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Owner of the Washington Post Jeff Bezos Admits, Americans don’t trust the news media

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Ridgewood NJ, Jeff Bezos the owner of The Washington Post , founder, executive chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon penned an editorial admitting the mainstream media lack of credibility and the fact that so few people believe them anymore .

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The Era of Space Tourism is born as Sir Richard Branson Reaches Space on Virgin Galactic Flight

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Spaceport America New Mexico, after nearly 17 years of development and over a billion of dollars invested in Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard Branson has achieved his dream and reached space.

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Sir Richard Branson Racing to Beat Jeff Bezos to space by nine days

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Ridgewood NJ, in the race to commercialize space travel Virgin Galactic will launch its next test flight on July 11. Founder Sir Richard Branson will be on board, beating Jeff Bezos to space by nine days. The test will be Virgin Galactic’s fourth test space flight. Its most recent test flight had two pilots on board. There will be three Virgin Galactic mission specialists alongside Branson. The flight will be live-streamed on Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.

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Billionaires in Space

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Ridgewood NJ, Jeff Bezos an American business magnate, media proprietor, investor, and founder and CEO of the multi-national technology company Amazon. With a net worth of more than $200 billion as of April 2021, he is the richest person in the world according to both Forbes and Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index. Bezos  will be flying on Blue Origin’s first human spaceflight next month. He has invited his brother to go along, so the two brothers will join the winner of an auction for the July 20 flight. Bidding for the third seat has already reached $2.8 million, but it is likely to go higher during a live auction on June 22. Proceeds from the auction will be donated to Club for the Future, Blue Origin’s foundation. Bezos has wanted to go to space for a long time, but he wanted to go on a Blue Origin vehicle.

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Amazon buys Whole Foods in $13.7B deal

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June 16,2017

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Ridgewood NJ, Amazon announced this morning they will purchase Whole Foods Market for $42 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $13.7 billion.
Whole Foods Market will continue to operate stores under the Whole Foods name once the transaction closes, which is expected to go through in the second half of this year.
John Mackey will remain onboard as CEO of Whole Foods. “Whole Foods Market has been satisfying, delighting and nourishing customers for nearly four decades – they’re doing an amazing job and we want that to continue,” Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO, said in a statement.