AMAZON WANTS THE BEST GOVT MONEY CAN BUY: exec’s made $12,700 in contributions to the Rep. who’s leading the House antitrust investigation of AMZN. Such donations “serve as an example of how companies…work behind-the-scenes to cozy up to lawmakers to advance their corporate interests.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/18/amazon-executives-donated-to-rep-cicilline-antitrust-probe-leader.html
AMZN WANTS TO BUILD A REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS on sacred Khoi land at the Liesbeek River in Cape Town, S.A. American colonialism “on a sacred flood plain.”
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Read MoreRED LOBSTER WORKERS GET THE SHELL! No paid sick leave. “Managers let employees work sick” with Covid. Owners made $190 M in profits last quarter. Sick workers make sick customers.
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