For giving us a tour. It remarkable what you have done here and kind of revolutionizing the way we pay for services and products and eventually the topics i like is philanthropy. Thank you for inviting us here. Mayor bloomberg, welcome back in San Francisco and its great to see you here. You have been a champion and a great leader and its nice to see the opportunities for me and other mayors across the country to get these practices down and receive, i think your very practical advice that i always appreciate because that means for me making less mistakes. I love to do that. I also want to thank ron conway, the head of our sf city for being such a great partner because in that partnership what we do what new york has been doing and working in a Public Private setting and creating opportunities not only for Great Companies to be here and joining and link them up to what government is concerned about to improve lives and this is what sf has to do with also with new york. I want to give a
Ingredients. Or grab a quick bite with organic goodies. Find out more about 18 reasons by going to 18 reasons. Org and learn about buy right market and creamery by going to buy right market. Com. And dont forget to check out our blog for more info on many of our episodes at sf quick bites. Com. Until next time, may the fork be with you. So chocolaty. Mm. Oh, this is awesome. Oh, sorry. I thought we were done rolling. Welcome and thank you for coming. We are thrilled to host mayor lee and bloomberg at the square. I have had the privilege to get to know them for the past few years. They are great with technology and we are thrilled to have them. As many of you know, i want to describe the environment we are in. In 2009 when my cofounder lost 2,000 on a glass sculpture because they wouldnt accept credit cards. He called me on the smartphone and we decided to change something and build a reader for him to use. It was the easiest ways for all sizes to accept credit cards. It became more tha
Talent to have here in San Francisco. I want to thank you for allowing us to share this and hopefully in the new market, i know jack and i have talked about for many months ever since the twitter marketing and what that was all about and joining the companies that help me to create jobs and also create the future of this great city. You can also be able to help me do a lot of cleaning up in the south market and tenderloin. Thats the great spirit of having the employees here in downtown and part of a great exciting evolving city of San Francisco. Today we are here to make a very strategic announcement. An announcement that not only benefits our two great cities but suggest that we can contribute to the whole Cultural Movement of this country by having a digital summit, if you will, that we saw last october that mayor bloomberg brought many of us to new york to participate in the First Technology summit. Bloombergs philanthropy sponsored and we learned a lot and saw some very good exampl
Helping us kickoff a wonderful celebration. You will see the flags go up on Market Street and castro city. Everybody is anticipating along with us in the city. We hope that in the next few days, our country register the right decision. The correct decision. Yeah. [ applause ] i cant tell you how excited we are. I know for me back in 2004 as director and back in 2008, we had that feeling in our city, the feeling of equality, the feeling that we had that. We wanted to follow that. It is in that spirit and by the way, there is many more things as well that we are doing together and i wanted to thank all the leaders of our Lgbt Community for not only having a great parade, not only doing the right things for marriage equality, but on a daily basis we are also doing what San Francisco can do all the time, we take care of each other. While the economy has improved and Unemployment Rate has gone down, we took the opportunity to then say with our supervisors, when those federal cuts came we ar
Powers, and explosive new story by journalist Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill reveals details about the secret role of the nsa and he was overseas assassination program. The u. S. Is reportedly now carrying out drone strikes based on cell phone tracking data without knowing whether the individual in possession of a tracfone is in fact the intended target. The article was just published in a new digital magazine launched today by First Look Media. Glenn greenwald and Jeremy Scahill join us. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The second round of syrian peace talks resumed today in geneva after a oneweek pause. Steering government and opposition representatives have met separately with you and envoy Lakhdar Brahimi as the two sides face continued divisions on a number of issues, including the future president bashar alassad. The meeting comes as over 600 civilians were evacuated from the besieged city of