so you have a move to subordinate the church and the state and the state is a secular state. by the time you get to the french relations on that down today, that is transferred into the nation of such a state which is radically antithetical to or in opposition to christian the. the french revolution, that's why they're spewing so many monks and nuns and priests and so on. communist regimes as well that that is occurring. so you have then, that's imported into the united states in a particular situation in 1947 where you have imported into the first amendment the notion that the state is supposed to erect a wall of separation and be the guardian of the wall, actively secularized the public realm. that is not in the first amendment. it is brought in by justice hugo black. but the whole point of that is that we shift from having a real distinction between the church and the state has advocated by christianity to the states supporting the church and following to the state trying to can -- excluder that's the state we are in now. endless litigation. that wants to secularized the pu

so you have a move to subordinate the church to the state, and the state is a secular state. by the time you get to the french revolution following that down to today, that is transformed into the notion of secular state, which is radically antithetical to and in opposition to christianity. the french revolution, that's why they're spearing so many monks and nuns and priests and so on, often in communist regimes as well that's occurring. so, you have then -- that's important in the united states in the parcular situation in 1947, with everson vs. board of education, where you ref imported into the first amendment the notion that the state is supposed to erect a wall of separation and be the -- a guardian of the wall, actively secondarrize the public realm. that's in the first amendment. at it brought in by justice hugo black and uses words from thomas jefferson. another active part of the complexity we'll perhaps good into that. but the whole point of that is that we shift from having a reel distinction between the church and the state as advocated by christianity to the state

you have to subordinate the church and the state, and the state is a secular state. by the time you get to the french revolution following that to today, that is transformed into the notion of the secular state which is radically into the call to an opposition to christianity. obviously the french revolution that is why they are steering them and so on. obviously the communist regimes as well. but that is occurring. that's important in the united states and in 1947 with education you have imported in the first amendment that the state and actively secularize the public realm. that isn't in the first amendment. it's brought in by justice hugo black. that is part of the complexity. the whole point of that is we shift from having a distinction between the church and state as to the state subordinating the church. that is the situation that we are in now since 47 you have the endless litigation with the so-called establishment clause that wants to a secular rise in the same way that it was done in the french revolution and the french fur republic and in the communist russ

there was no real pressure on the united states in particular from the oil-rich arab gulf states or the arab world as a role. the arab world has played a negative role. there was exaggerated attention by american possession simakers to domestically driven political concern as ably articulated by the israeli lobby. another element i talk about ills the deto which the israeli narrative has been adopt by the americans as the real narrative. in spite of occasional simple this tick and undoubtedly send sear noises from presidential leaders, sub as president carter, secretary of state baker, or president obama, at the end of the day american policy has had little or know real concern for the national or human right of the palestinians. very little concern for the palestinians. this meant that while israeli governments usual live got what they wanted well will have noticed a peaceful resolution was not the result. indeed i organize we're much further away from such a result than when we naively walked into the state department here in the fall of 1991, to negotiate. in consequence, i argue in

you mentioned early in your remarks that the state isn't moving a large number of items in the state epartment control and the commerce department. of the accord hate how licenses are issued and second night, what mechanisms you have to coordinate with other countries that might ask for the same items to countries of concern? >> excellent questions. our export control reform effort is designed to have a more unified approach. the ultimate goal is the four singles enforcement mechanism. it would be a critical element of the coordination you're talking about with congress about that right now if they cannot get on and the licenses come in, double make it easier. commerce, we let them know which licensees would like to see in most of them to the state department and the state department bureaus that have equities will look at commerce and opinion. eventually would like to get tracing the lives. so in terms of other countries, these various non-proliferation including the agreement among countries. my doesn't handle it. it's a non-proliferation were they talk about items that we send dele

the states structured that ability was to say the states share could be made available in proportion to how much the increment we dedicated locally. we want to any other time the local distribution. number 7 on this slide is the key of what we sort of the heart of the policy. we're using tax increments to essentially purchase infrastructure that is built by our partners. and it's private equity it's an expensive form of financing. developers earner an annual income of 18 to 20 percent we're suggesting here we decade the full amount to pay off that private equity as quickly as possible to be as efficient in financing those improvements as possible. we're generally using the value of port property to pay that developer return fda law has real constraints so we're using the portland value to pay developer return. there will be in the districts literally hundreds of thousands of the dollars available after the infrastructure has been fined so in the year thirty there be significant amounts of funds available so the seawall will be funded as well >> thank you for your presentation just a

but it is governed at the state level by republicans. g state government regulations to try to shut down all the abortion clinics in virginia, as well. that is what republicans do whenever they are in power now. that is republican governance. 2013 style. in arkansas, and in north dakota this year, republicans are also just flat-out passing unconstitutional bans on abortion. as if roe versus wade didn't exist. they're just banning abortion at the state level. just try and stop them. arkansas republicans are essentially in a frenzy this year. because in arkansas, republicans took control of both houses of the state legislature in this past election for the first time since '74. and i don't mean 1974. i mean 1874. since the reconstruction era after the end of the civil war. and when you have not had control of something since 1874 and you get control of it, i guess you just yee-haw let's ban abortion. who cares? also they've gotten right down to work to make clear that arkansas rejects the equal rights amendment. this is a headline from this

the bad tennessee state legislature late last week the state let the state lawmakers voice their approval for a bill that if passed would tie welfare benefits to student academic performance the proposal sponsored by two republicans would cut welfare checks by thirty percent for those families whose whose children don't perform up to state standards bill proposed in january and move through the move through the committee over the weekend will face the full senate vote this week the tennessee law already mandates twenty. the benefits for families of students with poor attendance records and the welfare program only provide the eager one hundred eighty five dollars a month participant nevertheless the state's health and human services department has withdrawn its opposition to the bill and lawmakers hope that this bill can serve as some sort of carrot or stick approach to needy families all right because a struggling mother needs to add the stress of having to worry about whether or not her third graders geography grade is good enough for her to buy groceries this week . and at the very ver

the difference compared to redevelopment is property taxes are divided into a number of recipients the state gets a property tax dollar and the remaining $0.10 is divided up between the school district and community college district. and under an infrastructure financing district typically the only increment that can be captured is the $0.65. you can't capture the money it goes to schools or to the community college district. so it's property taxes can be used to a finance infrastructure through bonds or on a pay as you go basis. the ports are structured a little bit differently. redevelopment focused on providing affordable housing. by state law 20 percent of the increment must be spent on parks, bay assess and the remove of bay fill. as you know there's significant historic contamination along the port property. so in 2005 is when we first went up to try to develop the tool and it was really based on the work that the director and cf o director did in the first 10 year capital plan. the plan says the structural financial plan is not in its operating budget it's instead the bag log of capit

the t.p.a. negotiating negotiation itself a secret. well states are standing up and saying that they want to cut the internet sales tax and bills the bill that's before the congress that would allow them to impose taxes on these businesses they want those taxes rather the marketplace fairness act it's in the final stages of consideration before the senate today and is based on a procedural vote this afternoon now it looks like it will win approval later this week then it will head to the house of course will internet sales have been growing over the past decade now if one in ten sales are made online palace's new tax going to change how we shop. will take a look at this chart it says that the quarterly growth of retail e-commerce sales steadily rose from two thousand and three to twenty twenty twenty twelve with the new online sales tax and posing a codify tax and force meant opponents say that this trend could stall or reverse now proponents for the tax on the other hand say that states are losing l. because they are currently getting the money t

it does this by giving the states, not the federal government, the states the authority to require out-of-state merchants to collect the same taxes that local merchants have to collect when they sell goods to customers in hawaii. this is only fair. i want to be clear about what this bill does and what it does not do because there is some confusion about what this bill does and doesn't do. for example, this bill does not impose a new federal sales tax. this bill does not require the states to do anything. in fact, if this bill becomes law, nothing would change unless a state passes its own legislation. what this bill does do is to give states that choice. it lets each state choose whether or not to level the playing field for its local businesses. in addition, this legislation provides a framework that ensures that states can exercise this authority in a way that ensures fairness for businesses of all sizes. for example, it requires any state that chooses to exercise this new authority to streamline its sales and use taxes and to provide free software to calculate these taxes to out-of-state sel

win the war even during the armistice talks between the united nations this united states in the so-called united nations forces and the north koreans they were considering using nuclear weapons on that country so obviously if there's going to be any threat of nuclear war between north korea and the united states it's going to be on the part of the united states yes indeed the only country that someone dropped nuclear bombs that during a war time the media doesn't seem to be talking with the other side of this hostile situation u.s. and in stealth bombers live fire exercises between the u.s. and south korea or the u.n. imposing sanctions over and over again is north korea simply responding to the threats that have been happening for the last couple of years i think so without a doubt i mean not to mention there was a war between the united states the united states was extremely brutal but i mean you know in the past decade just the past decade we've seen the united states invade iraq afghanistan wage war in somalia all across the african continent all across asia recently did

the united states own as can full control all the. states on. these records state in texas because first of all. the senate ratified a treaty with texas for friendship commerce and navigation in eight hundred forty three but refused to ratify a treaty about it safe. a year later and eighteen forty four. december outgoing president john tyler proposed that texas yeah next by a joint resolution of the us congress that past february of forty five. and november texas both. been eight hundred sixty one. people discovered the united states wasn't going to do what they said they would do . so they. elected formed the most new constitution and took them out of the boat to secede or not. the united states declared the vote in the constitution null and void. with the what people didn't understand. the stakes never see the dates. and they were and they were taken a vote to secede and you cannot cede troops up to new never c b. j james miami holder the. anybody after chickens man they get their day at the you know you know go after james thickens. feet. when

are docked in the state land research for all forty nine states but up in virginia very close to the district. land man. united states bureau of land management and united states owns as confocal intro all of the states records these records state in texas because we're still in. the senate about a hard treaty with texas for friendship commerce and navigation in eight hundred forty three but refused to ratify a treaty of erik's station. right here later in eighteen forty four. that december outgoing president john tyler proposed that texas piano act by a joint resolution of the new us congress that passed feb of forty five and november texas voters approved our next eight. then eight hundred sixty one. the people discovered the united states would go to do what they said there was no do. so they. elected to form them over the new constitution and took them over both to secede. the united states declared the vote in the constitution null and void. with the what people didn't understand. the stakes is never see the dates. when they were and they were taken a vote to secede and you cann

priority for the united states. it's a great job. it's a great department because it covers everything from sea to shining sea and out into the 1.7 billion acres of the shelf which we control at interior. >> some have called this the department of everything else. >> some v. and if you think back to the history of the department, it's one of the older departments in the united states and it was created to handle all matters related to the interior of the united states which and over time some function versus been moved to other departments and other functions added to this department. but it is a department with a very broad mission. so the way i'd like to think about it is that we are the custodian of america's natural resources and that's all the energy. our national parks and also our history. because in the statute of liberty to the historic monuments that we oversee around the country, that is all part of our mission at the department. >> every cabinet secretary has to make decisions and get pressure on differen

out of the united states. ere are major drug trafficking arteries coming into the united states. the immigration has become a great concern because some illegal immigrants either use the drug trade or the drug trade uses them to get them into the united states. we found a direct correlation with that. initially when alabama passed this immigration law the law was very tough. it was going to place a lot of requirements on law enforcement and a lot of things we were going to have to procedural in order to enforce this law. ironically, most law enforcement officers disagreed passage of this law. the reason is, we recognize that citizenship goes to the united states of america, not necessarily to the united states of alabama. >> christians feel that we have a responsibility to help those in need. theertainly demonstrated needs to the needy and alabama is a state with a lot of poverty. the neediest, those at the bottom were immigrants. we had eight or so congregations, hispanic congregations. all of these were just

secretary john kerry secretary of state says and others say that we the united states is sending sixty percent of a vast military armada to to the to the east asia the western pacific now they say the excuse given is there's more economic activity there so the u.s. needs to send troops. well down the street here this is salem a small that is a lot of economic activity do we need to send troops it is it is just an absurdity it's a nonsense as far as keeping the seas open there are no want to start and to close the seas china needs open seas for its development so that doesn't make sense i think that this is yet another attempt by the united states to maintain its. status in the world and i think there's a bit of panic going on here in the united states foreign policy establishment because if they cannot break china up then the united states is destined if china is to become a moderately prosperous country and bring wellbeing to its citizens then the united states will be set in place just for a few of the difference in population i think so i think this is a bit of good or bad i f

when they are policy makers are state policymakers putting forth the legislation not through referendum and that's an interesting point here hopefully i mean it will eventually reach a tipping point of states i think where the federal government won't have to have a choice but you mentioned that state lawmakers are getting enough courage now to be introducing this legislation on their own they used to be that you have to get ballot measures out there and in california there was a ballot measure in two thousand and ten i think it was to legalize that which which was defeated but that was kind of bad in the election for progressives in general but what is the strategy moving forward is it going to be through ballot measures is going to be trying to get state lawmakers as we're seeing doing this you know passing laws of their own is it getting the federal government just to get out of the way as some lawmakers have introduced in congress or is it all of the above approach i don't know there's different strategies in each state and organizations like ours

so you have a move to subordinate the church to the state, and the state is a secular state. by the time you get to the french revolution following that and down to today, that is transformed into the notion of a secular state which is radically antithetical to or in opposition to christianity. obviously, in the french revolution, you know, that's why they're spearing so many monks and nuns and priests and so on. obviously, in communist regimes as well that that's occurring. so you have then in the -- that's imported into the united states in a particular situation in 1947 with everson v. board of education where you have imported into the first amendment the notion that the state is supposed to erect a wall of separation and be the guardian of that wall, actively secularize the public realm. that is not in the first amendment. it's brought in by justice hugo black. he uses words are from thomas jefferson. that's another part of the complexity, we'll perhaps go into that. but the whole point of that is that we shift from having a real distinction between the church and the sta

if the board approves it the state revenue loss reserve lch no balance and the general fund reserve will have a remaining balance of 21.3 million. on page 7 of our report, as has been discussed by the committee, fiscal year 09-10 through 12-13 the department of public health's budget for both hospitals, san francisco general and laguna honda, regarding salaries and -- and for laguna honda materials and supplies has resulted in shortfalls and the department has needed supplementals during that timeframe. the serious thing about this supplemental is that there is a very significant amount of general fund moneys going towards the supplemental namely the 12 million combined with the state revenue loss reserve fund as well as the general fund reserve. our recommendations are on page 8 of our report. we recommend that you reduce -- and this is based on a detailed review of the actual expenditures to date, as well as the projected expenditures through june 30, we recommend that you amend a proposed supplemental to reduce by 1,1222, which would reduce the general fund reserve appropriation which

i think the reds states are more than just a little ahead. but the point?der security, absolutely essential to the immigration reform. by the democrats keep getting the issue? we take it up with our immigration panel tonight. broadcasting the bible miniseries on eter suny. and the history channel bristly rewarded. dozens of atlanta teachers and principals and supervisors indicted for falsifying test scores. quite an example for students and example. lou: jury selection is shown in a wrongful drug trial of michael jackson. the jackson family seeking $40 billion from aeg. the on the money they say michael could have learned had he not died suddenly four years ago at the age of 50. at least 11 of 35 at atlanta educators have been booked for their roles in an alleged conspiracy to falsify students standardized test court -- stores. those are rendering include three testing coordinator, school improvement coordinator, an assistant principal, a so-called success for all facilitator and five teachers. said by district county attorney for all the suspect is rented

why the insufficient review by the state department. i wrote a piece a while back that suggested that one of the contractors even the state department hired to do some of the survey you had enormous conflicts of interest is that the case and if so why wasn't that caught. and is this well answer though well you know i should say there was. environmental groups are already pressing to state department investigator investigator general to look at the process this time around and see if there were conflicts of interest with the new contractor that did the review but what we know is from e.p.a. which has expertise on these issues the environmental review wasn't up to snuff and the e.p.a. also found the keystone x.l. was a project with significant environmental impacts in stark contrast with the state department's findings yeah ok so now this in the setup i talked about you know these problems that have a been identified in and various groups saying hey wait a minute stop pause take a look will there be a reevaluation will there be a new study

the united states flag and the texas play was the same guy with the only state and with a republic that can do that the other players have a lot below him whatever is on top of that the female bits on top of a flag sets precedent if it's a ball it's military. eagle it's a present. one of these days i'm a snippet there but i'm at hamburg on top that american flag. let's go to the cabin know. given that. it's two feet higher than washington d.c. did you. ever think texas is a bigger. always. we have got or only. got our own money. it was good to get the bill and higher than or just in d.c. that a bad. texas was fighting. defending itself against the armies of santa ana from mexico. they chose the gold star as their emblem says republic of texas. best seal was a dog. did in eighteen thirty seven and is still in the capitol building today right here in the very center of the building. which is just another evidence that the republic of texas has not gone away there's just a different form of government covering it that's the land the people and the culture and the spirit of texas are still

the world engender more hatred towards the united states government if not the united states people then anything else that takes place and i think what we need to really be talking about is that and not sort of these sort of well if they come get us how do we go get them you know eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth the real question is how do we create sort of a system in this world that's based on humanity based on you know sort of mutual aid if you will neutral support and not one based on through these reciprocal acts of violence which is what i think these hypotheticals when they're posed in the u.s. media and polls like shows like twenty four you know would you kill a baby if you knew there was going to be a terrorist attack next week or something like you know it never happens that way but you know people pose these questions it's sort of put us in a sense of fear and make us answer in a way that i think is always the most warlike. and let's talk. talk about foreign policy in general right now we're hearing a lot of strong rhetoric coming from the political media establishment

whatever the united states determines to be human rights violation is whatever the united states does is not a human rights violation as china's report war and much as i've gone time appear to be getting was the u.s. military's this punched and imagine sitting of doctors to the facility as medics already that a wound by a long term hunger strike at stevens in august or tied on a medical corps officer and a former senior adviser to the defense department sort of might not be known before the protest. typically people get very sick after about fifty days in which they've not had any food but are taking water so they may be getting very sick and i think there's a fear that a number may die within the next several weeks but all the world medical associations are categorically and ethically against force feeding the reason being is that is in fact disrupts what is most important which is establishing a constructive relationship were poorer with the hunger strikers and being able to discuss the terms of their protest the this is a they if they have it also. really overrides there are some a

he turned to the u.s. statef 22 cases. but, remember, this is self-reporting and there might be many more cases. >> ambassador susan jacobs is the u.s. state department's special advisor on children's issues. egypt, she says, is a difficult country to deal with because it's not signed on to the hague convention regarding children's issues, which allows, in some cases, for the return of abducted kids. >> is there no way we can't say to egypt you want $3 billion a year for your 34i8 tear? give us back these kids that are american citizens. >> i would argue we have a very complex relationship with egypt that goes beyond military aid. we are trying to work with egypt's government as they transition to democracy to encourage all kinds of new practices. and one of them would be adherence to the hague convention or to recognize u.s. court orders and we'll continue to urge them to do that. but i don't think we're going to just say we're through with you if you don't do this one thing. we have many things that we want yo

secretary john kerry secretary of state says and others say that we the united states is sending sixty percent of a vast military armada to to the to the east asia the western pacific now they say the excuse given is there's more economic activity there so the u.s. needs to send troops well down the street here there's a sale it may small that there's a lot of economic activity do we need to send troops it is it is just an absurdity it's a nonsense as far as keeping the seas open there you know want to strengthen to close the seas china needs open seas for its development so that doesn't make sense i think that this is yet another attempt by the united states to maintain its headroom and. status in the world and i think there's a bit of panic going on here in the united states foreign policy establishment because if they cannot break china up then the united states is destined if china is to become a moderately prosperous country and bring wellbeing to its citizens then the united states will be set in place just for a few of the different population i think so i think this is a

and of course i said it's good news which means increased funding for us and primarily from the state and the feds. large increase in homeless services, you'll see from 88.9 million to 102 million. this represents a bit of a reconciliation for our federal mckinney dollars. the grant cycle and the federal fiscal year don't exactly match. they don't match at all, our local fiscal year. and so every year when we apply for these grant funds they come in at a different time. so we're trying to get a solid and standard way of recognizing that in the local budget and avoid the fluctuations we might see year to year. it doesn't necessarily represent new money but trying to make it a little simpler to make year-to-year comparisons. some of the -- another big piece is a shift of transitional housing for our youth and/or homeless service area which is not a new program but it's budget mechanics shifting that. we have funding for expansion of housing for families and single adults. some through our federal application process. and then funding for possibly a new emergency shelter in bayview hunte

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that's the point he made. states have the right to be right. he said this, states have the right to be wrong. but if tennessee or throw or any state can lower -- can collect taxes from everybody who owes it, it can lower the tax rate for everybody. that's why so many conservative leaders support this. art laffer, art cardenis, chairman of the american conservative union, governor mitch daniels, almost all the republican governors support this. but all we're deciding here in this two-page bill -- 11-page bill is two words -- do we respect states' rights to decide their own tax policy, do we respect states' rights as the tenth amendment suggests we do? as far as regular order, i wish the finance committee had reported a bill. this legislation was first introduced in some form in 2001. as the chairman of the finance committee said, he had a hearing on part of it last year. that was good. the commerce committee had a hearing on almost this identical 11-page bill last august. there have been repeated requests of the chairman of the finance committee

could be about to boost its military presence in the gulf states raising questions about its priorities as a cozies up to genes with poor human rights records. as a.t.m. in the russian capital watching r t with me marina joshua welcome to the program how the u.s. has for years been calling for crack down on corruption within afghanistan's government but it turns out behind the curtains american officials may have played a driving role in the shadowy deals there media reports suggest that millions of dollars in cash are regularly shipped to the afghan leadership in return for u.s. influence and running the country president hamid karzai has confirmed a shipment of claims that there is scope is being exaggerated details from our she's got a. both u.s. and afghan officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to the new york times and said that for many years the cia had paid tens of millions of dollars in what they say was ghost money to the office of president karzai the afghan government has received billions of dollars in u.s. taxpayers money but the officials say that the secret cash t

head of the state. year-oldelevate our 60- alliance to new heights. we pledge to make every effort to ensure a successful summit. else, in anything discussed the serious nature of the security situation on the peninsula,-- korean including north korea's nuclear testing and threats from the north. we agreed to further strengthen credible and robust deterrence's. the secretary and i expressed satisfaction over the progress made in the deterrence encounter propagation plan. i reaffirmed that my government's strong commitment to work closely with the united states on north korean policy. secretary perry and i agree that north korea -- kerry and i agree north korea should abandon its nuclear ambitions and dangerous rhetoric. we agreed to collaborate full implementation of the u.s. secretary council resolution. i also reiterated my government's trust as the north korea makes the right choice. i also emphasized that peasant -- present and past the policy to promote peace in corp. lies in the united states polic

we did it in the state of hawaii and the surrounding operating area. it brought forth 22 nations, roughly 25,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines. but one of the things that we did embedded in this rim pac exercise was a five-day humanitarian assistance disaster relief. we used it as an accreditation not only for some of our adaptive force packages, but more importantly to the state of hawaii to allow them to get an accreditation that they needed for 13 of their hospitals where we set up on ford island, those familiar with the oahu island geography, we utilized ford island and we had a scenario where there was an earthquake with a resultant tsunami and mass casualties along with the destruction that goes with it to the road infrastructure and communication. and, so, we were able to parlay, if you will, this opportunity to leverage off our international partners. we had seven nations that out of the 22 that actually participated in the hadr, and there were probably also 19 of the 22 that at least observed. but there were 7 of us that actually particip

an effort to put the power of the people back into our democracy how will these efforts in the keystone state influence the national fight to overturn citizens united and take corporate cash out of our politics and with cypresses economy already in despair and a bailout plan in place that will only inflict more painful austerity policies on that nation what should say priest be doing right now to prevent another economic and financial breakdown. you need to know this two separate oil spills in arkansas and minnesota last week ever reignited the debate about the risks of tar sands crude oil these latest disasters are disheartening on their own right but they could be just a glimpse into what will happen. if president obama proves the keystone x.l. pipeline extension plan according to republicans in oil industry advocates the pipeline will be a boon for the economy creating thousands of jobs and lowering oil prices nationwide trans canada itself those as the pipeline will increase u.s. gas prices there is moving their way out of the gulf of mexico to refine for export and environmentalist argue

the benefit to our economy. your state department has said that there is no significant greenhouse gas issues with it or problems with regard to global warming. and so i'm kind of wondering why the administration continues to stall on that. also regarding liquid natural gas, we have an over abundance of l.n.g. in this country, and a great opportunity to export, especially to the caribbean. economiccurrent problems in venezuela and i think their diminished capacity to provide this great commodity, we have a phenomenal opportunity, again, to provide jobs in the united states and export the president said he wants to double our exports over the next five years. i wholeheartedly endorse that idea. it's wonderful. here's an opportunity to actually put our money where our mouth is. i'm wondering what it's going to take to get the department of energy to get off the dime on issuing these permits so that we can get on with exporting that, especially to the caribbean. and finally, i am a strong supporter of the transcontinental hyd

border and goes to the refineries in washington state. the company that is proposing this, being smart, has decided not to add anything to the spur. the u.s. government has absolutely no say in this project. the environmentalists here cannot put pressure on obama because obama can't do anything about the line. >> that oil is dirty oil relatively so. would that limit how much can come into california to a refinery? >> possibly. the oil that is coming through, there are several different products coming through that line. a lot of it is stuff called diluted bit. bita bita bitamet. it is what you find in the oil sands of alberta. you have to heat it up and dilute it with something else lighter to get it to flow. that stuff basically behaves a bit differently if it spills than regular old oil will. in terms of coming into the state, some of it already does. we have about 2.4% of our oil in california from that pipeline. but we do have a law on the books now that is going to force refineries to cut the carbon intensity of the fuels they sell in

had taken steps to ensure that a prisoner can ever threaten the united states in the future whatever threaten might mean in that context. and obviously no state can guarantee that a future event will or will not occur but that was the point the point was to discourage transfers from guantanamo citizens of forty eight countries in total have been held in guantanamo since the opening of the prison in two thousand and two the majority of them were from afghanistan and over the years most of them have been transferred back to afghanistan the second largest group of captives were from saudi arabia then yemen then pakistan but you see the scope of the manhunt it included forty eight countries as of now it's not just the yemeni nationals who are stuck in this legal limbo but the rest as well michael williams. senior advisor for guantanamo policy in the office of the legal advisor at the u.s. department of state testified before a human rights commission and here's what he said we will continue to work through the secretary of state and the other arms for us government

statement is a big black eye for the state department and a big blow to the keystone x.l. pipeline the e.p.a. basically reaffirmed was environmental groups and scientists have been saying for a long time the diff pipeline is dangerous because it's guaranteed to spill over some of america's richest farmland and most important freshwater it will cause massive amounts of pollution in the refinery communities which are already bearing the brunt of the fossil fuel industry is dirty energy and third that it will have a big impact on our climate the state department's been trying to argue that it doesn't matter whether whether or not we build that pipeline that that tar sands will be developed anyways e.p.a. went back and said look that isn't true this pipeline is a critical piece of infrastructure and if it's built it will have a big negative impact on our climate and sea jamie so you mentioned water what impact could this crude have on the waterways you know how is it going to a fact this valuable asset and others as it travels down. well we've seen a little bit of that in mayf

the north koreans have stated they will attack u.s. targets and those of its allies. >> they have nuclear capacity now. they have missile delivery capacity now. and some of the actions they've taken over the last few weeks present a real and clear danger and threat to the interests, certainly, of our allies. >> commanders at the pentagon say they'll deploy a missile defense system to the u.s. specific territory of guam. they say they need to increase their defenses against a possible attack. state media in north korea broadcast another threat soon after hagel spoke. a spokesperson for north korea's army said they would inform the u.s. government that they have a possible nuclear strike. the statement said america's hostile policy would be smashed. >>> experts on security studies and international relations say the u.s. don't think the north korean leaders will go to war. here's from the national defense academy of japan. >> the united states has come to see the threat of north korea more seriously than ever now. there are two types of d

the states are saying you have to have the baby making sex and you have to have the resulting baby. y state laws that might cover what to do with them afterwards? [cheers and applause] let's head out to the volunteer state. >> we'll go to tennessee and tell but a state senator by the name of stacy campfield. he doesn't have children but he has an idea. [laughter] >> jon: go on. [ laughter ] >> if your kids don't get good grades, in other words don't pass, they would cut your welfare benefits 30%. [audience boos] >> jon: moochers. let me see if i can get this straight. little billy is poor. he is not doing very well in school. i have an idea, what if we made him poorer? [laughter] and told his family it was his failt. [ laughter ] huh? last semester my grades were bad because i was hungry and colder but this semester i'm hungrier and colder and my family isn't talking to me so bring on the long division. [ laughter ] is stacy campfield a state senator or a village from a dickens novel? but i guess from the state of tennessee -- [cheers and applause] i guess from the state of tennessee