and specifically pacific islanders as well.allenge of guys to be more romantic in the year of snake. i am trying to think about that, it embarrasses the hell out of my daughter when i mention that. but that's something to think about guy s to be more romantic. and to carry that history. and i encourage you to come out to the chinese celebration on saturday. they are cramming us on one cable car. come to clement street and balboa as we celebrate the year of the snake. thank you. >> so usually every year we end up seeing sort of the same faces we have been here at many events. and we are lucky this year to welcome a new face to the program, district 7, norman yee. >> thank you. how are you? having a good time? last year was the year of the dragon. and it was a good year. a year of growth in the city. and for our asian-american population, which actually reached 34%. it was also a year of growth for myself. as i was sworn in as a member of the board of supervisors. and for the first time in san francisco history there now an ashi

attempt to attract further deliveries of goods once the war ended followers of the cults in these pacific islands and gays in ritualistic practices such as building crude imitation landing strips aircraft and radio equipment and mimicking the behavior that they had observed of the military personnel operating them so the islanders began concocting like headphones meet at a coconuts and would they would sit up in a you know in a sort of fabricated control tower they would also waive the landing signals while standing on these crude runways that they had built so they would be waving to planes that weren't there but thought by the act of doing that the plane would deliver some cargo material wealth to them ok so we're in a parson dust hill society where money printing is not creating any growth. trillions tens of trillions of new dollars and yes euro's printed over the past couple years two years but there hasn't been any sustainable or meaningful g.d.p. growth however the people in charge like the cargo cult people they mimic the actions from when it did work it used to work that if you hit the pr

attempt to attract further deliveries of goods once the war ended followers of the cults in these pacific islands and gays in ritualistic practices such as building crude imitation landing strips aircraft and radio equipment and mimicking the behavior that they had observed of the military personnel operating them so the islanders began concocting like headphones meet at a coconuts and would they would sit up in a you know in this sort of fabricated control tower they would also wave the landing signals while standing on these crude runways that they had built so they would be waving to planes that weren't there but thought by the act of doing that the plane would deliver some cargo material wealth to them ok so we're in a post industrial society where money printing is not creating any growth. trillions tens of trillions of new dollars and yet euro's printed over the past couple years two years but there hasn't been any sustainable or meaningful g.d.p. growth however the people in charge like the cargo cult people they mimic the actions from when it did work it used to work that if you hit the p

attempt to attract further deliveries of goods once the war ended followers of a cult in these pacific islands and gays in ritualistic practices such as building crude imitation landing strips aircraft and radio equipment and mimicking the behavior that they had observed of the military personnel operating them so the islanders began concocting like headphones meet at a coconuts and would they would sit out in a you know in a sort of fabricated control tower they would also waive the landing signals while standing on these crude runways that they had built so they would be waving to planes that weren't there but thought by the act of doing that the plane would deliver some cargo material wealth to them ok so we're in a post industrial society where money printing is not creating any growth. trillions tens of trillions of new dollars and yes euro's printed over the past couple years two years but there hasn't been any sustainable or meaningful g.d.p. growth however the people in charge like the cargo cult people they mimic the actions from when it did work it used to work that if you hit the pr

attempt to attract further deliveries of goods once the war ended followers of a cult in these pacific islands and gays in ritualistic practices such as building crude imitation landing strips aircraft and radio equipment and mimicking the behavior that they had observed of the military personnel operating them so the islanders began concocting like headphones meet at a coconuts and would they would sit out in a you know in this sort of fabricated control tower they would also waive the landing signals while standing on these crude runways that they had built so they would be waving to planes that weren't there but thought by the act of doing that the plane would deliver some cargo material wealth to them ok so we're in a post industrial society where money printing is not creating any growth. trillions tens of trillions of new dollars and yet euro's printed over the past couple years two years but there hasn't been any sustainable or meaningful g.d.p. growth however the people in charge like the cargo cult people they mimic the actions from when it did work it used to work that if you hit the

attempt to attract further deliveries of goods once the war ended followers of the cults in these pacific islands and gays in ritualistic practices such as building crude imitation landing strips aircraft and radio equipment and mimicking the behavior that they had observed of the military personnel operating them so the islanders began concocting like headphones made at a coconuts and would they would sit out in a you know in a sort of fabricated control tower they would also waive the landing signals while standing on these crude runways that they had built so they would be waving to planes that weren't there but thought by the act of doing that the plane would deliver some cargo material wealth to them ok so we're in a post industrial society where money printing is not creating any growth. trillions tens of trillions of new dollars and yes euro's printed over the past couple years two years but there hasn't been any sustainable or meaningful g.d.p. growth however the people in charge like the cargo cult people they mimic the actions from when it did work it used to work that if you hit the pr

hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle five tiny pacific islands one big problem project and china and the region what is fueling this dispute domestic nationalism geopolitics a natural resource grab all of the above then there's the question of what is called the pacific pivot is washington's pivot focused on challenging china's great power ambitions. to cross talk this heated island dispute i'm joined by she cocoa goto in washington she is a northeast asia associate at the wilson center in hong kong we have andrew bloom he is an international an independent china specialist and in philadelphia we crossed him and then he is a writer and blogger for counterpunch all right folks cross talk rules and take that means you can jump in anytime you want by going to our guest in washington d.c. i mean if you were to create a hierarchy of what this dispute is all about what would it be containing china resources the american pivot what's your number one. well the the just beauty between the the japan and china really started with the grab for resources it h

khloe and welcome to crossfire things are considered i'm peter lavelle five tiny pacific islands one big problem and china and the region what is fueling this dispute domestic nationalism geopolitics and natural resource grab all of the above then there's the question of what is called the pacific pivot is washington's pivot focused on challenging china's great power ambitions. to cross stuff. island dispute i'm joined by she koko goto in washington she is a northeast asia associate at the wilson center in hong kong we have andrew loom he is an international an independent china specialist and in philadelphia we crossed him and then he is a writer and blogger for counterpunch all right folks cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want if i go to our guest in washington d.c. i mean if you were to create a hierarchy of what this dispute is all about what would it be containing china resources the american pivot what's your number one. well the the just be huge between the the japan and china really started with the grab for resources it has since then evolved

m c and he was wonderful and but he gave property props and recognition to some of the asian pacific islander communities like [name?] andsure coach yes, i amia who was also a great frequent friend of his as well and filipino labor leaders like larry [name?] and phillip vera cruz to hey had a aian leaders and many others from our history of struggle in the asian and pacific islanderrer community but it was a wonderful program and congratulations to the hero's program and i also p wanted to say that tomorrow another asian and pacific islander event is coming up and dean frank louis from hastings college of law has invites us to the reenactment of the major civil right case of modern europe for asian americaing were a young chinese america man was beaten to dealt by two unemployed auto workers in front of a mc donald restaurant in 1982 and this became spark how many of us became - and is so there

clo in welcome to crossfire we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle five tiny pacific islands one big problem and china and the region what is fueling this dispute domestic nationalism geopolitics and natural resource grab all of the above then there's the question of what is called the pacific pivot is washington's pivot focused on challenging china's great power ambitions. to cross talk this heated island dispute i'm joined by she cocoa goto in washington she is a northeast asia associate at the wilson center in hong kong we have andrew bloom he is an international an independent china specialist and in philadelphia we crossed and then he is a writer and blogger for counterpunch all right folks cross talk was in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want if i go to our guest in washington d.c. i mean if you were to create a hierarchy of what this dispute is all about what would it be containing china resources the american pivot what's your number one. well the the just be huge between the the japan and china really started with the grab for resources it has since th

for hepatitis b, that would be the asian pacific islander population. for hepatitis c that would be our baby boomers as well as iv drug users and then also african-american population. and then the second study is also -- it's looking at hepatitis b specifically and it's testing, screening, and looking to care for those chronically infected with hepatitis b and the target population is foreign born asian pacific islanders. >> okay, thank you very much. >> sure. >> supervisor mar? >> i'd like to open up to public comment. there are any members of the public that would wish to comment on items numbers 1 or 2. seeing none, public comment is closed. supervisor mar. * >> i wanted to ask dr. sanchez, i know there is a very broad and strong help b free coalition and within the baby boomer population, which i'm a part as well * , i'm just wondering is there a similar coalition that works on hep b as well? >> yes, there is a hepatitis c task force that was convened by the previous mayor and we meet and try to appropriately target those high-risk population, the

chloe and welcome to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter lavelle five tiny pacific islands one big problem for japan china and the region what is fueling this dispute domestic nationalism geopolitics a natural resource grab all of the above then there's the question of what is called the pacific pivot is washington's pivot focused on challenging china's great power ambitions. to cross talk this heated island dispute i'm joined by she cocoa goto in washington she is a northeast asia associate at the wilson center in hong kong we have andrew bloom he is an international an independent china specialist and in philadelphia we crossed and then he is a writer and blogger for counterpunch all right folks cross talk rules and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want if i go to our guest in washington d.c. i mean if you were to create a hierarchy of what this dispute is all about what would it be containing china resources the american pivot what's your number one. well the the they just be huge between the the japan and china really started with the grab for resources it

chloe and welcome to crossfire we're all things are considered i'm peter lavelle five tiny pacific islands one big problem for japan china and the region what is fueling this dispute domestic nationalism geopolitics and natural resource grab all of the above then there's the question of what is called the pacific pivot is washington's pivot focused on challenging china's great power ambitions. to cross talk this heated island dispute i'm joined by she cocoa goto in washington she is a northeast asia associate at the wilson center in hong kong we have andrew and he is an international an independent china specialist and in philadelphia we crossed and then he is a writer and blogger for counterpunch all right folks crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to thank you to our guest in washington d.c. i mean if you were to create a hierarchy of what this dispute is all about what would it be containing china resources the american pivot what's your number one. well the the just be huge between the the japan and china really started with the grab for resources it ha

papua new guinea and new zealand and all the pacific islands in between were warned that a tsunami could be on its way. there was a tsunami generated. thankfully, it was much lower than it was first feared. by the time it hit santa cruz in the solomon islands, it was 1 meter in height. by the time it reached a final vanawatu, it was half that tight. the earthquake was a lot deeper than initially feared. it was thought to have been less than 6 kilometers down. in the end, 33 kilometers down. the impact was far less than it could have been. >> much more still ahead. >> [indiscernible] >> worries over paying the bills mounting in greece and so are the numbers of phone calls to suicide phone lines. we look at the look atin mali after a year of turmoil. -- we look at the financial toll after a year of turmoil in mali. >> over many parts of pakistan there's been a lot of wet weather recently and that has been affecting northern parts of india and in afghanistan. in the last three days we have seen 191 millimeters of rain. that's well above the monthly average. the average is just 18 millimeter

from historical records a pacific island cyclones, i calculated that it had hit the island around 1910, when the old woman the people were showing me was just a teenager. she was the oldest person still alive at the time of my visit. if another big cyclone should hit the island now and again destroy the gardens and much of the forest, the only thing that would save the population from starving to death would be and memories of that one of woman. the sole person alive who remembered what fruits that are normally considered inedible were safe to eat when nothing else was available. her knowledge was what would keep her fellow islanders alive until their gardens begin producing again. in the u.s., though, we do not rely an aural memory. we, instead, like the answers to questions in books or bullet. any incident in all my years working on the pacific islands, that story of that old blind woman in the hat on the island made me appreciate the overwhelming importance of the knowledge of all the people throughout human history before there was writing, nonliterate traditional societies where t

black and latino and pacific islanders. this is something, this is my son laying in a casket. i have to think about this every day when i walk out my door every day and see where my son laid. i'm also in school. i have no class today and that's why i'm here. i met the supervisor, the board of supervisors meeting and i'm doing this all the time. i guess like i said, i'll be doing this for the rest of my life and i want to keep my son's memories in the public aye. -- eye. i want justice, too. i need some closure. i wish that -- that i can get someone -- i don't have no one to, you know, have an investigator and no, not that he's not doing -- i enjoyed calvin jones. but i know he's getting ready to retire and i'm still [inaudible]. that's it. (applause) >> next speaker. >>> hi, my name is pat condi and i live in the tenderloin. we're concerned about the tasers being voted on before we can gather enough information about the people in the community and what they'd like to do. i personally would like to see more money go into something that's more meantly -- mental health oriented.

hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle five tiny pacific islands one big problem for japan china and the region what is fueling this dispute domestic nationalism geopolitics a natural resource grab all of the above then there's the question of what is called the pacific pivot is washington's pivot focused on challenging china's great power ambitions. to cross talk this heated island dispute i'm joined by she cocoa goto in washington she is a northeast asia associate at the wilson center in hong kong we have andrew bloom he is an international an independent china specialist and in philadelphia we crossed him and then he is a writer and blogger for counterpunch all right folks cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want if i go to our guest in washington d.c. i mean if you were to create a hierarchy of what this dispute is all about what would it be containing china resources the american pivot what's your number one. well the the just be huge between the the japan and china really started with the grab for resources it ha

dozens of homes are damaged in the south pacific island chain. jacqui jeras, joining us on the said. boy, we are lucky because the weather is not to shower -- not too shabby. it will get a little worse later. >> today is the best of the week. the sunshine is coming. we are trying to make progress. this is a time lapse of where we started the day from the else forbelfort furniture center. it makes for some spectacular images. the skies cleared out throughout the morning. that has been the case for the southern half of our viewing area. the satellite shows you the haves and the have-nots. it is cut off to the north of d.c. it is impacting the temperatures. we are pushing 50 in spots. a couple of miles means the difference. we have 46 degrees. the windchill is that 39. the wind is at the north northwest at 18 miles per hour. it is on the brisk side. additional clearing taking place across the mid-atlantic. we are keeping an eye on two storm systems. the first out of the northwest and the second on the gulf coast. watch our futurecast. high pressure

. >>> police on the pacific island of guam are investigating what motivated an american man to go on a rampage. the 21-year-old man killed three japanese people on tuesday. chad desoto drove his car down a sidewalk. he hit a number of pedestrians and then rammed his car into a store. then desoto got out and started stabbing people with a knife. he stabbed one of the victims as she tried to protect her child. officers arrested desoto on the spot. he has hardly spoken so they can't figure out his state of mind. an acquaintance said desoto had personal problems with his mother and another woman. police are asking his relatives and acquaintances for help. >>> south african olympic and paraolympic runner has been arrested for attacking his girlfriend. his girlfriend was found dead in his home. she was found early thursday with multiple gunshot wounds. police arrested oscar. he mistook her for a burglary. he's expected to appear in court later today. he was born without calf bones so doctors amputated his leg below the knee. he went onto win two gold medals and a silver in the paraolpics >

the tsunami damaged dozens of homes in the south pacific island chain. right now -- there is a sigh of relief as officials say tsunami warnings have been cancelled in the south pacific. >> jacqueline: it was cooler tonight. and for the inland valleys it was 55 degrees in livermore. in the north bay, 60s. 61 in napa. temperatures were on the cooler side. for the overnight cooler and chilly away from the coast. some areas of cool conditions but not like last night kamal that had wide spread a cloud coverage. however, we do have big changes for your forecast on thursday with much-needed rainfall. we will tell you all about it and time it out on futurecast. >> pam: take a look at this. tonight -- a crash in oakland.killed a woman who was driving a stolen s-u-v. it was all caught on camera! >> also, the hostage alabama situation. >> gary: coming up later we will hear from harbaugh, kaepernick and ready for ray lewis the latest from the warriors. to a rough night for them. hello? the words are going this way-there's no way. oh, the lights came on. isn't techno

it is hispanic, pacific islanders, white, native americans, it is everybody. when they leave that room, they go back to their communities that are segregated. they, too, do not like it. it is a barrier that has to be torn down. i know it works. being in there for the last four years, we make it a point that everybody mixes up, even the seating. you do not just sit with a black person or a white person. it is about all of us, or none of us, and that is the bottom line. it has to be that mentality. >> it is a way to control the prisoners. it takes the pressure off the guards and everybody else. they say we want to stop violence, but you promote a violence by segregating. when an individual comes, the first in the asking, where are you from? what is your nationality? that is how to divide and conquer. that is the way the united states is made up. that is how you work. north and south vietnam, for instance. they divide people so that the pressure will not be on them. that is how i see the system. i see it in prison, how they divide inmates. it is scary if inmates

community there has been some suspicion set and epic targeting of generally younger chinese or asian pacific islanders and i wonder if you have ethic data of victims and then, also i know that i use find my iphone as a app for the ipad and the iphone and is that useful to help to track down where phones or devices are nowadays as well? >> it has been useful for us in identifying where these phones where the suspect immediately after have been tracking those phones, but some of the things that thwart our efforts is that they turn the phones off or the victims themselves were too late to cancel the service because the phone has been stolen, so it is something that we get on meetly to try to track the phones. and as far as the ethnic break down, i don't have that information available, but from memory, i can tell that you it runs the gamut. >> it runs the gamut and with that i will turn it over to the mta for their presentation. >> i am sorry >> mr. chairman, did you have a question? >> i did want to have a question and maybe this is something that will be discussed. but one of the questions that i keep

observers from the pacific island center reported a wave about 90 centimeters high reached the coast of nando island. ngo workers on nando say it washed away at least 100 houses. they add the supply of electricity and water has been disrupted and some parts of the island have been flooded, including the airport. >>> two major japanese automakers have revised upward their profit estimates for the fiscal year through march. the decline is a prime factor for improving their earnings outlook. mazda motors says it expects to post $480 million in operating profit. that's up 80% in yen terms from its previous estimates. the weaker yen improved export margins. mazda's president is hoping for further depreciation of the yen. he says 100 yen to the dollar would be a desirable level for exporting firms to achieve a stable performance. meanwhile, fudgi heavy industries, making of the subaru cars, expects a higher operating profit of $1.14 billion. that's up 30% from earlier projections. toyota and daitsu revised upward their profit forecasts. >>> japanese businesses are searching for more invest