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Good morning today is december 17th 2013 welcome to the San Francisco Transportation Authority my name is john avalos the chair of the authority and todays Authority Meeting is broadcast to us by jessie lar larson thank you for your work. Madam clerk will you please call the roll. Campos absent. Chiu absent. Mr. Farrell farrell present. Commissioner kim. Tang present. Commissioner wiener. Wiener present. We have quorum. . M. Any comments or questions on the minutes . Okay we can do comment on it...

Mr. Farrell farrell present. Commissioner kim. Tang present. Commissioner wiener. Wiener present. We have quorum. . M. Any comments or questions on the minutes . Okay we can do comment on item number 2 seeing none well close Public Comment and the motion to approve the minutes a roll call vote. Commissioner avenue avenue. Aye. Commissioner breed . Chiu absent. Commissioner cohen. Kim aye. Wiener aye. Commissioner ye the item passes. Chair report this is an information item. Good morning colleagu...

Present. Commissioner wiener. Wiener present. We have quorum. . M. Any comments or questions on the minutes . Okay we can do comment on item number 2 seeing none well close Public Comment and the motion to approve the minutes a roll call vote. Commissioner avenue avenue. Aye. Commissioner breed . Chiu absent. Commissioner cohen. Kim aye. Wiener aye. Commissioner ye the item passes. Chair report this is an information item. Good morning colleagues it has been another busy and productive year at t...

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Mr. Sessions madam president . The presiding officer the senator from alabama. Mr. Sessions i would ask consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer the senate is not in a quorum call. Mr. Sessions madam president , i wanted to share some remarks that senator ayotte had relevant to the amendment that she offered that would pay for the Unemployment Insurance extension and veteran pensions benefits and would just say its an issue her payfor is an issue that i have had some...

A whole bunch of other things. Mentioned surveillance. We do bulk collection. Thats different from massive surveillance. We can talk about that later. Glenn says we collect everything there is. Nsa actually on any given day collects, listen up carefully, its a big number, collects. 00004 of Global Internet traffic. I have no idea what 1. 7 billion intra american email collection means. That is simply not happening. What we have here are people trying to keep you safe, and ive got an image coming...

It includes comments by Edward Snowden. Imagine a place of people dedicating their lifes to others. This is an object in a cruel experiment and over us to supervise this is a dictatorship. A kind of north korea like situation. [laughter] welcome. [ applause ] c1 welcome to this extraordinary debate on state surveillance. My name is rudyard griffiths. Its my privilege to act as the organizer of this semiannual series and to once again serve as your moderator. I want to start tonights proceedings ...

Ubiquitous, more and if were not carrying it on ourselves personally, nor were being watched by somebody else who has a reason to do that for us. When it becomes that ubiquitous, when the chair becomes smart, the water glass becomes smart, is it useful to think of that as Information Technology or is this a new state of being and how does hewlettpackard make any money off this . The question is, who controls all of the information, whether its individuals, the government, the companies themselve...

To enter, because they are [indiscernible] on the issue of territories being shifted around, for example, to that. I dont think youll find the chinese standing up and shouting for the russians. Anyone else . Roger . In terms of the second part of the question, it is hard to understand exactly what pivot to asia meant. It was a phrase and it has floated out there and there have been meetings about it. It is not altogether clear, to me, at least, what it has meant. But i think what president putin...

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