first of all, i don't think we have a clue as to how pervasive bed bugs are in san francisco. a thoughtfully constructed survey needs to be devised and implemented. supervisor kim i would suggest that there isn't an apartment building in the tenderloin free of bed bugs. the tenderloin is densely populated. a low-income area, old and neglected buildings, an area in other words vulnerable to their spread. no. 2, interest there is no consistently effective treatment that i am aware of. 3, the treatment protocols do not encourage maximum cooperation because in effect they ask the tenant to turn their abode upside down and inside out. also, although there is a significant number of victims that are allergic to bed bug bites, there are those who are not bothered by them, which might not encourage this particular population to cooperate. you will have so excuse me, i'm a slow talker. generally, pcos are incompetent and expensive. they are using pesticides, which have a short-term residual value and therefore, of no lasting worth. i don't know what the california structural pest contr

sentence for someone trying to expose an aspect of the surveillance state that's becoming ever more pervasive by the day so here to talk about all that and more is someone who's been following this case very closely michael ratner president emeritus of the center for constitutional rights and attorney for julian assange and wiki leaks michael thank you so much for joining me abby i'm so pleased you're covering this important case michael what exactly are prosecutors alleging jeremy has done can you run us through the charges well they allege that he was a group of people roughly possibly known as anonymous and others like that hacked into the stratfor emails and into their web site and the count there as you said there are actually a private spying company there like a private cia they spied on everything from the yes men to people who were opposing dow chemical for what happened in bhopal to organizations like peta they did work for the cia for the israeli army private security company revolving door with other government officials and they allegedly hacked into that jeremy hammond is accuse

right now you see labor rising up you see people beginning some form of resistance against this all pervasive police state and they need to have this apparatus in place in order to have that in place it needs to be legislated into place and that is exactly what they're trying to do and as usual they're trying to ram it through congress at the last minute at the end of the year when most people are off on holidays not paying attention it is another example of the level of dishonesty and corruption that exists in washington and that is really rotted washington from within. what consent to send eric and dan said a sense concerned about the path and. without careful consideration what if anything can a damp. well i think the most most obviously is they could organize themselves locally they could press their local congresspeople they could get involved with a number of different organizations which are trying to fight this type of this type of actions by the government but i think that also people need to become educated i think that unfortunately most people are woefully under informed when it c

we need a pervasive, frightening message from the president to

would like for you to answer it -- [inaudible] >> i try not to be technical, but i hope i would be pervasive just telling you the debt crisis is basically a crisis connected to the governments of the euro system that has hit some countries for some reasons. somewhat we were hit because of the sins of our past. we have been having -- we have had a relatively a sizable but stable debt for a long time, but the point is it's very manageable. we are reducing it pretty fast, very fast indeed, and also to reassure the investors if you put together the net household wealth of italians as compared to the debt of the government and the companies the ratio is three to one, so it's a matter of redistribution somehow. italians thanks to god are a wealtdy people and the matter is how we can put things into order in our household but definitely italy is a major stable solid economy, and once -- already there are signs of strong improvement. once this crisis is over we will definitely flex the muscles. please. >> [inaudible] are you planning show case any important architects and designers in this year of i

. >> his was person -- pervasive manipulation of global benchmark interest rates by dozens of staff across three continents. and the heavy fine reflects the regulator's concerns. the ubs chief executives said those of all but the extent of the fraud and bribes maybe revealed by further criminal investigations. in just one instance revealed by the u.k. financial services authority, ubs made corrupt payments of around $24,000 a quarter for 18 months to brokers to thank them for helping them manipulate the global industry. libor is used to price more than $350 trillion of contracts around the world. potential losers include pension funds, insurance companies, and individuals. more than a dozen banks have been caught up in an international inquiry and there are more cases to come. >> i would imagine there are probably more skeletons in the covered, and that really think that some point policy makers and regulators need to start focusing on the fact that we will probably need banks to engineer a recovery in growth. and at some point there needs to be a line in the sand drawn. i think regulators

they sit in the room and do this. >> hours. >> combine that with mental health problems, with a pervasive gun culture like the one that this boy had in his house. tragedy follows. >> joe, even the 30-second commercials for some of the video games are horrific. but i would -- i understand where andrea is coming from. i certainly understand the cynicism. we've all lived through these events in the past where nothing has happened, but i think we have reason for hope with this terrible, terrible thing that happened in newtown, connecticut, and it is this. this is no did i mminishment of anything that happened in aurora or virginia tech or any place else in this country, but it this event into newtown, connecticut, in the past days, prior to christmas, is much easier to access on an emotional level for huge numbers of people in this country because of the ages of the victims, 6 and 7 years of age. all of us with children have memories of children at 6 and 7. you can access immediately the deaths of these children at an emotional level. there's purpose in what the president said. and i think th

and went to the task force and got a referral back to us, even though they have a lesser burden of pervasion, i persuasion. >> theoretically it's a little easier for them the second time around, but we'll probably come to the same place. >> maybe it's not worth putting in. i agree it does seem unlikely. i had a couple other questions. in a5, i think this is a little inconsistent with a2, but maybe i'm reading it wrong. but i understand that in chapter 3, we are handling complaints alleged violations of the ordinance by elected officials or department heads, but also those that come directly to us and don't go through the task force. is that right? >> i think this language was included just to make sure it was clear that any referral from the task force or in the off chance by the supervisor of record. this is not something that would come directly to the commission. >> but a referral, where the order of determination is a willful violation of a department head or an elected official would still go under chapter 3; right? >> correct. >> and this is just referring to allegations of non-willful

the reality is that the phenomena of addiction is pervasive, and it crosses generations. it crosses families. august 19th, 1981, i ran away from the meridian home for girls just outside philadelphia to the streets of the fort lauderdale strip. i was 14. june 11th, 2011, 30 years later with 5 years sober, i started walking home. with my walk, walking up the east coast, i would walk about 10 miles in the morning, and then in the afternoons i would visit homeless shelters, treatment centers, battered women shelters. i'd go back into the alleys, under the bridges and tell my story and share hope. i started sandraswalk.org to spread little mustard seeds of hope in places that there were none. and there's a lot of fantastic things going on in the recovery community, and i think the stigma of-of coming into recovery and the fellowships, and you can't do this and you can't do that, kind of wards people off. it scares people off from coming into recovery, because they think they're going to be sentenced to a church basement and a coffee pot. (music) we have recovery concerts. we h

it is becoming extremely pervasive for the system. tavis: i want to come back to the larger society. ity --otion of "antifragil you were one of the persons years before this collapse happened who predicted that this would happen if we stayed on this particular track. let me ask you whether you see anything today that suggests any lessons have been lent or are they as headstrong -- any lessons have been learned or they as headstrong as they were prior to the collapse? >> we are worse. before the crisis, the system with a lot of the fragility. moral hazard brings fragility. asymmetry brings fragility. we had that before the crisis, of course. we have a huge amount of debt bank mounting in the system. the problem has not been cured. we're transferring private debt into private debt. -- into public debt. we wasted five years, ok, before this crisis are giving and bickering and nobody -- they thatd sit down and realize they should represent us. tavis: let me come back to how this notion applies to our everyday lives. you argue in the book

i am interested in those things, so it is pervasive.is: i am always interested in the creative process and how it happens for each and every one of you. how would you best describe the way the creative process from project to project happens for you? >> from product to project, i do not know. you find yourself listening to certain kinds of music, or something gets your attention. a lot of times, from record to record, i find myself thinking, right now i feel like going in a direction almost opposite the direction i was just in. writing songs, it is usually a pretty similar process every time or write a song. i am fooling around with cords and melody. the suggests -- i feel like the music has within it its own emotional tone. from the tone and mood, i think, what story or character or vibe does this suggest to me? i extrapolate from there. if it feels like it is kind of sad, but kind of angry -- what is the story that tells the story? tavis: is that emotional tone -- i like that phrase. is that emotional tone connected or disconnected fr

. >> this was pervasive manipulation of global benchmark rates by dozens of staff across three continents. the heavy fine reflects the regulators' concern. now u.s. prosecutors have criminally charged two former ubs traders in the libor investigation, accused of conspiracy, wire fraud, and antitrust violations. >> they defrauded the company's counterparties of millions of dollars and it did so primarily to increase profits and to secure bigger bonuses for themselves. >> libor is used to price more than three of 50 trillion dollars in contracts around the world. potential losers include pension funds, insurance companies, and individuals. more than a dozen banks have been caught up in the international inquiry, and there are more cases to come. in just one instance revealed by the u.k. financial services of 40, ubs made corrupt payments of about $24,000, a quarter over 18 months, to reward brokers for helping to manipulate the global interest rate. the u.k. authorities have already arrested three people in connection with the serious fraud of criminal libor investigation. >> shareholders a

groups to really paint a picture for san francisco and its leadership about how important and how pervasive family violence is in san francisco and also how much progress we made, so we just finished our 2011 comprehensive report so we would like to share some of that with you this evening. >> i think i'm going first on child abuse. you're going to see some statistics in front of you that really tell you the story. over 6,000 reports come into the abuse hot line, every 18,000 calls into the talk line and living with kids, 411 kids and line that runs 24/7 and in operation for the last 36 years.

groups to really paint a picture for san francisco and its leadership about how important and how pervasive family violence is in san francisco and also how much progress we made, so we just finished our 2011 comprehensive report so we would like to share some of that with you this evening. >> i think i'm going first on child abuse. you're going to see some statistics in front of you that really tell you the story. over 6,000 reports come into the abuse hot line, every 18,000 calls into the talk line and living with kids, 411 kids and line that runs 24/7 and in operation for the last 36 years. for any parent or caregiver in distress if they're isolated can reach out for help. excuse me for my voice and i am sick and i get it when i walk into the building. thank you so much. i'm going to talk briefly about three of the recommendations that we made two years ago in the report and we made the recommendations around child abuse and we learned a lot about domestic violence and we wanted child abuse to have the same and when we asked for data the first year of the report everything that came to u

slide would come up, the problem of bullying is changing, morphing, mutating, younger, meaner, more pervasive as kids have more tools. i want to be clear that the approach that our nation has taken to date is out of the ashes of columbine. we refer to it as an outside approach. what most schools did back then was try to secure a school from ingress, guns coming in and sro's and cameras can stop the guns but they can't stop the kids who bring in other weapons, weapons of bias, weapons of grudges from the neighborhood, values from home. we need to have a different approach. the approach we are talking about is a relational approach. it's an inside out approach, an approach really based on empowering young people not to be consumers but to be contributors in their own schools, not to be the problems but to be the solutions because clearly we've learned and know that we cannot legislate compassion and we cannot punish our children into being kind. we've tried. we've spent billions of dollars with policies that are punitive, not restoretive, policies that punish but don't give young people the opp

the malaise and the lack of confidence and the uncertainty has been pervasive, as you well know, susie. that has held corporations back from doing things, from spending money, and some individuals as well. as roger said a few minutes ago, if we can clear the air with some sort of fiscal cliff deal, i think that does lift the opportunity for the economy to grow a bit. >> susie: what if there isn't a deal? does that mean there is going to be a sell-off or a correction in the markets? >> i think the hype in the recent days that a deal is coming is certainly responsible for the rally. i think if there is no deal, and the probabilities of that have gone down, thankfully, but if there is no deal, i still think we're not going to go off some nasty cliff that people are worried about. that is to say, the treasury and the secretary can raise taxes if we get no deal, and the spending cuts can be delayed as well. i'm not convinced that no deal is as awful as people suggest, but let's stay on the bandwagon, the moment for a deal. >> susie: are there any stocks that people should be buying up ahead