Google plans to update its U.S. and Europe-based street view cars with pollution recording devices — but will also reportedly replace factual pollution data on its new censored search engine for China with statistics provided by the Chinese government.
The Washington Times reports that Google will soon be outfitting its Google Street View cars with pollution recording devices in Europe and the United States to monitor fluctuations in air quality. This is not Google’s first step into environmental studies, the company’s Earth Outreach division has been monitoring air quality since 2014 but the majority of the information has stayed in-house, something which may soon be changing.
Google has now partnered with California-based company Aclima, which builds Internet-connected air-quality sensors, and with the Environmental Defense Fund. Google will soon begin making their study data available to researchers linked to both groups.
Google Earth Outreach program manager Karin Tuxen-Bettman told TechCrunch: “These measurements can provide cities with new neighborhood-level insights to help cities accelerate efforts in their transition to smarter, healthier cities.”
However, despite Google’s apparent dedication to climate activism in the U.S. and Europe, it would seem that in China, its commitment to the cause may not be so strong. In a report on Google’s new China-based censored search product, called Dragonfly, the Intercept reported that the search engine will only return pollution results provided by the Chinese state.
The Intercept states:
Sources familiar with Dragonfly said the search platform also appeared to have been tailored to replace weather and air pollution data with information provided directly by an unnamed source in Beijing. The Chinese government has a record of manipulating details about pollution in the country’s cities. One Google source said the company had built a system, integrated as part of Dragonfly, that was “essentially hardcoded to force their [Chinese-provided] data.” The source raised concerns that the Dragonfly search system would be providing false pollution data that downplayed the amount of toxins in the air.
So while it seems Google is willing to fight for climate issues in the U.S., in the Chinese market — where their reporting of air quality levels could affect them financially — the tech firm suddenly becomes very compliant with the Chinese state’s official data on pollution levels. In a country that has faced a “smog apocalypse,” the air pollution data Google will gather in America and Europe might actually be used for good purposes.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or email him at lnolan@breitbart.com
China Retaliates! Levies Tariffs on $60B in U.S. Goods
China lobbed retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion in U.S. imports Tuesday after the U.S. announced new tariffs across $200 billion in Chinese goods.
The $60 billion is in line with what China said it was preparing should the United States go through with the tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods. President Donald Trump flagged the move late on Monday.
On Tuesday China announced it would go forward with the $60 billion tariff package, according to the Associated Press.
The U.S. Trade Representative’s Office finalized and released the list of $200 billion in Chinese goods to be levied with tariffs on Monday evening. The action came after a months-long section 301 investigation into Chinese trade practices and the potential additional tariffs. The USTR investigation found, “China’s acts, policies and practices related to technology transfer, intellectual property and innovation are unreasonable and discriminatory and burden or restrict U.S. commerce.”
The new U.S. tariffs will go into effect on September 24, 2018 at 10 percent until the end of 2018. On January 1, 2019 the tariffs on these $200 billion in Chinese goods will rise to 25 percent.
The USTR released lists for additional tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese goods in June and August. It noted in a Monday release noting these previous tariffs, “Unfortunately, China has been unwilling to change its policies involving the unfair acquisition of U.S. technology and intellectual property. Instead, China responded to the United States’ tariff action by taking further steps to harm U.S. workers and businesses.”
“In these circumstances, the President has directed the U.S. Trade Representative to increase the level of trade covered by the additional duties in order to obtain elimination of China’s unfair policies,” Monday’s USTR statement said. “The Administration will continue to encourage China to allow for fair trade with the United States.”
U.S. and Chinese trade delegations headed respectively by U.S. Treasury Sec. Steve Mnuchin and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He are scheduled to meet September 27-28 in Washington, DC.
Michelle Moons is a White House Correspondent for Breitbart News — follow on Twitter @MichelleDiana and Facebook
THE RISE of BARACK OBAMA, sociopath huckster from
Chicago, and the FALL of AMERICA
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/sociopath-barack-obama-gets-award-for.html
“My guess is
that the students and employees at the U of I who listened to Obama's
self-righteous speech believe that Obama is ethical because most of the media
intentionally hid the mass corruption, or if they reported on it, they
downplayed it. The corruption and unethical behavior started as soon
as Obama took office.” JACK HELLNER / AMERICAN
THINKER.com
“They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they
promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they
made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They
understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made
him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)” ALLAN
ERICKSON
BARACK OBAMA POSITIONS MARK ZUCKERBERG of FAKEBOOK to be his global controller of propaganda for the Obama bankster-funded third term for life.
http://globalistbarackobama.blogspot.com/2018/09/fakebooks-mark-zuckerberg-will-be.html
“They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they
promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they
made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They
understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made him
king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)” ALLAN ERICKSON
TRAITOR
BARACK OBAMA and the MEX FASCIST MOVEMENT of LA RAZA “The Race”
TRAITOR
BARACK OBAMA and the MEX FASCIST MOVEMENT of LA RAZA “The Race”
Reconquistas Muñoz, Solis
present at Obama sovereignty sellout session ...Obama was joined at the meeting
[about a push to amnesty millions of border-hopping job thieves] by Secretary
of Labor Hilda
Solis, Senior
Advisor Valerie
Jarrett, Assistant
to the President for Legislative Affairs Phil Schiliro, and White House
Director of Intergovernmental Affairs [and former 'Tan Klan' minion] Cecilia Muñoz...
*
"Of course none of this comes as any surprise considering that Obama's point person on illegal immigration, Cecilia Munoz, once worked for the ultra-radical National Council of La Raza [aka the Tan Klan], a racist group that is committed to staging a takeover of the American Southwest and returning it to Mexico...."
"Of course none of this comes as any surprise considering that Obama's point person on illegal immigration, Cecilia Munoz, once worked for the ultra-radical National Council of La Raza [aka the Tan Klan], a racist group that is committed to staging a takeover of the American Southwest and returning it to Mexico...."
GLOBALIST FOR BANKSTERS, THE SUPER RICH and
OPEN BORDERS
ADVOCATES TO FINISH OFF THE AMERICAN
MIDDLE-CLASS.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2018/09/barack-obama-and-his-muslim-style.html
“Democrats Move Towards ‘Oligarchical
Socialism,’ Says Forecaster Joel Kotkin.”
(BANKSTERS)
NO POL IN
HISTORY SUCKED IN MORE BRIBES FROM BANKSTERS THAN BARACK OBAMA, AND HE DID IT
BEFORE HIS FIRST DAY IN OFFICE. What did the Wall Street banksters know that
took us so long to find out???
"One of the
premier institutions of big business, JP Morgan Chase, issued
an internal report on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the 2008
crash, which warned that another “great liquidity crisis”
was possible, and that a government bailout on the scale of that
effected by Bush and Obama will produce social unrest, “in light of
the potential impact of central bank actions in driving
inequality between asset owners and labor."
Obama, of course, covered up
his own role, depicting his presidency as eight years of heroic
efforts to repair the damage caused by the 2008 financial crash. At
the end of those eight years, however, Wall Street and the financial
oligarchy were fully recovered, enjoying record wealth, while
working people were poorer than before, a widening social chasm that
made possible the election of the billionaire con man and Demagogue in November
2016.
“The response of the administration
was to rush to the defense of the banks. Even before coming to power, Obama
expressed his unconditional support for the bailouts, which he subsequently
expanded. He assembled an administration
dominated by the interests of finance
capital, symbolized by economic adviser Lawrence Summers and Treasury
Secretary Timothy Geithner.”
Trump criticized Dimon in 2013
for supposedly contributing to the country’s economic downturn. “I’m not Jamie
Dimon, who pays $13 billion to settle a case and then pays $11 billion to
settle a case and who I think is the worst banker in the United States,” he
told reporters.
VIDEO:
JUDICIAL WATCH GOES AFTER CLINTON AND OBOMB… will they see
prison time?
THE OBAMA-CLINTON SWAMP…. How close they came to destroying
American democracy…. It’ what happens when two psychopath lawyers are permitted
to run for office!
“If the Constitution did not forbid cruel
and unusual punishment, the sentence I would like to see imposed would place
both Bill and Hillary Clinton in the same 8-by-12
cell.” ROBERT ARVAY – AMERICAN THINKER com
“They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they
promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they
made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They
understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made
him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)” ALLAN
ERICKSON
They Destroyed Our Country
“They knew Obama was an unqualified
crook; yet they promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to
happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of America and the
world. They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet
they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)”
THE RISE TO POWER OF BANKSTER-OWNED
BARACK OBAMA
'Incompetent' and 'liar' among most
frequently used words to describe the president: Pew Research Center
The larger fear is that Obama might be just another corporatist, punking
voters much as the Republicans do when they claim to be all for the common guy.
OBAMA'S ASSAULT ON AMERICA -WHY WALL STREET, ILLEGALS, CRIMINAL BANKSTERS
and the 1% LOVE HIM, AND THE MIDDLE CLASS GETS THE SHAFT TO PAY FOR HIS CRONY
CAPITALISM
CEO pay is higher than ever, as is the chasm separating the rich and
super-rich from everyone else. The incomes of the top 1 percent grew more than
11 percent between 2009 and 2011—the first two years of the Obama
“recovery”—while the incomes of the bottom 99 percent actually shrank.
Meanwhile, Obama is pressing forward
with his proposal, outlined in his budget for the next fiscal year, to slash
$400 billion from Medicare and $130 billion from Social Security… AS WELL AS
WIDER OPEN BORDERS, NO E-VERIFY, NO LEGAL NEED APPLY TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED
INCOME PLUMMETS UNDER OBAMA AND HIS WALL STREET CRONIES
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