a parking space for that unit. and again we have the cfc and the 3 r report and that is what we base our decision on thank you. >> >> there are a couple of references that ened up as a single family dwelling that was allege and what is the out come. >> they filed it and that was kind of restarted in early june. and dbi, i think that we received, like the complaint on june fifth and they investigated on june 6th and determined that they had done the work beyond the scope of the per permit and they submited in late june and then maybe, that was basically to bring it back to what was my understanding to what was authorized under the previous permit that reconfigured so that there were two units in the building that the upper two units and the two flats were merged and the lower one of those was essentially relocated to the basement level and so that was my understanding to the out come of the investigation. >> it was not a violation and it did appeared that they had merged it into one? >> yes. that was again another f

states as well and this is still an economic model that the united states. control globally yes no that's absolutely right. and so you know what this this particular brand of capitalism than america is champion which is woman and we call the end of the pyramid scheme capitalism whereby you know you just build up a mountain of debt while your. earning yourself huge fees and then when the whole economy goes belly up you go to the government and the government bails you out while all of the victims of the loans the small borrowers get thrown out of their homes and out onto the street so this kind of pyramid scheme capitalism. is has really been championed by the united states and the and this is been very much you know again since the end of the cold war the united states was of a strong advocate what we got to get rid of all of those and not just socialism but the social democracies in europe we got to get rid of that euro sclerosis all of the you know welfare lack of job mobility you know we got to be like the united states you know this is that where we have

world look like today if china where the same military strike had the same military strength of the united states you know on par. it won't be a cold war i think it will be a series of wars by proxies because both countries need. quite a bit of energy quite a bit oil natural gas to survive and we are past the point of cheap oil and cheap energy these countries will have to jocky each other out of the way and they will fight each other frankly it is already happening and it will only intensify in the future and this is not necessarily a china's fault because it has to do this to survive. you know it needs to. import have of its food for example. is the pentagon so much from the outside to survive. so it must fight for survival so and the u.s. will also be found a status so it won't be a cold war it will be a series of hot wars if not. the right confrontation between these two powers ok dan not a very optimistic future what do you think the proposition is china is the same military strength of the united states go ahead well i would disagree with something you said in your introduction which

lead and combine that into one larger unit and have a second unit the second legal unit relocated to the require of the garage basement. and it was occupied and deemed to be the illegal unit. and that was following the requirements and we amoved that and there was an appeal that was filed on that permit. and however, it was subsequently withdrawn a few days after the appeal had been filed. and i think that was the same as the jurisdiction requestor. >> and so that was last year in 2012, and in june of this year, the department and the planning and building received complaints that the building had illegally been converted into a single family dwelling and they had a permit to remove the third unit and to reconfigure the units but not to merge it down to a single family. and the dbi investigated and found out that there was a valid complaint and the permit holder sought a permit to correct that and comply with the plans that were for last year. and subsequent to that, i received a call from the person who had the party before who had been in the requestor and the appellant and wrote t

go ahead well i would agree that that in large part to the united states because to. sort of drill 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 and it's broken 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 of the second i mean the latest in the british empire is really i mean but the united states and wired i mean listen as neil going it's plain as the nose on your face. you know quite out of the little way th

well i would disagree with something you said in your introduction which is that the united states is a unilateral power today i think we live today in a world of multilateral power i think we're in a kind of pre-one nine hundred fourteen moment where you have several great powers certainly the united states is that has been the dominant superpower but if you look right now at any place in the world you can see for example that russia can be a check to u.s. power in one place. in other areas and what about alan what about iraq's a little bit about iraq that's very unilateralist well i don't think so at all i think that we're seeing that there are other powers in the region that are i mean look at the whole you can't just look at a loan you have one of the day but it's less and less limited iraq everybody little child everybody rather great powers and from the people of the middle east which is most important a great challenge coming from below in society. i'm sorry i didn't hear what you were all right well what do we say with china what would the world be like if china if china were

removed the illegal unit. and ub consequently more than a year later after all worse being compared and the recommendation to revoke the permits which we understand why it came out and i want to emphasize that it will be unjust to act on that suggestion. they have to be able to rely on the information that the city gives out just like all of the residents of the city have to rely on that i know that you have received a number of support letters, and from people in the community and emphasizing that point that i will not belabor it. >> no one was actually life ng this unit that was removed and there were no beds there and the tenants who i believe who is here tonight was utesing it as a man cave and an extension of his office and at his request hearing, the members of the planning department set up and explained that that would be an inconist ent use of the zoning of the building and so there has not been a loss of someone's tenantcy and so we believe that this gentleman rents a residential house in the procidi

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter logo is the united states of america a force for good in the world with the largest economy and an unmatched military critics claim washington's defined geopolitical interests always trump its loudly proclaimed values friends of washington are given a free pass and it means real or imagined to be destroyed and replaced. to process whether the united states is a force for good i'm joined by george samuel in new york he is a fellow at the global policy institute of london metropolitan university and in washington we cross to bruce stokes he is the director of global economic attitudes at the pew research center all right gentlemen it's just the three of us crosstalk rules in effect i mean you can jump in anytime you want and i really encourage it george the broad question is the united states a force for good in the world today. no i don't really think so. if we think of the post cold warrior of the began since one thousand eight hundred nine which would also call the uni polar air of american global headroom an a

a parking space for that unit. and again we have the cfc and the 3 r report and that is what we base our decision on thank you. >> >> there are a couple of references that ened up as a single family dwelling that was allege and what is the out come. >> they filed it and that was kind of restarted in early june. and dbi, i think that we received, like the complaint on june fifth and they investigated on june 6th and determined that they had done the work beyond the scope of the per permit and they submited in late june and then maybe, that was basically to bring it back to what was my understanding to what wa

the end of the cold war the united states was a strong ad. god well we got to get rid of all of those and not just socialism but the social democracies in europe we've got to get rid of that euro sclerosis all of the you know welfare lack of job mobility you know we got to be like the united states you know this is that where we have this really dynamic capitalism well we've seen this dynamic as we've seen it you know we had the collapse of the internet bubble in the early two thousand and then we have this of the almighty collapse of the housing bubble we're building up in all the bubble now so you know this this you know known wealth a kind of you know primitive pyramid scheme tabel ism is the last thing anyone in the world would want to emulate ok before we could sort of the programs are going to if i could go you're going to talk about the perceptions of the united states in the middle east but go ahead bruce and i just want to jump in there look i mean george is right if you look at the public opinion surveys we've done in thirty nine co

radio four s today programme and he said that the united nations security council has not been united on syria and has not shouldered its responsibilities on syria and on the question of whether it was possible to act without complete unity on the united nations security council he replies oh dulcie yes it is now no firm decision has been taken on what the response will be or indeed when it will be but the timetable if you like for the next couple of days is this prime minister david cameron has cut short his holiday and he'll be returning to london and then on wednesday he's going to be chairing the national security council meeting and it's going to be there that you'll have all the key decision makers and after that meeting on wednesday you can expect that we'll have perhaps a clearer idea of exactly what those plans will be moving forward now we're still not talking about direct intervention here so no boots on the ground in syria what is being discussed a is a more limited form of military action in the form of its thought pinpoint tomahawk missile strikes now by no means has the

and so there is not a shortage of units and in fact we are building more units unfortunately we are often across purposes because we get caught between a situation with rent stabilization ordinance where there is a fear to eliminate them even with the merger of a single unit which goes against a very lotable projects such as this where a family is going to live there, and they are trying to accommodate their needs and create one functional unit. and a lot of this really has to do with the ordinance more than this particular situation. and so i would hope that we are able to look at this individually, and in the context of just this, because hopefully, some day in the future, the supervisors and the city family will be able to address that in a more equitable way so that it applies to all units not just older units and you know the ones before 1978 which actually need more expensive work and are harder for the people to keep the rents that are level and to be able to do the improvements that are necessary. and the other thing that i did get a report from sharon young and i was very h

states if you live in below the poverty line in the united states you have two cars you have a cell phone you have a microwave and you've got a flat screen television so if you want to talk about people who are living below consumption in a wage light here in the united states take a look at take a look at look at countries all across the world people are living below the minimum wage live the those lives there they don't have the same things that they have in america it's because of the free market system and capitalism that people who are poor in the united states are able to afford the necessities that they need to live a better life we're better off than they were we were one hundred years ago who in the world want to go back a hundred years ago when people were when they had didn't have cars were they were not going out how business nobody has ever said are you going to want to better off you then we said you can afford all these that eric go ahead. who would want to know the one hundred seventy six today but we're not better off than another nine hundred seventy real wages hav

for the last twelve years the united states has been fighting. a war of choice in iraq it war of choice in afghanistan that turned out to be longer battle that a longer fought war than then the vietnam war which also was a war of choice the american people are war weary we know that what's going on inside syria americans even the average american know it's a proxy war we know we're not going to get the correct information from our government and we know that our government officials are only interested in continuing what would be a fear tactic of a continuation of war after war after work to keep the american public in check but warner going to buy into it. a mess of flooded russia's fly isa's schatz's a community says thousands of forces say goodbye to their own party beats of the determined to stay at this and bridge houses to the bitter end. of the us national security agency has been spying on the united nations the headquarters in new york that's according to newly pumping published information leaked by edward snowden i just learned up and

well the term is sort of something that is very recognizable particularly in the united states many of us remember in the one nine hundred eighty s. you know mcdonald's had become sort of emblematic of what low wage jobs were that the mcdonald's work was essentially the lowest one could possibly imagine of course this is a mythology but that was sort of implanted in the popular culture in the united states at that time and i think that recently we've seen symbols such as wal-mart sort of take over that mantle of the low wage exploitative employer but certainly the term mcdonald the zation i think people get the idea that in the united states what we're seeing is a conversion of the economy from what was traditionally a middle and high wage economy to a low wage one recent statistics from the bureau of labor statistics showed that most of the jobs i believe it was something like sixty percent of the jobs that have been lost in this depression are recession whatever want to call it have been not regained and instead have been replaced by low wage jobs that more than two thirds of the job

that the united states is taking on. but cruise missiles will do the business that they're intended to do. >> bob, i want you to also respond to what the general was talking about. also, as we hear the administration talking strictly -- i'm reading today. see the word limited strikes. that's at least what they're saying. do you see any chance at all that they may actually take a shot at bashar assad himself? >> well, this is the problem. i just talked to damascus today. some people in the regime. and this regime is panicking. and they've made it very clear that if any of these strikes like regime change, if they hit, for instance, the fourth division, the president's brother's division, bashar al assad will act irrationally. and that could be anything you could imagine. from attacking neighboring countries to using more gas. i don't know what that means. but people in damascus close to the president are moving their families out. they don't know what's going to happen next. >> there has been no criticism that a limited t

is to separate the united states from its allies to isolate the united states making it difficult for us to bring power to bear. tomahawk or dual capable aircraft, which is better for that problem? which is better for signaling the resolve of an ally or of the shared commitment of allies opposed to just the united states alone? our conclusion was dual capable aircraft which can be operated from the territory of an ally or near the territory of an ally, but are visible signals of deployment and not simply the employment of strategic systems from the american homeland. this is 5 way to signal resolve. we took the steps following dialogue with many different allies to retire the tomahawk nuclear cruise missile and ensure the fleet of dual capable aircraft and associated nuclear bombs with them are capable of being globally deployed in a time of crisis. >> thank you, sir? >> ken. as i understand it, it was left murk ky under the terms of the mutual defense pack with japan so it seems like we could have told the japanese we don't take a position over the sovereignty, you have to work that

>> excuse me. >> is the concern that if it was 3 unit it would be rent controlled? >> yes. >> i mean that is my indication based on the zoning administrator requests yes. >> so i have several questions and one is based on procedure and protocol. and so, if i was a person that wanted a 3 r report and i walked into the building department, could you walk me through the procedure of how that works and how the information is physically obtained. >> yes. so it is a walk in off the first floor, 1660, and there will be a form that will be requested and i am not exactly sure on the time line now and we have been generating some of them on-line but there is a little delay to generate that report. and it is not a standard document that someone just goes to a file and pulls out. our division requires when that is going to be generated but the staff actually review all relevant record documents to prepare an immediate report based on everything that they have and so that it is current. >> and i mean, because, this is not the first time that a 3 r report has been changed without

we are the united states of america. we are the country that has tried, not always successfully, always tried to honor a set of universal values around which we have organized our lives and our aspirations. this crime against conscience, this crime against humanity, this crime against the most fundamental principles of international community, against the norm of the international community, this matters to us and it matters to who we are and it matters to leadership and our credibility in the world. it matters if nothing is done. it matters if the world speaks out in condemnation and then nothing happens. america should feel confident and gratified we are not alone in our condemnation and we are not alone in our will to do something about it and to act. the world is speaking out. many friends stand ready to respond. the arab league pledged "to hold to the syrian regime fully responsible for this crime." the organization for islamic cooperation said we needed "to hold the syrian government legally and morally accountable

absolute sure exactly which agency of the united nations the. united nations this a lot of things but terror threats and generally been described as anything from copyright infringement to actual making of the problems that could be harming to peace people's physical integrity and so we have a very vague understanding in international law today of international discourse of how we make policy especially in western europe and in the united states we don't know what we mean by the war it's like two weeks ago i heard in sweden that copyright infringement can be avoided then what is more actually is that this war and is stuck with the united states is trying to stop the united nations we don't know because we have there's absolutely no logic to how they're using the word who or. what about the idea that the n.s.a. has already been allegedly spying on the e.u. along with these latest revelations of just what sort of effect does that help america's reputation here in brussels and is there anything any legislation that we could see europe setting up in

if the united states, president of the united states, who said definitively this will not stand and then flinches, imagine in terms of the nuclear capacity of the eiran. require a much larger military operation and p the united states president will not even -- the pinprick he was proposing and looking for a way out, over syria, which is easier to attack, i think the israelis today reck maze that the only way of stopping iran is going to be a strike on the part of israel itself, lit not get any help, saudis are scared to death about the eiranian nuclear program. we are going to enter a period now of high tension over that as a collateral damage. >> panel, stand by. we will bring the u.s. ambassador, former u.s. ambassador to the united nations, john bolton. the president's statement he wants military action in syria. but, first will go to congress for authorization. >> i believe the people's le representatives must invested. it is time on show the world america keeps our commitments. we do what we say. we lead with the belief that right makes might. not the other way around. uh-oh! guess

states is trying to stop the united nations. because we have there's absolutely no logic to how they're using the word war coming up a look at the chaos gripping libya stay with us here on r.t. . world. science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. language. could make it without the federal constitutional some of. the consent to. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that impact the. true spirit. of truth. is so watching r.t. for more international news two years on from the fall of colonel gadhafi in libya the euphoria of the revolution has all but gone today armed militias and islamist rule much of the country fighting over territory smuggling routes and shares of dwindling on revenue to top that off de

but i think as a united states we stand for something in the united states. we stand for democracy.rights. we stand for not allowing innocent civilians including children to be gassed. there has to be decency in the 21st century for allowing this to happen should never be allowed. in the united states we have principles and i'm froubd an american and a u.s. congressman. these are difficult decisions. no boots on the ground. assad has to pay a price for gassing children. >> elliot engel is the ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee. up next on our special report we'll have a close look at syria's first lady. license and registration please. what's this? uhh, it's my geico insurance id card, sir. it's digital, uh, pretty cool right? maybe. you know why i pulled you over today? because i'm a pig driving a convertible? tail light's out.. fix it. digital insurance id cards. just a click away with the geico mobile app. like carpools... polly wants to know if we can pick her up. yeah, we can make room. yeah. [ male announcer ] ...office space. yes, we're loving this communal

between the united states and the european union is that the united states isn't trying to pass our domestic laws for us it isn't subverting democracy it isn't intervening in essentially home affairs for us the european union sees virtually all aspects of policy as within its sphere of of jurisdiction why you know what's the problem with that well there's there's two arguments one is economic europe is the only continent in the world now that is in economic decline the other one is a political one we want to be able to hire and fire the people. and here in the european parliament we've lost that right ok i let us focus on their economic side for a few moments it is true that the significance for britain as a trading partner has been on the decline but obviously it's not maggie legible and the european union still remains the favorite destination for many of the u.k. aspirants and in particular for those products that are produced by small and medium sized businesses who cannot afford to despise their representatives still china india and other countries now since you are a very strong suppor

freshly exclaimed the americans and a state even spied on the united nations have waters while across the atlantic washington surveillance scandal threatens to influence the chambres german election . and try and from triumph to despair we'll look at how libya has resurrected the same control methods used by the toppled regime as the country's dragged back into chaos two years after the revolution. this is our day coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program while a foreign intervention in syria looks more likely than ever with countries including the u.s. britain france and turkey considering military action following last week's alleged chemical attack they blame the assad regime for the assault despite a found that u.n. inspectors are still yet to yog line their findings from the site meanwhile the vehicle carrying the u.n. team has reportedly come under sniper fire while heading to the area where a cameco attack apparently took place russia earlier warned the west against giving in to what it calls the opposition's provocations and interferi

states in the united kingdom i'm not taken based on. referendums and all taken based on popular opinions in fact if you let me demonstrate my knowledge of the topic since you've been so critical of that there's been only five cases in the history of the united states when military engagement has been formally endorsed by the congress five out of more than two hundred fifty military engagements abroad so when are you talking about democracy doesn't it strike you as the most undemocratic way of pushing for democracy. one hundred forty one before pearl harbor roosevelt and churchill mich. a battleship of new frontier and they talked about fighting for the shared ideals of that two countries now if you think of the world in one nine hundred forty one and you look at where polly i'm intrigued i'm ocracy i'm first of all freedom were recognized they were pretty much confined to the anglosphere across almost the whole of the aeration landmass people lived under different kinds of autocracy under fascism and communism or under japanese militari

states is targeted iraq iran which they have not overthrown and now syria and so clearly the united states is trying to target any sort of independent nationalistic regime that isn't totally pliant and compliant with the united states and the western nations in this crucial region of the world which obviously contains a significant amount of oil it's the world's crossroads a very important area the united states doesn't want any government in there that they basically can control or at least at key moments pressure to do the things they want them to do so starting with the war in iraq the united states has been marching on in the middle east attempting to eliminate these independent nationalist regimes and they were hoping to do so in syria just by fomenting a civil war and that strategy has been successful right and of course that using that chemical weapons even as a justification is a bizarre considering how we use chemical weapons frequently why is chemical weapons a justification to invade and occupy a sovereign nation is beyond me eugene what will happen if the rebels do defea

- by giving that data the what it does is tells them who is associated with who internally in the unitedtates. that's violating the right of free association under the first amendment. >> so when you have, however, on the other hand, you have john bates the judge having this scathing rhetoric within those court documents. what does that do? does that kind of solidify or not solidify the idea of the fisa court being a rubber stamp court? >> well, what -- the fisa court coming out and saying they really have no way of verifying, and even the chief judge said he has no way of verifying. that i've been saying for a long time they don't have any technical means of verifying the validity of the statements being made to them. u even in august of 2002 the fisa court came out, a story was broken by the "new york times" where the court detected 75 cases where the f.b.i. misled the court in soliciting 75 warrants. well, that probably was only the tip of the iceberg, too. so this is a longstanding problem. they've known about it for a long time. they never really have attempted to solve it. >> now,

i think that what this alert basically reflects is the fact that the united states' policy in the part of the world has backfired for example in syria united states has basically encouraged if not supported a war against the damascus based regime of all assad this is involved a number of u.s. nationals and european nationals going into syria to fight with the so-called jihad this is given to shut me armed to our. back forces as such as they are in syria which is tied to al qaida in iraq which tend to lie a smoke has been engaged in a spate of car bombings in baghdad in the surrounding region so it seems to me the state department alert basically reflects a failure of u.s. policy. well the fear of a terror attack isn't just specific to the middle east with america feeling under constant threat but as are to be martin discovered sometimes the government chooses to turn a blind eye is a preview of what's coming up in breaking the set it's three thirty pm g.m.t. . while we focus on the threat of terrorism abroad seems like things are missed here at home exactly what my next guest has exper

you need the united nations with you. and of course, the president's cynicism and skepticism about the iraq war was part of his political calculation as he became president of the united states. so, imagine this national security team and again, a lot of them are new to this job. kerry, new, hagel, new, for example. sitting there and deciding whether they in fact are going to go it alone without the security counsel. and without great britain, without the allies they would like to have and you know, a president at this time has to seem resolute, absolutely sure of what he is about to do. it seems to me in watching them over this past week, they've been spending an awful lot of time talking about i understand how you're border weary, your concerns because they've been there, but if the president comes out today and gives the american people an update on where we are, i think he has to seem resolute and assured in what he's about to do. >> what could he could do now and i have no idea if he's going to do this, but just base

was a fairly small living unit and the lower unit was probably a commercial up to a few decades ago and i lived in one of those kind of places in dental school when i wondered why they rented to us because of the way that it was put together and it really did not work for a family and i think that some day a family did buy it and they put the thing together and made it into a fairly nice unit. but those are my feelings on this particular project. >> commissioner hillis? >> so, i was not at the last hearing but i was able to view the tape and it was an interesting discussion and thank you for the information on it. and i believe by the fact that there has not been a lot of these in you know, in recent years, xh is good, and i think that there is a place in the city and i think that this is a some what unique situation where the owner occupies both units. and there are definitely are a mix of the building around the single family homes as wem as multiunit. and you know, it was hard to tell by that kind of the layout of the building what it was. at one point. but i think that it could

states to intervene in the affairs of other nations i mean it was the united states were really the gulf states under the umbrella in the aegis of the united states and other western countries that poured arms into syria and turning this into a terrible violent civil war real morass of desperation and ultimately it's these broader the broader impulse lying behind these policies the desire to push these core geo strategic interests no matter what the cost to the people of any particular region that we have to stand up against we have to fight against to give the syrian people and other people a chance to reclaim their own future and destiny because if we don't we can almost be sure to expect the same thing that's happened in iraq libya all these countries we really need to stand up against the military industrial complex and their takeover of the planet thank you so much organizer for the answer coalition always happy to be here thank you. guys when we come back we'll fill you in on everything alec in the story of anniversary convention in chicago. looking pretty much in the feel goo