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Google.org to Spend an Initial $1.1 Billion

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-spend-it-all-in-one-place dept.

conq writes "Google.org, the charitable branch of Google, has hired on Dr. Larry Brilliant to create a strategy for making a 'social impact.' According to the article: 'The network will focus its charitable endeavors on global poverty, energy, and the environment.' Brilliant outlines his goal: 'In 10 years, I'd like people to say Google changed the world less for its search engine than for the way in which it changed philanthropy to make the world a better place.'"

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  1. Re:You can start making the world a better place b by ShaneThePain · · Score: 1, Troll

    Thats a very close minded view of China. The chinese government has a questionable human right record to be sure, but to me it simultaneously feels benevolent. The chinese government is a much better one than our own. Democracy truly is overrated.

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  2. Re:You can start making the world a better place b by ShaneThePain · · Score: 0, Troll

    oh thats right! mod me down because you disagree. read my journal you zombies. Democracy is a fucking lie. China is on a greater path.

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    Fascism is the greatest political ideology ever conceived. Sorry.
  3. Re:Or by soft_guy · · Score: 0, Troll

    These sound like ideas from a well fed american.

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  4. Re:Education on human rights, liberalism & cap by LF11 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Do you really think that we live under a "constitutionally-bound Republican government"? That's uncomfortably naive.

    Those poor and downtrodden are there because we have abandoned classical liberalism. We have abandoned the Constitution. Nowhere in the Constitution is there a provision for welfare. Nowhere in the Constitution is there any allowance for unbacked currency, social security, medicare, income tax, minimum wage, government housing, sales tax, public schools, or any of the other blights that soil our nation. Not only that, any power not explicitly granted to the federal government is reserved for the people. Period, no exceptions.

    (By "We", I speak as an American. There are a few of us left.)

    Our founding fathers were neither blind nor stupid. Almost everything I listed above was well-known in their time, albeit under different names. They understood that including such social programs could only result in disaster, as it has today.

    So, if you want to see what anything OTHER than classical liberalism does to a country, I recommend you descend from your ivory tower and walk among the ghettos and homeless shelters of your local city sometime. Watch in awe as the sheer evil cruelty of our government is written in anguish across the faces of our poor.

    Land of the feet and home of the slave, indeed.

    C