Hope that other participants in the dialogue will as well, but it will be a challenge for us to make sure folks are getting Accurate Information and really being educated about this choice. Very good. Thank you. Lets go on to Public Comment. This is on these three items. I dont have any cards before me. We will do three minutes per person. Good afternoon commissioners. Eric brooks representing San Francisco green party and the local Grassroots Organization our city. Hopefully you have read the email, all of you that advocates sent. There are concerns about okaying this very kind of light framework today that doesnt have a lot of detail in it. I want to start out to get to those concerns about talking about what commissioner torres raised in the code of conduct with pg e. We saw during the 2010 prop 16 attack on the Clean Energy Programs and Community Choice in california that it didnt matter that pg e didnt use rate payer funds they were able to argue that entire 46 million plus campai
War on the poor. My district is also very low income. Manufactured housing is a big deal. 50 of the homes in my district are manufactured housing. And yet, the policies really made it very difficult for banks to lend on that. I suspect that your staff has made known to you that these pressures exist. Have you all discussed that in any greater detail that wed need to look out for the people on the low end of the income spectrum . Well, qm was a policy adopted by the Consumer Financial protection bureau. I think they are trying to address a set of practices that resulted in unsafe and unsound okay. Well, thank you. Lending. But it is very important to monitor their impact on credit availability. One of the reasons that weve been able to get by with a qe is that were the worlds reserve currency. Has the fed thought at all about whats going to happen when more nations are expressing discontent that were printing money and were devaluing what theyre holding . So weve seen countries trade wi
Education Program Survey and early notification portions are the sort of the new pieces that arent required by state law. We are using those outreach efforts, those outreach components to inform who we talk to in the actual statutory opt out phase. We are not suggesting that anyone who is going to be served by cleanpower sf would not receive an opt out notification. Anyone who wishes to participate can participate which sounds like opting in, but we wont enroll them after we have included them in an opt out process. So i think we have worked with the City Attorney o this to make sure we are accurately understanding our obligation and that our approach is consistent with it. We think it is. And so were not always this careful with our language as we should be, but the actual steps will be anyone who says let me in will receive and be included in the opt out portion of the program. Thank you. Youre welcome. Can i add also the people who are seen in the green area that are saying i dont w
Two majorrou major humane ris groups are blasting the United States and their toront drone s. The Rights Groups say the u. S. Has killed civilians in pakistan and yemen. Randal joins us with more. Amnesty international has put forward suggestions for regood reforming the u. S. Drone policy. Release more information about the dont hav drone strikes. Ensure that u. S. Policies follow human rights laws. And stop making claims that the government has use lethal force in an any region its involved n war. They have asked the u. S. To protect the rights of all people not just the u. S. Citizens. They want to make sure that the people accused of attacks on the u. S. Receive fair and public trials. Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch accuse the Obama Administration of violating human rights and the use of the drones. The researchers have charged the u. S. Of breaking their own promise of being more transpair transparent. They focused on strikes in pakistan. They researched nine of 45 k
Welcome to al jazeera america. We are following a developing story out of washington state. Earlier tonight Union Members called for a no vote to protest boeings push to end a pension plan and decrease health care costs. Workers would have received a signing bonus of 10,000 if they had approved. Boeing says it needs the deal to assemble the new planes in washington state. Figures show sign ups through the federal website have fallen short of targets. Fewer than 20,000 americans bought policies through healthcare. Gov in the first month it went on line. Congress wants to know what went wrong. Lisa stark has more. Over 106,000 signed up for health care under the healthcare. Gov. Only a quarter, fewer than 27,000 used the federal change. House Speaker John Boehner called the law a rolling calamity that must be scrapped. The administration faced tough questions from republicans about the bungled roll out. This was a monumental mistake to two live and effectively explode on the launch pad.