to the united states economy. and israel accounts for 25% of u.s. exports to the middle east. united states and israel share a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship that has attracted intell, microsoft and google to israel. tens of thousands of jobs in the united states are created by israeli companies and it has the third most companies on nasdaq. and 65 years, israel has accomplished extraordinary achievements whether in technology, business, agriculture or defense. its innovations and advancements contribute to the daily lives of all americans. for example, some of the most important technology we use every day, including instant messenger, voice mail and computer processor was developed in israel. me medical is saving us. and israeli developed medical technologies are protecting american troops. mr. speaker, our partnership with israel is not just an investment in american jobs and american prosperity, but investment in freedom and democracy, simply put, investing in israel is investing in america and we

would the united nations be in the traditional center for diplomacy, or would it move to the united states? to make a fresh start? but the idea of center is a very transitional sort of concept at this time. ideas of time and space were being transformed by transportation, by communications technology. the world was coming closer together, but not everyone was thinking of it that way yet. and so there's some very interesting discussions where people are talking about distance. some people talk about it in terms of miles, but other people talk about it in terms of hours, and the hours distance was changing. commercial aviation was about to take off, and for that reason any place could make the argument that when they got their fabulous new airport, they were going to be the center of the world. and they could very easily accommodate the united nations. they make in this point with maps as you see here. this is the black hills' campaign, and you see the concentric circles moving outward. and you see the airplanes coming in from if each continent. -- from each continent. no problem, everyone c

to 10 units. and that it was intended to cover the entirety of the city. there was an oversight in the drafting of that legislation. it failed to pick up a special use district within south of market area, the children youth and family zone. so, this legislation currently would just make explicit that adjustment from the children youth and family zone from five units to 10 units to be consistent with the policy throughout the city. it also makes a slight adjustment. there is additional trigger or threshold within the children youth and family zone for inclusion in the inclusionary program of a 40 foot height limit. in order not to provide incentives for developers to sort of squish or reduce the height of a ground floor and to be consistent with the city's policy around height bonuses throughout the city, we have recommended increasing that height limit from 40 feet to 45 feet. so, those two -- those corrective measures for the children youth and family zone and the 20% reduction for the on-site r

for a four unit, three units need to be occupied by owners. i think it is important for decision makers to listen to all parties and ultimately make decisions that seek the best interest of everyone, and i think that this is what we are doing today. thank you. >> thank you. president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. and first let me start by thanking all the members of the audience for your patience and not just today, but over the last few months in getting us to where we are today. as supervisors yee and farrell alluded to, i will be introducing amendments to the proposed bypass legislation. and i want to take a moment first to thank the many tenant organizations that have worked with my office and our supervisors on this from the san francisco tenants union to the affordable housing alliance, ccdc, to the housing rights committee, the tenderloin housing clinic, just cause, and many other organizations that have been passionate on this topic and have really helped to shape i think many of our thinking on it. i also want to take a moment and th

diplomats would opt for the united states the united states, was the most important thing. they wanted to give the u.n. a start and so they said let's leave decisions to the diplomats. so the diplomatic committees who came over have little familiarity with the united states and they were trusting the boosters to guide them along in the boosters are more than happy to do it. they did come a point where they revisited the last group of cities, or the united states government to become more involved and did step in the final days to say the east coast is better than the west coast, but there is still fighting the decision go with the u.n. wanted it to go. thank you. >> why did they abandon the desire to be no closer than 25 miles to the city? was at the financial help they got to purchase one? >> yes. part of it was a financial issue at the suburban land in the first place, which was hugely expensive and i think these are people who would come up in diplomacy and the aged peerless i'm period were used to going places and taking what they needed to take. landed fairfield and we

states win the war even during the armistice talks between the united nations this united states and the so-called united nations forces in 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 suffered drops nuclear bombs today with that during a war time the media doesn't seem to talk about 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 three. that's that have been happening for the last couple years i think so without a doubt i mean not to mention there was a war between north korea 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 acros

cannot construct a peace in the region do you agree with this i mean is it that the united states is incapable of fostering peace or simply going willing to do so the united states showed when it felt major strategic interests were involved multiple times in the seventy's and the eighty's that it could impose or at least forcefully advocate for egyptian israeli peace for disengagement agreements between syria and israel or egypt and israel before that so it's not true that the united states cannot put its weight into the scales on this issue it has not in fact if it puts it some on any side of the scale in the palestine israel conflict it has done so on the israeli side so i think there are multiple myths and what gibbs said there one is that there is an ongoing peace process there is not and has not been for a long time and the other is that they're there implicitly to equal parties in this there is a dominant israeli state which has been in existence for sixty four years which has nuclear weapons it's a regional superpower and which completely dominates the palestinians and there i

well i would agree that in large part to the united states because it. sort of bogged down in the middle east because the largely because of the impact of the israeli lobby has not been able to counter china in the way it would like but i'd like to i'd like to go to henry kissinger here for a second. henry kissinger in his book on china which is not a bad book actually talks about a fundamentally different culture in china from that of the west and i think we should listen to him on this point because for example if you look at the fifteenth century when china was the most powerful nation in the world it sent out ships bigger than anything columbus would dream of one hundred years later traded. it it traded it explored but unlike the west it did not conquer it did not in slaves that is the western tradition and if you think we've escaped that history. and i mean the way things look british empire is really i mean but the united states and hired i mean this was a neil going it's plain as the nose on your face. you know quite obvious wait a second. second

mittly out f the united states. there 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 procedurely in order to enforce this law. ironically, most law enforcement officers disagreed with the 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. we certainly demonstrated the 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

containment of iran now so china's next well i think there's little doubt about that because the united states 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

will the united states continue to be bound by this commitment? well, you know, this is entirely up to any individual american president. it's been turnedded into a civillous, no daylight, no surprises, i mean, what started as a letter from an american president has now become a principle of american political life. it was repeatedly reaffirmed in the campaign by the republicans. this is a president that's throwing israel under the bus, allowed daylight, no daylight, our position, their position, identical, tell them everything, can't surprise them, tell them ahead of time. you know, any president can do anything he or she wants. i don't know. i don't see this president necessarily abandoned that, however. .. you have to have a strategy. i haven't seen the slightest inkling of a strategy from a palestinian petition for years. what are they doing, how are they going to get there? i just don't see that. i see nothing in anything they say or do. if it were up to me, i would be trying to increase resistance on the ground to the grinding and trying to

well i would agree that in large part the the united states because ticket. sort of bogged down in the middle east because the largely because of the impact of the israeli lobby has not been able to counter china in the way it would like but i'd like to i'd like to go to henry kissinger here for a second. henry kissinger in its own country which is not a bad book actually talks about a fundamentally different culture in china from that of the west and i think we should listen to him on this point because for example if you look at the fifteenth century when china was the most powerful nation in the world it sent out ships bigger than anything columbus would dream of one hundred years later traded. it it traded it explored but unlike the west it did not conquer it did not in slaves that is the western tradition and if you think we've escaped that history. and i mean the way things look british empire is really i mean but the united states and wired i mean this was a neil going it's plain as the nose on your face i don't hate you not to equate our vehicles with

and they see the united states is the primary threat. all right into the are they now starting with hundreds of people that have turned out him but to protest against the fiction of a sick sixty seven year old woman who died later on a homeless shelter and mourners laid flowers and candles and memory are rapidly rising rent in the capital has forced a number of longtime residents from their homes to places on the outskirts of the city where costs the cheaper. the first case of flu has been confirmed in the chinese capital beijing the h seven n nine virus has already killed eleven nationwide more than thirty have been infected and the latest outbreak has already caused some countries to ban poultry imports from china the critics are warning against mass panic as seen in the case of the swine flu of two thousand and nine when pharmaceutical companies benefited financially the governments worldwide splashed millions on vaccines many of which were later thrown away. a plane carrying more than one hundred seventy passengers has skidded off a

the inmates are on the move. >> we move inmates out of these units often so we can do unit repairs.y will be relocated to another unit while that is being done. >> put your stuff behind your back and your hands on the wall. >> the inmates carry their possessions inside sheets. before they're allowed off to enter the new unit. officers conduct a shakedown for contraband. >> the more contraband i find, the more i'm going to throw out. >> finally the inmates are taken to a unit, almost identical to the one they left. but one of them has decided his time in the unit is up. >> hey, you, just stand there for me. >> kyle beauchamp says he is straight but requested to be housed with homosexuals when he was first booked into the jail. older inmates told him with his green hair it would be safer than general population. >> a lot of times some of the convicts will mess with the young ones. they'll sit in the holding cell with the young cats. they will see how naive they are. tell them stuff like when you talk to the officer make sure you tell them you want this, this, this. messing with them.

his unit isn't recorded. his unit could be condo-ized. last time we were here and all the tic owners came out, my unit is clean. how in the (bleep) do you know that? and i think for all of us who lived here a long time or have family members who live here who are vulnerable, and my dad's building was so old. it's like how long do you have to wait on the edge of your seat to see what happens? what does that possibly mean? i believe you all -- you're trying to make a decision about good housing in san francisco and sometimes the question is about like -- sometimes i wonder if the question really is about tic owners who, when they talk, it sounds like they should have known, but they were conned into believing they could quickly condo-ize their unit after buying them. or is this really about [speaker not understood]? >> thank you very much. >>> [speaker not understood]. >> next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. sue vaughan. [speaker not understood], i'm not speaking on behalf of the sierra club right now. i have a friend and in 2008

the united states lost in vietnam because it failed its strategy. nor can you use this kind of counterinsurgency to explain why or to use it as the main causative factor as to why violence dropped in iraq by the end of 2007. the premise, ben, to your question which is, i think, an important one because there are different ways of counterrerring and -- countering an insurgency. and i agree with the ambassador that there should be a variety of tasks or techniques or methods that the united states has when it decides that it is going to use military force to counter an insurgency. the problem with american counterinsurgency today as it was laid out in field manual 3-24 which became elevated all the way up to the level of strategy, policymakers were using its language, is that there really isn't any variety. there is only one way to go about doing it. that's sort of the operational method. i mean, this is what rajiv is talking about. that is for the american military in 2009 when there was a legitimate or there was an attempt at a strategic debate in af

united states bureau of. the united states own as can folks and throw all the. states on. these records state and texas because first. the senate ratified the treaty with texas for friendship commerce and navigation in eight hundred forty three but refused to ratify. a year later and eighteen forty four. december outgoing president john tyler proposed that texas yeah next by a joint post of the us congress that past february of forty five. 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 form a new constitution and took another vote to secede or not. the united states declared the vote in the constitution null and void. with three what people didn't understand. the stakes never see the dates. in they were and they were taken to vote to secede and you cannot cede troops up and you never see did. jay james be heard or the. anybody after chickens man they get their day at the you know you know go after james tickets. feet. and they'd run away to the dump a man. told. them t

they have a refugee unit. we also have a state refugee health coordinator in the department of public health. that funding comes from those two programs to provide services like long-term employment services, establish as a second language, some funding for after school, funding for longer term case management, some funding for immigration services. so that's where the state government is involved. the state of georgia doesn't actually provide additional funding for refugee programs. some states do and some don't. the funding passes through the state until georgia. so our state refugee coordinator who is responsible for coordinating that program to make sure services are provided and to hand the contracts and that sort of thing. so that is very quick nuts and bolts about how the process so that is very quick nuts and bolts about how the process works in georgia. some of the things we're proud of in georgia, we have -- we are tied with texas for having the early self-sufficiency rate in the country. [applause]

palestinian ben fients in the united pageses. the palestinian national movement is in one of its lowest moments in the entire modern history of the people, and the fact there's divided leadership and ineffective leadership means that you're not seeing the kind of effective use of the tool that you could see, but in order to use something like u.n. membership or going to the international criminal court or any other diplomatic or any other tool at your disposal, you have to have a strategy. what are they doing? i see nothing in anything they say or do. i mean, if it were up to me, i would be trying to increase resistance on the ground to the gripping annexation and occupation process, trying to increase pressure externally, by, i don't know where you would go or what you do, but there's a million things you can do, and i would say that this is a process that was supposed to, according to the letter of ashurpses that you have right here, u.s. letter of assurances, right here, the tattered copies that i used back in 1991. this proce

local law enforcement officials who say that in fact the foreign government that had requested the united states questioned the older brother. was according to them the russian government saying that this older brother should be looked into in terms of his any possible links with extremist groups and from what we know the f.b.i. did in fact question him they took him in for questioning they were in fact tracking his social networking sites for quite some time but as we found out and discovered obviously the f.b.i. did not deem necessary at the time to keep following this young man because they did not find anything suspicious in his behavior back in two thousand and eleven we certainly know that obviously the the arrest of the younger brother took place they're going to try to find out more about this exactly how soon and what exactly kind of connections the older and the younger brother might have had to extremist groups possibly outside the united states so we do know that the older brother twenty six year old to maryland did in fact traveled to the north caucuses back in january two th

states united states in my view has not given you're not going to have any possibility of resolution i think it's risky when we when we discuss the peace process as as kind of just the subject i want to read something that you wrote in a recent new york times column you said that the american led process has alternately strengthened the israeli far right and made palestinian self-determination more unattainable than ever continuing with the orwellian grotesquery that is the peace process is contrary to any enlightened definition of american self interest which he would you say that through the conflict the united states has only served to exacerbate the problem. the palestinian israeli conflict absolutely absolutely the united states diplomatically supports israel when it resists united nations efforts to censure it for its gross violations of international law it says to the. when they try and take things the united nations no no go negotiate those of the israelis and then the israelis stonewall them and so in effect the united states is the defender and the supporter of things like

or transfer interest in that tenant occupied unit. what i had proposed was we would prohibit any contract or option to transfers until the recording of the map has happened. mr. malmud, would you like to add? >> john malmud from the city attorney's office. i think the intent is to create a condition that would be placed on the tentative parcel map approval or the tentative [speaker not understood] map approval that would be imposed upon the property owner that if they are obligated in a sense to honor the lifetime lease provisions if they are -- and if they are to enter into a contract to sell the unit in advance of the subdivision map being approved, that that requirement would be imposed on the new owner. so, it's finding some language to create that kind of protection which i think was the intent behind the language, but it's not -- there wouldn't be a outright prohibition on the sale. >> so, to follow-up on my question from earlier, is that something that you think may be approvable as to form? i understand that you have not writt

the united states, given 30 seconds of background, obviously, the united states has said if the syrians have used chemicals that would constitute cross ago red line so i think if we can ascertain with confidence the syrians have used chemicals chemical weapons it is important we respond, we don't want others think they can do such things with impunity on the other hand there ought to be a ceiling on our response and not sending ground troops. >> rose: nobody is talking about that, are they? >> well, if you are talking about -- >> rose: anybody in congress is recommending armed troops? anything anybody in the administration. >> not in in the administration, but if you follow the logic of the interventionist if your goal is to get rid of assad and a syria where you have civil strife or humanitarian suffering or a democratic outcome then the only way to have any confidence you would get there is not just with air power but with ground troops. >> rose: but even john mccain who i heard over the weekend say i am not talking about ground troops, on the other hand, and you would know more about

why is the united team doing. its between a number of different forces so you have the united states on the one hand the united kingdom feels that it cannot defend any matter what sort of chemistry. on the other hand you have it's into relationships in europe that it wants to be seen in some ways in europe to be part of europe mystic population a part of. the united kingdom actually wants to ship the problem away as fast as possible but now of course it overstepped. and not the state has intervened ecuador this is not right and we want to project out. in showing to do so. and so there is a clash now of cultures. rule of law. and your property. police stand accused of using human shield tactics that's after they tracked the palestinian scene in front of a crowd of protesters say they only did it to show he was unharmed to calm the anger. and the state for so seize greece put some of its most tragic properties under the hammer tearing the cuts but in nation between necessity and pride our poor home and more still ah

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 differe

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the entrance of the united states. to a certain number of russian citizens and what i have heard about mr goodere if it is only what was published in the new york times is that there are some important personalities following the blacklist but the irony of all of this is that to my mind president obama has become hostage to this list has become hostage to the n.t. and russian elements in the u.s. congress because basically obama needs a cooperation with russia and he's a corporation on korea it is a corporation and they run on so many other regional and global issues in his corporation if he wants to make progress in the cuts. nuclear armaments and so on but by having signed this law and by having enlarged the list has become a hostage to a very negative dynamic in the relationship and so i seeing that is like shooting oneself in the leg so i don't really see the rational for this from the point of view of a bomb administration which claims to be an administration that is paying attention to multilateralism to internat

draw moon and north korea is afraid of the united states. well barbarism as it has been historically have should i wonder what the next steps are going to be than what's the likelihood that north korea will come to the negotiating table maybe it will happen but what if it doesn't. well though north korea said they want to talk and it's the united states that is just ramping up pressure and any kind of violation it is if the united states wants this kind of gesturing and brinkmanship to help its troops and their military facilities it's putting them in australia all around china what's necessary now is urgent talks because of course the worst case scenario probably more likely than any other kind of attack is a mistake being made and that's all remember that north korea is a militarized society any bombs it sends to south korea in a highly urban populations will kill lots of people as for any retaliation against north korea well the united states bore most of it in the fifty's and they have underground tunnels the effect on north korea of any

i think it would be best to say that the behavior of the united states and the allies is the greatest threat to the treaty because the united states and western powers have been treating iran normally not only unfairly but also. in a very disturbing manner the sanctions that have been imposed upon ordinary iranians and their attempts to make ordinary iranians suffer in order for iran to put aside its nuclear program are really pathological if you look at it objectively the iranian nuclear program from the very beginning was supported by western powers billions of dollars were invested after the revolution the iranians felt that they cannot throw that investment out the window and to this state there's been no deaths over there iran's nuclear program has been anything but peaceful so iran is working within the framework of international law the n.p.t. and the united states and its allies are violating fundamental human rights of the iranian people by trying to wreck the iranian economy and by trying to make ordinary iranians suffer ok tom would you like to reply to that in washington.

we know that in the united states that there has been action taken.i know just today on the hill there are confirmation hearings with respect to possible new secretary of energy, and these are exactly the sorts of questions that are being asked. you know, should there be a price on carbon? should there be investment in carbon capture and storage? we think it's important for political leadership to take steps, and we've certainly see tremendous progress in the united states. i think that there could be more. takenk even consumers can different steps with respect to their commitment to public transit. but i don't think that one particular project needs to symbolize the whole piece. it's a complicated business. it is important for us to be building technologies. it's important for us to be greening the energy economy. it's important for us to be investing in things like carbon capture and storage and to have a price on carbon. you can do all of those things, but you can still allow the pipe to go ahead because the pipe will have such a significant impact

and they see the united states as the primary threat. now this secret pretty for extra bailout puts a brick wall in the face of the. eurozone losing to make do with a turn by the euro rescue while costs when you can see it quickly spiral out of control and nothing is up to the bridge. that's a meteorite only. ten thousand tons kowtowed through space towards russia. with the power. of a nuclear bomb. should have been sky full on r.t. . campaign and again venezuela chooses a new president chavez choice runs against a free market poster boy for possible venezuela choose after coming down taste death self-styled socialism or free market model venezuela votes april fourteenth on r.t.e. . this is the line from moscow welcome back now a turn bet on bailouts for signs purses not all but guaranteed after heroes and finance ministers settled on the fine print the same officials the purse which is asking for more that that's all it would get me to see it will need to come up with in britain viewers almost twice the amount of money needed just weeks

the purpose is not related to the number of converted units. we need the suspension, even if there were no converted units. we need the testimony earlier today by tenants who are being evicted and the seniors who are being displaced by the evictions that are used as a direct result in the defects in that law which allow to the creation of the tics without respect to the number of condo lottery slots that are created it is an unsustainable path of growth that tic speculators have created. that is why we have more than 2500, a backlog of more than 2500 units in the current lottery. and so, we have a speculative investment real estate market which is generating more and more tic sales and based upon the evictions of the tenants that we need a ten year suspension is to clear that market out and send a message that they will need to wait a while before they are going to be able to convert. secondly with respect to the increased ownership requirements. we need this, we need to, it is very clear and also because of this current buffer, that we cannot