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Amazon’s Whole Foods Argues SCOTUS Website Designer Ruling Allows Company to Fire Employees for Wearing BLM Attire at Work

Posted by Terrance Kible on September 20, 2023 64 Comments

The employees argue they wore BLM attire to protest workplace racism, such as when the grocery store offered 'free food to police during the time of a protest against police brutality,' which left black employees 'concerned for their safety.'...

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Amazon Employees Demand Leadership Stop Doing Business in States That Ban Abortions

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 28, 2022 77 Comments

Punishment of red states is on the menu....

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Space Race Intensifies as Amazon Looks to Challenge SpaceX Starlink

Posted by Leslie Eastman on April 07, 2022 21 Comments

"Project Kuiper" launching as rival to the SpaceX satellite system that is already being utilized with success....

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Amazon Relocates 1,800 Workers Due To Seattle’s Skyrocketing Violent Crime Rates

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on March 15, 2022 27 Comments

“Given recent incidents near 3rd (Ave) and Pine (St), we’re providing employees currently at that location with alternative office space elsewhere”...

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Amazon to Pay California $500,000 for ‘Concealing’ COVID Cases Among Employees

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 16, 2021 7 Comments

In addition to funding even more enforcement actions under supposed "consumer protection laws", Amazon also agreed to make changes to its workplace policies....

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Google and Amazon Anti-Israel Letters By “Anonymous” Staffers Were Astroturfed By Anti-Zionist Groups

Posted by Johanna Markind on October 26, 2021 9 Comments

"Anonymous" tech campaign is "a project of" Jewish Voice for Peace and M Powerchange...

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Jeff Bezos Gives Van Jones, Chef José Andrés $100 Million Each

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 21, 2021 30 Comments

Jeff Bezos calls the gift the "Courage and Civility" award. They can keep the money or give it to charity....

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Amazon Billionaire Jeff Bezos Will Join Blue Origin’s First Crewed Trip to Space

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 10, 2021 21 Comments

Space Tourism: Bidding for Blue Origin seat to space as already hit $3.5 million....

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California Counties Sue Amazon Over Alleged Misleading Pricing

Posted by Leslie Eastman on March 23, 2021 6 Comments

District attorneys from six California counties have filed a lawsuit against Amazon. They claim the company falsely advertised prices to consumers through the practice of “reference pricing.”

Prosecutors allege Amazon misleads buyers by featuring "reference pricing" in its advertisements for various products. This refers to when products' current prices are compared to a former, higher price the product was previously sold at -- often called "Was" prices -- or prices the products are usually sold at by other sellers, suppliers or the manufacturer, often called "List" prices, the suit says.

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Amazon Won’t ‘Sell Books That Frame LGBTQ+ Identity as a Mental Illness’

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 12, 2021 31 Comments

Amazon explained to Republican senators it won't sell any books framing transgender and sexual identities as mental illnesses because of company policy.

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Amazon Opposes Mail-in Ballots for Upcoming Alabama Unionization Vote

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 26, 2021 23 Comments

Democrats and the media have assured us that mail-in ballots are perfectly safe. Democrats are even trying to make the mail-in ballot system permanent for the sake of the pandemic. Why would Amazon's Jeff Bezos object to this method of voting for a unionization vote?

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Court denies Parler request for injunction against Amazon Web Services

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 21, 2021 53 Comments

Amazon Web Services took down Parler from its cloud service, allegedly based on threats on the Parler platform, mirroring simultaneous actions by Google and Apple to remove the Parler App.

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Parler CEO: Unclear when will be back, sues Amazon Web Services for website takedown (Updates)

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 11, 2021 73 Comments

The takedown of Parler by the cabal of Google, Apple, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), joined by other vendors who now are afraid to deal with Parler, is one of the most dangerous moments for internet freedom.

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The claim that Parler represents some unique risk to public safety is a lie driven by politics

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 10, 2021 103 Comments

The takedown of Parler, currently in progress, is one of most chilling and ominous signs that this country is heading to a very bad place, a lot worse than we have seen.

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Chicago Teachers Union Berated for Supporting Guillotine in Front of Bezos’s House

Posted by Mary Chastain on August 31, 2020 30 Comments

When a guillotine was placed in front of Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's house, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) approved of the display: "We are completely frightened by, completely impressed by and completely in support of wherever this is headed. #Solidarity." But did the union use the royal we? Some CTU members went off on Twitter.

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Seattle Council Member Calls for Overthrow of ‘Racist, Sexist, Violent, Utterly Bankrupt System of Capitalism’

Posted by Mary Chastain on July 07, 2020 74 Comments

Seattle Councilwoman Ksghama Sawant, socialist, went on a crazy rant against Amazon after the council passed a payroll tax on big businesses. Sawant is basically a female Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). No private businesses, housing, etc.

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No HBO Max? Consumers Push Gone With the Wind to the top Spot on Amazon Prime

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 12, 2020 57 Comments

I use my Apple TV when I work out and noticed Gone With the Wind at the top of the home menu. A quick Google search told me what I suspected. HBO Max temporarily pulled Gone With the Wind so consumers went to Amazon and Apple.

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Almost 1,000 Employees at Amazon in Seattle to Stage Walkout for Climate Change

Posted by Mike LaChance on September 10, 2019 35 Comments

On September 20th, almost a thousand employees at Amazon in Seattle are planning to walk off the job to protest the company's lack of action on climate change. The event is being timed to coincide with the appearance of teen climate activist Greta Thunberg at the United Nations.

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