If Crown Prince MBS was chastened by the global stink over the Kashoggi affair, there's scant evidence of it in our major media. Just this morning, on page A10 of Canada's most liberal newspaper, there's a glowing puff-piece on the reformist Prince, "A Kingdom learns to laugh."
What? Barely five weeks since the gruesome demise of Jamal, and we're yukking it up with the Great Reformer, without so much as a nod to the Kashoggi affair? My first instinct was that such an oversight can only be the result of the Crown Prince's "Buckets 'o Baksheesh" tour back in the spring. After all, that visit included a sit-down with the editorial board of the LA Times, where The Star found this story.
Alas, there's a less nefarious explanation. Seems the interns charged with putting together the Sunday paper just changed the headline and did a little editing of this LA Times story from September, when Jamal yet walked among us.
Which speaks volumes about the level of geopolitical acuity at One Yonge Street.
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Sunday, November 11, 2018
Friday, April 27, 2018
The perils of world domination
In the midst of near universal euphoria over the Amazon numbers released today, the LA Times chose to drop this stinkbomb.
Author Michael Hiltzig brings a little rain to the celebratory parade by pointing out that Amazon trades at a PE ratio ten times that of the S&P average. That's way whacked for a company that started out as an on-line bookstore.
But it's so much more than that now...
It's the biggest on-line bookstore, it's a CIA front. It's the biggest on-line grocer, biggest on-line retailer, biggest cloud computing player, it's a CIA front... did I mention the fact that the venture capital department at the CIA has been a big Amazon backer since the bookstore days?
Surely you don't believe that the fact this CIA front owns the Washington Post is mere coincidence?
There's big money to be made in world domination.
But...
Quite aside from a 250 PE being pure pie in the sky, there's other reasons to short Amazon.
Fantasies of world domination tend to end badly.
Author Michael Hiltzig brings a little rain to the celebratory parade by pointing out that Amazon trades at a PE ratio ten times that of the S&P average. That's way whacked for a company that started out as an on-line bookstore.
But it's so much more than that now...
It's the biggest on-line bookstore, it's a CIA front. It's the biggest on-line grocer, biggest on-line retailer, biggest cloud computing player, it's a CIA front... did I mention the fact that the venture capital department at the CIA has been a big Amazon backer since the bookstore days?
Surely you don't believe that the fact this CIA front owns the Washington Post is mere coincidence?
There's big money to be made in world domination.
But...
Quite aside from a 250 PE being pure pie in the sky, there's other reasons to short Amazon.
Fantasies of world domination tend to end badly.
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