Bezos took to a company blog on Tuesday to back the hefty “American Jobs” spending plan, which includes a corporate tax hike from 21% to 28%, unveiled by the Joe Biden administration last week. “We support the Biden Administration’s focus on making bold investments in American infrastructure,” the executive chairman …
Read More »US wanting other countries to raise corporate tax so it can profit is a bizarre super-capitalist demand
On Monday, US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen made a speech calling for a minimum global standard on corporate tax – effectively a demand that all countries of the world “cooperate” with the United States in order to raise their levies on businesses to a level which suits Washington. …
Read More »Facebook & Amazon emerge as 2 biggest corporate lobbyists, as big tech breaks own spending record in 2020 election cycle – report
Facebook and Amazon are now the two biggest corporate lobbying spenders in the country, according to a new report by Public Citizen, a progressive nonprofit group. Facebook spent nearly $20 million during the 2020 election cycle, with Amazon splurging just under $19 million. Behind them were telecoms giant Comcast in …
Read More »Bill demanding $15 minimum wage from corporate giants surprisingly comes from pro-Trump Senator Hawley
Hawley, who was demonized by Democrats for challenging the validity of President Joe Biden’s election victory, said Friday that his new legislation would require companies with annual revenue of $1 billion or more to pay their employees at least $15 an hour. Smaller companies would be spared the mandate, but …
Read More »‘Corporate titans acting as sovereign bullies’: Australia plans publicity campaign for Covid-19 jab rollout, but not on Facebook
As Australia launched its mass vaccination using the Pfizer jab on Sunday, Health Minister Greg Hunt promised a wide-ranging communication campaign to promote inoculation. The publicity drive will take place both offline and online – but nothing will be posted to Facebook, Hunt told national broadcaster ABC. Exclusion of the …
Read More »Welcome to the Big Tech Sweepstakes, where BLM looters win corporate prizes, and Capitol Hill rioters get the boot!
Hello and thank you for participating in the Big Tech Sweepstakes, where your political movement could win the approval of the mighty corporations that now dominate your lives! Isn’t democracy great? Oh look, we have a contestant! Could you please state your name, sir, and tell us a little bit …
Read More »Just the beginning? Corporate speech-policing fears grow as US senator loses book deal over election objections
Simon & Schuster announced on Thursday that it would not publish Hawley’s forthcoming book, ‘The Tyranny of Big Tech’, claiming that his objections over the November presidential contest played a role in the “disturbing, deadly insurrection” that occurred on Wednesday at the US Capitol. The Missouri lawmaker, who echoed US …
Read More »RT’s The Wokies: Top 10 CORPORATE panderers who plumbed new depths in 2020
While some companies deliberately set out to become woke standard-bearers, donating conspicuous sums to Black Lives Matter or delivering pompous press releases about their new direction, others were pushed into the PC pit unexpectedly – whether through guilt by association or because a publicity-hungry customer was able to bend the …
Read More »Are Western attacks on the Russian Covid-19 vaccine a corporate cold war against humanity?
Above all, there are two essential principles that regulate the survival of mankind. One is the ontogenetic, related to the survival of the individual, the other is the phylogenetic – connected to the survival of the species. The supreme dialectic of it being that, for the human race to survive, …
Read More »Eyewitnesses reported that the Khanty-Mansi OMON beat guests of the corporate party
Five-Yakh (Khanty) eyewitnesses removed on video as the riot police beat the visitors to a corporate party. The incident occurred on December 27 about four in the morning in cafe “yuna”. The record shows that the armed people in masks and riot police beaten form lying on the floor man. …
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