the interesting things has been added on since two thousand and nine ten is that as russia's reform project continues it's always worried about external risks and it's really taking its toll. yeah obviously you know russia guy thanks for the a lot to the eurozone so bad that is certainly a risk and they are doing well at looking more at diversifying towards asia and trading morgan. but generally speaking we always see things from an investor's perspective as we underestimate advisors and we actually saying that's the russian equity market and russian companies are very good while even accounting for those risks of exposed to the euro zone and some things really they would still need even if the economy isn't isn't going necessarily as a natural gas for heating cooking and so on so we think that they're actually quite quite some good while you know to be had in russia and as mentioned you know russia doesn't have that problem that their western countries have yet the market is already discounted more and a lot of asian economies also when compared with that i was just going to say one last t

sus kim janie, a senior project director for advocates for children where she leads the boston reform projectersity of pennsylvania professor jelani cobb. what is the story in boston right now? >> ironically it's not a problem from the outside. it's not sort of the racial issues that we saw back in the '70s. what's happening right now is some of it is economics driven. the city is also 60,000 students divided into three different zones assigned to schools within those zones and the city is spending almost 10% of its school bunt bussing students between these different areas. in many cases to schools that are not in their neighborhood. and yet the population has changed. the bussing that was enacted to try to balance the racial balance in the schools is no longer achieving that goal. schools are now largely hispanic and black and asian, and so as practical matter they have tried to find a way to do it and to try and save money doing something that doesn't seem to be achieving the goals that it was set out for. >> so here we've got this story. you yourself were involved in this both from a poli

but it does reform the program to encourage projects which expand the core capacity of a existing major transit corridors. push >> the transportation alternatives program, this is the program that we briefly discussed a few moments ago, basically three pots of funding streams are combined into one and there is a reduction of over 30 percent in the total funding available. bicycle and safety programs are no longer eligible, nor is landscaping as a stand alone project. so the landscaping is eligible, but it is not as a stand alone street scape project. cal transplans to prioritize its share of the transportation alternatives program funds for projects that are already in the transportation improvement program. this includes an $850,000 project for san francisco for pedestrian safety campaign. there was some concern initially because this project is no longer elible under the >> i think that it is approximately $175 million loan and there is also a project in the pipeline for the project and that project will continue under the old project, the old tifia program guidelines. and just quickl

project. security sector reform working group of our project, and it is a second issue that has absolutely criticals, both to the fate of the syrian revolution and its future. it includes questions like what do we do about the massive internal security apparatus that the syrian regime has created. what happens to it in the event that a more comprehensive transition process happens. it also includes questions about how do we ensure the provision of database security during a transitional period. and that includes questions like how do we avoid the kind of outcome that we have seen in a case like libya, where the fall of the old regime left in its wake dozens of armed militia groups whose activities we have seen recently culminated in the kind of environment like the murder of christopher stevens in benghazi. how do we begin thinking now about strategy and processes for the provision and security in the reform of institutions and for the transformation of a broader culture in syria that has elevated security and the security apparatus to position that supersedes the democratic rule of law, formal ins

reformer. we're not projecting weakness abroad. we shouldn't have called bashar assad a reformer.he bashar assad a reformer. that was his only line on syria policy. largely was rhetoric kalt. now when you talk the three hot spots in the world, not necessarily in the entire world, which is iran, the war in afghanistan and syria, there wasn't as far as i can tell any policy disagreement that they were leveling. take a look. >> these are the most crippling sanctions in the history of sanctions. >> thank hechks we had these sanctions in place. >> what more would they do other than put american boots to the ground. >> nobody is proposing to send troops to syria. >> we are leaving in 2014, period. >> we agree with the administration on their 2014 transition. >> michael, what did you make of this? >> when i saw paul ryan talk about afghanistan, it was like watching bambi on ice. it's like he had a boy scout capping p trip there once and saw the mountains and thought he was an expert. look, very specifically. this is -- ryan got really tripped up on afghanistan. he said, look, we support

am going to go over both and i am going to talk about the major reforms including the expansion of transportation alternatives and project delivery along with the impacts of the transit systems in san francisco. >> so, map 21 is on the 600-page bill, folks are still combing through the pages to determine what is exactly in the bill. so there are some changes that we will see that we might not even recognize until the end of the 24-month life of the bill. the major reforms were primarily driven by the house transportation and infrastructure committee chair. representative john mika and the senate environment and the committee chair barbara boxer. michael was focused on delivery reforms and boxer, innovative financing and those are the key points that you will see in the bill itself. president obama signed it into law in july. and back in june, i don't think that anybody was expecting that we would actually see this bill come to fruition. but within a couple of weeks following the bill was on the president's desk for signature. the primary issue to point out with map 21, is that it is a two-year bill and it does not fundam

but no more money, apart from a small amount -- 30 million euros for bilateral projects -- and no more time to get these reforms pushed through. >> is there a danger that these protests in athens could dampen the german public's appetite for these bailouts? >> the bailouts in general are not very popular in germany as it is. i do not think there's any likelihood that protests will change attitudes here. authorities think that greeks have a lot more to do. they are a lot less confident than chancellor merkel says she is, but they think the bailouts will achieve their results. many germans believe that greece will ultimately have to leave the euro. they are also a little puzzled, i think, that greeks do not seem as grateful as many germans believe they ought to be about germany's financial contributions to back up greece. they feel that money is being wasted and ordinary greeks seem to be ungrateful to boot.% >> thanks very much for that. -- and grateful to -- the economy is shrinking at a rapid rate of 6.5%, so how are company's managing to keep their head above water at all? here is one example. and he urgently

project. the security sector reform work of our project and it is the second issue area that has absolutely criticalications both to the fate of the syrian revolution and for its future. it includes questions like what do we do about the massive internal security apparatus that the syrian regime has created? what happens to it in the offense that a more conference of transition process as possible? it also includes questions about how do we ensure the provision of the day-to-day security during a transitional period? it includes questions like how do we avoid the kind about come that we have seen and in a case like libya, where the fall of the old regime left in its wake dozens of armed militia groups whose activities we have seen recently culminated in the kind of violence that brought about the murder of an american diplomat, chris stevens christie benjamin ghazi. how do we begin thinking now about strategies and profit processes for the reform of institutions and for the transformation of the broader culture in syria that has elevated security and the security apparatus to a position that superse

they put out a project of reforming the network campaigns. they are really based on that model. small donors are still a viable way of building a campaign. boosting them could be a valuable way of thinking about reform unless the huge outside money overwhelmed that. that is a question in itself. this lead some people to think you really need a constitutional amendments to change its mind before some of these things can work. that is an empirical question. two last questions that really go to the politics. will campaign finance reform ever be a bipartisan thing? it used to be. there was a great legacy before. not only bipartisan but actually representing fairly conservative republicans as well. this is not the case right now. even the disclose act, a lot of conservatives used to say they were disclosure but nothing else. it now has zero republican co- sponsors. it had two in the previous congress. maybe after people realize super pacs are not that powerful, there may be something of the political alignments. does the public actually care about this? i've been around this issue fo

it can refrain the discussion around health care reform that has become so divisive and ideological. tavis: this project allows us to see the content of what happens or does not happen. we see the content of what happens in these public hospitals. the broader context of what these public hospitals are up against is a budget cuts, and here in los angeles, every night. a great debate some years back about whether or not it would come through, come back on line or stay online. in chicago, they have had the debate -- your project is about a particular hospital in oakland. across the country, in inner cities, these hospitals are up against the wall. the budget cuts and political decisions are closing some of these hospitals. others are on the brink of being closed. i say that as background ask this question -- what happens with all of the drama and difficulty of what happens inside highland every day? what happens if these waiting rooms no longer exist? what happens if they are not there? whatappens if they disappear? >> you have seen a little bit of this with how the -- how society has dealt with the mental

projects. there has been dialogue in sacramento and throughout the state about the need to reform ceqa, so it fulfills its purpose without going beyond that purpose and in san francisco the process that we have in our administrative code for ceqa appeals adds to the concerns. i described this at a hearing at booker t. washington as the wild west in san francisco. because we provide very, very loose timelines, in terms of when people can file a ceqa appeal at the board of supervisors, people sometimes file appeals months or years after the department -- the planning department issues a ceqa determination. this legislation will among other things tighten that timeline, so that people will be required to file ceqa appeal within a certain number of days after the initial approval in the project, not the last approval in the project. everyone will still have their full right to ceqa appeal and to pring an appeal to the board of supervisors as required by state law, but they will be required to do that earlier in the process. so that we can determine the ceqa issue and move forward or not move forward with

project can be heard. how would you if the all reform the discretionary process? mr. davis, miss olague and miss selby. >> as a board president of booker t. recently we had to seek permission from the board of supervisors for housing and community space. , as much as i would have liked that process to go quicker, as much as i would have liked to see less opposition from some of the neighbors. we had a lot of support from the neighbors as well. i think it's really important that folks have the opportunity to air their concerns at city hall to, air their concerns at planning, to air their concerns in front of the board of supervisors and ultimatelis a community, we do need to decide and balance interests and mitigate impacts and at the end of the day the booker t. project final designs are better than started because it did go through a review process. so i wouldn't try to limit discretionary review. i think it's an important part of the process, of planning in san francisco and a vital example of community input and planning in san francisco. >> miss olague. >> christi

i know that you know mickey has written about making the current director project censor is right about you know the media reform movement i'm kind of waiting around for the media to reform itself but really i mean it's entrenched in such a corrupt system tied to all these industries so embedded with kind of the lies and deceit and the establishment line and also the profiting off this information and the censorship peter so how do we change the system how do we take back the media for the people by the people like it was truly intended. but we have to realize first the corporate media is managed news it's managed on behalf of global one percent best propaganda it's top down propaganda so the news story this morning is hugo chavez won by fifty five fifty four percent of the vote and yet still the way the media spins it is always going to continue his agenda of socialism and repression so there's it's complete misinformation they can't deny that hugo chavez is one of the most popular leaders in the world he continues to win elections but but he's helping the lower income and the poor and bennett so well by sharin