the beauty industry and on to the next clean up project, the plastic industry, oil and war industries, too until there are no more toxic chemicals in babies, no more rocket fuel in breast milk or communities burdened by pollution. that is the work before us and that is what we are here to do and thank you so much for joining me for beauty and make over.

with clipboards to the three stooges running around with plastic bags on our feet in radioactive so there isn't really a stability in the world that's required to operate a nuclear industry and so we should all try to stay away from those locations as much as possible ok so you're advocating basically stay a member will stay mobile stay alert this is why i hate real estate as an investment i have for decades it's going to move somewhere some crazy stuff all right well that's all the time we have for the me. all of thanks so much for being on the kaiser report thank you max all right that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max keiser and stacy herbert and i will thank my guests dimitri or la if you want to send me an e-mail please do so at kaiser report at r t t v are you until next time this is nice guys are saying.

. >> when the economy first took a downward turn, this plastic surgery industry as a whole basically gling to get by. >> reporter: but with the economy continuing to rebound, people across the country are again splurging on beauty. from wrinkle reducing injections to plastic surgery. >> it was really hard putting off my surgery. i wanted to do it for a really long time. >> we want to reduce that bump. >> reporter: 35-year-old jewelry designer cassie porter saved and struggled through the recession. now she can finally afford to get the nose she wished she'd been born with. and she's not alone. according to the american society of plastic surgeons, 13.1 million cosmetic procedures were performed last year. that's a 5% increase from 2009. more than 5 million people opted for botox injections in 2010. and another 2 million requested facial filler. >> brows, the eyelids. >> reporter: 51-year-old vickie benko waited until her company layoffs were behind her before going ahead with a brow lift and tightening her upper and lower eyelids. >> i waited to have plastic surgery for about three ye

industrial chemical found in can and plastic packaged foods. along with four other bay area families agreed to have researchers measure the chemical in their bodyour levels of bpa were higher than the national average. which was shocking. >> the families were then put on a special diet. the researcher is with the breast cancer fund. >> we brought them three days worth of freshly prepared foods that we were careful to store in glass containers and to avoid contact with packaging and food preparation items likely to contain those comb dales. >> after three days, they were tested again. >> what we found was a pretty dramatic drop. >> a 60% drop in the levels of bpa and a 50% decrease in another chemical, which is found in plastic food packaging. it changed the way they buy food. >> we also stopped using water bottles completely and have gone to the stainless steel. >> the findings are no cause for concern. the exposures to these chemicals are minute and the substances don't stay in the body. the group says consumers should feel confident in eating canned or packaged foods. as for the lorlands, they would rather be safe than sorry. >> it's better t

plastic bags to green building bench mark ordinances and zero ways. this is yet another opportunity for san francisco to take the lead. in closing, the industry may suggest an opt-out policy, but we already know that does not work from seattle. yellow pages cost the city $1 million in disposal fees right now. if your bank wanted to date $1 million out of your account, would you allow that to allowan opt-out option? i do not think superior do not let the industry do this to us again. we thank you in advance for your support. supervisor chiu: thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon. i represent russian hill neighbors, and we are a very large neighborhood organization in the city, and at our last board meeting, -- actually, our past two board meetings, we had a unanimous vote, which most of you know is unheard of when you have 28 people trying to come to one thing. to support this legislation. our buzzwords were waist and green -- waste and green. \ we felt like what has been mentioned throughout the day about the sidewalks being cluttered and one of the topics in our meeting -- i'm an artist, so i had a vision. we talked about if each -- als

the industry, that we're going to kill jobs, kill small businesses. these are the types of things we heard when our city stood up to ban star from containers, to phase out plastic bags. these are the sorts of things that san francisco hears often when we are trying to take the lead and really standing koran an inconvenient truth, standing up for the environment, standing up for our neighborhoods, in standing up for consumer choice. it was mentioned that there were hundreds of letters sent in to the board of supervisors in opposition of this measure. i can assure you that i have received communications from thousands of individuals that actually supported this legislation. i know there was a rally last week where there were a couple hundred folks who attended, many of which two were employees of the companies that are being effected here. again, i can assure you, but there are tens of thousands of residents here incidences " -- residents here in san francisco who are fine with getting their phone books when they want to get them. i did want to talk about what was raised by industry lobbyists and representatives. i sat down with industry representatives on a numb

industrial chemical found in both cans and plastic packaged foods. some lab studies have linked bpa to serious health problems including breast cancer. the family along with four other bay areas agreed to have researchers measure the chemical in their bodies. >> they found that our levels of bpa before the study were higher than the national average which was shocking. >> reporter: the families were then put on a special diet. researchers dr. connie engel is with the breast cancer fund. >> we brought them three days worth of freshly prepared foods that we had been really careful to store in glass containers and to avoid contact with packaging and food preparation items likely to contain those chemicals. >> reporter: after three days of eating a bpa free diet the families were tested again. >> what we found was a pretty dramatic drop. >> reporter: a 60% drop in the levels of bpa and 50% drop in a second chemical. dehp which is also found in some plastic food packaging. the results have changed how the family buy and prepare food. they seek out bpa free products. >> we have stopped using water bottles completely and gone to the stainless s

plastic. i'm not sure about this ranges their recycling but the other things seem perfectly reasonable. yet at the same time you see a child defecating industry. this is the great challenge that, in fact, the public sector is not doing the public sector has to do. so i certainly pushback on the notion there's much to like about rural poverty. survey not in the developing world. but having cities require better management, requires a good but limited public sector that does its job and does it seriously. >> the central thesis that you raised seems very similar to another colleague of yours at harvard, michael porter, in an article that he wrote in 1990, the competitive engine of nation. it seems he spoke about industries and clusters and innovation competition and the like. it seems very similar and i wonder if you had any areas where you part company with michael? >> i don't disagree with that. we both started, my first work on cities is done in about 1990 as well. we were influenced at that point in time by his work. what effects it came out of that study was shown the enormous correlation between a starship sizes, competition and urban succ