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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 11, 2013
Women of Fukushima, German actions, IPPNW Statement
"Six Japanese women offer brutally honest views on the state of the clean-up, the cover-ups and untruths since the nuclear accident in Fukushima, and how it has affected their lives, homes and families." See the preview here.
Demonstrations were held in Tokyo, Kyoto and elsewhere in Japan to mark the 2nd anniversary of the nuclear disaster, which is still nowhere near under control.
In Germany on March 11th, 9,600 participated in 201 vigils in cities across the country. On Saturday, March 9th, citizens carried out a simulated nuclear catastrophe at the Grohnde nuclear power plant, gathering at more than 200 points along a 380 kilometer (236 mile) 'evacuation zone', complete with fleeing radiation refugees, decontamination stations, distribution of iodine tablets, and more. There were human chains in the larger cities. Source and photos: PibliXviewinG
Over the weekend, an ad in a major newspaper by the German branch of the IPPNW (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) expressed the medical and political case for closing all of Germany's 17 plants (8 have been closed since Fukushima) and moving immediately to a decentralizd energy future based on safe renewable forms of energy. The ad was signed by more than 2,300 doctors and supporters. See our translated text here.