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Posted 29 May 2017 - 09:43 AM

Jeff Bezos Is Doing Huge Business with the CIA, While Keeping His Washington Post Readers in the Dark  

 

The Post’s new owner, Jeff Bezos, is the founder and CEO of Amazon -- which recently landed a $600 million contract with the CIA. But the Post’s articles about the CIA are not disclosing that the newspaper’s sole owner is the main owner of CIA business partner Amazon.

 

Even for a multi-billionaire like Bezos, a $600 million contract is a big deal. That’s more than twice as much as Bezos paid to buy the Post.

And there’s likely to be plenty more where that CIA largesse came from. Amazon’s offer wasn’t the low bid, but it won the CIA contract anyway by offering advanced high-tech “cloud” infrastructure. 

 

As Amazon’s majority owner and the Post’s only owner, Bezos stands to gain a lot more if his newspaper does less ruffling and more soothing of CIA feathers.

 

Amazon has a bad history of currying favor with the U.S. government’s “national security” establishment. The media watch group FAIR pointed out what happened after WikiLeaks published State Department cables: “WikiLeaks was booted from Amazon’s webhosting service AWS. So at the height of public interest in what WikiLeaks was publishing, readers were unable to access the WikiLeaks website.” 

 

Propaganda largely depends on patterns of omission and repetition. If, in its coverage of the CIA, the Washington Post were willing to fully disclose the financial ties that bind its owner to the CIA, such candor would shed some light on how top-down power actually works in our society.

 

“The Post is unquestionably the political paper of record in the United States, and how it covers governance sets the agenda for the balance of the news media,” journalism scholar Robert W. McChesney points out. “Citizens need to know about this conflict of interest in the columns of the Post itself.”  

  

  http://www.alternet....is-readers-dark

 


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Posted 29 May 2017 - 09:47 AM

Jeff Bezos Is Doing Huge Business with the CIA, While Keeping His Washington Post Readers in the Dark  

 

The Post’s new owner, Jeff Bezos, is the founder and CEO of Amazon -- which recently landed a $600 million contract with the CIA. But the Post’s articles about the CIA are not disclosing that the newspaper’s sole owner is the main owner of CIA business partner Amazon.

 

Even for a multi-billionaire like Bezos, a $600 million contract is a big deal. That’s more than twice as much as Bezos paid to buy the Post.

And there’s likely to be plenty more where that CIA largesse came from. Amazon’s offer wasn’t the low bid, but it won the CIA contract anyway by offering advanced high-tech “cloud” infrastructure. 

 

As Amazon’s majority owner and the Post’s only owner, Bezos stands to gain a lot more if his newspaper does less ruffling and more soothing of CIA feathers.

 

Amazon has a bad history of currying favor with the U.S. government’s “national security” establishment. The media watch group FAIR pointed out what happened after WikiLeaks published State Department cables: “WikiLeaks was booted from Amazon’s webhosting service AWS. So at the height of public interest in what WikiLeaks was publishing, readers were unable to access the WikiLeaks website.” 

 

Propaganda largely depends on patterns of omission and repetition. If, in its coverage of the CIA, the Washington Post were willing to fully disclose the financial ties that bind its owner to the CIA, such candor would shed some light on how top-down power actually works in our society.

 

“The Post is unquestionably the political paper of record in the United States, and how it covers governance sets the agenda for the balance of the news media,” journalism scholar Robert W. McChesney points out. “Citizens need to know about this conflict of interest in the columns of the Post itself.”  

  

  http://www.alternet....is-readers-dark

 

 

 

 

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Posted 02 June 2017 - 11:18 AM

The Washington Post Covers Up For Uber 

 

Shouldn't the Washington Post point out that its owner, Jeff Bezos, owns about $1-3 billion worth of Uber stock?  

 

 

Earlier this month Saudi Arabia announced its Public Investment Fund was investing $3.5 billion in Uber and filling a seat on the company’s board.

In conjunction with this, Uber announced it would be expanding its operation in Saudi Arabia, the only country in the world that prohibits women from driving.

“Uber is profiting from this ban, generating tremendous revenue by providing male drivers to Saudi women who are not allowed to drive,” stated a petition from the activist group Codepink

 

If Uber profits from Saudi Arabia’s ban on female drivers then presumably so do its shareholders, including Bezos. Yet the Post‘s coverage of Saudi Arabia’s investment fails to disclose Bezos’ stake in Uber.  

 

 

 

 http://www.huffingto...b_10518400.html


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Posted 02 June 2017 - 11:51 AM

The Washington Post Covers Up For Uber 

 

Shouldn't the Washington Post point out that its owner, Jeff Bezos, owns about $1-3 billion worth of Uber stock?  

 

 

Earlier this month Saudi Arabia announced its Public Investment Fund was investing $3.5 billion in Uber and filling a seat on the company’s board.

In conjunction with this, Uber announced it would be expanding its operation in Saudi Arabia, the only country in the world that prohibits women from driving.

“Uber is profiting from this ban, generating tremendous revenue by providing male drivers to Saudi women who are not allowed to drive,” stated a petition from the activist group Codepink

 

If Uber profits from Saudi Arabia’s ban on female drivers then presumably so do its shareholders, including Bezos. Yet the Post‘s coverage of Saudi Arabia’s investment fails to disclose Bezos’ stake in Uber.  

 

 

 

 http://www.huffingto...b_10518400.html

 

OMG! First Alternet and now the Huffington Post! Keep this up and pretty soon your brain with be swimming in a sea of reality.


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Posted 02 June 2017 - 10:05 PM


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Posted 17 June 2018 - 05:55 AM

Hundreds of Washington Post employees sign a petition slamming billionaire owner Jeff Bezos' 'shocking pay practices', asking for 'fair wages' and urging him to 'share the wealth' 

 

 

 

http://www.dailymail...are-wealth.html


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Posted 05 July 2018 - 08:13 AM

Amazon's Fusion With The Govt Shows Neoliberalism's Drift To Neo-Fascism 

 

Employees and shareholders of Amazon.com are demanding that chief executive Jeff Bezos halt the sale of its facial recognition or Amazon Web Services (AWS) Rekognition service to law enforcement agencies across the U.S., including to the Department of Homeland Security – Immigration and Customs Enforcement (DHS-ICE). 

 

From Amazon to Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft and PayPal – among others – revelations poured out confirming the ongoing abuse of user data by monopolistic corporations, as well as their growing role as vendors of surveillance technology to the U.S. police state, military, and migrant detention agencies. 

 

 

 

https://www.zerohedg...ift-neo-fascism


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Posted 07 August 2018 - 12:10 PM


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Posted 22 October 2018 - 06:27 AM

Toxic U.S.-Saudi Alliance & Crooked Washington Post 

 


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Posted 09 February 2019 - 10:18 AM

Greenwald Slams Bezos' Invasion Of Privacy Hypocrisy As Amazon Builds Sprawling Surveillance State For Everyone Else   https://www.zerohedg...uilds-sprawling

 

Indeed, one of the stories we were able to report using the Snowden documents is an active NSA program to collect the online sex activities, including browsing records of porn site and sex chats, of people regarded by the U.S. Government as radical or radicalizing in order to use their online sex habits to destroy their reputations. This is what and who the NSA, CIA and FBI are and long have been.

 

IF BEZOS WERE the political victim of surveillance state abuses, it would be scandalous and dangerous. It would also be deeply ironic.  

 

That’s because Amazon, the company that has made Bezos the planet’s richest human being, is a critical partner for the U.S. Government in building an ever-more invasive, militarized and sprawling surveillance state. Indeed, one of the largest components of Amazon’s business, and thus one of the most important sources of Bezos’ vast wealth and power, is working with the Pentagon and the NSA to empower the U.S. Government with more potent and more sophisticated weapons, including surveillance weapons.

 

In December, 2017, Amazon boasted that it had perfected new face-recognition software for crowds, which it called Rekognition. It explained that the product is intended, in large part, for use by governments and police forces around the world. The ACLU quickly warned that the product is “dangerous” and that Amazon “is actively helping governments deploy it.”


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