Jeff Bezos
Report: Amazon Makes Push into Elections, Security Experts Concerned
October 17th, 2019 2:48 PM
With experts warning about hackers and insider sabotage as Amazon expands into the business of elections, should American voters worry about officials putting all their eggs in one basket? Amazon Web Services (AWS) has increasingly become involved with both “state and local elections,” noted Reuters inn an article titled “How Amazon.com moved into the business of U.S. elections.” “More than 40…
Amazon May Be Ushering in Our Robot Overlords
October 11th, 2019 11:04 AM
If you’re not preparing now to serve our future robot overlords, then you’d better start. Amazon, since at least Jan. 2019, has been hard at work developing what it calls a “fully-electric delivery system – Amazon Scout – designed to safely get packages to customers using autonomous delivery devices.” Amazon has already developed Amazon AI. You know her as Alexa, and her counterpart is the Echo.…
Bezos Surrenders to Climate Change Protesters and Makes Pledge
September 19th, 2019 2:26 PM
Note to lefty special interests: Pick on the Big Tech companies. They’re pushovers. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced at the National Press Club on September 19 that he was making massive changes to Amazon in order to fight climate change. More than 1,500 Amazon employees pledged to walk out on strike on September 20 as part of the Global Climate Strike along with other tech employees from Google…
Stop Mental Health Data Mining of Our Kids
September 4th, 2019 7:23 PM
No, no, no. Hell, no! That's my response to the latest trial balloon floated by the White House to join with Silicon Valley on a creepy program monitoring Americans’ “neurobehavioral signs” to (purportedly) prevent gun violence. President Donald Trump's old friend, former NBC head Bob Wright, has been pushing an Orwellian surveillance scheme called “Safe Home” — “Stopping Aberrant Fatal Events by…
'Great Minds'? The New Yorker Oozes Over Origins of a Pecker Headline
February 11th, 2019 10:23 PM
The once august New Yorker used to be the home of such skilled writers as Dorothy Parker, S.J. Perelman, James Thurber, and E.B. White who were renowned for their sophisticated humor. Nowadays? Well, check out how they congratulate the HuffPost for "creating" a headline that was already obvious to many in this February 8 article by Erich Lach, 'The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes…
ACLU, Soros Groups Pressure Tech to Avoid Working With U.S. Government
January 17th, 2019 3:42 PM
Apparently George Soros does not want major tech companies to work with the U.S. government. The ACLU and nine other Soros funded groups joined with a coalition of 85 nonprofit groups to demand that major tech companies limit what they sell to the U.S. government.
Conservative Leaders: Amazon Must Remove Vile Anti-Christian Products
January 11th, 2019 12:15 PM
On Friday, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell released the following joint letter to Amazon President Jeff Bezos calling on him to remove anti-Christian products that are available on the Amazon marketplace despite being a clear violation of company policies.
Four Media Owners Among Top Midterm Political Donors
Business
November 6th, 2018 1:09 PM
Billions of dollars are being spent on both sides to influence the outcome of the 2018 midterm elections — much of it from major media figures.
The day before the election, the Los Angeles Times (LAT) profiled the 12 biggest spenders trying to “determine control of Congress” based on trackable political donations to candidates, committees and outside groups. Giving to nonprofits or 501(c)4s were…
Bill Maher Gives $1M to Dems, Tells ‘Cheap F**k’ Billionaires To Give
Business
August 24th, 2018 1:00 PM
Comedian Bill Maher donated $1 million to Senate Democrats to try to help them retake a majority as a result of the midterm elections this November.
Washington Post Claims They Aren't Advocates for Amazon
July 23rd, 2018 4:04 PM
In an article denouncing President Trump's weekend attacks on Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his properties, the Washington Post claimed it was not lobbying for Amazon.
The Health Care Mountain
May 3rd, 2018 8:42 PM
WASHINGTON — Milton Friedman was not only a brilliant economist — a Nobel laureate, in fact — he was also a gifted writer. In his 1962 book "Capitalism and Freedom," he presciently explained how health care costs were going to leap out of control over the next decades. Sure enough, they did. They multiplied from roughly $1 of every $20 being spent on health care in the 1950s to roughly $1 of…
Washington Post, Express Promote Owner Jeff Bezos’ LGBT Agenda
Business
April 25th, 2018 4:49 PM
Jeff Bezos’ media properties, The Washington Post and Express newspapers, are acting more than ever like press agents for the Amazon CEO. Both publications recently heralded the “unspoken requirement” for Amazon’s headquarters hunt — LGBT rights. And now that Bezos own newspapers have published the story, consider the word officially out that Amazon is trying to find a second headquarters…
Amazon, Bezos Continue to Get a Virtual Pass For Sweatshop Practices
April 21st, 2018 6:31 AM
Looking at the grief Starbucks has received for problems with two patrons at a Philadelphia store, one might ask why current Executive Chairman and former CEO Howard Schultz didn't buy some media protection by purchasing a major newspaper. Fellow Seattle-area resident and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos did that with the Washington Post in 2013. Amazon's alleged engagement in 21st-century sweatshop…
Weinstein ‘Pal’ Jeff Bezos Silent on Allegations of Rape, Harassment
Business
October 11th, 2017 9:26 AM
As the accusations against producer Harvey Weinstein grow with every day, it’s telling to see who remains silent. When the allegations of rape surfaced in the New Yorker on October 10, Weinstein croney Hillary Clinton finally spoke out. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has yet to release statements condemning his long-time ‘pal.’