reason article by any croll in mother jones magazine identifies an organization known as the state policy network appears to be behind many of these union busting policies from tennessee to iowa to nevada in fact michigan recall governor rick snyder got his idea to take over cities in his state and fire the elected officials and replace them with his own czars known as financial planners from a state policy network think tank operating in michigan. so this is what progressives are up against a well organized national campaign by republicans to take on american working working americans for more on this i'm joined now by any editor of mother jones magazine and you welcome thanks great to have you here with us tell us about the state policy network i think most people probably never even heard of this it's little known snot on the political radar but it's a hugely influential sort of constellation of conservative free market think tanks that were founded by the same conservative ideologues behind the heritage foundation behind the reagan revolution in fact the intent of these this network was to br

network as well. regardless of privacy and protection prop policies by facebook and other social networking sites, it'sental involvement second the most crucial. >> to parents are the first line of defense when it comes to protecting their children and teenagers. >>reporter: in washington, kron 4 news. >>jacqueline: it's been cloudy along the coast all day, increasing clouds through the rest of the bay as well. increasing clouds over night, and then we will see rain by tomorrow afternoon. we will also seeing cooler temperatures tomorrow afternoon, today upper 60s and low '70's, it tomorrow upper 50s low 60s. low '60s and the delta, mid-60s and landed a mix of the two in the south bay. 55 have monday, 60 oakland. tomorrow evening, the rain approaching lake. by 11:00 a chance of light showers throughout the bay area, and the computer model is showing the rain in the bay area a lot earlier, keep the umbrella handy tomorrow afternoon just in case. it will not be happy at all. the light green indicating showers light sprinkles like what we saw yesterday. that will continue thursday morning, by the afternoon

in the height of the cold war but it is still very important in this reassurance of networking roles. >> joa had a policyquestion and then a process question. the policy question you have spoken very well if the integration of smart power, soft power and hard power. i would ask you if i could what do you think american power should be directed to achieve and what i think may be more useful to the young people in the room, you have had a great career of fixing academic studies in practice. what are the lessons that have carried over well from the academic community to service in the government and what you wish you had known when you got to the government that the academy didn't teach you. >> the first question is easier but on the question of what ends to american power, you think if you look at the united states role as the largest country, if we now produce public goods that help ourselves and help others nobody else will. there is a theory of collective action that goes back which says it is easy to free ride. on the biggest is the free ride because when the biggest free ride they notice the differenc

hyper cold war but it is to import in this research and passionate in this reassurance of networking. >> a policy question and a process question. the policy question just spoken very well with the integration of smart power, soft power, hard power. but perhaps talk about, what ends the think american power should be directed to achieve, and what i think more useful to young people in the room, you patty great career of mixing academic studies of international relations and prices. one of the lessons that have carried over from the academic community to service in the government, and what do you wish would note you at got into the government the academy didn't teach you? >> the first question is easy to answer than the second. but on the question of to what ends of american power, i think if you look at, at the united states role, as the largest country if we don't produce public goods that help herself to help others, nobody else will. there's a theory of collective action that goes back that says it's easy to free ride to call it the biggest doesn't free ride because when the biggest free ride,

i have been learning about policy-making, advocacy lobbying, networking. a big thing in this city is networking, meeting people, discussions. host: are you finding that what you are learning here will translate back ingypt or is similar to the way business is done in egypt? guest: it is not the same way. there are many differences here. i like the approach. there are things we may not replicate it should inspire us to create a subtle network in the country. host: mirette bahgat, what are you working on? guest: i am working on civic enterprises. i am focusing on educational public policies and international service. i am learning a lot. i was working also on education back in egypt. for me,t is useful to be working on t educational policies here in the u.s. i am learning a lot. it is quite different from egypt in the way civil society is cooperating with the government. this was not the case in egypt. i hope this will be the case in the future. host: what surprised you the most about your experience in washington? i know you have only been here about a mont

about type of congressman ron paul chairman of the house subcommittee on monetary policy he was all over the cable networks today and i want to play something that he said and then we'll talk about it. monetary manipulation is is actually opposite of what capitalism is all about and you can't fix in such rates and if you look at the last three years no new jobs bill thirty three million people unemployed the money now sits in the reserves and now is leaking out and going into commodities and now we have the inflation he doesn't talk about the exit strategy anymore all right a congressman ron paul there on fantasy this morning does today's press conference carle change anything in terms of how the fed operates absolutely not the fed is not an independent this is one of the wildly mistaken revelations of people have including mr paul controls the federal reserve is unable to. take which started to borrow the idea that. on its own is just absolutely. let's talk about quantitative easing certainly a lot of people are sort of learning about this policy watching what was going on today q.e. two of course the fed

with a sit down with janet redmond co-director of the same noble energy and economy network with the institute for policy studies trump is running a publicity presidential campaign but not for long negative mail not neal com nancy has the day off tonight so i'll be your all's out of focus you're watching adam vs the man. so you learn about donald trump's latest publicity stunt he's pretending to run for president the sad part is the g.o.p. base is to some degree going for it according to a recent poll from the wall street journal he's close to leading the field but if there was ever a poll to be questioned this is it i think they must have been asking something like for president of the united states of america would you prefer a donald trump be snooki mitt romney care or d. some guy from kenya yes trump is going to. the birth or issue one is right about one thing it certainly resonates with the people who respond well to wall street journal polls and america's new disgusting strain of xena phobia that is fear of people not like us you know like a rock present from kenya who is a socialist and a baby eat

the proposals were structured around a policy framework that identified the most heavily used routes called the rapid network. recommending that investment be targeted heavily towards this that work in order to improve the conditions for the majority of the customers. the local network and combined with rapid network to get customers. customers that are happy to make more than one transfer in most situations. community connectors are basic access routes. for example, they might connect to a bart or metro station, getting people into the core grid. then there are specialized services, like ball park shuttle's, they are a part of the full transit package. they do not necessarily run at all times of the year. since 2008, we have made incredible accomplishments guided by tep. the first was december of 2009, when we implemented the first major route restructuring for the first time in two decades. that process included implementing many of the restructuring notions identified with allocations to the most crowded routes. we then followed that with service reductions and service ad-backs in a day of 2010. while tha

i have been learning about policy-making, advocacy lobbying, networking. big thing in this city is networking, meeting people, discussions. host: are you finding that what you are learning here will translate back in egypt or is similar to the way business is done in egypt? guest: it is not the same way. there are many differences here. i like the approach. there are things we may not replicate it should inspire us to create a subtle network in the country. host: mirette bahgat, what are you working on? guest: i am working on civic enterprises. i am focusing on educational public policies and international service. i am learning a lot. i was working also on education back in egypt. for me, it is useful to be working on the educational policies here in the u.s. i am learning a lot. it is quite different from egypt in the way civil society is cooperating with the government. this was not the case in egypt. i hope this will be the case in the future. host: what surprised you the most about your experience in washington? i know you have only been here about a

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network lorries on the pakistani sorel. are if practiced on real or wants to conduct policy that all of the state of them that's where they should the other sort of these very important problem of the same humans and they are not doing it so they are doing they did quite well in sol for the respond last year about so everybody knows that very few share a collar bomb and threes all on the government force unless they have have so safely an insert in northern. in biologist. and some other political agents and or pakistan and the tribal areas i guess is certainly was a part of the tribal ok we have been talking about geopolitics around afghanistan and last five minutes you haven't yet mentioned india which is. a great ally and a big friend of russia by the way india i think it's the second largest sponsor of ghana stand maybe behind iran but the head of the united states so china and pakistan they don't like in india sponsorship because they think it threatens their interests in the region what's what's moscow's that if you do you do you like to see india's role increasing at a year india are is one of the biggest so dawn or recons

leveraging globalization are conducting their own foreign policy corporations move and relocate their headquarters and by an to supply chains and basically network through mergers and acquisitions throughout the world and google has his own foreign policy and bloomberg was i described in this book not just as a news organization but the private intelligence service you pay for proprietary data collected for every government in the world now "the financial times" god in with the act with a private site they have for the right price you'll get intelligence as well. everybody has their own strategy. says ceos that we seem to acquire the most lowered buffett lowered george soros, a look at how they so effortlessly move across the public and private divide whether pursuing their own agenda public health issues around the world they don't think of themselves be a statesman later the lines are being blurred very much. the same thing goes mentioning bill gates and negates foundation even celebrities as george clooney hiring satellites to monitor the sudanese border these are examples of everyone trying to run their own foreign policy. religious groups a

policy that you must issue. it relates to this question of an interview -- inclusive network shaping process in darfur. and all of us agree except the support negotiations in darfur and they're saying that it's important that those negotiations -- it is among the belligerence, they have to concentrate in particular on issues of late to assess fire, -- cease-fire and other security arrangements. because that's an important part of any peace agreement of darfur that we get the dissertation of hostilities which can only be negotiated by the people carrying guns. it's important that that must continue. the problem with regard to this is a matter that you've raised of encouraging everybody to participate. encouraging all of the groups to participate. and the mediators find this very difficult. -- to get, to go to doha and engage in the negotiations. and now, with the new developments to get minimum hour to go there. it's proved very difficult. the mediators do to attract -- all of us have been talking to them, saying all of us the same thing, please go to doha because it's all of us need. this is why i saw

network deployed on the pakistan who sort of. are if practiced on real or wants to conduct but policy that all of the state and that's where. the other sort of this very important problem of safety nets and they are not doing it so they are doing they've been quite well in south waziristan that last year about everybody. very few carlow gone and priests are all on to government for schools they have have so safely insert in northern. in biologist the koran and some other political systems or park incident and the tribal areas i guess is certainly was a part of the tribal ok we have been talking a very good politics around afghanistan for the last five minutes you haven't yet mentioned india which is a great ally and a good friend of russia by the way india i think it's the second largest sponsor of stand maybe behind iran but ahead of the united states so china and pakistan they don't like in india sponsorship because they think it threatens their interests in the region what's what's moscow's that you do you do you like to see india is rather increasing at a year india is a long of the biggest so the dawn or reconstruction

energy and global warming policy for the competitive enterprise institute then there's the role of the conservative media establishment. by the nation's most watched news network fox news twenty four hours a day by pump out pro-business pro-republican talking points take these two e-mails sync to fox stuff like two thousand and nine the first directed all reporters to say global warming theory based upon data that critics have called into question while another instructor echoed the insurance industry language by using the words government run health insurance to describe the proposed health care reform government run health care may include some rationing a government health care takeover could drastically change the way you and your family receive health care the tea party also was a lot of folks who urged its legion of loyal fans to get involved it's a movement that is sweeping the nation all across the country hundreds of these protests across the country in may involve millions of people bam fox news is out in front of us we can join the tea party action from your home if you go to the fox nation that dot com the tea party revolution is probably one right

network a logistic and other sort of neutral. gloried on the pakistani sorel. are if pakistan really wants to conduct policy that will more of the street opens it where they shoot the other sort of this very important problem of the same thing and they are not doing it so they are doing they did quite well in sol for the stand out last year i bought so everybody knows the very huge share of taliban and please all on on to govern forssell so they have to have so safely insert in northern waziristan in biologists. and some other political news and argument and the tribal areas i guess and certainly i was a part of the rebel ok we have been talking about geopolitics around afghanistan for the last five minutes you haven't yet mentioned india which is a great ally and a good friend of russia by the way india i think it's the second largest sponsor i guess that may be behind iran but ahead of the united. it's so china and pakistan they don't like in india sponsorship because they think it threatens their interests in the region what sorts wasco that you do you do you like to see india's role increasing. india is

we must ensure federal policies recognize the link between the national aviation network and jobs. between the league in economic development and global competitiveness. between quality of life and national security. the industry itself must continue to innovate, transform, and reinvent itself to meet growing demand at, to foster profitability, and meet competitive challenges from around the world while improving safety. today you are going to hear ideas on how to strengthen the aviation system from some of the nation's leading authorities. right now we are going to start talking a little about infrastructure. i will turn this over to jack potter. he recently joined us after a lifetime as the postmaster general of the united states. he is working with us on a major project to look around the world at the global supply chain and see what it is we can do to assist it on a policy basis. with him is janet kavinoky, who leads all the chamber's transportation efforts including our efforts on the infrastructure side. i will leave it to you guys. i want to thank everybody for being here. t

francisco we adopted the transit policy and that is for pedestrian as and bicycles as priority and we are in the stages of fixing the problem and making the pedestrian network a primal network in san francisco. as matt said early on, he's not going to be happy until zero is the number of pedestrian accidents in san francisco. and we pointed out that this is a tough city for the planning and we have a transit system that's robust and needs fixing and we have a bike network to get out of the injunction phase and get back to building. and we have a parking challenge and on top of that we have the pedestrian concerns and network and imperative. and i see as pedestrians as special, they are probably the most vulnerable of all modes of transportation. and at some point, every one of us, we are pedestrian, this is the one mode that cuts across everything and demands the most immediate attention. where is all of this going to go? and now i will make sure that we cover these issues and write on the easels and the comments that you give, this will be materials that feed the better streets plan, and materials that will go into the effective plan, and how can we preten

network the logistics and other sort of. people or even on the pakistani sorel soon if pakistan really wants to conduct that policy that will go to the state of them to where it should address some of these very important problem of the same things and they are not doing it so they are doing they'd be quite well in so far as if you stand out last year about everybody in the world so that very huge share of taleban and greece are all on the government for schools they have to have so safe haven search in northern waziristan in biologist. and so on all the political agencies and or pakistan and the tribal areas has a certain i was a part of my be ok we have been talking about geopolitics around afghanistan for the last five minutes you haven't yet mentioned india which is a great ally and a great friend of russia by the way india i think it's the second largest sponsor i guess that may be behind iran but ahead of the united states so china and pakistan they don't like in india sponsorship because they think it threatens their interest in the region what's what's moscow's that e.t.a. do you do you like to see india's role incr

policies. the project site location preferences for the site, which is the preferred location site, and the project is desirable, as it will improve the wireless telecommunications network, and the proposed antennas would be not visible from st. view. this concludes my presentation, and i'm available for questions. thank you. commissioner olague: thank you. project sponsor. >> good afternoon. i am regional vice president of external affairs for at&t california. i'm here in answer questions, along with my colleagues. i just want to address commissioner moore's concerns about the proposed at&t acquisition of team mobil -- of t-mobile that was announced. this will lead review by several government agencies. while we believe and hope that it will be approved because it is the right thing for our customers and our country, it will take several months to move through that process. in the meantime, it is imperative that we operate as two separate companies. what we do know is we have had an 8000% growth in data traffic over the last four years alone, and we project the number to grow by eight to 10 times by 2014. it is important to address these issues to better serve our cust

policies to that effect. there was some additional transit assumed in san francisco in terms of travel time. we appreciated that reflected in " and we thought that the next generation of transit networks needed to be vetted by an open and inclusive process. the process that we will be bringing to you all for approval in submitting at the staff level in april will be considered in terms of our own party suggestions for the next generation of transit improvements and infrastructure. we would like to participate closely within the region for the transit sustainability project, apparently where some of the major ideas are going to be coming from. in terms of the funding policy principle, to give a heads up for house staff are thinking about this in proper, we believe that a stronger nexus within the transit system demand for maintenance funding, san francisco received 9% of the maintenance money, 50% of discretionary funding in the 2009 rtp. our share of trip ends in 2010 was 61%. it is really quite stark and we are hoping that we can move more to the middle right direction for the systems that we are carrying out a daily basis. emphasized when you think about the transit bicycles on thos

policy. and tomorrow's "market monitor" guest thinks the bull market should last a long time. she's elaine garzarelli, president of garzarelli capital. it's official-- satellite company dish network is now the new owner of blockbuster, the former video rental giant. a federal bankruptcy judge today okayed the $320 million deal. for that price, dish gets blockbuster's stores, customer lists, and most importantly, its digital business of streaming movies over the internet. blockbuster filed for chapter 11 back in september with more than a billion dollars due to creditors. >> tom: it's back into the skies on saturday for four southwest airlines planes. the four have had repairs made to cracks in their aluminum skins. dozens of southwest's boeing 737s were inspected after a hole opened in the roof of one while in flight last week. that plane made an emergency landing in arizona and is still being repaired. >> susie: this summer is expected to be another tough one for teenagers looking for jobs. last year, teen job seekers had the weakest summer job market in decades. tonight, our "kids and cash" series has advice for young people looking for work. here's janet bodnar, editor at "kip

networks. with your help, we can continue to invest in cutting edge medical research right through technology and finally have energy policy that makes sure that our entire economy is not subject to $4 or $5 a gallon gas and reduce our dependence on foreign oil and clean up the planet in the process so we can bequeath to our children and grandchildren the kind of planet that we inherited. [applause] with your help, we can out educate, out innovate, and out compete the rest of the world. [applause] we can only do all of this, by the way, if we get our fiscal issues under control. i gave a speech about this yesterday. [applause] when i was running for president, i talked about a new era of responsibility in this country. part a that means restoring some common sense about our federal finances, restoring fiscal discipline in washington, living within our means. last week, we were able to prevent the government shut down. the reason we were able to do it is because we agreed to spending cuts but we insisted on protecting investments in things like education and medical research. [applause] thewe've got to reign in long-term de

foreign policy so it's not an abusive use of empire or part of an international community ok kevin zeese attorney member of the bradley manning support network thanks going to live from new york there thank you very much. and still ahead through the program jobless in italy young people seem to say they can't find a decent saw think about home but we ask the question don't even want to work examine that claim so people. toward you says it's doing all it can to help people through hard economic times but not everyone failing the government support thousands live below the poverty line struggling to afford to put food on the table i think kathleen reports from tbilisi. the small city country of georgia has long been known for its fresh organic produce recently it seems the fruit of georgia's economy has been rotting away. people come to the market and don't buy anything because they can't afford it out of both the goods here only the i knew them potatoes are local everything else isn't corded from greece and turkey and iran and it's so overpriced here anyway because we have to try and sell something so we can eat yet he. yvonne knows all about

regime as sort of a ramified network of dependency using patronage to keep very various tribal and political groups within his orbit knots. off the difficulty is that u.s. policy i should say european policy and un fall asleep as well has been focused on the regime rather than focused on the society and in a place like yemen where society is much more important than the state where these tribal and other actors really are the dominant political movers you've got to engage both the state and society part of the reason we don't have a plan is because we've been doing the former without doing enough of the latter now of course there are rumors or also as part of these very quiet reports that the obama administration has now turned their back on sollie there are quiet reports that perhaps they want his current vice president to be this person that leads the transition because i feel like that will probably give them a little peace of mind they think that this is somebody that perhaps we already know at least a little bit this is somebody that will continue the counterterrorism efforts but that's very clearly not what the people want especially if you look at the y

in fact, every other industrialized nation has a network of currency, trade, skills policies that promotes manufacturing. right here in the house, we encourage our colleagues on the other side of the aisle to pro meet a national manufacturing strategy that deals with trade policies that are fair and there will be trade that no longer leave our workers and our businesses at an unfair disadvantage, where others will be forced to play by the rules in the same way that our manufacturers and our workers play by the rules, a program that also promotes tax policies that encourage manufacturing in this country and stops the outsourcing of jobs overseas, which we have seen take place for decades now, that will be smart with respect to our energy policies, our labor policies. we shouldn't be attacking workers. workers aren't the ones who drove our economy off the cliff. so the whole issue of disproportionate shared sacrifice, just like we saw the diss proportionate wealth in this country with the help of the policies that were promoted by the last republican administration, we need education policie

we must ensure federal policies recognize the rink between the national -- link between the national aviation networks and jobs, between the link and economic development and global competitiveness, between this link in the quality of life and between it and national security, and the industry itself must continue to innovate, transform, and reinvent itself to meet growing demands to force the profitability and meet competitive challenges from around the world while improving safety, and today, you're going to hear ideas on how to strengthen the aviation system from some of the nation's leading authorities. right now, we're going to start talking a little bit about infrastructure, so i'm going to turn this over to jackpotter. he joined us after a lifetime and a half as the postmaster general of the united states, and he's working with us on a major process to look around the world and the global supply chain and how to asis it on a policy basis. with him is janet kavinoky leading the transportation efforts including the efforts on the infrastructure side. i'm going to leave it to you guys. i want to t

policy is to put people in public office in foreign countries the us military has recently launched an online management program which enables it to generate multiple fake identities on social networks the false personas are designed to contribute to the flow of conversations on facebook twitter and other websites people are using social media for cyber warfare i mean that's what we're going to see more more and more of i think from from whether it's governments or non-state actors are going to try to find ways to use the internet and social media to gain an advantage in their own battle the recent turmoil in libya's suggest orchestration of twitter with fake users only around five percent of libyans have access to the internet and the number of twitter users there is so small that analysts couldn't even calculate it yet in february of this year a surge of lead in twitter accounts of peer reporting in english and virtually all begging for intervention we know. since the beginning of the war but libyans still don't get about access to it but those suburbs hope people don't check this essential fact take all this information coming here are you which is the real purpose of rickey you

policy or not is a matter of debate but that is historically what has happened. >> one of the conditions michael copps discussed with regard to at&t and mobile is the network neutrality. on the house floor this week representative marsha blackburn republican of tennessee spoke this week. >> net neutrality is the federal government stepping in and goin saying we are going to come first and assign priority and ie value to content. it basically is the fairness as i said, they're has been a market failure and there is no need for this government over reached. so so many are saying why do this? is one of and control, the government dic wantingtat to dictate what speeo you will have, how often you will be on the internet service that he will have, being able to control that. >> i was actually just in nashville last week with congress one blackburn and we did a town hall together and she spoke almost end the exact words there as well and she's been a very passionate leader on this issue. when she says there's nothing broken, i wholeheartedly agree there is nothing broken in the space and very long descent on this issue and i feel not only is their nothing broken but the fcc