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‘Nobody with a functioning conscience and a working empathy center in their brain is interested in becoming a billionaire. We are ruled by the most dysfunctional members of our species.’- C. Johnstone

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Jan 26, 2026

Amazon’s next CEO Andy Jassy is Jewish – Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Jassy grew up in a Jewish family in suburban Scarsdale, New York. He married his wife, Elena Caplan, in a Jewish ceremony in California in 1997. At the time, her father was president of what was then called the Jewish Television Network.

Amazon is cutting roughly 14,000 corporate roles, with CEO Andy Jassy attributing the decision not to cost-cutting or AI, but to a “cultural” initiative to reduce management layers and speed up decision-making. Jassy intends to flatten the organization to operate like a “startup,” aiming to enhance ownership and increase agility.

People gathered around rubble of houses in Gaza hit by air strike

Amazon has suspended an employee for criticizing its relationship with the Israeli government.

First shared on newsletter platform BeeHiiv, the employee shared his views with senior executives via email, and posted to multiple internal Slack channels.

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Ahmed Shahrour, an Amazon software engineer based in Seattle but with family in Palestine, wrote that his belief that the company was “driving innovation” had been “shattered.”

Shahrour wrote that, following the October 7 attack on Israel, CEO Andy Jassy “sent an email expressing sympathy for Israeli hostages without a single acknowledgment of Palestinian life,” which he described as “a blatant act of white supremacy signaling that brown lives are worth less. My family is less. I am less.”

According to Shahrour, he has seen “Zionist Amazon employees spew racist vitriol in public Slack channels with impunity. I saw Palestinians referred to as ‘human animals who deserve nothing but death’ and jokes cracked about the terrorist pager attacks in Lebanon,” while Palestinian support posted on the same channels was censored.

“The racist double standard is not an oversight; it is policy. It protects the perpetrators and silences the victims.”

Beyond this, Shahrour noted Amazon’s role in the Project Nimbus contract, in which it offers cloud computing services to the Israeli military and government. “Our technology subsidizes this genocide. The contract guarantees uninterrupted service — even amid ongoing war crimes — ensuring the IDF has the low-latency infrastructure needed for its genocidal assault.”

In 2024, an investigation found that the Israel Defense Forces were using AWS to power their efforts in the ongoing war in Gaza, Palestine.

Regarding previous efforts to protest this, Shahrour wrote: “We, the workers, have tried the appropriate channels. We circulated a petition that gathered 1,700 Amazonian signatures, calling on Andy Jassy to rescind all contracts with the Israeli military and demand an immediate, durable ceasefire. It was ignored. We have submitted shareholder proposals, like the 2024 call for an independent investigation of AWS customers committing human rights abuses. It was rejected.”

He calls on Amazon executives to drop Project Nimbus, and for fellow colleagues to either leave the company, or “organize to dismantle Nimbus.”

According to BeeHiiv, the employee was suspended with pay “until further notice” for the posts.

Amazon spokesperson Brad Glasser said: “We don’t tolerate discrimination, harassment, or threatening behavior or language of any kind in our workplace, and when any conduct of that nature is reported, we investigate it and take appropriate action based on our findings.”

BlackRock Says Europe Draws a ‘Decade in a Year’ of Stock Flows –

They come out of the womb neurotic, neuroperverse, sociopathic, and of course, ready for Freud’s couch at age 5.

More Israelis reported experiencing depression or stress in 2024 than they reported the year before, as the aftermath of Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught and ensuing war frayed nerves, especially among people living in communities near the Gaza border, new data released Monday showed.

The socio-economic snapshot published by the Central Bureau of Statistics also showed that life expectancies dropped slightly in 2024, and while births were up overall, a steep decline in births was recorded nine months after the devastating attack.

While overall life satisfaction among those aged 20 and older remained high and largely unchanged in 2024 over 2023, fewer Israelis believed their lives would improve in the future. The share estimating their lives would not improve or would worsen rose from 30.7% in 2023 to 33.8% in 2024.

DO WE GIVE A FUCKING DAMN ABOUT A GENOCIDE PERPETRATING CULTURE becoming even more fucked up in the head?

A big time WHORE on parade!

“I’d be amazed if box office gets reported on this title,” added the pundit, who wished to remain anonymous. The Guardian has contacted Comscore, the body that tracks UK box office performance, for confirmation.

Amazon MGM Studios bought the rights to the film for $40m (£30m) – which reportedly included a considerable sum to the subject of the film – and is spending $35m on a global marketing push. This spend has so far been mostly in the US, with TV spots, billboards and a takeover of Las Vegas’s immersive events venue The Sphere.

The film, which documents the 20 days preceding Donald Trump’s return to power in January 2025, was screened at the White House on Saturday and will have its official premiere at Washington’s Kennedy Center – which the president has renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center in a legally disputed move – on Thursday, before its release in 27 countries.

I’ll take Heidi any day:

Oh, that Shabbat Goy: US Treasury Department ends contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton after Trump tax leak.

Bessent on Carney: ‘I don’t think he’s doing the best job for Canadian people’

“And we can’t let Canada become an opening that the Chinese pour their cheap goods into the U.S. We have a USMCA agreement, but based off — based on that, which is going to be renegotiated this summer, and I’m not sure what Prime Minister Carney is doing here, other than trying to virtue-signal to his globalist friends at Davos,” he added, referencing the prime minister’s appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

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Yep, watch whose toilets they share and which fucking wealth managers they deploy: The Seattle region “faces a housing emergency that threatens our state’s quality of life, health and economic competitiveness,” write Brad Smith, Microsoft’s vice chair and president, and David Zapolsky, Amazon’s chief global affairs and legal officer.

Their collaborative push focuses on several key policy areas:

  • Unlocking Land: Support for legislation like SB 6026, which would allow residential development on commercial land such as strip malls and big-box stores.
  • Streamlining Permitting: Calling for a reduction in regulatory friction and faster project approvals to lower construction costs.
  • Financial Incentives: Advocating for public incentives to attract private investment and backing Governor Bob Ferguson’s proposal for $225 million in housing trust fund bonds.
  • Avoiding New Taxes: Microsoft leadership specifically rejected raising taxes on large corporations as a solution, framing the crisis instead as a supply and regulatory issue
Ron Davis holds a microphone and a house mascot and a dozen sign wielding advocates standing in front of the glass spheres.

On Friday (9February 8, 2025), backers of Proposition 1A, the initiative creating a dedicated funding source for Seattle’s social housing developer, took to the streets of Denny Triangle in an attempt to highlight a flood of cash pouring in to support a competing measure. Standing in front of the Amazon Spheres, members of House Our Neighbors, the MLK Labor Council, and the 37th District Democrats decried an attempt to sway special-election voters with a last-minute wave of campaign cash.

The recipient of all that cash is pro-Initiative 1B political action committee called “People for Responsible Social Housing.” The Seattle City Council established Initiative 1B as an alternative to stand alongside 1A and its 5% payroll tax paid by companies within Seattle on the portion of payroll that goes toward compensating individual employees in excess of $1 million. It is largely companies with very high paid executives that are pumping money into the effort to derail Prop 1A.

A pair of $100,000 donations by both Amazon and Microsoft in late January joined contributions from an array of business moguls and corporations, including Puget Sound Energy, Alaska Airlines, and Russell Investments. Glassblowing artists Dale and Leslie Chihuly chipped in $1,000 each. The late donations have pushed total pro-1B political spending past $500,000 — more than doubling the amount that Prop 1A backers have raised. Guy Oron at Real Change has a full breakdown of the campaign cash.

Fucking RUSSIA? CHINA? Satellites? The move to “Ghost Mode” is a psychological tool in Trump’s coercive diplomacy. As of January 26, 2026, the Lincoln is expected to be somewhere between the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Oman, but its exact distance from the Iranian coast remains a mystery.

[The dream would be to see the entire fleet sunk and thousands of flotsam Yanks face down in the salt chuck.] Fucking more war criminals weighing in with their noodle spineless mush: Two Democratic former presidents on Sunday condemned the scenes in Minnesota after Alex Pretti was killed this weekend, framing the tragedy as a pivotal moment that calls Americans to “speak up” and take action.

Former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama called Pretti’s death a “heartbreaking tragedy” in a statement.

“It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault,” the Obamas wrote.

The Obamas criticized the “unprecedented tactics” the Department of Homeland Security has employed, saying “people across the country have been rightly outraged by the spectacle of masked ICE recruits and other federal agents acting with impunity and engaging in tactics that seem designed to intimidate, harass, provoke and endanger the residents of a major American city.”

The Obamas said that “rather than trying to impose some semblance of discipline and accountability over the agents they’ve deployed, the President and current administration officials seem eager to escalate the situation, while offering public explanations for the shootings of Mr. Pretti and Renee Good that aren’t informed by any serious investigation — and that appear to be directly contradicted by video evidence.”

An ICE officer shot and killed Good this month in a residential area of Minneapolis.

The Obamas called on every American to “draw inspiration from the wave of peaceful protests in Minneapolis and other parts of the country” and said they hope administration officials change their approach and work with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey “to avert more chaos and achieve legitimate law enforcement goals.”

Oh shit, the fucking overpaid jocks now?

People hold up signs reading, 'Ice out,' during a sports game.

The National Basketball Players Association voiced support on Sunday for protesters in Minneapolis rallying against a crackdown by U.S. federal immigration authorities.

There have been ongoing clashes in Minneapolis between demonstrators and those officers, sent by U.S. President Donald Trump to various Democrat-run cities, which has resulted in fatal shootings of two people — the most recent being the death of 37-year-old Alex Pretti on Saturday.

In a statement on Sunday, the NBPA, the union which represents the league’s basketball players, said “NBA players can no longer remain silent.”

“Now more than ever, we must defend the right to freedom of speech and stand in solidarity with the people in Minnesota protesting and risking their lives to demand justice,” the statement read.

“The fraternity of NBA players, like the United States itself, is a community enriched by its global citizens, and we refuse to let the flames of division threaten the civil liberties that are meant to protect us all.”

After the game, Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards acknowledged the heaviness of the situation.

“I just love Minnesota, all the love and support that they show me,” Edwards said. “Me and my family are definitely praying for everybody.”

Teammate Julius Randle echoed a similar sentiment.

“Somebody loses their life, you never want to see that,” Randle said, adding: “Been nothing but a joy living here, so things like this happening in the community, it’s tough.”

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has shown support for Israel in specific instances, notably in 2017 when the NBA apologized and altered its website to remove the word “occupied” in reference to Palestine following complaints from Israeli officials. While often addressing political issues, these actions highlight a responsiveness to Israeli concerns regarding terminology.

“Less than 10 minutes after I tweet that, I get a call from the commissioner of the NBA,” Howard said on Monday’s episode of “The GAUDs Show” podcast. “Agents, people working with my foundation at the time, Texas. ‘You’ve got to erase this tweet. You’ve got to take this down.’ I’m like, ‘What did I do that was so bad?’ ”

In 2014, Howard deleted the tweet shortly after he published it, then apologized in subsequent posts for commenting on “international politics,” according to The Atlantic’s coverage at the time. Howard’s tweet came amid conflict between Israel and Hamas.

On this week’s podcast episode, Howard said he felt compelled to share the tweet after meeting Palestinian fans while attending a movie in Houston.

“They asked me to just bring some awareness to what’s going on in their country,” Howard said. “Me having a big heart, I’m like, ‘You know what? I want people to know the struggles y’all [are] having.’ ”

Gestapo a la Israel, Gazafication, from this fucked up Blonde Shabbat Goy. Again, who do they shit together with, and who are their Wealth Management Usury Cunts.

End on a fucking White Psychosis Note:

Aside from a property, what’s the most expensive thing you’ve bought?
An apocalypse escape vessel – a steel hull ice-capable sailing boat for all the family that has almost zero electronics and is manual operation throughout – armed with an array of weaponry.

What is your most treasured possession?
My old SAS beret that I keep on my shelf for when I need some of that “Who Dares Wins” spirit.

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