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April 4, 2018

How Long Before Amazon's Bezos Divests Washington Post

By Rob Kall

Yesterday I observed to a friend that it's only a matter of time before Jeff Bezos divests the Washington Post from his Amazon assets. Why? Because Trump goes after things that piss him off, and the WaPo is really pissing Trump off.

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Yesterday I observed to a friend that it's only a matter of time before Jeff Bezos divests the Washington Post from his Amazon assets. Why? Because Trump goes after things that piss him off, and the WaPo is really pissing Trump off.

So it was no surprise to see Michelle Goldberg's NYTimes article today, The Autocrat's Playbook. She compares Trump's threats and verbal assaults on Amazon to Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan's assault on media that criticized him. He didn't attack it directly. Goldberg describes:

"In 2009, Turkey's tax ministry imposed a $2.5 billion fine for alleged tax evasion on Dogan Yayin, a media conglomerate whose newspapers and television stations were critical of the Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Under financial and political pressure, the company began unloading some assets and closing others. Last month, the billionaire Aydin Dogan sold his remaining media properties, including the influential Hurriyet newspaper and CNN Turk, to a group of Erdogan loyalists."

So I'll take yesterday's speculation a step further and prognosticate that Bezos will sell the WaPo to a private investor, maybe a hedge fund, or maybe even to Sinclair media, or another proxy for Trump and his puppetmasters, the Koch brothers.

Goldberg goes on to give examples of how media companies in Russia and Venezuela critical of Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chavez were pressured so they were sold to friendlier owners.

Trump has long had a grudge against Amazon. Recently he . has tweeted:

Goldberg's article reports,

"Wednesday, after Axios reported that Trump was "obsessed" with Amazon, the company lost $53 billion in market value. In the wake of Trump's tweets on Monday, Amazon's stock fell more than 5 percent."

Of course the Washington Post is not alone. Trump has waged a massive war against "fake media," focusing on CNN, NBC, MSNBC and more. The five percent hit Amazon took after Trump's latest attacks is the tip of a very big iceberg that includes the CIA.

Now I have a love-hate relationship with Amazon and I'm certainly no fan of the CIA with its massive abuses of American privacy rights. But we're seeing a fascist threat to democracy like we've not seen since the McCarthy era.

And speaking of icebergs, it's not just about threats to the media or government agencies Trump finds offensive. I am one hundred percent certain that all the Trump abuses and predations that the media are reporting represent only a tiny fraction of what Trump and his sycophant appointees are perpetrating upon the American people and the world.

The Amazon story is just one example. Trump is the most malignant, most megalomaniacal, most dangerous threat to face the planet in over 80 years.



Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.


Check out his platform at RobKall.com


He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity


He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com


more detailed bio:


Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.


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