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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
..."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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November 14, 2011

Sandra Steingraber: Fracking the Finger Lakes

"Great explanation of the geology of the Finger Lakes and what fracking will do to the landscape, water, and earth," writes Heidi Hutner in her blog piece of October 21, 2011.

At this blog piece at Ecofeminist and Mothering Ruminations she features the 40 minute video of biologist Sandra Steingraber's recent presentation "Fracking the Finger Lakes" presented on Sept 15, 2011 in Hammondsport NY.

Quote: "If you have to blast methane out of the ground instead of growing food, then something has gone terribly wrong with our economy."

Sandra Steingraber is a recent recipient of the Heinz award, and announced that she would be donating the $100,000 cash prize "to the fight against hydrofracking in upstate New York, where I live with my husband and our two children."

 


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