Jeff Bezos (Jeff Bezos) Amazon is of course a terrible large technology company. (Market value: 1.86 trillion US dollars.)
They have almost taken over the entire global retail industry. Killing tens of millions of jobs in the United States and the world-employing thousands at the same time.
They have done it-deliberately not making money. For decades, they have purchased tens of thousands of items every day at below cost.
Amazon: Operating for nearly 20 years and still not making money
This unfair weakening has murdered millions of companies that actually have to make money to survive. Leave Amazon to fill all the smoking holes they have created in the economy.
Amazon’s non-profit model: let competitors bleed to death-and then do what they do
For decades, how can Amazon’s retail industry lose money and still murder the global retail industry? By operating other profitable businesses and using the money to subsidize Amazon retail.
Namely: Amazon Web Services.
Amazon’s secret weapon: cloud subsidized retail:
“Amazon is a terrible retailer. It reports (2015) revenue of 22.7 billion U.S. dollars and a loss of 57 million U.S. dollars…
“Amazon Web Services (AWS) will break the $6 billion mark in 2015. In the first quarter alone, it generated $1.6 billion. This is a huge sum of money that surprised many people in the technology industry, which means AWS is bigger than the sum of its four major cloud competitors…
“How can Amazon beat companies like Salesforce, Microsoft, Google, and IBM? The answer is an efficient strategy that retailers will recognize from painful personal experience-since its launch in 2006, AWS has announced 48 price cuts.
“Prices that stifle profits are a technique Jeff Bezos uses to squeeze his competitors, no matter what kind of financial distress it brings to his own company. You almost have to be rude to Bezos The world’s largest technology giant feels sad…”
Amazon started a company and deliberately lost money to destroy competitors. And subsidize it by opening another business and using it to subsidize the weakening of the first business. Then start the third business to subsidize the price cut of the second business. then…. Foam, rinse, repeat…
Anyone who defends Amazon’s corrupt business practices as a “free market at work” is of course an idiot.
This brings us to Amazon and the government.
Does anyone think that a company that performs so badly in the private sector will not perform equally badly in the public sector? Of course people who have this idea are idiots.
Amazon bribed all levels of government. And enjoy nepotism in return.
The danger of Amazon, cronyism, and endless government intervention
There is almost no doubt that the biggest advantage the government must invest in Cronie Amazon? Government contract.
The largest contract ever offered by the US federal government may be the $10 billion cloud computing contract signed for the Department of Defense (DoD) in 2018.
When it was announced, this was already a nepotism that Amazon had won.
Uber-crony Amazon-about to get the biggest crony deal in DC’s terrible history
“When (Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure) JEDI was released, on the day of Congress’s summer recess, the deal appeared to be manipulated to support a single supplier: Amazon.
“According to insiders familiar with this 1,375-page proposal request, the language contains a large number of technical regulations that only Amazon can meet, which makes it difficult for other leading cloud service providers to win or even apply for contracts…
“(T) His process of making the Jedi Knight has all the characteristics of the swamp that Trump vowed to drain. Although there have been long talks about the Ministry of Defense joining cloud computing, it was only before the Secretary of Defense James Mattis hired one. The current bids were integrated after the DC lobbyist who had consulted for Amazon.
“Lobbyist Sally Donnelly is serving as Matisse’s senior consultant, and the details of JEDI are being finalized. During her tenure, Matisse flew to Seattle to visit Amazon headquarters and meet Jeff Bezos.
“Then, as the cloud computing contract was finalized, Donnelly’s former lobbying company SBD Advisors was acquired by an investment fund linked to Amazon’s cloud computing department.”
Nepotism: Get your former employees to get government contracts…:
“…Makes you more likely to get a government contract….
“Look at the United States Digital Services (USDS). And the Department of Defense: Defense Digital Services (DDS)…
“Get to know Deap Ubhi…(G)et Ubhi’s USDS self-description:’Product and technology leader.’…
“Ubhi describes itself as a’product expert’ for USDS.” It sounds like sourcing to me.
“Ubhi’s LinkedIn headline says he works for USDS-but his work experience shows that he is the’Product Director’ of DDS for the Department of Defense. It sounds like a sourcing to me.
“Before taking office, where did Ubhi work? Why do you watch… the super-large technology company Amazon. You know, this company is owned and operated by Jeff Bezos, who is the world’s richest man and Outspoken anti-Trump agitator.
“And Ubhi doesn’t just work for Amazon. He used to work for Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud storage company.”
Well, it seems Trump is stronger than Bezos after all.
“Drain the swamp” test: Will the Trump administrator reward Amazon for its killer cronyism?
Breakthrough: Amazon’s Ministry of Defense’s nepotism is censored by the Trump administration
What is the outcome of the Trump administration’s review?
The Department of Defense awards Microsoft a $10 billion JEDI deal
The Trump administration believes that this process is corroded by Amazon’s nepotism. So it chose someone else.
So Amazon sued. Because of course. Instead of wasting years and tens of millions of dollars in court to solve this problem…
The Pentagon cancels Microsoft’s JEDI contract and will require new cloud computing bids
So nearly four years later, the Ministry of Defense had to start again. Our combatants still do not have the most advanced information capabilities needed to avoid death in many situations.
Well, Congress finally started investigating Amazon’s obnoxious nepotism in this matter.
Republican lawmakers say emails indicate that Amazon used force in seeking JEDI cloud contracts:
“Previously undisclosed emails seem to indicate that when Amazon sought the now cancelled $10 billion JEDI cloud contract, it recruited so many DoD influencers, so much so that two Republican lawmakers now want company officials to explain their concerns about the United States Potential “improper” impact. Transaction failure.
“Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) and Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) stated that emails disclosed in a report in the New York Times showed that senior aides of the Department of Defense praised the cloud computing giant. Speaking endlessly-so much so that it made at least a famous Trump administration official cautious…
“In a 10-page letter sent to Amazon in May, Rep. Barker and Senator Lee expressed concerns about the way Amazon pursues contracts…
“Specifically, we are concerned that Amazon may try to monopolize one or more markets related to government and/or commercial cloud computing services by improperly influencing the joint enterprise defense infrastructure procurement process,” the two wrote…”
Whether you believe it or not– The investigation is bipartisan:
“Congressman Chris Stewart (R-UT) obtained a bipartisan agreement to obtain documents and information from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). This key information relates to the findings of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) program. The ten-year, $10 billion contract is riddled with ethics and procurement issues.
“Nevertheless, despite repeated requests from Congressman Stewart, the Department of Defense has failed to provide a comprehensive response to these serious issues.”
The Department of Defense “failed to make a full response?” This is a mild expression. This is a less gentle way…
“E-mails show that the auditors have shielded the public from evidence of potential compromise.
“The Pentagon’s Office of the Inspector General’s infamous Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) program left a loophole in its audit report released last year, thus denying the public’s complete view of the alleged corruption.
“The investigators cleared the fact that many senior defense officials favored Amazon in the $10 billion cloud service contract for the project, and insisted that they believed that the Department of Defense did not receive the White House’s decision when it finally made an unexpected decision to award Microsoft. pressure.
“However, the new documents show that the auditor has shielded the public from evidence of potential compromise.
“The New York Times first reported today that the testimony and e-mails collected by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense (DOD IG) during its JEDI investigation show that Department of Defense officials have a better understanding of the propaganda of large technology companies, especially Amazon. More.
“The Intercept also obtained copies of the testimony through the Freedom of Information Act and emails from sources. A closer look reveals more signs of support by Silicon Valley giants.
“These documents show that the Department of Defense IG, when it was responsible for investigating the integrity of one of the most controversial and profitable government contracts in recent years, was covering up evidence of tainted acquisitions.
“As The Intercept reported last month, the decision may be even more disturbing because the audit report showed that defense officials have significant financial connections with Amazon, but their misconduct is still cleared.
“In particular, when Sally Donnelly received an external payment of $390,000, the Department of Defense IG discovered that she was serving as a senior adviser to former Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and she did not disclose it until she left the Pentagon.
“This payment stems from her earlier sale of her consulting company (of which Amazon is a customer) to British financier André Pinar, who also had connections with Amazon. It arrived in March 2017, the same month Matisse and Donnelly had dinner with Pinar and his romantic partner, Amazon executive Teresa Carlson at the time, laying the foundation for future meetings with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
“The Department of Defense IG pointed out that Donnelly consulted an ethics lawyer at the Pentagon about her financial disclosures, but did not mention how close the March payment was to the key dinner. This oversight led to Utah Senator Mike Lee and the Colorado public. Congressman Ken Barker criticized the completeness of the report and asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to reassess Amazon’s impact on the JEDI program in May…
“Donnelly and other defense officials approved by the Department of Defense IG, including Mattis, no longer work in the Pentagon. But last week, the Department of Defense announced that it would abandon the $10 billion JEDI deal with Microsoft anyway, claiming that the military is constantly evolving. Data processing and artificial intelligence activities now require the services of multiple companies.
“This shift is undoubtedly likely to benefit Amazon. Amazon even filed a lawsuit claiming that former President Donald Trump unfairly tilted the scale to Microsoft, which derailed the contract from the beginning.”
Amazon and its nepotism are so huge-even if they lose, it opens up another chance to win.
The IG of the Department of Defense of the Joe Biden administration is actively hiding the crony corruption of the Amazon government.
Make crony Amazon eligible for the next government contract. And after that. And after that. with….
