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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?
June 09, 2011
100% RENEWABLES INSTEAD OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
The world is heating up, the ice caps are melting, severe weather including droughts and hurricanes are in the news -- and our neighborhoods.The current international process, slow and bureaucratic, shows little sign of addressing the urgency of the situation, but the UN Climate Convention is also a gathering of people from around the world who are knowledgeable and concerned.
We want to take advantage of this event to offer a discussion about the complete phase-out of nuclear power -- worldwide -- to be replaced by conservation, efficiency and renewable energy sources.
A major German and international spokesperson for the change that must come was Dr. Hermann Scheer (1944-2010).
Before the Fukushima disaster confirmed what the anti-nuclear movement has said for over three decades, politician and solar advocate Hermann Scheer explained how the complete switch to renewable energy could be realized quickly. In his last book, "Der Energethische Imperativ", now being translated into English, the then-president of EUROSOLAR looked at concepts and proposals for the shift away from fossil and nuclear energy and their prospects of success… Scheer declared that: "the switch to renewable energy (is) achievable worldwide, if we step up to mobilize our full strength to this end, and that it can be done within a quarter-century, in some regions and countries earlier already."
Carrying on his important work are his daughter, Dr. Nina Scheer, managing director of UnternehmensGruen , and co-founder of the Hermann Scheer Foundation. She will speak at the side event (see invitation here) and an earlier open press event at Eurosolar.
Dr. Scheer's book will be published in English in December 2011 by Earthscan.
See an excellent 1 hour interview, one of his last, with Amy Goodman in Bonn in September 2010. Here on-line, from Democracy Now!