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Google Donates €1 Million To Help Refugees In Need
Mark Wilson writes: The on-going refugee crisis in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East has grabbed hearts and headlines around the world. As European governments argue over who should take in the thousands of desperate people, European citizens have criticized the speed and scale of the help offered, whilst simultaneously donating money, food, and equipment to help those in desperate need. Now Google has stepped in, offering €1 million ($1.1 million) to the organizations providing help to refugees. In addition to this, Google.org (the branch of the company 'using innovation to tackle some of the world's biggest challenges') is setting up a page to make it easier for people to make donations, and says that it will match any money donated by Google users.
but it's a drop in the bucket of resources needed for this migration. What I'm wondering is, where's the U.S pledge to take in migrants? After all, it's the U.S who is dropping bombs and seeding weapons into the regions these migrants are fleeing from. Or maybe they're just not interested because you can't have any cherry-picking under these circumstances?
and they are not refugees, they are economic migrants. Refugees do not pass through a dozen safe countries to settle in the richest country with benefits. Also they are almost all military age males.
These are not refugees. They are migrants.
The thing you are not being told is, how many of the "refugees" are really refugees and not opportunists...
Why would real refugees refuse free food and water?
That's gonna help a lot...
Is this a way to get more Google+ users? (meant as a joke; no idea if they allow non-Google+ users to have it matched)
when I watch the photos and videos of the refugees... They supposedly walked all over Europe and slept outside, yet everyone looks rested, the men are clean-shaven, the clothes are clean.
Can someone explain that to me?
Google yearly revenue is about 55 billion dollars
Google yearly profit is about 12 billion
so, by my math, 1 million in charity is less then, roughly, doing the math in my head, 6 hours profit ??? and it is probably tax deductible ?
and they are getting lits of great PR like this slashvertisement ????
another way to look at this would be to take the total salary of the top 100 google employees and ask what % of that google does in charity
This is not refugees or migrants. This is an invasion, exploiting big hearts and weak political wills. Europe is absolutely fucked.
another way to look at this would be to take the total salary of the top 100 google employees and ask what % of that google does in charity
What percentage of your money goes to charity? Just curious.
Mainly this article is on Slashdot because it is an important world event......Google just gives it a tech angle (and I for one like world events with tech angles appearing on Slashdot).
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
What percentage of your money goes to charity? Just curious
Anyone who makes less than $55,000 a year (most people) and has given more than $1 to a charitable cause this year (most people) is being more charitable by this measure (percent of revenue)
Nonetheless, a small gift from a big name will cause eyes to fall on the problem.
Mix enough publicity, compassion, & a little guilt; couldn't hurt the cause.
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Ernest Hemingway
As a Google shareholder, this announcement PISSES ME OFF!
Blanket the Middle East with free, open and ubiquitous internet, by every practical means, together with Tor. These people have been living in the dark too long.
Then put a fence around the place and let them settle their own differences.
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
Some of these invaders (as far as I am concerned these people are illegal aliens, taking over the territory) are stating their reasons that they are going to Germany being that they expect to get "free education, housing, money". Well obviously! Obviously people will be coming for the " free"stuff that Germany is handing out. When the German politicians get elected on the promises of "free" stuff, the electorate really doesn't think that this means it will apply to large crowds of outsiders, they are voting these entitlements for themselves. International Marxism was dismissed in Germany after the first world war in lieu of national socialism. No German is actually interested in paying taxes to support some Indian or Syrian peasant. Well guess what, they are about to experience all of the wonders of international Marxism just about now, let's see how long before nationalistic rhetoric takes over. This applies to other European countries that are not doing too bad also.
Many here like to use the Nordic countries as examples of "successful socialism". Ha! The only " success there is the ability to oppress a rather small class of highly productive people to subsidise a rather small mob. Guess what happens as the mob grows in size uncontrollably when many other Africans, middle easterners decide that Norway or Sweden or Finland are not too cold for them not to try and invade also...
In any case, we are going to see serious limits imposed on both, free stuff provided and on free movement of people over the European territories.
You can't handle the truth.
That's at least three orders of magnitude short of an amount that would make a real dent in the problem. They're effectively abusing the refugees for a cheap image campaign.
And there's gonna be big trouble!
What percentage of your money goes to charity? Just curious.
None, but if I did give to charity, I wouldn't announce it to the world. Not giving to charity isn't charitable, obviously, but giving and boasting isn't charitable either. It's just PR, and one million is cheap PR.
Almost all charity is a scam in one way or another. There isn't a big charity organization that hasn't had its share of scandals and uses most of the money internally even when things work as planned. All charities use deceptive and manipulative ads, and their direct advertising targets the same people who are the favorite marks of con artists: old people. There are things more inefficient than charity, but if government projects are your benchmark, that's not a compliment.
I'll just leave this here.
So what do we have to make out of this? These people are safe in Hungary.
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
Solve the root of the problem, spend this money on education in the ME instead. Given a limited budget, spending it on the current refugee problem, knowing full well that bigger suffering is just around the corner, is counter-productive.
The US pays 22%.., often by refusing to pay their fair share
Since the U.S. has a GDP of around 17.4 trillion, and the world GDP is 77.3 trillon or so... 22% seems just about right.
Not wurde why it's a good idea to fund "world" military forces to go forth and rape little kids though.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I was interested to see John Cleese (of fawlty Towers fame) recognize that England just isn't England anymore.
I never would post about anything as controversial as racism before, because like so many here, I'm scared, even as posting as AC. However, the threat to Europe generally is an even bigger concern, so to hell with it. I feel sorry for the many of the immigrants who feel they need to leave their country, but whites are constantly being driven out of their homeland, and being swamped with Africans, whilst the reverse isn't happening. That's not racism, that's white genocide.
Simply not true. You take in as many as Sweden (with a population of nine millions)
Sure, we at Google have more cash on hand than most of the worlds leading countries, COMBINED.....so we can spare this 1 million dollars.
Honestly, this is fucking chump change for an industry giant such as Google. They should have given more.
Google just donated said money to your tormentors. 70% of migrants = DAESH.
Fools.
True, for values of couple in the region of 750.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Ridiculous. Germany's extra cost for _2015 alone_ is _8 billion_.
It's interesting to compare the current migration wave to Europe
with historical immigration to the Americas in the 17th and 18th century:
* People from several unrelated war-torn and poor countries seek to settle in
promising new land
* They pay large sums for passage in overcrowded and dangerous boats
* Reception from the natives is sometimes friendly, sometimes hostile
* There's significant culture clash
The current migration wave appears to be much larger in absolute numbers
(albeit in relation to a larger total population). Things happen much faster today
due to the availability of fast mass transport.
European immigration to the Americas came with frequent acts of
war and forever changed the face of the country.
We're living in interesting times...
In other words, arch-evil Google contributed a million dollars to the conquest of Europe and genocide of whites.
The point is that this is just indecent: they earned 17,3 Billions from January to march 2015[http://www.journaldunet.com/ebusiness/le-net/google-chiffre-d-affaires-1er-trimestre-2015-0415.shtml]. Try to compare: this is 0,0578 % of their quarterly income... If you are looking for a good laugh, just compute how much you would donate if you were yourself sooo generous! But don't make the mistake to think that this is generosity...
So them giving 1 million euros is about proportionate to me giving 1 dollar to help refugees.
Plus they get useful good PR from this, unlike me.
So this isn't especially impressive.
The reality is that they're donating 1 millions towards non-assimilating criminals and terrorists that will chain-migrate their families over.
Twitter supports and protects racists - by smearing their critics with the "Hate Speech" label.
Turkey is housing 2 million of them spending billions of dolars and google donates 1 million, big deal(!)
No doubt they will expense it at tax time costing the US taxpayer.
Europe is being changed and not for the better because of the migrant situation. England used to be a rather nice place to live back in the 80s and before. Now? One walks down the street and thinks they are in Bangladesh or worse.
What chaps my arse is this: you want to come here and dictate what British children can eat in schools because pork offends you? If you want your bloody islamic lifestyle, go back home. We don't want it here. This is England!
Europe is going to be wrecked if we carry on like this. It's the whole idea of "everything's equal", whether that applies to art, music, faces, or indeed people, which is the really damaging thing here. Part of the problem is the new postmodernism that's swept across the Western world like a deadly plague.
That's the big lie of the modern age - that we're all equal.
Why don't they give Assad 100 billion to fuck off and buy the country from him. It would be the first country 2.0 and they could call it Googlia.
I thought the USA was the only place having to deal with mass illegal immigration. Now it's Europe's turn. In both cases it is largely economic migration. Don't get me wrong - if I were in their shoes I would do the same thing.
What is interesting to me is the fact that the European migrants seem to be marching towards Germany. Why not stop at Turkey or Greece or Hungary? Well, Germany is the richest country in Europe by a wide margin and they have very generous social programs. Sound familiar?
Google love to big note themselves as good guys but when they avoid paying vast amounts of taxes in countries, that spend up to 30% of that tax revenue on welfare programs, the sum total of Google's actions has them looking evil and hypocritical.
No, they should go to Turkey, which is the first safe place next door, and from there, check out Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Libya, Emirates and other Arab oil rich countries that have a labor shortage
Russia is not focussing on ISIS. Assad has pretty much conceded North East Syria to them - not even trying to retake Tadmur (Palmyra). Syria is the last customer left standing of Moscow & Beijing, which is why Putin is taking interest in saving the Assad regime. As it is, they've lost Libya and Iraq, and only have Iran left as a customer, if the Assad regime were to collapse.
Assad is no saint, but a lot of the stuff said about him - particularly from his Sunni Arab neighbors south of him, like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, et al - is propaganda and an attempt to replace an Alawite regime in Damascus w/ a Sunni one. That's why they've supported the 'Arab Spring' rebellion against him, while suppressing a similar one in Bahrein. During the Iran-Iraq war in the 80s, while the rest of the Arab League supported Iraq, Assad's father - Hafez al Assad - supported Iran. That's one of the big reasons that the Arabs hate him, aside from the fact that he is Alawite - a group they consider as heretical as the Bahais and Ahmadiyas. Also, the FSA, which you praise, is another Sunni Jihadi organization backed by the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas (which ended its relationship w/ Assad once the Arab Spring started and the Saudis made them drop support). Only reason their Jihadi activities are unnoticed is due to ISIS, but those massacres of Christians in Aleppo and Homs was done by them, not ISIS.
Well, show me the equivalent of Jihadis in all the other religions I mentioned, before just doing your simplistic 'all religions are bad' meme. And I'm talking about TODAY - please don't excavate the Crusades or the Thirty Year War
Religion is bad not because of what some random people adhering to it do, but because it is a fundamentally broken concept. That is merely a consequence. Believing in a random set of assumptions that are not in any way backed by scientific evidence is just a really bad idea.
Just FUCK OFF.
We dont want them. The area's they'v managed to ghettoise in France, Germany, UK already are utterly awful places even in the daytime, try going there at night.
We might as well just build some raping booths at the edge of each street and have done with it.
Solution? Import vastly more Muslims. Because.. these Muslims... well... they'll be grateful and promise to rape less.
REAL STORY: Germany has the lowest natural birthrate of any country with statistics to back it up. 1.2 per couple.
Merkel's radical solution... same radical solution thats failed Europe for the past 70 years. Import vast swathes of people that dont give a shit about you, your country, your religion, your customs, your language.
@Merkel - Im sure it'll work out just great this time tho!