Tag: Blue Origin

Space Junk

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Remember the Cold War Space Race between the former Soviet Union and the United States in the 1950s and 1960s? During the past year, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk went ahead and turned that into a modern-day dick-measuring contest, for lack of a better phrase, to see who could get there first for the longest. Their space outfits, extensively reported on by CNN Science, received more attention than the pollution caused by this narcissistic billionaire power competition, in which one rocket launch produced an estimated 300 tons of carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere, where it can remain for years.

Space Junk

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‘Giveaway of Galactic Proportions’: Bezos Demands $10 Billion Taxpayer Gift for Vanity Space Project

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Rather than waste $10 billion on a redundant space contract for Bezos, that money could be used to fund Social Security Disability, Medicare and Medicaid and the food stamps many of his own employees at Amazon and elsewhere have to rely on to make ends meet.

‘Giveaway of Galactic Proportions’: Bezos Demands $10 Billion Taxpayer Gift for Vanity Space Project

H/T: The Free

Bezos sells more than $3 billion in Amazon shares

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Bezos sells more than $3 billion in Amazon shares

The sales were part of a prearranged 10b5-1 trading plan, according to the filings. Earlier this year, Bezos sold more than $4.1 billion worth of shares in the company. The sales this week bring his total cash out in 2020 to slightly more than $7.2 billion so far. He still owns more than 54 million shares, worth more than $170 billion, making him the richest person in the world.