states the united states pays something like two thirds of its budget u.s. forces are in combat u.s. forces are undertaking military missions that's the language of the war the law u.s. forces in combat it's absolutely not a dive to see that there's a u.n. security council resolution or to see that nato approved this you know david i know about you in denver ok leslie jump in that's what the point of this program is going yeah i mean i think i think we have to be a little bit careful here to differentiate different types of different ways of using military force and this particular intervention we're talking about intelligence surveillance unmanned. unmanned sorties we're not talking about sending military troops in on the ground to fight a ground war so which is not to say that there isn't this question the war powers act but in terms of the use of the military there are degrees and this is very much and it's not just nato which the british the french have been out in front of this intervention taking the lead and the u.s. is absolutely playing a crucial ro

with the united states. 90% of our experts go to the united states. 90% of our oil goes to the u.s. 90% of the tourist that visit mexico come from the u.s. and so on and so forth. obviously, all of our immigrants are in the united states by definition. there's a very open economy. so mexico can't be an interspective closed off character. we don't have the traditional mexico way of being in our mind when in our everyday life we're an open economy. >> i want to return senior castaneda to mexican phobia and the fear of the foreigner. with the growing middle class in mexico, as that changed? >> it hasn't changed yet. it's beginning to change, but we are still very much immersed in the fear of the foreign and in the notion that we've always been victims of the past or in the past that we were conquered by the spanish in 1519, 1521, and humiliated and exploited by the spaniards for the following three centuries. then during the 19th serge -- 19th century with texas taken away, then the united states invaded us, then the french invaded us in 1963, then the americans invaded us again in 1914. a

there are no units of housing on this side. it is zoned for 20 units. 50 are proposed. -- 28 units. we support the compromise with supervisor farrell that would reduce this to 41 units. you have heard discussion about 110 units. that project was dropped. that proposal went away. the sponsor of the project went away. it was not even considered. that is not even on the table and never has been. the project compromise that supervisor farrell has offered was something he spent a lot of time working on. it is a compromise. the idea of compromise is that no one wins and is in the middle ground. we urge you to consider that. it does have the additional support you heard about from the mayor's office of housing. [tone!] 9 units are there for transitional and low income would go away. the rights of the homeowners and people in the neighborhood would be protected. i am going to give you a list of over 100 households of people who live in the area who would benefit and support this compromise. i am also going to give you letters from five or six neighborhood associations also support a comprom

that the united states accepts the principle of one china.that the united states strongly insists on the terms the need for a peaceful solution. and that the united states warned each side, plus the taiwanese, not to take precipitous action. and to consider that this has been carried out for 40 years. it's quite remarkable. now today there are many heroes of retrospective diplomacy who say what nixon might have done, and what nixon might have extracted. we didn't hear from any of them at that time. >> host: of course not. the framework that you put in place in 1972 has been remarkably durable to this very day. >> guest: on both parties. so it's one of the most continuous american foreign policies. >> host: dr. kissinger, please stand by. we will take a short break. when we come back i would like to move into more current affairs and the united states relationship with china. we will cover all of those issues are former secretary of state henry kissinger in his new book "on china" when we come back. >> host: we are regional by former secretary

they do 60/40 in number of units. then they are allowed -- the reason they are able to do the 40% is that the ami is higher. right now, it is 80/20 or a 85/15 depending on the situation. there may be long run problems with how this would work as far as home ownership. i think it is a concept we have to explore. it is different than what you are talking about today. the project sponsor still does the entire thing, whether they do it off site or on site. it is a vehicle to address the group we never build housing for in san francisco because of economic obstacles. commissioner sugaya: could you explain a little bit more the dedicated site is suitable for housing? and then it says the dedicated site equals 40% of the total developable areas of the principal sites. if you can accommodate 40% of the required units on a piece of a dedicated land, what difference does it make that it is less than 40% of the principal site? >> that is a good question. i think there are two different ways we wanted to look get it. one of the r

those nine units might be a transitional or low-income units. those could be made up in another project. the conformity of the neighborhood is key. another side note i wanted to make is that the gymnasium in its current location is -- [tone!] 1 basketball net will be flipped. it will be infringing on several backyard neighborhoods -- neighborhood backyards. it will affect the sunlight reaching some solar panels as well. we urge you to support supervisor farrell's compromise. bring the neighbors and community center to make it together to make a wonderful organization we know it can be. [tone!] >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is hannah. i live on sutter directly across the street from booker t. i am in favor of the 45-foot compromise. the thing i am concerned about that no one has raised is solar. there is a building with solar panels a couple of buildings down. my understanding is that they will probably pay higher utility bills as a result of this building if that happens. what about future installations. it marke

is not the united states but this is a global economy we saw u.s. stocks tumble today on the news out of greece and it does according to analysts give a lot of concern about u.s. thinkers so how does what we're seeing in the euro zone affect the united states economy. but the two thousand and financial crisis should really teaches a lesson that these financial markets are interconnected and it fears a crisis where greece either to forte's or if not detected well if it's a technical default in greece down the road it will probably have a contagious effect on other european peripheral countries such as portugal and ireland maybe even spain and the reason that there's so much concern about whether a restructuring of greece's debt is deemed to be a default is that it would trigger the credit default swaps and it's mostly american financial institutions that have written those credit to forswear us that ensure investors for in the event of it's a fourth of greek debt so those would be major losses for u.s. financial institutions wow and we've seen the to

unit 1188, 324. no. 25, for a minute -- 24 -- >> this is item two-five, 7-24. we will turn this over. >> good morning. does so from the department of human resources. these are all the amendments with the alternative health savings agreement, to the provision that we had negotiated in the spring of 2010. when we bargained with the various groups at the public employee labor council, we agreed that we would seek certain health care savings starting in fiscal year 2012. we have the city only paying up to the second-highest for the employee only coverage, and the parties complicated up -- commented that we could come up with an alternate, and often it would be health care savings with the premium health care pick up. >> thank you very much. do we have any questions? we will open this up to public comment. is there any member of the public would wish to speak on these items. the public comment is closed. we have several items before us and supervisor -- >> we have a motion and we will take this without o

very important to the united states i do we are supportive. and the kinds of. important. work that to the crown prince has been doing in his nation. ok however these claims of reforms engaging in dialogue with the opposition which the crown prince and secretary of state clinton were talking about last week come as bahrain is reportedly at the same time sentencing political prisoners to death reports that the government is keeping members of parliament and political opponents in jail denying unfair trials reports that they are being tortured and beaten in jail reports that the government is forcing people to stay home from work not be able to earn a living because they're perceived as possibly being opposition activists does this all sound like reform i don't know or more earlier i spoke with michelle she is the dusky he's director of the center for research on globalization i asked him why the white house is saying that things are moving forward with reform in bahrain while the reality on the ground appears to sound very different histories that will associate. u.s. puppe

units larger. we want to stay with the plan with the commercial unit. i would assume that is what project sponsor -- docca. now we will get to the apartment, which is the impacts on the units on union street, the ones most impacted by light and air. they are to the north of the project. i would like to ask mr. gregg to come up or mr. harney to speak to what would be agreeable. there have been some offers made today. i looked at this yesterday. we talked about increasing, cutting out the portion of the living room of unit one, which would allow more light and air. apparently, they have done that. it seems as though the amount is not adequate for what to expect. >> there is no question that each of the -- each increment of cutting back the existing structure is an improvement. i believe that the pictures i showed of the mass of the building as it would affect the outlook from those buildings, from the tenants windows, would be essentially the same. it is just that the plane of the wall that faced the

or 220 units. if you multiply 220 units by the feet o, it results in $74 million. the second portion of the request response to the displacement of 20 sar units and five rent-controlled -- thank you, sorry about that. and five rent-controlled apartments by the construction of the cathedral hill office building. the city's administrative code says the developer must pay 80% of the replacement cost of those units. the city's real-estate department work with the mayor's office of housing and determined this amounts for the 20 units, $2.7 million. for the rent-controlled units, the five units, staff agreed the appropriate payment would be exclusionary in lieu fee for five units which would allow the city to replace those five units with five permanent affordable units, calculated at out to $1.4 million. those added together are the $4.1 million displacement. i will turn it over to the director of public health who will take you to those requests. >> good afternoon, commissioners. thank you for the oppo

apartment units. approximately half, all of which are rent-controlled, would be replaced by a brand new replacement units, bringing the entire site up to 8900 residential units at build out. in addition the plan proposes a mixed use community with retail, office, a community center, and a redesign of all the open space, increasing the amount of public spaces to about 68 acres. this is an overview of the land use plan. i will move quickly because i realize we have limited time. essentially we see the creation of a mixed use transit-oriented for. that is what the dark colors are toward the middle. -- essentially we see the creation of a mixed use transit- oriented core. it allows immediate access to neighborhood services like cafes and dry cleaners. it also allows for positive benefits to mode share. the transit-oriented neighborhood core is walkable for pretty much everyone on the project site and will provide many resources that are not available now. the slide will show you how density is added over

the united states is trying to dig itself out.uro zone for countries within the european union that circulate. three of those members have had debt crises that are required bailouts. as the wealthiest country in europe, she has been asked to write the check and to foot the bill. it has not been popular. >> we will talk about more of the evening. what are the expectation for these two leaders? on monday night, they had a private dinner at a local restaurant. it is quite an expensive restaurant. what did the expectations? let's to get some political moment -- >> to get some political momentum. the night did states is tired from the wars. we had deficits. they are treading water. there is not a lot of wind in the sale. obama is saying they raised more forceful leadership. on the detailed one, save the life of the arizona. do more in libya. america was more reluctant to endorse it. i think obama has been trying to get around it more forcefully. i think the arab spring it will be an important part of the conversation. obama is trying t

serving the interests of the united states. and demonstrating the high caliber of the american system of free enterprise. system which from this new frontier is nothing into the grain of the world oil. one of the material that is making a truly great contribution to our modern civilization. one of the reasons the reason for the primary one for the invasion of iraq is to ensure u.s. control of the major energy resources of the world the embassy that's when we look inside baghdad and there's a city sort of no other embassy and street in the world we're not building the embassy in syria ranking of the huge bases around with an intention to leave they're building the intention to maintain control. since two thousand and three the u.s. has built dozens of military bases in iraq in two thousand and eight the u.s. and iraqi governments signed an agreement that states that all foreign troops should leave the country by two thousand and eleven. the agreement also says that the u.s. will not seek permanent basis or a permanent military p

the problem is not only parking, i did a unit to put more and the units that i own. i've played by the rules. it doesn't sound like they have to play by the rules. with the money that is already been spent, before everything was done correctly and legally, it doesn't seem fair. it really is a safety issue on the street. i see cars double part, buses trying to go round them and people almost getting killed because of the bus is going around. i have called the enforcement division. they drive by and keep going. somebody is going to get killed. i know that at least 10 parking spots are being taken up. i see them double parked in front of the driveway. if they think the guys can get by with 21 working units, which is not realistic. we do not object to the complex being rebuilt. the is too big, it is not fair, they did not follow the rules. and i have a conversation in the parking lot a couple of days ago. i am a landlord in the city, a property owner. i had wanted in my building for 50 years and you can imagine what they were paying for rent. i currently have a tenant th

member but the united states is not. even if the european union were to disappear tomorrow, reconciliation between the natis of the balkans would have stayed the priority of the government of serbia. >> rose: the relationship o those countries of the former yugoslavia remains, was, is, and will be the highest priority of the serbian government? >> well, ithink that relations with neighbors is something that is the highest priority of everyone in the world. you need to have good relations with your neighbors in order to have, like, a prosperous... >> rose: economic future. what's the economic future of serbia? >> well, that i believe the future, including the economic future, of the entire region of the balkans is in the european union. i think it makes geographical sense, it makes historical sense it makes cultura sense. it makes good political sense. and this is why the european future is a central strategic... building a european socie and achieving a european future is a priority for the government of serbia. despite

i wouldn't quite put it that obama is trying to satisfy public opinion in a sense opinion in the united states on afghanistan is way ahead of president obama in terms of the desire to withdraw troops in the latest pew poll shows fifty six percent. want to be thirty eight percent want to withdraw our troops as soon as possible only thirty eight percent are interested in keeping troops there until the situation is stabilized quote unquote so i mean that's really you know it's not that obama's satisfied in public opinion what he's doing is primarily satisfying the interests of the pentagon in the military they have gotten most of i would say eighty percent of what they wanted whereas the faction in his administration that was really concerned about the cost of the war got very little of what they wanted a lexus and i'm going to you in london what is obama's priorities then because a lot of people see this is this kind of smoke and mirrors but it's not really a real drawback at least at this point because. drawing the number of troops is still there still really very few deadlines out there

the -- 50 units. pfft if i may, as a side note, the other 10 units initially proposed were being proposed as part of a development project outside the city. supervisor mirkarimi: is there anything else further that you would like to add? >> i did have a couple of questions. there were two homeless that were adjacent or behind the back area. one is 20s -- 20-55 sutter, owned by a couple. my understanding is that the original proposal had a huge block and that the planning department and planning commission changes made significant setbacks where at least one story was pushed back significantly. are those the major innovations for that small, peach colored home? >> if i may, a supervisor, i think that they are looking ex that diagram -- they are looking at that diet -- diagram. initially the treatment was more monolithic. this was starting to set back here. also, a one story portion on this side of the building that was pushed back away from this shorter building. keep in mind where the peach colored bu

historically, there has been an illegal units. in 2007, a few months later, the variance was granted, and a permit was issued to do the work but was required end to the elias -- that was required to legalize the unit. to complete the work of was contemplated in the 2006 permit -- i misspoke. in november, a new permit was filed to remove the unit and also to expand new building. what i think is important to note is the initial action we understand to be motivated out of concern by the tenant, who would be evicted, and our our action stems from that as well. our action stems from the decision was made in 2006. aside from the outcome of this does comply with planning code. were it not for the history, we would have issued a neighborhood notice and would have gone on to a approved a permit. we will continue to defer to your judgment. we understand the circumstances which led to your 2006 action may no longer be presidenent. if the is the case, we would not find that objectionable at all. we do not have anything else to say, but we wou

states do they that's why the united states doesn't let china buy u.s. companies because they need them to buy u.s. dollars absolutely plus they know as long as they're buying our debt we can always default we can always print money wipe it out with inflation we don't want the chinese to get their hands on our real assets but the minute the chinese figure out that this isn't just big a ponzi scheme that they're participating in that they could never actually use those dollars for the things that they want always have to do is endlessly loan them back to us at ridiculous low rates of interest and they're not going to want to play this game anymore and they're going to walk away and so will the rest of the world and then we're going to be stuck with a pile of our own worthless currency and nothing to buy with. the interesting prediction as peter schiff president of euro pacific capital now while former secretary of state congolese are right chevron and a think tank have teamed up to launch a new project to look at how to promote quote economic development

none of the united workers here were allowed to talk to us on camera, but united did send out a statemente office in chicago this morning. the airline says it will waive all change and rebooking fees for passengers who are trying to get another flight to their destination. also says they will give any passengers who want to cancel their flights a full refund. and just one other note, there may be some passengers who are taking advantage of that and flying on other airlines. we drove up this morning and did see things were busy at american airlines and southwest check-in counters. but if you're flying on united give yourself a lot of extra time. >>> new this morning, we are hearing from the children of bryan stow. he is the man and giants fan who does remain in a coma after being badly beaten at dodger stadium in april. this is 12-year-old tyler and 8- year-old tabitha. for father's day tomorrow they plan to make a collage for their dad's hospital room with photos of all the things they've done together. >> he's really special and he's not like any other dad. it feels weird not having him

ed back and it's 50 units. it's not only -- the top floor is much less than the floor below and the fourth floor has important setbacks that would go away if you lopped off the top floor. 60% of today version is at 55 feet or more. deny the appeals and support in project, already the second compromise. it's a better design, has less impact on the neighbors and it saves the city $500,000 that it desperately needs for other affordable housing properties, maybe in your district. thank you. >> good evening, supervisors. my name is jeff kaminsky,. i am a district two commissioner and a youth commissioner and i urge you to please reject this appeal. i stand before you today a week away from the end of my term, my first foray into politics and over the past 10 months i have often been frustrated and disappointed. it is appeals like these that really perplex me, as this project looks to help many youth who are often overlooked by our society. as you know, this project attendance housing for -- contains housing for tran

we think that the compromise should be at 37 units or 40 units. that is what the planning code calls for. the proposal being presented here so egregiously violates the building and planning code in this city that it requires a special district in a project that has virtually no parking. in the parking that is provided is tandem parking. it is not separate parking. that means everybody has to move their cars. we are encouraged from the east by california pacific medical center and from the south by kaiser hospital. from the west side, the courts are just as half a mile from my house. i urge you to support the compromise that supervisor farrell has proposed. we think is fair. it is supported by all of the neighborhood associations including the presidio heights and jordan park neighborhoods. [tone!] supervisor mirkarimi: 80. next speaker, please. -- thank you. >> my name is larry griffin. i am on the board of the booker t. washington center. i am here to speak in favor of the project. i am a native of san francisco and the western addition. a first

until we have replacement units. secondly, we want to ensure that existing neighbors that live close to each other -- that those communities are preserved. i'm offering an amendment to require that existing blocks of tenants be kept together. i met with a number of long-term tenants who have lived in garden court apartments for many years. i'm offering an amendment to specifically required that there be a number of blocks of garden apartments that not be demolished until the end of the project. this could potentially be 15 years or 20 years. it would allow certain long-term tenants who have been living on park merced for over 10 years to move into garden apartments that are vacated. all of these are amendments that would affect section 3.4.1, as well as adding text to the end of section 4.4.1 a. again, to ensure that the tenants that are there -- that we phase move ins with the least disruption possible. the last set of amendments deal with the major concerns raised by tenants. the vast majority of these amendments i

they're huge issues for the united states. we feel like we've lacked leverage, or at least positive leverage, to move china. it's been a frustration for probably everyone in congress and most people in the room. it's not reciprocity. simple reciprocity doesn't work, we don't have the same interests. this is not a coercive tool. now i'm going to make a strong point. dan is blowing it. the unilateral approach blows this opportunity. we agree, we agree, we agree, we get to the end and here we disagree. i want to discuss those. the practical and principal arguments again this position, but i'll tell you what my trump card is. you want to open the u.s. to china really, not just talk about it? my argument wins in congress, not because i made it because congress wants something in return. thank you. >> dan? five minutes to comment in response. >> i really just want to make two points, i think, in response to what i just heard. and it involves mobility. one of the great things about mobility is physical mobility that can evolve over t

the united states government is united in its support of an alliance and the aspirations of the libyan people print thank you. her look for to an answering your questions. >> thank you very much. we appreciate the testimony enormously. i will reserve my time for such time that i may want to intervene with my questions. i will turn to senator lugar to start. koh, one of the reasons it is important to have this meeting and debate on this issue is that there are a number of situations in which the united states and other nations have severe disapproval of the governments of those countries. as a matter of fact, from time to time, we make speeches and editorialize and work with others in the united nations to exempt to bring about conditions that are better for the people of countries that we believe are under totalitarian or very afar -- very authoritarian mr. rule. in this particular instance, the libyan situation arose following uprisings in tunisia and egypt, which caught the attention of the united states and the world. in the case of libya, the arab league and the united nations and

the at nitch building reduced to four stories with 41 units, would cost an unsustainable housing unit that this city cannot afford. the opponentses the no seem to care that that would leave the commission strapped for 10 years. that's the kind of thinking that led the world into fast ball crisis and also the kind of thinking that has priced so many people out of the decade since redevelopment. booker t. washington center has been severing this exune community uncommunity's needs for at least 100 years. ironically some of those people have called this project manhattanization. it's the very definition of our fran values. a correctistic of misnaffings the opponents have provide you with is there's not a single supporter of the development who lives within a block and a half. hires a letter from one support irwho lives 68 feet away. i have here letters from supporters in the immediate and surrounding neighbors that i would also like to summit for the record. our opponents' assertion that our gym is just for preschool, that is also worse. it used for recreational activities and activities

i appreciate the efforts to protect rent control units and to offer power units to existing garden apartment residents. i also really appreciated the community hubs that are created within walking distance, and a lot of the sustainable planning that went into the project. but when it comes down to it, my visit to parkmerced and my history of working at san francisco state for 28 years, often being around the community there, i do see it as a viable, vibrant community with shared backyards and space. i feel very strongly that like someone said in the hearing this morning, the demolition of those 1538 units is equivalent to clear-cutting a community, and existing place where families have grown up for generations. my visit to several houses and beautiful garden apartments, the human side of what we are doing to this development -- without considering and non-demolition alternative is a tragedy. i strongly support the appeal to look more closely at other alternatives. i want to see stronger language and protections of the rent control. i would like to seek a continuance so we can look more care

how close did the united states come? >> i can't answer that. i don't believe -- well, i know he wasn't killed. so that's all i can say. >> that's all you can say. what is your sense? should the united states be accelerating these strikes now at a time of political uncertainty? we don't really quite know who's running the show in yemen right now. is this a time to step in and accelerate or is this a time to step back? >> i think this is a time to accelerate and try to take out the top al qaeda targets. if we do that we believe there will be a deterioration of al qaeda. there really is no other thing that we can do right now, i believe. you have to serve the interests of this nation, which is to protect our shores. al qaeda is the number one target. we have been able to take out bin laden. now there's a number two, three, four, five. and i believe the time is upon us to accomplish this mission. >> and what do you know? you have access to the intelligence. what do you know about what the united states believes will happen in yes, ma'amen? presiden

not for units at 800 presidio, but for units in this partial. if the sponsors proclaimed that their residents won't be driving in cars, they should not be allowed to get a residential parking permit. >> my name is rose hills and and i am a member of the improvement association. of like to address the inadequacy of the appeal. first of all, there were not alternatives for the project site. i have a bad headache, not because of this. the situation is, the alternatives that were not considered, i don't know in this process, i found out that there were many meetings held between the project sponsor and the neighborhood organizations. this is what i kept bringing up. everybody has to set at one table. i learned from this past history of creative financing and commitment. as far as transparency and government, i think this is going on a slippery slope. this kind of thinking is going on in the city, there will be other neighborhoods impacted in similar ways and will be wasting a lot of time doing something like this. i wanted to thank supervisor farrel

you can't expect the property owner to know what's wrong in your unit. if you inform the property owner you met your obligation. the tenant is not required or allowed to fix things. but simply to inform. another element is to provide the access to the landlord for necessary repairs with the proper legal notice. the city does not regulate that legal notice that's state law. issueses how that works out are highly detaild and we don't get involved? >> no. >> that's right. >> the city has the rent stablization and arbitration board. they often help resolve issues. if you have questions about tenant landlord issues call the rent stablization board. another tenant responsibility or opportunity is to ensure that the repairs are made if they are not made to contact the housing inspection division. how do they do that. >> you can contact us by the number 558-6220. or by e mail or by fax or a counter visit. we are on the sixth floor of 1660 mission street or by letter and always include the location by address of the concern and a description of what the problem i