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Trump Hits ‘Amazon Washington Post’

President Donald Trump, between tweets casting ire on Attorney General Jeff Sessions Monday, took time to question the validity of the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post. https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/889675644396867584 The tweet is the latest part of a running feud between the president and

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Amazon and Whole Foods: An Organic Affluenza Experience

‘Would you like a side of kale with that cellphone battery?’

That sounds like an inquiry coming from your Alexa in the not-so-distant future as Amazon.com is set to purchase organic supermarket Whole Foods for $13.7 billion. The acquisition will firmly move the online retail behemoth into the realms of both the brick-and-mortar business as well as grocery.

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Amazon to Add 100,000 Employees for Automated Market

Despite CEO Jeff Bezos’s political battles with President-elect Donald Trump, Amazon is going all-in by pledging to hire 100,000 U.S. employees with full benefits to launch its fully-automated grocery markets, which are expected to offer drone delivery services.

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SpaceX Explosion Threatens Private Takeover of Space

An explosion Thursday in Cape Canaveral during a routine static test-fire of the nine Merlin 1D engines that power the first stage of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is the company’s second catastrophic failure in the last two years, and puts at risk the expected private sector takeover of space flight.

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Donald Trump, the Russians, and Trump’s Real Enemy, The Bezos Post

The US foreign policy establishment, wedded as it is to hawkers, doesn’t like Trump. And neither does the foreign policy establishment in a country such as Georgia, which borders on Russia, and which fought and lost a minor war with Russia in 2008. And so the Post, in its neocon mode, did its best to make Trump’s suggestions that the US and Russia might actually be able to get along look rather sinister.

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