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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.
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March 08, 2011
Ivorian women protest over killings
From Aljazeera English: "Seven women were killed by security forces as they took part in a demonstration against President Laurent Gbagbo, who has scoffed at calls to step down despite losing the November 28 election that the UN says was won by Alassane Quattara, his main rival.
Soldiers reportedly shot dead four people on Tuesday in an incident separate from the march.
The Associated Press said its photographer saw the bodies of three men and one woman inside a clinic where the victims had been taken for treatment.
The overwhelmed clinic had nowhere to put them, except on the floor where the blood of the dead pooled together, the photographer said.
Earlier, male relatives built a wall of burned-out cars to block the mouth of the freeway leading into Abidjan's suburb of Abobo where the female protesters, dressed in white and wearing red headbands, had gathered.
Mariam Bamba, 32, picked up a tree branch next to one of the blood stains on the pavement where the women were felled by gunfire.
"This leaf is all that they were carrying when they were killed," she said.
Many of the organisers of the deadly demonstration stayed home on Tuesday fearing reprisal by security forces.
But hundreds of others took to the streets in defiance on International Women's Day to express their disgust at the regime of Gbagbo.
Al Jazeera's Mohammed Adow, reporting from Abidjan, said: "The problems are getting bigger here. And the concern at the moment is that there could be a re-ignition of a civil war here because both sides continue to dig in and there seems to be little hope for a compromise from either side."
International outcry