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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?
January 10, 2011
Current on women in Africa
NAMIBIA: WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT ON THE DECLINE
Twenty years after independence, representation of women in senior
government structures and in Parliament is declining in Namibia.
According to the latest demographic survey results of August 2010, out
of a population of around two million, women outnumber men 10:9. In
2001, the ratio was 94 males per 100 females. In 2010 Namibia reformed
its national gender policy in line with the United Nation’s millennium
development goals (MDGs) and its own Vision 2030, a national
development policy dissected into five-yearly development plans. It
includes the increase of women in decision-making positions in
government, the private sector, religious groups and community
institutions.
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SUDAN: THE REFERENDUM AND WOMEN'S CITIZENSHIP
This week, South Sudan is again going to the polls, this time to vote
in a referendum on secession from the North. The preliminary result
should be known by 15th January, and will mark one of the final stages
of the historic 2005 agreement to end the long-standing conflict
between North and South Sudan. All eyes will be on this vote, which is
widely seen as likely to result in the South’s separation from the
North. How will this shape women’s lives in North and South Sudan?
asks this article from http://www.opendemocracy.net
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