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Google severs ties with conservative group over climate change stance
Chicago Tribune ^ | 9/22/2014 | Evan Halper

Posted on 09/22/2014 6:54:01 PM PDT by markomalley

Google is breaking ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council, a prominent network of conservative state legislators that, among other projects, works to roll back laws that promote solar and wind power, the company's chairman said Monday.

The decision marks a major victory for a campaign by environmentalists, union activists and other liberal groups that have pushed companies to drop support for ALEC. Microsoft ended its ties to the group a few weeks ago.

“The consensus within the company was that that was some sort of mistake,” Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said, referring to the initial decision to support ALEC.

“Everyone understands climate change is occurring, and the people who oppose it are really hurting our children and our grandchildren and making the world a much worse place," Schmidt said in an interview with National Public Radio’s Diane Rehm. "And so we should not be aligned with such people -- they're just, they're just literally lying.”

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News
KEYWORDS: achillwind; alec; blacklist; climatechange; climatechangefraud; criminalconspiracy; fraud; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; globalwarmingscare; google; homofascism; hysteria; planetgore; politicalpurge
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I wonder when Google will begin to adjust their search software to not hotlink to sites not supporting their political point of view.
1 posted on 09/22/2014 6:54:01 PM PDT by markomalley
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Everyone should understand that the alternative energy industry is just an alternative way for bribes and kickbacks to move between politicians and their “constituents”.


2 posted on 09/22/2014 6:58:33 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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works to roll back laws that promote solar and wind power,

equals "if you don't support massive government subsidies of industries that have no way to survive economically on their own merits - you want to kill grandchildren..."

3 posted on 09/22/2014 7:01:16 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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>> “Everyone understands climate change is occurring”

Nonsense. Where I live, it’s a constant 68 degrees Fahrenheit with the exact same, sparse cloud pattern every damn day. Wind speed also constant 12 knots North East despite the unchanging globular fluff in the sky. Nope. Absolutely no climate change where I live.


4 posted on 09/22/2014 7:01:20 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: markomalley

Whatever happened to the Google executive that was so involved in the “arab spring?” Google and this clown were taking so much credit for overthrowing the Egyptian government — all their tech bs.

Thousands of people lost their lives because of the overthrow. As it turned out, it wasn’t something that the people of Egypt really wanted. I haven’t seen any more articles on this clown google executive since then.

He should be locked in prison with the muslim brotherhood and the rest of the clowns that tried to take over the Egyptian government.


Yeah, Google seemed all behind him at the time. Not much from them since.
Just a reminder of Google politics.


5 posted on 09/22/2014 7:05:47 PM PDT by boycott
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“Everyone understands climate change is occurring, and the people who oppose it are really hurting our children and our grandchildren and making the world a much worse place”

Funny,I don’t understand that, and, judging from polls, neither do most Americans. Is he simply mistaken, or is he literally lying? I suspect he’s smart enough to know better, so I think it’s the latter.

“And so we should not be aligned with such people — they’re just, they’re just literally lying.” Mr Pot says about Mr Kettle?


6 posted on 09/22/2014 7:06:28 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: markomalley

The takeaway from this is that Google had any ties to any conservative group in the first place.


7 posted on 09/22/2014 7:08:32 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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To: markomalley

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-09/google-releases-its-energy-consumption-numbers-revealing-260-million-watt-continuous-suck


8 posted on 09/22/2014 7:08:55 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: All

new ice age, ozone hole, global warming, “climate change”, climate disruption... why don’t they call it what it is .. communism.


9 posted on 09/22/2014 7:10:14 PM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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Eric Schmidt.....does he fly around in a private jet and live in a mansion, while promoting his hoax of “global warming?”

What a BS’er.


10 posted on 09/22/2014 7:11:55 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Politicians and diapers must be changed often for the same reason)
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I just checked the average mean temperature for Hawaii in 1995 and it was 79 degrees and in 2013 it was 77 degrees. That is a 2 degree reduction in temperature over the last 23 years.

Here is a link to check it yourself.

If anyplace in the world would be an indicator of "Global Warming" it would be Hawaii, which has the most stable temperature on the planet.

11 posted on 09/22/2014 7:14:57 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Saying that ISIL is not Islamic is like saying Obama is not an Idiot.)
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"if you don't support massive government subsidies of industries that have no way to survive economically on their own merits - you want to kill grandchildren..."

Yes, that is exactly what they will say. The rat bastards. How about some good suggestions on using a different default search engine?

12 posted on 09/22/2014 7:17:28 PM PDT by Mark17 (So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hanging on the shed. Altogether now.)
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To: markomalley
And the march towards groupthink and unabated communism/marxism continues.

Nothing outside of taking up arms against those who are relentlessly imposing this ideology upon us will turn the tide.

Since that is never going to happen, bend over and prepare to take what is coming.

13 posted on 09/22/2014 7:19:21 PM PDT by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt thought that the company's former "Don't be evil" policy was stupid, so he simplified it a bit.

Now Google's policy is to follow the even simpler and ever-so-practical moral code of "Be evil."

14 posted on 09/22/2014 7:21:19 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: markomalley

Some time ago they changed their algorithm to penalize grassroots sites and advance (largely liberal) corporate sites.


15 posted on 09/22/2014 7:21:44 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (I'll entertain the idea of "virtual fences" after they put one around the White House.)
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To: markomalley
There's always DuckDuckGo
16 posted on 09/22/2014 7:35:32 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Mark17

try start page.com


17 posted on 09/22/2014 7:37:56 PM PDT by acapesket
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To: markomalley

The digital kristalnacht will happen soon enough.


18 posted on 09/22/2014 7:41:23 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: acapesket

Thanks, I will check it out.


19 posted on 09/22/2014 7:47:28 PM PDT by Mark17 (So we tanned his hide when he died Clyde and that's it hanging on the shed. Altogether now.)
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To: markomalley

I say they should shutdown the millions of servers they have. Imagine the power needed to run them!


20 posted on 09/22/2014 7:56:52 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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