Bill Clinton Met With Putin AT HIS HOUSE While Mueller’s FBI Knew About Bribery Scheme And Clinton Foundation Uranium Donors

• The FBI uncovered a Russian bribery plot involving a U.S. uranium transport company before the Obama administration approved a deal granting Russia control over 20% of American uranium
• The FBI knew about the donation of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation by Russian nuclear officials during the time Hillary Clinton’s State Department and a government body she headed approved the deal.
• Bill Clinton asked Hillary Clinton’s State Department for permission to meet with 14 people in June of 2010, including a Russian nuclear official
• The former President didn’t meet with any of the Russians on the list, however Clinton sat down with Vladimir Putin at his house the same day he gave a $500,000 speech to a Kremlin-linked bank which issued a ‘buy’ rating on Uranium One stock
• A former Bush admin official and lobbyist for The Podesta Group represented Uranium One from 2010 – 2015

Two bombshell reports were published by John Solomon and Alison Spann of The Hill this week – the “boom” to Sean Hannity’s “tick tock” tweet on Monday, as well as President Trump’s statement to reporters that Uranium “is the real Russia story.”

The first article reveals that Obama’s FBI, headed by Robert Mueller, discovered that “Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow” – a deal which would grant the Kremlin control over 20 percent of America’s uranium supply, as detailed by author Peter Schweitzer’s book Clinton Cash and the New York Times in 2015.

The year after the first stage of the ’20 percent’ deal in which Russia took a majority ownership stake in mining company Uranium One, the Obama administration signed off on an agreement to let Russia sell American uranium back to U.S. nuclear power companies.

While Clinton’s defenders point to the fact that a government body ultimately approved the deal, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), is a rubber stamp factory – a joke:

“The committee almost never met, and when it deliberated it was usually at a fairly low bureaucratic level,” Richard Perle said. Perle, who has worked for the Reagan, Clinton and both Bush administrations added, “I think it’s a bit of a joke.” –CBS

Furthermore, Hillary Clinton headed and Attorney General Eric Holder served on the CFIUS when the deal was approved.

“Then-Attorney General Eric Holder was among the Obama administration officials joining Hillary Clinton on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States at the time the Uranium One deal was approved.” -The Hill

The Hill also reports that an FBI mole embedded in the Russian nuclear industry gathered extensive evidence that Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act – a scheme of bribes and kickbacks to the company which would ostensibly transport the U.S. uranium sold in the ’20 percent’ deal.

“The Russians were compromising American contractors in the nuclear industry with kickbacks and extortion threats, all of which raised legitimate national security concerns. And none of that evidence got aired before the Obama administration made those decisions,” a person who worked on the case told The Hill, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution by U.S. or Russian officials. –The Hill

Bill drops in on Vlad

The second article from The Hill reveals that Bill Clinton sought permission from Hillary Clinton’s state department in 2010 to meet with a Russian nuclear official, as well as fourteen other Russians. While the former U.S. President didn’t end up meting with any of the people on the list according to former aides to both Clintons, Bill Clinton sat down with Vladimir Putin at his “private homestead” in Russia right after Hillary Clinton’s State department approved the ’20 percent’ deal for Russian State Nuclear Agency, Rosatom, to take majority ownership in Uranium One. Later that day, Clinton collected $500,000 for a speech to a Kremlin-linked investment bank which was promoting Uranium One stock. 

Of course, “Aides to the ex-president, Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation said Bill Clinton did not have any conversations about Rosatom or the Uranium One deal while in Russia, and that no one connected to the deal was involved in the trip.” –The Hill

The two undoubtedly talked about yoga and wedding plans.

Timeline: 

Between 2008 – 2010, parties involved with Uranium One donated $145 Million to the Clinton Foundation. You can read more about the parties here, however

June 2009, Russian State Nuclear Agency Rosatom (through a subsidiary) takes a 17% stake in Uranium One.

June 2010, Rosatom takes majority (51%) ownership of Uranium One, granting the Kremlin control over 20 percent of U.S. uranium – which Hillary Clinton’s State Department signed off on. The FBI uncovers massive bribery scheme before CFIUS approves deal.

June 29th, 2010, Bill Clinton meets with Vladimir Putin at his home in Russia. Later that day Clinton earns $500,000 for a speech in Moscow to Kremlin-linked investment bank Renaissance Capital, which assigned a “buy” rating to Uranium One stock.

January 2013,  Rosatom State Nuclear Agency acquires the remainder of Uranium one and takes it private.

No wonder Putin’s always smirking… it appears he bought his way into the U.S. atomic energy business using the same Clinton Foundation pay-for-play scheme used by 16 countries, including Saudi Arabia – which received a 143% increase in weapons sales after donating to the foundation. Greatly adding to Putin’s smirk must be the three ring circus conducted going on in the the U.S. House and Senate as they investigate ‘Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election,’ while the FBI’s Robert Mueller who knew about the Clinton Foundation donations is tasked with doing a deep dig into Trump’s alleged connections to Russia.

Podesta Group

What isn’t mentioned in The Hill articles is that the Podesta Group received $180,000 to lobby for Uranium One during the same period that the Clinton Foundation was receiving millions from U1 interests, and after Russia took majority ownership in the “20 percent” deal (source – you have to add up the years).

And who represented Uranium One before the Podesta Group? Stephen Rademaker, then of BGR Group and a former Bush admin official who drafted the legislation that created the Department of Homeland Security in 2002. Rademaker left BGR in 2011 to join the Podesta Group, resuming his representation of Uranium One in 2012 through 2015.

We’re not done…

Hillary Clinton campaign manager and presumed Secretary of State John Podesta also sat on the board of Massachusetts energy company called Joule Unlimited, along with senior Russian official Anatoly Chubais and Russian oligarch Ruben Vardanyan – who was appointed by Vladimir Putin to the Russian economic council. 

Two months after Podesta joined the board, Joule managed to raise $35 million from Putin’s Kremlin-backed investment fund Rusnano.

Not only did John Podesta fail to properly disclose this relationship before joining the Clinton Campaign, he transferred 75,000 shares of Joule to his daughter through a shell company using her address.

In an interview with CNBC’s Maria Bartaromo, Podesta denied that he failed to disclose his ties, emphatically stating “Maria, that’s not true. I fully disclosed and was completely compliant,” adding “I didn’t have any stock in any Russian company!” in reference to Massachusetts based Joule Unlimited – with its two Russian dignitaries on the board board and a $35 million loan from a Russian investment fund founded by Vladimir Putin.

Let’s Review: 

Jeff Sessions spoke with the Russian ambassador.

Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian attorney in a room full of other people in a meeting orchestrated by ‘Trump Dossier’ firm Fusion GPS.

Former Natl. Security Advisor Mike Flynn sat next to Vladimir Putin at a gala dinner, and was a paid analyst for the Russian owned RT television network.

Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort lobbied on behalf of the Putin-friendly Ukrainian president’s party along with the Podesta group.

Donald Trump has zero claimed ties to Russian officials.

Vs.

The Clinton Foundation received $145 million from Uranium One interests – which owned the rights to 20 percent of America’s uranium that Russia bought. Hillary Clinton’s state department and a government body she headed then approved the sale of Uranium One to Russia, which the Obama administration then allowed to sell uranium back to the U.S. energy industry. To top it off, Bill Clinton met with Vladimir Putin at his house right before the ’20 percent’ deal the same day he gave a $500,000 speech to a Kremlin-linked investment bank which had issued a “buy” rating on U1 stock.

Layered in, a former Bush administration official working for the Podesta Group lobbied in Washington D.C. for Uranium One, after Russia bought their U1 stake in the ’20 percent’ deal.

Meanwhile John Podesta sat on the board of energy company Joule Unlimited alongside Russian government officials. Joule then received $35 million from a Kremlin-backed investment fund, and right before managing Hillary Clinton’s campaign for president, Podesta transferred his interest in Joule to his daughter using a shell company in her address.

One wonders why Russia would influence the 2016 election in Trump’s favor when they would have good friends in the White House under a Hillary Clinton presidency?

‘Republican’ Senator John McCain (AZ) is teaming up with Democrat Senators Mark Warner (VA) and Amy Clobuchar (MN) to support the first of the “Facebook bills,” aimed at battling so-called election interference over Facebook ($FB), Twitter ($TWTR) and Google ($GOOG).

The bill is based primarily on the claim that Russia bought $100K in Facebook ads – mostly in 2015, which didn’t favor any particular candidate.

Even Bill Clinton’s former chief strategist Mark Penn thinks the notion is absurd, penning an article in the Wall St. Journal titled “You Can’t Buy the Presidency for $100,000.”

Still – the Russian witch-hunt must continue, since Hillary didn’t lose on her own merit as a shitty candidate.

The co-sponsored bill states:

Russia attempted to influence the 2016 presidential election by buying and placing political ads on platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google. The content and purchaser(s) of those online advertisements are a mystery to the public because of outdated laws that have failed to keep up with evolving technology. The Honest Ads Act would prevent foreign actors from influencing our elections by ensuring that political ads sold online are covered by the same rules as ads sold on TV, radio, and satellite.

Disclosures for those financing ads would apply to any entity with over $500 in ad spending, cumulatively, across any platform. The bill would also place a “reasonable expectation” on social media companies to disclose international buyers of campaign ads.

“There will always be a case where things can fall through the cracks. What we’re trying to do here is start with a light touch,” Warner said. “We don’t want to slow down innovation on the internet, we don’t want to slow down technology.”

In a press conference unveiling the bill, the senators pointed out that Google and Facebook carry around 85 percent of online political ads. “Who wouldn’t want to know if the ad appearing next to your story was being paid for by a foreign power?” Klobuchar asked.

It won’t stop there…

McCain, Warner and Clobuchar seem to think their bill is a good start – however Rep. Warner says it will still be difficult to identify ad buyers who are “misrepresenting themselves” so as to conceal the source of funding, and says he hopes “that these platform companies come up with some ideas” for tougher crackdowns on political ad purchases.

TechCrunch writes;

“Now the online companies, we’re working with them,” Klobuchar said. “I’m not going to tell you they support this bill right now. They have to realize that the world has changed, they have been selling ads and making money off of this system.”

Even as they skewered Facebook for being “dismissive” early on and Twitter for essentially copying Facebook’s homework in its report to Congress a few weeks ago, the lawmakers appeared hopeful that cooperation would only improve as the depth of Russian election interference becomes more widely understood.

In spite of that increasing cooperation, the senators suggested that voluntary adherence to Congressional guidelines would be an uneven solution at best.

“The problem is, it has to cover everyone — you can’t just have a few companies doing it voluntarily, it has to be in the laws,” Warner said.

“These companies rely on the trust of users,” he added. “It’s in their own self-interest.”

Facebook, Twitter and Google are expected to appear in an open hearing before the House and Senate’s intelligence committees on November 1. Facebook and Twitter confirmed this week that they will not be sending high-profile executives to the hearings, instead opting to be represented by their general counsels.

“I think that they got the message,” Warner said. “I think the real proof in the pudding will be ‘come to the hearing on November 1.’ “

In closing, Hillary was a fine candidate and Trump only won because of Muh Russia – thus everything he does shall be henceforth marked with an asterisk.

Elon Musk said his second tunnel-digging machine from his Boring Company is “almost ready,” and will be named “Line-Storm” after the Robert Frost poem “A Line-storm Song.”

Super deep.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO started the Boring Company after he says he was frustrated with Los Angeles gridlock – and plans to build a series of tunnels in L.A. with cars being ferried around on pods at 125 mph.

The first boring machine was called “Godot” and began digging tunnels in early 2017.

CNBC writes:

Musk has been very public with the progress of the Boring Company. In July, he showed off the elevator that would take cars underground.

The Tesla boss, who appears to have a very loyal fanbase, also began selling $20 caps branded “The Boring Company.” He announced, in jest, that 4,000 hats had been sold so far and the person who buys cap number 5,000 will receive an additional one on top for free.

Almost 4000 hats sold so far. Whoever buys the 5000th gets a free hat with their hat! https://t.co/x87eVge68U

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 19, 2017

Secret underground cities for the elite when?

U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Acting Director Tom Homan said that a 29 year old man arrested last weekend connection with a Sonoma County, CA fire is an illegal alien from Mexico who had been deported twice.

Homan also wrote that the suspect, Jesus Fabian Gonzalez, had detainer requests issued five times in the past 12 months, including the most recent one on Oct. 16 in relation to the arson investigation. All of the detainer requests were issued by Sonoma County for various felony and misdemeanor charges.

Sonoma County is considered a sanctuary jurisdiction and does not honor ICE detainer requests. “ICE was never notified of Mr. Gonzalez’ various releases,” wrote Homan.

Of note, there have been several fires throughout the Northern California wine country – however Gonzales was arrested last weekend for “starting a small fire in California’s scorched wine country,” not as a suspect in the overall disaster.

Two days ago, Sonoma County sheriff forcefully shot down allegations that Gonzales was involved in the deadly fires which have killed 43 and left dozens still unaccounted for.

Gonzales was arrested at Maxwell Farms Regional Park in Sonoma on Sunday afternoon after he was seen leaving a creek bed with a plume of smoke rising behind him, Giordano said.

“There is a story out there that he’s the arsonist in these fires,” said Giordano, adding “That’s not the case. There’s no indication he’s related to these fires at all. … I wanted to kill that speculation right now, so we didn’t have things running too far out of control.”

ICE Director Homan’s entire statement is below (emphasis mine):

Once again, a non-cooperative jurisdiction has left their community vulnerable to dangerous individuals and preventable crimes. ICE lodged a detainer against Jesus Gonzalez with Sonoma County jail officials on October 16, following his arrest on felony charges for maliciously setting fire to a property. This is especially troubling in light of the massive wildfires already devastating the region.

Over the past year, ICE has lodged detainers against Mr. Gonzalez after four separate arrests by Sonoma County on various felony and misdemeanor charges. ICE was never notified of Mr. Gonzalez’ various releases. Additionally, Mr. Gonzales has been returned to his home country of Mexico on two separate occasions. The residents of Sonoma County, and the state of California, deserve better than policies that expose them to avoidable dangers. Non-cooperation policies – now enshrined in California state law – ensure only one thing: criminals who would otherwise be deported will be released and left free to reoffend as they please.

Madagascar’s plague outbreak continues to spread at alarming rates, causing 57 deaths and infecting over 680 as of Oct 12. About half the cases have occurred in the capital, Antananarivo.

The country normally experiences around 400 cases of plague each year, mostly during the rainy season between November and March – however health officials say this year is different – with infections starting much earlier than usual, and located in urban vs. typically rural areas. Also worrisome to officials is the numbers of easily spreading pmeumonic plague vs. bubonic plague.

Of the 684 cases, 484 were pneumonic, 156 bubonic and 1 septicemic plague. 54 cases were not classified, according to WHO.

The fact that the plague is spreading in urban areas before the rainy season is a serious concern. “The rains drive the rodents out,” said Bausch, which also explains why cases are usually the bubonic form.

Though the country is endemic for the plague, the surprising occurrence of cases in cities as well as them presenting earlier than usual meant health authorities weren’t ready — fueling a rapid spread of the disease, according to Dr. Charlotte Ndiaye, WHO representative in Madagascar.

How does it spread?

CNN reports:

Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) told CNN that she was present when President Trump told the young widow of a U.S. serviceman killed in Niger, “Basically… he knew what he signed up for, but I guess it still hurt.”

Wilson, who was apparently driving around with the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, when the call took place – claims to have heard Trump’s remarks over speaker phone, calling him a ‘sick man’ and saying the family was ‘astonished.’

The Washington Post contacted Sgt. Johnson’s mother, Cowanda Jones-Johnson, who was also in the car – telling the paper “”It was horrible. It was insensitive. It was absolutely crazy, unnecessary. I was livid,” adding “She was in tears. And she said, ‘He didn’t even remember his name.'”

Trump hits back

Trump shot off a tweet early Wednesday effectively accusing Rep. Wilson – and therefore the widow – of being total liars, and that he has some sort of proof he never made the ‘he knew what he signed up for’ comment.

Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof). Sad!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2017

That said:

@PressSec says there are no recordings of the call with La David Johnson's widow, but "there were several people in the room" inc John Kelly

— David Martosko (@dmartosko) October 18, 2017

Trump’s tweet is reminiscent of his ‘Comey Bluff’ where he claimed to have a tape of a private conversation with former FBI Director James Comey – teasing the MSM by saying “You’re going to be very disappointed, don’t worry.”

James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017

Trump later admitted to bluffing to ‘keep Comey honest,’ though he has taped conversations in the past – including one which was used in a Real Estate lawsuit decades ago.

By calling the widow of a fallen service member – along with her mother and a congresswoman – liars, Trump has painted himself into a yuge corner. If no tapes exist and we’re going off of Trump’s staff vs. the widow, congresswoman, and the fallen soldier’s mother for he-said / she-said, this is going to be ugly.

Authored by Carl Dincesen via StockBoardAsset.com,

Summary

Investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who spearheaded the ‘Panama Papers’ offshore tax evasion leaks, was killed Monday by a car bomb while driving near her home village of Bidnija in northern Malta. The explosion destroyed her rented Peugot 108, throwing debris into a nearby field. Police have opened a murder inquiry, and the government of Malta has asked the U.S. FBI for assistance in the case.

Outraged to hear that Maltese investigative journalist+blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia has been murdered this afternoon not far from her home with a car bomb. I issue a €20k reward for information leading to the conviction of her killers. Her blog: https://t.co/XQCEXBKYn3 pic.twitter.com/ITHlBRzr0J

— Julian Assange ? (@JulianAssange) October 16, 2017

Caruana Galizia – a popular blogger whose website often attracted more readers than the combined circulation of Malta’s newspapers, was referred to by Politico as a “one-woman Wikileaks,” as she became an enemy to those in both the establishment and the European underworld.

Most recently, her work spotlighted offshore companies linked to Malta’s prime minister, Joseph Muscat, and two of his closest aides, in conjunction with the sale of Maltese passports and cash received from the government of Azerbaijan.

The journalist had filed a complaint with police two weeks ago after receiving personal threats, according to local media reports.

The Mirror reports:

Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, who faced accusations of wrong-doing by Caruana Galizia earlier this year, denounced her killing.

He called it a “barbaric attack on press freedom”.

Muscat – who bullshitted his way through the press conference, added “our country deserves justice,” calling for national unity. “I will not rest until I see justice done in this case… “Everyone knows Caruana Galizia was a harsh critic of mine, both politically and personally, but nobody can justify this barbaric act in any way.”

“The only remedy for anyone who felt slandered was through the courts.”

Could that sound more like a guy covering up the assassination of a journalist about to wreck his career and send him to jail?

BBC reports that Caruana Galizia’s death comes four months after Mr Muscat’s Labour Party won an election he called early because of the blogger’s allegations linking him and his wife to the Panama Papers scandal.

The couple denied claims that they had used secret offshore bank accounts to hide payments from Azerbaijan’s ruling family.

A vigil was held in Caruana Galizia’s name Monday night

Vigil for murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia gets under way in #Malta pic.twitter.com/ooq0UecDP2

— Jacob Borg (@BorgJake) October 16, 2017

One of the more bizarre allegations levied against accused rapist and disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is that he masturbated into a potted plant in front of TV news anchor Lauren Sivan in 2007.

Sivan said Harvey lured her to the basement of Socialista, a Cuban restaurant in Greenwich Village, NY. Weinstein had invested in, where he tried to kiss her. When she refused his advances, Weinstein “simply began to pleasure himself” – asking the TV anchor to “just stand there and shut up” before he reportedly ejaculated into a potted plant.

From potted plant to cookware

When former owner of Socialista, Armin Amiri was reached for comment by The Hollywood Reporter, he says Weinstein’s lawyers asked him to deny the incident. Instead, Amiri confirmed that it happened – though he says Weinstein actually ejaculated into a cooking pot, not a potted plant, which was later found on the stove.

What I remember about this incident is that my sous chef came into my office, furious, telling me that ‘some fat fuck’ saying he’s an owner — he didn’t know the name — had come into the kitchen with a woman and shoved a $100 bill at him and told him to get out. It was like 1:30 in the morning and he’d been the only one still there. The chef told me he was going to quit.

I went to check things out and saw Harvey soon after, fixing his belt, behind the bar. I never saw the woman. My chef and I go to the kitchen. He picks up a pot that had been placed back on the stove. It had been defiled. It was so bizarre. We couldn’t believe it happened.

(full statement below)

So, accused rapist and all around sexual predator Harvey Weinstein allegedly lured local TV reporter Lauren Sivan into the basement of a restaurant he was an investor in, paid the chef $100 to go away – telling him he was ‘an owner,’ and jerked off into a pot when she rebuffed his advances – which he then placed back onto the stove before zipping up and walking out.

Not even close to OK Harvey…

I won’t go so far as to say Weinstein was engaging in a festive night of #SpiritCooking, which he’s at least one or two degrees of separation from given his close friendship with the Clintons – who are in turn friends with noted occultist Marina Abramovic (who Tony Podesta has given money to, who was invited to Hillary Clinton’s Campaign launch, whose art Hillary Clinton placed in US embassies around the world, who Hillary wanted to invite to a lunch event, who donated the maximum $2700 to Hillary’s campaign, and who said in a Reddit AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) that her spirit cooking dinners in private homes are not art.). While Harvey’s sperm receptacle was probably chosen out of practicality – the guy did leave semen, in a cooking pot, on a stove.

Not to mention, Harvey sure seems to love his highbrow bodily excretion art… or at least this is what the sight of a naked woman makes Weinstein think of: 

George has a dog

His NAME is Rocky

And he pees

And poops

WHEN I walk in th room

Sounds like Rocky doesn’t like Harvey very much.

(Amiri’s full statement to THR)

“Last week, after Lauren Sivan came forward with her awful story about Harvey Weinstein and the ‘potted plant’ at Socialista, he contacted me. We hadn’t spoken in years. He told me he needed a statement about his involvement in Socialista, which I said I’d be happy to provide, and I did, and then his lawyers said he needed one saying I hadn’t seen anything that night. I told them I knew something happened that night, I just hadn’t known what specifically. I couldn’t make a statement absolving him because when she came forward, my memory clicked.

Harvey had been an investor in Socialista and I had appeared in one of the films he distributed, ‘Factory Girl.’ What I remember about this incident is that my sous chef came into my office, furious, telling me that ‘some fat fuck’ saying he’s an owner — he didn’t know the name — had come into the kitchen with a woman and shoved a $100 bill at him and told him to get out. It was like 1:30 in the morning and he’d been the only one still there. The chef told me he was going to quit.

I went to check things out and saw Harvey soon after, fixing his belt, behind the bar. I never saw the woman. My chef and I go to the kitchen. He picks up a pot that had been placed back on the stove. It had been defiled. It was so bizarre. We couldn’t believe it happened.

I couldn’t prove any of it so I never confronted him. Harvey was an investor and it was around the time he married Georgina Chapman.

My heart goes out to all the brave women who have come forward. Once Ms. Sivan spoke out, and after being contacted by several media outlets, I’ve felt responsible to state what I remembered.”

Bald business tycoon and possible alien Jeff Bezos has slayed yet another mom and pop store on his quest for world domination – driving America’s oldest brick & mortar hardware store, Elwood Adams, into the abyss.

Established in 1782, the Worcester, Massachusetts store survived the Great Depression, both world wars, and fierce competition from the likes of Sears, Wal Mart and ACE Hardware – only to be bested by the internet.

“I think Amazon or the larger big-box stores have probably just been too much to compete against,” Worcester city manager Ed Augustus told CBS.

For many brick and mortars suffering similarly, it’s time to adapt or die. Many a horse n’ buggy-supply store undoubtedly met a similar fate when Henry Ford started selling automobiles on every corner. A century later, Kodak refused to go digital while Canon and Nikon and Sony drank their milkshake, and Blockbuster fell to cheaper and more convenient Dropbox and Netflix.

That said, with Amazon’s entry into freight, delivery and manufacturing with their ‘Amazon Basics‘ brand, one has to wonder how mom & pop can compete with a monopoly that controls its entire supply chain.

Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt – many jobs being lost!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 16, 2017