Calendar commission. Unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests. Seeing no members on the rosters call roll on supervisor farrell supervisor jane kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee commissioner avalos supervisor president breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cowen there are 11 items. Those items are approved unanimously item 5 an ordinance to amend the miranda for the Disastrous Energy reform or Recovery Fund to a category 8 funds and designated how the city uses the fund roll call vote. Supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee supervisor avalos no supervisor president london breed supervisor campos supervisor christensen supervisor cowen there are 10 is and one no commissioner avalos in the decendents okay. Those. Madam president i believe that supervisor campos wanted to resend. My apologies madam president id like to make a motion to resends the vot
Thank you everybody, and thank you so much for being here here and for that introduction as well. This is not going to be a late discussion by any stretch but youll final it worthwhile. Ill speak for a while and then engage in questions and answers with you in the audience. This is a like i said headquartersy subject, crucially important for this nation as we head into the 2016 elects. And that is the mean by which business business bs have moved to steer the american political process their way, and by and large, by no means entirely but by and large, theyre succeeding. In its entirety and complexity, this is a story far, far bigger than any one book can hold. It includes such forces as the Koch Brothers and their farreaching networks that are as we speak raising enormous amounts of money to influence the president ial and congressional races and they have the a huge network of donors and also includes a whole swarm of super pacs and dark money groups that are forming alongside pretty
Hand them over on a summer driving in hong kong. But this is a crucial process to save democracy we have to know what they are doing with the process of disclosure is so critical. Of with the sixth to begin by saluting your courage and intellectual honesty and also the humiliation you affected inflicted on the propaganda on the show realtime. [applause] i may use harsh words referring to bill maher but what do you think of him . I concur. [laughter] but in individual such as sam the presents himself as a liberal and progressive to have similar views on American Foreign policy as the rightwing pundits what type of influence does he have or how does he resonate . That is the good but complicated question. There was an article today in the boston globe the principal point was it does not matter who wins the election then National Security state will continue to get its way exactly as they want no matter who wins. I know from going all over the world to speak into reporting on the nsa file
And road safe america, who also have been inspired to support these rules. I say tragically and unfortunately because none of us welcome the fact that there are victims of crashes resulting from tired truckers. Most regretful are the truckers themselves, which is why theyre supporting this rule. But the families and loved ones of victims of these crashes support the rules, and even many Trucking Companies, like those represented by the Trucking Alliance support these rules. The fact is, theres good reason for the rules and theres good reason to strip the bill of the provision that negates and in effect undercuts and eviscerates these rules. Section 133 of division k. Theres good reason in the 2005 study conducted by the federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, demonstrated under the old rules that 65 of drivers reported feeling drowsy while driving and 48 admitted to falling asleep while driving at some point the previous year. Under these new rules, the Motor Carrier Safety Admini
The communicators is on location. This week well look at some of the new technologies coming out from ces international and talk to policymakers as well. This is the communicators on cspan from las vegas. Well now we want to introduce you to Ulf Ewaldsson with the Erickson Corporation Senior Vice President group chief Technology Officer. Mr. E waldson, before we get into what you do, just want to make the statement that erickson is not the Consumer Product corporation that it was a few years ago is that a fair statement . Guest absolutely. We are not in consumer at all. But being here at the Consumer Electronics show in las vegas you can really see how relevant networks, which we are doing, are becoming to just basically, every Consumer Product out here. Host for a while people owned erickson phones. Do you even manufacture them anymore . Guest no, we dont. Host so a more of a business to business type . Guest we are the Global Leader in infrastructure for networks where we provide bot