and state legislatures of of the expense of basic retirement security of millions of hard-working americans. for many like vilsack who is here today the changes are taking place after they retire. the purpose of today's panelist to separate fact from fiction as we look at the fight to protect retirement security around the country. let's start with some facts you may not have heard. 30% of public workers do not receive social security and these modest plans than they faithfully with their life savings, verily source of income in retirement. without a modest income from these pension plans they face poverty. 80% of pension funding comes from employee contributions and investments. not taxpayers. the market crash of 2008 and the great recession, not pension benefits are the cause of tension shortfalls. by and large if the economy has recovered so have pension funds. national institute estimates these retirement plans keep five million older americans out of poverty and support 523 american jobs. our panel of experts will explain the benefit these plants have with the local economy and how rec

literally hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats by the end of the war. the government issued ration books to every american, even babies. 7 million ration books were issued the very first week that rationing went into effect which was the spring of 1942 and, of course, without rationed stamps from the rations books you couldn't purchase shoes, meat, gasoline, many items. and as as soon as the ration books were issued, there's always these unintended consequences. crooks discovered that these ration books were easy to copy. now, sometimes we have a picture of world war ii and the solidarity of the american people, but it's like any other time. there's a great deal of craftiness in the human nature and it came to thieves, let's just print their own ration books and they did by the hundreds of thousands. it was big business. and the theft of ration coupons was big business. there is an account of a veteran coming home after serving in the war overseas, coming back home to central indiana during the latter days of the war, and he's at a rally, a high school

deans of women arose in the late 1800s out of the believed need of a chaperone for women students on traditionally male campuses. for decades women and men were divided on college campuses in terms of activities and living arrangements. stereotypes of deans of women often depicted her as a disciplinarian. this eclipsed her role in advising women students regarding their academic paths, career choices and leadership development. in reality, the dean of women was often the highest ranking woman on a co-educational campus. many like taylor had direct lines to the president for chancellor of the university. all women student needs were considered the dean of women's responsibility, and in many co-ed carol campuses deans of women created what might now be referred to as a women's college within a college. campuses in the mid 20th century were thick with parietal rules for women students, largely regulating their interactions with men. minor infractions of these rules often led to significant disciplinary action, and no woman had a key to her dormitory or residence. a woman returning late

of the criticisms of the c.i.s. is that it tries to be too many things at one time it focuses on trade economic security there's some elements of the military but obviously in a sense of self defense nothing like nato whatsoever and really they and they in the criticism is that it wants to be a european union want to be but probably the current commonwealth of nations you know would look again at the u.k. experience is probably more to the mark but still the criticism is it wants to be all things to all people all the time and it makes it very muddled. no doubt but that is the nature of these sorts of transnational integrative processes . if you look and put in address this in his remarks after his. article he pointed out that this is a multi-tiered multilayered process and it has been moving forward only for the about the last ten years and i would say in a much shorter amount of time only about the last five years with any concrete direction the. european union came went through several metamorphosis from a coal a

a panic of 1819, a panic of it 1837, a panic of 1857, there was a panic of 1893, a panic of 1907. than the federal reserve is created in 1913. yes, indeed, it was a panic in 1929 and the fed really got that one wrong. the fed allowed the money supply to shrink by as much as a third which a devastating effects to the economy as well. the fed on from that and the american financial system, from then forward has performed a whole lot better than it did before there was a fed. now, as to the question, ron paul contends that the federal reserve is unconstitutional. and if you look at the constitution, if you look at section eight of article one which specifies enumerated powers of congress and says that congress has the power to coin money, it doesn't say that congress has the power to print money. this is where ron paul and the libertarians say the federal reserve is unconstitutional. now, they do have a supreme court decision in their favor. in 1870, the supreme court ruled, remember those legal tender notes that came out of the civil war? in 1870, the supreme court ruled the later t

-- of the shore of nome.t was close enough so that when i got off the healy, i was able to take a snow machine to shore. it was about a three-minute snow machine ride. that's how close they were able to get in safely to the shore. the renda laid hose across the ice to connect to the tankers onshore. it was about a six-day process to fuel it up but they did it safely, without any incident whatsoever, were able to then close up that operation and last friday they took off from nome to go back, the renda to russia, and the coast guard healy -- cutter healy to go back to seattle. but that was friday. i asked for the progress report just this afternoon. they're approximately 240 nautical miles southwest of no nome, 275 nautical miles from the ice edge. so they -- they still have a long ways to go getting through the ice. and you would ask the question, well, why don't you just go back the way that you came in because you cut the trail? doesn't work that way. it's cold up there. it's darn cold. and there's no more

tens of thousands of kids across the country.and this particular example, i was a judge in my earlier life, and i was down at the championships last year. will.i.am filmed the championships for first robotics and paid off the his pocket -- out of his pocket to buy an abc special for one hour. and he said, look, if black eyed peas can sing at the super bowl, he brought the black eyed peas to sing at the halftime show of first robotics. and that, plus a whole bunch of other background video was in that special. so let's acknowledge that the celebration is a big part of this equation, and i want to just particularly say that today's the day for firsts, so it's a good segway. >> all right. that's an upbeat note to end this. better will.i.am than steamy sex. [laughter] >> today on c-span2, florida governor rick scott gives the state of the state address. he's expected to talk about his jobs creation package and auto insurance costs in that state. that's life at 11 a.m. ian here on c-span2. also today on c-span2, the center for strateg

and it seemed to me as though of the very nature of the internet, which grew out of sort of the late '60s, early '70s utopian spirit of freely sharing data, and at the time primarily by academic researchers and scientists, failed to really adequately consider how the very openness of the internet which is such a boon to the will can also be a tremendous a vulnerability in that there were people who would take advantage of it. i think the fact that the federal government in the instance of conficker was really clueless about what was happening and what to do about it was really shocking to me. my impression is that, in fact, present obama in 2009 when he gave his speech about cybersecurity, he specifically cited conficker as a case that demonstrated how ill-prepared federal government was to protect even its own networks, and i think so things have improved. that's my impression. you've seen a number of formal moves have been made by the federal government last two or three years that have been publicized and read about. so clearly the government is more aware today than they were jus

and part of that crisis is the place of the dollar. okay, assuming that chinese currency or the euro, especially the euro's in any better shape, the yen, obviously, hasn't done very well in the 20 years since the japanese collapsed. at the same time, we've just had this incredible crisis over the debt crisis which, david, i think you would say was maybe not what everybody thought it was. so where exactly considering where you guys are coming from, what are we liable to be getting into in the 21st century? i mean, is there a replacement for the dollar? you know, is this debt crisis going to blow up on our entire economic system? >> go ahead. >> well, hard to know where to start. >> i was just going to tag something on to what you said. i think the actual amount of dollar is three cents because that's how much the federal reserve pays the mint to make them, no matter what the denomination. so, yeah, the system of money we have now, one thing it's important to remember is that it took a long time for the u.s. one of the last large nations

david campos, a member of the board of supervisors.] you have some other city officials who are here. you have, of course, the man who takes all of our money, the treasurer, jose camos. [applause] campos would like to be there one of these days. i am so focused on campos, he owes me one. [laughter] the public defender, the man who he looked to -- you look to it you got arrested and are broke. -- if you got arrested and are broke. [applause] and the city attorney dennis herrera. [applause] and the man who supplies most of jefferies client' client becauss -- because he insists on are arresting and prosecuting people. [applause] and then of course there are members of your school board who are here with what jerry brown is doing to them in sacramento on the budget side they certainly will be coming to your door quite often for assistance, so they are here. president of that board -- actually works for you, i do mendozmendoza. [applause] there are other school board members whose name i will get in a minute. then there are as the remainder

members of congress, well, gucci gulch was a place of, not of celebration, but of despair after 1986 because all of these tax loopholes were closed, rates were brought down in a way that was actually making the tax code more equitable. and that was considered to be a big step forward for the public interest. well, a few years later lobbyists had written a lot of these loopholes back into the tax code. ten years later, you know, you could hardly see any traces of the 1986 tax reform act. almost all of the good government public interest reforms that were put into the tax code in 1986 overcoming the lobbyists have been put back in, you know have been overwhelmed by the day in, day out lobbying to get those tax provisions right back into place. >> quite a cycle. i mean, if you're creating a winner-take-all economy, the winners have more money to contribute to the politicians, who turn it into a winner-take-all politics. i mean it just keeps -- >> right. >> the stories that we try to tell in this book. that there has been a 30-year war in which the sound of the voice of ordinary american

it gives a sense of the fecundity of his imagination, of his brush, of his mind he could face this sort seminalaw masterpieces of civilization in under 60 minutes. >> the next swawn portrait of josephe ruin. o >> van gogh, again, he had the pay for this. he couldn't get the models just to come in and sit for him andfo his stipend from theo was more money than he made as a postman and has a family so h he would come in and sit for him, but reulan is this larger bigger than life character and he loved talkable about politics and he was -- he drank heavily and vincent is creating this portrait of this big, boisterous, hearty self confident person and he does it with this mag any extent background of all of those beautiful flowers, against that -- it is a masterpiece. >> rose: okay. the next one is historian ite. >> it is really amazing the power of that painting. this is -- this was in 1889. >> rose: 1889. and he was at the -- and he couldn't -- his paints were in a studio downstairs and he couldn't get at them after dark an he couldn't go outside after dark so he had to paint this by maki

there's a host of liberty rule of law issues from the bailout of banks. today, a settlement was announced with lawsuits on how foreclosures and mortgage write downs work. there could be an executive order. weevil watch tonight, requiring banks to write down the bad mortgages, a subversion of creditor's rights. dodd-frank, if you like ox xley that cost the economy more than it saved, dodd-frank has those costs, but a host of separation of powers creating new agencies and bureaucracies at the 12345*9, the congress can't touch -- at the senate, and the congress can't touch it. and the consumer finance protection board is one of those agencies, and we can't get its leadership in a constitutional manner. these recessed appointments when there's no research. on the energy front, keystone xl, right, i won't argue environmental versus jobs. my colleagues handle that area, but on the face of the law, the president was not allowed to delay implementation of the project for the reason he gave saying there needs to be more environmental impact studies. by the last la

success, of jobs, of health care, of education, and a better way of life. so i just wanted to be here to share with my chairman and with representative cole all of our concerns as well as our good wishes. so thank you very much for letting me be with you today. [applause] >> thank you again to our members of congress for joining us today. we know you have busy schedules but we are honored by your presence. at this time we would like to open up for questions. we will start by opening up for questions to our press and we will go to opening it up to questions of other folks. we do have people on line. we have over 500 sites watching live right now as well as the taping that will happen on c-span's taping and others are taping as well as the radio stations so we will be taking questions on line via the ipad. at this point, any questions from press first in could you please state who you are and who you represent. and we do have microphones. thank you. [inaudible] -- gives tribes and especially some of these bills that have lingrd in the senate. do you think tha

and the odds of an international disaster go up, of, of. we need to make that spiral the other way around -- up, up, up. we need to make that spiral the other way around. we do not see any other questions. if you have any questions, you can follow media page. thank you very much. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> in a report by reuters, rick santorum is getting the backing of a large group of evangelical leaders in texas. that support could help mr. santorum in races throughout the south, including next weekend in the south carolina primary. back in 2008, 60% of south carolina voters describe themselves as evangelical christians. tamara, we will hear more about political support from religious groups and what they are looking for. later today, at 5:30 p.m. eastern, myrtle beach south carolina is our destination. we will check out a form for undecided voters, a town hall meeting with tim scott and his guest of virginia gov. bob macdonalnnell. that starts here o

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he is, of course, the secretary of the treasury of the united states. this will be on television as well in a slightly different format, where we will have a conversation and then open it up to questions. if you could just -- for those of you watched the republican debates, hold your applause and your boos. if he says some particularly controversial, don't boo. it is a great pleasure to have timothy geithner, the secretary of the treasury. let me start with an easy question -- what is the united states economy going to grow at this year? >> it is is still a pretty uncertain world, but the conventional view of the u.s. now is that we're growing between 2% and 3%. i think that is a realistic outcome, as long as we see more progress in europe and as long as we don't see a lot of risks from iran on the oil front. >> does that scenario of two%-3% growth -- it seems a little different from what ben bernanke thinks growth is going to look like. if you read the statement that said put out, it was a very bearish statement, and to guarantee that rates would be ke

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of this process. and then you will have afghans meeting with taliban representatives to talk about a new set of confidence building measures. and all kinds of things that pem are speculating about. the point is if the office opens, then you begin other talks. as andrew said there are lots of reasons to be skeptical about this process. a lot of afghans don't like it. >> woodruff: still divisions among the afghan official, divisions among the taliban as well. >> absolutely. i mean the insurgency is by no means just one organization or one group. >> woodruff: david, as we sit here today and again given this video that is out there, what are the expectations for those talks? >> i think at this point a process is likely. i think the taliban has gone far enough that it is likely to continue. i think we have to watch the reaction of other afghans, nonpash tune afghans are very suspicious of this. they do not like the idea of a process in which the u.s. negotiates with their enemy and they worry that this is

i was part of the fiscal commission, part of a group of six. in both the above effort, we came up with plans to reduce debt by $4 trillion over what would otherwise occur. i personally favor a more ambitious effort than that. my fondest wish would be that we could come together around a plan that would reduce the debt from what otherwise will occur by about $5.50 trillion. why do i put that number? because we could balance the budget in 10 years if we put in place a plan of that magnitude. the timing of when it begins is critical, because the economy is still weak. i would not personally start tough medicine until we see the economy doing better, but i would put in place a plan right now to achieve the kind of debt reductions that i have described. i believe that would be a tonic for confidence in the economy. i believe it would assure markets that were serious about the fiscal affairs of our country appeared with that, i am going to stop. i apologize for the lincoln that opening statement, but there was a lot to talk about -- for the length of

the american federation of teachers, a union of professionals. the singapore tourism board -- there is something for everyone. singapore airlines, a great way to fly. poongsan corporation, forging a higher global standard. the rotondaro family trust. the ctc foundation. afo communications. and the american life tv network. >> one of the most important sites in cyprus is the pillar of st. paul. the bible says paul was tied to this pillar and whipped for preaching christianity. this location represents the first significant presence of christianity in europe. before visiting the pillar of st. paul, i spoke with the archbishop of cyprus to understand the importance of st. paul's visit to cyprus. what do we know about st. paul and cyprus? >> the church of cyprus is the first church founded by saint paul in 4580. when he came to cyprus, he was not an apostle. he became an apostle in cyprus and the mission in cyprus was barnabas and not paul. in cyprus, with his speech, his first miracle that he did, he succeeded to make christian the roman governor wh

course i'm looking at a lot of an economy collapse and something reminds me of jeffrey sachs out of that remind me and jeffrey rosen oh never mind well it took a temp point two billion dollars bailout from the e.u. and i.m.f. and the author of this article is arguing that lafayette represents a key test case for the economic policies european officials are counting on to revive the region which is of course effectively a pilot study on whether economic austerity i.e. tax hikes government spending cuts wage reductions and other measures to shrink a nation's debt work better than the alternative a fiscal and monetary expansion and of course they use the example of argentina which said you know forget you i.m.f. and they tripled their government spending and in fact their economy ended up booming after that well you know absolutely and in brazil also there were other i.m.f. loans and became part of the brics. growth and then finally talked about social media that here's the headline a lot via a lot of your probes rumors behind cash withdrawals well you know like two or three weeks ago

>> first of all i would like to thank you for being on top of the most important issue of our day once again. i do have a question. what is the difference between what you are trying to do with your book and the overlap with the movement to pass a constitutional amendment on the subject of corporate bersin hood? >> this is a much more tightly organized effort to put a million people on the ground and their community, around, including doing something about citizens united. that is part of stripping the corporation of personhood. it's a more intense effort. a lot of times when you get people to say yeah we would like to overturn citizens united and we should let exxon all the corporations get as much money as they want independent expenditures against any alleged did, any candidate that the local, state and national level. that is the supreme court sideboard. yeah, let's get a petition and let's get some op-eds. let's get some earrings -- hearings in congress. that is nowhere near enough. you want a tightly motivated steam group of people who are going to stay with the requisite resourc

hundreds of thousands of dollars. and that's true for one of the biggest titles the treasures of montezuma has proved so comfy among casual gamers that it's already on its third iteration it's ranked as high as number two on the u.s. i pad app store list of most games with each new version in the montezuma series the developers have to give players a reason to pony up the cash for the latest one and that's what seems to drive the increasing costs as you can see it takes far more than a few clicks of the mouse to make an idea for a new game come to life and that's something that makes our success even more satisfying for these developers. actually just this last december we released our first game of the windows phone seven platform scold from frenzy to watching it was a pleasure to see that the game immediately shot to the top of the us marketplace it was the fifth most popular on that lists unfortunately i'm not ready to brag about any specific figures in terms of downloads because it's a new plant from and there's n

a lot of it is because of the devices.ive years smartphone evolved and people lived with their phones. it changes our relationship with them. none of it happened the way it had now if apple didn't have this dominant position in our economy. that wouldn't have happened without the iphone. i also think the emotional attachment we have wouldn't happen if we weren't living with the phones like literally bringing them into our beds to check things right before bed if. >> i have never done that ever. never. no, no, no. gosh. i mean, i never touch the phone. that's just me. ask my wife. she will tell. >> did you i'm sure. >> they -- but -- i do think that it ties to this really deep place. that's one of the reasons that everyone is -- hungry to put their statement open what it means. >> were you surprised to see steve jobs' life in the -- wife with the first lady? >> both sides keep looking for ways to use steve jobs' legacy and his legacy, you know, is this thing where depending on what part of it you want to talk about, you jus

you have a lot of great work to do ahead of you. time you have with your family will be meaningful and important. i wish you all the best. >> thank you. [applause] president chiu: there is one more colleague who would like to say a few words. >>supervisor chu: i want to thak you personally. whether i was working with you from the budget office, you were always extremely gracious to help educate me about the operations of the sheriff's department and that has helped all us understand the operations better. i wanted to say thank you because you have always exhibited such patients and kindness. you see so many people who are here to support you. you have been a wonderful leader. and what to say thank-you for all your leadership for san francisco. also because of how you have touched people over the years. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] president chiu: there are a couple of remaining comments. supervisor farrell: i do not know how many people know this. because of the retirement party, i saw this on the wall. to think about his imp

supply available in the event of a disruption and of course there's a lot of stock to hand as well a lot of countries have been busily stockpiling crude oil and they've been well aware of tensions rupture for the better part of the ear now so the market is positioning itself to withstand the supply shock so much so it might be oversupply the short term a lot of watchers are concerned that the price of oil my fall rather than rise it may be a case of being a little bit over prepared here for what might come to pass. russia's markets and they choose day session and it was on a positive note with the office creating more than two percent of my section one point two percent secular the main movers on the my six those were financial shares was back in one point four percent last nafta was up point four percent of the close despite high oil prices weaker than the market and russia's biggest a drugstore chain thirty six point six in the money. that's on news accounts to open a truck discount chain to boost sales. rather nice and will soon become the controlling shareholder of russia's bigge

is because of the predominance of the private security contractors that the department of defense in washington has been relying on a lot in the last couple of years but when you mention the issue of a private security contractor it's still yet to be determined if they were involved or if it was indeed just straight u.s. marines if that video proves to be real do you believe an apology will be made and if an apology was made by the pentagon by the state department do you think it would ever be accepted. i don't know the americans are not in the habit of offering apology look what happened to in pakistan in the border area when twenty four soldiers were basically executed. fired upon and killed in cold blood in a raid that lasted over two two hours but the u.s. administration as if used to our first lady had knowledge so coming back to what has happened in london. stone or what happened there before dieted. by the blackwater mercenaries i don't think there is any apology would be forthcoming if i think if something comes out that is just an expression of the good so i would say that i

bothers to count how many afghans have died it's costing hundreds of billions of dollars much of the money from america just goes into corruption or is even sometimes funneled to the taliban one of the primary missions in afghanistan is to train independent afghan army but that's a complete failure the army is made up right now of illiterate criminals and drug addicts who sometimes attack nato soldiers and quit all the time by the month and this is only a little window into how much of a disaster it all is the world's most controversial prison has turned ten years old and of a sort of guantanamo bay was met with protests around the world with fresh calls on the bomber to keep his election promise and shut it down but today that's a fading fantasy off to washington and next to the new law allowing the military to indefinitely detain anyone it deems hostile ati's smith. one zero zero zero zero zero one zero zero zero abdel nour i am not freely today's probably just another day for the inmates of guantanamo bay they may not even know that people around the world are campaigning for them

some of the headlines from outside of washington, d.c. intend to fight the obstruction with action is the headline. from the boston globe, the president wants to higher taxes on rich. the detroit free press, and the president will be traveling there later this week. from the tallahassee democrat in florida where the primary is six days away, the president challenges to shrink a scrap between rich and poor. from the of atlanta journal- constitution, we have come too far to turn back. the president is hitting the road later today. he will be traveling west to cedar rapids, iowa, phoenix, ariz., and then lost vegas, nevada. all key states for the reelection. it will travel on thursday to denver, then friday to detroit, and then he will address democrats in cambridge, md.. here's more from the president's speech last night as he talked about regulations and government bureaucracy. [video clip] >> the executive branch also needs to change. too often it is inefficient, outdated, and remote. [applause] i had as this congress to grant me the auth

there are just a lot of people that do pay a lot of attention. i am one of them. i suppose, if you wanted to have that special, that look, you could spend a lot of money on it. >> i was going to ask you this, final question, but he may have answered it. what is your 60-second the idea to change the world? it sounds like it is get to the right gear. >> yeah. if you can just get the right gear, you can -- change the world? >> not change it in 60 seconds. >> i don't know. >> say how to change it. >> i don't know. >> for the better. >> just connect. just connect. >> all right. you have 54 seconds left. >> fluffy leggings. >> all right. let's have a big round of applause for larry. [applause] and this meeting of the commonwealth club is officially adjourned. [applause] >> and good evening. welcome to the meeting of the commonwealth club of california. i'm bob, a member of the commonwealth program community and a chair for of tonight's program. i'm also a member of the house of delegates of the american bar association, where it first met steve. this is a series of prog

of it. i'm going to talk about education, how education is handled in this society and how it could be handled totally different in a revolutionary society. now for the rest of this i'm going to suggest a web site. a web site called this is communism.org. and it will get you into the history of communist revolutions and how it has dealt with things, of what has been achievements but also what has been its shortcomings because that is an important part of what has brought forward this to understanding. he is fearlessly look at where those previous revolutions went wrong or where they made errors and why they made errors and based upon that come forward with a new understanding. let's talk about education. education should be about teaching people how to think critically, giving them the ability to understand reality and to act to change it and it also should be about instilling in you values and orientation that will inspire them to wants to devote their lives to understanding reality and try

the chamber of deputies and former minister of agriculture and minister of regional development. when did czechoslovakia become the czech republic? >> that is a good question. we split with slovakia on the eve of december, 1992. on january 1, 1993, two independent states began to exist. and we made all the effort to continue with the slovaks as partners. we closed all sorts of agreements to make travel and business and everything open as much as possible between the two states. at the end of the day, we entered the european union together in 2004, which makes our connection even closer. so basically, the divorced not last long. people look at it as a divorce, which ended up in a reunion after a couple of years. >> after -- as i am reading and look at what were i and what were ii, -- world wari and what war ii, these wars have tremendous dramatic, tragic, and historic impact on that small area in europe. >> you are right. first, we lost our entire jewish population. in world war ii, about 80,000 to 90,000 jews -- were killed and other nations like czech and slovaks, the remainder

hidden cost of energy, and one of it, if he looked at the life cycle of e 85 in terms of the mall, it's actually more damaging in terminally this trip gasoline. i mean, how do we -- >> you know, i did not go in depth to that. i discuss that. also as to whether it takes more energy to make ethanol when you add of it. well, what energy input are using to do it? very fierce arguments about that. i think it would have to go back. five years ago the kind of report around at the mall was probably stronger today. it is now part of the motor fuel. >> upstate new york, and another out was one of the environmental things that pushed us to ethanol. >> dollars one of the great. you know, in terms of volume in the united states is about half a million barrels a day. that is kind of like, you know, a small to medium-sized oil producing country. very happy to have the kind of volume. but i did talk, you know, in the book the former governor of iowa , secretary of our culture, and he, you know, he, like others have talked about and also has a way of rural development. and so i think to some parts of th

although you know most of the congregation of our church consists of people of many nationalities including russians ukrainians georgians greeks italians serbs and bulgarians this church is the first big orthodox cathedral that was built initially then more cathedrals and son removed and very appeared and only five years ago a big church in rome was built that. tchaikovsky the demi the family to see as a real russians with a strong connection to italy. twenty minutes outside the city will match with beautiful scenery vibrant colors. but what has this park got to do with russian culture. to answer that question let's meet this week's guest. great to meet you thank you very much for your time nice to meet you while we here in this beautiful and i guess a big question this place is called par delight because sheen and there are many beautiful alleys here one of them in fact where we're standing right now is named after dusty of ski he spent a year in the city and it was said to be one of the happiest times it has. life is dustier ski came to florence with his young wife and they found out here

more of the costs of health care to workers. now if you go to the physician or if you go to the hospital, the hikelyhood is you're going to have a higher co-insurance rate. you're going to pay more of that bill directly yourself. all of those things came together. people went to the emergency department less. people went to doctors' offices less. people did less elective surgery in hospitals. you can see that clearly in the rate of hospital use in 2010. so the economy in health care got hit as hard as the economy any place else. >> suarez: but in that 2.6 trillion dollar overall national health care bill, wasn't the federal government on the hook for more of it at the same time as well? >> yes, indeed. in particular because of the stimulus law that was passed in 2009 which had the federal government pick up more of the share of medicaid spending, medicaid, of course, the program that largely covers the poor and also some of the long-term care needs of the aged and disabled. we know that the federal government kicked in more to h

of directors of the overseas vote foundation. after graduating from university pennsylvania he was commission in the navy, served on destroyers, carriers and was a bombardier and navigator to two deployments, including 37 combat missions during desert storm. last active duty and 95, served on the staff of two united states senators, served as a senior policy adviser to the secretary of energy, and since 9/11 has been recalled to active duty four times. bob, i want to thank you on behalf of all of us for your service to our country. thank you very much. >> my honor. >> tom tarantino. tom is the senior legislative associate of iraq and afghanistan veterans of america where he manages the legislative team and is responsible for executing their legislative goals, working with governments, congress, other decision-making bodies and, of course, veterans organizations. tom is a former army captain who left service in 2007 after 10 years in the service. he spent a year into play with the 11th cavalry in iraq. thank you for your service a

or of course have an orderly break up of the eurozone. the israeli military confirmed it carried out an airstrike on guards are on friday one palestinian was killed in the attack which television claims was aimed at preventing militants from firing rockets into israel the country's been stepping up its air strikes in recent months leaving dozens dead three years after the jewish state briefly invaded gaza military officials are saying they may have to stop what they're calling a quote war of necessity now in terms of brokering a peace deal of so far probably fruitless but israeli column is gideon levy thinks television really trying to avoid conflict. three years ago israel had a card larger not only carte blanche the west had plowed this. and didn't say a word against the city but this time we are facing a new egypt and gaza ease in the backyard of egypt and i'm not sure that egypt will remain indifferent visa via another thing but having said this i'm not sure that this is enough to prevent an attack because unfortunately israeli politi

in starting from of college down then going back to iraq and their detention of a number of other qaeda and taliban detainees at guantanamo bay it suggests that there is not enough regard or the fundamental law is not enough respect for even for the dead bodies that. that these people have basically it's ume that all of mercenaries the americans are not in the habit of offering an apology look what happened in pakistan in the border area when twenty four soldiers were fired upon and killed in cold blood so coming back to what has happened in afghanistan or what happened there before dieted abu ghraib by the blackwater mercenaries i don't think there is any apology would be forthcoming if i think if something comes out that is just an expression of regret such videos such scenes or incidents do play into the . operations that taliban and other militants are conducting this obviously falls in sync with what the taliban are trying to tell the world as well as their own people that here you are dealing with foreign occupation forces forces which have little regard for the human rights for t

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and i did so because of his record, because of his consistency, because of his directness, because of his ability. i'm very proud that gavin newsom as mayor appointed him police chief and then district attorney and many times people who are appointed can't win in an election, but george gascon did win and today he is here on his own as an elected official with 62% of the vote in the city and county of san francisco. [applause] >> he is the 12th elected d.a. and our first hispanic american district attorney. [applause] >> gavin mentioned all the various accomplishments that he has had introducing the chief of police here, a computerized crime tracking system, go ahead, that's an important thing. only more than one person should clap. [applause] >> only one thing i'm terribly jealous of is that during his tenure, murders in san francisco were the lowest they had been in half a century. [cheers and applause] >> i thought i was the one who did that. willie thought he was the one who did that. it was clearly gascon, the one who did that. he has also launched an aggressive program to reduce

stances of becoming president of russia again are greatly improved so i guess there are lots of protests going on in moscow and st petersburg and around russia but according to forbes they're saying because the economy is so strong compared to their neighbors all over europe it might boost his chances protests this is an emerging social media ploy. think about it make a transition away from natural resources to social media all those brilliant russian programmers and developers creating all the new generation of some of the russian billionaires investing in u.s. based social media companies i should invest in homegrown russian social media companies we know from the people out there in the social media phenomenon that they've got the tone for so let's move over to the rest of eastern europe here max the first headline max frank mortgages cause pain in europe this is just remarkable max this is regarding the carry three that happened on mass across europe now by the time the economic crisis hit in two thousand and seven some two thirds of all mortgage loans in hungary were denominated in

all of it ends up on dinner tables instead of feeding the hungry almost half of the u.s. court supply goes to making ethanol or to power american cars as artie's christine for their reports this has many asking which is more important food or fuel. it is a process that comes. with the price tag for the american way not just from farm to. but from farm to fuel and this is where it all starts where the thieves are planted and the corn grows it is the most simple part of a process that has become anything but simple the production and use of ethanol one largely considered an environmental one has become very political being blamed for everything from the power of the state of iowa to world hunger fifteen percent right now of the food increases in this country that you've seen in the last year are directly associated with this policy that policy a subsidy paid by the u.s. government to encourage the production and use of corn ethanol it lasted thirty three years and cost more than twenty billion dollars oklahoma senator tom coburn led the charge to do away with the subsidy an

millions of years of history. because of all the other we have. in the world. and i hope it will allow them to fuel their economy just. in an efficient white my this but despite that there are a few problems. from your point of view can you understand that there are people who might want to attack you. but maybe look for maybe you should cut that system but. i'm just asking the question you don't have to answer that i know my answer is yes personally that doesn't surprise me cynical but doesn't surprise me. so he's back on land we allude military surveillance to film something that's totally forbidden to film on pain or arrest and major problems yeah. yeah. you know is this with. the runs a protest movement to denounce the environmental damage caused by the all companies wants to show. i think the effort that's where we move. on if well and we will move into a new we could come close to this not be abundance in that they're fifty it's. the end of a pipeline lost in the wild an enormous blaze the stench of gases in

of in the city. -- you represent so much of what we're proud of in the city. it was in the earlier years when we started the tradition of designing the stamps. claudine, thank you very much. [applause] tommy ing, officials are here today as well from the u.s. postal service. thank you very much. to my good friend who will follow me. we were law school roommates at berkeley. he is also a dragon. we have two dragons in the house. he is now the federal judge for the ninth circuit. he is enjoying himself. i know that. he fought hard for that judge ship. we're so happy to see him there. you should have been there during our law school years having two dragons in the same house. it was a hot house. [laughter] anita and i have done all of the traditional things. in the last two weeks, we have clean our house. we have done all the things we're supposed to do. we're getting ready to host the new year. what a wonderful year this will be. it is a year of the dragon. it is the most powerful of all the zodiac animals. it also represents with this city is all about. it chal

i mean well one of us one of the tell me you're one of the things first extraordinary one of the extraordinary things is that the music industry in the film industry would have us believe that there is a crisis because of so-called piracy there is no crisis in fact last year u.s. news excels hit an all time high hollywood can still continues to see continues to see extraordinary box office rather than it is right now. who are you to say that they will be having every last penny that they say they did well the point is yes the point is though that there are entirely legitimate channels for for for redress what we're saying that this is that this is entirely draconian agreement which is also entirely unnecessary it will in fact have a chilling effect on the working of the internet it's going to mean that also sites and particularly use of content generated sites are going to have to do an enormous amount of due diligence it's going to have a chilling effect on innovation why do you think it. has been either you tube or flicker so why do you think about thirty one of the. yes well one of the one

protesters are gathering in front of the presidential palace in warsaw it's part of a week of rallies after the government signed up to retore its international web piracy pact earlier pays their dong the anonymous hacker group masks to show their contempt what elsewhere a french army peace quit calling react. and actually cesky reports from warsaw. i. i down with censorship at the end so i can interview trade agreement known as act which poland signed on thursday has upset many internet users across the country in the small town of lupul in alone several thousand people hit the streets fearing the treaty would allow corporations to crackdown on the freedom of speech online the idea of funding. for publishing the it's a trademark material with somehow illogical to me it's like punishing the corporation that produces knifes for. being used to kill somebody like that will be used to monitor our internet activity i believe that talking through the internet email jockeying for a form of self-expression this was yet another rally in a whole string of protests held in poland since tuesday l