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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 21, 2018
Food is political! We're fed up!
The Agricultural industry Kills!
„The industrial agriculture and food economy causes local and global problems for farmers, the climate, animals and the environment.” 
Berlin, Germany:
On Saturday, January 2018, as women around the USA and world held their second annual march and rallies, 33,000 people marched through the streets of Berlin for the 8th year, during the annual Green Week exhibition. Many banged on cooking pots, others followed the beat of drums and music -- see and hear them: 6 minute video.
Their presence was a message to fellow Germans, the parties trying to form a new government -- and to the 70 international agricultural ministers meeting on Saturday.
„The industrial agriculture and food economy causes local and global problems for farmers, the climate, animals and the environment,” said “We’re fed up!” spokesperson Jochen Fritz. “Goverment must not delay the conversion to agriculture that is friendly to the environment, animals and the climate, and in which farmers can live well from their work.“
Over 100 organizations called for the demonstration, and urged the two major German political parties, the Social Democrats and the conservative Union, not to waste any more time in moving towards "conversion to agriculture that is friendly to the environment, animals and the climate, and in which farmers can live well from their work.“
As a first step they should ban the herbicide Glyphosate (Roundup), and finance long overdue improvements in animal husbandry, “so that pigs can see daylight again and cows can graze.”
Source: Press release, https://www.wir-haben-es-satt.de 20 January 2018
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