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From Public Citizen's Corporate Presidency site: "44 Trump administration officials have close ties to the Koch brothers and their network of political groups, particularly Vice President Mike Pence, White House Legislative Affairs Director Marc Short, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and White House budget director Mick Mulvaney."
Dark Money author Jane Mayer on The Dangers of President Pence, New Yorker, Oct. 23 issue on-line
Can Time Inc. Survive the Kochs? November 28, 2017 By Jane Mayer
..."This year, among the Kochs’ aims is to spend a projected four hundred million dollars in contributions from themselves and a small group of allied conservative donors they have assembled, to insure Republican victories in the 2018 midterm elections. Ordinarily, political reporters for Time magazine would chronicle this blatant attempt by the Kochs and their allies to buy political influence in the coming election cycle. Will they feel as free to do so now?"...
"Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America" see: our site, and George Monbiot's essay on this key book by historian Nancy MacLean.
Full interview with The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer March 29, 2017, Democracy Now! about her article, "The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency: How Robert Mercer Exploited America’s Populist Insurgency."
Democracy Now! Special Broadcast from the Women's March on Washington
The Economics of Happiness -- shorter version
Local Futures offers a free 19-minute abridged version of its award-winning documentary film The Economics of Happiness. It "brings us voices of hope of in a time of crisis." www.localfutures.org.
What's New?
August 29, 2008
Can we "safely harness nuclear power"?
Obama calls for “clean coal” and a search for safe nuclear energy.
Background: In his August 27, 2008 acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention, presidential candidate, Barack Obama, said: “As president, I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power.” John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, has called for the outright construction of 45 new nuclear reactors in the U.S.
Our View: “Clean coal” still includes environmentally destructive mountain top removal and neither candidate has yet explained how they would accomplish their lofty nuclear goals. McCain’s 45-reactor revival would exceed one half trillion in tax dollars. Finding ways to “safely harness nuclear power” has not been achieved in 60 years and must include not only safe and secure reactor operations, but safe uranium mining and processing operations and the safe disposition of nuclear waste for millions of years. All these solutions have so far eluded human discovery. Furthermore, attempts to date to make nuclear energy safer have been blunted by the lack of effective federal enforcement actions. Whistleblowers who have attempted to draw attention to significant safety lapses have been routinely blackballed and scapegoated (see Siemaszko story below) by both the NRC and industry. Both campaign positions would be expensive exercises in futility compared to the more immediate, safer and less expensive sustainable energy options.
What You Can Do: The candidates will not change their positions unless they hear from their constituents. Be sure to attend candidates’ campaign stops and speeches in your area; leave postcards, letters and information at your local campaign headquarters; contact the press with your views and write letters to the editor; and, if you have direct access or influence, please use this opportunity to better inform our presidential aspirants.
-- Beyond Nuclear Bulletin, August 29, 2008
For more information: http://www.beyondnuclear.org/
Read and view Obama's comments here:
Obama calls out climate and energy in his big acceptance speech
in Grist Environmental News and Commentary