Assault on the Capitol Has Let Loose the Electronic Octopus
By Victor Davis Hanson Two days after the 2020 election, a defiant Kathy Griffin retweeted the notorious picture of her holding a prop that looked like the bloody head of a decapitated Donald Trump. Earlier last year, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, tweeted out a call to his followers to destroy Israel. Both […]
Amazon Hires Lobbying Firm Connected To Biden’s Top White House Adviser
CHUCK ROSS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER Amazon, the trillion dollar tech company, has hired lobbyist Jeff Ricchetti, whose brother will be the top White House counselor to Joe Biden. Ricchetti’s firm, which he founded in 2001 with his brother Steve, the incoming Biden adviser, registered as a lobbyist for Amazon on Nov. 13. According to disclosure forms filed with Congress, […]
Amazon is Coming to Oxnard: Please Don’t Shoot the Messenger!
By Armando Vazquez Amazon takes on the World: The creation of Amazon, in 1994, by Jeff Bezos, is by any standard an incredible American entrepreneurial success story. Legend has it that Bezos borrowed $250,000 from his folks, and in the small makeshift garage of his rented Bellevue, Washington home he launched his online […]
These Mega Corporations Pay Their Employees So Little They Need To Rely On Government Handouts, Report Finds
THOMAS CATENACCI CONTRIBUTOR Several U.S. corporations including McDonald’s, Walmart and Amazon benefit from government programs since they pay employees such low wages, a report commissioned by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders found. Roughly 70% of both Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients who earned wages worked full time, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released […]
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Amazon To Add Thousands Of Tech, Corporate Jobs In 6 American Cities
THOMAS CATENACCI CONTRIBUTOR Amazon plans to create 3,500 new tech and corporate jobs in six cities nationwide, the company announced Tuesday. Most of the company’s new hires will be located in Amazon’s New York office with the rest being added in Dallas, Detroit, Denver, Phoenix and San Diego, according to a press release. Amazon also announced plans […]
BUSINESS | Lawmakers Call on Amazon Chief to Testify Voluntarily or Face ‘Compulsory Process’
BY TOM OZIMEK Members of the House Judiciary Committee called on Amazon chief Jeff Bezos to testify in an antitrust investigation of his company, threatening to subpoena him if he doesn’t comply. In a May 1 letter addressed to Bezos, seven lawmakers, including Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary Jerrold Nadler (D- N.Y.) and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and […]
Amazon Strikes Back After Trump Delivered Billionaire Bezos’s Online Behemoth A Crushing Blow
CHRIS WHITE TECH REPORTER . Amazon announced Thursday night plans to protest the Trump administration’s decision to award a coveted $10-billion cloud project to Microsoft rather than the mega online shopping company. President Donald Trump’s alleged bias against the company’s founder, billionaire Jeff Bezos, played a part in the Department of Defense’s move, the company argued in a […]
Walmart Tries To Keep Pace With Behemoth Amazon, Expands Unlimited Grocery Delivery
MATT M. MILLER CONTRIBUTOR Walmart announced Thursday it is expanding its unlimited grocery delivery subscription service over the fall, as it joins the race against delivery companies like Amazon. The service will charge subscribers an annual fee of $98, or a monthly fee of $12.95 for same-day grocery delivery, requiring a minimum order amount […]
After Amazon Walks Away, Oxnard Hopes Education, Reforms Attract New Economy Jobs
By Gina Harden OXNARD – Oxnard Mayor Tim Flynn and City Manager Alex Nguyen recently offered their perspective on the failed negotiations between the city and Amazon’s representatives, Seefried Properties, in building a distribution center at the Sakioka Farms site. Nguyen expressed “frustration about how bureaucratic” the system was and said, “we didn’t […]
