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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 31, 2011
Crisis at Fukushima: President Sarkozy and AREVA to the Rescue?
"The calamity at Fukushima keeps ratcheting up.
Following the announcement that plutonium has been found in soil close to the stricken Fukushima nuclear reactors, Naoto Kan, Japan’s prime minister announces that the country is on “maximum alert.”
The Guardian in UK reports that a former GE engineer, Richard Lahey, who helped install the GE boiling-water reactors in use at Fukushima, says he believes a meltdown is underway at reactor no.2. Will either the Japanese government or TEPCO agree? Don’t hold your breath. Please note: It took the nuclear industry four years to admit that there had been a partial meltdown at the Three-Mile-Island plant.
Meanwhile TEPCO announces it’s seeking the “advice” of the huge, French-state-owned company, AREVA. And the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, is due to visit Tokyo. High stakes appear to be getting a lot higher.
During the last several weeks, the world has watched the extraordinary response of the Japanese people to the one-two-three punch of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster. The immense courage and resilience of hundreds of thousands huddled in relocation centers, often without heat or water, has been magnificent.
Watching the scenes of the refugees hunkered down in their tiny cubicles of cardboard with neatly folded blankets in schools and gyms, of others doggedly digging for mementos through mountains of mud-encased debris or seeking warmth from an impromptu bonfire of wooden sandals (donated by Buddhist monks), one is filled with admiration.
Unfortunately, the actions and words of TEPCO, the Japanese utility that owns the stricken plants, have not been so praiseworthy." ...
Read full article at original posting, at Dissident Voice
Mina Hamilton, a long-time friend of WLOE e.V., is a writer based in New York City. Formerly she was the Co-founder and Co-director of the Sierra Club’s Radioactive Waste Campaign, an organizing and educational program on the hazards of the nuclear fuel cycle, and frequently writes about nuclear issues. She is also the author of Serenity to Go: Calming Techniques for Your Hectic Life.
Read other articles by Mina.