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the citizens united organization had abandoned a big challenge to the law in the lower courts. there had been no briefing on those issues before the u.s. supreme court, and he basically said, this is not the way that we do things around here. it will be in my dissents. that is not the way we should be doing things. and that is ultimately why i was told by several former clerks and justices that there is what they call an institutional button. if, you know, the court is about to do something that might look very bad for the court in terms of its institutional reputation -- >> not to use the word activist. >> activist, okay. the justices will stop and take a second look at justice me. he pressed this very hard and pressed him hard with the chief justice. and that is really why. now, the justices said to me, number of them said to me, they don't remember if they took a vote on the the argument in citizens united or whether it was just consensus. they should be real argued, but that is why they said they reed argued it in order to give the lawyers in the case more time and opportun

it's match with united way is organizing it so if you need the contact information i or chris will be happy to send that to you. the online business protocol it was approved in the budget. excuse me. and the funding is projected to start october 1st. so i and jan will be attending a meeting technique to start working on that process. so there isn't much more to talk about but really want to appreciate the mayors advocacy as the supervising support for the online business portal. we'll be receiving the funds collected through the additional dollar collected there the business registration. and so we will be developing the program to present to you at the on that ground 29th meeting in terms of how we're going to allocate and use those dollars. and that's so your aware it's from s b-1186 that required that. i informed you that supervisors campos is having a hearing this thursday around the health care and affordable care act. i also want to start convening meetings with small business owners that are in the 20 to 75 and having some discussion about take into account how the affordable c

rights, otherwise known as power, symphysis go organizing project, department of public policy, concerns of the san francisco archdiocese, young workers united. many labor organizers like local 87 of sei you have also been big part of this effort as well. i also would like to give a really great thanks to deputy city attorney alicia cabrera for her work in the world converging in helping to craft this ordinance. of course in my office racquel gandhi s (sp?) for her great work as well. we've also received terminus amount of input from the dist. atty. and we hope to have as a supporter in the coming days as well as chief public defender who will give us input on this legislation. the da have not yet provided a letter of support which are hoping to get in the coming weeks. colleagues, again, thank you so much for your support and i look forward to resuming discussion on this item when we get back from our break. thank you >> supervisor avalos. thank you. supervisor campos >> thank you. i just want to take this opportunity to add some comments to the piece of legislation that supervisor avalos has introduced. you know, i supervisors we introduce

second, understand where the management failures and process mistakes are in the exempt organizations unit so we can fix them. and, third, a broader understanding of irs risks and operations. and i spoke to many people within the irs. in fact, my whole senior leadership team engaged in an ongoing series of discussions, and bill well kins is one of -- wilkins is one of the senior leaders. >> did you talk to the deputy commissioner? >> i have spoken to sarah, yes. >> for the purposes of preparing the report, did you speak to her? >> i'm not sure how to answer that question. i spoke to her as part of my overall understanding of the situation on the ground can with the irs so, yes, i guess they all connect. >> and did you speak with lois lerner, the former director -- >> i did not. >> well, i would say your initial conclusion given the number of key players that you did not talk to i think is not necessarily an initial conclusion, but an incomplete one. i really don't see how you're able to reach that. we know in 2011 lois lerner directed the since natty -- cincinnati office. do you think this

united players. i support the mexican museum project. >> hi. good afternoon, my name is juliusa. i'm part of the organization called united players. oom -- i'm here to support the mexican museum project. thank you. >> good afternoon, president chiu, district supervisors. my name is rudy corpus. i'm the executive director of violence prevention program in the soma area. the program is 18 years long. we originally started in district 11 and was also in 10 but has made an impact in every district here, in every neighborhood. proud of the bay area. i'm born and raised in the south of market. i raise my family there and i'm very very supportive of the project that's being built in the 706 mission, the mexican museum project. i truly believe the diversity. this is san francisco, we encourage that, in the soma there is a lot of filipinos and a lot of everybody else. i believe with the museum there, diversity is stronger. i know the city supports diversity. i want to acknowledge supervisor kim for being a champion in our neighborhood and standing up for the things we need. i just want to acknowledge you and salute you and thank you for th

it will be emotional and the united services organization which offers support for active and retiredoldiers will be on hand as well. >> what a sacrifice, that's all you can say. here at some point in his life he was an ordinary american that was drafted or joined the military. ended up in korea serving his nation and 60 years later he is coming home. what a change altering his path of life. >> reporter: his relatives will be among those at the airport this morning. they spent the day looking at his awards for bravery which include as bronze star and purple heart. he will arrive on a flight at 7:0 # this morning. he will be buried at golden gate national cemetery thursday and next to his brothers who were veterans. coming up in the next half hour, you will hear from his family. live from san jose airport. >>> today a judge will announce whether bradley manning who gave government documents to wiki leaks is guilty of aiding the enemy. he gave 7000 documents to the web site. he entered a guilty plea to lesser charges. he is facing 20 years in prison. if the judge hands down a guilty ple

and they are among the 1.2 million jehovah's witnesses in the united states. the organizationf jehovah's witnesses was begun in the late 19th century by a small group of bible students in pennsylvania. >> we believe from the bible that god has a name and it is jehovah, and that his son, jesus christ is separate. his kingdom has been established in heaven and instead of everybody going to heaven when they die there will actually be a resurrection here on the earth and all of our loved ones will come back and we'll enjoy perfect life forever right here on earth. where a lot of religions may teach things such as hell fire, immortality of the soul, and trinity, jehovah's witnesses don't believe those teachings. we take the bible very literally and believe the bible for what it is. we look for the truth in the bible. >> one of the "truths" witnesses believe in has to do with blood. >> in genesis and again leviticus, there's very specific scriptures that state that the blood is sacred and that life is in the blood and that belongs to god. so we want to respect that and be obedient t

organizations that range from quite principle. to complete shills the competitive enterprise institute. for the causes of their donors heirs to six of the largest family fortunes in the united states is their private foundations the fund organizations that would promote unregulated markets one notable one would be the role of joseph coors at the heritage foundation who constantly cited the powell memo as one of the reasons that he was inspired to create a conservative pro-business think tank called heritage well heritage is a conservative think tank and if you read the back of our business cards it says noting in america where freedom opportunity prosperity and civil society flourish and that's heritage is goals. working in unison the six families use their private foundations to shape business schools and manipulate the media most of all they wanted to restructure government to serve their own interests they're not think tanks these are not academic research organizations these are ideological marketing organisations they're no different then the people who persuaded young men when i was a young man that we should put brylcreem in our hair even in the great depression when

institute organizations that range from quite principal taito to complete shills the competitive enterprise institute. for the causes of their donors heirs to six of the largest family fortunes in the united states is their private foundations to fund organizations that would promote unregulated markets one notable one would be the role of joseph coors at the heritage foundation who constantly cited the powell memo as one of the reasons that he was inspired to create a conservative pro-business think tank called heritage well heritage is a conservative dream and if you read the back of our business cards it says noting in america where freedom opportunity prosperity and civil society flourish and that's heritage is goals. working in unison the six families use their private foundations to shake business schools and manipulate the media most of all they wanted to restructure government to serve their own interests they're not think tanks these are not academic research organizations these are ideological marketing organizations they're no different then the people who persuaded young men when i was a young man that we should put brylcreem in our hair even in the great depression when twent

criticism of this whole situation and we know that they have called on an emergency which is the organization uniting the like american countries and the mergence of summits to be held on thursday to discuss their next steps meanwhile we understand that most of their criticism is directed towards the united states the united states which never made secret of their actions in this case because some of the officials in washington have already revealed that they had warned the european countries of dangerous and threats of allowing the fugitive see a former cia employee flying over their territory but also some rather great share of criticism is directed towards europe from the latin america saying that meanwhile while europe is criticizing what snowden has revealed still in this case it acted like a call in the of the united states as some as one of the latin american diplomats has noted but clearly while edward snowden is still reportedly remaining in moscow . airport this saga isn't far from over and we'll probably see some more crazy twists and twists and turns to the story you know no surprise ther

case but also stressed that moscow won't cave in to any pressure meanwhile back in the united states several organizations have filed a lawsuit against the n.s.a. over its sweeping surveillance practices are to talk to cynic on legal director for the electronic frontier foundation one of the groups that initiated the complaint who told us what's standing in the way of justice being served. what they've been able to slow us down with is the argument that it's just all too secret and can't be decided by the courts because of national security and state secret well not only did they lose in the courts with that argument but now they've admitted the central facts of the program we're talking about so we're hopeful that that will help us move forward with the cases a little more quickly i would point out that trying to change things through the u.s. congress is also a slow process so you know while it's frustrating for those of us who want change neither the courts nor the congress moved to take your lovely quickly i think there are many members of congress who are in a situation in which they basically signed

organizations that range from quite principle. to complete shills the competitive enterprise institute. for the causes of their donors heirs to six of the largest family fortunes in the united states is their private foundations the fund organizations that would promote unregulated markets one notable one would be the role of joseph coors at the heritage foundation who constantly cited the powell memo as one of the reasons that he was inspired to create a conservative pro-business think tank called heritage well heritage is a conservative think tank and if you read the back of our business cards it says noting in america where freedom opportunity prosperity and civil society flourish and that's heritage is goals. working in unison the six families used their private foundations business schools and manipulate the media most of all they wanted to restructure government to serve their own interests they're not think tanks these are not academic research organizations these are ideological marketing organizations they're no different then the people who persuaded young men when i was a young man that we should put brylcreem in our hair even in the great depression when twenty

so i worked in the united planting organization 1649 good hope road. and basically was a poverty worker and i worked in social services. would i take the metro there and i would walk from the metro station and mlk. w street and make a left. and earlier in the morning. not too much was going on. the morning of june 7 2010. there was a crime tape all over the place. and there was crime lab. van. so something obviously happened and i kept it moving so i get to the office and i bring up the press release and 17-year-old young man was shot and killed on the corner. and i believe that as of right now, his homicide is still unsolved came out a couple of days later and reported he had from the rehabilitated services and so it hit me, you know, he gets shot and killed in the foot of the frederick douglas house and the run away slave the most famous in american history. and a lot of slave narratives. 6 this is the type of person that was remembered so the coworker of mine said. i said to my coworker anthony, isn't that i mean. what is going on out here? >> and a

units of blood. yesterday's family organized a fundraiser and blood drive in antioch to help give back for all the support they have received. >> we are trying to give back and kind of pay it forward i guess is the term, that we have used so much and we have been blessed over and over again. >> in all 500 people turned out to the event and donated 122 units of blood. 13,000 dollars were also raised and will go to the children's organ transplant association in matthew's name. >>> it is judgment day in the george zimmerman murder trial. a jury of six women are now deliberating his fate. the judge gave the jury instructions 30 minutes ago, closing arguments wrapped up earlier as the defense and prosecution gave their last attempt to convince the panel about how zimmerman shot and killed 17-year-old trayvon martin. the defense even used a block of cement in his argument. >> that is the sidewalk. that is not an unarmed teenager with nothing but skittles trying to get home. >> isn't that every child's worst nightmare, to be followed on the way home in the dark by a stranger? isn't that every child's worst fear?

organizer at. the californians united for a responsible budget otherwise known as current. thank you america a slow road to recovery is looking like it has more potholes then pave pounds these days the associated press release to survey saying as much this week when it found out that four out of every five adults struggle with joblessness near poverty or reliance on welfare programs for at least part of their lives here's what also discovered the country's poor remain at a record high with forty six point two million or fifteen percent of the population living below the poverty level and if you're wondering what that line is and means that an income for a family of four is less than twenty three thousand twenty one dollars a year now this that is not confined to minorities according to the survey seventy six percent of white americans will experience some sort of economic insecurity by the age of sixty all of the forty six million living below the poverty line at the moment that means that almost half are white or nineteen million people or to produce a racial courteous and

we've agreed to all nine ig relations for how to fix the organizations unit. we're making good progress, and that progress is outlined in this report. we're taking steps above and beyond what the ig recommended because we think there's even more to be done to make sure that we are extremely robust in our fixes. those are also outlined in the report, and we're making good progress there. it's a challenging environment. what i've learned is reviewing these applications for tax-exempt status is difficult because you're on a foundation of ambiguous laws and regulations, and it's -- as i said, nowhere, in very few other areas within the irs is a determination on the nature and extent of political activity a relevant factor to consider. so this part of the irs has this kind of unique set of requirements and, clearly, when you combine those unique set of requirements and management weakness and leadership weakness, we had a failure. but i'm optimistic that we have the right people in place right now specifically in the exempt organizations unit, in services and enfor

united states. giving up an organ is relatively safe. there are not very bad health consequences and it is possible to live with kidney. it has health consequences as you age. when you have access to clean water and live a comfortable life. you could be fine. and in the context where the people were selling their kidneys in india, there was a lot of health consequence that's they were not aware of. it was all about weak information and a lot of people sold their kidney the main reason is to get out of debt. and most people did not get out of debt. where body parts are available, creditors use them as collateral for loans this. is the third party affect. and even if i did not want to sell my kidney. i am affected if i am very poor. i am trying to get a loan. and the amount of credit that is constant. the pricing of loans has changed. other people have this collateral that they can put up. if i do not put up my collateral i will be less likely to be in an attractive prospect for the creditor. so that there is actually been an anthropologis

carter hull was a senior tax law specialist at the exempt organizations technical unit in washington d.c. and was with the internal revenue service for an astounding 48 years of service and we want to thank you for your service. or so into the committee rules i would ask that you please rise to take the oath. raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear or affirm that testimony you're about to give up a the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth? please have a seat and let the record reflect that both witnesses answered in the affirmative. i know that sometimes prepared statements are the best way to go and i am not going to dissuade you from it but use your five minutes in any way you want to abbreviate your statements if it makes it appropriate in light of opening statements for any other reason to add to me. i will not hold you to exactly five minutes but when you see the countdown getting close please wrap up. ms. hofacre. >> chairman issa ranking member cummings and members of the committee since 1999 i have been an irs employee in the office of exempt organizations in

the bolivian president steps like these will be more or less clear after the countries the organization which unites most of latin american states will gather for an emergency summit on thursday and probably they will will enlighten us on their next steps but clearly after ever more honest suffered this nightmare flight through europe the reaction coming from latin american countries has been more or less you know and there's been so much solidarity in their criticism about this whole situation let me quote several of the latin american leaders so you would understand the magnitude of their anger now the president of argentina cristina kirchner said that this was the humiliation of the entire south american continent president of venezuela nicolas maduro described as dangerous disproportionate and unacceptable aggression a joint statement coming from the colombian government said that this airspace denial was an act of aggression and last but not least use airspace denial was deemed as fascist by the vanessa whalen foreign minister clearly the most offended side here are the bolivians and their reac

working in believe the that will be more clear after the emergency summit of they want us to organization which unites most of the latin american countries which will be held on thursday some statements will be produced there but following this nightmare flight of ever more or less through europe last night we've seen an unprecedented solidarity from all the american countries on the matter they've all been very critical of what happened with the believing president now the president of argentina cristina the commissioner said that this was the humiliation of the entire south american continent president of venezuela nicolas maduro said this was a dangerous disproportionate and unacceptable aggression a joint statement coming from the colombian government stated that the airspace denial is an act of aggression and last but not least the venezuelan foreign minister described it this. is denial as fascist well this kind of criticism has been coming from all levels in level latin america even from a terrorist organization the fark which describe it as a an act of infamy but clearly the most offended side

a lot of covert british intelligence organizations to operate in the united states, they operated out of the building directly across the street in st. patrick's cathedral in rockefeller center. more than a thousand of them, agents. this operation have the bland innocuous title british security coordination and its main job was to get america into the door no matter how. it carried out its own campaign, relying on anti-war groups, digging up any jerked they could find on isolation, smoking congress outside, wiretapping phones of diplomats in washington, propaganda in u.s. newspapers and even forging documents. these were british intelligence operatives operating in this country. we were a neutral country at that point, much of this with extremely illegal. i hasten to add that lindbergh and other prominent isolationists were not blameless in this but they were not nearly as good at it as the intervention, they portrayed fdr as a dictator along the same lines as hitler and mussolini and claimed he was responsible for destroying free speech in america and rushing into war without the peo