david goldstein: nobody can be the master of all those technologies. you can learn them, but you can't be the masters of them. at least get the patient the best care. so integrity is a really important issue, and the integrity of our payers-- of our insurance companies-- needs to be held up there. - you all right? - okay, fine. - see you later. - great. we have a trauma center here. the trauma surgeon, he will have a patient with a gunshot wound to the head and neck. he'll have a patient with a motor vehicle accident where they have abdominal, chest injuries, facial injuries, and he'll say, "i need the thoracic surgeon, i'll need the orthopedist, i need the otolaryngologist, i need the facial plastic surgeon." which is what i do, and i get called in. and i will coordinate with the other doctors. i said, "okay, who's going to the operating room first? can we do this at the same time? what can be staged, what needs to be done?" and it works as a team, and it can work extremely well. developing a productive relationship with your primary care physician is

goldstein? >> the work we've done here focuses on sbs. we have not looks at contract guards situations. >> it would be focused here on the navy yard. >> ray. we have found that the training overall that fps is given, by nasa, the pentagon force protection, kennedy center. they remind generally with the kinds of training you would give to a contract guard at the federal facility. the problem is implementing it. that's where we seem to see the falloff is ensuring the guards are actually getting. >> there's basically no accountability. we can check out the training box, but no one is saying this person has done it. we are tracking them. basically no one person is setting, you have to do a certain amount of streaming you have to complete every year and that is part of being in that position. that isn't happening with this? >> excuse me, i senator coburn noted, those are contract requirements to have your protective security officers have to require training and certifications. that would be a contract violation. >> so we are entering contract

goldstein. >> he comes from a different culture where some of these kinds of things go on all of the time and i just want to mention that to you. and in this case, the sfmta is overstated the case. the balance checks were made on credit cards of his grandmother, his grandmother's best friend and their friend all of whom are over 80 years old and he held their cards because they were exclusive users and he served them all of time, and he took them to the doctor and to the store and to see their friends and they relied on them because they could not rely on other drivers because nobody would pay the kind of attention to him or could speak russian like he could and otherwise would be as accommodating to them as he would. >> so those balance checks are on the cards of the people that were intimate to his family including his grandmother and. and the sfmta tries to make something pernicious out of making the balance checks but it does not amount to any dead triment to anybody the only one that we know about for sure is the $27 worth of over charges and he admits to that. the other stuff i

coming back that was alexis goldstein communications director of the. time now for today's big deal. because she joins me now to talk about striking picket lines etc now i want to quickly by wednesday december twenty fifth well not so hundreds of workers at amazon and germany have walked off the job in an effort to pressure the e-commerce leader to settle on a wage disagreement now these are the first strikes against amazon anywhere in the world and today the strikers plan to rally outside amazon's seattle headquarters. a top amazon executive in germany said the workers were mostly unskilled and have been unemployed for a long time implying they should be grateful to work at amazon rachael i turn to you in a down economy when employers have so much power like amazon does do workers have much leverage when they go on strike in a place like germany they have significantly more leverage than they do in the united states and that has to do with germany's labor laws which are regarded as significantly stronger and more in favor of employees then in the unite

now coming up why law is the volcker verbiage venerated or vilified alexis goldstein joins us to help render a verdict after the break and who does amazon blame for stealing christmas and if not for grants rachel her safe and i discussed the purchase of the first major strike against the mega retailer in today's big deal and as we head through a quick break here's a look at the today's closing numbers stick around. i . think. i would rather as questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry king now right here on our t.v. question or. the best rules in life are to the point and at first the vocal rules seem promising don't let banks gamble with cost more money but to no surprise it's much easier said than done now after three years and many many missed lines the vocal rule finally came to permission last week now lobbyists activists and advocates from both sides are combing through the rule so who exactly are the winners and the losers joining me now alexis goldstein former v.p. of merrill lynch an occupy wall str

now coming up why law is the volcker verbiage venerated or vilified alexis goldstein joins us to help render a verdict after the break and who does amazon blame for stealing christmas and if not for granted rachel herz this and i discussed the purchase first major strike against the mega retailer in today's big deal and as we had you a quick break here's a look at the today's closing numbers stick around. big bucks but. did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy shrek albums. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and our proximity we've been hijacked right handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our polity harbors once told us my job market and on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem. rational debate and a real discussion critical issues facing. ready to join the movement and welcome the. wealthy b

goldstein. >> thank you for the opportunity to testify. the federal protective service and protection of federal buildings. as part of the department of homeland security federal protective service responsible for protecting federal employees and visitors, 9,600 federal facilities under the control and custody of the general services administration. the federal facilities demonstrate continued vulnerability to a tax or other acts of violence. facility and security assessments, approximately 13,500 contract security guards deployed to federal facilities. my testimony discusses challenges interest in sharing contract guards who are deployed to federal facilities and properly trained and conducting risk assessments at federal facilities. it is based on g a o's work from 2008-2013 on contractors assessments and programs and preliminary results of ongoing work to determine the extent to federal agency facility risk assessment methodology is aligned with federal risk assessment standards. our findings are as follows. of ps faces a challenges, pr

goldstein, last word? >> one quick quotation for dr. coburn. gao's recommendations -- there've been 26 and only four are in process and have only been in process for about four weeks, meaning there are 22 still open, and we will provide your staff with the exact information on those. >> they're interesting. andrew for the clarification. >> some points that have not been brought up that are relevant. the first, as mr. amitay has said, it is important that there be better clarity in terms of contractors liabilities. we have interviewed dozens of contract guards over the last decade all of whom have felt they do not have clarity on what responsibilities are and when they can use force and cannot use force. and most have told us over the years that their companies have all but said don't you ever pull out your gun, don't you ever do anything with it. there is a lot of lack of clarity in this area. the second is the role of the federalr at the protective service. it would be great if they were able to, as mr. wright said, to be able to roam around,

goldstein, last word? >> one quick quotation for dr. coburn. gao's recommendations -- there've been 26 and only four are in process and have only been in process for about four weeks, meaning there are 22 still open, and we will provide your staff with the exact information on those. >> they're interesting. andrew for the clarification. >> some points that have not been brought up that are relevant. the first, as mr. amitay has said, it is important that there be better clarity in terms of contractors liabilities. we have interviewed dozens of contract guards over the last decade all of whom have felt they do not have clarity on what responsibilities are and when they can use force and cannot use force. and most have told us over the years that their companies have all but said don't you ever pull out your gun, don't you ever do anything with it. there is a lot of lack of clarity in this area. the second is the role of the federalr at the protective service. it would be great if they were able to, as mr. wright said, to be able to roam around,

goldstein. we have already talked to this to some extent. i will come back and revisit it very briefly. in the past decade or so, you have overseen 12 independent reports of federal facility security. you have looked at the armed guard programs, you have collaborated with state and local law enforcement and the human capital planning. gao has also conducted what we call them covert testing. you talked about some of that that is going on of federal facilities. in other words, you try to penetrate federal facilities to test how security works. it is like what we do in the nuclear power plant world. again, for the record, how would you assess federal facility security today? over 30,000 feet, how would you assess federal facility security today, realizing we are on a time continuum, where folks focus on this, going back to 1995, oklahoma city -- is it getting better, worse, it is uneven? >> i think it is very uneven, mr. chairman. yes, there have been improvements since oklahoma city and since the twin towers, of course. we have had more focus

both the homeless and wall street i was joined earlier by the other ninety eight percent alexis goldstein i first asked her how bonuses are calculated on wall street and why they are such a big deal. so there are a big part of compensation these big wall street banks pay their boys a very high base salary usually in the range of like one hundred fifty thousand to two hundred fifty thousand but then on top of that they get this sort of performance bonus and the way that they're tallied is there's a number of surveys and the one that we were looking at was report on by the new york times analysis of a consulting company johnson associates they basically asked the top eight u.s. banks how much money they had set aside for bonuses in two thousand and thirteen and that's how we arrived at the ninety one point four four billion dollars was a result of that survey and in another new york times article it actually predicted that bonuses were going to rise this year by five to ten percent i mean can you talk about how it's possible that they now total almost ninety two billion dollars well it is c

we're joined i alexis goldstein and washington, d.c. seven years she worked on wall street as a computer programmer and morgan stanley, merrill lynch, deutsche bank. she later got involved with occupy wall street and is not the medications director at the other 98%. welcome back. talk about your recommendations for what these bankers should do for their bonuses. a guest on the she said 10 million people were displaced during the foreclosure crisis, often due to predatory loans, mortgages that were sold that had rates that were bait and switch rates. our suggestion is simply that they should take this money and do something about the lack of affordable housing, which we think is a problem they caused because they've essentially thrown so many people wrongfully out of their homes. we had a proposal to take $60 billion unfunded something called the national housing trust fund for two years. this program was created by george bush in 2008. it is funded at already billion dollars for 10 years could and homeless -- funded at $30 billion for 1

i'm cynthia goldstein, the director. corey tooeg is here the acting and zone k administrator and representing the planning department and planning commission commission and joseph duffy representing the department. the clerk: the board request that you turn off all cell phones and pagers. the department representative an 7 minutes for each case. people affiliated with their party must conclude their comments in the 7-minute period. those not affiliated with the parties have up to 3 minutes. members of the public who wish to speak on an item are asked, but not required to submit a speaker card when you come up to the podium. speaker cards are on the left side of the podium. there is customer satisfaction forms on the left side of the podium. if you have a question about the rehearing, please speak to board staff after the break or after the meeting. the board office is located at 1650 mission street. this meeting is broadcast live on sfgtv cable channel 78 and dvd's of this meeting are available for purchase directly from

i believe that keith goldstein from eastern neighborhood is here to say a few words at this point. >> great. thank you so much. keith, adam, why don't you come up and present to us briefly on what the cac's role is. >> good morning, supervisors. as you know the cac is ground zero for development in san francisco and developing presentations and i have lost track of the number of developers and architects who have come to our meetings and told us their grandmother was born in a little house and they would like nothing more than hanging out over a cup of coffee at foaleys. this is for funding and implementing infrastructure improvement and we believe the eastern neighborhoods that receive this attention. we have seen so many projects come from this area. the neighborhoods and new open space along the center water front. 16 street, folsom street and 22nd street and the eastern neighborhood cac has approved some agreements which appear to be beneficial to the whole community. however we are very concerned about this large gap in funding for infrastructure improvement to accommodate the hu

. >> thank you, director goldstein and good evening commissioners, my name is julian lagos and once again here on behalf of our community and our trees and as you were here a month ago and you had to hear what we had regarding the preservation of these three trees and we have discovered that there has been other information that has come forth since that hearing and it is in regards to the conflicts of interest that have been discovered by myself and the number of residents and park merced regarding the city's conflict of interest with the city. and we have discovered that there are two contracts that the city has with this company, and which we believe poses a conflict of interest. and these two contracts were awarded this year, by the city at the recommendation on my add by the urban forestry council for which miss short who is going to speak tonight in her difference, sits on. one contract, is given to arbor well for $435,000, back in february. and again, in september, this year, a $210,000 contract was awarded to arbor well and none of this information was disclosed to this board. nor

this year us bankers will be paid almost a hundred billion dollars and top of their salaries is goldstein an activist from the owner from the other ninety eight percent pro quality group those same banks are still receiving subsidies from taxpayers these big wall street banks pay their employees a very high b. salary usually in the range of like one hundred fifty thousand to two hundred fifty thousand but then on top of that they get this sort of performance bonus and the way that they're tallied is there's a number of surveys they basically have to us how much money they have set aside for bonuses in two thousand and thirteen and that's how we arrived at the ninety one point four four billion dollars it is crazy right especially when you think about earlier this year there was this bloomberg article about how the government there is like a government subsidy of eighty three billion dollars so it's almost as if all of that government subsidy is just going right back into bonuses but this is just way that wall street has worked for a really long time before so we're going to continue to se

this event the most people associate him with one roll his first film made before he was thirty goldstein from nowhere to make it stop them in a stroke david means lawrence arabia took a sapphire blue eyes and in close up shots against the death sounds. the camera revealed the conflict within and told trademark incredibly he was nominated for most to eight times but never won. that ought to look like act with a rousing with his drinking but is rich in harrisburg a two button and getting into a new rebel scrapes. awards but little something new come play with because we are the people he also shown maki rolls to take on the left field projects often giving the impression he was looking for himself not to the. on the hour. quite a lot. you can still slip to the sweeping grandeur of the laureates that's what movie alone would make him immortal. fortunately there is much more to discover. to see. and mm. meal ends for my area of the lays down lauren elders sat with his fourteenth career slalom victory. barry of us clinched his fourteenth career slalom victory when he came to the icy festive h

will definitely win the other three ornaments harper's of the speaking countries decided to fold goldstein on competition and sixty feet. not to get the one team is struggling to announce that the natives creek re form the national team. i knew the cia leaders who failed to meet its origins in the shots of protein you are asked to preach at all. i know it which despite stormy amount provided in a cheeky construction. three years of pain. also we didn't even cut off from gospel to lose such a sweet spot. the issue tickets. lately been practicing for six months but it's just off long enough the teams from me and r have been playing chain known for a long time. it is their traditional sport not ours we feel discouraged because this is a totally new sport for us. we're under a lot of pressure put on even. just as evil and speak to him on grounds of the price you can read next to the one being decided not to compete. mommy duties that i missed out on sport is a country which you don't want school. the resort these two up. so we chilled and so on a skewer. thus the host nation has bagged twenty

it was seen on each of real easy to goldstein and east. she now has a special but they don't ship via the east river thousand office as he checked me one is drinking gambling old committing adultery. in an anti carney j said before remember don't be i can still find good people and don't the repressive. this is the oldest female surely ask well it's chilling to see the old bounce and seam and attending friday press. they tell us they came to be checked yes to this weight robinson forced people to debate the rules. ok please gentlemen it's prayer time the persistent offenders to face corporal punishment it's an obligation for men not women chose from and so on and i singing it or not at the mosques to get the morning. we find the same month three times not preying on a friday you'll be changed three times as a punishment maximum were jailed for six months. mom and dad and family. the strategy is clearly working. it's midday the shops to shops and streets have emptied. she becomes a ghost town. many men still outside of publicly shamed. so i

and we have been working very closely with miss goldstein on letting them and we did let them pour some parts of that and if it got continued and there was a request to let them work on the other parts for the safety issues to get the building supported onthies you to give them more time to get the property line in dispute. and resolved. but i don't, and i am not sure how that will work. >> that only works if you issued an emergency order. >> we didn't do it on an emergency order, we have been working closely with the board on certain conditions and these permits that are under the payment suspended where we feel that we want to let the work go for the safety of the building, if it is the safety issue, it is, you know, so, there are >> is that the best that we can do at this point, if we can't put in that kind of a condition, right? >> but i would be clear that i don't want anything happening at the foundation that is adjacent to 3040 jackson street and that might help to move things along and it might help to slow it down, i mean, these guys and maybe you might want to get check with b

sudan almost doubling the number of peacekeepers there for the past ten days the country putting goldstein deadly violence which the u.n. says has already claimed thousands of lives one important as the latest. the un says that investigators discovered mass graves in the rebel held city of two with fourteen bodies at one site twenty bodies at a nearby site but the possibility of there being either even a third site now tens of thousands of people have fled the country amid fighting between rebels that are supporting former vice president riek machar and president salva gears forces you have to remember that south sudan is a young country and a civil war is what initially caused its breakaway from the north you know the united states campaigned for it some experts believe that washington's enthusiasm for south sudan's are autonomy had less to do with humanitarian issues and more to do about the south sudanese oil reserves now the irony right now is that no matter which way you slice it the international community has another crisis on its hands that may be costly and complicated the country

met aaron has issued an orange wind warning meaning goldstein conditions are across the country tonight and tomorrow. we've starting side this evening and size kosovo taunton particularly shares her. so people aren't sick great coach and traveling for instance story tomorrow morning but the star of persons will grind to a base during christmas eve and the rest but from the linens on christmas day and stay in the state the fact that wins but the cardstock. already the yes the aircon have been busy attempting to restore power and telephone lines taken the bill was in rural areas. one of the things that we are experiencing is a huge amount of damage from lightning. and even though the song was a certain amount of lightning. it's an exceptional amount of dissent in the air and pearls but creates a lot of individual falls on individualized boss as well as the windfalls of heel sleet and snow were forecast for parts of the country which could make for treacherous driving conditions were called in the black lights and under and an egg and joy be so all these conditions and to be good to be min

goldstein is correct, he would get most of that money back but he would lose, $50,000 approximately of that money. and so, he would get back roughly $200, for the 250 but he would lose 50,000 of that money. >> i was going to say that the only way prior to revocation assuming that we were not moving forward, i mean that he has the right, if there were no issues, he would have the right to sell his medallion for the full amount. >> and currently what is the medallion worth in today's value? >> $250,000. >> it is still worth. >> and the mta sets the price. >> so he can sell it or he can't sell it >> if he were not having any issues. >> meaning, >> and with the board, correct. he would have been able to sell it. if he just had felt like, you know what i don't want this any more i am going to sell it. >> he cannot sell it. >> not after revocation. no. but what will happen is that this is going to be a voluntary for sale after revocation. and that forced sale will allow him to recoup the majority of that money. >> minus. >> can he sell it prior? >> he has already been revoked. >> okay, i got