflation, something china is still trying to grapple with. >> well, actually the tradeoff between growth and inflation has worsened significantly in china. the global financial crisis changed the rules fundamentally. the massive export shock that it brought on

arming and training these people and it's grateful to think of what could be coming next if an externally force power is is suddenly implanted in syria is not at all representative of the people and syria could lead into another iraq so it's just really quite devastating right now the way things are progressing the syrian government has pledged to use an iron fist to crush what it calls a foreign funded terror campaign the u.s. and its allies have brushed aside the claim saying the blame for violence in the country rests solely on damascus but syria's deputy foreign minister told r.t. that foreign powers are instigating much of the bloodshed including friday's deadly bombing. a woman that insurgents and terrorists have committed this attack only an insane person could say that the government is killing its officials and officers and destroying its own administrative buildings these armed terrorist groups were created to commit these crimes and they have committed them in the past and will continue to do so if the west and their state support that the u.s. is aware of syria's power it real