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Washington Post employees are revolting over “shocking pay practices” at the newspaper, as they petition Amazon CEO and WaPo owner Jeff Bezos to “share the wealth”…of which today stands at $140 Billion.
Over 400 Washington Post employees have signed a public petition addressed to Jeff Bezos begging him to improve working conditions and poor pay at the iconic newspaper.
The petition follows over a year of unsuccessful negotiations with upper management.

Amazon, Starbucks and other large employers were able to pressure Seattle's City Council into overturning the socialist "head tax" of $275 on each employee per year that was expected to raise $50 million per year. The money was to help the growing homeless population. Amazon has more than 45,000 employees, and the tax would have cost the company $12,375,000. [...]

Monkey memes, Greece fires and high levels of vog + this day in history w/Lucky Lindy's ticker tape parade and our song of the day by Stephanie Hatfield on your Morning Monarchy for June 13, 2018.

Cloud push, credit crash and algorithm advice + this day in history w/the start of the Six Day War and our song of the day by Gorillaz on your Morning Monarchy for June 5, 2018.

At least one member of Congress regarded new information about Facebook’s data-sharing partnerships with tech companies as evidence that the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, lied to lawmakers in April about the control users have over their information on the social media platform.

Five years ago, Whole Foods announced it would require stringent mandatory labels on GMO products. In addition, animal products would require disclosure on whether animals had been raised on GMOs. This would have forced almost all food producers to label their products. Amazon acquired Whole Foods almost a year ago and they are now going back on their promise to label GMOs, waiting for the government to come up with a policy that is confusing and imprecise, and requires a SmartPhone to read.

This week on the New World Next Week: Weed turns to crypto to relieve the cash crunch; Whole Foods backtracks on GMO labeling; and the police get ALPR help with digital license plates.

This week on the New World Next Week: Weed turns to crypto to relieve the cash crunch; Whole Foods backtracks on GMO labeling; and the police get ALPR help with digital license plates.

(ZHE) — As it turns out, the scandal over Amazon’s Alexa voice-controlled personal assistant recording and sharing private conversations both with hackers and with people on the users’ contact list is much more serious than the company had feared. As Bloomberg reported, Amazon responded to a KIRO 7 news report about a couple who received a call from a […]

The week on New World Next Week: The Bezos borg keeps growing with new facial 'Recoknition' software; Canadians keep fighting for justice against the toxic legacy of MKULTRA; and some funky, good truth music about "Crooked Politicians".