this is five to nine and this is 100 project. and the housing and yet we don't study the five to nine. we study a 100 unit project. the scale is not close. we should have studied the five to nine units. we didn't. we studied the 100 units, the smallest project and to continue my speech supervisors. with this flawed analysis and lead to one success in the city since the policy's conception in 2006 and i repeat this failed policy has one successful project. thank you supervisors. >> supervisors, mayor lee and the members of the supervisor recognized to replace lost gqnresources for this and continuous and reliable revenue stream and stimulus for depressed local housing industry. the mayor had a big working group of the stakeholders. the group of industry specialists were called upon based on experience and industry sector expertise and builders represented by members of the council of community housing and of the residential builders association. they represented the local medium and small builders. in short it was a representative

so today i'm going to talk about this -- what we call the five to nine legislation. one of the concerns that was behind the original adjustment to the requirement was a risk of subdividing parcels in order to sort of gain the system and avoid the inclusionary requirement. we will talk about that. we will talk about the bmr production and other production and the potential to serve our in fill housing goals as well as commercial development goals. so first just talking about the risk of parcels subdivision. we feel like this concern that we haven't seen and sarah from the planning department can speak to the trend over housing over time. we haven't seen a lot of production of projects that have unit count or two below the threshold so we haven't seen this phenomenon be problematic but there are provisions in the code that allows the planning department to consider a multi-phase, multi-parcel as part of a project and not beholden to the requirements of the inclusionary program. when they come into to subdivide the parcel the planner that takes that in has notice of spe

eleven was on nine eleven you know. dick clarke was absolutely correct and if there is if we look at the historical record there's no denying that's what they would have wanted to do. was it i mean i've seen two kind of conflicting strands of history around that one is the. notion that. iraq is the center of the arab world the arab world an unstable place we've got to protect our ally israel cetera et cetera and if we can just put a giant footprint in the middle of iraq we've got it and you know arguably that was the the more reasonable rationalization for in that argument the other is mickey herskowitz the guy who was hired by george and barbara bush sr to write george bush's autobiography a charge to keep in one thousand nine hundred nine when he was making the decision to run for president and he wrote the first draft hundred hours of tapes of george w. bush and he's on the record as saying that in ninety nine george w. bush told him that when his father invaded iraq he failed because he didn't extend the war long en

today marks the eleventh anniversary of the bush administration's failure to prevent the nine eleven attacks and eleven years later first responders are still struggling to overcome the effects of those attacks is our government doing enough to support these heroes and are they getting the health care they are entitled to also some politicians like mitt romney have billionaires financing their every move other politicians aren't as fortunate or as corrupt in a politician who refuses to take money from corporate donors really hope to win an election in this post citizens united world and the financial crisis that america was still is still reeling from was caused by a bunch of c.e.o.'s and executives on wall street who were allowed to do whatever they wanted with no fear of punishment after seeing what happened to our economy as a result republicans still want to let wall street roam free why. you need to know this our nation remembers nine eleven today and is reminded about the utter failures of the bush administration leading up to the attacks as a new op ed published today in the n

i will give you a brief history of the five to nine units. commissioner fong: did you not quite understand? it seems like you would all have an order in which you would like to present, it seems you could line yourself in order that you have already preset. i need you all over there. >> thank you. inclusionary policy was first adopted in 1992, amended in 2002 and again in 2006. in 2006, a technical advisor committee was formed. its members were the council of community house organizations, receive housing, asian neighborhood design, south of market community action network , hash jr. foundation. it is important to state that the city did not include any member or a representative from the small business community. as a result, the following recommendations are move forward. to increase on-site requirements from 10% up to 15%, and offset from 15% to 20%. to lower the threshold for inclusionary requirements from 10 to five units or more. a provision was also included to be constructed within a one-mile radius of the principal project, and after

run lockups abroad after the nine eleven attacks wider use of waterboarding than they previously led us to believe no really now let's go back to the man overseeing the torture program at the time which we none other than george tenet former cia director under the bush administration not only did he sign off on the he has legal crimes afterward he trying to fool all of us into thinking that under his leadership the u.s. did nothing wrong take a look at this interview he did with c.b.s. . image. it's been portrayed as is we sat around the campfire and said oh boy now we go get to torture people we don't torture people let me say that again we don't torture people ok. we don't torture people khalid shaikh mohammed we don't torture waterboarding we do not i don't talk about techniques and we don't torture people. actually george you're flat out lying you do torture people but i guess i mean guess how many times just one prisoner khalid shaikh mohammed was water boarded in just one month are you ready for this one hundred and eighty three times now i don't know about you but if you want

market corporate rule in the one nine hundred twenty s. and gave way to the new deal revolution and a huge political shift to the left similarly several decades later the economic crisis caused by problems in the middle east in the oil embargo in the late seventy's gave way to the reagan revolution and a massive political shift to the right here we are again today in the midst of another economic crisis and a subsequent political shift the financial meltdown of two thousand and seven and two thousand and eight at the end of the bush administration swung the pendulum back to the left with barack obama winning the presidency and democrats gaining big majorities in the house and senate. it was nineteen thirty two all over again yes the two thousand and ten midterm ap and in congress snapped back to the right but in my opinion that was an anomaly i think was fueled in part by racism it was made possible by the supreme court's citizens united decision and as we see today looking at the polls and the failure of the mitt romney campaign it probab

problems and what happened over the nine percent is apparently his ninety nine problems. but you've been you've been covering the d.n.c. haven't you been going all over the place ever since you know the six months of radio in new york for the occupy wall street anniversary you've been going all the canada. nato how the protests pretty much been consistent and what have you seen really happening. it feels it feels like it's sort of dipped a little bit you know the six month anniversary was was it you know pretty powerful event when the police came in and it was similar to the new year's nato had several thousand people and you know even unrelated to to occupy or to the social justice was the the big protests in anaheim a lot of energy you know and it was building up so i'm not going to i'm not going to the d.n.c. the r n c the turnout was low but the r n c was affected by the hurricane you know it was coming right for tampa as for the d.n.c. i guess people don't expect a lot of you know a lot of protests at a democratic convention. although some people do i don't think tha

to pictures the subway system said it would love to buy you pictures and then i and the post nine eleven world security is a top priority even the simple act of taking pictures can land you in trouble have we become a nation that sacrifice our freedoms for our sense of security. it's tuesday september eleventh eight pm in washington d.c. i'm not going lopez and you're watching r.t. . well for three hundred sixty four days a year americans go about their daily lives they pay their bills work a normal nine to five job and worry about having enough money for retirement but one day a year this day we stop to remember the extraordinary circumstances that brought us to where we are eleven years ago today on a day very much like this one three thousand men women and children lost their lives in the years that followed thousands more died in wars and even more were sacrificed or were scarred both on and off the battlefield since that fateful day americans have watched as u.s. military plunged into wars the economy tumbled and the rights to privacy were stripped away now for each of us nine eleve

in 2006, we did a nine unit building on laguna streets. it was successful, barely. our margin was small. since then, that is it. the new inclusionary housing has killed us in the industry. we have lost something like 40% of our capacity. all of our employees are here in the city. there are three of us together. we pay city taxes. we are not new york developers. we are small guys. this is something i urge. it really is a great idea. i urge you guys to pass this legislation, because obviously, it is not working. we do other projects, like james said. it does not cancel out. the banks will not finance these projects with inclusionary housing. thank you. have a nice day. >> good afternoon, commissioners. stephen mcelroy. i cannot believe it was six years since we were here to talk about this issue before. i guess ti fun, here in the cit. it has really been a fun time for small builders, as you can see. i think this year is the perfect example of the straw that broke the camel's back. we were here. we argued against this. it just turned out that the economy took a huge d

and since nine eleven the u.s. has turned to drone warfare around the globe for the first time president obama is actually talking about his drone policy coming up we'll tell you about the sacrifice the specific criteria he claims the u.s. uses to conduct drone strikes. are going to want you to pictures of the subway system so tight it was looked at by your pictures. and in a post nine eleven world security is a top priority even the simple act of taking pictures can now land you in trouble how we become a nation that sacrificed our freedoms for our sense of security. it's tuesday september eleventh four pm in washington d.c. i'm meghan lopez and you're watching r.t. . for three hundred sixty four days a year americans go about their daily lives they pay their bills work the normal nine to five and worry about having enough money for retirement but one day a year this day we stop to remember the extraordinary circumstances that brought us to where we are eleven years ago today on a day very much like this one three

bush tried to push it even further telling his biographer in one thousand nine nine hundred. that he planned to invade iraq if he became president to get enough political capital privatized social security to keep pillar of the new deal he succeeded in invading iraq but that privatizing social security although he did try in two thousand and five right after the election which brings us to today and mitt romney trying to finish the job that i and rand started to mitt romney is the culmination of this several decades long effort to remake america into a i and rand libertarian paradise he's pushing an economic theory that's been tried for thirty two years now and has been proven to only cause misery for ninety nine percent of americans on rich in the top one percent mitt romney didn't make a gaffe when he said his job isn't to worry about forty seven percent of americans he was simply speaking to a core value of today's republican party a value traced back to iran promoted by the coax legitimized by billions of dollars in funding for corporate think tanks and universities and e

hundred fifty nine to mike wallace. christ every important moral leader in man's history has taught us that we should love one another why in is this kind of love it you'll bind it borrow it is immoral it is our place about one and then if a man is weak or a woman is weak then she is beyond he is beyond love he said he does not deserve it he said needs bejan there are very few of us spent in this world by your standards and while worthy of love unfortunately guess they. that was fifty three years ago back when i enter and her philosophy of selfishness was considered the far right crazy french. people i william f. buckley said about the gaps she's nots today however iran is represented in absentia on the republican ticket today mitt romney subscribes to her philosophy both in closed door meetings with millionaires and billionaires and out the open on the campaign trail as does romney's running mate paul ryan in iran more than anyone else this fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism the morality of individu

hundred nine. do you. believe. as. you do. you get to give your execution date. can't go to. court. a nightmare. in believe me or just a one to two execution date is unlawful in a battle to your life their. security prison poland ski is found in the middle of the texan countryside. this death row has the highest number of executions in the us an inmate which for an average of ten years before being executed. for a long time french activist sundry no shortage has been alongside thomas miller fighting against the death penalty and the horrors of waiting on death row on the shore of we are on the road between poland ski prison where he said this for and one stage c t well the addiction room is down here is the last throes of people sentenced to death it is sad last chance to look outside and see nature and trees the father and their last chance to smell and feed because they've been a solitary confinement for so long. as i remember a man sentenced to death who said that that's each breath he took alon

hundred nine thomas is exhausted from waiting . did you execution date. is going to be up to you do. you get that it wants to give you execution date you. can't go pick a date. and dead court waiting becomes a nightmare. to execution dates. believe me. i just had one to two execution date is enough for anybody to go through my life to a. high security prison. is found in the. edel of the texan country so. this death row has the highest number of executions in the u.s. mimic which for an average of ten years before being executed. for a long time french activist sundry no shortage has been alongside thomas miller fighting against the death penalty and the horrors of waiting on death row on the shore of what we are on the road between foreign ski prison where he said desk for and one stage c t well the addiction room is zero down here is the last throes of people sentenced to death it is sell assets chance to look outside and see nature and. the father and their last chance to smell and feel because they've been a solitary confinemen

fourth in one nine hundred sixty nine hundred seventy nine eighty in fact in the progressive movement when it started if you look at the average age of the people down there the they tended to be very young and impressionable or much older people who is the last hurrah people perhaps who were said having missed out on the civil rights movement i don't think that it is fair to point to the financial crisis and explain the the occupy movement as the product of that i think it's perhaps fair to look at the financial crisis and explain the tea party as a product of that but we should on no account mix up those two groups ok something about human islam or the tea party was mentioned here why doesn't the occupy movement do something like that get organized i mean the only thing is you know if you if you look at any woman start of there's unfair practice and if you look at the economics or or if you look at a household if it's going to be in june it's going to hurt you and your family and your children and their finances but their education their livelihood that i think it's you know not jus

out for the last nine months check it out. there with octomom and santo and oxnard california came here today to stop all shipments of jackson modified seeds coming into and out of this facility which is simonis incorporated a subsidiary of monsanto now in light of occupiers first birthday happy birthday by the way occupy monsanto's groups all over the world have organized seventy five different protest against the corporation and its subsidiaries this week for the entire week the group were protesting at the home of the monsanto corporation in st louis missouri but also actions across the united states including california where voters want to. side if they will label g m o's the selection and world wide in argentina candidate germany india spain the philippines haired boy and other countries were concerns over the impacts of g m o's on the environment and human health are growing occupy monsanto's goal is to confront the agricultural and industrial complex head on and it needs to be confronted if you are concerned with this

hundred seventy nine the u.s. didn't take the line of the egyptian revolution and till it was already happening then when the revolution was underway egyptians were brutalized i mean freed with usa made tear gas canisters by mubarak security forces as mike prysner answer coalition organizer has so eloquently stated he said muslims are not culturally backwards for attacking us embassies americans are culturally backwards for not understanding why. now i think that the militant response is only due to an inflammatory film is extremely naive and tense hostility toward the us long predates this film and the reasons are hardly difficult to recognize prize or goes on to explain in a recent editorial these protests can only be understood by taking into account the historic role of a period lism which is left a deep reservoir of anger toward the united states and other colonizers some of the actions have been invasion of iraq support for brutal military dictatorships armenian funding israel for its nonstop war and occupat

yes i do because egypt has for a long time services nine hundred seventy nine been seen as the western bridge into israel in it's the main speaking country that's recognized israel diplomatic relations a very close security would like sions the new government in israel and where it comes from where its support comes from indicates something very very different now was there quite cautious at the present time they don't want guards at the become an extension of the chips they are i suspect going to increasingly use their pressure to force israel to open the open the gates to allow transit of goods and people in and out of gaza through israel to the west bank one of the results of the arab spring has been a rise in radical islam in the middle east what kind of spillover effect do you think the israel and the palestinian authority expect i think radical islam is a consequence of suppression of people's views and wishes and radicalization happens when you don't give people their force. there is right wing radical christianity in the united states there is different forms of radical islam a

hundred nine. forty. eight you know. there are more than four hundred inmates alone. in a four square meters on this death row there are many black people many hispanic people and many people without lawyers they have nothing else to do but wait the more time goes by the more they drown in solitude time is never ending but death comes closer by the minute in the year one thousand nine hundred nine thomas is exhausted from waiting. did you execution date. is going to be up to you do. you get it will still give you execution date you. can't go to. court. a nightmare. believe me. just a one to two execution date is enough for anybody to go through my life to a. high security prison. is found in the. all of the texan countryside in this death row has the highest number of executions in the us mimic which for an average of ten years before being executed. for a long time french activist sundry no shortage has been alongside thomas miller fighting against the death penalty and the horrors of waiting on d

unfortunately i think for the american public after nine eleven america changed we used to be the land of the free in the home of the brave and we became the constrained in the cowardly and i think for the last decade levin years now the american public by and large has said do what you gotta do to keep me safe and i don't really care what you do for him to our government so you know if you go back a dozen years americans who are opposed to torture now a majority are in favor we're opposed to indefinite detention another in favor so the it's interesting how during the bush administration what so many opposed during the obama administration so many now except that i'm afraid there are people that are stuck in this alice in wonderland like environment where they can spend more than a decade without ever being charged actually being cleared to be released and not just by the military you know. latif had to pay vs hearing before a judge here in washington d.c. judge kennedy who found that the government could meet a preponderance of evidence standard says not proof beyond a reasonable doub

at wages of less than a dollar per hour and last year that we're going to zation a corporation made nine hundred million dollars in revenue wow that is a lot of loot unicorns in maine employees work jobs that range anywhere from making uniforms to operating call centers to building solar pounders for the pentagon and all of this at low cost essentially sleeve labor is resulting and hundreds of layoffs so if the absolutely shameless hypocrisy isn't clear to you yet let me break this down we have to deal being faced with budget cuts because the country happens to have a sixteen trillion dollar deficit it continuously we hear the rhetoric that we can't possibly cut defense because we have to think of all the jobs people all the people that we employ how can we live with ourselves if we cut defense spending all the while the department defense is cutting contracts of the stablish industries resulting in hundreds of layoffs it doesn't really take any sense does it well here's just a few of the examples one hundred layoffs in march by tenure industries after losing a forty five million dollars

let's now look at the five to nine unit project. when the smaller projects became subject to the inclusion reprogram in 2006, since then, there have only been seven project entitled, of which, only one has been completed. these projects, should they move forward under their requirement, would bring $1.4 million and provide three onside affordable units. the implications -- now, i will talk about the implications of the proposed ordinance. the proposed ordinance is being reported into the housing trust fund after a collaborative process through which more than 50 stakeholders of housing came to contact us. these stakeholders include developers, affordable housing advocates, bankers, lenders, city agencies, and elected officials, all of which are not in support of the housing trust fund. staff finds that the impact of the proposed ordinance are insignificant for the following reason -- first, the residential units provided as a part of the project constitutes a small portion of the overall housing production in the city. in the past 1

hundred seventy s. e an extent suddenly went off gold in one nine hundred seventy one the one speech that was the so-called nixon shock but the system kind of stumbled its way through the seventy's the world wasn't sure if they wanted to go back to fixed rates of lower valuation for the dollar eventually they decided on floating rates and the european monetary system came together with a unified currency so there was a lot of turmoil in the one nine hundred seventy is chris what we got was borderline hyper inflation quadruple of oil prices you know three recessions back to back to back it was a horrible period of economic performance but beginning around one thousand eight hundred eighty one with volcker and reagan what we saw was not a gold standard but what i call the dollar standard or the king dollar policy so wasn't really strong i could but it was some kind of anchor and countries around the world could at least anchor their currencies to the dollar and we saw that in china throughout southeast asia and elsewhere people were saying ok we trust the united states to maintain the

thirty nine to forty three. using the renowned. armored vehicles. the club members but the biggest emphasis on the atmosphere in the camp and pay strict attention to the everyday life of a soldier from that time. yeah they. do want to be accurate and we do want to be serious but not over serious because we are paying respect to the people who were in the desert war we are living history group rather than a reenactment what we do is we try and show. the public how crude tried to live a normal life in an abnormal situation and during the war the nazi uniforms i think the japanese uniforms i don't think the time is now i think when all our veterans are our way then i think yeah i believe that we should be doing or showing uniforms that make them suffer. germany greets the russian convoy with gloomy weather and cold rain. the drive every few hours to meet the shuttle and arrive in time for the meeting in the old town of torgau. here on april twenty fifth one thousand nine hundred five soviet an american troops met a

and with which i lived in the one nine hundred eighty s. and his name i use constantly to try and save me and who i was trying to get to because i thought by getting to a colony i could find out about al-qaeda did he ultimately hold on to that tribal law and save me i've heard so many different things that's why it's very murky complicated place in the war is far far different from the way we perceive it in the media speaking of tribes what are u.s. intelligence capabilities among the tribes do you believe that washington has enough knowledge when it comes to the language and cultural experience of the particular reasons in afghanistan that need to be fully understood there was a general flynn i think his name was and this was about two thousand and nine two thousand and ten who was in chief of intelligence under then military general stanley mcchrystal mcchrystal who said and i quote we are flying blind in afghanistan how many pashtun speakers are there when you when you find out in the u.s. intelligence community when you look when you ta

and he is an al qaeda assett he was struck by the cia after nine eleven he was friends with zarko when he was captured in mostly asian two thousand and three he will store today in bangkok where i lived at the time you know one of those extremely rendition cia prisons in bangkok he was sent back to the libyans he made a deal with saif al islam in two thousand and nine he was released and now he's the military commander of trip. so you get this information from more than a year ago that a cia prisoner a former detainee at guantanamo bay actually headed up a group of those rebels in libya that the u.s. and its allies support it by the way these issues are nothing new similar ones weren't counted encountered in the ninety's in afghanistan when the west was celebrating an anti soviet freedom fighter that you just might recognize is the headline from the independent in december of one thousand nine hundred three and that is of course osama bin laden you can see for yourself the headline and i don't think i need to explain to you who some of the line is especially one day after september ele

and early one nine hundred ninety s. when romney's company nearly went bankrupt and in fact would have had it not been bailed out by the united states government in other words he didn't build it. as tim dickinson and rolling stone uncovered bain capital's parent company bain and company ran into serious financial problems in the late one nine hundred eighty s. and mitt romney was tapped to try to save the company the company owed more than thirty million bucks to a bank that had been taken over by the f.b.i. see the federal deposit insurance corporation after failing again and again to get the company back on track romney decided to play hardball with bain's creditors basically forcing them to write down bain step romney gave everyone a take it or leave it deal take thirty cents on the dollar on every dollar the bain owed owes or he would loot the company divert whatever remaining assets were there toward paying big bonuses then declare bankruptcy and then bain's creditors including our government the f.d.i.c would get

a muslim american who was the victim of a hate crime just ten days after nine eleven joining me now to talk more about his harrowing story is race brilliant race welcome to the program welcome thank you very much for having me thank you in fact i should say welcome back tell us your story and what happened to you just days after nine eleven. well i moved from new york city in two thousand and one in the month of may and me and one of my eyes in their firm from my high school we opened a gas station. in dallas and after nine eleven it was september twenty first two thousand and one i was working in that gas station it was friday around twelve thirty pm a customer walked into the gas station wearing bandanas sunglasses baseball cap and holding a double barrel shotgun so from a previous robbery experience i thought better be on the robbery but once he came inside he was not looking at the cash which offer and he was looking at me and then he asked me what are you from i was very scared and i could feel a cold air flow through my spine that he is not here for the money and i was confused w

it was the legislation of the five to nine units.rsonally i build three buildings in this range of five to nine units between 2005 and 2009 and since then i didn't look for anything because i couldn't get finance to build the projects again and as far as that goes all of the contractors live locally in san francisco bar a couple. we go to local restaurants and coffee shops and delis and all of that. for the smaller project you have 15 people on the job site for one year. probably over 6200 work hours in one project and that is gone right now. that whole segment has been eliminated with this legislation so i do support the amendments. i would like to thank all of the supervisors and especially supervisor chiu at the last minute scramble to get it together and we support the legislation and thanks to everybody here. >> thank you president chiu for leading this public comment. is there anyone else on the public that would like to speak? seeing none public comment is closed. so let me hand it over to president chiu. >> before we turn it