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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?
February 08, 2007
Global Warming: A Public Health Crisis Demanding Immediate Action
In part 1 of a two part series, Dr. Donohoe presents the whats and whys of global warming and climate change. One item of interest is:
"The military and oil use. The world's militaries are the planet's single largest polluter, responsible for 8% of global air pollution and 6% of raw material use.[8] Even prior to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US Defense Department was the world's largest consumer of oil and the Pentagon generated half a billion tons of toxic waste per year -- more than the 5 top chemical companies combined.[9] Ironically, the Pentagon has deemed global warming a "vastly greater threat than terrorism," with enormous consequences for US national security and the potential to cause global anarchy.[10]"
Read the full article here: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/548985
(if you do not want to register on the site, look for the title in a google search)
Part 2 describes "how corporations have employed unsound science and legislative influence to attempt to refute the existence of, and to impede progress toward curtailing, global warming; how the media have obfuscated the issue of global warming; and the roles of individuals, governments, and health professionals in confronting this major environmental crisis....
Read article at: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/549292
or google title: "Global Warming: A Public Health Crisis Demanding Immediate Action -- Part 2"