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THE DOCTRINE OF THE N.A.F.T.A. GLOBALIST DEMOCRATS IS TO SERVE THE BILLIONAIRE CLASS WITH ENDLESS WAVES OF INVADING 'CHEAP' LABOR SUBSIDIZED WITH WELFARE FUNDED BY TAXES ON MIDDLE AMERICA. In many speeches, Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elites’ opinion about “the values of our country,” Mayorkas claims.

Thursday, December 9, 2021

JOE BIDEN'S CRONY THE INSIDIOUS JEFF 'BEZOSHEAD' BEZOS GETS FINED $1.3BILLION IN ITALY FOR DOING WHAT HE DOES EVERY DAY IN AMERICA!

This is because despite all its declarations, the Democratic Party is not a party of workers. It, as Biden’s transition team attests, is a party of Wall Street, big banks, Amazon, and the military-industrial complex.

Breitbart News has reviewed lobbying records that detail the lobbying campaign on the part of corporate giants like Amazon, Facebook, Intuit Inc, AT&T, Verizon, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Alphabet, Deloitte, the Microsoft Corporation, IBM, Accenture, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and the Intel Corporation — all of whom would benefit significantly from the expanded foreign worker pipeline.

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Italy Fines Amazon $1.3 Billion for Abusing Its Dominant Market Position

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ALANA MASTRANGELO

9 Dec 20210

5:07

Italy’s competition authority announced on Thursday that it has fined Amazon roughly $1.3 billion (€1.129 billion), alleging that the company “has harmed competing operators” by abusing its dominant market position and pushing third-party sellers to use Amazon’s logistics service Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA).

“Amazon holds a position of absolute dominance in the Italian marketplace brokerage services market, which has allowed it to promote its own logistics service, called Fulfillment by Amazon — ‘FBA’ — among the sellers active on the platform,” the Italian Competition Authority said.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy (Isaac Brekken/AP)

Jeff Bezos holds goggles to his face (Joe Raedle /Getty)

Italy’s Competition Authority — formally known as the Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (AGCM) — went on to explain that sellers who take advantage of FBA receive “exclusive benefits,” such as the company’s paid loyalty program, Amazon Prime.

This, the AGCM says, “makes it easier to sell to the most loyal and high-spending consumers who are members of the Amazon loyalty program of the same name.”

Amazon Prime products are then included in the company’s special events, “such as Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Prime Day, and increases the likelihood that the seller’s offer is selected as a Featured Offer and displayed in the so-called Buy Box.”

“Amazon thus prevented third-party sellers from associating the Prime label with offers not managed with FBA,” the AGCM said.

“The investigation found that these are functions of the Amazon.it platform that are crucial for the success of sellers and for increasing their sales,” the Italian authority added.

“Finally, the stringent performance measurement system to which Amazon subjects non-FBA sellers is not applied to third-party sellers who use FBA and failure to pass this can also lead to the suspension of the seller’s account,” the AGCM said.

Therefore, the Italian authority says “Amazon has harmed competing e-commerce logistics operators by preventing them from proposing themselves to online sellers as providers of services of a quality comparable to that of Amazon’s fulfillment.”

“These conducts have thus increased the gap between the power of Amazon and that of the competition also in the e-commerce order delivery business,” the AGCM said.

“Furthermore, as a result of the abuse, competing marketplaces have also been damaged,” it added. “Due to the cost of duplicating warehouses, sellers who adopt Amazon logistics are discouraged from offering their products on other online platforms.”

This, according to the AGCM, is an “abusive strategy” that is “particularly serious,” therefore, the authority decided to impose “a fine of over 1 billion euros (1,128,596,156.33).”

In addition to the fine, the Italian authority is also calling on Amazon to create a new set of standards that is fair to third-party sellers, regardless of whether they are using FBA.

“Amazon must grant all sales and visibility privileges on its platform to all third-party sellers who know how to respect fair and non-discriminatory standards for fulfilling their orders, in line with the level of service that Amazon intends to guarantee Prime consumers,” the AGCM said.

The authority added that “Amazon will have to define and publish these standards and, starting one year from the decision, refrain from negotiating with the carriers and/or competing logistics operators — on behalf of the sellers — rates and other contractual conditions applied for the logistics of their orders on Amazon.it, outside of FBA.”

Amazon will also have to implement behavioral measures, and a monitoring trustee will review the changes, the AGCM said.

“The authority has imposed behavioral measures on Amazon that will be subjected to the scrutiny of a monitoring trustee” in order to “immediately restore competitive conditions in relevant markets,” it said.

In a statement to Tech Crunch, Amazon said, “We strongly disagree with the decision of the Italian Competition Authority (ICA) and we will appeal. The proposed fine and remedies are unjustified and disproportionate.”

The company added the following:

More than half of all annual sales on Amazon in Italy come from SMBs, and their success is at the heart of our business model. Small and medium-sized businesses have multiple channels to sell their products both online and offline: Amazon is just one of those options. We constantly invest to support the growth of the 18,000 Italian SMBs that sell on Amazon, and we provide multiple tools to our sellers, including those who manage shipments themselves.

Breitbart News will continue to report on Amazon’s stranglehold on global e-commerce.

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Smart Shopping: Browser Extension Reveals Amazon-Owned Products for Sale on Platform

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LUCAS NOLAN

1 Dec 20210

2:42

A new browser extension called Amazon Brand Detector reveals just how many products sold on Amazon are produced by brands that are owned by Amazon or are exclusive to the e-commerce Masters of the Universe.

The Verge reports that a browser extension called Amazon Brand Detector reveals how many products on Amazon’s vast e-commerce platform are exclusive to or owned by the tech giant itself. The aim is to give shoppers a better idea of who controls the products they consider buying while shopping online.

Jeff Bezos holds goggles to his face (Joe Raedle /Getty)

Amazon delivery truck crosses bridge

The extension uses a list of Amazon brands curated by the Markup as well as various filters and other techniques to detect products that are part of Amazon’s “Our Brands” program. The browser extension was developed by the Markup after its recent investigation into how Amazon ranks its in-house brands compared to third-party sellers.

The Markup states that the tool is designed to make searches on Amazon’s platform more transparent. According to tests by the Verge, the extension highlighted Amazon Basics and Essentials products immediately, but it also highlighted that certain products were also sold by Amazon despite being indistinguishable from third-party sellers not affiliated with Amazon.

Some of these results were marked by Amazon as “featured from our brands,” but many were not. That text is also extremely small and grey making it easy to miss. Amazon does not attempt to hide the brands that it owns or runs and has a page that lists its “private and select exclusive brands,” but when using the site’s search function, it is easy to miss many of the signs that a brand is owned by Amazon.

The Markup claims that the browser extension “does not collect any data,” and that it should be compatible with other Amazon-related browser extensions.

To install the browser extension, you must be using a Google Chrome or Firefox-based browser.

Chrome users can click this link to go to the Chome Web Store. Click the blue button positioned at the top right of the page titled “Add to Chrome” to add the browser extension to your web browser.

Firefox users can click this link to go to the Firefox Add-Ons store where they can click the large blue button that states “Add to Firefox.”

The extension should then automatically highlight all products in Amazon searches that are owned or exclusively distributed by Amazon.

YOU MEAN SOMEONE IN CONGRESS CONSIDERS THE AMERICAN WORKER UNDER BIDEN ASSAULT??? - Rep. Banks Introduces GOP Bill to Curb Fortune 500’s Use of Visa Workers

Rep. Banks Introduces GOP Bill to Curb Fortune 500’s Use of Visa Workers

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NEIL MUNRO

9 Dec 20210

7:32

GOP centrists in the House have introduced legislation to shut down the visa worker pipelines which stall innovation by feeding hundreds of thousands of subservient foreign graduates into the Fortune 500 careers needed by U.S. professionals.

“Big Tech is setting aside some of the most lucrative and valuable career opportunities in America and giving them exclusively to foreign guest workers,” said Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), who chairs the conservative Republican Study Committee. He continued:

They’re cutting out Americans to save a few bucks. It’s domestic outsourcing. This shocking disregard for American workers and their role in our nation’s future is unpatriotic. We must fix Big Tech’s incentives, so they begin putting Americans first.

The American Tech Workforce Act would end President George W. Bush’s “Optional Practical Training” (OPT) pipeline, and curb the similar H-1B program.

The two programs keep roughly 1 million foreign graduates, mostly Indians, in U.S. white-collar jobs. This imported workforce shoves at least one million Americans out of upwardly mobile careers, decent homes, and security for their families.

The pro-American bill will be opposed by business groups, universities, and by many Republicans and Democrats. Already, top Democrats have included a huge expansion of the visa worker programs in their Build Back Better bill.

But the visa programs are so unpopular that even President Joe Biden’s pro-migration deputy has called for reforms.

However, the donor-dependent GOP leadership prefers to downplay the pocketbook damage caused by migration and to instead focus public attention on border chaos. This silence continues despite the GOP’s growing need to win more swing-voting suburban Americans, many of whom are losing careers and homes to the Fortune 500’s visa workers.

The Banks bill is backed by several immigration reform groups.

“The American Tech Workforce Act of 2021 would end OPT and put American workers and the rule of law first,” said Rosemary Jenks, the director of government relations at NumbersUSA. She continued:

Chairman Banks’ legislation would help ensure that Big Tech companies can no longer use the H-1B program as a cheaper alternative to hiring American workers, which would also protect foreign workers who are too often exploited by unscrupulous employers. This bill is an opportunity for all Representatives to make clear that they stand with American workers.

The first wave of co-sponsors for the bill include Reps. Mary E. Miller (R-IL), Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), Eric Crawford (r-AR), Steven M. Palazzo (R-MS), Kevin Hern (R-OK), Austin Scott (R-GA), Michael Burgess (R-TX), Joe Wilson (R-SC), Dan Meuser (R-PA), Beth Van Duyne (R-TX), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA).

A statement from Banks’ office described the bill’s contents:

Creates a wage floor for [85,000 annual] H-1B visas set at the higher of the annual wage last paid to an American worker who filled the position or $110,000 (adjusted for inflation).
Creates a true marketplace where eligible visa applications are awarded based on the highest bidder.
Eliminates the Optional Practical Training program that allows [annually at least 200,000] foreigners that came to the U.S. under a student visa and have graduated to work in the U.S. for up to three years if they have a STEM degree and allows their employers to avoid paying payroll taxes on the visa-holder’s wages.
Limits the ability of Big Tech firms to contract with third-party companies to fill spots with H-1B recipients sponsored by the third-party company by limiting the maximum validity period of the visas to 1 year.

The visa programs are widely used by many Fortune 500 companies and their tiers of Indian-run outsourcing firms. The companies which use the most H-1Bs and OPTs include banks, insurance companies, airlines, retailers, healthcare providers, manufacturers, and especially, technology companies.

Imported Indian visa workers “have influence in the entire [information technology] market in America,” said Aabha, an Indian in North Carolina, adding:

Every position that is a manager position or at least senior president position in every company that I’ve interviewed, it’s an Indian. For sure it’s an Indian, and they do not take the people that are qualified now, they are taking people who they can get [faked] reference [and] … get some sort of kickback from.

The Fortune 500 lobbies strongly favor the visa programs, which provide them with a huge flood of subservient gig-workers.

Companies often favor foreign workers over U.S. graduates because the foreign graduates are working to win government-supplied green cards. This means they are cheaper to hire, can be fired and sent home without appeal, and are utterly subservient to U.S. managers. So the foreign graduates are willing to work long hours, cannot quit to join a rival company, rarely testify in courts, and cannot act like the U.S. graduates who are professionally required to argue against cost-cutting managers in favor of raising product innovation, safety, quality, and security.

The resulting damage is exemplified by Boeing’s cost-cutting executives, who boost the company’s short-term profits by discarding U.S. professionals and hiring Indian contractors to perform core engineering tasks. The short-term policy contributed to the Boeing 737 Max air crashes in 2019 that slashed roughly $100 billion from Boeing’s stock market value.

Similarly, U.S. tech firms boosted profits by hiring Indian and Chinese visa workers — and allowed Chinese firms to take the lead in critical 5G communications technology.

Because the value of the dangled green cards is so huge, most of the Indian visa workers accept jobs in a U.S.-based, Indian-run, unregulated, isolated, sweatshop economy of subcontractor kickbacks, cliques, fraud, backstabbing, and blame-shifting, according to numerous Indian sources who speak to Breitbart News. “There are very few honest Indian managers — maybe one in a million,” an Indian visa worker told Breitbart News.

Many polls show that labor migration is deeply unpopular because it damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, and raises their rents.

Migration also curbs Americans’ productivity, shrinks their political clout, widens regional wealth gaps, radicalizes their democratic, compromise-promoting civic culture, and allows elites to ignore despairing Americans at the bottom of society.

For many years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates. This opposition is multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.