h/t Breitbart – Google Chairman Eric Schmidt, a hardcore climate advocate who has been heavily involved in Google’s Truth Algorithm, an effort to filter “fake” material from Google search results, has stepped down as chairman to focus more time on his personal interests.
Eric Schmidt to become technical advisor to Alphabet
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (December 21, 2017) – Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced that, as of its next regular board meeting in January 2018, Eric Schmidt will be transitioning from his position as Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, becoming a technical advisor to the company while continuing to serve on its board.
“Since 2001, Eric has provided us with business and engineering expertise and a clear vision about the future of technology,” said Larry Page, CEO of Alphabet. “Continuing his 17 years of service to the company, he’ll now be helping us as a technical advisor on science and technology issues. I’m incredibly excited about the progress our companies are making, and about the strong leaders who are driving that innovation.”
“Larry, Sergey, Sundar and I all believe that the time is right in Alphabet’s evolution for this transition. The Alphabet structure is working well, and Google and the Other Bets are thriving,” said Eric Schmidt. “In recent years, I’ve been spending a lot of my time on science and technology issues, and philanthropy, and I plan to expand that work.”
“Over 17 years, Eric has been tremendously effective and tireless in guiding our Board, particularly as we restructured from Google to Alphabet. He’ll now be able to bring that same focus and energy to his other passions, while continuing to advise Alphabet,” said John Hennessy, a member of Alphabet’s Board since 2004 and the lead independent director since 2007.
The company anticipates that the Board will appoint a non-executive chairman.
About Alphabet Inc.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google in September 1998. Since then, the company has grown to more than 70,000 employees worldwide, with a wide range of popular products and platforms like Search, Maps, Ads, Gmail, Android, Chrome, and YouTube. In October 2015, Alphabet became the parent holding company of Google. You can read more about Alphabet’s mission here.
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Source: https://abc.xyz/investor/news/releases/2017/1221.html
Eric Schmidt is very politically active. In 2016 Wikileaks revealed Schmidt was working closely with the Clinton Campaign, part of an effort by Silicon Valley tech giants to ensure a Democrat Win in the 2016 Presidential Election.
… It was revealed by whistleblowing service WikiLeaks in 2016 that Schmidt worked with the Clinton campaign. An attachment to an email written by Teddy Goff, a former Obama campaign digital director that also worked for the Clinton campaign, appeared to discuss “Working relationships with Google, Facebook, Apple, and other technology companies.” Goff further stated that the Clinton campaign had “begun having discreet conversations with some of these companies.” The memo seemed to have been drafted sometime in October 2014, at least six months prior to Clinton announcing her run for the presidency.
Throughout the memo, Goff repeatedly referred to “Eric Schmidt’s group,” at one point saying, “I have been kept apprised of the work being done by Eric Schmidt’s group and others working directly and indirectly with your team. [emphasis added] On the whole, I am comfortable with where we stand and confident in our roadmap to launch day and beyond.” Schmidt also ran The Groundwork, the technology vendor for Clinton’s campaign. …
Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/12/21/eric-schmidt-steps-down-as-alphabet-executive-chairman/
Schmidt is a hardcore climate advocate. In 2014 he accused the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) of lying about climate change.
… Google was a member company of ALEC, earning the ire of progressives, as has every corporate member of the group. As noted by liberal publication ThinkProgress, participation and funding of ALEC by Google seemed at odds with the company’s heavy investments in renewable energy, and Mr. Schmidt apparently agrees.
In an interview on The Diane Rehm Show on NPR, Mr. Schmidt said, “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. And so we should not be aligned with such people—they’re just, they’re just literally lying.”
Silicon Valley has a reputation for progressive idealogy on climate change, the environment, and equality. Mr. Schmidt’s comments put Google more firmly in that camp.
Read more: https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/googles-eric-schmidt-said-alec-lying-about-climate-change
Eric Schmidt was also connected to the 2015 Silicon Valley anti-trust settlement, a class action by tech workers who claimed wages and opportunities had been artificially depressed by an alleged secret agreement between major tech firms not to poach each other’s workers.
Silicon Valley’s $415 million poaching settlement finalized
Calling the deal “fair and reasonable,” a federal judge late Wednesday signed off on a $415 million settlement that ends a five-year legal battle over alleged illegal hiring practices in Silicon Valley.
In a 15-page order that has been expected since she tentatively approved the pact this spring, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh put an end to antitrust claims against Apple, Adobe Systems, Google and Intel over allegations that they entered into secret agreements not to raid each others’ workforces. The deal avoided a trial that could have exposed embarrassing allegations that CEOs of those valley powers, including late Apple leader Steve Jobs and then Google CEO Eric Schmidt, agreed in emails and other correspondence not to poach from rivals.
The estimated 64,000 tech workers covered by the claims were notified of the settlement terms during the summer, prompting some to object. But Koh determined the opposition — just 11 class members — amounted to a small percentage of the class action, and that the benefits of the deal, including avoiding the risk and expense of a trial, outweighed any concerns. The overall settlement provides payouts of about $5,000 per employee.
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Read more: https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/09/03/silicon-valleys-415-million-poaching-settlement-finalized/
I think I’m on pretty firm ground when I suggest Eric Schmidt is likely to devote a lot of time and money in the future to attacking climate skeptics.
Given Eric Schmidt’s personal financial resources and his history of political activism, and the fact he doesn’t come across as a complete alien like some Silicon Valley tech leaders, it would be no surprise to see Eric Schmidt running on a green globalist platform as the Democrat Presidential Candidate for 2020.
“h/t Breitbart”
Oh God. That’s just one step too far. This is the asylum.
A pity. I thought this site was sceptical. I see now it is simply toxic.
Good bye.
[leaving because you don’t like the source? buh bye -mod]
I think Dermot does have a point though. The validity of information is influenced by the source, and the use of sources such as The Daily Mail, Breitbart and the National Enquirer for example does tend to undermine the reliability of articles based on those mines of dubious facts.
Didn’t you spot the masthead Maxim? ‘It does exactly what it says on the tin’ (thank God).
OK, Gareth, here is the same story reported by the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/dec/21/eric-schmidt-resigns-executive-chairman-alphabet-google
Does that make you feel any better? Does it make the story any more believable? Does it make you admit that Breitbart told the truth and that your complaint was unfounded?
That is the problem with rating the reliability of news sources. Breitbart, over the past few years, has been very partisan, but about as likely to run totally unfounded stories as most of the legacy media. They have, but the same is true of the New York Times or the Guardian. Just don’t trust a single-source story too far.
Gareth,
So far, when I have double checked Breitbart Articles, they have a far superior track record than the NY Times. The Times is full of errors and blatant bias – while claiming to be “just the news”. Breitbart makes no bones about its conservative/libertarian bias and its facts (while sometimes over belabored) check out.
The thing is, the Times is way better than NBC or MSNBC or the very fake CNN. Trump derangement syndrome has completely ruined the TV alphabets – while they all loudly proclaim their strict neutrality.
Nigel, Michael, Owen, I am not claiming Breitbart is always wrong, what I am saying is that the frequency of their mistaken claims should make us as wary of using material published by them, as we would regarding articles by Info wars or the Daily mail. The claim that stopped clocks are right twice a day should not make them a reliable timekeeper. You may be interested in this list.
https://www.snopes.com/tag/breitbart/
Gareth on December 23, 2017 at 6:51 am
Well if “Snopes” said it it must be true. And Politico is mainstream.
Anything on Snopes about tax evasion by the Guradian (sic) and their ‘posh’ backgrounds (private schools and Oxbridge) of the SJWs? This is just the first few.
Katherine Viner / Ripon Grammar School (Selective) / Pembroke College, Oxford (English)
Alan Rusbridger / Cranleigh Independent Boarding School (per term £10610) / Magdalene College, Cambridge (Eng Lit)
Martin Kettle / Leeds Modern School (Grammar) / Balliol College, Oxford.
George Monbiot / Stowe (fees per term Day £7500 / Boarding £10325) / Brasenose College, Oxford (Zoology)
Jonathan Freedland / University College Independent School, Hampstead (per term £5720) – / Wadham College, Oxford
Catherine Bennett / Lawnswood High School /Hertford College, Oxford.
Zoe Williams / Godolphin and Latymer Girls School (per term £5760)
/ Lincoln College, Oxford (Modern History)
https://order-order.com/2015/06/15/guardian-posh-whinge-backfires/
Regarding credibility, my first quote was a press release from the Alphabet / Google site announcing Schmidt’s departure. I mean, perhaps Google are fibbing about the departure of their own chief executive, but that possibility seems very far fetched…
In the case of ex-google employee, James Damore, a diligent man is punished by his employer for not drinking the diversity coolaid. In light of the case of Harvey Weinstein a prominent fund raiser for the Clinton campaign and many other #metoo take downs I reckon the directors of the parent company Alphabet probably figured it would not be long before another prominent Clinton donor and activist gets taken down so I reckon they are trying to front run such an event.
At least we might be able to persuade Google to be less blinkered on its attitude to climate change than Schmidt , and not just take the line of the more politically and financially powerful AGW fanatics
He ordered AlphaZero to study climate change in order to prove his belief in CAGW was real but it proved him WRONG and he couldn’t deal with the facts and had a meltdown trying to debate the AI.
🙂
Just kidding, well sort of.
So he is going to fight the climate geoengineering we’re seeing on a global scale? The skies are brown with it nearly every day.
Speaking of fake news, Facebook introduced a “disputed” tag to flag fake news stories. Unfortunately (for them) it backfired because FB used fake news media outlets like WaPo and CNN to vet stories. People saw the hypocrisy and tended to view “disputed” stories as true. So FB dropped the tag.
Here’s a link to an excellent article detailing how most of the U.S. MSM is biased, influenced and controlled by the Progressives:
https://sharylattkisson.com/2017/11/21/newsgate-2016/
If you perform proper scientific method, you don’t need to campaign against skeptics. Just more proof that it’s entirely a political/propaganda war.
We have Google to thank for Net Neutrality–and getting it passed was a big benefit to them two years ago, and why they were fully vested in keeping it in force.
Thank goodness it was struck down! (It was anything but “neutral” although most supporters were duped into believing it was, just like the ACA was “affordable”!!)
Suddenly Schmidt wants to be a friend of the forgotten man.
With “friends” like that, who needs him as president?
Regarding global warming alarmism – Eric is FULL OF SCHMIDT!
There is NO credible evidence that increasing atmospheric CO2 is the sole or even the primary driver of global warming – there is better evidence that global temperature is primarily driven by natural factors, and atmospheric CO2 plays a minor and relatively insignificant role.
One important piece of supporting evidence is the moderate global cooling that occurred from ~1940 to ~1975, even as fossil fuel consumption and atmospheric CO2 rapidly accelerated.
Some natural global warming probably occurred following the Great Pacific Climate Shift circa 1977.
Furthermore, NO net NINO34 warming since 1982 suggests relatively INsignificant CO2-driven global warming since 1982.
The following points are proven:
1. There are orders of magnitude more heat calories in the oceans than in the atmosphere.
2. Atmospheric temperatures follow ocean temperatures.
3. Next to ocean temperatures, the next greatest influence on atmospheric temperatures is major (century-scale) volcanoes.
4. Attributing all remaining atmospheric temperature changes to increasing CO2 is self-serving warmist nonsense, circular thinking unsupported by evidence or logic.
5. Even attributing ALL remaining warming to increasing atmospheric CO2 only results in a climate sensitivity to increasing CO2 of ~1C/[2xCO2] – see Christy and McNider 1994 and 2017, which is so low that any impact on climate of increasing atmospheric CO2 would be minor, beneficial and not harmful.
6. Global warming alarmists have greatly exaggerated climate sensitivity to increasing CO2 in order to promote false global warming hysteria.
7. There is in reality NO GLOBAL WARMING CRISIS – it is a fiction, fabricated for political and economic gain, and it is the greatest fraud in dollar terms in human history.
Runaway global warming as promoted by alarmists is highly improbable. Minor global warming, no significant change, or moderate global cooling are much more probable outcomes, based on the evidence.
This list of CEO’s and politicians jumping ship is amazing. Q is suggesting it is related to I think this Executive Order signed the same day:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-blocking-property-persons-involved-serious-human-rights-abuse-corruption/
Dec 21, 16:27:41
Q !UW.yye1fxo 142660 >>142639
ES (Goog) resigned today post EO.
Coincidence?
Q
https://qcodefag.github.io/
Qanon is likely an insider with in the NSA or some very high level federal agency that is giving us inside information to what is taking place with cleaning up our corruption.
Here are some reasons to believe whom he claims to be. This kind of thing did happen in the past as well it’s very rare where we get in side information like this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CBTS_Stream/wiki/proof
Why are so many billionaire members of the upper echelons of the 1% club such rabid socialists?
Jim: Corporatist which is the same-thing in practice with socialism. Meaning they believe corporations should highly influence the government. Republican that believe that are Rockefeller republicans. Democrats call it “the third way” it’s exactly the same-thing. “the third way” explains it the best in my opinion.
Take two separate circles one is the corporation the other is government move them to the point they connect. The area that they connect they’re the same. That is the third way.
Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft et al, the really large corporations that effectively have monopoly type influence in their sphere of influence, are effectively Utilities now. And should probably be regulated and governed as such, to the extant that they decide for citizens how we are going to conduct our lives. In the case of Google and Eric Schmitt, doing what he did as CEO in censuring legitimate climate scepticism is paramount to the same lack of freedom to access global information similar to China. His world view is one of totalitarianism, at least in regard to the free and open discussion about climate science. Glad he is leaving Google, and hope he was shown the door for his malfeasance while CEO.
Odd.
They love to claim “The Koch Brothers” are funding this or that but ignore what Soros, Steyer etc. (and this guy) are funding. Their big bucks are “green”.
MODS!
I made a comment that went into moderation but now it’s gone.
I suspect it went into moderation because I mentioned the “K-Bros”. (Understandable)
But now it’s gone completely.
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