AmazonSmile, which donates 0.5% from purchases to designated nonprofits, still lists dozens of local Black Lives Matter (BLM) chapters among its thousands of approved charities, but noticeably absent is the BLMGNF, the national arm of the BLM movement.

“We offer the AmazonSmile program to make it easy for our customers to support their favorite charitable organizations, and we work to offer a broad spectrum of organizations, including those working to end racial injustice,” an Amazon spokesperson told Fox News Digital. “States have rules for nonprofits, and organizations participating in AmazonSmile need to meet those rules. Unfortunately, this organization fell out of compliance with the rules in several states, so we’ve had to temporarily suspend them from the program until they come into compliance.

“We hope that happens soon, and in the meantime, customers who have already selected them in AmazonSmile are able to continue supporting them, and we’ll hold any funds accrued until they’re back in compliance.”

The suspension was first reported by the Washington Examiner.

The news comes after BLMGNF shut down all of its online fundraising earlier this month following demands by attorneys general in California and Washington state that it submit delinquent financial disclosures for 2020, the Examiner reported.

“We take these matters seriously and have taken immediate action,” a BLMGNF spokesperson told FOX Business on Feb. 3. “We have immediately engaged compliance counsel to address any issues related to state fundraising compliance. In the interim, we have shut down online fundraising as we work quickly to ensure we are meeting all compliance requirements.However, BLMGNF remained out of compliance in California, Washington, New Jersey, North Carolina, Connecticut, Colorado, Maryland, Maine, and Virginia as of Wednesday, the Examiner reported

At the end of 2020, Black Lives Matter said in an impact report that it raised $90 million, spent $8.4 million in operating expenses, distributed $21.7 million in grants to 33 other organizations, and closed the year with a $60 million balance. An investigation conducted by the Examiner found that BLM has not publicly named anyone in charge of the roughly $60 million bankroll since its co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, resigned in May 2021.

According to the right-leaning charity watchdog Influence Watch, it is not clear who leads BLMGNF.

Multiple local BLM chapters and families of Black people killed by police have spoken out against the BLMGNF and demanded it disburses its millions to Black communities.

Facebook connects people, Amazon connects merchants and buyers, Airbnb connects landlords to people looking for a space to lay their heads. These people don’t basically create products, they connect people and are making serious money doing so.

Taking this position, you would see why this model is really amazing to replicate, and how beneficial it is in this article. Read on!

Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg created a tool that could very well bring old school mates, family overseas, friends, and more together. And it just doesn’t end in being social but could also help connect clients and customers, help a business build its credibility, brand, and reputation, too.

How does that make money for him? It’s simple. Content is really important for many internet businesses, that is what engages people. He simply created a platform where people can create content for him while entertaining or educating themselves doing so. Gets paid hefty sums of money advertising other people’s products or businesses, and boom, money is coming in.

Amazon

Well, these guys are just real giants when it comes to e-Commerce with a very smart model of making serious money. They don’t really create products to sell but make their money by connecting merchants (people interested in selling their products) to buyers (people looking to buy).

If you’ve ever seen how stressful it can be to look for a buyer when you have something to sell? Well, Amazon is so smart that they don’t do the marketing. Affiliate marketers hoping to earn an income could also market that product and get paid a commission themselves – Now that’s genius!

So, basically, Amazon says, “Hey, come here and sell your stuff on my website while I get paid a percentage of your sales.” And then Amazon tells Affiliate marketers, “Hey, looking to earn an income referring people to buy from us? Why not join our program?”

Now, that’s something.

Airbnb

If you have never heard about Airbnb, it is an online marketplace that helps people find spare rooms or guest rooms rented by people interested or having space. They don’t own houses, but just connect landlords and people looking to rent a space.

All Airbnb gets for every booking from hosts is 3%, which is actually fair, and also 6% and 12% from guests. If you think that percentage is small, multiply that with thousands or hundreds of thousands of bookings and do the math.

These businesses created platforms, not just a business. Because according to Jack Ma, “Create a platform, not a business. A business is what you create that fetches income or makes you feel good. But a platform is what helps other people achieve their goals, while you find fulfillment doing that also.”

Aim to create a platform today, and help others succeed, then realize more success than you ever imagined.

Devastating fires that have scorched parts of the Amazon region and fueled global outrage have spurred Brazil’s government to ban most legal fires for land-clearing for at least 60 days.

Bolsonaro — who has had a lot of shots thrown at him in recent weeks after data showed increased deforestation of the Amazon rainforest— offered the response to a reporter who questioned if it was possible to boost the economy, feed those who are hungry and save the environment at the same time.

“It’s enough to eat a little less. You talk about environmental pollution. It’s enough to poop every other day,” Bolsonaro said, according to AFP. “That will be better for the whole world.”

Critics say that Bolsonaro’s policies will help accelerate further deforestation of the Amazon — 60 percent of which is part of Brazil. A key regulator of the Earth’s living systems, the rainforest’s trees take in as much as 2 billion tons of carbon dioxide every year and release 20 percent of the planet’s oxygen.

New data published last week by the National Institute for Space Research, a federal Brazilian agency, showed that more rainforest was lost between May and July this year than during the same period in 2018, 2017 and 2016.

In July alone, 870 square miles of vegetation was cut down — the biggest surge in deforestation rates since the institute adopted its current methodology in 2014.

Bolsonaro alleged the agency might have manipulated the deforestation data to make his far-right administration look bad. He fired physicist Ricardo Galvão, who served as director of the National Institute for Space Research, after deeming the information “doubtful.”

Brazil was once heralded as a global environmental success story. But as data indicates an influx in Amazon deforestation under Bolsonaro — a climate change skeptic with a strongly pro-agrobusiness agenda — some fear what could happen to the rainforest.

This is the battle of the Amazon and it started way back in 2012.

ICANN, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, decided to expand the list of the bit that comes right after the dot in a web address – generic top-level domains (gTLD).

While offering internet users and businesses the flexibility of personalizing their website name and addresses, new rules have been created to allow businesses or companies to apply for brand extensions.

But the governments of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela – the eight countries containing the Amazon and members of the Amazon Cooperation Organization (ACTO) has objected Amazon – the retail giant’s plans as regards the new .amazon domain name. Saying that matters of their sovereignty could be affected as a result of relinquishing the domain exclusively to Amazon.

Although they aren’t seeking to deny Amazon the use of the domain, Diplomats have told the BBC that they are requesting shared governance of it. And according to their requests, domains which are relevant to Amazon’s commercial interests like “books.amazon” would be allowed.

A committee wants to be established by the countries to debate the use of new top-domain names in the future in order to “keep things in check.”