15 minute break. Good morning welcome to the for Planning Commission regular hearing october 23, 2014, id like to remembered members that the commission does not tolerate disruptions of any kind devices. And and when speaking before the commission, if you care to, do state your name for the record. Ill have to ask those of you standing please find a seat please thank you very much commissioners we left off on item 11 for 436 central after a conditional use authorization. Commissioner hillis i need to ask for a are you custodial i live on the same block. Move to recuse commissioner hillis. On that motion commissioner antonini commissioner hillis commissioner johnson commissioner richards commissioner fong and commissioner president wu thank you, commissioners you are here by recused. Good afternoon mary radius woods of departmental staff this is for a prior conditional use authorization that was approved in 2007 in order for the sponsor to extend the hours of operation from an overnight
Texas and many other cities visited by local content vehicles, go to cspan. Org local content. Thanassis cambanis reports on the 2011 egyptian revolution profiles to its leaders, liberal architect in a pharmacist assisting with the Muslim Brotherhood. [inaudible conversations] good evening everyone. I am david cohen and i love doing introductions here. I am carla subkeys has been. One of the reasons i love doing introductions is politics prose as a beacon and standards that are under its current of bob graham and Lissa Muscatine and the wonderful staff about having the vote discourse and dealing with difficult issues and demanding issues. We did that last night and we are doing it tonight and we have done many other books of histories, policy books novels that deal with demanding issues in either the middle east where the islamic world and so we are really pleased here to welcome Thanassis Cambanis and celebrate the publication of once upon a revolution an egyptian story. Mr. Cambanis
Very carefully. And the textbooks talk about chinese history. But it is pretty clear that taiwan is part of chinese history. So who is going to win the 100 year marathon for the love of taiwan . Washington or beijing . I think it is an open question. Thank you very much doctor. It was great. We appreciate you being here today. It is a very lively discussion, the book is the hundred year marathon. Thank you all very much. [inaudible conversations] on our next washington journal, looking at president obamas executive order on immigration and a District Court judge petitioning to temporarily block an order. Plus your phone calls Facebook Comments and tweets. Washington journal is live every morning on cspan. Cspan2 providing key Public Policy events and senate floor proceedings. And every weekend booktv the only Television Network dedicated to nonfiction books and authors. Cspan2 is created by the cable tv industry and brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Follow us on
Once upon a revolution. An egyptian story. He he is going to talk about this himself, so i am not. But it is reflective about the arab spring and how the us really had no idea that it was going to happen. And even people who worked with ngos in egypt did not know it would happen. I had a conversation with the person i worked with who was telling me working with children and telling me something is really going to happen and no one is listening. It was an early signal three or four weeks or so before the things were beginning to stir up. And it reflects under how little we often know about what is going on in our official life because our official life does not dig in and try and relate to people who are not part of official life. He has told us a story here of two people but more than that it is a story on the importance of journalists. He is a journalist here from beirut. This is really the 1st major presentation for this book. We welcome him again. He had an earlier book four years a
Time, you were on a deadline. You have a condensed period of time. Theres some things you want to get in there to do two things i really wanted to get in there are, number one, the islamist influence in the education system. Thats one of things i want to get into, a special at the university. And number two, which i want to mention real quick before come back to the education system, isis belief in islamic prophecies. The islamic prophecy angle i think is fascinating. Isis believes right now that these are the last days and that they are the guardians the great warriors of the caliphate of the apocalypse. And i believe there will be a showdown with the west in syria wednesday, according to their interpretation of islamic prophecy. Sunnis and shias discrepant somethings when it comes to prophecy the isis believes the last days are at hand. They are the vanguard of islam and they will lead the armies of islam to victory over the west in a climactic battle will occur in syria were isis co