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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 13, 2013
WLOE nominates for Public Eye Awards 2014
Public Eye Awards 2014
WLOE nominates the Norwegian salmon producer Marine Harvest as the Most Despicable Corporation of the Year
The production of this corporation in Chile, the focus of our complaint, shows a record of abuse of both the local population and the environment. Ignoring legal conventions protecting indigenous lands and peoples, the company has built without consulting local communities, and the traditional waters of the Mapuche have been polluted. The working conditions are hard and 100 Chilean divers have died over the past decade, as opposed to one in Norway. Add to this a long list of environmental problems, from over concentration of the farmed fish in underwater cages, the abuse of antibiotics, the pollution of local waters from fish food and feces. See more on problems of salmon farming: http://www.farmedanddangerous.org/salmon-farming-problems/
http://www.nosalmonfarmsatsea.com/archives/785
The Call: "The Berne Declaration and Greenpeace Switzerland are looking for companies anywhere in the world who maximize their profits but have no sense of corporate responsibility and no regard for the social and ecological damage they cause. http://www.publiceye.ch/en/
Degrading working conditions, careless environmental destruction, deliberate disinformation, contempt for human rights: in anticipation of the next World Economic Forum in Davos at the end of January 2014, we are now gathering the worst corporate transgressions on our short list for the Public Eye Awards 2014. To give nominating organizations more time to mobilize than in years past, we are calling for early nominations and extending the voting period. People will be able to vote online for the corporate villain of their choice as early as November of this year."