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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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April 24, 2016
Germans protest US-European trade deal before Obama's visit
They marched through the streets of Hannover, ahead of American president Barack Obama’s visit to Germany.
The protestors carrying signs reading “No to TTIP,” “Stop TTIP, Yes we can” and “We don’t need TTIP,” criticising the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement. They maintain that the trade deal is anti-democratic and will serve the interests of big businesses and weaken labor rights.
See article here: Tens of thousands march in city of Hannover, Germany on Saturday ahead of visit by U.S. president
By Jon Queally, www.commonmdreams.org
April 24th, 2016
..."On Thursday, a YouGov poll showed only 17 percent of Germans support passage of the deal, down from 55 percent just two years ago.
“We are not demonstrating against Obama but against TTIP,” said Christoph Bautz, head of the campaign group Campact, which helped organize the march. “TTIP is deeply un-American and anti-European because it endangers our shared value: democracy.”
With a focus on Obama’s arrival, one group dropped a large banner in the city reading “Yes We Can — Stop TTIP!” – utilizing the president’s famous 2008 campaign slogan."
What is the TTIP?
From Washington, DC's Public Citizen: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) "U.S. and European Corporations' Latest Venue to Attack Consumer and Environmental Safeguards?"