Clinton email reveals: Google sought overthrow of Syria's Assad

Washington Examiner ^ | 3-19-16 | Rudy Takala

[boycott]

Google in 2012 sought to help insurgents overthrow Syrian President Bashar Assad, according to State Department emails receiving fresh scrutiny this week.

Messages between former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's team and one of the company's executives detailed the plan for Google to get involved in the region.

[Chgogal]

BFL

[Retain Mike]

I often wondered how large U.S. corporations were in relation to countries. I picked five companies and ranked them by their sales in relation to the GDP's of 188 countries. Exxon at 433.4billion ranks 29th. Wal-Mart at 446.95billion sales ranks 28th. General Electric at 142.95billion sales ranks 58th. Ford at 136.27billion sales ranks 59th. Berkshire Hathaway at 130billion sales ranks 60th. ATT at 126.72billion sales ranks 61st.

Thinking of this article Google would rank 71st of 188 countries.

List of countries by GDP (nominal)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)

[Ezekiel]

I always took that the G in Gmail meant “government”, and also that the name Google was just more of the same dumb inside joke in plain view, being a play on goggle and ogle (go ogle). And why not, they have glasses and street views and Ogle er Google Earth...

Maybe it’s just me. :)

[SaveFerris]

Google is setting U.S. war policy in other nations?

Gee, that seems wrong. /Captain Obvious

[boycott]

Google has more “propaganda power” than all those companies. It is alarming when you think about it.

The sad part is that GOOGLE has shown they’re willing to use their power to influence wars. These executives should be going to prison.

[faithhopecharity]

like some computer programming outfit has ANY business AT ALL conspiring to overthrow foreign governments...!????? WTF!
WTF!

(and just look at what the results have been... thousands of people slaughtered with mass-scale attacks and murders of Christians there included. plus, much of the country is leveled, destroyed

like a lousy computer programming outfit is supposed to be overthrowing governments and pushing the world to the brink of a much much larger war?

this needs to be investigated, seriously investigated!

(and Google shareholders should REVOLT and toss the guilty ‘mangers’ right out the window!)

[boycott]

It is amazing. Thousands and thousands of people have been slaughtered and Google played a part.

[faithhopecharity]

if this report is correct, true... then Google shareholders need to CLEAN HOUSE at the corp management suite, get ALL of the guilty OUT of the firm ASAP

they have NO business whatsoever doing any such thing!

on company time, using shareholder resources....
they are supposed to be selling search engines and maybe, just maybe, self-driving (or self-crashing) cars???
they are supposed to be making produces to sell to us, not overthrowing lousy governments on the other side of the earth

WTF did they think they were doing, anyway?

[norton]

Major corporations/cartels have always been able and willing to involve themselves in international/regional affairs. It's a profit / resources / plantation kind of thing.
What's changed is that paying off local nationals who could influence government or economic decisions has been replaced by information management that goes to both the lords and the peasants.
Today it is possible (simple) to destabilize a government that might oppose your "interests", to mobilize the opposition to that government, to support that same government against "extremists", or to do all three while embellishing the merits of the chosen victor.

1984 just a little bit late?

[mowowie]

Google bought Boston Dynamics and various other AI and robotic companies.
Google is basically now Cyberdyne Systems and they are busy developing “Terminator” style robots using Synthetic Intelligence also known as Skynet.
Be afraid...

[SaveFerris]

Google has a “business partner” - it’s a poorly-kept secret.

Unless you were some folks I worked with about 9 years ago, LOL.

[Pollster1]

This sounds like a bad tinfoil hat conspiracy theory. If true, it’s on a level with Spectre, Drax, Zorin, Elliot Carver, Quantum, and various other Bond villains.

[faithhopecharity]

How nice! Our own businesses will kill us. Thanks for the info. (Maybe we’re safer letting the Chinese take over everything, after all ?)

[PGR88]

Want to keep your $15 billion fortune? Then play ball with the progressive deep state.

[Uhhh]

Business as usual. i think US corps have a long history of complying with govt in foreign policy. Namely production of warfare

[Bobalu]

[indcons]

BTTT - this is what happens when a bunch of Silicon Valley liberals try to change the world based on their stupid fact-free notions.

[fieldmarshaldj]

George Soros is scarier than any Bond villain, because he’s real.

[indcons]

Exactly

[PGalt]

Millions of refugees are displaced. Google needs to pay to house them.

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Actually, some of these unofficial as well as official actors need to face war crimes tribunals for their malicious and destructive dabbling.

BUMP! BUMP!