Buy your food from the CIA: Amazon buys Whole Foods
By Jon Rappoport
When Amazon boss and billionaire Jeff Bezos bought the
Washington Post in 2013, he also had an ongoing $600 million contract to
provide cloud computing services to the CIA. That meant the Washington
Post, which already had a long history of cooperation with the CIA,
renewed their wedding vows with the Agency and doubled down on the
alliance.
By any reasonable standard of journalism, the Post should
preface every article about the CIA, or article sourced from the CIA,
with a conflict of interest admission: TAKE THIS PIECE WITH A FEW GIANT
GRAINS OF SALT, BECAUSE OUR NEWSPAPER IS OWNED BY A MAN WHO HAS A HUGE
CONTRACT TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO THE CIA.
Now Bezos and his company, Amazon, have bought Whole Foods
for $13.7 billion. Whole Foods is the premier retailer of "natural"
foods in America.
The degree of profiling of Whole Foods customers will
increase by a major factor. Amazon/CIA will be able to deploy far more
sophisticated algorithms in that regard.
It's no secret that many Whole Foods customers show disdain
for government policies on agribusiness, health, medicine, and the
environment. Well, that demographic is of great interest to the Deep
State, for obvious reasons. And the Deep State will now be able to
analyze these customers in finer detail.
At the same time, the Amazon retail powerhouse will exercise
considerable control over the food supply, since it will be selling huge
numbers of food products to the public. Amazon will have new
relationships with all the farmers Whole Foods has been using as
suppliers.
Perhaps this disclaimer posted on every Whole Foods item is
now in order: KEEP IN MIND THE FACT THAT THE OWNER OF WHOLE FOODS,
AMAZON, HAS A VERY TIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CIA. USE YOUR
IMAGINATION.
Then there is this. The CIA has its own private company,
called In-Q-Tel, which was founded in 1999 to pour investment money into
tech outfits that could develop new ways to facilitate "data
collection," and service other CIA needs. In-Q-Tel, Jeff Bezos, and
Amazon are connected. For example, here is a 2012 article from
technologyreview.com:
"Inside a blocky building in a Vancouver suburb, across the
street from a dowdy McDonald's, is a place chilled colder than anywhere
in the known universe. Inside that is a computer processor that Amazon
founder Jeff Bezos and the CIA's investment arm, In-Q-Tel, believe can
tap the quirks of quantum mechanics to unleash more computing power than
any conventional computer chip. Bezos and In-Q-Tel are in a group of
investors who are betting $30 million on this prospect..."
Nextgov.com described the deal this way: "Canadian
companyD-Wave Systems raised $30 millionto develop quantum computing
systems. Bezos Expeditions, the personal investment company of Amazon
founder Jeff Bezos, and CIA venture capital arm In-Q-Tel participated in
the latest funding round, the firm announced. The company's quantum
computing technology seeks to speed up data-crunching. If successful,
the technology could aid automated intelligence gathering and analysis."
Yes, automated intelligence gathering and analysis are
exactly what outfits like Amazon and the CIA need for profiling the
public. Other companies who have purchased products from D-Wave Systems?
Goldman Sachs and Lockheed Martin. Let's see: Amazon, CIA, Goldman,
Lockheed---a formidable collection of Deep State players.
"Buy your food from the purest natural retailer in the world, the CIA. Oops, I mean Amazon. Oops, I mean Whole Foods."
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