PrairiePundit

  Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes Subscribe Amazon electric vehicles seen charging in the snow All these vehicles are being charged by a huge diesel generator. The generator is on, you can hear it running providing the power “Doesn’t that defeat the purpose when you literally have a diesel powered generator electrifying all of the electric vehicles?” This is Democrat’s “Green Energy.”

 Wall Street Journal: Elizabeth Warren’s iRobot Gift to China Antitrust regulators kill the iRobot-Amazon tie, and job losses ensue. ... Progressives opposed Amazon’s $1.7 billion bid for iRobot the moment it was announced in August 2022. They claimed without evidence that Amazon would undermine Roomba rivals selling in the company’s online marketplace and use the smart vacuum to spy on American homes. But they mostly worried that the acquisition would make Amazon more powerful. ... I have had one of these robots for several years and if it is used for spying I wonder why anyone would be interested in what rooms are being vacuumed. 

 American Action News: Amazon suspended a man’s account, causing his entire smart home system to malfunction, after a delivery driver alleged he used a racial slur through his doorbell system. The man had video evidence showing it was an automated greeting. The week-long lockout of his Amazon account left his Echo devices unresponsive, raising concerns about smart home vulnerabilities. The lockout resulted from a “miscommunication” between the delivery driver and the automated doorbell message. “After nearly a week, on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, I finally regained access to my Amazon account after an unexpected and unjustifiable lockout,” Jackson revealed. “As a result, my home was filled with unresponsive devices, a silent Alexa, and numerous unanswered questions.” The lockout was triggered by a delivery driver’s misinterpretation of an automated message as racist. Jackson provided video evidence, but Amazon’s response was delayed, prolonging the account lockout. ... I am pretty sur...

 Daily Caller: Amazon powered off all solar panels from its warehouse roofs’ in 2021 after its installations malfunctioned, leading to multiple fires and electrical explosions across its North American warehouses for over a year, according to CNBC. Solar panels caused “critical fire or arc flash events” in at least six of its 47 North American warehouses with solar installations, between April 2020 and June 2021, according to internal documents acquired by CNBC. The fires caused Amazon to temporarily diable all its solar installations as the company wanted to ensure its systems were designed, operated and maintained correctly before they could be brought back online. (RELATED: Amazon Acquisition Will Expand Its Robot Artificial Intelligence Presence In Your Home) Arc flashes are a form of electrical explosion and can result in serious injury or even death, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. “Out of an abundance of caution, following a small number of ...

 Washington Examiner: H undreds of  Amazon  and  Google  employees signed an anonymous letter Tuesday condemning a deal made between the corporations and Israel that they argue will harm Palestinians. The  letter  , signed "internally" by 300 employees from Amazon and 90 others from Google, was published in the  Guardian  on Tuesday but with no names attached. The employees said they chose to be anonymous out of fear of retaliation but wanted to voice their opposition to the Project Nimbus contract that provides cloud services to the Israeli military and government agencies. "We are writing as Google and Amazon employees of conscience from diverse backgrounds. We believe that the technology we build should work to serve and uplift people everywhere, including all of our users," the letter said. "We cannot look the other way, as the products we build are used to deny Palestinians their basic rights, force Palestinians out of their homes and at...

John Sexton: We’ve had a string of shoplifting stories over the past year, including many emanating from big cities on the west coast. In San Francisco, Walgreens stores  were closed  after shoplifters cleaned them out. But  brazen incidents  of shoplifting continued in the chain’s remaining stores as well as at other  retail stores in the city . Seattle arrested 53 shoplifters  in a single day  in an effort to crack down on the problem. Most of the people stealing merchandise from retailers aren’t doing it for themselves. They are “boosters” working with organized crime rings to collect merchandise, warehouse it somewhere and, in most cases, resell it on Amazon. Today the Wall Street Journal has an interesting story about the efforts of corporate theft investigators and local law enforcement  to stop them . “We’re trying to control it the best we can, but it’s growing every day,” said [CVS investigator Ben] Dugan… Mr. Dugan’s team, working with l...

 Washington Free Beacon: Sen. Mike Lee (R., Utah) and Rep. Ken Buck (R., Colo.) on Tuesday asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Amazon for violating federal law while competing for a Department of Defense contract. The lawmakers in a letter said Amazon may have bribed a senior defense official in order to secure a cloud computing contract, citing an alleged payment from an Amazon consultant to a top adviser to former secretary of defense James Mattis, Sally Donnelly. Lee and Buck, citing an April 2020 inspector general report , say Donnelly received more than $1 million in undisclosed payments from an Amazon consultant during her time at the Defense Department. While the payments were officially for the 2017 sale of her consulting company, Donnelly reported only $390,000 from that sale. Lee and Buck allege the payment came in exchange for her willingness to promote Amazon in her official capacity at the Defense Department. Donnelly had done consulting work for Ama...

  Paul C. Binotto: Did Amazon Pull Clarence Thomas Documentary Off Their Site in Order to Pull Him Off Their Case? The timing was suspect.  It happened at a time when Amazon was taking other steps to rein in conservative thoughts such as its attack on Parler. 

  Washington Free Beacon: At Amazon, Warehouse Workers Who Praise the Company Reap Rewards People who are seen as having a good attitude are generally rewarded in most businesses. 

Ed Morrissey:   Rubio To Amazon: After Your Woke Attacks On Conservative Values, Don’t Expect Republicans To Rescue You From Unionization This is another example of how Republicans are becoming the party of the working class. 

  Roger Kimball: The ‘World’s Largest Bookstore’ Gets Into the Censorship Business   Amazon’s decision to remove Ryan Anderson’s When Harry Became Sally isn't about a P.C. company removing one book—it is a challenge to the fundamental principles underlying American democracy. This is the wrong way to deal with the subject matter you disagree with.  It looks like Amazon took a turn to the dark side of suppressing speech it disagrees with when it tried to kill off Parler.  There is information that should be available to those contemplating transgenderism.

 The attempt of Bezos to kill Parler was just one episode in Amazon's move to pander to leftists and the evils of liberalism.  They also recently removed an excellent documentary about Clarence Thomas , Created Equal,  and did so during Black History Month.  Amazon is also being questioned by some in Congres because it removed a that challenges the liberal point of view on the transgender movement. Four U.S. senators asked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos for an explanation after his company removed the book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment by conservative scholar, Ryan T. Anderson, from all Amazon platforms. In the letter, Sens. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.), Mike Lee (R., Utah), Mike Braun (R., Ind.), and Josh Hawley (R., Mo.) say that "Amazon has been unable to provide a sufficient explanation as to how Anderson’s book, which reached the top of two of Amazon's best-seller lists before it was even released in 2018, supposedly violated a vague, undefined...

 Daily Caller: Amazon offered to help the Biden administration on Wednesday, shortly after President Joe Biden was sworn into office, with efforts to distribute the coronavirus vaccine, a proposal that the tech giant had not submitted to the Trump administration in the month since the vaccine was approved for public use. “As you begin your work leading the country out of COVID-19 crisis, Amazon stands ready to assist you in reaching your goal of vaccinating 100 million Americans in the first 100 days of your administration,” Dave Clark, Amazon’s senior vice president of world-wide operations, wrote in a letter to Biden, according to Axios . “We are prepared to leverage our operations, information technology, and communications capabilities and expertise to assist your administration’s vaccination efforts. Our scale allows us to make a meaningful impact immediately in the fight against COVID-19, and we stand ready to assist you in this effort,” said Clark. Clark also requested that ...

 Red States: How did Tim Cook get suckered into becoming a TV spokesperson for Vigilante Fascism? It just doesn’t seem like something the head of a large public company should do. At least, not in the United States. Yet as RedState’s Mike Miller reported yesterday , here is Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, looking all of us right in the eye on Fox News Sunday, condescendingly trying to sell us a patently false story about why his company has volunteered to perform law enforcement services of the sort people associate with tyrannical governments. To hear Cook tell it, Apple removed the Parler app from the choices available to iPhone users because, “We looked at the incitement to violence that was on there, and we, we don’t consider that free speech and incitement to violence has an, has an intersection,” Cook said. We should care about this for three reasons. The first is that the kind of confluence that we see here between the state and the corporate sector is the primary characteristic...

  Trending Politics: DOUBLE STANDARD: Amazon Is Still Selling ‘Kill All Republicans’ T-Shirts After Banning Parler For ‘Violence’ Republicans should be wary around any homicidal maniacs wearing such shirts. At least their survivors will have a defendant with deep pockets to sue.

 Epoch Times: Parler filed a response to Amazon Web Services on Wednesday in its lawsuit against the Seattle-based retail giant, arguing that a representative with Amazon didn’t care about the content moderation, but was only concerned with allegedly silencing President Donald Trump. It came after Amazon Web Services (AWS) said in court that the company displayed an “unwillingness and inability” to remove violent content after the firm suspended Parler from its web-hosting services on Monday morning. “In completely shutting down Parler’s ability to retain its millions of users, attract advertisers, or generate any revenue, AWS has knowingly inflicted lasting damage to what was, until very recently, a thriving business,” Parler’s filing late on Wednesday read (pdf) . The document cited text messages between an AWS representative and Matze. Amazon “expressed no concerns with Parler’s content moderation,” according to the filing, adding that the same Amazon “representative repeatedly...

 Epoch Times: A top Republican in the House of Representatives on Sunday called for a racketeering probe into large technology companies who over the weekend took action against Parler, a social media website. “This is clearly a violation of antitrust, civil rights, the RICO statute. There should be a racketeering investigation on all the people that coordinated this attack on not only a company but on all of those like us, like me, like you, Maria,” Rep.  Devin Nunes  (R-Calif.), the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” host Maria Bartiromo. After Twitter banned President Donald Trump and some other users, Parler saw its traffic explode. Soon, though, Google announced it had removed Parler from its online store, a move followed by Apple. Then, Amazon  announced  it was suspending Parler from its web hosting services. Parler CEO John Matze  told The Epoch Times  his company is prepared to take leg...

 Washington Free Beacon: Silicon Valley played an integral role in propelling Joe Biden to the White House. He raked in uncounted millions from liberal tech billionaires such as Netflix's Reed Hastings, LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman, and Apple heiress Laurene Powell Jobs; their employees shelled out $5 million more. As Biden takes office, the techies want what they paid for. Reuters reports that executives at top firms like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are gunning for jobs at the Departments of Defense, State, Justice, and Commerce and also eyeing influential posts at the Federal Trade Commission and beyond. They want two things: lucrative federal contracts and less scrutiny than they’ve gotten over the past four years, as President Donald Trump has made their bias against conservatives front-page news. The Department of Justice's antitrust inquiry into big tech has already garnered bipartisan backing, including from a group of state attorneys general who have filed ...

Washington Examiner: Amazon said it would suspend police use of its facial recognition software for one year amid growing calls for reforms within law enforcement. The company said Wednesday it made the decision in hopes that Congress would enact stronger regulations “to govern the ethical use of facial recognition technology.” “Congress appears ready to take on this challenge. We hope this one-year moratorium might give Congress enough time to implement appropriate rules, and we stand ready to help if requested,” Amazon said in a blog post. Amazon said it would still allow some organizations to use its software to fight human trafficking. ... The software could be useful in finding those responsible for murder and mayhem in attacks and riots following the death of George Floyd.  Those people should be brought to justice.  It looks like several Soros backed DA's are trying to let them get away with their crimes and I hate to see Amazon join that lawless movement.