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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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September 27, 2006
Gila Svirsky gives the world a present: 60th birthday website!
Gila's site is available under http://www.GilaSvirsky.com.
She wrote:
"Today begins Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year.
Rosh Hashana is also my birthday:
I’m 60 years old, and can’t really believe it. I was just 40 a minute ago!
To celebrate and launch a new chapter in my life, I have made myself a gift -- a personal website:
Right now it holds two (previously unpublished) books about peace activism, some old and new writing, lots of photos, and a few jokes. Some day, I hope it will be more honest and less diplomatic. There - that's my first stab at honesty.
I invite you, my friends, to have a look and share it with others, even consider linking to it. The site does not yet appear on most search engines until it has been "crawled" and "indexed". I hope that happens soon.
I send my sincere wishes for a Shana Tova, a good year, and Ramadan Kareem to everyone, most especially to all who live in this troubled region and to all who don't, but are trying to fix it."
Gila in Jerusalem
Her Letters from Jerusalem are featured on our website.