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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?
November 18, 2014
"Africa Stop Ebola"
In late October, the song "Africa Stop Ebola" was recorded by singers and musicians from Guinea, the DR of Congo, Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal, including Amadou & Mariam, Salif Keita, Oumou Sangare,Tiken Jah Fakoly, Kandia Kora, Mory Kante and the Rapper Didier Awadi and Marcus. Their message, in reggae rhythms, accompanied by the kora and with texts in French and local languages including Bambara, Lingala and Malinke (find English subtitles under 'cc'): You can do something against the spread of Ebola in Africa.
Donations for the songs go to Doctors Without Borders:
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/home
Here is the song, and others:
"Africa Stop Ebola": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruYQY6z3mV8
The text in English and French is on the musicians' Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Africa-Stop-Ebola/1542298179316863
Here are additional songs, to mobilize against Ebola:
A gesture for life against Ebola from musicians from Guinea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RDruYQY6z3mV8&v=cSzksYTWtdM&spfreload=10
Stop Ebola, Sénégal (Y en a Marre) from Senegalese musicians:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2tARLMyvJc"
Africa Must Stand And Fight Together Fight Ebola von Sydney & George Weah, Musician from Ghana and Liberian ex-soccer star:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLNL5pm-49s
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Thanks for this information from: Projektbuero Sprenger
http://home.snafu.de/usp/
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