The only regret that we have is you are not able to be with us here in person to enjoy the beauty. My name is doctor travis morris. I have the privilege and honor to be the executive director and also the director for the war center and for everyone, this initiative is part of a program with the University Global resilience and security. Global resilience and security. Part of a larger Strategic Initiative the Environmental Security initiative for the university. We are thrilled all of you are joining us today for the very special presentation and this event to a war adam the 2020 military writer award. I would like to mention a couple administrative details before i introduced him and we present the award. For those of you that are not familiar with the award or those of you that are, we have created a special video that provides some context and background of the award, some previous recipients and we just ask you go to our website, the link has been pushed out via chat and just take
To speak via couple comment are available by calling 4156550001 and entering access code 1461951064. When we reach the item that you want to speak on that we are discussing, press star, three to enter the queue. Each speaker will be allowed three minutes to speak. When you have 30 seconds remaining, you will hear a chime indicating that you have 30 seconds left. Be when your time is up, i will indicate that your time has allotted to speak. Best practices are to call from a quiet location, speak slowly and clearly, and turn down your volume. Id like to call roll now. [roll call] clerk we do expect commissioner moore to join us shortly. She is experiencing some technical difficulties, so hopefully, shell be able to resolve those soon. Commissioners, first on your agenda is consideration of items proposed for continuance. Item 1, case number 2020002743d 2020002743drp at 1555 oak street, proposed for continuance to december 3, 2020, item 2, 2019015984 cua, at 590 second avenue, proposed fo
That housing remains a priority, Small Business remains a priority, and that San Francisco really goes back and actually makes due on its promise to include black san franciscans in every part of the Economic Development and the success of the city moving forward. Thank you. Thank you. Can we have the next caller, please. That completes the cue. Chairwoman thank you so much. Thanks for the tremendous amount of really knowledgeable and compelling Public Comment. Supervisor mar . Thank you, chair ronan. I also just wanted to thank all of the Africanamerican Community leaders and activists for sharing your powerful comments. And, of course, thank you to supervisor walton, director davis, and mayor breed for your bold and thoughtful leadership on reparations for the Africanamerican Community and reinvestment and full support and equity for the Africanamerican Community looking ahead. So, yeah, i you know, as so many speakers noted, this is long overdue, but im really excited that, you know
To discuss this and more im joined by my guest george samueli in budapest he is an author and a huge who were at the gavel and here in moscow we crossed him maxine he is an expert at the Russian International Affairs Council originally crossed out rules in effect that means you can jump in the time you want and i was appreciate it ok lets go to georgia in budapest. And looking at the Election Results or how would the Election Results are being presented to the to the public and the world here i cant help but get the feeling that if this had happened in any other country in the world the United States would have stepped in or made a lot of noise about democratic norms and demanding a recount and all of this kind of thing here but they dont because its happening to themselves you know its just an interesting critique about how democracy is spoken about and practiced in the United States and how it. Spoken about and practiced internationally go ahead george yeah absolutely right because e
Everything that is normal life since the election all the ins and outs i think. People voting. Balls be changed obvious rarely and unconstitutionally in order to make essentially a melee and voting can take place without any open chat that was supposed to be in place if any of this have happened in russia say the state department would you know im not a nice remain at the top of his wife it would already be imposing sanctions on russia while all the phony election so thats exactly right. And we dont even have to talk about what would happen in other countries i mean if lets say you had been done around who had been come out with a big lad to win and having passed that 170 electoral college. With all this had that had come out of what would have been the media response the media would have been screaming this is the broader donald trump has cheated theres no mandate every single accusation or. Illegality every single act of National Electoral or must be investigated by ramy must go to c