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Christians Stand with Israel. Amazon stands with discredited Southern Poverty Law Center.

December 5, 2019December 5, 2019 Op-Ed

The AmazonSmile Program Now Prevents Customer Donations to a Pro-Israel Organization, Proclaiming Justice to The Nations (PJTN), a Tennessee-based non-profit evangelical Christian organization committed towards standing with Israel and fighting antisemitism, has been removed from the AmazonSmile program, which enables Amazon customers to donate a percentage of their purchase to their favorite charity. PJTN President … Read more

Fire forest fire original Photo by Benjamin Lizardo on Unsplash

World Wildlife Federation Paid $70,000 to Activists who Set Fire to Amazon Forest

September 29, 2021November 27, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Remember those Amazon Forest Fires that dominated the news until Hurricane Dorian broke the second seal of the apocalypse? It turns out that “man” was responsible for at least a few of those fires after all. Well, the four men who set the fire.

Now That Dorian is Only CAT 3 are We Talking About the Burning Amazon Again?

September 5, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The media crisis narrative is on a climate swivel. For days all we heard about were cataclysmic fires in the Amazon that were nothing special. When Dorian showed up the Amazon “problem” disappeared. I’m serious. The best search results were several days old.

Grok Invasion of the Jim Lawrence Show

August 30, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Skip and I, and later Ellen, invaded the Jim Lawrence Show on Tuesday from 4-6pm. Topics ranged from rainforest fire politics to my colon. I kid you not. And yes, there was a lot of political talk in between.

Climate Alarmists Get Hysterical about Essential Processes of Nature

August 28, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Fire! Yes, the subject of much discussion around the real and virtual watercooler. The media is in a full-court press. The Amazon is doomed! No, not the fires, well maybe, wait, it’s that Trump-like Conservative president of Brazil.

Burning Amazon – Brazil Tells the G7 it Doesn’t Want their Damn Money

August 27, 2019 Steve MacDonald

In another scary fake news piece about the “fragile Amazon,” The Guardian (certainly not of truth) goes all-in on the scaremongering we exposed yesterday. All so they can report that Brazil has refused millions in aid from the G7. Guess why?

Calm the Heck Down – NASA Says 2019 Fires in the Amazon Are Typical for the Dry Season

August 26, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The latest thing to be all uppity about (this week) is the Amazon jungle. It’s on fire. Folks with no clue (athletes, celebrities, journalists) are trying to buy environmental cred by squawking about the fire in the jungle. Guess what? This year’s fires are not unusual. Not at all.

Are San Francisco Liberals Creating Problems Where They Don’t Exist?

May 9, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Do you have a right to commerce? If you did, what would that mean? You must sell this or that? You must buy this or that? You need to accept credit cards or checks? How about, you need to take cash?

603 Summit: Alfredo Ortiz from The Job Creators Network

April 16, 2019April 16, 2019 Op-Ed

Alfredo Ortiz is the “Billboard Guy.” Job Creators Network (JCN) put up a series of billboards in Times Square lambasting Democrat Socialist from NYC, Alexandria Ocasio-Ortez (“AOC”). She, who was the primary force behind NYC losing Amazon’s HQ2 project. HQ2 was a done deal that would have brought tens-of-thousands of new jobs worth billions of … Read more

Amazon Abandons Major Expansion – Moving Thousands of Jobs Out of Seattle

April 14, 2019 Steve MacDonald

As Seattle continues to swirl and gurgle its way down Karl Marx commode, its biggest employer is making a major move. Amazon, which was planning to occupy a massive new building in the City, adding as many as 5000 more jobs, is moving them out of Seattle.

San Francisco – Hey, Let’s Ban Amazon’s Cashless Retail Stores Because of How Unfair they Are

March 8, 2023March 29, 2019 Steve MacDonald

When a San Francisco Democrat has an idea, you expect it to be stupid. This one is. District Five Supervisor Vallie Brown wants to ban bricks and mortar retail outlets that do not take cash. Amazon’s Go stores are cashier-less. All transactions are electronic. Brown’s argument?

How Ocasio-Cortez Would ‘Spend’ Amazon’s Tax Cut Now That They Aren’t Getting It

February 16, 2019February 16, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the new “leader” of the Democrat party, has a plan. It involves that 3 billion in Tax cuts New York City promised Amazon. The problem with this plan is exposed succinctly by Don Trump Jr. “Will someone please explain to me how it is possible for NYC to SPEND a $3 Billion tax break on anything?”

HQ2 – Amazon Ditches New York Because of Ocasio-Cortez and ‘Never Amazon’

February 15, 2019 Steve MacDonald

The contradictions of Socialism live and breathe in the youthful-energetic person of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her utopian future requires lots of other people’s money. At the same time, she’s ensuring that there isn’t any money to take. That’s socialism. And we’ve got a recent example. Ocasio-COrtz’ ‘Never Amazon’ campaign.

Three wise men buying their gold, frankencense, and mryyh the Amazon way

December 23, 2018December 23, 2018 Skip

(H/T: Powerline)

What You Didn’t Know About National Defense, Obama, and Amazon.com

September 26, 2018August 8, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Maybe you know this; perhaps you do not. But before Mr. Obama retired from the Oval Office, he had a deal cooking to give Amazon.com a sole-source one-vendor contract to manage and control the entire US Defense Department Cloud. One ring to rule them all.

No redundancy. No backups. Just Amazon. Arranged by a guy named Deap Ubhi, hired by Obama, and planted in a serpentine new department of techs doing progressive techie things from their techie swamp, for their former employers. Ubhi spun the Amazon deal. Ubhi’s last job was Amazon Web Services, the Cloud Storage arm.

Seattle Passes ‘Head-Count’ Tax On Job Creators

September 26, 2018May 17, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Back in March Skip reported on a discussion underway in the city that never stops taxing, Seattle. The city council debate over a new tax based on how many people a company employs. At the time the issue was not so much if but how. The “how” has been decided and their latest act of plunder approved.

The result is the so-called head tax on Seattle businesses that gross at least $20 million annually. According to The Seattle Times, 585 businesses in the city will be subject to the tax. Not surprisingly, the tech giant Amazon is expected to pay the most under the tax. The initial proposal was for a $500 tax per employee, which, in Amazon’s case, would have meant an added $20 million in labor costs. Thanks to a veto threat from the mayor, the council reduced its tax grab to $275 per employee.

The 12-Step Guide for the Recovering Obama Voter

September 26, 2018September 21, 2012 Steve MacDonald

This might come in handy for the trolls and lurkers.

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Amazon’s Book Description is on the Jump

By the ways, we’ve become an Amazon Affiliate.

September 26, 2018May 20, 2012 Skip

A new feature on GraniteGrok is that we’ve just become an affiliate of Amazon. That means that if you normally shop at Amazon and you go there by using the widget that’s now on our Right Sidebar (or below in this post) AND buy something, the ‘Grok gets a bit of a reward for directing … Read more