{"id":48119,"date":"2019-08-30T06:36:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T11:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48119"},"modified":"2019-08-30T06:37:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T11:37:15","slug":"jeff-bezos-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48119","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Bezo&#8217;s Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.strategic-culture.org\/news\/2019\/08\/24\/jeff-bezoss-politics\/?fbclid=IwAR1mbdqP8RP0Wires9SFIUZK_F321IlM5OdZQCiIuJJwbmBE39s2Emr18A4\">Jeff Bezo&#8217;s Politics<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It\u2019s a billionaire\u2019s world and the biggest of them all is in the thick of it, as Eric Zuesse explains.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>J<\/strong>eff Bezos is the owner of&nbsp;<em>The Washington Post<\/em>, which leads America\u2019s news-media in their almost 100 percent support and promotion of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thesaker.is\/vladimir-putins-basic-disagreement-with-the-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">neoconservatism,<\/a>&nbsp;American imperialism and wars. This includes sanctions, coups, and military invasions against countries that America\u2019s billionaires want to control but don\u2019t&nbsp;<em>yet&nbsp;<\/em>control \u2014 such as Venezuela, Syria, Iran, Russia, Libya, and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are aggressive wars against countries which have never aggressed against the United States. They are not, at all, defensive, but the exact opposite. It\u2019s not necessarily endless war (even Hitler hadn\u2019t planned that), but war until the entire planet has come under the control of the U.S. Government, a government that is&nbsp;<em>itself<\/em>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonsblog.com\/2019\/02\/how-americas-dictatorship-works.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">controlled by America\u2019s billionaires<\/a>,&nbsp;the funders of neoconservatism and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greanvillepost.com\/2019\/08\/18\/cia-coup-college\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">imperialism<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 in both major American political parties, think tanks, newspapers, TV networks, etcetera.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bezos has been a crucial part of neoconservatism, ever since,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/publicintelligence.net\/2013-bilderberg-meeting-participant-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">at the June 6-9 2013 Bilderberg meeting<\/a>, he arranged with Donald Graham, the&nbsp;<em>Washington Post\u2019<\/em>s owner,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/business\/2013\/08\/amazon-founder-jeff-bezos-buys-the-washington-post.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to buy that newspaper<\/a>, for $250 million.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fcw.com\/articles\/2013\/03\/18\/amazon-cia-cloud.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bezos had already negotiated, in March of that same year,&nbsp;<\/a>with the neoconservative CIA Director, John Brennan, for a &nbsp;$600 million ten-year cloud computing<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/07\/the-details-about-the-cias-deal-with-amazon\/374632\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&nbsp;contract<\/a>&nbsp;that transformed Amazon corporation, from being a reliable money-loser, into a reliably profitable firm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That caused Bezos\u2019s net worth to soar even more (and at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2017\/5\/15\/15610786\/amazon-jeff-bezos-public-company-profit-revenue-explained-five-charts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a&nbsp;sharper rate of rising<\/a>) than it had been doing while it had been losing money. He became the most influential salesman not only for books, but for the CIA, and for such mega-corporations as Lockheed Martin. Imperialism has supercharged his wealth, but it didn\u2019t alone cause it. Bezos might be the most ferociously gifted business-person on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Bezo&#8217;s Politics It\u2019s a billionaire\u2019s world and the biggest of them all is in the thick of it, as Eric Zuesse explains. Jeff Bezos is the owner of&nbsp;The Washington Post, which leads America\u2019s news-media in their almost 100 percent support and promotion of&nbsp;neoconservatism,&nbsp;American imperialism and wars. 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